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Stacy Parker covers Virginia Beach government, tourism and development. She’s a Virginia Beach native and a University of Maryland graduate who began her career in journalism as a teen correspondent for The Pilot years ago.
The new figure, which now totals $53.4 million, comes after a recent vote to increase the funding, which revealed that the city also discreetly slipped an additional $8 million for the entertainment center into its budget this past spring.
Virginia Beach bought the Dairy Queen and the adjacent 17th Street Park for a whopping $12.8 million. Public restrooms on the site next to the Boardwalk are also included in the deal.
The amount that festival organizers could get from the city is quadruple the figure that was originally proposed for the city's support of the Something in the Water festival.
After months of delaying votes, the City Council will once again take up two hot topic issues at Tuesday's meeting: whether to add a tax for disposable plastic bags in stores and whether to make the city’s noise ordinance easier to enforce.