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Vol. 37, No. 8 | Richmond Suburban News | July 15, 2020
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Chip England named director of General Services HANOVER -- Charles B. “Chip” England of Mechanicsville is the new director of General Services for Hanover County. England replaces Marvin Fletcher, who retired May 29. England is a former deputy director of Hanover County Public Works and has served in leadership positions for several local governments in Virginia during his 25-year career in public service, including most recently as director of the Henrico County Department of Public Utilities. As director of Hanover County General Services, England will oversee a ENGLAND department of 35 employees. General Services provides services for county departments and includes a facilities division, a fleet division and a risk management division as well as the county museum. England worked for the Hanover County Department of Public Works until 2013. He played a leadership role on solid waste, stormwater, airsee ENGLAND, pg. 4
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Small businesses can apply for grants By Jim Ridolphi for The Mechanicsville Local HANOVER — Last month, the Hanover County Board of Supervisors approved a plan to distribute more than $9 million in CARES funding from the federal government to offset expenses incurred during the coronavirus pandemic. The money is slated to improve public areas with sneeze guards and other protective measures, provide laptops for most Hanover County students, and update customer service practices. Included in that funding is $300,000 reserved for county businesses adversely affected during the crisis for improvements
SON Metal Fab is among the small businesses in Hanover County that can benefit from the CARES funding being distributed by the Hanover County Board of Supervisors.
related to COVID-19. At last month’s public hearing, a number of Hanover County citizens and business owners
urged supervisors to approve the small business relief funding, and supervisors approved see GRANTS, pg. 3
Four county schools achieve Exemplar status ASHLAND – The Virginia Board of Education recently named four Hanover County Public Schools as recipients of the 2020 Exemplar Performance School Awards. Pearson’s Corner Elementary School in Mechanicsville earned the Board of Education Highest Achievement Award. This award recognizes schools that achieved a state accreditation rating of Accredited and demonstrated
high levels of success across all school quality indicators, including success in narrowing achievement gaps. Schools earning this award also had to meet the following criteria: Level One accreditation benchmark for reading, mathematics, and science based on the student pass rate, not including growth or progress on assessments taken by English
language learners; No more than a 5% achievement gap, for schools with two student groups, or a 10% gap, for schools with three or more student groups, between the lowest-performing group and all other students in the school; and Achieved at Level One on all other applicable school quality indicators. see EXEMPLAR, pg. 4
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