all right at this time i'll accept a
motion to come out of executive session
some move madam chair do we have a
second i'll second it thank you
all right
certification
in a closed session
sorry about that thank you madam chair
certification closed session
pursuant to subsection
2.2-37-12-d of the code of virginia
1950 as amended each member of the board
of supervisors upon roll call
certifies that to boast of their
knowledge only business public matters
were reliably exempted from the open
meeting requirements under the virginia
freedom of information act
and only such p public business matters
that were identified in the motions
by which the closed meeting was convened
were heard discussed or considered in
the meeting by the board of supervisors
any member of the board of supervisors
who believes that there was a departure
from the requirements shall say so stay
so prior to the vote indicating
substance of the departure that in his
or her judgment has taken place
are there any supervisors who believe a
departure has taken place
seeing none
if you agree that the matters heard
discussed or considered during the
closed meeting were pursuant only to the
motions by which the closed meeting was
convened please signify by saying yey or
yes tim lovelace yes luanne wallace yes
carl ray yes david yes
steve brady yes voice christian yes
rebecca die yes ma'am you have approval
to return to regular session
thank you
at this time we'll have our invocation
and remain standing for the pledge
please kayla
father god lord we love you we thank you
we praise you today father father we
thank you for
this holiday season father and we thank
you for allowing us to meet together we
ask you to bless this meeting help us
use
what you have given us so that we may go
out and uh spread your name father
father you tell us during your the
trials to give you praise so tonight
we're going to give you praise father
for it's in your name i pray
the united amen of america and to the
republic for which it stands
one nation under god indivisible with
liberty and justice for all
at this time i'd like to
[Music]
make some amendments to our agenda
we need to add a planning commission
appointment
under number four board appointments
we have a resignation and a
an appointment back in that position
also under our county attorney number
four
we have uh information from the
southwest virginia uh
regional jail authority agreement and
miss katie will be discussing that
and under
the county administrator request
number eight we need to add that it's a
vdot resolution for route
743 so with those uh items i'll take a
motion to a mender agenda madam chair
where did you say number one went on the
board appointments do i even have that
no he just added that
to number four
thank you under
uh
the fenney community
center
we'll add that your board appointment we
have the resignation there and then the
uh
new one back
all right and four is under county
attorney
and then a number eight under
uh request for the county administrator
and i'm chairman make a motion that we
amend the agenda as you've stated all
right thank you do we have a second
second david thank you all those in
favor
all right
all right the first thing we have is to
turn our meeting over to
our county administrator for the
organizational meeting
first board meeting of the year
thank you madam chair
first thing on the agenda
the organizational meeting is selection
of the chairman russell county board of
supervisors
i'd like to nominate lou wallace for
that
position
all second now
thank you
i like to nominate david eaton
all right
all right any others
yeah is there any others
so the first one we have luanne wallace
is that correct and in the second one we
have david eaton
is there any other nominations
since there's no other nomination has
been i need to move uh a move to seesaw
nominations and then be closed move to c
song nominations
since it's been moved to the owl
nominations for the chairman has now
been closed is there any if there's no
other nominations to the nominations the
nominations are closed
we will proceed with the vote
in reverse order first
with
david eaton and then mrs wallace in
reverse order for the nomination of the
ross county board of board of
supervisors chairperson
david eaton
raise of
hands okay can i see that
three three okay
mr wallace
four
mrs wallace congratulations as the
russell county board of supervisors
chairperson
thank you
so we'll continue on and
please the public excuse me i'm
suffering from a tiny little cold
tonight so i'm all mascot
anyway we'll move on to the
organizational meeting with the election
of the vice chair
i'll take a motion from the board for
vice chair
i'll nominate horace christian
okay we have a nomination for orris
christian do we have another one
i'll nominate
carl ray
we have a nomination for carl ray
anymore
okay we'll take it in reverse order carl
ray for vice chair of the russell county
board of supervisors
all in favor
we have three
okay for aorus christian for uh vice
chair
thank you the motion carries orris
christian is now the vice chair of the
russell county board of supervisors
moving on in the organizational meeting
for clerk of the board and deputy clerk
uh does that mean vicki make a motion to
nominate or to elect uh
alonzo lester's clerk and
vicki porter is the deputy clerk i'll
second it okay we have a nomination for
mr lester as clerk and ms porter as
deputy clerk all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions motion carries
um adoption of the county's bylaws those
are in your packet
i'll make a motion we don't brought the
latest version robert's rules order
thank you we have a motion for the
roberts rules of order adoption i'll
second it we have a second
all in fact any discussion
all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions
motion carries
and we also going on to number five in
the uh organizational meeting is
adoption of county bylaws
so move madam chair
okay we have a motion and a second mr
eaton and mr ray
all in favor
any discussion i'm sorry
any opposed any abstentions
number six in the organizational meeting
2022 board of supervisors regular
scheduled meetings that is in your
packet
i'll make a motion we adopt the uh
meeting dates and as listed that would
be
six pm
uh on it's listed on page one of the uh
agenda or the board packet
we have a motion from mr breeding to
adopt the scheduling as uh presented in
your packet
second of a second by mr lovelace any
discussion
number seven
number six
oh i'm sorry number seven yes okay
all right the fy 2223
budget meeting schedule yes motion to
approve that schedule thank you second
in a second by mr eating all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions
we don't need to say anything more about
that right because the schedule is in
there for the budget
thank you
now we're moving on to the
acknowledgement for uh dr norman rexroad
lou i'm going to pass this down to you
dear
this is not handy to mash this little
microphone and talk at the same time
the presentation for dr norman rexroad
he is a
west virginia university medical school
graduate of 1978.
east tennessee state university a
residence and internship hospital in
1980
board certified in emergency medication
he became a member of the russell county
medical staff in september the 10th of
1983
served in various positions at russell
county including most recently the
secretary treasurer of the medical
executive committee
served as chief of the emergency
medicine as well as various leadership
positions within the hospital
in 2010 mountain states health alliance
servants heart recipient
in 2021 the governor's ems award for
physician and outstanding contribution
to ems awarded the frank m geiser
trophy and this time we'll
present to
dr rex road
a lifetime achievement award outstanding
in recognition of outstanding emergency
medical service and commitment to
leadership
and involvement for the citizens of
russell county
absolutely
[Applause]
thank you
tell us where to be caleb
can you see everyone i want to make sure
everyone's in there everybody lined up
you're right you see
thank you
[Applause]
dr rex wrote
when we called and
to get you a what to what a tire to a
wire tonight we knew we finally got you
out of your scrubs because i have not
seen you out of scrubs in 20 years
thank you sir thank you absolutely we
appreciate it
thank you
okay at this time we'll moving on to
presentations
we do ask that you have a limit of about
five minutes
and the first one is the russell county
psa
okay in lieu of a presentation by the
psa we met with him in in closed session
to discuss some legal issues
so
at the request of the russell county psa
i will make a motion
to temporarily suspend mr carter
mclaughlin as a board member of the
russell
lee criminal charges against mr
mclaughlin for the alleged use of public
property
second
okay we have a motion and a second to
temporarily suspend mr mclaughlin from
the uh russell county psa
any further discussion on the matter
i'll call for the vote all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions
uh yes i currently work part time with
the psa and i'll be abstaining
thank you so much
we have two abstentions
did you get that baby okay
all right moving on um presentations
litter ordinance mr hancock
okay
moving on to new business approval of
the minutes
and consider approval of the minutes of
the following meeting of the russell
county board of supervisors that's in
your packet under d1
unapproved minutes of december 6 2021
so move madam chair okay we have a
motion by mr eaton
second second by mr ray all in favor
any opposed any abstentions
thank you
moving on to new business number two
approval of expenditures consider
approval of expenditures presented for
payment
motion to approve madam chair
just right there
i i included that in the other one so we
took that in
i guess that's okay right
motion to prove payment of the bills yes
i'll second it
okay we have a motion in a second all in
favor
any opposed any abstentions
madam chair i see mr hancock just walk
through the door here if we could
yes
okay
um at the chair's pleasure let me move
through new business and we'll go back
to
uh presentations if you may
anybody have a problem with that okay
thank you
all right and um
i think we have
at this time the budget committee is
this that i'm not on that page
okay so the chair's pleasure for board
appointment for uh budget
is rebecca dah i'm asking ms dye yes
and mr christian
will you agree to serve
on the budget committee for this year
thank you so much
next when we move on to uh the board
appointments
for
benny community center
mr ray is that yours uh yes madam chair
um can i do both of these at the same
time as a group
i think you can do this as a block
you can all right all right i'd like to
put mr david compton and mr edward
taylor back on there okay we have a
motion for mr compton and mr tiller for
the finney community center second we
have a second by mr lovelace all in
favor
any opposed
any abstentions
thank you
also we come to number five in new
business which was added previously
for um this is a planning commission
appointment
this is for district two
so
if i may be indulged just a minute
mr collins that we previously approved
for that appointment
is unable to serve in that position
and so um district 2 will now be looking
for another position
i have an application from philip
addison i'm asking the board to give me
a nomination
for that particular seat
okay
i'll make a motion to accept the
resignation
of the other one and then appoint philip
addington is it addington
addington
yes and so we need to do that in two
separate motions i'm assuming i'll make
a motion to accept the resignation of
charlie collins second thank you so much
um all in favor okay any opposed any
abstentions okay and now we'll move on
to um adding mr addison to the psa from
district two i'll make a motion to add
philip addington
to the planning commission second
thank you we have a motion in a second
two seconds and um all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions thank you so much
now we're gonna go back to presentations
since mr hancock has arrived mr hancock
we're glad to have you you have five
minutes
we are being polite so thank you
actually i don't have much of a
presentation
you you didn't hear me did you
i didn't hear your last one except i saw
him on him
oh
i was just asking if you got your
notebook from
last meeting okay good
all right
uh
actually i have just i think one
question
that is
uh
now
you folks
all know who i am because i've been here
before
and i know you have took me a while to
figure out who you were with that mask
on
that's why you all going banks
anyway uh
how many
and i'd like to see a show of hands
how many of you folks have been up to
see the property
that
i'm talking about and have been around
the back not just been up there to see
it from the front
because the front's not
where the offensive materials are they
are the back
now i know lonzo you went up there i
think with bill watson but i don't know
if you
and bill went around the back
i know you said the guy wasn't very
pleasant
which is my experience with him as well
but be that as it may how many of you
guys have been up there and being around
the back just raise your hand
i didn't go around the back
of that well that's
yeah well yeah although it's really hard
to even see
from back there although there's a way
i have to laugh i
that gentleman
called the police on me and tried to
have me arrested for
invasion of privacy and
trespassing
and the officers came up but uh well
anyway
i i have represented the subdividers for
years
and
so i know all the lock lines are and by
the way uh if that generates a question
as to why
i'm here
when
i represent the subdividers
back in the 70s probably when this
subdivision was done and i didn't do it
actually dennis jones did it at that
time
probably the latest greatest thing in
this area of the country
was what you call
a subdivision with regular cross
covenants in other words when you buy a
lot in that subdivision you're subject
to the same restrictions as everyone
else
and that's what restrictions apply to
this gentleman's property now he has uh
on occasion
said crude things to me about his right
to do whatever
the heck he wanted with their property
and that's a euphemism
but
i have always said i just need a yes or
no
i think we can enforce it
but i believe i told uh
i've told some people that
that pits neighbor against neighbor and
uh
i don't
i don't necessarily want to do that you
know
i used to do divorce work and i was
young and had lots of people wanted to
shoot me
told me they would but
i i've gotten kind of used to that but
some of the old folks that live up to my
street don't
they really don't want to be involved
with that in name
okay
so
i always took the position on this
matter of fact it shows how foolish i
was
when my neighbors
got upset about it i forget who who said
something to me about it so or several
of them said something to me so i said
well
we have an ability to go and join the
business activities there or in my
estimation we do