Schools, county findcommon ground on development money

Fairfax County Public Schools officials have agreed to more stringent reporting standards on how the system spends money extracted from developers, according to a recent report.

The county collects cash payments, or proffers, from builders to pay for improvements to schools, roads and other services as part of the rezoning process. Fairfax, however, had for several years withheld part of its schools systems’ portion over lack of a “mutually acceptable accounting and tracking system,” according to the report this month from county auditors.