Assistant County Administrator told the Beaufort County Natural Resources Committee that staff and Finance are tracing impact-fee receipts and scheduled uses to determine whether fees must be refunded under state law requiring collected impact fees be spent within three years of their scheduled use; a full report is expected to go to full council by year-end.

County counselor Justin Wagoner briefed commissioners on the order of tomorrow's hearings — revenue-neutral-rate hearing, budget hearing, then budget vote — and staff previewed motions including an EMS fleet composition change and multiple capital and operating adjustments.

Finance staff presented a per-student midyear analysis showing a 5% reduction in basic-education per-student expenditures and multi-year increases in special education spending; capital projects show about $4.9M undesignated and roughly $5.3M in bond/state-match funds that require a public hearing to repurpose.

Council votes down bill 15325 following concerns regarding legislative precedence.

Q1 financial report shows better-than-budget performance driven by timing on revenues and expenses.