No changes are proposed for 2022 tax rates, with real estate to remain at 50 cents per $100 of value; $3.85 per $100 value for personal property; and $1.26 per $100 value for machinery and tools.

This meeting would also have been the usual meeting when supervisors approved their upcoming budget. However, the Virginia General Assembly ended its regular session without approving the state budget and plans to meet in special session on Monday. Supervisors will have the opportunity to review and consider approval of their budget when they meet again on May 2.

In other talks about money, supervisors also recently considered giving a bonus to their Halifax County probation and pretrial services employees.

The Virginia Commonwealth Compensation Board previously provided funds to pay monetary awards to employees funded by the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office Compensation Board.

The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services has made grant funds available to pay hazard pay monetary awards to employees of grant-funded probation and pretrial services, and supervisors believe that all employees of the county should receive the same premium.

Supervisors would like to give employees of Halifax County Probation and Trial Readiness Services a bonus of $3,000, which would cost no more than $32,295, and the other 89 estimated employees of supervisors a bonus of $2,000 $, which would cost no more than $191,617.

They plan to use federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act for bonuses estimated at 89 employees.

Also Monday night, supervisors are due to consider a request from the City of Halifax to waive building permit fees for a housing project.

Officials asked supervisors to consider waiving $1,950 in building permit fees for a block grant housing rehabilitation project with 13 locations. The actual estimated permit fees will total approximately $4,735.20.

The Supervisory Finance Committee recently reviewed the application, but was unsure whether to approve the application due to the time and resources the county must devote to these building permits.

The committee noted that county staff would still have to inspect construction activities multiple times at each site using county resources, even if they waive permit fees. As they work to get county departments as close to self-sufficiency as possible, members of the finance committee are concerned about the request as it is not a direct project County.

The City of Halifax is partnering with others to complete the Banister Town site’s targeted housing rehabilitation project.

Supervisors are also prepared to consider a conditional use license that would authorize Blue Chips Racing Resorts, LLC. to provide overnight camping seven days a week at Virginia International Raceway. Their current CUP limits overnight camping to Friday and Saturday nights and only during public access events.

This consideration follows a public hearing into the matter which was held jointly by the Supervisors and the Halifax County Planning Commission. No one objected to the hearing, and the commission recommended supervisors approve the permit application with 16 site conditions.

A recommendation from the Supervisory Broadband Committee is also up for consideration on Monday for the board to consider asking staff to continue tobacco and VAT funding that has been allocated to wireless projects to be converted into wireless projects. optical fiber.

Three presentations are also scheduled for Monday evening, one by Beth Englehorn, executive director of Southside Behavioral Health, and another by Kathy Andrews, director of social services.

Jay Craddock of the Virginia Department of Transportation is also expected to present the monthly VDOT report.

Craddock should provide the six-year plan and available funds. There is approximately $254,716 available to add to the unpaved road list, which equates to approximately 1.7 miles on an average rustic rural project.

Following Craddock’s presentation, supervisors are to hold a public hearing on the Halifax County VDOT’s six-year plan.