Dinwiddie supervisors approve FY2026 budget amendments, bylaws change, appointments and new firearms committee

The Dinwiddie County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 20 approved a package of administrative measures including changes to the FY2026 budget, a housekeeping bylaws amendment and multiple appointments, and voted to create a firearms safety advisory committee.

At a public hearing, finance staff described six amendments to the FY2026 budget that required the hearing because the total change exceeds 1% of the adopted budget. Finance staff said the amendments include truing up special revenue fund balances, adjusting e-summons expenditures, appropriating additional state funds for school operations and grants, transferring an additional $221,000 from the school operations fund to the school capital fund (on top of a previously planned $500,000 transfer), providing a roughly $22,000 local match for a pharmacy/drug-project grant, and appropriating $300,000 from unassigned fund balance for facility repairs and maintenance. The board voted to adopt the amendments; a roll call recorded all supervisors voting aye.

The board also approved an attorney-drafted bylaws amendment described as a clarification that appointments of committees and board/commission members are effected by resolution; the motion said the amendment would ratify any prior appointments made consistent with the new language. That resolution passed by unanimous roll call.

Separately, the board approved several appointments and reappointments: David Blaha was reappointed to the Dinwiddie County Water Authority; Mike Taylor was appointed to an unexpired term on the Planning Commission; Anthony Simmons and Larry Veil were also appointed/reappointed to the Planning Commission as noted by staff. Each appointment was approved by roll call.

The board adopted a resolution to create a Dinwiddie Firearms Safety Advisory Committee tasked to study and recommend ordinances related to backstops and shooting at night. The resolution named citizen representatives from each district and public-safety stakeholders (including the sheriff and the commonwealth's attorney or their designees). The board moved to adopt the committee and its appointments and voted unanimously to approve.

What happens next: the budget amendments become part of the county's FY2026 appropriation and the newly created advisory committee will begin its work and report back to the board per the resolution's terms.

Sources: motions, presentations and roll-call votes recorded on the Jan. 20 Dinwiddie County Board of Supervisors meeting agenda and transcript.