Arlington County is planning to beat its $32.5 million budget gap for next fiscal year with a property tax increase, a $16.2 million cut in expenditures, and 87 fewer employees.
The increase in property taxes would amount to an average of $235 more for an average household in fiscal 2011.
Public safety would be hard hit under the proposed cuts. Community policing would be sliced in half, and one of the county’s Heavy Rescue Units would be terminated.
The budget, proposed to the County Board on Tuesday by Acting County Manager Barbara Donnellan, would increase the funding for Metro and for health care by $1.5 million each. – Hristina Ninova
