FY 2027 Board of Supervisors Budget Work Session - Mar 09, 2026

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How does the Chair set expectations for the FY2027 budget work session?

Phyllis J. Randall 7:13

I sent that to you this morning, though. Yeah. It's the same thing that I sent this morning, yeah. Well, good evening, Supervisors, good evening, staff, and good evening, Loudoun. I'd like to call to order the March 9th, 2026 Loudoun County Board of Supervisors budget work session. I would like to stress the importance of this budget work session 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 questions that you have during these work sessions. Please only offer motions that you intend to support so that we can be efficient with our limited time. In addition, if you'd like to offer motions on items that do not appear in the proposed budget, please work with staff on that so we know that your motion is accurate and accomplishes your intended result.

Phyllis J. Randall 8:05

When we get your final vote in April 7th, 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 or voted on during the work session. Before we start, I ask everybody to 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.

Phyllis J. Randall 8:46

It looks like we are all here except Mr. Kirshner. I know he's coming. I think he's probably just running a little late. Sometimes he has to go to Fairfax and so I'm sure he will be here very shortly. Good evening, staff. Good evening, Madam Chair. How are you all today? Doing great. Mr. Hemstreet has an update before I share mine. Mr. Hemstreet has an update.

Jason (County Administrator Hemstreet) 9:08

All right, Mr. Hemstreet. Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to start by acknowledging that we sent out an attachment with the board packet for this evening that we should not have sent out as staff. So we had received some information from a board office that was put together by the board office. We had attached it to the packet We should not have done that. So that is my mistake. I apologize for that. We have removed that information from the electronic packet that's out there now. And I'll do a better job going forward making sure that those kinds of things are vetted before they go out. So just want to apologize to the board for that and not do that again.

Phyllis J. Randall 9:48

Thank you, Mr. Hemstreet. All of us, we're pretty busy people and mistakes are made and happens. Thank you so much. How's it going? Very well, thank you. We are excited to be here. Excited? Are you excited? We are excited to continue with the budget process. Sure, let's go with that. Before you is the Tote Board, which captures two straw votes that the board took at the end of the work session on Thursday. The Tote Board remains at the proposed tax rates with an available balance of $79,973. Also included in your packet, both one that was distributed on Friday as well as a supplemental packet distribution today are as follows. The latest response packet for questions received related to the county budget as well as the Loudoun County Public Schools.

Phyllis J. Randall 10:44

We still have some remaining county budget questions that staff is working through and intend to have those formally distributed as part of Wednesday's packet. In addition, we have item three, which is the finance committee's recommendations on the FY27 through FY32 capital improvement program. And we also have in the supplemental today an item on the sidewalk and trails program seeking the board's policy clarifications on a few items that have come up during budget deliberations. And we also distributed a memo which captures the motion that the school board adopted last Thursday related to school resource officers. And that concludes my update. Thank you very much. Supervisors, a couple things. One, you will see that I did change the order of the departments coming before us tonight.

Phyllis J. Randall 11:41

I do think the Sheriff's Department tonight may take a little longer, and there's no reason to keep the other departments here that I believe will go much more quickly, so I changed the order slightly.