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Board reviews $930,540 budget amendment and backs moral‑obligation for town water project
Summary
County staff presented Budget Amendment No. 4 adding $930,540 to the budget; the board also recommended a moral‑obligation pledge and authorization for county execution of documents for a roughly $6 million town water project, both approved as committee recommendations.
County administrator Sean Hunt summarized budget amendment number 4, which increases the budget by $930,540 to a total amended budget of $142,901,101, and attributed most of the changes to new grant receipts and minor transfers.
The budget committee also reported a request from a town manager for the county to consider a moral‑obligation pledge connected to a roughly $6,000,000 water project expected to be funded through the Virginia Department of Health loan/grant program (committee minutes record the town manager's name as given in the packet). Committee members noted that the county would not be liable for the debt if the town met its commitments; the committee recommended approval to authorize the county administrator to execute documentation and the board approved the recommendation unanimously.
Board members questioned the town's fiscal readiness and asked staff for additional information; the board accepted the committee recommendations and will rely on packet documentation for details that staff can provide.
