Amelia County supervisors review capital improvement plan, ask staff to verify CIP fund balance

Amelia County supervisors spent their meeting reviewing the county’s capital improvement plan and FY2026 project recommendations, asking staff to reconcile discrepancies in the audited fund balance and ledger expenditures before the board makes any spending decisions.

The county’s finance staff told supervisors the audited committed amount in the capital fund as of the June 30, 2024 cutoff was $13.2 million. The staff member reported about $1.3 million in year-to-date capital expenditures, which leaves roughly $12 million as a working figure pending verification for unrecorded encumbrances and invoices. "It's on the page in front of you. Can you see that? It's 13.1 after we net out accounts payable. So it's committed amount as of that cutoff, 06/30/2024. It was 13,200,000.0," the staff member said during the review.

Why it matters: supervisors said they do not want to act on capital allocations — including an animal shelter request and other planning commission recommendations — until staff confirm the accurate current balance, outstanding encumbrances and…