The Albemarle Board of Supervisors has followed through with a prior decision to purchase 462 acres of land near Rivanna Station. On Wednesday, Supervisors voted unanimously to authorize the issue of municipal bonds to finance the property acquisition as well as items in county’s capital improvement plan. “The financing plan that we have before the…
As Albemarle continues to prepare for growth, that includes the need to hire personnel to respond to emergencies no matter the cause. On Tuesday, the county announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded a $7.1 million to hire two and a half dozen fire fighters. The funding comes through the agency’s Staff for…
A summary of what’s happening at the September 6, 2023 meeting of the Albemarle Board of Supervisors.
A nonprofit group that tracks activities of local governments throughout the region has released the annual report of spending activity. “The Free Enterprise Forum Local Government Spending Index (LGSI) is modeled after the statistical methodology used to calculate the Consumer Price Index,” reads the introduction of the fifth Choices and Decisions report. Data comes from…
The Board of Directors for the Albemarle Economic Development Authority has ratified a performance agreement with a local company that seeks to expand its sale and manufacture of a new generation of pesticide delivery systems. Agrospheres has set up operations at 1180 Seminole Trail and recently was awarded $200,000 from the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Development Opportunity…
Every three months staff from Albemarle’s Community Development Department checks in with elected officials on the status of transportation projects. This mostly recently happened at the Board of Supervisors’ meeting on August 2. Transportation planner Jessica Hersh-Ballering noted that the Commonwealth Transportation Board’s final vote on Smart Scale projects this past June included a project…
Albemarle County continues to conduct a full review of what further actions may need to be taken if a planned $58 million purchase of 462 acres near Rivanna Station goes through. On May 24, the Board of Supervisors authorized the acquisition pending due diligence. “We’re assessing the the in-the-ground infrastructure, we’re assessing environmental, we’re assessing…
There is a lot of growth happening across the entire region and there is endless planning work intended to inform the next set of projects to build infrastructure to handle all of the traffic. At any given point, the Virginia Department of Transportation has multiple studies underway to come up with the next of candidate…
Albemarle County is in the nascent stages of establishing its own public works department and one of the first moves has been the purchase of a large vehicle intended to clean streets in the urban area. “Investments in an urban right of way program – including launching a local streetsweeper program – and property maintenance…
One of the new initiatives suggested in Albemarle County’s Climate Action Plan is a program to fund community programs intended to help the overall community reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A call for applications was issued in March and now the county has made five awards totaling $100,000.