Okay, so I read about the increase in contracting licensure fees on one day only to turn around and find a "special assesment' in my mailbox five days later. it is clear to me the the government, as usual, will take from teh people only to support itself and its own survival. What we've got here is a bloated agency with policies that were written from a different era based upon an outlook which was a pipedream. The contractor recovery fund is something that needs to be done away with. It is not the governments role to make an individual whole who may have been done wrong by a business they license. That is the risk the individual takes by "Contracting" with the business and there is already a system for that. It's called civil court or even, god forbid, criminal court.We are being bled dry by this bureaucratic entity and only we have the power to change it. Do as Mary suggest, write your governor and add your distric representative to that list as well. Governor Kaine: http://www.governor.virginia.gov/CitizenServices/contactGovOffice.cfm and this address to find your congressman/senator http://conview.state.va.us/whosmy.nsf/main?openform. Keep up the fight and tell everyone you know how our state is failing us all. Remember "all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people, that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them" (VA Constitution).