One library. Every figure traces to a county document, a records request, or a published budget. Where a number is an estimate, we say so — and where the county disputes it, we say that too.
Chesterfield's published checkbook cuts vendor names at 30 characters, splitting one contractor relationship into two smaller ones. Combined, it is the largest vendor in the period — and the county's own file does not show it that way.
The county's Economic Development Director confirmed the rate in writing, along with a freeze of up to thirty years. Set against the 1% sales tax debate, this is the far larger number.
Debt service ran $98.0M in 2023 and $114.8M in 2025. The 2024 figure came in at $34.7M against a $101.5M projection. We have asked the county to explain the gap.
An arbitrage rebate is what a locality owes when it earns more interest on tax-exempt bond money than the rules allow. The payment is in the county's own file. The bond issue behind it has not been disclosed.
Two trends running opposite directions over the same eight years. We are not claiming one caused the other — COVID sits in the middle of it — but the county should be able to explain it.
Payments booked as reimbursements to the Economic Development Authority are the mechanism behind the county's incentive agreements. A plain-English walk through how the pass-through works and why it is hard to see from outside.
The department itself spent $3.36M in 2024, and its headcount actually shrank over the same six years everything else in the county grew. That is not where the real money is. The county's economic-development spending runs through EDA reimbursements and incentive agreements instead — see the $8.24M card above. A small department budget does not mean small economic-development spending; it means the spending is booked somewhere else.
The monitoring record for Shoosmith is spread across separate reports from different companies — some have a map, several (the April Leachate report, the gas monitoring reports) have none, just lists of sampling locations. We consolidated the results onto one map. What's new is plotting Swift Creek and Piney Branch alongside it: the two waterways that form the landfill boundary and are the likely routes for anything leaving it. Neither DEQ nor the operator had reason to draw them — we did, because it's the part that shows where this could actually go.
The county is rewriting the document that governs what gets built where, on a nine-month timetable. Roughly four months remain in which public comment can still shape it.