i'll second that thank y'all all right
yes ma'am the certification of closed
session
pursuant to subsection 2.2-37-12-d
code of virginia 1950 is admitted each
member of the board of supervisors
upon roll call certifies that to best of
their knowledge
only public business matters lawfully
exempted from the open meeting
requirements under the virginia
freedom of information act and only such
public business matters that were
identified in the motions by which the
closed meeting was convened
were heard discussed or considered in
the meeting by the board of supervisors
any member of the board of supervisors
who believes that there was a departure
from these requirements
shall stay so prior to the vote
indicating the substance of that
departure
in his or her judgment that has taken
place
or any supervisors who believe a
departure has taken place
seeing none if you agree that the
matters heard discussed or considered
during the closed meeting were pursuant
only
to the motions by which the closed
meeting was convened
please signify by saying yey or yes tim
lovelace
yes luanne wallace
yes carl ray
yes steve brady yes
david yes worst christian yes
rebecca die
ma'am you have approval to return to
regular session
all right at this time will we please
stand for the invocation and remain
standing for the pledge
thank you dear lord for giving us
another day thank you dear lord for the
many things that you have bestowed upon
us
loving and gracious god as we continue
to walk through these days
please lead guide and direct us in this
uncertainty
and this anger this grief the violence
and the bleakness that we're hearing
but help us to know that you will lead
us in all their pleas
and our deepest christ we listen and
seek
for your abiding and loving presence in
all you
in all things we give our praise to
jesus
thank you
to the amen of the united states
all right the first thing we have on our
agenda is
the approval of the agenda as it is
do i have a motion to accept the agenda
um i make a motion we accept the agenda
as presented
thank you do we have second second
second
steve all right all those in favor
roll call orris yes carl
yeah lou yes tim yes
david yes steve yes rebecca yes
all right our new business is the
approval of our minutes
first is the july 6th which was our
regular board meeting
do i have a motion to approve those
minutes as written
i'll make a motion to put those minutes
as written all right thank you do we
have a second
second tim all right all those in favor
roll call orris
yes carl
lou yes tim yes david
yes steve yes and rebecca yes
all right our second is the uh minutes
of their july
8th it was a meeting that
orris and steve and i attended we went
to see a prospective business
so uh to have a motion to accept those
minutes so move into chair steve second
oh second horse all right there'll be
three of us
all right all those in favor are
abstaining
orris yes carl
hey lou abstention please
okay tim abstention david
abstention call uh steve yes and rebecca
yes
yes thank you yes you did yeah thank you
that's fine
next we have approval of all their uh
expenditures
our payments for turn off the volume
here
what
no but the three of us
but he abstained nobody else nobody was
there it was just the three of us that
went to see the prospective business
well i'll receive mine i'll vote yes i i
feel confident
that we've been updated on the potential
uh
prospect yes
i'll rescind
that's okay okay all right
all right our second thing is approval
of our expenditures do we have a motion
to uh pay our bills or expenditures
i'll make motion purpose discussion okay
we have a second second tim okay
discussion
i have a question uh based on
i guess this goes back to the grant uh
one of the grants that we received for
the fairgrounds
uh the
the amount can you give me the total
amount that's been spent on that project
are you referring to the tobacco grant
yes
right now currently the russell county
has
a reimbursement in for the
fairgrounds work that we've done through
the fire grounds committee and
in the contractor for 57 000.
okay the amount what was the total
amount of the whole grant
the the total amount of the whole grant
was 215 000.
so basically all we've spent
approximately a hundred thousand
about approximately a hundred thousand
this is
the fire grounds project is actually a
two phase project the first
phase was to get a new roof on
upgrade the doors the flooring the hvac
the electrical
get it insulated which it is already we
was actually down the fairgrounds
on monday morning and if kovid hadn't
came in we could have already started
having events
so that this is the first phase it
actually come in a cheaper
with assistance from the community
workers and the county staff
on working this to get the fairgrounds
back up under roof and then we'll be
doing another addition in phase two
so basically is this listed in the
accounts where we actually can
look at this is it separated out in the
project account
yes it is so basically we have a hundred
thousand
we have over a hundred thousand dollars
left to be able to
spend on that project that we went to
richmond and fought hard to get
like the previous tobacco commission
grants it's a dollar for dollar match
so what we match the fire ground matches
the tobacco commission will match
yes we got kind of held up on the delay
with through the tobacco commission
because when kovi had hit
they went back on all the projects not
just theirs but all through
statewide to be able to
look at to see what availability of the
money after discussions with the tobacco
commission
and the contractors in the fairgrounds
we felt very good about proceeding they
did too
proceeding with the fire grounds grant
and the
cannery grants so we've not lost these
grants as far as the total amount
of sensation back for the canneries and
uh neither the fairground monies oh
that's correct we have not lost either
is there any outstanding amounts of
bills or anything like that it's not
listed in there in our
records for right now
we have the ones that uh for
various things that we've continued
since the reimbursement that has been
put in so
staff uh work that the the contractor
has proceeded on
a little additional work that my staff
has done on and materials that we've
used it's coming through
yes all right thank you lonzo
how long does it normally take to get a
drawdown done i mean turned in
what's turnaround time on the turnaround
time
usually is within 90 days if you
yeah yeah if you asked me now if what
the turnaround time yes
uh is that due to coving is that yes yes
and contractors weren't paid haven't
been paid
the contract the contractors have been
paid we we paid
the contractors and for all materials
we're waiting on our reimbursement
okay so the contractors have yes
contractors have been paid the materials
has been paid
lebanon block's been paid for all the
materials everything's been paid we're
waiting on reimbursement
to ross county board of supervisors what
cost is incurred up to date
that's all i am okay you see yeah well
since we're in discussion it's my
understanding that
it's only allowable when a drawdown is
takes place
so we in we exp we have the expense
the county takes care of it and it cause
it
causes a drawdown from the state level
is that correct yes ma'am so there's no
dollars sitting here being
misappropriated no ma'am thank you
okay any other discussion all right
all those that will have a roll call
vote on approving the expenditures
all right horse yes carl
lou yes tim yes david yes
steve yes and rebecca
all yes the next item on our board
on the agenda for the board is our uh
appointments and the first one is for
the russell county ida
well oh
yep discussion will come later okay
all right do we have a second second
lou all right any discussion no no
um
madam chair likes to nominate nate
kasser
now second thing
any discussion now they can discuss it
now
any more nominations any more
nominations
all right okay
okay she said you discussed
i've known bruce stanford for over 30
years and he has represented the russell
county fire association
uh devoting his time money and all
for over 30 years and that has won the
greatest
event in russell county also boo is the
owner of a
stanford record service used auto
sales and he has helped numerous of
churches
organizations and individuals with his
time and finances
i feel that he will do a great job on
the board and will speak up
and represent the citizens of russell
county
been on this idea boeing
well just like to say i i think nate
kaiser i found him to be a very
very intelligent young man and right now
i'm looking for a little youth
on the ida so
i'll support nate kaiser
all right all those for uh mr
kaiser and we need do we need to do a
roll call with these hands show of hands
okay roll call start do everyone
yay nay okay oh okay those for nate
kaiser
oars no carl
can you say that again carl
carl no no
lou no tim
no david yes steve
yes rebecca no all right
yes mr uh lou stamper
orris yes lou
oh excuse me i left out carl carl
lou yes tim yes
david no steve
okay all right rebecca yes all right
our next uh board member will be mr
stamper
all right next we have our community
pilot
policy management team we have two
positions
for three years the first one is patrick
brunty and he is the current
dss director and he is part of that
board chair can i ask a question on this
before we vote
or is it required that the head of the
dssb on this community
board is that a requirement
lonzo i'm i'm sorry is it required that
patrick brunty is head of dssb beyond
that board is that
it is a good oversight as far as the
the uh the management team
because of the different programs he
needs to be
in on each one of those levels between
the adult and the children how about
joanie lester i know she's from cedar
bluff
what is her position that joe she
i'll speak she is uh from the cumberland
plateau
uh mental health
she
has there been any other applications
turned in on these two positions
uh no sir no they have to be on there
um generally the folks that serve on
that
are from all the different agencies like
drug court
uh foster care the school system
that anyone that's involved with the
management of services for our school
children
that might need anything
yes and a parent rep and a public
parent rep
all right so um katie's with that being
said can we just
uh do both of these at once how would
you recommend i'm making a motion to
nominate both
all right thank you david a second then
steve thank you
any discussion okay all right all those
by
exclamation there are only two all those
in favor
yes carl
lou yes tim yes
david yes steve yes and rebecca yes
all right the next one is with the
southwest virginia
community correctional criminal justice
board and i do believe there was a
letter
written for his recommendation was there
not lonzo
yeah i saw it in the board i'll make it
i'll make a motion to nominate doug
howard i'll second
david steve
any discussion all right
all those in favor for mr howard with
his letter of recommendation
he served on this board before it's for
two years
orris yes carl
thank you lou yes tim
yes david yes steve yes rebecca yes
all right next thing we have our
citizens comment period
okay first we have
larry is that a s
122 church road i'm assuming it's
uh all right bizarre okay
i'm sorry sir lebanon okay
lou i mean uh morris won't give him i
mean um
excuse me alonso give me your mic mate
okay
you get you they might want so they can
hear it outside and record
i have a grandson he'll be in the third
grade
and up through where we live
hansonville churchill road all the way
out through to
lebanon there is no internet we've tried
huge network
we've tried everything what's the kids
supposed to do
how can i solve it
i'm will i'm right there i need to
answer because
he's gonna be stuck
and the other thing is the road right in
front of my house
uh the big rocks that they put up
against the road
are falling in the creek it's causing
all the
when we get a lot of rain wash
everything out
so the rocks need to be put back would
you repeat your name and address please
yes larry bizard 1229
churchill road lebanon virginia
okay anyone else
any person okay go ahead alonso
if you're giving the mic and state your
name and address please
my name is heath bassard and this is my
father
i live at 1229 churchill road as well
i spoke to senator chafin and he
mentioned that the best way
to get internet through there was
through a tobacco grant which all
mentioned earlier
and just thought maybe we could
relocate some funds to get internet
through the hansonville area
thank you that's all
anyone else okay kelly go ahead
state your name and address please kelly
gilmer 2410 east main street lebanon
and there's been a lot of discussion
about our uh
confederate monument out here and i
think i might have a
i know i've got a little different view
on that so
just want to make a few comments my
fourth great grandfather gilmore
received a land grant for property in
around the present-day town 11
in 1756. my house was built by one of
his grandsons my great great grand uncle
samuel gilmer
circa 1820. by 1860 uncle sam had a nice
land
and personal property worth almost 2
million dollars in today's dollars
included in that sum was the value of 15
slaves
also considered property and therefore
valued as was livestock
uncle sam's 15 slaves were among 1009
slaves in russell county and among the
almost half million slaves in virginia
virginia had more slaves than any other
state in 1860
four of uncle sam's sons fought in the
civil war
they fought primarily to maintain their
economic station in life
through the perpetuation of slavery
discrimination oppression and white
supremacy
they fought to keep their 15 slaves
valued as livestock
80 years later two of my gilmar uncles
fought in europe against the nazis
against slavery
discrimination oppression and white
supremacy
they fought to prevent human beings from
being branded and transported in rail
cars to their desks as our livestock
as i sit on my front porch uncle sam's
front porch in the evenings
i can see a ridge about a mile to the
north which blocks my view of anything
beyond
but i know that beyond lies the clinch
river coalfields
the ohio river the great lakes canada
and i wonder if any of uncle sam's 15
slaves ever looked at that ridge
and wondered what lay beyond they and
millions like them never knew what lay
beyond their bondage
and i consider if the people depicted by
confederate monuments had prevailed if
grant had
surrendered to lee then the descendants
of uncle sam's 15
slaves would this very afternoon be
standing in my front yard
wondering still what lay beyond that
ridge
today their stands in our county seat a
small memorial to my uncles and other
like them who fought to free the
oppressed
that small memorial is overshadowed by
impales in comparison
to the monument erected to honor uncle
sam's sons
and those like them who fought to
perpetuate slavery
it was a monument erected to remind the
sons and daughters of russell county's
1099
slaves of a world that the sons and
daughters of their oppressors which
still existed
a world where slaves would still stand
in my front yard
and wonder what lay beyond that ridge
if we choose to honor our heritage our
families
our town our county our state and our
nation
with symbols of our racist past and we
are
racist still thank you
thank you
all right anyone else anybody else
want to make public comment anyone
outside
yes okay go ahead sir state your name
and your address please
my name is laurie hughes i lived 20
excuse
holler drive 11 virginia
can you hear me no can you hear me now
okay my name is larry hughes i'll be at
the 30 gallate hard drive 11 virginia
and i would like to take a little
exception to the statement i just heard
i'm
quite sure the intent of mr gilmer is
correct but i'd like to
cover a couple things with people maybe
maybe maybe they don't know
memorial area is located intersect at
main street
and church street has been in a
historical site honoring the heritage of
a fallen soldiers who fought
give me life and crippling loss is a
limb for local communities
has been in its present location since
1944
originally erected in june 18 1914
okay there was a question that monument
is much bigger
than one honoring the world war one
world war ii soldiers well
at that point in time i guess there was
no we didn't know where one was coming
that was a couple years before that and
no way of knowing that world war
ii is going to be coming that's why
that's probably not mentioned on the
monument
itself as we continue the moral prophase
tribute
to all who serve hungry to protect the
homes and families from the ravens
of the have taken their homes the
livestock food and other items that
sustained one's life
because we were being very invaded by
the north
we were just defending our homes in the
south all right when we look at this
here we need to understand that
we have a despondent government a
toronto government like the north was
doing coming down taking our livestock
our families
sure enough there were slaves at this
point in time and as they mentioned
we didn't have that much slaves in
russia county but one was too many but
we had them
the money is not a tribute to the false
notion that is first towards slavery
rather the money is a tribute to the
fathers and sons who died protecting
the society from the outside invading
forces the main claim that the war was
about the slavery but was not about
slavery indeed it was about the south
conceiting because if you go back and
read the history
have you heard of the coin act amendment
prematurely called the 13th
amendment of the us constitution as was
called in
the amendment one was uh the three
attempts to resolve this secession
so what they did congress both houses
passed the 13th amendment
basically given the state's rights to
have slavery but then it caused favor to
give the states rights to have
forced labor or labor and this
constitution would be a constitutional
and not just the federal government
would not
pass any laws or regulations limited the
secession or
the ownership of such as such why would
the south
fault and sustain it if it was for
slavery since it was given to them
always
i was given to them there was letters
written by president lincoln
it sent out the several state governors
stating that they will give you this
right
but yet the states succeeded far because
of
overreaching of the government but
taxation
and and tr problems with terrorists so
again
the people saying that this money was
all about honoring slavery is wrong
read the history the history coming in
tells you specifically what happened
it's not about slavery slavery spelled
up a couple years later after the war
was started
to to bring about the fact that trying
to get the south to
the southern soldiers to defeat or
defect from the
army and not fight but so the monument
is
honoring the fallen soldiers not slavery
thank you
sir anyone else
anyone else want to make a public
comment
all right seeing none we'll close the
citizens comment period at this time
next we have our constitutional officers
and reports and requests
and i don't believe anyone's here
next is the county attorney's reports
and requests
first
the first two met the first two matters
under
um the county attorney reports are the
russell county psa consolidation
financial and support agreements and the
psa
glade hollow water project i'm at our
previous meeting we approved resolutions
to enter into moral obligations and that
that part has not been finalized yet
and we're still working to and there
have been some last minute things that
we've had to take care of and getting
the
everything in the deed and so we can
finalize the transfer
and i did receive a tentative closing
date of august the 19th
um on this matter and the ps at the
russell county psa meets on
august the 18th and my advice is to
have a continued meeting to to finalize
any outstanding issues
so that if we are able to close on the
19th it won't be delayed and and of
course all of this is going to be
contingent upon
the courthouse being able to be reopened
so we can record some final documents
but hopefully we've about got all the
documents and the financing agreements
ready to
to finalize the consolidation of
castlewood and russell county psa
thank you the next
item that i have it's the it's a
tobacco commission grant um related to
project grow
um the green excuse me mick katie one of
those at a time
is it okay to go ahead and proceed
individually on a motion
in regards to those first one you want
to finish out completely and then
go back and review um you can you can um
pass a motion to have a continued
meeting right now or you could do that
at the end i mean
that's really one to check it doesn't
matter i didn't want to overload you
that that's fine and just that decision
would be at the
end to understand i knew you had quite a
bit to go over i just didn't want to
overload
okay thank you and the tobacco
commission grant
um the board has a copy of and it's a
17-page document
but as far as the board of supervisors
the only document that we have that
um our our approval is required for is
the revenue sharing addendum
exhibit d on page 16.
i have read through this agreement and
basically what it means is that and the
the money that
the tobacco this company is receiving
through the tobacco commission
and the county will be required to
pay five percent of the tax revenue that
it collects each year is sort of a
repayment to that
um again it's a it's a small it'll in
in reality be a small amount and not be
you know
a lot that that you're paying at one
time but it is the tobacco commission
this is the way they're going to do all
of their grants now any money received
by the tobacco commission will have this
new language
in it um there was some language
when i spoke with the tobacco commission
that i asked be added and i've been
advised by
andrew sorrell that it could be added
and would not require a commission vote
um
in that language is that if if at any
point
the um the amount collect the amount of
tax collected became de minimis
we could we could request in writing
to have have that obligation cease and
other than that i mean the the payment
obligation
is contingent upon receipt of the tax
money so that in my opinion
protects the board and because this
project is a revenue sharing project
that we did with buchanan county and
tazewell county
and we have we'll have to make changes
also to the revenue sharing agreement
that we entered into with all three
counties back in march
and the language that i have added it it
redefines the net
project and revenue to take the five
percent off of the gross before
it's divided among the three counties
pursuant to the agreement so that would
need to be
amended as well and also
you'll need we'll need buchanan county
and tazewell county to approve this
amendment too so if you do decide to
proceed forward and approve
the agenda the addendum and the revenue
sharing agreement i would do that
subject to one that language being added
from the tobacco commission into
buchanan county and tazewell county
approving the revised revenue sharing
agreement
would you like a motion to that effect
your answer okay
madam chairman i make a motion that we
approve the revenue sharing addendum
exhibit d to the grant agreement between
the tobacco commission and russell
county ida
and the revised revenue sharing
agreement previously approved by russell
tasman and buckhannon counties
subject to the following language being
added to the tobacco commission allowing
the locality to request
in writing for the revenue sharing to
the tobacco commission to cease if the
amount to be
received by the tobacco commission under
the revenue sharing agreement becomes
diminished
and subject to the revised
revenue sharing agreement being approved
by tassel
and buckhannon counties now second
any discussion feather discussion
anybody have any questions
all right all those in favor auris
yeah yes carl
lou yes tim
yes david yes steve yes and rebecca
yes the next
um matter i have madam chair is the
continuity of government ordinance um
i've spoken with lonzo and that
ordinance will expire sometime next
month
and and there will be requirements to um
to um finalize that out with the minutes
and i'll update the board more on that
um upon speaking with lonzo um i think
maybe there's been some
more money received and also with the
fact that our cases are just now
climbing there may be a need to
to re-approve that ordinance as i stated
when we approve the ordinance before it
is only good for six months
and limits it so if you were to want to
extend the ordinance it would have to be
re-advertising a public hearing set
to to to re-adopt it so
that's that's that's the update on that
and
we adopted it april the 6th and then we
had our public hearing
at the may meeting to officially approve
it but it goes back to that april 6
date so october the 6th is when it would
it's actually october that it would
expire
and so that's something if the board
thinks that it will be
necessary to and lonzo may can speak
more to the to the need for that
than i but legally you'll have to
re-adopt it and
advertise it and have a public hearing
so we need to do that by our october
meeting correct
um i would do it by i would have
september i would go ahead and have your
public hearing in september
that way you're not
direction just wait till september well
i mean if you want to set a public
hearing you would need to do that make a
motion to have a
motion to have the public hearing in
september and then it'll have to be
advertised
okay all right do we have a motion to
uh advertise this for our september
meeting
all right thank you carl do we have a
second
flow any discussion yes
does the extension of this
if we decide not to extend it does it
impact our ability to draw down that
coveted money
that second round
could you get a microphone lonzo please
i was going to ask for you to discuss
that
and i kind of collided there
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sorry about that
okay the question was
will the continuity of
government operations need to continue
in the ordinance
currently right now we have current
covid money that
is that is assisting our first
responders our pp
e and various things that that we're
doing within the county that
within the federal grant this
the time frame that we have and it's
also on my agenda is until december
the 30th this gives us the autonomy
to have this meeting the way you're
sitting in now for
for mr ray to be able to participate but
it also
opens up you know ways that we can
if we have an emergency we don't have to
go through the
code of virginia and it gives us
purchasing rights and it gives
the autonomy to the emergency management
director
to get what we need if it's through the
squads or through the sheriff's
departments or through the schools
it gives us a little bit a lot of
autonomy and flexibility during his time
so if you didn't you would go back to
the normal county operations
and it would hinder you it was for
example
we we gave
5 000 to each of the rescue squads in
russell county
last week and we gave 2500 to all the
fire departments
two of them needed it immediately if
we'd been under
our current or previous regulations we
would not been able to assist
because we had that autonomy to be able
to move based off of what their needs
was to be able to answer the calls
for the ross county citizens so it does
have a big impact on the right
and the second 50 percent we're getting
the second half of that covered money is
that correct i've seen the
which will be identical to the amount of
money that we got before that
which will be redistributed basically
the same way it was before to the towns
yeah correct it will be it will be
distributed to the towns it's under the
same federal guidelines that we had
before
it pertains to first responders county
operations
first and uh personal pp
e so as as these cases grow
our some of our squads they're they're
having a hard time
so some of them are they they're billing
the ones that bill are not unable to get
their billing because
of the uh commercial operations are
behind on their
their reimbursement the ones that are
that have bingo and take donations
aren't able to do that either so
they're they're running in into
situations where they need
assistance and need it quick and that's
where we have that at a time i just want
everybody to understand that you know
it impacts their ability to actually
draw down on them
federal money yes sir and if we don't
draw it down it goes back to the state
which they'll redistribute it
accordingly
to somebody else i know some of the
rescue squad stuff i talked to
their cost estimates came in a lot
higher than five thousand dollars
uh was that a number that just was
picked out
to give each one or was it based on
each individual one giving you a
spreadsheet of
what they've incurred as far as expenses
how does that
can you just explain how all that works
i can
when when the cares committee
decided you know to give it to the out
the emergency ems the squads and the
fire departments
we didn't we weren't aware of the second
phase that was coming in this additional
money so
what we were trying to do is
be very good stewards on what we were
incurring because
not only do we have the squads to take
care of we got the sheriff's department
the courthouses the government employees
we got food pantries we got other
organizations that has got to be
considered
businesses pp e so we were trying to
we towed the squads and they said they
could
they could proceed with the 5 000 each
along with
ems which is uh jess
he is getting them through fema too so
they're getting supplies through fema
and supplies through us so where we're
hitting it at every direction that we
can to ensure that the squads and in the
first responders and the sheriffs
have what they need when they go on a
cow what you gotta remember is
whether we have put in our
system whether they are coveted or not
we have to treat
each and every call as though they do
have it so when they go in they must
have ppne on
even even into the even into the
hospitals
or each one of the homes so if one shows
up
and he's through a squad and he needs to
assist through the fire department to
assist
they all must be in full ppa so
basically our police officers and
all of those are covered pretty well and
then our first responders because we
definitely need to support
yes all of those people i mean they're
on the front lines of this thing
every day so i appreciate it alonzo
thanks for the information yes sir and i
didn't know anything about the federal
side with js so that's good information
yes we're hitting it from every angle
and and that was one of the things that
when you look at this
this is a federal grant it did come down
through
uh the state it's only a conduit to the
counties
and we are expected to only
to protect russell county citizens is
allowed to use some of that money for
to assist small businesses there there
is a covenant in there
or or guideline to be able to assist in
there's opportunities for loans or
grants there has to be an application
they have to meet
certain uh classification criteria to be
able to do that
um but we'd be glad to start that
program
that's what we're looking in right now
in the foreign application
uh to look at business loans or grants
uh from that perspective so let me say
one more thing i
i know we get overloaded or overwhelmed
a lot of times with emails and stuff
of all the money and the programs and
the grants and all that's coming down
we really need to make that available to
all of our citizens and all of our small
business owners
uh do you post all that on the website
or people can review
like the new go virginia uh initiative
and application
that these small business owners can
look at for the ten thousand i just got
that today and i appreciate you sending
that out but
yeah yeah we do we put that on our
website i
put it on facebook i put it in our
twitters i also
have go to my go to my computer
well i know that but i just know a lot
of people don't
have internet i know and they don't
know how to get on there they don't know
what this a lot of world is information
i don't know is there a way that we
could publicize this in the paper or
let people know i mean i know we have
all kinds of
ways and avenues to do it through social
media
i just don't think the general business
people in this area and community really
understand or know
i forward it to them when i get it i
send it to all the businesses i can
to let them know this is available if
they want to dip into it and apply
uh and they say well i didn't know you
could do that i didn't know i know eric
there and hoenecker told me he said i
didn't even know it's available
do you send it to me i just don't think
that there's enough awareness
to the amount of money and funds that
should really be
more transparent out there i don't know
how we do it and fix it all
i'm just saying i just want to bring it
up to see if we can't just think outside
the box a little bit
and get it out to these people well
yeah you do
thank you for that and we
and and that's a good point maybe as we
we
bring these grant loans into um
into the program and to be able to look
at this especially
with this phase two you know we can
put it into the paper and start moving
into a central location
here this this is the russell county
covid website that has
all the loans that pertain to co-vigo
virginia pp and
aaa we we
look at small business loans everything
is in one centralized location and i've
got it
that way to you know assist the
businesses and but yeah you have to
drive the traffic there they have to
know
to take i was thinking the partnership
between the treasurer's office
commissioner revenue to maybe send it
out to
all these people where we collect taxes
from them through
people you know from uh you know as far
as the personal property tax and all
that
they're investing in us i think it's a
good idea to maybe work through them as
a partnership and
do a mail out just one time to let them
know that all these
are are available if you're interested i
just don't think a lot of people get
onto a county website
i mean a lot of business people and a
lot of people you know and like you said
uh you can flood them with information
but
you know it's pretty stressful time for
a lot of small and
medium large business owners and i mean
a personal visit or or something to let
them identify that you can
qualify for ten thousand dollars would
that help you out i just think would be
a good
good opportunity but i i'm just if we
could think outside the box a little bit
and all of us work together
uh to get it out there a little bit
better i know everybody's doing the
wrong little thing and
it'd be better if we can consolidate the
effort and
and the board supervisor knows every
afternoon i bombard you with a ton of
information
it's from every agency regulation
guidelines grants
movements it it's it's overwhelming the
towns are
you know they even to get to where they
they call me and say lonzo how much do
we need
and and but the good thing is is this
by working through the board of
supervisors with this funding
you're giving opportunity to different
not just the first responders not to the
residents but you're also giving it to
the food pantries
you're giving it back to the church as
you're giving back to
businesses that will not need it this
will stay here
this will earn here this will work here
so
this is what we need and i you know i've
heard
comments it's it's a it's a for revenue
replacement
if anybody wants to go you know which
i'll be publishing here soon our budget
ended
last year with a 1.1 million dollar
surplus and that was going through kovid
so this is not a
revenue replacement this is something
that the county uses
and uses only for the covid and the
coviat event
any other discussion on the continuity
of government
it also allows us to continue with our
governmental operations with this i'm
sorry
we started off on the government
operations
okay at this time any further discussion
all right carl made the motion luanne
second now we'll vote
horse yes carl
yes lou yes tim yes david yes
steve yes and rebecca yes so we will
only
um the next thing that i have for the
board
is approval of the personnel policy and
went through many revisions with lonzo i
mean it's a very voluminous document and
i think we've gotten it pretty much
where we want to be but i mean as i've
stated before i mean i think you can
you know look at it you know anytime you
look at it you probably find something
you might want to tweak but i mean i
think we've got it pretty good
the last few things that are highlighted
highlighted were just things that i
wanted to
see how the board wanted to handle and
for demotions
and promotions that's either a reduction
of
of five percent or more or a increase of
five percent or more does this board
want to have control over that or do
they want to or do you want to leave
that solely with the county
administrator
and that's that's the only thing that
needs to be addressed the way it is
written
in the policy right now is that it is
based upon board approval
so um but that's up to you that's up to
this board
if you want to have that oversight and
then the other thing that required board
approval which is another highlighted
thing
is the approval of personnel
classifications or new job descriptions
and and you know
most of the day-to-day things you do
want to leave with your county
administrator but especially
the the demotions and promotions however
the board wants to handle i don't really
have a
you need to do it this way position on
that i think it can be done either way
but i do think the board should approve
all new job classifications and the
county administrator will
for the manager class level for for your
your
supervisors and your heads of
departments you all would approve that
so that would be my advice and then as
far as
the demotions and promotions however you
all wanted to handle that
but other than that i'm submitting the
personnel policy for this board's
approval
well may uh we we don't have any emotion
or anything on the floor but can we
discuss it this time
a little bit i think that would be
appropriate because i mean you need to
make the decision for that and so you
don't know what you're approving
and yeah thank you so madam chair if i
may
um i don't have a problem leaving it
kind of the way it
is because the citizens elect the board
of supervisors so if it needs to come
before the public
then the public will know um and i
and i think that there's sometimes some
misunderstandings on salaries and that
sort of thing
so um i know that not everything is
going to be
transparent in that sort of way but i do
think
for this board discussion that i don't
mind to leave it that way
yes and as far as if you did vote on a
demotion or promotion you would not name
the employee it would be
it would be employee a or b because that
would be information that is
protected
yeah however you want to do it out
you can say make a motion as presented
or you can say make a motion
to change any of the language that
i lift up regarding the promotion or the
demotion
i'll tell you this i i would be in favor
of leaving it like to want the policy
personnel policy we had handed it to me
when i first came on board
there's a few changes here that i i kind
of
feel shaky about so and i have studied
the other but i haven't got
a chance to really view this changes
like i would like to
so i guess my vote would be
if that's the board's preference i mean
but one more thing if i may inside that
policy now is um that the board it comes
back to the board of supervisors for
that vote
right and i've got the demotion language
pulled up here it says county
administrator initiated assignment of an
employee to a lower presi
a lower position with a less with less
job responsibilities
that results in a minimum of a five
percent reduction in base
salary upon board approval so that's a
definition of what a demotion is
but it's that definition is requiring
that if that
though those circumstance happen you all
have to approve it first
lonzo can't do it on his own it's
basically what it means
thank you all right to have
do we have any motion to accept the
personnel policy as katie has presented
tonight
how do you want to state that what are
you lou what are you
what are you thinking well i'm okay with
how it's all being presented but i still
think that
and i i'm not clear on that other one i
realize that piece has to come back from
lonzo but the other piece is what i was
talking about
the pronunciation and i yes and i think
i've confused my
peers here the promotion is also a
definite in the definition section at
the beginning of the
personnel manual and it is defined as
county administrator
initiated assignment of an employee to a
higher position with more jobs
responsibilities that results um in
in a base salary increase upon board
approval and so that's a
county administrator decision he it's
basically
he makes a recommendation to you all and
you either accept it or you reject it so
it still has to come before the board
yeah thank you i'm good
and then and then whenever there's a
change or a new
job position classification you all have
to approve that he'll
he'll draw it up he'll draft it but this
board would approve it
those are the those are the big things
that that i saw when i
did the review of the personnel manual
where board action was required a lot of
it's just general rules that
the county administrator would enforce
but that's where you all were involved
and i wanted to see
what this board's position was on that
do we have a motion to accept the
personnel policy as katie has presented
to us tonight
so move madam chair thank you lou do we
have a second
second tim do we have any further
discussion
all right all those in favor auris
nay carl
lou yes tim yes
david yes steve yes and rebecca
yes all right we'll accept our new
policy manual as
she's presented okay katie
the next thing um that i have madam
chair
is the rfp um for the for the courthouse
design build
and back
i'll mess up my dates back in the spring
and early winter we um or actually last
year we hired a project manager
and to oversee the renovations to the
courthouse
and mr elswick has prepared an rfp that
i have reviewed
based upon the ppea guidelines that this
board
adopted it also sits in that sets out
timelines
and for you know there's going to be
when questions can be answered in a site
visit and it lays out
the the timelines that they hope to get
to keep the project on track
i reviewed the rfp and
and i do think that it looks okay and i
would ask that the board approved
that rfp
so do we have a motion to accept this
rfp
some movement and chair steve thank you
a second
second lou all right any discussion
all right so all those in favor
accepting the rfp
as katie has reviewed orris yes
carl yes lou
yes tim yes david yes
steve yes and rebecca yes
that being said i just want to make sure
mr breeding you'll still
serve with me we'll meet and discuss how
we want things to look up there
all right thank you the last thing on my
list
madam chair is um it's a courthouse
security ordinance
and and i don't know if you all are
already aware we actually already have
this ordinance in place
um what it does is it adds to the court
costs
and ten dollars and it's um it's a it's
a security fee
and actually um probably will need to
get steve here
and because the sheriff is actually the
one that recommends it and he is the one
that brought it to the judge's attention
who brought it to my attention
and the last ordinance we did i think
was back in 2007
and but senate bill um 141 which was
passed
has given localities the option of
increasing that fee from 10 dollars
to 20 dollars and so that would add to
court costs like if you get a speeding
ticket or other
you know criminal cases and things like
that that there's always court costs
that go with that
and um due to the nature that a lot of
our issues with the courthouse
renovation are for security i do think
it's really appropriate that we
because this that's what this this is
this um
senate bill is for is it's to um it's to
help
with um courthouse security so um
it is an ordinance and so um to to make
this you would have to set a public
hearing for this but
i think this would be um definitely
something that would be beneficial to
the board
in relation to the courthouse
renovations i'll make a motion that we
set the public hearing
for
thank you thank you david thank you
steve all right any discussion
all right all those in favor of setting
this public hearing in september
orris yes carl
lou yes tim yes david yes
steve yes and rebecca yes
all right let's that finishes all yours
up
next will be the county administrator
reports and requests
thank you madam chair
first first on the county administrative
reports and quest
is the
oh you're you're fine
is the lmep grant through the department
of emergency management
this is a 7 500 grant
that the county is given every year for
training for emergency
management and travel and this
is a report from july the first
2019 to june 30th 2020 this is the
previous year's report to ensure that
was in compliance
the department of emergency management
has submitted this to
the virginia department of emergency
management it has been accepted
so this is a reporting for the grant in
its completion
next on the county administrative
reports of course is the annual
performance agreement contract through
the cumberland mountain community
services
this is the agreement for them to
service our russell county citizens
through
the department of behavioral health
developmental services
for the the residents within the county
of need of services
this is just again the annual agreement
on the type of services and and how they
will be participating in their number of
programs and
and what assistance they can give to our
residents
the next one which is a good one and
this and always is this is this is a
request
by the russell county cannery committee
and as the board of supervisors had
talked
previously uh due to the covet issue
we're seeing an increase in our
canneries and tobacco
commission so this is running hand in
hand this is actually a good time and
opportunity
so in the letter
i met with the russell county county
country committee last week and
and they were trying to figure out how
to deal with a new environment with the
kovid but give the opportunities to
brussels county citizens to be able to
cam because
everyone knows during the march april
time frame
food was very scarce you know you
couldn't go into walmart so
now a lot of guards are being grown a
lot of people
are becoming very proactive into
how they they they run their home and
how they care for their home and this is
one of the things that to do
so the cannery committee came up some
very innovative wide
ideas to be able to do this and this
will come under the covid money too
and it as far as farmers markets and
food pantries and canneries they are
covered under this
issue of the covid
they want to run monday through thursday
because right now and everything has to
be scheduled because we're still under
the separation based off the type of
operations canning operations they can
perform
at each cannery so they they have to
schedule it based off of the type of
operations then who's coming in there
and what they're canon
and to be able to get the separation
they they're only open
the limited number of days so they're
requesting to open
up for russell county citizens for
monday through thursday for regular
russell county citizens canning to be
able to expand the operations
and then to assist them even more there
they come up with the suggestion
that on friday we would do the large
group scheduling like the churches and
the organizations that come in
with the apple butter that takes up all
the room no disrespect we love them to
come but
they kind of overwhelm and it's hard to
get everybody in there at one time and
they would have the dedicated space
then on saturday to go even farther
which is an issue they were working on
before the
covid started they want to do training
they want to give
a lot of people are very interested in
it we've had
numerous calls on it to where they they
want a can they're growing their garden
but they don't know how to can
so you know i learned with my
grandparents but some people
are one to get really good at this so
what they have offered to do
we have five that said on the cannery
committee they have
very extensive experience and they're
working with virginia tech
so they also when they're in their
canyon
it's just not the green you know the
canyon of green beans and corn or
sauerkraut it also goes into the ph
balances and the cans and the jars and
what you're to do
and and the science of it so this is a
very good and they want to do this on
on the saturdays they want to do this
over the next
six weeks beginning this weekend
to be able to do it and we'll publish it
out and they'll have
trainers at each one every saturday for
45 hours depending on which classes
they're giving and this is
based off the program of virginia tech
in conjunction with the experience of
this five group
and uh this is what they're proposing to
the board of supervisors so
that being that i will need a motion
because currently right now we only have
limited operations to
you know the tuesday wednesday you know
i mean tuesday thursday
tuesday wednesday operation so i
they want to go uniform to where they're
monday through thursday at both
locations
friday for groups and then
saturday for training i'll make that
motion
second then they're going to do this at
both locations yes sir
okay great i will say this too
i mean i know right now i went
looking for jars you can't find jars you
can't find jars you can't find jars you
can't find
leaves everybody has them if you know
anybody that's got
jars and also i know that we've run into
a little snag on
trying to get some cans but i know
you're working on it yes sir we are
we're trying to get jars and cans i know
you are thank you
yes
i just wanted to talk to you i said uh
last time you and i talked
you had all of them back in june the
19th and hadn't received anything have
you got
any different uh thing to tell us today
we're right now my staff is working on
them we have called uh
colorado new york pennsylvania
tennessee and we here is what we're
competing with is
back again to the first part of the
conversation as far as cans when you
walk through
walmart in march and april you didn't
see a thing on the shelf
that depleted the inventory of the major
manufacturers and producers
we had previously got cans from ball
ball that's who we usually get them from
now they're exporting cans the big
manufacturers are standing there with
tractor and trailers trying to get their
surplus built back
up for all the world so
we're we are trying as a cannery to get
our
foot in the door or even go pick them up
but the production line is so
overwhelming right now and on the big
large orders that we're trying to work
our way in and bali is working with us
on that but
again we're standing in line with
i guess the rest of the united states in
the world because
right now if you even when you go in
walmart you will still notice or food
city
you'll still notice a lot of canned
goods are not available
also if residents pay attention you will
not see a lot of aluminum cans available
you will not see
the beer cans you will not see the pop
cans you will not they're
they're not making them so they're
utilizing what aluminum they have right
now
for food not drink but food that's what
she told
she also made the comment out of
tennessee that
they had they were shipping into
australia
that's that's how big this i think had
gotten and they were running 24
7. so we will continue again to make a
long story short
we're going to continue each and every
day to work on these
well if you aren't able to get the cans
and while you used to
have the candies open like we just
people spoke of
if they don't have kansai to
that's a good question right now our
canneries will do cans and jars
a lot of ladies and groups that can
if you uh when you go back to our
reports from the cannery
they are 95 percent jars now in our
canneries they have been for the last
two years yes they're
using 95 percent of jars they're that
way they get
only thing they have to do is repurchase
the lids and the seals and be able to
and
go back and use them they're using them
over and over like mr
eaton said the jars are the way to go
and and
there are there's two types uh two times
that we kind of run into
issues with cans and that's during it's
really during the meet time
and that's when we're trying to get them
that the can and put it
to canned meat is is the best way to do
it
and that's what they'll all tell you but
anything else it will be appropriate for
the jars
well now i've found jaws of farm bureau
and richlands
the regular jars and the other ball and
curve
that's the only place i've found regular
jars it's been
wide-mouthed because most people don't
cannon wide mouth
charges are and i'm just fortunate
enough to find those and i'll have some
on
hand you know to do my honey because
we're in the season of
harvesting honey as well we we have even
got some
even to not make this too long but
we've even went out to our local
retailers southern states we went to
local to see if we seen a sale last week
and i'm pretty sure the russell county
assistants did too where they were
selling cans by the time we got there it
was like an hour and a half they were
gone
i mean with we was going grab what they
had and get them for the russell county
citizen they were already gone
all right thank you david and steve all
right at this time we'll
vote on this horse
yes class carl
lou yes tim yes david yes
steve yes and rebecca yes
thank you ma'am chair next is the
update on the russell county gis system
i sent a a link with our gis system
for the board of supervisors to be able
to
go in and look at this and look at the
different
features that this this system has we
currently have
uh interactive gis this is an upgrade
model to gis to where it has multiple
features it
uh it it has of course
oliver residents or land cards uh it
also has
our fire and rescue capability water and
sewer capability to be able to be a
little
more active than what we have in our
currently gis system
also energy is system which i met with
the sheriff's office and 911 office
today
they are currently reviewing it also to
see
how it ties into the 9-1-1 system
we also are working with the assessor's
office to make sure
that this works with our current system
to be able to
upgrade it with all of our land and
property issues
so again we're in phase one of this
please take a look at it review it make
recommendations this is the time to do
it
and when we get to the point to where we
can get
all the groups together on on a
consolidated list of recommendations
i will invite the the group the i.t
group for interactive gis to come in and
we will sit down and go through what we
have proposed and
and again make other recommendations
till we get a really good system within
the county
i got one question on that uh does an
outside firm host that
on their servers yes sir they do that's
that's do you know who that is
it's interactive gis interactive gis yes
sir
is that a google service or do you know
no sir it's it's actually a it is
a gis system out of roanoke it's the
same ones that
washington county uses when if you go in
there it's got our
interactive seal down our gis thank you
yes
they specialize in gis and emergency
management
maybe that's what you said
so take a look at that and we're getting
ready as soon as we get our overlays in
place
from the um the commission commissioner
assessor's office we're doing the
overlays from the 911
to make sure that we've got accurate
benchmarks and land and accurate land
records and etc it's updated
then we'll start looking at the features
within the system
so
next on the account administrator
reports is the russell county fitness
center
this is this is
the russell county fitness center is on
our due to
as had been discussed in previous
meetings that
with the virginia department of health
is proposing moving
in to these rooms
right behind us and they have we've been
working on it with russ county ida
and we're at the point to where we're
going to have to decide
what to do with that space down there
currently right now
we the vdh is wanting part of the access
to
in conjunction with dss and the old
workforce development offices
thank you steve and
right now the only ones that's occupying
that is the extension
offices the extension office would be
moving down
into that space because vdh
is actually what they're requesting
based off of moving their operations of
the clinic which is where
currently the sheriff's department is
along with their executive management
team of cumberland plateau
that's now at uh over at uh
plateau facility over from
virginia department of transportation
they're coming in here together
they're needing over 12 000 square feet
so it's going to occupy
this this whole end of the building will
be occupied by
dss vdh and dmme so
except for the of course the ross county
board of supervisors rooms
but to do that in part of the design
the co-op extension office would have to
occupy
those spaces down there so we're at that
point
where we're moving forward the funding
is available the plans are together so
we're at the point to where
the board supervisors we have to move
into that space and dedicate that space
to the co-op
any questions i know there is okay
so i've been working with tony doty
in the town trying to as you know
they're building a nice new
uh rec center down there they'll have
full-size basketball court
you'll have a weight room and fitness
room and
rooms for classes and things of that
nature
and of course it's funded by the town
so what i've been able to talk to them
about and able to negotiate with them
i ask them to set up a non-resident rate
which would be for anybody who is not a
member of the town not within the town
limits
i think and i don't know exactly what
their definition is going to be it could
be that
some there was one time that anybody had
a 24266
zip code would qualify as in town i
don't know if that's right or not
they'll
have to figure that out but uh what what
they've agreed to do
and i've passed out a rate schedule
there uh
this what there's what they're saying
for a day pass
that a resident and non-resident if you
just wanted to do a
day pass it's the same thing as five
dollars and you come in and that will
give you
access to all the facilities if you just
want to do it a day at a time
children 12 and under is three dollars
seniors 65 and over is three dollars
so you can do that as well
if you want to do an individual
membership
and they originally had this out by
season because part of the season
had access to the pool in the other part
of the season you didn't
but they they've gone back and just
revised it and made it one fee it would
be 35 dollars a month for non
for residents and 45 for non-residents
our monthly rate right now at the fisc
at the wellness center is forty dollars
a month
so this is additional five dollars but
the deal is you get access to their
swimming pool
the basketball courts the whole any any
of their recreational facilities in
there
so it's it's really not a bad deal full
membership for a resident
which would be inside town 420 a
non-resident at 540 and that
averages out to 45 dollars a month
here's where the real bargain comes if
you want to do
like a family membership you can do that
at cost of resin it would be 50
a month that would be for a family of
two or more
and a non-resident would be sixty
dollars a month which averages out for
two people thirty dollars which is you
know savings of ten dollars
and you still get access to the pool and
the whole thing and
if you want to do a full year's
membership for the family
six hundred dollars regardless of how
many people are in the family 720 for
the non-residents
which works out 30 a month per person
and you can read down here it says
membership includes admission to the rec
center and includes access to all
facilities
provided they are open membership may or
may not include
special offered classes and that's like
the
armchair yoga class and the classes they
off down here they'll ask a
special fee and i think what they're
going to do they're going to talk to
carolyn down here about instructing
those
they also you can do room reservations
and things of that nature
membership does not include providing
any of your personal
equipment like mats yoga mats or towels
or things of that nature
and apparently they're going to have
they've got this note all equipment
used during the facility used during
usage of facility must be signed out so
apparently
i guess they're it's probably for
basketballs and things of that nature i
would think
that they're going to make available
there you know so
and what i'd propose to if you can if
you can set this
non-residential rate so that our people
the people are using
the 177 people that are involved in our
wellness center right now will have
access to this new facility
and the expanded services that you have
we can take our equipment
you can outfit your fitness center with
our equipment because we're going to do
something with it anyway
and i don't think they're going to be
able to use it all
and so when they come up and and
assuming we pass this and we come up and
make a selection i would propose
that anything that they don't want we
should try to divide
between the three county high schools
maybe for their weight rooms the high
school weight rooms
football if we ever get back to playing
football
and try to do it on an equitable basis
you know
i think they're probably more interested
in the bicycles and some of the light
maybe a machine or two maybe you know
things of that nature treadmill or
something like that but
shane farmer will uh i talked to tony
last week and he wanted to know when
they could make a selection i think
they're going to try to open this thing
about mid-august
which is not to say that the entire
facility will be open
but they're going to try to have an
initial opening sometime in mid-august
so
i told him hold off until you know the
board looks at this and the board gives
her a blessing on this
and then we can talk about how to
transition this thing if this is what
the board wants to do
so that's that's what we have here and
what it does it frees up the rest of
that space down there
for i guess for future offices
which i'm not sure we might not ought to
look if we could create a space if we
could work something with
college to make some of that internet
space available to kids
give them a place to come a gentleman
wanted to talk to him but there's you
know that might be something
we could do is maybe work through the
college to
see if they would make those spaces
available during the week for kids to
come
and you know actually sit down and hook
up to an internet
you know not just have to sit out the
parking lot and do their homework
so i'll try to answer any questions you
might have or
but you know this is kind of like the
best of both worlds we can get out of
the fitness business and
we're still providing service to our
people and expanded services actually
yes just
that on what mr breeding had had focused
on
the the russ county board of supervisors
you know to give a little history
we had the ymca down here on the lower
end
and actually at the time somehow
it was through the ymca of the tassel
the board of supervisors when they came
aboard they moved
that into russell county not
tazewell county but they operated it now
as russell county and we put in what
equipment we had donated equipment to us
and
we did it on the shoestring and we did
it in-house and
we kind of build it up to what is it 170
members right now
and but one of the things the board did
not want to do because
it become in everyone's schedule not
just the town residents but the county
residents too
we didn't want we wanted to be able to
transition like mr breeding says without
them doing without the services so
that you know looking at it
with our equipment and to be able to do
it and move the facilities over to there
it also joins
you know the walking trails the pools
the waiting pools
the ball fields the picnic shelters the
volleyball courts
i mean it's it's expanded this is almost
like a small
component of the center this is the
way it's about basically the way the
combs started started when i was in
washington county
it started off the same way so it's it's
a good facility so
and again vdh is coming they
our partner they're already moving on
the contractual part
so as soon as we get this in and this
move down here and it built a new roof
on here
so that's part of it so
and the schools can't play football yet
but they can condition
so that would be great
yes so there will have to be a motion to
move you know to move on this
so well if nobody wants to make that
motion i will make that motion
we accept this proposal uh from the town
of lebanon
and we allow them to come and pick up
whatever equipment they need at
their own schedule and that we
try to reallocate anything any machines
or any weight equipment
they don't cannot use in their facility
some in some equitable manager that you
know amongst the high schools you know
and allow them to use it and maybe in
the football
the waiting wrestlers and football and
whatever can
you know if they can use anything and as
rebecca pointed out we've got a
we've got a bunch of equipment out in
over in cleveland as well and we
probably need to look at it and
see if what kind of condition it's in if
it can be
repaired or if it's serviceable and you
know make that available with high
schools as well
okay i'll second that for discussion
please
okay um
i i like this idea i understand this
idea
um i think it's workable but i've
you all know me so i've got to throw
this out here
i've got i've got district 2 which is
north castlewood and dank virginia
little gravolick how many of
district 2 do we know how many district
2 people travel to lebanon to use this
facility
of these 170 people do i have anybody
i don't know but i'm imagine carol can
tell you
well i mean i'm i'm not trying to cause
an argument i just want to make a point
that um again i think the idea
is merit and i'm not going to vote
against it i'm just going to say that
right now
but i am going to say that
i have a particular facility that i
would like to see
some exercise equipment done in which is
the lower part of
mine and mr lovelace's shared community
center at the casswood high school
and um i know that
david you've got places that could use
your community work in your community
carl
i know you can hear us maybe but he's
got a place or two in
his community possibly a building that
we could have an anytime
fitness center that pays into this thing
but i know that you want to do it for
the
for the town purposes and i get that
we're getting out of the business of
exercising i guess around the county
but i'm just trying to be fair and
trying to come up with places
to for air people that are not
necessarily going to be able to come
and use the facility and i've preached
that before
um and i appreciate what we've done but
if we can make it possible for anybody
in our small
districts to be able to have some form
of physical activity indoors that's nice
i think that's we need to look at that
and if we've got equipment
that's what i'm going for so excuse me
i'm i'm not
you know i don't even know the high
schools would want that equipment that
just seemed like an outlet you know
useful way if if you want to take it and
and
you know make a facility out of it i'm
all for it you know more service to
everybody
else i i get it i i'm good with this
um but i just want to say that on behalf
of the folks who
can't come to lebanon and exercise if we
as district supervisors try to take care
of our little
little places a little bit i've got one
that i've been hammering on for a while
and tim knows this
and um that's down in the castlewood
area
that we could have an anytime fitness i
don't care if they pay the
lebanon or whatever i mean if they pay
their fee i don't care
what that goes to it could go to enhance
the use of
our community centers and i'm belaboring
this and it's getting me nowhere but
anyway i just
just had to point that out that i think
it's important because we're going to
have a lot of extra things we paid 15
we paid 15 000 to somebody i can't
remember
to buy equipment that's down in
cleveland that carl's not even using
yeah i will amend my motion to allow
any board member to select
after the town trailer load of equipment
after the town picks what they can use
and i don't think there's by any stretch
of imagination they can use it all
you know we need to uh allocate it out
to
community centers if they want to do it
well i would like to say this too
i mean uh since we're going to be
donating some of it to the school and
some of it to the community centers
which i've always thought that the
partnership relationship between our
school system
and the facilities they already have
intact they're very underutilized
and the general public could use those
for community centers as well as when
the athletes and the students and stuff
come back into
session or whenever but during the
summer months and stuff like that
those buildings stay locked nobody uses
none of that equipment
and i think that that we need to have a
conversation in regards to that because
i think with the
trade-outs that we've currently in the
relationship we have with them
uh i think those facilities could be
utilized more than just during sport
related activities
i think they could be utilized for
aerobics and tracks most of the football
fields have tracks
and have facilities that you know that
we have positioned around them and most
of them have
some of the top-notch weightlifting
equipment
in this whole region and uh i think if
you put a few treadmills and and made it
uh you know feasible for some of the
other
people to utilize them we already have
the we already have the facilities
we just need that partnership
relationship with the school system to
open those up for more activity
well back before all this broke loose on
us
all of our high schools do use their uh
all their weight rooms all their
exercise because that is part of the
21st century grants
and part of that is they do use those
facilities
every summer all three they don't use
them on the weekends
uh they have they do let them come in
and work out
a lot of boys do go to work out i know a
lot of the coaches volunteer their free
time and they go in
yeah that's something we need to share
with all of them i agree
just just to give a comment back to miss
wallace
you'll be surprised how many come out of
councilwood
when we were doing tours and we did
tours around the different
counties looking at their fitness
internet include the center and
tazewell county ymca the big one they
have down there
all the way into whistle we went in at
eight o'clock in the morning
at the center in washington county
there was 14 people that were signed in
eight
of the 14 was from russell county
they were driving from russell county
to washington county yes
and at eight o'clock in the morning i
thought my goodness why don't we have a
facility like that
i'm glad they're healthier than i am but
we would we'll take a look at that and
look at each one of the community
centers
the castle would be a great place for
one right there especially
that was just an idea i'm with steve on
this i'm i'm
i'm there but i i just think that we've
got
opportunity to put things in our
communities that other people
might not be able to come to lebanon or
go to washington county i understand
i understand
i'll me in my second
oars yes carl
yes lou yes and thank you
and tim yes david yes steve
yes and rebecca yes we will share the
equipment
thank you madam chair
next on the ken administrator reports
request of course
is the federal cares relief fund
certification this is round two
so again russell county has received
two million three hundred nineteen
thousand five hundred twenty six dollars
in this round two uh that will be
combined with uh
what we have remaining and we have not
expended on our covid
since the first of march this also
in the 2.3 million dollars remaining
over we have to allocate to all the
towns
they get their fair share of it based
off the population
between the town of uh lebanon
town of honaker the town of cleveland
and the town of st
pyle so these formulas are sent down by
the treasurer of virginia so we're just
really following their guidelines on
what to appropriate and allocate out
so it's already preset but again this is
an opportunity for the board supervisors
to take a look
at the first responder needs the ppe
to be able to do the future to protect
rosa county citizens look at
food pantries donations canneries
and hot spots additional hot spots
they're also under the guidelines but i
put in the guidelines what was
applicable to this program
and we can come back together and
and at the board's discretion to be able
to
look at some of these ideals and
suggestions so
um i will need a motion for approval to
accept
two point three one
two million three hundred nineteen
thousand dollars 526
under the second and final allocation of
the federal chronosphere's release funds
from uh
do we have a motion to accept this money
tim do we have a second second low
any discussion yes please okay
okay um can can um
can we talk a little bit about er
education of our children through this
uh the way the school situation is and i
may be way off so stop me if i am i
don't
it's 7 30 and i do want to go home too
but
um i've gotten some things for some
teachers and i'm sorry i can't see my
peers up here
but um where they're using possible
community centers and
and this gentleman here i've got his
address and i know steve wanted to talk
to him also
i got his address too okay but we're
looking
uh some of the teachers had sent out
some of these ideas of these community
centers that are in our communities
and they have plexiglas sections
on their tables so you have a round
table
and you have some sort of a gizmo that
divides that so it gives you
a cubicle a student cubicle with a
plexiglass and then
you get a monitor i guess a school
monitor
a person would monitor inside that to
make sure the children
are are all in their studies now
everybody's not going to be in the same
classroom
and i guess they understand that but i'm
just wondering
in this i've had a question and a
teacher reached out to me
and said how do i find money to do this
and i plugged her into a grant
now if we can take some of this and
educate our children besides sitting in
a parking lot and mama and papa's car or
mommy and daddy's car
that's not going to work and that
wouldn't work for anybody in my family
either
if i had to drive them there and i
understand we're doing what we can do
but if we can take this to help educate
the children
in our community centers ever what it
takes i'm just wondering
so thank you for allowing me to
i'd like to ask i'd like to ask
questions since luge brought that up
because that's a good point
uh i i'm really interested in internet
uh activity or connection activity or
hot spots in the drill
community center swords creek community
center i know
we don't use givens elementary school at
all
and it's a lot of separation in that
school a lot of different classrooms and
through a little bit of parental
assistance and guidance
uh all we would need is uh make sure
they had internet access and they have
their
chromebooks you know with them but i
think we're gonna have to utilize just
about every
everything we have in this county
because of the circumstance and
situation
to give these kids access and one good
thing about it we need to identify those
areas that do have
broadband or internet access because
i've got three hot spots
through my business in activity right
now that people can utilize
but uh these kids and and for the
parents too
i don't know how other parents feel but
it's gonna be some very trying times for
the parents
yes and i mean just through learning i
don't know if i could teach my 14 year
old what they're learning today and i'm
just being honest with you
that you know and le and then it's like
starting new
it's like going into this phase it's
just like and i guess tim can relate
more than anybody
where he works in it with i.t and in the
i.t department but
i've got customers right now that
struggle being able to get on the
internet
let alone trying to help the kids the
kids are more pretty much more suited to
do it i think
tell tim then a lot of parents but to be
able to help to educate them
i just wanted to bring it out because i
like you know loose
we better we need to utilize just about
everything we have in our areas
to get some kind of connection out there
so these kids won't have to sit in a car
with a parent
and be able to try to figure it out i
just don't think it's going to work
i'll be honest with you i just don't
think it's going to work at all i think
some hands-on separation
and if we have to buy the plexiglass and
we have to work with the school system
to do that i think that's something we
need to
be aggressive with i'm sorry for taking
the schools have a pretty good chunk of
covet money don't they yeah
yeah they have their own their own cares
money yes they do
and and i'll explain on our side what
we're doing on our side as far as the
hot spots
this government center the parking lot
is hot it's
it's open to anyone that wants to use it
so as a veteran to be able to use it
now drill is hot too i've got all the
community centers are hot
except for fenney and you're
working with it they know i'm sorry
and and there's yeah oh grover finney
don't have
yeah we're going through those are the
only two but again
kids need a place where they can country
sit down you can't sit in a car and keep
it running and try to keep it cool
we got to figure that out how to get
them some access
if you're only say if you accept so many
and let them call in and pre-register or
whatever to get them inside to get them
at a table
and i think we ought to utilize every
bit of this college area down here and
i'm sure dr wright wouldn't care a bit
for the circumstance uh and what we're
under uh
but it might cost us a little bit to
keep it cleaned up you know but we've
got the coven money to cover all that we
can do the extra
cleaning and whatever
okay um yeah if y'all have been out to
our
various which we've already been
installing especially in the courthouse
if you've been in the front of the
government center
you'll see those separators that we have
and we're starting to put the separators
in between the workspaces uh the tables
that miss wallace was referring to
actually there's manufacturers now
designed to where you can
actually lock them in and move them as
you need we've already been looking at
those
let me ask one more question real quick
because my mind's going 100 mile an hour
but like say
uh i heard through rumor it might not be
true that uh
they might not have any aids at the
school i'm
i'm not real i'm they're they're going
to hire aides
but if there's additional aids or
additional retirees that's retired out
of the school system
that might want to volunteer and help
with these kids and
situations i know i i volunteered this
morning to load the buses
with the food that went out and i'm
telling you what
it is unless you you've never done it
you need to do it because
you don't know what it takes to feed
these children in this county and i was
so humbled by it
it was amazing it was like huge conveyor
lines of people and they were working
non-stop
just to make sure that these kids in our
county are fed and i was very touched
by what's going on and what they're
doing but we really need to
kind of think outside the box a little
bit on trying to get these kids
serviced absolutely
and it is going to be you know
it's a difficult time tim yeah and we've
got hot spots it's
you know we've got we've got home acre
elementary
belfast lebanon middle and elementary
copper creek and castlewood elementary
and high
all our hot spots and we're going to add
some more we want to add swords creek
and we're going to been working with jim
little
we're going to put a hot spot area there
in the
methodist church right off of churchill
road
i've got that equipment ordered and i'm
going to try it at oak grove community
center you're going to try to research
but there's not much sales service there
so i don't know but the equipment is
ordered
but those are still those are still hot
spots i mean they're not
right they're not like sitting down in
front of the front of a teacher we know
that
but but hopefully you know they won't
have to sit there
in the car and do their homework i mean
they'll the idea is they go
to the school where they have the access
they download
their assignments then they go home and
they work on them when they come back
they
upload what they've done download the
new that's
but it but it's not it's not the same it
is it is
it's not but it's not easy but it's not
a lot
and see we've even got some of the fire
departments are hot too
you know rebecca's area is hot she that
they had requested it
carl give him a chime he's actually a
little ahead of
all the other community centers he
actually has
the desk there and the computer is there
for the kids
so he's already live and hot so he was
that way before and he had him donated
to him so
he's been working on this for a while
but this will give him a great
opportunity but
plus also the old
cleveland school is hot too that was a
donation by
igo so that was another donation so
these places are going as much hot as we
can but
again for the board if you got
suggestions like this
this will be the time to bring this up
to be able to put
implement this and put it in place and
we will have to work with the schools to
make sure that there's no one
or everyone has an opportunity or has
access
there's there's also that you sent an
email out about united way having grant
money
to do hot spots yes united way coming
you know coming plato planning is doing
it there's money out there right now
for hot spots so yeah and
he wasn't able to be here but thanks i
want to say thanks to jim little for
allowing us to do that at his church and
you know hopefully that will help some
because we know hansonville is
is kind of a dark area and and there
wasn't a school there
for us to oh i know it goes right by on
two
four lanes and you can't have it it's
it's
and maybe we can reach out to a couple
other churches which would be a good
place for the kids too
that if if they had a hot spots too
especially like in the rosedale area you
know that they could do it and
especially down into daint
especially in the castlewood area you
know
we can do this and we're able to pay for
this
you know and give that service to the
kids
i like tim's idea working with the
churches is great opportunity
i mean you know i mean that's that's
unreal to be able to do that they have
some of them have larger parking lots
than others and
that's the myth of the shutdown
yeah and all the libraries do too so
we're we're trying to get this
expanding everywhere we can get the
service to reach but
uh again we'll have an opportunity to
come and get to get more areas
so well i would say this it's good these
hot spots they'll create
more of them but the number one thing i
think we need to work and push
is getting the schools open and getting
kids back in school we wouldn't have to
worry about the
dead bed they'll be there when we need
them but i think we really need to
push whoever we need a push to go to
whoever get these schools open because i
think
that it's very necessary and evil that
we get the schools open as soon as
possible
all right any further discussion all
right at this time we've had
a uh motion by tim and second by lou
let's vote on accepting our cares money
orris yes carl
yes lou yes tim yes
david yes steve yes and rebecca yes
all right thank you madam chair next
is and this is actually projects is
during this time okay
this is a resolution support for the v
dot smart scale on route 19 and 58
projects this is a
resolution of support for the virginia
vdot smart scale process the both
the 19 and the 58 project has made it
already
through the first phase and getting
ready to go into the second phase that
the applications will be submitted to
the
the commonwealth transportation board on
the 17th
this is the u.s route 19 super elevation
improvements
uh down as you go towards el gordon
school
that is that area to where you go up up
the hill and sharp curves everyone knows
there's been a lot of accidents it's
that's a high priority and also down on
route 58
as you come down the mountain at uh
at uh as sunday as sundown
i was going to call it sundance sundown
drive thank you lou
uh sundown drive uh this also
has a safety issue there is a they need
to put in
an off ramp and then a crossover into
the medium they need
to make that more workable because
there's people that's coming
you know from uh
saint paul coming into castlewood and
coming down the mountain they're cutting
across in front of each other so
this there's been a lot of accidents
there so i'll need
a motion on each one and
uh separately for the resolution support
for the
route 19 eastbound super elevation
improvements
project and the us route 58
alternative turn lane improvements on
sundown drive
first off we'll do route 19. do we have
a motion to
to send this resolution in so move madam
chair
lou a second i'll second david
all right thank you all right all those
in favor uh
oh i've got a vote sorry i'm sorry
orris yes carl
yes lou yes tim
yes david yes steve yes rebecca yes
sorry i forget that all right our second
uh resolution support for the route 58
project
do i have a motion to accept that or to
do that resolution
so moved steve do we have a second
second
david thank you all right orris all in
favor of this route 58 project
yes carl
luke yes tim yes david yes steve
yes and rebecca yes all right
thank you madam chair next on the count
administrator request is
the of course the virginia tourism
corporation
wonder love recovery grant
for tourism marketing the state virginia
on july the 15th
gave russell county a 10 000 grant that
our tourism coordinator had applied for
this is
for us to develop a new
uh tourism uh apple app
that is dedicated to russell county
tourism
to where if they come in it has our
what we call our our priority assets as
far as tourism it will have
access to those to be able to get them
in here along with
maps uh we are um
working with a app designer right now
and to take a look at that to where we
can get
you know of course the pinnacles in the
clinch in
all of our tourism assets listed in and
as they come through they can take a
look it'll give them the map or the
contact information
as they're traveling like all young
adults do now
it will give them access to quick what
assets and what beauty we have in in uh
russell county
uh as far as the tourism i need approval
to accept a ten thousand dollar grant
from the virginia tourism corporation
the wonderlife is it wander or wander
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do we have a second i'll say you threw
me
any further discussion all right all
those in favor
say of accepting this ten thousand
dollar grant
orris yes carl
lou yes tim yes david yes
steve yes and rebecca yes
next on the account of my australia
request is course is the
depart dhcds town of cleveland sewer
treatment plant per contract this
is the pr that
for the to evaluate the long term for
the sewer in the town of cleveland
the board of supervisors is only the
administrator on this we're just
we we did the rfp dhcd this
is their funding this is their contract
and uh we're just helping assist the
town with this
project but as far as any funding or
any assets that we have in it it will be
taken
and paid by the dhc department you know
department of health department housing
community development sorry
so i need a motion to prove uh thrasher
corp
company for the um the town of cleveland
sewer
per contract all right do we have a
motion to accept this contract
so move tim do we have a second
was that carl carl okay i could
hear him all right any discussion
couldn't you find a virginia firm team
they're in virginia aren't they or are
they well they're located in west
virginia but they're
they're doing business in virginia and
they're trying to expand
even even more and their qualifications
were through the roof
they have like 500 employees being
bigger didn't make you better
they don't know jack about cleveland but
at any rate that's just my comment
all those in favor of success of
accepting this per contract
orris yes carl
lou yes tim yes david
i'll vote yes but i i agree with steve i
i really think we ought to
found somebody here local to be able to
do this project
steve i vote yes and rebecca yes
thank you madam chair of course from the
previous
under uh reports was the uh
ellium l-e-m-p-g grant
this is the planning grant through the
department of emergency management
we closed out the 1920 of course
this is the 2021. this is a
2020 local emergency management
performance grant
for 7 500 i need a motion to approve the
appropriation on it so move
a second second steve any discussion
all right all those in favor oris yes
carl yes luke yes
tim yes david yes steve yes and rebecca
yes okay thank you madam chair
next is another grant this one goes out
to the virginia department of fire
programs
the fire program fund which is aid to
the localities for the
fiscal year 2021 for the total amount of
86
763 these are funds that are available
to the fire
departments for equipment again more
funding to get them
this is this equipment will be dedicated
not to the co-fed
but to regular firefighting this is a
annual grant that we apply for and we
this year we've got up to a total of
six thousand seven hundred sixty three
dollars
for them to be able to equally share and
get their equipment
that they need for firefighting in the
county i need a motion to accept the 86
0763
second second carl did okay
i'm sorry all right any discussion
aren't all those in favor boris
yes carl yeah lou
yes tim yes david yes steve
yes and rebecca yes
thank you ma'am chair next on the county
ministry request is the oak grove
community center facility edition
this is the addition that the school had
built
in the agreement with the
greenhouses that they had built for us
this is a a request
to go to added the addition to the oak
grove community center
in the
cover sheet that i give to the board of
supervisors we can do one of two things
we can move the addition down or build
onto the existing facility
so i give the comparison analysis
between the
either to build or to transfer the one
that's already built down
so the first analysis is to look at the
transfer
of the of the monitor facility down
which would have
the the move which was which is seventy
seven hundred dollars through
the brothers mobile home services and
of course a bid from redbuck
construction for 84.75
and for the site construction which will
be in the county which includes all
electrical
site development hvc and electrical for
a total s
total cost of twenty three thousand and
thirty dollars
or we can build on a 14 by 30 modular
facility
at a price of through
for 14 750 for the low bid
and again the site construction which
the county will perform which is 6855
for a total of 21
605. so what this
is is either the current one that's
already paid for or we incur the
additional cost
you know of of dealing a building on the
14 by 30. well i got a question how you
got the cost down so low as compared to
the ones you gave us in october of last
year and that is a very good question
yeah now first because because the price
the low price is 42 751 and high prices
49 184
and now i'm looking at costs that are
half that when
when one of the largest cost was
how it played in and it was
when we were trying to move the shell
the
uh the modular home that the school
built in
we could only work at that time
with um hang on so let me pull this up
so i can pull the information
and it came down to the construction of
it
in the moving of it it was a mixture of
of
expended cost
okay let's go up here so everybody can
see
there's phase one these two
while we're waiting um be that as it may
uh tim is needs his community center
that community needs its community
center and we're two thousand dollars
difference in
doing whatever well i take exception to
those numbers i don't think
you're telling me that it takes 68.55
for what you had proposed before you
were seeing
like a the electrical duct work and
guttering miscellaneous construction and
all that was going to be 20
and then like 4 200 for foundations and
the heat pump anywhere from
2000 to 300. you know and now you're
doing all that
for sixty eight fifty five yeah just
that just sounds
that just and and plus for a 420 square
foot edition i can't see it taking 655
dollars to do that you know
okay yeah and i'm not arguing that we we
have a commitment to tim to
provide him uh you know that the
addition
but you know the addition ended up being
a lot bigger than what i'd anticipated
what i ever viewed
envisioned being doing but you know it's
about twice as big as what i thought it
was going to be
and you know i'll just get to the bottom
line
my my opinion is that i think you've
overestimated this i
i think you've let's assume your numbers
are okay
for the for the uh
the the big facility to move it down
there's 23 000.
but for the 420 square foot add-on down
there you're only looking if you
proportion it down based on square
footage you're only looking at about 2
500
so you're looking at 21 23 000
plus uh and i'm going to say
17 150 for the add-on so
you know looking my thought would be
to do the add-on do the 420
420 square foot add-on and
take that building move it out to that
lot
across from the psa's shop
which is just outside of town i would
think you could get it moved cheaper
than seventy seven hundred dollars but
i've kept that seventy seven hundred
dollar figure in there
and what you would do is just give that
to your maintenance people terry and
grady and all the people they
they really don't have a home right now
they're going to be they're going to be
moved out
when you do all this construction work
down at the down at the
other end of the facility for the health
department and i don't know where you're
going to put them or where you want to
place them at but this would be a way to
get it for a little bit of additional
cost
probably cost you in the neighborhood
about thirty thousand dollars to do both
of them
so but you gain you you
give tim what he needs by doing it you
just
you know you don't you don't have all
that dead space down there
i don't i don't know what you're going
to do with it but and then
you do have a facility at the very least
they could use it for storage
and work on it additionally as they as
they went along
they can you know as money's come
available they could work on it
and uh you know try to bring it up sniff
but you know
eleven thousand about twelve thousand
bucks you could get
you could get that facility moved down
there i think doing the foundation work
and the 7 700
you could get it moved out there turn it
over to them as
funds became available and they had time
to work on it maybe even use some of the
community workforce people to do some
work like that
that's an option i'm going to throw out
there uh i think ford's probably already
made its mind of what they're going to
do
and one of the reasons i brought up
earlier about uh
it wasn't anything in regards it's just
these grants that we have received
they have a dollar dollar for dollar
match on them i'd like to see us finish
what we've had
pending and be able to financially can
we afford
to finish out the castlewood fairgrounds
and the
cannery operations with those
dollar-for-dollar match are we going to
have that money available to finish
those projects
okay since i mean we got half of it
through a grant are we going to be able
to finish those
and see on the two tobacco commission
grants as far as the fire grounds and
i'll take those first as far as the fire
grounds is
it is an agreement with the tobacco
commission right now which would they
give us a direct cash match
so lou knows what i'm going for and
that's ryer
so i get a cash match for everything
that the fairgrounds produces
in in and buys and does and implements
on that building also what we do as far
as labor or anything that we do to it is
a direct dollar-for-dollar cash match
which was the agreement
in that agreement even though it was an
older agreement they kept
that agreement on it which is rare and
that
that is still available what we expend
down there from the donation to the
fairgrounds like the 7 500
a year that's automatically goes to cash
match what we spend down there to
maintain that building from the county's
perspective over the fire grounds
perspective which they do spend
a good amount of money on it they get
it's a dollar for dollar match so that
takes the fairgrounds and that way
yeah we've got enough right now to cover
the first
57 000 that we mentioned before that's
already covered
and we've already incurred that so
that's that will come all back to the
county
now in the second phase of it what we
donate this coming year plus what the
fairgrounds is doing we get to work
and do a cash dollar for dollar match on
phase two
okay now the canneries what we do
on each cannery and the citizens in
russell county
we expand approximately 50 000 per year
to maintain both canneries per
cannery a hundred thousand dollars a
year
that is match well the reason i'm asking
you lonzo is just the fact
i've i've had some calls from some
senior citizens
about the heating and cooling or heat
and cooling especially like
for the castle wood uh buildings
because i know i know
oh that that's is that part of it yeah
they'll be able to get it it's insulated
now no i mean i'm talking about the air
conditioners
on the buildings okay and what we're
doing is
uh as far as the hvpc in there we have
insulated it
uh we have put siding on the doors the
the windows the new
it's energy efficient a new roof there's
a new roof
i'll have pictures for you later thank
you board meeting
it is a spectacular building now they
also put out eases on the front of it
for vendors
to where you can come in and they can do
markets and
things and they've got the doors that go
through i know it's hard on our senior
year it is plus the hill
and it it's going it's a beautiful
building and i i
wish i could put i'll have pictures
ready for it and on that next time
the now the canneries like i said
what we expend on operating costs that
is a
that is that's your match that's my
match on the canneries
we just got approval last week for the
punch list
that the cannery committee while they
were here operating the hours
from the tobacco commission to proceed
forward
with that now on this project
when we first did it back to stephen he
was absolutely 100
correct when we were looking at it
what was what we took down the cost is
we when we were first going to do the
addition on
we were having to set this so far away
and we was going to have to try to
connect it and that's where the
additional cost was coming in
so at the time and i worked through
harvey on this one with our psa
the brothers was not available brothers
has
in the end we had the two quotes that we
had was brady salvage
which does move in modulars of this size
but they cannot
move it in to where it could connect
they couldn't get it
sufficiently that they just move it in
and set it on the block and set it up
now brothers has the t the
capacity to be able to get it close
enough to where it reduced the addition
cost for the breezeway
so my costs went down on
the connections
side by side with a breezeway well it's
a small breezeway now they're going to
bring them together and connect the
joists
in time together that the brothers has
the capacity to be able to
yes exactly well it's going to be it's
going to be like a t
it's going to be like a t they're going
like a t yes they're going to be like a
t with a breezeway
now on on it you see you know where was
that okay
brother's gonna bring it in they could
get it a lot closer the foundation came
a lot closer too
now what the people that move these
modulars
whether you move it 100 feet across the
lot or you move it
down to castlewood it's seventy seven
hundred dollars they once they connect
it
it ain't based off a distance harvey t
it's it's a flat fee
so now what does that mean
that cut down the cost of the additional
breezeway plus
it reduced the cost of the
uh the transportation so and then number
three
is at the time we did the first ones
we did not have an hvc guy in house now
brady i have a i have an hvc guy with a
license in place
he has his own license and he can get it
at cost
so i got to reduce cost in the hvc units
i got to reduce cost into
the breezeway the additional building
the tie-in
and uh the reduced price as you can see
in the moving because brady's was going
to move it down for thousand
five and brothers is going to move it
for 7 700.
so now it's up to the board's discretion
yeah here's the here is the bid
this is the brothers had their bid to
move it down for 77.
brady's there's the the addition brilled
for
redbud for the addition on the breezeway
and this is harvey's bid for the
additional
that's the 4200 plus
the hvc which is the 2645-54
so
the this on the guttering that's a good
question
but it was all it does include the
guttering
insulation underpinning you know yes
i'd think there for a second
but at the board discretion
well either way you're going to have to
you're going to have to build
yeah i mean you can build or put the
trailer and set the board's discretion
now one other thing
because second thing is what the
also on the second thing that you have
to consider is you got the courthouse
moving
and you've got that issue to deal with
and then you got
missy to deal with so one of the things
that and i had missy to go take a look
at it she did a walk through
and so
you can use it for this or versus that
it's at the board's pleasure so
well it's an empty shell and it would it
would
i would think for what she would need it
would cost a fortune to remodel it
yeah i mean it's it's built i'm not and
steve i totally appreciate your
your questions but it's it's built
to be the second part of that building i
mean it has
matching siding matching shingles
matching tile
there is no duct work uh there's just
electrical because
it's just going to be their dining area
so it's i mean it's missing it was found
to be
dr brown's hardest to move it didn't he
has he called
and asked that we get it moved and the
school board is
yeah it covered i don't know how well
they're going to be and i was
i was you know even looking at maybe on
the second one
even to work out something with the
school board to maybe look at one for
missy to design it actually from i don't
want any more deals like this one
okay well it's not what
we really or what it was my
understanding was intended to be
so and i'm not trying i know we
committed to tim to
to do an addition down there for the
dining area
but i just you know you've already
decided what's going to happen
so you know i can see the pictures where
the footers have been dug out and it's
exactly like you say it's already done
so
you know apparently it's already decided
what's going to happen so
i would say this the community has
weighed
what over a year a year and a half
double wise been sitting over
before i was even 20 and you and i went
over and looked at that
about that time and if you
build another structure down on site
how long how much longer is a community
going to have to wait for that
where's what i was proposing to go ahead
and move it out to this other site
that's all i've moved that building out
to this other site is what i was talking
about not let's leave it there it's been
there for over a year now
well i'm saying if you're going to build
a new
facility on site at the grove community
center
the time in which it's going to take to
do that because
lonzo knows that some projects don't
progress
as quick as they should or like to
because you have other things coming up
that uh you have to get more
something priority over another one you
understand what i'm saying
yeah yes sir i didn't yes they waited
all this time for the one that's already
built to get it moved
and now we're trying to move in another
direction
to put to er or build
a new facility on site
and do something with the one that's
already ready to go
i mean let's look at it different ways
and how long the community has waiting
for that facility because
we have to encounter the cost but still
these other things other than just cost
that we
had to consider i think
so alonso
yes how much did the building cost that
they made it or how much money is
yeah roughly 17 000 is what they get per
year
yeah carl did you hear that
i said it cost 17 000 but it was
it cost the board when the when the
board of supervisors built the
greenhouses for all the high schools
that was
part of the compensation back you know
for the greenhouses they got the
additional
uh modular home so it's already paid for
it was built by school okay
alonso you need a motion to go ahead and
i need a motion to uh for the either the
transfer the module facility or to build
the module facility edition
at the oak grove community center well
i'll make the motion we transfer the
modular facility
okay all right do we have a second with
that
all second now katie is that how i'd
do that all right any further discussion
all right let's
boris yes carl
no lou yes
tim yes david no
and the reason i think we could do it a
lot cheaper for just to add on addition
okay steve i'm going to vote no as a
matter of principle
because this project has not turned out
to be what it was intended to be
yeah i agree and rebecca is yes
all right thank you madam chair
next on the county ministry report uh
request
is the department of criminal justice
this is another grant
okay um this is department of criminal
justice
uh school resource officer grant which i
hope we get to use
um right now we're actually using them
on the road but it's a grant for fifty
seven thousand
two hundred and eighty seven dollars i
need a motion to accept
the department of criminal justice
services for the rsos
for this grant of fifty seven thousand
two eighty seven
david all right do we have a second
second tim are all those in favor of
accepting the school resource officer
grant money
orris yes carl
yes lou yes tim
yes david yes steve yes and rebecca
yes mount mickey out here
it's larry
come
next on the county ministry request is
for
the the highway abundant life church
pump and hall septic system um
uh mickey was here to explain this
component of it
uh but he had to go to a ball game
so i'll go through it we uh this is a
request
uh for a pump and hall for permission
for the septic system for the um
highway abundant life church that's on
route 80.
uh they have uh the churches already
have contacted with vdh this is
recommendation by bdh for a pump and
hall
if you can't have a septic system based
off your property
um the reason the board of supervisors
is requested on the pumping hall is in
case there's
instances where um if you have sewer
water running
in front of the facility it's a way it's
a mechanism to make sure they're not
circumventing a hookup
or non-user agreement or something like
that so vdh
this is part of their process when he
gets the
the church gets the approval for the
pumping hole they have to go back to vdh
which also
triggers the building inspection and
also the right way for vdot so they're
working with vdot vdh
and uh the building inspector on this
so they're asking for a pump and howl
which
will be installed by a contractor
per vdh one of their selected
pre-selected
uh contractors to ensure that it's in
compliance with vdh regulations
and it will be continuously inspected by
them
and it has to be contracted and pumped
by them
and uh per va vdh guidelines
so i'll make that motion so i need to
make sure we accept that
all right do we have a second carl
any discussion are all those in favor
oris carl
lou yes tim yes david yes
steve yes and rebecca yes
thank you madam chair the last item on
the uh
county ministry request is the emergency
management this is a travel quest for
our hazmat slash chemical spill response
training
which would be paid by the grant that
you just approved
uh i need approval to send jess to the
uh actually to roanoke on august the
third and the fourth
i need approval for training somebody
who has man do we have a motion to
accept his
travel request david thank you for a
second
second steve any discussion ma'am that
concludes the came in
wait let me
yes tim yes david yes steve yes
and rebecca yes thank you now i'm sure
sorry about that
you're ready to move this mask is it
it wires you out a little while but
anyway to keep us safe
ma'am that concludes the count
administrator approaching request
any any more questions next thing we
have are any matters
uh presented by the board orris do you
have anything you need to tell us
not this time carl
lou tonight thank you
tim and i was going to talk about the
internet we did that earlier so thank
you
david yes i have a request here uh
i'm like to request some children plane
signs in some different areas and i
thought about this
pretty deeply as far as like green acres
drive as one area
country oaks drive is another area 25
mile an hour speed limit on secondary
roads
is still fast
and when you have all these kids at home
now
through covid and everything i've had
multiple reports about
areas that people are flying
there's on green acres and green green
acres drive and
country oaks drive is the country a
couple of areas i'm just going to
identify those two areas i'd like to
actually
ask the board as a whole to kind of look
at their
area i've been asked also like
some neighborhood watch areas uh that
need to be identified for some
heavily presence or more activity going
on
in some residential areas that normally
wasn't going on
until all this shut down and now there's
a lot of activity
and i've actually met with some sheriffs
and local town police officers and went
with them and drove with them and
went and looked at some of this stuff
going on in these localities
uh you know through tragedy and stuff
there's
people i mean it there's some other
things that goes on
a lot of trickle-down stuff that happens
but we need to identify and look at some
of these area roads that have
and if anybody out there has any other
additional road areas
that they're seeing high you know miller
creek and different areas that
we have higher traffic and then you know
i mean i was up our setting me and the
police officer
in a car came by i couldn't get his tag
number
i mean that's how fast they went by uh
so
what i'm saying is vdot won't put out
strips to slow people down on
high on state roads but
we need to identify some sort of signage
maybe consciously they'll look at it and
say you know
i might need to slow down there's
children playing or
uh and then i want to find out how do we
obtain these neighborhood watch like if
people want to adopt an area
for drug traffickers and stuff that they
can call these numbers
so you know is it something that we need
to make a motion on
to get these signs and have them
put out or identify each individual road
or is it something that
we can request vdot upon request from
the county administrator
i'd be glad to reach out to john v dot
on the children to play in the
neighborhood watch those
very good programs along with adopt a
highway if you want to go that far
but anyhow i'd like to get the trash but
i'll i'll get that together well thank
you i appreciate lonzo that's all i had
yes lonzo that reminds me i had a
request
up toward college on 19
people was parking in front of their
house they've got a wide area where they
can park
and they're parking uh they thought
there was for you know phones
uh service but the lady went out and
asked him
if they had a problem as they were
talking on the phone what and
she they called her a b if you know what
b
stands for and said do you own this and
she said no i
don't own this but you're blocking my
driveway
because my husband is a has heart
problems and i don't know when i may
have taken the hospital
and she had to call the police and she'd
like to have a
no park standing or stopping sign
from vidal i guess for her her area
there
okay is that the same right it's the
same route
i've already discussed that with him
i've already talked to vdot about it
with him
with them i called vdot
yes that was the one i had up on the uh
the ga the satellite the other night yes
yeah we were looking at it and and
actually q uh
the ross county sheriff's department's
been down there to look at it too
which will have a report for you yep
yes your turn sir okay
first of all i want to apologize for
anybody that had to stand out in the
waiting room i'm asked a couple of weeks
ago that we have the rest of our
meetings down
in the conference center so we can have
everybody
you know we could social distance and
everybody could be there
found out today that we were not going
to do it and i asked to have it changed
and i was turned down
so i want to make a motion right now
that as long as we're in this emergency
ordinance
that our meetings will be held in the
conference center where we can
adequately get everybody in there and
they can get comfortably seated in
things social distance
and we won't have to deal with all this
in and out stuff and people being
isolated out there
so that's my motion i'll second it
any discussion all right
horse i agreed to do so all right
carl lee
i don't disagree so yes okay tim yes
david yes steve yes rebecca yes
the only uh things i have to say is that
we will
on august the 12th here at the
government center we will have a
household hazardous trash pickup
and that our next meeting we need to
discuss that that
to um yeah we need to reconvene
on uh august the 18th which is a tuesday
at six o'clock correct because that's
when the psa's meeting
a motion if we adjourn to reconvene on
august the
18th at 6 00 p.m in the
russell county conference center all
right do we have a second
second david all right all those in
favor auris
yes carl yeah
did he say yes lou yes tim
yes david yes steve and rebecca yes
all right we will reconvene on tuesday
august the 18th
at the conference room at 6.