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• May 9 – 2009 election: The Charlottesville Democratic Party opted that year to hold a firehouse primary, also called a firehouse caucus or "unassembled caucus", to determine nominees for two at large seats on the City Council.

• May 21 – Two laptop computers stolen from Tonsler Park on November 5, 2008 containing names, addresses, DMV identification numbers and years of birth of 25,000 city voters. Worried citizens could get new ID numbers from the DMV. No one's reported any identity theft yet, writes Registrar Sheri Iachetta.

• July 1 – Okayed in May, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority wholesale rate increases for fiscal year 2010 went into effect: Albemarle's water jumped 11.3 percent and Charlottesville's 7.7 percent; Sewer rates went up 12.53 percent for Albemarle and 12.9 percent for the city. The previous year, the county saw wholesale rates up 2.44 percent for water and 10.65 percent for sewer, while Charlottesville's wholesale rates climbed 2.65 percent for water and 10.43 percent for sewer.