Spotsylvania adopts FY26 budget framework, boosts school funding and approves advertised tax rates

Spotsylvania County supervisors on Thursday approved a budget framework that increases county support for public schools, adopted the county's five‑year capital improvement plan and set the advertised tax rates for 2025.

The board voted to approve a recommended FY2026 budget package that county presenters described as an unusually large one‑time and ongoing investment in schools: staff and board comments cited roughly $15,300,000 in additional operating support for the school division and a separate multi‑year capital commitment that includes about $25,000,000 for a complete renovation of the Marshall Center. The board and school leaders said the combined commitments amount to about $40,000,000 in new or planned spending tied to schools over the near term.

That funding arrived as part of a larger recommended county budget of about $415,000,000, and supervisors adopted the county's five‑year capital improvement plan (CIP). County staff presented the CIP total as $840,600,000 across all funds; the schools' first‑year CIP ask was listed as $47,700,000 and included projects such as mechanical and MEP renovations, a Marshall Center rehabilitation line, a Thornburg Middle classroom addition and bus and technology replacements.

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