May 15, 2025: Nottoway County Supervisors to adopt budget, receive many reports
The fourth and final newsletter this week!
Since doing this newsletter I have a little bit of a sense of the rhythm of which localities have meetings during which time of the month. We’re now up to Ides of May and the middle of the month usually means Nottoway County.
As this is the last edition of the week, this is the last time there will be an opportunity to post links to stories from other localities so reading material will be open to all 24 localities plus whatever else turns up of interest.
Nottoway County Supervisors to adopt FY2026 budget
The five member Nottoway County Board of Supervisors meets at 7 p.m. in the Nottoway County District Courtroom. That’s at 328 W. Courthouse Road in Nottoway. (agenda packet)
The first major item on the agenda is a public hearing on the Virginia Department of Transportation’s draft Secondary Six-Year Plan that determines what roads will be paved in the next several years.
There will be a series of reports from a dozen departments ranging from the Virginia Department of Transportation to Fort Barfoot.
Then there will be reports from constitutional officers.
Under unfinished business there will be discussions on the animal shelter, dispatching, broadband, the public safety radio project, and committee reports.
Here’s some of what I learned:
The Nottoway Planning Commission voted unanimously on April 15 to recommend denial of amendments to the county’s solar ordinance. They’ll try again with three new amendments on May 20. Supervisors will consider the amendments at the June meeting. Learn more about this here.
Work is underway on construction of the new animal shelter in Nottoway County. Final completion is set for November 19. The construction contract is for just over $2.1 million. (learn more)
There were 28,237 calls for service in Nottoway County in 2024. Of these, 16,063 came from the police departments in the towns of Blackstone, Burkeville, and Crewe. (see details here)
In regional water supply plan news, Brunswick County has requested to be transferred from the Chowan River 1 planning unit to the Roanoke River 3 planning unit. (learn more)
Then there will be a discussion on the FY2026 budget. Take a look at the details in the image below and the rest of it begins here.
One story that I’d like to read is one that examines this budget’s approach to Fire and EMS services. It appears that the county will put a portion of real estate and personal property tax revenue toward that purpose. The FY26 budget projects $875,000 from the real estate tax and $598,500 from the personal property tax. If I had time, I’d seek out an answer but I have to get on to stories in Charlottesville.
The agenda had ten items of correspondence ranging from the Commonwealth Regional Council to Dominion Energy.
Then there is a closed session. This will be to discuss acquisition or disposition of property near Fort Barfoot.
“Located near Blackstone, Fort Barfoot has more than 225 full-time state and federal employees provide support to tenant and training units on approximately 41,000 acres featuring a combination of open and wooded terrain maneuver areas and 21 ranges capable of supporting almost any weapons system in the U.S. Army inventory with barracks to support more than 5,000 personnel as well as an Army airfield operation,” reads the installation’s website.
The agenda does not say if they will come back from a closed meeting or not.
Reading material:
BAR will consider request to demolish one of Charlottesville’s oldest houses, Sean Tubbs, C-Ville Weekly, May 13, 2025
Rescue crews locate body of missing Albemarle boy after flooding in area, Anastasiia Carrier, Charlottesville Tomorrow, May 14, 2025
Danville’s first economic impact report shows growth and factors behind success, Makayla Shelton, WDBJ-7 News, May 14, 2025
Supervisors learn $1.5 million in back taxes collected, Heather Michon, Fluvanna Review, May 15, 2025
‘Absolute shock’ at Charlottesville City Schools over FEI retraction, Hannah Davis-Reid, VPM News, May 14, 2025
‘No more waiting’: Hanover County approves new school boundary plan to address overcrowding, Sahara Sriraman, 8 News WRIC, May 14, 2025
Federal funding for libraries on the chopping block, Page H. Gifford, Fluvanna Review. May 15, 2025
It’s Fort Barfoot. Not Pickett.