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Vol. 32, No. 25 | Richmond Suburban News | October 21, 2015
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Supervisors’ meetings are now streaming live By Jim Ridolphi for The Mechanicsville Local
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John Axselle and Norman Sulser were honored by the Hanover County School Board last week for their years of service. Axselle was recognized for 20 years, while Sulser has served 10 years. Shown are, from left, Bob Hundley, chairman; Axselle; Sulser; and Dr. Rick Richardson, interim superintendent of Hanover County Public Schools.
Administrators, school board officially tackling budget goals By Jim Ridolphi for The Mechanicsville Local ASHLAND — For the next three months, Hanover County Public Schools school administrators teamed with Hanover County School Board members will comb through stacks of figures considering requests and tweaking resources to compile a budget for the upcoming
school year. In another matter, it was announced that a new superintendent of Hanover County Public Schools will be announced at the Nov. 10 regular meeting. Although the board has identified goals it hopes to achieve with the upcoming budget, see BUDGET, pg. 4
HANOVER — It was the beginning of an era at last Wednesday’s meeting of the Hanover County Board of Supervisors. For the first time, the meeting was streamed live to county viewers online, allowing anyJim Ridolphi for The Local one interested in county busi- Officials from Superior Sound in Ashland were hard at work at ness to view the session. last Wednesday’s meeting as they streamed board meetings live Deputy county adminis- for the first time. Despite a few glitches, the results were good trator John Budesky oversaw and citizens can now access government meetings without travelling to the courthouse. the project, and while the Oct. 14 stream had a few technical next month as long as we work are still working through the implementation but other than out all the technical issues.” glitches, he said he There was a that, we are pleased with the was pleased with the brief period at the overall production.” results. Four cameras in the meetbeginning of the “We are pleased stream when there ing room capture all angles of to have the system was video, but no action, and Budesky said the upgraded and ready system would increase access sound. for citizens to view,” “We did have a for citizens. Budesky said. “It’s The stream will be available slight hiccup today a work in progress, but we hope to with the audio,” for rebroadcast one day after have the Planning Budesky said. “We the meeting, and residents see STREAMING, pg. 8 Commission online BUDESKY solved that. We