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Supervisors advance committee recommendations: HSA/FSA accounts, six‑year plan public hearing, budget hearings scheduled
Summary
Committees recommended offering HSA/FSA accounts for employees (county to subsidize small fees), amendments to the six‑year transportation plan with prioritized routes, payment of fire department invoices, fourth quarter appropriations, and scheduling public hearings on real estate tax and utility rate changes for May.
Committee chairs summarized several recommendations: the insurance committee recommended authorizing HSA and FSA accounts with the county absorbing small account fees; the transportation committee recommended amendments to the secondary six‑year plan and listed prioritized routes (Carriage Road, Mill Dam Road, Haikle/Vail Lake Road, Old Rosebrook Road, Rosenbald Hollow, Pew Mountain, Tilson Hollow); and the budget committee recommended payment of a roughly $15,009.51 invoice for a volunteer fire department door replacement and approval of fourth quarter appropriations requests totaling in the tens of millions across county and school funds.
The budget chair warned of a projected FY‑27 budget shortfall approaching $2.5 million and recommended the board schedule public hearings on proposed real estate tax increases, water/sewer utility rate increases and solid waste rate changes; the board then scheduled those hearings for May (draft budget presentation planned for May 14 with hearings on May 21). Committee recommendations on appropriations were presented as motions and forwarded to the full board for approval; several were adopted as committee recommendations during the meeting.
Board members emphasized the need to explore revenue options and to avoid short‑term patching of capital needs, advising coordination with VDOT and careful prioritization of road safety improvements.
