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McAndrew Presentation to Fx Co Board on the County Budget - 2020

From: Charles McAndrew / 12808 Willow Glen Ct / Oak Hill, VA 20171

Presentation to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on the County Budget - 04/28/2020

To:  Mr. Jeffrey McKay
Chairman, Fairfax Co.
Board of Supervisors		 | Mrs. Kathy Smith
| Fairfax County
| Board of Supervisors		 | Ms. Karen Corbett Sanders
| Chairman
| FCPS Board		 | Ms. Stella Pekarsky
| Member
| FCPS Board

My wife and I have been homeowners and taxpayers in Fairfax County since 1968. I wish to protest any increases in the budget and real estate taxes. Here is my list of proposed budget cuts on the revised county budget:

  1. I agree with the county’s plan to freeze all hiring of new employees including FCPS employees.

  2. I agree with the county's plan to freeze all proposed pay increases including cost of living increases.

  3. Reduce the real estate tax rate to below the $1.15 current proposed rate to perhaps $1.12 so that there will be no impact on the taxpayer.

  4. General Funds Disbursements (GFD) under the proposed original budget should be held flat as compared to the FY2020 GFD Adopted Budget Plan. The GFD originally at $4.625 billion planned for FY2021 was an increase of $159.5 million or 3.95% from the FY2020 Adopted Budget Plan.

  5. I recommend an exception to newly hired employees for the County's Health Department has planned for 8 positions due to the coronavirus.

  6. Raise the age of newly hired employees and for those employees under 40 years of age to age 62, the same as the earliest age to obtain Social Security benefits.

  7. Public Safety construction should be delayed until the economy improves. Probably 50% of public safety construction could be delayed saving perhaps $196 million for FY2021.

  8. Cancel a small amount of $200,000 for legal representation funds to assist illegal aliens

  9. Reduce the transfer of $85.52 million from the county to FCPS to zero.

  10. The next several items involve FCPS and my letter to the Chief Operating Officer on 16 March2020 that has not been answered as of this date. In the FCPS budget page titled, "School Operating Fund Position detail by position type" shows 12 Assistant Superintendents. Did these or some of these used to be called "Cluster Directors"? Anyway what duties do these "Leadership Team" members do? Why do you need under "Supervisors" 12 Executive Principals? Why do you need under "Supervisors" 115 Coordinators? Why do you need under "Specialists" 93 Functional Supervisors?  All of these items are on the same budget page.

  11. On the next page again titled "School Operating Fund Position Detail by Position Type", there is "244.5 staff for Technical Instructional Support".  What are their duties?

  12. The FCPS has an Unfunded Pension Liability of $444,409,864 million in the Employees Retirement System, $792,156,393 million in the Educational Supplementary (ERFC), and $2,189,027 billion in the Virginia Retirement System totaling $3,375,593,257 BILLION.  What are the top officials of the FCPS doing to reduce this gigantic unfunded pension liability?

  13. For FY2021, the total ESOL cost is a net of $78.392 million and the grand total is $95.392 million. Your budget shows Offsetting Revenue of $14.631 million. Where does this come from?

I look forward to a written response to my presentation. Thank you for your attention.

Charles McAndrew
Board Member, Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance