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Board of Commissioners — Budget Work Session

Wake County · Board of Commissioners
Monday, April 6, 2026 at 2:00 pm · Wake County Justice Center

Work session Bonds and debtBudget and appropriationsPolice and public safetyPublic facilitiesSchools and education

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What's on this agenda

This is a Wake County Board of Commissioners budget work session focused entirely on the FY2027 capital program. The agenda lists a single substantive topic: the county's capital program and the decisions the board needs to make for FY2027.

The agenda itself is a bare outline with no attached staff report, so the specific projects, dollar amounts, or funding options on the table aren't stated in the document. This is a working session for commissioners, not a public hearing with recorded votes.

Summarized from the published agenda. Read the agenda itself before acting on it.

Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

Deputy county managers walked commissioners through the county's fiscal 2027-33 capital program, a $4.8 billion plan spanning county buildings, schools, EMS stations, the jail and other public facilities. Staff detailed an EMS facility master plan that combines several stations into regional centers, put the county's detention center expansion at $175 million to $210 million in fiscal 2028, up from a prior $146 million estimate, and outlined a redevelopment of the county office park that would relocate several departments out of downtown Raleigh.

Wake County Public Schools presented a proposed $2.9 billion seven-year capital program and said it expects to ask voters for a bond in November 2026. Wake Technical Community College presented a $440.4 million capital program tied to its own bond referendum the same month. Commissioners asked staff about jail standards in other states, recidivism programs, swing space for schools under renovation and the county's property tax outlook. Staff said the county manager will present the fiscal 2027 recommended budget at the May 4 regular meeting, with adoption set for June 1.

Speaking at this meeting

Public comment runs 5:30 to 6 p.m. at the first regular meeting of the month and 2:30 to 3 p.m. at the second. Speakers get three minutes. Written comments can be submitted online between 9 a.m. and noon on the day of a regular meeting.

Wake County's own rules for public comment — check them before you rely on anything here.

Agenda items (4)

Procedural · 2Other · 1Discussion item · 1
  1. Meeting Called to Order: Chair Don Mial
    Other
  2. 1. Agenda
    Procedural
  3. 2. FY27 Capital Program and FY27 Decision-Making
    Discussion item Bonds and debtBudget and appropriationsPolice and public safetyPublic facilitiesSchools and education
    Staff walk the board through the FY2027 capital program and the decisions commissioners need to make on it; the agenda does not list specific projects or amounts.
  4. Adjourn
    Procedural

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