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Amelia County staff present FY26 spending request that exceeds projected revenue by about $3.6 million
Summary
County budget staff told supervisors the operating-and-CIP requests for FY26 total roughly $30 million against estimated revenues of about $26.6 million, leaving a gap of roughly $3.6 million; staff recommended several balancing options including shifting some emergency-services items to capital and phasing vacancy fills.
Miss Youssef, budget staff member, told the Amelia County Board of Supervisors at a Feb. budget work session that the county’s FY26 spending requests currently exceed projected revenues by several million dollars. “The total increase for the year is about 4,600,000, representing about 18.4% relative to approved FY ’25 budget,” she said, and later summarized that with CIP included the county faced a roughly $3,600,000 shortfall.
The shortfall arises because staff’s current expenditure requests across operating funds and proposed CIP equal nearly $30 million while the preliminary FY26 revenue estimate sits near $26.6 million, Miss Youssef said. “Now the revenue will be at 26.6…
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