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Finance committee approves repeated drug-testing grant, accepts school construction award; declines to recommend $25,000 contingency transfer

City of Lynchburg Finance Committee and City Council (work session) · January 29, 2026
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Summary

Committee approved a $45,590 Supreme Court grant for statewide drug testing in the adult recovery court and accepted a $1.35 million school construction assistance grant for EC Glass and Dunbar. Members chose not to make a committee recommendation on a procedural $25,000 transfer into the reserve for contingencies and left that matter for full council.

Taylor, representing the adult recovery court, requested appropriation of a one-year Supreme Court of Virginia grant for $45,590 to expand lab drug testing and pay supplies and contracted lab work with Aber Health. "It will support our program, to enhance drug testing in order to comply with state and national drug testing best practice standards," Taylor said. Committee members confirmed this is a repeat…

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