ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Alexandria City Council unanimously adopted a $979,063,681 FY 2027 general fund operating budget Wednesday night, holding the real estate tax rate flat at $1.135 per $100 of assessed value and approving a 10-year capital improvement program totaling $2,020,217,368.
Every roll call across the night’s 12 docket items was 6-0. Eleven of them passed without discussion at Wednesday’s meeting, although every item had been deliberated extensively over the preceding two months — through budget work sessions, two public hearings, the April 18 add/delete public hearing, and the April 21 preliminary add/delete work session, where council reached majority support on all 11 council member proposals and cancelled an April 27 follow-up. Only the final item — adoption of the operating budget and CIP — drew remarks from council Wednesday, with every council member speaking before the vote. The meeting ran from 6:04 p.m. to 6:36 p.m.
Sandy Marks, who won the April 21 special election to fill the seat vacated by former Councilman R. Kirk McPike, will not be sworn in until May 12. The body that adopted the budget was Mayor Alyia Gaskins, Vice Mayor Sarah Bagley, and Councilmembers Canek Aguirre, John Taylor Chapman, Abdel-Rahman Elnoubi, and Jacinta Greene.
Tax rate held at $1.135
Council made no change to the real estate tax rate, leaving it at $1.135 per $100 of assessed value — unchanged from calendar year 2025 and matching City Manager James Parajon’s proposed budget…