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 21, 2013
The meeting was hosted by Mason District Supervisor Penelope Gross in Annandale Wednesday night.
Around 30 residents joined Mason District Supervisor Penelope Gross and Fairfax County Executive Edward L. Long Wednesday night at the Mason District Governmental Center in Annandale to discuss the FY 2014 Advertised Budget Plan. Long, whose presentation included information previously reported about the budget, stressed the importance of approaching the budget from a long-term planning perspective to the audience when discussing Fairfax County’s future. “We can’t afford what we’ve been doing in the past, at least not for the next five years,” said Long of the suggested 2-cent increase in the real estate tax rate from $1.075 per $100 of assessed value to $1.095. The raise is is projected to raise nearly $42 million in county revenue. “I …
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. 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-…
Vincent Careatti
5:46 pm on Wednesday, April 24, 2013
It seems to me something is amiss. It seems that every major intersection (gallows & 29) (Tyson's) etc has incredible growth. The Board approves all these mega projects on the premise that it wii be great for the tax base. But that never happens; the infrastructure falls upon the individual homeowner. more ›