good afternoon everyone i'd like to
welcome you to the rosso county board of
supervisors
meeting september the 21st 2021 at 4 pm
at the rossa county
government center for a reconvened
meeting
i'd like to first start off with a call
of order and roll call
tim lovelace here
luanne wallace here
carl ray here
david ayton here
stay braiding here worst christian
present
rebecca die here ma'am you have a
quarrel
all right
he'll stand for invocation and then
remain standing for the pledge please
let us pray father god lord we love you
we thank you we praise you today father
father we thank you for the reign that
you have given us and we thank you for
the opportunity to come out and serve
this community father father most of all
we just want your will to be done father
with any decisions that are made tonight
that you were shown through these
decisions that we are better serving you
father father forgive us for where we
fail you each and every day uh
and just be with us during this time and
take us home safely for it's in your
name i pray amen
everyone's had an opportunity to look at
the agenda
i'll
accept a motion to approve the agenda as
written
so moved thank you do we have a second
second luke thank you all those in favor
all right this will open up our workshop
for our committee appointments to
discuss the language that was written in
the suggested amendment
so we'll open the floor for any
discussion
okay
yes excuse me madam chair maybe it'd be
good if we just
took one of the committees and just did
an example the way i wrote this thing up
to suggesting how we could do it
it seemed to be the only logical way
that we could do it
well
the problem with that is we did not
approve
your suggestion remember you said it's a
suggestion we're going to uh come up
with an alternative language yes well
all i wanted to do is
i don't know if does everybody
understand what this is i mean do they
understand the methodology yeah this is
just an example
i mean i'm not saying that it's been
approved i'm just saying if this maybe
this will help everybody understand it
more
yeah okay
okay well great
okay
and for some information on that the ida
is uh was developed through the general
assembly they
uh dictate their
bylaws and
the number of uh like the town
representatives those are two that
they are uh afforded an opportunity to
serve on this board they vote on their
own projects and if i'm reading your
thing correctly
um
there's one from district two
uh
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steve there's one two three four
four
there's actually two three four five six
yeah in the town and two of those folks
are from the town so they're
count with them if you go over the ida
we've got roger sword
district five donnie christian district
six tony doty but i did not vote him i
did not nominate him so that's a issue
say it well
whatever he's in district six regardless
of however they got there
uh
tony doty who's a town representative in
district five and scott gilmer who's a
town rip in district five deanna jackson
nail miss jackson miss jackson is their
representative well i haven't hadn't
heard that
so they'll appoint her so it'll be tony
and uh
okay indiana
and then carlton is in district five
dickie lockridge is in dick to district
five
john stampers district six
uh and then ernie mcfadden he's just was
he was in district what three peanut he
used to be in three but he's in five now
okay
ernie yeah
and then jared glass is in loose
district okay so let's say for example
i know roger's coming up this this next
term
the way i looked at this thing is i
would have the option to reappoint roger
or appoint somebody else
in his place
or
just pass
and assign my appointment to somebody
who doesn't have anybody on that board
which would be
looks like tim
and david
tim and david yeah
so
yeah
so so the results say for example i just
passed by
after two after about three years this
thing's fixed itself and we won't have
to do this stuff anymore
but i would just pass it on say to david
and you would make your appointment that
would mean that roger would drop off
your man would come on
and then i would not have another
appointment due until one of my people
either carlton
or dickey
lockridge or ernie came up then i just
to go through the same process there i
would either make the appointment
appoint somebody else are passing on by
yeah
well and that gets us back to the point
um
donny came on the board you had
nominated my cancer
uh he went to church with you and was in
the forestry service he that was his uh
economic
factory
land company the forestry there and so
when he quit the church then he quit and
left and so when he came on donnie
christian was nominated in that place
for
tam's district district 1.
he lives in district 6 right but see
it's all
that's the problem
it has to be where the the people on
this board have to have to represent the
district in which they live i mean
that's what we voted on so we would have
equal representation throughout the area
regardless of who
put them on there i mean we we put
you know it was just
helter skelter yes but going back to
what was presented to us
uh in your thing was
and listen
i don't disagree i don't disagree and
hold now
but what was bothersome is that
the word qualified
and um there was other segments of that
sentence that i i thought we needed to
work on
and
um
but
still yet it's still not going to keep
that wording it's still not going to
keep you from
saying well i've passed and then tim
says well i'm going to appoint
such and such over here that might not
be from his district we're still going
to get back to the same thing again
no well
not according to this
qualifier
but you really need to pick somebody
from you don't say qualify well
i mean
we've all done that
in fact i did on
the
highway safety commission
which gary dodson
lives 15 feet off of
off of my voting district the middle of
the road is the voting district and he
lives on one side my district's on the
other side so that
that right there was okay with me and it
still is
so um
these are just these are just things
that we need to discuss and make sure
that we're okay with
and get this language down
and
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i just had some
angst over some of that and i do have
i do have a written thing too uh steve
you challenged us all to come back which
i think is healthy
um to come back with some uh points that
we wanted to see
and i'm saying we i'm i'm including you
all but i
i'll say i here
um so
i wanted to see how we could work on
this and so um
i don't know we had asked that
the attorney
come back with um
proper language or something uh what was
their last motion i saw that i've got my
book from last time but i don't have
that exact wording pending
i think it says pending approval
of
pending the attorney's oversight or
pending the attorney looking at it and
coming back with that we voted to do
that
is that correct
miss patton
i don't know where i've got that july
probably
suspend
them
and
and one one
little issue i guess that i've that i
haven't and i totally get this when
you're talking about the authorities
and and those type things but i'll i'll
speak to this little highway and safety
because i've been going to it for five
years
you know there there's no
um
there's no power
in in being on that board
there's no things that are actually
voted on
all these people come
they turn in things that the citizens in
the areas
have given them
and they've gone out and looked at and
then vdoc goes
and either fixes it or
and comes back and tells us they fix it
or they tell us that they can't and
here's why or that they're gonna and
here's what they're waiting on it's just
a
progress report each month um but it
gets a lot done
and so you know i don't know and i know
it looks like it's
lopsided in places but all
of these people really take this serious
and they work hard at it
and
you know
there's really no area to my knowledge
that doesn't get represented
so i don't i just don't know that those
little committees like that should be
maybe treated the same as an authority
just throwing that out there is mine
okay
and if i may
um
let's look at the let's look at the
highway safety committee or commission
is what it says
and i just i just said that gary dotson
is down in the castlewood area
and uh the highway divides my district
from tim's district
but let's talk about what he just said
about
having
those folks on there with vdot
and with the sheriff's office
and who else is on there state police
okay
and so those those are good advisory
positions to have
you have your seven
and then you would have advisory
positions which perhaps are not exactly
voting but they're there
they could have a huge vote by saying
you cannot do that because that's
illegal
and then you would stand down your seven
members would stand down and wouldn't
vote that in just like us listening to
our attorney here
so
i wouldn't
nix them off the island so to speak i
think there
they're a needed piece
to help us get the job done
so that might be another way that you
look at it i'm not seeing anybody
in there
okay and okay so
does that
kind of solve your angst a little bit we
they turn into advisory members yeah
because it doesn't matter there's only
six members on it
two are from board of supervisors which
makes it eight and then the three
advisory
so
there should be
there's no this is yeah yes this is i
see this as a citizen board and this
does not have anything to do with the
board that we as elected officials are
are serving on
that's that's taken care of
concurrent with term correct and why are
we on there
i don't have any idea
we're not changing that are we
okay
that's the liaison piece what
isn't it
what uh
what we voted
you want to change
patient i know most of these ladies are
retired teachers or
or folks that i've known their families
all my life and i think they do an
excellent job
so there's really
there's eight members that's on that
board and they don't have any
voting power per se that influences us
they do have a budget they come with it
and i think these folks do an excellent
job on that library board
can we let the boards i mean
just let their which i guess is what
we're doing now let their bylaws if they
have bylaws
well i called and asked a lot of them
and they don't have a now the ones that
have any general assembly
do but your committees
are basically there's no bylaws on that
based on and their appointments are
based on us agreeing that
they serve the county
and yeah and and that's like just back
to this little highway safety
gary lives in
my district but he represents lou's
district on that committee and he knows
that i mean
district two is the areas that he
turns in in our
in our meetings so you know that
wouldn't mean that
possibly he might have to
but and they all are good and they all
contribute
people that could make a real impact
on a board if they was willing to do it
they just they're not very educated when
it comes to knowing the how this thing
works you know and i don't think i think
if you go out there and spend a lot of
time you'll find that you could find
somebody really good that would want to
come and meet and
you know and work as a team player or a
team member i mean i talked to some
people in swords creek and stuff like
that and uh drill and hold acre and they
they said well
you know what do you do i mean they just
didn't know what went on they just they
you know this is what we do as a
government
things move along and i thought i told
this one lady i said i think you make a
real impact
because you're very you know
you'd be really good and
very motivated very hard worker
and she said yeah i have an interest i
do and i said well
you know she's about it i just didn't
know much about it and what you guys do
wouldn't it be a like a whole lot easier
if we just like the people that don't
have a representative just represent one
then we've all got representatives
because it stands right now everybody
has
what the motion is
so
but i'm not for expanding the boards any
bigger than what they are right now just
just to get something on there well
with mine with the highway safety uh my
gentleman uh
he passed away and i have not filled
that board to help keep the numbers down
and that was my choice and that's fine
because i had another gentleman that was
on there that
represents vdot so he kind of
took
two places he he was my representative
and he also
works for vdot so that kind of helped
eliminate one position and keep that one
position in my district so i was fine
with that
and we
i did look up the uh planning commission
and
they
their gym from the general assembly they
have to take a test and work to plan and
those roads and subdivisions and
they have a certification in their
bylaws it does say can have up to 15
members
they have to take it
they can be certified yeah they are
certified they can be yes
wayne has moved he's gone he's moved and
roger resigned so we're down to one two
three four five six seven
eight if you count uh mr christian
because he was he is with the board
supervisor so basically there's seven
board members on there
well i don't
yeah and i and i got on the highway
safety because that's
a huge issue in my district
yeah i mean that's
that's important to yes and we all sit
here and agreed
that tim was the right choice at that
time because of the situation with all
of his roads
and we all sat here and said yes
so
i think this is more like a gentleman
and a ladies agreement
so if we can
if we can settle this the best way we
can is to take it back to where we were
is that what i'm hearing from you steve
and katie
i'm just saying that's what will have to
be done
okay
in order to do what you're i'm just
trying to get parliament
okay so what exactly what was that
motion and how do we
um reversionary clause or re we amended
or how do we do that
to go back to where you were
um
and like we talked about when steve made
his motion your bylaws require that
written notice be given to members
before you amend the bylaws it would be
an amendment because that has already
been approved subject to my legal
approval and and there's nothing that in
it that would make it unsound so to me
that means it's passed it's approved
so you would need to
either give written notice or you can
make a motion like happen that night to
suspend the bylaws
so that you can take up emotion and it
would just be a motion to
revert um i think it's article
seven
um appointment of committees back to the
version
um in existence prior to july 12th to
2021 and then just quote that language
of the the the prior
bylaw that's what if that's what the
board is wanting to do is to go back to
the way the bylaws were before this
amendment was made
um
i guess if that was just an addition to
if that was just an addition to the
paragraph that's already in existence
then that's
then then it would just be a motion to
delete it but it's an amendment so it
would require that um the bylaws to be
suspended to take it up
okay so
if we suspend them like we did before
that takes away the public hearing part
right
there's no public hearing part the bylaw
your bylaws say that before they can be
amended that you have to give written
notice to all the members of what that
amendment is going to be
and so that was what we had to do when
steve made his motion that evening
you all some of you all had not seen it
and so there was a motion made to
suspend the bylaws as to that notice
that written notice requirement and then
the motion to amend the violence to make
that amendment was then made
okay
so if we have if we have a paper that we
can pass out
that would give notice to each one of
these board members that we could do the
same thing again
and take us back to where we were well
that would be already
because that is our
well i mean it wouldn't be it wouldn't
be notice what you would have to if you
didn't suspend the bylaws what you'll
have to do is to give written notice of
what you propose what any one board
member proposes
how they be changed be given and then it
would have to be taken up but it either
can another continued meeting or the
october meeting
if the bylaws if the bylaws were not
suspended
as to the notice requirement
then if if the bylaws are suspended then
you don't have to give written notice
um but
and then the motion would be made on how
you want to amendment but while you're
talking about this i would at least
discuss if a board member wishes to do
that i would discuss it what the
proposal is so
everybody can know on it when they're
voting on whether to suspend the bylaws
or not i mean but you can give written
notice today or tomorrow there's no time
frame in your bylaws but it just says
written notice prior to the vote to the
bylaws being amended so
even if that did not happen tonight it
could happen at the october meeting
you know and i'm not saying
i'm in a hurry to do it yesterday or
next month or a year from now if we're
still here or whatever i mean we might
not be here when the next section runs
around i mean but i'm just saying
i i just like i think it's not as
complicated
and i think it's just like a gentleman
and a lady's agreement to say
here's
here when it rolls around well okay tim
it's between me and you got a board from
this time if you find somebody you might
refer say well i can't david you go
ahead and do it this time and i'll get
it next time you know what i'm saying
but i think it's just it really comes
down to
we could leave it like it is and just
have a an open conversation to say
because i mean everybody just wants
somebody to represent them in their
district and i might not confide
i might not even find anybody that wants
to
i mean and we've got some board we got
some board members too that
don't show up
they don't come to the meetings you know
and i think a lot of this is just equal
representation from our boards that
represent our district
like me and peanut was talking to
highway safety
i've got one
you know that serves for me and mine
and i've talked to him numerous times
like i'm going to talk today about
something a road that i need on the six
year plan but
i mean i think that's what it is it's
i wouldn't mind just to come in here and
just take a look and you know see if i
can educate the people a little bit
better and see if i can find somebody if
i can
know
reverse it in the next meeting but the
fact of the matter is we didn't vote on
the recommendation by mr brady
and it was a suggestion is this a
suggestion that's right and so
and so here we go with
how we wanted it worded some of us
wanted worded and per the attorney
uh there was some verbage in there that
needed to be tweaked so there we are
in that part right there yeah and we're
all sitting here and agreeing with it
but we just can't get there so
i happen to have
katie do you want me to um read this or
do you have one
um i didn't bring it with me but okay it
it's it's basically the one i wrote
before when steve presented his i
brought it that day that was just my
when there was a first discussion about
an amendment to be made to the bylaws
okay so here goes
and i called it a citizens board
because that that takes out the
elected
piece
to the extent not contrary or otherwise
controlled by law all authorities boards
and commissions shall consist of seven
members which shall be appointed by a
majority vote of the board of
supervisors
each board member will nominate an
individual to serve
should a board member's nominee fail to
receive approval the board member shall
be allowed to nominate an alternative
candidate until a vacancy or the vacancy
is filled
authorities boards commissions and
committees
in existence as of the date of this
amendment shall not have members removed
from that board to comply with this
provision rather the vacancies shall not
be filled until the membership is
reduced to seven members
an individual shall only serve on one
board authority commission or committee
at a time
with the exception that a member of the
industrial development authority may be
appointed to the cumberland industries
facilities authority and serve on both
authorities simultaneously
now i went on to mark up in red that
advisory members
will not be considered to be a voting
member they are there to advise you can
have as many as you need to to advise
whatever that board committee commission
whatever authority needs to fully do its
job
you can get you can have as many members
as you want to on there they're just not
voting members
and
because i use the example of the highway
commission
highway safety commission
now i also think that i did say in
another email to um the attorney
that i thought it needed to have a
disclaimer of some sort on there that we
do not discriminate
whatever that disclaimer is i think that
needs to be on there yeah um
so we can fix all this with my red
markings and everything and you can put
that back out to the board members to
see
how
that tastes and feel and what you're the
recommendation of what you what you're
what you feel about this
that's fine
and then we can add to it take away
um work on it yeah so i'm seeing heads
nod that we're getting close
to um
various language and i'll pass this on
down i've got it marked up i've marked
it every which way
um i like it i mean just these
recommendations kind of opened you up to
see how the habit would actually kind of
work itself out i mean i i mean you we
all knew it wasn't gonna be easy didn't
we
i mean we all knew it wasn't gonna be
easy to try to get down and we've not
tackled that and we we said that when we
got here uh when
the several of us was here um first time
around
and we all agreed that we thought that
we needed to be
as fair as we could be to all of our
boards but i don't want to box in future
boards but i know that you can do the
same thing and a future board can hash
this out in public again i get that
so um
just so everybody knows i i got this
language from katie i tweaked it a
little bit i sent it back and
so i don't know where we are but we left
a motion on the table that the attorney
would get
pending attorneys approval of things and
she has said that some of the language
in the other one that we've been
dogging around for two or three months
didn't
exactly work
so
there's you another suggestion
and i think
foreign
well like mine somebody of
like-mindedness
as they come they drop off and you just
don't well i don't want anybody bad i'd
like to put somebody
you know that would want to work as a
team player and help the county move
forward we all agree you know what i'm
saying very much because i mean we can't
do it all right and the best thing you
can do is a person and i don't want to
put somebody on earth and then i hear
later they don't even come to the
meeting they don't even show up you put
that on there and they missed the last
five times well and that's where we can
just not reappoint those people
that's our
and i asked you know we asked that
question in the beginning when we
started this conversation to say
what are the boards or authorities or
whatever what is their language do they
have that
does the industrial development
authority have that kind of language
and if so that needs to be taken care of
and so that we continue to have good
equal representation
on all of our boards
yeah i like to have i like somebody with
vision that really wants to help move
the county forward
i mean it's a job for all of us to try
to do things and if you don't have those
little committees and stuff it's kind of
working on your behalf in your districts
or your areas to help you to get things
done streamlined or see an issue problem
that can be headed off early not later
and all of a sudden it comes to hearing
if you're upset and mad
you know i like to have that handled a
little bit
you know oh yeah well
vdot loves this little highway safety
well it's a great because they they say
well that's you know that's eight more
sets of eyes or however many you know
that we have out there we got 25 check
holes out there
yeah
and just to use i know we keep bringing
up the poor little highway safety
committee
but uh thank god for them because i have
had a lot of issues taken care of very
easily by this little committee
and i'm very thankful for each one of
them so
i'm good to go with with what we've got
going on there
and um
well we we've been blessed i'll tell you
since we've been elected as a group with
every boards and every committee's we've
gained jobs we've had huge industrial
development projects we've got
i would like to say this i was talking
about qualifications
are you wanting to put someone on just
to fill that position
that
no matter what the qualifications are
i'm referring to my son donnie
he's been on he was on the psa board for
about 16 18 years off year two down he's
back on
he
i say he's
helped several positions in that psa now
he's on the ida board
and donnie's got the experience of that
now he's thought about
in fact i think he has applied for the
planning commission because his
experience in engineering there
um you're saying you just want
one person to struggle on one
that would mean that donnie goes off
with two of those oh well if he
won them if he would go for this planet
commission it would be two of them yeah
i have a little issue with that too but
you know there's an advantage about
95 of the work's done for by five
percent of the people and if you look
around
that's probably pretty true you know
you've got only a certain number of
people are willing to do this kind of
work i don't think you ought to limit it
to just one maybe
two you don't want to see anybody spread
themselves too thin
so i'm thinking maybe no more than two
you know might be a better rather than
just one
because that would bump some people off
some good people who are willing to work
you know
we we do not plan on moving anybody off
we're just waiting till they their term
ends
and have a reappointment or they drop
off well no they wouldn't be reappointed
because in what lou was saying they can
only serve on one
one board
didn't they right they were not right
well that was i'm sorry that was part of
an individual shall only serve on one
board authority or committee or
commission at a time
with the exception of the industrial
development authority
which has members that sit on the
regional industrial development
authority
so
well we're going right back in the same
direction that we came from
no we're not
so let me say this donnie is
representing
the idea in tim's behavior is he not
yeah
that's when he was
yeah
all right and then i don't know who he's
representing as far as the psa may i put
him in terry power's place when terry
passed away that's right i remember that
now since you brought to my attention
well the best thing to do is just go
ahead and let
katie have your stuff
and
we'll all look at it and
hopefully make a decision in october
i mean is that what you want to do
i mean consensus here
i don't want to do it
yeah it's all marked up well
but i do i don't want to say something
too and i want everybody to know if if i
have an appointment that's up and i
don't have anyone that is interested in
it i'm not going to just
appoint someone just because they live
yeah i don't think that's right to
anybody
i i just wanted to say if any board
members between now and they want me to
work on any language if they have a
proposal or an idea if they want me to
draft any language to bring back on
october i'm happy to do that if anybody
wants has any ideas that they want me to
try to formalize
okay so let me ask you this here i'm
going to ask this same question again
that i asked last month
air boards are already functioning
are they
well equipped to function with a quorum
with the needed members
to continue to do their job until
we as as this group comes together and
comes up with the language that is
most suitable and palatable to all seven
of us including staff
and the other boards if they want to
weigh in if any of the chairs want to
away and i asked for that and i don't
think we got any
feedback did we we got we got feedback
from the ida and and they can continue
as is so
the authorities and the boards the legal
boards
that that was the only one that were the
highway safety replied or they were
supposed to yeah they were going to say
that they're trying to go on the way
they are right now they're just fine
we'll see what the board has to remember
at the pleasure of the board of
supervisors the local governing body
is of course statutorily the
authorities and boards are set by the
code of virginia the commissions are at
the pleasure of the board of supervisors
where you have one member or all 26 323
members in rosa county
so
y'all have that autonomy but one of the
things you've got to remember is
that is the commissions
do not have bylaws so
you set the template on this so if you
put it in these uh
new bylaws
for the commission if you put in in the
norm is if you missed three or more
times in a year no with
unless due to illness or family
emergency you've got to put all that in
there so to be fair
that you were you'll be considered for
removal from the board and that should
come from the board back to the board of
supervisors the boards
the commission should be presenting that
back to the boards
so
again the idea replied the rest of them
seemed
good with what we had submitted they are
still continuing work
we're still moving along everything is
still is still working
i'd like to say this um
when rebecca had a vacancy on the
outdated ida board and we put boo
stampin on right and i said let's try
you know
get representation you know in each
district
yeah
because i made a suggestion to actually
fill in her position
i mean her
district right now
it's yours
i don't i don't care
but
but she she was asking me who we could
get and uh i asked harry ferguson i
spoon and another two and
blue's the one that was chosen
so you're you're putting him on me now i
don't mind it but still she had she
could have another choice because you
know
everybody needs to have one
i can see from this right here there's
not equal representation you know
according this list listing here
yeah this gives everybody an opportunity
to
opportunity and like on the planning
commission i see mark mitchell but mark
was put on there because he was serving
his town manager at that time but since
then he's moved in my district that's
okay we'll leave him sitting there
basically the planning commission
library iba
they pretty well have
their own set of bylaws that they
they have to go by
we we change the psa when we merge the
two boards
i do know tim going back to your little
highway board i do know that um
sheriff dye had
told lonzo that he
would like someone else appointed in his
place because he doesn't he's not there
he's got other duties he's got other
board appointments that he attends so
right there's one that you know that
will
because he has ass for us to do that and
it's an advisory position
we'll just put someone else in there to
represent the sheriff's office
and
the state trooper who's in advisory
position will keep that
in the vdot
so any other discussion any other
comments any other thoughts from the
board what they want to do
katie do you have any thoughts for
any legal advice
um i'll just try to
from what i'm taking i'm gonna
the language that i had drafted and work
with steve and try to combine
what you all are trying to achieve i
mean i guess the only thing i would say
just as a general note is in the
language that i initially drafted was
pretty broad because i want to get i
don't want you all to you know again i
think i understand what you all are
trying to achieve and i think most of
you all agree with that but i don't want
you to put language in there that
would box you in or allow anybody to use
it as a weapon i guess and that's why
from my legal standpoint i prefer
as broad as language as possible but um
you know within the bounds of the law do
whatever i'll draft whatever the board
directs me to draft
is this gonna put us and this would go
to your box and end point
in the position to where
how do i say this
if someone wants to be on a committee
that they really
there are a lot of better
choices
in other districts
and we pass on them is that going to
create an issue with them saying well
i'm in your district and
i wanted to be on that
but every but everybody knows that there
are
other people who have more experience
more
my recommendation would be just to take
out that language i mean i think
i think most of you all are going to
appoint people from your districts as a
matter of course but i think if you if
you put language in there that forces
you to it
there's a lot of issues that you know
maybe that i'm not even thinking of
right now but you know again if you have
i mean
take the idea for example if you know
the idea
ida is working on this special project
and it's a big project and you your
appointments coming up but you know
somebody in the other county who has
specialized knowledge and they would be
a perfect fit for the ida for those four
years i mean do you want to be boxed in
oh no you can't appoint them because you
have this qualified person or
or or even have backlash from people who
say well you didn't ask me i'm qualified
and you didn't ask me to serve on this
board i just i just feel like it could
be detrimental to you all
in those in those respects
so we're just gonna leave it like this
in review and let the attorney make
those adjustments in today
yeah yeah and i'm happy to
i'm happy to take any suggestions and
try to incorporate them too i mean in
the meantime if anybody wants to send
those
to me
okay
they don't have a vision
basically or want to help us run you
know move things forward just to be
honest just so they could be on there i
mean we i think we agree and also i i
commend you steve i really do
for
putting this out there and trying to do
bet trying to make it better because
certainly we have thought about that i
know you're looking at me like oh my
lord what did we do first year we talked
about doing that i just never did do
anything and i just felt like it's just
kicking that can down the road so we've
got to do something to bring it to the
forefront let's talk about it
do something about it
i don't want to get locked into you know
it'd be another can
12 years down the road when you've got a
whole new board on there
well they can do the same thing that
we're doing here
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they can hash that out and certainly
there needs to be other language we've
been sitting over here kind of chatting
amongst ourselves and and
and there's some more things that is
coming to light here so i think it's all
good and and i appreciate the the fact
that we're being able to discuss this
for for the public's good and i think
it's all for the public's good that's
what we need to keep our our minds on is
the public good
so where does that leave us madam chair
okay you're going to review that
and send it back to all of us everybody
all right do you want it by a certain
date so that you could be
have it with your schedule
if you've got any comments any
suggestions
anything that you want her to be
reviewing
probably gonna have the october meeting
well that's one thing we have discussed
because it's gonna have to be due to
conflicts of people's schedules and
vacation it may not be till the 6th
6th
yeah the 4th and 5th are already due to
other discussions
he gets a vacation
well i believe you took off on one
it would have to be
may the 11th is columbus day see
so it either had to be the 12th
that next tuesday and we've done that
before
so okay you have an objection to the
12th or the sixth but you all
you know
would you rather have it on the 12th on
a tuesday okay we got we got at least
two down here carl where are you
if you're gonna all right if you're
gonna meet on the 12th then um that
wednesday october the 6th if you can
have your comments to me and then i can
send it out on thursday and then you'll
have
over the weekend to
look at it okay
we'll change our meeting next month
this week okay thank you all right and
if we do change because i know we're
getting out of
order with this
but if we do
they just reminded me that we do need a
motion to do uh prepay our bills early
because if we wait till the 12th we'll
be a little bit behind so
i'll make a motion that we pre-pay our
bills
all those in favor
okay vicky we're good we got the bills
paid
i'll make a motion we set the october
12th date tuesday
uh at what ma'am six
four five
yep probably
would you want an executive session
katie
i'm thinking
i think there's probably something i
need to talk to you about okay five
thank you for now
yeah
all right well all right let's go there
uh citizens comment
i need to vote though on that what yeah
katie do we need a
um
yo i was going to do it at the end of
the
at the meeting um
i'll draw my motion
well we'll get it we'll get it boy
katie
any other thing on the
board appointments you want any comments
to you by the six
if possible i mean if it's later that i
just that way hopefully i can get a
proposal to the board to look at
a few days in advance of the meeting
okay all right now any citizens comments
nothing nobody out there
no constitutional officers
board discussions or remembers
no man
lou
carl no man
uh david yes ma'am you got a discussion
or a reminder for us i just got
something i need to ask tim and carl
since they're going to this meeting in a
few minutes uh
i met with vdot and stuff up at the
kentridge road behind swords creek
uh baptist church and they've made a
huge recommendation that i get that on a
six-year plan
that road
they said they wanted on the six-year
plan they said they can't guarantee when
they can get to it but i've got to do is
that something that i need to make a
motion or is that something you all
handle no
you all handle it okay well i appreciate
it i just wanted to make you aware of it
past randy hughes
i've had that conversation with you
multiple times so i met with vdot on it
so if y'all can get that on there i'd
really appreciate it
steve you got anything i really don't
have anything but if mr lester is there
anything you need to say to the board
tom
you might have to turn that mic
uh i'm chairman of the tasman county
board of supervisors and we have
extended a letter
to our neighbors here in russell county
and we just asked for your consideration
it may be something you'll need to
discuss an executive session
uh and so uh i will be available that my
board has asked me to be available for
you at your next meeting if you discuss
the item for more conversation on it so
thank you very much thank you thank you
course you have any discussion or
reminders no i don't
all right katie so you will take the um
suggestions the amendment that lou has
written on you wrote on and add it to
everybody else and have it ready for our
next board meeting correct
now steve and david i will take
a motion to set our next meeting and the
time
now make your motion i'll make that
motion second okay october
the 12th
five
with an executive session
right thank you all those in favor aye
all right
motion for adjournment
carl carl second second
horse all right all those favorites