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VOL. 10, NO. 6
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Supervisors Set Priorities for Record $250M Budget Surplus BY HANNA PAMPALONI
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Each year the Board of Supervisors meets to allocate surplus funding from the prior fiscal year’s budget, often sending some money into reserves, for capital projects and for individual priorities that were not funded in the original budget. This year, the budget surplus was the largest in the county’s history—$250 million more than expected. Management and Budget Director Megan Bourke attributed the large surplus to the intentional effort to project data center revenue conservatively. The board’s finance committee made recommendations on which projects, new initiatives should be funded with this year’s extra money, singling out affordable housing, invasive species removal grants, and a variety of capital projects during a meeting Dec. 10. Based on the recommendations, $60 million will be sent to fiscal year 2026 for the Capital Improvement Program, Capital Asset Preservation Program and Debt Service Funds. Another $62 million will be set BUDGET SURPLUS continues on page 34
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Kecia Brown places a wreath at grave of Revolutionary War veteran Fardinan Van Sickle at North Fork Cemetery during a Dec. 14 ceremony.
Wreaths Across America: Honoring Service BY NORMAN K. STYER nstyer@loudounnow.com
The service of 119 veterans of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War was honored Saturday during Wreath Across America commemorations at two historic cemeteries in Loudoun County. The annual program was organized by the Ketoctin Chapter of the National
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The Sergeant John Champe Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution highlighted the service of two Revolutionary War veterans with the installation of Patriot markers at their gravesites. The service began at Ketoctin Cemetery north of Purcellville where wreaths were presented to honor of all those who served in the military. Participants
gathered for the ceremony then laid wreaths on the graves of 14 Revolutionary War veterans, 32 who served during the War of 1812, and 30 Civil War veterans. At North Fork Cemetery south of Purcellville, wreaths were laid at the graves of 11 veterans of the War of 1812, 30 Civil War veterans and Revolutionary War
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