Amherst County’s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget is slated to include 13 new public safety positions, a 3% pay raise for county employees and funding for school resource officers with hopes that a state grant will come through in May to offset some of those costs, according to the board of supervisors’ March 19 discussion.
Amherst County’s proposed fiscal year 2024-25 budget includes a proposed 3.7% pay raise for county, no planned tax increases and a surplus of roughly $987,600 in revenue over expenses.
Two former motels within a mile of each on U.S. 29 in Madison Heights are being torn down this week, a measure Amherst County officials said in a news release Tuesday are part of improvements to the county’s main business corridor.
Amherst County s public safety department seeks 13 news positions, a dozen emergency medical services/firefighters and a division manager of support services, a measure that if approved would cost nearly $962,000 in the county fiscal year 2024 budget.
A townhome development planned in Madison Heights near the intersection of U.S. 29 Business and Dillard Road proposes to increase its units from 136 to 160.