Management & Finance
Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Information
Budget News and Updates
- Closeout Report for Fiscal Year 2012. Closeout staff presentation.
- County Manager provides midyear review of FY 2012 to County Board.
- County Board Chair signs joint letter from Northern Virginia jurisdictions requesting that the Governor eliminate aid to localities reductions in the current budget and in the future biennial budget.
- Press Release: County Board adopts the fiscal year (FY) 2012 budget with no tax rate increase, April 16, 2011
Fiscal Year 2012 Adopted Budget
The Arlington County Board adopted a $1 billion budget for fiscal year (FY) 2012 that is focused on fiscal sustainability and safety net priorities. The budget includes no real estate tax rate increase and is 5.1% higher than the FY 2011 budget. In funding safety net, public safety and schools priorities, the Board made a number of adjustments to the County Manager’s Proposed Budget.
The real estate tax rate will remain the same, 95.8 cents per $100 of assessed value (including the sanitary district tax). Taking into account increases in real estate assessments and fee changes, the overall tax and fee burden for the average Arlington homeowner will increase 1.4% -- or about $7 a month. Fees for trash and recycling will go down 5% per year, or $18.52 per household, reflecting a decrease in costs for those services.
The transfer to Arlington Public Schools for FY 2012 will be $385.6 million, which is $25.2 million above the FY 2011 transfer, or a 7.0% increase. With the transfer from the County, total funding available to Arlington Public Schools in FY 2012 is $480.5 million, or $38 million (9%) above the FY 2011 budget. View the complete FY 2012 Adopted Budget.
Summary Documents for The FY 2012 Adopted Budget
- County Government Summary
- All Funds Expense Summary
- Expenditure Comparison Table
- General Fund Summary; Expense & Revenue Pie Charts
- Position Changes
- Impact to the Average Homeowner
Information and Meetings Related to Budget Adoption
- County Board Reports related to FY 2012 Budget Adoption: April 16, 2011 Agenda, See Item #32
- County Board Action Related to the FY 2012 Budget
- County Board Work Session schedule on the FY 2012 County Manager's Proposed Budget. Responses to questions asked at work sessions may be found at County Board FY 2012 Work Session Follow-up.
County Manager's Proposed FY 2012 Budget
- County Manager's FY 2012 Proposed Budget
- County Manager's Overview (pdf file) of the FY 2012 Proposed Budget (watch the video)
- Press Release: County Manager's Proposed FY2012 Budget
- Press Release: Real estate assessments rebound
- Press Release: County Board guidance to the Manager for the FY 2012 budget
Budget Planning for FY 2012
The development of the FY 2012 budget began in September 2010. In the fall, expense and revenue projections for the upcoming fiscal year are based on very limited data available from the assessor of real estate, the state, and county departments. The goal of budget planning is to provide the County Board, local leaders, and citizens with a preliminary range of where expenses and revenues may be and a projection of the County's fiscal future. Utilizing this information, the County Board provided guidance for preparing the upcoming budget to the County Manager.
- Budget Reductions from the FY 2010 and FY 2011 Adopted Budgets.
- County Manager's online Budget Q&A
- County Manager's presentation to the Civic Federation
- County Manager's Community Budget Forum presentation and notes of the community's feedback.
- County Board's FY 2012 budget guidance to the County Manager
- Staff report related to the FY 2012 budget forecast
- County Manager's summary presentation
- County Manager's meeting with Commission leaders
- Budget planning presentation to the County Board,
- Press Release: Projected FY 2012 budget gap
Residents joined County Manager Barbara Donnellan and Executive Leadership Team to give their input to the FY 2012 budget.
Notes from the FY 2012 Community Budget Forum
FY 2012 QUICK LINKS