FY 25 Budget Q&A #087: Please provide a summary of Add/Delete proposals received from City Council.

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Question: Please provide a summary of Add/Delete proposals received from City Council. (Morgan Routt)

Response: 

City of Alexandria, Virginia

MEMORANDUM

DATE:                  APRIL 5, 2024

TO:                      THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL

THROUGH:        JAMES F. PARAJON, CITY MANAGER

FROM:                MORGAN ROUTT, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

SUBJECT:          SUMMARY OF FY 2025 BUDGET ADD/DELETE PROPOSALS

This memorandum summarizes the FY 2025 budget add/delete items eligible for consideration at the Preliminary Add/Delete work session on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. A Tax Rate Public Hearing will begin at 5:30 p.m. followed by the Preliminary Add/Delete Work Session, both taking place in Council Chambers and online. On Saturday, April 13, beginning at 9:30 a.m., City Council will hold a public hearing in City Council Chambers and virtually on the add/delete proposals summarized in this memorandum. From this point forward, only items summarized in this memorandum are eligible for Council to consider adding to the final adopted budget. Any other items raised in the public hearing would not be eligible for consideration in the FY 2025 budget per Council direction. If any member of the public is unable to attend the public hearing, the meeting will be broadcast on cable channel 70 and on the internet, and a video will be posted online. Comments may be submitted at alexandriava.gov/Budget through April 24, 2024. City Council members’ eligible add/delete proposals are provided as Attachment 1.

In accordance with Resolution 3198 adopted November 14, 2023, establishing the process to be used for FY 2025 budget adoption, a combined list of all City Council budget proposals, technical adjustments from OMB, and City Manager recommended changes is to be provided and discussed at the preliminary add/delete work session. To be eligible for consideration, a proposal must: 

  1. Contain information related to how the change advances the Council’s goals/priorities;
  2. Contain information related to how the change impacts the performance of that program, service, or goal;
  3. Have received the support of at least three of seven Council members (the original sponsor and two co-sponsors); and
  4. Be accompanied by an add/delete spreadsheet prepared by the Council member or OMB in which the sum of the individual Council members’ adds and deletes, including the items originally sponsored by that member and those co-sponsored by that member, are in balance or produce a revenue surplus. 

The following pages provide a list of the items eligible for consideration at the preliminary add/delete work session.

 

GENERAL FUND

The following items are proposed to amend the City Manager’s proposed FY 2025 General Fund operating budget.

  • Increased ACPS cash capital contribution +$4,700,000 (Budget Question 17, 53)
  • Increased ACPS operating budget appropriation +$4,000,000 (Budget Questions 17, 62)
  • Continued funding for senior services outreach +$42,000 (Budget Question 34)
  • Additional funding for youth safety and resilience +$165,000 (Budget Question 62)
  • Contingency funding for mental health staffing stabilization +$3,000,000 (Budget Question 10)
  • One-time contingency funding for targeted retention bonuses +$1,750,000 (Budget Question 18)
  • Additional support for Visit Alexandria’s regional and national marketing +$500,000 (Budget Question 58)
  • Contingency funding for the ARISE program +$550,000 (Budget Question 20)
  • Funding for cyclical compensation studies +$1,000,000 (Budget Question 62)
  • Contingency funding for E-Bike pilot program +$80,000 (Budget Question 75)
  • Contingency funding for Sheriff’s Office position +$150,000 (Budget Questions 45,57,77)
  • Funding for City Clerk’s Office part-time position +$40,000 (Budget Question 85)
  • Funding for Economic Sustainability Summit +$150,000 (Budget Question 67)
  • One-time funding for Affordable Housing projects +$3,000,000 (Budget Question 27)
  • Additional funding for Food Security +$200,000 (Budget Question 51)
  • Funding for shuttle service support for Del Pepper Center +$98,000 (Budget Question 6) to come from a reduction in project management and maintenance services -$98,000 that was considered but not included in the proposed budget (Budget Question 9)
  • Restored funding for DASH Bus Line 104 +$180,000 (Budget Question 33)
  • Expansion of Graduated Tax Relief program +$1,027,999 (Budget Question 8, scenario 1)
  • Stipend funding to support young Boards, Commissions, and Committee members +$5,000 (Budget Question 5)
  • Funding for City Clerk’s Office records management +$50,000 (Budget Question 90)
  • Funding for Library’s community outreach position +$24,484 (Budget Question 52)
  • One-time funding to support MetroStage project +$250,000 (Budget Question 84)

 


CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (CIP)

The following items are proposed to amend FY 2025 of the City Manager’s proposed FY 2025-FY 2034 CIP.

  • George Mason and Cora Kelly design and construction +$65,000,000 (Budget Question 17, 53) funded by the increased ACPS cash capital contribution
  • One-time funding for Affordable Housing projects +$3,000,000 (Budget Question 27)

 

Attachments:

Attachment 1 - Add/Delete Proposals

 

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