Prince William supervisors are expected to approve the county's 2010 legislative priorities Tuesday and, no small surprise, transportation and education are top concerns.
"The lack of new transportation investment in the commonwealth has reached a crisis," according to background documents compiled for the board by Dana Fenton, legislative director. "Today, approximately $1 billion is needed to address existing deficient pavement conditions and approximately $3.7 billion is needed to fix the commonwealth's deficient bridges."
Prince William hopes to see the reinstatement of $300 million of Northern Virginia revenues, as well as the generation and disbursement of new revenue sources, according to the legislative priority listed in Fenton's packet. But the county "does not support diverting existing general fund revenues" to transportation, according to the summary.
On education, the county will push for three main issues: to maintain funding levels for Standards of Quality in the schools, to continue funding salary raises for teachers, and to establish a funding source for the governor's school at Innovation Park, according to the background documents.
In addition to transportation and education, supervisors have a host of other legislative concerns to bring to Richmond, including a request to raise the reimbursement level for the Adult Detention Center project by $1 million and an appeal for the state to stop putting unfunded mandates on the county.
In other matters Tuesday beginning at 2 p.m. at the McCoart Administration Building, board members will consider the next steps from a $3.07 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act energy grant application.
Staff writer Cheryl Chumley can be reached at 703-670-1907.
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