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From YouTube: County Board Wrap-Up April 2015; Part 1
Description
Board Chair Mary Hynes sits down with Mary Curtius of the Arlington Communications office and discusses important decisions from the April 2015 county board meeting. This meeting was dominated by the annual budget process, and there's lots of budget talk in this 30 min. discussion.
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B
A
Really
forward
to
this
chat
on
what
happened
at
the
county
board
meeting
yep
each
month
following
the
county
board
meetings,
we're
taking
a
half
hour
to
talk
about
some
of
the
actions
the
board
took
and
what
those
actions
mean
for
you,
your
family
and
your
community.
So
you
can
stay
informed
about
what
your
government
is
doing
and
why
and
Mary
you're
here
to
help
us
sort.
The
whole
thing
out.
A
B
B
B
You
know
we
start
planning
for
the
next
one,
almost
as
soon
as
we
finish,
the
the
one
we
just
adopted,
the
formal
start
of
it
really
begins
in
the
fall
of
each
year
when
the
county
board
gives
direction
to
the
county
manager
about
things
like
how
whether
or
not
we're
willing
for
her
to
build
her
budget
around
increased
taxes
or
not.
Sometimes
we
give
direction
about
how
we
want
to
approach.
What's
going
on
with
schools.
Sometimes
we
know
we
have
new
facilities.
B
B
Of
information,
so
staff
does
a
really
great
job
of
sort
of
tracking.
What's
going
on,
financially,
our
biggest
or
of
revenue
is
real
estate,
both
commercial
and
residential,
and
so
they
track
trends.
They
look
at
sales
and
they'll
come
to
us
in
the
fall
with
a
guess,
an
early
estimate.
If
you
will
of
how
much
growth
we
might
expect
both
in
commercial
residential
and
they
do
behave
differently.
B
We
asked
her
to
bring
us
a
budget
with
no
tax
increase.
That
was
perhaps
the
most
important
message
that
we
sent.
We
asked
her
to
do
her
to
meet
our
revenue,
sharing
principles
with
the
school
system,
which
basically
sets
out
an
initial
split
of
the
money
and
then
the
principal
say,
and
we're
going
to
keep
talking
throughout
the
budget
process
until
we
get
to
the
end
to
sort
of
figure
out.
If
we
need
to
adjust
how
that
revenue
is
split,
and
this
year
we
did.
B
B
Tell
you
the
truth,
Mary-
and
this
is
my
eighth
county
budget.
I-
have
12
School
Board
budgets
under
my
belt,
but
my
eighth
county
budget-
that
none
of
them
has
been
easy
since
I
came
here,
because
the
economic
downturn
happened,
the
fall
of
2008,
and
so
we
have
been
dealing
in
a
in
a
circumstance
where
initially,
our
economy
did
okay,
because
the
federal
government
was
really
playing.
But
in
more
recent
years
it's
been
really
difficult.
B
So
we've
been
scaling
back
and
we've
been
trimming
and
we've
been
trying
to
adjust
and
we've
been
doing
this
in
an
environment
where
school
enrollment
is
growing,
so
I,
don't
think
any
of
them
actually
are
easy.
They
all
involve
choices,
because
what
we're
hearing
from
our
residents,
given
the
sequester
and
shutting
down
and
note
no
increases
in
salaries,
is
that
more
taxes
are
a
challenge
for
them.
A
Okay
and
then
I
guess
that
kind
of
answers.
My
next
question:
how
do
you
decide
each
year
what
you're
going
to
spend?
Do
you
look
at
your
revenues
and
say
this
is
how
much
we
have
to
spend
or
do
you
look
at
your
services
and
programs
and
say
this
is
what
we
have
to
cover.
We
have
to
figure
out
a
way
to
cover
it.
B
It's
a
blend,
it's
really
a
blend
of
those
two
things
and
because
we
hold
in
our
hands
the
tool
that
lets
you
align
revenue
with
what
you
need
to
do,
which
is
the
tax
rate
you
come
in
I
think
with
with
some
thought
of
how
much
you
might
be
willing
to
go,
and
actually
you
know
we
after
the
managers
budget
is
presented,
we
actually
advertise.
What
can
be
the
top
amount
of
revenue
we
could
raise
when
we
advertise
the
tax
rate
can't
go
higher
than
that
can
always
go
lower.
B
B
Salido
with
that
growth,
absolutely
when
we
started
in
the
fall,
the
school
said
they
needed
another
26
million
dollars.
By
the
time
we
got
to
the
last
week.
They
were
down
at
6.2
and
we
were
able
to
find
the
6.2.
They
did
a
lot
of
good
work
on
their
side,
to
look
for
streamlined,
to
look
at
pots
of
money
and
make
some
really
what
I
thought
were
very
strategic
choices
on
their
part,
and
we
did
the
same
thing
on
our
side,
then,
to
try
to
meet
a
dollar
amount.
We
thought
we
could
so.
A
B
Sure
so
what
she
does
is
she
talks
to
all
the
departments.
You
know
she
kind
of
takes
that
guidance
out
and
says
up.
They
taught
said
no
tax
increase,
so
we're
going
to
connect
here's
our
box,
we
have
to
live
in
she
and
we
asked
her
this
year
as
well
to
bring
us
a
one
percent
reduction,
so
four
million
dollars
of
reduction
not
to
take
them
but
to
bring
them
to
us,
so
we
would
have
if
we
needed
to,
because
we
knew
about
schools,
we
had
some
places.
B
We
could
look
at
that
had
been
vetted
by
the
organization.
She
also
generally
has
been
collaborating
with
a
superintendent
to
hold
a
community
meeting.
She
met
with
all
of
our
Commission's
to
hear
what
they
had
to
say
and
then
she
and
sort
of
the
executive
leadership
team
here
at
the
county
go
into
mode
of
putting
the
budget
together.
That
happens
all
the
way
through
January.
Typically,
the
budget
comes
to
the
board.
A
It
sounds
like
that's
a
really
involved
in
very
public
process.
You
just
went
through
to
put
together
the
budget,
it
sure
is,
and
it
should
be,
it
absolutely
should
be.
Okay,
we'll
take
a
short
break
and
when
we
come
back,
we'll
learn
exactly
how
much
the
board
has
budgeted
for
FY
2016
and
whether
or
not
you'll
be
paying
more
taxes.