Finance
The Finance Department:
- Provides comprehensive financial management, accounting, and reporting services
- Pays all City employees and City bills
- Serves as a central procurement agency and warehouse for all City departments
- Provides meter reading and utility billing/collection for all city gas, water, and sewer utility customers
Real Estate Assessor’s Office
The Real Estate Assessor’s Office, a division of the Finance Department, is responsible for
- Assessing all parcels in the City annually
- Maintaining assessment information online
- Providing various services to:
- Attorneys
- Homeowners
- Land surveyors
- Prospective homebuyers/sellers
- Realtors
- Title researchers
Additional Responsibilities
The department provides financial accounting services to the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library and Charlottesville Industrial Development Authority through a contractual arrangement. The department also:
- Provides overall risk management services for the City as well as debt management
- Manages the City’s surplus property program
- Conducts sales of surplus and unclaimed property
- Coordinates and promotes the City’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprises program
- Prepares a number of specialized technical reports including:
- The annual utility rate study
- Official statements and prospectuses for bond issues
- The City’s annual financial report
- The state-mandated comparative cost report transmittal forms
- A variety of grant reports
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Christopher Cullinan
Finance Director
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Finance
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 911
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: 434-970-3200Fax: 434-970-3232