CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Charlottesville City Council at Monday night’s meeting will begin the process of considering a 2-cent real estate tax rate hike as proposed in the City Manager’s budget with a public hearing about advertising that rate hike.
It’s the first of two public hearings on setting the advertised rate that City Council cannot exceed but can accept or even lower if it chooses.
Although he may or may not support advertising that tax rate, Councilor Lloyd Snook told The Schilling Show earlier this month he wants to propose using some of the 2026 $10-million surplus to supply the needed $2.4-million additional revenue City Manager Sam Sanders proposed to balance the 2027 budget…