Board of Supervisors FY25 Budget Work Session

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What does the Chair say when calling the FY25 Budget Work Session to order?

Phyllis J. Randall 13:58

WELL, GOOD EVENING, SUPERVISORS, GOOD EVENING, STAFF, GOOD EVENING, LOUDON. I'D LIKE TO CALL TO ORDER THE MARCH 7, 2024 BOARD SUPERVISORS BUDGET WORK SESSION TO ORDER. BOARD MEMBERS, I'D LIKE TO STRESS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BUDGET WORK SESSIONS AS THEY ARE A TIME FOR US TO OFFER CHANGES, ADDITIONS, AND DELETIONS TO THE BUDGET. BOARD MEMBERS SHOULD TRY TO OFFER ALL DESIRED AMENDMENTS AND ASK QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVE ANY DURING THE WORK SESSION. PLEASE ONLY OFFER MOTIONS THAT YOU INTEND TO SUPPORT. I KNOW YOU ALL WILL. so that we can be efficient for a limited time during each session. In addition, if you would like to offer motions on items that are not in the period in the proposed budget, Please, if you can, work with staff prior to the work session to ensure your motion is in accurate order and can accomplish your results.

Phyllis J. Randall 14:42

When we get to the final vote on April 2nd, staff will not be able to make large scale changes to the budget during the meeting and the vote on the budget could be delayed if there are substantive changes that were not discussed or voted on during the work sessions. Would everyone please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?

Phyllis J. Randall 15:22

SUPERVISORS, MR. TURNER HAS CALLED AND APOLOGIZED. HE IS RUNNING LATE. HE WOULD ACTUALLY LIKE TO BE HERE FOR THE MEMORANDUM DISCUSSION ON THE PDR, MEMORANDUM ON THE PDR. SO WE'RE GOING TO GO ON AND WE'RE GOING TO DO THE TOTE BOARD TRANSMITTAL AND THEN WE'LL DO THE DEPARTMENTS AND THEN WHEN HE GETS HERE, WE'LL TAKE A BREAK IN BETWEEN the Mental Health Substance Abuse Prevention Services Department and the Building Development Department to do the PDR discussion at that time. So we'll do the health and welfare departments and then we'll do the PDR and then we'll do the Community Development Department. How's that sound? That sounds great, thank you for clarifying. Okay, wonderful. Then let's do the Transmittal Letter first, please.

Megan (Unknown) 16:11

Sure, good evening. In your packet for this evening includes a summary of the actions or the straw votes that the board took on during monday's work session we'll have the tote board displayed for you throughout the work session here you'll see we remain at a real property tax rate of 87 and a half cents the board took straw Polls that reduced expenditures from the budget of about $478,000, which are available to reallocate at the same tax rate. In order to reduce the real property tax rate by a half penny, $6.9 million needs to be removed in expenditures from the Tote Board. Also in your packet is the next installment of responses to questions submitted by board members. And I can't answer any questions on those responses.

Megan (Unknown) 17:04

And then as the chair said, the only other additional item in the packet was just a cover memo on the PDR program and included as attachments were previous budget development items on the topic of what a purchase of development rights program would look like.

Phyllis J. Randall 17:23

And Megan, just to make sure, everything in this budget today also is, if someone doesn't want something, they have to remove it because everything is included in the budget already,

Megan (Unknown) 17:38

correct? That's correct. Everything

Phyllis J. Randall 17:39

in the proposed budget is funded. Okay. Yes. All right. Thank you, ma'am.

Megan (Unknown) 17:43

And then finally, I just want to offer that departments are here to provide opening remarks. They've encouraged to keep their comments brief so that the board can facilitate the question and answer period.

Phyllis J. Randall 17:54

Okay.

Megan (Unknown) 17:55

Thank you.

Phyllis J. Randall 17:55

Wonderful. Wonderful. Also, because your staff's already funded, so you don't want to talk too much. Unfund yourself. Okay, we're going to start with extension services. Extension services can be found in the description of resource request on page R61, the budget narrative 3-2.

Phyllis J. Randall 18:22

Good evening. Oh, I know you.

Stuart Vermack 18:32

Good evening, Supervisors. My name is Stuart Vermack, and I am the Department Director of Virginia Cooperative Extension Loudon, known as Extension Services, in the proposed budget. The resource request for my department can be located on page R61 in the budget document. Our department is the local connection to Virginia's land-grant universities, Virginia Tech and Virginia State University.