Communities across the Washington area are cutting services and eyeing tax increases to deal with budget shortfalls they face next year, but only Fairfax County says it won’t have the money to give its employees a raise.

County Executive Ed Long said he couldn’t fund pay increases next year, in part because of “the combination of anemic revenue growth and increasing requirements for services” that would’ve left the county with a $169 million hole in its 2014 budget — a shortfall expected to grow to $274 million in 2015. The county’s 12,000 employees did receive a raise last year that cost the county $50 million.

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