The Budget Administration Committee voted to send a favorable recommendation to the full council for Bill 53-25A, a $2,900,224 appropriation to pay for county road resurfacing using supplemental local income tax receipts and a state Community Crossings match.

County Auditor John Murphy told the committee the package uses $1.2 million from the general fund portion of supplemental local income tax receipts and $1,670,000 from the local income tax fund. "It's not money that we expected... they're not guaranteed," Murphy said, urging caution about treating the receipts as recurring revenue.

Guy Meadors, Infrastructure Planning and Growth director, described the county's road network as deteriorated and said long-term pavement life is shortened because the county cannot afford full pavement-preservation programs. "Out of 10 as being a perfect pacer rating, our average is 3.6," Meadors told the committee, adding that many subdivision roads have never been paved since they were platted.

The appropriation would primarily fund mill-and-fill resurfacing. Meadors said contractors under the county's 2025 mainline and subdivision paving contracts could accept change orders up to 20 percent; anything beyond that would require a separate bid. He cautioned that stone shortages this season have delayed chip-seal work and that weather and contractor schedules could push some work into 2026.

Committee members asked whether staff would provide a prioritized list of candidate roads. Meadors said the county maintains a queue of ready-to-go road projects and that staff could provide the overall queue list, but not a finalized parcel-by-parcel spending list at the committee meeting.

The committee also approved related items — a $300,000 transfer for bituminous materials (53-25B), a $1,266,232.77 appropriation for Community Crossings matching funds (53-25C) and a $145,000 transfer to cover shortfalls in garage and equipment repair accounts (53-25D). The Community Crossings dollars are a 50–50 match and, staff said, are no longer as predictable as in prior years after program reductions at the state level.

Bill 53-25A moves to the full council with a favorable recommendation.