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Budget: Waiting on the state figures From page 1 BUDGET NUMBERS The total county budget totals $68,202,063, with $43,097,443 of that going for school-associated expenditures. Here’s a breakdown of the major funding components: • School Operating Fund: $37,225,761 – (54.6%) • Public Safety: $8,290,488 – (12.2%) • Debt Service Fund: $6,554,857 – (9.6%) $4,387,853 of this is for school debt service. • Department of Social Services: $4,323,161 – (6.3%) • General Government: $4,040,633 (5.9%) • Const. Officers/Registrar/Courts: $1,941,939 (2.8%) • Public Works: $1,749,037 – (2.6%) • School Cafeteria: $1,483,829 – (2.2%) • Institutions: $1,006,101 – (1.5%) • Capital Improvement Fund: $531,642 – (0.8%) • Smoot Library: $509,972 – (0.7%) • Health Department: $308,415 – (0.5%) • Outside Agencies: $236,227 – (0.4%) SCHOOLS The school-associated expenditures include $37,225,761 for the School Board operating budget, which provided a 5-percent increase over the current year. That budget figure is based on an average daily membership (ADM) for student enrollment of 4,170 students. The division reported to the state at the end of last month that it anticipated ending the current school year with an ADM of 4,202. If the division begins the school year with a similar ADM number, that means there would be additional revenue coming from the state during the course of next year. Under the Standards of Quality contained in state law, the county is required to provide a required local effort (RLE) to fund the schools of $10,128,001. King George exceeds that requirement. The approved budget provides $14,198,072 in county funding, not including school debt service. $1,483,829 is for the school Cafeteria Fund that is funded by revenue from meal charges and federal revenue, estimated at $750,000. The Cafeteria Fund is supposed to be self-supporting and achieved that goal several years ago. Unlike the School Board operating budget, it is allowed by state law to carry forward any unspent balances. Those balances have been used in the recent past to purchase new equipment for various cafeterias. One of the next items expected to be purchased is a dishwasher for Potomac Elementary School estimated at $42,000. $4,387,853 is an additional amount provided by the county to pay for the School Board’s debt service, basically mortgages on the schools built and major capital improvements made to them.
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CIP: Hearing scheduled From page 1 parking, addition of a two-stall restroom. 3. QUONSET HUT IMPROVEMENTS – $30,000 in 2014-15 for structure study to determine condition and integrity of the building, systems and roof to determine whether improvements for continued use can be validated. $70,000 earmarked for possible repairs in 2016-17. 4. HUNTER FIELD IMPROVEMENTS - $230,000 requested in 2017-18 for field improvements, mitigate erosion problem, provide irrigation. Future work would be expected to include repairs to the bleacher stands and replacing the press box/concession stand that has been deemed unusable. 5. BARNESFIELD PARK UPGRADES PHASE 2 - $595,000 requested in 2018-19 for provision of lighting for the three ball fields. 6. PRACTICE LIGHTS $77,000 requested 2014-15 to install practice lights at the middle school, Barnesfield Park’s multipurpose field and a field at Ralph Bunche. 7. CITIZEN CENTER EXPANSION - $127,000 requested in 2014-15 and $30,000 in 201516 to add more restrooms, office/ storage space and parking. SCHOOL BOARD Nine projects requested totaling $15,479,229, but adjustments may be made to that request list as noted below. 1. SCHOOL BUSES – 2,087,843. That figure was adjusted in a later list to $2,032,843 requested over five years, with $333,668 requested in 2014-15 for replacing four buses. Five buses are requested in each of the following four years, with $409,175 requested in 201516, and $430,000 in each of the following three years. The list adjustment also included $55,000 being requested separately for two maintenance vehicles in 2014-15. It’s unclear whether the vehicles remain in the request list, since all previous division cars and truck purchases have come from funds programmed into the School Board operating
budget, since they would not meet the county’s threshold of $50,000 or more for individual items with the two vehicles bundled together. 2. MIDDLE SCHOOL ROOF REPAIRS – $1,169,675 requested, with $594,975 requested in 2014-15 and $574,700 in 2015-16. This project request was adjusted to double the earlier cost, after the School Board heard from its roof consultant on April 6. 3. FACILITY EXPANSION $8,250,000 requested in 2016-17. The project would be to either renovate and provide an addition to the former middle school building, or to provide an addition to the existing middle school. The purpose would be to create space in one of the buildings to shift the 6th grades from the county’s three elementary schools. The division is expecting to have some extra money at the end of the school year and has directed that a study be performed to indicate which project would be most advantageous and cost-efficient. 4. TECHNOLOGY NETWORK EQUIPMENT - $481,160 requested in 2014-15 to replace all wide and local area network switches, except at the high school, and to upgrade the division’s firewall. 5. TECHNOLOGY FIBER EXPANSION – $800,000 requested in 2015-16 to provide fiber optic cabling to Sealston Elementary and Potomac Elementary schools. 6. SCHOOL SECURITY SYSTEMS - $716,159 requested, with $125,000 requested in 2015-16 and $591,159 requested in 201617. The project would complete the installation of access control systems at Sealston Elementary and King George Elementary and it would install security camera systems at all schools except for high school, which has them. 7. HD PRESENTATION SYSTEMS - $1,171,275 requested in 2017-18 to replace existing equipment in each classroom with wall-mounted, short-throw interactive presentation projectors, with a set of 30 clickers, a document camera and amplification sound system. 8. DISTRICT WIDE MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM– $303,117 requested in 2018-19. 9. HIGH SCHOOL TRACK $500,000 requested in 2015-16 for
a new track complex and bleachers at the high school, or alternatively, renovations to the existing track, along with concessions, restrooms and bleacher improvements. COUNTY ADMINISTRATION The county administration is requesting three projects that total $665,000. 1. RALPH BUNCHE - $215,000 in 2015-16 for continued building stabilization on Ralph Bunche building work to maintain the integrity of the building, until a committee makes a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors to determine the best reuse option for the historic building. Last year, the project had been earmarked for funding a year earlier. It was likely pushed back because the advisory committee has only decided on a recommendation for use of the front part of the building. 2. TURF REPLACEMENT $150,000 toward turf replacement at the county sports stadium at the high school, with $50,000 requested in each of two years for 2016-17, 2017-18, and 2018-19. Replacement is expected to be needed after 1012 years of use for the stadium that opened two years ago. 3. CONVENIENCE CENTER SITE - $300,000 for a land purchase in Dahlgren requested in 2015-16 for Waste Management to build a trash drop-off convenience center site at a location to be determined in Dahlgren. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY There are two projects totaling $300,000. 1. COMPUTER REPLACEMENT PROGRAM - $250,000 for computer replacement program, with $50,000 requested in each of the next five years. 2. NETWORK SERVER REPLACEMENT $50,000
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Travis Quesenberry, county administrator, had forwarded the complete package of requests to the Planning Commission through Jack Green, Director of Community Development, as adjusted. The Planning Commission is the first to provide a public review of all the projects that come forward from department heads, county offices, constitutional officers, the school division and the library. That’s at the May 13 meeting. After that, Commissioners will be tasked to individually rank projects before the June meeting and forward those rankings to Green for compilation. That compilation of project rankings will come back to the Planning Commission at its June meeting, for final adjustments to be made, prior to a vote to forward the CIP package to the county administration and the Board of Supervisors. Quesenberry is expected to provide his recommendations for any further adjustments to the program, with particular attention to the projects recommended for funding in the upcoming fiscal year, 2014-15, which begins on July 1. Those recommendations are reviewed by Supervisors during a meeting, with members of the governing body providing their own input. After the board comes to some kind of consensus, a proposed program is adopted at another meeting. The five-year plan will span fiscal years beginning with 2014-15 through 2018-19. The approved CIP is used as a guide for planning purposes in future years. The program is subject to changes in out-years, with projects often moved farther out for funding. But sometimes the opposite is true and it happens that projects can receive funding earlier than the year(s) in which they are originally requested.
SHERIFF’S OFFICE One project totaling $155,646. 1. MICROWAVE RADIO REPLACEMENT - $155,646 requested in 2015-16. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT One project requested totaling $150,000. 1. PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT E-911 GRANT - $150,000 requested in 2014-15 to be funded by a state grant. The project would replace the dispatch mapping system in the Sheriff ’s office and its related maintenance software in the Community Development Department. EMERGENCY SERVICES DEPARTMENT Four projects requested totaling $9,565,000, for cyclical replacement of required safety equipment. 1. AMBULANCE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM - $935,000 requested and amount divided over the next five years. 2. REPLACE COMPANY 2 IN DAHLGREN AREA - $4,050,000 requested for combined fire & rescue station, with $550,000 in 201415 estimated for purchase of land, $3,450,000 in 2015-16 for design and construction of building. 3. REPLACEMENT OF ENGINE #21 - $550,000 to replace Engine #21 in 2016-17. 4. NEW FIRE STATION – SHILOH/JERSEY AREA - $4,050,000 requested for a new fire & rescue company in the Shiloh/Jersey area of the county to improve response time in emergencies. $550,000 requested in 2017-18 for land and $3,500,000 in 2018-19 for design and construction. CIP PROCESS
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TAX RATES Tax rates were approved on unanimous votes on April 15. The real estate tax rate is 59-cents per $100 value. The personal property tax rate is $3.25 per $100 valuation. APPROVED INCLUSIONS The tax increases will primarily go toward the cost of fire and safety positions and related equipment and vehicle costs. Two full-time E-911 dispatch positions are in the budget, along with two new sheriff deputy positions, along with related equipment, including two new patrol cars, along with full-year costs for two other deputy positions, funded mid-year during the current budget year for duties at the courthouse. The budget covers full-year costs for six fire and rescue positions that were funded mid-year in the 2013-14 budget, beginning this past January 2014. In addition, the budget includes the conversion of two part-time positions to full-time in general properties. It would also go toward a part-time paralegal position for the county attorney’s office. The budget provides 1-percent average raises under the pay-forperformance policy, beginning at midyear, on January 1, 2015. The increase is expected to cost about $45,000 on the county side. The county is also requesting the School Board to likewise grant 1-percent raises at midyear, estimated to cost $106,000.
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