RPS usually doesn’t embrace suggestions related to efficiently managing their school buildings - they seem to prefer to poorly maintain as many buildings as possible (and need to have unused buildings on hand when one is unexpectedly closed for mold or fire damage - true story).

Well stated - I just don’t trust the those who would allocate such funds to do so efficiently. RPS’s current budget proposed by the superintendent largely goes to paying non-teachers - not teachers or capital improvements.

May be an age thing but it used to be worse. Gov Gilmore, who campaigned on eliminating the car did manage to reduce it by a large percentage but not eliminating it.

Ahh, the fire alarm, which should have both notified the RFD and indicated where in the building the alarm was triggered but did neither owing known maintenance issues was not the primary contributing cause but it’s the fault of the nonexistent sprinklers - which would have likely failed anyway due to… lack of maintenance.

Which is only impacting RPS which spends the most per student in the region? Skepticism seems warranted.

That was Elkhart Middle on Hull Street that was condemned and the students were combined with Thompson Middle on Forest Hill the following school year after initially going to Clark Springs. Elkhart-Thompson Middle was left vacant when the new River City Middle School was completed. Please understand how RPS’s continued and ongoing mismanagement of it school stock (deferred maintenance and continued use of underutilized schools) has been more significant in recent years than the Dillion rule (thats an excuse at this point - adjust and move forward). The entire reason we’re having this convo is because the system did not maintain their fire alarm systems.

*it has a disproportionate amount of old and failing schools because it been mismanaged for a disproportionate amount of time. They have the old middle school on Forrest Hill that they could also use for flex space.

Where are Fox students currently going to school - in an unused school that is close to where Fox was. What’s the cost/benefit of upgrading Clark Springs and turning the Fox land into tax generating real estate and plus the potential initial revenue from selling the land to developers versus rebuilding Fox and selling off Clark Springs? I don’t suspect it’s close but would like to see this assessed in a practical matter.

I’d die to be there….

The overpass from Chippenham to 895

The was a post about Shyndigz tipping on the FB Group “RVA Dine: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly” on 4/16/2021 that blew up over there )link). The OP’s partner worked in the Market part and said the tips were not distributed but there was a lot of comments.

Spread all over the place apparently ETA: that everyone saw Cuming

Where is the response from u/JoeMorrisseysSperm ?

Someone needed insurance money to pay off their Christmas credit card debt

And they left the trunk open

May want to try “The Clothes Rack” just east of Carytown - not sure how much of a men’s selection they have though

Side note - verifying your address (one of the items the OP said they asked to confirm) is publicly available information. Caution is good but paranoia will leave you with robot insurance

They seriously cannot say they are calling about a debt until they confirm they are talking to the debtor - debt collection laws and regulations want to make sure no one other than the debtor is aware of the debt. The other responses indicate that this is a known debt collector for the city so I would suspect they are legit. However, the City is known for billing errors so the debt may not be legit.

Since they are collecting a debt (based on the other replies), they can only discuss it with the individual responsible which is why they need to verify who you are. It is actually illegal to discuss a debt with anyone other than the debtor (you) unless the debtor has given permission to do so. They seem to be a little too cautious in verifying your identity by requiring unnecessarily detailed information.

And your missing my nuance - the tax base started falling when the middle class residents moved out to the counties and industries moved out- that started back in the ~1960s/70s across the country to include Richmond. Cities had to adapt to the changing tax landscape - some did, many did not which includes Richmond. The inability to sufficiently manage the tax revenues that were available to them, irrespective of them being decreasing or increasing, is a management and leadership issue - not a tax base issue. The mismanagement likely cause further erosion to base for that matter. There is but one root cause - the rest are excuses for politicians.

The last few years is selling it short - since the Great Recession it’s been trending upwards. The mismanagement is the underlying problem- the tax basis excuse is worn out and needs to be retired (the lack of improvement when the basis has been expanding demonstrates it as not being the ‘cause’). Poor leadership in the elected positions (primarily) and bureaucratic positions (secondary) are the both the constants and the causes.

I can assure you that the city has very existent tax base which has actually been growing in recent years (see the redevelopment and increased property values in the previous wastelands that are now high growth areas - Manchester & Scott’s Addition - as an example). The city has wasted more money swinging for home run big projects (that fail to deliver a return above the investment or never made it beyond the expensive ‘study’ phase) which has reduced funds and oversight available for routine maintenance. Stoney was elected initially with the promise of getting the boring stuff (ie, routine maintenance) done more efficiently - to which he has successfully failed in spectacular fashion.

The City of Richmond isn’t good at administering much… to include roads

….and remember, he was pardoned by the previous governor - which is worse than his response to his old yea…. never mind

…and that turned out to be a lie