At a joint work session on the City of Falls Church’s budget projections for the next five years held at City Hall Thursday night, members of the F.C. School Board lashed out at arbitrary assumption built into the projections that growth of the school budget will remain at a fixed two percent annually. The long-term projections presented by F.C. Finance Director Richard LaCondre Thursday was designed to assist the Council in setting priorities for its current deliberations on the FY2012 between now and its formal adoption of the annual budget at the end of April. LaCondre conceded he was presenting a “very conservative” set of projections, based on the uneven and unpredictable record of the last three years’ fiscal numbers. His projections overall indicated a virtual flatline in terms of added revenues. “I want to be wrong about this,” he said. :But I think there will be a ‘new normal.'”
