phase two um next on the county
administr reports is of course the
Russell County energy performance Grant
um this was implemented by the school
board
as thank you
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man um the Russell County eny
performance agreement this was
implemented uh as a project that
upgraded all the bers
electricity uh water utilization project
uh this is a credit back from Virginia
saves which comes through the US treasur
and amount
$7,495 and again in the board packet for
number four which is the C Plateau 2023
annual review and that is a letter by
the C Plateau planning district that
details uh how they have worked with
with the counties within the planning
district and they they want to give you
know their thanks to Russell County
Board of
Supervisors and for their annual
contributions to the organization and in
return for their annual contribu of only
$35,000 1.88 million $23 was returning
grant money awards for critical
infrastructure projects and downtown
revation efforts in addition in the
comprehensive
planning of the district they also have
included the housing needs assessments
and hazardous mitigation plans also into
the planning district as as residents
around County you'll see Cru going
through was the deployment of high
highspeed Broadband which is a$ 68.3
million project that is for Universal
Broadband coverage in all so uh again
we're moving forward and these projects
are very detrimental to our
infrastructure and and the growth of the
county next on the County Administrator
reports is um of course the bylaws I
know that the for supervisors is still
reviewing and Drafting and making amends
and changes so we are compiling these
and those will be turned over to final
review for count attorney and we'll be
able to have those up to date um next on
the count administrator reports is the C
plate Waste Management bylaws and
changes in budget deficit um this is uh
a meeting that was attended by Mr Kaiser
and Mr Hensley and concerning the
changes that went on at the Waste
Management Authority and the budget dist
and if either one of them like to
elaborate you know please to do
so at that meeting uh have you got me
can you hear me at that meeting uh the
Cumberland plateau and has for
years they Supply meal and essentially
anybody in this room could show up to
that meeting and get free meal um myself
and Mr Kaiser made the motion and we did
get that eliminated not completely but
uh the board members will
be uh fed a meal there's some board
members that come from by Canon County
and they felt like if they was traveling
that they should be suppli me because it
was during separate time so hopefully in
the coming future we can eliminate that
I think you can pay $15 for a meal be on
board um we also tried to cut these
meetings these meetings are about 30
minute meetings and they're monthly and
there's six board members paid $200 plus
whatever taxes um to sit on on this
board um it's about a 30 minute meeting
and we wanted to cut that back to every
other month and we're currently going
through the bylaws now and hopefully get
that taken care of and that will save
the taxpayer a little bit money um it's
hard to get people that's done things
for years to change it's a slow process
but wait on us we're working on it and
uh hopefully you'll see some proofs of
that if we can get through the processes
and IL legal going through the
bylaws just keep watching and uh we'll
see what we can do get by saving your
more taxes moving forward one one other
thing Andrew did mention that we did get
rid of was the uh workers comp
insurance so the board members were
receiving workers comp insurance for
their 30 minute supper meeting I told
him I said y'all fellas worried about
choking on the chicken bone in here or
something so we uh said there's no
reason for we need workers comp
insurance for a Ford meeting we
eliminated that as well so as Andrew
said we're working on several things
looking forward to cutting some more
stuff out if we can uh reduce our
meetings to every other month uh that'll
help as well of course if this is
happening on one
board it's like happening on a lot of
different boards that we're looking at
in the county so that is one reason if
you're wondering why we're doing a
restructure um on these on these boards
it's because we need to cut this out
because we are facing some significant
shortfalls uh rejected $300,000
shortfall just on the regional Waste
Authority so um that's pretty
significant I mean it is split between
Three Counties but um if you have that
happen in multiple different uh buckets
you're looking at it adds up to millions
and millions of dollars so we got to
make sure we're being good uh Financial
fiduciary Guardians for the
county Mr chair may I say something
please um this is a three County our
sister counties this is a Waste
Management Authority that was put
together many years ago to
say uh various uh sums of money for the
cost of moving garbage around and that's
been the topic of the day so I suggest
to keep peace within the Three Counties
that uh two new board members just go
ahead and relinquish your $200 siphon
back to russle County and uh let Dion
and the Canon decide what they want to
do with their money and pack your
lunch
thank you chair next on the county
minist reports is of course the U Russ
County school andure public auction this
is just a report that there will be a
proposed public auction for County
Surplus materials in March it looks like
at the end of March at the first of
April uh we are working with the school
board to be able to do that and one in
October usually they have a year sale
we're going to go to a two years twice a
year sale so uh next on the count
administr reports is of course the
Russell County Road reporting system and
that seems to be working really well on
this uh uh reporting as y'all can see in
your packet I give multiple reports you
know directly to me and they're also
conveyed on to V Dot so this is these uh
maintenance activities these reportings
uh forms and comments are are very
helpful they uh we don't have to wait
for reports sometimes these incidents
are you of immediate need and we need to
respond faster than what we know from
the outside so it gives V an opportunity
to move quick
too if you don't mind if you J this down
I just got a text we got a lot of people
watching online but uh Pastor Steve damr
had asked me to turn in and I had
mentioned this to you before so we go
ahead and do it again Cold Springs upper
end of Clark Valley uh is in serious
need of guard rails I explain to him
about the rail funding issue and
everything but put that on the list yes
sir next is the count reports is of
course Russell County has its Road
reporting system and then B dot reports
back to us on a monthly basis so as you
can see on these maintenance activities
and ones that we send in you will see it
coming back up on their maintenance and
replacement and maintenance activities
that are either planned or have been
completed so as we submit these
applications to them within the time
period of whatever they can do to repair
or or what schedule and activities they
have plan we should be as we record them
they'll be showing completed so we're
going to start working in un we're
starting to get the feel for this system
so keep keep an eye on your reporting
activities within your area and then
look at the B do report to make sure
that it has either been addressed it's
planned or it's
completed Mr ler I mean Mr chair may I
interrupt um concerning this new report
the county generated u a form that's on
their site so the county did this form
as opposed to going through the Highway
Safety Committee like it did before
straight V up right right that that is
correct okay so I don't know how we can
fix this or how convoluted it is but I'm
noticing on some of the complaints that
are being registered by citizens through
this portal that the citizens are not
understanding that some of the
complaints they're sending is not uh
State maintained roads and therefore
that needs to be explained that we have
uh we don't work with private roads or
County does not have a road so there's
been a couple of things I've seen turned
in and so that's just working you to
pieces uh to filter through this and I
don't know how to fix that dilemma
because the County Citizens need to
realize that what we don't own we can't
fix and what they turn in on these forms
we can't fix so do you respond back to
those folks and say currently we are we
are now sitting here as as it comes up
and it hasn't got to be a high me but
for future planning uh of course my IT
staff is sitting right behind me um we
can put a notice on there that this
pertains to B dot roads you know
maintain roads that we do not have
County Roads for the ordinance but it
does so we can we can put some of that
terminology in there to but right now as
customer service we've been responding
so you do respond and say yeah it's it's
a county that's all I need to know so
these people are being informed and they
don't they're not going to call all of
us and say you're not fixing they should
not if they're patient wait
yes
yes next on the County Administrator
this goes into the County Administrator
request and the first thing on the
agenda for a motion for is um we are
actually selling two Surplus and two of
the disposal trucks through jmwood
auction I need approval for a motion to
put these on the Surplus we have been
guaranteed a minimum price of of 300
$27,000 on these auctions so I need a
motion for approval for
Surplus
second
hi thank you
chair next on the county administ
request is the Russell County Planning
Commission organization membership
reduction uh this is on the agenda for
the board's consideration for the
current structure of the Russell County
Planning Commission as the board had
discussed with other reorganizations of
boards and committees uh I have I have
included the C of Virginia and what how
the Planning Commission is structured so
that's up for the board's discretion and
pleasure like to make a motion that we
reduce the Planning Commission to five
members with those five members being
Greg STS John Mason Philip Addington
Tara D and Ernie mcf I expected
immediately I'd like for the board to
consider uh sending a letter that as per
state law uh unless business is needed
where the chairman can call business
that those meetings move every other
month there's two
motion yeah St there's two motions here
sep
separate
separate the first board separate the
board reduction five members with the
five members I previously stated and the
next motion will be uh suggesting to the
Planning Commission to move the meetings
to every other
month let's take second on the first
motion made a
second
discussion yes
sir
okay U by the way full disclosure I have
no problem with a reduction anding with
state code St code does allow the floor
to be five members only however um those
members that you rattle through quickly
Andrew um I didn't have those in my
packet so I don't know whose District
they represent and I do believe Philip
Addington is District Two so that's mine
I appreciate that uh your Le if you're
reducing it to save money then you're
leaving a board member on there that do
we have to have a liaison from our board
to this uh by
law then I would remove Miss D uh from
that board and I would place a citizen
on there that represents someone in that
District because we still by law have
seven
districts and that's an n large so I
would ask that uh Mr Kaiser relinquished
his because we would have uh at least
six districts represented at this time
and then as the next one comes do or
falls off I guess we'll have to go to
war with whose district is represented
in that
planning I'm not making a motion am I
well we're in we're in discussion at the
first motion I thought we were
discussing but I
it thank
you
no can't hear
you your day
the recation
Wallace
okay
yeah
remove our County liaison who is uh Miss
and then reduce it by Mr Kaiser's member
uh lose that member if you're gonna get
rid of them and that would leave
um six members representing the district
one through
six so I have a question is it a
requirement to have a member to
represent
each
district
okay
so the whole idea here is to reduce the
cost
cost to the taxpayer this is tax all
this is done through taxpayer dollars so
your
money we've had a board for the last
eight years that has not taken into
consideration one time cutting literally
almost any Mr Kaiser we recognized that
at the beginning I don't mean to
interrupt you but I you interrup I'm not
done down so my point is if there's no
statutory requirement that we have a
board member from every Bo every
District then wouldn't the proper thing
to do be to get the best people the best
people that you can regardless of where
they live was we're we got imaginary
lines called districts they're imaginary
when I cross from Green Valley Road over
into henville I don't say I just left
Green Valley so now I'm in district one
no I think those people the same people
though on district one as they are
District Five they are District Six to 2
one
whatever we want the best people for
these boards I don't care where they
live we want people that have the heart
and the care for Russell County Citizens
and to concern to be fiscally
conservative in their
actions so the idea that we have to have
a person from every District to
represent I think is flawed logic and is
irresponsible for the taxpayers dollars
that we're spend okay I think District
three
to make sure that they have one where
we're at
now who is
that listen everybody be quiet where
we're at now miss Wallace made a
substitute motion we need a second to
that motion I
correct made that or second that second
now we can discuss that issue okay so
who those names that you went through
whose District they represent I know
that I've recognized mine Philip adding
yes I I look I looked at the members as
being trained through the state to be
Planning Commission members I didn't
feel like that the board should pay to
have someone trained based on where they
live so of these members they've all
been trained to be on that board yes I
really that's that's how I looked at I
didn't look at where they live who's not
trained um the only person not trained
is
T she was appointed by the Bo and I am
set up to do that
train and the other people
are the training is a little expensive
so if you're
cut you know why would you that have not
been trained go and pay
for extra people I
me with you haven't been trained yet you
could drop off on my motion and they
could lose his number seven district and
we would have would we have train
members at six at that point
Andrew B based on my knowledge and I
might I may be wrong these were the
train members that was told me and there
was two other members and to tell you
where they live at I don't I don't okay
Mr
Lester the first of all the Planning
Commission does not have a set ofin so
y'all know what that let's start there
okay you have the authority to reduce it
down to five that's a when we started
this we looked at the code and
uh we also talked to the Planning
Commission chairman and the five names
that was given
to um Mr Hensley was by the chairman of
the plan correct so that that those
names came
from Mr
those I'm sorry was given to him uh as
recommendation so it's it comes down
since first there is no
bylaws County attorney said here y'all
have discretion however you want to do
this in the number that you want to do
that is totally up to the board's pled
so um but one thing that I will talk
about on the plan commission and Andrew
has alluded to and so is the plane
commission they are starting on the uh W
County's comprehensive plan so whoever
that child choose to that child's pledge
is going to be one have to know be fully
trained inning district and
setc zoning and to be able to make this
you know a valid comprehensive plan
because the comprehensive plan is Mr
freeding you know we've looked at this
thing over and over and over so some of
the other board members this a
comprehensive plan flows down to the
county plan but it also helps us when we
go to regionalism or Regional projects
or grants
you have to have these in your plan it
is very important so with that in mind
why that was said that's
up he the motion I have on the floor now
is substitute motion Miss
wace is there any further discussion on
that it's not I'm going call V all in
favor this motion raise your right
hand
substitute
two all opposed to this substitute
motion Raise Your
Right motion
fails okay that leaves the original
motion on the floor to reduce the board
to five members is there any discussion
on this
issue any further discuss
yes if you're talking about saving money
then you just voted down a motion that
would save more because hasn't had her
training which is6 to $1900 to do that
plus the $200 that she could give up and
Mr Kaiser to give up for uh saving money
just going to leave it
there any further discussion didn't we
establish that there's only five members
that are currently trained if we left
six on we'd still have to train
so we' still be
paying we're at the same place we would
be with six as far as Financial actually
better because we would be paying six to
go get trained and their monthly so who
is your District three representative
now no who's your District three
representative
now
again why is that why is that relevant
to the
conversation are you leaving one
on you gonna use
microphone oh oh there you go sorry
about that I was
talking sorry about that uh this will be
for the next meeting uh second thing is
I think Nate said it was it was Charlie
I think that is that board member that's
in
District further
discussion so that you're removing
Charlie is that you rattled that list
Andrew what was it Greg sto John Mason
Philip Addington terara D and Ernie MC
and that was those names weren't just
dropped out of the sky that was
suggested by the Planning Commission I
guess executive committee okay so
Charlie has or Charlie compt Charlie who
Edmonds I
apologize so Charlie Edmonds was on
there but he did not get his training
here here's the list of the current
members so
yeah
Charlie now I do remember Mr Ray being
mentioned is not being trained I think
that's correct I don't believe stra
wrong that he has not been
trained the others I I don't
remember I didn't realize any of this
come up so well I guess I didn't ask
question I realized we have a I'm sorry
we have a
vote I'll call for the vote I'll quit
discussing it but it wasn't in my book
to discuss anyway so it would be nice if
I knew more about these things before
they come
up okay we're through with the
discussion I'm gonna call for the vote
all in favor of Mr Hy's motion to reduce
the Planning Commission down to five
members with the names that he
specified please raise your right hand
all oppose same raise your
right okay so 64
one Steve can I make yes we are still in
the process of
restructuring so we still look at
members reconsider anybody these people
Ser pleasure of the so that would be
something that
consider in particular she wants Mr
Addington she do that so make that point
well I will make a second point then to
your point no I don't mind but it would
be nice as a board member to know what
you had in mind or what you were doing
so that we have a common sense
conversation as opposed to an argument
on on how we're moving forward
so you know again transparency things
done in the dark
right yeah I would ask in the future if
if we are planning something like this
try to get to Mr Lester so that the rest
of the board will be
aware okay now we have a second motion
Andrew would you make that second motion
that the board recommends to the
Planning Commission that they move every
other call
by chairman
in as needed
B I have that motion to have a
second second by Miss Wallace any
discussion on this
motion if not all in favor signify say
iose like there are none
okay thank you chairman next on the
County Administrator reports request the
course is a request by the board for uh
a public hearing to address the food
with meal tax and cigarette tax
ordinances for
review I know that this is get near the
end of budget year and y'all be holding
a lot of public meetings I think there's
like five that we'll have to have hold
so uh
we could also put this in as as for
consideration because it just can't it
has to be separate than the budget so if
we we do a public notice then it has to
be part of consideration in the notice
don't I don't think we can do anything
until we have
budget that's why that's why I said when
we start the budget process we have to
advertise legally by the code we have to
do the county budget but we also we have
an ordinance in place that requires its
own notices too so
yes so I need a I need a motion to start
when we start the public hearings for
the budget to include these two in this
part along with budget so you need a
motion to
start
not all in favor sign
I next on the count
administr request is travel request this
is the annual state public library
meeting it will be attended on March
20th through the 23rd by the director of
the Russ County Library I need a motion
for
appr have a motion to have a second
second motion second any
discussion not all in favor say
I
like thank you next on the count request
course the Russell Russ County
Commission that was request by the
commission to be T um that concludes the
count reports and request again I
apologize
try to get down the
board oh I'm
sorry League field that definitely
couldn't win in the office we forgot
that I
apologize we got a request by the uh
little leag for the Glade Hollow park
maintenance this is request for
$2,875 for the uh we have ran into an
issue a safety issue of concern on the
deck over there it becomes public safety
so it
ain't a project that cannot be waited on
if if it's going to be utilized someone
gets heard we boed us or currently aware
of it and it's got to
be I think their major concern is
they've got a state tournament hosting
in July they want make sure haard
situation if once we become aware of it
and they they have a lot of volunteer to
do this in house as much as they can in
house and with volunteers we're going to
work with them on with the community
work program so uh actually this is a
low bit a low cost based off of what
you're going to have to do off these
decks and Replacements and roofs so I
need it for a motion for
have a motion and second open
discussion I don't know if this working
not
okay in our budget discussions this year
one of the things that I've been aware
of on multiple projects is there's
no really additional
funding what happens is things get
dilapidated and then you backend more
money and I think that if there and I
know money's going be I know it is being
on the budget committee and seeing what
I'm seeing at this
point you know just pray hard good Lord
will bless us we be able to come through
this thing like we've been able to do
but I would like to see some additional
I mean we've got little league Little
League we got little league we got
League you have you have a lot of these
little league programs that are hindered
directly for our children great asset
what happens is is if we don't have any
maintenance type funding apparatus in
place that they can fix it immediately
and not wait two or three years and then
all sudden get soap that you have to
spend 10 times the amount to and I've
seen because I I was involved we had a
lot of great people great businesses
stepped up donated a lot of fund money
we were able to build bathrooms a lot of
stuffel but from the County's
perspective I
thinkest
need one bring to our budget talks is
having some sort of maintenance type
funding in place
so it don't we're only giving $4,000
year I'm telling you by the time you buy
softballs and
baseballs stuff like that
that's and and then the maintenance side
of that is pretty much depending on
volunteers and help and things I will
tell you whether being church or being
little Le City you have about five
that'll show up and do the work and the
rest
I just want to make
everybody I had a couple of questions
sure so did we take multiple vids for
this uh not yet we wanted to cess first
for consideration to know whether to
proceed what we do very good question
and have they done any
fundraising they they have not yet this
came immediate Upon Our inspection and
it kind of happened over the winter with
um they volunteered and fixed the front
deck last year they knew that the back
deck was becoming more deteriorated but
it accelerated over these hard cold
winners so one of the things I want the
board super to know that you know
whether it's labing or home acre it's
Castlewood right now these guys are
doing a great job y'all need to look at
these fields just go out there look
they're doing a lot of volunteer work
but uh but there's is safety issues that
come up we're as the board y'all you
know y'all take care of facilities we do
our staff does and as David had
mentioned it's hard to get the
volunteers in and this is this is a
hybrid of contractual volunteer
community work so it's a free a free
partnership I think they agreed maybe
that price come down a little
bit work to tear it down yeah have they
known about this tournament for a long
time and the reason I'm
asking it kind of feels a little under
the here we are first
March and I think it's a wonderful thing
I
just you know when things like this come
soon and I don't I don't know the answer
to
that usually we do know about it but the
problem
is it's it's the money and in the
board's philosophy the previous is if
one got it all all got it all sometimes
it becomes a safety issue and then by
law we have we have to move just because
of that
this one was a little different because
actually they're still negotiating the
state am I
correct okay Brad Brad when he talked to
me and Steve we we walked and looked at
it looked at the deterioration on it
they were still I think in finalizing
the terms conditions on or something
like that I think he said they were
start I think this state tournament
pretty big deal
County sometime in
July remember how many teams but it is
state tournament I think I think part of
I think portion of this de was probably
taped
off part of over a dug water
leaks posing to fix all that there was
another deck lower level de that had for
some reason buckled
up it's it is a safety issue right
that's all we've asked and to to ensure
that we do this correctly processes with
off if y'all give us move forward with
this cost estim estim is we we work with
Le and block my staff Community workers
they turn everything through us
everything FS through us if it goes to
contractor Fe it goes through my office
so yeah we're just trying get for
whether they want to participate in this
or continue this cost estim of
27375 again it's an estimate so it is a
public issue and next tournament you
could be a castle next one you could be
a home maker so well I will tell you
that home makers have what happen it
goes through the district advisory
committee you have to submit an
application to do this and years ago I
know that when I was involved in Little
League heavily uh we wanted to bring a
lot of people down here in Southwest
Virginia because we were always
traveling to lay and Virginia Beach and
all those areas to have to participate
we didn't feel like it was fair that we
wasn't getting our share so we started
uh politicking pretty heavy make sure
that when we provide for these state
tournaments that we would be under
consideration after they gave us one or
two then now it's we've been more
aggressive to ask for more so if it
happens to Clinch River if it happens to
Leon or homeacre or wherever brings a
lot of people brings a lot of teams they
have to stay in your motels they have to
eat your food they uh return on
investment and and making sure that your
facilities look the best they possibly
can because I will tell you we get huge
compliments from laay Virginia Beach l B
all these area teens moms dads
grandparents come down here and they say
hey these
build great the atmosphere is good and
everything like that which they you know
they like to have a few more amenities
that working on trying to provide but uh
that's another in influx of money coming
into our region uh because I know we
held two or three state tournaments in
hakre and I mean they were all over the
area eating and staying in the motels
and stuff during the tournament so I
just want to let the public know it's
actually a good funding apparatus on the
economic side for for our area
South yeah I think I think they were
talking hotels hotels all
over it'll probably
reach
County well as you can see on the call
they're doing a 30 by2 deck
they're doing a 60 by 16 de they're also
putting up a major chain link F in Phase
One to do that that you could you cost
contractor in labor if you had to do it
on your own I mean this is the only way
they can work it in a you know
approach you could go buy the materials
for
,000 Mr chair may
I just me um Mr Lester I don't have
anything my packet that says anything
about does anybody have
this it came in kind of late
yeah well my fa being that I didn't
catch that apparently um so what I want
to know is um as the town of Lebanon do
they support this little Le the town
11an has its own field that it Tak this
so this is independent
okay and so this is run by the Lebanon
little
leag oh it's called it's actually
offici it is if I'm right it's a county
own facility count fac so it is under
our preview to
maintain and ensure safe structur and
I'll tell you it's it's not it's really
not the decks are in really bad shape
and and uh and you know yeah you could
you can knock the one down and take the
other one up just put some grouping over
be cheaper but you know if we're wan to
maintain a nice facility here and and
present a nice appearance the
public I think we need we need to
consider this and to David's point the
financial benefit U you know I don't
know what the I'm sure our touris people
can tell us but what our financial
benefit to hosting a tour a tournament
like this uh just in the tax revenue
that we get restaurants and the hotels
and the gas stations and all this other
sorted benefit is going to it's going
you know it's almost going to pay for
itself any further discussion on this
matter it sounds like I got today
somehow okay are all all three fs and
cood is that all owned by the county
that is correct all three all three
fields are owned by the county yeah now
in h last year we did a major roof place
we put brand new roof down there and
they've done an outstanding job on the
league has done de works and we still
got a little bit of to do and to do um
we kind of trying to share and do what
we can but as far as the major safety
issues or code issues because one my
buildings goes out there and says you
cannot stand on this deck you rope it
off it becomes that type of issue but we
kind of sh across field I have a point
the hakre field last year insurance was
supposed to covered their Fence Farm
because A storm blew trees over on it so
has the insurance uh gone through to
replace all that section of fence that H
leag needs the insurance was
yeah we did the roof and we've already
replaced that and we've got the F on the
schedule knows that um with the other
projects we they went ahead and started
using the field so we said we come back
and do the fence so we're starting on
that component
now one thing I want to say real quick
Steve sorry is you know youth Athletics
is very important and just because this
is L leag doesn't make any of the other
ones less important um if we're pro
providing County facilities we need to
maintain County facilities we need to
make it a safe environment for the kids
to be in their parents to be in and it
is tough it is tough say you know here's
$27,000 to little Le and then somebody
else comes and says well where's my
$27,000 um it is a tough tough thing to
go through but there is a need here and
it's something that is going to be
spread out across you know the years to
come as far as a uh total cost of
ownership basically uh Roi so it's it's
definitely something that I think we
need to tackle now to bite the bullet
get it over with um you know the problem
moving forward as I've said before is
we're going to have issues with budgets
trying to keep cost down trying to keep
taxes low because everything as
everybody knows is going up
and so you bear with us we're trying to
cut where we can cut because we know
what's coming you know we know what's
coming so you we do still have to
maintain the properties that we do have
Mr chair if I may one more thing um
previously when we worked with Clinch
River
little um we have borrowed forward on
our Sten to help them out uh we just had
a major Paving job done down there and
so the Little League borrowed forward on
their style so in other words you're
only going to get four this year but you
can borrow for I would I would put that
out there and offer that to the
Lebanon Russell County little Le and
borrow forward also the town of St Paul
does
donate a Sion to help thech River little
so uh a lot of those fields are not in
their uh their Town property but they do
support children there so I would ask
that the Lebanon Town Council offer some
financial assistance to that
also it's all well and good we can
ask I understand I get it okay any
further discussion and and Le is using
what they have left but you got remember
at the year year budg got about 120 days
left or
take 34,000 they've exped up to this
point they are whatever they have left
in yeah cood had
and okay call for the vote all in favor
approving this request signify saying
I anyone oppose
like there
are thank you chairman that concludes
count administr
reps okay brings us down to the point
where
we're ready to have discussion board
members start
Mr um Miss Wallace to your question
about Lebon town I did get an answer
real quick quick turn around time there
but Leon Town donates $2500 to Leon L
every year
so
that's I agree I agree because a lot of
you know that's the thing about Le L
League a lot of you know I don't live in
town my kids play Liv league and many
others uh outside town do but there's a
lot of kids that live in town that do
play in that league and it is mainly
those kids that that use those fields so
um yeah I would like to encourage the
town to try to uh tighten b a little bit
and find a little extra money for Le
leag to help them out as well so
um other than that we're just going to
continue to try to tighten the belt as
far as the county goes um of course as
you know we're getting ready to start
budget
meetings um that's going to be a really
big deal we're going to try to try to
cut your taxes we'll do our best uh like
I said you know things are going up and
uh that that affects everything U it's
affecting us like I said before on the
regional Waste Authority facing a
shortfall and I'm sure that's not just a
oneoff probably in other areas we're
going to be facing that as well so U do
bear with us we use your prayers and
your support because it is it's not a
fun job but somebody's got to do it so
appreciate your uh your support thank
you m do you have any
Rebecca
David Teran
the only thing I want to mention is you
know last time I spoke to you all about
foster homes thankfully we have
gotten appc foster homes but we need
more so please keep that in your mind
about it if you're interested please
call also Isaiah
117 kick off right here in this
room: please come please support this
this is going to be a wonderful thing
not just for russle County
surrounding um you know I'm not sure Amy
but I will find that out for you I know
that we do have a fellow that we hir
that is specifically like
for
weown L do you have
anything yes thank you uh one thing I
want to say is I appreciate you Mr chair
and this board for indulging me today I
know I have rattled a little bit more
than I should but thank you so much for
that um I also want to say to the public
that I appreciate their coming I
appreciate their passion I want to
recognize that in all people so uh just
to say that I want to remind M ler and
if you would to take those public
comments and put them in a folder
somewhere that might look at them and
the public could look at them and see
the comments I realize some of them are
very emotional some of them are very
passionate some of them have scientific
nuggets in it that I think that we all
need to to uh be able to read so I'm
asking for that and again I thank the
board for allowing me to speak today and
indulge myself thank you so much I
appreciate it Andrew do you have
anything uh I appreciate everybody
coming out and we're going to have the
meeting be next Friday right so next
Friday y'all got interest in the
Landfield please come out please see
what's going to happen with this
environmental study um the attorneys
will be here um I I me as a new board
member I've been here two months today
so I'm I'm learning as quick as I can
reading all I can trying to keep up with
all I can and the L fields the issue of
the day but I've only been here two
month so bear with me I'm going to learn
with you next Friday and then we will
discuss things from there and move
forward and move Russell County forward
and hopefully come to a decision that
that'll work for all the County
residents and uh I appreciate you being
here just want you to come out next week
and uh keep us in your prayers uh it's
not fun even going to the grocery store
sometimes with this landf stuff going on
but we're doing the best we can
okay uh as Andrew said next
Friday 7
o'clock we will be here we'll have seats
out ready to go hopefully we'll have a
better sound system set up so we won't
have
to but we want to do this
presentation we're going to do a
presentation on the
environmental Legal Financial impacts
land and that'll take in their
environmental
consultant special counsel Mr
ler and this is a presentation to the
board they're seeing all the fine
details of all this and so the board
will be able to ask
questions and after that we'll open to
the public ask
question I want to make sure that this
is done you a lot of put up a lot of
yelling back in the crowd somebody wants
to ask question come to ask it's not a
it's not you can come up and ask half
question probably Li couple questions
each so be be prepared spread those you
got questions you want spread them out
amongst your
group will not tolerate
any personal attacks on anybody any
board members staff anything like that
that nature I know it's a terribly
emotional issue I feel for
you I want to guarantee there's nobody
on this board that would do anything
they felt in their heart was anything
damage Russell County because
any issue there's not on
this people opinions are dislike you
noses on your face everybody's got one
and they're all
different some people have a higher
level of understanding of things some
people
don't just leave it at
that I guess one bit of good news is
that our special
counsel has decided to go go ahead and
release theti
report so Monday you have copies ready
Avail
Monday later than Tuesday no later than
Tuesday I guess you can just come by
Alonzo's office have him send your can
you email those
out pardon
me would be EAS okay yeah we'll post on
the website that be a great thing to do
it's not a tremendously
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long he he he felt that we' got along
far enough
negotiation we make that
available there there was there was a
reason it his
report was to review the information
provided by the developers not to
generate a report to make sure that it
was accurate he felt like information
was good information accurate there
there that causes any kind of issues
anything K project they did a
substantial rep I
mean that is not our report we don't
have that that is property of
no you're going to see patista theti
report yeah who reviewed is a
professional who reviewed that those
documents so that'll be available online
no later than Tuesday yes
sir listen this is this not a period for
discussion okay we're we're we're we're
going to make it available what you want
special counil find and released it'll
be available on when whenever Lonzo has
on the
webs go ahead Lonzo I'm sorry I'm
sitting here we're
discussing what
question no you're going to have it
available Monday or Tuesday no later
than Tuesday I'm sorry it'll be online
Tuesday
onl okay now I need a motion to
adjourn motion oh wait a minute
uh are we going to reconvene or do we
need
to you've advertised for
that so we really don't need to
reconvene because you're
advertis we could but I don't
anticipate I think we need to give allow
couple
weeks people look
at then we probably anticipate
reconvening couple weeks later to
address that's right yeah we need we
have one other thing before we
adjourn
that first Saturday in April Andrew is
it's not going to be available so we
need to resched that
meeting there's additional reason as
well that's opening day leag and they'll
be having a parade through town all
kids
and could we move that to 8 which will
be a Monday night Lonzo if youve got any
state people that have any business
with could you tell them yes
sir
Y is everybody agreeable to
that so we'll move our Board of
Supervisors meeting from a for April
from Saturday the 6 at 9:00 to Monday
the 8th at
6 everybody agreeable to
that let's do
that yes
ma'am
anytime v
v yeah one more thing I want to
elaborate on the taste of feasibility
for will be released and we're at that
point as far as legal the environmental
there's one component that we're still
in negotiations with financial that host
agreement will not be released until all
compon are
complete no you can't
sign what you will be released when it
is fully negoti
and yes when the next meeting that will
be done as you seen the mark March 8
2024 question or next day the March the8
meeting is information you see adver
that by okay that mean we are not
providing the host agreement at that
point we are going to release theti
agreement no later than Tuesday that
host agreement will stay with the board
and special counsel until it is agreed
upon and then when we advertise for the
next meeting that post agreement will be
adver released to
public right we may we may not reconvene
we might just just probably two or three
we have to do it three weeks later Yeah
by
yeah two weeks
ad that is
correct I correct am I correct in
assuming that there'll be another public
hearing specifically for the host
agreement that is
corre it be a public meeting this we'll
just have a separate
meeting yes okay you have to do it
public meeting
not that as far as list that that is
still we'll we'll check
it have a motion on board to
adjourn second have motion second all in
favor I
now