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Chesterfield County 2002 Legislative Program
Legislative Priorities:
- Protection of Cash Proffer Authority
- Protection of County Revenue
Legislative Requests:
Strategic Goal: To provide world class customer service
- Amend the County Charter to eliminate duplicate requirements for zoning
review/substantial accord review for certain public use projects. HB916
- Amend Section 15.2-2307 to clarify issues related to vested rights
and circumstances which prevent property owners from applying for rezoning
amendments due to the 1998 Vested Rights legislation.
Strategic Goal: To be acknowledged for its extraordinary quality of
life
- Authorize local governments to impose impact fees on previously zoned
lots which are not subject to cash proffers to offset the cost of residential
development. HB204
Strategic Goal: To Be the Model for Excellence in Government
- Request a study resolution, to be conducted by an agency or study
commission independent of DMAS, to review Medicaid reimbursement rates
for services provided to clients of Community Services Boards in order
to determine the need for ongoing adjustments in the reimbursement rates.
SJ98
State Budget Requests
- Appropriation of state funds for the capital and operating reimbursement
for the Juvenile Detention Home Expansion ($4.9 million capital and
$2.3 million operating).
- Continue state appropriations for the operation of the "Chesterfield
Link" transit system.
- Amend the Appropriations Act to include language requiring DMAS to
provide a higher rate of reimbursement to public nursing homes whose
patient population includes a higher percentage of Medicaid patients
than the statewide average.
- Appropriate state funds to VDOT to pay the bonded indebtedness on
the Powhite Parkway Extension in order to eliminate toll on the VDOT
portion of the road.
Support/Oppose
- Support State budget/funding requests for:
- Compensation Board staffing
State share of salary increases for state supported local employees
Comprehensive Services Act funding shortfalls
HB 599 funding
Offices on Youth
- Support the funding request of the Chesterfield/Colonial Heights Drug
Court for state matching funds to continue the federal implementation
grant.
- Support proposed legislation amending the Underground Utility Damage
Prevention Act. SB433
- Support legislation to allow localities the option to participate
in the Virginia Sickness and Disability Plan.
- Support funding to implement JLARC recommendations regarding State
funding of K-12 education.
- Support the various initiatives and funding requests of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court.
- Oppose legislation mandating the placement of multi-section manufactured
housing by right in any residential zoned district. HB1212
- Oppose legislation resulting in increased rates for the county from
the Virginia Retirement System.
Legislative Programs 2000-2007
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