The Board of Supervisors’ finance committee this week finalized its recommendations to the full board on the Six-Year Capital Improvement Program, making a few final adjustments before approving it.
The initial CIP presented by County Administrator Tim Hemstreet in February totals $3.8 billion, which adds an additional $238 million to last year’s construction plans. During the six-year period $1.5 billion is set aside for transportation projects, $1.3 billion for county government projects and $1 billion for school projects.
At the request of Supervisor Laura A. TeKrony (D-Little River), the committee on March 5 voted to move $250,000 from the capital project management account to the projects fund to pay for a study of potential improvements along Fleetwood Road.
Supervisors also recommended that $1.2 million of cash proffer funds within the Linear Parks and Trails Program be used to build a pedestrian crossing overBeaverdam Run connecting Heron Overlook Park with a trail by Loudoun Water and to add a bridge on the W&OD Trail to the CIP’s future projects list.
The committee also voted to remove corridor improvements along Russell Branch Parkway from the future projects list. Instead, the work will be included in the next ranking and prioritization studies for the sidewalks and trails program and the intersection improvement program.
None of those changes affect fiscal year 2026, Committee Chair Juli E. Briskman (D-Alongkian) said.
“It will go into further discussion as to whether we actually fund these projects and the board will get to vote on it again when we add projects to our future years, which will happen next year and then we will get to deliberate on actually adding these and funding them,” she said.
The proposal to build a new bridge on the W&OD Trail stems from a request by Supervisor Sylvia R. Glass (D-Broad Run) to study the grade-separated crossing at Smith Switch Road to improve safety.
County Chair Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large) and Supervisors Caleb A. Kershner (R-Catoctin), who does not sit on the committee, also received support for their shift funding for a turn lane project along Evergreen Mills Road at the entrance of Revolution Sportsplex to be allocated to the Berlin Turnpike and East Gate Drive traffic signal project in Purcellville.
In FY 2025 $231,000 was allocated for the turn lane project, $193,000 in FY 2026 and $694,000 in FY 2027. Proffer funding from the Village at Clear Springs development will be used for the sportsplex turn lane project instead.
“It will be a big boon for the amount of traffic that comes through there on [Rt.] 287 at East Gate Drive. It really does need significant improvement,” Kershner said.
The CIP will now be considered by the Board of Supervisors at its March 10 budget work session.
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