This is the time in Charlottesville’s fiscal cycle when there is active work on three different budgets at once.
Finance Director Chris Cullinan is working to close the books on fiscal year 2025 which ended on June 30. He’ll go before the City Council in December to present the results of the audit which will likely determine the size of a surplus when all the money is tallied up.
Preliminary work is underway on the creation of a budget for the fiscal year that begins on July 1, 2026 and a key milestone coming up is the Planning Commission’s work session on the capital improvement program on November 25…