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I received the letter about the 56% increase of the annual maintenance fee for district 14 ( Lake Denham). I found the link to the proposed budget on the VCDD website. It appears to me that the vast increase of that budget is for funding the Eastport Maintenance Advisory Committee (EMAC). The cost of that committee for District 14 is proposed to be $1.22M. It was not on the budget last year. So District 14's budget will go from $1.5M to about $2.5M. I understand that there were other increases maybe due to inflation, but this major increase is mostly for funding a committee (EMAC) which advises on the development of Eastport in District 15.

Budget attached from VCDD website.