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Bland County supervisors amend FY22 budget with $210,000 in American Recovery Funds; set RIFA hearing and redistricting date
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Summary
At its Oct. 26, 2021 meeting the Bland County Board of Supervisors approved a FY22 amendment moving $210,000 of American Recovery Funds into capital improvements, authorized advertisement for a Regional Industrial Facilities Authority public hearing with Smyth County, approved $809,712.83 in school requisitions via consent agenda, and recessed to a Nov. 15 redistricting hearing.
The Bland County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Oct. 26 to amend its FY22 budget to allocate $210,000 of American Recovery Funds to Fund 100 for capital improvements.
The action, proposed by Supervisor Adam Kidd and seconded by Supervisor Karen Hodock, passed on a unanimous roll-call vote by the three-board-member quorum: Kidd, Hodock and Chairman Stephen Kelley. The amendment redirects federal recovery dollars into the county’s improvements fund for FY22.
The vote came among a series of largely procedural approvals taken at the monthly meeting at the Bland County Courthouse. The board approved a consent agenda that included minutes from Sept. 28, 2021; payroll disbursements of $115,215.01 (Sept. 30) and $107,717.69 (Oct. 15); vendor bills of $96,312.68 for September and $322,846.83 for October; departmental reports; an appropriation of $13,590.52 in local allotment for Social Services; and the Bland County School Board’s November 2021 requisition of $809,712.83.
Also during the meeting, the board voted to advertise a public hearing on forming a Regional Industrial Facilities Authority (RIFA) with Smyth County, a step that would open the proposal to public comment. That motion was moved by Kidd and seconded by Hodock and carried unanimously.
Supervisor Karen Hodock moved — and Adam Kidd seconded — an appropriation of $500 from the supervisors’ Community Impact Funds to the Wytheville-Wythe-Bland Chamber of Commerce’s Manufacturing Excellence Training Program. The $500 total was to be divided equally among the three supervisors’ community funds; the motion passed unanimously.
There were no public comments recorded during the meeting. Chairman Stephen Kelley recessed the session to convene a public hearing on the county’s redistricting plan at 5 p.m. Nov. 15, 2021 at the Bland County Courthouse.
The meeting record lists Dr. Eric Workman as county administrator, Paul Cassell as county attorney and Linda Miller as board secretary; Randy Johnson was noted as absent. The board’s votes during the session were unanimous where roll-call votes were recorded.
Votes at a glance: • Approve Oct. 26 agenda — Moved: Adam Kidd; Second: Karen Hodock; Outcome: approved (Kidd, Hodock, Kelley — unanimous). • Consent agenda (minutes, payroll, bills, reports, Social Services $13,590.52 appropriation, School Board requisition $809,712.83) — Moved: Adam Kidd; Second: Karen Hodock; Outcome: approved (unanimous). • Adopt holiday/meeting calendar amendments — Moved: Adam Kidd; Second: Karen Hodock; Outcome: approved (unanimous). • FY22 budget amendment (allocate $210,000 American Recovery Funds to Fund 100: Improvements) — Moved: Adam Kidd; Second: Karen Hodock; Outcome: approved (unanimous). • Advertise public hearing for RIFA with Smyth County — Moved: Adam Kidd; Second: Karen Hodock; Outcome: approved (unanimous). • Appropriate $500 to Wytheville-Wythe-Bland Chamber Manufacturing Excellence Training Program (divided equally among supervisors’ community impact funds) — Moved: Karen Hodock; Second: Adam Kidd; Outcome: approved (unanimous).
The board recessed to the redistricting public hearing scheduled for Nov. 15, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. at the Bland County Courthouse.