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New Kent County administrator outlines $253.8M five‑year capital plan, FY27 county projects total $152.8M
Summary
County Administrator Rodney Hathaway presented the Planning Commission’s recommended FY2027–2031 Capital Improvement Plan on Jan. 28, noting $253,825,548 in county five‑year projects, FY27 county project totals of $152,790,754 and a FY27 capital‑fund balance impact of about $7.55 million; projects include airport obstruction removal, courthouse borrowing, school roof/HVAC work and potential Colonial Downs‑funded housing and community center proposals.
Rodney Hathaway, New Kent County’s administrator, presented the Planning Commission’s recommended FY2027–2031 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) at the Board’s Jan. 28 work session, summarizing county projects, public‑utilities projects and departmental requests.
Hathaway told supervisors the five‑year county CIP totals $253,825,548 and that FY27 county projects total about $152,790,754; the projected impact on the county’s capital‑fund balance for FY27 is approximately $7,546,764 after excluding projects anticipated to be funded by borrowing, grants or proffers. He described the CIP as a five‑year planning document that includes facility, equipment and service items valued at $25,000 or more and with useful lives of five years or more.
Key items cited in the presentation include airport work (obstruction removal, rotating‑beacon rehabilitation and terminal/hangar roof repair), a new courthouse project proposed to be debt‑funded, Colonial Downs reserve–funded projects (including a previously proposed $500,000 housing trust item that staff stripped out pending a more detailed program), CVTA‑funded streetscape and roundabout work, a planned Fire Station No. 2 (potentially borrowed), small‑business economic incentives ($50,000), Parks & Recreation master‑plan consultant funding ($40,000), and a suite of school capital requests that included bus replacements, New Kent High School roof replacement and planning for New Kent Elementary School replacement.
For public utilities Hathaway noted the FY27 public‑utilities total is about $16,395,000 and the five‑year public‑utilities budget is roughly $53,760,000; several projects are front‑loaded in FY26–27 pending bid results. He said some projects would be funded through borrowing while others would use grants, proffers or Colonial Downs revenues, and he flagged the need to discuss borrowing options in the session’s following agenda item.
Supervisors raised routine clarifying questions: which elementary school’s playground was slated for replacement (Hathaway said he believed it was New Kent Elementary and would confirm), whether the sheriff’s proposed dispatch upgrade would resolve past 911 outages (Hathaway said the upgrade is software only and would not fix the infrastructure issues that caused prior outages), and the county’s share of airport costs (Hathaway said the fund‑balance number shows the county’s share). The CIP will be part of the budget recommendation to be presented March 9; staff projected a public hearing in May and budget adoption consideration in late May.
The board did not adopt the CIP in the work session; the presentation and follow‑up sessions are scheduled as part of the FY27 budget process.
