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Roanoke County accepts clean FY2025 audit, allocates $3.7M to contingencies and community priorities
Summary
The Board of Supervisors accepted a clean FY2025 external audit and approved staff recommendations for year‑end allocations, directing $2.1 million to general contingency and targeted transfers for school safety, stormwater maintenance, and other needs. Auditors reported no findings.
Roanoke County’s Board of Supervisors on Dec. 16 accepted a clean external audit for fiscal year 2025 and approved staff recommendations to allocate year‑end savings to contingency accounts and specific programs.
Director of Finance and Management Services Jessica Beamer told the board the county ended the year with revenues 1.24% above the amended budget and expenditures within 0.21% of projections. She recommended distributing year‑end balances as follows: $2,100,000 to the general fund unappropriated contingency, $40,000 for community events including GoFest, $250,000 to fund sheriff school resource officers, $72,009 for a new community resource management system, $203,891 as additions to fee‑based funds, $850,000 to the Children’s Services Act Fund, $131,460 for stormwater pond capital maintenance, and $150,000 for an operating contingency for FY2026.
Travis Gilmer, a director with external auditor Brown Edwards, summarized the audit for the board. He said the county’s financial statements and state compliance opinions were clean, with no findings noted. The single‑audit opinion covering federal awards will be issued separately once the Office of Management and Budget’s compliance supplement is finalized, Gilmer said. He confirmed the county expended about $22.4 million in federal funds during the year and that the three federal programs tested so far (ARPA, Highway Planning, and Federal Lands Access) showed no findings.
During discussion, supervisors noted a roughly $880,000 shortfall in sales tax receipts versus budget and asked whether that was a one‑year aberration or a possible warning sign for future budgets. Beamer said the county would monitor trends and consider the implications for the FY2026 budget process. Supervisor comments also emphasized the clean audit as evidence of sound financial controls.
A motion to adopt the staff recommendations passed on a recorded roll call with all members voting yes. The board’s action allocates the identified year‑end funds and authorizes any technical transfers needed to record the changes.
