Falls Church staff present spring FY25 budget amendment that moves school appropriations and funds stormwater credits

City staff presented a spring FY25 budget amendment at a Falls Church City Council work session that would reallocate departmental savings, appropriate program fee revenues, and use fund balances for a set of one‑time projects affecting general government, schools and the stormwater capital program.

Finance staff member Miss Bawa said the amendment requests several appropriations across funds: roughly $226,000 in the general fund (including $159,000 from recreation and parks program revenues and $50,000 in permit revenues), an appropriation for school operating funds of about $1,317,009.82 (made up of roughly $1.05 million in planned fund‑balance use and $267,009.62 in state grant funds), and a stormwater CIP request of $790,000 drawn from the stormwater fund balance. The proposal also includes CIP adjustments, an insurance reimbursement tied to a damaged traffic signal and other one‑time items.

On schools, staff said the $1.05 million of fund‑balance use…