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thank you
you madam chair this is certification
closed session
pursuant to subsection 2.2-37-12-d and
coding virginia 1950 as amended
each members of the board of supervisors
upon roll call
certifies that the best of their
knowledge only public business matters
lawfully exempted
from the open meeting requirements under
the virginia free commemoration
act only such public business matters
they were identified in the motions by
which the closed meeting was convened
were heard discussed or considered in
the meeting by the board of supervisors
any member of the board of supervisors
who believes that there was a departure
from the requirements
shall stay so prior to the vote
indicating substance
of that departure and his inherent
judgment has taken place
are there any supervisors who believe a
departure has taken place
being none if you agree to the matters
heard discussed or considered during the
closed meeting were pursuant
only to the motion by which the closed
meeting was convened
please signify by saying yay or yes tim
lovelace
yes luanne wallace yes
ray yes steve brady
david yes boris christian
rebecca died yeah ma'am you have
approved return to regular session
thank you
um
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around
all right and this time
workforce housing project so that would
be
number 11. item number 12 would be
to discuss a change
so with those three things added
we have a second second all those in
favor
all right the first thing we have now is
a
presentation uh kirby meadows i
understand kirby
one will be here andy smith
well this will be with for the russell
county planning commission
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thank you
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well mr lester has been over several
times to try to see crystal and she's
been out the last few weeks but we are
trying to work with
uh mr randy williams to see what she
works over his office
so we have heard you we are listening
and we are trying to
work but she's been out so we'll
we'll get a hold of him
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we haven't been able to speak with her
yet she's been out from work she hasn't
been here
he has gone over to see her then there's
times
when she wanted to know so we will
we are working on it we will do
something
all right next is a presentation from
tim
addington and melissa parsons
the 911
you take that mask off you're a whole
lot better than you're six feet away
follow up
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brief presentation okay
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and i'm just asking i mean it's not
oh yeah i know we both talked about it
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well i mean then you know i know uh
several times
you know police officers all the time
i'm getting people trained in
more areas to cover in the county uh
more
officers will have to fight those
battles that even get grant or coming
out of our own budget
i'm just thinking long term it could be
something that
maybe could look at long term uh or
short term down the road and
says how would this fit i know all the
chairs
and all these directors would have time
to come together and say
you know what what's this look like you
know as far as saving taxpayers
a million dollars each per count or
whatever it may be
i don't know i know that there would be
no eliminating jobs because you have to
take that savings and money put those
people in
some foreign positions to accommodate
some of these other things i just
thought i'd bring it out but i know i've
talked
though about the communication side of
it he does an
excellent job and i mean i know the
terrain and stuff that we deal with all
the time
could be a thing but i know we have a
partnership with tasman right now
back and forth and i know that
technology is still very viable
not only one gig or you know service
so i know we have all these landfill
sites
on these high elevated areas that the
county
outside the landfill you could put it on
landfill but i've always said
put a towel right off the side of the
landfill and almost reach
five six counties a link you know just
to have that redundancy
i guess that'd
right it's gonna go good
i think we're blazed here to have that
ability
yo you've done a good job
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well i just thought i would bring that
out i just think that it's something
that our whole region as a whole
uh we're gonna have to look a little
deep into not only that i mean just
budgetary wise financial wise saving our
taxpayers money i'm gonna continue
there's other solutions to to it
for everybody i think conversations need
to be had
i mean some people just don't like
having those conversations they're
afraid you want to do away with this and
go away at that
i don't think we can find a proponent to
do away with anything i think we're
trying to make things better life easier
lower taxes
for everybody you know you know
yes
it's a real issue
that's what needs to happen
over the next couple of years
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okay
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oh yeah
uh yeah let me just take out some of
what melissa said
the board of supervisors has has has
worked with the sheriff department we've
upgraded their equipment which i'll have
seen
which we've got grants for that and
the insurance departments did a real
good job on this
we also on this one i had to contact
and vote tim we had to ask for extension
on this grant
until november the 15th this is only
good until november 15th
due to the coal bid we were going
through the meetings
and we finally got into where we could
extend you've got to remember this is a
214 thousand dollar grant
uh for us to transition in the right
direction
it will not it's almost like some of our
projects it's not starting
until the third quarter 2020 2020 20
20 21. yes thank you
but this is putting in a system
like that like melissa said this will go
10
15 years out this will
this will partner it'll be it will
enforce
it will also strengthen what equipment
that we've done
what we have put into the new 9-1-1
center
so this is just another leg in putting
this system like she said this is going
to be a very powerful system of russell
county has
actually it's probably one that will be
one of the best of all seven counties in
southwest virginia
so but i apologize we only got till
november the 15th
to make a decision on this this is a 214
thousand dollar grant
uh they're going to pay for the first 24
months
so yes ma'am yes sir
i'll make it
uh make a motion to approve this grant
as
an authorized city
can you call me
um
thank you melissa thank you both
our first is our regular meeting on
october 5th we
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meeting october the 27th
next thing is the approval of our
expenditures for the month
play your field we have emotional
strength i'll make it
david
oh carl i'm sorry all those in favor
all right the next item we have is our
committee appointments for
the whole highway currently 10 left
lakes
together disgusting heart
all those papers team on the coconut
city
um
all right the first person you have is
steve franklin so if you're separated
okay
well usually it's three minutes
take care of them okay steve if you're
getting the address
yeah and next uh teresa franklin
same address okay teresa
and i have
nelson hayes
go ahead well we were actually
and we appreciate y'all taking the time
to hear us on this um
there is a lease agreement with the
clinton trip early which we
we don't have a problem with that
however
we have been our kids are not part of
italy mine's not but
she does play we live in castlewood two
minutes from the park
and the gates to the park are locked
and i spoke with luanne about this
in some extent she asked me to
speak with bob saunders who is the
president over the little league
um i tried to do that and he refused he
said he was not discussing it with me
and
actually hang up on me but we want our
kids to be able
as russell county citizens she did
verify that tax money goes into the
little league
and we want our kids to be able to go
out there and just
practice it was just my husband and my
daughter
she has to make video to get you know
she's got college
looking at her and we go out there to
make video and things of that nature so
that we can send them when they request
it
and he locked the gates and will not
open
those gates he said the property belongs
to the little league
i have a contract here that you know
they
wrote with them and they say it renews
every 10 years
he pays a dollar a year uh to for rent
is what it says
um but i just feel like because we do
pay taxes as well
um i was told that you know we could go
to dane or we could go to cleveland
and i'm like we live two minutes from
this field
and i don't understand why that if we
don't ask to use it when little league
is in session we would not
expect to take you know priority over
little league
but we would like for our kids to be
able to use this field
to to practice to you know
make video for colleges so that they can
you know get scholarships to go to
college
but he refuses to open the gates to let
them use it even when little league is
not
in session or having games or even in
season
and we had tried to discuss it with him
to see if he would let them use it and
he refuses
so we came out today i know you know
with this
agreement you know i don't know you know
what can be done as far as
him allowing us to use it but i do know
that
according to this it can be terminated
with only a 90-day notice
and i just feel like if we pay taxes and
we live in russell county
that our kids should be able to use
these fields
and have full access to them when little
league is not in session
but he refuses to speak with anyone
about it so
that's why we're here this is not asking
to use
uh concessions that he has there
we're not asking flights just
a couple hours of daylight all we're
asking
uh
i don't see where a problem could be
he's totally against anybody doing
anything besides literally
uh my daughter plays on a travel thing
just for college exposure there's
nothing against
anything here i can just get her in
front of their college coaches there
and we have to put work in outside of
what she does but
we have to travel to cleveland
today like this
it's a five minute walk less than two
minutes immediately
it just doesn't make any sense well i'll
i'll tell you this i
i run into this situation
and i went down and met the board and
had a
pretty deep conversation because i
coached down there for years i
participated with all kids but i told
them i said this ain't about us it's
about the kids
and you can't restrict because there's
too many days of the week too many hours
that they can work together
to let these people access these fields
now
when i was in little league we had eight
teams now we're down to one and maybe
two
and why is because people wanted to get
they want to travel they want to see
more experience they want to get their
kids better
and they weren't getting it at the local
level i'm just being honest and straight
people
and we need to have the ability in
russell county and all of our county
fields to let people
play and participate oh and open the
doors to those whether they want to go
to our
hit sign or throw some or or you can't
restrict
me personally i think you cannot
restrict it just one organization
because you're you're hurting the kids
uh and not anything against little
league because i was in there for
absolutely 25 years and i won
six district championships ships went to
state six times
with some really good talented kids but
it was about the kids
and i had people kids from lebanon rich
lanes everywhere coming to play
i left play for me if i didn't have a
place to play
so my personal feeling on this is that
no gate should be locked when it comes
to opening those things up for our
children
ever and and work it out just
communicate and say hey look
the league's only there for so much so
much time
and you can actually work around those
uh
practice schedules and game schedules
because they usually only played on
weekends but if you look at the way
little league's been doing now they're
playing the inner league
so if home actor travels to copen
they're not there
if coburn travels or castlewood travels
to honaker then you all could be
practicing on those fields
have those availability and have have
access to those but
and i know i know who you're talking
about annoying personally you know i
consider you i've umpired and worked
involved in
different ones in this little league
program they've been doing it for
50 years but you can't keep doing things
the same way
no we're not here to hurt little league
in any way
well i know
well i've always said that if you look
at the accommodations that we have to
count
people shouldn't go to domtar park every
weekend
i mean they shouldn't go down there and
spend their money when they can spend it
right here in southwest virginia
now you all i i travel i play in
knoxville they'd send me
25 miles down the road when i lost i
don't nobody heard that
but you know we took a woven we went
down there and if you come out of the
bracket you came back to this other
field
i've told steve and different ones here
we've got accommodations right here in
southwest virginia if you open the doors
to these accommodations
you'd have kids coming once this
covenant deal is going you'd have
brain's going to be here by the bus load
to have these travel ball times
and that's great revenue and it's great
revenue
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with you i mean we need to open up our
facilities in the county
and we need good strong leadership i
don't want you taking your dollar
outside here we want to bring people in
i mean you know if we can host that now
that we've got
bow up here at southwestern community
college we have all this ball going on
that's right but i i'm sure
well i don't i don't agree with it i
don't agree with vlogging
there's actually a sign on the gate
going to the parking lot now it's like
dust or dawn or whatever you're not
supposed to be there i understand that
we're going out for an hour and a half
two hours after she gets home from
school when i get home from work
you know just uh she's gonna try to roll
up you know
i'd rather have her on that field
anymore right well and to be honest with
you
norton
well i'll tell you i'm a member of honor
we have a
pretty good athletic program we met with
levin and castlewood this past
year too we took money off our own
budget
and helped them get their basketball
program up in mind
because it wasn't just about it was
about
all the kids and you know it worked out
great we all came together we traveled
castle would play
they came up here played because we want
to keep our kids in southwest virginia
but now i'm telling you right now we're
losing thousands of dollars
thousands of dollars going out here
going to tennessee
i'm gonna be honest with you spend
roughly
five hundred dollars that's when we
don't have to get ready
oh i know i'm with you
thank y'all appreciate your time thank
you
yes jim
and if you don't if if we don't care
just
on on the contract and
on the little league contract that is a
valley a valley contract that
not this board but the previous board
gate to
uh the clinch river little league now
one of the things in the contract is and
then probably the reason they're kept
is different than any other field in the
county because it does have a contract
they literally maintains a million
dollar insurance policy on that
they have the main security they have to
maintain the
operations and the maintenance the
county contributes
as far as taxpayers funding very little
to that little league because
the little league maintains it they mow
it we don't
we don't provide manpower we don't
provide very little funding probably
the funding that we provide to that
little league to run those
is probably would keep the lights on so
that that it that is correct can anybody
burn
uh we do well the other field
the the other fields are open the other
fields do not have those restrictions on
because he hasn't
have y'all sat down with bob and tried
workouts
let us get a little bit more clarity on
this okay
thank you
okay i'm jim little uh 1660 copper ridge
in castle wood in tim's district over
here
i'm going to try to talk as fast as i
can for my three minutes first
just piggybacking on what the previous
speakers said
from a strictly tourism standpoint as
of 2019 athletics was the twelfth
biggest drawer
of tourism dollars to a county that's
coming in to see
high school games little league games
any type of games the last report i
looked at
in 2019 it was the 12th highest so
that's dollars lost you know and people
coming in
so i just wanted to piggyback on that
and toss that out for what it's worth
i'll wear two hats real fast here first
i'm the pastor of the churchill united
methodist church in hansonville
i just want to thank all the county
residents that have used we entered into
a
agreement with the school system and
with
mr loveless here to set up two verizon
hotspots
which uh students can come in
citizens in the community to do uh
unemployment applications job
applications etc
and our biggest concern from the church
was what kind of mess would we have in
the parking lot
and they've left it spotless tim it's
been wonderful the
job so we appreciate both the young
people and the
residents of the county and we're just
glad we were able to do a little bit
there
from our end quickly putting on uh
we're not really on for tourism today
but because we're coming up on the
christmas season i'll put a plug in real
fast here
uh first i want to thank heather who has
become just a fantastic asset in the
last year
as our tourism coordinator the grant
she's
been able to write for us the
accessibility and to lonzo for his
support force
um quick things that we've started if
you look on our facebook
site you'll see tuesday treasures and
five friday features which are
local businesses that would relate to
tourism
whether a business to draw in a place to
eat etc
uh our first one was a play a antique
shop here in town called something
special
and then this past one uh rick bostick's
place farmer's table
up in honaker and if you look at that
that just went off the board and hits
there on the farmers table
so we're pleased to be able to feature
these businesses out there
the facebook that we've bought into and
spent some of our money on
uh as of about 10 minutes ago
we have 4 963 people that are following
our facebook site we're super thrilled
with that
i mean you know people are actually
going on there and looking at it uh
we've got an app that in the process of
working on that was paid with
some of the state covid money grant that
we got along with
uh we have been and will continue to be
heather can correct me if i'm wrong
blue ridge outdoors we're trying to
spread more throughout the region
we've been in blue ridge outdoors now
one or two months
and we're booked through the end of
december trying to advertise outside our
region
we had a little over half a page this
last time
and uh getting good results plus we were
on their online presentation
also
you've got that you got the copies of
them up there yes everyone should have a
copy of the blue ridge outdoors you'll
find that
uh heather wrote up the articles
wonderful job again
um we've also qualified and got just got
another grant
from the state here uh pretty much a
leverage
grant there um
i think we've got every grant you've
written you've gotten
so far haven't you heather yeah so i
mean
fantastic job heather's done in grant
writing for us
um we then started fundraising on our
own to get into
uh non-designated money that we could
use for different things
and it was started with a uh anonymous
gift to 500
donation uh so it didn't come out of our
line item which we couldn't use
but so we got an anonymous on that
we've now profited returned the 500 and
profited over 800 just in the last two
and a half months
on that um i know that seems small
but we're making money instead of
spending it here so far
uh and that's with all of our bills paid
on it
you'll find back behind you there we've
done etching
there again used a local company out of
castle wood
farmhouse designs that did the etching
and we've had to reorder on the mugs
three times heather something like that
already i mean they've been very
successful
and we're more than doubling our uh
profit on that from the marco
uh besides those we've got a company
called middle creek clay that is doing
coffee cups if you remember some of you
have seen them already it's a clay
coffee cup
it's got the outline of virginia on it
with a heart
right over russell county with
experience russell on that
those should be here in about two weeks
that we'll have up on those
as a fundraiser also we've had a
donation
from a local uh individual
that you'll find down in the uh art
center here in the hall if you walk up
the hallway there where we've got
several
pictures of renee hodges has donated
a stretched canvas 16 by 20 that we'll
be doing a silent auction on
and we've had a basket donated by
something special that different
businesses
have been putting things in we're going
to do a raffle so we're not just sitting
on our butts there steve
you know i mean you told us to do
something so
thank you there steve
well thank you the uh how that money's
being used
we now have our brochures
being distributed in five our airports
throughout the region
including tri-cities for everyone
yes
right brandon uh
mosley over at the brewery love supply
brewery
has got the glasses and is working with
another program on that
uh glasses are also available at the
appalachian meets and down in st paul at
clutch life outfitters or in heather's
office
if she doesn't keep losing um
but but no we uh
we'll keep ordering them and going great
but let's say five airports now are
distributing our
information going out we're trying to
get our uh
they're working jeff hess with vtc
from up in honaker i know david that's
jeff
uh working on getting them to show our
video
as part of the flip through at
tri-cities airport
so that'll be a good boom for them to
see
we did get uh videos done four actually
total from brad deal and preston ball
preston right here locally brad just
over the county line
these can be pulled out if the ida or
anyone wants to
feature a certain section these are made
so that you can actually pull out a
snippet
we'd like to be put on your schedule
maybe in february after
you have all your officers in january
and everything
and present those to the public here
maybe on
uh that to see what we've got coming up
but uh we used our money to get these uh
videos done
uh we had to purchase some music rights
to go with them and things like that but
that's just part of doing the business
there
um we also gave out last year a 500
scholarship and we're
online to do the same again this year
again our brochures we did
10 000 brochures and we've already given
out over half of them
um and then we did video presentations
at all three high schools of course back
before coming in
at the oak grove community center at the
drill community center
and i will go on record as saying the
best food in the counties in drill
okay i mean those ladies can call when
you go
right right those ladies can cook over
there
i put on five pounds i thought i was at
a church
social here you know they were wonderful
over at castlewood and then the chamber
of commerce and the rotary
and then covet basically shut us down on
making these presentations
so that i know i've gone over my three
minutes for that i apologize
but you let a preacher take the uh
microphone you're in trouble
so um if we can do anything more
let us know what we can do i applaud the
committee that
i've got working with me and heather the
support from lonzo and support from all
of you all
thank you thanks for opening up your
church
to the community i'm sorry thanks for
the church property i don't know why
this isn't working
thanks for opening up your church to the
community and the students
and for all you've done with tourism
thank you very much for anyone else
audience someone else that wants to
speak proper
additional information to present on
behalf of the planning commission
on the gis would you prefer that i do
that now
give me your address please dustin keith
211
cedar heights lebanon
so
good evening i thank you all very much i
am dustin keith
of lebanon uh local realtor and director
of
southwest virginia association of
realtors and a member of the planning
commission
the planning commission had received
several comments prior to
march when we made this initial
recommendation to you all
about public access to the gis
in researching this we did have our
agent crystal white do some research and
she did find that all of the surrounding
counties to russell
do have free online public access to
this service
and this service is a map service it is
an aerial
it doesn't necessarily include plats as
a definite legal
boundary of properties does it but it
does connect
maps to text records
so currently to use the gis in russell
county you must submit an application
and pay a 150 annual fee to use the
service
we're told that the annual cost of the
county to host this information
through the contractor was three
thousand five hundred dollars
as you can see on page one these are the
minutes from our march 16th meeting when
we approved a recommendation
after hearing the presentation from
crystal
uh recommending to you all that
the board of supervisors waive all user
fees for access to the russell county
gis
system since then the board has not
taken up that recommendation for
consideration
you all have discussed the issue but i
wanted to be here
also with mr smith and answer any
questions or clear up any
any confusion you have about the gis
the gis is an important tool for
realtors and other real estate
professionals
but this recommendation would have the
highest impact on the public at large
and out of area people conducting land
research in russell county
during the pandemic especially in the
early months during the summer
when our rates were very low realtors
across the region had
dozens of calls from people out of state
who were very much interested in moving
to southwest virginia
to escape the high concentration of
coronavirus in
cities and suburbs
but think of the out-of-state buyer who
was interested in purchasing
property in russell county they weren't
able to access the online gis and start
researching property
because it was not available to them
but because the service was available in
surrounding counties
if they were looking to do research they
would probably end up purchasing in a
different county
because that wasn't available to them
so because of this you do have several
letters of record
of support that we were able to collect
in just a few days
these span real estate industry
non-profit
surveyors other groups and this would be
a huge asset for us to continue doing
the work that we do and
helping people relocate to the region to
increase our tax base
but also this is a great service that we
could and should be providing to
our county residents and to the public
at large you all have any
questions about any of this information
thank you very much appreciate your time
constitutional officers
i'm sure
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the county administrator reports
thank you madam chair
first on the county ministry reports
is of course the russell county carers
funding summary financial
summary today as uh as of
november the 2nd 2020 this is a summary
of our
uh how crosstalk county has distributed
out our cares funding as you can see
uh the first on the first line item
one of the largest portions went out to
each one of the individual towns
uh 839 000
of course we've had to also take care of
the county operations which included
you know all the sheriff's departments
and the county offices
and treasurer et cetera et cetera and
that was at 1.57
the next one is the public facility
safety modifications that we've had to
make
for decontamination equipment
touchless system clean supply sanitation
meeting rooms government facilities and
that is being 451 000
but one of the ones are the things that
you know the border supervisors you know
should uh
find a very you know
very helpful to the community thank you
thank you
uh is the business support and recovery
right now out of this funding you know
ross county board of supervisors
give over 427 thousand dollars
you know into creating you know small
business grants
and public spaces so you know that's
in addition to that also enter our
non-support our food pantries of 160 000
but one of the best ones was our
first responders to our fire and rescue
and that we have given a total of four
hundred and fifteen
thousand dollars so again
we have given into the areas
that are here to protect russell county
citizens
protect uh russell county employees
protect russell county first responders
so right now in today in this to the end
of the year
from down from november the second to
the end we have 551 thousand
uh 697 remaining under the cares
but we do have what ten
years ten grand there'll be a process
yes all right and uh
next on the county ministry reports um
is the russell county transfer station
staffing report that was all in your
packet
um again this is
the disclosure statement that we're
required to do in
staffing at the transfer station that
takes care of our trash
uh it tells that we are meeting the
deq and guidelines on what we're
supposed to do at
our landfill
as everyone can see the uh
and then during the co-bid you know the
landfill has
has increased greatly and again i want
to
you know acknowledge that during our
time for waste
our waste management people sometimes
that during these times during the cold
in the heat
they've been out there to you know to
take care of the disposal there at each
one of our sites and
at our transfer station next on the
county submitter county administrator
reports is
of course this is just acknowledgment
that the russell county
assistant commonwealth attorney is going
to be advertising for a position
we had one to leave the county
and we will be advertising it uh for
at the first of december next
is of course the virginia service
training officers
prosecution b stop grant this is the
application as you see in your packet
uh this is for at a grant for
57 028 this is an application to the b
stop
uh that has been done by the sheriff's
department the russ county's sheriff's
office is requesting v-stock
continuing funding for a full-time
investigator and dedicated to the
domestic violence and sexual assault
cases
this officer will work with all domestic
violence victims
sexual assault and victims during
during the grant time period this is the
application
for y'all's uh package
next on the county mystery reports is
the carers act funding fast
track for all band projects one of them
so in the meantime with all the
characters one
one the cares that was given to the
county was to ensure that the safety of
russell county citizens and
russell county employees second was
there was cares funding given to the
schools to be able to operate
to protect our russell county students
and teachers
now this is an additional grant that has
came down through
that we that came down through the
governor's office there's 30 million
dollars that has been
allocated for broadband expansion so
uh seeing that it came in russell county
taking the care
taking every advantage that we can we
reached out to
the cumberland plateau and our private
providers
and as you will see during the
application of these two projects
we are asking for additional services
under this
for an additional half a million dollars
in broadband expansion within the
services in russell county
so the first one is of course through
point broadband this is a
the total project which is 199 645
dollars
and this uh this has a three mile
of fiber construction which has the
design
labor and materials and this is the area
of service
and i hope i can get it down to where
y'all can see it
on route 728
in addition to point broadband igo has
also came in and partnered with russ
county board supervisors
for a broadbrand infrastructure that
will serve 40 additional households
that will be um let's see where is this
one located at
it is clarksville yes thank you
my collection sorry it's clarks valley
so this is this will serve additional 40
houses
this is also part of the packet and the
second part
which uh this also has the broadbrand
infrastructure which will be
serving up through uh in the home acre
area
uh this will be a total of 184
houses that will be able to be served so
those package again it's an application
we it is a first come first serve we
have made it into phase two
of these applications there is only
three phases
they have asked for additional
information which sounds
promising so again if there's
funding on the table across the county
has went after it for the broadband
that concludes the county ministry of
reports
next is request by the board of
supervisors the russ county cares
business grants
as you can see and i just wanted to
highlight what i had mentioned before
how we uh
we had given out this to our russell
county citizens our russell county
students
and our russell county businesses so of
course we give to the ida
we give to russell county all these
businesses that we have listed
to the rescue and fire departments and
one of the things i left out of course
which was the food ministries which we
have given out 110 000
to our food pantries to take care of
russell county citizens
especially during this time and the uh
where also the russ county board
supervisors are looking at giving
additional funding during this time
which you'll see on the agenda during
the
thanksgiving coming up and of course
christmas
these are times these are tight times so
we're going to provide
every assistance that they can to
russell county citizens
of course the town of lebanon what they
have given out
in town of holland anchor to their
businesses
uh we have pending grants like i said
of over you know two hundred and ten
thousand dollars
but tonight we have additional ten
applications that we have
on the application which i need to add
two additional ones onto this which is
come to carpet and kenneth short with it
which is an independence dollar with
fogelman carpet
i needed a motion for approval for 10
applications
p needed approval for the through the
cares act by the russell county board of
supervisors
any discussion
all those in favor of these ten
additional ones that have just come in
all those favors
next on the county manager request is
we're currently looking at uh
we have the rosso county erosion and
segment ordinance
we need to set a public hearing date
i've got to request that but with motion
for the next board meeting
in december so i need a motion for
uh to advertise for a public hearing to
for the russo county
erosion and segment ordinance
david any discussion we will set that
when we set our
next board meeting we'll do it that and
we will discuss that because we are
looking at moving the
next board meeting to accommodate our
folks here in town
all right all those in favor of the
soiling ratio
thank you madam chair next as discussed
before
this is the annual annual roster county
board of supervisors
turkey donation program uh again
to assist uh our russell county citizens
that are in need during this time
the russell county board of supervisors
on the motion will dedicate ten thousand
dollars
of our uh food safety money under the
cures act
to provide turkeys through our
food pantries to russell county citizens
i need a motion
for approval of ten thousand dollars
do we have a second david
any discussion all those in favor of
increasing this
all right thank you madam chair
um and next i need as part of the
authorization annual authorization for
our part-time employees
for for being paid during the
uh thanksgiving and christmas page it's
a procedural move but i need a motion
for that
steve any discussion
all those in favor
thank you madam chair next up on the
russo county uh
administrative reports is of course has
been spoken before it's the russ county
gis smp
i have put into the packet um
the interactive gis their talking points
on this
uh again the system that we had and the
board supervisors had requested that we
look into
a upgrading our gis system that was very
antiquated
it it actually was on a platform that
they had
it issues last week so um
this system we were running dual system
and uh
it's like pence he didn't know anything
sorry about that um again the russ
county gis
system feed this is interactive gis this
is the same
gis system software carrier that carries
that carries warship county virginia uh
currently our platform that we're
utilizing as you can see in your board
packet
can carry this platform but it also has
can expand as we move into the future we
can add into
our water and sewer issues our
infrastructure it can add in
a lot of the emergency services as we
add
in this it can grow now
the fee previously as mentioned before
was actually
32 3 500 and
this one with the upgrade will be seven
thousand
so it carries a high level platform
better security
but that is at the board's discretion so
that is the annual fee
and and i want to point out the fee that
the russ county board supervisors have
been charging previously
we weren't making any additional money
other than paying for the service itself
so let me ask you a question
lonzo i don't know if anybody's looked
at it or not
but a good trade-off maybe to look at
maybe through the budget would be uh
these houses that were selling off
what kind of money is that actually
i know
that
dual platforms uh we've had a long
relationship with
interactive gis for right now
as as they pay 150 that will remain in
effect until the board makes a decision
to
either increase it or to eliminate it
that will remain in fact uh
where my staff today we pulled the uh
the new add-ons and the links for the
new systems and we'll be sending that to
the existing
users until y'all make a decision and
what's up at charles pleasure
you get people sometimes
utilizing that service form before to do
the research
stuff like that i know sometimes the
150 dollars just to be able to get
access to it
what i'm saying is that sometimes i know
probably these counties are utilizing it
for
access to growth because if they have
access to that
you didn't lock in on it they could move
close them properly quicker
and they might hesitate i'm not saying
european dogs might hold somebody up but
they might hesitate you know they're
charging me to get access to this
and they might have to do it by late
work or phone calls
and stuff like that so i think
accessibility to that technology
is to be a huge benefit if we could
afford to offer it at a free
price i think it would be in our
but i think it's an investment you get a
great return on the investment
when people have accessibility to
high-tech
uh opportunities like that they log into
it
and you put that on your tourism
platform you put it out there
uh that you know you have accessibility
to gis
uh come look at russell county you know
and i think
have you tried out the new platform have
you seen the new platform
like i said yes you do
you're an engineer
i've tried to fix them
so right currently right now uh
i will get back to the board at the next
board meeting on suggestions for the
ross county gis system
uh it's a number 11 under the account
administrative request
is um we
have got a virginia housing letter
of support for a grant another grant
in this time for the daint community
area
this is an application through the
coming plateau housing authority
and and partnering with russell county
board of supervisors
again this is an application for grant
for a housing project within dane
i need an approval for the virginia
housing letter of support
for that sir yes ma'am i'll make the
most
we approve this letter of support
housing authority all in favor
okay ma'am number 12 is the dates for
the christmas parade and the board so
that concludes russell county ministry
reports impressed
with that being said uh steve um
right now that our next board meeting is
the monday and it is the day of the
christmas parade
and christmas praises six
how about the eighth next day
should be a tuesday
that's cleveland
so when we
adjourn we'll make sure that we change
our board meeting
so that day or do you want to go ahead
and do it now steve while you've got
your house
tonight did i stand with me
that we reschedule our december board
meeting
the 7th
uh
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