The Waynesboro School Board will meet April 30 to discuss a revamped budget that could include deferring $600,000 in revenue for the schools from the city until the 2011 budget.

Waynesboro Assistant City Manager Jim Shaw and Budget Director Pat Nicosia told the Economic Development Authority Friday that it had found a loan to pay off Waynesboro Town Center developer Collett and Associates, though its interest rate was not as low as city officials had hoped.

As waves crash and the ship rolls, Waynesboro city staff heave crates over the rails and two councilwomen respond in kind, tossing coins into the sea, drawing applause, much of it their own, amid thunderclaps. Now to the real business: whether to cut $550,000 more from city spending or impose a tax increase with major local employers dispatching workers to the plank as the storm roars.

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For the same cost as its current service, Waynesboro could have a daily, deviated fixed route bus service, city officials were told Wednesday.

The Waynesboro City Council is sounding off about finalizing revisions to the city’s noise ordinance, and said it wants to see something “with teeth” by early 2009.

In separate votes, the Waynesboro City Council on Monday voted to authorize issuing $2 million in bonds to repair the Broad Street Bridge, and voted to provide for the issue, sale and award of another $8.8 million in bonds for city infrastructure and public works projects, all to be financed through the Virginia Resource Authority.

Waynesboro’s current zoning ordinance lists “tin-smithing” as a use in several commercial zoning districts, but makes no allowances for video rental stores 30 years after VCRs evolved in popularity.

The Waynesboro City Council will proceed later this month with borrowing $2.6 million for the West End fire station as part of larger bond package, but questions remained Tuesday about the ultimate staffing and exact scope of the station.

A lifelong Waynesboro resident will now have the job of running the city where he grew up.

Waynesboro residents will be paying $10 to $20 more in personal property taxes this year following the City Council’s unanimous adoption Monday of a resolution on the issue.

The Waynesboro City Council unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing Mayor Tim Williams and Interim City Manager Mike Hamp to sign off on two deeds of easement, which would enable the start of the city’s Greenway Trail System.

Waynesboro City Council adopted a proposed helmet ordinance during a regular business meeting Tuesday night.

Waynesboro’s Economic Development Authority would be refashioned to give it autonomy from the city and responsibility for generating its own money under a proposal by Vice Mayor Frank Lucente and backed by the remainder of the City Council.

Bill Hausrath gazes upon a vacant structure on West Main Street and sees the Waynesboro of his youth and the one of succeeding generations, a hub of life in a place where most of life’s energy has migrated slightly west.