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Are Spotsy Supervisors Corrupt or lack a Brain?

Spotsylvania County is purchasing the soccer fields at New Post for five million dollars of taxpayer money. Why is Spotsylvania County paying well over the tax assessed value (around 1 million) and the 2022 purchase price (2.2 million) for land that is deed restricted? The land has environmental restrictions that renders it useless. No homes…

Spotsylvania County Wastes Taxpayer Money on Fields

At the May 12 Board of Supervisors meeting, speaker Sue Goetz talks about the county’s purchase of fields for five-million-dollars. Below is the video of her speech. Goetz questions the purchase price in lieu of other priorities in the county. Goetz also provides a history of the fields. We summarize her statements below. Why is…

The Five Million Dollar Question

The Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a real estate purchase agreement for three properties to serve as a sports complex for $5,000,000. The total taxed assessed value of all 3 properties is $1,287,500 ($975,500 for Parcel 38-2-8, $312,000 for Parcel 38-1-11, and $0 for Parcel 38-11-12). All the properties have environment restrictions…

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