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Nelson County sets tentative budget-work-session dates, outlines tax and adoption timetable
Summary
At a board meeting, Nelson County officials agreed on tentative budget work sessions (March 18 and March 25, with an April 1 fallback), discussed a joint meeting with the school board the week of March 17 and confirmed deadlines for tax advertising, a public hearing and final budget adoption in June.
The Nelson County Board of Supervisors met to review the proposed fiscal-year budget calendar and agreed on tentative work-session dates and a calendar of legal deadlines. Candy, a county staff member, opened the discussion by asking the board to “review briefly the proposed budget calendar.” The board settled on a full-day budget work session on Tuesday, March 18 — planned as 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a working lunch — with additional tentative dates of March 25 and a carryover morning on April 1 if needed. A possible joint evening meeting with the school board was proposed for the week of March 17; March 20 at 6 p.m. was identified as the first choice with March 19 as a fallback.
The calendar anchors the county’s decision and public-notice deadlines. Board members were reminded that any proposed change to the real-estate tax rate must be decided in time for advertisement: materials must be ready by March 26 to meet newspaper-notice requirements for an April 10 public hearing. The treasurer was to mail tax bills the week of May 12, the public hearing on the FY26 budget was scheduled for Tuesday, May 13, and the board planned to adopt the FY26 appropriation at its regular meeting on Tuesday, June 10 — at least seven days after the public hearing.
Board members discussed preferred meeting rhythms and formats. Several members said they prefer longer, fewer work sessions and that Tuesdays are generally better for extended meetings; one member proposed starting the March 18 session an hour later to accommodate scheduling. Staff noted notice and publication timelines that drive the schedule and asked the board to confirm which of the tentative dates they wanted held. Candy and other staff said they would coordinate room availability and notify other departmental users (for example, social services) if the county used the old boardroom for a work session.
No final budget numbers were adopted at the meeting; staff described the session as a scheduling and planning step to prepare for receiving school-board budget requests (anticipated the week of March 17) and for introducing the general-fund budget at the regular March 11 meeting. The board directed staff to finalize logistics (rooms, public notice language and availability) so the work sessions and any joint school-board meeting can proceed on the selected dates.
