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Votes at a glance: Forsyth County commissioners approve budget amendments, grants, contracts and appointments
Summary
At the Aug. 28 meeting the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a set of budget amendments, grant appropriations, a capital-project transfer, contracts and appointments. Totals and purposes are listed below.
The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 28 approved multiple routine and project-specific items by unanimous vote. The actions below summarize each item, funding or contract amount, and the board’s recorded outcome.
- Amendment to FY26 budget: breastfeeding peer counselor program (Department of Health and Human Services agreement addendum 4-15) — appropriated $52,248 to support mother-to-mother breastfeeding peer support for WIC enrollees. Motion to approve was recorded and carried unanimously.
- Amendment to FY26 budget: general communicable disease control (DHHS agreement addendum 5-10) — appropriated $6,000 to update the electronic reporting interface between public health and the North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health. Motion carried unanimously.
- Transfer to Emergency Telephone System fund — cleanup transfer of $1,395. Motion carried unanimously.
- County capital projects ordinance amendment — close airport landfill project and transfer available balance of $1,234,530 from the airport element to county buildings ($88,000) and economic development reserves ($1,146,530). Motion carried unanimously.
- Amendment to FY26 budget: scrap tires payment to City of Winston-Salem — appropriated $431,066.98 to pay the city for scrap-tire handling. Motion carried unanimously.
- Adoption of Community Development grant projects ordinance — $617,725 to continue rehab, reconstruction, demolition and lead clearance for owner-occupied substandard dwellings and down-payment assistance for first-time homebuyers. Motion carried unanimously.
- Partners Health Management agreement amendment and FY26 budget amendment — authorize amendment and appropriate revenue for nonclinical support of Family and Children’s Division youth housed internally; total reimbursement not to exceed $58,850. Motion carried unanimously.
- Renewal of subscription services with Worldwide Technology LLC — one-year cloud-based endpoint management subscription for county MIS, $64,093.20. Motion carried unanimously.
- Appointment confirmations: Haley Gingles to the city–county planning board (term ending Feb. 2029) and Charles Wilson reappointment to the utility commission (term to expire June 2030). Both confirmed unanimously.
- Resolution authorizing tax assessor/collector refunds — $19,882.66 in refunds approved unanimously.
- Financial reports: June and July appropriations transfer reports and the July financial report were accepted as presented.
Each motion was presented in the meeting’s agenda packet, and the board adopted the items by voice vote; minutes state each motion carried unanimously. Where staff identified follow-up tasks (for example, the community development grants and capital project transfers), county departments were assigned implementation roles and reporting responsibilities to the board.
