yes
for anybody
post it until y'all prove this
katie don't let me do that
so if if the board of supervisors is
good with the form
yes
okay just a little bit more on the
application form
that y'all approve we will be putting
this up on the county website
and this is a no style of all russ
county businesses we have that list of
all
businesses that doesn't ultimately
business that do
business in russell county and we want
to be able to give them an opportunity
to take advantage of what we're trying
to provide for them
to continue doing business in russell
county uh we will also have it on
facebook
our twitter account you will have a
heart application that's on it that you
can pick up in our offices
our website and in addition
to that we can also we'll be printing
notices in the
lebanon paper that this is available to
businesses within russell county that
have been affected by the kovitt
incident so it it gives us an
opportunity
to you know help out the businesses
within russell county during this time
we know it's been a hard time it's our
unemployment
went from the upper three percentiles
into the double digits
so this will give an opportunity to for
the business to be able to have some a
little bit of assistance from
the ross county board of supervisors to
be able to continue to do business in
russell county
so any more questions comments on
the karzak program application form
with that i'll proceed into the russ
county ida
and this and the i go letter support
this is part of the uh
request that was made during the last
board meeting this is pretty quick
because this was fast
the uh for both this letter support and
the next letter of support which
is with the covenant plateau planning
district and point broadband
letter support for additional i.t
projects
within the county um i would like to
read
the ones with ico and the cover platinum
the iago is this is letter support to
the department of
virginia department of housing and
community development this is through
the block grant
the we are writing there to express our
support
for the grant loan application for the
industrial development authority of
russell county
virginia ida is submitted to the
virginia department of housing community
development dhcd
for the virginia telecommunications
initiative
2020 grant due to the co-bid 19 pandemic
it is essential that our community and
economic development
partner with the igo technology and ida
to provide broadband projects to extend
fiber operate
optic internet services to the
crossroads
slice purcell sections of hansonville
and east
you garden towards benny and the area
near
honaker located within russell county
the projects would be bringing
tremendous benefit to the residents
located within these localities
to provide gigabit broadband
capabilities with fiber
to the premises architecture
that's that is the part of
the uh ida and the i got now the coming
so we have a motion to receive
[Applause]
uh
thank you madam chair next is the again
to virginia department of housing
community development
this is a letter support for the
virginia telecommunications initiative
uh 2020 through the final planning
district regional application
this is to convey their support to the
applications submitted to the
common platform planning district for
buckhannon dixon russell and haslam
counties
in partnership with point broadband the
project known as
the federal planning uh
broadband expansion project uh will
allow buchanan dixon and russell and
castle counties to install
a state-of-the-art art fiber optic that
would serve multiple communities of need
the project was served schools
vocational training facilities
businesses
health care facilities state agency and
most importantly
will offer gigabyte services over 14 000
addresses previously underserved
as i as we understand it
the goal of the vita to create a strong
competitive communities throughout the
commonwealth by preparing
those communities to build utilize and
capitalize on telecommunication
infrastructure this project is an
initiative
is an initiative regional collaboration
that will help
the commonwealth to achieve the goal the
russell county board of supervisors
strongly supports
felon plateau planning district virginia
telecommunications
initiative 2020 grant application and
looks forward to the benefits it will
bring to our community
motion of support all right we have a
motion to send this letter of support
uh
madam chair that concludes the count
administrator reports and requests
um but
we need to identify who's out there what
they're doing
and keep a list of it so that we can
make
perspective
no i don't have anything but i'll echo
what suda said i keep saying that but i
i don't know that we can do that as a
county so there may be some
stipulations in there as far as business
licensing
but it would be nice to have a true
directory of something
that shows us who's doing business where
they're doing business out of their home
their garage a brick and mortar in the
downtown area
so i think these are vibes this is vital
information but i don't know how you
gather it
well i was going to ask if everybody
would want to move our meeting to
september 8th
because the 7th is labor day so we have
it on the 8th of the 7th
five for executive session and six for a
regular meeting
all right
yes okay all those in favor