your backyard that set him back here now
that was in march of 2020. now
during that time
we have been
going through and reviewing the property
on a continuous basis
as as you can see
each one of these that is date and time
stamped
on the on the time that we have
inspected each and every time when you
called the first time this is
as everyone can see this is 2021 this is
february the 25th to 2021 may i'll
interrupt you for a second just so we
can get on with things and yes okay
quickly
you can't
in order to keep from going to jail
uh you can
scroll out some
i
this gentleman threatened me uh
with
invasion of privacy and trespassing
well i didn't understand the trespassing
part
because i was actually over here at the
ditch line
and the ditch lines there the streets
over there the paved streets
are 50 feet wide on paper
but they're significant and but they're
significantly narrower especially stars
drive which has never been taken in the
state system
so i was standing out here and i was
taking photographs of him
intentionally i knew he was there in
fact i
accidentally activated my video
of him and got him
threatening me and saying crude things
to hurt my feelings now
what i want you to know i'm glad you've
got a good camera
because if you look at all this stuff
see that that's all still air it's under
snow right now okay i just wanted you to
know unless you go and you look and by
the way his light line
also
over here there's a fence yes
and his light line doesn't really start
right about that tree
no so you can actually go up there and
walk along that fence there without
and take close-up photographs
without getting on his property on go
ahead and let me proceed from february
to now
thank you
so this is when you made the call to the
county this is when we went out and did
our inspection of it
during that time this is what the
property looked like that we gave him
notice on
to clean up to remember this
are you sure
that's yeah these are date stamped in
time stamp that is
february the 25th 2021.
those are tight look at this
yes 2000. i first called up there i
first talked
with
the deputy sheriff
in uh
up here in the sheriff's office
in 2020 february 2020. i've been on this
since february 2020 and i know that when
he came up there and i know about what
they told me
complete please let me continue
so
we've had three deputies out there mr
watson mr cuba porter
and
mr hyder so we've had three deputies up
here that's reviewed this so
again
this is when we gave
the notice to begin with it and
as i go through each one of these
as we can see
now wait a minute you know what what
irritates me about this and i'm going to
say my piece and you can have me thrown
out if you want but how come it's been
two years since i complained and the
first time i see you guys have done
anything other other
than hearing from cuba porter himself
that he went up there and told him that
they the only thing that they enforced
was trash now why is that what we need
is a court hearing and i'll be glad to
have one
why don't you guys just cut to the chase
and tell me what you want to do do you
think mr hancock mister
can we can you hang up
when we give the notice to the resident
why don't i the complaining party get a
copy of that now
mr hancock
mr hancock i'm asking you
i'll have you removed now
we're going to discuss this in another
place so i'm not cutting you off
yes sir
we're going to we're going to discuss
this in another place i think that that
you need to take this up with the county
administrator and work on this
as you possibly can that's okay i think
i think there's a lot of communication
that needs to go on because i really
think
i've been thinking all along that there
needs to be more communication here and
i don't think by listening to
mr lester tonight that we're going to
get the whole story
and matter of fact even though i
gave everybody another clue that's not
mr hancock
we're finished
we appreciate you really and we're going
to try to work on this so let's just
leave it there for the time being and
then we're going to move on yes ma'am
chair thank you
mr hancock
you're finished
okay uh the next thing we're going on is
the citizens comment period now if you
have signed up you're welcome to come
and speak your piece tonight for three
minutes do we have anyone that signed up
to speak
okay
no citizens comment period right now uh
constitutional officers and reports do
we have any of those that was sent in
no
county attorney reports and request miss
patton
thank you madam chair the first thing
under my reports is the
noise ordinance that i was directed to
format for russell county and the
ordinance that you all have the proposed
ordinance that you all have in front of
you i've adapted from the albemarle
county noise ordinance it was far more
specific than the original one we
considered the only issue that i came
across when i was
revising it to take out any references
to zoning or or other um code sections
that albemarle county had
was on see i think it's on page five
yes it's at the bottom of page five and
that section says general sound levels
prohibited
and in that and i took out some of the
language that they had in that did not
make any sense for us but they put that
it's unlawful for any person to produce
sound that causes at least 15
dba increase in the sound level above
the ambient sound limb
level and then it said as determined
pursuant to counting code 18-4-18
and that's what i have
provided you
is this section here
um talked about procedure for measure
measuring sound but as you can see this
is a pretty voluminous document in and
of itself and so before we if the board
wanted to move forward with advertising
this for adoption i just wanted to get
feedback from the board how specific or
how do you want to
word that section as general sound
levels prohibited because again the
section that that details it is in
another part of albemarle's code and
it's very very voluminous and so my
first instinct was that you would not
want to have all of that language but i
just needed a little bit more guidance
on how you wanted that to be determined
okay
and chair could we uh
can we have until the next meeting to
review this ordinance
i would definitely entertain
that as emotional katie could you know i
mean we really haven't seen it in a
finished form i'd like an opportunity to
look at it and make comments on it
and then be in a position next board
meeting to recommend either moving
forward or whatever on it
that'd be okay sure no problem and i can
make any changes if you want to send
them to me between now and then and i'll
look at i'll look at some more at this
language that they have for how it's
because i mean i think that's a pretty
important thing is how the violation is
determined absolutely that's that's the
key to the whole thing is being able to
some level some way to determine
if when and if and when you enforce it
yes i think there's some provisions in
the ordinance that help with that but
that one section was a little bit
problematic i couldn't just revise it i
had i needed to know exactly what we
wanted to do and and what's feasible
because one of the things that lists are
devices and how they're calibrated and
so we want to we might want to make sure
that we can get access to those is this
the attachment that that you gave us
okay all right i'm i'm just want to ask
a question katie if you don't care uh
when it comes to af on firearms i said
it on all these that on the exemptions
but it doesn't say anything about
hunters or hunting
it it doesn't list it says shooting
range shooting preserve or target trap
or skeet range exemptions or a gun club
but what about the normal hunter out
here that hunts
well we can definitely add that that
might not have been something that they
decided to include in albemarle county
but that's something we can always add
and i think that may have been covered
in the in the proposed noise ordinance
that lonzo first presented to you so i
might can pull that language
and just if you see other concerns again
this is more i mean there there are some
rural areas to albemarle county but we
think of it as more of an urban area and
they may not have the same
concerns that we do
okay so i'm hearing a consensus from
this board
that we're going to move forward with
this with uh we're going to doctor it up
so to speak okay
thank you katie now moving on to the
russell county employee insurance
retirement program
yes and the board asked me to look at
this and i had initially been asked to
look at this
um
regarding what the the school
the russell county schools do with um
this is a retirement incentive and
the retirement incentive that they've
offered
for years i knew was was legally sound
that's something they've been doing for
a while the the issue that first came
was a concern of mine was whether or not
because we have all these different
agencies and agency heads whether there
was some kind of way to keep up with the
sick time to report back because the the
retirement incentive allows
russell county employees who have worked
at least 15 years to use sick days up to
a certain amount to buy
basically health insurance um
to help to help cover the cost of the
health insurance and so at first i asked
lonzo
if maybe we should just do the flat fee
but
i think it's probably he explained it
was probably more economical because we
were going to be paying out that time
anyways and that time that sick time
that they would be using would be is is
reportable and is tracked every year so
that was my only concern in you all
implementing this program is that you
would not have a
a uniform way of enforcing it the way
that the schools do but after i spoke
with lonzo and he said that you know he
would be paying that time out no matter
what because that's accounted for and
that has to be paid out any any sick
sick time that that could be used as an
incentive for anybody who's worked over
15 years so i am fine with the
um
the um proposed policy for retirement i
did
suggest alonso that we might pass a
separate resolution not this to allow
anyone within this 90-day period that
retires to avail them if they meet all
the eligibility requirements to avail
themselves of this policy
because you do have to give 90 days
notice and so if you have somebody for
if the board does decide to adopt the
policy tonight and somebody retires
between now and 90 days technically they
would not have time and so i would just
waive it for the initial
90 days if you want to pass the policy
well something i think we need to take
into consideration that this is
the insurance is with the school board
and ms
tammy
i was going to say caldwell but gilbert
now
she's the one that does all this she
pulls all this together gets everybody's
sick days keeps their files signs all
their documents
and
i mean i just think we need to include
her
to explain it to all of us
what it is because it is percentages
it's 60 percent 66 percent 70 percent
and tammy has not been
involved in this and she's who
basically does it for everybody
yes so yeah i mean that's just a thought
i also think that we should table
because we we really need to get more
information how many people is
approaching this retirement time
uh how many years they've got in right
now i think at 15 years you've got 15
years of service you know 50 years of
age
is that
yes and yeah
i'm kind of like rebecca we
i feel like make a wise decision now
this is a financial
decision it's going to
cost money to taxpayer because taxpayers
won't put the money where you take it
out to pay these people and
we need to
really know the ins and outs and how
many people and when they subject to
retire
and
and all
before we make this season i'm for
helping the people
these people have been uh 20 years 25 30
years i wouldn't want to try to knock
them out anything
it's just that
before we take this broad step we need
more information in order to
take this step katie is is this the same
as the school board
yes that's my understanding and lonzo
pulled it from it we did eliminate one
of the options tammy didn't take care of
all the county employees does she were
sick leaving such no see that's what i'm
saying
well this
and is
when we have any medical things vicki
kind of
call tammy and she'll work on it and she
does
to me this is just saying that you're
trading your accumulated sick days
for
payment it's a way that we can pay out
we're gonna have to pay that if somebody
has 175 days we're going to pay it
either write a big check or let them
take it out as payments you know we can
sort of spread it out isn't that right
lunge we spread out the payments in in
insurance payments yes
the
the the program is set up
to start for county employees to convert
their retirement
the way it's written right here for the
school board and i'm going to elaborate
on that for 15 years
they can take up to 175 hours and pay it
towards what we call a health insurance
credit 175 days
thank you ma'am
175 hours days
sorry about the days
towards a health care credit which will
pay for their insurance up to retirement
but there's also the other side of the
coin now that i would have to liquidate
that when an employee retires i have to
liquidate whatever time they've
accumulated that's an easy one but one
of the things that uh
the also the board has to consider
because you got to know it it becomes
like a pension liability
it is a liability long term because
right now the way that it is written
it's written for a single plot policy it
does not cover the employees spouse it
does not
cover the employees siblings it is a
single policy for a retiree
now based off our health insurance what
it costs for one single employee steve
sits on the board and tim does two
you will incur 60
of that liability from the county so
those 15 that you have that are eligible
right now you would have depend upon
their years of tenure you would incur
that liability up to a maximum of seven
years
so
that would be an impact to the county
that y'all need you know need to
consider so
or medicare yes one or the other
it's just that is correct well one of
the things i've always said uh
is we need to treat people fairly and
equally
because
this should have been taken care of a
long time ago
based on
you know some getting certain benefits
because if you've got employees that's
been here 15 20 years
this is all they've got to look forward
to at the end of their tenure is being
able to get these kind of benefits and i
don't want to hold them out no i don't
spend 20 years of employment with
russell county and then just say well
you know it's an it's a great investment
you're going to get a good return on
your investment when you take care of
the people well i've had several people
ask me you know they've tried to retire
and they they can't you know it's such a
financial impact on their insurance
having if you've got over 30 years you
get 85 of your insurance paid by the
board
you know and trade for those
days so
so i think that's something we need to
do just immediately and at the end of
the seven years say like you're you're
40 years old and 50 years in then in
seven years your insurance stops
see it's a seven year yeah it says seven
years or until you
are eligible for medicaid
medicare agents no we're just saying so
if you're if you're
62 and you retire
then you then you've got it i mean
you'll get
that's correct and in fact you might
even have a balance on your sick days
you know but if you're 50 you if you're
55
and you're going to
um
retire and get medicare at 62.
you can only get medicare at 65.
but you can you can take social security
at 62. yeah
social security but you can't take
medicare yes that is correct my wife
took it at 62.
you have you in order to get to medicare
you have to be 65.
so
they they can 58
they can retire at 50 for this policy if
they got 15 years of service
madam chair
may make a suggestion
yes and i know you're going to
sense
mr breeding sits on health care
can you
point a committee with the county
administrator two board members
the
vicki porter the hr
and tammy gilbert tammy's to get look at
this
to present to them
i don't want to drag this out any
further than next board meeting that's
that way that way the libraries people
have been waiting on this for five or
six months and they've been told it's
going to happen so they put off their
retirement for that loan yes
and and we and i like your idea katie
about making it retroactive we did
discuss that i think we need to include
that in there
we did discuss that so that's my
if the board we don't want to lose it
for the employees
that you know everybody has
the insurance committee tim and me and
and you and vicki whoever the chair
wants to appoint please
are you guys you guys okay with that are
you okay
all right that way we can present it at
the next board with the liability
component because because the up portion
the first portion of it the liquidation
of what they've accrued up to the 175
days is easy that's guaranteed by law we
have to pay that
that's it either you pay it out on some
or you're going to crew it into credit
this way we can look at
the the number of employees that we got
coming up for retirement age and what
we'll be accruing on the books because
this thing will have to be reported as
an accrual for insurance so i think that
you give the full picture to the board
thank you mr lester i appreciate that
before bishop
review that um you all know i don't say
that i don't like somebody to lay down
here me not have time to read and
research and everything and then turn
around before i do that
i like to i like to study thank you
research
we'll have a full report for the board
thank you mr christian you need to press
your microphone for the folks out in
tv land i guess
uh number three on the um county
attorney reports is the
cumberland industries facility authority
executive director contract
yes madam chair um i i
received the exec the excuse me the
executed copy back from chase um collins
the caswell county attorney today and
i'll email the board a copy of that but
i'll just sort of give you a gist i mean
each county of the four counties
dickinson taz will wrestle
mccann and all um appropriated a sum of
money to hire this executive director to
work on behalf of this region for
economic development um the board the
sifa board did approve that and the
attorneys finalized the contract and i
think she um do you know when she signed
at lonzo
or has she signed she or has she just
she she has received it and she has
accepted it okay
yes
um any any questions i mean it's just
it's she she will be an independent
contract contractor of the sifa
authority and so her contract states
it's for one year
and it's subject to appropriation from
all the boards so i mean you know this
is kind of it's kind of an experiment
hopefully it'll work out hopefully she
can bring industrial development to this
region but if you all if any of any
board is not satisfied then they don't
have to re-appropriate the money
do you need the action on this
just for information okay thank you
okay next moving on to number four the
southwest regional jail
yes um londo provided me um
an agreement and a resolution um which
is you know basically to adopt the city
of bristol into the regional jail
authority
and it was an agreement where vra and
the and the jail authority um
voted to accept them and it's my
understanding from talking to lonzo that
the authority did vote to accept him and
the resolution that's before the board
tonight to approve the gist of it is is
basically it's it's asking you to
approve to accept bristol in and
basically stating that none of your
obligations um relating to the prior
2013-2020 bonds will be changed and
obviously there will be um
the one thing that the agreement that
was not attached was the exhibit a which
we'll talk about bristol what they have
to contribute and those things but
basically i mean um i don't know how it
will change
financially i don't know if lonzo has
any more information for that but if the
board is willing to move forward with
this it's my understanding it's the
request of the regional
jail authority board for for russell
county to approve this tonight
ma'am chair can i elaborate or time
from the county mission county's
perspective uh of course
everyone knows the city of bristol has
had the issues with their jail and tim
can labor don't have more because he
sits on the authority and so does mr
christian from the county's perspective
it is approximately a 70 to 80 000
savings because they're helping pay for
the cost they're going to pay help for
the operational cost and they're going
to help with the debt cost so
from the impact now mr uh lovelace and
mr christian sits on there so they can
tell more about the program itself but
from the county's perspective it's an 80
70 80 000 savings let me ask you
it when i read the thing it implied that
they could had some sort of financial
savings for
what renovation of jail or what what are
they doing some capital work in bristol
yes sir and there's an advantage being
part of the regional jail authority they
get better rates or better rates okay
yes sir
and everyone else will too because part
of the agreement is that they have to
pay a premium per diem yes for 10 years
plus they have to do they have to pay
for a minimum number of inmates whether
they have them or not
they got to get caught up that's exactly
right guaranteed
minimum contribution
okay
so the next is on
the agenda for the county administrative
reports and requests i'm sorry matt um
is the board we need to we need to have
a motion to approve that okay i
apologize
yes i'll i'll entertain a motion to
accept uh
bristol virginia into the regional jail
i'll make that question madam chair
mr lovelace made the motion
got a second by mr christian
any discussion we've already had that
all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions
thank you motion carries
now moving on to the county
administrator reports in request thank
you madam chair
on the county administrator reports and
requests the first one on the list is
the uh
2022 vaco
virginia rule
center and rural caucus reception this
is for inf euros information only this
will take a place february the
second and the third
this is for the rural caucus this will
be in richmond uh some of the board
members that will be attending of course
this is the also the local government
day you know with vaco and vmail
that we'll be discussing you know things
that the counties and legislators will
be addressing during this legislative
period
it will be
as
as the board members attend it'll be
very advantageous you know
to attend these meetings because of the
of the rapid changes that's going to
happen legislatively economic
development and especially with
the
federal uh
participation
on on various funds so right now it's uh
there's anticipated great attendance on
this from all the counties even though
there is
a covid you know issue but there will be
a great attendance
second thing on account administrative
requests and reports is of course your
state and local economic interest and
financial disclosure statements it's
that time of year again
so
it's included in your packet please fill
those out and we and return them to us
uh by
no later than
the end of the month because we have to
have them submitted
in the end of january
january yes yeah end of the month thank
you
third thing is the project jonah which
is uh
interjection agreement that we have with
uh tassel county i have spoke with
towson county
uh this juris agreement is a report only
currently right now we
uh we have project jonah that is uh
partial in tazewell county and half in
russell county
so we're we're working and serving on
storm water management and
soil and erosion services so each county
right now
is performing in its own environmental
services for storm water management is
being handled by deq
and each county is handling their ens
services on each side tazewell county is
doing theirs and we're handling theirs
we're also into the stage of blasting
we're also working with vdot on the
route to come out on 19 we're having to
also have public notices along with
russell county and tazewell county for
lane closures that will close both
northbound and southbound 19. so we were
coordinating that with v dot which i
don't see v dot in here today
but we will be coordinating those
blessings with that what we have decided
to do is until
the
jurisdiction agreement will come in
place
when we start collecting the building
fees that has been mentioned and has
sent to us by the engineers they're
anticipating the set of plans and the
building permits in march
that way that we can charge our fees to
this right now we're occurring these
fees we're keeping our own time we're
keeping our own time sheets because the
bill inspector's going out there we're
going out there doing their inspections
and tazzle county is doing the same so
once we get these in place i'll be
coming back to the board to to
for the distribution agreement so we we
would be able to charge back to the
count this project and not incur one
dollar of county funds in this
whatsoever
the the this is a private development
they will pay for these services so
um
next on the account administrator
request
no it's just report yes until
it comes back for the building
permit fees
and and activation okay i have a
question if i may yes ma'am
our permit fees are up to date so we
will be getting top dollar offer yes
ma'am thank you so much
next on count ministry report a request
is a request
by the county administrator
to all board members
for a rosa county full-time litter
officer
let me explain
we have
as y'all seen previously in the meeting
we have utilized the sheriff's
department but of course the sheriff's
department have other duties
it's hard for them to come off of their
their routes and their movements to take
on litter control we also have looked at
the internal alignment
that didn't work either so
also we have looked at hiring a
part-time
uh little control bailouts i have
searched i have worked with the
sheriff's department
but it's come to the point along with
what grants that we receive
we receive grants for
litter pickup
also the fines that we can incur i think
that we are at the point as long as
other counties because mr eaton had to
ask us to to
check with the other counties and
currently buchanan county and dickson
county for the waste management
authority have their own litter officer
they are they already have them so
i'm asking the board for permission
for a full-time leader control officer
that will be under the sheriff's
department
as that's where it will be the same of
the way is animal control
but the operations will remain same way
as animal control will be under the
county that way it will be an office
that will be working with the building
inspector and they'll have a set
schedule and and are in review that way
we are working they have police powers
but they will be working with the county
to solve these litter issues
so we i have been working with the
sheriff to come you know we have talked
with him and one of the things that has
been suggested is they are looking at
southwest virginia community college
they're looking at their um
judicial school and uh
the ones that's coming out of the
academy and to look at one that has a
little bit maybe of environmental
background
and sure powers so
this one will be active i know in the
past
that we had a sheriff
as a litter i mean i had a litter
control officer he wasn't the sheriff's
but before we never had an animal
control under the sheriff so this will
give it structure between the the
sheriff's department and the county
operations
and county reporting back to the bos i
think this will be a great position and
they'll pay for itself at least give me
one year to see what we can do
thank you
now that when i need a motion i will
entertain a motion for a russell county
litter officer i'll make that motion got
a motion from miss died i need a second
a second got a second from mr breeding
any further discussion
he will be
he has to get through he's coming out of
the academy yes sir
so he'll be carol carey firearm i'm
convinced anybody carries firearm has to
come through the sheriff's department
yes okay yes they will okay well i will
tell you this too there's a really great
piece of legislation i think senator
hackworth is getting through
we've met with him on
these retirees that retire
like from a police position they don't
have to go back through the academy
if that gets passed there's going to be
an opportunity that those guys could be
utilized in
and gals can be utilized in many various
types of opportunities you know retirees
that don't have to they retire and
they're not forced to go back through
the academy to go through the regiment
but they can still serve in a great a
great capacity in different
areas so we need to really
support and send out emails or whatever
to support this piece of legislation
that that he's filed absolutely
absolutely
david that was if they had done it
within if they had retired within a
certain period of time not way back on
but yeah or less recent yeah in a sense
any more discussion
we have a motion on the table
all in favor
thank you madam chair
next on the county administrative
request is of course the
department of criminal justice violence
against women
grant for sixty two thousand and nine
dollars i need a motion for approval
we have a motion in a second all in
favor
thank you
motion approved again next on the county
ministry request is the department of
criminal justice
yeah this is the 2021 mitigating covid19
pandemic risk that is forty seven
thousand one hundred eighty nine dollars
that was awarded to the russell county
sheriff's department in addition to the
other uh cares funds i need a motion for
approval acceptance
i'll make that motion we have a motion
from his dad do i have her second sec
have a second for mr ray all in favor
thank you madam chair
next on county ministry request is the
russ county sheriff vehicle surplus this
is a request by the sheriff's department
declare
these vehicles as surplus a 2008 ford
e50 van a 2000 international or horizon
a 1999 freightliner a 1995 soft top
humvee
bill's getting rid of the humvee 2011
jordan todd's charger
and the reason that we are doing this is
the authorization the request
the authorization is for a quest to
liquidate them for a government auction
to proceed with ross county board of
supervisors to purchase a 2000
freightliner which will be utilized as a
crime scene vehicle we're getting we're
concerned they're consolidating these
five vehicles into one
and also let me elaborate well back on
the leader officer the leader officer
will be supplied the car by the
sheriff's department it will be
it will have russell county litter
officer
on this on this this is getting yes this
is a part of the agreements so i need
approval to surplus these five vehicles
to proceed with the rosser county crime
scene vehicle
so move we have a motion need a second
second have a second by mr ray all in
favor
any opposed motion carries
okay number eight vdot resolution
yes ma'am
there's a vdot resolution that was asked
by vdot to be put on for the route 743
the uh 0.20
miles
of discontinuance on route 743
this is part of uh vdot's request this
is an annual inventory that they do they
they ask for discontinuance on this
portion but they have not done
maintenance only and i think for or
construction or anything for 38 years i
think that's that's what it says so
it says the virginia department of
transportation has notified russ
cannonboard supervisors in its of its
intent to discontinue a section of route
743 2.35 miles west of route 650 to 2.15
miles west of route 650 a distance of
0.20 miles
they're asking for a
resolution for approval for
discontinuance of this dead end piece of
road that's on roller coaster road yes
sir
thank you
i need a motion
somebody
mr breeding i need a second
second
second by mr ray
any discussion further
i'll call for the motion
all in favor
any opposed any abstentions thank you
motion carries madam chair that
concludes the count administrators
reports and requests
thank you um so we're down to board
discussion and reminders have i left off
anything tonight no ma'am all right
i'll go through district one
uh i'll just mention that you know david
and i talked about the leader officer
and i did ask
carl and i well i brought it up whenever
carl and i were at the last meeting
and what we did tonight is what all the
surrounding counties are doing and they
highly recommend that so
kudos to the board yeah
that's right
yeah and some of them some of them have
two really yes
mr ray
no manager
mr eaton yes ma'am i just have a couple
things
uh back when i first got elected i've
brought this issue up enormous uh
numerous times i'm gonna bring it up
again tonight i'd like for our budget
committee
to ask the school board for a plan
uh to look at our teachers wages and our
low end individuals our school bus
drivers our cooks and those
one of my biggest concerns is that we
need to be competitive in some form or
fashion i'm not saying this is an
overnight fix i'm not saying that and
i'm not saying that
i'm looking for alternative education
sources what i'm saying is we need to
make sure that we can keep
and
hire and retain talent here in russell
county and we're not going to be able to
do that unless we fix this issue
there's no way that based on a
percentage raise that will ever catch up
to these surrounding counties
we're going to continue to lose talent
if we don't support our teachers and
look at a way some way to be able to be
able to fix this issue
this has been it's we didn't create the
problem this has been something that
should have been directed and handled 20
years ago but it wasn't
uh it should have been looked at deeply
on how we could continue to maintain and
keep up with
this competitive
uh edge as far as being able to compete
with these other counties
i know we don't have as many in
population i understand that fully
and i am not for cons school
consolidation and shutting down our
schools i know there's a way to do this
without having to look at being
threatened for cuts in in other areas we
need to take this serious and look at it
so we'll have people move here live here
want to work here in russell county
second thing is
during the holidays
we need to do something about our trash
situation i mean
guys listen
if we can't set out extra cans and leave
these gates open so people can pull
throw their holiday trash away and then
we're putting all that in the back of
pickup trucks and they're driving down
the road and it's going out all over the
road before they get to the trash site
we we we're losing control of this
and it shouldn't be hard to fix it just
takes a little common sense to be able
to look at this situation to be able to
say let's just leave the gates open
let's add extra containers so people can
throw away their holiday trash
i mean i and then we're sending all
these people out to pick up the garbage
off the side of the roads it don't make
no sense to me
uh another thing i would like to thank
our
sheriff steve dye and our police force
state troopers investigators for their
quick reaction to an incident that
happened
about a week ago i said i guess
everybody's heard about it with the
shooting and then
the suspect
was down around where my oldest son
lived
they were all contained in their homes
and
the the suspect i guess was apprehended
or a self-inflicted gunshot wound is
what i'm hearing
but i want to thank them for their quick
response for what they did and the
engagement they had with our citizens
within that area
they protected people they communicated
well with them and they and they kept
people inside until this was taken care
of and i am so grateful i've got a brand
new grandbaby that lives down there
and you know you don't never think about
it till it happens to you and then your
back door and my son's very capable of
taking care of himself and his family
but
there's a lot of people down there a lot
of in that neighborhood and elderly
people
that this could have turned out a lot
worse and i just want to say i'm i'm
really grateful and that's all i have
madam chair
thank you mr brady i'm just going to
follow up a little bit with what david
talked about teacher salaries the reason
these across the board mandates that we
get from the state won't work
is because
when you do a five percent say for
example in washington county versus a
five percent in russell county the gap
between what we pay and what they pay
just continues to get bigger and bigger
and bigger we have to come up with some
some way to get away from these
across-the-board mandates and apply
those funds that they require us to uh
to pump into the school system uh to be
used you know in a more equitable way to
try to get these salaries of some of the
teachers up
uh i think the minimum wage increases
are probably going to take care of a lot
of the low end people because you know
and this minimum wage is eleven dollars
an hour now and it's going to go what to
13.
eventually it'll go to 15.
yeah it just went to 11 january first
but
i think maybe next year it goes to maybe
i don't know maybe it's 13 12 50 13 i
don't know
what was that
okay
no no comments from peanut gallery over
there
uh
and and we still need to make a decision
on wallace property that's tying into
the jail the parking lot i still get
calls from mr wallace he wants an answer
and we've got to make some decision on
what you're going to do with it you know
thank you ms dye
no thank you
mr christian
i want to reply to what david and steve
was talking about this uh difference in
teachers paying this county and others
i'm for that but first of all we've got
to have a source of re money coming in
you all know of any way we've lost coal
severance tax we've lost people
uh the population now bringing jobs in
but getting them jobs in until then we
can't take that step you said not
overnight which would pay until we get
these jobs in and people coming in and
get some source of revenue
to have that money there to pay them
we can't do it we look at these
different things and different phases of
it
and it's good to plan
but we can plan but we can't take that
bold step until we see that we got a
source of revenue that we can take care
of it with mr christian the only thing
i've asked for since the beginning as a
plan
is a plan i've just asked for them to
come together and let's just look at it
it might be a five-year plan a ten year
i don't know but i just i've asked for a
plan of action to show how do we get
from point a to point b
that's all i've asked for who are you
asking the budget committee budget
committee to meet with the school system
to see
how we can generate a plan to be able to
fix it
that's all i've asked for is a plan just
i mean we got a lot of smart people
so you're wanting the budget committee
to make a plan for the school board oh
i just like for our budget committee to
be able to communicate with the school
school board system so the school board
needs to come back to us with their plan
what they're going to do we've asked for
that numerous times and haven't received
anything from them from them we have to
have from them to us well i think it'd
be appropriate for the county budget
committee to work with school board to
come up with some sort of well i
wouldn't
have input but specifically because what
do you talk about ores we we but we
don't know how much money we're going to
have to have i mean the state says you
know north northrend sent down a five
percent
increase this year and five percent next
year now
you know we've got the option of sending
it back to them and just not doing any
races is all if we can't come up with
the money
our problem is that you know that only
takes care of part of the teachers the
the soq right yes and there's there's
umpteen other you know people within the
county
who
if we just did what the state wants us
to do wouldn't get a raise at all you
know we took the position right from
get-go that wasn't right you know yeah
so you know we need we just need to come
up with some plan you know it's not
going to be easy but but you need to
work with them and see what you can get
them to do we've discussed this with the
new governor and and i think the
secretary of education you know to meet
with them and to have this discussion to
see how we can come up to speed down
here in the coalfield county and i mean
what it is we're just competing against
each other consistently for that person
but we're the third
lowest in the whole state of virginia
in pay
i mean that's bad
it is but if you had a nice safety ain't
got the revenue do it
okay well
not trying to cut you off but we our new
budget committee will work toward that
request and i will make sure that
i asked you about that in a month or so
we'll see where we get how's that
fair enough
all right
and uh from district 2 i don't have
anything except to say
thank you to the board tonight for the
litter officer
i am so pleased to hear this steve i was
going to hold your feet to the fire
because that's what you said last time
we're going to get us one
thank you so much district 2
appreciates this thank you and
in closing february 7th it's the next
board meeting and
wait do we need to reconvene because
we'll all be in richmond on
this
we need to adjourn to reconvene
reconvene katie do you have enough going
how many's going
i always advise that you adjourn to
reconvene if you're going because you're
obviously going to be together and
discussing county business
um so if you if more than two of you are
going then i always recommend that i'll
make a move and we always learn to
reconvene all right we've got a motion
to adjourn to reconvene in richmond
virginia i need a second
second
all right all in favor
all right any opposed
so we're good to go with that next
meeting february 7th here at the board
room 6 o'clock
i call this meeting adjourned thank you
very much
i did