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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. <ref>https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/county/albemarle-supervisors-question-city-s-abrt-review/article_99aa939e-95f5-11e8-aa2f-63dda72a3602.html</ref>  
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]]. <ref>{{cite web|title=Vibrant Community Fund|url=https://www.charlottesville.gov/232/Vibrant-Community-Fund|author=|work=News Article|publisher=City of Charlottesville|location=|publishdate=|accessdate=April 4, 2021}}</ref>


The ABRT is a 16 member team tasked by the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County with reviewing community agency program funding requests to the City and County governments, and with providing 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.<ref>http://www.charlottesville.org/departments-and-services/departments-h-z/human-services/abrt</ref>


The Agency Budget Review Team (ABRT) reviews applications for funding from community organizations and then recommends which groups Charlottesville and Albemarle County should fund. When the City Council creates its annual budget, it holds a public work session on whether to follow the ABRT’s recommendations. <ref>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/articles/city-donates-third-of-equity-fund-to-new-nonprofit</ref>
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.  


=== Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 ABRT Team Members===
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.
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* [[Pete Armetta]]
Funding decisions are ultimately up to the Charlottesville City Council and the county Board of Supervisors.
* [[Kendall Bills]]
 
* [[Elizabeth Breeden]]
 
* [[Kaki Dimock]]
==Timeline for reform that lead to city/county split==
* [[Kristen Fisher]]
* [[July 16]], [[2018]] &ndash; City Council votes to begin a 10-month review process of the Agency Budget Review Team (ABRT) process. <ref>{{Minutes-citycouncil|newid=|when=July 16, 2018|accessdate=September 29, 2021|id=797794|url=http://weblink.charlottesville.org/public/0/edoc/797794/MINS_20180716Jul16.pdf}}</ref>
* [[John Freeman]]
* [[August 8]], [[2018]] &ndash; Albemarle Supervisors vote to decline to not participate partake in a review of ABRT process <ref>{{cite-progress|title=Albemarle won't join city's nonprofit funding review|url=https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/county/albemarle-won-t-join-city-s-nonprofit-funding-review/article_b98b6fc4-9b79-11e8-a4a2-f779c2720f31.html|author=Allison Wrabel|pageno=|printdate=August 8, 2018|publishdate=August 8, 2018|accessdate=April 8, 2021}}</ref>
* [[Holly Hatcher]]
*February [[2020]] &ndash; [*[https://www.albemarle.org/home/showpublisheddocument?id=418 Albemarle's February 2020 ABRT report] Albemarle releases report on ABRT]
* [[Brian Hunt]]
 
* [[Barbara Hutchinson]]
== Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 ABRT Team Members==
* [[Kirby Hutto]]
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* [[Sarah McLean]]
# [[Pete Armetta]]
* [[Heather Meixler]]
# [[Kendall Bills]]
* [[Mike Murphy]]
# [[Elizabeth Breeden]]
* [[Kelli Palmer]]
# [[Kaki Dimock]]
* [[Lindsay Terrell]]
# [[Kristen Fisher]]
* [[Maurice Walker]]
# [[John Freeman]]
# [[Holly Hatcher]]
# [[Brian Hunt]]
# [[Barbara Hutchinson]]
# [[Kirby Hutto]]
# [[Sarah McLean]]
# [[Heather Meixler]]
# [[Mike Murphy]]
# [[Kelli Palmer]]
# [[Lindsay Terrell]]
# [[Maurice Walker]]
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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<ref> http://www.charlottesville.org/departments-and-services/departments-h-z/human-services/abrt</ref> the annual '''Agency Budget Review Team Report''', released in February.
==FY2018 Staff 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. {{fact}}
* [[Ryan Davidson]], Staff
* [[Ryan Davidson]], Staff
* [[Gretchen Ellis]], Staff
* [[Gretchen Ellis]], Staff
* [[Ron White]], Staff
* [[Ron White]], Staff


===Time Line===
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* At a July 19, 2012 budget work session on the Agency Budget Review Team (ABRT) process, Council asked staff to provide recommendations and a policy to review requests from outside and nonprofit agencies that occur outside the regular budget review process. At the January 20, 2018 City Council meeting, Councilor [[Kathy Galvin]] asked that City Council revise some aspects of that approved policy. Under discussion were the two processes in place for funding various nonprofit and outside agencies each fiscal year:
** The [[Agency Budget Review Team]], or A.B.R.T., is a citizen and staff team that provides recommendations on human services, arts and culture, educational and housing agencies.
** The [[Office of Budget and Performance Management]] has a parallel process that provides recommendations each year on those agencies who have a formal agreement, memorandum of understanding or contractual arrangements to provide services in various capacities on behalf of the City. 
** As noted in the council discussion, both processes use an extensive application and review process that takes months to complete to include in the proposed budget each March. After the annual budget has been adopted, and during the fiscal year, City Council will occasionally receive requests from nonprofit and outside agencies to fund initiatives, programs and events.  Having not gone through the normal budget process, these requests must have a formal review process in place to ensure that the request is valid and the funds will be used in the best interest of the citizens of Charlottesville.  The council expressed that the intent of the revised policy was to help guide Council and City staff in determining which requests should be funded outside the budget process.<ref>http://charlottesville.granicus.com/DocumentViewer.php?file=charlottesville_29a44591394528c3bac26b1e24f348c7.pdf</ref>


* In July 2018, the City Council voted to begin a 10-month review process of the Agency Budget Review Team (ABRT) process <ref>https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/county/albemarle-won-t-join-city-s-nonprofit-funding-review/article_b98b6fc4-9b79-11e8-a4a2-f779c2720f31.html</ref> Albemarle County won’t be participating in Charlottesville’s review of how local nonprofits are funded.<ref> https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/county/albemarle-won-t-join-city-s-nonprofit-funding-review/article_b98b6fc4-9b79-11e8-a4a2-f779c2720f31.html</ref>
==Former ABRT Team Members==
 
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* On August 8, 2018, the county’s Board of Supervisors voted to decline to partake in a review of the (ABRT)process, a joint city-county effort that was created to be an objective way to review nonprofit applications for local government funding.<ref>https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/county/albemarle-won-t-join-city-s-nonprofit-funding-review/article_b98b6fc4-9b79-11e8-a4a2-f779c2720f31.html</ref> Funding decisions are ultimately up to the Charlottesville City Council and the county Board of Supervisors. <ref> https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/county/albemarle-won-t-join-city-s-nonprofit-funding-review/article_b98b6fc4-9b79-11e8-a4a2-f779c2720f31.html</ref>
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===Former ABRT Team Members===
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* [[Pete Armetta]]
* [[Pete Armetta]]
* [[Elizabeth Breeden]]
* [[Elizabeth Breeden]]
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* [[Phyllis Savides]]
* [[Phyllis Savides]]
* [[Maurice Walker]]
* [[Maurice Walker]]
 
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===Former ABRT Staff Members===
==Former ABRT Staff Members==
* [[Ryan Davidson]], Staff
* [[Ryan Davidson]], Staff
* [[Gretchen Ellis]], Staff
* [[Gretchen Ellis]], Staff
* [[Ron White]], Staff
* [[Ron White]], Staff


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Latest revision as of 07:02, 29 September 2021

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

Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 ABRT Team Members

  1. Pete Armetta
  2. Kendall Bills
  3. Elizabeth Breeden
  4. Kaki Dimock
  5. Kristen Fisher
  6. John Freeman
  7. Holly Hatcher
  8. Brian Hunt
  9. Barbara Hutchinson
  10. Kirby Hutto
  11. Sarah McLean
  12. Heather Meixler
  13. Mike Murphy
  14. Kelli Palmer
  15. Lindsay Terrell
  16. Maurice Walker

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]


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Former ABRT Team Members

Former ABRT Staff Members


References

  1. ↑ Web. Vibrant Community Fund, News Article, City of Charlottesville, retrieved April 4, 2021.
  2. ↑ Web. Charlottesville City Council meeting minutes, .pdf, Council Chambers, City of Charlottesville, July 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ Web. Albemarle won't join city's nonprofit funding review, Allison Wrabel, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, August 8, 2018, retrieved April 8, 2021.
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