all right thank you madam chair
i'd like to call everyone to get uh i'd
like to welcome everyone to the russell
county board of supervisors january the
4th
2021 and uh also a happy new year
first i'd like to start off with call of
order and roll kyle
tim lovelace here lewin wallace here
worst christian david eaton
steve brady here carl ray
rebecca died here ma'am you have a coil
carl you can hear okay
silence
for all their citizens that we've lost
our friends our neighbors our brothers
and sisters
scary times on what expected
is
peace
is
all right the first thing we need to do
tonight is to
amend our agenda because we've had
several things
that have come through with katie and
lonzo
first thing is um
under katie will be
number two the resolution that
uh execution of our transfer agreement
for the russell county psa it now has
all the corrected dates there's really
no
major changes we've seen it before but
we will need to add that
number two under our attorney
we will now have to add under the
county administrator number eight
this also deals with the previous board
meeting that we had set for reconvene
meeting
so we will need to
add that as number eight and number nine
will be the geotechnical evaluation
services for the courthouse
that came through today so we do need to
add those three things
number two under katie and number eight
and number nine
under the county administrator all right
uh number eight is the cancellation we
can set january the 13th
as a meeting with the courthouse but now
we have to back it up to february so we
just basically need to
discuss that until
all right at this time i'll accept a
motion to accept the agenda as
amended
thank you second second clue all right
all those in favor and we do have to do
roll call since
carl is on the phone so
tim yes lou yes carl
steve yes david yes boris
all right the first thing we have under
public hearings
also you've got it up is the vdot
secondary
system construction plan for their
six-year plan
does anyone have any comment
and it is open is anyone on the line
that would like to make a comment
concerning the
rest of the virginia department
transportation six-year plan
caller number one would you like to
speak
color number one would you like to speak
yes jeff is that
can you hear me
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yes we can now
do you want to speak on the six year
plan
jeff do you want to speak on the six
year plan
just just to repeat what what jeff said
in the uh county ministry reports in
december i
i had to give you the explanation of
what had happened during the pandemic
and what vdot was going to be doing
through the ctb board
and what we were delaying i also give
you a copy of the six year proposed plan
and this is the b dots public hearing
portion that is mandatory there is no
changes
it is exactly uh as given before
in december is this one too but this is
one of the requirements for the ctv
do you have anything you want to add
jeff
i think one call is confirming that
blanks davis road
would stay on on the plan but that's the
only uh public comments that we received
here at the office
thank you jeff
or have any questions
questions uh i i'd like to ask question
manager um
is the vdot project for highway 58 now
that's still moving along and we're
okay with that right that is the smart
project
yes yes that
anything else jeff that you want to
convey
no we'll just uh we'll just need the
resolution in the uh
first page of the plan assignment like
you've always been long though
that's uh about all i have we'll get
together so you and
the board come in weeks and months and
get ready for the spring here
jeff we appreciate that sir hey thanks
for couldn't be there tonight uh
couldn't clone myself very well i could
be in two counties
it's a little hard thank you appreciate
you guys and uh
if you need something i'll be here to
office a little bit longer on another
video if something pops up
i'll have my phone just give me a shout
will do thank you
thank you
scene nine we'll close this
public comment on the public hearing on
the
secondary road system all right
the next one is um
comments on the russell county
courthouse construction proposals
so anyone always comment on that
you want to have a comment on the
construction
poses
all right seeing none we will close
faith
all right the next thing on our
agenda is the election of chairman and
we'll turn that over to mr lester to
open the floor thank you madam chair
as part of the organizational meeting i
would like to now
open the floor for nominations for chair
i'd like to nominate steve reed
any other nominations yes i'd like to
nominate rebecca down
are there any other nominations
if not i move that the nominations be
closed
yes i'm sorry now that the nominations
are closed
we will proceed with the vote in reverse
order
rebecca died first beginning first in
reverse order
portland road
yes and and please not shout out in the
public thank you
so you need to do a roll call
yes carl ray
no
tim lovelace yes luanne wallace
yes where's christian
yes sir david
state brady rebecca died yes
all right next thing we have is our
election of a vice chain so we will open
the floor for
nominations for the vice chain
yes
vote yes okay get that
constitute the vote
the vote on um you take them up in
reverse order so we didn't take up the
nomination first degree
yes and i think for i think for the
minutes i'll show you
okay i'm sorry i'm sorry i apologize
if there's if there's if there's uh two
nominations i think the vote needs to
show
okay okay yes all right thank you
thank you thank you
this is for nomination of uh steve grady
car ray
yeah tim lovelace
no luanne wallace no
worst christian david eaton yes
steve brady rebecca died no
rebecca day is the chairman of russell
county board of supervisors for the year
2021.
madam chair and we'll up lower car
i turn the chair back over to the chair
yes thank you
all right at this time we'll open the
floor for
nominations for vice chair i'll nominate
steve reed
found chair i nominate tim lovelace vice
chair
clearing the others
all right sing none we'll close our
nominations
and we'll do it in reverse order
all right all those for tim lovelace
orris yes david
no steve carl
no lou yes
tim yes and rebecca yes
all right all those for steve
orris david
yes steve yes
lou no carl
tim no and rebecca
no all right for a record mr
tim lovelace will be the vice chair for
2021.
all right next thing we have the
appointment of our
clerk of the board and the deputy
clerk katie do we need to
have a motion with this yes this would
be
not a nomination because it's not it's
it's your hiring staff so it would be a
motion to
okay in a second
all right do we have a motion for mr
lester as our clerk aboard
and vicky as the deputy clerk so moved
david thank you we have a second trip
steve all right all those in favor
we will do a roll call orris yes
david yes steve carl
you lou yes tim yes
and rebecca yes
all right the next thing on our agenda
is the adoption of robert's rules of
order so we have a motion for that
so move him do we have a second
second all right all those in favor of
adopting the roberts rules
order how we conduct our business
meetings
boris david
steve yes
yes carl yeah
tim yes and rebecca yes
did you vote yes yes
okay thanks raising
i'm just kidding all right
we must get a better v8 we have one
order
all right the fifth thing is a
motion for the adoption of the county
bylaws
do we have a motion to accept our county
bylaws
some move is that david yes okay
thank you second and lou is the second
all right all those in favor of this
motion utilize our county bylaws
boris yes david yes steve
yes carl lou
yes tim yes and rebecca yes
all right number six is the notion to
accept the calendar
for our regular meeting schedule that's
do we have a motion to accept this
calendar
for our regular monthly meeting so
schedule it states six o'clock and i
know tonight we did not have a need for
executive session but i would suggest
that you admit that the meetings will
start at five because most times we do
need executive session
otherwise you would have to you know set
the meeting at every meeting
well the meeting's not for executive
sessions not for the public
so we need to designate five o'clock
or executive stating that and six
o'clock for regular station meeting
well you don't have to state that in
this just the meetings would start then
because even though the public is not
invited into executive session they
still are entitled to notice that it's
going to happen
i just want to make the public player
that five o'clock usually just for
executive session
yes i mean that's that's that's the
general rule you're not going to conduct
business until six and your agenda will
always say that but i think just
to be to be correct you'll need to amend
that to be five
i'll amend that motion to uh
state that our executive session
meetings usually start at five in a
regular session
thank you david all right everyone hear
that we really mean that
to state as their legal advisors so
yes but now may we continue the
discussion on this i know this is only
this is like mundane but um the dates
one of the dates
is directly a fourth of july holiday the
other one
is an easter considered to be an easter
holiday
do we just go ahead and adopt this and
change it i think we're getting there
i think it's what we have is that what
we've been doing
i think just so the public knows that
it's supposed to occur on
every um the first monday of every month
for example i think
my request to the board is going to be
to move the february 1st
february 8th so we don't have to have a
continued meeting but just so the public
can be aware
that the meetings are generally going to
take place on the first monday
that helps me explains it very nicely
thank you okay i'm ready okay
all right all those in favor with
david's amendment
on the count orris yes
david yes steve yes carl
yeah yes tim yes
and rebecca yes
all right the next thing we have
is our new business and that is with uh
uh katie you want to speak to the first
amendment sanctuary
resolution
i'm happy to i think i don't know if mr
breeding wants to
well yeah this this is as i told the
last
so i took campbell county resolution and
marked out campbell county and wrote in
russell county gave it to katie
and she uh edited it to make sure that
we weren't
doing anything that we shouldn't be
doing we came up with what
katie has proved tonight so
i'd be happy to read that that's okay
um do we all have a copy of this um
no it's it's something that i've been
working on the last few days and
uh i've gotten back off the blind
lonzo i think has sent it out i uh
oh and i just sent it to him late this
afternoon after the revisions because
mr breeding had asked me to look into it
and make sure that
it would not and if there was any
provisions that i had concerns about and
so i got that to him and
and he reviewed the revision so i i
don't know the importance of had a
chance to
see it yet so it's just something that
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this first mini sanctuary resolution
russell county board of supernatural
whereas the constitution of virginia
article 1 section 1 states
that all men are by nature equally free
and independent
have certain inherent rights of which
when
they enter into a state of society they
cannot by any contact
deprive or divest their posterity namely
the employment
enjoyment of life liberty with means of
acquiring and possessing property and
pursuing and retaining happiness and
safety
and whereas the constitution of virginia
article 1 section 12
states that the freedoms of speech and
press
are among the great wards of liberty and
can never be restrained upset by
despotic governments that the citizens
may freely speak
write publishes sentiments on all
subjects
being responsible for the abuse of that
right that the general assembly shall
not pass
any law abridging the freedom of speech
or press
nor the right of the people to peaceably
assemble
and to petition the government for
redress of grievance
and whereas governor north through an
unlegislated order is forgiven the
gathering of more than 10 citizens in a
single time
and whereas the opinion of the russell
county board of supervisors
is this order violates the constitution
of virginia article 1
sections 1 and 12. and whereas the
russell county board of supervisors
disagrees that the governor's order
complies with the requirements of the
constitution of virginia
more specifically article 1 and 2 which
states that the power
is vested in and consequently derived
from the people
the magistrates are their trustees and
servants
and at all times amenable to them and
whereas the russell county board of
supervisors wishing to express its deep
commitment to the freedoms enumerated
in the bill of rights including the
rights of citizens of russell county
to peaceably assemble and to engage in
commerce
for the financial support of themselves
and their families
and whereas the russell county board of
supervisors wish to express
opposition to any order or law that may
unconstitutionally restrict the rights
of
citizens of russian county and whereas
the russell county board of supervisors
wishes to express its intent to stand as
a sanctuary county
for the bill of rights and the first
amendment and to oppose within the
limits of the constitution of the united
states
and the commonwealth of virginia any
efforts to
unconstitutionally restrict such rights
and to use such legal means
at its disposal to protect the rights of
the citizens of russell county to freely
exercise their religion
to peaceably assemble freely engage in
commerce
to move through free movement of persons
and any other individual
liberty recognized as belonging to the
people
now therefore be it resolved by the
board of supervisors of brussels county
virginia that number one
russell county board of supervisors here
that hereby declares russell county
virginia
as a first amendment sanctuary and
expresses its intent to uphold the first
amendment
and other clearly established rights of
the people of russell county
number two the russell county board of
supervisors hereby expresses its intent
that no russell county funds will be
used to violate the first amendment
and other clearly established rights of
the people russell county
number three the russell county board of
supervisors hereby express his intent to
pursue all legal avenues
to protect the first amendment and other
clearly established rights of the people
across the county
number four the russell county board of
supervisors supports its local law
enforcement who support
clearly established rights of the people
pledged to work in conjunction with the
sheriff
to pursue all legal avenues to ensure
the first amendment
and other clearly established rights of
the people russell county are protected
and preserved
and then there's just certification
adoption resolutions
clerking board signs this this place to
register the vote
having read that i'm going to make
uh mountain chair at this time i would
like to offer
a subsidiary motion
to postpone the current motion
indefinitely due to the fact that
i have not seen or reviewed this
document
emotionally i have subsidiary motion
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i am
i think that's probably proper but i
would have to i would really have to
look that up to see the procedure i mean
i guess if there was if there
wants to be discussion i will say that i
have been i have been working with mr
breeding to make
provisions to the to the resolution so i
am aware that
most of the board has not seen it so i
mean i understand
if there are other questions with me i
know i've talked to mr greening about
the proposed the originally proposed
resolution and my revisions but i would
understand that other board members have
questions of me so i mean but um i'll be
happy to
look that look that up i mean i do think
probably
that that's you know i think that's
there for the procedure to allow emotion
to not die
the resolution is on the floor that that
way if it is table
then it can be brought back up in a
later date
as opposed to just being a resolved
issue
so should we do these motions in reverse
order
yes devote on lose
first i i don't know there's been a
second to
was there a second to lose motion yeah
yes mr eaton
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we
and then we'll have the floor open for
discussion
and and i guess i guess maybe it may be
more proper to have
you know some you know and again i
understand that there are board members
that don't feel like they have enough
information
you know it may be difficult to have the
discussion but if you all want to go
ahead and
do that as emotions properly on the
floor it may resolve some of the it
it could potentially resolve some of the
the need for that motion so
i guess that would be my advice at this
point is to go ahead and have a
discussion
okay do we need a second on loose right
now
can we not address the first motion
first
vote it up or down i i think again
this is not an issue that comes up
typically in board meetings
um but i think the purpose of miss
wallace's motion which is why i think
it's probably proper under the rule is
it would if there was not a passing
of this action that it would not just be
dead to be not brought up but it could
be reconsidered at another time so
so that's why i believe again while this
has not been a specific issue
that i have addressed before i believe
that that's the correct that would be
correct under robert's rules because
robert in my experience with robert
tools it's designed to allow
matters to be continued to another time
and not just a vote
yes or no and then that's it because at
that point the board is resolved to
not to either do something or not do
something and that allows something to
be carried over but
again i don't know if discussion on your
emotions steve will allow
some of the issues to be resolved for
that
so we need a second on loose motion
correct
i would like to say this i'm not
impatient
i keep restricting people doing things
when it's not necessary we have had
imposed upon us
things in they said medical
medical medical medicine and some of
this has been proven
it's not medically just evidently
government control what controls
all the people and i usually thank for
if you
said a mousetrap with cheese or peanut
butter
that mouse is going to be enticed to go
out and get that and they get
live and we need to watch all these
different things
that they want to do to entice us
to give in to our life to live from
freedom
so i find this history right here
if we as a board can do something to
relax this
then we need to take those steps we're
not lawmakers so i don't know
that we can do what the general public
they want us to do
so we do need to not keep
giving him to a table if we can do
something about it
and madam chair and mr bring i have
reviewed um i pulled up
and reviewed robert's rules of order and
subsidiary motions
are allowed for for reasons one is to
postpone indefinitely one is to amend
and
um without having that
looked up previous to this event i
figured that was probably proper because
um it allows for actions to be continued
as opposed to just being
um i guess yes you need a second
all right so do we have second on loose
motion
second all right
um i make a motion
a subsidiary motion to postpone
the current motion indefinitely
due to the fact that i have not
had time or seen or reviewed the current
document
have you carl carl do you have a car
you have a copy of this
okay so katie just leave the floor open
for more discussion
or should i go ahead and take a vote on
the
motions and reverse order um i mean
i i mean i think discussion can be open
i mean blue's motion is to postpone it
indefinitely obviously any board member
to speak to to that if they want to
and then obviously the vote would be on
her motion first because it affects
it directly affects the main motion
which was made by mr breeding
so but i do think it's open to the board
to discuss
you know their either agreement or
opposition to this while assistance
i don't think rather disgusting
postponed again definitely but
i would like for everybody to have
opportunity to review and carl hadn't
even seen
well please that's my thought also i
didn't have it i haven't seen any copy
out until this evening
but that's something that i will read
and review for myself
because it is very troubling times for
our citizens
and i know our hairdressers are open
the gyms are open and our small business
people
are hurting but we need to read it
go back over yes
no one is saying that it does not
contain what
the first amendment constitution says
no one is denying that but um to have a
document brought before
the board of supervisors were maybe a
certain faction have
seen it i don't know but i totally
disagree with that and i
understand that we're in hard times here
with
our attorneys and the problems that
we've had we're just coming out of the
holidays
so there's not anything wrong with this
it's just that it's not been done in
the daylight that everybody wants to see
it done in
so um that is my subsidiary of motion
and i stand with that
my position is that i told you it was
going to happen
please explain to me this in depth how
does that work
how does it how is it um
you know and that that's something
that's allowed under robert tools to
postpone indefinitely
i think there would have to be a motion
to to move it to
it would either have to be i think i
think it would
i really think it would take an action
item for this board to vote to take it
up i mean i don't even think
that it would be if a board if this
board votes to postpone this matter
indefinitely i don't think it's even
proper for
the chairperson to set it on the agenda
next time i think it would take
board action to reconsider it so a
motion would need to be made
to to to
reconsider and not really reconsider
because you're not changing it but to
take up that matter again and basically
it it allows you know kind of in this
situation where there may be people that
would like to ask more questions and
we're not ready to vote no but are not
ready to vote yes it allows it to remain
indefinitely drug out yeah i mean that's
just saying i'm not ready to do this you
can also
postpone it for a period of time i mean
that's that's an option under robert's
rules too
that's not your only option is to to
postpone it indefinitely so that you can
postpone it to a
certain time that's the motion
we're not getting rid of the
constitution the united states
constitution
still stands the rights of the citizens
sitting in this room tonight
are very clear we all have our rights
we're not doing away with any rights at
all katie you have
you have checked this and all the
references to the constitution
i i did review um the resolution and
that was the first thing i did was to
make sure that the constitution was
quoted correctly because i did not draft
it
it was i will state you know i i
definitely understand
um all the citizens frustration and
need to do this but i will also say from
an attorney's perspective and a legal
perspective
that the first amendment is complicated
and
constitutionality of laws cannot be
determined by a local board of
supervisors
only even even if there are laws that
are unconstitutional
until they're adjudicated so by a court
of competent jurisdiction
local you know law enforcement and
boards aren't allowed to say
they can have their opinion which is why
i did
draft that that is the opinion but
as far as as far as the law that's
that's the legal process of doing that
um so i mean the constitution is stated
correctly but there are other concerns
that i did consider when i
i made that edit for this so
uh you know it's i i guess i just want
to try to convey it's not as
it's it's not as simple as as i think we
would all like it to be
it's a little bit more complicated
legally
and it's unfair there's a lot of unfair
practices that's taking place
i think it takes an effort to show a
consolidation
of counties that are willing to go ahead
and say we support the constitution we
support
the rights of law we respect the rights
of our citizens we want them
to be able to to and that's all it says
it's not that complicated i mean
i just read it i mean i don't see why
you need to
make a motion have something definitely
suspended
uh when it don't when all this does is
just say that we're
in support of the citizens of our
locality and we're going to consolidate
other counties to fight off this
aggressive state
the governor of what he's trying to do
and i'm i'm i'm definitely in support of
this and
uh i would like ford to take this into
consideration because i think this means
a lot
not to just our board but to decisions
i think it means a whole lot to the
citizens of the county but i think to
pander to a certain faction of people
is wrong because we need to represent
all the people
and i'm here representing all the people
too
and um so those folks have reached i've
had some folks reach out to me and ask
me exactly what this is and when your
district supervisor can't tell you
what is on the agenda and what is
supposed to be read
then um i think i need more time so i've
asked for that
i've gotta say i got a second it
definitely does not mean
indefinite i'm not quoting i have an
attorney here for that
all right that's that if we're ready any
more board member having discussions
all right in reverse order of the
motions for subsidiary
motion i lose all those in favor
is that reverse order correct katie
it's not it's not so much reverse orders
you have to take up
the subsidiary before you can take up
the direct the main motion
okay all right the second motion from
lou
those that are in favor tim
yes lou yes carl
steve no david no
horus rebecca yes
all right now we need to do steve smith
no no no no
that's because if i took up steve's
motion then it would be resolved one way
or the other
this allows to continue and to be
brought back up
okay all right
all right the second thing under new
business is the approval of our minutes
from our last board meeting
which was december the 9th so do we have
a motion to accept
the minutes as questions yes
did you change that yes sir it was on
the
transfer property approvals it was
listed as approving transfer
property from iba to county and was
actually
transferred to the idea
that has been changed
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all those in favor accepting our minutes
from the
last month tim yes luke
yes carl
steve yes david yes
yes and rebecca yes
third thing is the approval of our
expenditures
carl thank you question yes um
uh two this is to mr lester
i had some highlighted in my board book
and um those highlighted what was that
was that intentionally highlighted for
us to pick up on
uh no ma'am it was it was a conversation
between me in the chair
okay okay all right but that one of
those payments was to our veterinarian
yeah yes ma'am that's right that is
that great her name and i didn't know
that's why i asked you what that was
okay thank you
all right any other question any other
discussion all right all those
in favor aye hair uh fields to the math
tim yes boo yes steve
yes david yes carl
and orris yeah rebecca yes
the fourth thing is to authorize
payments
that's a list of our routine monthly
payments
to delegate authorization for them to be
paid you basically get behind on
airboard values
such you know the electric bill
insurance things like that that have to
be taken care of
every month so do we have a motion to
authorize this list of payments on our
routines
roughly these
yes yes carl
yeah steve yes david yes
eddoris yeah rebecca yes
all right the next thing is to uh
consider
our appointments for consideration the
budget
finance committee this is a appointment
by the chair
and i will appoint myself and tim
lovelace to the budget
finance committee for this next year
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all right the next one is a spearhead
trail blazers board appointment i think
this is a new one for
us and um
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it's the same board i do believe it's
kind of like a friends off
the way i understood it when the
gentleman came and spoke the last time
um there it's like a friendship who is
guilty
she's in your district um she
was miss russell county she has um
she's i just haven't
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kelsey supplied a um didn't we have that
in our packet
a couple of months ago um mr lester
yes ma'am okay and then the gentleman
came last month mr lamb i believe
yes
all right so do we have a motion
to uh appoint her to the spearhead
trailblazer home
well i'll i'll make the motion um and
give a little more explanation if we
need a second i guess we need a second
on that
and and for discussion um the spearhead
trailblazers
is a um like the non-profit side of the
friends
like when you have a state park you have
a friends of the state park
so trailblazers has this is their
their little trailblazers i think it's
their friends up if that gives you a
little more explanation was what i
got from the conversation i had with mr
lane
i would like to honestly i'd like to
postpone this and have her come and do a
presentation to our board to see what
spearheads
what the activity is going to be like in
brussels county i've not seen them do
very much here
uh mr lamb told us that last time i
believe i know but i've not seen it yet
kid
as far as what you know i rode out 125
miles
uh trail and we gave them a designated
map plan and everything in my district
and uh all i know is they wanted money
they didn't want to provide the
information what they wanted to do
yeah there was a big concern about
right-of-way
yeah but we got those we got those uh
those that should be from sean lindsay
the director if you want something i
think from that i think the board
should hear from those well does this
representative take this information
back to
sean to help us work on this the
trailblazers work on the trails
they are friends of the trail they
they're not the board we have a board
um we have a board member his name is
teddy clevenger who
represents russell counties on the
spearhead
board of directors
her appointment
all those in favor of kelsey king being
pointed to this board
tim yes yes carl
steve
i'll just abstain nothing against kelsey
maybe
yes and rebecca yes
all right next we will open the floor to
citizen's comments
and the first one i have judy ray
i found did she
she did earlier
addresses 636 cone acre
and she's wanting to know if that
road is on the six-year plan for kate
today okay
99 willow springs drive 11 and it just
says several
topics so you want to state
each one of my life down for
three minutes thank you yep
happy new year uh first i want to say
i was very very very disappointed
in the votes tonight i thought that i
had voted people
into office who were conservative
republicans obviously not
i've missed the last couple meetings
because i was sick with covet but i have
watched
i had a few uh few things
not sure if they really matter since i
voted for non-conservative republicans
and the first one is just powers i was
wondering why he set
not salary why is this arrow making all
of this
over time so that's one of my questions
that i'd like to have
there's only two people here really that
i trust give me that answer
um second thing which really is going to
be the only other thing
and it's going to tie into steve's
amendment one thing here
last month mr eaton asked for more time
when the ordinance issue so that he
could look into it further
he was not given that accommodation
everybody just took katie's word for it
that she knew everything that was going
on
and what was in there and that it was
truthful
and that we could do it and although yes
i'm a small business owner it's killing
me
this is killing me the only thing this
amendment does
is know that you guys are behind us
that's all it does
we know that it doesn't do anything
legally
we know that we want to know that you
are behind us
but obviously tonight it is loud and
clear
that the majority of you are not
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next we have kelly dale with the
imagination library
p.o box four five eleven
okay that's okay um i'm wearing my
imagination library hat
um it looks just like my regular one i
wanted to say thank you
the imagination library did receive a
little bit of money from
the florida supervisors and i wanted to
say thank you for whoever made that
happen
um and uh you know it's been a rough
year
we were doing okay and thought we might
get ahead and then you know we didn't
have a lot of fundraisers
and so i just want to say i appreciate
that and if i could take off the
imagination library
hat and put on the kelly mcbride who
lives in the po box in castlewood
735 um i would just say
that one reason for postponing it is so
you can get public comment on it
when i look was listening and looking at
the resolutions
for the proposed ordinance number three
had take all legal action that could be
taken
and my thought was take all legal action
that equals spend money right
um and just wonder that's the thing that
i think of because i know that
from my perspective the county doesn't
have enough money to put into some of
the things i think
they need to you know um
we now have more um physical space
than the physical the facility staff can
keep up with it
um i routinely have a list of things
that you know and mr lester comes once a
year
you know and walks around and looks to
see what needs to be done
and we're always behind because there's
more
to do than there is money and time to do
it so
i think that is a valid reason for at
least waiting until next month and
fine-tuning to like well okay
what action would that resolve number
three
actually do how would that play out and
i would be curious to know that
but thank you
all right our second sheet is mr nate
passer 9183 valley road
good evening um
i am probably in the same
vote as michelle vance
as very disappointed in the board
uh for not taking up the first amendment
resolution
and adopting it i understand there may
be some concerns and questions
from the board it's pretty simple
it's a pretty simple thing
and we had plenty of time here to
discuss and have any questions answered
i knew about this that this was gonna
happen over a month ago
um so and i even published it
on facebook on my site on the republican
side
to make sure that people knew to be here
to have public comment
to address the the woman's concern
public comment
uh to push it out indefinitely it's a
little more ridiculous i can sleep table
until the next meeting
uh in fact mr lovelace did bring that up
to table it to
uh not definitely but then he also still
second in that motion to make it
indefinite so
my understanding for miss patton is that
it's gonna actually have a boat to be
brought up
back into the motion uh if i don't
if i understand that correctly is that
right to be indefinite it's actually got
to have a vote to get back
into emotion that's correct
okay so we're just creating more hurdles
now the people who are really hurting
from this are the small businesses
and all this statement is is saying
exactly like michelle said
that our board of supervisors is behind
our small businesses and willing to go
to bat for them
whatever the cost i don't damn the cost
damn the cost because it's costing a lot
more
in jobs and the people's lives
we've got small businesses that will
close up for good
people will have to leave your tax base
will shrink
but we're going to table that
indefinitely disappointing to say the
very least
and you all all know how i feel about
the chairman last year
situation very disappointed
but i hate to say it it's what i
expected
all right we have mr sean vance 99
reload springs but there's
no discussion
bounce around a little bit uh nate my
wife covered it pretty much well i was a
little disappointed what i'm really
disappointed is hopefully it was already
brought up
because i was here last month's meeting
when they were about the
soil and erosion control mr dave and mr
orris both said
we did not read it we did not have the
comprehension we needed to vote on it
and the rest of you voted them down
without anything twice about it
but this time it seems since some people
might have needed some votes to be
part of the chair or waste chair that
some favors might have been done that's
the way it seems to me
can't speak for the rest of them but
that's the way it seems to me
now mr tim i'm in his uh district
at least when it was his district and
hopefully that changes
for the ones who stuck with us i
appreciate it
next one is jess powers 94 russell
street leverage
decorations of emergencies
good evening chair members of the board
i wanted to come and approach the board
tonight
because of back in november
supervisor eaton made a proposal
or a motion to hire a full-time
deputy coordinator three weeks later
i was called to the county
administrator's office and said there
was not going to be
any movement on that ocean even though
it was unanimous with the board
so i was asked to prepare
and a proposal to the board which i
presented
last month on december the 9th
for instead of having a full-time
deputy coordinator hiring a
part-time deputy coordinator and
use that person as necessary and not
have the expense of the benefits
for the full-time deputy coordinator
to give you an idea russell county
emergency management
has been allocated 822
thousand dollars in assistance for
ppe salaries
grants floods
there is a backlog of 574 hours
and to answer mrs vance's
question is that if
i am a salary employee
i cannot bill my time to those grants
to that reimbursement or to fema
or to the virginia department of
emergency management
so far this year we have built 74 000
of my time that's a lot more than i make
that also includes my benefits so
it is very advantageous to the county
for me to be not salary but not
exempt or we would lose all of this
money that is coming into the county
if you look at the cares act
russell county emergency management
received 145 000
that includes a lot of ppe
but that is pale
in comparison to the 335 000 dollars
that we have received
in ppe from the state
and those are items that we cannot buy
with the county
because those items are not available on
the general market
like n95s we had to have
mr powers i apologize but since you are
speaking
citizens comment we would have to lend
it to you as we would anyone else
obviously if there's if there's a
discussion and to be on the agenda in
another matter but that you are under
this section we would have to
abide by that my question
is all right next we have mr lynn
hayes 137
oakland road swordsproof and it says
manny
so if you'll list i'll write them down
for it
one of them's already been discussed
madam chairman
the board uh i'm very disappointed
in our so-called republican
board members here tonight for not
putting a
republican in that chair and in the vice
chair
and i guarantee you i will dedicate that
and i really hate doing this
but i really want to take my time
and make sure the next time you're up
for board
that i will campaign against
that's a pledge that i make because you
are not holding
the party that you said that you're
supposed to be over to
and as far as the amendment that steve
brought up did he not just said turn
read every bit of it
pay attention to what he was reading
instead of doodling with whatever you're
doing you'd know what he was talking
about
and they could have passed this
amendment tonight which would have
supported the people of brussels county
i'm a pastor of a small church in david
eaton's
district and it affects us also
what the governor is doing to our
communities
for no no sense at all there's no reason
for it
it's just because he's a democrat and
you're backing him up i'm very
disappointed
this is our county and you know that i'm
new into this politics thing i showed up
about a year ago
on the second amendment thing i was very
shocked at what's going on in my county
and i'm trying to get it over to other
people
so that they can see what's going on
and i'm going to try my best it's not
going to be politics as you
thank
all you that's that two pages that we've
received is there anyone else
that'd like to get up and see yes sir
you'll come out and give us your name
and your address
i'm murray hughes address is 30 play
hall
drive in health account i just want to
say that
i'm appalled i'm a small business owner
and i can tell you
i'm serving we're suffering bad i was
threatened by the state police to take
me to jail if i didn't shut down i
talked to
attorney the morning this for the first
amendment
or the in the first round of orders to
come out i talked to her in the morning
i said can we still
based on what we were doing he said yes
there's no problem but the state
troopers come in that night said you
either shut down or we take you to jail
that's what it is that's what this is
all about it's i've dug into my pocket
my personal statement now
to keep my workers working probably ten
thousand dollars right now fifteen
thousand dollars or something right now
it's killing me it's gonna shut us down
and the you stay here
and you say we're gonna postpone that
put yourself in our shoes
one time and try to live as a small
business owner
i'm i'm one of the people you talk about
again
they yep yeah they shut us down but they
allow people
in other counties they open the same
business same entities but we've been
shut down
i thank you for paying time to speak but
i will remember
all right is there anyone else any other
citizens coming
all right close
next item is our constitutional officers
and reports and requests
here all right next is our county
attorney's reports and requests
yes madam chair um the first thing um i
have for the board's
uh consideration tonight is um
uh and i actually don't have the
agreement um
for the board tonight it's a they've got
it listed as a capacity agreement but
it's really more of a moral obligation
agreement that rural development needs
from the board of supervisors regarding
the debt
the debt load the psa has i have been
i spoke with dwight pearson um from
rural development
on thursday and i think we've got a
clarification
of what we need to to have certain
language that
that basically just assures them that
the debt is going to be paid
the understanding of there is some
there's a period of three years where
that
that that amount will be different and
um it's been
he at least represented to me that that
should not be a problem that lonzo and i
do need to get together
and get the wording fixed before we
consider that dwight had told me it
would have to be sent to their office in
richmond to have
whatever proposed language i have
reviewed so we'll hopefully be able to
get that draft done and sent and
approved by rural development
for the court's consideration at the
february meeting
so you don't need any actions now do
y'all finish up the wording of
it no but i think we've got you know
there was some issues with being able to
agree
to what they were asking us and i don't
think that's going to be a problem now
so that's good so that agreement should
be
ready to go for the board's
consideration
because you do have a closing date now
yes this is separate from that it's not
contingent this does not have to be
approved prior to closing okay all right
the second thing was
what was added is the resolution of
execution of the transfer agreement
yes yes ma'am i've worked with um carter
brothers who was the bond counsel for
the
vra dead and because there has been
changes made
um to all of the transfer documents to
the transfer agreement to
the debt schedules to reflect the new
the new debt we thought it would be best
for the boards
um both this board and the psa board to
pass a resolution
accepting this final draft so there's no
confusion
um over which agreement would control
and again it's been
a while since i discussed before but the
only really significant change that was
made to the transfer agreement
was dealing with the legend and i think
i discussed that
for the board and i think we probably
even approved that
transfer agreement back in august but i
just want to make sure that
we have going forward this is the date
that all those
agreements are approved and i would ask
you to approve
and this resolution and the agreement
subject to my final approval as there is
a typo
um in the resolution it references the
prior resolution instead of the joint
resolution
resolution yes that he just
that he um he would have gotten to you
late this evening
it's basically just a clarification of
of where we came that we started in
december of 2019
and um and you know acknowledges that
there were changes made up until this
point so that way
again i didn't want there to be any
question that we had
only approved a prior agreement and not
the one that was finally approved by
rural development of bra
just subject to final approval of legal
counsel so i can make that
change
all right do you have a second
i'll second thanks david any further
discussions
um i'd just like to say that this has
been a
point of indigestion for me
and this is a large debt um that is that
we're taking on as the county
and um i have appreciated some of the
work that's been done and i have not
appreciated so
just for clarification i'm not a real
happy camper over to how the thing went
down but
we'll move forward that's all military
all right so the motion of steven second
to david
it is to approve this resolution
final legal uh review
tim yes lou yes
carl
steve yes david
and rebecca yes
thank you all right next we have our is
nothing else mistaken correct nothing
under me
all right next we have county
administrators reports and requests
mr lester thank you madam chair
maybe we have the new sound system by
the time the next meeting we've got it
ordered everything is
on hold some of these things are coming
in late
we apologize personally when the county
administrative reports of course is
again it's that time of the year of
legislation and
you know we're going to you know greatly
miss
mr uh ben shape and senator chape during
this time
this is when we all usually come
together uh
in richmond to you know sit down and go
through the laws and
what legislation that greatly benefits
russell county
we usually we all come together and and
work out what's best for all of us so
again
we're going to want to greatly miss him
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first up on again the 2021
baco bml the adpc which is the planning
district
and the virginia rural center uh this is
local government day
this is on thursday january the 28th
from 9 to 11 due to
of course the limited capacity and
co-vid concerns
there they are having it online so as
uh we have sent out the information so
uh all board members didn't want to
attend and i'm pretty sure that
um there's also a link in there if
anyone from the general public wants to
come you know watch it also
there's a general public one on there
too uh
it will go through
the 29th march the 12th and april the
30th
as you'll see as you'll see from the
chairpers
these are the institutions through the
full calendar so
i have put a vaco 2021 legislative
program
at the agenda that was adopted and what
the table of contents it will go
through the economic development
planning education energy subcommittee's
environment
and agriculture finance general
government health and human services and
of course transportation
anybody wants a copy of that i'll be
glad to send it to them electronically
or if they want to they can go onto the
baco website
virginia association accounting and you
can pull it down too
next on the county administrator reports
is
again more reporting this is the state
and local economic interest and
financial
disclosure statements there's a
requirement every year
just as a reminder to get those in we
need them
uh by february first the earlier the
better
but we have to have mile in hand from
all the boards
and all the committees by no later than
february 1st
of course the next one on the account of
ministry reports
is and a little too little late
but as of course board supervisors
uh this is an extension on the
expenditures of the chronos relief funds
that have been extended to
december 31st 2020-21
right now currently our
funds that have been expanded through
the chronos viruses they're
very residual or very ones that obligate
for purchase orders or only one that's
remaining
i will have a full report to the board
right now we are submitting as of
tomorrow
by midnight to the accounts of uh public
account uh
doctors of public accounts and
department of accounts
so i will have a formal uh listing
of how we allocated our our cash funds
for the next morning that for that
so uh we have it's been extended but we
have no funds
that's what i'm trying to get to say and
that depends upon the force of the new
house and the new senate so
right now that's that's the current
financial status of it and i'll have a
full detailed report for the next board
meeting
next on the account administrative
uh reports is is the gis
system currently the county has
a system that you
there is a fee for it's on an annual
basis
and it's you know for use by
you know attorneys and engineers and
surveyors and etc
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and also there has been a request to the
board of supervisors to look into
a general portal for the general public
for
general information and we are currently
going through
those characteristics and see and look
into other counties and what's available
through theirs and general porter's
general portals characteristics and
we're we should have a good tempo for
the board to approve
uh here with within with in the next
board meeting
so uh i'll i'll have a check off list
for
what the general public and then of
course what is
for professionals from the attorneys and
engineers and surveyors
but uh the way it would look you will
have one access
when you go onto our website if you've
ever been on it
it'll have access as a general public
access
and then it'll have a professional
lockdown
this is interactive gis which is does
some of the counties that does
washington county if you want to look at
it in free time
you go on washington county's gis system
they have both portals
so next is the county ministry request
of course
and again it's the fiscal year again
this is part of their legislation to
richmond
this is also not a time you know it was
also a time for legislation but it was
also time
to try to get funds that was i don't
know which one took president you know
we go up there trying to get what we've
done but it wasn't
really you're going to commit a
committee to
department of department to agency
agencies see how much funding you could
get within three days
russ county always did well at it if you
look back at the allocations
appropriations that we've had
we this board has done well i mean
it we they have got a lot done it's it's
difficult you are
there's 95 counties in the state of
virginia
we're competing with all 95
at all times so again
and i actually have a grandmother here
later but
on the first request the fiscal year
2021-22 budget meeting schedule
this i need a motion for approval for
this
do schedule have a motion to accept this
uh
timeline for all agencies to get their
uh needs and wishes kelly
includes you for the next fiscal year so
do we have a motion to accept this
schedule that
has been created
so moved do we have a second
i'll second it blue all right all those
favor tim yes lou
yes carl
steve yes david yes horse
we're back yes
thank you man chair next on the count
administrator
counting squirrel this
i feel is for him
next on the account administrative
request is russ county disposal truck
purchase
and replacement uh to go into detail on
that one
this is the one up for replacement is
the current uh disposal truck that we
have that we have on rotation every two
years where we
we buy one we sell one with very little
impact to the budget
it keeps them on rotation it keeps them
out of warranty it
it cost us like now on an average of
twenty thousand dollars a year to
maintain a
truck that we have two right now it was
great
cost savings to the county when we
implemented it
but again with
um that is for the replacement
of this one that's 160 000 but i also
have a request
in for a purchase of a new one
this purchase of a new truck
if what has been discussed in the other
meetings
the the daint sewer treatment plant is
looking at
a dhcd grant for all of it about
approximately two million dollars this
is a truck to handle the legend
currently the russell county board of
supervisors contracts this out and it's
costing us up to 80
000 a year this would alleviate that
and bring it to in-house services and it
would be able to pay for the truck
itself just
us taking it back over and the driver
within a two-year period
so from a and official perspective i'm
asking for
the replacement and the purchase of a
new one
on this motion any questions
all right so we need a motion to this
is the annual replacement that we do
over two years on their
current trucks and then to purchase
a new additional truck so do we have a
motion for this
request
i'll make that motion okay we have a
second
second carl any discussion
all right all those in favor tim yes
lou yes carl
that steve yes david yes
yes and rebecca yes thank you ma'am
chair
again as mentioned before uh next on the
county ministry request is
uh is of course the
dj dcjs the violence against women
background in a total of 57 028
i need a motion for the acceptance and
appropriation
of this federal funds for this program
david thank you steve thank you all
right any further discussion
made all those in favor accepting this
grant money tim yes lou
yes carl
steve yes david yes
yes and rebecca yes
thank you madam chair next uh i'm county
minister request is a motion to cancel
the uh
reconvene meeting that was scheduled for
the uh january the 13th of
2021 for the courthouse
but also at the same time we could go
ahead and
add in a change of the board meeting to
what was the day katie that we had
february the february 8th
i think it's the second monday so it
keeps it on a monday
so we're going to cancel the 13th
and transfer the regular board meetings
yes yes and you have to wait 30 days
from today
to enter the interim agreement and that
would be past february first
so and that was to avoid having a
continued meeting and keep
trying to keep as much business set um
on a regular meeting that was
what lonzo and i talked about instead of
having two meetings
since it had been on first before we're
getting
okay all right so do we have a
motion for that notion we cancel
send the board meeting on the 13th
of january that we also
rescheduled the regular board meeting to
the 8th
of february it will get saturday
at 6 p.m at 5.
i'm sorry yeah thank you guys thank you
thank you though all right all those in
favor
tim yes lou yes carl
steve yes david yes
yeah and rebecca yes
thank you ma'am chair the last thing on
the county administrator
request is this
for the geotechnical evaluation services
um the uh rose county courthouse
expansion
is from the foundation simpson
engineering group
i need a motion for approval for the
geotechnical on this
in the amount 10344 that came in today
for to proceed on the geotechnical
services
i'll make that motion please thank you
do we have a second second thank you
david
all those in favor tim yes
yes carl
steve yes david yes
yes and rebecca yes
thank you ma'am chair that concludes man
county administrator reports and
requests
all right last thing we have here is
matters presented by the board thank tim
do you have anything you need to say i
do
uh i don't normally do
i'm not a fan of doing this in at the
end of the board meeting but
mr kaiser is right when i said i
didn't feel good about voting on this
right now but i didn't want to
put off indefinitely what i had in mind
was to postpone it until the next
meeting
we got to vote before that happened
what i would like to do is make the
motion that first amendment sanctuary
resolution
get put on the agenda the february
or supervisor's meeting to be
voted on at that time
i think there would need to be a second
he's made question oh
i'm sorry
okay here second
i made the motion that we put the first
amendment sanctuary resolution
on the agenda for the february meeting
to be
dealt with at that time
yes after we've all had a chance to
review it
yeah okay on the
first amendment
okay all right so all those paper
tim yes lou uh with public comment
yes okay republican all right
carl david
excuse me steve steve i'm sorry yes
david yeah orris
okay tim tim made a motion to bring back
up the first amendment sanctuary
resolution
to be uh discussed and
uh comment on at our next board meeting
and carl's second
yeah okay thank you and rebecca yes
and all right madam chair just i guess
just to uh on miss
wallace's comment if it is the board's
desire
um there are certain things you're
obviously required to have a public
hearing on but
but i think you can have a public
hearing on anything you wish to pass if
you would just like to set a public
hearing for the first
amendment sanctuary and that way it
could be advertised on paper
so that it will be advertised to all and
not just a few
i think she said public comment but i
mean what to be advertised it would be a
public hearing again there are certain
things that you're requiring
actually the most actually the motion
was just to take it up it was just
something that she addressed
i mean that again that's up to the board
but when she brought that up
you can you can certainly have a public
hearing for any reason that you want to
there's just certain things that you're
required to do before you take action
all right hello no
all right steve david
well i would like to uh wish my wife a
happy anniversary today 29 years i blame
the board
whatever uh you're looking for an excuse
to say my and i do have one question i
guess to the
administrator i know before we got
elected to the board there was some
preparations for funding for a new
animal shelter
where are we at on that
um only on the animal shelter uh i know
we
got the land i've done everything and
and the money was i actually
appropriated before we took office is
that money still there
the money it was appropriate now that
that
that only lasted one that one year
currently we do have the land for
the and the right-of-way and easements
for the animal shelter
but that will also have to be brought
back up under the new budget
okay that's all i got all right
can you comment no
the only thing i have to say is let's do
remember
all their family and friends and
relatives that we've lost
and remember that there is somebody
we've probably
all been touched somebody would go to
church with
somebody we went to school with and
let's be mindful of those
folks and their families at this time
and with that
i will ascertain an adjournment and a
notion that our next meeting is february
the 8th
and next monday here so i will take a
motion for
adjournment some movement chair clue
a second second horis
everybody all right tim yes
lou yes sarah
yes steve david and orc
and rebecca yes we are