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FEBRUARY 17, 2023
THE LOCAL VOICE OF YOUR COMMUNITY.
Volume 20, Issue 7
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Proposed Ocean View budget has no tax hike By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter No tax rate increase is recommended in Ocean View’s proposed 2024-fiscalyear budget, a balanced budget that calls for a 6.4-percent cost-of-living increase for employees and 2.9 percent for con-
Fenwick committee sends parking changes back to town council
tractual employees, as well as more than $56,000 for Town-sponsored community events, such as the Halloween celebration Cops & Goblins. Finance Director Dawn Parks shared highlights with the town council at their Tuesday, Feb. 14, meeting. The budget recommendation is to
keep the tax rate at $0.2378 per $100 of assessed value. The Town reduced its tax rate by 3 cents, or 11 percent, when the 2023-fiscal-year budget was approved. The budget will be passed as three separate ordinances. Proposed are a $5.9 million total operating budget, $4.6 million capital program and $616,030
water department budget. Public comment will be accepted at a work session at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28. Budget ordinances will be introduced at the Tuesday, March 14, council meeting, at 3 p.m. The final budget See BUDGET page 5
A view to eternity
By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter Fenwick Island’s proposed revisions to its parking requirements for businesses have been bouncing back and forth between committees and the Fenwick Island Town Council for months, and they have now been sent back to the town council for approval. The Town’s Charter & Ordinance Committee addressed the proposed ordinance change, which doubles the required parking spaces for the commercial properties that change use or undergo substantial structural changes, at its Friday, Feb. 10 meeting. The committee first addressed the changes in the spring of 2022. The issue has also been addressed by an Ad Hoc Parking Committee and several times by the town council since then. In that time, pieces of the proposed changes that have been altered include the elimination of requirements for specific delivery vehicle parking areas and eliminating language prohibiting parking in some setback areas. The most contentious portion of the proposed ordinance changes — which Special to the Coastal Point • Marian Dowling
See PARKING page 3
It makes you feel pretty small in the grand scheme of things when you get a view like this one, doesn’t it? No? Just us?
Millville considers tax cut but holds off, for now By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter Millville residents could have gotten a Valentine from the town council in
the form of a major tax cut for the coming year, but the measure failed when three of the council members voted at their Tuesday, Feb. 14, meeting to hold off on the move.
Council Treasurer Barbara Ryer proposed a reduction in the town’s property tax rate from 50 cents per $100 of assessed value to 25 cents per $100 of assessed value for the coming fiscal year.
When it came time to vote, three council members opted to table the issue until after the upcoming council elecSee MILLVILLE page 4