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Projected School Needs Put Starting Tax Rate At $1.22 Sports
Briar Woods Wins First-Ever State Volleyball Title
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o pay for increased school costs in the next fiscal year, Loudoun County’s Board of Supervisors might have to raise the real estate tax rate by as much as 6.5 cents, according to preliminary
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figures. After hearing that public school costs could go up by as much as $67.1 million in the budget year that begins July 1, some supervisors asked the county staff to run the numbers to see what an uptick of that magnitude would mean in terms of the real estate tax, the main generator of local revenue. Supervisors would have to raise the current tax rate by 5 cents, which would mean it would go from $1.155 per $100 of assessed value to $1.205 per $100. The Loudoun School Board also voted last month to ask the supervisors to refund $12.5 million that reverted to the county coffers in fiscal 2010. That money was taken to address a forecast county revenue shortfall that didn’t end up occurring. So now the School Board would like it back to help fill a deficit in its health care fund and postpone hikes in employees’ coverage costs until 2016. If the supervisors agree to that move and to cover the $67.1 million, the real estate tax rate would be in for a 6.5-cent increase, to $1.22 per $100 of valuation. That scenario seems unlikely, but supervisors said this week that they know they’re in for a rough budget season, with number-crunching and negotiating going on for the next five months or so. The projected equalized tax rate that has been targeted by county supervisors hoping to keep tax bills level for the election-year budget is $1.13. Supervisor Matthew F. Letourneau (R-Dulles) said last week it was too early to tell exactly what
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t the conclusion of the first two games of its Group 5A state championship match Saturday against Princess Anne, the Briar Woods volleyball team found itself trailing two
games to none and on the verge of losing in its first trip to the state finals. But the Falcons had been in this situation before—just a week earlier—when they trailed neighborhood rival Stone Bridge 2-0 in the 5A North Region final. As it did then, Briar Woods rallied and came all the way back to defeat Princess
Anne to claim their first Virginia state title at the Stuart C. Siegel Center at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. The Falcons (25-3) defeated the Cavaliers (30-3) by scores of 18-25, 22-25, 25-15, 25-19 and 16-14.
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Briar Woods’ Raven Jordan (9) and Riley Garrison (8) go up to block Princess Anne’s Alex Toben (8) to help capture the VHSL Group 5A girls state volleyball championship, held at the Stuart C. Siegel Center in Richmond Saturday.
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