Warren County Board of Supervisors Budget Work Session Agendas and Video Links

Below, chronologically, are agenda cover sheets and video links to Warren County Board of Supervisor 2024 Budget work sessions or meeting discussions for Fiscal Year 2024/25. Those meeting agendas begin with outside agencies and start to include County departmental requests on February 8 and 13. See how the supervisors responded to what they heard from outside agencies other than Samuels Public Library, as those agencies presented their projected coming fiscal year budgetary needs and financial strategies to cover operations and expenses on services provided to county citizens. Complete agenda packets with details from those outside agencies and departmental budget summaries and requests are also available through the County website.

Of interest to readers, among others, might be the budget presentations and subsequent supervisors’ questions-and-answer periods with the two outside agencies that preceded Samuels Public Library officials to the podium on January 30. Those were the Blue Ridge Arts Council and the Humane Society of Warren County. Presenters from both were queried as to fundraising strategies and intake amounts versus the requests to the County for tax-supported operational revenues.

The Blue Ridge Arts Council budget presentation of 22-year Arts Council member Kym Crump begins at the January 30 video mark of 43:37, with questions beginning at the 45:39 mark. Questions specific to fundraising begin at the 46:41 mark, continuing to just past the 48:00-minute mark.

The Humane Society of Warren County budget presentation of new Director Kayla Wines starts at the 50:47 video mark, ending at the 55:00 minute mark where questioning begins, continuing to the 1:04:07 mark, with Samuels Library officials Melody Hotek and Eileen Grady successively stepping to the podium next.

The Warren County Government Center has been the scene of a flurry of Fiscal Year-2025 outside agency and departmental budget presentation activity since the turn of the new year. Royal Examiner File Photo

January 4, 2024:

6:00 PM – Budget Work Session and Presentations

1. Access Independence
2. Blue Ridge Opportunities
3. House of Hope
4. Health Department

Video LINK: https://warrencountyva.new.swagit.com/videos/292758

January 9, 2024:

6:00 PM – Budget Work Session

1. Budget Presentation – Old Dominion ASAP (Alcohol Safety Action Program)

(B. Budget Presentation – Blue Ridge Arts Council – Removed due to illness)

1. Budget Presentation – Northern VA 4-H
2. Budget Presentation – Lord Fairfax Soil and Water
3. Budget Presentation – Laurel Center
4. Budget Presentation – Winchester Public Defender

Video LINK: https://warrencountyva.new.swagit.com/videos/294202

January 30, 2024:

5:00 PM – Work Session

1. Employee Service Awards

(AA. VDOT report – Added to agenda at meeting’s outset)

1. Public Works – Roads & 6-Year Comprehensive Plan Update
2. Concern Hotline – Budget Presentation
3. Friends of the Shenandoah River – Budget Presentation: (Dropped from agenda due to illness of scheduled presenter)
4. Blue Ridge Arts Council – Budget Presentation
5. Humane Society – Budget Presentation (E and F were reversed from the agenda cover sheet order, apparently due to availability of presenters)
6. Samuel’s Public Library FY 24 Mid-Year Performance Measures
7. Samuel’s Public Library – Budget Presentation

Video LINK: https://warrencountyva.new.swagit.com/videos/296145

February 8, 2024:

5:00 PM – Work Session

1. Virginia Regional Transit – Budget Request
2. Parks and Recreation – Fee Schedule
3. Parks and Recreation – Budget Request
4. Airport/Public Works/Sanitary Districts – Budget Request

Video LINK: https://warrencountyva.new.swagit.com/videos/296986

February 13, 2024:

5:00 PM – Meeting

1. Clerk of Circuit Court/Law Library – Budget Request – Angie Moore
2. Commonwealth’s Attorney – Budget Request – John Bell
3. Elections – Budget Request – Matt Reisinger
4. Information Technology – Budget Request – Todd Jones
5. Department of Social Services – Budget Request – Jon Martz

Video LINK: https://warrencountyva.new.swagit.com/videos/297329

February 15, 2024:

5:00 PM – Work Session

1. Commissioner of Revenue – Budget Request
2. Treasurer – Budget Request
3. Department of Economic Development & Tourism – Budget Request
4. Sheriff’s Office & E-911 – Budget Request

Video LINK: https://warrencountyva.new.swagit.com/videos/297600