madam cherry are you ready
steve you ready
i make a motion we come out of executive
session
thank you for taking it
all those in favor
thank you ma'am chair this certification
a closed session
pursuant to subsection
2.2-37-12-d of the code of virginia 1950
as amended each member of the board of
supervisors upon roll call certifies
that the best of their knowledge
only public business matters lawfully
exempted from the open meeting
requirements under the virginia freedom
for information act
and only such public business mayors
that were identified in the motions by
which the closed meeting was convened or
heard discussed or considered in the
meeting by the board of supervisors
any member of the board of supervisors
who believes there with the departure
from the requirements shall stay so
prior to the vote indicating substance
of that departure in his or her judgment
has taken place
are there any supervisors who believe a
departure has taken place
scene none
if you agree that the matters heard
discussed or considered during the
closed meeting were pursuant only to the
motions by which the closed meeting was
convened
please signify by saying yay or yes tim
lovelace yes
william wallace yes
carl ray yes david yes steve brady yes
voice christian yes
rebecca died yes ma'am you have approval
to turn the regular session thank you
sir
our agenda is the approval of their
minutes
for our september meeting
so
yes sir you may
uh before we get into that i'd like to
make a motion
that
the russell county board of supervisors
commit up to thirty thousand dollars
to the cumberland
industrial facility authority
for the purpose
the purpose of hiring an executive
director
uh for said facility
yeah this will be for a one-year
contract to be reevaluated at the end of
that year and this would be contingent
upon the other sister counties
committing the same amount of money
which would be buckhan and dickinson and
tazewell counties
i'll second it
all right steve
david
any discussion
any thoughts
all right
i think uh did you see
madam chair if i may
for discussion purposes only just so the
public is uh aware and all of us are in
agreement here on what we've been
discussing that
it is a one-year contract
and it will be publicly advertised
this position
and
anything else that we
want to make public
with this so far
it will be um
it will be advertised for what a minimum
of two weeks
and uh there will be uh an rfq a job
description
job qualifications
all published and
uh voted on by the sifa
members is that correct anybody else
want to add anything to that
no that sounds fine okay
all right all those in favor of this
motion
anyone opposed all right thank you see
all right now we'll move on and we'll go
to approving our minutes this is for our
regular uh september the seventh meeting
do we have a motion to
approve those minutes
david second second lou any discussion
all those in favor
now we have a motion to approve our
workshop on the 21st
commission a motion to approve those
second second
carl
any discussion
all those in favor aye anyone opposed
next we have the approval there
expenditures for payments
so moved madam chair david
do we have a second
second tim
any discussion
all those in favor
next we have our county attorney reports
and requests
miss katie
thank you madam chair and i think the
only thing
that i have for the board tonight
the potential amendments to the bylaws
regarding committee appointments
um i have provided to the board um
some proposed language based on
discussions that the board has had about
the amendments i did have a couple of
questions
um
and i guess i guess just in general i
mean
um
regarding these bylaws there's not
really a whole lot of of actual legal
issues it's more preference on how this
board would like to make appointments i
mean i can give advice or opinions on
what certain language the effects of
that might be but most of this is
most of what's been discussed has has
and presented is permissible i will say
that i did
reach out to
to um tazewell county and buchanan
county to see what kind of provisions
they had and i their county attorneys
did inform me that they did not have
specific provisions in their bylaws
regarding how
committees are appointed they they more
or less had a way of doing things and
that kind of
stayed with the district
of each supervisor and then obviously
there would be more discussion on boards
where the boards the number of the
individuals on there exceeded the number
of supervisors um so i have provided
that language but i will be happy to
draft anything that this board directs
me to do um it's more what your all's
preference is at this point
any discussion
you know i think i think some of these
committees and stuff it's it's not a
problem if they have
you know more than seven or or less than
seven i
i think we just go about the way we've
always done it
okay i i will echo that because i know
we've had several that have resigned or
moved and our committee numbers are
dwindling and i think it has always been
a gentleman's agreement now it's going
to be a ladies and gentlemen agreement
that as someone drops off if we need
not to replace them that we are doing
that and we are working hard to reduce
these numbers and i think that we just
need to go on
make these appointments so that we can
move on with
our county business
well in order to do that you're going to
have to we all voted on a motion
did we or did we not katie there's a
motion and it's been duly approved
and i've tried to get that point across
you all you're either if you want to go
back to the old way you're going to
rescind that
motion some way
am i right katie yes you could i guess
you could either rescind the motion or
you could just make a motion to amend
the bylaws um
if you were on i think everybody voted
um yes so that is if that's what the
board wants to do if you're on the
prevailing side you can make a motion to
reconsider that um
motion um if that motion was defeated
then the bylaws
that you had in place prior to that
would be in effect or you could just
make a motion to amend the bylaws back
to the original version i think if
that's what the majority of the board
wants that you could achieve that
purpose either way
so if
if we want it just to go back the way we
had it
we
make a motion and vote on that
you can do that or you can steve made
the motion but everybody voted yes to
that motion to to amend the bylaws to
the language that he presented a motion
can be made to reconsider that and if if
that motion does not pass then the
bylaws in existence before that would
remain i mean there's there's two if
it's what the board wants to do i mean
there's other language that's been
proposed by myself and other board
members and so if that language if
that's what the majority of the board
wants an emotion would need to be made
for that language to be
adopted by the board so it's again this
is is what your all's preference is but
right now the bylaws have been amended
to that language initially proposed by
steve
and we're saying we need to go back to
if we want to go back the old way
we need a motion for that
let me ask this
i'm not clear of really why that we came
about making these changes steve
just tried to get equal representation
from all the entire county and so one
supervisor on committees that had
as many as seven
that each supervisor could appoint one
from their district so that we could
have equal representation yeah i'm sure
that for each one of us have yeah and
that's the way it is now
but you know every now everybody wants
to go back and we're just you know
so but we can go ahead even if we've got
seven members now but somebody has two
and nobody has one
if we go back to the previous way
then that person that didn't have
representation
can simply add someone to that list
correct katie
laws you had in place before and i can
pull them up were very they did not
specify on how people would be appointed
um it was it was just it was very it was
very broad so i mean it basically is
whatever the agreement is between
you
all we basically had a gentleman's
agreement between all the board members
then okay that's madam chair that's
basically what i was going to ask and
you uh reiterated that just now so that
does explain it that we can just do a
consensus amongst us all that we're
going to continue to do
right by our fellow
board members yes thank you
we need a motion to say that to go back
to that
yeah
i think probably
you can do it you can do it either way
you can do a motion to reconsider the
motion that steve made to amend the
bylaws
and if that if that motion does not pass
then the bylaws would be what they were
prior to that being accepted or you can
make a motion to amend the bylaws again
to to to revert back to
um how they were before i think it was
july the 12th
is when that motion passed
all right so
as chair do i need to relinquish the
chair to tim so that i can make that
motion
okay tim i will relinquish the chair to
you
and at this time i'd like to make a
motion
if this pleases the board that we simply
go back to how we were and we honor
our gentlemen ladies and gentlemen's
agreement to one another that everyone
has at least
one
representative on each of these
committees
is that what folks want
so that's my motion so your motion would
be that the bylaws revert back to to the
original
before the july 12th amendment yes
do we have tim
i know but i'm saying you need to ask
we have a motion
do we have a second
see
all right thank you
okay we have a motion and a second all
in favor
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i wouldn't know on that
yeah i'll vote no also
i'm a yes
let me guess i made the motion
yes
okay
five yeses and two notes so motion
passes
and
i will link this the chair back to you
all right thank you
all right our first one is the russell
county planning commission
and we did have mr sword who has
resigned he does not want
back on there
and there's three
names up
um
so
if anyone wants to make a motion for
putting someone in their district that
does not have a representative name
madam chair i'm sorry mr reading you
wanted you started well i was going to
say since dustin keith is in my district
i would like to nominate ernie mcfadden
to serve on the planning commission
all right any other nominations
uh ma'am well
here we go
this is the confusing part how many
openings do we have currently
do you want to take it district by
district
with a consistent consensus amongst all
of us
all right with that we are going to vote
on uh
steve's district
so all those in favor
any other nominations from your district
team steve you're good all right all
those uh for mr mcfadden and uh steve's
district
all right
next who does not have uh
mr edmonds
carl that was yours okay i'd like to uh
put jack compton on there you're going
to nominate mr kempton yes all right
all right
any discussion any thoughts aren't all
those in favor of mr compton
and we have one more position right yes
okay and district two has no planning
commission
um
representative and uh back in june when
we started our excellent adventure on
this
um i had reached out in my district and
we did have an application
and that uh it's not in this packet but
it was in the packet previously a time
or two so it's um i'd like to um appoint
charles collins
or make a motion for charles collins
all right
any discussion
right all those in favor of mr collins
for this for lou's district
every board member has a representative
on the planning commission now correct
we've honored
everyone's wishes
all right
let's move on to the cumberland plateau
economic development commission
so
i
myself
um
i would like to do this as a slate
with these folks because they have
served it is a one-year term
and they have done a good job with this
they are business leaders in our
community they own small businesses and
they've worked hard
to
work on the outside board as they call
it with the cumberland plateau economic
development commission
so do we want to make one individual or
do we like want to do a slate with this
i'll make a motion
yes
all right frank horton
tony lambert ron blankenship
and jim eaton jr
so
tim
i'll make the motion we reappoint those
as a slave
all right do we have a second i'll
second of course any further discussion
i need to stain on jim he's my cousin i
don't want to get into a conflict of
interest there so all the rest i'm fine
with okay thank you david
all right all those in favor of this
slate of candidates
and david's going to abstain
the next is our dank community center
and we said this was not going to be
affected so lou this is your committee
a little community i should say
i'm just going to make a motion that we
re reappoint
the two that's on here for the dank
community center and we have had a loss
in our community
uh mr arthur phillips had served for
many many years and i
i just want to say that he was a real
guy to help take care of things and so
we will be looking for another community
center
person
i guess shortly so
but uh thank you all for supporting
these two all right
so all those in favor
anyone post or abstaining all right
next is our russell county library board
karen ann and judy ashbrook
i would like to make a mission for kim 5
on that board
all right cam 5.
okay and i do not have a member
representing the library board at this
time and i know in our packet we had
mr bob bremen
who is an attorney and he i would like
to place his name
on a
motion for the brussels county library
board so let's start with kim all those
in favor of kim
all right all those in favor of mr
bremen bob bremen
aye
anyone post all right
next we have our russell county highway
safety committee
we didn't appoint the rest of the
library i'm sorry
you're right i left you kicked
all right
okay
yeah i'm doing that yeah so
orris all right at large
all right all those in favor of miss
monk
and how about um miss ashbrook who's
all right
all right next we will move on to the
highway and safety committee we need to
reappoint judy don't we
yeah if y'all so choose
if that pleases you that's fine with us
yeah
that's fine
do you want to go ahead and reappoint
her
judy i've already got one
i thought we were gonna try to adhere to
one
okay
sorry the next is our russell county
highway safety committee
gary dodson johnny jesse steve dye
eugene ferguson tony maxfield michael
quinn barbara cox henry stinson carl ray
and mr emory altizer is deceased
and i do know that mr dye sheriff dye
has asked that we remove his name
and put
bill watson on
in his place
so
and i think this is pretty well even to
layout we have someone from vdot we have
state police we have county deputy and
then we have our uh board
representatives so i'm going to allow
uh mr
emrealtizer's slot to drop off because i
would have mr ferguson who also works
with vdot and he lives in my district so
do we want to do these as a slate or do
we want to do these individually
i can make a motion that we'll do them
as a slate with the exception of steve
and i being replaced by bill watson
and of course mr altizer
unfortunately being removed from the
list
yep
so
any other discussion
i'll second it
all those in favor of adopting this
slate
anyone opposed or need to abstain i'll
abstain because my name's on there you
know well we put you on there carl
we're going to keep you on there we'll
keep you there
all right the next one is the cumberland
excuse me the community policy
management team and that's miss farmer
and she works with the school and that
is part of the bylaws that she does
have to
serve on that she is the special ed
director for the school system and it is
required that she
uh serve on that so
do we have a motion to
return her to the
uh
chair all right all those in favor
anyone abstain or no
all right
blue
do you have another one with your um
community center um i included uh miss
pratt in that other one when i said to
those two members okay so thank you for
asking all right so she is re beckham
all right next we have the southwest
community college advisory board mr
keane's term had run out and we had joe
harding and i've spoken with the
dr
wright about this she is a retired
uh educator and dr brown represents the
school system i'd like to nominate
catherine easton
okay catherine
easton
all right
all right i'll should we take these one
at a time i guess all those in favor of
joe harding
anyone opposed
all right all those in favor of greg
brown
uh
anyone opposed all right those in favor
of catherine easton because there is no
limit of number is there
with the bylaws i think there is
this is a college board
southwest advisory advisory board
katie do you know
i think it's always been two
put her on there so
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um
all right so okay
yeah
so katie should we go in reverse order
okay
so you're assisting yes okay all those
in favor of miss easton
uh
i might in fact you want to make raise
your hand raise your hand please
all right
one two three four
all right all those in favor of uh
greg brown was he the second one we met
mo made notion
okay all those in favor dr brown
no
it's just been customary because he was
with school
okay so i'm sorry i didn't mind i didn't
press the microphone so um we're voting
for two only
okay so um that means
catherine easton
joellen harding
and gregory brown
are the three
but two is going to fill a seat
so we only get two votes here all right
i mean you're feeling two positions so
so you have to vote for two
all right next is uh greg brown
one two three four
and for joellen harding
three four
we have we have people that are multiple
voting
brown you can vote twice
one two
one two three four
those four joe allen harding
one two three four
so that's three for joellen correct
okay
next is the uh
russell county ida and we have uh
we do have a letter of resignation from
scott gilmer
and it was in our packet in the town
then did they voted for miss deanna
jackson
so
do we need to accept scott's resignation
first he has he's he presented a letter
last month
but that's theirs
they automatically appoint
their appointment i i don't know that
you need to accept it it's just more for
notifications you can feel the vacancy
okay
so
and uh then the next we have is uh our
roger sword roger's in my district okay
okay
i'm going to nominate nate kaiser
all right
anyone else
what if you haven't got anybody if you
don't have any by your district you can
that's our gentleman's agreement
yep
that's right
well so what if i had wanted to
reappoint roger that i couldn't do
that yeah you could
right
okay
yeah
drop off that's on that you've already
got
well they will come off when their turn
comes around
when they're when their term ends then i
i've already got somebody on there so i
can't put anybody else on there
by our
gentleman's
agreed okay
well we'll continue and then we'll vote
in reverse order
all right um katie should i
carl has no one david has no one and i
have no one
i got numbers on your
board yeah but when their term comes up
bylaws simply that you reverted back to
said that they shall be made only by
member motion adopted by a majority of
the full board
um
so anybody can make a motion but again
just i guess
what you all discussed you talked about
a gentleman or ladies agreement so i
mean whatever i mean
you just need you all need to have that
worked out there's no formal rules that
bind you here but i mean you know how
you're going to do this in practice
matters so i would kind of figure that
out but that's the only advice i have
i said it's only a member motion that's
all the only rules there are
so before before we would um nominate
who we um was choosing
and then we voted so it takes four votes
to carry
so
steve has his nomination out there right
and if anybody else wants to have a
nomination for that position
they're welcome to it
is that so that's the way so i was going
to go on and let
carl carl nominate somebody david
nominate somebody
and i always tell somebody well i'm
really the only one if you look at all
the ones that's been served on there my
district someone hasn't for years has
not had representation
so
i'd like to nominate burke archer if he
uh he's a great guy
he uh ran the
burke trip
he ran the juvenile detention center and
has a great relationship with the state
has a lot of connections he's retired
now and he's a good he's a good guy he's
a good christian man and i'd like to i
like to put him on there
okay
all right carl
okay i don't have anybody in my district
either and uh i was one
do i need to wait
make your motion
okay
all right
and i don't have anyone serving me so
i'm going to nate uh to nominate harry
ferguson
so
katie you're just the majority
majority
okay
so all those for harry ferguson
so it's just me
show of hands
three four
all those for roger sword
burke archer
two
so we filled
three positions and we only voted once
is that correct
so when's the next time we're going to
have an ida drop off
this is by statute yes
seven seven people that the board
appointed in two to serve from the town
of town of lebanon
so although those folks that i feel i
feel like i've cheated
carl and david because they have no one
on the boat
yeah who's next
do we have a list of when the terms in
on these somewhere
okay you come up all right our next uh
is the oak grove community center
this is a
another community center
uh and tim this is your district
i haven't had a chance to talk to all
these people could i put that one off
i'd like to put that one off
for him you want to table it i would
like to yes
so
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katie
do we need to vote since this is already
on the agenda just to table this one
group
motion 10. i'll make that motion all
right
david
all right all those in favor all right
i'll just table it to you
talk to them all okay
all right our next uh
thing on the agenda is our citizens
comment period
and i have
uh
king if you'll step forward give us your
name and address and your concern please
sir
for the county but it never got passed
or brought up because it was about the
shooting in it how would they handle it
but we've got a great county here and
i'm proud of our county
but we're getting some awful awful
people in the county lately
i have an incident in my community
that's happened twice we had one lady
that would pull in
uh at two or three in the morning she
beats the drunk she leave the studio
going boom
we like to never got that calm down i
got a guy right now
i spent an hour and a half with the
russell county sheriff's department last
monday
talking to him we've called and i had to
keep using the sheriff's department and
tax money just to have them drive by and
they can't do nothing we got a guy
that's he's
i can't accuse him of being on drugs but
he plays in the grass and digs up rock
and house from daylight to all night
opens up the doors on his truck and
plays it all night long as loud as he
could
my wife has cancer
we had to take her breasts off
last week
and i try to keep it quiet but you know
we do things to protect our pets
you know
and we have a town ordinance for noise
why can't we have a simple little
county ordinance
and you know i'm
the hunting the fish hunting noise you
know nobody's hunting after 11 12
o'clock you know
we need an ordinance or something to
protect the citizens up there
and
that's what i'd like to ask the board to
do to come up with some kind of county
ordinance
to protect their citizens show as much
protection for them as we've shown for
our animals you know we pass things to
protect their dogs and animals and
chickens even you know so
we've got a lot of new people coming
into the county and believe me
some of them don't respect the county
nor the people so
that's my agenda to get a county
ordinance pest
for noise
and i'd appreciate it if you guys would
take it into consideration
uh whatever it takes
i can get more signatures if you want i
don't want to have to and bring it up
again and type y'all's town i'm not i
don't think i'm asking for
you know something major
just a simple ordinance that says hey
you know if you please if you got a db
noise on your muffler at a certain point
they'll write you a ticket
why can't we do the same thing if a
deputy can come by and hear the noise
from his car
it's too loud
you know if you're up to three four or
five o'clock in the morning and you've
got to go to work
and you can't sleep then you're engaged
in the community i got a neighbor
he drives the bus
he gets up at four o'clock every morning
leaves at 4 30. sometimes his music's
going all night
you know you know he's got to come back
in he's got to sleep that day because
he's got to get back up at four and go
back out
he can't get any rest
we've had a lot of conflicts
his daughter-in-law
asked the guy to turn it down and let's
just say it got real belligerent so
before this thing blows out of
proportion and somebody gets hurt
i think the county ought to step in and
do something i think they ought to say
hey we're wasting too much of the
sheriff's time and tax monitors running
out there and we can't do a thing about
it
so
i would appreciate it if you would take
this in consideration
and just come up for simple little noise
ordinance to help the sheriffs out
there they're willing to come
it's just they can't do that
and somebody's gonna cough mayor every
time you know
we talked to the state police
headquarters they agreed they said oh
well you got to know he's doing
something you got to know he's out there
tweeting or doing on drugs then call but
he'll do it and then you don't see him
doing it you know i'm not a i'm not a
drug enforcement officer i just
it's not my job and i don't want to lose
my cool with him
i don't want to be over here in the
russell county jail
but uh
and i'm sure regina doesn't work but oh
he
he called her everything that he could
think of last week you know
and all she was doing was asking him to
turn it down so jc could sleep
you know
so that is what i'm after that's what
i'd like to have
and it's not just me there's there's a
lot of residents in russell county if
this was back 20 years ago
we had the same outstanding country
people we had then
be no problem you could knock on your
neighbor's door then and go hey
dave turn your music down trying to
sleep david's chore b.j i'm sorry you
turn it down go over and ask him now to
turn it down see what happens
you know
when you get some of these young guys
now and they're out there playing in the
grass
the three or four in the morning they
get a holes in the yard and music going
slow as it go
it makes me mad
i'm sorry i think we need to protect the
citizens of russell county a little bit
better than what we've done
okay
i appreciate your time thank you very
much thank you
good concerns thank you sir
anyone else any other concerns
all right our constitutional officers
cnn
county administrator reports and request
thank you
yes yes it is jim frank subdivision i
know jim frank subdivision i know
vision sorry yeah
yep
that one has trouble too
yeah
um
yes
thank you madam chair
first up on the county administrative
reports is the 2021 virginia community
development block grant the cd cdbg
regional wastewater fund
for 2.5 million dollars
of course it gives pleasure for the
the department of housing and community
development
to inform russell county that they have
been offered a community development
block grant an amount of 2.5 million
dollars in support of the daint regional
sewer line extension project
this proposal was offered funding under
the
2021 cdgb regional wastewater fund
um
this is an fyi this is the uh the
funding to
uh for the all the dank customers and
pick up the extensions all the way into
saint paul
right now our
wastewater treatment plant in the dane
area
it only picks up the customers
up down to the sewer treatment plant
this will pick up additional customers
from byron to saint paul which we have
an agreement with on the saint paul side
so uh they had been approached
a couple years ago that we were trying
to get the loan but this is 100 grant
funded 2.5 million dollars
second on the county ministry request is
reports is the
of course the virginia department of
transportation
y'all had an opportunity to take a look
at it
there we go sorry about that
uh all the on route 615 we got a slide
on back valley
uh mr ray has has
has has issued that and i i'm glad to
see that they're finally have put that
on the plan of action to take care of
this on on on the slide
this is a long time coming i know the
pandemic and
i know that video is not here but i will
speak up for them you know between the
contracts and contractors trying to get
materials during the pandemic is almost
a nightmare
it's been hard to catch up
um i also want to inform the board that
the hansonville project at the red
lights on route 19 is get is scheduled
to be paved starting tomorrow tomorrow
so
anybody that's went through has seen the
electronic signs so
uh be careful as you come through on on
the traveling public in hansonville
tomorrow so we're going to try to get
that done
mr lester yes ma'am um
i don't mean to interrupt your vdot
report but
um the welcome center it says on the
vdot report it's calling it a st paul
welcome center and that indeed is not
it's the three rivers destination so can
we get clarification to vdot for that
please yes uh i will absolutely do it uh
the
um it is the three rivers destination
center this is also another grant that
the county is working on in working with
the heart of app atlanta tobacco
commission and the department of housing
community development
it was also
showcased during the last weeks when
there was 13 governors in the area
for russell county so this is a project
that they're working on for regional
tourism
uh it will showcase not just russell
county but all of southwest virginia it
will extend all the way from popular gap
in the buchanan county into the breaks
into the clinch river it will also
showcase each and every county around
here
again this is a
this is a project that they're working
on it's about a 2.6 million dollar grant
also
and i would get lead out to change that
and and we're also
we have submitted a uh a grant in
adjacent to it for pedestrian bridge
that vdot is currently working on to
give them credit for a pedestrian bridge
that will link into the destination
center into the state park
this will give a
take the foot traffic to bicycle traffic
off of the route 58 which is dangerous
for the traveling walking public this
will give them an opportunity to access
through
to the state park and their adjacent
parks in the river without interfering
with the primary route
do you have anything you want to add
miss waltz
uh yes it will also connect the heart of
appalachia bike trail that runs down
through tazewell county it's route 640
it'll come through uh and be and and you
can also use this as i would call a jeep
trail down to the destination center and
then you could walk across the bridge
for a connector but you can also drive
on 58 there but this will connect our
communities which is
uh all the way from tazewell virginia
down through um
the pinnacle area and it'll take in mr
eaton's area it'll take in uh carl's
area
and part of
rebecca's area i guess and tim is just
going to miss you a little bit but i'm
sorry
but it is on the it is on the vdot um
website as the heart of appalachia bike
trail so i encourage all of our river
communities and communities that are off
shooting from this to be thinking about
this because we're going to the
marketing is going to be there
thank you
we're going to reroute the clinch river
a little bit
and and just
and
and one a good thing about this
destination center it will be promoting
all the assets enroll not just russell
county like i said there's 13 counties
this takes up the footprint of the harp
and appalachia all the way into
pocahontas trails
all the way through here all the way to
the back trails always the big a in any
other asset that we have in southwest
virginia
so
um
it's a great little project
it is a great needed project so
next on county ministry reports of
course vdot wanted me to do some
marketing forum as anybody knows
litter that's the next noise and litter
lord
of course this is the
lover's not litter month that vdot is
promoting and uh of course you know
just give everybody you know a heads up
that you know this is a promotion by
vdot during the month of october you
know for tr for not later but also one
to
emphasize
that any community or or a group of
citizens that
that wants to do litter pickup vdot has
a litter pickup program and you can also
adopt a highway and actually
if you have it within the community if
you want to adopt a highway they would
be glad to work with you in taking these
routes up we know since the pandemic and
that's just not in russell county but
all adjacent counties in southwest
virginia we've had a you know horrific
time of keeping the litter down and i
know that we are getting the complaints
through this but this will give an
opportunity for all the citizens to come
together to work on the community
project and it would and i'm pretty sure
that we get a lot of participation
especially in the back in the counties
next on the county ministry reports is
our
is our truck sale
of course we purchased are talking about
trash this is a trash truck so of course
every uh anyone that doesn't know from
us uh our disposal program
our trucks right now and are utilized
over a two year period we buy them on
state contract and then after two years
we get a guaranteed minimum price out of
it it's a contract that we have in place
for the
these for through the government sales
so we purchased the truck at 161
thousand now with the pandemic and
binded on state contract we sold it for
176 000
so
this is this is the way to operate our
efficiently
so uh we use the bargaining power
purchasing power the state virginia
contracts we can buy it at a cheaper
rate
and we can utilize them almost over a
two-year period for little or no cost
and of course we made money on this one
next on the account administrator
request is
another
this is another vdot this is a
resolution supporting the closure around
679 thomas warner road for the drainage
culvert replacement on vdot project 679
on 83.
the
vdot virginia department tradition
virginia department tradition has deemed
it necessary to close
the route of 679 thomas warner road in
russell county for the replacement of
certain drainage culverts and related to
the construction or project
i need a motion to close this so moved
second
any discussion
all those in favor
thank you madam chair
next on the menu county administrative
request is
um
this is in connection with
the rosa county courthouse the virginia
resource authority resolution to proceed
for reimbursement in connection with the
courthouse capital improvement project
this is a resolution
for our finance agreement for
reimbursement of any cost that has been
incurred
uh under the courthouse project for
reimbursement to the russell county
board of supervisors
i need a motion for approval so moved
second steve
all right any discussion
all those in favor
nays are opposing okay
thank you madam chair next again another
grant where uh we're this is a letter of
support that the board of supervisors
gave to the cumberland plateau planning
district for a letter of support for the
virginia telecommunication initiative
vita 2022
this is a
letter of support in the conveying
support for the applications submitted
by cumberland plateau planning district
for buchanan dickens and russell tassel
counties in partnership with point
broadband
this will uh
this project will serve the school's
vocational training facilities
businesses health care facilities state
agencies and most importantly will offer
gigabyte service to over twelve thousand
six hundred
and twenty four addresses within our
four county region
uh the projects expect to result in
universal broadband within our district
i need a motion for approval
i make a motion
of course do we have a second
second tim any discussion
all right all those in favor
any days or
saying
thank you madam chair and another grant
this is in relation to the destination
center that we talked about before this
is from the cumberland plateau plan
company the uh the cumberland plateau
planning district executive board met on
uh thursday july the 29th 2021 and
approved the russell county c-prop
application for a hundred thousand
dollars for the three rivers destination
and
center
uh i need approval to accept a hundred
thousand dollars
so move madam chair all right
a second
oh second of course all those in favor
aye any opposed or abstaining
right
next on administrative request of course
is the fallen warriors
and i would like to turn it over to one
of the speakers the fallen warriors to
present uh
uh
thank you uh madam chairman and rescue
board supervisors uh for having us here
uh
this is something that's very close to
me because
i have served in the military for over
20 years
and i have lost brothers and sisters
this wall that one of the projects of
fallen warriors that we've been working
on a little over four years
has
has grown with this wall that you see in
front of you there's over 3 200 names
with 12 counties in southwest virginia
and two counties in west virginia
mcdowell mercer county makes up almost
half of the other 12 counties in
virginia the names and all these
gentlemen that's on there is uh was
killed in action from war one to present
day
uh this is something that we come up
with as a project to keep their memories
alive
it's kind of designed like the uh
vietnam memorial wall it can be etched
and sketched
and
as we're coming down
the road here in southwest virginia we
would like for uh russell county
to have a panel on this and for you all
to help us with that
we have a design
that's uh designed and made they're
weatherproof
uh actually
if something was to ever happen to us it
don't belong to us it belongs to the
people of the county that's that's the
foremost thing it don't we're just the
caretakers
but we wanted we wanted to be present
when we do stuff in the counties and
here lately
russell county we've been kind of quite
busy with bedfest and some of the
projects that we're doing
to keep those that's passed away and
serve their country their memories alive
and it's it's amazing
when you see people that comes around
and starts telling stories about an
individual what's on there i grew up
with this and oh i remember him you know
and that's that's part of it keeping
their story alive
um
we work close with the department of
defense and morgan griffith's
representatives has helped us research
this
if anything must ever happen with
recovering bodies mi our plw's or mies
the panels can come off and be re-etched
and put back on
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would you like guys like to add anything
is
coming on to this
no i think the most important thing is
that one question was asked are the
families of the
fallen warriors
responsible for any cost no
no no no
um
what what were what fallen warriors are
asking for
will include
everything the panel the maintenance
hopefully not
not you know not having to add names but
that will also be
included the upkeep
so
it's that's just it you know we're
asking for
one amount
and that will do it
and it broke my heart when we had i'm
sorry
when we had veterans breakfast at the
fair
and
there was
there were quite a few veterans there
and you know
couldn't find their friend's name
because russell county didn't have a
panel
broke my heart
i know lou wallace was very upset about
it i talked to steve about it i mean
alonzo
it's it we need this panel and let's
account for us a county absolutely if
it's not for us
but for the families
of the people whose names are going to
be on there
so they can go and
find the names and not be upset
you're exactly right
and i want to make a motion we provide
this five thousand dollars a second and
and i apologize we should have been this
back in 2019 when you first brought it
to us
that's a it's our fault
i'm sorry
yes i agree um
madam chair i know you have a motion in
a second so we can discuss and i do want
to say that yes
we should have done this a long time ago
when somebody came and i remember that
very distinctly
and it should have been taken care of
but today it is you have a motion and a
second all right
all right all those in favor
proudly
thank you
thank you all
thank you thank you
hi
yes ma'am
next on the county ministry request is
the spearhead russel county
memorandum of agreement this is an
agreement between
this is a membrane agreement to
establish the guidelines for cooperation
and coordination between russell county
erosion and sediment control program
which will be
directly managed
by the southwest regional recreation
authority related to activities
associated with routine maintenance and
operation slash use of recreational
trails and related support of the
facilities in a nutshell this is this is
an agreement between spearhead and
russell county
to ensure that we maintain erosion and
sediment controls within the trails to
make sure that we're meeting within the
department of environmental quality cues
guidelines and the other regulatory
agencies this is an mou there is no
funding tied to this this is an
agreement that we will go ensure that
the uh ens controls are in place in
stormwater and work with them
on future projects
i need a motion for approval
so move madam chair
second
discussion discussion uh
i have still today got 125 miles of
trails mapped out
in
my area which would encompass
tie into buckhannon county and all the
way down to saint paul and big a and all
that area
i would like to ask our county
administrator to set up a meeting with
these people and find out what it's
going to take
for them to be able to facilitate this
opportunity i went round and round with
them
i'm opposed to giving them the money up
front it takes 50 miles to be an actual
certified trail if our board could look
at doing a drawdown on it after the
trail is complete i'm fine with that
but i don't want to see the money go
toward administrative fees and wages and
all that i want to see it go toward the
trails
well david i was there and i wrote and i
talked to arc members do you have
of your 125 miles
do you have
easements and right-of-ways from the
landowners that's the biggest
hurdle that you have to face we've got
two easements that we're working on
right now that are on the gents property
that our own mime permeate area so
we have
looked at it two or three times to see
if we can come off the mine permeated
land and be able to do it now they're
riding up here all the time
not on the spearhead trail but just
you know on that access area and it's
yeah it's outlaw trail is what i guess
you call it that's what you call it but
i i would like the and i have talked to
the gents they're fine i have talked to
different people that live out in the
drill community
have one lady that wants to donate her
home to have a designation area or a
little store or an area to be able to
sell the permits there i mean this if
you've ever rode this trail and i rode
it and it poured the rain and these guys
got me on there and we left it seven and
didn't get back till 11 at night
and i said dear lord i didn't know all
this was there and
even as a young boy i rode my motorcycle
up there but i didn't know where you
could go from point a to point b but
i won't i am serious about this and i'm
tired of spinning my wheels i mean i'd
like to see something done i think we
can get these two permits released and
go ahead and start
the director that i rode with and spoke
with she gave me the grant application
and
i can forward it to you to get started
with the money that and it's grant money
well we should just give it to the
county administrator and let's go ahead
and facilitate it but until you have
those
right that's the big chunk i'll get them
yeah so
the uh the thing that we're talking
about now is just erosion and sediment
control for the county to be able to do
this
now i will say that there is a new
director executive director with
spearhead trails
and it is a female
and so um
i'm not saying that's going to be easier
to negotiate with but i'm saying that
they're very open from one of the
conversations that i've had because
we've been dragging and lagging with
the piece that we're working on down in
the connector from mountain view to dank
virginia that has been on the table
since 2017
or 18 mr lester
so that's been a long time we've been
fussed at by dmme because we haven't got
our money on the ground properly
and we've just had issue after issue so
we have um
let's just say we've crossed the
dividing line and we are finally on our
way and we have talked to them
extensively about
i'm with you on this because i was like
i'm not giving you any money to maintain
a trail that does not exist in my county
and so
i discuss that with spearhead and that
could be something that we do
individually go to their board meeting
and talk to them so their board hears
um and that is all the counties here's
our sister counties again has
representation there and i think that it
would behoove us to have
uh melissa slimp come and and talk to us
and begin a conversation
that we can
get this worked out for you
and your community because it's
important to you and i support that
wholly
yes she is the new director
and they also have their own engineer
who happens to be doing what is that
called mr lester um
he's on duty with the military
he's in the reserves right now yes thank
you i could not come up with that so he
is gone but he's got all the engineering
stuff done
and that was an issue that we didn't
have uh this organization did not have
its
p's and q's it seems to have that now
and so i think that that i i will gladly
pass her number along and you all can
discuss it with her and she has mr
lester's number thank you thank you
all right we have a
motion and a second
all those agreeing with the
mo
a memorandum agreement for spearheads
all those in favor
anyone opposed or abstaining
all right thank you madam chair next on
the county administrator uh request is
the
approved planning plans from the
planning commission plans i need
approval for those
so moved
second second blue all those in favor
no one obtaining her
no
next the last item on the kennedy
ministry request is the travel request
this is for the rosa county public
library
for the
association of rule and small library
conference on october the 19th through
the 24th 2021
uh this is also fully paid for by a
grant
as you all can see that we're we're
we're utilizing the grants right now so
i need approval for uh
for the uh
belinda levy to uh attend the
association of rule and smile libraries
conference
during october okay so move mr mountain
chair right in a second steve
any discussion all those in favor
anyone abstaining or saying no
ma'am concludes counting me nursery
reports and requests
all right thank you
all right
the next thing is to have any of our
discussion or reminders
tim
uh
thanks to the
russell county career and technology
center to the horticultural horticulture
department for the mums make sure that
you get one on your way out thank you
yes thank them very much they do an
awesome job
lou
uh yes madam chair i do uh in reading
the reports given to us by our
authorities and boards and committees
i do want to say that in my reading my
psa report it says
the castlewood area potential projects
and so i do have
a need in the chestnut ridge area their
spring boxes are going dry so i just
want to put that out there that
we need to have water
down it's down mew road towards scott
county in the chestnut ridge section of
my district and also i had one more
thing and i've done i've already lost
that so carl's next
carl no matter
yeah i have uh one thing here
uh we've got a couple of old dilapidated
buildings up at the senior citizen
center they took over they they're in
the building there where the new psa
offices are and i appreciate i think
rebecca and her husband came up that day
and spoke and they have a great facility
but there's a couple of old dilapidated
structures out there that i would like
to get an estimate on to see what it
would take to get rid of those and maybe
extend that area
maybe into a
a park type thing for the seniors
to have it you know some tables outside
or some picnic tables or
the luxury of a grill or some outside
area where they could grill out the the
building is very adequate for their
meetings and stuff like that but it is
kind of
where they grew it's kind of confined
them to a smaller space and with coven
and everything they had an outside area
where they could participate even if you
if we happen to continue on with covet
or what's coming next it's hard to tell
but i think if we could facilitate some
of these opportunities for our seniors
to give them an outside space
and i know with winter coming up it's
that's probably not possible but in the
in the warm weather time if they had a
nice area that they could facilitate and
separate
they could still have a functional
opportunity
okay it's up at sewage creek right
beside the
where the
that's
the old white one that's run right
adjacent to the road we might can but
the other one that used to be the head
start
i don't know we'd have to check lonzo
but i think that's still really stout
okay but i'm not sure yeah we'll check
on it we can check on it well i just
like to get a cause estimate of what you
know
if the psa or whoever we have that we
could partner with that could just
yeah we got the seniors they remodeled
it they remodeled it and everything and
cumberland's i've just left senior
citizens paid for all that
they're real excited but it takes up a
lot of area parking and those buildings
are dilapidated and i might get jumped
on there might be some historic value
there i don't know but uh i just want to
make sure that if they're unsafe
and they don't have any power to them is
that right
that building that you're referring to
that that's a parallel to the road
it or holds on to the road it uh it has
mold in it that's why we had to move
them out into the new building it it
it is completely
well mr hayes and him there you know
they got the church right there and that
would give them additional parking
on sundays you know and stuff like that
so it's kind of a combined
opportunity for us to get rid of an old
dilapidated structure and offer the
opportunity for outside space
for people that
i mean this is pretty tough on our
seniors having to stay in all the time
if we can facilitate some in all of our
districts come up with some sort of idea
to facilitate an area that they can meet
outside and separate
you know fairgrounds other areas you
know whatever it would make a great
green space appreciate it
go ahead man
i'll pass
okay um i just have one thing
uh dr wright from the community college
has asked if he'd like to have a
luncheon or a breakfast with uh and
rotate it with two members at a time to
come to the college
so if anyone any board member wants to
attend his breakfast or his luncheon let
lonzo know and that because he does have
several dates
and uh
go up to see what the college is doing
and
what what they're trying to present to
the public
i'll send out the dates that are
available
thank you all right the next thing our
next meeting madam chair before you
before you get any further i did
remember what i wanted to say and that
ties into exactly what you just said
um dr wright and
the
southwest virginia community college
school of culinary
was
part of the arc meeting in saint paul
last week and i congratulate
uh their chef steve gilbert and morgan
wallace who came along and
it was a fantastic
evening and dr wright was there and
and we made sure that southwest
community college was mentioned
and congratulated so we i just want to
say that publicly that that was a great
thing for us and i appreciate
uh i appreciate that uh
college for doing that also
david reminded me on the dilapidated
buildings we've got this in the back of
our little brochure or our booklet
tonight and
there are a ton of things so i need to
ask this board when it comes down to uh
um the building official is asking for
directions from the bos where are we
with that uh
what do we do
the current the current status i'll let
katie jump in here after that if she
wants to uh right now we've got about
four pieces probably that have already
been through the board in review so and
then i'm i have also passed them on to
katie to make sure that we've dotted all
our eyes and t's especially when it
comes to property you know encroaching
up on a piece of property
um the uh the rest
the that mickey's got on the list i will
get with him to make sure that if he
hasn't got the approval if he's already
inspected to get him before the board to
get approval to move on those the same
way that
luckily that the uh the psa building we
own it so that will be an easy decide
not the factor on that one but the other
pieces of property but
also why we got the opportunity to talk
to the board i would like to talk to
y'all about
next time
from a proposal either
uh
putting in for a part-time litter
officer or doing an in-house
realignment with one of my positions for
in-house litter officer
uh the board of supervisors like the
noise ordinance was passed uh didn't get
passed but the literal order was passed
in july that was the effective date
we got the ordinance in place it is it's
strong but we need someone in the field
to be able to to enforce that
uh because it's it's hard not to enforce
it and
we currently have the sheriff's
department in and
with the current employment it's hard to
get deputies right now we're we're we're
streamlining two per shift throughout
the county
so you know it's it's stretching our
resources then so to be able to either
you know get additional resources or
modify or internal to get this now
with that being said
in the proposal and i'll i'll put it in
writing to the board
we think and we've run the numbers
between me and brian that i think that
between the fines that we get and saving
them picking up trash with other
resources we can almost pay for this
position
so does it have to be somebody in law
enforcement to be able to be an
enforcement person that's things that me
and katie are working on right now if
it's and i'll get i'll present that all
to the board it makes it easier if
they're if they're in law enforcement or
retired that has a certification they
can present it in court if not then
katie's going to have to present in
court
so
and and we'll get all the details ready
for that men katie's been working on
that one so but i just want to give you
an opportunity to think about it we're
going moving and we're getting an
enormous amount of calls especially
since the pandemic
it it's from 19 and it's in every
district so you know i see everybody
nodding their heads so it's it is a
problem so i need y'all put
the ordinance in place
we've
and we've lagged behind on it we got
behind during the pandemic but i think
we got the process in place and this
will close it up and let us move forward
in all your districts
i really do well let me ask you one more
question like say you're talking about
what particular ordinance you're talking
about right now just litter yes so we
don't have noise right now no you do not
know
well
from churches
they were afraid they could not uh you
know have the mics uh jim lill came here
i remember him distinctly
and a lot of people did not want to pass
that because they pray that they've
cracked their own church pa system
things like that
like this fellow came
jim frank told subdivision had a lot of
complaints from people up there noise
or maybe all night long
and
the church department say they can't do
anything because we didn't pass the
orders we need to
revisit that and see if we can't
eliminate some of the things that were
scaring people concerning you know maybe
having a party that's in your own yard
past a certain time
you know
things within reason and
seemed like some of those things was
so far that
after that restricted people more than
what they felt like they should be
restricted you know
freedom of speech and expression but uh
your right hand for mine begins a
certain time of night you need to
express yourself
anyone else have any concerns or
thoughts
all right without that i will ascertain
a motion to adjourn but our next meeting
will be november the first
here at six o'clock so do we have a
motion to achieve
david we have a second call