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Stafford board adopts FY2026 budget, sets real‑estate rate at 0.9236 and authorizes meals and hotel tax hearings
Summary
After hours of debate and a heavy public turnout pressing for school funding, the Board of Supervisors set the 2025 real‑estate tax rate at $0.9236 per $100 of assessed value, adopted the FY2026 budget and approved public hearings on a 1% meals tax and a 2% transient‑occupancy (hotel) tax to help fund schools and capital needs.
The Stafford County Board of Supervisors voted late on April 15 to adopt the county’s fiscal year 2026 budget and set a calendar‑year 2025 real‑estate tax rate of $0.9236 per $100 of assessed value.
The Board’s vote on the tax rate was 4–3 in favor of the 0.9236 figure. The FY2026 budget adoption (proposed resolution R25‑27) and the appropriation (R25‑28) passed later in the evening by 5–2 votes.
Board members said the adopted budget reflects a balance of competing priorities after several work sessions and public comment. County Chief Financial Officer Andrea Light told the board that the advertised tax change would translate for the “average household” to roughly $19 per month in additional cost, a figure the county used when describing the budget impact to residents.
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