Here is the 2018 CoR Legislative Agenda adopted at our recent annual meeting. Please contact your Delegate and Senator immediately, in person if possible, and provide them with a copy and request that they support these initiatives. It is also a good idea to share our agenda with your constitutional officer colleagues. As the legislative session develops this agenda will likely be revised as circumstances dictate.
Legislative Days will be January 21-23. Once again, a block rooms will be available at the Omni Hotel, Richmond.
After four decades of hard service the old General Assembly Building (GAB) is being torn down and replaced with a new General Assembly Building in the same location. In the interim, legislators offices have been temporarily relocated to the nearby Pocahontas Building at 900 E. Main St. This location, while more convenient to the Omni Hotel (one block away), will actually be more of a challenge for us due to the extremely limited amount of space available. For example, we will not have meeting space within the Pocahontas Building as we have had in the old GAB. Lori Stevens has arranged meeting space in the Executive Offices of the Virginia Department of Taxation several blocks away at 600 E. Main Street. In addition, because of these conditions we have elected not to descend en masse on the Pocahontas Building and have suspended the distribution of legislative gifts.
Accordingly, each of you is encouraged to plan your visit with your legislators by scheduling an appointment during business hours, and/or arranging to have dinner with them sometime during our Legislative Days.
To help orient you I have included a map of downtown Richmond.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, Ross Mugler, or any member of the executive/legislative committee.