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Finance committee reviews FY2027 budget packages, approves procedural items and debates creating an in‑house communications position
Summary
Staff presented three FY2027 budgets (local distribution, 70% project appropriations, and operating), listing major project appropriation requests and recommending a new in‑house communications position funded from the regional revenue fund; the committee approved procedural motions to forward items to the authority for March consideration.
Unidentified Staff (Speaker 5) presented the finance committee with the three budget components for FY2027: the local distribution fund (30% distributions to jurisdictions), the 70% project appropriation budget, and the operating budget. Staff said the revenue base used in the packet totals $145,000,000 for the local distribution portion and that the committee can forward budgets to the full authority for adoption in March or refine them further and seek adoption in April.
On project appropriations, staff listed several jurisdiction requests: City of Alexandria — Duke Street Transit Way ($75,000,000); City of Fairfax — Blenheim Boulevard multimodal improvements ($8,000,000); Fairfax — Surfstone Drive extension ($15,000,000);…
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