Emergency services and school needs will be among the major topics that Montgomery County supervisors plan to address when they meet Monday night.
The board will convene at 7:15 p.m. in the county government center, second floor board chambers, at 755 Roanoke St., Christiansburg.
Highlights include:
— Supervisors will vote to execute an agreement on how the members of the New River Valley Emergency Communications Authority will split the costs of acquiring a new radio system. The authority intends to acquire a P25 trunked simulcast system that will replace the existing UHF conventional analog radio systems.
Members include the county, the towns of Blacksburg and Christiansburg and Virginia Tech.
The agreement indicates that the two towns have chosen to finance part of their contributions to the project costs by issuing bonds.
Ninth District U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith and Sen. Tim Kaine last month submitted federal budget appropriations requests for more than $4.7 million for the radio project.
— Supervisors also will consider a request to provide $100,000 from the county’s unbudgeted fund balance to help pay for turnout gear and equipment for the county’s volunteer fire departments and rescue squads.
— The board will vote on appropriating nearly $1.26 million of unbudgeted income to the county school system — specifically, $758,000 for instruction and $500,000 for operations and maintenance.
The money comes from the federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, along with a family literacy/Title I grant, a homeless services grant and a school improvement grant.
Also, the board expects to get an update report on various county capital improvement projects, hold a discussion on school safety and talk about the structure of the county Public Service Authority.
You can find the meeting documents at https://go.boarddocs.com/va/montva/Board.nsf/Public.
