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Virginia Beach seeks option to use 1% sales tax hike for flood projects

Voters in dozens of Virginia cities will decide this year whether to approve local 1% sales tax hikes, with the money dedicated to local school construction projects. Virginia Beach lawmakers want to ask the General Assembly to expand the uses to include flood protection projects.

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