Budget & Finance
Albemarle County Board of Supervisors
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FY2027 General Fund · BOS Adopted (Apr 22, 2026)
$511,958,195
One year of Albemarle County General Fund spending, as adopted by the Board of Supervisors. Up +$37,264,066 (+7.9%) from FY2026's $474,694,129. The biggest piece, $218,283,112, goes to Albemarle County Public Schools.
Sources: p.94, p.102, p.124. Total County budget, operating and capital: $727,690,282, up $89,627,537 (+14.0%) (p.7, p.92, budget resolution). The summary table on p.95 and p.121 prints the General Fund change as $30,864,066 / 6.5%, leaving out a $6.4M one-time capital transfer; we use +$37,264,066 / 7.9%.
Board of Supervisors
$910,725
3 positions
$910,725 for the Board of Supervisors itself, up 1.7%, with 3.0 positions: salaries $353,354, benefits $165,421, operating $387,950 and capital $4,000. That's 0.2% of the General Fund (our calc).
Administration
$31.4M
$31,418,644 for Administration, up 3.2%, 6.1% of the General Fund (our calc). The biggest parts: Information Technology $10,867,560, Finance & Budget $10,324,479 and Executive Leadership $4,051,368 (County Executive $1,376,235).
Revenue Sharing
$21.9M
+8.5%
$21,880,462 paid to the City of Charlottesville under the 1982 Annexation and Revenue Sharing Agreement, where the County pays the City and the City agrees not to annex County land. Up $1,704,929 (+8.5%).
Source: FY27 Adopted Budget p.220 (amount), pp.220–222 (agreement).
Public Schools
$218.3M
42.6%
Public Safety
$87.3M
17.1%
Capital & Debt
$52.6M
10.3%
Health & Welfare
$36.2M
7.1%
Administration
$31.4M
6.1%
Revenue Sharing
$21.9M
4.3%
Community Development
$20.2M
3.9%
Public Works
$14.1M
2.8%
Parks, Recreation & Culture
$13.5M
2.6%
Judicial
$10.2M
2.0%
Other
$6.2M
1.2%
Source: FY27 Adopted Budget p.121, General Fund by organizational area (FY27 Adopted). "Other" is our sum of other transfers ($2,538,024) and other uses ($3,637,286). % is our calc. The boxes add to $511,958,195.
By Albemarle County Department
All 32 General Fund departments and agency groups. Agency groups (for example, transit or public safety agencies) are our groupings of the book's line items.
- Transfer to Public Schools (ongoing) (p. 225)$218,283,11242.6%
- Transfers to Capital & Debt Service (p. 225)$52,589,19810.3%
- Fire Rescue Services (p. 164)$36,838,9417.2%
- Police Department (p. 162)$35,869,0147.0%
- Health & Human Services (p. 184)$28,450,5595.6%
- Revenue Sharing (City of Charlottesville) (p. 220)$21,880,4624.3%
- Public Safety agencies (jail, ECC, SPCA, juvenile detention…) (p. 170)$14,168,2852.8%
- Information Technology (p. 142)$10,867,5602.1%
- Facilities & Environmental Services (p. 176)$10,527,6562.1%
- Community Development Department (p. 210)$10,347,1722.0%
- Finance & Budget (p. 140)$10,324,4792.0%
- Transit agencies (CAT, Jaunt, micro-transit…) (p. 214)$8,243,3441.6%
- Health & Welfare agencies + Housing Fund transfer (p. 188)$7,780,8791.5%
- Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (p. 200)$6,363,1581.2%
- Parks & Recreation (p. 198)$5,721,4461.1%
- Sheriff (p. 154)$5,434,7231.1%
- Executive Leadership (p. 135)$4,051,3680.8%
- Other Uses of Funds (tax relief, reserves, salary lapse) (p. 228)$3,637,2860.7%
- Public Works agencies (Rivanna Solid Waste…) (p. 179)$3,571,1670.7%
- Commonwealth's Attorney (p. 152)$2,755,4700.5%
- Other transfers (Water Resources, EDA) (p. 227)$2,538,0240.5%
- Human Resources (p. 137)$2,000,2610.4%
- County Attorney (p. 139)$1,741,6700.3%
- Voter Registration & Elections (p. 144)$1,522,5810.3%
- Clerk of the Circuit Court (p. 150)$1,461,9280.3%
- Convention & Visitors Bureau (p. 201)$1,356,0150.3%
- Economic Development (office + agencies) (p. 212)$1,027,0180.2%
- Board of Supervisors (p. 134)$910,7250.2%
- Other Community Development agencies (TJPDC, VPI Extension) (p. 216)$591,4810.1%
- Courts (Circuit, GDC, Juvenile, Magistrate, Public Defender) (p. 156)$574,4860.1%
- Office of Emergency Management (new) (p. 168)$440,7270.1%
- Cultural agencies & festivals (p. 202)$88,0000.0%
Source: FY27 Adopted Budget pp.122–124, General Fund Expenditures by Department and Agency (rows add to $511,958,195). Page = start of the department or agency section. % is our calc. County government positions: 975.20, up 0.68 (p.128).
Question 1
Where does the money come from?
- Real estate tax$291,263,85156.9%
- Personal property tax$47,731,4859.3%
- State$29,675,6735.8%
- Local sales tax$27,555,5945.4%
- Business license (BPOL)$20,013,3873.9%
- Food & beverage tax$19,248,5453.8%
- All other (6 groups)$76,469,66114.9%
Source: General Fund revenue, pp.102–107. "All other" is our sum of other property taxes, other local taxes, other local revenue, federal, transfers and $4,898,289 of fund balance. The lines add to $1 over the total, because the book prints general property taxes as $351,993,279 on p.102 and $351,993,278 on p.94.
Question 2
Where does it go?
- Public Schools (transfer)$218,283,11242.6%
- County government departments$213,030,11341.6%
- Capital & debt transfers$52,589,19810.3%
- Revenue sharing with Charlottesville$21,880,4624.3%
- Other transfers & uses$6,175,3101.2%
Areas from p.121; "County government departments" is our calc (the General Fund minus the other four).
Question 3
What's changing year over year?
+$37,264,066
+7.9% General Fund (p.102, p.124). Tax rates stay the same: real estate $0.894 and personal property $4.28 per $100 (pp.104–105). Police pay scale +11%, Fire Rescue +5%, and 30 positions once paid by a federal SAFER grant move onto the General Fund (p.125).
How the budget gets made
STEP 1
Recommended
County Executive presents the Recommended Budget and CIP (Feb 25, 2026)
STEP 2
Board Proposed
Board proposes the budget and sets the most it may advertise for tax rates (Mar 18, 2026)
STEP 3
BOS Adopted
Board approves and appropriates the budget and sets tax rates, 6–0 (Apr 22, 2026)
Along the way: a joint capital meeting with the School Board (Dec 3, 2025), a public hearing on the Recommended Budget (Mar 4), five work sessions in March and April, and hearings on tax rates and the Board's Proposed Budget (Apr 15, 2026). The School Board adopted its final budget the next day, Apr 23 (calendar, p.76; vote from the certified resolution).
Search the budget papers
Search the budget records
Looks inside the budget documents listed below, including the big books we link to rather than host, not just filenames. Proposed ≠ adopted stays labeled on each hit.
Source files (4)
- FY27 Adopted Budget (complete book, 364 pp)BOS Adopted33.1 MB · official link · albemarle.orgGeneral Fund summary (pp.94–127), every department chapter, non-departmental (pp.217–228). Too big to host (33 MB).
- FY2027 Budget Resolution (certified, adopted 6–0 Apr 22, 2026)BOS Adopted0.4 MB · albemarle.orgOne page: the adopted totals by fund.
- FY2027 Appropriation Resolution (certified)BOS Adopted1.5 MB · albemarle.orgThe legal appropriation of each fund.
- FY27 Budget presentation (adoption)BOS Adopted0.8 MB · albemarle.orgSlides for the adoption.
The 33 MB book links to the County's own copy. Official door: albemarle.org budget
Caveats & notes
- •The book's summary row (p.95, p.121) says the General Fund grows $30,864,066 (6.5%); the correct arithmetic, on p.94, p.102 and p.124, is $37,264,066 (7.9%). We use 7.9%.
- •The p.104 text says general property taxes total "$346.4 million"; that's the current-taxes subtotal. The table total is $351,993,279.
- •The p.127 text says capital and debt transfers grow "2.1%"; the table shows 21.3% ($9,248,225).
- •The adopted book's County Executive letter still says "This Recommended Budget" (p.8).