Politics & Government

County Budget: Where and When to Weigh In

Give your Fairfax County supervisor feedback on Fairfax County's proposed $7 billion plan for Fiscal Year 2014.

Fairfax County supervisors will host a series of town hall meetings this week to discuss the county’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget plan.

County Executive Ed Long’s $7 billion budget package, proposed in late February, would raise the real estate tax rate from $1.075 per $100 of assessed value to $1.095, as well as cut funding from parks, libraries and other county services.

The increase in the real estate tax rate would raise a projected $42 million in revenue but would burden county taxpayers with $262 more in annual real estate taxes.

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There are no meetings in Chantilly this week; the closest meetings are in Herndon and Fairfax. Those meetings are as follows:

  • Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.  – Braddock District Budget Meeting at  Robinson Secondary School (Lecture Hall) - 5035 Sideburn Rd., Fairfax 
  • Wednesday, 7 p.m. –   Dranesville District Budget Meeting  at Herndon Town Council Chambers - 765 Lynn Street, Herndon 

This week’s town hall meetings will give residents and constituents an opportunity to voice their concerns and suggestions for the budget, which will be formally adopted April 30.

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Of the advertised plan’s $3.59 billion in general fund spending, $1.72 billion is slated to go to Fairfax County Public Schools – approximately $62 million less than the amount the school board was hoping for.

School’s officials have said the transfer won’t be enough to meet the projected growth in the school system over the coming years. According to outgoing Superintendent Jack Dale, the smaller transfer and a number of other mandatory expenditures actually puts the school system about $45 million short of their advertised $2.5 billion budget.

Supervisor John Cook’s (R-Braddock) office has launched a new, interactive tool that allows county residents to construct their own budgets based off of Long’s advertised plan. The deadline for the exercise is April 8.

This week’s town hall schedule is below:

  • Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.  – Braddock District Budget Meeting at  Robinson Secondary School (Lecture Hall) - 5035 Sideburn Rd., Fairfax 
  • Tuesday, 7 p.m.  – Dranesville District Budget Meeting at Great Falls Library - 9830 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls  
  • Wednesday, 7 p.m. –   Dranesville District Budget Meeting  at Herndon Town Council Chambers - 765 Lynn Street, Herndon 
  • Saturday, 10 a.m.  – Hunter Mill District Budget Meeting  at Vienna Community Center - 120 Cherry St. SE, Vienna 


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