Agency Budget Review Team
The Agency Budget Review Team (A.B.R.T. or ABRT) was established in 1991 to create an objective process for reviewing nonprofit applications for local government funding for Albemarle County and Charlottesville. Charlottesville Council stopped participating beginning with the development of the FY2020 budget in favor of their own process known as the Vibrant Community Fund. [1]
When the joint process was utilized, the ABRT comprised of a sixteen (16) member team tasked by the Charlottesville and Albemarle to review community agency program funding requests to the City and County governments. They provided ratings recommendations to the Charlottesville City Manager and Albemarle County Executive, whose offices make the ultimate funding recommendations to Charlottesville City Council and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors during the development of budgets each year.
The Agency Budget Review Team (ABRT) reviewed applications for funding from community organizations and then recommended funding levels to both communities. When the City Council reviewed the recommended annual budget, they would hold a public work session on whether to follow the ABRT’s recommendations.
Funding decisions are ultimately up to the Charlottesville City Council and the county Board of Supervisors.
Timeline for reform that lead to city/county split
- July 16, 2018 – City Council votes to begin a 10-month review process of the Agency Budget Review Team (ABRT) process. [2]
- August 8, 2018 – Albemarle Supervisors vote to decline to not participate partake in a review of ABRT process [3]
- February 2020 – [*Albemarle's February 2020 ABRT report Albemarle releases report on ABRT]
Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 ABRT Team Members
FY2018 Staff Members
City staff serve as the grant managers for the ABRT process, including issuing the application, facilitating orientation and ABRT trainings, providing technical assistance to applicant agencies, organizing and staffing Team meetings, and preparing the annual Agency Budget Review Team Report, released in February. [citation needed]
- Ryan Davidson, Staff
- Gretchen Ellis, Staff
- Ron White, Staff
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Former ABRT Team Members
Former ABRT Staff Members
- Ryan Davidson, Staff
- Gretchen Ellis, Staff
- Ron White, Staff
References
- ↑ Web. Vibrant Community Fund, News Article, City of Charlottesville, retrieved April 4, 2021.
- ↑ Web. Charlottesville City Council meeting minutes, .pdf, Council Chambers, City of Charlottesville, July 16, 2018.
- ↑ Web. Albemarle won't join city's nonprofit funding review, Allison Wrabel, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, August 8, 2018, retrieved April 8, 2021.