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Board reviews FY2026 budget tradeoffs: health insurance, procurement savings, staffing and fees under scrutiny
Summary
At a March 13 work session Fauquier County staff and supervisors discussed the proposed FY2026 budget, focusing on a county‑school transfer increase, health‑insurance risk and RFP timing, procurement savings, proposed community development fee increases and staffing shortfalls, and fire/sheriff staffing and equipment needs.
Fauquier County officials reviewed components of the proposed FY2026 budget at a work session on March 13, with staff highlighting follow‑ups from March 4 and supervisors raising questions about health insurance, procurement savings, staffing shortages in community development and public safety, and options to broaden the county's commercial tax base.
County finance staff said the administrator had proposed an additional $3.4 million in recurring funds to the school division (about a 3.4% increase) and that a change in proposed general workforce compensation (a 3.0% flat adjustment) combined with updated projections from the state compensation board had reduced the county's projected tax‑rate increase to about 2.6 cents on the tax rate at that time. Staff cautioned that health‑insurance claims could produce an overrun of roughly 6.2% relative to the fund this fiscal year (about $2.5 million) and said the county would finalize RFP results for the…
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