Finance and Budget Committee - Mar 10, 2026
meeting
Prince William County Finance and Budget Committee
3h 5m
4 speakers
8 agenda items
transcribed 21 hours ago
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What procedural items are covered at the start of the meeting?
That was a hard one. Sorry. Uh good morning. I've had my Wheaties this morning. Um Good morning everyone and welcome to our March tenth, twenty twenty-six Finance and Budget Committee. Uh appreciate everyone showing up and Thank you for coming, Supervisor Vega, good to see you. Um we as I look around the dais we do indeed have a quorum, so we have determined that. Yep. Off to the races, thank you. Uh next is item number two, two A, uh approval of minutes for March third, twenty twenty six. Can I get a motion for that? So
move manager.
Thank you. Appreciate that. It's been moved and properly seconded. Any discussion? Seeing none. Do we have voting on the on the screens today or voice? That's a fine. Okay. Sure. No? No, it was all good. So let's let's let take a voice vote then.
Mr. Angry?
Aye.
Ms. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Bodie? Aye. Mr. Gordy? Ms. Jefferson? Aye. Mr. Stewart?
Aye. Ms.
Vega. Motion carried.
Thank you for that. Now we're on to the main meat of our um meeting this morning. We're gonna have a few different presentations, uh starting with economic outlook. So I will hand it over to the county exec if you'd like to introduce our speakers.
Thank you very much. Good morning, uh Chair and members of the committee. Would like to first welcome as chair you said we're gonna have a series of presentations in so with three A, we're welcoming a presentation on economic outlook. I think we're gonna start with Tracy from Brookings. Uh Yep. Welcome.
Hi, good morning. Shall we just jump in? Okay. My name's Tracy Lowe and I'm a fellow at the Brookings Institution. where I'm a geographer and I Study commercial real estate usually. But today I'm here to talk about a different project that I'm doing, which is a regional economic monitoring project focused on our metropolitan statistical area, which Hopefully most of us know and love is the DMV. Um, I'm gonna share with you some findings about what's happening in the region and uh specifically about what's happening in Prince William County. Okay, so My impetus for doing this project is that Um, you know, a little earlier than this time last year, it became clear that the second Trump administration was not going to be like the first.
And that one of the big priorities of this administration was going to be making dramatic cuts to both federal employment and federal spending. So these are national figures. Um, this is kind of in the aggregate, um, you know, what's happening all over the country with the Trump administration. And you know, I realize that this isn't just like a twenty twenty five thing because many of these changes are being codified into law. And this isn't just about what the Trump administration wants to do, this is also about what Congress is doing um in collaboration with the Trump administration. And so these changes are going to be durable. And that means that we need to understand how our region's economy is going to change um because of
Everything that's going on. The federal government is the nation's largest employer. And so we expect to see national impacts from w you know, whenever the country's biggest employer, you know, makes changes in how they're doing business. But I think we all knew from the get-go that there would be disproportionate impacts in the greater Washington region because of our higher exposure to federal employment. Um Белкас um These The changes in federal employment and spending have not been uniform. This isn't like a sequestration type situation in which, like, across the board limits or cuts are imposed. This is rather an approach in which certain kinds of federal work are being disproportionately targeted, and so our disproportionate exposure is even higher.
um than we might have anticipated from previous efforts to reduce the size of the federal government or limit spending. These are just some fun facts about the DMV. You know, as our colleagues are meeting down in Richmond, I think one thing that all of us hopefully are communicating to them as they think about um how they invest in Northern Virginia, that um almost half of the state of Virginia's gross domestic product comes from
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Agenda
8 items
1
What procedural items are covered at the start of the meeting?
9:20–16:29
2
How does the committee transition to the economic outlook presentation?
16:29–32:38
3
What key findings does Tracy Lowe share about the regional economy and labor market?
32:38–1:00:08
4
How do committee members discuss food insecurity, venture‑capital trends, and data‑center impacts?
1:00:08–1:41:50
5
How do mobile market programs secure locations and manage food deliveries?
1:41:50–1:48:47
6
What agency partners does the Capital Area Food Bank work with and how do they handle food ordering and distribution?
1:48:47–1:58:08
7
Why is a coordinated county food‑insecurity effort needed and how does the Prince William Food Council fit into it?
1:58:08–2:30:46
8
What are the current health‑center challenges in Prince William County regarding Medicaid loss, uninsured children, and maternal‑child health?
2:30:46–3:05:14
Speakers
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