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Votes at a glance: Forsyth County commissioners approve firefighters, contracts, airport funding and violence‑prevention contract; split bond premium vote
Summary
At its Sept. 25 meeting the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners approved amendments to the FY2026 budget to add five Vienna firefighters, awarded multiple service and construction contracts, accepted airport grant increases and split a bond premium allocation after debate; the Cure Violence contract was approved over one commissioner’s dissent.
Forsyth County commissioners on Sept. 25 approved a slate of routine and project‑specific actions, including personnel funding for a volunteer fire department, several vendor contracts, an airport lighting grant increase and a community violence‑interruption contract. The board also split and separately approved two parts of a bond‑premium appropriation after members requested separate votes on county and schools allocations.
Key actions and outcomes
- Minutes: The board approved minutes for the Sept. 11, 2025 meeting (vote recorded; Commissioner Woodbury participated remotely and cast a vote).
- Agenda item 3 — Vienna Fire Department: The board amended the FY2026 budget to add five firefighter positions for the Vienna Fire Department at a total cost of $334,491 ($66,897 per position). Motion carried unanimously.
- Agenda item 4 — Bond premium allocation: The county received $2,121,992.95 in bond premium from the sale of the 2025 general obligation bonds. After debt issuance costs of $354,368.35, $1,767,624.60 remained. The board debated the percentage split and, after a motion to divide the item, approved amendment A…
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