good afternoon everyone
welcome to the russell county board of
supervisors september the 8th 2020
at 6pm in the russell county conference
room i'd like to first start out with
the call of order and roll column
tim lovelace here
glenn wallace here carl ray ears
david you
forced christian yeah steve brady here
rebecca died here
ma'am you have a car thank you
all right our first order is our
invocation
stand and then remain standing for the
pledge please
thank you dear lord for another day
thank you for blessing that you bestowed
upon us
father heaven you stand before me today
in your presence to us that you grant us
free
we want you to give us the strength and
power for all the tasks of today and the
rest of the week whether it be him or be
it is by your will that we live o lord
and we know it is also by your
in our decisions that you've helped us
strive to make in jesus name we pray
amen
now at this time do we have a motion to
approve the agenda as presented
all right the first thing we have is our
public hearing on the
continuation of our government
ordinance and we'll open the floor for
any public comment
on our government ordinance
anyone want to speak
without the continuation continuity
there
according
i want you to speak
next thing on the agenda is the
courthouse security ordinance ordinance
fee
anyone in the public want to speak on
that
okay we'll discuss this later in the
attorneys section
all right saying no one wants to speak
we will close the public hearing on our
courthouse security orders
now we have our presentations and the
first one on their agenda is dr brown
with the russell county
school board and their daycare program
thank you madam chair
board members mr lester for the
opportunity to speak to you tonight
we've been contacted by the workforce
development board in conjunction with
united way
to examine the possibility of providing
daycare for
the
workers the employees the stakeholders
in southwest virginia
due to the different situations we run
into county county with the different
models that we're operating under
whether it be 100 remote or the hybrid
model that we've adopted
these things have created a hardship on
our stakeholders
as far as daycare is concerned so the
workforce development board
has received some guidance direction
from richmond to reach out and speak to
different
school systems in southwest virginia we
had a zoom meeting
approximately two weeks ago concerning
this this issue
we also had our friends with the united
way as part of this conversation and
they were really excited they already
had moved forward with this idea of
washington county
and basically what we're looking at if
the board of supervisors will be willing
to partner with us on this project would
be an opportunity for us to provide
again daycare for
the citizens stakeholders employees
in russell county whether it be our
teachers our government workers our
first responders or again parents of
students that attend russell county
public schools in grades pre-k through
seventh is our focal group
we're looking at a pilot program we're
calling it a learning center with this
students would be able to work on
their remote learning day activities and
so forth in addition to have their other
having other activities
available to them
the key thing that we look at when it
comes to these programs we've had
several waivers provided to
school divisions and localities
since the onset of cobit 19
and with this one of the things that is
available if going through the school
system is some
relief on licensure requirements
so with that being said if we were to
have
a temporary pilot program put in place a
learning center put in place
and those employees again are russell
county public school employees due to
licensure issues we can
again
get to that point a little quicker
with that we would like for the board's
consideration to support the idea what
we're looking at is the facility here
next door we have reached out and worked
with our partners with southwest
virginia community college dr wright dr
brandon
they have provided for us
at least seven
up to nine rooms in the facility here to
my right
with that being said we've also
checked that we will be able to feed our
students that attend
breakfast and lunch free of charge
during this time and that can be
provided again from russell county
public schools
to directly to our
students
here at the
learning center
in addition to that we're looking at
as far as the structure of the program
we're looking for someone
or actually a couple individuals to be
if you will a manager site-based manager
of the program we'll have
ms street be the liaison with the
central office
with that site-based manager we would
also need a clerical position
and then of course we'd have to have the
instructors in each individual room so
we're looking at roughly
10 positions
with part-time requirements and so forth
we're looking at 29 hours
with that being said we're looking at
operating this program through workforce
development guidelines and
recommendations uh again to accommodate
the needs of our stakeholders from seven
in the morning till six in the evening
so it's an 11 hour per day program so
that's 55 hours in a week so basically
we would need two of everything two
managers two clerical
and then two individuals for each of the
classrooms they would be on the same
schedule as our students they would have
an a b
groups that would have one team that
works on monday and tuesday another team
that would work on thursday and friday
that they would rotate the wednesdays in
order to get their time in that's how
the program basically would work it
would be again a program designed for
all day it would not be designed for
after school to support that it'd be a
little too
chaotic if you will at that point in
time
to try to support an after-school
program
we have after-school programs already in
existence at our schools for 21st
century where again our students are fed
as well and those programs so
this program again would be designed to
be an all-day program but i have a fact
sheet that has been provided to the
board
again this is somewhat optimistic but
possibly a program start date of
september the 14th
no later than the 21st
and it would run through the end of the
school year
and again i'll
share that
with the fact that i believe the cares
act funding that the board of
supervisors has has a
a date of
december 31st 2020 as far as the
spending of those funds are concerned
so with that coming into play we're
looking at something again to run
through the end of the the calendar year
but with our conversation with the
workforce development board and the
united way
uh mr sand was in that meeting and
travis stanton the executive director of
the united way has found grants to
actually carry us beyond
the turn of the calendar year into
the beginning of
2021
so he has grants that could kick in
starting on january the 1st 2021 that
can carry us on into
the spring as long as we need to whether
that be a month or
three months or the end of the
school year
we have those funds and that would be
through the united way and wouldn't have
have any impact on the board of
supervisors or the board of dead
uh again going through the document
again focal group is pre-k through seven
seven to six o'clock
will be the focal time as far as the
operation hours are concerned
students will be able to work on their
remote learning
assignments the key thing about this
structure that makes it perfect for this
is the fact that we have fiber
throughout this side and the college
side of this building so fiber is needed
to support
these chromebooks and so forth it's one
thing at home to have one or two devices
or three devices at home
uh it's another thing when you look at
having 40 or 50 devices here to hook up
the fiber you need that infrastructure
in place and this building and of course
the community college side as well has
that fiber in place staff again
classroom instructors manager and clerk
those positions there these uh salaries
were the recommendation of the workforce
development board
and their
experience in dealing with similar
uh requests programs again it would be
free of charge to our parents
stakeholders
of russell county so again a wonderful
opportunity for a free day free daycare
a free learning center for
our students
again united way is going to step in
with the assistance of the workforce
development board and they can fund the
program if needed beyond january the 1st
2021
uh and then the last two points due to
licensing license
requirements that i shared earlier
it is
much more efficient for it to go through
the school side as far as the employees
are concerned because there have been
several restrictions that have been
lifted for school-sponsored
day care
and then finally this has been vetted
also with baycord our insurance provider
full support
on the insurance side of things
as far as that's concerned
so without
being the presentation i'll be more than
happy to answer questions and ask the
board for their consideration of support
of the program the cost of the program
mr lester and i spoke about this we
anticipate the cost to be somewhere
between 125 to 150 000
again with that coming from
the carrier's funding therefore it would
not be out of any type of operating
budget
within the county or the school system
and again that's that's that's the goal
i guess the only question i would have
as far as my constituents in the area
where i serve had had any input from
people in those area districts that
would utilize the facility
well and that's that that's a key thing
we looked at a couple things there uh
one is again the uh
the infrastructure piece we have to have
strong enough uh
broadband in that area in those schools
or those churches or wherever we might
find to do that in castlewood and
honeaker to support that that's one
thing and then of course you know i
would definitely want to look into
exploring that i think it would be
i guess a little problematic to try to
put all three in at one time
because you just have so many unknowns
so many variables what i'd like to do is
if boards are in support of this move
forward with the registration
process and then that will give us some
data to go on if we have a significant
number in cass wood and connector then
we can look for other alternatives the
key thing again is finding the broadband
to support all of those devices
well i mean for it to be actually to
work fair
all the districts
you want to be able to support
that opportunity
so this is people that work for a living
anybody can utilize it again if their
students are enrolled in russell county
pre-k through seventh grade
they make it a 10 and if you have an
employee for the county a first
responder or a teacher who may live
outside of the school division we'd like
to also offer it to them as well
dr brown how many students can you
accommodate these seven night rooms
uh yes sir we've went through each room
and each room's a little different it
could range anywhere from 12 to there's
one room there the auditorium
which we would consider for the older
students that auditorium in there we can
put
22 24 and be you know socially distanced
and so forth and all the guidelines that
we operate under now with social
distancing and so forth those things
would continue there because it would
have to be a school-based program so we
would have all of the guidelines that we
have in place now in schools we would
mimic those in the learning centers
the smallest one would be 12 the largest
one could be 24 probably
how do you uh
what happens if you just
overwhelmed
that's a great question and a concern
that i have uh
is your prioritization
first temperature
well
again that's something we'll have to
look at through the registration process
my hopes would be that we could look at
additional rooms uh in the building
uh again we've got a huge building here
and we've tried to occupy everything we
could
there to keep that isolated it's a lot
easier to control oh also we have spoken
with the sheriff
and he is supportive of us offering
much like a football game stipend or
what have you for an sro to be on site
that's included in our in our estimate
as well but to answer your question mr
breeding i think we can handle in this
environment
70 80 students easily
maybe a few more but if it does become
an overflow situation we have a couple
extra rooms that we've identified here
and then if it is that
popular then i would go knock on our
county administrator's door and ask if
we can look at a few more uh offices and
open rooms here in the government center
i would really like to see the input you
provide
to see you know to make sure because i
think that
you know as far as a pilot project like
that
it could be we've we have spoken with
other school divisions
uh in the state of virginia we have 132
school divisions we have approximately
60
that have
went
to this point and have engaged a
school-based daycare program uh and no
one has said that it has become an
overwhelming
uh
impossibility for them but i'm sure
there always could be it could be the
first you have some of that
as far as what the other
that yes that's no problem i i can
produce that
i can get that to mr lester tomorrow
sure
i'm kind of like david
this is great
but
i mean you have problem capability just
about all these areas
there's talking very few trees
you're referring to givens yeah yes yes
sir so i mean you know that that can be
an opportunity
absolutely and that's something i would
uh work lovelace to explore those other
areas to see what's available to us and
who's willing to to help us out with
that the other thing about us having a
government entity here that helps as far
as the va court is concerned reaching
out and partnering with one of our
fellow churches or something of that
nature
that's that's something we would have to
look into i'm sure we can
you know we can make it happen but it's
a little bit more complex uh and again
you know to me i think the registration
process would guide a lot of that much
like the
parent survey we did at the end of june
for the operation of the school
being very
very similar we'd get a parent
registration out there we would have a
couple evenings where parents could come
and stop by and register their child and
we would have a better idea then of what
the situation is as far as overflow's
concerned one of the good things for our
parents is you know if we can do this
it's going to take the burden off some
of the other plans maybe that they've
made some of the other again some of the
burdens on their family whether we're
asking for
an aunt or an uncle or grandma or
grandpa to watch the kids now on their
remote days this would be an opportunity
for them to come and do the work here
and then that parent picked them up much
like they do at the end of a regular
well i i feel like that as we spoke
earlier back in summer for you and lonzo
and i walk the building
i do i think we need to be fire and echo
there are all of our citizens we've got
gibbons elementary which is ready right
there restaurants cafeteria playground
we've got to work with our people and
then it dank we've got a community
center that is ready
all these are handicap accessible i i
really really think
once you get this started
there needs to be a serious look at the
rest of the town we just need to be
fired to all of our assistant citizens
on either end gibbons is absolutely
perfect right there ready to go the dank
community center ready go
and we've got people that are going to
be driving drop a child off here and
then go back to their employment
that's gonna make it a little rough
sometimes
so if we we need to
you need in the next as soon as you get
this going in the next week or two you
need to be
seeing it we need to open something else
up against our photos absolutely we can
include that in the registration
process we can look into those
facilities and ask the parents if it's a
closer drive for them to come here or is
it closer drive for them to go to uh you
know to go to givens i mean really
probably anyone
uh at the oaks this direction would be
closer to them to come on in
is but there's some people of course
that live on the back side of the hone
acre or you know on the county line for
task or
what have you there to be much more
convenient for them to go
to
gibbons and then also community center
you have here
at the uh
you're talking about the community
center right there in front of the high
school castlewood
mayor ordained either one
they're still working on hvc
uh
it depends upon
the uh
trying to get the parts for it right now
we talked to the
brady
get
the hvc
it's a large
room
well
but the problem is it doesn't have
internet these these rooms have to have
with google it has to have fiber
if i may interject here
um i
echo with here my peers here um yes
and so to make this very clear
um
my family member would have to drive
from saint paul castlewood dane
up to lebanon and drop off a child
and then
go back if they're working in the wise
county area which cobra clint would
scott county
further on into kingsport because a lot
of my constituents are in that area so
they would have to come back up here
and pick up a child so i understand this
is the central location and i understand
that kong acre has
its own areas that it goes into buchanan
county and feeds into dickinson county
and those that's the workforce that
leads this county and goes into other
areas
and so i think it's crucial
that we uh and i echo madam chairs
comments that we make sure
that
this might be appalling but it needs to
have uh
it needs to have some stringencies on it
that it's going to be looked at in other
venues
child care is
definitely what we need to do here
also i want to make a comment if i may
and further this
it says the temporary program will be
funded by the cares act
received by the russell county board of
supervisors
did you get karzak money
i did yes so we're sharing so you're
putting in money into this and we're
putting in money into this well we're
taking care of the feeding of the
children taking care of the management
of the operation so there is some
in-kind money i will say that the board
of supervisors got four times as much
money as quarterback got as well
man but i you know again that's
something i have to ask my board about
but uh you know that's that's that's a
decision that i'll ask them
okay so i understand that i don't want
to stick you on this point but i want to
make sure that the public understands
how the funding is all working
so um
another thing i see that the total cost
here i do appreciate the fact that
you're partnering with united way and
workforce development i'm on that board
for workforce development we do have
that we've had that conversation yes and
i think that i immediately called mr
lester and said givens elementary
whatever could work for for mr eaton's
area
and we all need to be trying to working
together in this so i i don't we've
never been here before and as everybody
knows i'm just hammering so i'm going to
show that but those were some of my
questions but i thank you the idea
you know we all have to think outside
the box these days so the idea is
definitely
needed but i don't know how to make it
equitable at this time so i'm depending
on you guys
also
also down in cleveland we have internet
at the cleveland community center and at
the old school up there
so that would be places too because
that's in that area there you don't have
already any intermittent fat valley
when
you don't have
that's a wonderful question there are
some school divisions that are going
back four days a week
it's a function of three things
transportation
and then physical capacity within the
buildings
and then the third one is staffing okay
so with that being said we're gonna look
at bringing back our kindergarten first
second maybe even third grade students
within the first two three weeks of
school
but
the driving factor to that
are those three things i had a list
today i had it on my desk by about 9 45
today
of every bus how many kids were on each
bus this morning i'm going to have the
same thing for this afternoon i'll have
it waiting on me in the morning as well
so we're going to analyze those numbers
to see if we were to bring back all of
our kindergarten first second third
grade could we have that safely on the
bus then we're going to look at the
classrooms as well within the classrooms
do we have a situation where it's it can
be safely social distance in the
classroom if we were to add the rest of
those students on the hybrid model so
we're going to be looking at that as
well and then staffing is the final
piece
for some rooms that are not
big enough what we do have is we have
the instructional aid that's already
assigned to that room so what we can do
if the
building is big enough there's another
room elsewhere what we can do is take
half the class in one room half the
class in the other and the teacher and
that aid switch out about every 30
minutes and the teacher gets them
started on the lesson and then they go
and the aid steps in and facilitates the
rest of that list so those three things
are the key things there's no way that
we can bring back every single student
four days a week right now we just don't
have enough room in our buildings maybe
that's a good thing
in one aspect because those that are
doing it are doing it because they've
had significant enrollment loss beyond
hours
over the last 10 years
sure we have approximately 85 students a
year that apply for homeschooling
there's requirements that they have to
meet and so forth as far as providing
documentation back to us and such uh we
haven't got a final number yet for this
year they've got again a grace period
but it's not out of the line it could be
a
small very small percentage
no that's right
please feel free to ask me any questions
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and just to continue on
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on the fire grounds questions or
facility questions
when we looked at these
the schools they have certain
requirements that almost has the minimum
parallel what the school requirements
are
they got to have security safety heat
bathrooms etc so it's like school they
gotta have all of it right now
it at the fairgrounds they don't have a
kitchen and
dane's community center has one they're
fully in their height they're on high
speed so
they given school has a full bdh kitchen
which was used by people inc so if that
could be in consideration dane
gibbons
and even down into uh cleveland they're
all high speed they're all they all have
kitchens in them they're fully
operational they're all vdh certified so
you can take a look at those too
i spoke to our building inspectors well
we'd have to have fire marshal
come through and just grace all these
facilities because there's a
higher standard when you have k-12
students involved minors involved
in anything of this nature so different
set of standards we have to operate by
but if people's things have already been
there and operated those facilities
unless they
unless the facility has changed since
they left
then it should be should be acceptable
that'll be something
fire marshal would have to give us
you know i mean to me
like
some of the other my board members have
spoken
pilot programs are good
some i think but once you get people
doing something
or invested in it
they want to see it long term
now if we commit to doing this
and people say well you know i don't
know why you quit
you started a good thing and then you
quit
now people put pressure on us to want to
i think there needs to be a contingency
plan because if you do build it out to
every county
the working people are not even just
working people just grandparents that
want to take that child they're going to
be looking for it
again
you know if it works
it might not work but i'm just saying
people get used to it
well the money that the school division
has for cares act expires september 30
of 2022
i know that the act that you currently
have here here's that committee again
expires december 31st of this year right
uh are there additional
monies coming our way you know we don't
like the stimulus packages we're gonna
go through we hope they will but you
know as far as
what we were planning with this is
communicate up front that this is a
again a temporary
program that we're putting in place to
help until we can get back to full scale
i mean i hate to say it but schools
have a dual purpose you know the legal
purpose to educate students but that
secondary purpose schools do take care
of the children from you know eight
o'clock to 3 315 if you go to the after
school program our 21st program you can
go to 5 30. so that's a secondary
component that we just can't offer at
this point in time for all of our kids
but again hopefully after the turn of
the year and whether it be a month or
two months or what have you
hopefully before the end of the school
year we're going to be back
face to face five days a week without
masks and without
you know all of these
guidelines that have just really
i guess restricted
how school divisions safely operate
so
hopefully we'll get back the old system
of taking care of the you know taking
care of the kids because if we're back
to five days a week there won't be a
need for a pre-k seven day care because
they're all gonna be in school
that was gonna be one
districts have not been
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castlewood and this program if you're
talking about software letters
it's not implemented in other districts
once you keep driving those skills or
getting the education
well we're not going to deprive anyone
of that opportunity to get an education
but you know you know it's kind of like
um
you know buying a you know buying a
truck that you need an f-150 or you need
a f-350 you know we don't know how many
people are going to be interested in
this if we do this and we got 40 people
that are interested in this
now you're talking about
about 20 people
uh that we roughly have described for
this facility if we had another where we
could combine some great levels you know
again are we looking at 30 40 people
that we're going to employ
for 35 40 45 kids we just don't know
those variables yet that's where we need
to you know to start and to see how much
we do need and if we need it we'll
definitely
you know expand the program and get that
out there absolutely but
you're asking a question i guess mr
christian that i can't answer at the
moment because i just don't know how
many people are going to be interested
in the program hopefully a lot
uh you know again the workforce
development board said that basically
people can't get back to working
full-time until the kids are
in school
full-time well we can take care of you
know
two-fifths of that this will provide the
other three-fifths of that need so
hopefully that'll take the burden off of
our
stakeholders our employees our parents
you know to find someone to watch to
watch their child whether it be again
grandma grandpa and her
neighbor or whomever
that's a great point but we're going to
reach out as quickly as we can again
we're going to try to get our kids back
in school our kindergarten first second
third graders within the first
two or three weeks of school we'll do
the same thing with this program if we
can get it off the ground and get it
going again we can
do an analysis over a couple weeks to
see what the true demand is and then we
can make adjustments accordingly maybe
we don't need a program as big as this
maybe we can take fine
two grade levels
at home acre and castlewood maybe where
we can't combine two grade levels where
we need ten positions here we might need
four or five positions at home acre and
castle wood again it's just too many
variables that i really can't can't
speak to at the moment
okay a question has
come up and i think you've already
addressed it is the safety of the
students sheriff guy did say he would
provide a resource officer here at
premise right
yes ma'am and the work that mr wester
and i did with trying to develop a plan
one of the things that we talked about
was an sro on site and i did reach out
to the sheriff spoke to him personally
and basically what we're going to look
at as the
sros for an athletic contest a
basketball game a football game they get
paid 20 an hour so our thoughts where we
could ask those officers that are not on
duty if they'd like to go ahead and suit
up and
that give them an opportunity again to
receive some additional compensation and
that they could be the sros there for
the facility for the day
and another question
is
i don't i and i'm i'm i'm assuming this
from being with school they're saying
well can the kids not come to the school
and then get on a bus and ride over here
but if you're opening at seven prepared
to get back to school
they're not there's
the buses aren't at the school seven
o'clock
right
how do you think about that yeah it's
again the program is not designed
for us to take kids from the school
to the program because the students that
we're speaking of are the students that
are going to be on their remote learning
day so
parents going to work and the kid is
coming
exactly with us
we actually were originally thinking of
a little shorter time window
then in speaking about that very thing
the parents making the call to bring the
child to the school and drop the child
off and picking the child up in the
afternoon uh you know we needed that
extra time so that seven to six
accommodates that for parents to get
back to wherever they need to work
they need to be there
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madam chair thank you for the
opportunity to speak to
the board tonight bless the board
members
uh you know we appreciate your
consideration
are you going to follow the same
protocol that you do at the school take
their temperature their checklist when a
kid it's the same as if a child is in
school you're going to follow the same
protocol here take their temperature if
they're sick have a nurse look at them
make that decision yeah
one of the great things here about this
location we've got three nurses within
five five minutes i guess to get here so
that shouldn't be an issue and
the same issues we're going to be
dealing with with our schools with
short-term closures periodically whether
it be the entire school division or a
strand or a school
we'll still run into that very thing
with the learning center so we will have
most likely
situations where we have a student that
test positive and they have to come in
and do contact tracing and they'll say
that these
six kids have to be quarantined or this
class has to be quarantined
and so forth hopefully our social
distancing and math and so forth will
help mitigate some of that but it
doesn't it doesn't
it doesn't do all right no
you do have your checklist and you are
here from column
so how many like if uh down in the
cleveland area if they've got 12 or 15
are you going to consider complete
community center or school how many is
it going to take in the area before you
just how many kids
again that's what we can look at i i
don't have a number on top of my head mr
ray is maybe 8 or 12 or what have you
but if there's a need there
again and we have the funds to to take
care of that you know we're going to do
it
so uh you know again we're not going to
leave anyone out
but again we just got to start somewhere
figure out because we're going to make
mistakes it's just like today being the
first day of school we had a great start
by the way but there were a couple
things we got to get ironed out okay
things that we just didn't realize you
know we're going to happen you can play
in the playing playing same type of
thing here we're going to
put this in place and we suggest we're
going to have this work in progress
every day yes can we get it right
thank you dr brown
all
right discussion and the board members i
mean
uh is this something that
you i would like to make a motion that
would go ahead and fund this
do you want to talk some more you got
any more thoughts among all of
okay
a week
would that give you enough time to know
your numbers or do you need two weeks to
figure out your numbers
because
i agree we've got to
and i'm going to speak for myself i'm
i lived in roseville but i worked
i it would have been hard for me to have
to run all the way to here
go back up there for best duty at 7 30
teach all day
get off the bus duty run back down here
and keep my kids up and then go back
home to roseville i'm just trying to
think of
what our parents need to make it good
that their kids are getting in an
environment in their work and i know
it's going to take three times the staff
i understand that
three times the meal delivery
i get it
but how soon can you get this
information to david
the rest of us
that will know
is one place going
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how the other school divisions that are
implementing these programs
uh as far as as far as how many we did
in cleveland and how many castle
really until we do a registration
process
you know we're not going to know that uh
you know the thing about feeding kids
listen we'll
we've done it you know some of you guys
have helped we bust 339
918 meals
uh
to students in russell county by the way
399 thousand 918 views but uh that's
that's that's not an issue the the
concern i had is
the people that are going to apply for
these positions if we hire them and we
hire
how many
six there and seven here and three
or two in cleveland and
21 over here and then all of a sudden we
realize we don't need that many people
what what are we telling those
folks there as well you know what i'm
saying it's just
it's just a situation where
it's a it's kind of like a chicken and
egg thing which which comes first you
know we can't really give you an idea of
what the numbers that we're going to
need are until we get the program
started see what the registration would
be
and
so that's you know again that's that's
the problem uh
but again i'm more than happy to do
whatever the board wants whatever
information they want i'll i'll get but
to really know what's needed in
castlewood home acre and cleveland and
other areas in the county it's going to
take the registration process what i
envisioned is if the force supports us
moving forward what we can do
evening registration actually later on
this week or beginning of next week
and have that information in hand we've
already started the process of speaking
to people as far as interviews are
concerned for some of these positions
we've got plenty more yet to speak to
but we've really started that process so
i think by the 21st we can definitely
have a registration done
and staffing established and a needs
for each area i guess determined
if school goes back full time what's
what how critical would the need be
well again if we go back full time these
this is a focus on pre-k seven students
so these students would not be going to
the learning center uh so these students
would be going back to school but again
what's what's the timeline on that you
know if you want to see any interview
watch fox
so
you know is it going to be the end of
october or is it going to be the
beginning of march before we have one
available
so that we can mass
have a vaccination available in mass
i just don't know
so again there's a lot a lot of unknowns
so your registration process is going to
generate information
because you'll you'll accept
registration
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maybe we start off for a week or so if
everyone here and then we can look at
getting those people in and getting them
trained and then getting them in place
while mr lovelace and his team
you know gets all the fiber in place and
we get mr ray in there the building
inspector and the fire inspector in
because
all of this still requires a certificate
per site
for us to do this
so something like we can just bring the
kids in tomorrow and start we still have
to go through a process to get all of
that approved
again i'm not the expert on exactly what
those guidelines are but
if you're saying that
uh
our friends with uh
the daycare facility you mentioned
people
people incorporated thank you if our
friends and people incorporated were in
those buildings were probably okay
yeah how long would it take you to get
the registration out there to get the
information back so
we can see it
what i would recommend is that we do
some type of evening registration we can
get uh again we have to get some people
hired what we can do is bring them in
and do an evening registration from
four to seven
three nights or something like that
three evenings so people could come in
sit down fill out the paperwork
if their students are our if these
students are already in russell county
it's not gonna be an issue we have like
a one-page document if it's uh
if employee who works here
you know the uh
treasurer's office they they happen to
live outside of the county your kids go
there that would be a little bit more
detailed but basically uh you know what
i would envision is probably two or
three evenings
of open registration and then we could
react to that data at that point in time
so
to me i would think you know maybe the
end of this week beginning next week
then we can bring people in and train
them then we can probably open up not
support the 21st
i think i think you're meeting me
it's not the same as going back to
school but it's pretty darn close
i know
and i understand
that you have to start
one of them we have
some stats
i'll be going through that here
shortly and one of the things that
that caught my
attention on this program was of course
it was the daycare between a b but
it it came from workforce development
board and given the opportunity for the
parents to be enabled where they
get their job back to where it was
stable because you got your kids coming
home if you got a pre-k
at home during that time you can't get
continuity on your hours or your jobs so
this gave an opportunity to fill that
void so i don't like it when you call it
learning yeah
it is it's a learning center what about
kids with disabilities
so it's a burden on the family so they
say well why can't you take
this schools are taking them up there
they can come to the students
this is a branch of the school system
but it's not
the k-12 instructional events well you
just answered yeah so
that for our special needs students they
can attend four days a week now
at school
uh so that's that's okay will you answer
my question i didn't know that's okay
all right
at this time do we have a notion from a
board member that
agrees that we find 150 thousand dollars
to start their pilot program
i'll make images
all right we have a second
steve
all those papers
but can we have a little more clarity to
the motion
and i'm not disagreeing
but um
a little more clarity to the motion that
would perhaps lend itself that it will
look at the other areas that we've
discussed
for this discussion can you tweak that
uh
motion to well i just made the
suggestion carl if you want to
katie want to help
he'll say a little more too
all right
that's good carl i'm not putting words
in your mouth so forgive me
correct pre-painted seven to look at the
different areas
does that satisfy everyone did y'all
hear it
uh considering that you know they look
at all areas of our county
the students need
and steve said all right
yes
please i am is because
i want to see this information first
before i and when i get the information
i'll be getting more support
throughout the whole county
and see the financial
obligation
prior to that it's not that i'm against
you it's just i am
i
honestly dr brown always say this is
just kind of throw down as here tonight
and i like to communicate and kind of
filter everything and not just
spontaneously vote on things pretty
quick so
uh i would like to research this a
little bit more and get that information
from dr brown and then i'll
uh i'll come back at the next meeting
with my leadership
well it's not going to work out in those
areas
that'd be the worst advice that we give
the constituents all over the county
because you can say well you did it for
one you can't do it wrong
that's a real bad taste if it wasn't
and if it costed a little extra money to
make it work in other areas of
castlewood and cleveland and home acres
uh gibbons belfast wherever just in the
whole county
as long as you're equally fair to
everybody i'd be fine i just i'd like to
digest some of the information and some
of the registration information i would
like to see
in my district how many people would
participate in a program like that i
should be worth the investment because
you get a good return on that you know
it might be 100 people might sign that
you don't know
i think that um
you don't
really know
although all those in favor of this
notion
anyone
next thing we have is
um constitutional weak
resolution
would you like to read it or do you want
me to read before you did
whereas september 8th 2020 marks the
233rd anniversary of the drafting of the
constitution of the united states of
america by the constitutional contention
and whereas it is fitting and proper to
officially recognize this magnificent
document in the anniversary of its
creation and whereas it is fitting and
proper to officially recognize a brother
celebration which will generate the
occasion and whereas public law april 15
guarantees the issuing of the
proclamation each year by the president
of the united states of america
designating september the 17th through
the 23rd
2020 as constitutionally
now therefore at the request of the type
of adams trap
wrestle chapter of the national society
of the daughters of the american
revolution
i rebecca died chairperson for of
supervisors do hereby proclaim september
17th through the 23rd 2020 to be
constitutional week
in the in russell county virginia as the
citizens to confirm the ideals and
of the constitution had in 1787.
so do we have a motion to accept
i should prove this
to you
do we have a second i'll say david all
those in favor
all right
we will get this sign for you
and in the meantime while i'm signing
these
mr nolan stevens with the leaven and
rescue squad hoping first responders
want to speak
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uh
really i'm here actually kind of
representing living lifesaving crew
uh my name is nolan stevens i'm
currently the captain of the lawsuit
crew and also hopefully uh
respectfully speak for all the ems
agencies in our county
uh
we have been through some pretty trying
times over the past few months
uh
i have unfortunately uh with the prizes
with cobin
that we've that we've faced i've been
struck with the cozy uh as far as i'm
probably one of the first uh ems
providers in our accounting that
was positive
uh so being you know the leader i guess
is
not placed there
i guess lead by example as far as that
but uh
and it really puts a bird's eye view on
what we're facing
uh not only uh you know all these things
came out
with uh
you know what we're seeing at different
ages and of course
focused on the elderly you know nursing
home
you know patients and things like that
but also during this time my
one-year-old daughter
was positive and we saw so we've seen
firsthand on what
get a lot of different opinions um
you know
what this is about this this is about
that this is for real
uh it is rough i know we have other
uh
citizens in our county that you know
several numbers have increased and
increased
that you know experienced a lot worse
than than i had and
knowing what i experienced you know it
was pretty rough so uh what i'm actually
speaking for is just one thing of
appreciation i want to
thank you all we've uh unfortunately
missed the first meeting he was able to
attend the second meeting uh of the
funding process that you ohio have
approved
for our agencies uh
mr lester uh meeting with them uh mr uh
were there mr ray was there
so just really you know that so we're
really open you're laying on the table
water we face
uh you know in my opinion we want this
thing to be over
uh as soon as possible you know we want
to move on but i'm not for sure how
convenient that will be
we have to look on the terms of a long a
long-term deal what we're responding to
you know do i can i sit here and say you
know hey well i i was exposed to this
virus you know on my ambulance no i
can't because you know what we you know
fortunately have been provided uh the
protective equipment
personal protective equipment and all
you know i went you know step by step
you know either be in my household step
by step it's affecting all these things
that come into play you know gloves
gowns face mask
all this protective equipment and still
you're still what's there you just don't
know you know i feel more protective
than the back of my ambulance
you know grocery stores
but uh but the big thing is is what you
all are doing for us you know as we're
speaking for ems uh you know we do
appreciate it i mean every
every cent counts you know we've been
funded you know each agency uh you know
has been given uh you know the amounts
as far as to help uh we've already been
able to purchase uniforms because you
know we are we get on a patient that's
exposed and really right now we're being
instructed to treat every patient as
though it's positive because you don't
know uh actually to kind of give you an
example whenever i was tested cause of a
little bit of a dry cough a little bit
of a cotton mouth kind of deal at work
in my other location where i worked and
came home that evening took some
ibuprofen laid down next morning felt
fine temperature 1972
i
clean up go to work
and just my my fiance she's like hey you
know you're going to be on an ambulance
tonight
just to be precautious as though we try
to be
why don't you go get a rapid test you
know just so
family physician
got an order for a rampant test i said
i'll catch me some lunch while i'm out
during lunch break take a rapid test how
little did i know that my call was going
to come back when i was positive
so you know i go home that evening
contact
okay next morning i get up and i mow
grass i'm gonna fill it up above my
house and i'll pressure wash some on my
house
you know and then so it's this you don't
know you have no idea you know really
when you have this one you know what
it's going to really hit you amongst
symptoms so many different symptoms uh
so us as a county as you know with what
we're doing
you know it i feel we are one of them
worse before it gets better
i feel you know uh you know very
supportive of you know of course our
schools as as though i was presented
before what we're doing with our kids
getting back to school trying our best
to get back to it
but us as ems providers we have to try
to be prepared for the worst
and so uh
what you all have done you know for us
and i understand we're going to be back
you know there's there's funding we're
aware that there's funding coming to
help us and we you know uh we do
appreciate that we are moving forward
like i said we as us as 11 we've
purchased uniforms
you know
we go in and get exposed or something
you know then
you know we want to also you know it's
cleaning because you know just the
industrial washers and dryers at our
facility where we can wash those and
have them you know freshly cleaned while
we're still at the station but yet you
know switching into a different uniform
so we're blessed because of the funding
that y'all presented us to be able to do
those things uh we're looking uh even
advanced procedures uh advanced airway
procedures in our images that we're
restricted of doing them across the
cover you know we're able to purchase
uh you know lorenzo scopes video we're
in discussion where we don't actually
have to be down in that patient's airway
or get a distant visual of what we're
doing for them so
without your help you know that would be
very difficult i mean and also it does
affect the community because you know if
we can't do those procedures in advance
to emergency situations
you know the likelihood of even maybe
saving a life
but uh but i do want to to thank you all
uh
uh and i said this kind of gives you our
responsibilities you know i know each
agency you know we have different
uh call volumes we have different
uh
you know size coverage areas and you
know that makes a difference but we're
wrong and we're all needing you know
needing that support
uh i know lebanon we you know we do have
probably the largest coverage area in
wrestlemania we do have the highest
numbers of call volume and we also have
the highest numbers of code
cases so
what you are doing is a great
great asset to us to help us protect
them not only
the community and protect the necessary
providers
there's not you know ems providers are
very scarce
uh it's very difficult you know whenever
you know we go out on a 10 day or 14 day
quarantine
uh you know well that's taken nothing
that's taken me off that ambulance for
two weeks
you know and
some of the agencies with sweden's one
of you know we we're not all volunteers
we do have employees so then that
increases the funding that increases
over time that increases you know
everything is challenged you know as
i'm sure with every everything else but
but i do you know i'm basically here to
say thank you
i thank you for what you're doing and
we are you know we will uh you know be
communicating with mr lester uh what i
do i want to shout out as far as to mr
powers to jess
every every time that we've needed
anything with bp and stuff like that
you know he's a phone call away he's
been there
so i feel we're blessed to have support
uh and like i said we do have needs we
want to have more needs and you're
probably gonna see us again
uh and you know we just lay it you know
we put it on the table when we feel our
needs are like so my needs may be a
little bit greater a little bit more
intense than you know some other
agencies needs at their time they may
have you know they may have something
available to them then i don't but but i
do my my purpose here tonight is
basically you know to say thank you for
what you're doing thank you for what
you're doing for our ems you're making
you know you're basically there putting
us out there for greater support for our
community
uh and like i said i think if we all i
think we're gonna see higher numbers
pictures please
miss pat asks that we have a picture
with us
signing her constitutional the
declaration of
constitutional week so y'all don't care
and we will try to social distance now
how did you want you want four in the
back
three in the front one another
oh
so
all right next on the agenda is uh a
presentation for mr cody edwards with
the
waste management
good evening um
i guess i'll start off uh
one thing that i sent over to katie and
alonzo was it goes along with this
speaker just before was
uh policy that the
waste authority
looked at for copenhagen or employees or
the employees of the transfer stations
and
anyway
to being compliant and to be
where we needed to be
my board at its last meeting approved
uh working with our attorney
developed a
very uh
very good layout for a covenant policy
for all the people working at the three
facilities i went to the dickenson
county board meeting and they approved
the covent policy and i sent that over
to you all
and i'd like to
ask this board
to approve
it's not
changing the uh manpower agreement but
basically an addendum adding it to
uh
the manpower agreement i think you have
that on your agenda later on tonight is
the manpower
yes we have the addendum that's the only
thing that we're taking up tonight is
that but i do
if you all do approve that tonight i
will then the process will be i'll be
attending buckingham county board of
supervisors meeting next monday night
i'll tell
the next item
that i have
for you all to review
is
a little background as you can see in
the letter that's posted on the
screen
i've seen over a little background on a
matter that we have at all three of the
locations by candice landrieu
is the issue of tires
as you can see in the background for
many years now we have been working with
west virginia tire
they're based in somersville west
virginia
and they've been collecting or providing
us with the trailer that we load and
they take it back to their facility
and that cost has been 76
over the last few months
maybe a little longer than that we've
been having some issues
with being able to get trailers
you know they've had issues just like
everybody in america
with keeping employees being able to
retain employees during this kobe crisis
and
you know a few months well
a few weeks ago
brian myself and some
employees from buckingham county took a
couple loads of tires up to the
uh
and we got to see a really
big eye opening
with
their facility and how it's run and
potentially how it's going to be for
long term for us
to give you an idea where we're at now
we're at maximum capacity
on taking in tires
especially at russell and dickenson
county
we are at almost the point of being able
to
not accept tires
because we're only allowed by our permit
by the state of virginia they only set
so many tires or have so many tires on
the ground at any one time one time
so we have an issue all three of us have
an issue
and
two board meetings ago my board charged
me with
finding some
costs some solutions for addressing this
issue and how we could remedy it
full time and permanently
so in your packet that i submitted over
to you
i proposed to my board and they approved
it my last board meeting and sleep
of option seven
is to purchase
two type sidewall tire cutting machines
one for buckhead or one for russell and
one for dickenson
and a tire shear
which is basically a
machine that cuts through tires and rims
and
this would take care of our tires
and how that would take care of our
tires
is that we can send tires to our current
length
but they have to be cut you can't see in
old tires because in theory
and by
the state regulations if you put a tire
in the bottom of the landfill it will
come back to the top it ruins the cap it
runs the landfill
but if you cut it in half
it will not come back up
that's the regulations
and so looking at that
this tire sidewall cutting machine is
the most cost-effective economical way
that we can address petty getting ready
for tires
and being able to accept tires into the
future
looking at some numbers
as i mentioned earlier
uh
we're currently being charged so the
counties are being charged 76 dollars
per ton if we start throwing or putting
them in the landfill or in our trash
you will go from russell and i'll give
you as an example you'll go from 76 a
ton to 34.17
it's what you'll be paying
that's a difference of
and 43
cents
if you keep your current rate
that
41.83 will go back to you
that's one way for you all to generate
money
looking at all three combined by going
with this
solution
we'll save the counties all three
combined will save annually based on
entertainment
that we're currently getting in on tires
annually you'll save an additional
twenty thousand nine hundred eighty five
dollars it's what all three combined
will save by
being able to cut them ourselves take
care of our tires and not have to worry
about a third-party vendor
pay for these tire machines as you can
see the two machines
bucking in for dickinson and russell is
going to be 13 800
in her
current budget the wasted board
we have
our finance manager myself
are estimating we have
a little over twenty thousand dollars
left in our account that's the time as
you well know
the way our articles are that was just
passed in
the earlier part of this year is divided
by three and give it back to the kids
any surplus
so
we have enough left over
that no one county would have to pay for
these machines
what i'm here tonight
based on those articles of incorporation
that was just updated in the past
i'm here tonight
requesting that the balance which
if you divide that by three is a little
over seven thousand dollars each
that the waste authority is to
keep that money pay for these machines
and take care of retirement
counties not being out any more money
and
it's problems you know fixed
um
the waste authority at our last meeting
voted to
purchase the machines and take care of
our tires and be able to take care of
our customers to give you an example in
dickenson county
over the last few months we've had to
turner uh
cut off
the tire companies the entire little
mom-and-pop tire dealers from being able
to bring their fires
and
so
we have to address this in all three of
your counties
the waste authority in the county
and the transfer station are their only
outlet for tires
you know without
us being able to take tires
they can't get rid of them and
brian and i was talking earlier uh today
and this week
you know there's counties or tire deals
here in russell county that have been
going other places they're now starting
to come to the county because it's
cheaper
as you can see in the quotes that i
received
our closest tire company that would
actually take the tires
is patriot tire over in uh
next to the pinnacle you know where the
pinnacle's at there's a tire deal down
there
and they gave us a quote
and it's in your vehicle or in your
package here
it is
option
number one
their cost per tire or per ton is 135
dollars per foot
when i saw that
i was like wow
our county's capable of that or in
public you know a general person
bringing in tires
you know but
at 76 dollars a ton our companies in our
counties
are accustomed to that and they are
happy to pay that
um
but that's just to give you some some
thought there on other options
but uh
i'm here respectfully requesting that
the 7 000 it's 7 100
that we have left over in russell county
that
you all allow us to keep that and pay
for these machines and take care of the
time you're voting our board voted to do
that i'll make the most of it
all second
and
now that we have a second can i give
this a little bit of discussion
well
this is something that i think needs to
be said you know this came up because of
the kobe 19 and the issue with western
entire that's how this
got started but even if that had never
happened
this is just the right thing to do
because it saves us money
uh it keeps us accepting tires from our
local
dealers we've got to take care of our
gold tire businesses it's just
135 dollars
thank you
i can hear you but
it don't sound like its own uh
um
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that's two good questions
two good questions uh
let me address the person
i'm not asking any of the three counties
to hire additional labor we already have
staff at all three locations
existing staff can use
utilize the tire machine
again to give you an example
they have a tire machine that's why
we're getting them with tires here
this being an unexpected
you know situation we didn't budget for
this the waste board
what i hope to do with our next budget
is to buy russell and dickenson a tire
shield so everybody has a tire cutter
and everybody has power shield and let
me explain the difference
a tire cutter that we're buying for
russell and
dickenson cuts the tire
the tire shear if we get a rim
a tire with a rim on it or
you know a tractor tire from a farm
tractor
we can take that shear that'll go on our
loaders and cut it into two
so
that's why we're wanting to try to
budget next year
to buy shears for us
to answer your second question
um
the folks with buddy manufacturing
that's who we're buying them from we'll
provide our staff for training it's
basically i don't know if everybody got
to watch the video
it's fairly simple to use you simply
take the
tire you set it on it you don't have to
lift which i'm all about you know
employee injury i don't want any of that
the ones that dickinson county used to
have
that was a employee
uh
injury waiting to happen it was more
like
an upscale
wood split
and you had to lift the thing that put
it up on the machine this one you don't
basically set it up against it it pulls
it up it cuts the tire the person
flips it around
it pulls it back up cuts it and you're
done
uh the shear goes on the end of the
loader so
limiting someone's injuries
you know
minimal
uh the machine that we're getting
uh you know you're not around the
blade the first operating is behind it
from behind
for me it's
the easiest
least amount of getting someone hurt
as far as
insurance
you know it is a part of their duties
at the transfer station employees
in buchanan we're using probationers to
cut tires
uh the employees there are
supervising them
uh training them showing them how to use
the machine and also what you know
but to give you an idea
in about two hours they cut 200 tires
and they've about got their tire problem
fixed
because they have a tire machine
and
have you looked maybe down the road as
far as a separator or the driver that's
a good question too uh as you can see
one of the
ideas was to look at a uh
tire shredder that we could make molds
from yeah one of those machines a mobile
one that's what we originally looked at
beginning with the street
is to buy a tire shredder and we can
move it from county to county but one of
those costs around 180 000
uh and
we didn't budget the counties i'm not
going to say can i have 180 000. there
you go you're coming back again
so
this idea was something that we as a
waste authority can look at there may be
grants that we can get to buy one of
these that may be a pilot program
through epa
that we can buy and make mulch
uh you know the mulch can be used for a
lot of different dogs
this mulch is not playground wall so you
make that perfectly clear because you
have to take the wires out but the mulch
that this machine would
create could be used as daily landfill
coverage
you know maybe sell to our landfill or
get a cheaper rate on our trash
it could be used by the psas for pipes
you know use the skillet rather than
buying gravel you know there's some
opportunities to use that much
but like i said 169
800 is a lot of money
and
i know that we're not required to be
asking for
uh money and i knew that the cheapest
way
we could do it and the counties wouldn't
be out any money is
option seven
because we had split over time
i hope that explains everybody's
questions
i'll let you know
i just want to make sure i answer
everybody's questions on another note
you made a statement about the community
workforce um doing this in another
county and i don't remember the county
you may have said buchanan county or
something but
the question is still out for me and
i've asked if
we can ensure
that um those those folks
to run this machine or how that works
how that would work with russell county
and what the liabilities are here at
this county for using
that particular kind of labor
okay
give you an idea
virginia code
8.01-22
6.8
and i'll read it to you
civil immunity for public and non-profit
corporations officials and private
volunteers participate in certain
programs for probationers
this is what our programs in all three
of our counties
run on our litter pickup programs or
illegal dump cleanups
or probationers that are transfer
stations this is what law that we run
even your program here
that misruns
probation officers court personnel state
county city and town personnel
any other public official and private
volunteers who participate in a program
where persons on probation or community
service are ordered as a condition of
their probation or community service to
pick up litter along sections of public
roadways or waterways
to perform recycling duties at
landfield's garbage transfer sites and
other waste disposal systems to mow
right-of-way or to perform other
landscaping maintenance tasks or to
perform services assigned by such
probation
other services
assigned by probation officers court
personnel state county
city or town personnel or private
volunteers acting as an approved
worksite supervisor of a court-approved
voluntary jail diversion program
shall not be liable for any civil
damages to a probation
probationer or person
on community service or
the property of such person or acts of
or omissions resulting from such
participation unless such act or
omission is a result of willful
willful misconduct
the provision of this section shall not
be interpreted to grant any immunity to
a driver
transporting the persons or probations
or a community service person or a
motorist who by his negligence may
injure such probation or person on
community service
that's the law that's what we run it
and that's what we've used for
16 years now
uh frank kilford had this pass through
legislation to do these programs to do
the assigned highway program to be able
to use them to do
work programs so that probationers
people getting time
can
participate and be able to work off
their time
and it's been a good program for all the
kids russell county and
have the success
and uh
but this is the law that we run under
just
what
what we've done
one more thing
i see that i
can pick up litter recycling mowing etc
but in this i don't see
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running one of those machines that has a
big blade on it i'm just saying honestly
recycling to me is taking plastic and
separating cardboard and plastic but it
also has business
it also says
other waste disposal systems
that's working at a transfer station and
we've been working on my transfer
stations for a long time now weed eating
this machine that we're getting
the blades is big
you know it basically cuts the outer
tire out
and i see your just asking and i i'm the
first one to be concerned
i don't want anybody hurt
but
you know running a weed eater or a
chainsaw
is more dangerous than this machine
because the person
operating it has to be behind
and you know our workers compensation
you know bud over and dickens again
he said it's it's part of their duties
for employees
for the probationers you know if there's
community service worker
or their caseworker or missy
says this is a part of your probation
this is what you're going to be doing
you're going to be going down to the
transfer station
and
chad or melissa will be over your site
supervisor
they tell you what you need to do
that's part of their their probation
and they're we're covered under this
city
and
that's
i'm not no judge or no attorney but
that's what we've been using
uh buchanan county uses them for
everything
you know they do maintenance they do
uh work at the transfer stations the 200
tires as probation is doing that with
our staff supervising
and it gives them a way worth their time
i mean it's a good public service for
them
you said you don't have to hold any kind
of license or anything to operate this
machine you're just gonna be they're
gonna
you know chad has weed eating you know
he's their site supervisor
and
they make sure that they're doing what
they're studying
is this almost a two-part motion
do we need
first
to
take the money back within the county
and then re-appropriate it to make a
purchase or this one motion that they
made go ahead and
purchase it all right
unless lonzo knows something i don't
know of any reason why you need to take
it back reappropriated it's already been
appropriate
yeah if you don't and i got a couple
points to try real quick
and
we got 7 100 remaining in our account
that we saved well which is good
uh
the machine is 13 8 right
for two okay
okay
if
this is judge moore's and um
zac stood's program which means he works
for so
to give
if part of the motion could be upon you
know
us looking discussing with judge moore
and uh zach stoops commonwealth attorney
that they're they feel comfortable with
this program proceeding with this job
description in addition to what they're
doing
that's part of the motion or y'all i i
let me make that clear
the staff could do this
the probationers helped the staff
we only got two down there
it would help us get some of these taken
care of if we need chad pushing the
button or tommy or somebody like that we
can do that but
so don't let your motion hinge on all
right probationaries that's why it's
fair enough okay second thing is so
you're saying that the community works
will be morally of a manual label than
the operation of the machine is that
right okay
as it is it's fine
yeah okay
all right we'll call for a vote then
david made the notion that we purchased
this machine in 10 seconds
so and we have discussion now all those
in favor
all right
anyone opposed
you want to see them all right
thank you thank you toby excuse me
thanks toby what was
yes okay
our board has already approved the
covenant policy indicator
thank you all
right now we have the
approval of our minutes
our first is for the regular august the
third meeting we have a motion to
approve those minutes
see the second
second
all right our next set of minutes is for
our august 18th meeting that was a joint
meeting with the psa we have a motion to
approve those needs
all right we have a second
also
fourth
all those papers
no we're saying
all right now we need a motion to
approve our expenditures
for payment
hang our beams
the first is for our heart of appalachia
board and there are two positions the
first one is
miss heather powers and that is um she
is our current director on their tourism
do we have a motion for that first
position
she is my state code to serve on air
part of ecological
madam chair i'd like to make that motion
to
reappoint
heather powers to that position as she
does serve as our
county dmo
all right
okay do we have a second on this
on the nomination of kept second
all those in favor of this first
position and the powers
anyone opposed
all right the second we have a second
position open
it starts on september the 10th it was
the
uh
to fill in the continuation of uh
him so the floor is now open for another
nomination for the hard athletics
any other nominations
all right perfect we've been so far mr
victoria all those in favor
aye
opposed you
all right you have this heavy powers
your team
next
appointment is the kremlin mountain uh
community service board and this is to
complete the
term for his fans who had to resign it
is a three-year
yes
there's one application in the package
okay all right
all right any others
all right
that all those papers here around
next we have our simpsons comment period
and i have two names
first is ellie dale
good evening
um from the library i did want to let
y'all know that the library has gotten
some cares covered money
from the library of virginia
they made an application through the
institute for museum museum and library
services um and basically those of us
that are considered poor got money um
several of our surrounding counties also
got some lumps and pine for instance
it just was based on things like the
poverty levels and the broadband
distribution um
we're spending it on a variety of things
uh the first thing we're gonna do is buy
about five thousand dollars worth of
ebooks suitable for juveniles
because with the system with the schools
going the way they're going children
will simply not have access to their
libraries so we're also
going to be issuing each of the children
a
generic library card
that they can use to download books it's
digital only so they don't incur any
funds
nothing like that
um
and i just didn't want to let you guys
know that that the library board has
decided how they're going to spend that
and we're about ready to jump in on that
the other thing i was going to mention i
don't know if it's feasible for the
county but i have talked to one of the
towns and i'm going to talk to the other
town next week
to try to have story walks at each of
the town at the town parks
and if if i get a good a go from there
i'll i'll go then to cleveland
um a story walk is just that you
basically take apart a storybook
and put it up as like a little poster or
a little sign
so that is the kids walk from sort of
station to station if you remember the
old park horses where you would go from
point to point doing exercise well you
only have to walk and read a story with
a child so
um
i might be
trying to hit the county up if i can't
find some boy scouts or something to
help us build the
create the little
stations
may try to get the um
the
get missy's crew to help build some of
those but that's one of the things we're
looking at is since we
can't we're having trouble getting
people to come in the library
we'll try to keep them outside and keep
them healthy thank you
next we have
william osborne
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osbourne 1436 horton ridge road toll
242.9
i appreciate the opportunity to come and
speak for y'all i'm here to talk about
a problem that's you know not only in
our area but lots of
parts of this county is a high-speed
internet
and i live on the whole right section
i guess everybody knows where that's in
david's uh
second part of the county there i wish
i'll make them raised up there
but uh it's about a five mile section
they've got internet service spectrum
has i think about two miles up the
mountain it's actually a mountain that
goes into raven and it comes off on pine
creek
and there's about a four mile section
that we're underserved
and we don't have the internet service
it's come to our understanding that
coming to mountain plateau and
and point broadband has money to bring
internet to underserved areas
and so
uh we contacted i've talked to david
i've talked to will moorefield and uh
will moorfield said money they should be
money there
he said to sac
in other areas that you know they
these underserved areas everywhere
but he said that uh
that the money was there and he said
even the carers money could be possibly
used for that
and
we talked to cumberland mountain plateau
talked to geneva and he gave us a number
to contact the point front fan and i'm
going to be honest with they were very
flippant when we talked to them
and
i said they had no interest in putting
the line across through there and it
wasn't
just something they wasn't going to do
it's very flippant about it
well we contacted him again told him we
talked to morgan griffiths and will more
field than others and they were a little
nicer
they wanted us to get a petition and we
had 80 i think 80 some people signed it
and i gave david and mr reading i gave
him
uh copies of that and copies of
corresponding point broadband
but one of the questions that i had i
wonder how how the point broadband how
do they pick and choose
is it is that on population well will
morefield suggest that they should
y'all may already have it he said they
should have a plan laid out for the
board of supervisors that
probably they want to have a plan
on what they want to do with their money
you know
and uh do y'all have that have they done
that
they they've got
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they can only do so much at times i know
they've been working
working they're getting ready
they've been up 19 and that's
all they've done
at their last meeting
but they hadn't had anything done at all
so
uh
terminal plateau um
first year they're way behind and they
if not if not more
and if it comes across and go on into
pine creek and i don't know
it doesn't come up from
the raven side spectrum ravens
yeah it's spectrum
within the bible
uh not as far as the church
point once five was already in the
ground all the way through
it's already all laid through there
all that all they
should have to do is set a cabinet
and do the connection will more field
said that we might want that i go and
other might want to get some competition
for them you know to
maybe some other
be up through our spectrum and said that
we talked to them they said they would
love if they could get their funding
they'd love to come across
that
again
if they yeah if they could get the money
they said they would definitely bring
the concern
all they got to do is file an
application you know and we approved
resolutions and support for both
igo and point broadband
to apply for monies and it is
frustrating it's like mr breeding said
it's like in my district you know
they've started in a couple areas but
you know they they go up for sale road
but only so far and they stop and it
makes no sense because it's like there's
just as many houses
past where they stopped as there were
yeah
yeah very frustrating
it comes up 19 but if you live off the
19 you're not gonna get it i have a late
night
all the time
she can see the community college and
she works at the community college but
she said she was told that whoever her
provider is oh i'm not putting wire up
it'll cost you three thousand dollars
for me to run the wire to your house and
she's sitting and looking at southwest
community college and
the crowd
one of the things i mentioned to you too
is uh i'd like to see lou and steve look
at his uh cell site
there in that area i mean
it's desperately needed i mean it's such
it's
die out there for that recovery raven
and backside yeah all across all you got
you got a shot at big mountain and
fire town mountain too you know
i want to bring that up tonight because
that's desperately needed and i i'm sure
it's desperately needed
hills area and other areas of the county
boxing and concrete both
mr osborne we feel your plight and i
would like to ask the
chair and the administrator to put on
air
agenda for next time to hear joseph
bucket
and make a presentation here and tell us
exactly what he's going to plan on doing
and so you can watch us on tv or listen
to it or whatever or be here in person
but we want those answers too well i
appreciate that and that's uh
like i said i know it's all different
areas but you know this is this is my
area and
and they just a lot of children up here
you know they don't have access to it i
know one like that she's got a
compromised immune system
it is frustrating
gentleman called me from the purcell
road area
not that long ago he asked me why they
stopped right at his house and i don't i
don't know
i don't know how they decide
quit here you know
but i do appreciate y'all's time and if
y'all have any ideas or if y'all want to
contact the spectrum or any of them
you know i'll be back the next lady
give me that number and i'll contact
them and and help with the process
and will morefield said he was going to
work from his side too he said he won't
contact
a few others also
so maybe we could
get it going and i appreciate it
thank y'all thank you
all right
officers
thank you madam chair the first thing
that i have for the board is the
continuity of government operations
ordinance that we had the public hearing
on earlier this is the same exact
ordinance and that we adopted in april
as
as i discussed in april it does have an
automatic
expiration date which six months and due
to the fact that we've received
additional coverage money and as well
where this area is just now feeling the
effects of covet i do think that it's in
your all's best interest to read to
reenact the statute it can be rescinded
at any time by a majority of the board
but it would be in effect
from this date until march the 6th of
2021
i can't hear it
the second ordinance that we had the
public hearing on earlier is the
courthouse security ordinance and this
is is just an amendment of an existing
ordinance and the law was recently
changed to allow localities to increase
their
courthouse security fee from ten dollars
which was the previous maximum which was
what we had to twenty dollars
and that is taken out of criminal and
traffic offenses in juvenile and
domestic relations general district
circuit court it doesn't apply to civil
cases but it is a fee if the defendant
is convicted
so that that is a fee that goes to
providing the necessary security for the
courthouse which is has been an ongoing
issue that the board is is currently
working on addressing so that that would
be additional funding to address those
issues
so we need a motion to
uh raise this fee for the courthouse
security ordinance
to pass the amendment agreements okay we
have a motion for that
yes
i think it's his user agreement on that
but all i have for the board's approval
tonight is um the addendum to the map
the manpower agreement that toby
referenced i have i've reviewed that
dickinson county and i think lonzo's
reviewed it and dickinson county has
already passed this as well this is just
to address their issues with coven and
the three localities are still working
on finalizing all the documents so but
this will i imagine will be incorporated
into the finalization but they do need
this to address that temporary
uh concern so i would ask that the board
uh approve the addendum to the map to
the current manpower agreement i'll make
that move
david
any discussion
all those papers
the next thing um
that i have madam chair is a resolution
i've received
and it's from
the
ratcliffe foundation it's in regard to
um placing statues in russell county and
i've reviewed this statue and doesn't it
does not financially obligate the board
of supervisors at all it's basically a
resolution of support that you would
support their endeavors now this is not
an exact plan but i did receive this
today and this is a concept that that
they've got if they were to receive
the statute that they would that they
would hope to maybe make some kind of a
part
and that that's really what this
resolution is is that that you support
their endeavor and to create tourism
and you know additional tax revenue from
visitors coming here so
like i said i don't think this is the
final plan but this is a concept they're
working on so this is something that
this foundation's given a lot of thought
to
but again it's not it's not requiring
anything for supervisors it's simply
asking for your support for them to
undertake that project
i'll make that motion
session
uh yes if i may
um
i'm trying to
i'm on the fence on this and uh
so you have explained the part the
county plays in this which is nothing no
financials
nothing that we do as far as accounting
no taxpayers money
but supposedly
i know i'm a troublemaker i'm sorry
supposedly we have um disagreements over
this that the sheriff's office is going
to have to come out to see about
and i'm not saying that's going to
happen i'm just asking these questions
and has what kind of what kind of uh
response has the community given to this
all right is that community okay with
this
um
i really can't answer those questions
from a from a legal standpoint um and i
don't even want to try because that's
not really my my job
and i don't want to i don't want to
overstep my bounds um but
you know that's i mean obviously i mean
you know you all are speaking for the
community and
i don't know if anybody has
raised any of those issues with you i
know you know this again this is not
land that you're going to be
required to take care of this is private
land that they will they will ensure you
know deal with any issues that may arise
it's just whether this board of
supervisors
is in support of this project i mean so
it's it's really it's just a resolution
of support so but i can't answer okay
about so maybe i need to direct my
question to the county administrator so
will the planning commission be involved
in this
and will this uh non-profit or this
organization will they see that
everything is kind of done and they will
will they have a
public comment period or anything
well
i don't know
we've just seen i've just seen this this
week so i just didn't know i mean i want
to make sure that we're all good with
this i have a question with you too i
mean this is a
private foundation
going private land
i mean
do we really even need to do
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i don't think they would require this
this specific boards of approval now
whatever they're going to create that
may involve the planning commission i
don't i don't know what the exact plans
will be i don't think that it's required
but
i will i think a lot of it is
these you know a relocation these
statues are going to be very expensive
and if the locality is not in support of
them being there then they may choose a
different locality because i think
there's a substantial amount of money
involved in that but i mean i don't
think that they require it because it's
private land it's just something that
they you know i think it's more
something that they want to make sure
that they're welcome before they do that
they're required
every year
the meal pond is on down next to the
governor's house
they're not ellen brook is right below
oh
by the way foundation
but are they gonna put it right there oh
number four the white one or way on down
next to the governor's mansion would you
like to sit right there
no that's alan brooks
i mean i think this is very interesting
i really really do
but perhaps um the foundation might need
to come in
and give a presentation
sort of
and and i just want you to have all the
facts i don't and again i have i
personally have not been keeping up with
the decision-making going on in richmond
regarding the statutes but i mean i
don't know how quickly that will be
resolved and so i guess that's a concern
you know
they're still in litigation on
i have not personally kept up with that
you know i mean i don't know
what you know
obviously litigation can go on for years
or be settled just like that i mean it
just depends i can't so i can't tell you
a time frame and again i'm not trying to
hurry you but i just want you to be
aware that you know if something were
resolved and there was no resolution
then maybe they'll i don't know if they
would look elsewhere so i don't know if
that's a concern
i know smith county is approaching
without doing it there they've got
unanimous effort
hazel county was awesome also
and this is not a guarantee
this is not a definite plan this is just
a con this is again a concept that they
come with up with i guess if they were
to relocate it here so i mean to say
that it's definitely if they come here
and that it's going to go right there i
can't say for sure it's just
it's an idea that they've come
so
for both there's a motion on school on
the floor
david made a state second
all those in favor of the
resolution
anyone obtaining
anyone voting
um the last thing is at the last meeting
we approved the new personnel policy and
that
that required any changes to
job job descriptions of the manager
class to be approved by this board and
my understanding that
county administrators has worked and has
crafted this
job description for the emergency
management coordinator
and i have reviewed it and it's before
the board to to
accept tonight
all right so we have a connection on the
floor
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it does reclassify
the coordinator of emergency management
as exempt as you know pursuant to the
flsa you know that really all depends on
the type of work being done but as a
general matter this position would be an
exempt position
did i have
did we have this in our packet already
or did we just get this today
we've received it today because it's a
personnel issue
i haven't looked at it the first page i
have sit here not look at this so
i apologize
i'm not hearing that
oh you did i'm sorry and
um all i said was we had we passed where
we passed the personnel the new
personnel policy at the last meeting um
any
okay
oh no we're not doing another personnel
we're just we're approving that
uh
this is not a change of the personnel
policy i we're applying the personnel
policy because we're changing a job
description and pursuant to the new
personnel policy that was adopted
that any changes or new job
classifications and descriptions of a
manager employee of a supervisor or
manager employee have to be approved by
this board
any any um
any
lower any other classifications of job
descriptions would not have to be
approved by the board that would be
approved by the county administrator but
because it's of a manager class then
it's for the board to approve
it and read it
all right since we just got it
we can table this until our next meeting
so that everyone has a chance through
just it to make a motion to table in a
second
to read until the next meeting
second okay all those papers
savings
the first one on the counter ministry
reports on question september
is the
bra energy conservation rate renew bond
annual refund this is 148 181.91
this is uh
applicable to the energy performance
contract
uh
a few years ago we upgraded all the
schools energy performance
as a reminder and this is part of us
upgrading their their windows and
natural gas and water and getting out
all the energy performance back in and
this is
uh part of the treasures guarantee
for this project of 148 thousand 181
91 dollars this is reportedly this is
giving updates to the the board of
supervisors this program is performing
well
and uh
the energy savings are coming through
just as planned which is guaranteed by
train which was the contractor at the
time for the performance energy
contract
the
next on the
county administrative
is
this is the russell county's cares fund
from
march the 1st through december 31st
these are
reports in y'all's package of how we
have appropriated out the cares relief
fund throughout the town as everyone can
see we have gave
we have given up to 839 thousand two
hundred four dollars to the towns alone
uh the county for the whole operations
all the way from march to noun
and that includes part of the ppe and
the sanitizer and security before
workforce and disposal house cleaning
total of 714.64
modifications to
public safety and facilities
we've had clean supplies and of course
we have got detained donation machine
the 95 000 that we've given right here
actually went to the fire and rescue
squads and the courthouses in the
government buildings and
of course kelly to the libraries
so we've given out those machines so uh
and we've also give out along with those
machines we give out the disinfection
for
decontamination
we give each one of the 12 squads
one of these machines to be able to
uh decontaminate their their equipment
and their facilities it actually uh it's
a backpack so there's 55 gallon drums it
goes with this it has a great feel rate
as far as the kovid
of course we'll be going into in a
minute of the small bat small business
grant program
which you you guys will approve here in
a minute
which we gave 120 000
to
to support business and recovery
uh next is the community assistant
programs which is
uh of course fifty two thousand and five
hundred dollars for those those are the
food pantries around the county so we
have reached out to all the
non-profit
food pantries
to be able to give to them and
next on the county mission next one
lineup is to the fire and rescue squads
we've also given
out
actually this has went up since this is
uh
i wanted to correct the number but i'll
show you in the later ones we've
actually almost give out 400 000 to the
squads to be able to take care of the
fire five rescues in the eight fire
squads
uh we also upgraded our equipment to be
able to have these meetings and tail
work and do what we needed to do
and then again we've extended hot spots
and all the community centers and
libraries and
some of the fire halls some of the
churches
so right now today we have spent
2.2 million 227 000 we have 2.4 million
remaining
so
but you gotta remember that the biggest
portion of those went through of course
the towns first to get their share
because of population that's based off
the code of virginia
so
again we got 2.2 million four hundred
and eleven thousand seven hundred
seventy dollars of
9-2
next on the county administrator's
reports is
our southwest virginia regional jail fy
20 inmate population and our fy 21
projected inmate population through the
regional jail of course due to the
copied issues
uh and the enclosure of the courts we we
came out really well on this our total
for ending
our average for the year
ending on uh
was 137.97
if you get down to that that's how far
they go
and of course
we
as you'll see later on there'll be a
return of expanding a refund from the
regional jail that we came under uh they
have projected uh said they apply 21
they had 180 inmates and we hope due to
the community aware program that we keep
it under that
because what we have budgeted for and
what we anticipate
will come out to again again with a
a surplus
next on the county of australia reports
is the uh if no one has heard
or seen the signs this is the general
dollar store construction project this
is a project that was under uh that is a
new junior revolver store that's going
in at the
intersection around 71-58
if anyone knows where the old and this
is
our dogtown site was at her disposal
site this is right across the road from
it here is the proposed location and
the county and vdot has been working on
this uh the contracts have been awarded
they are proceeding with uh the
engineering and they are also proceeding
with site development so
uh this will give this is uh speaking
with the engineers
this is uh
general dollar store has conveyed to us
that this is one of their due to the
traffic volume of 51. i mean 71 and 58
this is under their flagships so they'll
be able to service the area within 58.71
and they think it's going to be a great
success plus to
that community in those districts and to
uh russell county employment this is
jobs so
next
is the county administrator request of
course like i've had mentioned before
i need a motion on these these are
converting the ross county ida
applications to grants
i
have put in y'all's package what the
town 11 has given this is their their
grant fund money that they have given
out to each one of their businesses
uh through the town of lebanon through
the town home acre and the ida the
motion tonight for the russia county
court supervisors we have currently
screened and approved eligibility of 15
applications here
through here for a total of 75 000
so
i we need i need a motion for approval
of the russell county board of
supervisors care
carers grant program funds for 75 000 to
these eligibles
the shaded ones are the ones that we're
working with on the town of honaker
were that's
that in the town hungary they may be
proven picking those up this is cares
fun the care is fun we're making sure
nobody
is
we have to make sure that both funds is
eligible if since the county is the
conduit for the funding when we give it
to the town honecker when he would give
it to the town of lebanon we can't give
it to the same person in both places so
we're
we're checking off the boxes and making
sure if the town of holland acre picks
these up then we'll be great that it's
under theirs that we talk to them this
afternoon
if they don't then they'll come under
the county either way the businesses
will be taken care of i'll make a motion
we approve thank you sir
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or did they use the same application of
care the cares grant
the idea applications they they first
began when the uh back in april and may
and june doing loans these this is
that's the next motion
because i've got to do one it's got to
be converted one is loan i was going to
take care of the rolls of county loan
or grant through the russell county
board of supervisors first and the
second one is convert the russell county
ida
from
loans to cares grants so
i can go ahead and answer that one right
now these
these were loans and now they want to
convert them to grants that they are
eligible they have since
when they first put in the applications
they put in
the paperwork as a loan through vesita
to through the ida
now they want the eligibility to turn
these loans which they can do under the
carers act to turn the loans to grants
so they're asking for approval on the
next one that'll be the next motion
next question who made the decision to
um
to check on this to make sure that this
cares money would allow this so has this
been checked on yes ma'am because these
grants
loans
was before that's great cares
was even heard of correct that is
correct man okay
but we have approval
to turn this around and turn this into a
grant yes ma'am
i'm sorry yeah
yeah
this is what the id once converted along
the grants
now these are this is the town 11 this
is the town home acre the motion that's
currently before the board is the russ
county board of supervisors for these 15
applications that the board of
supervisors is only awarding as grands
these are the board of super 75 000.
this is what we've given to the
emergency responders thank you
okay
yeah
okay they have to pass
the criteria before it can be
changed from a line to a break what the
process is and the auditors have looked
and reviewed
based off the applications that were
given to the ida at the time for a
business grant through veseta
they
they had certain applications in certain
documentations they had to give and
what the ida had to do
was to resubmit
with the paperwork for grants to make it
seem eligible they they had to meet the
criteria and eligibility for a grant
they had to be in business in march the
first they had to meet every eligibility
requirement
for the conversion from loan
to grant
that's applicable under the program okay
so the ida
sent these out and made the decision on
who would get this i didn't even know
this was going on until i got word in my
packet that this that the idea had made
these decisions so that's just the
reason i'm questioning it and and that's
a fair question because at the time the
board of supervisors that was that
something a program that the idea had
taken on its own it was not
it did not go through the board of
supervisors at the time
it was when the back in april and may we
didn't even get the cares funding until
june the first which we had to report
today so i know the date very well
so
to the department of accounts so june
the first is the day that we received
the electronic transfer fund of the
first co-bid funding
now
under the program under the cares
program they there is eligibility for
business grants and conversion from
loans to grants it does both so the ida
approaches the board of supervisors
after the fact for conversion of ida
loans
to grants to meet eligibility now this
is not this was a much larger list after
eligibility requirements and they had to
make sure they were in they were in
business since march and first they had
no outstanding taxation no utilities
they had employment they had
a budget they had their 1040s
the carers grant is a more comprehensive
program than the loan because
a loan is looked at as a gift so they
had to meet more eligibility
requirements going in through than
actually online
and the tail doesn't turn around do we
have callbacks on any of this when when
the grants are given when they have to
be in business for x amount of time or
pay it back or anything like that
on the club
on the guarantees if you look at the
application on the last page they they
certify it to be you know valid and true
uh one of the things about it
it these are valid businesses that's
been screened and been here a while so
we went through not one two or three
times but that's about how many times
we've we've re-screened and re-screened
these these programs in these businesses
so
these these are uh bat these are
traditionally carlson county business
has been in business for a while in
russell county
uh some of them a long time they're well
known
so
they do meet eligibility
the ida currently has 10 applications it
was actually 15
five of them did not make it
we we got down to ones that were
eligible for loan to grant conversion
based off the resubmission of our
financial documentation
and now you have 10 that are eligible
and based off of all the applications
that went through the board of
supervisors the 15 applications at 5 000
each these are the ones that made
eligibility but in the meantime we had
to work with the town of holland acre
which we visited the town of lebanon and
met with our councils to make sure that
we were trying to
uh the towns were taking care of as many
town businesses they could do the town
of honaker was taking care of as many
businesses as they could do and the
board of supervisors is taking care of
as many county
including the town businesses that we
could do
is this a continuation of
a grant
this
per the application in the wording that
we've got
it is based off of one is funding it
will continue to either september the
30th which is the period or or
the funding is complete okay
i want you to say that public okay
yes
yes sir
so the ida is
yes
so instead of saying 60 000
so now we can all put on our facebook
pages and everything else one more time
to our local businesses
please apply
for the cares money thank you yes we
have it on our website i have the
applications on the county website
that's why you've got the names and
places please look at these you all will
probably know folks that we might not
know
because we want to take care of our
people
yes the uh we've got it on the web page
we put it on all of our media sites
facebook twitter to make sure everybody
is eligible you know it knows of it and
it's aware of it we've got many phone
calls plus we're working with all the
towns so working with the towns to work
with us and the idea is back out there
they're trying to get some more
businesses they're in and also some you
know they're trying to work in each area
they're coming in out of castlewood
they're coming in out of danger coming
in now
you know in various parts that are not
located in the town
so we're all working together trying to
make sure we're not missing anybody and
of course anybody out there listening
please you know if you're about viable
business
this grant is eligible
please take a review at the application
but the first motion will be because
it's a two part the board of supervisors
has
15 applications for 75 000 that is
solely grant
it never went through a loan to grant
process it is a grant so that i needed
approval for 15
applications for 75 thousand dollars
i didn't make that matter
[Applause]
i'm not sick okay i'm sorry
okay
sick sorry
yeah
if we went to the ida and it got
that's another emotion sorry about that
we got to read through the book
yeah
we're ready we're ready
okay
next motion
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15 grams so all those in favor
aye anyone opposed or abstained
right now audio
there's
10 grams here we need a motion
to change their lines
to grains and there's only 10 that's
eligible
right any further conversation on the
idea
all right
all those in favor okay
10
grand
yes ma'am all those in favor
they approve theirs so
again the ida
these 10 of conversion from loan grants
just to sum it up from loans to grants
this will complete the amount
the other five are not eligible for
grants at all so this 10 will be the
only one that you will see conversions
on the rest will be grants under the
program
under the board of supervisors not the
ida
of course i i put this in the packet
where everyone see the town of lebanon
how they chose their so far in the town
of own acre how they've chosen their so
far
and of course the board of supervisors
that you just approved and the updated
numbers for the
first responders
uh on the rescue we have given out 175
000 of the cares funding to
the rescue squads and 210
000 out to all the fire departments
which is wasted we've given 35 000 to
each one of the rescue squads and 30 000
to each one of the fire departments
and these are the uh food ministries and
the
food pantries that we have given to
roger e jesse the word of victory the
elk garden star ministry and splash
ministry so each one of those are in in
each one of the areas that we're in
great need so
and
that sums up the summary for the
rose county cares business grants and
financials
next
of course is another approval for the
virginia supreme court drug treatment
grant program
uh
again this is part of me uh missy's
carter so this is community work program
uh this is for the russell county uh
adult drug treatment court for ninety
thousand dollars i need approval for
appropriation allocation for fiscal year
21 for the virginia supreme court drug
treatment
uh grant so move second
second
all right all those in favor
next on count ministry reports
is the russell county school board fy21
reversion fund allocation this is a
request by
the ross county treasurer this is to
move uh 535
143.68
from the school uh reversion funds back
to the ross county general fund
i need a motion to prove 535 143.68
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next on the county ministry of uh
request is this is uh as mentioned
before the regional jail our inmate
population this is the fy 20
reconciliation of local contributions
debt in short term this is our refund
due to uh
again our community work program and
due to the reduction of the kobe cases
it is a refund of 527
967 dollars and 18 cents for
appropriation back to the rosso county
general funds
uh that money that comes back do you
allocate that back into a line item for
the regional jail
he goes back to the general fund
thank you
based off of that the code of virginia
doesn't allow it
at the end of the fund it's like the
school reversion funds and by law on
june 30th it has to revert back to the
location
if they did not use it
we didn't would be charged with interest
leo all right we have a motion about 10
a second by
carl
all those favors
do you want to pose
again um this is another good one the
virginia department of criminal justice
services this is a grant that just came
down through to for the sheriff's
department
um for covid
for forty eight thousand oh seventy five
fifty four this is for them to be able
to utilize their funds to support their
offices and
and staff during this time i needed
approval for uh forty eight thousand
seventy five dollars and 54 cents
uh
to the uh
rosa county uh general fund so move
mountain chair
second second
session
all those
[Applause]
[Music]
all right
everybody away
now now that we bring all this money
back
now they've got to spend time
next on the county ministry request is
of course a russell county disposal
truck purchase this is for fifty six
thousand twenty three hundred twenty six
dollars uh
i need an approval for it
but also in the second part of the
motion will be to sell the other truck
that we do as normally as part of our
program our replacement program which
has worked very well over the years uh
we usually end up utilizing these trucks
we buy them on state contract which we
get them at a cheap price and then we
sell them at market
and usually if trying to correct me here
if i'm wrong we
we
our cost of
our depreciation cost
between what we
we buy for and sometimes we have sold
them and made more than we paid and
sometimes it's very less in its nominal
amount so sometimes we have utilized up
to maybe eight to ten thousand dollars a
year of cost from one truck i mean it's
unheard of so this program is as part of
the continuation of the program to
purchase
the 56 000 it's up for uh for
rotation and to sell the other one in
the open market so it's a two-part
motion
how you did that it's remarkable how
you've done that save that kind of money
taxpayers county but i i just wanted to
meet you but i'll make that motion i
think it's a great concept
however you figure that out
you're making a motion to purchase the
new truck
all right second part of this motion is
to allow brian to take their old truck
and see a leak i'll make that move david
thank you
second okay
carl
all right second part of this motion is
we will take the old truck and
put it in sell it hope you get a lot a
lot of extra money right all right all
those in favor
aye
anyone
it is it's my understanding he already
you already have a price um
with the guy in alabama or wherever to
sell this thing
yes so you're telling me that you could
go down there knowing you're going to
get 110 but you could very well come
back with 130.
that's great
but when now the reason again we buy
these on state contract
so we use the power purchasing power of
the government when it goes back to sale
it goes to the open market which you
know
it's got very low it's got miles on it
but it's still in good shape brian
maintains these vehicles very well uh i
always he puts down the estimate of what
we currently we got gap insurance on
what it is he's guaranteed 110 000. now
when i estimate out i'm a little
optimistic because i'm going off the
future
brian's been really well at this and i i
i'm saying 140 is what we're gonna sell
it for so brian no expectations but
uh
but they if the program does work it
works really really well i mean and
even some of the private companies have
heard of this and they say how do y'all
do this some of them are trying to start
to do it so
but
it works well
we
that concludes the county ministry of
reports and requests
okay next our final thing do we have any
matters that want to be discussed
presented
david yes ma'am i just got a couple
things the first one is uh i got a call
today from aaron ball that lives at the
and he has uh obtained a petition to try
to get water service up in that area
tried it tried it and tried it and they
tell me it's too hard on this mileage
well
he says
and see if there's something that we can
do to and i know there's other areas in
all of our districts that need it but
since aaron called me he said one of the
two of the commercial accounts that he
had was uh sterling cattle and also
a waylon hart now wants public water so
he said he had two commercial accounts
not counting all the residents so i just
want to make sure
aware of that second
uh i'm a little frustrated right now
because
i don't know who
who and all had this information about
this project dr brown's
but apparently he's communicated with
somebody or other people but i didn't
know anything about it or
ever related to me or communicating with
me at all
and i i i don't like this spur at the
moment stuff
i'd like to be kind of informed and
communicated with if anybody has any
information like this that they can
provide so we can study it and think it
out and maybe ask some questions and
stuff before we have to actually take a
take any measures i would be really
grateful in regards to that because
i just don't like being some of this
stuff here being sprung up and let's
take an action
i would like to be able to digest it a
little bit more that's that's basically
all i've got
okay
there's
uh yes i have something that i want to
discuss
um our tonnage report now this is back
to their hall of trash again
and um i've been watching the tonnage
reports for uh my district
and the little hamlin site is on
overflow here we're pushing a lot of
garbage out of the hamlet site
so that's why we're finding a truck
so i want the savings off of his truck
to help me
redo
a site
uh for that little corner of the world
down there um i i think it's phenomenal
if you look at this
we're like
lebanon of course we know is going to
take the cake and they're going to be
number one all the time that's
understandable
but then you get down here to um little
hamlet and there's only one
flat rock who's got flat rock by the way
david you've got black well you're
you're beating hamlin on tonnage but i'm
next
so i really need to have some updates
and upgrades so i'm throwing that out
here now to this board and to the public
then
i'm working on some upgrades and updates
to the hamlin
trash transfer convenience center site
because it's certainly not convenient
right now it's on overflow
and i went the other day
and the trash was all over the road i
mean it was past the top of the open top
and it was spilling out over
into the road so
it is
it's just too small so thank you for
listening
carl no
this is i guess a minor thing but i just
like to ask the board if they would
consider
going
back like we did a couple of years ago
and doing a discretionary
in light of the monies that we got back
from greece and jail reversionary
monies from the school
and the copic money that's taken care of
a lot of
these expenses that we
were afraid we were going to have to
you know that kind of lets us each do
a little thing here and there in our
district that you know there may be
something in my district that
i could do that you all don't even have
introduced it
and vice versa that way that keeps us
out of the
well if we do for one we got to do for
all
you know
i said maybe there's something i
can do for my district that you all
wouldn't be interested in
you may have something totally different
that i would have loved
this gives us a little flexibility and i
think last time we did
five thousand each
thousand dollars but just
something i think we should consider
okay
anything else
all right at this time we will set our
meeting for october the 5th
at six o'clock
here do we have a motion for our journey
i'll make that movie carl you have a
second second
all those in favor