Board of Supervisors Public Hearing - June 6, 2024 - FY25 County Budget

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA

PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING JULY 1, 2024 AND ENDING JUNE 30, 2025

This budget synopsis is prepared and published for informative and fiscal planning purposes only.  In no event shall this publication be deemed to be an appropriation of funds.  Actual appropriation of funds will be made by the Board of Supervisors on a monthly, quarterly, and/or annual basis.

            A public hearing will be held by the Northumberland County Board of Supervisors on this budget on June 6, 2024 at 7:00 P.M. in the Northumberland County Courts Building, 220 Judicial Place, Heathsville, Virginia.  The public hearing is being held pursuant to Section 15.2-2506 of the Code of Virginia, 1950 as amended, allowing the public to question and comment on the proposed budget.  This proposed budget reflects a $0.08 increase in the current real estate tax rate.

 

Approved
 FY24

 

Proposed
FY25

EST. BEGINNING UNDESIGNATED GENERAL FUND BALANCE:

9,500,000

 

9,000,000

       

Revenue Estimates:

     

Local Sources…............................................................................................

22,402,138

 

25,336,082

Other Local Sources…....................................................................................

4,063,078

 

4,552,385

State and Local Sources….............................................................................

12,705,218

 

11,624,785

Subtotal Revenue…........................................................................................

39,170,434

 

41,513,252

       

TOTAL ESTIMATED REVENUES….................................................................

48,670,434

 

50,513,252

       

Expenditures Estimates:

     
       

General Government Administration…..............................................................

2,857,796

 

3,649,204

Judicial Administration…................................................................................

1,117,134

 

1,249,010

Public Safety…..............................................................................................

6,392,266

 

7,613,857

Public Works….............................................................................................

2,466,116

 

2,948,964

Health and Welfare…......................................................................................

2,902,046

 

3,216,631

Education…..................................................................................................

22,317,961

 

22,887,394

Parks, Recreation and Culture….....................................................................

310,490

 

348,515

Community Development….............................................................................

489,445

 

568,691

Non-departmental….......................................................................................

2,407,964

 

3,759,110

Subtotal Estimated Expenditures….................................................................

41,261,218

 

46,241,375

Undesignated General Fund Balance…............................................................

7,409,216

 

4,271,877

       

TOTAL ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES & FUND BALANCE….........................

48,670,434

 

50,513,252

 

 

TAX RATES

 

            The Board of Supervisors proposes that the local tax levies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025 be as follows:

 

            Real Estate.............................. $0.69 cents per $100 of assessed valuation.

            Personal Property.................... $3.60 at a 35% assessment ratio of NADA

            Machinery & Tools................. $3.60 at a 25% assessment ratio of original cost, 1st year.

            Machinery & Tools................. $3.60 at a 10% assessment ratio of original cost, 2nd year.

            Merchants Capital................... $1.00 at a 50% assessment ratio of original cost.

 

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            A copy of the complete proposed budget is on file in the Office of the County Administrator, Old County Courthouse, 72 Monument Place, Heathsville, Virginia and on the county's website.  Published by Order of the Board of Supervisors for Northumberland County, Virginia.

 

                                                                        Northumberland County Board of Supervisors

By:       E. Luttrell Tadlock                                          Richard F. Haynie, Chairman

            County Administrator                                    James W. Brann, Vice-Chairman

                                                                                    James M. Long

                                                                                    A.C. Fisher, Jr.

                                                                                    Charles “Chip” H. Williams, IV