Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney has suggestions for improvements of city schools. Stoney is proposing an increase in the city’s meals tax to fund school renovations and new construction. Stoney says a one-point-five-percent increase in the tax will generate more than nine-million dollars annually. An increase in the meals tax would allow the city’s debt capacity to increase to 150-million dollars and be reserved for school facilities. The school board says it would cost 224-million dollars to build five new schools and renovate others.
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney’s ‘State of the City Address’ is Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 6 p.m. at Martin Luther King, Jr Middle School on 1000 Mosby Street. The city address is free and open to the public.