Surrounding County Supervisors Get It Right -- They CUT Taxes and/or Cut Spending

[Loudon County] Supervisors Eye Deeper Budget Cuts; Start Talks At $1.21 Tax Rate

County supervisors tonight voted to begin their FY13 budget talks working with a base spending plan that would shave 5 percent off the average homeowner's tax bill, a position would require cuts of about $50 million from the budget recommended by County Administrator Tim Hemstreet.
If fully implemented during work sessions over the next few weeks, the action would save the average homeowner about $200 compared with this year, but would require programmatic cuts—most significantly to the county school system. The adopted School Board budget already is about $22 million over the Board of Supervisors’ requested spending cap and Thursday night’s vote—backed by six of the eight supervisors present—puts the schools about $45 million in the hole.

Leesburg Today:  Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:45 pm | Updated: 10:19 pm, Thu Mar 1, 2012.

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Fairfax County Executive Proposes $3.52 Billion FY 2013 Budget

Highlights:

• The proposed budget keeps the real estate tax rate at $1.07 per $1000 of assessed value — the same as it was last year.  
• Net reduction of two county employee positions: recommendation for 34 new positions and abolishment of 36 positions, as part of recommended agency reductions.
• Strategic reductions while retaining core and critical services: $10.64 million in General Fund agency expenditure reductions.