have them treat you first please know
that our time is just as valuable as
yours having us wait for almost an hour
without even any acknowledgement to let
us know you are late
not only frustrates us but leads us to
believe there is something going on you
do not wish us to here I understand that
people came unexpectedly unexpectedly
but we are no less important than they
are even if they are an elected official
second do not assume that our lack of
understanding a discussion you are
having Anna Board of Supervisors meeting
was our ignant ignorance or lack of
education perhaps it was your lack of
effective and thorough communication
third we are not you people we are the
people the people who put you in the
Barry seats you are sitting in remember
we the people your constituents pay your
salary and demand the same respect you
yourself expect some may have not been
involved for the past 26 years but we
are here now we want to work with you
and make this County a great place to
live and work we want each and every one
of you to lead
fight for what people in your districts
believe you were elected to be the voice
of every single person within your
district it is your obligation to bring
our voices with you to every meeting and
to help us understand not
condescendingly
but with compassion and understanding
that what you say may not be perceived
the way you believe you are conveying it
I did not grow up here in Russell County
but this is now the place I call home
the place where my grandchildren will
grow up the place where my family has
chosen to start a business
therefore please know I will make sure
my voice is heard in closing I would
like to just say again that respectful
communication goes a long way and making
sure everyone understands and feels
involved in what is going on with the
county it is my belief that we all have
the same interests and want to
accomplish the same goals to better our
community
right there next person on the agenda
shopping
nine Willow Springs district 1 and
Lovelace's district
I had concerns about the monument up
here in town I've made a few phone calls
on my own
I thought the Tony Doty and so forth so
on and still have not gotten the answer
exactly who owns the statue so if
somebody here could fight me on that I
appreciate it
the only thing I have really heard since
I do not live in the town limits that I
don't have much say about it all believe
I mean that's the way I took it so if I
was incorrect on that I'd like to be
informed on that also
so somebody sitting up here now if you
tell me do any of you know who actually
owns the monument and responsible for
the monument
that's our time I was I was told
okay he says I do not let that defeated
min research
okay well since I live in the county but
I do not reside in the town what say do
I have about that if any
I'd say you've got
this is not a question I understand that
comment I'm going to answer you I think
you've got the right thank you I mean
you may not have the right to vote in
the river but I think
constitutional wives
speak of Thieves well I also had gotten
the copy of your old budget that you put
out and I was saved back to my
understanding of it that I would imagine
that some of the money in the county
trickles down through the town
so if there's somehow or another my
money that I paying taxes triples into
the town and they're using it for the
town then I should have a say so I would
like the board in its own way to tell
the town that it needs to be open to the
county because the monument belongs to
the county to the people not just the
town I don't know if I'm putting this in
terms that are correct or not but that's
the way I look at it so if there's any
way that anybody here could inform me of
my uh knowledge you know not being the
right you know way to go about it but
I'm concerned about it it's not that I'm
a fan of the Confederacy I'm a fan of
the ideal
and that's what it comes down to I don't
care what color you are what race you're
with your sexual orientations are has
nothing to do with it
everything is equal in my opinion you
only put on the bad side when you put
yourself on the bad side and that's the
way I believe that people should be
dealt with
so I appreciate your time if somebody
could take a moment give me a holler or
try to get hold of me somehow I'd like
to get a little bit more information on
that because I do not like to be an
authority I'm not as well-spoken as my
wife
and she's reminded me that when I come
in here so I tried to maintain my
thank you
that anyone else those were the only two
names on the sign-in sheet but if anyone
State
step up state your name and address
please for the right
enough to get on the sheets
my name is Larry Hughes lah-lah
ugh yes I reside at 13 a hard ride
just a couple issues again it said that
our state our nation
is it right
we knif we need to live for today we
need apply
and get forgive for the future
we got some problems I don't have the
answer
dancer
that you are our elected trustees there
are my streets you're amenable to the
citizens of all
you have grid then you might want go
read the positive
that means you do work for the system
it'll work for people now we have the
choice of thank you
you
that's not three
our biggest concern now is that he
stopped
how much of its real how much
I don't know I do i do i do tribe so to
distance
I simply don't wear a mask about
someplace where there is deathly there's
a chance by one hospital day I feed off
of expose or something that's where I'll
be exposed to it
I'm of the age
Oh age and also I have medical
conditions that probably puts me at risk
but I have nurses
that don't see
one death
that was a gentleman coming in there eh
baby I almost died here ladies
they say when he come the hospital he's
sick the problem involved they
checking Cherie has sprung
so boss other directors although I
wished I knew the truth
is very concerning because if there is a
truth pandemic we need
and we need it but again we don't see it
it's a keiretsu that says well maybe
there is problem
that
but I am concerned
I do think we have a critic trick
Saturday expecting some things to happen
I was at as well couple weeks ago the
same thing I think it wasn't convinced
Paul he was supposed to have a March
and the system's up there for some
reason or something never showed up I
was in Berea
Thursday
they were there
there's no war
and my understand they take said they
will come to contend to take the statue
they own and burn courthouse that
Asperger's debate I cannot say for sure
the citizens in defensive
200 they get an extra job keeping the
two groups apart it was a powder keg
ready to explode and I'm worried about
this nation I'm a word of weird the
point grand I'll be at the tipping point
if we're not worried about it we should
be
I've got grandkids that worry about I'm
an old man
okay kids
or tour to take the
I hope
is a chemical daughter I hope is
temporal hope again will husband their
sister off the research
I will speak at the Town Meeting in the
13th he could tell you a lot he could
tell you again there were citizens have
paid 15 cents five assists in the frozen
county basically the return people are
the wilds widows of the soldiers that
died during this revolution they they
built this they paid for this - citizens
of the county paid for far as I'm
concerned death belongs to the county
and if the county is Peggy anything to
the town
I'm sure
to the attorney
now again my concern is I do nothing
that Manya means nothing but history
historical heritage is all it is people
talk about being
quite pretty I like to see the by
privilege
I'd like to see I've never seen in my
life I grew up or my dad was a
sharecropper on farms for years you tell
me well that is the only thing he can do
different than the
to try to make it another year I'm the
only one of my families that graduated
from high school because my brother my
sister they had to keep the mill head
have a big family
keep him out the working farm so they
can eat through the year and you tell me
wipe really that's but
lesbians how was like six years little
popsicle but dad moved off the farm he
worked as a child labor contractor here
to tell a matter of fact he was working
the streets I helped him when I was
going TN twig Rizzo sweep the streets of
Lebanon has his tweed street sweeper and
then one day he was hit by car one
morning because they were 13 years old
I know why my creepers just know always
thought why creeper
when these people talk about that I
guess where your extended enough enough
of this crap
I'm a good I'm an American I'm a carving
I've got a court my skin I'm not a white
man I've never seen a white man white
woman look at this point I'm a colored
person I have but bloody baby I'm not
sure I know I gotta eat me a boat I got
a white boat iris but I'm proud of all
of it
not just one almost matter what do you
say black cloths Martin you're top taupe
no no no it's white line don't matter
black flies I'm sorry oh all lives
matter and I'll tell you this I was
marrying and that's when I told the
interview I said I'm here to protect the
right to protest for everybody your
protest peacefully you're handling this
legally I will back you what I'm seeing
when you when you come up here you
threatened to do these things and
nothing black lives matters no I will
not defend that that's racism
they kept me on Verizon that's racism
nothing's up and now I would expect and
I know there is some concern if you put
some type of us out there it made y'all
teacher to us the teachers already been
drawn
I was told with two backers whooping
federal
more from the police department
it was expected to be here Saturday he
was expected being
thousand week for they showed up in
Marion
sir tonight they will be here
if they take one town they will be
now the question is and I say they
there's probably more why Preakness kids
in
kid attacked me this one about giving
false information so you don't bet
nothing our veterans
different people with this priest
grateful
about this
not just a statue we did the crowd gets
your and they get going where do they
stop at do you see it on TV they don't
stop they get blood thirsty they get
hungry for power and they don't know
when to stop
you cannot let it get this
next is their constitutional officers
reports in request
to
County Attorney her reports in the quest
for
thank you madam chair and the first two
documents that the board has before them
are two resolutions from VRA and what
the first the first resolution that you
have in front of you is a resolution
that the board will agree to execute a
moral obligation at closing and what
this this specific resolution pertains
to are all the bonds all the water bonds
that have been associated with the
merger of the Castlewood water and
sewage Authority in the Russell County
Public Service Authority what is
contemplated there will be several bonds
will be combined into three the board
actually already has done moral
obligations for all of these individual
individual loans so this is really not
it this is really not anything new but
this is just executing
moral obligations for the for the three
combined loads
so you need us to motion to this to make
a motion and to to allow the the
chairperson to son authorized the
chairperson
and cherry I'd like to make motion we
approve this resolution sport I'll pass
the chairs
to facilitate the closure
do we have a second Oh see all those in
favor
and in the second resolution is very
similar accepted applause to
a new project
the PSA is undertaking in regards to
Glade Hollow and it's a
water water lane
states that it's 418 thousand dollars
this this project is kind of tied into
the murder as far as getting some of the
good
advantageous rates that the PSA has been
able to get in combining the two
authorities and this this just this is
just states that this board will agree
to execute a moral obligation for this
loan and this amount at closing
stay
it's the personnel policy manual and
there was a couple of questions that I
had from the from the board on it on a
couple of matters that I presented and
also
there's a another edition that I would
like to make obviously I'll just sort of
state generally the personnel policy
this is a very comprehensive document
and you want to try to make it that way
to cover
all types of situations that involve
issues with employees and how and how
things are governed and so
obviously it can never
cover everything that possibly happened
but because of it
but because of them
concerns there's there's an addition
that I would like to make but hopefully
the board will be able to approve that
in August if there's no more significant
changes
we just need to tighten it until all
this yes
and then the last thing that I have for
you this is
knew that the board did not get to
prior to the meeting
last year this board did a moral
obligation for a loan for a company that
was coming in poly cab there have been
there's been an agreement made between
Virginia capital capital capital and
poly calf and the Industrial Development
Authority regarding a change in the
agreement that the basic term is that's
being changed is that the company in the
definition and the lease was defined as
poly cab and for the purposes
at this specific one with the
an equipment lease that will be changed
from Holley cab to Greenfield I see our
holdings which is another company that
the poly cab company owns it does not
change the terms of the moral obligation
that we passed it's just because we have
that moral obligation they had to
request our approval for this change as
well
my office is attorney for
the Board of Supervisors and the
Industrial Development Authority and mr.
Chaffin has reviewed this document and
miner
I don't know if everyone has approved
that but I know it's already been
approved by at least another entity and
maybe maybe all of them and so I would
be requesting your approval at this
tonight
yes and to authorize the chairperson to
size
they should be authorized
we have second second
Oh
next on the agenda is the County
administrators reports and requests
thank you thank you madam chair
on the can administrator reports your
quiz
waiting
first on the
the is an application of the B dot smart
scale for route 19 project this is a
excuse me quanta sorry
we could do that how's that
first is everybody here though it won't
give her one up sorry about that
first on the Academy Australia report
request is that is the V dot smart scale
application for the primary route this
is an application that has already made
it through the first phase of the B dot
a smart scale project for us 19 this is
down at the elk garden school as you
come into the trailer park going on
route 19
as you come over the hill this is that
superelevation that's there that
everybody it's it's super the wrong way
we have a lot of accidents on the
vehicle trucks through there you'll see
a lot of accidents coming through there
as weak as you go over the hill and come
down to the L garden school they're
going to cut that down some this is
already made it through the first one it
is a two to two million six hundred
seventy three thousand dollar project
that is already made it through Bristol
district smart scale under the first
phase one the second one on the county
administrator reports in request of
course is the Vidocq smart scale route
58 another primary this one is going in
down off the mountain to where Saint
Paul is this one is at the turn lane
improvements coming out of sundown Drive
and it is a approach that across Lane
and a turn in Lane that they have
problems with coming down the mountain
and getting off in time without the cars
into the curve so this will give a great
opportunity to fix that safety concern
to next and then on that project that is
a 1 million two hundred ten thousand
dollar projects proposed project
the outdoor project right now it
terminals from in to is beginning at the
trailer park
all the way to the end of the school
route where you go under route 80 that's
that
yes yes it will they're gonna cut it
down right they're cutting it down yes
sir
yuck that if anyone's wrote it they know
it is super to the wrong way it actually
leaned you into the wrong direction so
to get that down and it goes like this
thing goes around and then in whether
there's a lot of hydroplane so they're
gonna crack that and widen out the
medium
and again back on the 58 project smart
the smart skills project supplied to all
the primary routes and again this is the
58 project that's coming down the end to
sundown drive which is in miss Wallace's
district they have a lot of accidents
coming across the turn lane trying to
get off at the same time and they're all
coming in either in one way across 58 or
they're coming down off the mountain and
58 at a high speed so this give them
more of a off-ramp and a bigger turn
lane for side distance next on the
county administrator reports is the CDBG
grant this is a planning grant again
this is an update to the cleveland sewer
treatment plan upgrade this country
current status is a selection for the
engineer for the preliminary engineering
report that is currently underway and it
will be a there will be a meeting with
the board of supervisors committee the
Demark Department of Housing Development
Services and the engineering group next
on the county administrator reports is
the Honecker and Castlewood canneries as
again with the Cova issues with or we
have upgraded we have put in new our
compressors into the canneries we're
also working with the tobacco commission
we have grants on that improving the
upgrades on it the grants got a little
bit slowed down during the covet issue
and we're hoping to pick up back up
speed and get that equipment in and get
a get a better service to the Russell
County residents
that is it both the own acre in the
castle hood it will be open in July the
14th for operations so anybody want to
use it there they're in great shapes
these are seven of the ones in the state
Virginia so with I see a lot of gardens
that are being grown they have never
been grown before so there's a week
great service to our citizens
next on account administrator reports is
a request mr. Wallace to look at our
current GIS system have been in contact
with interactive GIS which has our
current GIS system under contract they
were already into the great stage to be
a more of a windows-based platform for
our GIS system to be able to lead
utilize we got a draft interaction this
week or last week and we're going
through and looking at the best systems
to give be able to give better services
to the citizens next on account
administrator request is the a request
by the treasurer for authorization for
the merchants credit card account this
is a motion that I need by the Board of
Supervisors for to be able to open this
account through the merchant credit card
account and the emotion for that
we have a safe here
all those
next on account administrator reports
our request is the as a from the
Department of Criminal Justice this is a
grant for a total of seventy thousand
dollars this is a federal grant for our
Victim Witness program I need an
approval for preparations of the Victim
Witness program in amount of $70,000
sorry
all those
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next on the county administrator a
request is the cares Oversight Committee
members
this is requests by the federal auditors
under the single audit act for the chair
to appoint two to the Harris committee
oversight for the for the funding that
their County received for the pandemic
to be able to look at it is it is an
additional oversight that is required by
the single audit act so it is at the
pleasure of the chair we already do have
standard Excel spreadsheets that we have
- it is nothing that more than
reimbursement of what we are using with
the county what we have gotten for
people he equipment Plexiglas
I asked gloves things like that but
there are cept the Excel spreadsheets
that we have to look at
sign up on India's card all day out
I've got a question it's okay man okay I
got a call from new Guard rescue squad
they they went into a lot of expense
risk they bought respirators and I'm
just not going to speak from the garden
but we all have volunteer squads in our
area that that I think that needs to be
in under consideration for reimbursement
also they had informed me that they have
came out now with a
a special type of rescue type equipment
that will sanitize the insides of the
and I don't know about fire departments
but I think all that needs to be looked
at
then chair also when you do this
drawdown salon yes sir
my ds2
these are important things that we make
sure that our rescue squads and our fire
departments
I have have all the best that they can
have during this time and I think
everyone's in
yep we'll see that you see
they get the equipment if they need
because I know he's already been working
with the town of Lebanon Honecker st.
Paul Cleveland with their each portion
there is a formula based on the number
of people that are served in their town
and they've already met in fact here to
see that they do get reimbursed yeah
please do reject all these folks need to
see they have
if not my head under that we we have as
far as the first responders are fire
Sheriff's Department and the immerse the
ambulance services first responders we
have we have been giving you know
supplies PPN a through FEMA one of the
advantages of the cares act it does give
them an advantage to be able to get more
than just what they're using it again I
want when the first pandemic came down
everyone knows that masks and anything
that was PPE related was very difficult
and very expensive to get so we had we
had a difficulty in order and so and
that was nationwide but right now in the
fire and rescue and first responders
have theirs but this gives them an
opportunity to be able to get what they
need
you know if this continues to be able to
stay
so the some of the squad's have already
reached out to my office and for
supervisors so this will be something
that miss died and mr. Lovelace will be
taking a look at yes
it's the unknown I know I passed the CH
Wallace and he said he in yeah we we
briefed we briefed his assistant me and
Alisha did life sweet life thirsty
listen swing out of this money without
money there was a list made out by the
state and it was based on population
that is correct okay so everybody knew
what was coming down but within that
money the towns each of the towns had
allocations based on their properties
and dessert theirs will be growing down
there allocated we have until December
the end of December to utilize this
money we don't use it for these
legitimate causes it goes back to the
state that is correct
goodness gracious reinforced
sale spreadsheet
we calculate to force
again the just re-emphasize that the
board members this funding is only
dedicated to the Coe bid incident my
business and question is it may be
available to community organizations
it is for it does reach out to other
organizations but what again our
guidelines is under the single audit act
in the state and federal guidelines is
it has got to be copied related yes
there it for example and I'll throw this
how do you pay the reason I'm asking
excuse me I saw an application for
somewhere no worse I've got a copy of it
here somewhere but it was like one page
I just wanted
well each each county has an opportunity
to look at these nonprofits that is co
feed related donations also the towns
that have the entities and businesses
and their organizations within them
there to use that money in the same
capacity while money we gave them is to
cover that population within the town 11
and town homemakers in town Cleveland in
the town of st. Paul so they get to use
that within their boundaries for the
same type of guidelines it has to be Co
fit related either PPE organizations
that is tied to services that if that is
so bid related and one it's not new it's
the same money yes sir
next on the
County Administrator request in reports
is the Cumberland Community Service
Board raise the nation mister Donny ray
me he sent a letter to the Board
supervisors and he thanked them for the
opportunity to serve on the Community
Service Board but due to the his work
schedule change and other commitments he
is will no longer be able to provide you
know the time and services that he feels
that he needs to do and he really
appreciates the opportunity to have to
do so but I'm gratefully regretfully he
is resigning so I needed a motion for
example in state of the resonation I
have a motion to accept his resignation
Steve a second second all those in favor
accepting his resignation we didn't have
someone that we have that has put in her
application so if the board wishes to do
so we're I'm ready
my clothes you know you see sand coming
to work tonight
she'll be nominated by sea
damn steep part all those in favor get
appointed your co-star
it's next on Academy astroturf requests
and reports he is the Russell County
Planning Commission plan this is for the
Robert Davison and Donna Dixon boundary
line adjustment I need a motion for
approval for the Russell County Planning
Commission boundary line adjustable
second took me all right all those in
favor
uh-huh
at least action okay thank you
look stay
madam chair that concludes the many
County Administrator reports in quest
okay next we have any matters that are
presented by the board fingers they want
to do discuss anything
not tonight
yes
in the past couple of years we've had
the building official report give a
report on some of the properties within
the county that do not comply with the
ordinance
and I have had a couple of more
complaints particularly on some of those
that we've already got on the book
and I don't want to embarrass anybody
tonight but I'd be happy to let you all
know I've had calls from and they're
already he's already looked at him
several times and they had worked their
way up with a 30-day cycle and all that
and they're hanging there so they they
do fit the ordinance
but we just have not done anything else
I think we've stalled out somewhere
along
so I've had that request take care of
that
we can do that now if you
thank you miss Morris
David it's me - they have a couple of
things I just wanted to speak briefly on
mountain rivers and something that we
were working on through mountain movers
is a Habitat for Humanity's project
something I like for the board to
consider just plant a seed and let you
guys be thinking about this is some of
the properties that we auction off
through the and this is probably a
question also for the attorney to look
into this and do some research to see if
we have an opportunity to do a Habitat
for Humanity project within this area of
Russell County to be able to we've met
with dr. Rai and his wife she actually
headed up a project in Tennessee and our
River
woody Scott's wife headed up and was on
the board of the one in Wise County and
those two we've kind of put it on their
shoulders to be able to look into this a
little deeper they have made a lot of
communication with Habitat for Humanity
in Tennessee
they're actually coming up to meet with
us at a mountain movers meeting to help
us to get organized to be able to
provide housing for people that need a
home and we know that there's a great
need we all talked about it on this
board of the need that's there and I
just wanted to brief the board of what
we've been discussing to mount movers
and also I would like to commend all the
areas that had their 4th of July
fireworks I went off really well and my
prayer is it nobody gets Cove at 19 and
everybody's safe and I thought we had
great social destiny
and everything so I just wanted to kind
of brief the board on those two
yes I'll put my plug in for Mountain
News
Habitat for Humanity
I've seen this working some other areas
there's all sorts of different housing
pieces to be recovery related houses to
be housing elderly
it is a great it's a great system
frankly didn't require whole event
getting that money to do that first
house in first house the people you just
don't give it to them they buy it they
had a greatly reduced cost
they put sweat equity into it and with
the money for the first house of a
saleable house personal generates a
third
in there may be a possibility to dr.
riding talk to him now
maybe even a restore facility they have
but it's kind of like good
retail Merchants license
but I want to do
address some Larry's questions yes Larry
when you're talking I know you get hot
but you're preaching to the choir here a
lot of us feel the same way about it
there is an existing statute in place
it's a right to have that virginity
Kevin 18.2 - 137 it talks with any
injury injuring any property monument
it's it and it talks step
the penalties for up to a thousand
dollars in damages a class three
misdemeanor because there were a
thousand it's a felony
there's a Code section that it
references that describes what's in
there includes all the world I think
this at some point in time
in fact I'd like to pull them or teeth
into it and maybe go we can be more
stringent we can be less stringent what
the state is but we can't be more
stringent I think you're right then
eventually they'll get around with us
and we need to be working on this right
we will require public hearing
resolution to make squat but an
ordinance s teeth I'd like to go with
about twenty five hundred dollars and or
community service I would rather see him
out there cleaning a dead pigs took a
toothbrush
that that's that's my hand or a hand or
maybe they learnt and or
that's all
I was ready
yes
you though when I first started the
moment I called Tony Dodie and spoke to
him and he said he felt sure that
councilman would not vote we move that I
talked to another counselor Tony not
even bring it up that's what he wouldn't
take Asha one way another that would be
a better step to take but not to take
down I have been a member of the Sun
confederation for about 27 years and I'm
strongly in support of it we've cleaned
the graveyard back home from Lobby
Street and he's cleaned up again
so I am very much in support of a
Confederate moment or any other moms
historical moments there's no time to
take them down if severest a time does
legal standard that's mine
the only thing that I'll have to say yes
I would like I would like to thank
mr. Brian Ferguson and
tsa workers that they have installed the
new trash site at Cleveland the only
entry
quite nice and it will be man and it's
right there at the school
there's Pedro getting to it so I'd like
to thank all those folks that have been
working on there
all right we also have been invited by
the I da to go to Union West Virginia to
look at a project that they are going to
look at and it is my understanding there
will be three of a sport members that
will be traveling to see them so with
that being said we will have to have a
reconvene meeting on Wednesday July the
8th at 8 o'clock meeting here because
three of us will be traveling together
so at this time I will make a motion to
reconvene for Wednesday at 8 to go to
visit that site
say thank you we have a second divorce
all those in favor
Thank You Mitch
see me sadly