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A
Well,
we're
going
to
end
today,
appropriately
with
a
look
at
the
manager's
closeout
recommendations
for
a
fiscal
year
2020
budget.
Now,
as
many
of
you
know,
arlington's
fiscal
year
runs
from
july
1st
through
june
30th
each
year
and
right
now,
the
county's
in
the
second
quarter
of
the
fiscal
year
2021
budget.
Now
this
is
the
time
of
the
year
where
the
manager
usually
makes
recommendations
on
how
the
board
might
allocate
any
money
unspent
from
the
2020
fiscal
year
which
ended
june,
30th
or
20th
2020.
A
next
month.
The
board
will
vote
on
those
recommendations
and
will
also
give
the
manager
guidance
to
start
building
the
2022
budget.
Now.
Obviously,
the
budget
projections
from
back
in
january
february
went
right
out
the
window
with
everything
and
the
managers
gave
some
recommendations
back
in.
I
believe
it
was
april
or
may,
but
then
came
back
again
a
few
weeks
ago
with
some
new
recommendations.
So
where
are
we
now.
B
Okay,
those
went
out
the
window
too,
not
exactly,
but
where
we
are,
and
it's
so
unusual
I've
done.
I
think
this
is
about
my
25th
budget
and
generally,
when
we're
at
this
point,
yeah
we're
looking
at
carry
a
carryover
and
we've
got
some
money
and
we
often
put
it
into
affordable
housing.
We
often
have
some
of
it
go
forward
for
the
next
budget.
I've
never
been
in
a
situation
like
this,
where
we're
in
the
second
quarter
of
this
budget
year
and
we're
facing
a
28
to
38
million
dollar
get
budget
gap.
B
B
You
can't
make
it
all
up
in
the
last
couple
of
weeks,
so
we're
looking
at
a
lot
of
things,
but
one
of
them
is
using
carryout,
so
the
manager
recommended
the
major
chunk
of
it
to
go
to
to
closing
that
gap
and
then
the
the
rest
of
it
about
another
six
million
going
into
reserves
that
could
be
used
to
help
close
gaps
or
to
help
handle
things
next
year
or
things
that
come
up,
because
hopefully
we're
gonna
get
some
federal
funding
to
help
us
out.
B
C
No,
but
it's
it's
really
a
tough
situation.
It's
absolutely
understandable.
Why
right
covet
has
really
affected
the
budget
affected,
the
our
our
confidence
in
getting
the
tax
revenue
that
we
counted
with
now,
among
all
relatively
you
know,
gloomy
news.
There
is
also
one
good
news:
you've
got
piece
of
good
news
that,
for
example,
residential
property
taxes
have
been
coming
in.
They
didn't
break
off
they.
They
came
in
at
a
very
high
percentage
like
97
98
percent.
That's
a
that's
good.
C
To
start
with,
however,
the
we
don't
still
don't
know
what
the
commercial
tax
base
will
do,
and
we
can,
you
know,
easily
extrapolate
and
and
expect
that
the
commercial
tax
base
will
will
be
affected,
and
then
there
are
other
revenues
that
are
beyond
tax
taxation,
and
you
know
smaller
tax
like
meals,
taxes
and
transfer
documents
to
taxes.
C
Our
our
economy
in
many
places
hurts
right
now,
so
the
the
government
revenue
is
is
breaking
off
and,
as
the
our
chair
mentioned,
the
projected
gap
at
the
end
of
the
year
is
somewhere
between
27
and
38
million
dollars,
so
probably
we'll
land
somewhere
in
the
middle
of
that
also,
the
the
the
manager
did
two
things
that
are
important
to
to
underscore.
First
early
in
the
process,
the
the
county
administration,
the
manager
has,
has
tried
to
actually
reduce
costs
so
that
we
have
a
higher
increase,
etc.
C
This
this
already
yielded
some
results.
That
gives
us
the
possibility
right
now
to
still
be
able
to
steer
that
boat
with
with
some
you
know
in
with
some
tranquility
and
not
being
completely
in
red
alert
mode
that
that
that
was
important,
and
I
think
that
was
successful
until
now.
C
The
second
thing
that
he
did
is
he
put
in
in
his
proposal
some
contingency
funding
for
everything
that
kovit
will
still
be
throwing
at
us
and
giving
the
fact
that
the
federal
government
has
been
so
incredibly
unpredictable
with
you
know,
with
forthcoming,
with
with
help
and
and
support,
and
at
the
same
time
we
have
also
our
arlington
public
school
system,
because
that
which
also
is
running
a
a
deficit,
and
we
had
yesterday
a
session
with
our
colleagues
from
the
arlington
county
school
board
for
alton
public
schools,
and
we
saw
that
you
know
they
can
come
by,
but
we
have
to
think
also
about
the
next
year.
C
So
I
believe
that
we
are
now
in
a
very
caution
driven
process
and
we
will
be
double
checking
and
triple
checking
what
what
we,
what
we
spend,
how
we
spend
it
and
what
implications
this
will
have
not
only
to
closing
this
budget.
As
the
chair
mentioned,
this
has
to
be
balanced,
but
also
next
year's
budget
for
everybody
out
there,
our
citizens.
This
means
that
we
invite
them
to
really
look
at
this
to
really
express
their
priorities,
taking
into
account
all
the
stressors
that
we
have
right
now
in
the
system.
A
A
B
You
know
in
a
word,
I
don't
know
how
much
time
we
have
here.
Yes,
I
mean
we're
anticipating.
We
should
get
start
to
get
to
a
slow
recovery.
Hopefully
we'll
get
a
vaccine,
but
it's
going
to
be
a
long
time
getting
out
of
this.
This
kind
of
hole
that
we're
in
so
you
know
the
good
news.
Is
you
know
that
it's
it's
not
as
bad
as
it
could
be.
You
know
it's
it's
pretty
bad,
but
it
could
be
a
lot
worse,
we're
actually
in
an
okay
shape.
B
I
find
myself
worrying
a
lot
about
other
places
in
this
country
where
they
have
the
same
kinds
of
challenges
and
don't
have
the
same
resources
and
we
have
been
as
tacus
mentioned.
You
know
we're
being
very
cautious
and
that's
that's
good
and
we
need
to
be
planning
for
next
year
and
knowing
that
we
need
some
reserves
and
some
contingencies,
because
we're
not
sure
what
that
year
is
going
to
bring.
We
do
think
it's
going
to
get
better,
but
slowly,
it's
not
like
we're
going
to
just
jump
out
of
this.
B
Some
businesses
probably
will
never
come
back,
and
then
there
are
people
who
are
going
to
continue
long-term,
maybe
dealing
with
some
unemployment.
I
mean,
there's
just
there's
a
lot,
a
lot
of
unknowns
out
there
and
a
lot
of
issues
that
we
need
to
be
prepared
for.
So
I
think
I
think,
all
in
all
we're
in
a
good
spot,
given
the
situation
we're
in,
but
it's
not
going
to
be.
It's
not
going
to
be
easy
and
we're
not
going
to
go
back
to
normal
for
quite
some
time.
C
Yeah-
and
this
is-
and
this
is
also
a
an
indication
to
re-
to
revisit
our
priorities
and
put
the
money
where
our
our
speech
is
right,
so
the-
and
there
is
real
value
in
supporting
right
now,
the
most
vulnerable
harmingtonians.
We
talked
a
lot
about
this
in
this
wrap-up
conversation.
C
This
is
these.
Are
all
all
these
all
this
all
this
money,
all
the
support
means
also
making
these
households
more
resilient.
The
the
support
we
provide
to
small
businesses-
yes,
some
will
fault;
unfortunately
they
will,
but
we
will
try
to
avoid
that,
so
we
will
save
several
ones
that
otherwise,
without
the
support
would
fault.
C
So
all
this
is
accumulated
capital
that
will
pay
off
later
when
we
will
be
starting
to
get
out
of
this
situation
plus
this
shows
again
that
the
earlier
we
we
commit
to
a
diversified
economy
to
a
you
know,
to
resolve
our
issues
with
equity
liabilities,
etc,
the
more
resilient
we
are
and
that
pays
off
and
when
we
have
stressful
years,
like
the
one
that
we
have
this
year
and
the
one
that
we
will
see
coming
next
year,
so
we
are
in
this.
C
You
know
we
are
all
in
this
really
together,
and
that
means
that
we
invite
everybody
to
work
with
us
to
have
a
budget
that
really
works
under
the
circumstances.
We
are.
A
See
where
we
get
all
right
well
on
that
note
that
will
bring
us
to
the
end
of
this
month's
county
board,
wrap
up
libby
takas.
Thank
you
both
very
much
for
joining
us
today.
Please
join
us
again
next
month
for
another
discussion
with
the
county
board
members
of
some
of
the
key
decisions
they'll
be
making
at
the
november
meeting
till
then
stay
safe
and
remember
to
vote.
I
mean
everything
is
safe.