Gloucester supervisors weigh budget trade-offs, school funding and tax impacts

Summary

At the April 23 Board of Supervisors meeting, county staff outlined FY27 carryovers and capital updates including a revised $20 million fire station budget and Tyler Munis software costs; supervisors spent much of the evening debating school funding, employee pay proposals and the tax-rate effects of those choices.

Gloucester County supervisors spent the bulk of their April 23 meeting poring over staff’s proposed FY27 refinements, with a focus on carryover projects, a revised firehouse borrowing plan and how different school-funding scenarios would affect the county’s real-estate tax rate.

County budget presenter Miss Callaway opened the discussion by walking the board through non–general-fund carryovers and capital projects, emphasizing these are carryovers of previously appropriated dollars and generally do not change net current-year revenue or expenditure totals. She told the board the firehouse project’s not-to-exceed figure was revised upward to $20 million to incorporate contingency and estimated issuance costs. Because the project is intended to be financed with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt bonds, Miss Callaway said the county can include only about 2% of issuance costs in the bond principal; an estimated $365,000 would therefore need to be funded…

Gloucester supervisors weigh budget trade-offs, school funding and tax impacts

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