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madam chair i'd like to mention like to
make a motion come out of the executive
session
okay i have a motion i need a second
i'll second it
all right roll call please
thank you madam chair
tim lovelace
yes carray yes david eaton yes steve
breeding yes rebecca dyer worst
christian yes and luanne wallace yes
this is a 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 up on roll call certifies
that to best of their knowledge
only public business matters lawfully
exempted from the open meeting
requirements under the virginia freedom
of information act
and only such 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 would departure from
these requirements shall stay so prior
to the vote indicating the subject of
that departure in his or her judgment
that has taken place
are there any supervisors who believe
that departure has taken place
being 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 yay or yes
tim lovelace yes
carl ray yes
david yes
steve brady yes rebecca died yes or his
christian yes
luanne wallace yes
ma'am you have approval to turn the
regular session
thank you very much
um and so at this time i'm going to ask
everyone to rise for the invocation and
remain standing for the pledge
father god lord we love you we thank you
we praise you today father father we ask
you to be with us during this time and
thank you for allowing us to come out
and be a part of this meeting father
father help these uh leaders make
decisions that are uh
that work with you father um keep us
safe and take us home safely in your
name i pray amen
amen i pledge allegiance to the flag of
the united states of america and to the
republic for which it stands one nation
under god indivisible with liberty and
justice for
at this time i'll ask for an approval of
the agenda
and we have some amendments on there
mr lester yes ma'am
i would uh county ministry request uh
that number line item number 11 the vdot
resolution for the route 58
sundown drive project be added as number
11 ma'am
yes ma'am
madam chairman i make a motion we
approve this agenda with the edition of
line item 11 under county administrator
i have a motion i need a second second
got a second all in favor ah
any opposed
thank you
motion carries now at this time we're
going to
have some acknowledgments
and these acknowledgements are for
service that is um outstanding in in the
roles that these gentlemen which happens
to be two gentlemen that they have
played in this county and in this region
so at this time i'm going to ask mr c.h
wallace to come up he's going to have uh
a retirement party pretty soon and he's
retiring after 26 years of service
to the town of honaker and
mr eaton please
make sure you read his plaque if you
don't mind mr eaton okay
county board of supervisors presented to
c.h wallace in appreciation for 26 years
of service as the mayor of home acre and
for leadership and guidance on various
boards serving the town of honda grand
surrounding area in russell county
give him his applause
before ch sets down i'm going to say
something i had the honor to serve
and i'll tell you you won't find anybody
that has a heart for a community like
c.s wallace
knowing that with all the things that he
was able to put together in the
work and the time and the hours he put
in one of the greatest christmas parades
and fireworks shows in all this region
i'm telling you he's done a wonderful
job and i it was an honor for me to be
able to serve with uch on the town
council and do what we've been able to
accomplish to
our town
[Applause]
and next we move over to
another gentleman
whose uh
years of service is
is just
an acclimation to what he does and his
name is mr jim baldwin and he has served
as the cumberland plateau
executive director
uh for some time and he's got 50 years
of service so miss baldwin if you will
come up here we'd like to congratulate
you and give you a plaque
[Applause]
i'm gonna make you look good
providing leadership and guidance to the
communities to further
further advance services for russell
and
[Applause]
thank you so much it's
been a real ride for me
from 1972 groundhog day i started
working and i tell people
i wake up every day and i go to the same
office i can work with the same people
but it's
almost that much but
working in regional uh organization like
heirs with their individual candidates
russell haswell and dickinson
we've accomplished a whole lot and the
ida folks the band folks ch
tony
jennifer
our town leadership has been great and
we've had a wonderful board
to work with
counties have sent us people who
who want to serve on their board but
they love the fact that we walk in the
door
and we
work together as a reason
to make
good things happen
and uh
it's been
an honor to work
with a lot of you and this board
and uh thank you very much
[Applause]
amazing
absolutely amazing
all right moving on
we now come to the presentation piece
and at this time the russell county ida
chaired by mr richard lockridge will do
a presentation for us and thank you all
for coming you're well represented here
tonight
there we go
well good evening i want to thank you
all for allowing me to come tonight
and to be on the agenda
and speak for a few minutes on behalf of
the russell county ida
i want to also take this opportunity to
thank the members of the ida that are
here tonight thank you
also i want to thank mrs wallace
for her guidance a few weeks ago on
communication
and on that note we hope to be coming
here on a regular basis to answer any
questions that you may have
many times we the ida cannot disclose
certain
dealings to you the board of supervisors
or to the public
however it is important for us to come
in front of you and be available to try
to answer any questions
again mrs wallace thank you for that
leadership
tonight i would like to share with you
some data that we the idea are very
proud of
in the recent past our county has seen
the following overall
451 full-time equivalents
and 31 part-time equivalents
with an investment of 24.4 million
dollars
that's broken down in the following
samuel pressure vessels 300 employees
with a 5 million dollar investment
jm jm conveyors 60 employees with a 6.5
million dollar investment
polycap 42
employees that will be growing over the
next year
with a 12 million dollar investment
small business employers
40
um
nine full-time equivalents and 31
part-time equivalents with a nine
hundred thousand dollar investment
also very important in 2020 you as a
board match funds
that save 65 jobs for 20 employees so
thank you
our successes are a product of
experienced business folks continuity of
membership
and a historical perspective of the id
and county
by our older members
tonight you as a board can help us to
continue the path that will be
beneficial for the citizens of our
county by reappointing cult mr carlton
elliott to the ida
carlton exemplifies experience with a
historical perspective of the county's
industrial activities he has been
working in many different capacities
since 2008 for the ida
in 2016 you the board appointed him and
we immediately
made him secretary treasurer
and he's had that post ever since
we the idea
are presently working on projects that
will hopefully transform our county and
even the coalfield region with good
paying jobs
it is absolutely important
at this juncture that we
continue our continuity of membership
and experience with our monetary
dealings we need carlton elliott to be
reappointed
so i hope you as a board
will see it in your wisdom to reappoint
mr carlton elliott i appreciate your
time and thank you
thank you so much mr lockridge and i
want to say to each of you sitting here
representing the ida this evening
i appreciate your time
i appreciate your dedication
i like what you do i question it
sometimes but you know what that's what
makes us unique in this area and and how
we can work together so if we
if we can just continue this
i appreciate it thank you come often
every month if you want to we appreciate
it
okay moving along let me find my place
excuse me so we need um
the approval of the minutes i need a
motion
like a motion to prove the minutes
got a motion from mr ray i need a second
second second mr breeding um
and uh discussion if you may i would
like to make a point on the minutes for
myself that it was not a unanimous vote
on the sifa
uh
appointment last time so lou wallace was
a no if you all will remember and you've
got me down as a yes so
that's going to come to light here
shortly in this meeting but anyway just
so you know i'd like to have that change
so with that slight change are we still
good to go
all in favor
any opposed
hearing none motion carries thank you
um okay so moving on to um expenditures
please
i'll accept a motion for expenditures
i'll make a motion pay the bills thank
you mr eaton i need a second second got
a second from mr christian all in favor
any opposed
motion carries thank you
committee appointments
for board consideration
we have the industrial development
authority mr carlton elliott is that for
a four-year term
starting tomorrow
i'd like to make a motion that we put
carl nelly back on the ida i have a
motion for carlton elliott do i hear a
second second
we must have several
i'll take either one
all right all in favor
any opposed i just got for discussion oh
discussion okay uh i would like to say
how much i do appreciate you all
and i know uh as a business owner
when you hire somebody
that you train and teach and they work
through your company
it's almost impossible
to lose that employee and try to get
somebody to feel that because you got to
start all over
and as a business owner uh i kind of
look at you guys as business owners in a
business type function
and that what you said there mr chair is
that continuity is so critical
and i know you all have
potential projects in the works right
now and we don't want to
i don't want to sway that in any way
that would cause any any issues to have
to try to fit somebody else in somebody
else's shoes to try to work that carl
and i appreciate what you do is the
treasure secretary of the ida i
appreciate all of you you don't know
what a critical aspect it is to have
such a good team bringing industry in
here and getting these jobs for people
so i just want to let you know that
all right we've got a motion a second a
lot of discussion thank you david you
you saved us all um all in favor
opposed
carlton welcome back for four years
starting tomorrow
[Laughter]
we appreciate you
all right next we have on our list um
the cumberland plateau housing authority
and that is um miss judy lockridge who
is asking to be reappointed and i have
had a letter
uh
asking for her reappointment and i think
most of you all have i'll entertain a
motion and chair i'd like to
put judy lockridge up for reappointment
for another four-year term i'll second
if you if you'd like to look at her
resume i've got it here it's almost as
thick as their agenda
it is in our book and uh yes so we have
a motion and a second from his lockridge
to be reappointed
all in favor
any opposed motion carries welcome back
ms lockridge okay at this time
we will have citizens comments
um so do we have a list
okay
and those who are wishing to comment we
welcome any and all comments you can
throw rotten tomatoes or whatever but
you're going to get three minutes to do
so
okay the first one out is miss sandy
hess
swords creek
yes my name is sandy hess from swords
creek
first let me say that i am speaking
under
i am not speaking under the instruction
direction or even permission of the
department of social services
i'm speaking as a concerned russell
county citizen
i would like to comment on the direction
and procedure of the passing of an
amended ordinance that took place at the
regular may meeting
as you all know dss requested a bonus to
be given to their employees out of a
surplus of money
that was allocated to dss
the board of supervisors requested
that it go back to the local dss board
to approve and to set the amount of the
bonus this was done in a special call
board meeting on april the 12th
the majority of the dss board voted for
and approved a hundred dollar bonus from
the surplus money
an ordinance was drawn up and the
ordinance was advertised for two weeks
in accordance with virginia code 15.2
dash 1427 f
the ordinance was placed on the agenda
to be voted on as the rcdss employee
bonus
this particular ordinance was never
voted on
ms dye made the motion as the board of
supervisors representative on the board
of dss to amend the ordinance to two
hundred and fifty dollars
for all county employees from the arpa
money this was done
it's my understanding it was done
without any of the dss's board's
knowledge or approval this board was
proceeded to pass the amended ordinance
however this was not an amended
ordinance this was an entirely different
ordinance
almost every word had to be changed the
title the source the amount the
recipients the grantors etc
the ordinance was never advertised and
there was no public comments
i requested a copy of this ordinance
over 30 days ago and i have still not
received a copy
the delay was explained to be by miss
patton that she had not finished
drafting the ordinance so this ordinance
was voted on and approved and it doesn't
actually exist
i'm aware that this is not a question
answer forum but i would like at some
point questions answers to my questions
is it legal to amend
vote on and pass an ordinance that
doesn't exist
virginia code 15.2-14-26
states that ordinances must be amended
or repealed in the same manner that
they're adopted
this amended ordinance was neither
advertised nor even drafted for that
matter
the amended ordinance was also supposed
to be for all county employees so my
second question is who will actually get
this bonus will the county offices such
as the treasurer commissioner of revenue
commonwealth attorney clerk's office mr
lester stated in the discussion on the
budget
that he had 168 county employees so does
that include all of dss and these other
county offices normally they're referred
to they're considered as state employees
i worked at the commissioner's office
eight years before moving to dss we were
counted as state employees
so who is actually going to get this
bonus
but in closing i want to express that i
think it sets a very dangerous precedent
that a governing board can completely
change an ordinance vote on it and pass
it without it even existing
thank you miss hess right on time
appreciate it
okay the next
public comment we have on our list is
alex bartley
miss bartley
let me just go
okay
so
three minutes is not near enough and i'm
gonna have to cut out quite a few
details but i'm going to give it a shot
so i guess to help you guys understand
why i'm here i have been born and raised
in russell county
i'm 27 years old home acre high school
graduate
played softball since i was five um
i was a part of the 2013 vhsl state
championship i won state three years in
a row with little league
graduated from high school
college with a psychology degree
and
i recently graduated with my master's
for professional human development and
then school counseling
the main reason that i'm here is because
for the past three years i've been
coaching at castlewood high school as
well as coaching
a travel team based out of castlewood
we are having a huge issue
finding a field to practice these girls
on in their own community
i guess um to summons it these girls
have worked extremely hard for the past
three years um they are being talked
about all over community for their vast
improvement how respectful they are
umpires are wanting to official their
games they're a huge deal right now
and we can't even get a field in
castlewood to to practice on because we
can't get a schedule
and it's it's really unfortunate um
in regards to that
the biggest issue is mr bob salyers
um
steve sutherland worked wonderfully with
this last year he was over top of the
field um
he provided a key he was always there to
assist if there was a problem with
lights if there was a problem with the
lawn mower
i drugged the field after every single
practice and they said that the field
was in the best condition and had been
in in years so there should not be a
reason where they couldn't use it this
year i would think
last year mr bob salyers disrupted our
practice he came onto the field in the
middle of practice demanding to know who
i was
asking if we had permission to use the
field um
raising his voice he got in my face he
clenched his fists it was pretty
traumatic for these girls they were 11
to 13 years old
and the girls wrote letters to the
school board
advising how they felt about the
situation and all of them had said that
they were upset they were sad they felt
uncomfortable they felt
you know
just just not well not well at all um
after he had left that incident i was
told a lot of stories about mr salyer's
engaging in hostile ways recently a
story that he got into an eight-years
softball coach's face about leaving the
lights on
and that was just within the past month
there's a lot of issues
he was told by a higher up
that he was to provide a schedule to us
by monday may 23rd
for us to be able to use the little
league field and it is now june 6 and
i've yet to receive a schedule
these girls are having to practice in
open fields and we have a tournament
next weekend
we have a majority of castle with girls
and to be honest we have 10 russell
county girls that are unable to use a
russell county field
so that's the biggest issue and um
you know at some point the kids have got
to come first i feel like that the power
and you know it's more about who can
tell who to do what who has power over
who instead of the girls coming first
and it's a huge issue
thank you ms bartley
okay is there before i close com public
comments is there anyone else
introduce yourself and you've got three
minutes
my name is
from sorcery
and i'd like to just make a comment
about the agenda
when is the agenda set for this board
uh when when is the deadline for the
agenda to be set
uh is it five o'clock this season it
still wasn't on the public website to
even know what was going to be going on
here tonight
uh three it was 3 30 today before the
agenda ever got on facebook so that's
one of my concerns another concern i
have is i think you were to raise this
comment section from three minutes to
four minutes
we've got things that's very
important to us to talk to you about
and if we can't get it all out in three
minutes we need four if we don't if we
can't get it before we need five i think
we need to bump that up
according to what i read it's highly
suggested three minutes not a permanent
three minutes thank you
thank you mr hayes
moving along to
um
the county attorney reports and requests
oh constitutional
officers i'm sorry
wait just a minute
i normally don't allow that but i asked
for that so you can come up here and
introduce yourself i'll give you uh
your time also
but i i would encourage you guys to be
kind to and not be derogatory toward
other people because there's no one here
to defend themselves
and um
so i'm just going to say that yes ma'am
take your time on that day i was there
and when he came up he he was in her
face it was really disrespectful in
front of the
the girls
but
i've got a 14 year old daughter also and
after they had finished their
conversation
she's out in left field
he walks out with a guy that miss
bartlett had called
to tell him that she was there and he
and my daughter was just you know she
was already paying attention to what all
he was saying because it bothered all
the girls well he turned around and
started telling my girl don't worry
about what i'm doing just start paying
attention to yourself and it was very
disrespectful to her
miss barley
and all the parents there he should not
have said anything to her and he
shouldn't have said anything to the
children at all
so thank you ma'am you're very welcome
could i get your name and address please
i can't hear you craig boyd
craig boyd yeah i live in landsat
virginia fan sand yeah all right thank
you
okay um
county attorney reports and request i
got constitutional officers and nobody
raised their hand right
all right
county we're going to get to you miss
patton county attorney thank you
i don't have to press okay i'm still
getting used to that then i don't have
to press the button sorry and thank you
madam chair and the only thing that i
have for the board's consideration
tonight is um
something that's been in the works for
several years just about the whole time
that i've been county attorney and
um we're finally
able to
um
get this property it's it's being
donated to the russell county board of
supervisors and by contora it is um some
property and dank that i think is used
in conjunction with the dank community
association if i'm not mistaken and so i
have worked
with mr paul mullins and i was provided
a deed
last week and i have reviewed it there
is one small change that i missed
initially as i was just looking at the
language in the deed but they have
they have put in there that it's going
to russell county and that's that's
incorrect it would need to be the board
of supervisors of russell county and so
um i would just ask the board to approve
the deed at this time with that one
change
okay i'll entertain a motion to approve
this
as presented by miss patton i'll make
that motion we have a motion i need a
second
thank you mr christian all in favor
wait any discussion and i'm sorry
anybody need to discuss anything about
this donated property from contour coal
all right i'll call for the motion all
in favor
any opposed
thank you motion carries
all right the next thing we have um oh
miss patton is that all for you today
all right thank you that's one of your
shorter ones isn't it
all right we're going to go over to the
county administrator reports and request
please thank you madam chair
first on the account administrator uh
reports is the vdot rail 19 safety
project schedule
this is
a schedule that was made up for the
route 19 project that everyone knows it
goes down to el garden the
what the proposal is is for vdot to own
u.s
south
i mean us 19 north it will be lower to
achieve the required stopping stop
distance and the radius through the
heels horizontal curve
and
this is the project everyone knows about
it's the tiller trailer park and the
elder garden school
this is a 4.9 million dollar projects
that was awarded to russell county that
will begin
actually we've already started the
preliminary engineering right now and
we're into the process of right away so
this project is proceeding now and i
wanted to import the board
this project is is proceeding and it
will be completed
and finalized through construction phase
which will end
on november 2026.
under vdot thank you
next on the county administrator reports
is
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rosa county again was selected by vaco
to be the region 12 and 13 legislative
meeting location
vaco contacted
myself and wanted to
acknowledge that the board of
supervisors ross county as a central
location
and wanted to set up the region for
august the 23rd from 1 to 3 p.m for the
vaco regional 12 and 13 meeting so i
needed
that will be
coming
and advertised through the virginia
association of counties and then we'll
be partnering with them on some other
things and i'll inform the board on
future board meetings
next on the account administrator
request of course again it's a vdot
resolution this is a note of intent to
abandon t1211 portion of route 82
to the town of cleveland to the town's
water tank and the cleveland barons
of course this is route
t1211 turkey knob
which is currently an unproved route on
in the secretary system which accesses
the town of cleveland's water tank so
that tells you where it's at and the
cleveland barons recreation area and in
with discussions with the department of
transportation and the department of
conservation recreation dcr is
requesting that this to be closed and
only one public access to the barons off
of route 1207 tank hollow road
i had spoken with the
representative united area in dc r and v
dot
and this
cuts off public access and gives them
only one access into into that area
uh i will need a uh motion for approval
i'll entertain a motion for the vdot
resolution to close or abandon t1211
i'll make that motion i have a motion
from mr ray i need a second second
i'll take it from mr christian david mr
eaton yielded um all in favor
aye any opposed motion carries
thank you madam chair next on the county
ministry request is the vdot resolution
closing the portion of route 615
red oak ridge road for reconstruction of
virginia structure
6145 of course this is bridge structure
ross county board of supervisor here
hereby concurs
with the virginia department of
transportation the decision to close
route 615
red oak ridge road at virginia bridge
structure in 6145 approximately
0.19 miles from route 732 crooked branch
road
to through traffic from june to 13th
2022 until completion of the bridge
reconstruction pursuant to subsection
33-33.2-3238 of the code of virginia i
need a motion for approval for the
closure of this road it's beginning june
the 13th i'll make that motion
thank you mr christian i need a second
to close it
second
okay thank you mister
lovelace we're slow on this right now
any discussion yeah
what's the projected completion
this is a bridge across the river that's
that's correct and
here it as an engineer you'll understand
during this time with materials
they're not going
there's
bridges yes bridges are a big one if
you're not into the material issue um
right now you're probably looking at
nine months maybe
that's
they couldn't guarantee that either so
so
on on another note so is um this is what
i wanted to ask
is vdot going to help us on the booty
road side which could use a little
management over there if we're gonna
have high volume
around to get back traffic it it's going
to be a long winter huh
not from the hurls valley side that's
true
so they're on that side they're going to
use all they're going to be landlocked
they're going to have to go down booty
and then from the old castlewood side
they're going to have to go back down
river road or back around on trout farm
road back to memorial drive
so i'm just wondering
well i'm like miss wallace here i mean
anytime we do this
there needs to be some sort of
informational
part of this goes to the public on
redirection of route
to get them through safely
and they do do that and they will be
doing that that's part of the
requirement what i will do i will get an
updated route listing and we'll make
sure that vdot's got it published out on
the rerouting
that comes out of bristol district and
of course anytime they close the router
bridge that that will be
published in the local papers and we'll
make sure it's up on the website and
what we've got to and i'll also produce
it back to the board in in the area of
impact i'd like to see part of that
information
disclosed in the vdot resolutions
as far as can they do that can they
enter an enhanced amount of information
that they're going to do those
procedures
and nothing false
and how long
dad died can ask that question let me
just ask i can ask that question
absolutely
okay any further discussion thank you mr
breeding for bringing that up
um all in favor
uh
any opposed
motion carries thank you ma'am chair
next on account ministry request is the
dane steam building restoration project
contract
this is a contract that is based off of
the
virginia department of housing and
community development
for that was awarded
for the danes team building restoration
project back on the 18th of march of
2022
for fifty 000 dollars
this is a an approval for uh the danes
theme
uh building restoration project through
the dhcd planning grant awarded to doll
dialogue and design and associate for
thirty four thousand dollars plus
reimbursable expenses
i need a
uh approval for this contract i'll
entertain a motion for the uh
restoration dance steam building
restoration projects
thank you mr eaton i need a second i'll
second it thank you ms dye all in favor
oh any discussion
all right
i will give you a little bit it is a
planning grant and it was awarded in the
tune of fifty thousand dollars and um
this will
set the stage for
um a larger irf or industrial
revitalization fund grant thank you all
for supporting this all in favor
any opposed
motion carries thank you mr lester thank
you ma'am chair
next on the county ministry request of
course at the time
the
agenda was done last week the county
budget for a public workshop
as of today the governor still has not
signed the final approval of the budget
and they have not released the numbers
yet so
we're still
yet into a holding pattern so some of
the agencies uh he he implied
uh from the conversation on friday that
he would need three to five days for the
amendments and approval of the budget so
um
the best bet would be to
based off of what he had said so
we're looking at the week of the 13th
through the 17th if you push it this
week it would be too hard
10th through the 17th
i got a question um
since i guess the budget committee is
working consistently on the budget but
can the budget committee provide us some
sort of informational
type
in regards to what the recommendations
are and before we meet
on the on the workshop
on what the budget
it's all it's all level funding isn't it
is it it's not a change from our last
budget year
right now
see my state and federal numbers
determine y'all's numbers of
contributions so
i don't want to corner you i don't want
to put y'all in a bind that you don't
need to be in so
i know it we have our numbers again we
we stayed this every meeting you know
the county's got our numbers and you
know
everything is set the tax rates has been
set everything is in place we know our
revenue we're pretty good at this
so
if
based off the code of virginia
if we didn't have the workshop to get
the workshop to get through our final
numbers
next the county must have a public
hearing which is next on my agenda so
after the workshop we have to have a
public hearing on it by the code then in
the code of virginia then
seven days from the the notice from the
public hearing y'all get to approve the
budget you can't do the public hearing
improve the budget in the same night
there's got to be a seven day
window that you come back and approve
the budget that way it gives the
community an opportunity to have input
into the county budget if they have any
comments
so
in reality you have the workshop the
public hearing and approval of the
budget which is three meetings so
that's what we're trying to set tonight
most of the counties and give you a
little clarity washington county dixon
county
tazewell county
is
is holding the final
approval of the budget either on the
28th or the 29th of nov of june that's
how close they're cutting is
to be able to get through
their workshops
public notices and hearings and then
approvals so
that's the final one but we need at
least one workshop
to re but we also need the state numbers
to work this workshop
and then
hold the public hearing
so how soon can
we
if he gives us the numbers you know but
and i talked to the schools today the
courts they're still in limbo they can't
give us what we need i mean they're
still sitting out there waiting they're
waiting on the numbers to arrive
so
okay does anybody have any dates that we
can
start dealing with
all the county agencies have met and
given us their uh what that what it's
going to take to operate each one of
their
offices like the commissioner of revenue
the treasurer's office court system
sheriff's office they've all met and
told us what they need and what they
what they expect to
have with their budget so we do have all
that we know what our county people need
and wish to operate on
we're just waiting on to see
what the state's going to send us
so let me ask you this um and i may have
missed it
turning pages over here so i apologize
but
how many days don't don't we have to
advertise this
public notice or
okay so how many days do i need to do
that refresh us again again
at the workshop
you can reconvene for the workshop you
at the workshop you can set the public
hearing date
when you set that public hearing date
you got seven days by the code of
virginia from the public hearing to
approve the budget
so
public hearing
to the public approval is seven days you
can't prove it
within that
you cannot you have to wait seven days
oh my gosh so if here's let me give you
a solution
so if we prove it on the 29th which is
the 29th of june which is a wednesday
that's the final budget approval
you would advertise it on the actually
would go out in the paper so you're
looking at the 21st for the public
notice
so that would give you more than seven
days it would actually be eight but that
or nine that would be okay
it at a minimum you have to advertise it
for seven days
your workshop is the way i was looking
at it was the 13th through the 17th i'm
sorry steve
you see i was i was doing one per week
to to move it through
and
let's see if this is a solution do you
want to participate can he participate
he can participate by phone or video kit
right
he can't vote it's a workshop anyway
um i can't remember the board pass the
remote
i don't know that this
i don't know that this board ever passed
a remote participation policy i had this
last one though i can't remember if we
didn't you can't participate i don't
think we did
we didn't we had one for copied but then
when that was yes we had the continuity
of governance and that took care of some
things but then we haven't passed that
so mr breeding is off the hook
he can
be on the golf course it's where he
intends to be is that what you got he's
on vacation we can't do that to him okay
i'm i just don't understand how we can
good bad or ugly come to a conclusion
until we know what the state's
gonna do i mean i don't know how how you
can
why where do we meet now
well see if you don't know okay
yes well see what we're lacking right
now in the equation is the federal and
state numbers
that will determine whether you have to
participate more or not to make these
other operations more you're going to
give more you might have to get more to
the courts or the sheriffs we don't know
their numbers to balance yours and i
mean until those numbers come in
we can't get to the net effect
but based off what the governor said he
said i will have it signed in the
amendments done in three to five days
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what is uh
what is the other what is our sister
counties
what are they doing they're they're
going to wait till the last minute to do
this their final budget i'm talking to
washington county tazewell county dixon
county lee and scott was all at the
the the final budget approval is either
on the 28th or the 29th and we're
required by law to have approved by june
30th and a workshop the workshop is at
the board's discretion
so if we all say we can't make that
happen
are we ready to move forward you would
have to set a public hearing
and i would have to set the numbers that
the budget committee had done guys we're
going to have a workshop
all right
and the public hearing has to be
advertised seven days as well so that's
so whenever i guess it would be kind of
important to try to figure out what that
date may be because you're going to have
to give a week's notice of it as well
yes
it's two weeks
yeah that's why i said i was trying to
utilize all three weeks i was hoping
that the governor would have them out by
the day or by tomorrow
and let's plug the numbers quick and
have a workshop either thursday or
friday that way you know we could do it
as quick as possible and that would give
us the remaining three weeks to meet the
public notice requirements
but he still has not released it as of
right before the board meeting so
and that doesn't mean he won't release
it tonight i mean everybody is sitting
on the sidelines all counties and
municipalities is sitting on the
sidelines right now
so
so it's either next week
one day next week for the workshop you
have to and or it could be friday of
this week if if you have the state and
federal numbers yes ma'am that's what i
was figuring
okay what's the board's pleasure let's
move along
we already know mr breeding is out all
next week
mr lester you suggest that we
go ahead and have the workshop without
the numbers or
we're still saying wait till we get the
numbers from the governor
well you have to have the numbers from
the governor you have to to be able to
figure your participation
if we say friday you may not have the
numbers well
if you say friday and you set the
workshop for friday
and the numbers do not come in
you would have to cancel the meeting
yes you would you have to you would have
to come back and reconvene for another
day so
the guidance that they they've been
placed on the budget committee for that
reason so
i don't know how you can set things that
you don't know so mr lovelace is telling
me down here that the 16th is the
absolute drop dead
dead time for the public notice to make
sure that we're getting it all in
per yes
per loss so that's it
mr lester give us a date and let's do
this
that's fine
right katie that's 16 that's
the date this the 16th is the last day
to give that notice and so if you give
the notice of the public hearing on the
16th and have it seven days after that
and then
um have the public hearing and then vote
on the boat and then you don't vote on
the budget but you publish it and then
you vote on it seven days after that so
that's
um
i mean i guess you could go ahead i mean
you all want to have a workshop but you
could i guess you could in theory you
could go ahead and set your public
hearing later out in the month because
that way you've given that seven days
notice but you just need to make sure
that
when you have that and you set and you
figure out the numbers for the budget
you still have the seven days to pass it
before june before july first
seven days
you could always have a special called
meeting for a workshop instead of just
reconvening once you get the numbers
okay
all right we're uh
how does everybody feel about that
when it comes to it all right so so
let's get
okay let's get a public hearing then
you can you can do the first public
hearing uh
let's say by the 15th
of june
see
i'd have to have it because it's got to
go into lemon and paper and i got to
have it in by the 20th so to be able to
get it by the 28th or 29th there's no
way i can get the seven-day
reporting requirement
that's what i've got i was backing up
myself that's what we're doing that's
what i'm saying that's what i was doing
that gives us the 16th is it 16th that's
it
make it happen mr lester
i said today
okay let's set the uh
let's back into it first so let's
go if you have a phone carrier
i'll have the budget we have the budget
by the 16. i'm just saying
all right public hearing
will be set for the 15th of june
what time does the boy's pleasure yeah
um
that afternoon
5 6
four five six make it make it as late as
you possibly can yeah let's say five
o'clock no six yes okay yes ma'am or
further
that's a public hearing 15th of june for
the public hearing
the hit the hearing is what's going to
be in paper
okay
all right miss patton are we good yeah
we're gonna have to yeah i know what
we're gonna have to back it up again see
the lavender news
oh dear
the issue is that the
public hearing has to be um
published once in a newspaper having
general circulation and so we've already
missed the deadline to get it in this
week's paper so the lebanon news only
publishes once a week so that kicks us
into the 14th immediately
even this week as of today
i can publish it in the bristol herald
and i've done it before so
and the website and posted in the
courthouse and
and on facebook and the rest and still
have a circulation
do it okay
so 15th at six o'clock on 2022
is the public hearing
you're good with that katie
okay
and set the final budget approval
for
the 29th of june
at the same time 6 p.m
yes i'm good with that if this board is
good with that
i'm seeing head shake
6 p.m
okay and we'll call a special call
meeting as soon as we get the governor's
numbers
because see you've got a member the
governor is carrying the federal numbers
too so
you will get them both at the same time
okay so we just took care of number six
and number seven you need to we have a
do we have a motion
we need a motion on both of these yes
ma'am
all right
board
okay
i'll make that motion that we will uh
on the 15th at six o'clock
will be our public hearing and it will
be posted in the bristol herald correct
yes ma'am and then our budget approval
will be wednesday the 29th at six
o'clock
okay we have a motion
i need a second
second
thank you mr christian um all in favor
all right we discussed it much before
this so i'm not going to allow for more
discussion all right and the public
workshop will happen when we can make it
happen right call a special call meeting
yes thank you very much and that do
y'all on the special call me and you
also want it at six o'clock
yes sir yes ma'am
thank you madam chair next on the
county ministry request is the uh of
course lineup number eight the board of
supervisors
uh
clement industrial facility board member
resignation of miss luanne wallace
acceptance of the resignation from the
as
the cipher board member resonation
i'll entertain a motion to accept my
resignation from the sifa board
so moved i have a motion i need a second
i'll second that motion thank you mr
christian all in favor
any opposed
uh opposed
motion
two oppositions okay motion carries
and madam chair i'd like to make the uh
make the motion that we reappoint mr
rebecca dye to the sifa board
i have a motion for rebecca dye to
finish out her term on the sifa board
i need a second i'll make a second got a
second
all in favor
any opposed
me
okay thank you
carl yeah opposed we have three
oppositions
and
motion carries i'm a yes thank you
miss miss dye will go back on the sifa
board she will continue her term
until her term is finished thank you
all right next moving on mr lester
surplus of county vehicles thank you
madam chair
of course
next time on county ministry request is
the surplus accounting vehicle 2008
chrysler van
that is being requested by the russell
county schools
this van is in
disrepair
disarray really is the word for it but
it needs a transmission they've agreed
to do all the upgrades and repairs to it
to utilize it around the school for
various projects and hauling around
student stuff and furniture so i needed
approval for the 2008 chrysler van to be
surplus to the russell county schools
i have a motion
oh no i don't i need a motion i'll make
it thank you
very good thank you any discussion
i will say remember that the workforce
development is looking for vehicles so
anytime all right we have a motion and a
second i'll entertain anything else
nothing okay all in favor
any opposed
motion carries thank you thank you man
chair to answer on the workforce
development board we're pulling all the
remaining titles that are the vehicle
setting out here and giving them away
vicky's already working on that
component so we'll have that ready for
the bx board meeting
yes ma'am
okay next on the counter manager request
is the board of supervisors july the
2022 board meeting another
another decision for board
so
of course this is the
july the fourth weekend
the board falls on july the 4th
so
how about the 11th
next night next monday
same time 6 p.m
that's that's up to you
yes sir i can still meet all the
contracts requirements and payables by
that time that's sufficient that's my
next question i'm sorry thank you for
telling me so we we've got this all in
hand right
all right
uh
my fellow board members are you good
with july 11
6 o'clock july board meeting
i'm seeing everything so
um
i guess we need a motion for that
i'll make it
thank you mr eaton i need a second
second
all right thank you guys all in favor
any opposed
motion carries thank you mr lester thank
you madam chair
next on the county ministry request is
another vdot this is for another project
on route 58.
this was crested actually this morning
for the resolution of support that has
made it through the smart scale
application process
through the bristol district on the
route 58
this is a resolution in support of route
58 alternate turn lane improvements at
the sundown drive project in rossa
county
which is fully supported endorsed by the
russ county board of supervisors for the
smart scale application and funding
process i need approval for the route 58
sundown
drive project for the virginia
department of transportation resolution
i'll make that motion we accept this
thank you mr i need a second second
any discussion
hearing none
call for the vote all in favor aye aye
any opposed thank you mr lester madam
chair that concludes county
administrative reports and request
okay and i guess that concludes
um this
board meeting today so i will officially
call us adjourned would you gonna ask
the team members had anything to bring
oh
we will have a little board discussion
okay mr
lovelace you got anything no thank you i
thought we just about beat everything to
death and wore our calendars out mr ray
no i don't have anything mr yes i do
miss wallace uh
i need i need to make a motion actually
i guess on this so i talked to the
county administrator
about uh the spearhead spearhead trail
project
uh from in honaker like you're going out
toward drill from the railroad tracks
out to stone bridge
i need to follow requests to get the
speed limit reduced to 35 miles an hour
if i can interrupt you how soon do you
really need that i need it pretty quick
i mean they need to put it in their plan
okay can we can we take care of this at
our next
board meeting
on the speed we can at the july because
if you care and katie can chime in if
you call a special call meeting it's
it's specifically just okay gotcha just
for the best right i need to i need to
make a motion for this request to have
it lowered with vdot
what's the procedure the first procedure
will be just a letter from me rather
than affordable board
that's
so i will i will go ahead and do that
and i'll copy the board and then i'll
have it for the next july board okay
that asks for a speed study
also while you're talking to vdot uh
i've had a lot of uh people in my
districts call about
uh grass cutting or weed cutting on the
side of the road on secretary roads
lord it's everywhere
well
and then the next uh thing i would like
to have uh if katie would is to
uh provide me and the board
uh an illegal uh
something
on this ordinance that miss has brought
up tonight i'm really concerned about
that because i made a motion to have the
ordinance initiated
and for some odd reason some of the
things that she had spoke on tonight
resonated to the fact that did we do
this right was it legal
did we follow procedure i'm really
concerned about that because uh i want
to know the answers to it
and i want to know you know the motion
was made to give the county employees a
bonus but
it wasn't specified of who those exactly
were and how many they are
so i would like that that information
be provided to me
i'll be happy to do that okay thank you
thank you mr eaton miss breeding
i really don't have anything to gripe
about but i was as i was reading the all
the literature it goes along with the
i ran across the planning
commission
minutes for april the 18th
and it's just
you're on planning commission on yours
yes yeah it shows jack clemson the keith
ray present but it also shows jack
and keith ray absent so just need to
change minutes one way or the other
ernie okay
no problem
okay
that's it
all right thank you mr breeding ms dye
no nothing tonight
mr christian
all right and miss wallace has nothing
but thank you guys i appreciate you
coming and
whoa are you looking at me that i need
to say something that's right i was i
was wanting to respond to mr eden okay
the county has reached out to the county
the attorney general's office for a
ruling too
so
of course we wanted to do what was
legally right so we have we are pushing
for a legal ruling from the attorney
general rather than the county attorney
we're pushing so we should have that
thing
thank you for that explanation i
appreciate that okay all hearts and
minds clear i do adjourn this meeting
thank you for coming thank you