madam chairman
i make a motion that we come out of
executive session
thank you do we have a second a second
thank you all in favor
and if you'll need it please
thank you ma'am chairman certification
closed session pursuant to
subsection 2.2-3712 d of the code of
virginia 1950 as amended
each member of the board's advisors up
on roll call certifies at the best of
their knowledge
only public business matters lawfully
exempted from the open meeting
requirements under the virginia freedom
information act
and only such public 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
of 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
that departure has taken place
being none if you agree that the matters
heard discussed or considered during the
closed meeting were
pursued only to the motions by which the
closed meeting was convened
please signify by saying yey or yes tim
lovelace
yes luanne wallace yes corey
yes david eaton yes steve breeding
yes poorest christian yes rebecca die
yes ma'am you have approval to turn to
regular session
thank you
all right at this time if we'll please
stand for invocation remain standing for
the pledge please
thank you the lord for this day thank
you for
all of our family our friends the people
of this community
lead guide and direct us help us to do
thy will
to know that we are making the decisions
for the people that are in our county
that we represent them and we represent
you
to do the right thing by these folks in
jesus name we pray
amen
all right at this time i need a motion
to accept
the agenda i'm chairman i make a motion
we accept that jen
is presented all right yes do we have a
second
carl all those in favor
okay the first item is to open the floor
for public comments public hearing on
the cleveland school property
transferring it to the russell county
ida
so at this time if anyone has a comment
on
this action
all right saying none we'll close the
public hearing on the transfer of the
cleveland property
next on our public hearings is the
given school lease to
southwest virginia star project star
ministries
correct terms so if anyone has any
comments
on the public hearing on the given
school lease please step forward
hello everyone my name is uh brian sims
and i'm here on behalf of uh
straight kings auto club in reference to
the southwest virginia star project
we as an auto club support the star
project and their mission
we actively fund raise to assist
in the many charities that we provide
many of our members have at one point
needed assistance for themselves and
their families
as star project has always been more
willing to step forward with assistance
whether it be christmas presents for our
children
supplies clothing food appliances and
furniture
a star project is always willing to help
anyone with their needs this
organization
not only helps people in our county but
also surrounding counties
it would be a disservice to our
community for this organization to have
to relocate or disappear altogether for
lack of base of operations
many families and individuals depend on
star ministries
with use of given school not only would
they be able to continue their amazing
charities
they would have the room to expand on
many aspects and services
that they provide in closing i implore
this committee to please allow the
southwest virginia star project to use
the former gibbons elementary school at
a minimum fee
thank you for your time and please
remember we do this for our children
and those in need
all right any other folks
all right seeing none we'll close the
public hearing on the given
school lease next is our public hearing
concerning the
vdot route 637 discontinued bridge
it's a prescriptive easement of right
away
anyone want to make a comment on the
public hearing on the dis
continuation of the bridge
all right sing sing none we'll uh
close the public hearing on the
disclosing of the bridge
next on the agenda is the approval of
minutes
from our july 12th meeting
do i have a motion to accept those
minutes as written
madam chair i make a motion we accept
the minutes as
written do we have a second second
david any discussion all those in favor
you want to post abstain i wasn't here
last night
all right next on the agenda is approval
of eric's
expenditures approval of paying all the
bills do we have a motion for that
some movement of chair thank you steve
second second lou
any discussion all those in favor and
carl you will abstain again
thank you thank you that's correct
all right the next thing is our
committee appointments for the
board considerations they were tabled at
their last meeting
the first thing we have is our county
advisory
committee ma'am chair that was that was
the one that we
all agreed that we would make an
appointment to each
supervisor would have one appointment to
a committee to
look at the issues that are being handed
down from the state
these unfunded mandates in relation to
a lot of different things so
i don't know how we want to proceed with
this each
just by supervisor katie do you think
just each
district make their nomination
who they're going to appoint yes you
just just start with
whoever you want to that was my
understanding the advisory committee
that each of you would select a member
from your district to serve on that
advisory committee
this is an ad hoc committee that will
discuss
the things with the schools unfunded
mandates with the school
tim we'll start with you i do not have
anyone yet
okay luke um i'd like to wait on that if
you don't mind
okay carl i'd like to point to jennifer
chumley
all right david i'd like to appoint lynn
hayes
steve i like to point nate kaiser
orris i don't have anyone as a now okay
and for myself i don't have anyone the
one i ask has not called me back
so i have no one at this time okay uh
the the dilemma here is we had asked the
county attorney
for advice on um
i keep getting questions on how is this
supposed to act
how is this committee supposed to react
and it is an
ad hoc so it has it has volunteer time
it has no money behind it and it has no
teeth
or anything else it's just a
recommendation or an
opinion to the board of supervisors to
tell the school
board what to do who is an elected body
so i'm just questioning that and i need
your help on this
yes it's and i think when you all
formulated the the
advisory committee i ask those questions
it doesn't
you know nobody will be paid a fee for
attendance at any meetings
so it will be a volunteer and they give
advice to this board
on issues related to
my understanding you know i think i
think it was in relation to a specific
issue but informing it you know
issues affecting the community and they
would just give advice
they would not have any authority
obviously they couldn't vote
only the elected officials can vote on
the board of supervisors
and the school board so as far as that
they don't
have any authority the way i saw it as
it was just i guess an
organized way for the community to
present issues of concern to this board
well i guess my position is to make it
more like a town hall
event where me as an elected official
goes to
the people in my district and have the
ability to meet them at a location
uh or you know in regards to a lot of
issues that
that we face consistently and not have
to wait
until the board meeting monthly to be
able to discuss some of these
topics i think you could go and
attend maybe some of their meetings but
again this board would have to be aware
of the limitations of foia
and not more than two of you could be
present at a meeting otherwise it would
be an illegal meeting
i think it was intended that this board
would
that this committee not this board this
committee
would be open to the public however
there's only seven members on this
committee who would formulate
the recommendations they would take the
comments from everybody
and certainly i'd want to attend some of
myself but
i understand we can't have more than two
supervisors in
one area yes and and again when when you
formulated it
um and maybe your vision will change as
it progresses but
there was not really any since it wasn't
a really it wasn't a formal board or
authority there was no need for bylaws
but i mean
um you know i don't know if that's
something that will be created i mean
um for it to be open to the public and
things like that i mean i don't i don't
i guess i guess the way i envisioned it
from what you all described it would be
kind of up to them like they would be
a group of individuals this is kind of a
formal way
for the community to become involved and
funnel it into one group
that can bring it back to the board of
supervisors in a formal
in an organized fashion as opposed to
just each citizen bringing
a concern i'm sure there are a lot of
people as you don't want to come up here
and speak you know but they're they're
willing to voice their opinions to
some of their neighbors and friends and
you know if you've got
that committee is meeting let's say
they're meeting up in the rosedale area
you know that gives the people the
opportunity from that area to come in
and say i've got a gripe
about this or that or whatever and the
board
that committee can take it and polish it
up
and kind of weed out maybe it's
legitimate
maybe some of it's not but they can
bring a report back to the board
it's it's kind of like a filter i guess
as much as anything
and they can he can make recommendations
to the board
you know i mean yeah i mean that's and
any citizen could do that but i mean
the way i see it like you said is just a
more organized fashion as opposed to one
citizen doing it
well not the citizen be able to do
pretty well the same thing to to our
elected uh
person yeah
if if they've got a complaint take it to
the board member
when i was campaigning i told my take
concern
your need and your gripe to the board so
if they would do that
and then each one of us members stand up
in their behalf
can that not take the place of that or
am i overlooking something
this this just the mechanism get more
people involved
you know it's it's an ordeal to try to
run you or me down
you know and and make an appointment to
see it or whatever you know
so this is just an opportunity you know
for people get more people
involved in this whole process
any other comments thoughts
all right um the next one we have is a
on a planning commission ma'am chair i
think
i included some stuff in in our board
packet
i think you know when we decided we were
going to
have one appointment per board member
but we're not going to take
anybody off the board uh
you know who's on there and we need some
sort of mechanism
as to how we're going to do this until
we finally get down to that one point
that one appointment per board member
because you know it's probably going to
take two or three years
at the very least to to get to that
point
so i did a little analysis of it and
it's
let's say i'm just going to use the
planning commission for an example
you know when i look at the planning
commission
district one has one member district two
has no members
district three has three members
district four has no members
district five has two members district
six has
two members and at large actually has no
members
uh although i think you're you're
probably
you're that large yeah that large member
yeah so
say for example i'm in district five i
got two members and one of my
appointments comes up
i can either reappoint him appoint
somebody else
or just pass by and say that my second
member
you know i'm going to save my
appointment for that second member
in which case the next
supervisor who doesn't have which would
be number two
five two or five would
be ready to make an appointment there i
know it's kind of complicated but
there's no
there's no easy way to do this other
than just
uh you know dive in and do it
um dustin keith is he and yours too
no he lives in town he ran for town
council
he ran for town council yeah but that
was before he
met by the house he's moved back out
that's his old address
that's back when he's back in high
school as a young kid
i don't know
i'm going by what's on the russell
county planning commission list of the
board members in their address
you know he's on the
board right now on
and like the other board member you made
that motion for the other board member
that's on there
you nominated andy smith back
i did yeah well andy's not in my
district he's in your district
this is this is where the complication
that's right
that's where it gets real muddy real
quick
well first of all i guess we need to
find out where dustin lives do you know
alonzo or can you find out i've already
asked you about two others
or destiny's i'm on the spot
it's getting muddy real real quick
if anybody has any suggestions how to do
this open now or forever
keep your peace yeah
okay you opened the door
now um i you know when we got here in
2016 that's one of the things that we
agreed upon and we said
that equal representation was quite
important because as we look through
i appreciate the town of lebanon but
then oh they're all stacked up here on
some of these committees
real good and district 2 is out in the
cold on some of them now
that's not a problem so i don't i don't
i don't want to
be ugly about it but representation
is important for all of us now so let's
move along to how we're going to get
this done and i
i'm going to say straight up i'm going
to vote with you on this
but i got a butt in there but i need the
attorney to take care of a few little
issues in in what you wrote for us last
time
and um i i'm not happy with some of the
language in there so
i think we can work through that i think
we do need to amend it and i'm
that if you cannot find somebody in your
district that you have the option to
appoint
from anywhere in the county because i
mean if we're going to have seven board
members we can't leave
aboard three members short you know i
agree
or where else they'll be i agree so so
one of the things that
i'm proposing in all of this is that we
look at the committees that
that are already there and we
reach into those committees and ask
those chair people
if they would like to make a suggestion
on how
to make this role easier perhaps because
they have not been
asked a thing and i think it's
unfortunate that we haven't done that i
i i but getting this and trying to go
through 200 and some pages you don't
really think about
things until you we all get here and we
can actually
discuss so with that being said that's
one of the things that i would really
like to see done is to reach into these
committees because
they all know how they interact with
each other
and what they need and how each one
represents a precinct
or a district so that's one of the
things that i want to ask for the other
thing
is i would kind of like the the language
changed a little bit
in this other piece of
you know if you don't find a a qualified
candidate i
i think all people are qualified to
serve even us up here
are not required to have i guess if she
had a qualified candidate who was
willing to serve
i get that so i just want everybody to
know that
everyone's qualified at at some level or
another to serve
on these in these all these positions
so that language bothers me greatly
and um there's a couple of more pieces
but i won't go into that but
i'm kind of there so if if our attorney
would
kind of help us out a little bit with
laying some guidelines
i would be more than happy to listen to
that and and
be amenable to that i know you steve and
i are going to kill you we know
that that's fine i was just going to
make the recommendation because i know
we did a motion to
amend the bylaws at the last meeting and
then this would further amendment
amend it i would just i would just make
the recommendation which is just a
recommendation to let me look at it to
make sure it all works well together and
that i don't see any issues because
when you amend things piecemeal
sometimes you don't it doesn't read the
way that you intend it to
and so i i don't think that would be a
bad idea
and if board members would send me
suggestions on language they would like
to see
like as criteria or whatever in the
motion that we passed last time and this
motion i mean i can
try to craft something that addresses
those concerns but i'm happy to do that
well anybody in district 4 that would
like to serve
in any capacity uh sign up
yeah contact the county and
sign up if you have a desire or want to
participate
and see this and see russell county grow
and do better
i'm you know or contact me directly
because
we need participation we need people to
get involved
and we need people you know that are
willing to to serve and
uh so i mean anybody in in my district
and i'm sure i'm speaking for everybody
here i know slu was grabbing the hammer
about the same time i've
done this but you're talking well for us
yeah just just
put in an application uh to the county
and
uh let us sort through these things i
mean we would love to have
have more people get involved but now i
will say
i do think that we need to say this
clarification on this
is our little community centers that are
already functioning
in those that's that's not in this mix
at all
anything less than seven should just be
done by general
election okay and those community
senators
that are in your district i think we've
all agreed that you can make the
appointments
it's hands off we those people in our
communities are working in their
communities
yeah i got it so i just want to make
that perfectly clear also
do you want language like that in the
bylaws that addresses those
boards that say that that'll be done by
i i really think we should nominated by
the
by the board member who's district if
you'll look at the motion it says
anything
less than the seven i think would be
done by general
election nomination election okay do you
want to put in there to be specifically
that the board
members district who attend would be be
the person to nominate it or
anybody nominate it if if it only
affects your district
then it should be up to that i think
it's more or less a gentleman's
agreement
and gentlewoman's agreement excuse me
that you know if it's in your district
you're going to get to make the
appointments
i don't i don't see it's necessary but
do you think we do
i mean no no all i can say from a legal
standpoint is if there was ever a
disagreement there would be nothing
right you know then you've got the
at-large member
you know who exactly who
who would who would you know who would
he get to nominate so i mean
it's just good it's good to think those
things through so you can craft
the the bylaws that that best serves
what you're trying to achieve and
yeah and i think this is a real healthy
way to do this i do
i do not have a disagreement at all i
just think that we need to discuss this
out for the public's
ears and i think that we need to all be
in kind of one accord here and i think
we are
on some of these things but i want to
hear back from
the planning commission the ida i want
to hear back from those people who are
working diligently
already in those committees and they
know how they work i don't know how they
work i'm not serving on those committees
and so i really want to know that plus
one of the things that
mr eaton brought up last time was that
we talked about quorums and they were
hard to get
okay well i'm just going to say this
because this is my big opinion and
i'll share it so if you're not able to
attend
regularly and give that board its
support and
be there to work in your community
then you need to be removed and so um
i need to know that those boards have
those in their bylaws
so that they don't have to say well
that's what you did to us
because you reduced our number and we
don't have anybody to vote
you agreed i'm with you okay
my comment is with the highway safety
committee that's a big
board but i will say
one of the gentlemen is a state trooper
wants the county sheriff
and warren works for vdot i kind of
think
i think i think those are appointed as
advisors
they are so those kind of need to stay
those folks and then we have tim and
carl on there
that are representing us i think we need
to stay with
those folks and my mr altizer is
deceased and i did not replace him last
year
so he's been i think i think if
supervisor wants to be their own
representative they can be their own
representative
uh so are we going to put that in there
i think you need to
i think but that's your appointment
clarity though but we have to remember
you can only have two
i'm sorry first come first serve you
know
uh yeah carl
how many times has sheriff been to the
meeting
okay how about the state trooper
he never misses eventually he never and
he turns stuff in
all over the county yeah so there's some
doing something
in that advisory but are they considered
a vote
in that particular board there is no
voting it's just
it's consistent consensus okay they just
all do recommendation and do that
list
do you need a motion of any sort katie
or just
can you take our direction and just run
with it yeah i think i mean there's not
emotion on the floor to approve anything
so i think you're just directing me to
with these concerns bring you some
language back that
you know incorporates what we did last
time and this time so i mean i'm happy
to do that and take any
suggestions from board members and then
ultimately it'll be up for you all to
decide what language you want to go with
i guess then we need to table these
again
well you need to table them or do you
want to go ahead and do the dank
community center because it's there
uh the library board there the library
board is
again is an appointment i mean it's
you'd rather
i mean it's going to be subject to
whatever yeah
uh there is one that dr
wright had called me about since he's in
my district
and it's on the southwest community
college advisory board
lynn king is up for reappointment but he
is not eligible he is going to go to the
foundation board
he has talked to katherine easton dr
easton's wife
and he has asked her she would be
willing to serve and she is accepted so
i think well this is i've voted i've
been here and we've always voted on this
and we do have an application from a
russell county citizen
who has an application before us who is
a retired school teacher
this this was specifically asked for by
dr brown
well he may not even know this lady and
she's she's an
excellent person okay we'll just pass it
through then
just table it then i'll call him and
tell him that we couldn't do that
because this lady that did put in her
application is an outstanding person
she's worked
hard for the county and she deserves
consideration also
and dr wright might not even know her
okay so do we get to feel some of our
appointments today
only community centers nick me what
about the
plateau economic development commission
and the
community policy management team that's
pretty much
by their bylaws because
this person is the special ed director
for the
county schools so what do we do with
that one
you can take up whatever appointments
that you all want to take up i don't
know if you want to pick out the ones
you think you should table and have a
motion to table and then proceed
on the rest of them
so if we don't have an appointment
already on those seats
we're allowed at this point that we can
go ahead and do that
from from when i just heard the ones you
were talking about my understanding was
they weren't really controlled by this
new policy but they have their own
provisions
sort of like we've talked about like the
ida appointing somebody
from the town is that what is that
correct about the boards you were
talking about proceeding with
that they wouldn't really be affected by
whatever changes you make to the bylaws
that was my understanding yeah i mean
you don't you can do all you can do
nothing i mean that's that's up to
that's up to the board but if you want
to make it clear if you want to if you
want to do the ones that are not
affected by the policy just
make a motion to table the ones that are
that you are going to set off until the
next meeting
okay
you want a motion for us to pick the
ones we want to table
like the
planning commission the cumberland
plateau economic development
library board highway safety
what else what's anybody else's concern
which
so we will be prepared for those folks
to get notification
in a timely manner that they can have
their meetings this month
and they would be able to discuss what
we're discussing now and how we would
like to try to proceed
with them being in the know so to speak
and have an opinion on this so for
feedback
i see we have our ida chair sitting here
i don't want to stick on anybody else
but
you know some of those members ernie i
apologize
do you have an opinion
what's what do you think we should do
table them all katie or
i picked the ones i want to make a
motion we just table them all until the
next meeting
and let's get on with business here i'll
second it
further discussion all right all those
in favor of tabling them again
any opposed all right
citizens comment and i have a sheet
from dora martin
doro doreal martin
step forward state your name and give
your address please
hello everybody my name is doral martin
d-o-r-o
m-a-r-t-a-n and your address
173 north church avenue
in lebanon thank you go ahead dear
i'm not asking for anything just uh
i just wanted to inform you all on the
last weekend of september which is
september 25th and 26th
we will have our first annual vet fest
at the russell county fair
what this is is supposed to be a
a community gathering for everybody
young
old whatever to um
come together um connect with veterans
we're going to have
saturday is going to be a more family
oriented day we're going to have a 5k
run walk a 12k rack we're going to have
a
cornhole tournament we're going to have
a tug of war competition which
bill watson has already challenged the
lebanon police department
so if you only know anybody who wants to
challenge anybody else please feel free
and there's going to be a bunch of
children's games
all the children's games are free face
painting
and egg race it's just old americana
stuff for fun and to
fellowship and make connections we will
also have a resource center
we have a general a lady from the va who
will help
we will have somebody from the
department of veterans affairs there's
somebody
from a fly fishing veterans fly fishing
company
yes sir thank you there that is the uh
that's our
flyer um the appalachian service dog
group is going to be there the wounded
warriors
that have opened a ranch in bristol
they're going to be there just
a lot of resources for our veterans and
families
to um to to to take advantage of sunday
we're going to have
a church service at 10 30 we will have
a big car truck big rig
whatever vehicle we can bring in show
that is going to be judged until about
one o'clock
and then um appalachian back roads
director
eric hubbard is going to organize a ride
for us we're going to have a three hour
ride
and we'll be back at the russell county
fairground about 4
30 and have a meal together and
fellowship and
hand out trophies just wanted to
let you all know if you have any
questions i have cards here
with my number on it with alfred wicks
who is the director of
the president of fallen warriors who are
helping me
our phone numbers are on there if you
have any questions and i would love
for you all to come out and and be a
part and just
get to know the veterans and and and see
how we can help one another
all proceeds will go to stop soldier
suicide
thank you appreciate it sounds like fun
thank you
all right next we have mr sean vance
my name's sean vance i live in 99 willow
spring district one
tim lovelace is the district uh i have a
couple different things
unfortunately i have three minutes first
off
i do participate in the star ministry i
call their auctions for them twice a
week
and if you all don't step up i see you
all give money out all the time hey we
need a new sign here's 500
hey i need some dirt from my field
here's 500 but she does a lot of good
for the community so
maybe you should step up and wring all
that down a little bit
of course i don't know where you're all
with that you might say hey it's free
then you'll get a good vote on my for a
change second thing is
is that with this tabling of this
committee thing
going on for the second month as a
citizen of russell county how do you
think i'd look at you all
that you all can't make a simple pick of
one person in 30 days
some of you said well i ain't picked
nobody it's been 30 days
now you're going to table the second
time 60 days
next thing you everybody be going hey
have a merry christmas and what you all
do
well table with the ham so as a citizen
of the county
how much do i think you all know what
you're doing if you all can't pick one
person
in 30 days thank you
next we have mr brian sims
earlier okay gotcha and
michelle vance
good evening i'll be quick tonight
believe it or not while you're doing
your committee thinking
and everything i just wanted to put it
out there i know we had spoke about it
once before when i tried to get on one
of the committees
about making the committees meet
at a more reasonable time because for
people like myself who work full time
we would love to be more involved in our
communities and
we really don't have the chance because
a lot of the boards meet during the day
during the week when we're working so
that's all i got tonight
anyone else state your name and
address and your concern uh nate kaiser
918 green valley road
uh it has actually been 46 days since
you passed a
resolution to create a advisory
committee
specifically to look into educational
choices
not there's no uh there's no mystery
here you can go back and look at the
tape if you don't remember that well if
you don't remember that well probably
you shouldn't be on this board
it's absolutely ridiculous that there's
four members on this board that haven't
picked a person
and then to make excuses to make excuses
unacceptable unacceptable i've got a
thousand names
on a petition that want options
there's kids that need options now not
at christmas
okay we're dragging our feet here and
it's ridiculous to act like
oh well we didn't have enough time 46
days
all you got to pick is one person from
your district one
and i know there's been people have
contacted y'all
it's absolutely inexcusable and it tells
parents
that want school choice that you don't
care about them
it's ridiculous and imagine that that is
the fab four
that's the ones that don't have picks
imagine
that ridiculous absolutely ridiculous
anyone else any other citizens
all right seeing none we'll close our
citizens comment period
constitutional officers
then next we have our county attorney
reports
thank you madam chair the first item
that i have
for the board's consideration tonight is
the comprehensive agreement
on the um construction remodel of the
russell county courthouse
i have worked with air con our
consultant wiscanska
to review a contract that will be
provided to the contractor to ja street
he has made updates to the contract and
i've made updates to the contract
i'm asking the board to approve this
agreement
tonight subject to my final review
authority to make
minor changes and final approval that
way if there are
minor changes suggested by the
contractor i can
work with curtis and and formulate
language that we believe
is in the county's best interest
obviously if there's a substantial
change suggested i would bring that back
before you for your consideration
i'd like to make motion we approve this
contract subject to the final revisions
and any minor changes that are felt
appropriate by the
our legal counsel second second lou
any discussion all right all those in
favor
anyone opposed right next
the next item that i have is in relation
to project jonah and the rfq that this
board
authorized the committee that involves
members with casual and buchanan county
met
we did receive two proposals and we did
rank those
two two firms um pursuant to the
virginia public procurement act
and um would like to proceed and
pursuant to
procurement authority to negotiate with
the firm that was ranked first and so
i'm asking the board to
approve the rfq committee's
recommendation as to the proposals
madam chair i'd like to make a motion we
accept the recommendation of the rfq
committee and we authorize him to
proceed with negotiations
with the top ranked firm do we have a
second
second tim all right any discussion
all those in favor you want to post
the third item under my reports is
the cleveland school property there was
a public hearing excuse me there was a
public hearing at the beginning of the
meeting
and regarding the board i'm transferring
this property
um to the ida um you know there was
there was
no information no no individual spoke
during the public hearing i have
been able to do the appropriate title
work to to get a deed but it would be up
to the board's consideration if they
want to approve this transfer
do we have a motion for this
ma'am chair i make motion we transfer
this property over to the ida
a second do we have second carl any
discussion
okay open the floor for discussion
well what kind of end use are we going
to have there is this a speculative
move
all right all right
the chairman of the ida's here if you'd
like to
get up and speak
let the public know what's there what's
the
plan any financial records any end
documents anything we need to know about
thank you madam chair and members of the
board
as we discussed last month we do have a
company who is interested in occupying
this property
and employing some people and actually
doing some renovations to the property
and improving it from the
position it is in now we have that group
is actually here
tonight to be glad to answer any
questions about their business and what
they plan to do and their their end use
and what they
what they plan to succeed at is what we
plan on
this property as you well know has said
empty for a number of years and
this is an opportunity for us to bring
it back to life
do some renovations to it make some
improvements to it and hopefully
save the property from the condition
that it's in now
so who will pay for the renovations of
this building
the occupying company will pay for that
so that will be in the uh papers
it is in the agreement that they will
sign yes
and
you can't no we we discussed that at our
last meeting
and katie will be drafting that
agreement and there's a lot of
pieces within that and we'll be we'll be
glad to share that with you before it's
executed
if you'd like to review it now this this
is the only the property it just sort of
outlines the building this doesn't
affect the horse rink or the
site or anything else no it truly is the
the plot yeah the plot that the building
sets on
that's basically all it entails that's
correct
any questions
i'm happy to answer any questions the
board might have
i'd like to see that all those documents
before we
we've seen the documents on other stuff
i mean i think again before you dispose
of property you have to
have a public hearing but you don't have
to take any action if there's
additional information that you need or
i guess an option would be to approve
the conveyance to the
ida subject to your you know final
approval of the agreement between the
ida and the company i mean there's a
couple different options of how you can
handle it
there's a timeline in it that y'all
they're trying to get in and get
operations
well you discussed with us prior and it
was in executive closed session we can't
discuss in public
so we've never had him follow up with
that if that's all transpired and
finished
so um i mean i have no problem with this
but i just think we need to see some
more
we need to see some documents we need to
see
the legal entity we need to see the
responsible parties we need to see
cost we need to see uh
projected figures protected employees
that type of stuff that'll be the
information the ida will secure right
that's correct sure most of what we have
in hand
yep that's why we have an idea
exactly
yeah okay um all those
all those in favoring the cleveland
school over to the audience
but before before we go can we clarify
that
based on the documentations to come back
to the board of supervisors that we will
that will give comfort to some of the
things that mr christian had asked about
and some of the things i had asked about
so we will know
we will know where we're going with this
and it won't just go out there and
transfer to another company that may do
something that
the community is not good for the
community either
and gosh and miss wallace and if i can
kind of it's you know it's a a
procedural
thing i mean and and the board can make
any you know motion to modify or however
they want to do it but i mean i guess
from the ida standpoint
um being their legal counsel they would
probably not authorize me to draft an
agreement until they
believe that there would be property for
the for there to be
um for them to have to do that but i
don't i don't know if you want to
again make the conveyance subject to
approval from this board
of that agreement and that will
of course delay because the board the
ida will have to
approve it and
and then you will have to approve it
so you'll bring the ida will bring their
documents
back and present it in to the
public and to us what they're going to
do
as a courtesy yeah
i think we owe it to the citizens
all right we have a motion on the floor
from steve in a second
from carl to give the cleveland school
to the ida
tim
i don't have a problem with it but i
would like to see the the information
about it before we
we i mean i'm agreeable to to do it
with that condition like katie said
call for vogue yes all those in favor
anyone opposed okay we'll
have it katie you bring it back to us
ernie you bring it back to us next month
all right the next thing on the agenda
is the given school lease wait i want to
clarify my emotion my motion was to
transfer that to the ida
right they're going to bring this stuff
back to us as a courtesy to us
but they need to move with this thing we
next item is the given school lease
thank you madam chair and we had a
public hearing on this matter as well
and i know
um miss thomas came to the board last
month and um i have prepared a draft
lease that will need
a little bit um some additions since
i've been able to get some feedback from
the board members but basically what
this lease is
is basically the same agreement that the
school board
initially did with the elk garden
ministries when they came in
and the school board still owned the elk
garden school
and i guess fundamentally for the lease
the amount and again the amount of rent
would be up to the board but
the agreement when it related to elk
garden was
the school board agreed to accept 10 a
month in rent but
elk garden was responsible for all of
the utilities sewer trash
trash removal and snow and ice removal
mowing
and so that would also be under this
lease so
while um the board of supervisors would
not be
making money off this project it would
be covering the cost of it the the
tenant would cover the cost
and i've got other provisions but
if you do if you do decide to go forward
with this lease if you
if you want to change anything that i've
written i'll put that in the motion but
also
give me the flexibility to make minor
changes
because and to work with the tenant
to make minor changes so that we don't
have to we can get something finalized
before
and the next meeting i'll make that
motion that we accept this
uh and upon your final recommendations
on that legal review is that okay
stated like that yes as presented i know
that i'm going to make some changes
and specifically in the use of premises
to clarify a couple of issues that were
pointed out to me and also to allow me
to make minor changes that might be
suggested by
that program with the understanding that
anything substantial i would bring back
before
i'll second that motion for discussion
and i'd like
i i still think you know under the
termination we still need to have
uh 60 rather than 30-day termination
period
and amanda this is exactly what we
talked about
that you're responsible for utilities
water
and electric uh 10 a month you'll have
to
maintain the property and keep the
keep it mowed the
top floor is shut off to reduce your
electric costs
you can work with lonzo to determine
what areas
you know outside the playground and
parking area and
whatever there's a bunch of property
back behind it that you just don't even
need to worry about
uh and you want to mow the 55 acres
yes we'll be glad you know
and there was some mention about maybe
keeping the trash make sure the trash is
is taking off because there's bears up
there and i know you don't want any
bears around
uh and other than that i can't think of
anything else but we're authorizing
katie to go ahead and
and work with you on that all right
any further discussion all right all
those in favor
anyone a post
the next thing we have is uh
our general registrar official election
advisory
so we we received a notification from
the registrar and due to
all these issues with covet requesting a
waiver
and pursuant to 24.2-307
um or i'm sorry
okay yes um a waiver um
to not have updated our precincts and
and to certify i think i think we need
to certify that the precincts that we
have or
or that on the last is what we still
currently have but just to
ask the board to approve a waiver for
that so
you don't have to update that at this
time
yes yes um well we'll need to provide
our minutes to the department of
elections
okay so move madam chair second
david any further discussion all those
in favor
okay anyone a post okay alonzo
county administrator reports thank you
madam chair
upon the county ministry reports first
off is
from the virginia department of
agriculture animal shelter inspection
reports
again i would like to point out
that the russell county animal shelter
again passed a yearly inspection
with no deficiencies uh
we had they evaluated the facility our
adoption programs
our health care programs and adoptions
the rosa county animal shelter takes
in about 1200 dogs annually
without very little to none
euthan euthanizing
unless we have a medical problem elderly
hit by car or
you know some drastic thing but we we
have
one of the most excellent adoption
programs there is in southwest virginia
if you look at the other ones that's
going on in tennessee right now
they're having problems but as we move
forward
you know again congratulations to the
russell county
animal shelter personnel that run it
they have a lot of volunteers
they have a lot of time in this we have
put enormous amount of effort in this to
get this
up and it's a great accomplishment next
on account administrative reports
is of course vdot's uh
quick summary of uh the county
within the county of route 615 slide on
black valley
um the the completion of action for this
slide anticipated repairs
uh the second one is the pure salmon
project which we just discussed
uh we're getting ready to look at the
internal road plans for this project
that is a multi-county project
uh out on right 19 to for industrial
access funds
we're also looking at the three rivers
destination center
the this is down at the same pile this
is a pedestrian bridge into the three
rivers destination center over into
the wise uh expo center
so it will lead it will lead into the
new park
it will go from the destination center
to the uv
y center and then in progress into the
downtown or the state park this is part
of that
piece of the tourism puzzle that that
vdot is working with
some of course all the maintenance
activities
mo grass i mean everybody i don't think
anybody here complains about that
but of course you've seen we're
slurrying
the roads i mean everywhere last year
was the pandemic
so there was a lot of things that was
overlooked and neglected during the time
so now they're trying to do catch up and
of course they're slurring you know
roads that you've never seen done before
and they still have a long way to go so
with that being said
alonzo can i interrupt you on that yes
sir i'd ask you a question one time
about the slurry mix and you said it was
only used because i had somebody tell me
you know
that area down in hansonville where the
pavement's all peeled up
they're not going to slurry that are
they uh no sir they're going to reap
they're going to repave that they're
going to be paid
if you look at this that was one
question because phil had said he'd seen
slurry work and he said it's not going
to work in that area down here
it's not big enough and that's why they
stopped there yeah
if you load some both sides i know what
caused it is all those tricks stopping
for the stops
yeah you know the red light down there
right but that's why they stopped the
slurry
yeah they they stopped driving because
they're going to meal
yes yes they're going to mill our way
through the red lights and on both sides
that way they can pick it up because
while it happened the trucks had stopped
during this and the salt had dropped off
it had blown this it had blown the
asphalt and it will it'll build concrete
so they're going to repair that
but uh again the
of course they're going to work on the
601
slide repairs on that and the drain
pipes on route 67 near pine creek
um also on next on the list is tom bass
hollow
of course i talked with vdot actually
this morning until john left earlier
on times best hollow i think they did a
little work down there
around the uh agreement with the private
owner
and also thomas warner rural rustic
project the residency
has not received the environmental
clearance on this one yet
but intends to begin structuring shortly
after the clearance
so construction projects the bridge
replacement on route 663
which is rocky fork road for which the
board approved the closure on the route
in june i also spoke to him on this one
will be closed on or near september the
1st
there is a slight delay from the
original anticipate closure
but the completion date will be early
december and not anticipate the impact
the the reason for the delay is the
materials right now
if you're ordering construction
materials you will wait especially with
steel so if y'all have any
issues with vdot of course as you always
have heard
we have a transportation committee y'all
can report your concerns to them
next on account administrator reports is
just for fyi
as everyone knows we're they're trying
to get the economy back
up is for the board this is through the
american rescue plans it's
for economic development and different
projects and different perspectives
which we can
ask for additional funds which the
county is diligently doing we're going
after
you know anything from broadband you've
heard of the 17 million dollar broadband
projects that we've been awarded
we're going after additional funds on
those we're also going after any water
and sewer
miss die has just got belfast phase
three that was another six hundred forty
thousand dollars
so we're going after these funds too so
uh that's in the board's packet now on
the request
as y'all have heard the uh
from katie she was talking about the uh
waivers for the the uh from the
wrestler's office
now we also have the word the pandemic
was here
the uh red the census got delayed
and it will be delayed until september
in the meantime we've got preliminary
numbers and
in quadrants based off the census and
for us the county in the
in the voting blocks so at the
to get ahead of this on this as the
administrator or question from the board
for a voter redistricting
steering committee you know will be
needed to regard the proposed
voter districting planning the committee
will review census maps census
projections
census data to do the preliminary and
final district voter
projections currently the county does
not have the census like i said before
but we expect to have it in september so
we're proactively planning
to get ahead of this so i need a motion
or i need an appointment for the voter
district
steering committee madam chair okay so
you need me to appoint a couple of
people to do that two members ma'am
okay tim and lou will you all do that
for us
what does that exactly what you yeah
tell them what it entails you
probably review the census to look at
their
uh plant but the planning will be on
based on census
yes in in the proposed senses
every county or district
throughout colombo plateau or the
counties our our county is broke down to
census blocks
and they're in the quadrants and blocks
that will show you the change in
households
change in census the changing school
children that has occurred over the
10-year period
now if there has been a major change up
to the discretion of the board of
supervisors
that will determine y'all's districts so
in voting districts right now
preliminary
and you know we can tell by the numbers
this is
there's not been of a much of a change
in russell county there's been a few
changes in a
few area in the preliminary numbers i
can't speak to the final numbers are
here
in small certain areas as you all have
seen see it's a pandemic
i've got tags out of florida kentucky
northern new york they're moving in so
some of the ones that we have lost
through nutrition and moved on we
also have gained so we're also seeing in
our housing sales but this will be
a look at the total voter district for
each
edge board members district yes but the
governor
appoints those um census
folks that make the final final
that is correct this is just a
kind of an ad hoc type committee that's
just looking at numbers right
it is it is a well in
in some other ones if you have any
boundary adjustments or if you have
movements within the towns or certain
things like this
this is a way for the board of
supervisors throughout all 95 counties
133 municipalities
to say okay there is no changes or there
is no major changes
and this is getting put back to into the
census okay
can y'all serve on those i'll do that
madam chairs for you thank you
thank you
next on the of ministry reports is is
the virginia brownfields assistant fund
this is again a grant for 50 000
and this is part of the development
or the environmental planning and phase
two environmental
site assessment of again the three
rivers destination center they were pre
we talked about previously with vdot
with the bridge pedestrian bridge going
into saint paul
this is the environmental impact on the
destination center
so it is a grant for fifty thousand
dollars
and i need approval for uh appropriation
on the grounds that's funny
so we have a motion to accept this money
and appropriate it
madam chair i'll make the motion we
accept the money and uh
appropriate it for the performance
agreement
do we have a second second
carl thank you any discussion
all right all those in favor
thank you ma'am chair next on the county
ministry reports
is the virginia department of fire and
programs grant which is 90
786 dollars this is a grant that's given
to our fire departments
for to buy to purchase equipment
and aid to the localities
as we can see
we get to break down here
as you can see each one of the fire
departments in their
and how they structured their their
fundings that were given to each as you
can see they range from
uh ten to twelve thousand dollars each
these are grants that are given to
each fire department within the county
that we work for
to buy essential you know miscellaneous
equipment or essential equipment
so they can use it at will in in their
operations
so i need approval for uh
the allocation of 90 786 dollars
to the uh fire department grant so move
i'll second it david that was you can
all right
yeah discussion any discussion yes
please okay
basically i'm voting for this but are we
gonna
do you uh do you take grant
applications from from the departments
or
is it equal is it an equal division
how do you do that i just want to know
from the virginia fire association
department associated it is based off
the population base
so where each each service area they
have they're allotted each
each area so that that's how they work
it
now they have to expend the money first
this is a reimbursement this is not
given up front so they have to account
for every dollar that they spend
to ensure that it is dedicated to their
operations
for that equipment for that service area
fair enough that's exactly what i want
to know thank you
yes ma'am all right all those in favor
anyone opposed
next on the count administrator reports
uh in request
is the deputy emergency management
coordinator of course
last time y'all gave me approval to hire
this position and the first candidate
uh we had to go back to negotiation to
the second candidate so
again this is an fyi i don't need a
motion on this one
so um we will be proceeding to the
second candidate
for the selection of the deputy
emergency management coordinator
position
and of course the last one on the county
ministry reports and request
is a proclamation for the russ county
board of supervisors
for the spinal muscular
atrophy awareness day proclamation
which will be august the 22nd 2021.
i need an approval for a proclamation on
this one
this affects approximately one in 11 000
babies regardless of race
intensity or gender and 150 americans in
a genetic
genetic carrier of the disease
so i need to uh approval a motion for
the approval of august the 22nd i'll
make that motion
and i'd also like to thank daniel mead
he's here tonight for
presenting this to our board you know
this is uh very critical that we have
this proclamation in regards to this and
you know any of these others that you
all
know of or or can identify please
always contact us so we can do these
type of things
second all right we have a second steve
all right any further discussion
all those in favor aye aye
madam chair that concludes can
administrative reports and requests
thank you
okay tim any matters uh no ma'am
lou no i don't thank you carl
oh man david yes just a couple please
madam chair um
on saturday uh one i'd like to thank
greg and melissa kaiser and all the
volunteers that participate in the
southwest virginia big rig showdown
it turned out to be a huge event which i
was not able to attend because i can't i
became a grandpa again so
i'm real excited about that and i told
melissa and greg i would like to be in
here to support that because
what they want to do every year is to
give back in the local community and
in some of the areas of the county
uh part of the the funding they raised
to go to
uh their church ministry that builds
handicap ramps and they've done an
outstanding job i can't remember the
last numbers
steve might know but it was untelling
the handicapped rams that they've built
in the county for people in need
and then you know part of this funding
will go to a project in honaker
where we're looking to build a park a
splash pad and some other things so
and they got this on their mind and
heart to do this
and it turned out to be an unbelievable
event and
what we're hoping is that they will
continue to do this each year
and i really urge the board to support
them in this
endeavor well i will speak to that i'll
jump ahead here
just speaking of that david i did come
and it was absolutely wonderful it was a
fabulous
the parking lot was crowded everyone
seemed to be having a good time
lots of family activities and it was it
was wonderful for the
uh town of lebanon and the county it was
good i got one more thing
and i know uh this is in your district
actually madam chair but
uh you've done a a good job getting
water
and to a lot of the citizens up there in
your community
and i know we've got one area there that
i don't know who's
actually it could be in yours or it
could be in steve's district but aaron
ball
uh and them up there in the out
corn valley areas having a terrible mine
and it's in a terrible district i've
already had abington come out i've had
psa come out
and there's over two miles of no houses
and costs prohibitive they've
i mean i've had harvey out and it is
that those folks deserve
good water and they deserve good
internet up there
uh but psa has told me harvey has told
me and dhcd has told me
cost prohibitive well one of the ideals
that i'd came up with and i'd run it by
steve since he's one of the members of
the
cumberland plateau commission and i had
talked to some of the funding agencies
in richmond
about all this broadband money coming
down that's supposed to serve unserved
underserved areas
and you know we could actually put a big
niche in this to be able to provide
public water and internet at the same
time in the same ditch
and instead of double dipping and going
after one fund to do one project why
don't we do
one project and be able to get broadband
internet
and actually good clean water to these
people now there's many residents up
there
one guy especially that his water is
contaminated he does not he cannot drink
it
he's even fearful of even taking a bath
with it and
i've talked to him numerous times and
you know he just wants us
as a board to try to reach out so if the
cameraman plateau has any broadband
money that's an unserved area that don't
have anything
well i i think there's an application in
right now is
ripping that corn valley area there is
an application waiting on richmond
and to address what david had talked
about we we did this
back in it was in a section line it was
going from i was project manager on that
i'm going from defield
in scott county up to lee county and
actually installed
some conduit in a water line
and we had to do openings like every
couple hundred feet so they could
actually blow the fiber
into the line but it's something that
can be done it's a little more costly
to dig the ditch but not near as costly
as to dig two ditches
separately so i think there is some room
uh to work on that maybe to do a pilot
project
it might be something that we might want
to apply for
under some of this money that's coming
down here
as an innovative project maybe it'll uh
you know we can work our way into doing
something like that
but yeah it's but honestly you know
sometimes sometimes you just have to
bite the bullet and do it you know in
order to get water to those people up
here
it is it's pitiful and those folks have
lived there for years and years and
years it's
families and you can go all the way all
the way to the head of the loop and come
out
and they don't have water it is not good
i talked to aaron ball several months
ago
and tried to do what i could but i'm not
against the same thing that we'll still
run up again
haven't given up on it yet there's
there's there's still maybe a way that
you can get it done
but it would make it a lot more feasible
if we could do the internet
in conjunction with you know i guess
it's cheaper to hang
david i guess it's cheaper to hang
internet on the polls not really
no it might be polar pole rental expense
is a continual expense
once it's in the ground once it's in the
ground you don't have all that
poll rental expense and all that and i
know tim and his district's got areas
that need water
all you got to do is put a just a rope
and a piece of conduit and then
have them come back it would be a great
partnership with the public service
authority
that would be actually something that
they might be able to partner with come
on plateau and make additional funding
to help
build water projects and i have to be
dependent on debbie milton is absolutely
fabulous on getting money for the county
she knows what
how to go about it and she will work
diligently for people to do that
ready for me it's your turn
okay i've just got a couple of things
first i guess is that
to put the county on notice come from
plateau
you know we've we received a substantial
body grant
you know to do internet service and i've
actually
we actually got some some start stop
times
at our last board meeting which was
shared in regular session
we started out in executive session but
it went to regular session when the
dates were issued
so i gave those to lonzo if you want the
dates
the start stop dates for the several
projects i think there's like five
projects in 2021
uh you can check with him and he can get
those but
there's there's five major projects
that'll be finished by the end of 2021
i think the last one maybe the swords
creek project finished up
in january of 22 and then it'll be
another series of projects in 22
but and we don't know the exact
start and termination points of those
which is something i think we really
need to have uh
in order to plan out some of these
isolated areas where we can go for money
additional money some of the
areas that we know points not going to
serve we need to go ahead and try to get
those
areas while all this money is available
but
i think cumberland plateau is looking at
submitting another
application to the body to do
we've been urged to do that to go
towards what they call a universal
coverage
and that their definition of universal
coverage is that 95 percent of the
population has access to internet
and they've been pretty successful so
it'll be a joint venture between point
broadband and
and cumberland plateau company i guess
and
what we're trying to do they they're
going to ask each of the each of the
four counties
to use a hundred thousand dollars of
their
covet money as match money for this so i
just wanted to put the board on notice
that that's a request in fact i've got a
copy of the letter and i don't know if
lonzo's got it yet but
he will get it right soon but and i
think it'd be money well spent
uh cumberland plateau will probably put
up
half a million dollars or more i would
say uh from their funds
and then the balance would be another
400 000
from so it'd be close to 900 000 and
you're probably looking at a 15 20
million dollar
project altogether which is not much
match money
uh another thing i've had so many calls
about the school
choice uh people wanting
you know is there any way that the
county can do anything
and you know i look at it and i i think
yeah
there there ought to be something we can
do with respect to this
but one thing we need to know is we need
to have an idea
of what kind of home school christian
school or whatever
uh what kind of count we're talking
about
and i think it would behoove us to have
some sort of public hearing
maybe at our next board meeting just to
determine the interest in
a school choice program of some sort or
an alternative education program
of some sort and so i think i want to
make a motion that we hold a public
hearing
at our next board meeting
at six o'clock too and advertise it as
we to solicit input on an alternative
education program for the county
you know to determine who's interested
if there is a great interest or if
there's not a great interest
i heard nate say that he had a petition
out there that had a lot of people
yeah we're looking for that all the time
no it's not to take away from public
schools we we are required by the state
to fund our public education program we
do that
plus a little bit so you know we're not
talking about taking anything away from
schools we just need
but we can't you can't address a problem
until you know what
the the depth of the problem is so i
want to make that motion
i'll second it now discussion
right any discussion
yes in doing this
we're going to have to try to come up
some way to finance this alternative
choice of education well i think first
of all we need to see what kind of
interest there is you know
we're looking at i looked at the
statistics last year and i had
i think it was i can't remember what it
was it was about 180 all together with
religious
exemption and home school it was like
178 180 or something like that
i had that down too and i don't remember
just so long but at any rate i don't
know if it's going to increase
you know i'm getting calls from people
saying i'm not putting my
child in school i'm predicting it's
going to greatly increase if they do
what they say they're doing before we
can do anything we need to know
what kind of volume we're talking about
so that's basically what it is to
to gauge the interest and to try to get
a handle on you know what kind of
program
and then you're correct we would have to
develop some program which would have to
be approved by the entire board you know
all right any further discussion
so let me ask you this so we're going
into the educational
part of it you're not going to ask the
school board to look at this
this is school board has nothing to do
with this
this is to develop to determine if there
is an interest
in an alternative education there may be
no interest i don't know you know i hear
that there's a lot
but there's been like 180 of them you
know last year i don't know are we
talking about 200 300 400 i don't know
you know so but i think if the citizens
of the county want it we're obligated to
at least look at it
or at least hear what they've got to say
oh yeah i mean i don't have a problem
with that but i'm
i'm just asking are we are we
overstepping over here to the
educational side that is already got an
elected board
i don't think i don't see it that way no
well i think what i think we're doing is
responding to requests from the
citizenry
so our with this you're wanting
to develop a plan on i want to have a
public hearing
to determine the interest in an
alternative
education program not to develop one
let's just see who's interested in it
and if there's the petitions are out
there and if people want to come and
speak
then we'll hear them and if there's
enough interest then the board can make
a decision on
whether or not they want to pursue that
you see what i'm saying i'm not
talking about developing anything but if
you know you say you got three or four
hundred people out there that say we
want an alternative education program
you know i think that's that'll be a
decision the board will have to make
okay no problem all right any other
discussion
all right all those in favor of having a
public hearing
anyone to post
all right um of course do you have any
i'm sorry steve do you have anything
any matters for you well i have been
confronted
about people that we've had about 40
people
died from cover and
fill homes are giving the people the
information
but they don't know how to process the
application
to get this nine thousand dollars up to
nine thousand dollars
that they can receive so we need to get
someone
that can process those applications for
people
now jess paris tells me he done three
and got him approved
but he's a cut-off process that
he's not doing it
well i i wonder
um do the how does that work does the
funeral home give the person the private
citizen that application
uh to my understanding give them the
information
and they've got to take that information
and has someone
to process
a grant money and this can be up to nine
thousand dollars if i understand
correctly
if you've got insurance that covers five
thousand dollars your expense there's
seven
they will reimburse you for two and
right on
whichever way you know your insurance if
you got a two thousand dollar insurance
then they will and there's seven
thousand then they will reimburse you
for five minutes
do you understand anything like that
that's probably
between the funeral home and that that
citizen right
there well if the funeral home doesn't
know how
paul says it and the citizen doesn't
know how to process it
then they're being deprived of getting a
reimbursement on their funeral expense
i've learned something i think that's
something we need to you know get into
and help these well if they were 40 and
3 was processed as 37
that is not getting what they may be due
i didn't know that all right the next
the only thing
i really have to say comment is our next
meeting
will have to be on tuesday next our next
board meeting is
monday but that's labor day so we will
uh have our meeting on tuesday
um the 8th here all right any other
comments anybody else have anything to
say i'll make a motion to adjourn
thank you david do we have a second
second carl
all those in favor