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Fairfax City reviews five FY26 budget scenarios that trade tax increases for program cuts and fund draws
Summary
City staff presented five alternatives for the proposed FY26 budget showing different combinations of real-estate and meals-tax changes, vacancy and program reductions, and one-time draws on an EDA fund; the manager’s original proposal (9.5¢ on real-estate rate plus meals-tax changes) would balance revenues and expenditures without tapping all reductions.
Fairfax City staff on April 1 laid out five concrete alternatives to the manager’s proposed FY26 budget that shift the burden between tax increases, one-time fund draws and program reductions.
Mr. Martinez, the staff presenter, said the starting assumptions "equates to about $190,000,000 in revenues" and that was "about $10,000,000 more than what we had budgeted for FY25." He showed a range of scenarios that combine changes to the real-estate tax rate, adjustments to the meals tax and targeted operating and capital reductions.
Under the city manager’s February…
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