Supervisors, School Board Grapple with Budget Shortfalls
Facing hundreds of millions in deficits in Fiscal Year 2014, Fairfax County leaders try to plan around federal sequestration, unpredictable revenue.
As the leaders of Fairfax County and its school system sat together Tuesday to stare down upcoming fiscal years threatened by larger-than-normal deficits and the potential impact of sequestration, both groups agreed they would have to take a new approach in future budget cycles, one that relies less on what has been done in the past and more on multi-year budgeting and reprioritizing wants and needs — a "new way of doing business." "I think we have to look at things very differently and we have to be willing to take some risk on things we haven't done before," County Executive Ed Long said during a joint meeting Tuesday afternoon between the Board of Supervisors and Fairfax County School Board. Combined with the loss of $61 million in one-…
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Bob Bruhns
7:37 am on Friday, December 7, 2012
Nice try, pen-namer JD, but the report assumes inflation at 1.7 to 2.0 over the period in question. Sorry if some people can't do simple arithmetic. And if our schools can't provide proper texts for the arithmetic and mathematics that they are teaching (or supposedly teaching) to our kids, that situation is going to get worse. more ›