sorry about that thank you madam chair
certification closed session
pursuant to subsection
2.2-37-12-d of code virginia
1950 as amended each member of the board
of supervisors upon roll call
certifies that the best of their
knowledge only business public matters
were lawfully exempted from the open
meeting requirements under the virginia
freedom of information act
and only such
public business matters that were
identified in the motions
by which the closed meeting was convened
or 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 say so stay
so prior to the vote indicating the
substance of the departure that end his
or her judgment has taken place
are there any supervisors who believe a
departure has taken place
seeing none
if you agree that the matter is heard
discuss or considered during the closed
meeting were pursuant only to the
motions by which the closed meeting was
convened please signify by saying yay or
yes tim loveless
yes luanne wallace yes
corey yes david yes
steve brady yes voice christian yes
rebecca dye yes ma'am we have approval
to return to regular session
thank you
at this time we'll have our invocation
and remain standing for the pledge
please
father god lord we love you we thank you
we praise you today father father we
thank you for
this holiday season father and we thank
you for allowing us to meet together we
ask you to bless this meeting help us
use
what you've given us so that we may go
out and uh spread your name father
father you tell us during your the
trials to give you praise so tonight
we're going to give you praise father
for it's in your name i pray amen amen
pledge allegiance to the flag of the
united states of america and to the
republic for which it stands
one nation under god indivisible with
liberty and justice
at this time i'd like to
make some amendments to our agenda
we need to add a planning commission
appointment
under number four board appointments
we have a resignation and a
an appointment back in that position
also under our county attorney number
four
we have information from the southwest
virginia
regional jail authority agreement and ms
katie will be discussing that
and under
the county administrator request
number eight we need to add that it's a
vdot resolution for route uh
743 so with those uh items i'll take a
motion to amend their agenda chair where
did you say number one went on the board
appointments do i even have that
no he just added that
thank you under
the fenney community
center
we'll add that your board appointment
we have the resignation
and then the uh
new one back
all right and four is under county
attorney
and then a number eight under
uh request for the county administrator
i'm sure make a motion that we've been
the agenda as you've stated
thank you do we have a
second thank you all those in favor
all right
all right the first thing we have is to
turn our meeting over to
our county administrator for the
organizational meeting
first board meeting of the year
thank you madam chair
first thing on the agenda
the organizational meeting and selection
of the chairman russell county board the
supervisors
i'd like to nominate lou wallace for
that
position
i'll second them
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any
so the first one we have luanne wallace
is that correct and in the second one we
have david e
is there any other nominations
since there's no other nomination has
been i need to move
a move to uh cecil nominations and then
be closed move to csun nominations
since it's been moved to the isle
nominations for the chairman has now
been closed
is there any if there's no other
nominations to the nominations the
nominations are closed
we will proceed with the vote
in reverse order first
with
uh
david eaton
and then mrs wallace in reverse order
for the nomination of the russ kennedy
portage board of supervisors chairperson
david eden
raise of hands
can i see that
three okay
congratulations as rosa county board of
supervisors chairperson
thank you um
so we'll continue on and
please the public excuse me i'm
suffering from a tiny little cold
tonight so i'm all messed up
anyway we'll move on to the
organizational meeting with the election
of the vice chair
i'll take a motion from the board for
vice chair
i'll nominate horace christian
okay we have a nomination for orris
christian do we have another one
i'll nominate
carl ray
we have a nomination for carl ray
anymore
okay
we'll take it in reverse order carl ray
for vice chair of the russell county
board of supervisors
all in favor
we have three
okay for orris christian for uh vice
chair
thank you the motion carries christian
is now the vice chair of the russell
county board supervisor
moving on in the organizational meeting
for clerk of the board and deputy clerk
uh does that mean
we'll make a motion to nominate or to
elect the
alonzo westeros clerk and
vicki porter's deputy clerk i'll sign it
okay we have a nomination for mr lester
as clerk and ms porter as deputy clerk
all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions
motion carries
adoption of the county's bylaws those
are in your packet
i'll make a motion we don't rock the
latest version robert's rules
thank you we have a motion for the
roberts rules of order adoption i'll
second it we have a second
all in fact any discussion
all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions
motion carries
and we also going on to number five in
the uh organizational meeting is
adoption of county bylaws
so move madam chair
okay we have a motion and a second but
mr eaton and mr ray
all in favor
any discussion i'm sorry
any opposed any abstentions
number six in the organizational meeting
2022 board of supervisors regular
scheduled meetings that is in your
packet
uh i'll make a motion we adopt the uh
meeting dates
listed that will be
6 pm
it's listed on page 1 of the
agenda or the board pack
we have a motion for mr greeting to
adopt the scheduling as presented in
your packet
second with a second by mr lovelace any
discussion
all in favor
any opposed any abstentions
next moving on to
acknowledgements
we have an acknowledgement in our packet
dr rex road russell county lifetime
achievement award
mr lester do you need to discuss that
uh no ma'am can can we approve the
budget schedule also
number seven
all right the fy 2223
budget meeting schedule yes motion to
approve that schedule thank you second
in a second by mr eating all in favor
any opponent
any abstentions
we don't need to say anything more about
that right because the schedule is in
there
thank you
now we're moving on to the
acknowledgement for uh dr norman rexroad
lou i'm going to have to send you bill
this is not handy to mash this little
microphone and talk at the same time
um the presentation for dr norman
rexrode
he is a
west virginia university medical school
graduate of 1978
east tennessee state university a
residence and internship hospital in
1980
board certified in emergency medication
he became a member of the russell county
medical staff in september the 10th of
1983
served in various positions at russell
county including most recently the
secretary treasurer of the medical
executive committee
served as chief of the emergency
medicine as well as various leadership
positions within the hospital
in 2010
mountain states health alliance servants
heart recipient
in 2021 the governor's ems award for
physician and outstanding contribution
to ems awarded the frank m geiser trophy
and at this time we'll
present to
dr rexrow
a lifetime achievement award outstanding
in recognition of outstanding emergency
medical service and commitment to
leadership
and involvement for the citizens of
russell county
police
[Applause]
oh
and i've already read this that's okay
that's okay
tell us one two three universe
can you see everyone i want to make sure
everyone's in there everybody loves it
you're right you see yourself
thank you
[Laughter]
we finally got you out of your scrubs
and i've seen you have scrubs
thank you sir thank you so much
moving on to presentations
we do ask that you have a limit of about
five minutes
and the first one is the russell county
psa
can you
the presentation about the psa we met
with them in
closed session to discuss some legal
issues
so
at the request of the russell county psa
i will make a motion
to temporarily suspend mr carter
mclaughlin as a board member of the
russell county psa
as there are currently criminal charges
against mr mclaughlin for the alleged
use of public property
a second
okay we have a motion and a second to
temporarily suspend mr mclaughlin from
the russell county psa
any further discussion on the matter
i'll call for the vote all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions
uh yes i currently work part-time with
the psa and i'll be abstaining
thank you so much
we have two abstentions
okay
all right moving on um presentations
litter ordinance mr hancock
he's not here
okay
moving on to new business approval of
the minutes um
and consider approval of the minutes of
the following meeting of the russell
county board of supervisors that's in
your packet under d1
unapproved minutes of december 6 2021.
yeah so move madam chair okay we have a
motion by mr eaton
second by mr ray all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions
thank you
moving on to new business number two
approval of expenditures consider
approval of expenditures presented for
payment motion to approve it you just
missed it
i included that in the other one so we
took that in
i guess that's okay
okay we have a motion in a second all in
favor
any opposed any abstentions
madam chair see mr hancock
yes i was unavoidably detained
okay
um at the chair's pleasure let me move
through new business and we'll go back
to
um presentations if you make
anybody have a problem with that okay
thank you
all right number three new business
approval of 2022 authorized payments
some movement chairs mr braiding
wait a second mr eaton thank you all in
favor
any opposed
any extensions
number four committee appointments for
board consideration
and um
i think we have
at this time the budget committee is
this that i'm not on that page
okay
so the chair's pleasure for board
appointment for uh budget
is rebecca donna i'm asking miss dog yes
and mr christian
will you agree to serve
on the budget committee for this year
thank you so much
next when we move on to uh the board
appointments
for
any community center
mr ray is that yours yeah yes jerry
can i do both of these at the same time
i think you can do this as a blog
all right all right i'd like to put mr
david
and mr edward taylor back on there okay
we have a motion for mr compton and mr
tiller for the fenney community center
second we have a second by mr lovelace
all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions
thank you
also we come to number five in new
business which was added previously
for um this is a planning commission
appointment
this is for district 2
so
if i may be indulged just a minute
mr collins that we previously approved
for that appointment
is unable to serve in that position
and so um district 2 will now be looking
for another position i have an
application from phillip addison i'm
asking the board to
give me a nomination
for that particular seat
okay
i'll make a motion to accept the
resignation
of the other one and then appoint the
philip paddington is it adam hurry
yes and so we need to do that in two
separate motions
i'll make a motion to accept the
resignation of
charlie collins
thank you so much um all in favor all
right
any opposed any abstentions
okay and now we'll move on to um adding
mr adson to the psa from district two
i'll make a motion to add philip
daddington
to the planning commission
thank you we have a motion in a second
two seconds and um all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions thank you so much
now we're going to go back to
presentations
since mr hancock has arrived mr hancock
we're glad to have you you have five
minutes
all right
generally when
people say they're glad to have me huh
i figured they're just important we're
being polite so thank you
uh
actually i don't have much of a
presentation
of course then i handed out
notebooks i guess
last month
everybody book including you uh uh
forest
you you didn't hear me did you
i didn't hear you like they said that
stallion
oh
i was just asking if you got your
notebook
from
last meeting
okay good all right
uh
actually i have just i think one
question
that is
uh
now
you folks
all know who i am because i've been here
before
and i
with that know
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this way y'all's going banks anyway yeah
uh
how many
and i'd like to see a show of hands
how many of you folks have been up to
see the property
that
i'm talking about and have been around
the back i've just been up there to see
it from the front
because the front's not
where the offensive materials are there
are the back now i know alonzo you went
up there i think with bill watson but i
don't know if you
can feel one around the back
i know you said the caliber isn't very
pleasant
which is my experience with him as well
but he did it man how many of you guys
would be up there and being around the
back right here
i didn't go around the back
yeah well yeah
although it's really hard to even see
from back there although there's a way
i have to laugh
that like
called the police on me tried to have me
arrested for
invasion of privacy
trespassing
and the officers came up but uh
i i i have represented the subdividers
for years
uh
and
so i know where all the lock lines are
and by the way uh if that generates a
question
as to why
i'm here
when
i represent the subdividers
back in the 70s probably when this
subdivision was done and i didn't do it
actually dennis jones did it at that
time
probably the latest greatest thing in
this area in the country
was what you call
a subdivision with regular cross
cuttings in other words when you buy a
lot in that subdivision you're subject
to the same restrictions as everyone
else
and that's what restrictions apply to
this gentleman's property now he has uh
on occasion
said crude things to me about his right
to do whatever
the heck he wanted with that property
and that's a euphemism
but
i always said i just need a yes or a no
i think we can enforce it
but i believe i told uh
i've told some people that
that pits neighbor against neighbor and
uh
i don't
i don't necessarily want to do that you
know
i used to do divorce work and i was
younger that lots of people wanted to
shoot me
told me they would but
i i've gotten kind of used to that but
some of the old folks that live up to my
street don't
they really don't want to be involved
with that in name
okay
so
i always took the position on this
matter of fact it shows how foolish i
was
one of my neighbors
got upset about it i forget who who said
something to me about it so
several of them said something to you so
i said well
we have an ability to go and enjoy
the business activities there are in my
estimation we do
but that's on us
we pay for that because this is not a
planned unit development it's not a
condominium we don't pay games every
month to pay for attorneys to use the
swimming pool
all that
but the good news is i'll do it for free
for
the attorney you know the attorney work
won't cost anything
but it would really be
uh
and i'm not charging for this not to
have charges a penny at all
uh
not planning on charging the penny but i
said that
the best way
as a matter of fact that was right
that's time i noticed you guys were
enacting the
the new
ordinance in
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2020
so i said well hey they're
enacting a new ordinance so
i said that the county really ought to
do it because
i got the old ordinance here of course
then i got the new orleans but
uh
i guess that's when i talked to lonzo
first
but anyway
it's been a trip uh so
but never had
but fool
i was to say it ought to be simple
uh to get the board of supervisors to
act
and i have been told
everything in the world
but i said i'd be brief anytime you guys
want to ask me
about the whole story that's fine
because it is a
comedy of errors and i don't think
anybody really understands where i'm
coming from i've written katie i've been
to a lot of people
but anyway
so
i'm just here
to see what you guys
want to do
and that's what i'm here for
thank you mr hancock i think your time
is up
and we appreciate you coming um
i would defer this to mr lester and the
county attorney
sure the board has a right to say what
they want to
and they can make comment at this time
but i
as chair i would send that over to mr
lester and our county attorney
all right
mr
there's there's been actions on this
property
enforcement actions
yes yes
you go over all that what's been done
i i can't i can't so
give me a little bit of time mr hancock
this is the property you're referring to
right here
uh yes sir okay uh matter of fact that
what may be one of my photographs no
those are mine
and i'll go through how long we've been
working on this so
the
in the board packet that i gave them of
course
this is litter ordinances this is this
is the property that you're referring to
here that's outlined here
that's on uh kennedy on the corner of
storance drive and kennedy drive this is
the location yeah although that looks
like a satellite photo that i tender
because they're just not messy like the
property right that's our gi system our
gis system so when we were notified back
in in
2019 2020
since then we've had three deputies by
the way so these folks will understand
that gis is the geographical information
system am i correct thank you mr hank
yes it is
so
we gave a two-week notice
to
let me go through all those
we gave a two week notes to mr hicks to
clean up it was given to
mr hicks by
cuba porter junior backyard that's
sitting 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 is date and time stand
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 of 2021.
may i interrupt you for a second just so
we can get on things
yes
uh
you can't
in order to keep from going to jail
uh you can
scroll out something
i
this gentleman threatened me
uh
with
invasion 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
but they're significantly narrower
especially stars drive which has never
been taken in this state system
so i was standing out here and i was
taking photographs of him
intentionally i knew he was there matter
of fact i
accidentally activated my video
of him and got him
threatening me
saying crude things that hurt my
feelings now
what i want you to know i'm glad you got
a good camera
because if you look at all this stuff
see that that's all still there it's
under snow right now okay i just want
you to know unless you go and you look
and by the way his lot line
also
over here there's a fence yes
and his lifeline doesn't really start
right about that tree
so you can actually go up there and walk
along that fence there without
and take close-up photographs yeah
without getting onto the 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
to clean up to remember this i don't
believe it
are you sure that that that's yeah these
are they stanton timestamp that is
february the 25th of 2021.
those are times that's 202
2021 yes
i first called up there i first talked
with
the deputy sheriff
in
up here in the sheriff's office
in 2020 february 2020. i've been on this
since february 2020 and i know about
when he came up there and i know about
what they told him
so we've had three deputies out there mr
watson mr cuba porter
and
mr hydra 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 have me thrown out
if you want but how come it's been two
years since i complained in a first time
i seen 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 here 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 it applies or not
can we
come
when we give the notice to the resident
why don't i the complaining party get a
copy of that now i have had this
question
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 discuss this in another
place i think 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 uh gave
mary black notebook that's
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 manager
thank you
yeah
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 requests
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 um
revising it to take out any references
to zoning or or other code sections that
albemarle county had
was on see i think
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 18-4.8
and that's what i have um
provided you
is this section here and 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 um
that as emotion katie could you know i
mean we really haven't seen it in
finnish form i'd like an opportunity to
look at it and make comments on it
and then be in a position next board
meeting
sure no problem 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 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
what's feasible because one of the
things that lists our 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 you gave us
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 doesn't list it says shooting range
shooting preserve or target trap or
skeet range exemptions or gun club but
what about the normal hunter right 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 control that
language
um 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 we're going to doctor an
exercise
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
and
regarding what the school and the
russell county schools do with um this
is a retirement incentive and
um the retirement incentive that they've
offered
um for years i knew was was legally
sound that's something they've been
doing for a while the issue that first
came um 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 retirement incentive
allows um
russell county employees who have worked
at least 15 years to use sick days up to
a certain amount to buy
basically health insurance
to help to help cover the cost of the
health insurance and so first i asked
lonzo
if maybe we should just do the flat fee
but
um 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 it
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
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the proposed policy for retirement i did
suggest to lonzo that we might pass a
separate resolution not this to allow
anyone within this 90-day period that
retires to avail themselves if they meet
all the eligibility requirements to
avail themselves of this policy um
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 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 miss
tammy
i was going to say caldwell 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
70
and tammy has not been
involved in this and she's who
basically does it for everybody
so
i mean that's just a thought
i also think that we should tell you
because we really need to get more
information how many people is
approaching this retirement time uh how
many years it got in right now i think
that 15 years about 15 years from 50
years of age
is that
yes and yeah
i'm kind of like rebecca when you i feel
like it make a wise decision now this is
a financial
decision that's going to
cost money to taxpayers because
taxpayers don't put the money or you
take it out pay these people
and
we need to
really know the ins and outs and how
many people and when they submit to
retire
and uh
and all
before we make decisions i'm for helping
people
these people been on 20 years 25 30
years i wouldn't want to try not to melt
anything it's just that
before we take it wrong step we need
more information in order to
take this step katie is is this the same
as the school board
okay yes that's my understanding and
blonzo pulled it from it we did
eliminate one of the options he didn't
take care of all the county employees
did she score sick leaving
no see that's what i'm saying
she can explain it
and vicki when we have any medical
things vicky kind of
called 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 in that right
launch then we spread out the payments
in insurance things yes
the program is set up
to start for county employees to convert
their retirement at 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
degree 175 days not
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 outside the board has to consider
because you got to know it it becomes
like a pension line right
it is a liability long term because
right now the way that it is read it's
written for a single policy it does not
cover the employee's 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 employees these
things on the board tim does too
you will incur 60
of that liability from the county so
those 15 that you have that are eligible
right now you would have depended on
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 seven years until they're
eligible for medicare yes one or the
other
that is correct well one of the things
i've always said
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
spending 20 years of employment with
russell county and then just say well
you know it's an it's a great investment
you're gonna 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 and 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
50 years in
then that in seven years your insurance
stops
see it's a seven year yeah it's just
seven years or until you
are eligible for medicare
medicare
so if you're if you're 62 and you retire
then you then you've got it i mean
you'll get your 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 gonna um
you're trying to get medicare at 62.
you can only get medicare 65. yeah
but you come in you can take
62.
in order to get to medicare you have to
be 65. so
they can 58.
they can retire at 50 for this policy if
they got 15 years of service
madam chair
you may make a suggestion
yes
i know you're gonna
since uh mr breeden sits on health care
can you
point a committee with the county
administrator two board members
the uh vicki porter the hr and tammy
gilbert tammy's to get look at this
to present
i don't want to drink this out any
further than next sport
that's that way that way the lobby
people have been waiting on this for
five or six months and they've been told
it's it's going to happen so they put
off their retirement for that long 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
if the board
we don't want to lose it for the
employees
you know everybody
the insurance committee tim and me
and you and me
because the up portion the first portion
of it the liquidation of what they've
accrued up to 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 want to crew it into credit
this way we can look at the the number
of employees that we've 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 preacher to the board thank you
mr leicester
when this committee goes and thankfully
comes back i like to have time i'll just
lay it down and say review that i you
all know i don't say that i don't like
some people they don't hear me i have
time to read and research and everything
and then turn around quite a bit
i like
thank you mr christian you need to
refresh your microphone for the folks
out in
tv land i guess
uh number three on the
county attorney reports is the
cumberland industries facility authority
executive director contract
yes madam chair and i i've
received the exec the excuse me the
executed copy and back from chase
collins the casual 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 ties will wrestle
mccain and all
appropriated the sum of money to hire
this executive director to work on
behalf of this region for economic
development um the board the cipa board
did approve that and the attorneys
finalized the contract and i think she
do you know when she signed that lonzo
has she's not 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 is 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
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 lonzo provided me um
an agreement and a resolution
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 jail authority um
voted to accept them and it's my
understanding from talking to wanzo that
the authority did vote to accept them in
the resolution that's before the board
tonight to approve the gist of it is
basically it's it's asking you to
approve to accept crystalline 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
will 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 buonzo has
any more information for that but if the
board is willing to move forward with
this that's my understanding it's the
request of the regional
jail authority board for for russell
county to approve this tonight
ma'am sure can i elaborate or tim
from the county bench county's
perspective uh of course you know
everyone knows the city of bristol has
had issues with their jail and kim can
labor have done that more because he
sits on the authority and sometimes 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
lovelace and mr christian says on this
so they can tell more about the program
itself but from the county's perspective
it's maybe 70 80 000 savings let me ask
you
when i read the thing it implied that
they could have 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
that's good and everyone else will too
because part of the agreement is that
they have to pay a premium for them 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're gonna get
caught up
gary's a good deal
contribution
okay so the next is on uh the agenda for
the county administrative reports
request i'm sorry matt um is the board
we need to we need to have a mission to
approve that okay i apologize
yes i'll entertain a motion to accept uh
bristol virginia into the regional jail
oh my god
mr lovelace made the motion
a second by mr christian
any discussion
you've already had that all in favor
any opposed
any abstentions
thank you motion carries
now moving on to the county
administrator reports and request thank
you madam
chair on the account administrator
reports and requests the first one on
the list is the uh
2022 vaco
virginia rule
center and rural caucus reception this
is foreign bureau's information only
this will be taking 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 uh government
day you know with vehicle and vml
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 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 the count administrative
request 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 can return them to us
by
no later than the end of the month
because we have to have them submitted
third thing is the project jonah which
is uh
energy restriction agreement that we
have with
tassel county i have spoke with tassel
county
uh this juris agreement is a report only
currently right now we
uh we have project jonah that is uh
partial in tassel 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 has handled 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 19th we're
happening to
also have public notices along with
russell county and tazow county for lane
closures that will close both northbound
and southbound 19. so we were
coordinating that with vdot which i
don't see v dot in here today
but we will be coordinating those
blastings with that
what we have decided to do is until
the jurisdiction agreement will come in
place
when we start collecting the building
phase 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 the wrong time we're
keeping our own time sheets because the
bill inspector is going out there we're
going out there doing their inspections
and towson county is doing the same so
once we get these in place i'll be
coming back to the board to to
for the jurisdiction agreement so we we
would be able to charge back to
the account this project and not incur
one dollar of county funds in this
whatsoever
the this is a private development they
will pay for these services so
next on the account administrative
request
no it's just report yes until
it comes back for the building
permit fees
and and activation
i have a question if i may yes ma'am
our permit fees are up to date so we
will be getting top dollar off yes ma'am
thank you so much
next on chemistry 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 internal
alignment
that didn't work either so
also we have looked at
hiring a part-time
uh little control bills i have searched
i have worked with the shirts 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 eden had to
ask us to check with the other counties
and currently buchanan county and dixon
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
that's that's where it will be the same
the way it's 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
they're in review that way we are
working they have police powers
but they will be working with the county
to solve these liver 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
jiu jitsu 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 sharp powers so
this one will be active i know in the
past that we had a sheriff
as a litter i mean i had the litter
control officer it wasn't the sheriff's
but before we never had enough control
under the sheriff so this will give a
structure between them
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
have that one i need a motion i will
entertain a motion for a russell county
litter officer i'll make that motion got
a motion from his dive i need a second
second a second from mr breeding
any further discussion you know
he will be
he'll be
has to follow
he has to go through he's coming out of
the academy yes sir so he'll be carol
carrie fire i'm convinced anybody
carries firearm has to
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 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 to the
academy to go through the regiment but
they can still serve in a great great
capacity in different areas so we need
to really
support and send out emails or whatever
to support this piece of legislation
that he's followed absolutely absolutely
that that was if they had done it within
if they had retired without
something period of time not way back on
but
that's reasonable
yes sir
any more discussion
we have a motion on the table
all in favor
thank you madam chair
next on the count 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
so
we have a motion in a second all in
favor
thank you
nation approved again next on the county
ministry request is the department of
criminal justice
yeah this is the 2021 mitigating kobit
19 pandemic risk that is 47
189 dollars that was awarded to the
russell county sheriff's department in
addition to the other uh terrorist funds
need a motion for approval acceptance
i'll make that motion
we have a motion from his dad every
second
a second for mr ray all in favor
thank you madam chair
next on the county ministry request is
the russell 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 me 2011 jordan
thomas 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 or suffice
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 we'll back on
the leader officer the litter 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 part of the agreements so i need
approval to surplus these five vehicles
to proceed with the rosa county crime
scene vehicle
so move you have a motion need a second
okay have a second by mr ray all in
favor
any opposed motion carries
okay number eight vita resolution
yes ma'am
there's a vdot resolution that was asked
by vdot to be put on for the route 743
the
0.20
miles
of discontinuance on route 743
this is part of
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 on it and i think before
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 county
board for supervisors and it's 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 the roller coaster road
yes sir
thank you
i need a motion
mr breeding i need a second
okay
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 account administrator's
reports and requests
thank you
so we're down to board discussion and
reminders have i left off anything
tonight
all right
i'll go through district one
uh i'll just mention that they did not
talk about the leader officer and i did
ask
carl and i brought it up
and what we did tonight is what all the
surrounding counties are doing and they
highly recommend that so
you know to the board
that's right
they were going to do that
mr yes ma'am i just have a couple things
back when i first got elected i've
brought this issue up enormous
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
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 uh 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 the
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
this 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 con 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
and want to work here in russell county
uh
second thing is
during the holidays
uh
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 bag 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'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 and 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
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 guess everybody's
heard about it with the shooting and
then
the suspect
uh was down around where my oldest son
lived
they were all contained in their homes
and
the suspect i guess was apprehended 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 it kept people inside
until this was took 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 in 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 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
manager
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 the
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
to pump into the school system
uh to be used in a more equitable way to
try to get these salaries to some of the
teachers dead
i think the minimum wage increases are
probably going to take care of a lot of
low-end people because you know
this minimum wage of lip dollars in
there now it's going to go what 13.
it'll go to 15. that's good he just went
to 11. yeah it just went to 11 january
1st but i think maybe next year it goes
to maybe i don't know maybe it's 13 12
15 13. i don't know 45
what was that max goes to 25
yeah
and we still need to make decision on
wallace property that's tied into jail
the parking lot i still get calls from
mr wallace and he wants an answer and
we've got to make
some decision on what you're going to do
with it you know
that's all good thank you ms doc
no thank you
mr christian
i want to reply to what david and steve
talk about this
uh difference in
teachers pay and this county and others
i'm for that but first of all we gotta
have a source of re money coming in
you all know anyway we've lost cold
sales tax we've lost people
uh the population down bringing jobs in
but getting them jobs down until then we
can't take that step you send out over
life which we think 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 when you 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 it we got a
source of revenue that we take care of
mr christian the only thing i've asked
for since the beginning as a plan
is a plan i just asked for them to come
together and let's just look at it it
might be a five-year plan
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 explored 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
i just like for our budget committee to
be able to communicate with the school
school board system 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 yeah to
but we don't know how much money we're
going to have to have i mean the state
says you know north northland sending
out a 5
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 at 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
soq right
and there's there's 15 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
so you know we need we just need to come
up with some plan you know
it's not going to be easy but you need
to work with and see what you want 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 have a knife and got
the revenue to do it
well i'm not trying to cut you off but
um 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 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 man
in closing february 7th it's the next
board meeting and i do wait do we need
to reconvene because we'll all be in
richmond on
this we need to adjourn to reconvene
convene okay do you have enough
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 conversation we always learn to
reconvene all right we've got a motion
to adjourn to reconvene in richmond
virginia need a second
see
all right all in favor
all right any
so we're good to go with that next
meeting february 7th here at the
boardroom six o'clock
i call this meeting of germs thank you
very much
do you want me to