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Operating Budget Summary
This table shows the Governor's proposed budget for the next two years and the agency's official budget for the previous six years. more...
More historical data is available for this agency on DPB's website under the
Virginia's Budget page. If you click on the Budget Round Description links under any of the "DPB Appropriation Database" tables and open the filter you can select various fields to get greater detail and you can select the official chapter data going back for several decades. The "Caboose" chapters are the final biennial budget approved by the General Assembly and signed into Law.
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Biennium
Fiscal Year
Source
GF
NGF
Total
2008-2010
2009
Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly
$13,669,330
$0
$13,669,330
2008-2010
2010
Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly
$14,544,592
$0
$14,544,592
2010-2012
2011
Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly
$18,058,765
$0
$18,058,765
2010-2012
2012
Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly
$19,658,135
$0
$19,658,135
2012-2014
2013
Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly
$19,385,930
$0
$19,385,930
2012-2014
2014
Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly
$19,863,612
$0
$19,863,612
2014-2016
2015
Governor's Proposed Budget
$21,625,218
$0
$21,625,218
Base Budget
$19,863,612
$0
$19,863,612
Addenda (Changes to the Base)
$1,761,606
$0
$1,761,606
2014-2016
2016
Governor's Proposed Budget
$21,625,560
$0
$21,625,560
Base Budget
$19,863,612
$0
$19,863,612
Addenda (Changes to the Base)
$1,761,948
$0
$1,761,948
Positions Budget Summary
Biennium
Fiscal Year
Source
GF
NGF
Total
2008-2010
2009
Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly
0.00
0.00
0.00
2008-2010
2010
Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly
0.00
0.00
0.00
2010-2012
2011
Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly
0.00
0.00
0.00
2010-2012
2012
Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly
0.00
0.00
0.00
2012-2014
2013
Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly
0.00
0.00
0.00
2012-2014
2014
Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly
0.00
0.00
0.00
2014-2016
2015
Proposed Positions
0.00
0.00
0.00
Base Budget
0.00
0.00
0.00
Addenda (Changes to the Base)
0.00
0.00
0.00
2012-2014
2016
Proposed Positions
0.00
0.00
0.00
Base Budget
0.00
0.00
0.00
Addenda (Changes to the Base)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Operating Budget Addenda (in order of greatest impact)
•
Provide additional funding for broadcast and digital advertising and marketing
Decision Package
Provides additional funding for agency marketing efforts. The funding will be used to expand the agency's broadcast advertising program and its online marketing efforts. Enhancing these efforts supports the authority's goals of increasing the number of out-of-state visitors to the Commonwealth.
FY 2015
FY 2016
General Fund
$1,400,000
$1,400,000
•
Distribute Central Appropriation amounts to agency budgets
Base Budget Adjustment
Adjusts the agency budget to reflect amounts moved to or from Central Appropriations to cover the continued cost of public employee salary increases, increases in state employee health insurance premiums, changes in state employee retirement and other benefit contribution rates, and other centrally funded items being continued from the 2012-14 biennium into the 2014-16 biennium.
FY 2015
FY 2016
General Fund
$359,101
$359,101
•
Adjust agency appropriation for the cost of Performance Budgeting system charges
Decision Package
Provides appropriation to pay for the agency's share of ongoing Performance Budgeting system operating and maintenance costs. The general fund share of this cost was previously budgeted in Central Appropriations.
FY 2015
FY 2016
General Fund
$1,965
$1,965
•
Adjust funding to reflect changes in rent charges at the seat of government
Decision Package
Adjusts agency funding for changes in the cost of rent charges at the seat of government. Overall rent rate changes are the result of additional costs to maintain facilities.
