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I would like to call to order the February 24th, 2026 Loudoun County Board of Supervisors Finance, Government Operations and Economic Development Committee Capital Improvement Program Work Session.

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We had two questions from Supervisor GLASS and one from Supervisor Turner that were not answered for this packet, but they will be answered in the March 4th packet.

So we do apologize for that.

And then also the last item is just an information item is mentioned for the Western Loud and Recreation Project.

And now I will turn to a high-level summary of the CIP, focusing on how it aligns to the budget guidance we received.

The six-year period totals 4.3 billion dollars.

County projects total 1.3 billion dollars or 31%.

Transportation projects are 1.8 billion or 41%, and school projects are 1.2 billion or 28%.

And these percentages aligned to the guidance provided by the board to generally maintain the 30, 40, 30 percent funding ratios for county transportation and schools, respectively.

Two new years have been added to the CIP.

Cost and schedule changes for existing projects are accommodated first.

New projects are added according to the criteria that the board endorsed in July, and additional local tax funding is programmed to conserve debt capacity in future years, and so that additional capacity was not used to significantly increase the size of the CIP.

Okay, this table shows the annual debt issuance guideline as it was raised in July, as well as the projected debt issuance in the six-year CIP.

Debt capacity remains in each year as per the budget guidance.

There is less capacity in the first three years of the CIP due to the addition of the new Department of General Services headquarters, warehouse and fleet maintenance facilities, which was added to FY27.

This project was originally intended to be accomplished through the Tuscaurora Land Bay 3 substation legislative application, which was deferred indefinitely by the applicant in October of 2025, as well as cost increases for the Western Loudoun Rec Center complex and several road projects.

The percentage of local tax funding in the proposed CIP is 29% compared to 24% for the FY26 adopted CIP.

This slide shows the expenditures with the FY26 adopted budget at the top and the proposed CIP at the bottom.

As noted earlier, the proposed CIP generally maintains the funding ratios between county transportation and schools, which is roughly similar to the adopted FY26 CIP.

The Loudoun County Public Schools funding share increased despite moving new school construction out of the six-year period.

The proposed CIP includes more funding for school renovations, renewals, and alterations, and fully accommodates the school board's adopted CIP, whereas last year CIP did not.

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New road projects were added, no new road projects were added to the CIP because priority in the transportation category went to cost increases and schedule adjustments on existing road projects and for providing funding to bundle sidewalk and trail projects as well as moving the next round of intersection improvement projects into the plan.

This slide provides more information related to what was accommodated for the sidewalk and trails, intersection improvement program, and the bus stops and shelters projects.

The funding for sidewalk and trails as noted was adjusted to allow for the bundling of project segments to implement more efficient delivery.

This bundling resulted in roughly 35 to 40 million dollars allocated for that purpose each year.

For the intersection improvement program, all round three projects have been incorporated into the six-year period.

And for the bus shelter program, the funding was accelerated to support the increase of production from 20 shelters per year to 40.

Okay, and as you know, the summary of new projects and other changes section of the budget document contains additional information about new projects and changes to other projects.

And as a reminder, existing projects are not delayed or deferred in order to accommodate new projects.

The capital needs assessment calls for a new 40,000 square foot library facility in the Ashburn planning sub-area.

This includes portions of the Ashburn, Sterling, Broadrun, and Algonquian election districts.

Based on discussions with the district board members and library board of trustees, staff is recommending the following item listed here on this slide to achieve that square footage trigger and the full programming for library services.

So one is to expand the Sterling Library through lease space through which negotiations are occurring and information will come to the board.

Also to incorporate a larger footprint on the Cascades Library project.

There is an existing Cascades Library and Senior Center project in the CIP that received funding for planning purposes, which is occurring now, assuming that those concepts can be approved in the next few months.

Design would be ready to begin in FY27 where that design funding is programmed.

And then also to evaluate the expansion options for the Eastern Library, Eastern, I'm sorry, existing Ashburn Library, or to relocate to a larger facility, whether that is constructed by the county or but through by a developer.

Okay.

And at this time, I will turn the presentation over to Scott Warris, Deputy Director and Department of Transportation and Capital Infrastructure to discuss the Western Land Recreation Complex project.

Before Mr.

Wars starts, or maybe you're going to include this in your comments, but I'm just wondering why it was separated out as a separate item.

Well, I read it.

I read it.

So I asked that it be separated out, uh, ma'am chair, because we received a lot of questions from board members about it.

Okay.

And because it is a uh it's a you know, it's about a hundred percent cost increase.

Okay.

And so I felt it deserved a little more uh review by the staff to the committee for your consideration and understanding of what happened with this project or what is happening with this project.

Okay, thank you for that clarification.

Thank you.

Good evening, uh Chair Briskman, members of the committee and board.

Uh this item does provide a project overview of the Western Loudon Recreation Complex and provides an update on the project budget.

Uh for your awareness, this presentation will be similar to the design endorsement item we are proposing to bring to the finance committee in March.

Uh next slide.