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Middleburg manager proposes ‘option 2’ budget that pauses two police hires amid revenue uncertainty
Summary
Town manager Danny Davis presented a revised budget option that holds meals and occupancy tax at current-year levels and removes funding for two proposed police positions, increasing the contingency by roughly $150,000 to protect against possible revenue declines.
Town Manager Danny Davis presented council members with an alternate fiscal 2026 draft — described as “option 2” — that reduces revenue assumptions and removes two proposed police-department positions to increase the town’s contingency amid uncertain receipts from meals tax and transient occupancy tax (TOT).
Davis said the town’s year-to-date TOT and meals-tax receipts that had been running above budget earlier in the fiscal year have softened: February receipts fell significantly year over year and March also showed declines. To reduce risk, staff proposed holding meals and TOT at current fiscal‑year levels…
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