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April 18, 2025
<p><strong>CCE-850A</strong></p><p>Last week I asked listeners of the podcast to let me know if they were tuning in, and sure enough, several of you did reach out! So, perhaps this Friday edition of the newsletter going out as a podcast will continue. Today’s edition doesn’t have any new information but instead is an audio summary of some of what has been going on with voices from some of the decision-makers.</p><p>I’m Sean Tubbs, and this one’s a bit of a puzzle to put together. In the print edition below you’ll see new versions of a couple of the stories as I had to develop a new script. I have not included the images, but these podcasts will now have normal shout-outs. No more house ads!</p><p><strong>Two stories in this edition, both about Charlottesville’s budget for FY2026:</strong></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/14/city-council-makes-last-minute-decisions-at-final-work-session-before-tonights-vote-on-265m-budget/">City Council makes last minute decisions at final work session before tonight’s vote on $265M budget</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/18/council-adopts-265-2-million-budget-after-another-conversation-about-transit-funding/">Council adopts $265.2 million budget after another conversation about transit funding</a></p><p><strong>First shout-out: Plant Virginia Natives</strong></p><p>Spring is here and there’s still time to plan for upgrades to your outdoors. You can take some time to get ready for spring! Check out <a target="_blank" href="https://www.plantvirginianatives.org/">Plant Virginia Natives</a>!</p><p>Plant Virginia Natives is part of a partnership with ten regional campaigns for ten different ecosystems across Virginia, from the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.plantvirginianatives.org/plant-northern-piedmont-natives">Northern Piedmont</a> to the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.plantvirginianatives.org/plant-es-native">Eastern Shore</a>. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.plantvirginianatives.org/virginia-regional-native-plant-campaigns-guides">Take a look at the full map below</a> for the campaign for native species where you are in the Commonwealth. For the Charlottesville area, download a free copy of the handbook: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.plantvirginianatives.org/native-plants-for-northern-piedmont?fbclid=IwAR0Br3Fj_JromxjCJMd_ykPK7WbqrZfUWbKgbDJqsgLnDyVNmqgmwYde-K8">Piedmont Native Plants: A Guide for Landscapes and Gardens</a>.</p><p>Plant Northern Piedmont Natives is for anyone who works with native plants, whether you are a property owner, private consultant, landscape designer, nursery operator, conservation group, or local government.</p><p>(image)</p><p><strong>A summary of the April 10, 2025 Charlottesville City Council budget work session</strong></p><p>One of the challenges of doing a podcast version at the end of a week is that I may have to rearrange two previous stories in order for the audio edition to make sense. That’s the case this week with Charlottesville City Council’s adoption of a $265.2 million budget for fiscal year 2026. That happened on April 14 at a special meeting.</p><p>But before we get to that, we have to go back to the work session held on April 10.</p><p>In Charlottesville, the budget process never really stops. In fact, it keeps on going up to the last minute of adoption. New items were added at the work session that had not previously come up.</p><p>At the beginning of the April 10 work session, they learned about additional spending that can happen because new funding has been found since the beginning of the budget process in March.</p><p>“We do have supplemental revenue over and above the proposed budget of $774,263,” said Krisy Hammill, the city’s budget director.</p><p>The driver of that change was an additional $700,000 increase in Business and Professional Licenses that had not been factored in.</p><p>There were many numbers thrown around during the final work session. Before Council signed off on how to spend that money, City Manager Sam Sanders went through how $915,620 in “Council Discretionary Funds” would be spent to leave a balance of $440,406 to spend.</p><p>“Kind of thinking that with all the volatility that we have in DC, there could very easily be a series of moments that come up and that this would give you the flexibility to make some decisions and how we could support gaps in what could happen based on decisions and how it actually lands in the community,” Sanders said.</p><p>Staff codified a list of what Council had already decided to spend over the course of four budget work sessions.</p><p>* $250,000 to the Blue Ridge Coalition for the Homeless to cover the costs of a federal grant not obtained because there was an error related to a recent leadership transition.</p><p>* $162,000 to the Piedmont Housing Alliance to pay for the cost of staff who work on eviction prevention.</p><p>* $50,000 in cash to the Piedmont Housing Alliance related to eviction prevention.</p><p>* An additional $43,150 to the Boys and Girls Club for a total of $116,000 in the FY26 budget.</p><p>* An additional $28,800 to Lighthouse Studios to fund two programs for a total funding of $40,000 in the FY26 budget.</p><p>* An additional $6,000 to Loaves and Fishes to bring their total funding to $50,000 for FY26.</p><p>* An additional $1,200 to Piedmont CASA for a total of $10,000.</p><p>* An additional $6,600 to Live Arts for a total of $16,000.</p><p>* An additional $7,100 to Legal Aid Justice Center for a total of $40,000</p><p>* An additional $1,500 to SARA for a total of $25,000.</p><p>* A total of $104,261 in capital improvement program funds will be redirected to the Dogwood Vietnam Memorial. <a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/11/former-city-council-appeals-to-council-to-move-forward-with-improvements-to-support-dogwood-memorial/">Read this story for more information</a>.</p><p>At the meeting, Hammill handed out a spreadsheet that provided more details about other programs that were added to the list such as an annual payment to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. This was initially left out of the budget because the organization did not fill out an application through a portal called Zoom Grants.</p><p>The payment to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center was $228,993 in FY2024 and $246,993 in FY2025. The organization is considered fundamental which means it no longer has to compete for funding through the Vibrant Community Fund process . The payment for FY2026 will be $228,200.</p><p>“By not submitting through Zoom Grants, they didn’t appear on the list, but they didn’t know that they had to still submit through Zoom Grants,” Sanders said. “So we have some course corrections that we need to do there and making sure that everyone understands what they have to do still, even though they’re in a non competitive round.”</p><p>Sanders said there was a similar error with the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority. That government body is considered “fundamental” but also sought additional funding.</p><p>“We have to have a conversation with them about their pursuits of funding going forward to your point they could be here and in the competitive rounds,” Sanders said. “I don’t particularly care for that. I think that makes it double dipping.”</p><p>Sanders said Deputy City Manager James Freas and the Office of Community Solutions are currently performing an audit of CRHA as a way of building a better working relationship.</p><p>City Councilor Michael Payne, a member of the CRHA Board, called for a joint work session to plan for the likelihood of reduced federal funding for public housing units.</p><p>At one point in the conversation, Council initially signaled a willingness to add an additional $16,000 to the United Way for their Prosper program. Deputy City Manager Ashley Marshall made a pitch for the program at the April 10 meeting. The program had previously been called the Financial Resiliency Task Force.</p><p>Another last minute item is $30,000 for the Tonsler League headed by former City Councilor and current CRHA Chair Wes Bellamy. The organization had expected that the City of Charlottesville would have received an additional $250,000 from the state government for operations, but Governor Glenn Youngkin recently vetoed that from the budget.</p><p>“He received a $250,000 grant for this current year that ends in June,” Sanders said. “I am planning to check with him to see if. If he will expend all of that and avoid the risk of having to send anything back.”</p><p>Council supported giving the Tonsler League $30,000.</p><p>At half an hour into the final budget work session held three days after the final public hearing, Sanders asked Council if there was any other item they might want to fund and gave them the current balance.</p><p>“The question that we are really posing at this point is, is there anything else that you all have been pondering?” Sanders asked. “Because we try to remind you that this is the end of the road and we are truly down to $394,000 that today, right now at this moment, is your Council Strategic Initiatives Fund.”</p><p>That prompted Councilor Lloyd Snook to express a concern.</p><p>“So we haven’t even gotten to the fiscal year and we’ve already cut it down?” Snook asked.</p><p>“That’s correct,” Sanders said.</p><p>Snook said he felt the process was not appropriate.</p><p>“I find myself trying to figure out what possible process we’re advancing here,” Snook said. “And the answer is it’s still back to whatever anybody throws up against the wall at Council at the last minute. I just think that’s a terrible way to do business.”</p><p>Sanders said he understood Snook’s concern.</p><p>“I understand and appreciate the last minute nature of it and I’m not a fan of always doing that and I think in these, this, these two moments specifically, we can identify a way to bring you critical information so that you can have that presented to you and then you can make that determination on if you believe the item is ready to go forward,” Sanders said, adding that both Marshall and Bellamy could appear before Council to formally make a pitch.</p><p>There were at least three Councilors who supported funding for Tonsler, but not yet for the Prosper Program.</p><p>There was also a long discussion about increasing the number of transit drivers to 82 in order to restore service to pre-pandemic levels. This comment from Sanders finishes off that discussion and sets up a conversation for the future.</p><p>“I think what I heard was that you are not going to attempt to unpack the budget at this late stage and find a way to make 82 drivers a reality,” Sanders said. “But what you are indicating is that you support the desire for added drivers and that you’re looking to have us revisit that with you at some point in the future later in 2025 for the possible consideration of the use of one time funds for the bridge that would be required to get us to the next budget where we will realize the true cost.”</p><p>Sanders also said he still wants to hold on to the $22.4 million surplus from FY2024 in case federal programs are cut.</p><p>“The conversations that are being had in regards to SNAP and Medicaid are real in that they’re big,” Sanders said. “And if those cuts were to occur, we will see a number of our constituency impacted directly by that.”</p><p>Sanders said that while the city is blessed to have a large surplus, it will go very quickly if the local government picks up what had been a federal program.</p><p>Tonight’s meeting to adopt is not the end of the process. Because of a second advertising error, Council still has to hold a public hearing on the tax rates and that will take place at the next regular meeting on April 21. By law, Council cannot adopt those tax rates at that meeting and must wait at least three days. A second special meeting will be held on April 24.</p><p>I had hoped to tell you more about the next three items by going back to the audio, but I’ve got to get to the next set of stories:</p><p>* Sanders had an update on a potential low-barrier shelter. The General Assembly’s version of the budget had $1.5 million going to the City of Charlottesville for this purpose, and Youngkin cut this in half. The budget has not yet been finalized and Sanders said Senator Creigh Deeds is still trying to make the case to restore the funding.</p><p>* Sanders said he believes the city would need to provide operating funds to any grocery that sets up at 501 Cherry Avenue.</p><p>* There is still a possibility that the city might provide funding for UVA’s affordable housing project at 10th and Wertland. They will be asked to submit a request as part of the next funding cycle this fall.</p><p><strong>Second shout-out: Piedmont Master Gardeners seek items for Green Elephant Sale</strong></p><p>If you are cleaning out your garage or basement this winter and have garden implements or yard ornaments you no longer need, the <a target="_blank" href="https://piedmontmastergardeners.org/">Piedmont Master Gardeners</a> will take them off your hands</p><p>The Piedmont Master Gardeners are seeking donations of new and used garden tools, hoses, decorative items, outdoor furniture, and virtually anything else that can be used to maintain or enjoy a home landscape. From February 1 through April 30, these "Green Elephant" donations may be dropped off at 402 Albemarle Square between 10 a.m. and noon on Wednesdays or Saturdays. The Master Gardeners are not able to accept plastic pots or opened chemicals.</p><p>The Green Elephants will be offered for sale to the public during PMG’s Spring Plant Sale, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at Albemarle Square Shopping Center. Proceeds will support the many free and low-cost horticulture education programs the Piedmont Master Gardeners offer to the community.</p><p>To arrange a pickup of large items or for more information, contact the Piedmont Master Gardeners at <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.</p><p>(image)</p><p><strong>Council adopts $265.2 million budget after another conversation about transit funding</strong></p><p>Charlottesville City Council adopted a $265.2 million budget for the fiscal year that begins on July 1 at a special meeting on April 14 but not before another review and summary from City Manager Sam Sanders. He had introduced a $264,474,183 budget on March 4.</p><p>“Things have changed a little bit, as it always does, from the proposed date to your adoption date,” Sander said</p><p>There have been five budget work sessions and two public hearings on the document itself, but yet to come is a public hearing on the tax rates for 2025.</p><p>“What I'll point out to you just in basic highlights, is that the revenue expenditure at this time has now risen to $265,248,446,” Sanders said.</p><p>The tax rates have not changed for 2025, but another year of growth in assessments has resulted in more revenue. The assessor’s office reported an average of a 7.74 percent increase in late January.</p><p>One spending change in the budget is an additional $600,000 for Charlottesville Area Transit which partially came out of a push for local advocates.</p><p>“We added a transit mechanic to help with operations,” Sanders said. “We are also maintaining fare free service across the system and absorbing the absence of the flexible federal funds because those funds are now not available to us as they have been.”</p><p>Other highlights:</p><p>* There’s $5.4 million over the next five years for sidewalk repair and construction</p><p>* There’s $12.7 million in spending on affordable housing initiatives in FY26</p><p>* The FY26 budget is the first to apply to a fourth collective bargaining unit</p><p>City Councilor Michael Payne asked about the status of a $22.4 million surplus from FY2024. Sanders made the decision to keep the amount in reserve and Council has so far agreed. The idea is to keep the money available while a new era for the federal government continues to settle in. He also said he has been meeting with nonprofit groups who have been making presentations on funding they have lost from the federal government.</p><p>“So they are first trying to recoup what they've spent and hope that they might actually get some continuation,” Sanders said. “So that is beginning to build. We're beginning to see that finally the city organization itself has not incurred a loss. But we still continue to monitor just believing that it's just a matter of time. It's not a matter of if, it is actually a matter of when.”</p><p>A generally-held practice in municipal budgeting is to not use one-time money such as surpluses to hire staffing.</p><p>“Something like staffing is not ideal because we can't guarantee that funding to occur year to year,” said City Councilor Natalie Oschrin.</p><p>The conversation went back to transit. The City of Charlottesville owns Charlottesville Area Transit and has full control of its operations. Albemarle County and Charlottesville have entered into an entity called the Charlottesville Albemarle Regional Transit Authority but so far that is entirely about planning for transit operations.</p><p>Albemarle Supervisors vote to join Regional Transit Authority, December 15, 2024</p><p>Charlottesville joins regional transit authority; Council holds first reading on federal transit allocations, December 28, 2024</p><p>Charlottesville Area Transit has no independent board of directors which makes Council the sole authority over its operations. There had once been an advisory body made up of citizens but that was eliminated sometime during the pandemic.</p><p>An advocacy group called IMPACT made up of various churches has been pressuring Albemarle and Charlottesville to increase the amount they spent on transit to hire additional drivers. Their specific number has been 82, a number believed to enable Charlottesville Area Transit to increase service.</p><p>“The solution to long wait times is very straightforward: we need more bus drivers,” reads their website. “Right now, Charlottesville Area Transit (CAT) has budgeted 67 drivers. Getting to wait times of half an hour will require at least 80.”</p><p>In Virginia, cities and counties are completely independent of each other. There are regional services such as that provided by the Rivanna Water and Service Authority, but localities have to adopt budgets independently.</p><p>IMPACT’s public event was held on April 8, over a month into the budget process for Charlottesville and about six weeks after Albemarle County Executive Jeffrey Richardson introduced that locality’s budget.</p><p>At their work session on April 10, City Council indicated they wanted to support IMPACT’s request but the timing is not right for the existing budget. They agreed to hold conversations about how to get there shortly after the budget is adopted.</p><p>Vice Mayor Brian Pinkston and Charlottesville City Council were the two members of Council who went to hear from IMPACT at what they call the Nehemiah Action.</p><p>“The commitment that the two of us made was to try to get something for this coming the fiscal year that we're working on now, which means some sort of amendment or whatever,” said City Councilor Brian Pinkston.</p><p>Several members of the group were in attendance at the meeting and Pinkston addressed them directly from the dais and encouraged them to get involved earlier in the budget process.</p><p>“I want people to know that this is not the end,” Pinkston said. “We heard you last week, we're working on it. And what you're hearing now is the sort of public outworking of the conversations that need to happen.”</p><p>For over four years of reporting on transit issues, take a look at this tab on Information Charlottesville.</p><p>Council adopted the budget after a final explanation of last minute changes such as $30,000 for the Tonsler League to help keep it going after Governor Youngkin vetoed an anticipated $250,000 from Virginia’s budget.</p><p>Council will hold a public hearing on the tax rate for 2025 on April 21 and then will hold a special meeting on April 24.</p><p><strong>Postscript for #850A</strong></p><p>Today’s edition was intended to have additional audio but I ran out of time. Also the podcast edition can be less than half an hour long. The version that airs on WTJU has to be at least 29 minutes long. There was no radio version last week so I’m going to put another story or two in that version from <strong>#846-A. </strong>Behind the scenes I have quite a bit of organization that allows me to seemingly produce more content than entities with budgets that are much larger than mine. </p><p>One day there will be more of everything. </p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe</a>
April 11, 2025
<p></p><p>The regular cycle for Charlottesville Community Engagement begins and ends with a sonic version that collects stories from the past week and presents them in audible form. The information gathering for this newsletter mostly takes place by recording audio of government meetings in the Thomas Jefferson Planning District. As I write each story, I clip out the audio the way I might have done if I had continued to pursue a career in public radio. There is a satisfaction to be able to share this with anyone who might want to hear.</p><p>In this edition of the program:</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/08/local-primary-races-set-for-city-council-jack-jouett-seat-on-albemarle-board/">Local primary races set for City Council, Jack Jouett seat on Albemarle Board</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/10/albemarle-architectural-review-board-reviews-draft-actions-for-comprehensive-plan/">Albemarle Architectural Review Board reviews draft actions for Comprehensive Plan</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/10/albemarle-supervisors-skeptical-of-proposal-to-use-dedicated-housing-fund-proceeds-as-debt-service/">Albemarle Supervisors skeptical of proposal to use dedicated housing fund proceeds as debt service</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/11/albemarle-supervisors-vote-to-add-another-1-million-to-affordable-housing-fund-200000-to-emergency-fund-in-fy2026-budget/">Albemarle Supervisors vote to add another $1 million to affordable housing fund, $200,000 to emergency fund in FY2026 budget</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/11/deputy-city-manager-ratliff-provides-update-on-charlottesvilles-strategic-plan/">Deputy City Manager Ratliff provides update on Charlottesville’s strategic plan</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/11/former-city-council-appeals-to-council-to-move-forward-with-improvements-to-support-dogwood-memorial/">Former City Council appeals to Council to move forward with improvements to support Dogwood Memorial</a></p><p><p>Charlottesville Community Engagement is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p></p><p><strong>First shout-out: Piedmont Master Gardeners seek items for Green Elephant Sale</strong></p><p>If you are cleaning out your garage or basement this winter and have garden implements or yard ornaments you no longer need, the <a target="_blank" href="https://piedmontmastergardeners.org/">Piedmont Master Gardeners</a> will take them off your hands</p><p>The Piedmont Master Gardeners are seeking donations of new and used garden tools, hoses, decorative items, outdoor furniture, and virtually anything else that can be used to maintain or enjoy a home landscape. From February 1 through April 30, these "Green Elephant" donations may be dropped off at 402 Albemarle Square between 10 a.m. and noon on Wednesdays or Saturdays. The Master Gardeners are not able to accept plastic pots or opened chemicals.</p><p>The Green Elephants will be offered for sale to the public during PMG’s Spring Plant Sale, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at Albemarle Square Shopping Center. Proceeds will support the many free and low-cost horticulture education programs the Piedmont Master Gardeners offer to the community.</p><p>To arrange a pickup of large items or for more information, contact the Piedmont Master Gardeners at <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.</p><p><strong>The weekly look at the spreadsheet</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Second-shout out: Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards</strong></p><p>The next shout-out is one I’m very interested in. There is now a big school behind my house and I’d like to plant some trees to screen my property. I really have no idea how to do such a thing, but you can bet where I’ll be the morning of April 12, 2025!</p><p>That’s when the Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards will be holding their annual tree sale at the Virginia Department of Forestry at 900 Natural Resources Drive in Charlottesville. The group has their own tree nursery, entirely run by volunteers. They plant saplings obtained from multiple sources and nurture them until they are large enough to be planted out. They concentrate on native trees, some of which are hard to find from commercial sources.</p><p>They don’t have a list yet, but stay tuned to this space for details. But, this is a good day to get that on your calendar! <a target="_blank" href="https://charlottesvilleareatreestewards.org/event/our-fall-tree-sale/">Click here for more details</a>!</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe</a>
April 4, 2025
<p>If you read yesterday’s edition of the Charlottesville Community Engagement newsletter and really liked it, why not take a listen to today’s? For some reason, Fridays are for audio production for both a podcast version and a version that will air on WTJU tomorrow at 6 a.m. I’m Sean Tubbs and what you’re about to hear are several stories that all come from the April 2 meeting of the Albemarle Board of Supervisors. This is another experiment in providing you with the tools to better know your community.</p><p><strong>In today’s installment:</strong></p><p>* There are three budget town halls left in Albemarle County before public hearings begin later this month (<a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/04/three-more-budget-town-halls-scheduled-in-albemarle-county/">learn more</a>)</p><p>* A nonprofit that raises funds for the Shenandoah National Park is sharing information about how federal cuts are affecting operations (<a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/04/shenandoah-national-park-trust-offers-information-on-park-activities/">learn more</a>)</p><p>* There’s a relatively new art gallery in Scottsville (<a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/04/scottsvilles-center-for-the-arts-and-natural-environment-offering-new-gallery-space/">learn more</a>)</p><p>* Albemarle Supervisors recognize Dark Sky Week coming up April 21 through April 28 (<a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/04/albemarle-supervisors-mark-dark-sky-week/">learn more</a>)</p><p>* April is Financial Literacy Month (<a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/04/albemarle-supervisors-honor-mahogany-and-friends-as-part-of-financial-literacy-month/">learn more</a>)</p><p>* Albemarle Supervisors continue to discuss growth as part of the long and winding road that is the county’s Comprehensive Plan review (<a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/04/albemarle-staff-present-albemarle-supervisors-with-new-information-on-ac44/">learn more</a>)</p><p>* The show wraps up with an update from the Virginia Department of Transportation (<a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/2025/04/02/albemarle-transportation-update-shared-use-path-on-u-s-29-moving-forward/">this is not the story but it is close enough</a>)</p><p><p>Charlottesville Community Engagement is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p></p><p><strong>First shout-out: Celebrating the community’s other information organizations!</strong></p><p>There are a lot of stories each week that go out through this newsletter, but no one information outlet can put together the entire picture. That’s why each regular edition ends with a section called Reading Material.</p><p>Charlottesville is fortunate to have a media landscape that includes the <a target="_blank" href="https://dailyprogress.com/">Charlottesville Daily Progress</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.c-ville.com/">C-Ville Weekly</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="https://cvillerightnow.com/">Cville Right Now</a>, I curate links from these sources because I believe a truly informed community needs multiple perspectives.</p><p>There’s also the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cavalierdaily.com/">Cavalier Daily</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://vinegarhillmagazine.com/">Vinegar Hill Magazine</a>, the <a target="_blank" href="https://fluvannareview.com/">Fluvanna Review</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.crozetgazette.com/">the Crozet Gazette</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.29news.com/">NBC29</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbs19news.com/">CBS19</a>, and other sources. But if you look every day, you’ll find links to articles in national publications, all linked to give you more perspectives on some of the issues of our times.</p><p>Now more than ever, journalism is needed. To be a citizen of a democracy, you must seek information from multiple sources. Consume only one and you are at risk of becoming a zombie!</p><p></p><p><strong>Second shout-out: Advertise on Information Charlottesville</strong></p><p>Long-time readers may know that most of the stories posted through this newsletter are also posted to <a target="_blank" href="https://infocville.com/">Information Charlottesville</a>. Sometimes the stories go there first! Both this newsletter and that website are part of the same information gathering operation, an operation I hope to continue to grow!</p><p>There are multiple ways to contribute to Town Crier Productions.</p><p>One new one is to place an advertisement on Information Charlottesville. I’m in the early days of experimenting with visual ways for organizations to get their message across to a growing audience. I’ve not yet put together a media kit, but I’m ready to offer a special for March. What’s the special? More details in the audio version of the podcasts.</p><p>Advertising on Information Charlottesville could be a great way to keep my business going while also growing yours. I think there are new ways to do advertising, but I don’t know what they are until I’m allowed to continue testing.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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