Friday, May 17, 2013
The Mount Vernon District Supervisor spoke to the South County Federation on Tuesday night.
Will a 4 percent meals tax keep people from eating out in Fairfax County? Mount Vernon District Supervisor Gerry Hyland wants the tax to go to referendum in November. On Tuesday, he told the South County Federation that it would generate $80-$100 million annually, and the funds could lower the county's real estate tax rate (which just went up 1 cent). Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! "We could then lower the tax rate by 2 cents and devote the rest to transportation or education," said Hyland at the monthly meeting. "It could be drafted in such a way that the Board is unable to use those funds in any way except for those purposes." Arlington County, Alexandria City, Vienna, Herndon and Fairfax City have a meals tax. Still, the business …
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
The landfill would be in operation until 2040, and the South County Federation opposes the plan.
(Editor's Note: In case you missed it, here's a story from earlier this week on the Lorton community and the owner of the Lorton Landfill are at odds over the future use of the site.) EnviroSolutions Inc., the owner of the Lorton Landfill, has asked the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to extend its operating contract from 2018 to 2040 in exchange for $26 million in green energy incentives and $15 million from ESI revenues over the life of the agreement. The South County Federation, in April, voted unanimously in opposition of the extension, as the plan was not seen as an equitable exchange for 21 additional landfill operations in Lorton. There Federation was also not pleased with "unresolved commitments" from ESI’s current site …
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Employee pay an issue as the Board of Supervisors drafts amendments to the FY2014 budget.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors have started adjusting the Fiscal Year 2014 budget package by lowering the proposed tax rate by a penny. But supervisors remain unsupportive of increases in funding to public schools and employee compensation. During a meeting of the Board of Supervisors Budget Committee on Friday, Chairman Sharon Bulova presented a list of amendments to spending plan. The Board will vote on a proposed real estate tax rate of $1.085 per $100 of assessed value — a penny lower than the $1.095 rate proposed by County Executive Ed Long in his original plan. The adjustment is expected to cut county revenue by about $20 million. County employees advocated for higher pay during public hearings earlier this month, but a lack…
Monday, April 8, 2013
The first of three public hearings on FY 2014 plan is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday. Speakers can sign up in advance.
A series of public hearings on Fairfax County’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget package will kick off Tuesday evening, giving residents a chance to advocate for changes to funding allocations and other issues. County Executive Ed Long’s advertised $7 billion budget, unveiled in late February, proposes raising the county's real estate tax rate and making cuts to some county programs and services in an effort to close shortfalls. The 2-cent increase in the real estate tax rate, from $1.075 per $100 of assessed value to $1.095, is expected to raise approximately $42 million in revenues. But on top of new, higher real estate assessments, the increase would burden the average county resident with approximately $262 more in taxes each year. Some …
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
It looks like people will move into new homes in 2016... instead of 2015.
The $177 million development on the 78.5-acre Adaptive Reuse Area at Laurel Hill in Lorton has been pushed back a year. "Our schedule has slipped a little because of the depth of reviews that have to be taken for the project," said Chris Caperton, the Fairfax County Laurel Hill Project coordinator to Patch. "Based on this review cycle we could see some initial construction take place in 2014, full-blown construction by 2015 and people actually owning property there by 2016." Last summer, Caperton told Patch that initial construction was expected to occur in 2013-2014, with residents living on the property by 2015. The development of the county's land by the Alexander Company will mean the renovation of prison buildings and the creation …
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Tax hike, no employee raises are some of the issues supervisors will tackle in committee meeting for Fiscal Year 2014 spending plan
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors will start the Fiscal Year 2014 budget review process during its first budget committee meeting Tuesday afternoon. Supervisors will gather at 1 p.m. Tuesday in conference rooms 9 and 10 at Fairfax County Government Center to begin hammering out the details of County Executive Ed Long’s $7 billion advertised budget, which features no raises for employees and a slightly higher tax rate. The committee is also expected to go over the $2.5 billion Fairfax County Public Schools budget for fiscal 2014. School Board members requested $95 million from supervisors, a 5.5-percent increase in transfer, for a total of $1.78 billion. But Long was only able to give schools a 2 percent increase in transfer, or $33.7…
Supervisor McKay, Lee District School Board Rep Tammy Kaufax will host the meeting in Franconia.
Lee District Supervisor Jeff McKay, Lee District School Board Representative Tammy Kaufax, and county and school budget staff will host a presentation and Q and A session on the proposed Fairfax County budget Wednesday night. "Over the past decade we’ve worked hard at diversifying our economy but between 10 and 20 percent of our local economy is related to defense or federal contracting to the tune of about $25 billion," McKay said in an email sent to constituents on Monday. "With a substantial amount of the county’s workforce involved in some way with what happens on the federal side, that’s a lot of potential drop in retail sales, car purchases, home sales, and the like." The budget presentation and Q and A will take place from 7 - 9 p.…
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Supervisors advertise a higher real estate tax of $1.095 per $100 of assessed value, a 2-cent increase from the current rate but not as high as one supervisor hoped.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has increased the FY 2014 budget’s advertised real estate tax rate by 2 cents, at $1.095 per $100 of assessed value over the current rate of $1.075. Supervisors approved the rate in a 9-1 vote Tuesday after killing an amendment from Supervisor Gerry Hyland (D-Mount Vernon) to raise it another 1.5 cents to $1.11 per $100 of assessed value. Hyland’s proposal would have hiked the average resident’s taxes $332, but was shot down in a 8-2 vote against the amendment. Once the Board sets an advertised tax rate, it can’t legally adopt one any higher. Hyland argued that with the unknown effects of sequestration on the horizon, the Board should advertise a rate that would give it room to adjust to cuts and …
Friday, March 1, 2013
Prison inmates will remove signs Tuesday through Friday beginning later this year.
Fairfax County now has the authority to clean up illegal signs placed on roadway medians thanks to an agreement with the Virginia Department of Transportation. This week, the Board of Supervisors approved an agreement that has been in the works for months allowing the county to clear signs from public rights-of-way and issue fines to residents who post them. The program, which supervisors signed off on in an 8-2 vote, will cost the county $150,000. Non-violent prisoners on the Sheriff’s Office Community Labor Force will perform cleanup duties four days a week, Tuesday through Friday, starting later this year. Putting up signs on any state road is illegal, including advertisements and – especially – political signs, which all but took over …
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Supervisors Chair Sharon Bulova wants county's gun turn-in service better publicized.
Fairfax County officials are looking into hosting events for residents to hand over unwanted guns for destruction. The initiative is resulting from last month's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Sharon Bulova, chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, asked staff during the Board’s meeting Tuesday to publicize more heavily the county’s existing gun turn-in service so residents might be encouraged to get rid of their firearms. “Many residents have contacted my office to voice concern regarding guns,” Bulova said. “Most residents do not realize that Fairfax County provides a voluntary gun turn-in service.” Unwanted or unneeded firearms and ammunition can be turned into the Fairfax County Police Department…
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9:46 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
This idea keeps coming back, and it keeps getting defeated. Reminds me of the kid who keeps whining for something, thinking that you will change your mind. Politicians need to stop thinking of clever ways of extracting money from us. And what the hell do you need even MORE money for? What can you possible spend it on? Enough already! Stop trying to get more money from us! And stop wasting your … more ›