Parks, roads, a mobile mammogram clinic: Here's some of what legislators are asking for in the budget

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Parks, roads, a mobile mammogram clinic: Here's some of what legislators are asking for in the budget

This is not a “budget year” in Richmond, meaning it’s not a year in which the General Assembly has to pass a budget. Virginia operates on a two-year budget, so that passage happened last year, and we’re still in the first fiscal year of that spending plan. However, Virginia is projected to have a budget surplus of $2 billion or more, and there are lots of ideas on what to do with all that money.Gov. Glenn Youngkin — and some Republican legislato…