The Mathews County Board of Supervisors, meeting on Thursday, Oct. 16, voted unanimously to provide Mathews Volunteer Fire Department with $600,000 in funding to continue its work on revamping the former Mathews Boys and Girls Club to turn it into a new Station 1.
County Administrator Ramona Wilson said that the $600,000 will provide enough funding to last until January or February, when the completed plans should be available and the project can go out for bids. She said that Davenport and Company, the county’s financial adviser, had recommended that the money be drawn from the $5 million in interim financing the county arranged for in July 2024 to help fund infrastructure projects. Once the county issues bonds for the $5 million, she said, both the $600,000 and the $281,000 the county has already spent for engineering and design of the building will be pulled from the financing and returned to the county coffers for capital improvement projects.
The county purchased the former Boys a...