Boiling Spring Lakes to vote on amending FY 2024–25 budget at upcoming meeting
BOILING SPRING LAKES, NC (WWAY) — Boiling Spring Lakes leaders plan to make a special amendment to its current budget after receiving funds from FEMA related to damages caused by Potential Tropical Cyclone 8.
City Finance Director Brandon Stevens said the amendment will place the funds, which total more than $ 240,000, in the budget that ended on Monday.
“This is strictly for July 1st of 24 to June 30th, 25,” Stevens said. “So this last day of this budget, it’s for that purpose. There’s no effect on anything for the fiscal year 2026 budget.”
While the city has received funds to help with a major storm, a smaller one has caused a major delay to one of its dams.
Work on the Pine Lake Dam, located along Boiling Spring Road, has been halted after the company in charge of building it says the structure’s elevation is wrong.
According to the city’s mayor, Jeff Winecoff, the problem was discovered several weeks ago after more than 3 inches of rain fell within an hour, sending water flowing over the dam.
Resident Laurie Watts said this means she and many other people will continue to rely on the detour around the work.
“Not surprised at all, actually I expected it, I’ve been expecting it,” Watts said. “We’ve been on this detour, it’ll be two years in August. No way did I think we’d actually make that date with this project. And it’s a long way around to get just over there. And we have a lot of friends and stuff that we used to go back and forth with and now it’s just, it feels like 100 miles and after almost two years, we’re all sick of it.”
Winecoof said the delay is tough to deal with, as Boiling Spring Road was due to open sometime soon.
“My personal reaction was “Here we go again” and frustration,” Winecoff said. “I mean, I understand we’ve been waiting on that road for over a year and a half. There’s always something gonna go on. You cross your fingers and hope everything’s good and you’ll be able to move forward, but there’s these events where something goes wrong.”
Despite the delay, Watts said she is glad the mistake was caught before work was completed.
“It’s gonna make a big mess a whole lot longer. I mean, it’s been a long time, nobody wants to do this but if they’re actually gonna put those lakes back, they need to make sure that dam is right.”
Winecoff said an engineer for the company will speak about what the next steps will be at the city’s meeting on July 8th, with the budget amendment expected to be voted on at that meeting as well.
