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go ahead Mr list thank you
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yes Andrew Hensley yes Wallace yes
terara D yes David E yes Rebecca D yes n
Kaiser yes Steve breedy yes sir you have
approval turn to regular session we need
to have a motion to come out of
executive session yes sir I'll make a
motion back second I have a motion
second to come out of executive session
return to regular session any discussion
if not all in favor signify v c i
POS we're back in regular session okay
first thing we need to do is we have
invocation I'm ask Caleb to do that and
then if you continue to stand we'll do
the Pledge of
Allegiance let us pray father God lord
we love you we thank you we praise you
today Father father forgive us for where
we fa you each and every day and Lord as
we SE celebrated our mothers yesterday
father we just want to thank you for
mothers not just yesterday but each and
every day father Lord thank you for
allowing us to be a part of our local
government father lead guide and direct
us in everything that we do in your name
we pray amen
amen Al to the flag of the United States
of America and to the Republic for which
it stands one nation under God
indivisible with libery and justice for
all
I'll need a motion to approve the
agenda I'll make the motion to approve
the
agenda need a second for that motion
second I have a motion and a second any
discussion yes sir yes ma'am um I only
received the rest of this agenda this
afternoon and so I'm just questioning
and I haven't even looked at it quite
honestly so I'm just questioning where
we are with this agenda you're talking
about the amended agenda that you have
before you the one that's stated 51
13:24 and it goes past on read it says
amended 5134 the request goes past 13
yes Mr Lester I don't have that the the
request has 16
was there anything in our board book
that explain the rest of this that we're
gonna that's on this agenda that we're
about to amend I think the only thing
that it concerns is setting dates for
public
hearings okay in in a reconvene meeting
was that asked for by you Mr chair
yes
ma'am thank
you any further discussion if not all in
favor signify by saying I I I'll oppose
like bring
is CH want to do the presentation
okay okay next very next item is the V
do secondary Highway six-year plan
presentation
okay um got a couple three new board
members will just hit very briefly on on
the six-year
plan each year County receives
allocation for unpaved roads um as well
as some telee roads for projects on on
the secondary grad system in the county
we look at their estimates for the
projects that are on the list as well as
any carryover deficits from the previous
year and look at adding new projects
what the funny we had this year we were
able to add one new project at the sixth
year and that is Route 728 Davis
Memorial Drive which is off of flat
circle flat circle connects 58 to 71
it's Pro about half mile long um the
projects that we'll be doing this coming
season we'll be Paving 824 Walt Drive
which is off the end of tbz hollow which
we completed about three years I guess
it was and we also be working on hakre
Chapel we expect those projects to start
uh probably August this year after the
budgets are approved and all the
environmental reviews are complete so
just quick synopsis the two projects
again we're doing this year would be 824
and walk Drive 671 acre chapel and then
in fy3 we are adding route 728 Davis
Memorial Drive which is on flat circle
so just want to hit the highlights of
the plan for you this evening and um
entertain any questions that the that
the board may have
anybody have any
questions I'm sorry I do you don't mind
no man go right ahead in full disclosure
tonight I really said let's hurry up and
get get our board meeting over with and
I'm sorry Mr chair okay um I do want to
say I appreciate the work that you guys
have done in my district that have
cleaned up our roadsides and have taken
care of a lot of things and I did have
that in my notes and I can't find it now
on the road numbers I wanted to
specifically say but I do have a
question okay now Davis Drive is over in
flat circle I get that and it's a dead
end
Road and I know that every one of us
have other places is that an Emer I mean
how did that get on there so explain
that to me we looked at some of our
maintenance records and then also where
we have what I would say outline gravel
roads there's no other gravel roads all
that close to the to that particular pav
Road from a maintenance operation stand
point but I mean if if the board would
want to entertain other other routes we
can certainly look at that but we pretty
much we looked at that in housee with
our maintenance records and and what
what our thoughts would be on the route
okay now like I said I don't have a
problem with that but I know that since
we've um since it's kind of up to us to
make sure that some of our highway
safety things get on your uh on your
records then I'm going to say this again
publicly that the the railroad crossing
in dank to Sawmill holler is in really
bad need of fixing and I'd like to see
that that's done um so I think that I
think these are things that we need to
look at there's other places I know but
that one just Rises to the top for me
tonight that that'll be a railroad
repair on the crossing that's that's not
I know you have to save your money we'll
we'll make some calls and see what we
can do but that would be a railroad
project okay and I do appreciate
apprciate the work that's being done on
Rono kill we haven't had a chance to
talk so I thank you for that do you see
that that is going to be finished before
winter the bridge itself yes that is the
schedule for the contract we're not
admin administer that out of the
residency I've not heard of any
anticipated issues as far as being
complete but I'll double check with our
construction folks on that and let you
know thank you thank you Mr chair yes
ma'am I have one thing I guess you know
what where I'm going with this but I
keep putting it on the list is up behind
sword Creek Community bapst Church the
road up there that uh keeps foring out
and we still have problems up there with
that I get calls consistently with
people up there in that area concerned
about if they needed a rescue squad or
something to come up there it's it's
pretty bad so I'll just since you're
here I thought I'd throw that out I'll
I'll remind the headquarters again thank
you thank you sir
anybody else have a question I've talked
to several people over the past two or
three months and the thing that keeps
coming up is resurfacing some of these
paved roads that are in need of repair
um how is V Dot's process on getting
that
started that um that's largely done on a
a ranking system based on on a a CCI
rating which is basically the condition
of the road roader travel is
understanded each year and didn't r on
on their condition and then added to the
resurfacing list based on that condition
and you'll I don't have the list in
front of me this evening but you'll see
some resurfacing
starting probably in June you'll
probably see some patching more more
intense patching here in the next few
weeks and then the actual resurfacing
probably get in probably Jun get fired
up little bit
more okay thank you and if you can get
Lonzo of that resur list that way some
of these people call maybe I can say
well your Road's on the list right you
I'll try to get down on the board report
I will get on the board report for next
meeting anybody else have anything I
have one one little thing I need you to
look at I had a lady call and she lives
on Rose Street I'm sure you're familiar
with it's in it's just outside of town
lemons down on the old
71 okay on the back road if you could
take a look at it her road is in pretty
bad shape little section but I I suspect
it may not be in the highway system
because it's just outside the town it's
just outside the town L okay 3 390 I
think it's 399 Road Street
okay anybody
else
okay we need a motion on that L it's
under my motions
okay thank you J thank you all
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okay Mr Lester you're up with the budget
presentation
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good afternoon board
members again this is a second
presentation concerning the Russell
County budget for fiscal year
2425 uh
um as we go through this budget
presentation from the previous to give
some updates of course everyone uh not
everyone knows if you don't know the
governor just approved the budget today
so both the House and Senate uh we were
receiving com you know telephone
conversations with legislators trying to
uh work on some last minute things we
had phone conversations between
legislators and and board members last
week trying to get some things added and
uh we're still we got a few numbers that
we're still lacking on as far as and we
should have those soon but I what I'd
like to proceed with is uh of course to
go over where we ended last time to
continue on this County the 2425 budget
is what we were looking at before of
course the Virginia minimum wage it did
I'll make it so that if that was one of
our concerns that we had it was still
the governor vetoed and it was still
being considered until you know 1:00
today so I mean um the next area concern
on the uh County budget was the Regional
Jail increase and we have worked with
them and the budget committee has worked
with them we have negotiated with them
over the number of inmates the
anticipated inmates the inmates that we
could work through our community work
program and other recovery programs so
uh that become very successful and I'll
be going through the numbers in the
budget line on year soon next thing was
one of the areas of concern was the
Russa County DSS which is the foster
care and CSA program we did have an
increase in that uh we it didn't come in
as high as uh as anticipated but it's
still an area
concern of course as anyone can see from
electricity to gas to regular inflation
we had the 2025 you know our operations
for each one of our departments that is
going to ur from regular electricity the
cost of just doing
business and and again the Russell
County Disposal and transfer station
increase of course you know our
contracts in place it does increase our
disposal and Transfer Station cost have
increased and I'll be going through that
later too one of the good things was on
the Russell County Fire and Rescue you
know that was given extra money by the
casino money last year we got to leave
that at funding in place what was
applicable last year what they got last
year is what they'll get this year so we
got to be we we worked really hard
trying to save both the fire and the
rescue because we know how important
that is to the county citizens
so we did everything that we could do to
Shield those two
operations um the Russ County resource
officer I just got notification they
approved the budget around one I got
notification that Russell County did get
their rsos at around 2 o' for the Leon
and the cwood elementary so we've got
those
grants uh next area concern of course
which is the Russa County teacher salary
and the atrisk funds that we had to deal
with the budget which was $1.1
Million as you can see and I'll be going
into that later into the budget also
just to give a heads up Russell County
is currently we've already done our
flyovers we are currently into the comms
and the reassessment and we're probably
about 50 maybe 60% into the comps of the
real estate reassessment and it is
coming in at the projected Revenue you
know projections increases between 40
and 50% that is still
valid next is what we have received this
year which was one of the components of
the budget that we were able to increase
in into the revenue stream cycle was we
is the casino funds which is dedicated
to Public Safety and education like I
said before we got 650,000 last year
this year we get 1.1 million so that
will be divided out again the fire and
rescu stay the same we're able to
contribute to that the Southwest
Community College uh portion that were
obligated by allow to pay and the race
program will stay in
place we also have contributed to the
court operations which includes the
regular operations of the courts and the
community programs and the work programs
and the rest that will stay in place and
of course that leaves $500 additional
th000 that will come out of the casino
funds and during this budget model that
we have developed from the budget
committee we have dedicated that
additional
$500,000 to the Russell County
schools as we go
through the agenda and the budget as you
can see and I'm going to switch here to
this budget because this changed it to:'
clock
today so and it will be up on the site
so again on the revenue side component
side we increased on the revenue just
from Total property taxes just on the
balances we're looking at an increase
between between last year and this year
of 265,000
between the next one to 420,000 this is
the casino operations this is an
additional
$420,000 that we got between this year
and last year and the next line item
that you see what of course that
highlighted in blue here is the grants
for the rsos
SRO at the state level
so between the increases in the revenue
and the rest of budgets 55 departments
maintaining the same or
cost other than the 3% increases for
County Employees increases in the rate
of inflation
contractually as I go through them as
the ones that we highlighted in the at
the beginning between the DSS's the
regional jails and I'll show you how
those developed as during this last
transition or last review of our budget
so as you look
through the first one that was coming up
is course a Regional
Jail we have projected at least
$250,000 increase now that was based off
the real inmas that's in the jail based
off the cost that was coming through in
23 and 24 if we applied those same daily
rates of operational and debt load we
were looking at 250,000
increase after a lot of negotiations a
lot of phone calls a lot of promises
that we could divert and diverse divert
other community workers we got our
numbers down to where we can balance it
out and actually come in at about
$112,000
less than we anticipated so it's another
250,000 in cuts that we had not
anticipated
based off the previous
numbers so as we proceeded through the
budget the other numbers and and looking
through each line item of course the
trash it's we went from the regional
deal right straight to the big numbers
trash and Disposal units and the
transfer stations as you can see right
here our actual expenditures in 23 24
came in at 1,1 197
761 and this year for 24 25 it increased
up to$ 1. 1599 $1.6 million so you're
looking at 400 approximately $400,000
increase which is a
5.2% so we had to we were collecting
Revenue we were cutting cost but then we
hit the disposal cost which came in at a
at a higher rate and that's contractual
numbers based off of annual tonnage and
these numbers are estimated very close
to what our annual tonnage is it's it
has very little room for error or the
estimates are very
close
next is
the
local Social Services boster care so in
the foster care budget for social
services we included we increased both
to the Department of Social Services
because they've had some turnover and
they've also hired some foster care
coordinators and they they're doing
really well on it right now we're
getting foster care families and and
Miss D you can attest to that but also
at the same time into the CSA program
for purchases Services we had an
increase from
263,000 to 381,000 which was a 44%
increase as you can see so that that is
an estimate now as our foster care
program in homes come available those
can transition out and come down as we
get more foster homes in place this
number we will watch very closely on a
month basis in conjunction with DSS and
CSA so that went from
88236 to a million 20813 which was a
15.7% increase but again it will go
month by month as we get more fos homes
that number will transition
down so as we proceed through the budget
through the year to be able to get to
these next is the school
board now as everyone knows that the
school board has closed both the Swords
Creek and the Coffee Creek
schools in that consolidation and
working and conveying to us what they
were doing and what how they got to
these numbers of course last last year
we contributed $9.1 million to them now
when they've closed the schools they
anticipate $600 to
$650,000 in savings from the closed
school closures they also anticipate
another $400 to
$450,000 in capital in equipment savings
which is about 1.1 million which you'll
see this number come very close you're
soon we incre based off of
our projections of of what we have
allocated they also had a reduction of
$177,700
177 in they paid off their principal and
payments they reduced their debt load by
$177,000 but to be able to get the
teachers their raises to be able to put
it to the scale that was proposed to us
that before and to be able to give the
3% to the County employees that worked
for the school to be able to give the
raises that was in the rate scale
structure in charge and to give to the
County
employees that it went up
$832,000 now 500,000 came from the
casino money remember that the 177 is
out of the debt also in in in
conjunction with it our other cost
savings also transitioned into it our
total revenue increase was
$898
122 this came in as an increase of $832
which is a surplus of a little bit over
$65,000 so this right here right now at
the board's pleasure will balance the
budget and it will in at the board's
pleasure and the school boards too is
what give the ability
to give the teachers pay raise that was
in the chart struers on the step up that
was proposed by the school
board as we continue through to finish
it out as we can see and the last items
that are on this
budget and this has been of course we
had some cost savings into
insurance and we also had cost savings
on our side we on our cast c side on our
Capital expenditures we're finishing up
the courthouse the new courthouse has
been built okay that was paid as already
paid for what the new con the
construction on the Old Courthouse is
actually being paid by federal funds not
$1 of County funds is paying for the
renovation at the Old Courthouse all
that work is being done is being paid by
what funding that we got from the
federal government for infrastructure
construction and
renovation that the board supervisor set
aside to pay for that so not $1 not $1
is going from the general funds to pay
for the renovation of the O pouse so we
were able to take those line items and
cut that from 581,000 down to 85,000 on
normal operations so that's another
another half a million dollar savings so
between the increase in the revenue and
the increase in the savings of the cost
cutting we were able to look at the
budget as you can see of 30 million
73199 with zero
deficit this is why I am proposing as
the County Administrator for Russell
County to the Board of Supervisors any
questions
all I have to say is I hope you don't
have any building maintenance issues you
sure have pull that one down yes and I
tell you I appreciate Lonzo and I
appreciate Dr Booker and school board
for working with this is way overdue you
got to be competitive to have people to
want to move here work here and live
here uh we've went through a a drastic
situation to where we started I don't
know and I can't you can't blame
everything on the pandemic this this
should have been F years ago and it
takes good leadership strong leadership
and and good boards to want to come
together and work together to want
people to live here in Russell County
work here in Russell County and raise
their kids here and it's because of pay
literally pay I mean you know when you
can drive 30 minutes and make $10,000
more in a year uh we knew we had this
issue when we first got elected we tried
to deal with it then and we really
didn't have the board or the the
Personnel or the people that wanted to
step up and do this it's about our
people it's about our people and it's
about them making a decent living and
living here and everybody in this room
wants our County to be the most
competitive County and and people to
work here live here and we've got some
exciting uh news coming down the pike uh
I think people will be thrilled uh as
far as what's getting ready to happen
but I appreciate our teachers they're
more than a teacher I tell you that I
mean they've had I've had three boys go
through and I'm getting ready to give
them two grandkids I don't know how many
teachers will have left on I
send but they they're more than a
teacher they they love our kids I've
watched them they're they're a social
worker they provide clothing and food
and they they go way out of their way to
do what we all take for granted and I
and I'm not just saying that I mean I've
watched it I've I've watched businesses
help them and contribute to them and and
help them to make sure that our kids
have every need that they need and you
know our teachers deserve this and it's
way overdue Dr hooker I appreciate you I
appreciate you taking this leadership
roow I know we've took a lot of heat
from a lot of this but I promise
everybody once you get to pay up you'll
have people want to move here live here
want to buy a house here now we got to
fix the housing issue and we're working
on to get more housing but thank you
[Applause]
I want to give Dr hooker a pat on the
back because
she she pulled up her big boy britches
and she made some cuts that we've been
looking to make probably for the last
eight years I guess and taking a real
hard look at the budget and honestly
that's the only way uh that she could
get those teacher salaries up to where
she wanted she wanted all in one year I
thought maybe we could do over a two or
three year period but one year she made
enough cuts to get those teacher
salaries up up to where they need to be
and I will say that I would hope that if
a few things go the way I mean we're in
a good I think we're just about ready to
turn the corner on a lot of this
Economic Development stuff and I would
hope that maybe next year we be in a
position that we could look at making
those salaries even
better and maybe through Casino money
and such so thank you
[Applause]
Dr I'll also step on some I'll also Echo
uh Steve and penut comments outstanding
job of Dr hooker these teachers deserved
this raise and you know that's one thing
that that I've said for many years now
my mom was teacher my sister's a teacher
my wife taught in Russell KY schools I
know how bad the pay is trust me and I
know how much y'all work and put time
you put in uh you know even after hours
after the school's closed how much
effort and time you put in and you
deserve this raising it's the right
thing to do and I thank you for all the
hard work you've done um that can got
kicked down the road for way too long
and it just took some people willing to
be serious about it make hard decisions
and I want to thank you all for that
thank
you well just add on what the other
board member has said and when we looked
at this budget and what we were looking
we didn't look at just what revenue
streams or tax streams were coming in or
where we could cut cost or programs or
or advocate for with different agencies
to be able to work these numbers to be
to get it into something that Russell
County could live with on a balanced
budget but we also had a great
opportunity which we just had a meeting
on was economic development of course we
as I have said in the meetings before
we've got you know we just put that in
one one into the take company which you
know they're looking at 170 employees we
also just got word from the general
legislation the general assembly I'm
sorry the general assembly through to
look at contributing to Natural Gas
component lines down into that area
which will increase their also their
another employment of another 180 they
will have the capacity to be able to go
up to that capacity over 350
employees but also you will see on the
agenda that uh V do has also contributed
additional uh $200,000 to the pure suer
project to a million dollar towards
building the road which we're moving on
this week we also just had Clos
executive session I can't go into the
details but I can't tell you it's $20
million in investment and 100 jobs and
we're moving fast and furious on that
too so what we did in looking at the
budget we took the budget of what we
were doing and what we could cost and
what we can save plus what was coming in
place now I know that in the 11 news
they had uh had mentioned that we're
going down to
20,000 you know in population by 2050 or
whatever their number was 2030 whatever
but here is the thing that can mitigate
IT jobs jobs bring families in jobs
bring kids in they we're right now on
track if this goes through we are down
to almost where our buildings are full
we'll be full close to it that we own so
we have great opportunities here and you
know it's not going to be from the lack
of effort of trying and trying to get
these things in place and one of the
first step was to balance the
budget I think now we've heard the
presentation we need to back formally
have a public hearing on the six-year
plan followed up with the budget here so
yes sir what I'd like to do is just go
ahead and open up the floor to the
public hearing on the V do Highway
six-year plan that Jeff mentioned there
if there's anybody who would like to
comment on that feel free to come up to
the
podium anybody want to comment on
six-year
plan nobody wants to comment on sixy so
I'm going to formally close that public
hearing and ask I guess the Board needs
to vote
right on the six year plan so I'd
entertain a motion to approve the six
year plan I'll make a motion to approve
the six year plan second have a motion
in second any
discussion if not all in favor signify
the saying
I like sign there are none okay now I'll
go ahead and open up the public hearing
on the County's
205 2425
budget anybody who would like to comment
on it please come to the podium
yes hi my name is Sher patum from
hansonville I had a quick question from
Mr Lester when you started out with the
um expenditures and you were talking
about the mandatory minimum wage which
was vetoed by the governor um you
skipped the first line item that you had
under there which said it was a 26%
increase in pay increase plus a 7%
bonus for the board could you please
explain that because it also said eight
years and I don't know if that means
eight years from now it's going up 26
plus 7% or if this is a jump in one year
if you could explain that please I can
do it
that if you look at the best the
previous presentation that I gave that
is the raises that County employees have
been given since
2015 that's why accumulate up to and
including this 3% rise okay great
because looking at it it looked like
somebody was getting a 33% rise over the
next year that no thank you yes
ma'am
thank I'm good I'm glad to see that we
have a a balanced budget I'm hoping that
you can honor the libraries request for
additional funding because one of the
things you will have noticed is the
overall increase and even though the uh
minimum wage was not approved for this
year we still have staff that have been
negatively impact impacted by the
minimum wage increases from the past
that you know you have people that have
got 20 years experience and have worked
hard to get a degree to build their
skills and suddenly the people making
minimum wage that may have been there
for 3 years years are making the same
amount those so um and uh you know
toilet paper and stuff goes up you know
so that's part of what we had asked for
in our budget request and I thank you
for your time thank you
kill I would first off like to thank the
entire board and especially Steve
breeding David E Lonzo Lester for
working with the budget committee uh
through the school board and Dr h and
Brook web this is long overdue for the
teachers to have this kind of increase
um I think if you invest in the teacher
you can't go wrong they live here they
work here they pay taxes here so they're
invested so any kind of money raises
they get will be spent here in this
County so you cannot go wrong with that
kind of investment and I want to thank
each and every one of you for for making
that happen um and yes we have made Cuts
ourself um I know you all couldn't come
up with over $2 million to make this new
pay scale happen um and and kudos to Dr
hooker for for pushing this and telling
us exactly what needs to be done to make
this happen this new pay scale happen
and uh it took a joint effort from our
board this board and thank God we worked
good together and can make this happen
and the teachers of Russell County can
thank you all along with Dr hooker and
the school board for making this happen
and and I am and I'm grateful to you all
and thank you so much
thank you
JJ has the county done any impact
studies did you your name please oh Dana
Tu I'm sorry I didn't hear anybody
El uh any impact studies on this m stre
project about the people that are going
to leave this County because everybody's
talking about how many people's going to
be here in a 2035 2050 and you think
you're going to get people coming in
here and I'm just curious if the
County's done any impact studies on the
amount of other counties of people that
have left their property that hasn't
been sold that's still for sale decades
later anybody any impact
studies oh you answer everybody else you
don't want to answer me on not that's
cool got no problem with it well it's
time for public comment we can hear your
well that it's a public comment you were
explaining to the other people when they
asked the question I'm asking you a
simple question has the county done an
impact study on M three on amount of
people that are already leaving the
county
over no yes anybody come on L I know you
I know you got some some some some
Integrity I don't think so at this time
thank you very much
gentlemen I'm
sorry I'll be back I'll be back
anybody
else budget County
budget we're we're we're not this is
comments on the
count we'll do that in public
comment okay this is about the county
budget does anybody else have any
comments about the county
budget one
oh my name is David Dingus from
gra um so as I can understand it the
majority of the employment in this
County comes from three different areas
that's
education
government and law enforcement like
guards the Regional Jail those kind of
things employ quite a few people in this
area
so do we have any
other things in the future that are
going to keep people here that are going
to keep people working aside from those
areas cuz it's not just enough to have
employment like people have to want to
stay here
they have to want to live here they have
to have reasons to live here other than
a job I can go anywhere and get a
job I stay here because I like it
here unfortunately I'm 45 years old
and I don't get out and do as much as I
used
to um it's not very conducive for young
people in this area that's why the
population's DWI
that's all the comment I have I was just
looking for a
response thank you
sir anybody else on the county
budget hi I'm Ang MF from 7202 FY Road
and I just have a question about like
School vouchers is the county handing
out School vouchers yet on Charter
Schools I know that it was discussed
Once Upon
time we're not giving the school
vouchers to decrease the funding in
public
schools no okay thank you
good evening I'm Brandon Miller I'm a
teacher here in Russell County and I
sitting here listening to all this and I
just felt like I need to stand up speak
for the teachers I want to look at every
one of you and thank you thank you from
the bottom of my heart it's been it's
been a long time
coming and I've been doing this for 23
years and I've been to these meetings
and quite honestly you don't usually you
know usually don't get what we what we
are told or what we are wanting but I
had a teacher ask me the other day do
you think this
board will will do it and I said I feel
different about this board I felt
different about it and I want to tell
you I appreciate you I'm sure I'm
speaking for the rest of these teachers
here tonight we appreciate the hard work
dror hooker's put in how she has fought
for us and this this is a a welcome
change I'm telling you 23 years this is
a welcome change to have somebody that
you know for the first time really feels
like you they got you back and they
appreciate what you do because Mr
Eaton's right you know we're with these
kids we're with your kids a lot uh about
as much as you maybe more than you and
and I I spoke at the Schoolboard meeting
I poured my heart out I work I work like
crazy just trying to make ends meet uh
couldn't live off my teaching salary so
I worked three jobs
and you know I'm not wanting your pity
I'll I'll work for if I have to for my
family but what you have done in this in
this budget that's going to alleviate a
lot of this pain so on behalf of us
teachers I just wanted you to see the
face of a teacher that we really thank
you and we appreciate you
guys anybody else on the county budget
okay I don't see anybody else so I'm
going to go ahead and close the public
comment on the county
budget what you need now Lonzo is a
motion to approve the budget is
presented I've got have a motion for
public hearing to approve okay I'll make
a motion to have public hearing to
approve this budget for 20 2023 2024
right June the 3rd at 6 p.m. June the
3rd at 6
[Music]
p.m. have a motion to have a
second I'll second Motion in a second
any
discussion if not all in favor signify
by saying I iose
like june3
now we go on to uh new business and have
the next item is the approval of the
minutes for April the 8th
2024 so move have a motion to approve
those minutes a
second second motion second any
discussion if not all in favor signify
say
I like
sign okay I need a motion to approve the
minutes of April 17th
2024 have a motion to have a second
second motion second any discussion if
not all in favor signify by saying I I
those like there are
no now we need to if you've had an
opportunity to look at your list of
expenditures we need a motion to approve
the expenditures as presented in the
board packet I'll make a motion P the
bills motion to pay the bills I need a
second second motion and a second
discussion uh yes please are we on track
with our budget currently I know we're
coming down to the end of the year
but I know we had some DSS
issues uh DSS and I are working those
out they have three BAC positions right
now so if it is it'll be not major
impact to the
count right now we're in line with the
budget so they have their money to
finish not
yet not until we confirm confir
confir so we're looking for June 30th
sir any any additional
discussion on payment of the
invoices if not all in favor signify
saying
iose
like now committee appointments for
board
consideration Mr
Lester yes
sir right now at the last board meeting
um we had given uh Mr Kaiser had
requested that the application deadline
had be extended till April the 30th so
we have been uh until you
know until now we have still been
accepted the on that have come through
to give everyone an opportunity I put
that list into your comprehensive list
and applications I just that's in your
separate packet that way you've got the
comprehensive list so the next meetings
we need to start filling the position so
you've got the applications the ones
that are final the that Mr Kaiser had
requested and you've got the
applications themselves so please review
them and start we'll start fill the
agenda and we'll start filling these
committees and Boards
okay
okay now we come to Citizens comment
period so I have the list here and I'm
going take just as they've been written
down here and that you have three
minutes in which to speak so Josh
Burgess Josh burgus 1857 Archer prob
Southwest
Virginia I just want to speak from
experience that I've had uh this has to
do with the m 3 Landfield I very much
posos it and I still hadn't met anybody
as for it
I um I work in the rail industry so I
have personally seen where this trash is
coming from the facilities that it's
loaded
at and some of the information has been
given to us that this trash is properly
screened with fine too comb and all that
it's not there's a man in an in
loader that is loading this trash out of
a building that is so overpacked with
trash that the sides are busting out of
it and the main thing that he is looking
for is bodies and body parts if you load
a body or body part and real car to get
shipped across country you make national
news that's what they're going to avoid
and speaking on
that before I would introduce a landfill
or any situation to the
public I would uh maybe visit the
communities that those things affect
talk to the people you're not going to
get the answers from the business owners
you need to get out in the communities
and see how to fixs the people and what
y'all preach about is the people and
people Russ Gan matter and I've said it
many times the biggest asset Rus Gan has
is people and I do anything I could to
keep them here introducing a mega
lanfield is not the route to
take and I talk about my situation a
little bit my job affords me the
opportunity to live in 25 different
States and still sleep in my own bed at
night who has that option not many
people but I choose my bed Russell
County and it is in Cleveland Virginia
and I've traveled the majority of the US
for work
vacation and I have never seen a place
like Russell County I'm proud to call it
home I
am and there's talk that always comes up
you get into the Landfield conversations
about
lawsuits you know if we if they don't
get their way they may sue
us I just asked the board not to put the
county in a situation by getting into
business with someone who would
potentially sue you if they didn't get
their way that is not the way to do
business that's not a good relationship
to have to always be looking over your
shoulder for a lawsuit if somebody
didn't get their
way another thing
at the at the informational hearing with
Ernie Hulk Mr matne sit right over here
and I personally asked him if this
landfill was voted
down would he sue the board Russell
County or anybody associated with it and
the man said no there' be no lawsuit and
that is on
record and um talk about your budget I'm
proud that You' got the budget balanced
I really am and and I I hope that those
are real numbers and I'm glad to see it
it's a big relief one thing I believe in
is being
self-sufficient and is that my
buzzer no but anyway oh okay but anyways
self-sufficient and that's a big part of
what's wrong with the country is people
aren't self-sufficient anymore you talk
about your grocery bills and all that
one thing that is linked to is nobody
raises a guard anymore who in here knows
how to kill Hogs if you can be
self-sufficient then nothing will bring
you down you'll make it through anything
and ask this board to be self-sufficient
don't put all your eggs in one basket
depend on L field that Windfield will
come and it will go and then where will
you be you'll be looking for another
crutch to lean on and I think if you're
looking for business investors you need
to look within the county because
they're
here I can tell you that our local banks
depend on Russell County and banon
County deposits
to expand their business in other areas
so the money's
here and we'll save that for later date
and I appreciate everyone of y'all and
no Landfield thank you thank
you Tim
frer Mr chairman I've got some
information from the board members pass
that
to I'm Tim prer from Grandy representing
director of clinch Independent Living
Services we serve four counties banon
Dion Russ tazel there's 17 Independent
Living centers across the state of
Virginia every county has a Independent
Living Center serving them uh we W the
widest areas serving for of course you
all know how long it takes a drive
anywhere um I would appreciate you let
me speaking that just a couple minutes
uh you all can read the information
yourself I just kind of break it down
simple terms of how much we are spending
in Russell County uh we've got office in
Grundy and we've got office in tazwell
and office in
Grundy um the back page tells you just
the M we put in coming over here
uh you know from gry to Castlewood is
100 miles round trip Castlewood gry
office serves the educational part of
her uh company we assist uh students
with disabilities that can be a learning
disability that can be a physical
disability uh Russell County we always
have more students in Russell County
other County right now we currently
serve about 50 students in Russell
County uh the biggest thing we do is
student driving tutoring lessons so they
can get their learns permits without
learnit driver's license you can't work
or go to school and our youth transition
program we try to help students when
they go to Southwest or any other local
school we can assist them we can be
advocates for them and make sure the
college is Weare their disability
Westell County schools are just so it is
the best County that we work in for is
special ed Department Castlewood haker
and uh Lebanon or just exceptional and
we appreciate them letting us com to
schools assisting them our as office
takes care of all the other needs
accessible ramps uh walk-in shares
physical disability type things lift
chaires I've got six or seven categories
you can read for yourself and save some
time and Taz you know once again Taz to
Castle Woods 104 mile round trip
lebanon's 80 mile round trip home 66 so
we spend about
45,000 just in mileage alone and then
you see the other categories I have we
average building about 20 20 ramps a
year in wussell County uh our main goal
is called Independent Living Center
because we try to make sure individuals
can remain independent in their home not
have to go to nursing home because they
can't get down steps or something like
that or widen a door if they were
wheelchair
aaes so uh you can see we spend about
$32,000 a year just in ramps in russler
County uh one great big asset and I'm
sure there's probably some people behind
me rosale Baptist Church builds about
all of our ramps those are just great
men that will volunteer we call them up
say hey we got a ramp needs to be built
five to seven days those guys build them
uh they build about 20 ramps a year for
us if we had to pay for that that saves
us probably 30 $40,000 on labor cost so
we'd be building 10 ramps instead of 20
so big shout out to rosale baptist and
like said big shout out to Russell
County Schools those are two great
Partners we
have uh we have a board of directors and
we have two people honor Bo directors
from Russell County they're both special
ed teachers Marlene Boyd teaches at
haker currently Celeste ruford a retired
teacher from Lebanon and they're two
great board members they represent
Russell County well on our board and
we'll proud to have them but um the
final like said you all will discuss
this later uh the final number on the
back just tells you got all the stuff up
I kind of break it down to give you an
idea where we're spending our money at
over here but this year and last year
we're spending roughly $50,000 in
Russell
County and buckhanon County gives us
$25,000 a year that's mostly to you know
we got an office in buckhanon County
they also provide us free rent at one of
the government buildings which saves us
another
20,000 um tasell County gives us 13,000
so I'm here tonight once you all look at
this information discuss it with
yourself if you see fit that these
services are good we're helping a lot of
people we have more consumers in Russell
County because you know youall do have a
lot more population in Buck Dixon and
tazwell so I think currently we have
about 110 consumers from Russell County
about 45 50 students and 50 60 you know
people with disabilities physical
disabilities mainly but uh just asking
for financial donation some help if you
can and I know how budgets are I've been
on school boards served on school boards
yes sir uh finish yeah so I know money
but any donation you can help us with
our cost we great
appreciate thank you thank you
[Applause]
team Angie
M
Angie okay I'm here to talk today about
the Moss 3 landfill
project um I'm asking the one more time
probably not the last time but please
don't go through with this don't approve
the host agreement don't do anything at
all that would make this a
reality because if this landfill
continues then it's too late when we've
got like 6,000 tons of garbage being
dumped in our mountains every day when
we've got 200 or more trucks overflowing
with trash traveling down Cleveland's
curvy Road roads that become even more
hazardous with snow and rain when train
cars filled with trash are leaking
sludge along our rivers and land and our
tax money will have to maintain those
miles of
roadways made more costly by the high
volume of traffic to benefit Nova
company it's too late when the Board of
Supervisors has to build a new water
treatment
plant with air tax dollars just to
accommodate Oney
it's too late if we lose tax revenue
because of the adverse effects that this
will have on property
values when we can't even buy insurance
because of our close proximity to this
dangerous
industry when the 60 mil liners that
cannot leak actually do and spill leak
shate into our soil and groundwater when
we can't use our wells and Springs when
the fish aren't safe to eat when the
livestock are poisoned when we can't
trust the foods from our
Gardens also when we can't breathe
because of the toxic toxic air check out
Bristol people can't breathe outside or
inside their homes with the stench and
irritation to their eyes and
throat
um I was wondering if since we
are completely protected with fire and
Rescue by
volunteers if this comes in is the
county going to have to uh get a paid
fire department to have people who are
trained to take care of any problems
that they might have down
there it's too late when babies are born
with low birth weight all kinds of birth
defects and neurological
disorders when our children start
getting leukemia when our family members
become ill with respiratory illnesses
asthma heart disease and all varieties
of
cancer it's too late when the fly ash is
used to cover the
waste it's radioactive and contains
Mercury and arsenic which are the same
which is the same arsenic that's in the
go that we've been trying to have
removed
leave the go say no to the landfill I'd
rather deal with the devil I know the
devil I
don't anyway I'm just asking please say
no thank you
Angie Amy
Branson good evening Amy Branson the
flats Virginia I messaged all the board
members except for Rebecca who doesn't
have social media to ask them what
projects and accomplishments that they
are most proud of since they have been
on the board we have three new members
so we're going to give them a pass
because they haven't had much time to
make their list of good deeds yet I
didn't get any examples from our more
senior board members except for Lan but
I only asked them yesterday Miss Wallace
provided me with a podcast that she did
that explains her Legacy is improving St
Paul D and her community Through
facilitating Partnerships with other
local agencies who want to revive
Appalachia through tourism and small
business and that's what we've discussed
in our budget that small business would
help us here the small businesses would
contribute the small businesses would
sponsor your kids team their t-ball
te as people we all think about what
will people say about me once I'm gone
what will my obituary say how will I be
remembered after my dad passed away
people told a lot of good stories about
him and people felt connected and
Kindred to me through him dad was also
known to have less than ideal livestock
fencing and for many years I received
multiple telephone calls from Animal
Control and Neighbors about loose
livestock even though they weren't mine
my dad said a precedence that I had to
live with that took many years in
telephone calls to shed those aren't my
cows all of you who have children and
grandchildren and people who love you
and live here with you in the this
County want to be here how will it make
you feel if you're influenced by a few
rich men to support their get richer
scheme at such a huge cost to the rest
of the people who actually live here
with you will you be able to look Us in
the eye at these meetings at church in
the grocery
store will your children and
grandchildren be associated with your
decision and will they stand behind you
and be proud
of your
decision will you be proud of yourself
will this be a decision to add to the
list of accomplishments or a failure of
Epic health and environmental
consequences I plead with you to protect
the citizens your family and our homes
to quote Benjamin Franklin it takes many
Good Deeds to build a good reputation
and only one bad one to lose
it will you allow this one vote for a
private landfill to erase all the good
that you've
done that's all I have except for if you
scroll down on article three
there Mr
Lester one more scroll thank you um
there's an inaccuracy there that
conflicts the Virginia code that needs
to be looked at between A and B you have
to give us the agenda packets at the
same time that the board gets those
that's section
g I'm sure you probably want to make
note of this even though it's time 2.2
d377 thank
you Sharon
still good afternoon and thank you all
for the wonderful job that you do for a
uh County my name is Sharon
ster I am a real estate broker in
Lebanon and have been selling real
estate for 35
years as a real estate broker I feel
that the proposed landfill could
negatively affect the population growth
and therefore cause the property values
to
decline property values are driven by
supply and
demand and if we do not have the demand
a positive demand the values will
Decline and is that fair to our citizens
I base my opinion on this fact I've had
two out ofate buyers in the past month
that after learning of the landfall
project have decided to hold off buying
until they see the outcome of the
project I feel our beautiful county has
potential for safer and more rewarding
growth I ask that you Rec consider the
recommendation and approval of this
Landfield thank you thank
you
Rd thank you Mr chairman and um to
members of the board Mr ler Mr Wampler
in this case
tonight we say no to m 3 landfill group
or not just saying no
we've been doing enormous amount of
research and we would like to
respectfully offer you and the RCR group
viable profitable
Alternatives we would like to discuss
this property being used for a national
ATV motor cross site along with major
hiking biking horse riding and so forth
this could be a tremendous income to the
county as well as Property Owners we
know there are some 17 Rare Earth
minerals on the property in the Gob that
has the potential to be very profitable
and we know currently that the
Department of Defense and Department of
energy are currently engaged in
experiments to effectively extract these
Precious
Minerals we know these minerals are
largely purchased from China currently
in the Department of Defense and the
department of energy have placed a high
priority in getting these Rare Minerals
from within
Gob P from the United States we know
that Virginia Tech is involved in this
research as
well so DOD and the department of energy
are very interested in God piles no
matter where they are in the USA it's a
huge thing we know that we know that
that that is going to be very profitable
situation and we also know that
potentially with regard to mining of
course there's an awful lot of water
that could possibly be repurposed and
sold by the
county we have experts who are
knowledgeable about these matters and we
would like our team to
meet with you and
RCR we know how involved Miss Wallace
has been and is and is involved in the
efforts of
Tourism so we would respectfully like
her to be one of the board members who
assists in getting a meeting with RCR as
well as Miss Wallace presumably the
chairman being in meeting both Miss
Wallace and chairman being in a meeting
if you like and we would appreciate you
getting this meeting set
out let's see if we can't work together
for better use and solutions for this
property and make it work for our
citizens our County and indeed our
country we have what we believe to be a
unique opportunity need to work together
to find better more viable solutions for
this property we respectfully request a
meeting if at all possible within the
next couple of weeks thank you thank
you B
Dickson okay thank
you this is a copy of a two those are
copies of a
2005 state report entitled the
recreational development potential of
the Clinch River Valley in Russell
County I urge you all to read this it's
still a road map for success for this
County every month since we've learned
about this landfill
proposal this board has heard from the
people citizens have attended your
meetings made personal pleas presented
to this board hard scientific evidence
as to why the board should vote no to a
host
agreement you've been given several
Alternatives that would increase County
revenue and not harm us or our
environment I won't repeat those
tonight we're told some of you all have
been threatened
you not realize you're threatening us
this landfill proposal is a direct
threat to all of us did you think we
would accept whatever you decide and not
say anything CS Lewis said Integrity is
doing the right thing even when no one
is
watching are host fees worth the
ruination of people's
lives is that following the Golden Rule
if you board members lived in South
clinchfield would you want to me a
landfill within sight the sound of your
front door if you live a little further
out beyond the awful sight would you
want to breathe in the landfill
pollution and wonder if that's what made
you or a family member sick would you
want to worry about when that leech a
will seep into your water
supply what if you decide as many will
to sell and just get out of here would
you want to have no choice but to accept
a fraction of your property's former
value if a buyer can even be found if
you lived along the roads and Railway
routes would you want six tons of
garbage going by your place every day
put yourself in a
place I'll end with this a reading from
Matthew chapter
22 verses
37-40 Jesus said to him you shall love
the Lord your God with all your heart
with all your soul and with all your
mind this is the first and great
commandment and the second is like it
you shall love your neighbor as yourself
on these two Commandments hang all the
law and the
prophets thank you
[Applause]
Bab Jackie Yates
yeah Jackie from rosale Virginia uh well
I a lot I'd like to say but it's
probably something I shouldn't say but
uh we finally quit the trash service we
give it up this this county is not for
the small business people they don't get
no smaller than what we were there was
two of us that started with nothing
um it's not for the small people I
promise you that out of the five and a
half years that we've done it only one
or two of y'all ever returned my phone
calls uh very few I ain't gonna call out
the good because then i' got to call out
the evil you know who you are and I
appreciate the ones that did and I don't
want to thank the ones that didn't um
there's a lot of things happened in that
five and a half years you know we voted
on things we agreed on things and we
change it the next couple days we all
people in oh we can't do that well we
thought we was no we can't ain't fire I
mean what is fa about it if we have a
literate control officer in this County
which I was told we did he ain't doing
his job I can promise you that by no
means these people picking up trash
right now that don't pay y'all $500 a
year like we was to haul trash every bag
we hauled was one less bag y'all had to
haul and but we had to pay y'all to do
it none of that paid s there people
right now picking trash up it don't have
permits so he ain't doing his
job uh only other thing I really want to
say is the people that bought us out I
don't want y'all to do them as good as
you did us I want you to do them better
they are people out there that need this
service they some out there just too
sorry to get out of bed know when the
dumps open don't care but there 53
people out of the 178 that I give this
guy that need this
service and uh just like I said don't
don't do him as good as you did me do
him better that way he can stay he has
other sources of income and he wants to
do
good
um that's about and and one other thing
these boxes that y'all making people
break down at the convenience sites to
put in a special bin take that special
bin to put with the trash please stop
that it ain't convenient for everybody
one day we all want to grow old you got
handicapped people there two wheelchairs
trying to break down a box to put in a
special bin take it up FR put it on the
floor with all the other trash at least
pick who you want to Flat in the box and
who you don't let let let's take care of
the elderly okay they've been here for a
long time they're the ones that know
y'all young people don't even know y'all
you ask them who's on their board they
don't know I don't have a clue it's the
old people that know y'all so take care
of them
and I go out that door tonight I'll
never be back
it ain't going to get better I don't see
it getting better they some good and
some bad but it just ain't it ain't
working for me in Russell County so I'm
done with it I'm out of here wish y all
the best all of you but the odds are
against you they seven up for a reason
so it can't be a tie only takes four bad
ones so I thank you I said just just be
good to this other guy be better than
you was be better to him you was me
maybe just stay another five years every
bag he hauls one less bag y'all don't
have to haul that's saving you
money okay
than Tammy
[Music]
Garrett good evening I'm Tammy Garrett
from Lebanon first of all I want to say
that um I'm happy for our teachers here
in Russell County um they deserve and
they earn every penny that they get and
I'm very happy for them and I fully
support our public um school systems and
public
education the other thing I want to say
is U Miss Branson mentioned that she uh
wondered how you all were going to look
Us in the eye in the future and I've
just been sitting here watching while
everybody spoke about the Landfield and
what I've noticed is that most of you
are not looking Us in the eye
now so that's just something to think
about I want to start by saying the
landfill is not the answer to Resa
County's problems we need to stop laying
the blame on others for the past and
complaining about what others have done
and others who have been in your seats
and even higher up in government we need
to start making decisions about the
future um this is not a party issue this
is an issue that has brought all of
Russell County
together um and all of the county is in
opposition to this
Landfield um an inspector at IMA has
told us that this site is full of
problems including 10 feet of water
currently sitting there and it cannot
pull water in order for the bond to be
released and Engineers have stated that
the required gravity fed lee8 pipe
system will be nearly impossible to
install if it manages to be approved by
all the regulatory
offices um DEQ IMA
dmme it could take up to 10 years for it
to even be approved so this is not a
solution to our problem um we're going
to have to face Financial problems way
before we know that this landfill is
going to be approved who's going to pay
the $500 million that RCR has touted
that they're going to put into this at
this time RCR has invested very little
of its own money into this site we still
have to pay for all the engineering
surveys and testing that has to be
approved so in fact probably Russell
County taxpayers will directly or
indirectly pay for this private landfill
and we know that's coming and then we're
going to have to suffer the
consequences I'm asking you all to stand
up for us stand up for the future of
Russell County stand up for our children
and our grandchildren they should not
have to bear the burdens for this
decision and th those burdens are surely
going to come we know that from research
and landfills they're going to come
financially
physically and environmentally the last
thing I have to say is I hope that your
exciting news is there is not going to
be a landfill in Russell
[Applause]
County Sherry
[Music]
[Applause]
Patt hello Sherry p in hansonville and I
want to apologize in advance I thought
that the um Library closed a little bit
later than it did I was going to have
copies for everybody but my bad so
something that I noticed that I thought
was kind of interesting is that Mr
matney has his house on the market for
$7.5
million he lives 6.8 miles from the
Bristol landfill and I wonder if that
has any reason to do with why he wants
to sell
and when we think about carbo and how
far Cleveland is and carbo is you know
like like I said I live in henville so
for me to get to carbo I got to come
into Lebon and then go up to Cleveland
and then over to carbo and it's you know
16 17 18 miles something like that but
when you look at it as the cril there's
a whole lot of us who are within 6 miles
and 6 miles is kind of the minimum that
we need to be looking at as to who is
going to be smelling and and face it if
you can smell the stench all of those
Plastics and toxins are getting into our
bodies and you everybody has already
told y'all you know cows are going to
die kids are going to get sick older
people are going to get cancer this is
just a disaster so I just kind of wanted
to give y'all a visual and again I'm
sorry I don't have an actual um uh
photocopy for you to look at but this
is you know the western part of R sorry
eastern part of Russ County so Leon's
down here here is carbo can you see Miss
Wallace kind of sort of I'm using the
2005 okay um so anyway so with that as
the center point and doing a six miles
as the crow flies radius it's coming
right by D
right definitely by St Paul in through
Castlewood down and around and up
through lean you've got 12 miles of the
clinch that's going to be affected by
this landfill and so all that work that
people have done to get a state park
there is going to be all for not but you
know you might want to if pass this
around if you want to and you figure out
where your own house is in relation if
you look at it as the Crowes but you
know Rd came up with some good ideas for
what we could do outside of the land 30
seconds 30 seconds thank you so you know
y'all have a real opportunity here to be
the knights in shining armor you know
riding in on the White Horse and saying
you know what this is a bad idea for
everybody in Russell County and we're
going to work to find alternate methods
which will actually employ people and
make people want to come here because
it's not going to be just
jobs best jobs in the world people
aren't going to come in you're talking
about their kids coming in if they think
their kids are going to get sick because
the proximity of a landfill they're not
coming they will take a $10,000 pay cut
and go someplace else where they're safe
thank youall very much thank
[Applause]
you Philip Amington
Philip Addington from Castlewood I'm
going to take a break from the landfill
I appreciate everybody's comments out
here I appreciate the work that the no
MOS group has done I appreciate the
thankless jobs that you guys do I
appreciate the thankless job the school
board does and Having the courage to do
what needed to be done that being said
I'm here to talk about the Russell
County Planning
Commission seems like it's been an
ongoing topic here for many months uh it
was brought up the Russell County
Planning commission that you guys were
want to reorganize every commission
every board every committee so I guess
you guys got ahead of that and I was
approached I'm on the Planning
Commission I'm not here representing the
Planning Commission I'm here
representing me and my personal
feelings so I was approached the state
code says that a Planning Commission
must be five members we have eight also
in saying that I want to thank the
members who have worked to cut taxes on
our citizens that's my money I've been
told some people think well $100 here is
nothing well guess what $100 for 20 plus
years is over
$224,000 that somebody made sitting on
the Planning Commission which is turned
into a thankless job
itself uh zoning in Russell County does
not exist the Planning Commission is is
governed by uh Virginia state code and
regulations passed and so when somebody
comes in and they've got something they
want to have looked at we just look and
say it falls within the regulations or
it doesn't and if it doesn't we
recommend to the citizens what they need
to do to bring it into the regulation so
that we can recommend to the Board of
Supervisors to pass whatever they're
asking so we cut the membership down
from eight to five members in January of
this year the Planning Commission
elected new officers uh a new chairman a
new secretary I was put in a secretary
and a new Vice chair
so that's three officers that were just
put in we thought well let's keep those
and this wasn't just my decision I
talked to the new chairman about this as
well um I think I may have been the only
one that talked to board members but
anyway so then we had those three
members we had a board of represent
supervisors Representatives so that
makes four that left one member you know
back in December November there was a
Planning Commission member change no
reason was given nobody said anything
about it it was just done Mark Mitchell
who had been on there for years doing a
fine job as chairman was just removed
and somebody was brought in so what we
did was kept the newest member that was
just brought in so there's your five
members nothing political and the
Planning Commission serves the whole
County it's not like this member's
taking care of his district and this
members taking care of his district we
look over the whole County another thing
about that is guess what every new
member has the right to vote there's
nothing in Virginia state Cod that says
that somebody has to be certified
somebody has to be trained so the
information that was given out at the
last board meeting incorrect if you're
put on the Planning Commission you have
the right to vote day one when you walk
in the
door I'm getting old and
forgetful uh also there is a County
employee one of the best employees in
this county that does the workload for
the Planning Commission I'm not going to
name her here this evening but she
carries she sets the table she does the
work when a citizen comes in with a
request that would go to the Planning
Commission they talk to her she's been
doing it for years guess what that's a
thankless job she was kind of maligned
here maybe not intentionally but she's
not
certified and the Planning Commission
thought well if she's the face of the
planning Comm she's the one that
everybody needs to talk to she ought to
be certified so that when any question
arises she knows exactly what's going on
she already knows exactly what's going
on it's just like some people think a
little piece of paper gives them a
little more Authority so that's what the
Planning Commission was trying to do
with that
and 30 30 seconds I really want to thank
the school board again for what they did
it took courage to close those schools
they needed to be closed years ago
and for one more thing every parent
that's already taken their kids to St
Paul and every parent that says I'm
leaving this County with my kids when
they start to close Castlewood High
School don't go looking at the board
look at everybody that took their kids
out of this County thank you thank you
[Applause]
pH Dave ch
good afternoon uh thank you for letting
come up and talk
today my name is Dave Chek River
Mountain Road Le Virginia I wanted to
talk a little bit today about something
it's kind of different uh as far as the
landfill goes um kind of approaching
from a common sense standpoint things
I've run across a lot like in my career
as an engineer building things and
seeing things happen I know it's it's a
tough Deion on all of y'all I know
you're under a lot of pressure U I'm
sure that you I can imagine I know how
things like this have gone in other
places have been involved in and that's
the go ahead and make your vote get out
the middle let the experts deal with it
okay you can point to theq and point to
pesta and let this thing go but as we
think about that really want to approach
that during the discussion this
afternoon um we uh something that's
really bothered me you I know teachers
are here and I'm glad to see this
because I kind of have a davism that
says happiness is proportional to
homework you see somebody does their
homework they're going to do well that's
what's keeping me up kind of on this
Landfield we uh this is uh another
Landfield that's being permitted in the
state of Virginia this is what's called
the notice of intent this is what goes
to the DEQ that has a lot of information
in it that uh that they use to start the
ball
rolling this this is a notice of intent
that was filed by the guys looking at
this
Landfield okay
and we when we looked at that when we
went to the meeting it was like I mean I
came out of I told people they're not
serious it's not it's not a legitimate
business I don't know what the game is
but this is not it but uh anyway of
course DEQ rejected it they gave it an F
right out of right the box and sent it
back but this is you know and we all
know the quality and the depth of
podesta report that we got and how
that's kind of sitting with
us and the question that keeps bothering
me about this because like I said I've
done you request a lot of PRS had a lot
of things come in look at look at
projects is that why in the world would
they cut so many corners at this point
why would they do that to us and you
know at the March 8th meeting ask the
special Council when they file this
little piece of paper did that start
some kind of a timer it start something
with this project that we don't know
about and his answer was no it do did
not and so okay and so I mean surely
these guys I mean they've been around as
they told us in there they've done a lot
of landfill so they're not as dense as a
box of rocks do they think that you know
we we don't know maybe they think we're
not very smart here I don't know we
can't read but the only with the only
one thing starts to make sense as you as
you look at this this you look at how
things are going right now and that
is do they think that they're going to
be able to get this thing through
without doing this homework without
putting this to you okay without giving
you the information you need to make a
good decision and uh you know obviously
you don't have the authority to you tell
30 seconds get on through with it um and
I'm hoping that no one has given them
the idea that that this project could be
fast-tracked you know but you can't but
someone above you or someone has this
Authority I sure hope not I hope not for
your sake uh because that'd be a
terrible thing to occur and uh and with
this
uh you know I know you've been told you
get out of the middle of this possibly
you go ahead and approve it be point to
others I've done my homework you know
that I've looked at other landfills I've
studied minutes I've studied citizen
comments I've talked to people you don't
get out of the middle it's it's going to
be there I'm wrapping this thing up and
uh and like said plainly see the poor
quality TRC and podesta and podesta is a
company that the the Count's hired to
protect our interest protect our
children to make sure this thing's done
correctly and I just got one question
for you honestly with any of you here
hire either of these companies put a
roof on your
house thank you thank you d
[Applause]
Jared
R good evening Jared ring Castlewood
Virginia um the expenditures of
Institutions tend to scale upwards
proportional to the amount of income
available to them and what I mean by
that is that if this landfill is
established the government of this
County will become dependent on the
funds from it when the first sell of it
fills up the county will be in no
position to say no to an
expansion the developers of this
landfill are also prolific political
donors we'll never have anything
resembling a fair election again in this
County under the influence of those
donations if this landfill goes
in trash will become a primary industry
of this County future Generations will
be relegated to the janitors of larger
cities the jobs will be low paying and
frankly demeaning
our brightest and most diligent children
will simply leave no one's first choice
is to work in
waste now I don't mean that as a slot to
anyone that
does uh who's going to be left in this
County when it's inundated with garbage
who in their right mind would raise a
family around a landfill of that size
what happens when young people go
elsewhere to have families what happens
to our schools when parents move their
children away from something rightly
viewed as a health hazard
who in their right mind would move next
to the trash capital of Appalachia that
this will become instead of one of the
surrounding counties many people who
already own property here don't even see
enough value in this County to bother
maintaining those buildings uh I've
warned in the past that we're heading
for a population crash and a landfill
will only serve to exacerbate the image
of this place that has been one of the
causes of that slill is nothing short of
a slap in the face to everyone that's
ever worked at building this place it's
a blatant dismissal of the work of
everyone that's ever sank a shovel into
building a trail for tourism educated
one of the children that will leave or
dragged a tire out of the clinch it
wrongs the workers of the past and the
families of the
future the budget needs of the present
are pale justification for the wholesale
Slaughter of the future it was Thomas
pay who said if there must be trouble
let it be in my day that my children may
have peace this landfill shifts that
trouble 15 years into the future onto
those
children make no mistake the choice
before you is comparatively short-term
money or gradual growth into a bright
future for those of you that have
willfully enabled this project I ask you
to say no and I can only express my
contempt and profound disappointment
that it has come this
far thank you thank you J
Kim
Wallace Tim Wallace Cleveland Virginia
I'll have to say that's a tough After
Fall that good good talk um I've worked
in the coal business for 44 years work
for companies that have been in charge
of this
site um the thing that bothers me most
about this proposed Landfield is
this Mr Lester mentioned I think it's
been reported there's 110 million tons
of Refuge Rock that's placed in that
area uh young fellow from Sierra Club
came and said that there's not a
landfill liner that doesn't leak you
just think about the possibilities of
the liner under this thing
leaking and where it's going to go 110
million tons of Refuge roed been put
there since 1959
after uh the bond money is gone trying
to fix it after the governor's money is
gone trying to fix it who's going to be
responsible after the company that
started this goes bankrupt who's going
to be responsible for fixing there's no
fixing if this thing leaks you're going
have Leake going into dump Creek you
going have Leake going into the clinch
recently the EPA has changed your
regulations on a couple of chemicals
that come from Lee that cannot exist in
public water systems down to four parts
per trillion that's a big
number I've questioned and Dave chica's
CH that somebody's got a machine that
can actually test something to four
parts for trillion these public water
sources check their water for these
chemicals once a year well let's say
they check in January and all of a
sudden they that chemical shows up in
February and the people in that area is
going to be drinking that water till the
next January when it's checked again
EPA gives four years for this County or
this mity to fix that problem well how
are they going to fix it they have no
way to fix it they're going to look at
the people that put the landfill in or
the county is responsible to fix it and
that may fall back on Russ County so
that's one thing I want you to think
about before you might vote to put this
in that's a big problem to fix that I
don't want this County to face and I
don't want our citizens to face I got a
good friend that lives in shotgun Hollow
about a mile away from this Landfield
down downwind this Landfield tried to
sell his place talked to a realtor she
told him he would have to disclose to
the perspective buyer that this
Landfield might be going in he looked at
me and he said there's no reason for me
to go out nobody's going to buy this I
can't
leave people that can't afford to leave
and leave their place and not get
anything for it are going to be stuck 30
seconds the daughter worked at Bristol
Virginia City schools for till last 10
years there were days when those middle
schoolers had to sit in that school all
windows shut all doors shut and smell
the smell from the the
landfill at Bristol there was no getting
away from it sat there all day tried to
study I don't want that for our citizens
or our children I'd ask you please to
vote no on this thank you thank you
sir Hunter Gray
everyone uh my name is Hunter gray I'm
new to the area I moved up here back in
December I'm a combat veteran it's 100%
disabled I came up here for fresh
Mountain Air in peace at Big City
trash and everyone here with me I
appreciate you all coming to fight
against this
landfill uh I don't have trash City
trash I got to burn my trash are hauled
off yeah you guys want to bring trash
from New York City my own
backyard the Clinch River is when I get
my natural water from to drink all right
sorry I'm really frustrated it's hard
for me to get these words
out Russell County does not have lots of
restaurant shopping
uh entertainment for kids or tourism is
strictly the mountains great fishing uh
hiking camping if they could smell this
from the pollution you're going to take
all our tourism away there's going to be
nothing left versal count to be nothing
but a place you drive by and rope the
window no one's going to want to be
here you can see how frustrated I am
about this I would have gave my life for
this country and yet you guys were
possibly going to poison me and poison
other civilians here with this
landfill I forgot about what I forgot
everything I was gonna say because I'm
just so heated right now and I just beg
you guys think about this what you guys
are doing the veterans like myself and
everyone else in this room we won't be
able to sell we're going to be paying
the price for it we're never going to be
be able to come back from this I'm being
honest sincere this is a huge deal and I
really came prepared I thought I did and
I forgot everything
um I just beg of you please guys uh
think twice about this and thank you for
letting me
speak thank
[Applause]
you David dingus
my name is David dingis I'm from
grack most of you guys have heard me
speak before
um I wanted to speak to you guys a
little bit about something called plan
obsolescence you familiar with that term
if you own a car you should be it means
that we
purposely make things that
fail the 's a light bulb right now
that's been burning for years and years
and
years and the company
decided Well we don't make money off of
that we make our light bulbs less
effective so that we can sell more light
bulbs and I don't care how much you are
guaranteed that liners won't
leak somewhere somebody is selling more
liners
okay now I've told you guys about my
daughter's health
condition
and where what I have is what she's
got and I would very much like 15 years
from now I hope her health condition's
better but if not I would very much like
for her not to be dealing with a health
condition and the smell of a landfill
uh young man Hunter thank you for your
service thank you for coming up here and
speaking I appreciate you very much I
can see that you're emotional I'm
emotional about this too so I appreciate
you speaking
um most of us here anybody here want
this Landfield to come
in no no one never has been how many by
show of hands how many of you are
registered
voters I think that should speak loud
and clear to the
board and I appreciate your time thank
you
sir Gary
Hughes I live right inside the Clinch
River and I actually drank Clinch River
water comes out of tazel
County uh I asked uh the Ida about the
pad that the Landfield was going to be
sitting on and they told me that that
was a Board of Supervisors
question
so do you have an answer if the pad is
solid as they say it or does anybody
know
okay what's what's the chance of those
people expanding the landfill on down
the road after this one fills
up
uh this is a super bad idea you soil
conditions are
terrible uh you need clay soil not this
type of s too close to the Clinch River
you're not thinking about people down
below St Paul all the way into
Tennessee this stuff can uh Ru a lot of
people
please for God's sakes don't vote for
this
Landfield thank you thank you sir
Jennifer good afternoon guys Jennifer
chumbley Cleveland Virginia um I didn't
get time to prepare tonight because my
mother's an ICU with terminal cancer and
pneumonia from environmental issues
already because it don't run in my
family so one thing thing I wanted to
mention is that you know when my
children go to other states hunting like
Colorado let's say they're not even
allowed to bring the carcass back if
they kill an elk they have to butcher
that animal in that state and it can't
come back across state lines right and
that's for reasons to keep disease down
in our wonderful state of Virginia
however you can put that in trash and
bring it back you can put that carcass
and bring it right across the state line
with no
repercussions and I think you know our
animals our farm animals are need you
know we we need to think about that what
diseases could be carried back in this
trash if it was to come into here not
just for our homes our families our
children but our animals as well um I
like what Angie said the Gob is the
devil we do know you know everybody
wants to talk about this Gob I've lived
there for most of my life and I'm well
aware of it Dums Creek runs onto my
property and we can tell when the water
is clean when it is straightening out
itself it was doing that until recently
now you can drive through there now that
they're hauling G out again the creek is
affected again it is getting polluted
again there is dust on the road again
there is noise count this as my official
Complaint that there is already noise
there that we have to deal with every
day you know we move to the country to
live on a farm to not deal with noise of
the Cities not to deal with the backup
beepers and the pounding of trucks and
things like that we've done that once
once this closed down we didn't expect
it to come back but it's going to come
back and it's going to come back with
Force if this landfill goes in Dave Che
mentioned that um fast tracking this it
will not be FASTT tracked there is no
Fast Track in this Landfield to make
this a budgetary thing for Russell
County we alone can hold it up for years
with DEQ there's no way to FastTrack
this uh we've talked to Realtors I've
talked Realtors about my property we
already as you know have to disclose
that there is a possible landfill coming
into this area we already are losing
value on our properties as we sit right
now today so the faster we can get this
over with and say no to this horrific
idea the better off we'll be 30 second
thank you um we're already I mentioned
the noise is already bothersome I just I
I I still cannot see any good benefit
I'm still going to stand no matter what
anybody thanks and speak for the people
of Cleveland speak for our area speak
for Russell County and please vote no to
any host agreement thank
you Jeremiah
Neil Jeremiah Neil Cleveland Virginia I
can't stand up here and repeat what
everybody said y'all done heard at all
but you'll talk about cutting money
we're elected officials I'd like to see
everybody be a pro bono elected
official cut cut the monthly I'm a pro
bono the reason I got into that was to
stop corrupt politics so to speak so
here I don't know just guessing $5,000 a
month at least with some board members
not counting lawyers and
such uh so there's an option they
brought up plenty of great options they
ATV trails everybody goes to St Paul and
runs the trails all the way to cob
connected
easily the Landfield has no answers for
any solution no good to become come of
it um I would
like anybody that's votes for it I think
we should band together and ride them
out of town on a rail like it's 1980s 19
1800s that's all I got to say on it
[Applause]
that's the last of the list I'm going to
close public comment and declare about
10 minute
rest Clare a 10 minute rest 10 minute
break and we'll talk about when we get
back
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hey huh okay she she we get her
just
okay I've had two people tell me they
wanted to
speak is there anybody else
one two
three that looks like five I'm gonna
take
five we then we've got to get on you're
one of then we're going to get on with
the rest of the agenda come on
sir you got three minutes my name is
Dana Tucker from H acre I'd like to
address Miss Wallace tonight that way I
can make sure I can drive my wife
home uh
I know you
don't uh with you and I can do this with
you okay when I sent you an email I'm
sure you reall I'm not going to ask you
anything about it other than the fact
that I did make the statement that I was
going to take a $50,000 hit on my house
sell it after being here less than a
year and get out of this godforsaken
County do you recall that yeah you do
and it was all over noise what people
don't talk about is what else does
Russell County have in common with these
other counties they ain't got no noise
ordinance you know why can't do it it's
not profitable for the degrees and the
decies they' have to come up
with and that got me thinking that then
the County Administrator Mr Lester came
up with the poison pill and that's what
I think it is you see the noise
ordinance would now become a poison pill
because somebody made a deal with
somebody else that wasn't authorized to
do something
you could very well have a host
agreement that's void ain't worth the
paper it's written on if they did not
follow the
law for the people that reached out with
the autistic daughter BJ King the
gentleman that was up here before with
his daughter in her condition her
leukemia me and my concerns all forsaken
so this Landfield could could pass
through because that's why it was and
the person from president and pass board
members all gave us the same advice go
find the
individuals that fought it the hardest
to shut it down and that timeline puts
you back around
2019 not what they're giving you 2019 if
you go watch their videos the chairman
has been opposed and fighting this noise
ordinance the whole time by his own
admission as well as Church you were
ready to pass that noise org he
suggested to go to the county the
sheriff's department get some more info
now I gave him foure request zero zip
nothing in right now I don't know
whether he reported anything back to
your board or not I have no idea you
know you're the rest of the boards know
but there's a clause that you're
protected by in that
adity you know for holding the positions
that you do I highly suggest you read
that last sentence very carefully 2012
in this County boring year what happened
in 2013 anybody
know four people got invited brother
were investigation for 18 months under
the leadership of this very body of
government not this board Russell County
government and died and gone you know
what everything on that last sentence is
what they stuck every one of them with
you knew board members I suggest you
seek your independent counsil have them
explain that to you very firm because
all you got to do is look at all
the government officials in Virginia
they're all getting bosted County boards
City boards
treasurers I believe you were on the
podcast as
well I believe you have 30 second
um who's who's the person that got
elected as the allaround person was that
you no sir you had 30
seconds with the amount of people that
is opposed to this versus the amount of
people that have supported
it it is our
understanding somebody made a deal they
weren't authorized to do and before you
go taking your votes make sure that
you're not privileged that any
information you shouldn't be because
this attorney is representing this Fork
nobody here the other guy's not allowed
here because he got money from time
sir Phil Phil
thank you Mr chairman uh take a minute I
don't want to reiterate everything
that's already been said tonight in two
other meetings that I've been to but I
do want you to know I support the people
are here against the land field
and I live fairly close to that I live
at uh Spring City on top of the
Cleveland mountain and uh when I look
back to the Northeast I can sort of see
uh where the landfill is going to be and
I've Got a Feeling if it goes in I'm
going to smell it and uh a lot of people
are closer than I
am I don't propose to tell you that I
have all the answers for what you're
facing from taxes and landfills and
whatever else but I would say something
that I've learned and
my tenure in
politics most important thing that each
of your board members need to be
thinking about is listening to your
people listen to what the people are
asking you to do they'll help you get
through this
process your main responsibility is not
voting up or down or more money or less
money but listen to what the people of
Russell County are saying about this
facility thank you very much for letting
me
speak all right I had three three other
gentlemen wanted to
speak y go ahead your name and where you
live uh David Ball 50 ball Drive
Cleveland Virginia uh so uh don't
support the Landfield so please vot
against any kind of host agreement that
would proceed to uh give us a landfill
that we don't want and then my next
concern was with with Mr Eaton's
Facebook profile like that just
disappeared I feel like that that
contains certain U protected information
like citizen complaints and so forth uh
and I feel like that should be archived
properly if if you were planning to
delete it I just ask that you please you
know consider that
we would like to access that the
information that is protected not
anything else that you have personal but
we would be interested in you know
continuing the conversation where we
left off you were looking for solutions
to some of the problems that you
inherited I'm not familiar with all
those things but you know if you want to
continue the conversation please come
back and uh that was all I have to say
yield back thanks
[Applause]
two other
gentlemen uh Stacy Martin I live right
here in Lebon
Virginia uh first off I'd like to say
good job to the school board they had to
step up they had made some hard
decisions and I understand they took a
lot of flack for
that I do stand against this Landfield
would like to ask you all to to consider
voting no against it we must shift our
thinking away from short-term gain
towards long-term investment and
sustainability and always have the next
Generations in mind with every decision
we
make now I know all of you swore an oath
of
office just as myself and most of you
who know me know I try to do a lot for
the community especially the veteran
Community well all those who sered this
country they swore an oath too and they
took it very seriously I ask you to take
your office
seriously a lot of people mistake
elected
representatives
for dictators leaders punching bags for
anything they don't like I understand
there's nothing you can do without
taking flag from one side or the other
and I don't envy your position there but
elected
representatives are elected to represent
the people that put them there not their
personal beliefs not the account bances
not the
checkbooks but the people that put them
in office that's the oath that was
sworn and I believe there's still plenty
of people with some Integrity left up
here and I'm asking you to vote against
that with the Investments made in the
trails and the park around the Clinch
River in order to replace the coal
income with tourism
dollars risking that River just that in
of itself that's a that's just a poor
financial choice
I mean we're we're struggling I I look
all over town I see empty buildings I
see facilities that that are right there
that would be perfect for business to
come I I I'm not smart enough to know
why they haven't but I know that
bringing a landfill in here isn't going
to help put them in there so I get tough
decisions have to be made I don't envy
you that but I do ask that you respect
the voices that that put you in the
office those of us who voted for you and
uh just
please keep that in mind bear that in
mind and you know I haven't seen one
citizen show up at one of these meetings
I with my work hours I I don't always
get to get to them but I watch the live
streams I haven't seen a whole lot of
people stand up here and say man I'm for
this please vote this in everybody's
voting you or speaking against it um one
personal anecdote I'll give you uh
through my work we had a location in
Bristol Virginia up until a little over
a year ago I was there six days a week
and I'm going to tell you that was right
over off exit 7 which is mileage
distance several miles away from that
Bristol
Landfield that smell was nauseating
smell was terrible and I had had a nose
bleed since I was 12 years old I had an
18-hour nose bleed that I had to go to
the emergency room get they called it a
rocket that they stuck up my nose to put
a stop to it what really bothered me was
the emergency room Personnel said that
they had seen about 30 of them in the
last two weeks at that point and all
when the fumes were their their worst
thank you thank you
Stacy one more fell want
my name's D sers I live
C High I worked up after 25 years we put
that Landfield I know what's in under it
and I help put the most of it time at
Water weeks off of RFI already I mean
off the site already I went around
Federal inspector we check water F out
they catch a 5 gallon bucket and two
minutes at uh damn he says a't too deep
I pushed up out for n months 16 hours a
day seven days a week and I filled that
in and when I was pushing it in it would
it would ride out while I was pushing it
in because they left coold went under
it they also pumped water in the Old
Cheney Creek mines back out for almost
15 years
16 in line went in at mines and that's
in under that too what it ped the mines
out so y'all want build on top of that
that's a bad site to build on tell you
now I ain't no got no big education like
these guys but I know what's in under I
put it there
[Applause]
all right that concludes public comment
I think we have the treasure here
now let her come and do her
report
Alicia good
evening I just wanted to talk to you
just for a minute uh to let you know
things that's going on in our office of
course tax tickets went out we're in the
middle of collection uh we're going to
have a ta a real estate tax sale Monday
at 10 o'cl here at the government
building but one of the things I want to
talk to you about is as Mr Lester uh
alluded to a while ago is the uh values
of our property that are going to go up
we've looked at uh some other counties
that has went through their assessments
and theirs has went up anywhere from 30
to 60% we know what houses are selling
for now so we know errs are going to go
up uh I laid a piece of paper on each
one of y'all's tables and it is the U
the elderly and the disabled uh form uh
or qual what would qualify you for an
exemption as far as I know I've been
here since 2009 this has never been
looked at or adjusted it uh I just like
for you guys as a group maybe to look at
this before next time uh these have to
be turned back into uh the
commissioner's office by the 1 of March
each year so we've got just a little bit
of time but I feel like the people that
this assessment is really going to
affect is our elderly and our disabled
and I feel like that if we can do
something to try to help them uh with
this with this going up if we could look
at maybe raising the limit on their
assets or maybe even the amount that we
give them as an exemption but I just
wanted to bring it to your attention and
ask you guys as a board if you would
take some time between now and then and
and look at this and see if there's
something else we could do to help the
citizens that's all I have thank you
thank
[Applause]
you
okay Mr Williams is not here so we'll
move on to the county attorney reports
and requests
thank you Mr chair um I have a single
request for the board tonight uh coming
out of executive session um the county
has been approached by Wise County
regarding a confidential Economic
Development Prospect uh that has reached
out to wise to locate in Wise uh wise
didn't have any available facilities or
property for this particular Prospect
and so they wish to partner with Russell
County to join ly develop that Economic
Development Prospect in order to do that
in order to share revenues between the
two counties on this project shouldn't
be successful uh the county would have
to enter into a regional industrial
facilities Authority um which would
allow the two counties to officially and
recognize by the state uh and approved
by the state to to jointly develop this
uh Economic Development Prospect and
then share Vues which we would otherwise
be um in violation of the Constitution
without a RI and so Mr chairman U the
request from the county attorney this
evening is for a board member to motion
to introduce that RI ordinance and allow
uh our County Administrator to publish
it before uh a final vote on its
adoption at a later meeting okay I'll
make a motion to move on that second
have a motion in a second any further
discussion on this matter if not all
favor signify saying I oppose lik sign
there are none Mr chair that would
conclude my my portion all right thank
you Mr W all right Mr Lester down to
you I might have read here ago I didn't
know if the bar ran
out thank you chairman under count
administrator portion number one of
course again take a look at your the
Russell County bylaws and take a look at
the
updates uh also in the reporting is the
Russell County Road reporting systems
that citizens had had uh submitted to us
through our system and that we have
conveyed over to V do also let me go
through
through also the Russell County B dot
update of course
uh Mr Hensley asked for the surface
treat the surface treaty schedules next
time so we'll make sure that's in there
take a look at uh what board actions
that we're doing as you can see the
resolution on uh that will be for the
June board meeting that they're asking
for on R 72 8 which is Davis Memorial
Drive and the Deep Forest Drive and I'll
have all that into the
agenda uh that has been requested by the
property owners of course we've got the
maintenance activities and the rest for
y'all's review if you have any
questions the uh V Dot and myself will
be glad to
answer next is of course we had
discussed before um this is to come with
uh development opportunity performance
agreement with the T company that is in
St pile as you can see this is the
approval back from the uh bdp which is
the Virginia Economic Development
partnership Authority which manages all
economic development for the G State and
the governor as you can see this
agreement has a capital expenditure that
the company has guaranteed up to
14,850
000 and in machinery and tools and also
approximately $700,000 in Furniture
fixtures and business and they will
maintain 170 jobs at this facility so
this uh the average salary at this
facility is is being put into the
performance agreement of $52,400 that
will be the average this has already
been signed and
completed by
the bdp then idas the take company and
of course Russell
County next on the County
Administrator um reports is the Russell
County Planning Commission
bylaws and
resolution now what's before you on the
Planning Commission was the the updated
bylaws that Planning Commission has been
working on it's a draft that before
y'all they have also you'll also see in
your packet the original resolution in
1967 that established the Planning
Commission within Russell County um I
have talked with the Planning Commission
chairman and the Planning Commission
currently is not only updating their
bylaws but they will be presenting a
resolution to the board to update their
resolution so right now it's it was
February the 6
1967 so it's a little Antiquated so I
will have an updated request resolution
from the Planning Commission at the next
board meeting along with the new
resolution from myself and legal counsel
establishing the Planning Commission uh
guidelines in compliance with what
resolution the Planning Commission and
bylaw state so uh that will be before
the next board meeting so please review
the bylaws
and during the uh packet myself and
legal council will have the new
resolution out from the county side and
we will have the uh planning
commission's resolution also for your
review next is on the count minr request
is uh this one is
easy is a Proclamation from the building
safety month whereas the county is
committed to recognizing that our growth
and strength depends upon the safety and
Essentials roles of our home buildings
and
infrastructure and that plays in
everyday life and wind disaster striking
Etc with
confidence um where Russell County does
proclaim the month of May 2024 as
Building Safety month and encourag our
citizens to join to participate in the
building safety month activity
I need a motion for approval so move I
have a motion to Clare may as Lono
stated need a second second any
discussion if not all in favor signify
saying
iOS
like thank you chairman next is another
Proclamation this is from the
appellation agency of senior
citizens um this one is the older
Americans month 2024
Proclamation whereas May is older month
America Americans month at a time when
for us to recognize and honor Russell
County older adults and their immense
influence on every facet of American
society uh whereas through their wealth
of of life experience and wisdom older
adults guide our younger generations and
carry forward abundant culture and
historical knowledge
and whereas older Americans improve our
communities through
intergenerational relationships
community service Civic engagement in
other activities and whereas the
communities benefit when all people
people of all ages abilities and
backgrounds have the opportunity to
participate and live independently
whereas Russell County must ensure that
older Americans have the resources and
support needed to stay involved in their
communities reflecting our commment to
inclusivity and
connectedness now therefore the Russ
County board supervisor does hear a
Proclaim May 24 May of 2024 as older
Americans mon this year's theme Power by
connection emphasizes the profound
impact of meaning meaningful
interactions and social connections on
the well-being and the health of older
adult adults in their committee we call
upon all residents to join us in
recognizing the contributions of our
older citizens and promoting programs
and activities that Foster connection
inclusion and support for old adults I
need a motion for
approve I'll make that motion motion you
have a second second yeah motion and a
second to support something that I
finally
qualify all in favor signify C
iose like
uh let's see the next on the county
administrative request we have already
approved which was the B do secary
Highway six-year plan for the years of
2024 25 through 29 and
30 um I'll proceed on to next on there
is the the Verizon utility relocation
agreement which is at the Three Rivers
destination Center this is a relocation
of utilities and Verizon's main uh
infrastructure PIR that goes into
Kentucky other parts of the County West
Virginia uh this is a
relocation this is uh part of the heart
of appalaches the Three River
destination Center this is paid 100% by
dhcd and cprrs out of plateau planing
District so it's part of that I need a
motion for approval for Horizon
relocation youtil Mr chair it gives me
great pleasure to make a motion that we
approve this and be able to move it on
so we can get that utility pole moved
have a motion to have a second second
motion a second any discussion if not
all in favor signify say
I like there are now thank you
chairman next is the Russell County DSA
that we had mentioned previous ly during
the
budget this is a um a dssa supplement
allocation request to the county uh due
to the foster care program as we know uh
to make it out through the rest of year
as you see we are currently 75 children
it's open to
CSA with very few upcoming you know
referrals
so I am looking for they are looking for
a supplement of
4,966 61 for approval so I'll make that
motion DSS and the CSA is two separate
budgets yes ma'am um DSS has their daily
operational monthly operational CSA is
for the combined Services of
all uh be it attendance be it school be
it Health foster care and this is for
the CSA and it's for $
4,966 61 and this should finish them out
for the year so I will make that motion
to allocate this money for the CSA
motion from Mr D a second have a second
any further discussion if not all in
favor of this motion sign
C
Li next on the County administrative
request is the Russ County opiate
program Grant is we have before the
Board of Supervisors a application for
uh C4 corporation which is at requesting
$100,000 uh from our opiate program
Grant and if we don't mind I would also
like to for the owner D grassik to come
and speak to y'all on way this was
presented and how the department
directions has has reviewed this and the
FEDS on the state guidelines so Doug if
you
don't good
afternoon thank y'all for your time I'm
I am the new owner of C cor I've been
working on this acquisition now for
about a year and finally got it to the
point where we could bid on the project
the do and we were Ed the contract in
February this year um what C cor is it's
a it's a correction it's a community
residential program it's going to be
considered the old halfway houses from
years ago but it's it's so much
different now with the programs um this
program is designed through the doc
for opioid convictions addictions things
of that nature when we get these folks
uh from prison we've got 90 days to get
them into uh
employment home um we got to find places
for them to live after 90 days vehicles
to drive and help them with their Their
fines um we got to do all that 90 days
takes a lot of it takes a lot of time a
lot of energy to do that um the facility
itself we've already started
construction actually were slat to open
July one of this year and I think we're
on track for that um it's um it's been a
it's been a mammoth undertaking and it's
cost a great deal of money
and what we've requested for is some of
the opioid direct money comes down from
the from the um drug companies ium right
so um that's what we're what we're
requesting um we've got to buy Vans
we've got to buy I mean everything's got
to be updated inside the infrastructure
of the building and this just going to
take a whole lot more U money than what
we projected at the
beginning well I will tell you I had a
conversation with Senator pan that is
actually the chairman of this of the
committee that allocates the funding to
the counties and uh
talked to him again Saturday in regards
to uh and you know I talked to him about
the Regional Jail funding and this is
not only going to help that taking these
people out Regional Jail that's going to
help on our budgetary plus life changing
type situations for for some of these it
will residents our our contracts for 50
residents every month for 90 days which
is going to be roughly 200 people served
uh all those all those people have to go
to work unless unless they have some
type of physical element that they can't
work so they have to go to work they're
going to be taxpayer citizens again um
and contributing to to society again
it's going to be helping local business
uh because for years I've I've used
these folks they're they're good
employees they've made some bad choices
and that's that's pretty much it uh but
it's you know not only that with the
residents going to live there but we're
going to be employing 18 to 20 full time
employees at at the facility
itself so that's 20 new
jobs I had a few questions for you sorry
are you
sure um yeah I just had a few questions
for you um so you said you're going to
specify with like people who who have
addiction issues right um are you going
to be doing like a rehab type of thing
or are you just housing them and
employing them it will be it will be
rehab counseling through certified
counsel uh CRA Mountain U and of course
the local position well and I've had
some questions about seor from some of
my constituents because they they've
heard some things that are kind of
unsettling for them and one of the
things was that it would be sex offender
specific right can you let us know about
that is there anything well first just
tell me yeah absolutely uh no sex
offenders okay what is that in your
business plan you can assure the people
of that I can I can assure it with the
contract with the doc there's not a we
don't hold a contract to house Sixx
offenders okay that is that FY only or
is that also miss me or offenders it's
any any any type of sex offenders so
misdemeanor felony doesn't matter right
okay the zoning does not allow it okay
yeah and and I've got of course I think
y'all got the zoning but that all came
from Kevin T County attorney okay and um
did you have a question about the
business license yeah have you applied
yet for your business license uh no I
have
not
um where in writing is the there will be
no sex offenders period because that's a
big concern
all it takes is one incident in our
community and it can destroy oh yeah
lives forever
absolutely yeah I I'm one that you know
I don't I'm not saying I don't trust you
but I'm saying is for the Peace of Mind
of our community we need to have that in
hard writing guaranteed that that we're
not opening ourselves up because a lot
of times these people come from other
places right and they get reintroduced
into our communities and then they stay
in our
communities and so that's that is a
concern that that not just myself as a
lot of the
constituents and I understand that
respect it 100% um I think the bottom
line is it can't
happen the ordinance says it can't
happen we're not going against the
ordinance we're not going to go against
the town of Lebanon because it's Zone
that way well the ordinance specifically
says felony f it doesn't mention the
concern there is anyone that gets a
felony if they were to plead down and
end up with a Mis that would be the
concern there then they would not fall
under the town ordinance of the
felony follow me there's a little bit of
a little bit of a loophole there yeah I
messaged the town manager a little while
ago asking about that U he has not got
back to me yet but that's the way I
understand it the way it reads in the
ordinance yeah it's a felony offense
yeah yeah it's we're not we're not
planning on taking Miser felings or
anything my understanding is there's a
higher payout for if you take sex
offenders is that right what's that a
higher payout for bed if you sex
offenders it is it is a higher rate yeah
so Mr rasnik I guess my question for you
is is the money a temptation to break
the into that and take a sex offender a
misdem meter sex offender because the
town ordinance
doesn't even at that even if we had a
contract on that you're not going to get
the higher rate for a
misdem you know and of course there is a
whole lot of different just trying to
cover my basis I I understand completely
um I don't know what else to say I mean
I can get the I could get you the
contract from the
doc that's what you want was it what
what exactly does that say the contract
CU you didn't give us that contract did
you uh no
uh I don't think I got the
okay ma'am this is the board
meeting no well I I have a few more
questions so maybe mine will take yours
um are you f n yeah go ahead thank you I
didn't interrup no you go
ahead all right my question is all right
so you own this right corre all right is
this a for-profit or a nonprofit
facility for-profit so who collects the
rent who will be paid this rent $112,000
a month I believe is what it is correct
the rent from the on the building yeah
the owner so you'll be collect
$12,000 a well that's what's projected
yeah okay all right and and please
forgive me you know I'm a retired school
teacher the only thing that stops me is
I don't have a r ink but on your
a a is exactly the re Narrative of your
prescription is exactly the same as your
objectives so you will need to change
this before you send it to the state
whoever copied and pasted it hasn't done
correctly and there are some misspelled
words and I promise I won't but I'm
telling you so you can go back and look
okay all right now next thing I have to
ask about this is it stated you have
entered into a fiveyear contract do you
already have this in hand yes okay now
with this in this commment here you have
all your
employees you say you're going to have
up to 20 well you got six in your staff
and you've got uh 14 in your uh general
staff and you've got six Transportation
folks but in your narrative you tell me
and I know all this because I've already
been through all
this page three of it you say your
medical director however in your list of
payroll projections you do not have a
medical director listed right now
anybody that knows when you're messing
with the doctor they're going to get
their Fair cut before anybody else so
you're gonna have to redo this and look
at it because if you don't have a
medical director the medical director is
going to be paid by the
resident so their fee of how much are
they going to pay I don't see in here
that they're getting the fee so how much
how much it's going to vary it's going
to depending on the medical treatment
they require okay but you're charging
the state $90 a day for them to stay
there yeah so why are that why are you
double dipping if the state's going to
give you $90 for them to stay there then
why are you charging them you're
collecting twice off that person and
it's not a nonprofit it's for
profit I don't understand how you're
saying it's double D well you're
charging the state $90 a day for our
overhead for them to stay there right
well not according to let me find it you
know me and my marking I write
everything down I can't help myself and
I apologize for that but you do have it
in here listed that you'll be pay you'll
be getting a fee of $90 a day from the
state and $52 a day for your in home
those that are having the ankle
bracelets on that you have here it is
page 12 anticipated fee per resident
charging the state $90 a day and 52 for
home
monitor and you also have here your
total maximum capacity is 75 citizens
then over here in your documentation in
your narrative you have 50 so you've got
to check that don't change contract 50
okay but the facility will hold up to
75 so
basically okay and you also have loans
will be converted to
Grants you didn't list anywhere that you
have a loan you're counting on state
money and our our money so what what
loans have you got right now we have the
purchase of the facility itself the
property so the 12,000 that you're going
to get a month is going to offset the
cost of that you're going to pay
yourself 12,000 a month
to help pay for the
Bill yes okay yes okay
um all right so here total expected
full-time employees for within 12 months
20 not including owners so are you going
to be paying are you the owners are
y'all going to be paying yourself a
fee uh the rent the rent what we be
collecting well and on take seven your
financial well it's not page seven page
11 your financial plan you said it's
going to be a startup cost of
approximately $1.8
million but in your financial statement
you have it as
1.5
so you need claric operating
cost take it from 1.5 to
1.8 okay how many vehicles are you going
to buy we're going to have to have two
at the beginning
possibly
three okay you got
$150,000 for those three vehicles what
are are they like 15 passenger ve they
won't be that large like 12 passenger
vans all right um I hope I've covered
everything but um so this is going to be
a for profit and you're going to take
the money and you'll pay yourself and
you will be charging the state
make sure you have plenty of good
records right I guess that's all St I
don't think I have any back anything
back oh I do have these are there any qu
backs in your contract with the state if
this doesn't go
right y such as if this doesn't
work if it doesn't
work something
happens okay
thank you
sir Mr yes ma'am I do have a little so
are are these going to be Department of
Correction Virginia Department of
Correction inmates are they going to be
Federal in it's it's Department of
Corrections is what we have the contract
for the federal contract we do not have
okay you don't have your contract yet do
you for the federal no it's not it's not
but you don't have state yet or you do
have it in hand we have it in hand as of
February the
22nd okay well let's look
at here it
is um it's page 14
Sor got one okay
so you've allocated
yourself 92,5
for February 24th do you have inmates
there now I say that again your proposed
budget right here page
14 February the 20
2024 you have yourself a total expense
budget of
$92,200
right but you don't have anybody v no
that's that is that should have been um
I don't know how exactly you had 100,000
for
march5 for April and 119 for May
2024 and there's nobody there yet yes
that's a projected income statement Pro
and when the business plan was put
together that was fall last
year it's almost impossible to nail down
your numbers before you start a
business or before you start operate
okay and you still don't know first year
you're going to get
close so you think you'll have $1,500 a
month Building Maintenance you'll have
$2,000 a month for vehicle maintenance
you're buying brand new vehicles you
better get a better warranty no they're
not brand new vehic you're not buying
brand new vehicles how you
buy that I don't believe well you've got
$150,000 in your right fixed asset
purchase three
things and there and you you said three
use 12 passenger you got them
150,000 and you're going to have
$2,000 and new
Vans
okay
okay in bus and I was just wondering on
these people are pretty rough old stuff
yeah how can you be in the negative
already net income
loss and you're not even operating you
got $76,000 loss $34,000 loss $29,000
loss and you're not even in operation
yet and I know you said it was for the
file so how can you have how could you
make a projected budget to have a law
already well that would be the account
that helped us prepare this and we were
going off the numbers
PRI well I'm going to tell you about my
checkbook and I think you better have me
WR I'm not that bad off great right I
Leave You Al thank you sir thank you as
SW as you have anything else no I'm good
now thank thank you anybody else have
anything how how can the county utilize
what you're going to be
doing well we can save them we can save
the county quite a bit of money from the
cost that you're paying the Regional
Jail
um every month because if they're
ordered to attend go through SE cor by
the judge or any judge that's going to
take the burden from the
county put it on
DLC if you can get us some kind of
projected number what I know that's just
an estimate what that number would be
savings so we can see it the taxpayers
right it's it's going to be
difficult yeah we we
167,000 a year to keep a prisoner at the
Regional Jail yeah we run the numbers on
just what 10 BS yeah this this is
statistical stuff that I've heard from
other reports from the budget
committee's perspective we just kind of
took 10 beds run the numbers on as far
as the cost savings that would be from
the regional jail as and so all of these
would be from our regional jail you
wouldn't be pulling from anywhere else
it would help us yeah yeah I mean it's
going to help Russell County if you have
a doc from
Virginia you could possibly have them
from any c that's what I was that's what
I have a do that's for the state of
Virginia Eastern Virginia Northern
Virginia it won't just so I mean it
could save us let me say
one M Mr Lester the thing that inhibits
us from expanded drug
court or our our program at missy runs
at
work is availability of housing right
that is correct sir okay so this is an
outlet
that we can expand both of those for
every person we bring in either from
drug court or from Regional Jail it
saves you know6 17,000 annually so you
you can back it into a monthly you know
see right now currently under the
Russell
County 9 currently under the Russell
County Recovery houses that we got for
male and female we have right now uh 30
uh 22 males and uh I think it's eight
females maybe nine now so that takes a
lot of the cost off of you know the
Regional Jail cost they're standing in
those facilities and it is paid by
OAA Doug I have a question for you
because I know that you had put in
through the OAA for the state and you
have been working with Cindy Newman
what's the status on y'all's uh I know
that they were asking for some LC many
things but being cleared by the doc
you've been cleared by parole you have
been cleared by how far are you in the
OAA
process we we we've completed the
application uh it's under right
now well like Mr Edan said we had got a
call from in Mr breeding too we got a
call from the OA chairman senator
yeah and they spoke very favorable of
this facility uh because in conjunction
with the 22 and the eight that we're
doing Russell County right now with its
opiate money we carry what Cent Pion was
actually said we carry what they call
the goat seal that goat seal means this
in Retreat we our programs and what we
allocate to on recovery is either into
it's either it's either prevention
treatment or recovery those three three
acronyms right there so we either try to
prevent it we're into the treatment or
we're into the recovery so either
program that we have meet either meet or
exceeds what the state says and that's
why from the OAA perspectives Russ of
County carries that goat seal so we're
very
uh we're very have a lot of oversight in
especially in our recovery programs and
and yours was recommended by the OA
director chairman himself so and that's
for the board's consideration and
knowledge too in the public so yeah
that's one thing it is very true we do
need this it is something that is
desperately needed the current recovery
house is a
nonprofit and uh it is not a
for profit for gain this is not a
private citizen that owns this building
and we rent from you and there it is
desperately desperately needed that
there's a lot of things that I think
personally myself that you need to
revamp and relook at because it's
a it's there's things that you you need
to go back Andress misspelled words the
same thing there's no objectives listed
but it's a good thing and we need
Russell County desperately needs it but
you've got to go back and look at some
of this information s the for my
clarification some of your numbers just
don't
match so Mr Ring I heard you say that
you don't have the federal contract yet
you have applied for federal no okay you
are you planning on applying for a
federal contract yep have you applied
for federal grants yet
no and one quick question why haven't
you applied for your business license in
town yet wouldn't that kind of be your
not got to that point uh we we've still
got to
go occupy from the building Spector um
Health Department permit things of that
nature we're in construction mode right
now yeah okay but what what if for some
reason you didn't get your business
license and we've already granted you
money and you've already put all this
work into it business license is
probably pretty important yeah not at
this stage yeah
gotta uh probably first of June yeah I
mean of course business license is not
going to say anything on it say
residential would definitely like to see
that contract though from the state and
if you know what kind of contract we're
going to be looking at from federal I'd
like to see that as well well you're not
you're not going to see us I mean
Federal contract to its to its awarded
someone no if you want to go online and
look at what what you know they propos
for the city of Rona you can do that but
you know that's that's up
there is there a chance in the in the
federal contract there because I know
how it works with Federal versus local
Federal can override local laws and
ordinances and that would be my concern
is if Federal says yes you can do this
and it says oh no ordinance doesn't mean
anything do to house sex offenders again
that's that's the
concern I don't know what else to say
Nate I mean we're just not going to
house sex offenders misdemeanor felony
anything like
that and maybe between us and legal
counsel on as far as the OA Grant and
he's got his own separate State Grant
between legal counsel uh if it would
give more Assurance to the board or
Comfort to the board we uh State M Mr n
n m ker and of course Sten dve we have
talked about this too
if this is a private company for profit
so he the only thing that we have is uh
an opportunity for donating laa towards
that that Community or recovery or
treatment program same way the state
does but one of the things that we can
do in our grant and Covenants if youall
want to give some comfort is we can put
a covenant into the grant that no sex
offenders are allowed or it's a clawback
clause we can put that in the grant that
would give yall assurance that you know
there'll be no sex offense would you be
opposed to that absolutely not and if
the town of Lebon would want to put it
on my business license that' be that
would be good you want well I want every
Assurance for me and everybody else in
this community we had this discussion
you know after I came out and I would I
would employ every board member to go
out there and tour the facility and look
at what's already been done uh to see
what efforts been put into this uh but
we talked about that with County
Administrator about issuing the money
after the business license has been
received and put those covenants in
though that way give Assurance to the
public that we would have these issues
and if you're not opposed to that I'll
make a motion that we go ahead and give
that uh money to this with those
covenants in place what's the business
license in place widom business license
have to be in place in those covenants
in those that agreement and you can let
Doug review those covenants is that all
Mr attorney of my speaking
okay well and then we can we can have it
with attorney review I'll put that in
the in the motion with attorney review
and as long as the everything's okay and
then the board can actually review it
after that and uh and make sure their
hearts are satisfied with it but I'll
make that motion go ahead and proceed
let me see if I understand your motion
you're making a motion we go ahead and
award the money that Doug has asked for
pending preparation of the document that
says there will be no sex offenders as a
clawback in our agreement yeah and the
business license and the business
issuance of the business L yes okay does
that make sense
Mr the in mror specifically well and add
that in the in the Covenant F federal or
state felony or Mr M is that correct Mr
Kaiser okay okay
make put
the yeah okay thank okay and I'll get
i'll get everybody understand David's
motion yeah I I gave I gave a cover
sheet of the DLC contract that y'all
have it but I will get a full copy of
the doc contract so y can see us okay
yes any uh individuals someone with it
misdemeanor Fel conviction just sex off
just just for sex offenses I was going
to say if we did that that would
eliminate
everyone got it make sure thank you okay
everybody understand that motion if
someone need a
second I'll
second I want everybody to be clear this
is not taxpayer
money exactly this is not taxpayer money
that's right yeah this is the the money
that we obtained through the op op
itself yeah this is not tax that's going
to be used for treatment of opioid
addiction and we would like I'd like to
as personal just me personally I'd like
to see you succeed I know how it is in
business I've been in business 32 years
I know what it's like and these
projections you can't project and and I
I think that what if you succeed we
succeed and I think that this money
needs to be utilized more for these
kinds of projects as you continue to
grow and you continue to help us to help
people and develop this I think we need
to look a little deeper in to help you
more I think so I appreciate
that did I get a second from somebody
Nate for discussion purposes one thing
that was mentioned U was that
possibility of clawback
should that be
violated is there any need in that that
at this point with the requirement of
the
uh of no sex offenders Mis or otherwise
being in there do we need to lay it out
and say should that be
violated we need to be able to
recuperate that orid money to be able to
reuse that in something that another
program that would benefit that process
recovery prevention Etc that's what
we're talking
about so just want to make sure Will's
got that u in there that it's a clawback
it's not just saying you won't do this
there's a repercussion to doing it if
you do there was a callback in yeah that
would automatically go back into the
federal by federal court when the courts
adopted this like I said we call the
gold standard that is very very
restrictive so we we have a lot over
side on it so if it comes back it goes
back to that fund to Beed for other
yeah Mr chair I think I understand where
what the board is getting at we'll work
on making sure that happens before any
further actions taken very good I can
get a second can can I ask one question
um Mr wamper so if if um if he does get
the federal contract will that change
anything with what we've put in that
because we're Nate specified that with
Federal you know it kind of changes
things because I I don't want to do this
and we feel assured and then he gets a
federal contract and then our callback
goes out the window and he can get
anybody he
wants have Mr chair
responding I haven't evaluated any
documentation on this yet so part of my
diligence as your attorney would be to
review the contract with Doc see what's
in that review the information that's
been submitted by the company take the
comments from the board and the concerns
of the board and then give you guys
options based off of that here tonight I
I can't tell you what the potential
outcomes would be based off a bunch of
moving factors but I I like documents
and I like words on the paper so I'll
take a look at that well I do I do
appreciate that honesty I think
sometimes I don't know is an answer you
know because we need to look at things
ter is asking will will that CL back and
the Covenant applied to both state and
federal it depends on how we write
it depends on how you write and and can
I make this suggestion that maybe we we
let Mr Wampler do his due diligence and
do his job and then maybe table this
motion to give him the money until Mr
Wampler does his research and then we
vote on it maybe next meeting what do
you guys pending approval Mr w
I love it when people put all the
pressure on no
pressure well I think all all the ter is
asking for is that applies both state
and federal and if you find that you
can't do that you can report back I will
report
back is that is that what you're saying
yeah I mean I just I just want to make
sure because you know with state and
federal it's it's to different things
and like Nate pointed out you know
Federal things can override what I'm
saying I don't want to hold that as long
as you can get what you need if it
applies to the
state that was my motion to make sure
that it appli both federal and
state yes of course we don't have
anything to vote on we don't have the
paper we don't have the documents been
created yeah yeah that that was kind of
so perhaps we should table this until
June got a motion on the floor is it
going to
for did but then we had
discuss I mean if we got a motion on
four we need vote well I can make a
substitute motion can I not can a person
who makes a second make a substitute
motion no but I can
okay did you I said no but I can
I'll make a motion that we table this
until next month until the attorney has
had a has a substitute motion I second
that motion okay I have a substitute
motion to table this until the June
meeting thank you m
Wallace okay everybody any more
discussion we're voting on Blue's motion
table it until June June make
motion prepare the docents correct ter
okay all in favor of that substitute
motion say
I all oppos say
I you okay with that oh yeah okay we
appreciate what you're
doing we'll straighten that bowl of
spaghetti right thank you thank you
do okay L all
right next on the count administrator
request is travel request for the
Russell County tourism and and Library I
need a motion for approval for uh the
tourism department and the
library Mr chair have a
motion I'll second have a motion and a
second any
discussion if not all in favor signif
the saying
i lik d
next on the county administrative
request is Russ County Planning
Commission uh the plan commission
requests that the Board of Supervisors
Rie the survey this was a request they
uh reviewed the proposed plat from Mr
Gregory killan and Eric gner and found
that the combination of the LW to be
acceptable based on the county
subdivision ordinance um I need a motion
for approval on the Russ count so move
have a motion to have a second second
motion second any discussion
not all in say
I next on County Administrator request
is the B do resolution that I mentioned
previously this is on the pure salmon
project we had approved it one time
before with a
$500,000 Grant uh V Dot after reviewing
that to Richmond they have increased
that amount uh up to uh eligibility for
the first 700,000 now eligibility for a
total Grant of $850,000
and only 100,000 that will come out of
the co Seance to as participation from
the county so out of $950,000
Project B dot is got $850,000
I'll make a motion and I want to say
also I appreciate you our County
Administrator working on this heavily uh
to get this done this this is less than
what we had two last time right yes sir
200,000 I'll make
motion have a motion to need a
second second motion and second any
discussion uh one place Lonzo it shows
that there's 150,000 and then it looks
like it's 100 but there's just a spot on
there that says 150 I believe trying to
get down to it is the County's
responsibility
let see where are you I'm trying to get
there let see whereas the county of
Russell hereby acknowledg Virginia
Department transportation Economic
Development access Eda program May
provide up to a maximum 700,000 for the
project and requires matching funds up
to 150 of Co Seance from the county of
of Brussel for estimated eligibility
proct cost over
700,000 up to 1 million okay so that's
up to
150 yes we're projecting
it it'll cover up to a million dollar
yeah I'm talking about so he's asking is
our portion of our coal Seance tax
that's supposed to pay air a Roads Take
Care roads is it going to be up 250,000
or is it just be 100,000 right now Bas
based off based off the application the
estimate by Thompson ly and B dot the
project is $950,000
B Dot paying $850 so it's
$100,000 that's he yeah so we're going
to be responsible taking
$100,000 tax yes ma'am add to that yes
ma'am
yes I need a motion for
approval I made a
motion in discussion we're in discussion
any further discussion that's all okay
if not all in favor say I I
like
okay chairman next one on the uh County
Administrator request is the host
agreement public hearing
date yeah I think we need to go ahead
and set a maybe the June meeting for
public
hearing on the host agreement I think
we're
closing we probably need to have a
workshop and that's that would be the
following that would be the following
request sometime Recon sometime before
the June meeting we need to have a
workshop yeah it probably need need be
executive session yes yes
sir well yeah we need to adjourn to
reconvene at some point say a couple of
weeks away and uh have the full board go
over the
poster and look at that then we can
bring it to the public hearing and make
it available at that point it becomes
available
yeah so that's that's the thinking we
need to we need to go ahead what would
be the date on the reconvene
uh we got a DAT
there
17 let's see
today's 13th so before the 3 you can do
it the 21st through the 23rd or 28th
through the
30th I mean a date for the
reconvening is that when we need to do
it that's that's what I'm
saying you got the week of the 20th or
the week of the 27th
the 21st is our invitation to go to
CGI yeah so I I think if we're already
here going to see CGI we can come in
here that day we'll be gone to
Duke I'll be gone the
23rd and the 24th I I might be back I
will say this I might be back on the
24th I can really
but I will be going
23rd something like the
28th 28 I have
DSS I have DSS 28 but that's at night
could you come if we met Tara just a
hair early yeah but you wouldn't have to
come back out
yeah yeah that's me we can set time yeah
I was just thinking because I know like
Nate work
it's pushing me to get here at 5 o'
for session that's talking about um we
could do it on the Saturday morning like
we plan to do our meetings we haven't
done that a lot but U it's 25th we do at
9:00 a.m. get knocked out everybody has
the rest of the day do what they
want I don't have any
problem 25 yeah okay that's my
suggestion my two cents
it's not worth anything more than
anybody else's
though our pennies are the same over
here 25th at 9:00 A.M is everybody good
with that yeah yeah I'm
fine be a DAT be Rec yeah yes we need to
put that for of a motion gu yes I'll
make a motion I'll second have a motion
and second to reconvene this will be the
reconvene day
will May May the 25th at 9: a.m. to set
the reconvene date for May the 25th
which is Saturday morning at 9 a.m. okay
okay any further discussion not all in
favor signify say I iose
L good we'll set that day when we
finally do journ and uh
we needed to have
the June meeting on the
3 Monday B Do's coming back with what
aband
okay I just need a motion to move our
June meeting to June the 3 6
p.m
yeah 6m yes I'll make it
motion along with the poster group
public here yeah along with that
yeah well let's just move let's move it
first okay we move it to June the 3 have
a motion by David to move the board
meeting June the 3 a second second and
second all in favor signify say
I
like okay now do motion yeah I'll make a
motion to do a public hearing for the
host for the host
agre second for that
second okay have a motion and a second
any further discussion if not all in
favor signy say
iose
okay before we get done with count
minist request since you're looking at
dates May and June's always busy because
budgets and tax and set um you we've got
a a budget here on the thir you and I
discussed
reconvening either on the the staying
within the Cod Virginia we are going to
look look please look each child's dat
to reconvene on the 17th or 8 right we
we can do that at the June meeting
adjourn I'd like to go ahead and publish
it now that way we're set in stone I've
got not two weeks of advertising I've
got four because 17th you want to sit
as the public hearing on the final
budget yes the official public hear can
I get a motion to that that that's
probably Planning Commission Philip do
you think Ernie would move the Planning
Commission meeting okay is this June I'm
sorry is this June 17th yeah June 17th
or 18th all
over that's why I brought my
today and I'll go ahead and release that
those Public Notices week I'll make a
motion that we have it on the 17th of
June I'll second motion second do 17th
any further discussion
6m not all in favor signify by saying I
iose
like okay thank you chair all right
where are we now that concludes discuss
and reminders Lonzo not to interrupt you
here but I think you missed Mr Ronald
compt out bound
adjust oh did I pry sure we didn't vote
on okay thank you
Mr was that the second document
Andrew that's what I
thought to the side I apologize Mr we
had a second Planning
Commission that's sorry about that move
to so we got Eric Gardner and
gregories the second one I apologize
thank you Mr Russell County Planning
Commission requests that board
supervisors review the attached survey
the commission reviewed the proposed
plat from Ronald Compton and found that
the boundary line adjustments for the r
r view subdivision was acceptable and
based on the county subdivision
ordinance I need a motion approval
make that
motion and second any further discussion
if not all in favor signify the say I
those
lik okay now we do our final
thing Mr Hensley you have anything I
just want to say thank you to the school
board for helping our teachers out and
uh hopefully getting them raise and
getting them paid comparable to what the
enjoy Counties have
uh at the same time the teachers left
here tonight happy but the taxpayer in
Russell County they're they're paying
the same as they was eight nine years
ago so inflations hit us all and uh how
are we paying the same tax rate as we're
paying
today uh without changing it for that
many years outside of recovering some
cost from cigarette tax food meal tax
it's been created in that amount of time
but uh I'd like to see if we could find
a way to help our taxpaying
citizen uh we got electric bills elderly
folks medicine um I I run into all
different kinds of people people are
hurt and those tax tickets come out and
then I just become a
Target and if we if we can help if we
can help people maybe do something like
what of leash recommended um I
appreciate it that's all I have thank
you thank you
Andrew um Lonzo if you would ask Mr I
think Mr R's left but if you would ask
him before the next meeting to uh
provide us with a copy of his business
license if he's got it at that point
which he said he was going to do the 1
of June and our meeting is right there
at the 1 of June if he has that
available that'd be great and the
contracts whatever contracts he has
currently
uh to be able to provide that I'd like
to have it a week before the meeting
that way we can review it actually we've
got to cover I've got the contract
number as you see up here from the do
here that is that was awarded on
February 15 24 I will pull that out of
Eva that's setting on the state database
so I I'll pull that and we'll send it to
you that would be
great oh one more thing I do want to set
the record straight
because it was brought up at the last
board meeting by the previous board
meeting and no point that anyone on this
board suggest that Jack Compton or
Charlie Edmonds did not have their
certification there was some confusion
but it was pointed out clearly that
there was only two people that anyone
knew didn't have their certification on
the Planning Commission that was terara
and uh Mr Ray and that was pointed out
clearly went back and watched it twice
just to make sure so if there was any
confusion it was with that individual
not anyone
else that was made
clear I have a few things um I too want
to thank the school board um they did
have to make some hard decisions but I
do think that overall everything work
out good and I'm so thankful that all
the teachers got their raises I think
that is absolutely wonderful I know you
know I was raised by a single mom on a
teacher salary and it was not easy um to
say the least but I'm proud of my mama
and I'm so glad that she she was able to
do that and so thankful that she did
have that job I also want to tell Alicia
thank you for coming and speaking and
I'm really excited to look at that paper
and hopefully we can help our elderly
and are disabled with their taxes you
know there's no reason uh
I don't think that we can't um another
issue that I have I don't know I've had
people come to me a lot here lately the
trash dumps and I don't know I guess
Lonzo or I don't know um they're closing
early they're opening late and it's not
just in my district either I'm getting
this you friends and family in all the
districts and and they've been
complaining about it I've even gotten
pictures you know screenshots with the
time stamp and whatnot
so you know I really think we need to
address that um a lot of people can't
just take their trash off you know
between little windows we work we do
things we have
responsibilities so I think that's
something that we really need to look at
and figure out what's going on with that
um let's see also Isaiah house next
expansion meeting May 18 8:30 a.m. at
lcf it is open to the public anybody who
wants to come please come and help us um
you know just volunteer of your time
however you possibly can last thing I'm
going to say though uh last meeting um
Nate kind of touched on it as well as
Philip you know I I was told by our
County attorney that I wasn't able to
vote of course we since figured that out
really
quickly he's not here tonight but I'll
I'll let Mr I won't yell at you Mr W I
wouldn't I wouldn't yell at Mr Kilgore
either but you know I really think it's
important that if we're going to State
something that we be accurate you know
we have people in this room that are
looking at us especially right now with
a lot of scrutiny scrutiny and they
don't trust a lot of what we have to say
so it is imperative that we research and
that we and like I told you earlier I
don't know as perfectly fine answer you
know because I don't expect you to be an
encyclopedia just like I hope you all
don't expect me to be an encyclopedia I
don't know everything sometimes I'm
going to have to pause and look it up
and that's fine um that is normal but I
just wanted to put that out there and
not just for Mr kilber but for all of us
you know if we don't know the answer to
something it's perfectly acceptable to
look it up it took me all of a minute to
look that up you know and I already knew
that we didn't have bylaws with the PC
because I had asked for them in January
when I was put on that board you know I
do my best to do my due diligence so
that's it there's my soap box
Street no I don't have anything thank
you I just want to well one thing I just
want to thank the school board and and
the day after day after day meeting on
the budget uh to come up with the the
resolution that we needed to come up
with to help the teachers get what they
needed but I will tell you this you make
a good investment you get a good return
on your investment and I think this is
one of our largest employers in the
county and uh this shows that we
care Rebeca
I'm good tonight
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thanks it's amazing how the power
company
works
that yes me thank you all for hanging in
here with us I know we haven't been very
entertaining you need a motion I need a
motion to
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reconvene I'll make a motion to adjourn
to reconvene on the 17th I'll
second motion second and all in favor
signify say
I amen