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County receives clean FY2022 audit; department heads report on operations and local issues
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Summary
Auditors gave King and Queen County an unmodified (clean) FY2022 opinion; department and constitutional officer reports covered topics including speed-warning signs, drug caseloads, tax deadlines, Medicaid 'unwinding' workload, landfill host fees, and Cooperative Extension programs.
Taylor Stover of Robinson, Farmer & Cox told the Board the county received an unmodified opinion on its FY2022 audit — the highest (clean) audit standard. Stover said the audit process went well and pointed Board members to Exhibit 9 for county financials and Exhibit 36 for school division details.
The meeting’s quarterly reports included the following highlights:
- Sheriff Balderson said the office purchased speed-warning signs to place in Walkerton, Mattaponi and on Devil’s Three Jump Road; he offered condolences for an officer shot in Amelia County and noted a local warrant was involved in that incident. Supervisor Burns congratulated Balderson on his appointment.
- Commonwealth’s Attorney Meredith Adkins said the office is seeing many drug-related cases and noted her regional appointments and participation in juvenile detention commission business.
- Commissioner of Revenue Kelly Lumpkin outlined tax and license deadlines: business licenses mailed Jan. 30 and due March 31; personal property forms mailed mid-February and due May 1; vehicle licenses due April 1; elderly & disabled exemptions due April 1. She said reassessment is progressing.
- Clerk of Circuit Court Vanessa Porter reported her office is installing courtroom video-conferencing equipment.
- Director of Social Services Betty Dougherty said parts of the county are now served by the Gloucester Mathews Care Clinic (ZIPs 23156, 23149, 23110), noted a successful holiday program and warned that the Medicaid eligibility 'unwinding' beginning April 1 will increase workload and pose administrative challenges.
- Jeff Davison of Republic Services reported 2022 tonnage (average 1,945 tons per day) and said Republic submitted $2.5 million in host fees to the county for 2022; he said he will renew efforts to reduce truck speeding near the landfill.
- Cooperative Extension’s Christina Ruszczyk-Murray previewed 4-H camp offerings, a new garden project with the high school SPED program, a new homeschool 4-H club with 34 members, and a March 17 visit by a new director of extension.
The reports provided the Board with operational information and items for follow-up as noted in staff reports and meeting minutes.