Looking at one year's budget tells you little. How can you find information that shows budget changes over time or to compare two similar jurisdictions. Here is what can be found on the Auditor of Public Accounts site (focus on Christiansburg since I am here!)
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Some Christiansburg Budget Notes
If you have looked at the myvaresources.com site and found the current and previous budgets, you may have found some of the same things that I include here. These are from the very first section of the budget:
Easier to use copy of the Christiansburg Town Charter, but be warned things are not what they seem.
I took the existing copy of the Town Charter, inserted a copy of the Governor’s markup for the section changing the vote to November, then setup bookmarks for the pdf that match the table of contents. Well, it sorta matches the table of contents. There are a few places where the Town’s table of...
Conduct Unbecoming: Disorderly Behavior of Christiansburg Town Councilmembers
I have been working on a modification to the copy of the Christiansburg Town Charter (my copy even includes the 2010 Amended 2.01 concerning voting in November). This modification will provide bookmarks for every section and subsection of the Town Charter. Why? Because there are quite a few people who are reviewing this particular...
Christiansburg Town Council: Spending YOUR money before they get it.
Revisiting a re-visitation of the Meals Tax increase is on the agenda on the Tuesday, June 8th, Special Meeting of the Christiansburg Town Council. Rather than go through all the gory (although sickly humorous) details of why this is necessary, read the editorial at the Roanoke Times.com: Editorial: Christiansburg’s budget shenanigans. You can always...
June 1, 2006 Town Council Meeting: Budget and Aquatic Center Dominate Discussions
Tempers flared a bit at the Town Council Meeting. Two split decisions, and a LOT of confusion because things were not done in the right order, resulted in Mayor Ballengee casting the deciding vote on accepting the budget and accepting the increase in fees and taxes. The Town of Christiansburg has a new budget...
