all right we have a second
second blue
don't have to do it okay okay all right
sorry about that
ah all right all those in favor
you gotta watch yeah i've seen if
somebody was his hand flashed through it
was kevin's i thought
somebody walking by
you've got to be careful on these days
yes ma'am this is certification closed
session pursuant to subsection 2.2
dash 3712 d at the code of virginia 1950
as amended
each member of the board of supervisors
upon roll call certifies that at the
base of their knowledge
only public business matters lawfully
exempted from the open meeting
requirements under the virginia freedom
of information act
and only such business matters that were
identified in the motions by which the
closed meeting was convened
were heard discussed or considered in
the meeting by the board of supervisors
any member of the board of supervisors
who believes that there was a departure
from the requirements
shall stay so prior to the vote
indicating the substance of that
departure in his or her judgment has
taken place
are there any supervisors who believe a
departure has taken place
being none if you agree that the matters
heard discussed or considered during the
closed meeting were pursuant only to the
motions by which the closed meeting was
convened
please signify by saying yey or yes
tim lovelace yes glenn wallace yes
yes steve breeding yes david
yes where's christian yes rebecca
yes ma'am you have approval to turn to
regular session
thank you next item that is on our
agenda is any matters presented by the
board tim do you have anything you'd
like to discuss not tonight no ma'am
all right david i just got two things
i'd like to congratulate the hoenaker
girls basketball team for winning the
state championship
and also the hoenaker academic team as
they compete for the state
so i just want to send out i know it's
hard for
the kid group big groups of people in
over here to be able
to acknowledge their success
but being back-to-back state champs is a
real honor and i just want to
congratulate them
steve yes ma'am i just hit one thing
i had this email come across uh i don't
know why i got it but i got it it was
uh on a new program it was coming out of
jobs well it's not a new program but
there's a program out of giles county
called
fish fish virginia first
and i started looking at it and they
were going to have a little seminar so
i checked into it and i sent header an
email and told her she might be
interested so she did but but what it
amounts to
giles county started this program
several years ago and they
take partners in and what they do is
they do advertisements and publications
uh and have a website set up for
areas that want to promote fishing
opportunities in the area
well naturally i thought about the
clinch river and i thought about
laurel bed lake and the pinnacles and
all that
and uh the fee for entering it or
becoming a part of it is 500
a year and you know from an
advertisement standpoint
i don't see i can get much more money so
i told her to go ahead and do it
that i would fund it out of my
discretionary money and i gave david the
opportunity he said he would he would
pony up half of it
but i didn't want to hog it i wanted you
know if board wants to do that
we could appropriate 500 and we'll keep
our discretionary money if board doesn't
want to do that
we'll we'll go ahead and do it david and
i so i just want to throw that out there
you know whatever the preference the
board is but i think it's a great thing
we'll get some we'll get some
publications uh
not only statewide there will be
national publications
who knows we may you know if we get two
or three
people in here looking for fishing and
and i didn't think about
the jk music's place you know the trout
the trout thing so you know we've got
we've got a lot of areas so she's going
to follow up on that so
yeah you know whatever the board's
pleasure is
no no no this is just an advertisement
to promote
people to come into the area and fish
oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
but i mean clinch rivers big time you
know
laura bed lake is a small mouth
area and they stock the pinnacles
what's that cedar creek down at the
pinnacles is stocked
yeah well that yeah some private
property but jay that's where jk music
he's got that property leased
and he has people coming in here you
know on fly fishing trips
such as that phantom chair do you
want steve to do a motion or somebody
else
well they can take they're just they can
take their discretionary funds and just
so you don't want to you don't want a
piece of the answer i'll put some money
in yeah i'll throw some in
because i've still got some
i don't know we don't need emotions back
do we katie
if we are discretionary funds to help do
this ad
as i mean i mean it's clinch river now
yes i mean
what i mean it's what the most
biologically diverse river and
can i make mistakes can i make a
recommendation
i mean i don't yeah let me tell you what
david and i'll do it
i thought that we should have a little
discussion i was going to add to it but
if you want to change it well i mean
i just didn't want david and i to hog it
you know because
i'm not known for a big tourism but but
i thought this was just
too much too good a deal to let pass for
500
you couldn't buy two lines in one of
those magazines
yes i agree and since we don't have a
motion we'll have discussion but
um the
500 is is really cheap
good deal okay this is an introductory
now uh just so everybody knows
our little tourism body does not carry
a very large budget with that being said
i don't want to saddle the tourism
authority
with extra funding for next year the
year after the year after
so maybe during budget times
that we say we need to increase that
budget or
we need to allow um that body to work
so that it can can raise its uh money
and they're at the very bottom of the
rung they can't even
pony up enough money to get some of the
larger tourism grants so
just saying i think it's a grand idea i
think it's
uh one of the better ideas i've heard
lately so
i'm all for it but i think we need to
look at how
the future holds for us to pay for this
and if the price keeps going up
because i think heather was trying to
run in blue ridge magazine and she only
had it was thirteen hundred dollars for
an art
for a small little thing yes ma'am and
so if we wanna fish
virginia and russell county we're gonna
have to come up
we as a board are gonna have to come up
with money
to make all this happen and in our
packet
i'm segueing it's not my turn but i'm
taking it
i'm segwaying to another thing we
haven't talked about cigarette tax
and it's in here and what does that look
like
yeah that that was for fyi for the next
week
oh it's not for public consumption yes
ma'am everything's for public
yes we do
you make a good investment you get a
good return on your investment don't you
yes you make a good investment you get a
good return on the investment
and you can't invest pennies and expect
thousands of dollars you're going to
have to we're going to have to up the
pony a little bit to get recognition
here i can't even say it
but uh i'm so tired i've had a
heart but i agree with lou i i think
it's going to have to be
looked at a little bit more deeper i
mean you know you just can't you can't
do a whole lot
with uh just that 500 would go a long
way and i think if all the board members
just commit a hundred dollars
uh it would it would really be a a
statement because you're not going to
get an ad in that paper
and that thing for 500. can i make a
recommendation
yes it's a it's a year
yes
yes well you're talking about the jonah
project the trout project
all the the clinch river and all the
other projects that is
hinged and everybody's talking about
fish i think a big opportunity to put
russell county in there
you know in the fish world uh as
recognition
yeah all right okay
orris do you have me do you have
anything else
sorry so i'm sorry board um
the discretionary money that y'all have
done has done
great has been very beneficial in each
one of your districts
y'all have to take that that money and
get to people in in groups that did not
have
so y'all i'll have made the point
and you've actually enforced the point
is
this is a county initiative whether it's
from the clinch to the pinnacle
all over the county so let us make a
motion to prove the 500 for this time
look at it under the new budget
committee and consideration for
alert alternatives to pay for it either
under the cigarette or the meal
taxes and for right now since this is a
county initiative
you don't spend your money spend it with
what is in your district
help your people out and i'm giving your
choice yeah
but people people in my district fishing
the clinch river
and laurel bed lake and everywhere else
you know
this is a county-wide thing that's what
i'm saying
so steve make a motion i'll make the
motion for whatever lines i've seen
we will share the i'll second it okay
y'all keep your discretionary money and
give it to the people yeah
groups that you take care of okay
and we'll look at it from a budgetary
standpoint to next year's budget yes
absolutely but but you know if tourism
is going to be a real thing
they need a little money to work with i
agree sir
all right all those in favor aye
anyone opposed any more discussion done
it backwards all right
i didn't i didn't
you have any concern
lou
no
foreign
yes all the towns have that ability and
that was one of the things
that came through the state legislation
all towns can tax
on meals and cigarettes right now and
all 95 counties in the state of virginia
voted yes for this
to be able to not have to go to richmond
for a handout all the time they gave us
the taxing
authority to be able to do this again
it gives an opportunity for the board of
supervisors to make sure that
they don't have to raise real estate or
personal property or any other tax this
is a luxury tax if you smoke
then you pay if you eat a mcdonald's
then you'll pay that amount or if you
eat out
at a more expensive restaurant then
you'll pay that taxation
but again it keeps the real estate level
which y'all have done for 20 years
so this is an opportunity but it also
gives you the opportunity to
put in these other projects because we
are coming out of the pandemic
we are growing as as we are seeing in
the census which i thought we would be
dropping a little bit we we've actually
held
so hang on we'll get through the
pandemic
and and hopefully come out on this
better on the other side
let me ask you alonzo what how long is
it going this this can go into effect
july 1st right yes sir have we got
enough time that we can get it
done we need to work up a schedule so we
can get this done so it can go into
effect we don't
lose any more time yes
we we have already been working on this
in the background
and uh it is done by an ordinance that
was
they made it very they made it very easy
for the board of supervisors of all 95
counties to do this
so the mechanisms to put it in place
is is very simple it
do we have to have a public hearing yes
sir yes we do okay so we need to get
those set up
for yes may and katie and yes
one of my suggestions i'm sorry go ahead
i'll work on that and get all the time
frames that you all need
one of my recommendations i guess are
suggestions would be to
let the public know that let us earmark
some of these funds to go toward
critical opportunities and projects and
project developments
one is like economic development and
ernie and them have been we you know
this
board has attracted over 11 new
industries in this county
and brought in jobs and opportunity but
now
he needs a secretary bad and you know
there's a lot of things we don't
contribute a whole lot of money to the
ida
and i think that needs to be considered
or looked at to make everybody's jobs
more efficient
make it run better but i'd like to see
us earmark some of these critical things
if we're talking about increasing the
budget for tourism
tourism dollars i'd like a force to look
at that and let the public know how
we're going to pay for it through
this action and i think it's just good
business
it's it's kind of like it's kind of like
having a rich
relative leave you a little money and
now we're going to invest it somewhere
okay and we need to try to figure out
where we're gonna invest
one thing's too i need to say please
madam chair i forgot
uh mountain movers and the ministerial
association took action to help the
people in texas
uh the board of supervisors in tazewell
county sent us a check for twenty five
hundred dollars
we had churches step up we've had we we
didn't we didn't have a
we had limited time to be able to get
the types of resources together we
needed to get
and i told i told them you know maybe
one of these days we might need texas
you never know what we might end up
doing but
we're working right now to try to work
that out and now they're going to send a
group of people probably down there to
do some home construction some rebuild
they did during the hurricane
so you know everybody and even the
community we need to be much in prayer
for people like that when they're
devastated they've got the water pretty
much straightened out
but we have tuck in a lot of water so
we're trying to work the logistics out
of that through mountain movers
and i just i forgot about that and i
apologize but i want to thank
all the board members on mountain movers
and jf and em for
uh working with us so i just want to
make the board aware what's going on
right
it's it's two separate ordinances sir uh
it's at the end mr christian
okay carl do you have anything sir no
madam jerry
all right um the only thing that i have
and
i'm going to address we received an
email late this afternoon about
appointing someone to the river round
table
and uh mr lester if you don't care if
you'll contact mr
keith and have him uh give us a little
presentation or something that this was
a
last minute and i don't know if everyone
received this
because i know i didn't and
and so
oh well i was looking at this email sent
302 from and
tim and tim your names
not even on it so if you will ask mr
keith
to come present a little something at
our next meeting
so that he can discuss it so everybody
will have knowledge
i just i don't want to not include it
but
it was such a late presentation i worry
that we
you know wouldn't do justice by
and also i would like to another concern
i have is like the phase three
at belfast water project that we voted
on i want to say thank you for everybody
for supporting that
but if you know anyone in up toward the
county line the arrowhead subdivision at
that way that would like to
have a user agreement to contact harvey
and they will meet with them and they
can go over what it's
what it is at the lmi the user agreement
and um nothing else i can think of at
this time
and with that i will take a motion to
reconvene
next week march the 8th at six o'clock
here for a public hearing on the
continuation of government ordinance so
we will reconvene here
next monday so do we have a motion for
that so move
david second by steve all those in favor
aye okay next week