Anne Arundel CAO outlines operating budget increases, contingency and community grant plans

Christine Anderson, the county's chief administrative officer, presented the County Executive's operating budget to the Anne Arundel County Council on May 12, 2025, highlighting increases driven mainly by video-lottery terminal (VLT) impact funds, targeted grants and a larger contingency fund.

Anderson said the majority of the increase in the County Executive's operating budget is in the VLT-impact line: "The majority of the increase in the county executive's budget is found in the video lottery impact funds. That's about 550 or so thousand dollars, actually closer to $580,000 of the total increase." She directed council members to page 163 of the budget book for additional VLT detail.

Why it matters: the CAO and County Executive budgets direct locally controlled grant funding and contingency reserves that county departments and outside partners rely on; they also set aside funds for projects that do not fit neatly under a single department.

Most significant items Anderson highlighted include: - Shifts of some grants and positions between offices. Anderson said the economic development corporation grant was…