Board of Supervisors FY26 Budget Work Session
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Loudoun County Board of Supervisors
3h 12m
4 speakers
8 agenda items
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What is the purpose of the FY26 Budget Work Session and how will changes be made?
There we go. Well, good evening, Supervisors, good evening, staff, and good evening, Loudoun. I'd like to call to order the March 6th, 2025 Loudoun County Board of Supervisors budget work session. Board members, I'd like to stress the importance of this budget work session as the time 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 time. And I've said this before, don't vote on something if you're not willing to support the tax rate at the end of when we finish. 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, prior to the work session.
prior to the work session to ensure the motion is accurate and accomplishes your intended result. When we get 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 on during the work session. I'm gonna go one step farther, Supervisors. If you all need to, outvote me you can but if I see votes on this day is that have not been vetted prior to this work session I am NOT going to allow them they can come at the bracket wrap up at the end because it is just too confusing for me for staff and it's not for for all staff and it's not respectful to the public and so don't don't walk up on here on emotions that we haven't seen before because you can bring them to the last session or
You can take them back home, but that's what's going to happen. All right. Would everyone please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?
I pledge allegiance
to the flag
of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
all. Okay, we may want to ask Ms. Burke for some budget staff updates. Do we have any budget staff updates, ma'am?
I was just going to review the materials in your packet. From straw votes taken last Monday at last Monday's work session, the real property tax rate on the TOTE board stands at $0.80 with $455,000 added. available to allocate before changing the tax rate. And then I would just share that in the packet that went out yesterday was an additional county packet of questions as well as an information item on the public defender proposal that's next on your agenda as well as an information item accompanying the extension services request to be fully responsive to one of the questions that came in from a board office. And that concludes my updates.
Well, that was fast. Thank you very much. Where is the TOTE Board?
It is under budget staff updates. No, no. I'm sorry.
Yes, if we could share the
screen.
That's helpful. Thank you. I appreciate that. Okay, we're going to first, you have a quick question? Oh, yeah, sure. Does anyone have questions for staff on this? Mr. Turner's not on the WebEx, is he? He's not. Okay. Mr. Turner? Thank
you, Ms. Burke. My understanding is we are contributing more than required to the revenue stabilization fund. So we are actually over our target for the revenue stabilization fund. So my question is we only have $455,000 left until we go over the next threshold. If we really want to keep this tax rate, can we reduce the revenue stabilization fund enough to keep us under this tax bracket when we're all finished here?
I don't understand your question.
We have $455,000 until we go up to a half cent on the tax rate. If we want to avoid going up an extra half cent on the tax rate and we want to fund some of these items in these budget discussions that pushes us up into that higher
tax bracket, can we reduce
the amount that we are putting in the revenue stabilization fund, which is already more than what we had planned
on putting in
anyway? I see your question.
He's asking, so if we say yes to something other than item request levels one and two, if we wanna go to three, four, can we do that?
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Agenda
8 items
1
What is the purpose of the FY26 Budget Work Session and how will changes be made?
8:28–27:08
2
How does the board decide on tax‑rate adjustments and the revenue‑stabilization fund?
27:08–48:30
3
What challenges does the Public Defender’s Office face and what funding is being proposed?
48:30–1:06:28
4
How is the Department of Family Services addressing caseloads and staffing needs?
1:06:28–1:24:04
5
What are the health department’s plans for TB screening and rabies response programs?
1:24:04–1:43:38
6
What initiatives are planned for mental health, substance‑abuse, and developmental services?
1:43:38–2:31:13
7
How will new housing‑support positions improve assistance for county residents?
2:31:13–2:53:02
8
What staffing changes are proposed for Planning & Zoning and Transportation & Capital Infrastructure?
2:53:02–3:12:09
Speakers
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