extra chairs right up here
a few gals want to come up
here
they're not coming
we've got three chairs right here
and there's some out in the other room
so
when i tell you what i haven't started
the meeting but what i'll do is i'll
call your school because i know you gals
and guys are here for that
and you'll want to get pictures and
things and so i'll make sure that
everybody gets in this room to get the
pictures of their schools and their
students and everything how's that so if
you can find a chair out there we're
just going to do the pledge and a couple
of things and get right into it i
promise
all right
yes you do
ma'am chair i'd like to make a motion to
come out of ex closed session
i'll second it okay we have a motion in
a second um roll call mr lester
yes
okay all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions motion carries thank you
thank you certification closed session
pursuant to subsection 2.2-37-12-d
code of virginia 1950 as amended
each member of the board of supervisors
up on roll call certifies that to best
of their knowledge only public business
matters lawfully exempted
from the open meeting requirements under
the virginia freedom immigration act
and only such public business matters
that were identified in the motions by
which the
closed meeting was convened where her
discussed or considered in the meeting
by the board of supervisors
any member of the board of supervisors
who believes that there was departure
from the requirements shall stay so
prior to the vote indicating the
substance of the departure in his or her
judgement has taken place
are there any supervisors who believe
that departure has taken place
seeing nine 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
carray yes
david eaton yes
steve brady yes
rebecca dye
yes boys christian yes
luanne wallace yes
ma'am you have approval return to
regular session thank you so much
okay at this time we will start our
acknowledgments which is what i was
referring to a minute ago
and so we're going to start out with uh
district one and two which would be
casserwood high school and mr lovelace
will be presenting those awards and so
um miss vance will be helping with that
and um at this time i've got my little
paper but i've got it buried so give me
just one minute to find it miss vance
you gave it to me oh okay we do don't we
all right hang on just a second
invocation
all rise
let us pray
father god lord we love you we thank you
when we praise you today father father
we do not deserve the grace that you
have given us
we thank you for allowing us to come out
and recognize these special people
father for all the special accompli
accomplishments that they have ever
received father forgive us for where we
fail you each and every day be with us
and take us home safely for it's in your
name i pray amen amen pledge
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
united states of america and to the
republic for which it stands one nation
under god indivisible with liberty and
justice for all thank you you may be
seated
agenda
okay
so at this time we're going to need the
approval of the agenda
i do think we have some
additions
madam chair i request that um the real
estate tax extension date
be added to the county administrator's
request as the lineup number four
and numerically change order
all the way through number 15.
okay
change the tax it's going to be first on
the request of the county administrator
reports and request anything else yes
ma'am
don't we have something for a special
project yes
i think we need to add an under the
county attorney's report
we need to add an item
uh
for procurement of services
for a special project
okay you're going to add that at number
seven or
seven will be fine seven all right
seven special project
anything else to add to the agenda
is that it yes ma'am all right i'll need
an approval of this agenda please so
move madam chair
i have an uh motion i need a second
second
second by mr ray all in favor
any opposed
motion carries we have a new agenda
all right now i'm going to get there
acknowledgements thank you
i know you all are so excited and we're
so excited to have you guys here tonight
all of you all and we're so proud of the
accomplishments that you have done
and the service that you have shown to
our community and been part of the great
work of the schools and so it's our
pleasure to welcome you tonight and to
give you a tiny little accolade and of
our appreciation so i'm going to start
out with mr lovelace europe first with
castlewood high school
and we're going to recognize forensics
with pam robertson coach and uh then
we'll move on from there so it's all
yours okay if if you wouldn't mind we'd
just like to let you come and
brag on your students
here
thank you stand up here yeah here's mike
oh he'll give you one
all right
they're normally not tardy he was just
texting me and saying he was stuck in
traffic so thankfully he's here um the
forensics program is something a lot of
people are not really
familiar with unless you have kids in it
then you live it and breathe it i
suppose
skyler mccoy here is a junior at our
school this is his first year in drama
he chose to do a category called
extemporaneous speaking
it terrifies me he's a lot braver than i
am
schuyler prepared and studied
several current events and topics in the
news
he had no idea the questions that would
be asked he knew broad general topics
he did have
articles with him
then once he draws a question a very
specific question often
he has 30 minutes to come up with a
speech and to present it and he was
blessed to have to receive third place
at the state level um we also had two
other students two seniors who placed in
humorous duo
and that's a public speaking event in
which it's more like a performance um
they prepared a piece in which they
portrayed a couple of a little boy and a
little girl who meant kindergarten hated
each other's guts
fell in love during their teenage years
and got married and lived to a ripe old
age and they got to portray all those
those fun ages
um those students that weren't able to
come with be with us tonight they are
watching hamilton tonight so i'm pretty
jealous of them
but we thank the board so much and thank
all of you all for recognizing our
students they've worked so hard and i'm
truly blessed to be their coach they do
a good job
thank you
all right make sure you get your
pictures so if you want to move to the
center i'll direct you right over there
because we want to make sure that
everybody gets a picture including mom
dad and
grandma grandpa and the newspaper
all right
anybody else want to take a picture
while we're here
all
[Applause]
thank you good job
you're not through time
all right yes for the wrestling is uh mr
castle here or would you like to yes
mr robertson
i think they were actually involved in
tennis
this evening this evening
you do for tv
yeah wrestling's one of those things it
is
an individual thing but it's also a team
thing uh and it just makes for
interesting scoring i mean we had some
young men go up this year
very fortunate
brad steffey
220 pound weight class was fifth
[Music]
at sam gibson
106 third place
heath sutherland 132 third place
um
slade castle 126 second place
jacob maxfield 182 first place
and then
we had adam gibson
who was first place at 113
this is actually his third state
championship
the first two came at 106
and then this year he went up to another
weight class
and
won it there again so
it is pretty impressive
i could never push myself away from the
table
make weight so
i environment takes a lot of discipline
a lot of dedication to what they're
doing
and uh
take six wrestlers up there and we
finished fourth as a team
[Applause]
so you're going to take those right back
to those gentlemen right
thank you mr robertson
are we going to do a picture for him yes
thank you
[Applause]
all right the next uh school that we're
going to recognize is hone acre high
school
and that's going to be um betty dave
fbla winner betty davis the coach in the
forensics teams and then we're going to
have the girls basketball
so we got a house full of girls tonight
don't we mr eaton would you like to take
care of that for us please yeah i'd like
to ask miss davis if she would come up
and
you can give the information
once you round them all up here
this is a lot to be proud of this is our
future leaders in our area in our county
and we're so proud of all of them
we actually had three winners at the
state level for fbla this year we had um
cassie atkins who is not here with human
resource management
kate jesse has placed third in
accounting two and
here for basketball thanks
and then olivia hale is fourth place
with intro to business procedures so we
will be taking um two of the girls to
chicago illinois
in june to compete nationally for the
fbla and we're just so proud
very good
all right we got pictures
okay
[Applause]
thank you very good
[Applause]
congratulations
so proud
good job good job
you're doing well
the next forensic team winner uh coach
lindsey vincel coach and stacy smith
lester co-coach
so our student
natalie campbell
got to compete in the state forensics
tournament this year in the category of
impromptu speaking
and she placed first in
class one impromptu speaking
i just want to add about natalie she
actually qualified for the state
tournament in her freshman year which
was cancelled due to covid
and then got to participate in the state
tournament virtually last year um her
sophomore year and played third correct
natalie and impromptu speaking so she's
a three-peat already and we're excited
to see what she'll do her senior
[Applause]
get year
[Laughter]
of course
oh
hold carl's arm
[Applause]
mitchell how you doing
all right david okay you want to do this
one yep all right okay uh we have the
girls state basketball champions with us
here tonight uh head coach misty miller
assistant
yeah
assistance daryl davis steve mcnulty
chris anderson and brandon miller i'll
let
coach
miller come on in and announce these
girls
i believe there are three pete right
three state champions so i just want to
make make you aware of that
okay
thank you all for having us tonight we
appreciate this um i'll introduce our
team kylie vance she's a senior this
year
[Applause]
abby farmer a sophomore
[Applause]
julia barton freshman
cali miller a freshman
[Applause]
kate jesse sophomore
and we have
laura mcclellanhand and riley hart and
kylie ray they have a softball game
today they couldn't be with us and elena
mcnulty she has basketball this evening
and valley stevens had her tonsils taken
out so she's still a little under the
weather
but i'm i'm so blessed to be able to
call these girls my team they've worked
extremely hard we
we've been successful the last couple of
years we knew we lost three uh great
players last season and we knew that it
was a challenge for everybody to step up
and play a different role and these
young ladies just worked extremely hard
and they did they just they did just
that they stepped up for us and played
such a great season and a great team and
i feel very blessed to be a part of it
[Applause]
get everybody in crunch together
got it
very good
thank you so much congratulations
i think this is going to be more than a
three-peat uh this is going to be a
four-peat five-peat for you david i
believe so
you got some freshmen and sophomores in
there they're gonna come on strong
all right
can i say one more thing okay
uh
i wanted to kind of say this toward the
end of the meeting but i'm going to get
it out there soon we're doing the
acknowledgements
uh we've been really blessed in
southwest virginia in this region uh
i guess you all have seen the news where
jordan stout
that play for the honecker tigers just
got drafted
by the ravens that makes our second
person here in the hoenaker area that
heath miller went to pittsburgh and now
jordan's going i'm telling you we are
truly blessed we have got a lot of good
athletes cats with lebanon home acre and
you can tell tonight it shows up i mean
it could be in academics it could be in
sports related or whatever it may be but
we are truly blessed and we're so
grateful
because you will be our next leaders one
day you'll be taking these seats and
helping to move this county forward i'm
just so appreciative
thank you david all right next we've got
lebanon high school so mr breeding and
anybody else that needs to go help him
okay we have this is congressional have
challenged virginia district nine first
place winners for living
here
wait a minute
we want to hear you
this is christian music
theodore boyd and other members of the
team
was ava deckard
and bella as isabella ashby
and they're playing tennis tonight so
they couldn't be here okay
what these guys did
well i'll tell you we do have good
athletes in russell county and we also
have some real brainiacs
so here they are
sponsors
of teams in this area
and they were wonderful to
mentor these guys through they have to
come up with an idea
for an app
and then actually write the app
and then demonstrate the app working so
cgi mentors
work them through that process they won
district nine
we went on a trip to dc to celebrate
usually they have
a big to-do called the house of code
where they take the kids up there and
they do the demonstrations in front of
all the people in congress and
everything but
since cova they haven't done that but we
decided to celebrate anyway
and we went to dc and cgi did host us at
their um
headquarters in fairfax and they really
they really let them up yeah
all right congratulations
[Applause]
good
[Applause]
all right steve
he's got more
got more
next is
our
2022 vhsl theater festival group
a outstanding actor is madison huffman
madison
come up here
[Applause]
what did
how did how did you compete
did you have parts you had to play
with our one act competition we
do a
30-minute play we have
10 minutes to strike and set the stage
and then we have
30 minutes to put on our play and then
strike and take it all back down wow
we did orphan trains this year we have
so many great actors and i'm really
blessed to have them as my team
you did an outstanding job
let's move over here and get a
photograph
i certainly expect to see you on the
stage
come on come on
we gotta get everybody in here
[Applause]
congratulations
okay
i'm sarah stoops and i am the
forensics and i'm the theater coach
before i talk about forensics i'll talk
a little bit about uh maddie's award so
when we go to state theater festival uh
four teams go um in the state of
virginia in our group a um and they only
choose the top four actors or actresses
at the end to
um
to recognize and maddie was one of those
four it was actually also our team's
first time going to the state
championship
so we had a really good
year in theater um and and we are we are
thankful for that thank you so much for
having us um the next thing that we're
going to talk about is a state forensics
which we're really excited about um we
took 10 students to state forensics in
midlothian virginia and all 10 students
placed and
we
became the
1a state champions this year
and about half of our team is not here
tonight because there is a girls and a
boys soccer uh game tonight but um i'm
gonna uh tell you about our amazing team
um and we'll start with uh brianna
johnson who was a state champion in
original oratory she's not here today
but um so she has to write her own
speech um and she delivers she has 10
minutes to deliver it and
she was a senior this year and i'm glad
that she finally got that state
championship so really proud of her um
the next group of state champions who
are not here um is a serious duo team
and that is ellen sauders and carter
dylan really proud of them and they are
both coming back next year so we're
excited to see
what awesome things that they do for us
all right got a couple here madison
huffman who you just met was state
runner-up in storytelling
emma martin was state runner-up in prose
emma is it soccer emmett breathing he
was state runner and impromptu speaking
then we have another serious duo group
and they are estate runner-ups
cheyenne ball
and kendra horn
and then we have two more who are not
here with us they placed third in their
events brianna potts placed third in
dramatic interpretation and gracie ford
placed third in humorous interpretation
so we are really proud of them
like robertson set up here
you know a lot of people don't know what
we do in forensics but we we start in
january and we are there every day
practicing just like a sports team and
it is some intense competition
that we go against and actually this
year has had its own set of issues we
did not actually get to compete in
person
until the state meet because of covid so
the first two rounds were virtual with
zoom meetings i'm sure you all know how
zoom meetings can be um so these
students were acting and performing um
in their you know at the top of their
game but also with all of the uh
problems that happen with technology and
internet connections and things like
that so they had a lot of adversity but
they did um amazing and i'm so so proud
of them they are
hopefully next year we'll go back and
show them what we're made
[Applause]
congratulations this is awesome
[Applause]
oh look at you girls congratulations you
look so beautiful great job always
remember he's doing a good job
okay
is chris conley here
you here chris
any of the lebanon coat any of the
leading uh wrestlers
none of them okay
we have again we have certificates for
the
london wrestling team coach connolly
and we have cole jesse first place
colton barton fourth place
and isaac
oliveira
who's a state qualifier so we'll have
those certificates there for them
all right thank you to everyone
particularly those who
are award winners tonight as we check
off our list and move on
are we good
thank you miss vance
all right we're down to
um
our public hearing
which is uh v dot six year secondary
construction plan 2022 23 23 through
2027
2028.
so i'll just officially open up the
public hearing
if anybody wants to speak to
the vdot six year secondary plan
construction plan
anybody
i don't think we have anybody for the
vdot construction plan
mr vdot's going to speak
john do you want to speak during the
success
like he was preparing to speak publicly
the six year plan for this year
you have your list of projects here that
they've
they've given you the only new additions
to this
are uh route 1080 north cedar
acres
route 746 stony point drive route 801
steel hollow road and route 636 kent's
ridge road
of those four kent ridge road is
partially funded and the all the other
three are fully funded
very good
thank you so much
okay so with that we'll just close the
public hearing
for the six-year secondary construction
plan
and
i will open up
the floor or the public hearing for the
rc property right away which is russell
county property right away easement to
key western llc
any public comments
going once
twice
okay i'll close the public hearing for
the russell county property right away
easement to key western llc
moving on to new business i need
approval of the minutes
uh which is in your packet the
unapproved minutes of april 4th 2022.
motion to prove those men of chair i
have a motion i need a second
second
have a second all in favor
any opposed
motion carries
next on
i wasn't here okay thank you very much
i'm sorry carl i usually ask for
abstentions number two in the new
business approval of expenditures um
those that are considered and presented
for payment
motion to prove madam chair
i have a motion i need a second second i
have a second from mr eaton all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions abstain i wasn't here
all right
thank you
next we have citizens comment period
you're limited to three minutes
do you have some folks that need to
speak
pardon me
okay
susan breeding
welcome
i'm here on behalf of the russell county
public library
and i'm here concerning disparity in
wages
it it appears that since the
minimum wage went up which was nothing
that that you all had any control over
or any uh the state made that decision
and mandated that um that those minimum
wages be raised
unfortunately that's caused this big
disparity in wages and it's not just in
the library i realize that it's it's all
across the county but i'm here
representing the library employees in
particular
what's happened is you the minimum wage
that's a great thing it's helped a lot
of people i understand that but if
you've been in a building working for
for years and all of a sudden this
minimum wage takes effect then you've
got people
who are you know it's narrowed the gap
between the their uh
wages which is really unfair
and i realize um that the county
is up against it this year financially i
know it's going to be a tough year but i
would urge the board of supervisors to
take this into consideration and and
make this a top priority
in in some way um
evening out those wages
and um
in addition and as i know this is going
to be a tough year i just urge you to um
i
won't ask for more money but i'm asking
that er that the library
um
money not be cut because the libraries
are
operating on a bare bones budget as it
is it really is
and much less than than counties all
around us so um i thank you for your
time and your consideration
thank you miss brady
constitutional officers
reports and requests do i have any of
those this evening
all right moving on to the county
attorney reports and request
number one is the russell county dss
employee bonus ordinance
your microphone needs turning up
i don't know if i need to be
oh is it oh it's just on i'm sorry i
used to have to push it
um thank you madam chair um i provided
um i drafted a bonus ordinance a
one-time bonus ordinance and based on
the resolution that the russell county
dss board passed
and that was included in your packet
for a one-time bonus of 500
and
for the board's consideration
all right at this time madam chair as
being a
board member of the dss and the board of
supervisors
i would like to make this motion be
proposed to say an employee
bonus ordinance to include all county
employees
and i would like for it to be received
because of our long hours the extra work
they've put in and their performance for
us in this county
and i feel like as being a member of
both boards that
my fellow board members here want to
recognize that and we're going to cha
and i'd like to change
the language just to include to say
instead of just dss department of social
service that we say i'll and that not
just the dss board members but the
russell county board of uh supervisors
will pl and we also want to replace the
reference amount of money of
to two hundred and fifty dollars for all
county members and for it to come out of
our american recovery money so therefore
it won't be affecting our county agency
budgets
so i would like to make that motion
okay we have a motion to change the
ordinance that's in front of us
from uh
a one time
this is a one time right did you guess
that one time okay
all right a one-time county bonus to all
county employees for 250 dollars as
opposed to 500 and it's going to come
out of the american recovery act
and i'll entertain a second oh saying
that
okay well we have a motion and a session
second discussion
yeah
i'm really confused over this motion um
because i think the ordinance stated
that
this went back to their board for
consideration and now what i think ms
dais want to do is reduce the amount and
offer it to
all county employees yes that's the way
i understand just change it from being a
dss ordinance to making it bs abortion
but the money that they have that was to
be sent back to the state so you're not
wanting to utilize that you just want to
send the whole pot back to the state
now i understand they've been using it
they've been started ordering things and
purchasing things and they are working
to
use their money that they've got
as much as they can
okay any more discussion
this way it will be coming out of the
american recovery american recovery act
okay and so we're still not touching
anything else all right we have a motion
and a second we've had discussion all in
favor
any opposed
any abstentions
motion carries
thank you all
okay
now we're moving on to cf highlands llc
a deeded gift
for the artie lee campground parking lot
i have reviewed this deed and that was
prepared
by by a different attorney and it is a
deed of gift for um recreational use for
russell county for this parking lot um
i i provided it to the board i've
reviewed it i don't have any concerns
with it i did note that if if for some
reason we did not use it for the
intended purposes it could potentially
revert back to
the original owners to cf highlands llc
or their assigns but i don't think
that's a going to be a problem we intend
to use it for parking so otherwise i'm
good with the deed if the board would
like to accept this deed of gift
okay i'll make a motion that we accept
this
okay um we have a motion i need a second
for the gift a second
okay very good thank you guys okay we
have a motion in two seconds all in
favor
any opposed
motion carries
next we have the russell county property
right-of-way easement to key western llc
madam chair actually we have the um
building inspection services oh it does
and i checked it off i just zoomed right
by that
uh and and that's one of my biggies
building inspection services contract
please yes madam chair this is something
that um we've been working
um
working for behind the scenes quite a
bit and i think we've discussed a little
bit for project
um the pure salmon project or project
jonah um
due to the
to the
um
size of this
um facility we um it was determined that
we needed to
contract out services to help with the
performance of the building inspection
services and we had we had done an rfq a
long time ago and entered into
competitive negotiation and and
lonzo and i have both reviewed the
retainer agreement and mou and made some
suggested changes and are comfortable
with this agreement and
i'm asking for the board to approve both
of those agreements at this time
i'll make that motion
okay we have a motion and a second to
accept the building inspection services
contract all in favor
any opposed any abstention motion
carries
now we're down to
um the russell county property
right-of-way easement to key western llc
yes yes madam chair this was um what we
had the public hearing on a little bit
ago this this is in relation to the
piece of property that we bought from um
key western um for the animal shelter a
couple of years back
and
he um there was an issue with that we
needed access to the property and and
and we did and get a get a right-of-way
and to to enter our property
but he also requested since key western
owns two pieces of property on on one on
each side of our property that to
request an easement across
the the property we purchased from him
to access the other property and lonzo
had kind of made that agreement with him
when when the deal was getting made but
it was just something that never got
finalized a survey was done
and
and is this the corrected survey lonzo
or is this the old one
okay there was some issues um with the
with the prior survey and this i believe
is the corrected survey occurring
according to mr lester um i had prepared
a deed but i did not have the updated
survey so i'm asking the board to
approve this this right of way and
that's contemplated
okay so what what lonzo lonzo was not um
happy with the parameters that were
contained in this one that's why i
didn't know which one it was if it was
an updated one and so i'm asking the
board to approve this conveyance and
i've already i've already completed the
deed i just need the updated survey to
put that in so to approve this
conveyance subject to final approval of
the county administrator and legal
counsel
i might have elaborated a little bit on
this what i'm trying to do with the
easement that's coming in onto the
property this is our existing easement
that's coming into the right-of-way
currently right now
what had been surveyed is actually taken
off the frontage of the property so i'm
asking what the board is upon correction
is to go with the
fence line here to move this 25 foot
easement in adjacent to and
parallel to
the
the fence line
so
key west llc has agreed to do it
we asked for a motion upon the corrected
plat
and location to be approved
up on a county attorney's review
i'll make that motion madam chair i'll
second it all right we have a motion and
a second all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions motion carries
next we're moving on to the cleveland
ballpark lease
yes yes madam chair this is the lease
that i reviewed and also provided to the
board and i did not have it in a word
document to retype i did highlight
certain language and that i do think
needs to be removed from this lease
and i've spoken with lonzo today and i
think this may be the last time we have
to
contemplate this lease we're working on
some other arrangements i believe but i
would ask the board to approve this
lease um with with the removal of the
language that i've highlighted
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okay i'll entertain a motion i'll make
that motion okay we have a motion from
uh mr ray i need a second i'll second it
is motion i mean second from mr eaton
all in uh any discussion
all right hearing none
all in favor
any opposed
any abstention
motion carries
uh next number six st paul temporary
emergency agreement for law enforcement
services
yes madam chair um
the sheriff contacted me with this
agreement
and asked me to review it and i have
reviewed it
one thing that i did see and i still
have to get up with the attorney for the
town of saint paul to add a signature
line for for madam chair to sign if you
all approve this agreement the basis of
this agreement is that the town of the
town of saint paul they're police
they're they're understaffed right now
and they're
temporarily wanting to use the services
of off-duty
deputies we would be providing the cars
and the uniforms so that's why they're
reimbursing the county i think it's 35
dollars per hour
they do anticipate this be a temporary
agreement but since i have not gotten
the final one to approve i would just
ask if the board wishes to approve this
to approve it subject to final revisions
and changes by legal counsel
i'll make that motion
okay we have a motion i need a second oh
second any discussion yes ma'am uh
you you said the town will be or the
sheriff's officer will be providing the
vehicles
or the town
my understanding is that we'll be using
our vehicles and that's why the the
county's being compensated in this way
and so they'll be using
um
you know they'll be using
their uniforms and our vehicles so um
but it's not a situ it's not a situation
where where they're on duty in russell
county and just going over there yeah
yeah okay
and i didn't i didn't get any specifics
i don't know if lonzo has on how long
they anticipate this to last but i know
they're hopeful to you know be able to
feel their vacancies and so this is not
going to be a long-term agreement
and i've got a question real quick if
we go into an agreement like this can it
also
provide these kind of services for other
municipalities as well
in regards to the agreement
currently right now in the sheriff's
office with other counties and towns we
have what we call a mutual aid agreement
that comes through emergency management
for sheriffs and et cetera
one of the things that they can't do is
the sheriff will have to utilize his
deputies these will be off just like
washington county does for their uh
traffic control over there they're
speeding so y'all i'll smile on that
but this is the way
this is a way that the sheriff's
compartment can fill in voids whether
it's home acre whether it's lebanon or
if it's saint paul to be able to fill in
these services during the meantime and
give an opportunity for the deputies to
earn this extra income while providing
when we looked at it the inclusive rate
based off the deputies their benefits
and arrest and fuel
we feel comfortable we're not making
money on this but we're not losing money
well that was the only concern yeah
we're not losing money hourly rate was
enough to cover their fuel costs that
was the first of my first questions yes
any more discussion
and i believe
i saw in this lease it was
intended as a six month
yeah
okay
all right we have a motion a second
we've had discussion all in favor
any opposed any abstentions motion
carries
next on the county uh attorney request
and report is uh number seven special
project
thank you madam chair
um i i am requesting um for special
project or project m3 for the board to
pursuant to their purchasing policy to
hire the services of a consultant for
this project i do think that would be
beneficial to see to further discover if
this project is going to be something
that's beneficial to the county and that
the county would like to pursue
so moved
okay we have
a motion and i need a second
i'll second that as long as it's in
accordance with the procurement policy
yes your your purchasing policy that's
been adopted pursuant to the virginia
public procurement act
thank you um any further discussion
okay i'll call for the vote all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions motion carries
thank you miss patton
next is the county administrator reports
and request
thank you madam chair
the first item that's on the canon
ministry reports and requests for april
22
is of course
everybody's been waiting on her and i
told her not to be nervous
and
we've only been looking for a year and a
half
[Laughter]
is i'd like to
introduce the ross county tourism
coordinator she is in going through an
internship through radford university
she is graduating with honors miss
shiloh little i would like to introduce
her as the intern for the um like i said
the rosa county tourism coordinator and
she can tell a little bit about herself
yes hello um thank you for having me
today i'd like to thank the board and um
mr lester for for allowing me to have
this opportunity to return back home i'm
from castlewood i grew up there most of
you guys probably know my dad um
i don't know if that's a good thing i'm
just kidding
i'm excited to be returning back and
promoting the county
and everything we have to offer i'm
looking forward to working with each of
you
and the russell county tourism committee
as we move forward to enhance our
efforts um and our assets in our county
and i'm truly blessed with this
opportunity so thank you
i'm excited
was this a five-year term
a 10-year term
[Laughter]
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[Laughter]
well i appreciate it thank you
thank you so much this is such a
pleasure and and i i'm just choked up
about this thank you for accepting the
offer
i'm so excited i'm really excited me and
mr lester had a meeting today and i'm
ready to get started good deal wow thank
you thank you
yes
[Applause]
well you hardly ever find me without
words but i am at this moment
anyway the next thing is the russell
county
physical year 21 financial audit report
yes ma'am
of course everyone knows that
this is the rosa county fy 21 physical
audit report even though we're in 2022
everyone knows of the pandemic so we had
some additional audit procedures that we
had to go through because of the
all the federal funding that we had so
we had to do what we call a lot of
single audit acts so we had to have
additional auditors in here which is
always fun
and
so we had to really in essence we had to
do a double audit so
again
from the independent officers of
robinson farmer cox and associate which
by the way does about 65 of 95 counties
in the state of virginia
reads this in opinions in our opinion
based upon the audit and report of other
authors the financial statements
referred to
fire present fairly in all material
respects the respective financial
position of the governmental activities
the business type activities
discreetly presented component units
each major fund and aggregate remaining
fund information of the russell county
as of june the 30th 2021
and the respective changes in the
financial positions where applicable
cash flows and re-oriented in accordance
with accounting principles of the
general accepted of the united states of
america
now
what that means is that we had a clean
audit in in accounting terminology
we had uh trying time during the
pandemic
the board of supervisors
uh you know allocated funds out to
the
food pantries emergency management
services schools sheriff's department
courts
and of course business grants so we
helped everyone that we could and have
possibility and that actually needed it
during that time for pandemic purposes
and businesses and support
during the pandemic so again uh
i think there was a and this is between
us
as i think there was an eight cent
variance of all the funds so that's
that's a pretty big accomplishment ever
do a lot of it so
again
congratulations to the ross county board
of supervisors
for another one we've also got this
trying year that'll be coming up but
also in addition um
the
uh we did additional audits on the
sheriff's department on all drugs
forfeitures which i have to by law have
to acknowledge it says based on our
audit found the sheriff of russell
county has a system of internal controls
of the funds listed is adequate and
compliant with virginia's sheriff's
accounting and the code of virginia
next on the county ministry reports is
uh the virginia coalfield coalition
regional sale coverage project that's a
long one steve how did y'all come up
with that title
great today this is a
uh
a letter of support from the russo
county board of supervisors is pleased
to support the virginia coalfield
coalition
in its application for the arc for
planning funds that will support the
development of a regional
cell coverage study so this is something
that's needed in it y'all been hearing
about the broadband
uh
mr brady mr miss wallace is sitting on
the uh the cumberland plateau
uh spearheading both the cell and the
broadband projects and this is a letter
of support in the arc additional funds
for sale for tower coverage
next on the county ministry reports is
is the vdot
uh secondary construction plan that you
heard from vdot previously
from john
i need uh i'm sorry i gotta back up yes
i gotta i call myself thank you number
four number four um
next on camera ministry reports is a
resolution
due to the
uh we just went through the audit but
also we're currently going through the
budget process and everyone knows that
the state of virginia between the house
and senate
have still not came up with a state
budget yet so
of course for us
as the county
we've got to do our planning everything
is set in by the due date so the res
i've got a resolution uh before the
board of supervisors for the real estate
taxes extended due date
for the calendar year f calendar year
2022 tax year
to move
from the
from may the
may the 25th to june to 29th
i need approval i'll make a motion we
approve that
okay we have a motion and a second
any discussion
all in favor
thank you
thank you madam chair
again
we'll be sending now formal notices to
the general public for all the residents
that the date has changed in the paper
it'll be up on the treasurer's website
and the county's website for
notification
next on the county ministry reports
we're back to the v.6 year construction
plan resolution
that you heard before i need a formal
approval
from the board for the six-year
six-year construction plan
for fy23 through fy28 so moved i have a
motion i need a second second i got
several i'll accept it
um
all in favor
any opposed
motion carries
thank you madam chair next on the county
administrator
request is the
vdot route 751 abandonment resolution
y'all had time to look at this this is
uh and i'm going to read uh from john
it's his notes and
they may ask to elaborate back in the
1980s vdoc constructed a hut a hud urban
renewal in sight and channel change on
the clinch river
under vdot project uh
7058 this is where the saint piles
sewage treatment plan is located as part
of the project crowd 751 was demolished
and is no longer there it's in the river
right john that's his words not mine so
hey so i'm looking for a approval for a
uh abandonment resolution on route 751
so move
i have a motion i need a second second
um discussion
mr lester
and if i may call on my vdoc
guy here
i had a question concerning it's going
to cross the railroad there in south st
hall
what's that going to do to
so that does that mean that you won't be
working on the railroad area
who who gets that does that abandon goes
to the railroad property or where does
it go to
the abandonment
okay
the portion that's on the railroad right
away yes does revert to the railroad
it was on their property to begin with
the other part is incorporating in the
right of way where they did the channel
change and the hud urban renewal site
yes but if i wanted to use that site in
the future
would this deter that
no
no bush place that comes in off of 58
that comes down by the
sewage treatment plant that accesses the
hudsite
i'm on the other side of the river
though i'm over on the side of south st
paul that accesses that little piece of
i don't know it's the south side of the
river
that's going to go across a railroad
i just want to know would i be able to
market that property or we that's
russell county
be able to market that property at such
a time when there could be other
development within the state park system
that's just a question
that would depend on the scope of your
project i don't know that i could answer
that question for you right here
okay but if a new access was needed
a new right-of-way could be provided
do you think the railroad would have
would this get into railroad discussion
and they are their own nation you know
um
yes i'm on a live mic so i'm i know what
i'm saying i know full well what you're
saying okay it's their world we just
live in it so uh yes um
you would very much have to deal with
the railroad in such a case so if we
abandon this
from this point a to point b that you've
got now i understand the channel i
understand that completely can we back
point a back across and abandon it
further down and not be and not deal
with that piece where it goes across the
railroad
you could
i mean technically you could
but
at that point i mean it doesn't provide
a
public service at this point to warrant
maintenance at vdot expense anyway
okay
i just don't want the railroad to shut
it down and i don't think they can
because the land there's landowners on
the other side so they cannot close the
crossing at all
they cannot take that then it reverts to
a private crossing for those individuals
that have the right and then those of us
who needed to use it for republicans
right i need an attorney here
well john could what if it what's the
debt what if it was not a ban but this
discontinuance
rather than abandonment
then it remains a public right away and
it's under euros jurisdiction and you
receive you assume the liability for it
yes
if you abandon it it goes away and you
don't have a liability but neither does
v dot
okay you own it
i'm not owning that process
okay we're in discussion i'm sorry i
don't want to chase a rabbit but those
were questions that i needed to have
answered and that's going to cut off
that's going to cut off some property
right there that may be accessible for
who knows what i just don't want to
close any doors okay we have a motion
we have a second
we're in discussion
mr lester do you do you want to do some
further due diligence on this before you
you you
you want to table it and
go back
that is in the town's footprint right
the uh discontinuance
on the 751 right john that's in that's
in the town
that's saint paul
yes that is
we talked to the town and i apologize
john
and not to make it hard on you um
do you
maybe we need to talk to the town about
what their future plans or are they
having an issue with it do you
or do you it's up to this
discretion of the board good question
because we're
and i don't want to belabor this
uh and i know i am but as a new
organization is starting up to take care
of the entire clinch river valley these
could be opportunities that were
losing somewhere along the way now i'm
not for sure that we are but um just
saying that
that could be
usable property in several years from
now
and that is south saint paul that is all
russell county it just happens to be in
the town of saint paul's across the
river
all right
because with the park going in with the
park going in and the rest they're
looking at you know multiple what vdot
caused connectivity i mean we're going
through that
report
yes
okay
so i'll leave it at the description of
the board how about a motion in a second
okay
so what are we going to do
vote it down
so there's a motion on the table you
want to table it
well or do you want it to go away
i mean
well it could be a motion to to table it
if you want to do that but if you but if
there's a motion you have to vote we
already have emotions so we need it
an amendment to the
amendment to the the appro to
abandon right now that's the motion
right now to abandon we're abandoning it
and we're almost there without a vote
but now we want to back it out
so you don't want to do that not until
we do a little bit more due diligence
well you would you would you would make
that subsidiary motion to to table that
to table that to another time i'm good
at those but no
and for the public's information that
takes precedence over the motion that's
on the main motion that's on the table
so we'll handle the subsidiary motion at
this time
we have a motion and we need a second
a second then thank you mr christian so
we have a motion and a second and a
subsidiary motion to table
this uh motion that we've got all in
favor any discussion yes
is that going to hurt bother you anyway
i mean is it going to impact any of your
work i mean delaying this okay
i'm good okay thank you mr brady all in
favor aye aye any opposed
thank you all for bearing with me on
that one i apologize
john you and i will get with it with the
town have a quick meet and i'll set that
up
okay moving on to vdot route 1080 yes
rule edition resolution north cedar
acres john
this is one that you just devoted onto
the six year plan
we will do this one as a rural addition
project and
we can construct it with state forces
hired equipment
and it will be paid for out of the
surplus balance on
previous projects so it doesn't affect
any funding for any of the upcoming
projects all right we have a i need a
motion motion to approve yeah that was
quick second
second all in favor oh discussion
okay
all in favor
any opposed
motion carries thank you vdot route
1211.
thank you madam chair
this is uh
this is on vdot route 1211 cleveland
falls barons and route 661 cleveland
campground recreational access fund
resolutions
this is ask for approval for uh
submissions for uh
recreational access funds
for route 1211 and route 661 right john
yes okay
yes okay through the recreational access
program it's a different pot of money
that we can get
to improve accesses to
publicly maintained recreational
facilities whether it be state or
locality maintained
very good all right i need a motion for
route 1211. i'll make that motion all
right we have emotion i need a second
okay thank you several seconds i
appreciate you guys all in favor
any opposed motion carries number eight
thank you ma'am sure
this is the cd cdbg grant resolution for
the daint regional sewer line extension
project this is a request for prior
authorization of cost on the daint
regional sewer line extension project
21-21-14
make that motion that we
do that
a second okay we have a motion and a
second to take on the grant resolution
for the regional sewer line extension
2.5 million dollars thank you very much
all in favor any opposed
thank you
next one up is of course the dhcd
industrial violation fund rf planning
grant for 50 000
this is a mouth that's entered into on
the 18th of march 22 between the the
virginia department of housing community
development
and russell county
for the danes steam building restoration
project it is eligible for industrial
violation fund planning grant proposed
for the
for the planning of these activities for
this proposed project for fifty thousand
dollars i needed an acceptance for uh
appropriation and allocation of fifty
thousand dollars from dhcd concerning
the steam building restoration project
i'll make that motion except that
thank you need a second i'll second for
the purpose of discussion okay where
where is this steam building located
it's um it's directly across from the uh
dank coal and railroad museum
okay
well it is kind of in the community i
was thinking i was thinking about
another building that was way on that
hazel mountain up through there it was
it was the waterworks building though
that matches it almost yes okay so we
have a motion and a second any more
discussion
all in favor
any opposed
motion carries thank you very much thank
you ma'am chair now with the 50 000
allocate for the planning grant i need
to i need approval for the request for
qualifications for architectural and
engineering services for the steam
building restoration project a dhcd
planning grant i need approval for the
rfq i'll make that motion second
okay we have a motion and a second to uh
do an rfq for the dank steam building
restoration project all in favor
any opposed
motion carries
thank you madam chair
next on the county ministry request is
the uh
the csa supplement allocation request
for thirty four thousand nine sixteen
uh ninety three this is for the
department of social services this is
for the uh
for services rented this is the locality
share for supplement allocations
uh for reimbursement
for thirty four thousand nine sixteen
ninety three i'll make that motion
okay we have a motion i need a second
second okay we have a motion in this a
second discussion
what
we haven't seen one of these in a while
it's just just an overrun on expenses
this is that guy must steve that you
know we had discussed before that their
budget for five years ago ends one and
yes this is no additional funding it's
just appropriation we have to make by
law legally so
so it pretty well eats up that thirty
four thousand dollars that we had left
in the budget well it's a maybe so so
but we have to have it up on the front
end okay
all right i have a motion in a second
any more discussion
all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions motion carries
next on the county ministry of request
is the regional improvement commission
appointment this is uh an appointment by
the record of virginia 58.1
for the regional improvement commission
concerning the casino which is the
bristol hard wreck hard rock casino
gaming proceeds each county uh
our governing board
may appoint one member within
the uh
the casino's footprint
so
of course they're trying to under the
code of virginia
the 58.1 for the regional improvement
commission
we need one employee to this board to
represent russell county within the
commission i need approval for
an appointment
okay and i'll entertain a motion for
this but it also directs us to say
that they're looking for an
administrator or a deputy administrator
so i only know one of those or two of
those right now so i'm going to
entertain a motion
all right i'll make that a
notion that we appoint someone to this
committee
now our administrator will be
alonzo
thank you very much we have uh our
county administrator mr lester as uh
the person to be appointed any
discussion
oh i've got a motion i need a second
secondly all right any discussion
all in favor
and i will say mr lester you come back
with some tourism dollars in that
because it stopped talks about
transportation dollars but and we all
know we need that but we need some
we need some tourism bucks in that too
rosa county would get his fair share
thank you very much yes ma'am next we're
moving on to number 13. russell county
tourism committee jim little resignation
so i need a um
that is before the board uh for a
reappointment i don't know if they're
ready or not if not
then
i'll we'll move it to the next agenda
i'm ready
if you all are
it's not on the
we have an application i think we all
first we need to first we need to accept
mr little's resignation yes so i'll make
the motion that we accept that second
all right we have a motion and a second
to accept
um the resignation of jim little
uh from the tour to attack the tourism
committee for russell county all in
favor
any opposed
any abstentions
jim
we thank you
thank you very much
we lose one and gain much yes
and i would like to in in his place uh
nominate carly brook
to to be on that committee please
okay we have an application um from
carly brook
and she's in tim's district
at the recommendation of the tac
committee i got to say that
so um i'll you i have a motion i'll say
that thank you david uh all in favor
any opposed
motion carries
thank you madam chair the last item on
the uh rose county uh
administrator's request is the board of
supervisors the july 20 uh july regular
meeting date
of course the first monday is on july
the 4th so
to give ample time because we know the
budgets are coming up go ahead and set
that
you know
if possible what's the fireworks dates
between three towns
you got the fifth is the tuesday
or the 11th is the following week
and remember this is at your new fiscal
year so
what's that going to do to pay in the
bills
i'm not concerned about paying the bills
because
we're still within the time frame and if
i have to at the next board meeting i
can ask pre-approval on the june bills
so
that that child doesn't need concern
about because it's the end of the year
anyway and y'all spent all the money so
that's awesome
they like that didn't you
know i'm telling you could we move it to
the next week because a lot of people
take that whole week of july off you
know they take a vacation
so
could we move it to the next week would
that help folks
there's member vacations during this
time too
yes
well that 11th or 12th any day i mean
the next week does that suit y'all would
that be okay
i think i have a meeting on the 11th i'm
sorry i apologize you all can we do it
on the 12th
is that okay
i'm kidding what is it
[Music]
just trying to thank a lot of folks use
that whole week of july as a vacation
you know
they extend that time off
what is
okay so we're look we're completely
exiting off the first week in july i
mean that first week that we usually
normally meet okay
fourteenth car
thursday yeah
that's right that's right 12.
the 14th looks good down here except for
steve yeah
okay
so it looks like we're doing july 14th
2022 for the july board meeting
yes ma'am make it move
i guess you need to yes please
all right and madam chair if i may add
on to the change of the july 22 regular
meeting to the 14th also asked tonight
due to the extended date of the
resolution in the state budget issues
that the board of supervisors reconvened
in the month of may
for a workshop
okay everybody get get out your
calendars
for may
and
um
dear lord okay
how
how far down in may do you need to push
this thing because what what's the
general assembly saying
two weeks three weeks out it depends on
anybody it depends on which one is at
the podium
yes well um
let me explain to the russ county
citizens exactly 10 years ago this
happened
and
the house and senate had an issue they
were 150 million apart then
that's and it ran until
until august
there are billion apart now so that's
i would plan for the worst so
more active planning so
um
of course today is may the second so as
as as quickly as that we can have at
least two to three workshops
that we would have already had before
now and if they gave us the numbers
let's start with you know the 10th
through the 12th or the 17th through
19th or 24th through 26th
i don't know how you can have a workshop
until you know what's going to come down
to pike i mean you can i know you can
estimate but
are we just going to play with numbers
well i'm with mr eaton here well and i'm
with you too and that was one of my
reservations
until we know what we're going to be
doing what we're going to have to look
at but there are certain things that
you're going to have to look at even
whether the the money comes down from
the state or not
yes you look at it
you look at the worst case scenario
yeah that way you're not trying to do
all the discussion that won the meeting
once the money does come down we're
trying to a new jew
so it'd be good just for the middle of
may is the 16th monday evening the 16.
all right and so if we're going to fast
track this thing
so if we might know something by the
16th doubtful but we might all right so
then
then we could just
i guess
have our other two
in the end of that week or the next week
following and just go ahead and just
kill it i guess yeah what i would
recommend if you set the one for the
16th we'll play it if it comes
bible at that time you could go ahead
and
reconvene at that time
as more information starts coming in i
would only set the first workshop right
now until you see because it may be
august i'd we do not know again this is
a state issue
but at least it gets us on getting some
of the stuff out of the way the
contracts are you comfortable with the
16th or you want to push it somewhere
else that was just a number
that's two weeks from now so i would be
comfortable with the 16. all right
what's everybody else feel like
make a motion let's do it
at the end
a workshop is usually in the day we're
going to reconvene this meeting yes
so you don't need a motion to say you're
agreeable to the 16th
all
all right usually it's in the morning or
in the afternoon after lunch or in the
morning so
all right everybody all hearts are clear
on the 16th and we can work on the time
yeah
okay shoe it's getting complicated wow
all right um
well we don't uh 14.
we're just going to
until the end of the meeting okay
that'll be fine
all right next thing we have is board
discussions and reminders i'm going to
go down the line here and see what we
got going on mr lovelace you got
anything
actually nothing but i do do want to
thank the
russell county vocational school
the horticultural program for these
hanging baskets we've got tonight
thank you oh yes thank you okay mr ray
no man i'm sure mr eaton yes i've got
just a couple things uh i want to thank
chris vance
officer chris vance
uh the department of social services the
principals schools
uh everybody that participated in the
prom promise
i went out there and participated in
home acre it was a great event i think
it enlightened the kids
to let them know what it what can happen
if you drink and drive or text and drive
i just want to send out a thank you i
know they've done it at castlewood lab
and and honeaker and there was a lot of
participation i think the kids
really got involved in it so i want to
thank them for that also
i
don't know how to do this i guess as far
as
but back
when some appointments was made ms dye
made a
comment there that since she was the
chair lady she needed to be on the sifa
board
uh because that's what the
recommendation was for her to be well
now that she's not chair lady
i'd like to see miss wallace on the
siffo board uh since if that's where
it's going to be as far as uh and you
can look back in the minutes
and the comment was made that ms dye
said that that was the recommendation
from
whoever
for her to be on that because she was
the chair lady well now that she's not
the chair lady i would like to entertain
uh an opportunity for miss wallace to be
on there because it has
it has a huge impact uh and actually you
need you know the leader of the board to
be involved in that so
uh i'd like to make a motion that we put
miss wallace on that and play some miss
dive because she is now the chair lady
well i know we have a motion in a second
so we're just going to have to run it
but now we normally are just under
discussion so
um
we might need to think about that if you
don't mind would you retract it well i
mean we can talk about it you know what
i'm saying yes i do she made the comment
that it was recommended that it be the
chair of person
and that's the reason i was take off so
uh i think in all fairness it needs to
be you well let's um
i appreciate that i do i appreciate your
confidence
and um
but there's a lot of things a lot of
historical things going on right now
that i'd just be getting into the middle
of it but anyway i'll let the board
decide so
we'll just entertain a motion i guess
we've got it and uh i'd
really rather not let it run like this
we're under discussion so don't do me
this way
well i mean you're the chair lady
you know that's the position that needs
to be held so we can discuss
okay
well anyway
uh
i got a motion in a second you want to
run it or not
you won't offend me go ahead
all right
any discussion more than mine
no
all right
all in favor
any opposed
i'm a no
well i mean as you know as things
progress
i appreciate that i appreciate that i
didn't see that coming so i really
didn't
that's not what i was looking for but
okay thank you
um
anyway
now you've got me all unfuzzled again
you need to let me grow next yeah
oh steve do i need to go to you now okay
please don't do a motion okay all right
i won't i promise i want to ask about
how many surplus vehicles do we have now
two two two i became aware that i was
talking to sharon owens who's at the
technical school says there's a lot of
kids out there that
are in need of transportation
not these
we got they don't care what it's like i
told her these are bad vehicles
i think we need to explore the
possibility of maybe donating maybe to
the workforce
or some group
that could take those vehicles and use
them you know issue them to maybe one or
two kids that they can these kids
apparently don't have any transportation
they can't they can't even get
to a pickup point for the bus to ride
so i just like to look into that maybe
talk to the workforce people and i'll
ask sharon who she was working with you
know but there's a program they can pay
they can pay uh you know expenses and
such they might be able to do some work
on those vehicles
i'd rather do those and just
do something like that it's going to be
some benefit if they can you know
usually let's talk about this more later
too
because one's a guy right now and
there is well i told her i said these
have probably got a couple hundred
thousand miles on them they're worth
more in metal than they are worth
yeah driving right now well they're two
sitting down a lot they've tried to work
and tried to buy a used car lately no
okay the work
put you this way the two i got sitting
down there the community work program
turned them in because they had already
ran them out so yeah yeah well let's run
it by these people and see you know if
we can be put to any beneficial use i'm
all for
all right
we'll do
all right thank you ms dye no don't have
anything thanks
mr christian i'll skip it for this time
okay and i don't have anything so um at
this time i will entertain them most
this is not normally how we end things
but around here but i will entertain a
motion to
uh
to reconvene
on
may
16th
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usually after lunch you admit so you can
do the morning or you can do the
afternoon it's up to you
can everybody do on the afternoon
afternoon's probably better i can do an
afternoon
i'd rather do afternoon three to five
three to five everybody okay yes yes all
right i'll include that in my motion
okay on may the 16th monday to reconvene
from three to five
all right i need a second second all in
favor uh
thank you very much we are