Wayne County approves consent agenda: budget amendments, personnel policy change, property actions and Farm City Week proclamation

The Wayne County Board of Commissioners approved a consent agenda that included multiple budget amendments, a personnel policy amendment clarifying 401(k) contribution-eligible pay types, actions on surplus and school property, and adoption of a Farm City Week proclamation.

County staff summarized consent items covering reimbursable fuel expenditures through GWTA; an anticipated SHIP grant award for services on aging; a transfer of funds to reimburse the 911 restricted PSAP fund after a $119.72 disallowance in the final PSAP report dated 06/30/2025; appropriation of grant funding for a thermal drone for the multi-hazard drone program (staff noted the drone funding was provided by 'Duke Progress'); social services employee fundraising receipts to be recorded in the county ledger; asset forfeiture receipts to the sheriff’s office; and appropriating a qualified school construction bond fund balance to pay off the loan balance for renovations at Eastern Wayne Middle School and Norway Middle School.

A staff presenter described a personnel policy amendment (Resolution 2025-36) to add on-call pay to the list of nonqualified pay types excluded from employer 401(k) contribution calculations. "We're adding that to the list of nonqualified," the presenter said.

The board considered and approved declaring surplus real property located at 1005 Regal Road in Goldsboro and moving forward with its sale; staff noted an offer of $1,000 on a parcel with a tax value of $7,000, citing limited access due to an overgrown right-of-way. The board reviewed a petition to add subdivision streets (Old Mill Creek Drive; West and East Berkshire Court; Millstone Drive; Buckfront Drive) to the state maintenance system and approved moving forward. The board also approved proceeding with purchase plans for School Street School (426 West Pine Street) from the Wayne County Board of Education and considered, then declined, an option to purchase 0.9 acres adjacent to Charles B. Aycock High School that had been offered for $5,000.

Michelle Estrada, county extension director, read the Farm City Week 2025 proclamation, which declares Nov. 24–30 as Farm City Week and summarizes county agricultural economic data; a motion to approve the proclamation was adopted.