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TextAgency Lines of Business Presentations to the Board of Supervisors
Fairfax County is projecting a budget deficit of more than $400 million for Fiscal Year 2010 (which begins on July 1, 2009). The Board of Supervisors is required by law to adopt a balanced budget. The current Fiscal Year 2009 Adopted Budget (which lasts from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009) is balanced. In the context of this significant projected deficit for FY 2010, the County's challenge is to develop a budget with an appropriate level of services that are both sustainable and acceptable to the community. Since April 2007, the County has been preparing for this downturn, realizing that the downturn in the housing market among other things has negatively impacted the County's principal revenue source - real estate taxes. Consequently, in face of this decline in real estate assessments (which are the source of funds for the County's General Fund) and tax revenue, one of the principal measures taken by County management and agencies has been a complete review of the County's 310 discrete Lines of Business. These complete Lines of Business narratives were published and posted on the County's Website in January 2008.
AGENCY LINES OF BUSINESS PRESENTATION MATERIALS
Based on these Lines of Business documents, County General Fund and General Fund Supported agencies were directed by the County Executive in June 2008 to develop Lines of Business reduction options equating to 15% of their operating expenditures to help provide him with an array of options from which he could develop a balanced budget. General Fund and General Fund Supported agencies and staff will be presenting these presentations to the Board of Supervisors this Fall along with their recommended list of potential reductions and any proposed revenue alternatives.
In addition to these Lines of Business presentations, input is being garnered from 20 Community Dialogue sessions that staff is hosting throughout the County in Fall 2008 to obtain input from the public as well as requesting suggestions and comments from the public by the Web and by phone (call the Budget Hotline at 703-324-9400, TTY 711). This is part of a comprehensive Community Dialogue process. The County Executive will review all this information coupled with other strategies in developing his recommended FY 2010 Budget.
Subsequent to the release of the FY 2010 Advertised Budget Plan on February 23, 2009, the public will also have the opportunity to comment on the specifics of the County Executive's budget. Final budget decisions will not be determined until April 2009 when the Board of Supervisors adopts its approved budget for FY 2010.
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