Archive for November, 2011

Our Virginia Beach City Council is preparing the groundwork to convince all the tightfisted citizens and taxpayers of Virginia Beach for the need of the next real estate tax revenue grab. On Nov. 14^th, city staff presented the five-year forecast to our city council and again blames the forecasted deficit on the insufficient real estate tax revenue and proposes real estate tax rate increases to fix the problem. Read the rest of this entry »

Our Virginia Beach City Council’s self-serving nonsense: “…budget deficits are primarily caused by reduced real estate tax revenues.”

Our Virginia Beach City Council continues with the same nonsense put forward years ago. In response to a citizen’s complaint about having to pay a trash pick-up fee while council is planning to spend huge amounts of our tax dollars on major projects – headquarters hotel, Dome Site and light rail – Mr. Hansen (Deputy City Manager) replied, “As we have seen a few of these type citizen objections I wanted to provide you an assessment of the real estate tax burden impact using this specific citizen’s circumstances. Please recall that our recent budget deficits are primarily caused by reduced real estate tax revenues.” Read the rest of this entry »