Issues surrounding last year’s $440,000 school deficit died down Tuesday during a meeting of Lynchburg City Council’s finance committee.

Lynchburg City Council finalized its budget Tuesday after making a few final amendments.

Lynchburg City Council will meet today to hold what could be the last of its budget deliberations.

Lynchburg City Council has approved the sale of six acres of public land to a private developer who plans to build a mix of single-family homes and duplexes.

The Lynchburg Planning Commission unanimously approved Cameron Lofts LP’s request Wednesday to rezone the Barker-Jennings building and issue a permit to turn it into an affordable housing complex.

The city will hold a “Budget Open House” next week, offering residents a chance to air concerns and ask city staff questions.

The city will hold a “Budget Open House” next week, offering residents a chance to air concerns and ask city staff questions.

School finances were in the limelight again Tuesday when the division’s deficit and budget for the next year were discussed at length.

The city expects it will have to pay the federal government more than $65,000 in refunds for the mishandling of two grant programs meant to support community revitalization initiatives.

City leadership is scheduled to spend more than two hours discussing school finances today.

City Council generated a list of more than a dozen potential budget alterations during a work session Tuesday.

Lynchburg City School Board is expected to approve its $86.9 million budget tonight. 

Lynchburg officials are considering closing the downtown library, ending bagged leaf collection and eliminating school crossing guards in an effort to balance their diminished budget.

City Councilman Jeff Helgeson says the Lynchburg government has failed in its duty to be fiscally prudent by continuing to spend on what he refers to as “aesthetic” projects such as the Fifth Street roundabout.

An ordinance rejected by City Council two years ago as overly simplistic is now being revamped by City Council in an effort to simplify its mandates.