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Nash County commissioners approve FY27 budget allocations, vehicle purchases and multiple budget amendments
Summary
The Nash County Board of Commissioners approved several FY27 budget items June 1, 2026, including funding for Sheriff vehicles, detention center food and medical services, multiple capital project amendments and eleven budget amendments covering services from foster care to inmate medical costs.
The Nash County Board of Commissioners approved a series of FY27 budget allocations and ordinance amendments at its June 1 meeting, including support for the Sheriff's request for additional vehicles and multiple project budget updates.
County Manager Stacie Shatzer presented FY27 items and the board voted to support the Sheriff's request for 18 vehicles and to add $325,000 to the Capital Improvement Program to cover five additional vehicles at an estimated $65,000 each. The board also accepted staff recommendations of $550,000 for Detention Center food and provisions and $800,000 for Detention Center inmate medical expenses.
The meeting recorded both consensus and roll-call votes for several items. The motion to support the Sheriff's vehicle request was moved by Commissioner J. Wayne Outlaw and seconded by Commissioner Freddy Howell; the motion passed with Commissioner Robbie B. Davis recorded as voting "no." On the Detention Center inmate medical recommendation the board recorded individual yes/no votes before approving the $800,000 allocation.
The board approved a $200,000 CIP addition for preliminary engineering, permits and cost estimating for an EMS Station and the Miracle Park projects. It also agreed to add $50,000 to the FY27 EMS rent line item ($9.00 per square foot with an annual review based on the cost-of-living index) after an amendment to raise the rate to $10.45 per square foot with an automatic 2% yearly increase was denied.
Finance Director Nikki Stanton presented eleven budget amendments that the board approved. Those amendments included transfers between shell building projects, reclassification of funds for the high-speed internet project, surplus equipment revenue applied to solid waste repairs, additional fines-and-forfeiture distributions for client services, budgeting cell tower review fees (no county funds required), fund balance allocations to cover foster care payments (monthly payments reported as 124% higher than budgeted), Sheriff Department professional services and vehicle repairs, inmate medical and meal expenditures, Health Department program vehicle purchases using health reserve funds (no county funds required), and a fund-balance amendment of $1,069,482 to cover multiple salary and benefits adjustments across departments including merit pay and EMS salary lines.
The board also adopted project ordinance amendments presented by the finance office, including a Community Development Block Grant — Coronavirus (CDBG-CV) project budget ordinance amendment and a Lead Service Line Replacement inventory project ordinance.
The board scheduled a public hearing on the Recommended FY27 Nash County Budget during the meeting and then adjourned that public hearing after public comments.
Next steps: the budget amendments and project ordinances approved on June 1 will be incorporated into FY27 budget documents, and the board will proceed with the public hearing and any required follow-up steps listed in adopted ordinances and resolutions.
