pursue it to subsection 2.2-37-12-d of
the code of virginia 1950 as amended
each member of the board of supervisors
upon roll call certifies that to the
best of their knowledge
only public business matters lawfully
exempted from the open meeting
requirements
under the virginia freedom of
information act
and only such public business mayors
that were identified
in the motions by which the closed
meeting was convened were heard
discussed or considered in the meeting
by the board of supervisors
any member of the board of supervisors
who believes that there was a departure
from the requirements
shall stay so prior to the vote
indicating the substance of that
departure in his or her judgment has
taken place
are there any supervisors who believe a
departure has taken place
seeing none if you agree to the matters
heard discussed or considered during the
closed meeting were pursuant only to the
motions by which the closed meeting was
convened please signify by senior yes
tim lovelace yes glenn wallace yes
steve brady yes david eaton yes where's
christian
yes rebecca die yes ma'am you have
approval to turn to regular session
thank you let's stand for our invocation
and remain standing for the pledge
please
our heads thank you dear lord for giving
us another
day thank you for blessing us giving us
our blessed lives
watch over our families our friends and
the
citizens of russell county help us to
lead and guide
the people of russell county help us to
have an open heart and mind
when dealing with the business of our
county
in jesus name we pray amen
is
all right we do need to mean the agenda
from to be included
and the first thing we'll have
we need to change is to add
um under county attorneys number seven
a vote in motion on our
opiate litigation if we'll add that to
number seven
then under county administrator
it will add 12
the coalfield economic authority
resolution
13 a public hearing for our next month
meeting for cleveland school
14 a public hearing on givens elementary
15 is the solid waste truck driver
employment so do i have a motion to
um
have the questions we mean the agenda as
you
stated thank you steve do we have a
second
second tim all those in favor
aye aye thank you so
the first thing we do have on our stated
agenda is
a presentation from clinch independent
living services tim prater
good evening russell county board of
supervisors thank you for your time and
just take a few minutes of your time
i think uh i sent this to mr lester you
probably got the information you pack it
so i'm not going to read that to you and
you can read yourself
but as you if you need to look at that
we serve four counties
uh we are a state non-profit we get a
donation of 25 000 buck cannon and we
get a donation of 13 from tazewell
because we have
offices in those locations the tasman
office serves tazer and russell county
the office and granting service by canon
dickson and what we are
we are there are 17 independent living
centers across the state and we serve
these four counties
our goal is to assist anyone with a
disability
and i think it's we gave maybe twenty
examples of some things we do
we work in all three russell county
schools we work in home acre castlewood
and uh lebanon high schools we can also
work with elementary kids and we have
with a few in
brussels county for example the parent
says hey i've got a first grader he has
he's diagnosed with let's say autism he
has a balancing problem
he's just got all kinds of problems
going on he or she can you all do a ramp
that would help me get my child in and
out so i can go to hospital rescue
squads can pick them up
and you know that's just one example and
that's what we do
we do a lot of ramps uh we do when
when all the schools helping teenagers
mostly get their driver's license uh you
know
everything's fast-paced in education now
and the kid with a learning disability
just can't keep up even
even in driver's ed learning the book so
we do private tutoring sessions i have
two employees who come to russell county
schools
all three high schools at least once a
month we try to get over here twice a
month and we work real closely with
marlene boyd
karen clay and uh used to be celeste
rutherford when she retired and two of
those ladies are on our board
we have board directors and russell
county is represented by those two
ladies and they do a wonderful job
and one
church we've partnered with i know you
all go there but if you do
i can't thank you 20 000 times is
rosedale baptist
they've partnered with us and they
volunteer and do all the ramps for us
we buy the materials and those guys
volunteer and do ramps they do
probably two ramps a month and that
saves us
you know if we had to get a contractor
and you do a 20-foot ramp you're out
three thousand dollars for labor and
if that's the case we couldn't do ramps
so they probably do 20-25 ramps a year
and uh they're great partners they're
the best partner we have in the ford
county area
and um like say if you know you look
through your packet you can see some
information there and i'm not going to
read it to you but
uh this sent some demographic uh we have
do a 704 report for the state
and that's just demographic information
the only thing i guess i can point out
to you
if you look at page 2 on that 704 report
it shows you the breakdown of who we
help how many how many current consumers
we have in these counties
but canon has 113 and i guess that's
because it's a grundy office and
if you got an office in the county
nationally won't have more people come
by or call
but russell county is our second biggest
county in helping people we're up to 87.
uh taz was 67 and dixon's 17 you know
dixon county's not many people we don't
have an office over there and
it's i guess the most rural county out
before so we don't do a whole lot in
dixie county but some but russell county
uh this is my seventh year i'm a retired
educator
principal and all that stuff but
in my seventh year brussels county's
jumped probably 300 percent when i first
took over
it was like maybe 15 people being served
in russell county so we got in these
schools
and then word of mouth helped give it to
the parents and grandparents so we have
five six phone calls a day from russell
county wanting some kind of service
and uh so i'd like to say you see the
service we provide
and we are non-profit we only only seven
employees two employees in tassel
five in buchanan only three full-time
employees we've got four part-time
employees
and uh we try to spend as we talked
about every dollar we can into service
to consumers what we call it
we're serving consumers that's what
we're here for to help to help the
people who who are disabled
and we work with all the nursing homes
we work from nursing home in russia
county also so we're
we're a heavy presence over here we like
to be more i mean we i get that
87 up 187. so i'm just here tonight
of course you asked me questions i'll be
glad to take any questions i'm just sure
not asking if
if there is if you all do see there's a
need to fund this some help us out
you know if you can't understand that
completely and
we'll still be over here we'll be
fighting as hard as we always did
but if you could help us out a little
bit mainly i guess the reason i'm coming
now
not four or five years ago of course
everybody knows the price of lumber
i mean a 20-foot ramp just for example
used to be eleven hundred dollars just
for materials now they're going 19
so we've had about a sixty percent same
jumping materials
uh you know when you drive the guy who
comes over here he drives some tassels
so you go from tabs or castle wood
that's a pretty good little jump tazzle
you know the lemon
and uh our youth our youth transition
team which goes into schools and of
course they come from grundy so granny
castle was a good little jump so gas is
increased and all that but
that's i guess the reason why i'm coming
now you may say why didn't you come over
here five years ago or why even you're
now
you know but that's the reason i'm here
now our costs have just increased and
we get state funding and like i said we
get the fund we get a donation from
tasman uh
russell uh i'm sorry tasman buchanan
supervisors
and we get just a little small federal
not very much federal law
the federal money is set aside to try to
keep people out of nursing home if
someone
if they don't get a ramp they're going
to a nursing home they can't get out of
the house so we
that money goes for that or someone's in
a nursing home and they rehabilitate it
and they can come home
we'll make that house successful
whatever it needs to get them out of the
nursing home
i know one guy in russell county we
helped he was a small guy
and uh he you know you're all like we
are in buckhannon
there's no accessible housing harley so
we had to go in and
we do grants we do a lot of grants and
we get zero interest loans sometimes
warmest interest loans
and all his kitchen utilities had to be
lowered down he couldn't even reach his
stove
so we put him in like a walk-in walk-in
stove like three feet from ground
and so those are type of things we can
do too so we do a lot of we do a lot of
grant writing if we can't do it we team
up with about 40 agencies
we'll find them somebody what their need
is and all these agencies work together
of course the biggest one i'm sure you
all heard of the appalachian agency
we work closely with them too so we
refer clients back and forth so we can't
do it
we'll we'll give it every effort to find
someone that can help that person
that's all i have i got a quick question
for you if it's okay
uh i know jf serves with us on mountain
movers
here in russell county and one of the
things we've been discussing
and i've had a lot of phone calls
throughout the whole area of russell
county
probably other counties is a playground
or following an application or grant
application for playground equipment for
kids with disabilities
that's one of the things that we really
need i mean we really need
playground equipment that's accessible
that's accessible yes sir two
kids that are autistic that uh these
this equipment we actually looked it up
it's very expensive to be able to get
and bring in
and stuff but i'd be willing and i know
mount movers because steve
is involved in mount movers would be
willing to partner
somehow with you guys and i think if we
was to make an investment
in this opportunity i would like to see
you know
whatever we were able to help or
contribute through the budget
to look at all of our districts we have
in
like castlewood lebanon and honaker we
have areas that we could build these
facilities
but we need and i didn't have a clue how
many kids
that we have in our county that have
disability issues or autistic
one little one lady that comes through
all of our meetings her little her son's
autistic and
her thing is you know they need a park
or they need somewhere to go that's
secure that gives them a little bit of
time
and then they can let the children play
or you know
have some sort of guidance or maybe
partner with mountain movers to have
some sort of volunteer service that can
give them a break
and i have a lady that's got three kids
that are autistic
uh on my up in rosedale that she don't
she said she can't even go to the
grocery store she don't have any help
she can't get assistance
you know and it's very trying on people
like that
and i didn't have a clue until you know
we've we learned this when you get out
there
when you get out there and you learn
this stuff but it'd be very critical to
have
some of these facilities for handicapped
children well it's funny you mentioned
it because we just got
i'm gonna say two weeks ago we just got
uh down from richmond
uh possible grants for playground
accessibility in these areas
i think they're getting some federal
money i don't know if it's part of the
covet package one of those you know all
the packages they're sending down
it's part one of those packages and uh
one of us play
accessible playground equipment in rural
areas so we're looking into that so
we're going to
yeah it's one of those programs it might
have been last night when the president
biden passed that last one
reshaping america was i'm sure what they
call them there's been so many of those
but it's it's in there so we're looking
at writing grants if we do we will
include of course our four counties
for that so i can uh contact
i think mountain movers maybe i think
it's always a third monday
we had a representative come to mountain
mover one time okay you did i don't know
if it's mr van dyke or mr
hills yeah we we've just now really
tried to get started back
yeah you know the code is said
everything's shut down so
our last meeting we didn't have a half
dozen people there but this next meeting
we're going to try to open it up try to
get back into service yeah if you invite
us we'll be we'll be glad to come
yeah no problem thank you any more
questions or
okay i'll leave these brochures with mr
uh lester
pretty much the same information you
already have thank you all again
all right the next item on our agenda is
the
approval error for your minutes this is
for our regular june
7th meeting do i have a motion to
approve the minutes
as written so move madam chair
thank you do we have a second second
thank you david
all those in favor all right the next is
the minutes of the june 17th reconvened
meeting
do we have a motion to accept those
minutes so move
david thank you second steve all those
in favor
next item is the approval via their
expenditures in our packet do we have a
motion to
accept their expenditures
some move madam chair second second from
lou
all those in favor
next is our committee appointment boards
the first one we have ma'am chair
before we do that we have talked about
this
concept one appointment for board
members for all these committees
and everybody i thought was pretty much
in agreement
and i would really like to make a motion
to get that done before we start into
all these appointments
katie's going to discuss that with us
can we
table these appointments until
we do something i i think probably the
easiest thing to do is just
i guess if you want to just amend the
agenda to let me go ahead and discuss
this i have a proposed language that you
had asked me to draft last time
instead of moving all the appointments
to after okay
so steve would you like to amend to the
agenda again
and we'll let katie speak at this time
on this make that motion
all right steve do we have a second
second
okay david all those in favor
okay it's katie would you like to
discuss the amendment
yes um the bylaws that you have in place
now
article seven is called appointment to
committees and
and just talks about how the chairman
can appoint committees but that
you will otherwise pass by majority vote
your appointments to authorities boards
and commissions
this would be an additional paragraph
the language
i've drafted here and it says to the
extent not contrary or otherwise
controlled by law
because you do have some authorities
that are
for instance the ida you could have less
number but it's beneficial to you to
have that extra
two people from lebanon and have that
cooperation with the town of lebanon
um and then there's some authorities we
may have to look at that have
limitations on on the numbers so that's
why i put in that would
that would save that so not otherwise
contrary to law
um 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 members shall
be allowed to nominate an
alternative candidate until the vacancy
is filled
authorities boards and commissions in
existence of 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
it would be my advice that if you do
decide to go forward with this that you
wouldn't
remove members that still have time on
their terms
i think that would be the best move for
the board
well i think it was their intention as
as appointments come up
we can we can do that i looked at it i
looked down the list and we've got 18 of
our
group boards committees authorities that
have less
than the seven board members so those
would be just nominated by
general election nomination election
we've got
two that already have seven which is
russell county psa and the plan
in the russell county tourism commission
which we did that intentionally
and then we've got five that have more
uh
than seven uh which is the uh
the community policy management team
which may require more than because i
think there's some that are
required on that they are required
excuse me
yeah steve they are required it is to
include all agencies that would have a
person refer you know any need services
for that person then we get the highway
and safety commission which has about
i think 10 or 15 on it the ida has
nine but two of those are
required by the town so we may be okay
on
the ida i don't i don't know that
they're required but we are allowed to
do that under the code section and then
we get that
extra benefit of the cooperation of the
town when i read the statute it
shall be appointed by that they would
appoint him but i don't know that you
have to have nine i think that's an
option but yeah but they appoint them
yeah well
i don't think we'd have to change that
number
let me then the planning commission has
i think 10 members on it
in the library board has a bunch on it
so maybe 10 or 11.
well let me make another suggestion a
suggestion
um you may want to change you know i put
shall consist of seven members because
that's kind of what we talked about but
maybe you want to say shall consist of a
maximum
of seven members and and add that
language
um because i don't and i guess that's
another question we may have to deal
with the situation if you do have less
than
less than seven and you're not required
to and you can have more do you want to
have more do you want to keep it at five
for instance i mean i guess that's
something you need to decide as well i
think if they're functioning like they
are now the idea is not to have so many
people you know i've got a question too
as far as
what we discussed is equal
representation
per district i guess and and we have an
enlarged member but
uh equal representation that each board
member would have the ability to pick
somebody from their district to
represent it and i don't see that in
here
listed it'd just be going back to the
same
you know just if you had a majority vote
you just elect
whoever well on anything less than
seven you know i'm like
some of these some of these authorities
only have two members
oh i know i understand that yeah i
understand that i'm just talking about
the ones that have seven
yeah that would represent each other
yeah i
i think that's what we intend am i right
katie that each supervisor would have
one
yes i mean i can add additional language
that say that they have to be from your
district but i just put in there that
you would each get to select one
and then it has to be approved by the
whole board now
i personally think that each supervisor
have appointed person representing their
district
and if they can't if that supervisor
cannot come up with anyone that's
willing to serve
from his district then you pick someone
from another district we've already had
that experience in the past
now when you come to the ida board which
i'm planning commission which i'm on
kirby meadows said if we reduce that
down to seven
there could be times that we would not
have enough people to have a meeting we
wouldn't have a
quorum and he said that could be very
critical when we're dealing with
plaques and things and it could hold up
to progress and
for people you know trying to deal with
those situations well my response to
that is we need to point
people who are committed to attending
these meetings
uh you know somebody who's willing to
attend a meeting you know
i mean there are times when you can't i
understand that emergency situations but
uh you know
you you can look down the list of people
in the tent some of them
on some of these committees never attend
you know so i think we just need to
hone it down to a board that's a number
that's manageable
well i can i can say that during this
plant pandemic we've had
a limited number they some would be uh
be a 10 on the phone or
uh otherwise but uh still kirby's been
with that
been a chairman that i planned a
commission for years
and i think he knows pretty well
circumstances that he has encountered
through the years
that there'd be times maybe a funeral
maybe a sickness a
different thing that would cause enough
members to not be present
that they couldn't conduct a business as
they normally would
well i had emotion prepared
and it's very similar to what katie has
has has prepared as well
and i'm going to read it
and and i think it's pretty much in
alignment with what
what katie has indicated
so i want to make a motion to russell
king that all russell county committees
authorities boards
were the applicable articles and or
bylaws of that board authority or
committee
does not specify a number of members
that the number of members on those
boards authorities or committees be set
at the number
of the elected members of the russell
county board of supervisors which is
currently seven
and that one appointment to each
respective board
authority or committee be made by each
supervisor
from the citizens residing in the voting
district that that supervisor
represents and in the case of the
supervisor at large
said supervisor at large may make
appointments from any citizen
of russell county and that on
any board's authorities or committees
where the number of members required is
larger
than the number of members of the
brussels county board of supervisors
that each board member will have one
appointment to the board authority or
committee
from the voting district that each
supervisor represents
and the remaining number of members on
that border authority or committee
will be appointed as specified in their
articles or bylaws
or by any applicable legislation
associated with that board the ida
committee or authority or by
general nomination election by the
entire board of supervisors
and that on any boards authorities or
committees where the number of members
required is smaller than the number of
members on russell county board of
supervisors
that those members will be appointed by
general nomination an election by the
entire board of supervisors from any
citizen
in russell county which is i think is
basically what you
have said it it's close but i mean
i've listened to it but i mean i i
wouldn't feel comfortable giving
you know a complete legal opinion on it
just just from just hearing it one
and open for discussion okay
well i'm just looking at the highway um
isn't mr o'quinn the state trooper that
so
yeah and that was that was going to be
one of my how would you rather
he's just well he's a state some
and there are some who who are on there
that never attend
correct right yes okay yes absolutely
who are supposed to be there and and by
the way
district two does not have a
representative
on the highway committee no no
he's not he's in tim's district yeah
he represents her district on that
committee well physically he's not in my
destiny
i just think and it's going to take a
transition period before we get all this
done but we've got to start somewhere to
get this thing
well i think that one of the things we
did in 2016 is we said
we thought we needed to do this because
it was totally unequal
when we all arrived here and i have
personally no problem with this at all i
don't think
as long as as we can make it work
and while you're at it this may add to
the hornet's nest
i don't know but um
part of the town of saint paul
is a one-third of the town of saint paul
is in russell county
doing business in russell county but
they have no representation at the table
now i can i can appoint someone from the
town of st paul i guess
per se but i think they would need to be
from russell county to
represent so is that a seat at the table
i don't know they have their own ida
they have other things now
this may muddy the water but there's
business being done
in that third piece of the county that's
our county
and our tax base i think that's a
decision by each supervisor
you know if you want to appoint somebody
from who has a business in that as long
as they live in russia
as long as they're resident of russell
county
i don't have a problem with that
okay well just so just because we're
having this discussion and it needs to
be aired
some of these these things needs to come
out so
that's a very good point and i wouldn't
expect anybody that lived in wise county
to
serve on a committee but to be
represented
you would have to have do we have to
include be inclusive of that
in the language somehow i don't know i
know we're doing
uh where we've got the lebanon piece
on that as a town yeah
it's in the legislature i mean we really
can't do much about it
no and i don't mean to do that either
but i'm just asking that question there
because our ideas are are commingling
or planning commissions or commingling
they're working together across
boundaries much like
the town of lebanon does so that's just
a question i'm going to throw out there
for consideration and thought my
understanding the reason
they did that for the town of lebanon at
that time
the county was always in doing the
revenue anticipation notes
and i know for a fact when the regional
jail came up the county quite frankly
almost
russell county almost caused it to go
belly up
because they always were in had you know
negative because of the revenue
anticipation
which cost them about 100 thousand
dollars a year and thank goodness we
finally got away from that
but the reason that was done is the town
of lebanon
is the only one in the county that that
had the bonding capacity at that time
two million it's plainly states in that
code of two million dollars
they have to have two members you know
to get that two members for two million
and now you have another piece
that just happens to be in my district
that has
major borrowing power too that and i i
and i'm i'm saying this because i'm
stepping on council's toes here
but we need borrowing power too
well i i think
that's something that the ida itself
probably ought to consider
because you know they have their own
bylaws and such
you know and we can appoint but we can't
they i guess we can approve their bylaws
or
or they do their own bylaws they do
their own they do their own by-laws
there's there's nothing in it so that's
the decisions
that they would have to make on their
own which i'm
perfectly comfortable with letting you
know do that consideration you know
anywhere you can do any kind of bonding
you know if they want to come up and
bond something in
castle would i'd be three online well we
have
there's been times that our attorney
has suggested such things as that and
and so i think that's a it's creative
idea to get
business done and get things done and um
but i'm not going to step on town
council's toes and i i won't reveal the
borrowing power that the little town of
saint paul has but mr lester and i've
had that conversation
katie you have any other comments for us
going back to the members not attend
like steve spoke
i'd say that we need to make some kind
of regulation that if they miss
so many meetings within a year
automatically off the board
i say three or four if they can if they
can't 10 and you'll have those meetings
monthly
i'll say they don't what you say that or
they all know what benefit are they on
if they aren't attending the meeting
the highway department only meets 10
times a year
crips team family they only meet 10
times
they order let's say there's two thirds
of the meetings they ought to be
attending on
oh like have a good reason for not
attending is that not something that has
to be addressed
by each individual group their bylaws
and their bylaws
yes i mean um the only the only bylaws
i'm aware of that have to be approved by
you all are the psas and that's in the
articles of incorporation
but that's and that's the only one i'm
aware of but i haven't read every board
and authorities
bylaws
well if if this goes through kelly
you'll only have
seven members and they will be members
that
will commit to attend
well i personally i think this is a step
in the right direction it'll take
it may take several years before we can
you know bring it to fruition but nobody
will be knocked off a board
but when appointments come due we'll
have to ask lonzo to look at
the location we'll have to find out
where each individual board member lives
and ultimately we will get down to one
appointment for board supervisors and we
will have equal
representation throughout the county so
i would i'd stand to that motion so
i would call for a vote the only other
thing i'll say
is um according to your bylaws since
um this was just given to the members um
it does say that
the a copy of the proposed amendment has
to be sent with a notice prior to the
meeting but then right below it it says
that the bylaws may be suspended in
whole or part upon the unanimous vote of
the board members present relating to
any matter so
you what you would need to do is just
have a subsidiary motion to suspend the
bylaws as to that notice requirement
and vote on the motion
state that again please so it's
i understand all that but but like
tonight
has have we spoken with these members
they do or they don't want to be back on
i mean we've got people here
that okay cass woods cleveland
mr jesse zlabnun eugene ferguson's
lebanon
tony maxfield hoenaker barbara cox
honaker
henry stinson home acre carl's from
cleveland
and emery i has not i have not replaced
he's in my district he's deceased
he that that's fall off we didn't do it
so have you all spoken do you
i mean are you going to find out who
wants to be didn't even know this was
coming up until i saw the board package
i haven't spoken to any of them i'm not
saying i don't think we should appoint
anybody until we
resolve this issue we decide what we're
going to do these were in our packet
last month we tabled it right yeah
so you should have seen these guys why i
should have
what you should have seen these guys
from last month it was in their packet
i saw that but i'm not i don't want to
even appoint any of them until we
resolve this one issue and decide what
we're going to do
i mean it's it all you do is muddy that
we make those appointments and you just
muddy the water even further
you know it's going to take that much
longer to get this situation
straightened down
so maybe the best thing we can do
is is table these
and with this if i present this motion
to the board tonight
that's def that's sufficient there's no
amount of notice it just says notice
prior to the meeting but again
if there's a motion to to suspend the
bylaws in a second but it does require a
unanimous vote for that
so we need to make that motion first
if if if steve wants to proceed with a
vote on it tonight
we're gonna have to have a motion to
suspend our bylaws
and can we go ahead and make that motion
while this motion's on the table
okay i'll make a motion to suspend the
bylaws
as it relates on the notice of the
requirement of the amendment
okay you're talking about suspending the
bylaw
or county not each individual
uh idl psa or whatever no
air by laws air by law so that we can
so that we can vote on this because we
should have seen this before the meeting
we should have had prior notice and we
didn't get it so
that's what he's asking he's making a
motion to amend
to uh our bylaws to notify so that we
can vote on that
and then we'll turn around and vote on
his motion that he's presented here
he's given us a motion to suspend our
bylaws
i'll i'll second that
because i agree we if we're going to do
this
which we've all agreed to do we we
need to put these off until we can
examine
and choose proper people well i mean
equal representation for district
all right you need to do an analysis on
it and see who's representing what
district
and these these people will continue to
serve
until we do something so nobody's like
not going to be able to talk about him
nothing's going to cease to an emotion
katie we've got a motion second or any
other discussion
on the subsidiary all right all those in
favor
all right now we'll get back to steve's
original
motion the first motion he made that he
read and david seconded
it is for the committee
to make the motion that we make our
boards all
seven even
we've had a motion by steve a second by
david we've discussed it
more one more one more okay um
on the document that you just handed to
the attorney
um is can we vote on this contingent
on her approval of the wording
etc on this that's a good idea i will
mend my motion to include that
statement that pending review of the
county attorney and concurrence that
it's
unacceptable and legal yeah and i'll
second that
thank you i'm done all right all in
favor of the amended
motion that we have this pending county
that our county attorney's opinion
so all in favor
now okay steve i'll make motion that we
table all these appointments
until uh until probably next month when
we get a report on
who is represented and how each district
is represented
and also we have one board member that
has a death of the family that's not in
attendance he's not here today in all
respect
probably good to have us all here at the
same time okay
all right so now we have on the table a
motion to table all these appointments
steve
david segnet all those in favor of
tabling
all these appointments system until next
month
anyone a post all right
now all the way down to citizen's
comment
kevin would you check out there okay
thank you
all right first one we have is kelly
mcbride delp
hello thank you for the time i just
wanted to let you know i did give each
of you
a quarterly report which actually is the
effectively the end of the fiscal year
report
we are back pretty much to normal we had
a great
program a bubble brigade which is the
definition of good clean fun
it was soap bubbles and the kids
absolutely adored it
the adults adored it so we were just
really excited so if you know anybody
that uh of any age we've got some things
going on from
book groups to crafts to whatnot for
summer reading for another
few weeks thank you
next on the citizens public uh sign-in
sheet is amanda thomas
if you'll state your name your address
and that
i'm amanda thomas my address is 10729
redbud highway that's in honaker and
uh we are here on behalf of star
ministries
we want to thank all of you for your
time um our program started
23 years ago with one family needing
assistance
my dad ted blankenship and gary ward
that was wlrv radio
um this lady came to them and asked them
to help with christmas and of course we
did
at the time i was a teenager and thought
this is crazy but
i loved it and we have continued it ever
since my dad unfortunately passed away
in 2010
and we have never once missed a
christmas since then for kids
this is my team they're all here with me
we've grown up tremendously in the last
four years becoming a 501 3c and
can't wait to grow more in 2017 my
friends and i felt it was time to step
up and do more for our community
our community is not only russell county
we serve by cannon county tazewell
county dickinson county
we take care of a lot of kids and a lot
of families
we have countless volunteers that help
with clothing furniture
working our auctions sorting clothing
picking up furniture or
just being in the air to listen to
people we provided people with the
community at service hours
and we're continuing that we have
someone coming tomorrow to do more
community service
we provided community dinners during our
time thanksgiving 2020
during the pandemic we were able to
provide for over over 400 meals
and that was the tiny stove so we would
be excited to have a bigger kitchen
we offer same the same programs that elk
garden ministries offer
we offer an emergency food pantry in
hopes of going back to a full-time
pantry we give out free clothing that to
anyone that needs it
we provided furniture and appliances to
those that have lost everything in a
house fire
many times we're called upon because
someone's appliance is broken and they
simply don't have the means to repair it
or purchase a new one so we provide them
with one
at the beginning of each school year we
have a back to school program
that provided two twenty to a hundred
children with three outfits of clothing
socks shoes underwear plus their school
supply list from the schools
when christmas time comes we reach out
to members in our community for
sponsorships
we try to give each child a christmas
otherwise they wouldn't have for the
entire county
we were able to find enough sponsors to
provide
up to 1500 children in russell county
with christmas over the years the kids
receive a complete outfit of clothing
which includes shirt pants socks shoes
underwear a coat or a hoodie and one
wishlist item
we've helped the red cross with many
fires this year
we've hosted we host an auction two
times a week to provide most of our
services
we have donated to several families that
either lost a family member
or they've been hospitalized these are
just a few examples of what we do
we can't wait to imagine the
possibilities that we can continue doing
for the community
anybody have any questions i think you
answered mine you still do send out the
letters
and ask people to buy the christmas
presents for the children right
we usually go business to business and
then we do send out letters asking for
donations and things yes
because i know my little women's group
always gives you money yes
we appreciate it
any other questions well i think what
you're doing is commendable man
thank you would love to see you come to
a mountain movers
meeting yes yes if i had more time in my
day i would love to
six o'clock monday six
the third monday of the month at the
we'll get to government
we'll get there well yeah just come and
share because
the whole concept behind mountain movers
is people
if they work together they can get a lot
more done exactly and
you know like the gentleman before had
talked about
the partnership with rosedale baptist we
partnered with them
through mountain movers and rod wicker
does the food
and woody scott does food and you're
doing food you just
fit right in so and there might be you
know
you never know what kind of resource you
might be able to come up with
and we have talked about giving school
and i guess it will be talked about a
little bit
further in the agenda so okay thank you
for presentation thank you
all right any other citizens
you know this is yes ma'am step up and
state your name and address please
sorry i just got off work uh michelle
vance 99
willow springs drive um i just wanted to
make sure i got here for this comment
period because i wanted to make sure
that
amanda had enough representation here
what she does for this county
is truly amazing if we had more of this
generosity from where i come from i
might not be living here today i might
be
in uh still in maryland working with
people up there
um but it's not like that there
the other thing i wanted to say is when
you do
discuss it later on in your agenda
please remember she is a small
organization
she is non-profit everything is donated
amanda doesn't take anything for herself
none of these ladies do they all work
very hard doing what they do
and that's basically i wanted to say i
just want you to make sure
that you take that into consideration
anyone else any other folks with
public comment all right saying none
we'll move on constitutional officers
reports and requests
and then here all right
our county attorney reports and request
thank you madam chair the first item
that i have is the county's emergency
ordinance for the continuity of
government and services
and i think we've kind of discussed this
that that ordinance will is no longer
needed
now thankfully and it's time to repeal
that ordinance so that's all i would
need
um as far as action from the board
tonight is just a motion to repeal that
order oh i'll make it
i'll six oh shoot
any discussion you must have been
sitting on the horn over there
all right i was waiting on that one
all right all those in favor of the
repealing of the emergency ordinance for
the county
anyone opposed i don't think so
thank you and we've already addressed
number two
under um my reports and the third item i
have
um is really a request for the chair the
chair at this point
and we have received um two responses to
the
request for qualifications on project
jonah as the board's aware this is a
project that we are doing jointly with
buchanan and tazewell county
so we do want to involve them in the
process
of that selection and so i think it
would be ultimately it will be
our vote who which way to go
but i think it would be beneficial for
the chair to appoint a committee to work
with buchanan and taswell
board members and and or county
administrators in selecting
the qualified applicant for this okay
all right at that time i'll
appoint myself and i'll ask mr lovelace
if you
care to do that because tim is
certified through the procurement office
for the state of virginia so i'll ask
tim will you
care to serve with me sir i will all
right thank you
the fourth um the fourth item that i
have
is the send disposal site purchase i
know the board had previously approved
this
at the july or excuse me the june 7th
meeting
um however i do think there was um
a request for a little bit of additional
purchase price
and so i did prepare a deed
for that and the purchase price for that
property would be 37
500. and i've got the deed prepared but
i'm still working on finalizing the
title so you can go ahead and approve
that subject to a final title approval
by myself
do we have a motion to approve this i'd
like to make that motion please
all right thank you do we have a second
i'll second it
of course or any discussion aren't all
those in favor
you want to post number five is the
cleveland high school property and
there's some
a potential industry that may be
interested in that and so um
if the board if it at the board's
pleasure to
if we do wish to convey that property we
would need to set a public hearing on
that matter
said our public hear yes okay
do we have that i'll make a motion madam
chair all right thank you steve do we
have a second
second you need a time or at our next
meeting
six o'clock okay i'll be in my motion
it's 6 00 p.m
at next meeting all right or steve made
the motion or second
and it'll be six at our next meeting any
further discussion
all those in favor anyone opposed
the same thing for givens and that
property um
what's been contemplating my
understanding is a lease but you would
still need to have a public hearing
before you could lease that property
so if the board would like to consider
leasing that um
building then we would need to set a
public hearing for that as well i'll
make that motion
to do it at the same time we do it the
next
yes second second safe all right any
further discussion all right our motion
for next
month's meeting at six also a public
hearing all those in favor
anyone a post
and the last item under that i have for
the board's consideration
is is relating to the opioid litigation
that the county
is involved in the class action suit
that the
law firm in missouri is handling for us
and they need approval and authority to
proceed to vote yes
to um the proposed plan in bankruptcy
court
so move madam chair thank you lou do we
have a second second
david any discussion all those in favor
next on the agenda is our county
administrator reports and request
alonso thank you madam chair
the first on the county administrative
reports of course is the american relief
rescue plan relief plan
of 20 uh 2021. this
is the federal money that came down to
assist
the the counties during this time after
the cares act
of course we just got rid of the
declaration
this is to help the counties the cities
and many times
municipalities get back on their feet
there was projects during that time
lost revenue we had to sustain you know
help
russell county citizens during that time
to get through these
pandemic quarantines we incurred a lot
of costs during that time
one of the the cost is broken down in
the american relief plan
is of course the first one is
infrastructure water sewer broadband
okay the second is you know for
stabilization for the locality
for you know lost revenue and it will be
also to pick up any reoccurring
covid especially uh if there's no
another variant that comes in this gives
us sustainability
on this to take it um the cares act is a
little different
american relief plan is a little
different than the cares
this is appropriated over a two-year
period so they're stretching it out to
keep you sustained until they call you
get over the financial hump
we russell county received five million
one hundred sixty four thousand and
nineteen dollars
but that again is over a two year period
our first allocations appropriations was
two million five hundred eighty two and
0009.50
so uh of course i'll be going into some
of the first things that we had to take
care of
later in the time uh as you can see
here that of course legislation is 151
pages long of do's and don'ts and
exemptions and
requirements it's federal money so we've
got to take time and planning and making
sure we get our
russell county uh infrastructure back up
on the ground
so uh second on the county ministry of
reports and request
is the parole office that
is moving or has moved actually they're
right here behind us right now
the as you can see we've changed some of
the things that are behind us in the
offices now
so uh they give us official notification
of move
to the board of supervisors hang on a
second
that official date we have appreciated
the partnership with the county over the
years and enjoyed the opportunity to be
in close
proximity to the russell county
courthouse district number 17
senior probation slash payroll office
jennifer herbert will return
all rental keys and this will come
effective july the 1st 2021
we think the county and
for his continued assistance during this
time so
again they're right here in the
government building now in the
government facility as far as the pro
office um next of course
i i don't know if y'all have seen on the
we passed the uh russell county little
control ordinance back in
may with a start date of july to give
all residents an opportunity to clean up
get ready
so again this is on my reports to
note 501 effective july the first these
new requirements as far as the litter
control
is in place and as you can see
these have three four different
kinds of classifications for us
penalties and and the requirements of
of keeping exterior residential and
commercial property clean
so if you need to look at it take a look
at the website
take a look at the facebook we're
publishing it and keeping it up
so but also
next is the counter ministry request
is for resolution
this is for the naming this is russell
county board suffers there's a
resolution
and this is naming of route 58 location
at the castlewood u.s post office in
russell county virginia
as the sergeant first class fred taylor
memorial highway
and being a veteran you know i like
doing these
uh whereas on july the 11th
1965 sergeant first class fred taylor
u.s army special
forces the green berets detachment v52
project delta where he made the ultimate
sacrifice
project delta was a deep cover
classified operation in vietnam
with u.s special forces personnel
training and leading indigenous
regular irregular forces in the conduct
of long-range reconnaissance patrols
deep within the enemy controlled
territory within the republic of vietnam
their mission included locating enemy
units gathering intelligence
bomb damage assessments artillery
airstrike coordination special purpose
raids and conducting harassing and
deception missions
project delta had the capability of
deploying into
any tactical zone within south vietnam
whereas on july 11 1965
master sergeant henry j gallant and
first
sergeant first class fred taylor were
the leaders of an eight-man long-range
reconnaissance patrol
the team was inserted by a helicopter
into its area of operation gathering
intelligence
north of highway 19 prior to the
large-scale allied operation to reopen
that route
at approximately sixteen hundred hours
on july the third
july 13 1965 the team was ambushed
by enemy forces of unknown size as it
moved through the jungle foliage
on the south side of the mountain
approximately five miles of
highway 19. the first initial burst of
enemy gunfire
caused the team to be split up with fred
taylor
henry gallant and south vietnamese
soldiers in one group
and seven other team members in the
other sergeant first class taylor
immediately established radio contact
with friendly forces informing them of
the team's location and requesting an
emergency extraction
as the intense battle raged around them
henry gallon suffered a gunshot wound to
the stomach although
its severity is not known the last time
msg gallant master sergeant and sir
and staff sergeant taylor were seen by
the surviving indigent patrol members
fred taylor was helping henry gallon
into the surrounding jungle as hostile
fires pressed toward them
once extraction was requested a search
and rescue sar
operation conducted for the missing team
members
over the next few days sar personnel
using both
air and ground assets successfully
recovered five of the energy
team members alive but were unable to
locate any trace
of sergeant first sergeant first class
taylor or master sergeant gallant
or the other three indigenous personnel
at the time the formal search
was terminated henry gallon and fred
taylor were reported as mixing
in action in july 1966 one year after
the loss a board of inquiry was convened
to examine all known facts and
circumstances surrounding the loss of
master sergeant gallant
and staff sergeant taylor after
examining the witness
after examining the witnesses debriefing
statements and other revenue
information the board determined the men
the missing men
status should be altered to killed in
action
body not recovered k-i-a-b-n-r
whereas under section 33.
33.2-13-12 of the code virginia
authorizes the commonwealth of
transportation board to give suitable
names to state highways bridges and
interchanges
to other transportation facilities and
change the names of any highways bridges
or interchanges or transportation
facilities forming
a part of the systems and state highways
and whereas
section 33.2-2 3 provides the virginia
departmentation shall place
and maintain appropriate signs
indicating the names of the highway
bridges interchanges
and other transportation facilities be
maintained
be named by the ctb and requires the
cost of producing and placing the
maintenance
now therefore be it resolved the russell
county in accordance with section
requirements in section 33.2-33
32 sorry 33.2-212 of the code of
virginia does hereby request that the
commonwealth transportation board named
the route 58
loca location at the castlewood u.s
postal office in russell county virginia
as the sfc
fred taylor memorial highway bf further
resolved the russell county agrees to
pay the cost producing placing and
maintaining the sign
calling attention to this naming i need
a motion for approval
madam chair i'd like to make that motion
please
do we have a second i'll second him
thank you all those in favor
you want to post all right madam chair i
would like to say uh thank you
mr lester for reading that um
we had an inquiry back in the fall from
uh james mccoy who actually lived right
along
uh there at the post office in
castlewood when he was growing up
and he has done a yeoman's work in
research for this name
and this man and trying to find his
family and it has been a long time
coming
and i appreciate this board for
supporting this to send it on to the ctb
board thank you
all right so
thank you man
next on the counter ministry request
is of course the we always like these
type of
letters the 2021 cdbg grand offer for
the belfast
extension project phase three we're on
page three now
so we're finishing up phase two this is
phase three uh on behalf of the governor
northam it gives pleasure to inform you
that rosa county
has been offered a community development
block grant in the amount of 640
thousand dollars in support of the
belfast water line extension
project phase three this proposal
was offered funding under the 2021
cdbg competitive round so
i need a motion to accept the and forty
thousand dollars
i'll make it a second david steve thank
you
second any discussion all right all
those in favor
and you want to post this is in my
district and it does continue the water
line
on up mountain road almost to the
tazewell county line it's providing
folks on mountain road water
head subdivision goes right past that
and the good thing it's all grand money
yes it's all grant money
thank goodness for that
thank you madam chair next on the
counter ministry reports
is a contract with the appalachian
council for innovation
as uh in rosa county this is
a and a partnership
with the appalachian council and
starlink
for broadband services for the children
that are within the county these are uh
one of the quadrants as you can see
the sales has been defined as 60 max 60
accounts as a defined sara area this is
for a
all the hardwire kits and a two year
service agreement
upon uh 60 accounts that
to be decided upon by the board of
supervisors
in in two of the quadrants so there is
one quadrant tonight and one potential
quadrant
that will be available in january
february
september no i'm the next
september yes okay um the county
will uh this is uh agreement
for the 60 kids that are done by the
school this will be
done by the county um
i'll need approval for a motion on this
contract
for with the appalachian council of
innovation for starloc brown band
services contract okay um
we'll take a motion for this and then
for discussion
do we have a motion for this i'll make
the motion
that we move forward with the starlink
contract
do we have a second
awesome okay open for discussion
and comments have those 60
clients been determined of where they're
going to be located
are they in unserved underserved areas
of the community
so as far as if they've been identified
first there was a
a breach out to the to the school board
to identify
some uh school children that were
underserved or
non-served in russell county before we
even started this project
and so yes it will reach unserved and
underserved
because again it's going to be we'll
work closely with mr lovelace and the
school board to
get those 60 that that they choose
whichever ones they want to use
to go to those have not been
pre-identified before the funding is
handed to you
they're identified in that we know
there's a
several in this region okay several in
the cell that you chose
okay in that six and a half mile radius
so we know that there's well over
60 in that in that six and a half mile
radius where is that
where is that area where is that area
physically got that one zone
you gotta have that sir
it it covers basically lebanon west
towards uh saint paul
and the sixth i'm trying to think where
the center point is i can't remember
exactly where the center point is but
it's a six and a half mile radius that's
60 60 customers for 200
000 yes an investment yes that don't
the only thing about it is see i've got
a lot of areas in my district
it's desperate desperate need of it and
we've got
starlink is telling us that we're going
to be able to do more sales
literally by september we should be
under contract for more sales if you
want more we can get
more but you're going to come back more
more money well
yeah kind of goes with it but yes but
yeah there is opportunity to get more
more of russell county covered
absolutely well
and you know you know my district very
well so
i i'm desperate for help
in my district but and all of us agree
that this is what we need to do it is we
can't shift the sales or anything around
can we at this point in time
we cannot i asked and they said no not
yet no we can't do it
i did ask but we have body money uh
because i'm with cumberland plateau
and we have body money and and
uh mr breeding can attest to this to
to put put this to the homes for
for the money that we've got with the
body money
and so what all of us are in a quandary
over
is and i'm not trying to put you under a
microscope please forgive me
but what we're needing is we need these
children that
have no way of getting service in three
years i agree
well the problem is that we but our sale
is not where we need it mr purdy
we're going what we're going to do is
duplicate search oh you're doing it's
overlapping there it's already has
services
see here's the two quadrants yeah these
are these are the two
i've already i've already looked at it
and mapped it out as far as the areas
that already have
i already have existing broadband access
so all we're doing is really duplicating
unless you get into some area regions
you know you have two wireless carriers
you have
fiber optic carriers you have all these
carriers that's already in existence
and fairly affordable and if you look at
the comparables and then these people
gonna have to sign a two-year agreement
you know to be able to get this but
we're paying for it
but according to the scatter diagram
that we've got from russell county
schools
in that in that quadrant there are
several unserved or
or underserved students yeah but will
they be served by this
contract that has been approved the 16
million dollar contract within the next
year and a half
that's going to run fiber optics to
these areas
we we don't know there are areas
that legitimately need this like upon
top sandy ridge where you you'll never
get fiber to there
yeah and don't turn around those are the
areas
the loop yes yes my folks
is a good example laura branch help us
out here mr purdy we we really want to
do this
okay honestly right according to what we
got from the school system there are a
lot of
unserved right now that will be served
come september
if you do this they might be served
september by the
yeah and you actually and like i'm
with uh mr christian here i've had folks
that live
out to pass the school bus garage two
miles out of town
they're not going to be caught with this
they're outside of that sail they're
toward the mountain they're toward
clinch mountain and
it's you're missing a whole
speaking to you hoping you'll speak to
someone else well i i tried i did
ask starling but i spoke with him on the
phone
thursday last thursday if it was
possible to shift the sale and they said
no
and i i don't know what there's nothing
else i can do on that's not gonna it's
not gonna benefit me at all in my
district
and a lot of areas i've been fighting
tooth and nail to try to get something
to these people that need it desperately
and these are in valleys and corridors
that
the satellite would help now what we're
talking about these sails here is off
more flat area region that is going to
be served by
fiber optics there's no doubt i mean
that's part of their
initial plan to build out off of the
back
off of their backbone of their existing
circuits
that they have in existence and i know
where they're all at i understand
within that within that sale those 60
units in your sale they can't they can't
move over either because the satellites
are working agreed is that my
understanding basically
they are working in a the cell is
defined as a six and a half mile radius
circle okay so it's 13 miles across
right and they are based on the
constellation of satellites that are
flying over
and that's what they have programmed and
have in place based on the request
so again i'm sure i can't fathom that
there's not
60 households somewhere in that circle
that it doesn't make the business case
to you to get fiber to them or some
other some other means i would find i
just would find that amazing because
there's
always it's like you know two miles off
the road and yet you can't get to it
you know without extreme cost so i would
struggle to think that there's not
and again based on what we got from
school system there were several
there was well more than 60 that looked
like fit and made the qualification
i get everybody's concern that the
quadrants basically cover
areas that are either served or
hopefully soon will be
served that's the problem
four scott county telephones in that
same area and
we need
you're not going to daint and carterton
in three to four
years according to point broadband we've
got a quadrant uh
there was another cell that covers daint
that is also
lit up or will be lit up that can cover
daint
can we get that one yeah you can get it
without taking the other two
you can get part of it you can get
because that one's a shared sale between
dickinson and wise and
so so we could do that you can do yeah
again as part of it now again that's a
negotiation that you guys will have to
work out between the other two counties
as to how many of those sales you can
encounter oh dear
okay it sounds like this needs to be a
really a regional uh
project that needs to be mapped out how
that the counties can partner together i
mean i'm saying but we've not
conversated with
buchanan dickinson and those people you
see what i'm saying
i mean if they'd be willing to split the
cost well on that one particular
cell that one is there yes but the one
that was selected
is the one that was selected i need to
have conversations with those counties
and point blank fan to see what's
so excuse me let me interrupt one more
time
so if we would decide to go this route
we have the two hundred thousand dollars
from
the american recovery act correct mr
lonzo
lester yes ma'am and
um what else comes with that
then what else are we responsible for
well the 200 000 is per quadrant as you
see
each one of these is 200 000 for two
years of service
to kids that need internet
service to be able to continue you know
with the schools
that's now invesita has offered up
they have got a grant for each county
that is another 50
000 that could reduce this cost down to
150.
i thought you said the school was no in
one quadrant in the counties
that's good that's being discussed i
can't speak for the school board though
i don't know anything about the 17
million dollars
i think we've identified yeah so
the v v cedar grant came from the dh
department of uh
dhcd i believe it was dhcd and that
money is
according to jonathan they're there
however long it's going to take for them
to get here i'm thinking hopefully in
the next week or two
and we as a council we decided to to try
as be as equitable as can so we said
fifty thousand dollars for each county
out of that five hundred thousand so
you'll get that i'm also in discussion
with people inc
who will be able to work with the
individual's
uh accounts to for subscription
assistance so they can do as i
understand it up to maybe a hundred
dollars for six months so
for basically they'll pay for 25 of the
subscription for a few people and i
don't know how many people that would be
they'd have to qualify and that sort of
thing
but there is that there's also the
department of social services and with
the identifying those who are on the
snap program
then they're going to be able to
contribute as well so your 200 000
is coming down better you know more and
more as we find more and more money to
help you with it
so so right now we're talking
per sale how
without we're leaving the school out
okay per sale right now you're looking
at two hundred thousand dollars for the
sale
again fifty thousand of that's coming
off because of b ceta
now you're down to 150 and the uh if the
american rescue funds cover that then
you're basically from as far as your uh
operating budget i guess that would be
kind of zeroed out wouldn't it well
i know you got other things to spend the
money i get that but i'm just saying
it's not even that
as hard as we thought to get
this agreement with sunset digital who
ultimately sold out to point broadband
to get all this internet service
throughout the county
and the body money 16 plus million
dollars
it's over 40 all together that they're
going to run fiber optics throughout
russell county dickinson buckhannon
and and tassel county i don't want to
relieve them
of any obligation that they have to do
that
and if we can identify some areas that
we
can be assured that they're not going to
run into and i know they're areas out
there we tried to talk to them about
that
uh there's just areas that we'll never
be able to run fiber optics to
i've got two that that are that are
probably some of them are in those areas
laura branch and
horton ridge yeah i'm sure there's some
in that circle based on the
i don't see none of mine up there well i
understand i'm talking about within a
circle that was selected
and i don't know who did the selection i
need to talk to him
no see the only two main quadrants are
in in the concentration of the county
now and the other
ones that are here like this is the ones
that were referred are shared
they're shared by either wise county
dixon county
you've got the money or canada
information and i tried to get it he
wouldn't let me have it
oh 67 route 67 there
you know i mean i'm really real hard to
get that map
there's an nda involved here so yeah
sorry
see it's a it's a sharing situation on
the fringes of these sales
and that's where we need the help
well and again okay so if it's on this
fringes you can still get to the fringes
not that
it's all got to be within you know right
close to the center it's
it'll hit the fringes that's the the
whole point of the six and a half miles
it will reach that far out
so i'm again i can't fathom that there's
not some places
at least 60 inside that circle that that
doesn't
is not going to be able to make the
business case to get to
just like we got it the business case
endangered it's the same thing that's
the reason why that fifth sale that they
said here you can have one
but that was you know because the cover
the the dan area
and in other parts of wise and dickinson
are really difficult to get to
well lou this was your motion but do you
want to amend it
or table it till you we meet with wise
and dickinson county to see if they're
going to pick up that shared part
to actually talk with someone in wise
county in dickinson county that's done
it because
i'm yeah but down in her end and then
yeah
and david it doesn't get you up through
swords creek and it doesn't get me at
all
in the loop in september there's going
to be another cell available
for what russell at least one if not two
depending on how many you want
because we're already in discussion with
starlink and they're saying there goes
five more
at least they're going to be available
literally in the next three months
to get under contract so they can have
it ready five will be available
yeah but
my i guess my only concern is is you
know you have these other companies out
here with prepared playing
on federal and state funds that they're
already received
so if you overlap
and you know we appropriate these
taxpayers money to get 60 customers and
all of a sudden the other company comes
in there with the 14.5 million they
build fiber to the area
and it's a back and forth you're losing
that investment it's this competition
but well competition's good
but i mean it just i'd rather put it in
i'd rather invest the money in areas
that these other companies
are going to say well i have no
intention of going up the hollow or in
that area
on that well how do you identify
unserved underserved
because that right there is just
something that's just blowed me away
i have a real problem with this while
trying to get a point to tell us
where they're going to serve and it's
proprietary information they won't tell
you because
they don't want verizon and shintel and
everybody else know where they want to
go or scarlet
that's what i was trying to get what are
you doing all this when all this
is said and done what are you going to
tell those people up on top
of sandy ridge you're up on top of the
big game now we're out of money we don't
have any more money
yet we ran starlink down through there
and it's uh all
point broadband well we won't be sitting
here everybody else
we won't be sitting here you'll be
dealing with another group of people
so what what's my bottom line here that
i would have to come up with
to make this sale work with all the
money
just exactly what we said nothing for my
that's based on the taxpayers back
in a roundabout way right now it's
between
150 for the american relief and 50 from
vecita
and that's it that's that's why we're
pushing it through the auditors and
legal counsel yes
and okay and so there's not any extra
money that
this board has to appropriate from our
local dollars unless you want to try to
cover
share with that cell with daint and yes
and then you get into the sheriff
well they've waited this long we can
wait till september and see what happens
well i mean that one
the sales it's going to be active it's
just a matter then of negotiating out
because that cell is going to be active
as well
that your the dance area is going to be
active as well and and david can
work on tasks can you tell us if dickson
county is picking up the
sale in dan and dane with if this is
russell dickinson and wise and is that
one activated
yes okay yes and right now bill with 60
accounts
the quote equitable thing was just 20 20
20 but again however you
three work that out you may want to get
more you may want to get less i don't
know
well i mean i'm not trying to be hard
but to get along with it
60 60 per quarter it's all based on
capacity
because of the number of satellites that
are up that's what it comes down to
well they they can eat up whatever you
guys agree you could get this whole area
through
you know through here
through here and and you don't have just
because you've got the cells that show
right on top of the county
like the one that says 71 19 right there
right that that
um come down there just down to your
right just a little bit line zone please
so you write a little bit further okay
that cell right there where the cursor
is
you can buy you can get that cell as
well and yeah it bleeds over into
it's the partial cell right it's
overlapping i guess washington
it does it does keep in mind it's not
that you're funding anything for
washington county it's all based on
the antenna where it resides that's your
hardware
right so the satellite looking down is
just looking for that satellite
and if you use up all the capacity in
russell county it's perfectly okay
that's not an issue
yeah but my dickenson county friends are
really going to use that because they
don't have anything
in that area so i would have to fuss
with them overnight
if you talk to larry if you talk to
larry and discount board of supervisors
they can grab 60 that'll be in that
quadrant
close to their their area concentration
of population
so you and one of the things the concept
that was done was
to talk to the other counties and if a
co if one of the quadrants overlapped
into either tassel county buchanan or
dixon or wise
is to prorate it based off the number of
accounts and that would be how you'd
split the 200 000 if we had it up
20 accounts 20 accounts and 20 counts
we'd share it equally but if you only
had
10 and daint on the upper end that he
got part of the dixon county quadrant
that would be pro-rated just based off
those 10 accounts
exactly gotcha and then the balance
could go to either wise or dickinson
what you're going to have to deal with
is you're going to fulfill 60 accounts
and you're going to miss 61 62-63 and
then people going to be upset
we're gonna worry about that at this
point david that's very true but keep in
mind this is all about capacity and
satellites and
elon musk is shooting up a rocket
literally every five days
and the reason why he's able to do that
is because he's reutilizing those
boosters
he went up with one didn't he no that
was oh as the competition that was the
other billionaire
no i i'm not trying to be you know i i
have a
you know i just i just became a grandpa
and
you know we can look at this however we
want american relief grant
free money coming down the pike somebody
gotta pay us back
our grandchildren's gonna have to pay
his money back now you can say whatever
you want well
you know it's not gonna impact the
taxpayer
that's bull because down the road
somewhere
somebody's going to end up having to pay
all this
uh buying administration free funding or
whatever they're sending down the pike
somebody's going to pay it back
eventually and i just i just want to be
a good steward
i don't i'm not trying to be difficult
i'm not trying to be hard to get along
with
but i want to be a good steward of the
funding and i don't want to overlap
we've had so much overlap companies
going in and they'll overlap another
company and
another company and they're not going
out here to the unserved underserved
community and building it i mean i'm
just being honest with you
but they are providing a good technology
and it is good for our consumers
i agree with that and i'm i'm all for
competition
but i just want to make sure that when
there's areas that are targeted that
would really be beneficial to people
that could use it
and not have access to anything else
they don't have access to anything else
that you got to have the weight of this
again we did it we we did some initial
identification from the school system
are any of those 60 that you
or any of those i don't know there's
about 100 of them 150 or so in this one
cell
are they on the fringes of the cell that
look like they would need
well a lot of them are outside of the
sales entirely i know
some are but there are still some in
though correct that were identified as
probably but we would have to we would
have to drive out i mean
what we did was we were we were pushed
back in december
when this first was brought about
to provide that starlink was going to be
offering this
for underserved students
you need to submit your data of any
students that you know the addresses
of course it had to be just got
addresses we've got addresses on the
ones that told
us on our survey back during the
pandemic that they did not have access
to high-speed internet
now have we driven out and verified
ever no i mean we but even working with
that
ask me the same question and i can say
yes i will
there's going to be a bunch of areas i
mean it's the same difference because
they're not going to go
you know they're not making money at it
they're not going to do it
regardless what they say
all right all those in favor of this
motion
to uh fund this starlink broadband
contract
all those in favor okay
all those opposed
anybody need to abstain
all right here we go
okay we can come back in september
with addresses
all right that's going to be the issue
because the cell was picked
i mean i didn't pick the cell okay i
mean i you know
it was it was offered to us so as this
is the location that you wanted so
uh that's the issue that i've got to now
try to grapple with as to how we handle
that but
because you had included air services
in your ask to starlink yes
next mr lester the american relief funds
now we're going to start expanding it
thank you madam chair
against previously spoken of the
american relief fund grant
again we got five million one hundred
sixty four thousand nineteen dollars
this is the multi-year the total fund
uh again 2.582 2009 and fifty
dollar fifty cents for fy twenty one
twenty two
uh of course we had to take care of what
we call the safety net
agencies first we had to take care of
all the rescue squads
to give you know appropriate out you
know funding for
their uh each one of the fire and rescue
squads at fifteen thousand dollars each
we are with the rescue squads each
receiving that seventy five thousand
that's being appropriate to the rescue
squads
a hundred and twenty thousand that's
being appropriated to the fire
departments
and of course the food ministries
is fifteen thousand and
the infrastructure these are the
projects of course the first one up
there that has
you know uh is with assistance to
the russell county psa for the fire
hydrant repair for thirty thousand
dollars
to repair the the fire hydrant
and repair to the structure foundation
to the russell county
honeaker library and of course to the
ross county sheriff's department
the castlewood radio when we implemented
the
during the digital upgrade there was a
void and and
this is another one of those voids
overrun you know for the castlewood area
to get continued emergency services into
that area we have to put an additional
booster into the castle wood to get it
moved down and
i need approval for those i got a quick
question
since miss thomas is here tonight with
her uh
project she's a non-profit yes
yeah she's a 503c you do a food bank can
we uh
add her into this we we did previously
she
she got fun to send her the cares she
she's
not she in she's in limbo right now so
she's gotta
once she gets established yes she would
be eligible
yes okay as long as you
do have an application in for this
additional funding there is no
application on this
so you all just make a determination
well they got to be active at the time
and she's progressing towards being
active
well well i know why i understand thank
you
well let me just kind of i know i know
we've
uh discussed this and everything as far
as the giving school and
and everything like that and we want to
have we have to have a
legal legal says we have to have a
public hearing to bring it before the
public to be able to do that and i know
you're in a real bind
i understand i've had a conversation
with you uh
to be able to to however
i think we'd like the county
administrator and the county attorney to
go ahead and start negotiating
with you to see if if we can work out a
lease because there's some costs
there's hard and fast costs you know so
you know it's not that we're going to
sit idle during until this public
hearing we want the county attorney and
the county administrator to work with
you and see what we can get worked out
and then
we'll we'll know what the county at the
public hearing
i know you're in a pickle i underst i
understand that i mean
we got to follow the legal guidance of
the legal counsel but
uh you know i would like to
if something was to happen you'd be
blessed to work all this out
and get you the facility i would like to
the board to take into consideration
because that would be a
huge impact to get that money i mean to
be able to get you a facility and
five thousand dollars would even be a
blessing itself but i just wanted to
bring that up
are you are you currently serving
because that's one of the requirements
under american relief
you have to be when we prove this on
that date they got to be
in service you're still serving right
okay we'll work through that let's let's
get all the details
yes yes
but i will need approval for these
minus you know the aci for the school
yes i'll need approval i'll make a money
that's 307 thousand dollars
second okay but my motion by david in a
second by steve
any further discussion all right all
those in favor
anyone post all right alonzo next
next on the county ministry reports and
requests is vdot still here yet yes
i see one of them where's john that he's
he was your mail
is here
first next one is anita's public hearing
concerning vdot route 637 a discontinued
bridge perspective
easement of right of way which has a 30
foot
30 foot in width and two tenths of one
mile
this is in to uh
of course the swords creek area we have
been working with
john is john here did he leave
oh did he okay um
this is a bridge that was built in 1913
and we've
we've got complaints trying to clean it
up but one of the things that we've
tried to explain to the community and to
the adjacent property owners
the camp in 1913 then under the bird act
when it reverted down
we only picked up the easement
we don't own the property we don't own
the bridge
vdot is working with us right now when
they
they discontinue the use but it reverted
back to the county so the county now
has to go through the process of doing
the public hearing to abandon
that easement so what it amounts to
in legal and layman terms and vdot terms
of course i pulled all the men and it's
in in y'all's packet
and you can see it right here
the road originally went through and
connected in
here they vdock came in and put this
bridge in and routed the traffic through
here and came back through
there's actually an old road bed through
here with an existing bridge that was
built in 1913.
well when vdot put this new section in
and this
they discontinued the use on this they
didn't abandon it
so we it reverted back to the county on
the easement it was
prescriptive easement so we're going to
have to have a public hearing
to discontinue you know abandon this
section of easement
all the way through here the property
owners
that are adjacent here would love it
because now they have no easement going
through their property so we're going to
request a public hearing to abandon this
proposed rose bed
and bridge i'll make a motion
all right is that going to be on the
we'll have three publications yes yes
you will
three seconds pack a sandwich
okay all right any other comments
all those in favor of this public
hearing for this discontinuing this
anyone opposed thank you madam chair
next on the county ministry of approach
and request
is the deputy emergency management
coordinator position this is a part-time
position
to assist with emergency management and
of course we just got
rid of the emergency declaration i
i have offered the the job to
a candidate and have accepted so i need
approval for emotion and movement on the
deputy emergency management
coordinator all right do we have a
motion to hire
some part time some movement chair steve
all right do we have a second
i'll second in david any discussion
um you have a fur a promotion a second
but i actually
in the other meeting to um postpone this
to another month that we can
uh review the application of some other
people that's interested in this
position as well as
have some more interview by lonzo and
jess powers which is the head of that
department
all right any further comments
all right all those in favor of hiring
this candidate
anyone opposed uh
okay thank you all right thank you ma'am
chair
next on the count of ministry request is
another position
it's uh i regret to say that our russell
county tourism coordinator
has took another job so uh
we will i i'm asking the board to accept
a resignation
and also uh approval to advertise for
this position so
david in a second lou all right any
discussion
all those in favor you want to post
uh okay
next is a is a request for travel for
uh frida sweeney and crystal white for
the commissioner revenue this is their
commissioner revenues conference this is
a requirement for their certification
annually
which during the co-village we didn't
have it but they didn't had in two years
so
this is a a two-year awaited meeting so
i need approval for motion for approval
for the commissioner revenue conference
so moved all right david do we have a
second
lou all those in favor you want to post
all right thank you ma'am next is
the uh of course that was added to the
junior the virginia
coalfield economic development authority
a resolution concerning virginia's
general assembly
2021 commission uh this
is a resolution in in conjunction with
the buchanan county dixon county liam
scott
and the other surrounding coal counties
for resolution support for the virginia
coal field
economic development authority whereas
the coal and gas resources are
continuing extracted from rosso county
as a producer of coal and gas in the
commonwealth
and of course whereas the virginia
coalfield economic development authority
besida is the primary means of fostering
their diversification for the county's
economic
way from dependence on coal and gas
industrials the board finds that facita
is a critical economic development tool
for russell county
based on the hundreds of jobs retained
or created in russell county over the
last four years with the seat of
financing
and the hundreds currently being created
due to vecita's financial incentives
and the many many more created or
retained through vasilia's efforts
over its long history whereas pursuant
to legislation passed in the 2021
session of the general assembly a
commission was appointed to discuss
reallocation of a seat as primary source
of funding to institutions which may or
may not be successful
in the field of economic development and
may or may not
may or may concentrate their efforts in
russell county as vecita has
now therefore be resolved that the russo
county board of supervisors hereby
reaffirms its support for ceta
and its operations to defunding any
defunding of its programs or
diversification of resources to other
entities
i need a motion to accept this
resolution
i'll make that motion also i'd like to
uh a separate state that
uh we would request that this funding be
reallocated back to the ceda
uh on the million dollars that we're
going to be losing
with the governors and and were they
done away with the
cold tax credit it's going to it's going
to be a huge impact russell county
i'll tell you a negative impact so this
right here
absolutely we need to make sure that
that money is restored back to vaseta
i mean i don't think we need another
project i think we need to support what
we have
and that's just my feeling
second
any further discussion all those in
favor
anyone opposed hobstein
okay next on the ken
kenneth county ministry reports and
requests this course
has already been done the public hearing
for the cleveland
school property transfer to the ida has
been set the public hearing for the
given school property
has been set for the lease and the last
one that was added
is an approval for the solid waste truck
driver
approval position that uh is currently
right now we are running lychee and it
is working very well at the daint sewer
treatment plant
and at very minimal cost i need approval
for a driver
so move second second lou you need
further discussion
all right all those in favor anyone
opposed
madame then concludes county ministry
reports in request
all right matters by the board tim do
you have anything
no ma'am
no thank you david just one thing i just
want to make it clear too
that on the property that lonzo showed
of the cleveland school
that won't have any negative impact with
the appalachian gateway and horse
association or the trash site or the
cemetery
i just want to throw that out there even
before we have the public hearing i know
that'll come up but i just wanted to
go on though make sure but i appreciate
it appreciate the board tonight
steve yes ma'am i've got a couple of
things first i had a uh
somebody call me about the signs at the
waste
collection sites and asked if they could
be updated
and they didn't say exactly they were
talking about swords creek site
in particular lonzo and it may be that
the times
are not correct on those sites so if you
could just look in to see if we can get
those updated
secondly uh
made an effort last board meeting to try
to get a little better handle on
spending at schools and uh the board
went ahead and passed the
the resolution is the uh the budget
resolution
so i want to make this motion
i'd like to make motion is allowed in
the last paragraph
page three in the recently classed
russell county budget resolution for the
budget year ending
beginning july the 1st 2021 and ending
june
30th 2022 which states
and i quote in addition the county
administrator
may require written reports on how
previous allocations was or were spent
before any further disbursements were
made
and i want to make a motion that we
instruct the county administrator to
require these detailed written monthly
reports on the expenditures of the
previous month
from the russell county school system
and wrestle county department of social
service
now this is not intended to hold up any
disbursements and i'm not saying that
the first disbursements won't be made
because the money's all been already
been allocated
but this is just to get a better
understanding of how
and when those allocated funds are spent
throughout the budget here
so that's my motion i'll second it
any discussion yes um
is i need further explanation from our
attorney
have you run this by katie um oh okay
you you haven't run this by katie
okay you want to expound on that or do
we need to
uh have your overview of that
no no it wouldn't be it wouldn't be
amending the bottles
and no it um really and it's not an
amendment to the resolution it's just
asking that he enforce that
so i mean
and and i i really can't speak for the
department of social services
but because i don't attend their
meetings but attending the school board
meetings
i do know that they pass every every
monthly meeting they have they
they they approve their bills and
there's a list of financials and is that
what you have in mind or
and i guess for the sometimes i get just
thinking about how they go which they
the they'll have the agenda a few days
before they meet
most most often well i know i won't say
that
sometimes sometimes they meet before you
all
and they will have already approved it
by the time you have your meeting but
sometimes
for instance next month you meet on the
second and they'll meet on the fifth
is it on their website does she does
that girl
their clerk put down their website or do
you know it's
on board docs and that the public can
see the the financial report
but i mean i don't i don't think that
would be
i don't think that would ever be overly
burdensome i'm not going to say that
either
i don't want to speak for other boards
but i mean i do know that they prepare
that monthly port and it's a part of
their agenda
in a motion in a second so all those in
favor
and i'm going to abstain because katie
hadn't reviewed it and
um they're already there so i don't know
i'll just abstain
okay okay all right
horse any other comments i do
i like to say i'm very most disappointed
this board
for not giving these other applicants
that's wanting to
apply for this part-time deputy
coordinator position
i think it's only fair for each one that
gave an application to be able to be
interviewed
and besides he was taken off the website
i think you said 30
hours long though and people didn't know
that it was still
the position was to still available
therefore they haven't had the equal
opportunity
and i think it's very unfair to take the
position that this board is taking
tonight and not let these people be
interviewed
let's do remember carl he lost his
grandfather in his services tonight
and our next meeting will be august
the second here
in this boardroom so do i have a motion
for adjournment
so move madam champion second day