County Receives 5 More FY-27 Budget Overviews Prior to Closed Meeting on Administrator Search & Business Expansion

The Warren County Board of Supervisors Fiscal-Year 2027 Budget Work Session on Tuesday, March 10th, featured five items listed below. The public budget work session discussion began at 5 p.m., followed by a Closed Session convened around 6 p.m. rather than the original 5 p.m. slot to accommodate County Attorney Jason Ham’s availability in closed session.

The topics of the Closed Session described in the motion to adjourn into it were, first: “… the discussion or consideration of the assignment, appointment, promotion, performance, demotion, salaries, or resignation of a specific public officer of the public body. The subject matter is the County Administrator position.”

Readers will recall that Dr. David Martin is currently serving as Interim County Administrator after having recently served as Interim County Public Schools Director. With Martin generally well thought of throughout the county governmental community, one can only guess at what point this behind-closed-doors conversation indicated the supervisors are in motion toward finding a permanent replacement for the retired Administrator Ed Daley.

The supervisors continue to absorb information on the coming Fiscal-Year 2027 Budget requests, including the reasons for those requests. Below, Interim County Administrator Dr. David Martin provided an overview of the budget process to date. Royal Examiner Photos Roger Bianchini

As to the second Closed Session topic, the motion read: “I further move the Board enter into a closed meeting under the provisions of Section 2.2-3711(A)(5) of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act for the discussion concerning a prospective business or industry or expansion of an existing business or industry where no previous announcement has been made of the business’ or industry’s interest in locating or expanding its facilities in the community. The properties are located at 0 Winchester Road and identified on Tax Map IDs: 12N–1, 12N–2, 12–3.”

Below are the agenda packet summaries of the budget presentations in the order they were scheduled, if not presented. Item C, Personnel Requests, opened the work session due to the absence of an insurance contractor, the March & McLennan representative. That was likely due to the late move of the work session to 5 p.m. from its originally scheduled 6 p.m. start.

Also, it may be noted that all the below presentation summaries include the “COST & FINANCING: Not Applicable (N/A)” and “PROPOSED OR SUGGESTED MOTION: None Required for Work Session Discussion” shown below with the first topic only.

Budget Work Session 

1. Presentation – March & McLennan Insurance Agency LLC – (begins at 1:02:48 video mark)

EXPLANATION & SUMMARY: Representatives from McGriff Insurance Services LLC will present an insurance renewal overview to the Board of Supervisors.

COST & FINANCING: N/A

PROPOSED OR SUGGESTED MOTION: None Required for Work Session Discussion

1. Discussion – FY 2027 Personnel Requests – (begins at the 01:30 video mark, with David Beahm joining at 08:15 video mark and Sheriff Crystal Cline at 18:55 mark)

SUBMITTED BY: Kayla Darr, Human Resources Manager

EXPLANATION & SUMMARY: The Department of Human Resources will present the FY 2027 personnel requests to the Board of Supervisors.

County Building Official David Beahm joins Human Resources Manager Kayla Darr at the podium during Personnel Requests as other staffers wait their turn in the back of the room. Below, Sheriff Crystal Cline joined Dr. Martin at the Admin staff table to expand on her department’s personnel requests, including advancement criteria and training processes.

1. Discussion – Capital Improvement Plan – (begins at 34:46 video mark)

SUBMITTED BY: Jane Meadows, Deputy County Administrator

EXPLANATION & SUMMARY: The Deputy County Administrator will present the FY 2027 Capital Improvement Plan to the Board of Supervisors.

It may be noted that upon the arrival of the March & McLennan Insurance Agency representative, he was allowed to make his presentation at the conclusion of the Capital Improvements presentation. As noted above, the insurance contractor presentation began at the 1:02:48 video mark.

1. Discussion – Asset Replacement – (begins at 01:18:50 video mark)

SUBMITTED BY: Jane Meadows, Deputy County Administrator

EXPLANATION & SUMMARY: The Deputy County Administrator will present the FY 2027 Asset Replacement Plan to the Board of Supervisors.

County staffers prepare for their contributions to departmental FY-27 budget reports prior to the start of March 10th work session.

1. Discussion – FY 2027 Budget Outlook – (begins at 01:30:39 video mark)

SUBMITTED BY David Martin, Interim County Administrator

EXPLANATION & SUMMARY: The Interim County Administrator will discuss the current FY 2027 Budget outlook and overview to the Board of Supervisors.

Interim County Administrator Dr. David Martin presented the work session’s final item, the FY 2027 “Budget Outlook” overview. Below, the 2 cover sheets to the outline of his presentation.

See full details from the above presentations in the Board of Supervisors work session video at the above-cited time sequences.