five by saying yeah or yes Jim Lovelace
yes levan Wallace yes all right yes
Davey D yes Steve Brady yes boys
Christian yes
Rebecca death ma'am you have approval to
return to your regular session thank you
all right the first thing we have now is
our invocation and remain standing for
the pledge please thank you dear Lord
for giving us another day thank you for
the many blessings that you've bestowed
upon us please God help us through this
trying time watch over the folks of our
candy that we are not sick and their
life ones are not sick help us to do the
business of the county to the best of
our knowledge in Jesus name
all right their first item is the
approval of the agenda do I have a
motion so moved madam chair a second
second team all right roll call mr.
Christian yeah you approve the agenda
okay Karl yes Lou yes
David yes Steve yes Tim yes yes approval
of energy and tonight the first item is
the public hearing for a Russell County
fiscal year budget 2021 this was
approved at our January meeting is that
our schedule we did have one meeting
with all the county agencies of our
constitutional officers unfortunately we
have in all board members have been
given the budget it has not changed any
from last year simply because the
governor rescinded what he had stated so
we are right back where we have been at
this time we'll open it up to the public
if anyone is in the lobby that wants to
speak on air budget
all right sing none will close the veg
the public hearing on air budget at this
time thank you Rick since no one's no
one no one's here would it be in comedy
if you call me and see any Colleen
not dime question okay it now when the
legislature gets back in is this likely
to change is the governor likely
changers he adamantly said this is it
this is what's going to be for our
budget know our budget budget so
basically we're looking at last year's
budget is where we're at right now was
that likely to change after this you
know after we go back to work and the
governor to looks at this and that I
mean we're running out of time
absolutely and and it's a good question
the budget committee rusticana budget
committee had already had a budget
almost complete at the time and what the
governor had did after the incident
started he went back to the table with
the legislators to look at the budget so
every number that had been given to us
up to this date had been reversed or
terminated and he the ones that have
been submitted again since the
legislation last week we've only gotten
a couple of the numbers we do not have
all the numbers from the governor from
through the budget yet to be able to go
final we will take those numbers that he
has rearranged and redone because of the
COBE the incident in this will come into
the budget this first public hearing was
an opportunity for the Russell County
citizens to be able to speak on what
their needs was not set the budget or
set the template as the treasurer
have you all seen a variance and
reduction in revenue coming into the
county we have seen a variance of the
revenue coming in because one of the
methods that we're using right now you
can only you can pay online through the
phone or through the Dropbox
the revenue is of course the sales tax
has dropped the other ones have dropped
even the state as has also slowed down
on some of their payments so right now
with Russell County maintaining what it
has in the wave we have financially
we're taking it week by week how will
the federal stimulus if it comes down to
municipalities and counties how will
that impact will it give you have you
heard from from that resource as far as
what that stimulus could be and how
merged this is something that it's based
on the revenue lost because I mean it's
like we're gonna catch-22 here trying to
pass a budget you don't know all these
variances of what you're gonna lose in
the fun
can we make a projection I would imagine
some of those revenues state revenues
are in jeopardy or two so we really we
we don't know we we can't put it really
a put a budget together until the
governor gives us some firm numbers
surely that is a shortly you know tax
amount that you received last year this
year with this been struck down surely
there's a shortfall in comparison last
year's are this point now and it is now
currently what we see coming through
there's forty three different line items
that come through in state and grant and
actually those sales tax dollars service
dollars let me ask you one more question
from this perspective on the machining
tool if you have businesses that are
shut down our labor required as a
shutdown operational business are they
required to pay machining tool tags
I mean are any taxes related to
equipment tax or anything like that I
mean or is that just that many months
that they don't consider personal
property one of the thing about
machining tool and what we're seeing it
is now on the machined into luckily Rosa
counties being in very fortunate the big
companies that are here that within the
county are still operating they did
North the Grumman is still there the CG
is the pollak a stainless officials are
still working Jin is still work
these are still working these are the
big top pair
the machine into they are still
operating the tax is not personal
property there's still that still it's
gonna be tough on all right air next
item is the new business approval of
their minutes it's for April 6 which was
their regular board meeting do I have a
motion to approve those minutes somebody
madam chair all right all those in favor
for us yes Carl yes
yes David yes Steve yes tan yes Rebecca
yes next one is their minutes of the
special called April 28th which was the
approval of our 21st century grants to
the school in the county do I have a
motion to approve that so move Carl
all right all those in favor Oris yes
Carl yes whoo yes David yes Dave yes Tim
yes yes I am next item is approval of
our expenditures for payment do I have a
motion to pay our bills make motion we
approve our bills Dave do we have a
second second
all right all those in favor let's start
with a roll call Oris Carl yes Blaine
yes David yes Dave yes
damn yes Rebecca yes no power bills
citizens comment period this is Russell
County citizens can comment by Collin
found it is just like being at here at a
board meeting I say
Kelly McBride with the Public Library so
if you state your name your concern and
Kelly go ahead it's you the floor is
yours
okay wait a minute
wait
can you hear them yes go ahead
Kelly McBride down for Russell County
Public Library resident Castlewood
Virginia my question or concern about
the budget is we're sort of rolling with
a level funding at this point because as
you said we don't know but based on the
loss of tax revenue should we assume
that we will be getting less money than
we did last year I'm just I mean I've
looked at the tax revenue projections
and you know don't see how we are likely
to not lose something and I just
wondered so that we can you know as we
plan in the library board goes forward
with their you know planning well we're
going to hope for the best Kelly but we
we really honestly can't give you an
answer sorry Thank You citizens comment
here no one's calling you know no other
constitutional officers
you you may very well decide but my
advice would be go ahead and set the
public hearing for that decide if you
want that emergency ordinance to
continue because social distancing
restriction so much that you know we
would have be able to have a normal
crowd in here so I would definitely
still set a public hearing on that and
then you can decide at that time if you
want to continue it the ordinance I've
started in April for emergency all right
yes yes yes yes do I have a motion to
approve this contract service some
momentum to stay a second okay I'll give
that David have next all right all those
in favor of this Oris yes Carl yes yes
David yes yes yes
we'll just table it - you can review it
the until our June meeting all right
thank you I feel pretty good about this
one but I know it takes a long time to
go through and pretty much anytime you
read it you're going to find something I
would like so you'd like a Bolivian also
till June and if anybody has any
suggestions or comments please don't
hesitate to come Katie and let her know
how you feel about it thank you
next we have County administrators
reports and requests thank you madam
chair
first up on the Canon administrative
reports and request is the Russell
County Linfield number 258 515 gram
water / gas closures these are brand
what these are the well and gas probes
abandonment that we had at land field
that we were cutting service fee for
testing the engineering firm and based
off the age of the land field and the
amount of gas and that we were obtaining
from it if it was more beneficial and
cost-effective to close these wells down
so we worked with the cumin Plateau
Waste Management Authority with the land
field and had these these gas wells
closed
that way we can dish discontinued the
annual cost in the maintenance in the
regulatory requirements on these wells
as the board can see being the closure
report which includes all the gas wells
both on number 258 and 515 that means
that we have closed out all of our gas
wells at the landfill at this point
next on the can administrate request is
the coming Plateau planning grant for
the Cleveland sewer treatment plan
upgrade yes we will need a motion home
again this is a grant for the town of
Cleveland to be able to do a feasibility
and the engineering studied under the
current condition of the Cleveland sewer
treatment plant County Cleveland and
this is the county will only be a
financial producer illness it is it's
still within the town of Cleveland's
responsibility so and the Cumberland
Plateau planning district will be an
administrator I need a motion for the
planning grant and the engineering study
at the for the town and Cleveland sewer
treatment plan
do we have a motion for this ma'am
cherry I'd like to make motion we
approve this planning grant pending the
final legal Reviva approval by our
counsel
all those in favor force yes Carl yes
lady we didn't have discussion I'm sorry
I'm sorry dear you want discussion I'm
sorry go ahead
I apologize for not catching that before
you started the vote but I do basically
I just wanted the opportunity to tell
the public that there are this is the
state of an emergency so to speak for
the town of Cleveland and Roth sewage is
flowing into the Clinch River and it is
going to be quite an expensive little
adventure if it's determined but my
point that I'm making right now
concerning this vote is I would rather
see I would rather see the documentation
before the planning grant is submitted
so I'm gonna vote no one that no David
yes yes
yes yes planning great thank you madam
chair next on account administrator
request is the Virginia detect Virginia
Tech this is through the community
designed assistance center yes is a
letter confirmation for the US
Environmental Protection Agency the EPA
brownsfield assessment grant it says to
the Russell County Board of Supervisors
please accept this letter as
confirmation that the Russell County
Board of Supervisors understands that
the Community Design Assistance Center
at Virginia Tech received a grant from
the US Environmental Protection Agency
brownfields assessment grant program to
assess communities in Southwest Virginia
assess and develop conceptual designs
for the redevelopment of potential
contaminated sites as a community
elected to receive these services we
understand that there is no charge for
the services and no catch cash match or
in-kind requirement on part of the
Russell County Board of Supervisors we
also understand that our obligation will
be to establish a stakeholder committee
compromised of the appropriate officials
that will be provide input to help to
develop design concept and serve as a
voice for the community this is a grant
that will be looking at the disposal
waste area that's in a brownfield area
the land that we're looking at in the to
the Dane area to replace the Hamlin try
site so I need a letter I need an
approval a motion for the acceptance of
this grant again there is no ink kind
there's no match and it's 100% grant
through the Virginia Tech Community
Design Assistance Center motion to
approve the Virginia Tech Community
Design assistance center accepting the
proposal presented do we have a second
second Mike any discussion you say this
is more replace to Hamlin sign yes
that's the one down near the railroad
right right in Hamlin right before you
cross the bridge yes okay yeah well yeah
that's a central location it is since
the closure of lies counties
honey branch we've incurred a lot of you
know upload into the volume in that area
one number two is the location where it
says of the railroad right-of-way
in-between be dots right away is a very
narrow very narrow stretch of piece of
property
so to give us flexibility and grow in
that area Virginia Tech has long
you do the design on this and look at it
this will be a man site right this will
be on the inside we need to get to those
as soon as we can just a little bit this
is only a conceptual design this is this
will work with the stakeholders and they
have suggested the stakeholders which
will be the County Administrator and
Brian Ferguson who is over the waste
management and myself as District
Supervisor and the landowner so this is
not a done deal this is a brownsfield
grant we do think the site will qualify
but it is it will have to have some
other things will have to happen in
order to make this work for the
community at large
any other discussion all right all in
favor of accepting and writing this
letter of commitment to these oars
yes Carl yes yes David yes Steve yes
team yes yes thank you madam chair next
on the can administrate of request is
the Russell County Sheriff and the
Washington County Sheriff mutual aid and
cooperation agreement for Lawson law
enforcement services this is an
agreement from 2020 to 2023 it is a
request for a review and approval in a
certification mutual aid and cooperation
agreement between the law enforcement
services 22 two counties from the years
of 2020 to 2023 motion for approval cami
and Russell County Sheriff's Office to
have a mutual great measure make a
motion we approve this second any
discussion just one comment in this
mutual aid can we share speed-trap
funding on John Douglas start out I
asked oh there you go madam chair you're
exactly right I think they're a million
dollar your budget maybe they can share
the way off a little bit but
no I'm just I'll move on okay all those
in favor of this agreement or yes Carl
yes blue yes David yes state yes team
yes we Rebecca yes thank you madam
chairman
next on the county administrator reports
inquest is the government plateau
regional housing authority this is the
five-year action plan and annual
environmental review this is a just
approval for their summation for their
waiver for the review for their annual
review through the environmental for
their housing projects which is in the
board packet right you skipped one you
skipped with the Buckhannon county so
I'm sorry
yes I'm sorry each relay
I make a motion we approve the mutual
aid agreement between the Russell County
Sheriff's Department the Buckham County
Sheriff's Department
second any discussion all right we'll
vote all those in favor of the neutral
aid agreement between Russell County and
by Camden County chorus yes yes yes yes
Steve yes yes yes thank you madam chair
now on to the Cumberland Plateau
Regional Housing Authority five-year
action plan and annual and environmental
review plan this is a submission by the
Virginia and coming plateau Housing
Authority for their annual environmental
review plan I need a motion for approval
we have a motion to approve a five-year
plan I'll make a motion that we approve
their five-year plan okay second Steve
any discussion all right all those in
favor playing with that I come effect oh
they're planning review the five years
force
yes yes yes David yes stay yes
Tim yes yes thank you madam chair
next on the economy Australia reports a
request is the 11 elementary school wall
repair project the Board of Supervisors
in Russell County for school board
evaluated the RFA's we had already brung
this up for approval before and it's
already been before the board this is
the actual contract for y'all's approval
for submission to the contract to
proceed with a procedure not notice
these the terms and conditions are all
within the contract yes the contract was
awarded to Keynes construction and he's
getting ready to start immediately
willing to work on the repair of all any
questions
I do met him share there a structural
engineer that has looked at that what
did they what kind of report if they
brought back right now on the one of the
requirements out they both the Ross
County Board and the Russell County
School Board was the plans have been
approved by a professional engineer and
a structural engineer that was one of
the terms and conditions within the
contract so it is structurally sound it
is with the end they will be giving
monthly engineering of course through
the PE and the structural engineer phase
by phase on this project so when they
looked at the when they looked at the
project as a whole they didn't find
anything that was abnormal that anybody
should be concerned about as a change
order or anything like that for
structural purposes no and absolutely
actually no and right now as as the
engineers just went back the structural
engineers and in the Pease have went
back just to make take a second look at
to make sure that their evaluation was
correct on the submission and it has
been approved and signed by Dr price
thank you you said yes sir I thought
they specialized and so vein stuff like
that Donnie's work for me I don't know
what they've ever done any structure
like at any did anymore they have a
structural engineer on staff yes they
have a structural engineer gather took
he's a structural engineer yes sir
and what was his name I didn't get that
I'm sorry his name
I'm sorry yes Steve Maxfield
okay he is certified in structural
engineer Virginia Tech okay well we need
to make sure that Steve Mac steel takes
care of school children the end just
that's we just want to make sure it's
done right thank you and one of the
things that the Board of Supervisors to
make sure that we not only had the
structural engineer and the PE signed
off on the plans and do the second
evaluation the we also requested in the
contract that with each month within
each submission of procedure completion
in each nerve sport on on the current
structure and the phases will be
included yes ma'am
provolone review
yeah oh my god nice - based on the legal
review all right do we have a second
exactly what she said second bite
any further discussion all right all
those in favor
oh no we went out done and viewed that
and everything can you say some
contractors estimated up to maybe 300
before y'all got up in the attic and
ever since all that that is correctly
when they first started looking at they
didn't know how pervasive it was from
the Boy Wonder from the foundation up
into the roof structures and how in the
linear footage on it it was more
pervasive all along the wild and they
had anticipated after we cut the root
the hose into the into the ceiling to be
able to look all the way down through
the structure to be able to tie the end
soundly from one section to the other
section to make sure from a structural
engineering perspective in evaluation it
needed to be tidy and all the way down
INRI and rebuilt from more of a leader
footage than what we were seeing just by
taking the a knob out look at it you
need him giving ideal holiday mood Ella
you know what I mean a nose vocal seems
into the joints of the morning between
the break they get that moved out like
that two and a half three inches in that
seven point since this is started in the
second part of the structural engineers
they have looked at the foundation the
foundation is solidly the roof is solid
they looked at the regional plans of the
school and the tie-ins and the rest
there was a lot of things that they're
speculating there was not done during
the first first phase of construction so
that's where they're going back in
entirely the end all the way from
beginning to end on work as the
structure has what they call it has
weakened so to get it to make shortage
and to ensure that the 11 elementary
students have a safe facility they're
actually going beyond the point of the
breakage to make sure that we tie it in
from and again I do anything to them to
the foundation what are going to start
from come up are they gonna reinforce
that or the foundation will be
reinforced or it's you were in favor yes
yes yes yes yes yes thank you next on
the Ken administrative reports in
request is the homemaker property
transfer public hearing we had talked
about this in previous board meeting and
this is just a request to put it down
for the gene board that way we can have
we have to have a public hearing before
we can transfer the property I'll make a
motion second second stayed any
discussion all right yes we want to put
this on air of June meeting for a public
hearing to transfer this property at
Honecker high scores in favor yes Carl
yes yes yes
yes yes yes thank you ma'am chair that
concludes Manik the county administrator
reports in request all right at this
time any matters presented before the
board David no ma'am
state I listen to the governor today and
he is saying that the 15th of May is
tentatively gonna be the day that we're
going to go into phase 1 of getting back
to work and I just think that we ought
to make our citizens and businesses
aware of this and plan for that and the
question was asked is it likely to be
moved you know further on down the road
and he said right now he was pretty much
sit on the 15th
unless something act you know desperate
changes so you know and I think we need
in the worst way to get back to work I
don't know what the proper procedure
would be Lonzo is to just maybe put out
a notice that you know tentatively and
maybe we had a look at what his
proposals he had a list we can it's
probably posted by now what the items
what you had to do I think we're gonna
be a minimize you weren't gonna be able
able to operate at 100 percent capacity
but I think we ought to make that
available to air people now and just
have them getting geared at you know for
the 15th
I don't know if it's 25 I didn't see
that it wouldn't today I mean that's
yeah well I'd hope you'd be more than
that but but if you could if you could
look and check on his website and see
what what those conditions are and we
can make it available they're people so
they can start to get ready to do that I
will the and we will get the details now
what the governor does during his does
they go over it but they this this was
not just daily briefing this was he
extended fifty three to the fourteenth
so this you have three phases phase
woman starts on the fifteenth as it is
right now listen drastically changes so
we just need to be prepared so I'm
saying and we have myself and the
Constitution officers in the courts have
already been discussing this concept we
were anticipating this coming so one
will go ahead and put it out our
websites our media sites what the public
to do but in the background the
Constitution officers in and the other
counting agencies are already
anticipating this move so we've been
planning on this so we've got to do it
but do it safely for the county
residents to be able to do we've been
putting things in place for separation
we've put in lines we put boxes we I
think Jays power has been doing a good
job of going on the radio with all that
information informing all the residents
of the county on a daily or weekly or I
mean I know I listen to him daily
continually on give
that information out to our citizens I
think it's a good idea in correspondents
probably with County Administrator to be
able to that be that informed to the
people and citizens of the county and
kind of give them all the heads-up
information absolutely one of the things
that you know you know the Russell
County Board of Supervisors was one of
the first counties in southwest
virginity to implement for the
declaration of emergency to start the
planning on this and currently right now
we you can tell by our number of cases
that we have this is this is not by
accident the separation went in place
the agencies went into place the
localities went into place our first
responders and in the numbers show it
even though we're in Southwest Virginia
we have a neighboring counties in
England call them by name they're in a
higher they're in a higher account of
number of cases some of them has had
fatalities but Russell County doing this
at the beginning and that came from dr.
Cantrell we know course heavy comment no
I'm good thank you
okay our next board meeting will be June
the 4th at 5 o'clock here for against
executive session if we have anything do
I have a motion to adjourn so moved
David a second Carl Fuerst June 1st
yeah it's June first money
I can't I can't read my own telephone
sorry I didn't I didn't swipe it hard
enough voice alright Jim the first
alright do I have a motion to adjourn my
god okay now let's vote I'm sorry Horace
yes yes yes and David yes yes Tim yes
yes yep