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7 your RIGHT TO KNOW :J.I.II.L-j.l.l.l.llUJ.I....IlL.l..WJ:I..I.IIL-J?7 PAID ADVLHIISkMLNI a SUNDAY February 3, 2013 TlmesDlspitch.com IAJ. HARRY JERNIGAN CPA ATTORNEY (804) 249-6550 ir.ljlaw.com FREE In-Offica Consultation with Harry Jarnigan Call for an Appointment Today! Richmond Times-Dispatch Editor John Hoke (804) 649-6344 Chesterfield's Jaeckle an 'advocate' for county MARKGORMUSTIMES-nSnDCH In second year of second term, she is prioritizing cash proffers as new chairwoman of board BY JEREMY SLAYTON Richmond Times-Dlspatdi Dorothy A. Jaeckle initially rejected overtures to run for the Bermuda District seat on Chesterfield County's Board of Supervisors. But as more and more people encouraged her to run in 2007, she relented and ultimately won the seat in a three-way race. Now in the second year of her second term on the board, the gavel rests in her hand.

Jaeckle, 58, this year will serve as the board's chairwoman after back-to-back years as vice chairwoman. "I think we are all philosophically in agreement as far as being fiscally conservative, having government do what government needs to do properly," Jaeckle said in an interview last week. Jaeckle heads the board at a time when the county will not be as economically distressed as years past. The overall tax base in Chesterfield increased by 0.5 percent on the strength of new construction and increasing commercial values, even though housing values declined for the fifth Dorothy A. JaacMa, charwoman of ttw Chastarflatd Board of Supervisors, has Ihad In the county's Cheater am slnca T980.

straight year. Still, Jaeckle expressed concern about the increasing number of county residents living in poverty. She is working with the county's Social Services Board to help clients, especially younger residents, devel-CHESTERFIELD, Paga B6 YMCA IOK Training Team kicks off In area Jeff Schapiro bchanlro0tlrrwsdlsoatctvcom Cuccinelli comes a'courting Boiling Lt Gov. Bill Boiling recently had an unexpected visitor to his cavernous corner office: Ken Cuccinelli, the attorney general. "He sat right where you're sitting," said Boiling, referring to the red-and-green striped settee into which I had just settled.

"We spent about an hour together. It was a frank and candid conversation." During their unannounced Jan. 21 meeting it was requested by Cuccinelli Boiling said he and the man who out-maneuvered him for the Republican gubernatorial nomination discussed the subject that has rent them asunder: the campaign ahead. Losing has liberated Boiling, loosening his image and his tongue. The loyal Republican who deferred to others defers no longer.

Boiling is especially direct in expressing his distaste for the negative image the GOP projects and the just-say-no issues promoted by its new titular leaden Cuccinelli. This is an uncharacteristic role for Boiling he is refusing to endorse Cuccinelli and will decide by mid-March on an independent candidacy that could sink Cuccinelli' and it is generating attention from an unlikely quarter. Terry McAuliffe, the presumed Democratic nominee for governor, met privately with Boiling on Jan. 10. That widely reported tete-a-tete sparked Cuccinelli's interest in a get-together of his own with Boiling.

The rendezvous, on which SCHAPIRO, Pa BE JOE MAHONEYTIMES-nSKICH Runners head out across Belvidere Street during the first class to prepare for the Ukropfe Monument Avenue 10K on April 13. The YMCA 10K Training Team kicked off Saturday and is being held at 20 area locations, including 18 YMCA branches. Deadline to enter the program is Friday; sign up at wwwsportsbackers.org. Those interested in running, jogging or walking the 6.2-mile course in April are encouraged to participate. -v.

fjlj First Ollting Runners brave the cold to start training for the Monument Avenue 10K on April 13. At TlmesDlspatch.com, search: gallery. Governor blows smoke in McDonnell statement on transportation plan Board members lead school budget debate car registration fee Gov. S1 bod McDonnell ras: a Ruing state- Says his proposal to PolltlFact Virginia Is a service of the Richmond Tlmes-Dlspatch and Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times devoted to checking the factual statements of the state's political players. To read the complete stories and check our sourclng.

go to PolltlFactVlrglnlarom. raise car registration to $56 would still leave Virginia with a fee that's "equal to or lower than most states." Statement data: Jan. 8 Ruing: Pants on Fire BY SEAN GORMAN MMRKtVlrglnlaxom Gov. Bob McDonnell's plan to expand revenues for transportation includes a $15 increase in the state's car registration fee. "Right now, $41 is our average registration.

This will change it to $56," McDonnell said at a Jan. 8 news conference. "This registration fee, even at an average $56, still puts us at a rate equal to or lower than most states in the country." We asked the governor's office to back up McDonnell's claim that, even with the 37 percent increase, Virginia's registration fee would compare equally or favorably to most states. Jeff Caldwell, a spokesman for the governor, said it's diffi- for next year. "All 1 need is one year," said Phillips, a bus industry veteran who was hired to run the department in July.

"I can guarantee you this: I can't save you $1 million, but I can save you $500,000." On Saturday, Phillips offered a few hints of what he has in mind to a highly receptive audience at the West End library on Patterson Avenue. The group of about three dozen people was on hand for the second in a series of public forums on the budget being held by the city's School Board members. ON Saturday, representatives from the 1st and 2nd districts, Glen H. Sturtevant Jr. and Kimberly B.

Gray, respectively, RICHMOND, Paga B2 Entire board will have public hearing Monday at Richmond City Hall BY ZACHARY RSD Richmond Tlmes-Dlspatch Give him a year, Todd Phillips said, and he will help solve one of the vexing issues in Richmond Public Schools' ever-present budget debate: transporting students at a reasonable cost Pupil transportation is one of three departments facilities maintenance and security are the others that Superintendent Yvonne W. Brandon has recommended be outsourced or otherwise greatly reorganized in an effort to trim millions of dollars from the school budget cult to get an apples-to-apples comparison of how Virginia's registration fee measures up to other states because of differences among the states in how those fees are assessed. However, when looking at the common vehicle fees that most states use, such as vehicle license fees (registration), title fees and title taxes (sales tax), Virginia is clearly one of the lowest in our region of the country even with the proposed $15 increase," Caldwell wrote in an email. When comparing just registration fees, Caldwell said, Virginia's proposed new fee would still be lower than in Maryland, Wisconsin, Montana, Illinois, Oklahoma and Vermont POUTIFACT, Paga B7 3 hneqother I A 11151 flKAPJS (PJnlHS ViUU I Sale Location Franco's Lakeside Store 5321 Lakeside Ave 264-2994 I.