The Petersburg City Council will hold their regular meeting this Tuesday evening. Also, the Hopewell City Council will hold a joint meeting with Hopewell Public Schools and the city’s Finance Committee on the same day to discuss capital budget requests from the school system for FY 26. Plus, more. Check out this week’s public meetings in Petersburg, Hopewell and Colonial Heights below.
Petersburg City Council to consider setting aside additional $1.9M for new community recreation center by local high school
During Tuesday’s meeting, the Petersburg City Council will hold a public hearing to consider an ordinance that would set aside $1,900,000 in unspent city money to fund the Petersburg Sports Training Facility (Fieldhouse), a new community recreation center adjacent to the outdoor athletic field at the Petersburg High School.
The center, dubbed the Fieldhouse Sports Training Facility, would primarily serve the local high school students, but would also be open to the public. The proposed amenities at the community recreation center include an indoor practice facility with a turf surface, a weight room, a varsity locker room, a visiting locker room, a fitness room, a wrestling space, coaches’ offices, conference rooms, multipurpose areas, classrooms and more.
Previously, People’s Advantage Federal Credit Union gifted the city $500,000 to go toward the completion of the new community recreation center. The city also contributed $500,000 in funding towards the Fieldhouse from unspent city funds set aside for Petersburg’s public schools this past summer. The additional $1,900,000 would come from the same source. According to Tuesday’s city council meeting agenda , the city estimates that the entire project will cost around $5.4M in total to complete.
Petersburg to accept donations for trees, new trolley system
Petersburg will also consider multiple resolutions on Tuesday that would allow the city to accept donations from various sources. This includes a resolution supporting a partnership between Petersburg and Virginia State University (VSU) that would grant the city $56,000 to “enhance the city’s tree canopy” and “provide educational opportunities” in Poplar Lawn park, according to the city council meeting’s agenda. The funds would come from both VSU and the Virginia Department of Forestry…