Board of Supervisors FY26 Budget Work Session

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What administrative announcements and the Pledge of Allegiance open the meeting?

Michael R. Turner 7:52

Good evening, all. Welcome to the first budget work session, the first step in an arduous journey that we take here as a county every year. Thank you all for coming. I just have a couple of administrative announcements to make very briefly, and then we will get started. Pursuant to Virginia Code 2.23708.3 and the Board's Rules of Order, Supervisor Glass requested to participate in this meeting by electronic communication. A physical quorum of the Board of Supervisors is present in the boardroom, and the board has made arrangements for the voice of Supervisor Letourneau to be heard by all persons in the boardroom. Supervisor Letourneau, can you hear us? Supervisor Glass. Supervisor Glass, can you hear us?

Sylvia R. Glass 8:37

Yes, I can hear

Michael R. Turner 8:38

you. Thank you very much. That was a misprint that we meant to say, Supervisor Glass. Supervisor Glass made this request within the required timeframe, and the county attorney determined that his request meets the qualifications to participate remotely. The board will record in its minutes that Supervisor Glass participated from a remote location in Washington, D.C., due to personal reasons. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Caleb A. Kershner 9:06

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Michael R. Turner 9:20

Thank you all very much. Board members, I'd like to stress the importance of the budget work sessions as the time for us to offer changes, additions and deletions to the budget. Board members should try to offer all desired amendments and ask any questions you have during the work sessions. Please only offer motions that you intend to support so that we can be efficient with our limited time during each session. Many, many years ago, there was a habit of board members who would offer motions, and then when it came down to approving the final budget, didn't support the motions that they'd offered during the straw poll vote process. We do not want to do that, so please only offer motions that you intend to support through the end of the budget.

Michael R. Turner 10:04

In addition, if you'd like to offer motions on items that do not appear in the proposed budget, please work with staff prior to the work session to ensure your motion is accurate and accomplishes your intended result. We have several of those here tonight. When we get to our final vote on April 1st, staff will not be able to make large 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 and voted upon during the work sessions. The first up on the agenda is organizational matters. And I'd like, if I could, Ms. Burke to run through those organizational matters and then we already have an alternative motion on the dais which we will take up as soon as we go through the organizational matters.

Michael R. Turner 10:49

Microphone is yours, Ms.

Nan Burke 10:51

Burke. Good evening, Vice Chair Turner and members of the board. We're excited to start FY26 budget deliberations. I'd first just like to reintroduce Mike Frank, sitting next to me, who is our new assistant director in the Office of Management and Budget. He supports OMB work on the operating budget as well as revenue forecasting, and he will be at the staff table throughout the budget work sessions with members of his team and department directors. I'll begin my remarks with an overview of this evening's work session packet, which was distributed on Friday. The packet includes responses to just over 30 questions on the operating budget. Responses to remaining questions will be included in Wednesday evening's packet ahead of the next operating budget work session on March 6th.

Nan Burke 11:34

The packet also includes responses to questions from the Loudoun County Public Schools. Staff has also received many questions on the CIP, responses to which will be included in the work session packet that will be distributed tomorrow ahead of the Finance Committee's second CIP work session on March 5th. The packet also includes item two, budget work sessions organizational matters.