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Surry County adopts budget amendment and approves multiple capital project ordinances totaling about $13 million
Summary
At its March 2 meeting, the Surry County Board of Commissioners approved Budget Amendment #12 for FY2025‑26 and adopted or amended several capital project and grant ordinances, including SCIF-funded watershed and Bean Shoals projects and school capital improvements.
The Surry County Board of Commissioners approved Budget Amendment #12 for FY2025‑26 and adopted several capital project and grant ordinances during its March 2, 2026 meeting in Dobson.
County Manager Chris Knopf presented the consent agenda, which included the budget amendment and a set of capital project and grant ordinances. The Board approved the consent agenda on a motion by Commissioner Melissa Hiatt, seconded by Commissioner Mark Marion; the motion carried unanimously.
The budget amendment makes a series of line‑item adjustments across the General Fund and related grant project funds, including modest increases for health department supplies and cancer‑control wage accounts, a decrease to a transfer into a water/sewer incentive account, and updates to revenue lines. The minutes record the board’s approval of Budget Amendment #12 for FY2025‑26.
As part of the consent agenda the Board adopted or amended multiple capital project ordinances: - SCC Watershed SCIF grant project ordinance amendment: authorizes stream restoration and stabilization work within Surry County and appropriates total revenues and expenditures of $6,022,489 for the project under the NC State Budget Directed SCIF grants. - Bean Shoals SCIF grant project ordinance amendment: funds restoration work and ADA improvements at the Bean Shoals Trail at Pilot Mountain State Park with a total appropriation of $4,021,248. - Mount Airy City Schools press box capital project ordinance: adopts a project budget of $450,000 for design and construction, funded by Mount Airy City Schools capital outlay and the Public School Building Capital (Lottery) fund. - Altec Industries building reuse grant project ordinance: authorizes $500,000 in project funds, including a $475,000 NC Department of Commerce grant and $25,000 county match, to improve infrastructure and support the creation of 79 committed jobs. - Mount Airy City Schools CTE renovations capital project amendment #2: records total project costs of $1,975,437 with funding from the Needs Based School Capital Fund, a General Fund lottery transfer, and a local match.
The ordinances and amendments were adopted as presented in the meeting minutes; text in the minutes indicates several were previously adopted and were amended at this meeting (for example, the SCC Watershed and Bean Shoals ordinances note prior adoption dates and an amendment on March 2, 2026). The minutes direct the Finance Officer to provide quarterly financial reports on those projects.
Authorities referenced in the ordinances include Section 13.2 of Chapter 159 of the General Statutes of North Carolina (authorizing capital project ordinances) and citations to the NC State Budget Directed SCIF grants (SL2021‑180, as amended by SL2021‑189). The Board’s approval of these items was unanimous as recorded in the minutes.
The Board also approved routine consent items authorizing staff to apply for specified public safety grants and approved personnel reclassification requests; these items were recorded as part of the consent agenda.
The Board recessed to other business after the approvals and later entered closed session for legal and personnel matters before adjourning at 8:24 p.m.
