Welcome to the podcast of meeting highlights for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors meeting on February 25, 2008
Fairfax County Executive Anthony H. Griffin proposed a General Fund budget of $3.3 billion for Fiscal Year 2009 (July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009), a decrease of 1.59 percent from the FY 2008 Revised Budget Plan. The proposed budget maintains the Real Estate Tax rate at $0.89 per $100 of assessed value. Based on an average assessed value of $524,076, the typical homeowner will pay $4,664 in Real Estate Tax in FY 2009. This is a decrease of $163 or 3.4 percent from the FY 2008 amount.
The Board approved the redirection of existing county resources to support the consolidation of the Center for Multicultural Human Services with Northern Virginia Family Services, designed to integrate, stabilize and preserve critical community based behavioral health care services. Staff will provide regular progress reports on the systems improvements to the Board.
The Board amended the Policy Plan element of the Comprehensive Plan to revise text related to the protection and restoration of streams and stream buffers in areas upstream of Resource Protection Areas and floodplains, generally referred to as headwaters. This now provides general policy support for the protection and restoration of streams and buffers upstream of Resource Protection Areas and Environmental Quality Corridors.
That’s all for this podcast of meeting highlights for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, thanks for listening. For more information about the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, including full meeting minutes and documents, visit the county Web site: www.fairfaxcounty.gov/government/board. This podcast is produced by the Fairfax County, VA, government.