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Vol. 36, No. 37 | Richmond Suburban News | December 9, 2020
County revenues were higher than expected last year
Flowers for COVID survivors
By Jim Ridolphi for The Mechanicsville Local
Melody Kinser/The Local
The entrance to the main hospital on the campus of Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center has this display: ”A flower for every COVID-19 patient discharged and healing at home!”
HANOVER -- As the end of the year approaches, members of the Hanover County Board of Supervisors have traditionally received updates and performance reviews from various departments during Fiscal Year 2019-20 that ended in June. Last month those updates continued as the panel met for its November meeting. Lauren Null, Financial Services director, presented the
county’s 2019-2020 financial update (CAFR) that provides a dashboard of final figures regarding revenues and expenditures and other items. FY 2020 revenues totaled $263.4 million or an increase of 1% from the appropriated budget. Revenues were $3.5 million percent higher than expected, while expenditures were $16 million under budget. “The combination of this additional revenue and lowered see REVENUES, pg. 24
Commonwealth’s Attorney reviews special session laws that take effect March 1 (Editor’s note: The following was submitted by Hanover County Commonwealth’s Attorney R.E. “Trip” Chalkley III.) The special session of the General Assembly, unusually, passed numerous new laws affecting law enforcement and the citizenry. Unless otherwise noted, these legislative changes will take
effect on March 1, 2021. As always, deadly force is immediately necesLetter to the editor I am only covering those changes sary to protect the officer or anothturn to page 6. that have the greatest impact on the er person, other than the subject, law and the following is only a brief from the threat of death or serious synopsis of the changes. injury. If feasible, the officer should provide a Law enforcement officers may not use dead- warning to the subject that he will use deadly ly force unless the officer reasonably believes force. The law enforcement officer’s actions
must be reasonable, given the circumstances and all other options have been exhausted or do not reasonably lend themselves to the circumstances. In determining whether deadly force was proper, the following factors shall be considered: The reasonableness of the offi-
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