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Public Testimony by the Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance

Testimony to the Fairfax County School Board

NEW! Proposed FY2008 School Budget - January 29, 2007
Lack of transparency in student achievement
Proposed FY2008 Capital Improvement Plan - January 16, 2007
School Board should obey election laws
Proposed FY2007 School Budget - February 2, 2006
FCPS claims of academic excellence are incomplete.
Proposed FY2006 School Budget - February 2, 2005
Despite Spending Increases, SAT scores remain flat
Proposed FY2005 School Budget - February 2, 2004
Hoping that a new superintendent will bring a new era of candor and honesty
Proposed FY2004 School Budget - January 27, 2003
School superintendent makes misleading statements about school budget.
Proposed FY2003 Capital Improvement Plan - January 7, 2002
Superintendent's proposed FY2001 budget - January 24, 2000
Proposed FY1999 Capital Improvement Plan- January 22, 1998
Federal Funding of Vocational Education - May 22, 1997
Proposed Student Information System - February 13, 1997
Proposed FY1998 Capital Improvement Plan - January 23, 1997

Testimony to State Legislators

NEW! FCTA 2007 Testimony to the Fairfax County Delegation to the Virginia General Assembly - January 7, 2006
Teachers union leads fight against transportation funding
FCTA Testimony at Transportation Town Hall - May 4, 2006
Higher taxes as an alternative to governing
FCTA 2006 Testimony to the Fairfax County Delegation to the Virginia General Assembly - January 7, 2006
There is no need to raise taxes for transportation.
FCTA 2005 Testimony to the Fairfax County Delegation to the Virginia General Assembly - January 8, 2005
What's more important: elementary school guidance counselors or more overpasses on the Fairfax County Parkway?
FCTA 2004 Testimony to the Fairfax County Delegation to the Virginia General Assembly - January 10, 2004
Exposing half-truths used to justify tax increases
Testimony to the Commission on the Revision of Virginia's Tax Code - September 27, 2003
Virginia's budget crisis is the result of too much revenue.
FCTA 2003 Testimony to the Fairfax County Delegation to the Virginia General Assembly - January 4, 2003
Limit state spending increases to population and inflation.
FCTA 2002 Testimony to the Fairfax County Delegation to the Virginia General Assembly - January 5, 2002
Transportation solution: Start spending state income taxes on transportation.
Testimony Against House Bills Advocating Higher Taxes - January 31, 2001
Mismanagement, and not inadequate tax revenues, is the cause of Fairfax County's crowded schools and roads.
FCTA 2001 Testimony to the Fairfax County Delegation to the Virginia General Assembly- January 6, 2001
Virginia's unspoken structural imbalance.
FCTA 2000 Testimony to the Fairfax County Delegation to the Virginia General Assembly - January 9, 2000
Use the state's $4 billion surplus to cut taxes, not subsidize school mismanagement.
FCTA 1997 Testimony to the Fairfax County Delegation to the Virginia General Assembly - January 4, 1997
Higher taxes subsidize mismanagement of public schools.

Press Conferences

Virginia Institute press conference on transportation - January 10, 2006 - Why transportation funding trails funding for education.
Grover Norquist's Virginia's least-wanted press conference - September 14, 2004 - The Virginia Education Association misleads legislators and voters to raise taxes but is indifferent to student achievement.

Testimony to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors

Fairfax County FY2007 Advertised Budget - April 3, 2006 - $1.5 billion for school programs that do not work.
Fairfax County FY2005 Advertised Budget - March 29, 2004 - How the "Best Managed County in the Country" manipulates its citizens.
Fairfax County FY2004 Advertised Budget - April 7, 2003 - Using tax dollars to destroy families.
FY2004 'Effective' Tax Rate - April 7, 2003 - Supervisors continue to mislead public about the budget.
FY2003 'Effective' Tax Rate - April 8, 2002 - Supervisors mislead public about the budget.
Fairfax County FY2004 Advertised Budget - April 8, 2002 - FCTA identifies $400M in wasteful spending.
FY2003 Assessment Increase-Letter - March 27, 2002
FY2001 County Budget - April 3, 2000
Supervisors' proposed salary increase - September 28, 1998
County's Proposed November, 1998, $187 million bond referendum - June 29, 1998
FY98 Budget - April 7, 1997
FY1997 Legislative Program - December 2, 1996

Testimony to Committees and Commissions

Open letter to the Braddock District citizens' panel on transportation - June 24, 2003
In the aftermath of the sales tax referendum defeat, Braddock District Supervisor Sharon Bulova, who also serves as the Board of Supervisors budget committee chairman, convened "A Community Dialog on Transportation and Land Use." Between January and May this panel heard from ten government administrators, four elected officials, and from a smart-growth advocate. Supervisor Bulova, however, did not arrange for the panel to hear the anti-referendum perspective. Unsurprisingly the panel voted to approve a recommendation for higher taxes. The Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance president wrote this open letter to Supervisor Bulova, who in turn agreed to forward it to the members of her citizens' panel.
School Superintendent Selection Committee- April 29, 1997
Virginia Standards of Accreditation (SOA) Hearing- April 16, 1997
The Virginia Commission on the Future of Public Education - November 13, 1996

Updated January 29, 2007

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