there we go so just for those that have
seen some of the updates from pure
salmon this is probably one of the last
slides that you saw and what i wanted to
do was to start here talk about the
progression talk about some changes
we've had to make and then of course
looking kind of a you know a lens
looking into the future what's critical
and and how we'll progress over the next
couple years so this was the was the
last layout that was published and this
is some just some general idea of what
the landscape looked like back in june
of 2021 so i know a few folks had picked
up on this you can see it's one large
central building you know we did some
renderings and try to make it pretty
unpresentable what happened soon after
that is if you wouldn't mind progressing
to the next slide is that we started to
do a little bit of soul studying in the
area and even though we had done some
conformational borings we realized very
quickly that the current building
location was not going to work as it
sits so over the last six months and i
really bring this up because i had
published a schedule much sooner for
permitting roughly
august september october time frame and
i wanted to kind of explain why there's
a bit of a delay that really came down
to the fact that there was an area of
the site that was completely unusable
for the task at hand so we have spent
the last six to eight months
reconfiguring
to this uh layout that we see in front
of us and we're progressing with design
quite nicely
the
this will be in the permitting package
here due in just a couple weeks and the
county of course will be looking at
these same basic drawings so it'll be
some slight tweaks but it's basically
the same thing
go for it
on site today
oh this is a good one so i would like to
share some fun facts about the project
because i get a lot
of this a lot of these questions how big
is it you know what's what is the
capacity what's it going to look like so
i figured i'd spend a minute just
talking about the project for anybody
new and also just kind of a refresher
for anybody that's familiar with it but
it does produce 10 000 tons and that's
t-o-n-e-s so it's metric tons so you can
equate that to about 11 000 imperial
tons a year of atlantic salmon
about 10 pounds in size which is i don't
know fish may be this big and on top of
that we've got roughly i think the
latest estimate of 735 000 square feet
fully enclosed so as you can imagine
we're growing this not in a river not in
an open tank not at a pond but actually
an enclosed environmental space that has
some fairly expensive and uh strict
biosecurity requirements around that
just for fish well being and whatnot
there is food processing on site so we
actually take the the salmon from the
egg form we we procure eggs uh you know
25 cents for a thousand something like
that and we actually grow them all the
way through their 22 month life span and
produce at the end of the the product
line produces a consumable product that
you would see in a market sometimes
white label for different grocery stores
and things like that that will be frozen
product as well as as well as smoked uh
product and that product is intended to
change over time so you might see
different products coming out of the
facility as we figure out what the
market's like for the us for our product
along with that we're hiring over 218
employees there's about 11 miles of
underground piping believe it or not
underneath of this facility
which adds a lot of the complications so
if you're from a water treatment
background or you you know built tanks
and buildings and whatnot the the
complexity is not so much above grade
but actually below grade and what you
don't see
the largest of the tanks there's roughly
24 of these that are about 80 feet in
diameter and they're about a million
gallons each along with that
that constitutes roughly 30 to 32
million gallons of water on site we've
actually trimmed that down on a little
bit just for economic reasons uh by
circulating water a bit more
and consequently
out of that 32 million gallons every
minute 24 7 there's about 1.5 million
gallons getting recirculated
so if you have any history with
hatcheries or even the ocean
fishing farms and whatnot you have fish
that's inside a body of water and the
body of water moves well we don't have
that luxury here
naturally because we're dealing with a
saltwater environment and you know
instead we just take the same fish leave
them inside the tank and just replace
the water multiple times every hour and
that's how we're able to clean and
actually you know maintain
proper oxygen levels remove co2 you know
take care of the denitrification steps
and whatnot we go back one more
there we go um
and we're doing all this actually at a
very very high recycle rate and this is
you know i was talking some gentlemen
outside this is actually
one of the world's first uh in this
space and not only that uh this project
is leading all the other pure salmon
endeavors out there there's this is not
the only project for pure salmon this is
the only u.s one at the time and uh we
are front running the uh the rest of the
countries right now so we've got japan
who's right on our heels we've got
france
there's brunei and a couple others as
well so this is a global design but we
happen to be right here looking at the
the first one
so we do that with less than 400 000
gallons a day which if you consider the
amount of water that this facility has
that's an extremely small flow rate from
an intake perspective giving us the
ability to actually not need to be next
to the ocean to to perform the task
next up is just some general photos of
the site today for those who have not
seen it i know that we try to do a
little bit of posting on facebook and
whatnot try to get you know some public
awareness out there uh it kind of looks
like you know strip mining for coal a
little bit uh so we've had the bench
basically about an 80-foot
section of the hillside
for soil remediation purposes we spent
most of the summer doing that
we've now got to go and do some grouting
as you can imagine if you're familiar
with the karst environment
in this landscape apply some wick drains
and then we're going to start with
structural fill and of course a
surcharge this means there's roughly 2.3
million cubic yards of material that we
will have moved
by the end of this project for sure
maybe a bit more
this valley was about 75 feet deep and
we have completely filled it up it's a
nice little
flat pad but unfortunately it's not
structural filled so we can't use it for
buildings or anything like that i get
this a lot when people come to site
they're like oh look at this nice
facility this nice flat pad this in fact
is not where the building's set this is
just the waste of material that we've
had to put in a valley and fill that
so there's obviously if you're thinking
about you know we're taking down a
mountain filling a valley there's some
balancing there we can't just keep
taking the mountain down because let me
just create another mountain so there's
a bit of balance uh and this is just
kind of a nice picture of what it was
looked like over the last couple months
these were taken in december mostly some
in january we've also crushed uh if you
go back one more for me
we've also uh spent quite a bit
okay maybe we go forward one more
okay that's fine uh so we started
placing
structural fill actually in the cut
regions here just a couple months ago
which is pretty exciting because
eventually you know we stopped taking
material out of the hole we started
putting material back which is the
monumental milestone in itself so we're
not having to dig any deeper and the
structural fill was just there to kind
of polish off the the the mentioning
plant as you can imagine
and each of these lifts are about 10 to
12 feet tall just to give it perspective
now we can go to the next one and then
of course any rock that we pull out we
end up crushing on sight to a six inch
minus and of course you know we bring in
some 10s and 57s and things of that
nature as well for for construction
reasons we need probably you know in the
neighborhood of 80 to 90 000 cubic yards
of stone to sit below the buildings uh
so any rock that we have we have to
harvest it on site and repurpose that
because it's just not economical to
bring it in again just kind of a fun
fact of the project not to get too in
the weeds but you know these these the
scale of the project is much more visual
uh when you're looking at photos and
whatnot
go for one more this is the entrance
road so pretty soon on route 19 as
you're uh going towards i guess from
here you're coming uh
towards the college right on the right
you're gonna see a nice giant hole open
up a storm water basin get applied and
that will be our our actual entrance our
main entrance we're still looking at the
name of that road we've got some ideas
floating around and things like that but
uh this is probably a 12 to 1500
foot
road that was that will be i believe
state owned at the end of the project um
this will be how everybody actually gets
into the project uh when when they go
see it or visit or work there and
whatnot
and this is inside of about a 45 to 60
foot cut depending on where you stand uh
through that hillside uh so for for
everybody that drives and commutes down
there you'll hopefully see that open up
here in march that's the idea as we've
had to work basically towards the
stormwater base and get down to the
right level and then we can kind of open
it up at the very last minute so it's
gonna you're gonna see a lot of progress
very very quickly and it'll be
recognizable
sir
how long do you expect reporting
opening yeah you said you're going to
make your main entrance right that is
that's from 19 from 19 that's roughly
march when we actually you'll physically
be able to see it
yeah
because you guys go right down by my
house now excuse me i'm sorry we're in a
public hearing so no questions thank you
okay
just a quick update on schedule the
immediate task at hand is a continuing a
lot of this earth work as you can
imagine we have a tremendous amount of
material still to move we've moved about
a million cubic yards to date i just
referenced a 2.3 million dollar number
we've got to get there sooner than later
and that's what we're going to focus on
right now the next one is permitting
which we're going to talk about here in
a bit as well and what the first agenda
item was uh for this specific meeting
it's very critical to our engineering so
like i said we've had some uh
mitigation steps you could say in
building placement and design over this
last year we've kind of accomplished
that we have not pushed to be clear our
start date or our end date so we're
still holding those dates firm which
means two things
construction has got to happen more
things in parallel as you can imagine
engineering has to happen a bit more in
parallel as you can imagine and we've
also got to ask and squeeze the
permitting process as much as we can as
well to maintain that schedule so that's
why i wanted to put this here to make
sure it's clear to everybody that
things didn't move six to eight months
that was an internal shift but our
deadlines are still the same we're still
looking at the county for the same
amount of reviews and approvals for that
permitting process i think the next
slide details that just a bit
you know in talking
about the permitting process you know
i've outlined just some key
uh some key takeaways but there's
more detail than this but i wanted to
express that you know permitting for
maybe a government building i can
imagine would be you know the whole
thing is engineered and then you go for
permitting in our life the way we look
the way we are today based on schedule
we've got to be able to say okay here's
the facility arrangement while we're
polishing off the the next set of
buildings we're going to pass those to
you so it's not going to be one big
package to review at any point in time
we've got to you know stagger our
foundation our buildings the various
different buildings will all have
different requirements as well and
spread that out over a couple months of
course
and focus on what we can get through
right away and get it permitted and of
course start construction here in q3
roughly july time frame in 2022
and that gets us about to where we are
now for any questions from the board
anyone have any burning questions at
this time how many are the buildings all
going to be in tazewell county or
russell county or a split it's a little
bit of a split i will say the majority
is in russell okay how many buildings do
you think will be in russell i would say
looking at that eight to eight to nine
total
maybe
six to six to eight
i have to visualize where the line is
and i'm sorry
that's fine
well i'd like to say one thing this is
going to be a great opportunity for this
region
i really am grateful
i mean this is going to be something
that
will open the eyes of a lot of people in
this rural area of southwest virginia
this this industry alone is going to
have a huge impact
and i am really grateful uh i know it's
been a process i understand that
but i will tell you from my perspective
i'm 100 in on this and whatever it takes
that's a lot of jobs that's a lot of
good jobs for a lot of good people in
this area and we need jobs
terribly bad and the one thing i did not
touch on but i did speak to back in
december
was the the construction jobs alone
so while we might be operating the
facility at you know let's say 200 250
people whatever it be
the construction effort to meet the
schedule is a between three and 500
count depending on how we decide to
break the jobs up so there's a huge
influx
of opportunity here over a fairly
you could say short construction period
but it's still all the way out to 2025
so it's not that short uh but there's
two three years at least of solid
construction on site going and there's
going to be a lot of manpower required
just any job's an important job and
we need desperately
this is a great agriculture
industry
facility project and that's one thing i
think we've been in depth in this area
in the region of southwest virginia is
agriculture you know that's a big part
of this region and this right here is
just going to be like the icing on the
cake
in that for what you guys are doing and
i'm just telling you again i'm really
grateful that this opportunity is coming
to us
one more thing if i may and i'll let you
talk rebecca excuse me
your timeline for
um construction because i know that
you can't speak but i can for you
so
i need to make sure that um all the
facility work is taken care of and the
permitting and everything is in place
so that when you do get out on route 19
with everything that's going to happen
there
will notification go back to some
residents will it come to us as a board
and we relay that information through
social media or whatever means or do you
notify the residents for blasting
purposes or whatever you're doing so for
the last thing that's happening on site
now it's managed by a subcontractor
completely it's you know they they own
the permitting and everything
the future construction works where you
get a lot of different subs right and
this is really what we're talking about
you know you have a huge much more
influx of of just people staff workers
and whatnot we've talked about doing
social media blasts we can set up a
communication line i don't think that's
impractical or impossible to do we have
somebody that can can manage that for us
uh i will say this you know when we get
into the summer months you know like all
we said on the farm you got to make hay
while the sun's shining right so at the
end of the day uh we absolutely will be
running uh as many shifts as many hours
a day during the summer because we can't
afford another winner like the last two
that we've had
i mean really that's what's killing us
today so we intend to to absolutely use
the daylight hours as much as we can
we have to
to meet the schedule
yes but we'll be able to air communities
in that
upper end of the county
will those communities up there and
those folks living up there will all
know kind of what's going on so if
you're doing anything major so those
communities can know i think the best
thing to do is take this to an email or
offline conversation and we can talk
about what's best for the community i
mean we don't want to you know step on
anybody's toes or anything like that i
just want to make sure the expectation
is very clear that
we get started but the question arose
even though it came from the audience
the question arose so we're just
listening thank you very good
have you hit any caves or caverns up
there yet yes
what what you have to do what's the
process once you do once you hit those
the one that we hit actually will get
removed because it was at the upper
level so we're going to take that soil
right off anyway so that was not really
a big risk
effectively when you i'm learning this
now because i didn't know before but
when you hit a cavern
we effectively fill the concrete and you
you know it's it's not exactly a
concrete it's a low mobility grout but
you you drill down
you might go down 80 feet until you hit
rock and then you pump at a certain
pressure and as you come up you just
fill the voids in and there's a strategy
where we we can do that around certain
foundations or high loads like tanks
things of that nature
so it's a it's a risk that we know in
the area and
luckily we spent the money doing eri
studies because we happen to just miss
the big one that would have cost us a
lot of time and money
by uh by missing the boardings
so
yeah the voyage of the caves in the road
base or was it at the location the
facility it's at the location
outside of the facility but where we had
to excavate but close enough to the
facility well again the one that we hit
that's going to be removed because we're
going to dig the entire thing out it's
it's just you know think about it this
way we're cutting down you know 40 feet
we found it like the 20-foot mark
because i i i you know
you're working with timmons group that's
been the blasting for the 19. and you
know i know that y'all working with v
v.now and then giving
the traveling public notification then
like miss wallace wanted we also have to
give our citizens you know you know
they're around the adjacent to it
so for the noise and whatever and
traffic and you know going to school and
stuff we just have to stop northbound
and southbound 19 when we blast so
those
uh community notices in public pr would
be very beneficial and maybe look at the
local newspapers if you know ahead of
time this will be the blessing time if
you need our help we have social medias
too
that we can help you with this too i'm
sure your social following is probably
bigger than ours in this area so we need
to tap into what your network has uh
blasting in a lot of ways you know it'll
rain in the morning so we've got to
shift the blasting to the afternoon or
vice versa right so there's
it's not something that we can give a
newspaper two days in advance say hey at
9 30 on this day we'll absolutely be
doing this work so the social media i
think is the right answer and my last
question is right now and as far as the
project jonah from the engineering
perspective this project is on schedule
that's correct yes okay all right okay
with that when do you if you can tell us
when do you think you'll start any of
the buildings so that's the july 2022
date that we just spoke about so the
permitting has to happen between after
the engineering staff gets done drafting
it we'll send it over for permitting and
as soon as it gets permitted we start
construction so they're they will be
drafting the building making the design
of it that's right and then hopefully
they'll start in july that's the plan
okay
is that the administration building or
that's the first phase the first one
will be the administration building soon
followed by the hatchery and that's
that's why we're proceeding with our
inspectors and the jurisdiction
agreement from both sides yep okay that
makes sense and then as we progress from
there we need to start shifting the
order based upon where our engineering
is we completed when the one first one
starts we can come in unison in sync
with what y'all are doing okay
not a problem sounds like communication
is a trick the trick
all right okay
guys we thank you thank you very good
i'd love to get my flashlight sorry if
you had to travel so far to you know
give it but this is the kickoff the
first process the rest will be in the
site development nobody's
is allowed up there so they don't know
they don't they have not seen what has
been occurring yeah absolutely no no no
no pressure thank you guys good thank
you very good thank you thank you thank
you for coming
okay if we're ready to move on um
to new business
this is where we are yes
okay
uh i need approval of the minutes
you guys have seen those that's in your
packet
and um we have an a and a b now i have
an attorney question possibly for the b
part so
we did not have a quorum
with air
meeting that we went to so how do you
want that handled
very good
all right so do you want that separately
we do them separately
doesn't matter to you
very good i'll accept a motion to
approve the minutes from january uh
third and february second so movement of
chair have a motion second madam chair
got a second all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions
motion carries thank you moving on to
new business number two approval of
expenditures
presented for payment i need a motion so
moved got a motion from mr eaton
second second from mr breeding all in
favor
any opposed
any abstentions motion carries
okay number three in your packet
committee appointments for board
consideration we have the russell county
planning commission
uh mr eaton you want to work on that one
for us well yeah
mr mclaughlin had contacted me and said
that he couldn't hold that position on
the planning commission but i do have
another candidate if you made madam
chair um do you have that candidate
ready to present with an application i'm
going to put you on the spot well no
that's fine i didn't get his application
into you on time but
i can wait i can even hold this out and
wait till the next meeting as long as
they have enough people in the planning
commission to have a quorum
they have to have uh been schooled yes
even though they come they still have to
have their
to be able to make them
well i can hold this off until i'll get
his application in i don't think we have
a burning problem right now on planning
commission i just don't i want you to be
able to get your guy
or gal in so they can go to school
mr eden
the whoever you do select we need to get
him in school because the next one
starts in march oh
let's do that now all right sorry i have
mr keith ray
let me give you a little history of
keith he's retired as a federal mine
inspector
he's now uh got a degree and he's
teaching school at home acre
uh so he retired from this federal mine
inspector and then went back right back
to work and now he's teaching school
with honaker so he's very qualified
he's got an engineering degree i think
he'd be real uh suited for the planning
commission so keith ray
okay we have a motion for um keith ray
to be um taking mr mclaughlin's
resignation place
um i'll need a motion
i'll make it
okay
you need a second
um this is a committee appointment but i
guess we do need a second for this don't
we yes second we got a second from mr
breeding all in
favor any opposed
any abstention
thank you
you're very welcome
mr lester i would ask that uh mr ray be
placed on the list to go to planning
school yes ma'am
okay next we come to citizens comments
uh period
and um at this time i've got a list i
think of folks in front of me that would
like to talk about this and i will tell
you that i have my timer in hand you're
going to get three minutes okay
all right the first one is
tommy alston that i call sonny
thank you
if y'all look up in the
left hand corner
this email was sent to everybody on uh
july the 12th 2021
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and i've been waiting
since then for nature
i'm
read your letter to us
sonny
hi my name's tommy austin i'm chief of
the copper creek and the moccasin
volunteer fire department
for a few years now the county has given
the copper creek fire department a full
part of the monies
allocated for the budget
but only half to the
moccasin volunteer fire department
we have two trucks
in the boxing building and the crew to
run calls it at that building
since there is no public water close to
the
close by we are in the process of
putting in a large tank
where we can fill up a truck
a
large tank where
where there is filling
it with water we're going to fill it
with water
has to have extra water in case of uh
case before in case we need it
at this time we'd like to ask for the
full amount
for the moccasin volunteer fire
department
now let me
let me say a few things we
we drilled two whales down there
both of them blowed out
any
uh well as it blows out it just
throws a big hole in the ground
we got one on the upper side building
one on the lower side so
that didn't help us
that was 40 40 some hundred dollars
so now we've come up with ideal we're
gonna get two five thousand gallon tanks
set in the building
for extra water
we're gonna have to heat this water
or heat the building
uh we've got to buy the tanks we got to
buy the pumps the pump's gonna be
pretty close twelve thousand dollars
uh
gonna be a lot more upkeep this building
what we've what we're having now
which to build the trucks over was paid
for by the copper creek fire department
but
we furnished him with the trucks for all
this time
that's all i got to say
honey i will apologize to you i found it
in my spam mail
well being spammed so you've been spent
okay well um
we're not supposed to have a
conversation and i don't want to break
the rules
so um
i will ask that the budget committee
look at this and discuss it
okay
thank you
next i have on my list um gary dotson
for public speaking
yes ma'am madam chairman and other board
members and guests
my name's gary dodson i live in
casserwood and
i'm here i guess
about an application i'm going to submit
for the
brussels county psa i understand their
possibility to be opening their
full-time or part-time or
temporary whatever
but my concern is i hear rumors that
the county is not going to put board
members back old
board members back on
the board
for what reason i don't know but
anyway when that
present board member
term expires whatever you're going to
kick that person off the board and just
because he's been there you're going to
reinstate him or you're going to put a
new one on just
just because of that
rumor if it's so that
no old board members will be placed back
on boards
but anyway
i submitted an application today and i
gave it to
chairman vice chairman and district 1
supervisor which i understand that's
where the appointment's going to be
made
and
i feel like that i'm qualified to do
that and you can look at my application
you can share my application with the
ones that didn't bring a copy to but
the most
qualified applicants should receive the
appointment
not that he or she
has been pres previously on an old board
but
anyway i gave my application to
the appropriate people and the rest of
you can share but
i hope you consider me for that
appointment i have experience on the
castlewood psa
and i've got other experience
uh
in the coal industry 38 years in the
coal industry
plus the supervisor and education to
back up
the qualification i hope you take those
into consideration and
consider me for that appointment because
i enjoy being a
servant to the county and the community
and i try to do a good job
appreciate your time
next up we have um mr king bj king
you got three minutes i'm just
i'm just
trying to follow her up on the noise
witness i'll turn it over to katie see
what she found
if we're still gonna be able to get it
done or
if i'm going to have to go in a
different direction to get it done no
comment remember
the public comment only
got to remember that yes you do you got
to remember
i'm an old commander
i'm not used to taking orders
i kind of speak out something but i do
appreciate it that's all i'm doing is
checking
just don't want to fall between the
cracks
and i apologize well ago talking
sometimes i forget i'm not in charge
take a seat and hang on okay
thank you
appreciate it
we appreciate you
okay next on um our public speaking
signing sheet is
forgive me burton harris
oh i got it right
we're ready to listen to you come on up
i'll give you three minutes
i'm a straight shooter
and uh
i'm honest man i'm a godly man
i believe in god
i've always been honest
i love people
and create people
with great respect
i know my voice
might be weak
but i put 53 years in the coal mines
i've got rock dust
and
if i lived for the 29th day of august
i was married in a little church out
here to be 27 years
not 27
67
i just want to prove
to you
i am
a man that says i am
and use your microphone so everybody can
hear you the word of god says
listen
you need listen to this
a good name
is better
than precious longing
and today you die
so when you're promising something
it's best to do it
and
i've been here
in buckingham county
for 15 years
i have been
robbed
in my real estate
for 15 years
it was assessed when i first built my
house for sixty seven hundred square
feet
i had four thousand and ten square feet
i paid twenty five to twenty five
hundred dollars almost twenty five
hundred dollars a year
when i finally got it straightened up
they allowed me back
278 dollars and 16 cents i believe it
was but we finally got that straightened
up
and then
i have backs
people to come
and look at the property
my property is not worth now i'm paying
almost 2 800
at land
that's really
not highly
uh
it's pretty well dangerous to walk up a
lot of this
i wished i hadn't
got the flat here
i brought a little picture of it here
i don't want to take over my three
minutes
right here
mr hurley
you can't hear
mr hurley
i apologize
your three minutes is up sir
but
i will tell you that please work with mr
lester
and also um
the on the taxes and everything and get
this straightened out there there is a
system
to help you with this we do have a
system in place
so
thank you
mr lester please get his address his
name he's got that down here for all of
us thank you sir
next we have uh mr greg hancock
mr hancock is not going to speak tonight
okay
all right
i'm not used to much as this i've always
done the right thing
thank you mr hurley
thank you we appreciate it
you can come again and speak your three
minutes next time if you need to but mr
uh lester will take care of you i
promise you will yes sir you know you
need to listen that three minutes about
time i got you
and that will help us out
and people like me one page
you know you get your payday yes sir
and we appreciate you
okay moving on from our public comments
uh
mr hancock is not going to be speaking
tonight so we're going to move on is
there any other
did i miss anyone
we've all signed in and everybody's good
all right um so moving on to the
constitutional officers reports and
requests do i have any
all right
county attorney reports and request
noise ordinance number one
miss patton thank you madam chair um i
had at the last meeting i presented the
board um with the revised albemarle
noise ordinance and taking out the
zoning and the board um did want to
consider that um for another month the
one question that i had and that still
remains for me is there is a section in
the noise ordinance
um
that
states how the
the
decibel levels are going to be
determined and in for albemarle county
they have zoning and in their zoning
in their zoning um
regulations it defines that and and i
had lonzo i provided that last time in a
hard copy but i've reprinted it out and
i'll kind of discuss that with you but
the biggest question i have is it's
pretty comprehensive on how they
determine the sound levels and i really
wasn't sure if this board wanted to go
that far in that i mean and i will say
just
beginning this board is a legislative
body we enact ordinances we're not the
enforcer and
typically in this situation it's going
to be the sheriff's office doing this so
i don't know if that's something where
you want any feedback on the equipment
that they have but i will pass this out
i mean as far as the ordinance goes um
except for this one part if the board is
okay with it i i think it's a good
ordinance i think it addressed the
concerns that the board had in in in the
previous ordinance that was considered
being vague i think it's it's specific
it lets people know what they can and
can't do and it makes it clear for
enforcement but obviously that's a board
decision but i will pass this out
and
in the in the albemarle county ordinance
um
it references section 418 and is noise
but
there's about five pages here that
that um
that encompass that
and
in my opinion just reviewing this we
would not need to even if the board
wanted to adopt the way that they've
determined how the sound is going to be
measured
i would not think we would need to adopt
all five pages if you'll look at section
418.03 which begins on page one
there it talks about how things are
gonna the instrument of measurement
calibration of sound level meter weather
conditions and that that goes on through
page two to the top of page three and
there's even a chart that sort of
um
determines on how that that that sound
is going to be measured and again this
is really really comprehensive and i
don't know that i'm looking for guidance
on the board to to tell me if you want
to i mean i think this encompasses
everything but i don't know again what
kind of tools and
that the sheriff's office is going to
have so
i do think the ordinance
is ready to be passed but for
how the board wants to proceed with that
one definition
does anybody or has anybody done any
research on the cost or expense of the
equipment needed
sorry i'm looking at ambient sound
measurement here and it says
you take it average it over a period of
time
so you know that's going to be an issue
right off the bat you know
because you won't need to measure it
until there's a complaint
so
i don't know
are we required to have another public
hearing on this katie
no i think we had a public hearing on it
just to give the public notice yeah you
don't have to have a policy
and so i do think i mean the ordinance
as it's written does allow for citizens
to go and file a complaint but for the
most part this is going to be something
the sheriff's office enforces so i mean
i really think some guidance from them
on on what they have available to them
and what's going to be practicable to
them because obviously we're very
different from albemarle county we don't
have the same resources and so that
needs to be taken into consideration for
this for this part of it
can we get a response from the sheriff
and sheriff's office in regards
to the impact of this and what it would
do to
to them and the equipment needed
yeah i think maybe what we ought to do
is exactly what david's talking about
is talk to the sheriff's office
table this until the next meeting
and i hate that worse than anything
we're kicking in the can down the road
again but
we we need to resolve what portion of
this measurement procedure
we need to
take into account
and amend air this does this go in our
uh
county policies
yeah okay
so i'll volunteer to talk to the
sheriff's office on this that's okay man
chair
i have no problem with that but i
thought we were all ready to move and
then we were going to tweak it as we
went so well now i'm not opposed to that
but you know what happens if somebody
walks in and
says i've got a complaint we have no
mechanism
to measure anything do we
we have a gentleman that has
come and been very faithful to come and
complain so but i don't know i don't
know how we resolve your issue unless we
have some mechanism to determine what is
a disturbance
this one says 15 decibels above the
ambient level is what it says
i don't have a clue
the common sense is a matter of
perception he's going to say it's not
common sense you know
so
well in your view it is but in his it's
not you know we we need something okay
thank you thank you um
so mr breeding you're um
are you prepared to
get a consensus do we need a consensus
or we do do we need emotion to we
it's not really an emotion form so we
can by consensus just say
okay mr breeding has prepared to offer
himself
as our liaison to go find out
about
sound
and he's going to learn all about
decibels
and you will come back next month
or before that what your findings will
be and give it to our attorney
and we'll be prepared to move on this
next time
the only thing i want to kind of just if
you all want to talk about i know
there's not a motion to approve it but
are there any concerns about the the
other parts of the ordinance as written
um just so i could address them again
i'm good with that it was this last
piece of how that's defined i sort of
took a consensus uh this afternoon and
we were all prepared i have no i have no
problem with any of the rest of the
ordinance but we really need some
mechanism
or else it's just going to be like you
say it's going to be a judgment call you
know
well my recommendation too madam chairs
to let steve talk to mayor dodie there
with the town of edmond and see the
they might not use a decibel
application it might be by feet
i mean if it's working for them ain't no
need to reinvent the wheel
that's correct
well one of my questions is we've lived
without these organs all these years and
we do have a few for some people like
yourself and i know a
person
think
jim frank taylor's subdivision has not
called me here several times music and
dogs
but um
i'm sort of reluctant to you know
restrict
the activity of all the citizens
because of a few i'm wondering if
there's some other avenue that we may be
able to take to take care of these that
are having problems at present time
mr king
thank you
uh we'll work on this one more time
thank you
public comment three minutes you're
welcome to come thank you
all right moving on um let's move on to
the russell county employee insurance
retirement program
yes madam chair um i have three
documents here for the board to consider
the committee
worked on this issue of creating an
insurance retirement program that's
similar to what the schools have and the
committee met and discussed the various
issues
and
i have a proposed
policy for you all to adopt as well as
some amendments to be made to the
personnel policy that will reflect this
program
um there's also a resolution for a
one-time waiver
if the board does decide to adopt this
policy
um to
to allow anybody whose retirement is um
less than 90 days from from the date of
today to be eligible for this program so
um
the
the policy is very similar to what the
school has obviously we have a different
type of um employment structure than the
school has so
um one thing that
is different about ours that is
specifically accepted is the elected
constitutional officers are um
they are not eligible for participation
nor are any employees that are employed
through the county that they're
paid solely by grant they would not be
eligible also it requires the
constitutional officers to adopt the
personnel policy and to keep timesheets
because that's um to this policy would
allow employees to trade sick days at
the end um to be um used as a as as part
of their um
to go towards their health insurance so
because we have not had that system in
place that would be a requirement for
the constitutional officers employees to
be eligible for this program
yes and thank you
we put together
a committee last month to look into this
so at this time um our committee members
to look at this insurance
retirement program was mr breeding and
mr lovelace either one of you all need
to speak to this
no i'm good with the way it's presented
yeah i think i think we put together a
program that'll be acceptable and it'll
be very beneficial to county and to the
employees
and with that i'll make a motion that we
accept
all three documents that katie has
provided us which is the ordinance
the policy the amendment and the
ordinance for a one-time ordinance for a
90-day
waiver of that
i'll second it
okay we have a motion and a second any
discussion
hearing none i'll call for the motion
all in favor all right any opposed
any abstentions
motion carries
okay next we're moving on to
the ordinance to permit russell and
tazewell county building inspection
officials and russell and tazewell
county erosion and sediment control
inspection officials to mutually perform
inspections this is the public hearing
that we heard
so um
we're ready to move on this i'm assuming
yes madam chair the ordinance is
something that um lonzo and i worked
with and with taswell to
get and basically just i guess the
simplified version of this is it
basically is um
tazewell and russell county granting
each other permission to do building
inspection and erosion and sediment
control inspections in each other's
counties on this joint project is is the
simplification of what these two
agreements stand for and lonzo and i
have both worked on these agreements and
are satisfied with their contents
okay and we just heard the presentation
so uh and you guys have this in your
packet we've worked it and reworked it
so i'll entertain a motion i'll make a
motion to accept both agreements
second we have a motion and a second
discussion
hearing none call for the motion all in
favor
any opposed any abstentions motion
carries
thank you katie moving on to jonah inner
jurisdictional agreement
um i think mr eaton made the motion to
approve both of those agreements oh i'm
sorry thank you so
then we've got it done thank you so much
moving on to the county administrator
report reports and request
thank you madam chair
first on the account administrator
reports is of course
there was
chairperson wallace and
uh
board of supervisors eden and and
breeding i attended the
22 vaco and vml virginia rural caucus in
the lower local government day
legislation
and what
the
just to give a brief summary of what
they had discussed it was a three-day
meeting of whirlwinds with legislators
and
agencies state agencies
grants
water and of course the psa was there
too russell county chairman
of the psa was there
just to go into some of the things that
we touched on was of course
we met with the virginia department of
transportation concerning the pedestrian
bridge and the dane depot project
we also
met with delegate moorefield
concerning food tax and potential loss
of revenue of the schools
and i'm just touching on some of these
as we go through because it's a very
comprehensive list
of course
the county administrator and all the
supervisors there met with delegate
moorefield concerning project jonah
which i'll just heard about
also the county administrator and the
psa chairman porter we also had meetings
with virginia resource authority about
some consolidation and refinancing of
some rural development loans and that's
what we're again working on immediately
to save the county some money
uh supervisor wallace of course you know
met with the new deq director rollerband
a county administrator and the psa again
had discussions with the washington
county administrator about a joint
project
uh supervisors breeding needy eaton
i met with delegate campbell
on the regional waste disposal
also the southwest to develop a meat
packing facility
which is agricultural related projects
that would provide alternate crops or
products to the local farmers
supervisor wallace met with the
board meeting of the virginia planning
districts and the
director of dhcd
and
the assistant directors and then
supervisor eaton and breeding also
discussed the food tax issues with
delegate tim anderson
and the potential lobster revenue impact
to the localities in the school system
and
supervisor wallace also had meetings
with the cumberland plateau meeting
planning districts with
of course dhcd
concerning broadband water sewer
projects
daint the saint paul regional sewer
projects and also the home acre
revitalization projects
and then also
mr eaton mr breeding
spoke with senator hackworth on of
course various county issues and the
food tax so that's a summary that was a
lot to do within a two-day period it was
it was from daylight to dark and from
meeting to meeting and everyone that's
ever been to richmond
it's not in one location you run up the
hill you run down the hill you run up
the hill you run down the hill but we
the point is
the board of supervisors and the county
staff we got a lot done and as you all
are hearing these projects are moving
forward our grants are moving forward
which you'll hear here soon too on some
of the ones that we were very successful
with
next on the county ministry reports is
unfortunately is dr gregory brown's
resignation from the local college board
he is
he is uh he announced last month uh his
retirement after 30 years of service
and uh this will give an opportunity for
the board to decide how to proceed with
this position this is a report only so
that will be on the future agenda
next on account administrator request
is now we've got to go to work
is a resolution for
first one is a
vdot resolution for highway system
changes resulting from the construction
of vdot project 15 1056
dash 83 r30 n05 these are vdot numbers
now let's get to the real one route 1056
wendy hill lane
so i need a motion for this new
constructed uh project on wendy hill
lane i'll entertain a motion for the
vdot resolution for the highway system
changes
i'll make it motion got a motion from mr
eaton i need a second
second
second from mr ray all in favor aye aye
any opposed
abstentions motion carries thank you
madam chair next on the account
administrator request is of course the
virginia department of health and
russell county's annual agreement for
sun for funding and services of the
russell county health department this is
the annual renewal for our services that
is be given by the health department
especially during the pandemic
uh this is an agreement with the tune of
the local fund's participation of 369
175 dollars i need a motion for approval
i'll call for a motion for the vdh and
the russell county agreement for funding
services it's in your packet you should
have already been able to see that
so moved got a motion from mr breeding i
need a second a second second from mr
eaton all in favor
any opposed thank you madam chairman
abstentions motion carries thank you
next on county ministry request is of
course is uh robinson farmer and cox
that is our internal auditors this is
the approval for the central services
cost allocation plan it's a car part of
our audit we do a comprehensive cost
plan on all of our services this is the
renewal agreement for june 30th to 2021
through 2023 we do this on an annual
base i need approval for the
uh cost allocation plan renewal some of
them have a question on that they gave
me an option for three years
it's cheaper for three years and it
makes continuity much better with yes
yes you can walk them in for three years
yes sir
i have a motion i need a second thank
you thank you mr breed
and discussion for three
years for three years
okay we have a motion and discussion and
a second all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions motion carries thank you
mr lester and mr brady
thank you madam chair next again is this
is a vdot grant this is actually we
signed while we were talking to vdot
about
one bridge they give us a grant on
another so before we got out of the room
i had to sign this one so this one is a
community uh
grant for the depot restoration
for a total of 253
904
i need approval for acceptance so and i
need emotion
thank you mr eaton and i need a second
second thank you mr breeding i
appreciate that for my community any
discussion
hearing none
i'll call for the motion all in favor
any opposed that's it every day thank
you
next on the count administrator request
is the department of criminal justice
another grant for and this is uh
through the brian justice assistance
grant program
for the local law enforcement block
grant program for 2 492 dollars so moved
got a motion i need a second
got a second from mr ray any discussion
hearing none i'll call for the motion
all in favor
any opposed any abstentions motion
carries thank you mr lester you can
continue thank you madam chair next is
the on the county ministry request is a
the surplus and sale of the russell
county disposal truck this is the ones
that we buy on state contract at uh
at a very good price we have a turnover
after two years and we actually either
when we sell them on the open market
especially right now with the cost of
vehicles we will almost
make money because we buy under major
surplus under the state contracts so i
need a motion to surplus and sell
the vehicle that's on the agenda for
for sale i'll make a motion
i'll second it thank you mr christian
thank you ms die we have a motion and a
second any discussion yeah uh
yes sir they give you a guaranteed
minimum price on that there is a gmp we
have a contractor there's very little
difference between the the old
guaranteed price which is a minimum
in the new price
actually we've made money on our
lifestyle i think the last one and this
next one you'll see how we're doing this
uh okay
uh next on the count of minutes
oh i'm sorry
you're excited
okay
all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions motion carries now thank
you madam chair you're welcome next on
the is the uh is the purchase of a
russell county disposal truck this is a
20 2022 mac granite
um
truck
uh through the national auto group which
is our com uh contractor
it has a ticket price of an uh market
price on the floor of 226
779 dollars but our contract price 173
684 under contract
need a motion so moved that's a 50
thousand dollar reduction
got a motion to get a disposal truck um
by mr eaton i need a second i'll second
it oh go ahead carl
i'll take either one doesn't matter all
in favor
any opposed
any abstentions motion carries you can
buy you a truck and sell it for more
than you bought it for
we're in the wrong business he has he's
he's done he's done quite well with that
and and i i gotta thank brian ferguson
for that he stays right on top of that
next on the county ministry reports is
um of course this came in this morning
another grant this is from the
virginia department of energy this is
for the
2018
program
for
um the dane community redevelopment
project in the town of dain in rosa
county
this is an aml with the futures and the
land
that will create multiple use trails in
and around the dane community and they
defeat atv trails which will link into
the spearhead trails mountain view trail
system
the total amount of the grant 269
thousand dollars
i need a motion some move signal thank
you got one all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions and
i'm going to take uh chairs
platform just a minute
we have
said 269 thousand dollars for the past
three years so finally i hope we're
going to get this money on the ground
right yes ma'am all right moving on mr
lester okay
this is the before i proceed to contract
next last one on here was a request by
the ross county sheriff's department
uh right before the board meeting they
want
they are asking for approval
for the department to donate to the
russell county combined search and
rescue team a 2000 international
horizon ambulance that they'll be able
to use for their search and rescue
operations i need a approval to donate
to the search and rescue so move yeah go
away second we have a motion and a
second any discussion
hearing none i'll call for the motion
all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions
motion carries thank you ma'am chair
that concludes the county ministry
reports and requests
okay next we have on the agenda board
discussion and reminders i will urge you
to keep it brief thank you if you will
i'll start with mr lovelace
thank you madam chair uh just a reminder
lonzo coal road committee
if we could set that meeting up i don't
have the contact information for all
those people but that that's fine uh
vdot has has changed on me a couple
times we
but i will take care of that yes sir
mr ray i have nothing
mr eaton uh just one i've followed up
with lonzo i guess to get an update or
if you'll keep me updated on the
buildings up there in swords creek uh
for demolition to expand that
opportunity for our senior citizens
to be able to have an area of land there
and get rid of those old dilapidated
structures
also one other thing that was discussed
up there in richmond is the smart scale
program from vdot it's not a very smart
program for rural virginia i will tell
you that but
i've had a lot of deaths occur on route
80 coming up the hill there and it's a
very dangerous road and i'm hoping that
and i've talked to our treasurer alicia
she has taken a lead on this too making
a lot of phone calls in regards to that
road and i just want to encourage our
citizens that if you have the
opportunity to email
uh a delegate or a senator in regards
not just coming from the board of
supervisors but if you have that ability
to email
a delegate or senator and if you need
their emails any roads that are
dangerous within our communities
needs attention and it needs to be
driven by the citizens i mean we
absolutely need to contact them let them
know that this smart scale program does
not work effectively for us here in the
rural communities of southwest virginia
but that's all i have thank you mr eaton
mr breeding the only thing i have is uh
i'll make it quick is i i think you know
we've got a project that's been laying
around for years and years and years and
that's the animal shelter and we have a
piece of property up there and i think
we need to be digging around and trying
to move that project forward because the
last time i talked to anybody at the
animal shelter
they had been given notice
that we're going to have to do something
pretty quick or we're going to start
getting novs so in that correct lonza
i lost a lot of sound there
sorry about that there has been concerns
that has been given by the virginia
department of animal control
the state veterinarian and
during the pandemic they've been very
generous to us y'all have seen it in
your reports but that's on the condition
that we would eventually move on an
animal shelter so they're taking you
know they know that we have a piece of
land available but
they will you know
they will start looking soon
for fulfillment of those obligations i
guess i'd like to just work with mr
lester and see if we can move that
project along a little bit i think we've
been working on that for a while
thank you
all right ms dai no nothing at this time
thank you mr christian
nothing at this time thank you and uh
lou wallace i don't really have anything
but i'm going to tell you the board book
is thick
and you've got your ida information your
psa information please use that please
look at that
and i will declare this meeting adjourn