Your responses help City leaders understand community priorities and guide decisions during the add/delete process and final tax rate approval. While responses are not anonymous to the City, they will only be shared publicly in aggregate, deidentified form. Individual answers will not be tied to a specific resident.

How do you feel about the proposed FY27 tax rate?

The proposed FY27 Tax Rate is $1.135 per $100 of assessed value; the same as FY26.

The Alexandria City Council has set a max tax rate for FY27 of $1.145 per $100 of assessed value during the March 10 Legislative Meeting. You can see the full budget at alexandriava.gov/Budget and review the City Council's March 10 decision at alexandriava.gov/Dockets.

Too high
42%
About right
20%
Too low
17%
I don't know enough to say
16%
Other
4%
Closed to responses | 197 Responses

If the City adjusts funding for programs, which approach do you support?

Keep taxes the same and reduce funding for some programs
64%
Increase taxes slightly to maintain all current services
29%
Increase funding for priority programs while cutting lower-priority areas
7%
Other
0%
Closed to responses | 28 Responses