next item
is the approval of our expenditures do
we have a motion to
take care of our expenditures
next item is their committee
appointments for board consideration the
first one is
highway and safety and that is for tim
lovelace for a two-year term
to begin october one do we have a motion
for disappointment
anyone else any other nominations
all right all those in favor of tim
uh anyone opposed
all right next position is with the ida
jerry class four
madam chair i'd like to make a motion
that we
reselect jared glass for the position of
a four-year term
at the industrial development authority
he's representing my district district
2.
all right do we have a second with that
of course we have any other nominations
i'm sure i'd like to nominate
casual you have a second reference
second all right
anyone else any other nominations
all right we'll do these in reverse
order
all those for nate kaiser
all right all those for jared glass
mr glass will return to district 243
all right we'll open the floor for
citizens communist
is there anyone signed up for citizens
common
all right any folks on the floor any
citizens coming
sing none
constitutional officers
all right next on their agenda is our
county attorney reports and requests
for an extended period of time and
trying to get all the details put into
place
and i have reviewed um the user
agreement
and it has already been approved by the
authority buchanan county and dickinson
county and i'm
and i'm satisfied with the terms and
basically what we had to do was just put
in there some clarification that
that even though this agreement would be
subject to annual review by this board
we would be
you know they are subject to
pre-existing contracts and agreements
made with deq and other
other um entities so
i i am satisfied with that language and
so are all the other counties so
hopefully we can finally
resolve this so i'd be asking the board
to approve um
the um user agreement for the cumberland
um plateau waste management of the work
man i'm sure i'm making motion that we
approve the manpower in the user
agreement
do we have a second second
discussion discussion thank you um
i just need some clarification when
we're talking about the manpower
agreement
and we have three employees
or two and a half employees but i just
i have a i have a question about that
because that i keep getting that
question
asked back to me and i didn't know
sorry i'm sorry
miss wallace so it says um it says in
here and i don't have it marked but i
read it
do we have two and a half employees or
do we have
three employees 2.5 ftes
2.5 ftes okay now does the other
counties have
three does anybody know that
i do not okay i have not heard
okay i just wanted to know where we
stood with employees
and since we're going to be using some
kind of
chopping machine maybe
each county it's up to the county
administrator in each county as to how
many
people that choose to put at the
transfer stations
i'm not sure how many dicks okay
the cannon county i think has they do
mining
uh fines or whatever yes it is they do
i think they have four dicks and has i
think it's two and we have 2.5 okay
just just needed clarification thank you
yes ma'am
further discussion are all those in
favor of the user agreement as written
anyone opposed
okay the next item
under my reports are an approval of two
documents
and for a bond for the idea and i see mr
jones
here if he doesn't want to speak to
anything
um i i've reviewed the documents and
there's a resolution and a support
agreement
and i do they are sufficient
and so i would submit them for your
approval
all right so we need a motion to approve
this um
million dollar iba
tax exempt fund
all right any discussion well
are we allowed to ask what this is
i don't need to be silly and but i
i'm going to have somebody ask me when i
walk out of here what i voted on
the ida was doing some improvement
modifications
for the office that the sheriff's
department is
in and another building that i'm
completing correct on that we uh
in anticipation of this
i'm sorry or trying to
speak up loud this this bond
is for the improvements
that are being made to offices that are
being used by
by the sheriff's department and another
agency
and the i think the total cost of those
improvements was approximately 1 million
of the ida
a couple of months ago and we've been
discussing this financing for quite some
time
and they first bank
loaned them five hundred thousand
dollars
in as an interim financing so they could
get get on with the work back in
mid-summer or late summer
so i think part of that project is
already complete
what this one million dollar tax exempt
bond
does is it refinances the initial five
hundred thousand dollars that first bank
loaned the ida as well as the additional
monies that's
needed to complete that project the
the industrial development authority
passed the resolution
authorizing this loan on september the
10th
if you'd like to have a copy of that
resolution i have it
and this is just finalizing that
transaction
so it is for the sheriff's office and uh
the renovations that's going on in this
building great
i believe that's correct man
any other comments any other discussion
all right we have a motion by david
second to see
all those in favor
the last thing that i have madam chair
is
a revision to our revenue sharing
agreement regarding
project grow and we had previously
approved this to
reflect the revenue sharing
agreement with tobacco commission after
we approved
that agreement it's my understanding
haswell did me
and they added one word to be
to for clarification and to
to to the revenue sharing agreement they
they simply added that
when we're defining that we're stating
also five percent of the
tax revenue shall be deducted from gross
project revenue
that um project tax revenues because
that's the way it's defined
and so that's how tasman proved it and i
had spoken with
their attorney and also the attorney for
buchanan county and said that i did not
object to making that
one small revision so i'm asking you all
to approve that agreement with that one
provision of adding more taxes so you
have a copy of that
i am i do i do have i brought a copy
of what i had um changed it to be
and i saw that it was not attached to
your agenda but it's
it's in the um
when it discusses project revenues under
net project revenue we had to add that
provision
and i had written also five percent of
the project
or the tax revenues shall be
deducted from gross project revenue to
be provided to the
tobacco region revitalization commission
and pursuant to the revenue sharing
agreement
and he simply added in there
and made it net project tax revenue
because that's the way it read it
it reads in the above definition so
katie we've already passed this as a
state yeah
it's just a it's just so that we all
have the same agreement because that's
the way taz will approve it and i didn't
have a problem
with that modification i'm the one that
drafted the language and we met before
they did and they
they added that and i didn't have a
problem based on the
approval of this stuff go
do we ahead a second second see
any further discussion
all in favor just the rewording
of this notion
i know we're already in the process of
voting but will we see a document
um katie on this because
we're just i mean i i don't have
anything before me and i think that's
fine
uh i'm comfortable if you're comfortable
you're you're our
guardian yeah we can get all of the
signatures
and i did not verify with mr moise
my understanding was my hand
because we spoke about that and
we uh i guess at the last minute we
weren't aware that haswell had approved
and
approved the agreement that i had seen
with a small change
so they're going to do that too so when
we can get all the signatures i can
order that all
to all of the board members we had all
previously
passed attic we previously passed the
revenue sharing agreement back into
march this year
and then we had to change it due to the
tobacco
the tobacco commission revenue sharing
agreement that they sent
so just so we can all all three counties
would have the same
exact agreement is why i'm asking you to
make this modification but we at all
approve adding that addition to
reflecting that five percent has to be
paid back
so the only difference was they had an
additional word that we didn't have
okay
yes did you finish
county administrative reports and
requests please thank you madam chair
first on the county ministry of reports
and quest is
the of course the russell county cares
fund financial summary
and on this summary is of course this is
the carers fund that came down
from the federal government through the
state to assist us during the pandemic
these are a summary of the uh the
financials that we expected but i like
to hit up on some
you know some high lines especially with
this program and the things that we've
been able to assist the community with
first of all we we have transferred over
800 000
to the towns to be able to help local
businesses in their infrastructure
also in addition we have
as far as the public facilities we have
expanded
um on emergency and pp e and the
decontamination equipment
safety modifications to the buildings of
over three hundred thousand dollars
um another high point is we have also
contributed over a hundred and ten
thousand dollars to food pantries to
be able to serve rosso county residents
during this time of need
also another high point in our first
responders ones that we don't need to
forget
on our fire and rescue out between the
five rescue squads and
eight fire departments we have
today contribute over 415 thousand
dollars to them
to be able to assist them to be able to
get their pp e gear get what they needed
to respond to russell county citizens in
a timely manner
tim etsy he is the actually the virginia
department emergency management
regional director and he made the
comment about russell county
this was only two of counties out of his
19
that was working so closely with
our emergency management uh
mr carray and the squads and the fire
departments to be able to and of course
just powers with her fema we are
attacking this from all ends but he made
the comment
that russell county citizens are well
served
so and next on
the balance is right now to date
as of 10 1 of 2020
we have 1.54 million remain
which i'll be asking here in a few
minutes about
more business grants so of course that
is one
one of the important things within the
community
next on the county minister of reports
is i
wish yes sir i hate to interrupt you
just to
stay on task with this one i had asked
yes
i am
well what what happened when this first
came down and we get a
flurry of guidelines ever about every
two weeks on what is eligible
and the federal government they put
these guidelines in place
based off the cdc fema wh o
nih you know agencies of what is a
what is eligible what is not eligible
when you first started out
as far as uniforms
for the fire departments because the
fire departments don't
answer as many calls as an as
analyst does their turnout gear
when they used it was responding to of
course fires
automobile rex and assisted lists so
that they had certain pieces of
equipment on their turnout gear like the
face shields that were classified ppe
gloves and stuff like that since then
they have
somewhat relaxed the rules and we're
working right now with the squads
they are they're classifying maybe the
jackets
in the pants but not the boots because
you're supposed to be wearing cool
covers and somewhat hazmat you know
suits
if it gets into that difficult but you
can't wear those during
a accident or fire so they're looking
looking at possibility of jackets and
pants
okay and we'll get back with the squad
thank you yes sir
next on county ministry report reports
is of course
the russell county uh
learning center pilot program that's
that's occurring over here next door
this was
a partnership with the russell county
board of supervisors russell county
school board united way
and the southwest virginia workforce
development board
to for a learning center for uh children
for parents during the school times uh
when this initiative first started out
and tim can elaborate on it a little bit
more
we the k through three had not begun
school back so we were anticipating
maybe 60 to 70 students
since then the k-3 has returned to
school and
we uh right now and i'll be providing
y'all the numbers of where
we're into the mid 30s providing teacher
assistance on their days off
days on so that that's where we're
currently
on on the learning center so
he did
they had uh
36 families replying
and that impacted 46 children
and uh
let's see he had five from the
casserwood area
and 31 wanted to be in the lebanon area
that was his application that's what he
no none from home acres orchard givens
area
and apparently what he was telling me
because i called and asked him for
clarification
is a lot of the parents either worked in
lebanon
or they worked on in abingdon and they
dropped their children
key no one from dank replied no one from
cleveland replied
and apparently that seemed to be what
the parents needed is
because of their work this was a central
location that they dropped them off
or the grandparents lived here and then
when they
grandparents would come pick me up into
the school uh parents were still working
in acting
but that's the conversation we kind of
have well a lot of my constituents you
know they
i've talked to them they work in rich
lands buckingham county and
they cannot drive their children over
here and then have the time to be able
to come back and pick them up that's the
reason i felt
like that opportunity like this would
more be fitted in in our local districts
for the convenience of it because of
working families
but i heard there was only two they had
two today
two in attendance today uh you know but
i would like to see if
if this would work it would work for
everybody in everybody's district
more fluently that's why
right that's a good idea i think one of
the things that's been positive
is children k through third get to go
back four days a week
and your uh special needs children get
to go
four days a week and that's that's
helped parents right
and that's you know they need to give
them skill questions
four days a week
yes sir yes
no students or no students attend on
wednesday
teachers
any more questions
oh man nick obviously
and we can put that in for consideration
um
right now as far as the funding for it
it's based off of what students they
have
it's it's prorated it's not for the
whole 60 that they have rejected or 70.
it's based off 30 and dr brown it's a
reimbursement thing
next on the county administrator uh this
is for
the request as everyone can see i
have one of my screens up
these are businesses and towns that
that we have given to during this time
you know
the ida they had initially had
10 loans that we converted to grants for
10 businesses
uh another 14 applications that the russ
county board of supervisors had approved
for a total of sixty thousand dollars uh
again we contributed to the fire and
rescue
squads of over 415 thousand dollars
a hundred and ten thousand dollars to
the food ministries
uh the town of lebanon which was the
pass-through on how they've used their
money into their businesses
also with the town of honeker how they
have passed in through
their businesses within their boundaries
and within the towns to be able to
assist businesses
and tonight as before the board of
supervisors
we right now have 25
applications well a total of
25 35 38 applications that's before the
board of supervisors additional
businesses
to be able to approve and this is
the list that you see up on the screen
here and
that's in your packet that's highlighted
as pending grants
these are the 25 applications for a
total of 125 000
plus an additional uh farms that are
listed for 13 applications which is 65
000
i need a motion for approval based off
of
the eligibility of the per the
guidelines of the cares applications and
grants
for the approval of the 25 business
applications
and the 13 farm applications
any discussion
and this is contingent upon being uh
everything followed through with their
tax forms
ids their deals being paid correct
yes ma'am yes ma'am all those in favor
next up on the county ministry request
is of course the commonwealth
opportunity fund
this is um between the
ida industrial development authority of
ross county and
and polycapped and
the virginia economic development
partnership
authority vdp the locality has been
awarded a grant
of and expects to receive 130 000
from the commonwealth development
opportunity fund through
the vdp for the purpose of introducing
the company to purchase equipment
improve and operate a manufactured
facility within the county
hereby making a significant capital
investment and creating and maintaining
a significant number of jobs
through these through these i need a
motion for approval for the 130 000
that's eligible through the bedp grant
any discussion
all those in favor of accepting this
money of 130 thousand dollars
yes ma'am thank you next on account
administrative reports and requests
is a resolution of support
this is the closing of route 601
for a landslide and repairs i have put
a copy of the
the location
this is a detour for a landslide repair
on route 601 which is hurricane fork
road
in russell county the virginia
department of transportation
has deemed it necessary to close the
portion of the route 601 in russell
county for repair of the land side
and uh the rosso county board of
supervisor here
concurs with the virginia department of
transportation decision to close the
route
from 601 to route 621 to route 625
to through traffic from october to 6th
which is tomorrow
until we're power of the land side is
complete
uh i need a uh motion for
support of the resolution support
closing of route 601 for landslide
repairs
do we have a second sure see
any discussion i i got a question here
uh
on that alternative route for like
emergency vehicles and stuff like that
if they need to get somebody in and out
they have a plan in place
department for through emergency
operations management yes
that's on any closure that we have yes
all right any further discussion all
those in favor of this repair
exposure
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request is a resolution of support
for a single lane bridge this
is a vdot project on route 687
over the daint road the virginia
department of transportation
will replace the existing single lane
bridge
on route 687 which is roanoke hill road
the virginia arbitration intends to
replace the existing single lane
bridge with another single lane bridge
um and therefore they'll be resolved
that the board hereby concurs
with and supports the virginia
department of transportation's design of
a single lane bridge
to replace the existing single lane
bridge on route 687
roanoke hill road the reason
this is a single route bridge is due to
the span
over dank road uh they if on some of the
specs and designs on it they're trying
to to
increase it for some walking
progesterone walking on the sides
so they're looking through the designs
to be able to accommodate
that on roanoke hill i need a motion for
support
of the resolution for a single lane
bridge on
route 687 roanoke hill road
madam chair i offer a motion for a
resolution of support
for the daint um bridge
do we have a second second
any discussion um i also would like to
clarify
now wando so it's going to be wider than
what it is now to accommodate for
walking yes ma'am okay i just want to
clarify
if conceptual if their design can keep
the weight and
the replacement load down they're going
to accommodate that
okay thank you i even asked for a bite
but they said that was stretched
all right all those in favor uh
thank you ma'am next on the can
administrator reports a request
this is the uh this is a letter
resignation
from crystal white for the russell
county planning commission i asked the
board to table this if you don't care
uh she had contacted my office this
afternoon to be able to
see if she could now accommodate this
uh due to her schedule changes in some
conversations so
if you don't care i ask you to table
this until the next week my promotion
we have a motion to table this go move
madam chair
second second time all right
any further discussion i do know that
kirby
said he was going to try to be here
tonight to discuss this that
he was supposed to be yes all right
all right all those in favor of titling
this uh
you want to post i have a question on
that um
we've got these surveyors got these
plaques that need to be signed off on
uh they're gonna still have to be put on
hold until you see
me about this uh right now i've got
three on my desk right now
two of uh no
one he told me the i think those have
already been passed through the planning
commission
yes yes crystal kept it up until the day
that she did her resignation later i
currently have three and one of the
three is one of the projects that we
are looking at and talking about tonight
but the other two
is a residential and one is a farm i got
three
we have today yes yes
we'll talk to kirby about that yes yes
sir
ma'am that concludes coming in wait no
you got number eight oh i'm sorry
yes one more yes
i'm just trying to get through it
next is of course the
four superiors and we have been looking
at of course
with the pandemic everyone knows with
the cares act etc that we've been
given to the community uh
tim mr lovelace has that if
we look at the possibility for uh
for discretionary community funds
so uh as far as the cares
is restricted to what we can spend it on
we we can
make the building safe we can do the pp
for the
community centers and the ball fields
but that's
as by as far as we can take at that
funding we got to still stay within
compliance no matter what type of
facilities whether it's the government
center
or a community center or a ball field or
the courthouse
so we we can't utilize that money to
help out
in any other way than this and mr
lovelace
asked if if the possibility if y'all
could go
during the last meeting if for the
distribution given each board of
supervisors a separate
amount of funds to be able to contribute
to in within their district
to be able to assist other businesses or
non-profits
that that doesn't meet the scope of what
we have either appropriated to them or
it's under the cares act so this
as it states is a discretionary
community funds it will be given to the
board
members to use within their district for
certain projects that do not meet any
other eligibility under the programs
so uh again i'll leave that at the
board's discretion
on uh what to do uh
of course is there's a lot of needs out
there right now
yes sir it will have to come out of the
general funds
and that that's that's tim and um
yeah man i'm sure i'd like to make a
motion that we approve the discretionary
funds and the amount of five thousand
dollars per supervisor
well i guess six times as much as they
do sometimes mark mitchell used to ask
every every at large i always ask them
to get a bigger shower
all right so we have a motion by tim do
we have a second
second
all right any discussion what's the
budget committee saying we have the
money
we do right now
currently in uh as far as our collection
and as far as why we have rejection
we're uh we're on track we're doing it
at least a little bit better right now
if i look at the total budget the 35 000
that y'all want to contribute to
that we've not been able to assist in
any other manners or
any other funds this would not be in the
material impact
to the overall county budget so
therefore
it would be good utilizations within
your own districts
all those in favor anyone
all opposed all right and now
um katie
just can see need to read
the motion are we ready to do that
yes i
well there might be things that we need
to discuss
how long these people would be
sorry you never know i've only got two
items
you can it's just you need to amend the
agenda to move that back up because
because seaweed i mean you can amend the
agenda
if there's any specific
steve thank you and sharon like to make
a motion that we going to do
executive sessions discuss legal matters
pursuant to section 2.2
37 11 85 in reference to
project brown all right do we have a
second
sec all those in favor
all right