Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Supervisors approve amendment to reduce average tax bill hike Tuesday but leave employee pay and schools funding unchanged.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved a series of amendments to the Fiscal Year 2014 budget Tuesday including one that lowers the proposed real estate tax rate increase by a penny, a move that will cost the county $20 million in revenue. Supervisors voted 9-1 to adopt the amendments, noting that in a particularly tough budget year, the package was the best they were going to get. “I wince now when I read through my remarks from last year’s mark-up that we were ‘hopefully beginning to see the dawn of a new day,’” Chairman Sharon Bulova said in a statement. “The Fiscal Year 2014 budget is one that makes no one happy. It is, however, a responsible fiscal plan that reflects our current difficult situation.” The budget plan will …
Thursday, March 14, 2013
The Braddock District Council hosted Supervisor John Cook and two members from Fairfax County.
Braddock District Supervisor John Cook, representatives from the Fairfax County Department of Management and Budget, and around 15 residents discussed cuts to public safety, residential values and other aspects of the advertised budget FY 2014 Wednesday night at the Kings Park Library in Burke. The presentation, which was hosted by the Braddock District Council, was led by Reports Control Coordinator Christina Jackson and Debt Coordinator Joe Lahait. Highlights of the presentation included information previously reported about the budget such as: According to the presentation, when the FY 2013 budget was adopted in May 2012, it was assumed that federal tax cuts and the debt ceiling issues would be resolved and sequestration would be …
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
“We’re just growing too much,” Superintendent Jack Dale said Tuesday as talks began between county supervisors and school board members.
Fairfax County is facing its own budget woes for Fiscal Year 2014: Property taxes could rise as much as 2 cents per $100 of assessed value, bumping the average homeowner's tax bill, and County Executive Ed Long has said raises for employees aren't likely.g But the county's struggles could also make Fairfax County Public Schools come up short on its own $2.5 billion advertised budget, officials said Tuesday as they met to discuss budget issues and priorities. It doesn't appear the county, which gives an annual transfer to the school board, can afford to give the board as much as it asked for this winter. In order to close a $169 million shortfall and prepare for the still-unknown effects of sequestration, County Executive Ed Long has …
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Facing hundreds of millions in deficits in Fiscal Year 2014, Fairfax County leaders try to plan around federal sequestration, unpredictable revenue.
As the leaders of Fairfax County and its school system sat together Tuesday to stare down upcoming fiscal years threatened by larger-than-normal deficits and the potential impact of sequestration, both groups agreed they would have to take a new approach in future budget cycles, one that relies less on what has been done in the past and more on multi-year budgeting and reprioritizing wants and needs — a "new way of doing business." "I think we have to look at things very differently and we have to be willing to take some risk on things we haven't done before," County Executive Ed Long said during a joint meeting Tuesday afternoon between the Board of Supervisors and Fairfax County School Board. Combined with the loss of $61 million in one-…
Bob Bruhns
7:37 am on Friday, December 7, 2012
Nice try, pen-namer JD, but the report assumes inflation at 1.7 to 2.0 over the period in question. Sorry if some people can't do simple arithmetic. And if our schools can't provide proper texts for the arithmetic and mathematics that they are teaching (or supposedly teaching) to our kids, that situation is going to get worse. more ›