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luanne wallace
carl ray
steve brady yes david e yes
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okay
all right thanks stan for the invitation
in our camp help us to gain the strength
from you
help us to gain knowledge from you
help us make our decisions that will be
the best decisions for an accounting
jesus name we all pray
and to the republic for which it stands
all right first thing we need to do
amend is agenda tonight
and uh these changes need to be
number six
under our county attorney
loan
a
short-term agreement with the russell
county psa
number seven
under the
county administrator's request
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and number 15
is the russell county planning
commission class that we need to review
and focus
so with those three things um to change
to amend our agenda do i have a motion
to accept it as it is
with these changes and chair make a
motion we accept the agenda with the
changes you just read out steve thank
you to him
all in favor
all right the first thing we're going to
do is open the floor for a public
hearing for the number one
uh lonzo would be on the phone yes ma'am
okay this is with debbie milton and the
first thing is the belfast water line
extension phase three
debbie
davey can you hear us
david can you hear us
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okay
oh
briefly discuss this
there has been a water project extension
to lead on to the county line this is on
mountain road 603
and it is through a grant
and debbie milton
is
pursuing this money through a grant
debbie are you good man
oh yeah
yeah i'm here you all hear me i'm having
a little trouble hearing but um
y'all uh
contact coach been working with the psa
on our uh
failed pass
three applications
and it'll be approximately like 21 000
linear feet of line at 47 residents
in the bell class area in extension
uh the project will cost about eight
hundred and seventy two thousand dollars
which
southwest has funded um
72 000 of that and we'll be applying for
block grant in march with 800 000
so i'll be back to the board to ask for
some documents to uh
be signed i just wanted to
give you all an update of the progress
do you have any questions
is
county has already come down from there
being across county life okay so it
would be connecting tesla
did you hear that debbie
we got it you're good
uh you also let me know if you have any
questions or um we'll be proceeding with
the
i don't have project questions
all right say nine we'll close the
belfast waterline extension
coming here
second one we have is the russell county
erosion and sediment order
does anyone have any comment on that
any questions
basically this is a
mandated ordinance that we have to have
to control erosion sediment on any
ground disturbance
and in order to meet our state mandates
we are presenting disorders
i i'll just say briefly in reviewing the
code section in the ordinance most of it
is a forum ordinance that has been
formulated by the state there are some
there there are some
things that the county are allowed to
select
um such as setting the fee schedule and
the proposed ordinance for you all
tonight would be
um
and lonzo could talk more about that so
there is a provision that will apply
just to commercial industrial teas of
coat as opposed to residential permits
so um he can discuss that a little more
right now or
but most of it is just a form and
and for me to elaborate on
a little bit more on it like again like
katie said
won the decision currently the ross
county board of supervisors
this is a total new ordinance
the old one was a little antiquated it
did not meet the
the terms conditions or
of
the department of environmental quality
one of the things that
was up for
that was in your packet that was
highlighted there was three things that
were highlighted here in your packet the
first one was
the
plan approving authority which is
russell county may approve a certificate
of confidence required for an agreement
in lieu of a plan for construction of a
single family home residence
this again it's up to the decision of
the board of supervisors
and this is the way we currently do
business but i did highlight it that is
one of the decisions y'all can make
and
if if the violation and we still have
somewhat control on it if a violation
does occur during the land disturbing
activity then the person responsible
which usually
uh majority of the time is the landowner
which
building the house or the contractor for
carrying out the agreement in lieu of
the plan shall correct the violation and
provide
you know correct the violation so
if you're building a local residence
then they have to create the unesco
drugs
and
the second
second thing that was highlighted of
course was the fee schedule currently we
charge a hundred dollars
for
the uh
as far as the administration fee and i
have requested that i think it's 23
years old something like that
i asked for an increase to 150
that's that's in in y'all's packet
the third thing
that was an optional within the code was
of course a bond performance bond and
that's that was very important to us we
discussed it and discussed it with the
department of environmental quality
again
we change some of the terminology which
is also in your packet it's
as it reads
you know all applicants for commercial
well industrial commercial and retail
permits shall provide a performance bond
we did not include residential in that
so that way have we have a performance
bond on
anything that is commercial retail
industrial and
with the they can do it with either a
surety a cash escrow or an irrevocable
line of credit that success
that is acceptable to us to ensure that
the measures taken by the locality
and it's at the applicant's expense so
that's just good business due diligence
so those are the only three changes that
we had within the ordinance for the
department of environmental quality and
the code of virginia
i got a question
does this supersede usda guidelines on
their projects project planning
on farm ponds and fencing
you know when they allocate funding when
you file an application for the farmers
file an application
to do these projects and it exhibits
ponds and
areas like that i mean they have their
own
uh
rules
i think agriculture so agriculture i
notice i'm reading here it says
agricultural engineering operations
include but not limited to construction
terraces terraces outlets
dams stealing basins dikes ponds not
required to comply with the provision of
the dam safety act
so
just give me some clarity okay physics
okay
the usda guidelines for agriculture
which which paragraph you wrote i'm uh
hsc
agriculture
is um dictated under the guidelines
of
dcr department of conservation
recreation
that is a different agency okay uh this
is a department of environmental quality
for erosion and sediment
anything that's agriculture is going to
be taken care of through your local soil
and water okay that's correct and who is
working with your farm service agency
and the usda program thank you i
appreciate that that's that's my
question i just want to get a little
clearer on that
thank you miss wallace i thought it
would say but
step up please
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um
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if
if i may
i would have to double check that but
like i said most of this is prescribed
by the code of virginia they really
don't have a lot of discretion in that i
think that's just the penalty
that
so it's not it's not necessarily the
board of supervisors uh deciding that
it's something that there would but but
i would have to verify that i'm not
telling you that is a absolute fact
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the misdemeanor would be um something
that's prescribed and that's a criminal
offense now there could be civil
penalties as well as
damage and cleanup and things like that
so i mean they're you know
sometimes when they're criminal
penalties there's also fines that go
with that as well so they're not
exclusive
anyone else any other comments
all right say
we'll close the soil and eroding
sediment
next is county property transfer
to the county idea
ernie do you wanna say you wanna speak
this
chair ray mcfadden russell county idea
this fish property in question is a two
acre piece of property that we
we owned originally and had transferred
to
the county a few years back
crosstalk county
had a project that they would want to do
on this particular boost property
i think along though that that has
changed now and that
is actually going to be down on a
different piece of property that the
county has acquired
and
we have a business we're working with
here that's going to locate and
build a building and occupy this space
so
we would ask that they'd be transferred
back to us for that use
ernie sent that little piece of property
in there that's against the 3b
yes yeah i've got it up on the screen
yeah it's just
very small amount of this buildable but
we're going to do our best to make use
of what's there
he's requesting that we
transfer this back to the idea
any comments or discussions
next on our agenda is the presentations
and first is dr greg brown russell
county public schools my friend
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thank you madam chair mr lester members
of the board
uh
tonight i have a uh
what i would call an information item
towards
consideration and discussion
something that
we can move forward
hopefully as we continue our
partnerships
four and a half years ago board
supervisors approached the school board
about revitalizing
rejuvenating
our agriculture horticulture
beef management programs
these programs had
went by the wayside at that point in
time
hoenaker high school was the only school
that still had a program in place and it
was a very robust program and that was
driven by their instructor
mr monk who'd been there for many many
many years
with that lebanon high school had not
had a program for
30 plus years casswood had a program and
it had dissolved as well
so at that point in time we just had one
high school with the program
since then since that partnership four
and a half years ago and the investment
on both sides with board supervisors and
board of ed we were able to rejuvenate
those programs and all three of our high
schools now have
barns that have been built for the big
management side of things and livestock
management we also have many greenhouses
at all three high schools and a
state-of-the-art 40 by 70 greenhouse at
our
vocational school for the horticulture
program that is is really something to
behold
these programs have been
growing and so forth
when you
tag to that the work that the board of
supervisors has done with
approaching and
bringing in new businesses and so forth
to the area i think we have an
opportunity
that again the school system would like
to bring forth for the board of
supervisors for consideration for an
additional partnership
and that is the next step
with our programs and so forth
again the home acre program we continue
with that program is a very robust
program and that's still going strong
castlewood program is up and going it's
a pledging program but it's growing as
well
the lebanon high school
program is is actually
growing exponentially
we have enrollment numbers that i'll
share with the board here in a moment
that are just incredible 150 plus
students
that are interested in this program that
wasn't even in existence
five years ago
now the problem that we're running into
now is capacity
these programs again have
been
absorbed by our students their interests
but the problem again is the capacity of
the capacity being
really at all three high schools but
specifically in lebanon high school so
what i have tonight is a discussion for
the board a presentation dealing with
where we're at in the county
with all three high schools and
specifically for a need to take that
next step in the county on these
programs that is dedicated to in this
case lebanon high school
so if you would take a look at the
program that i have for you there
and we'll start with the first few pages
the first page is a schematic of where
we're looking at putting
a new agriculture shop if you will
we do not have this at living in high
school we do have a facility at
castlewood high school again a much
larger robust facility a home acre high
school but lebanon high school has
zero facilities for this we have the
barn we have the greenhouse but again
those cannot support
the programs that are required for us to
maintain and build
our horticultural agriculture and beef
management livestock management programs
here in russell county
so when you look at the schematic again
what we have is the
concept of
building adding a shell building
ag
facility for lebanon high school this is
a 40 by 50 structure on a 40 by 70 slab
the front porch if you will there is the
20 feet that is not in
inside of the building there but again
this is designed to
take us to that next level with
our programs in russell county in this
case specifically lebanon high school
what you have there on the upper right
are welding booths
the bottom area of the structure there
you'll see there's areas for planter
tables drill presses
etc again industrial equipment
running on 220 240
the center squares four squares that you
see are mobile tables and so forth and
then the left you have
bathrooms mechanical room storage and a
small office facility and then to the
very top left is dust collection area
this will allow us to continue to build
and expand our program we're to the
point now enrollment wise that we need
to possibly consider adding another
instructor which is just incredible in
four and a half years the word to that
point
so again it's a great opportunity and
when i think about the things that this
board has done
bringing in businesses to the area
and acknowledging things like our race
program that we have in place now
through the partnership with board of ed
and board supervisors we were the first
school system in southwest virginia to
bring forward the race program for our
students
at southwest virginia community college
the first
now every county that feeds that program
or that school has a similar program to
what you put together with the race
program
you know they have the hydroponics
program in place this that's another
opportunity for us to extend and grow
but when i think about the businesses
that have come into this area how
powerful would it be to take those
businesses
and take them to a state-of-the-art
facility and show them some of the
things that we can do
for example
uh mr webster i believe i sent you a
link earlier today can we show that
this is just a one minute video
this is a piece of equipment
it's called a plasma table plasma welder
you know just a second
that's fine we don't necessarily need
do
i'll ask a question are you going to use
your ct
cte funds to put all the tools in this
building yeah yes ma'am as a matter of
fact
this piece of equipment that we're
showing you
is actually already purchased already on
site
uh and we're ready to install that piece
of equipment problem is we don't have a
place to install it
okay
we actually have sixty thousand dollars
worth of equipment
for lebanon high school
for this agriculture shop purchased on
site today
so we're really excited one of the
things that i want to show you that's on
the
screen now is an agriculture supply
inventory
so you know let's talk about that just
for a minute i mentioned all three high
schools and again this isn't just for 11
high school this is the next step for
russell county what you have here is an
inventory of equipment arc welders miter
saws
again heavy industrial equipment that
runs on 220 and not not 110 one
110 120. you know again 97 pieces of
equipment are at home acre high school
right now again a very robust program is
doing well
26 pieces of casserwood and we actually
just signed purchase order for over ten
thousand dollars worth of more equipment
specifically for castlewood high school
and again uh this inventory that you see
here
for uh
for lebanon high school
there's six pieces of equipment that we
have right now and five of those are
hand tools
that's all we have
for over 150 students
and what we've done is we've been able
to
focus our attention
on the beef management side and the the
side dealing with livestock and so forth
but we need to get back to this we need
to give respect to these requirements in
the curriculum
if you look at the previous page you'll
see the enrollment numbers
again castlewood high school home anchor
high school lebanon high school
2016-2017
again hoenecker high school had a
program in place 66 students castlewood
high school 62 the very first year of
rekindling this program in lebanon high
school 21.
and then you look at the jumps
2017-18
you see jumps for lebanon high school up
to 70. tone acre high school in
castlewood again held steady around that
60 mark 11 high school the next year
2018-19 drops to 116
students interested again around the 50
60 mark for the other two schools
1920 castlewood 51 home acre 95 lebanon
high school 126. and this year's current
enrollment castlewood 51 67 home acre
154
students 11 high school are interested
and enrolled in these programs
154 kids that five years ago would have
been enrolled in something else and due
to the focus and the dedication of this
board to get back to russell county's
roots and recover from the coal industry
and get back to agricultural
horticulture beef and livestock
production
this is where we're at
so i guess what we're here for tonight
is just share with the board not to ask
for anything tonight but ask for your
consideration i guess
and the discussion about helping us take
that next step
and that next step would be
to build a shell building on the premise
of lebanon high school so that we can
continue with these programs and
building these programs
again what we were looking at for the
high school
if you look on
the page that mr lester has
these are the items we already have
again on site we have a plasma welder
we have 20 inch planer or six inch
jointer
combination belt disc sander two meg
welders six uh again the list goes on
and on sixty thousand dollars worth of
equipment ready to go in and hone acre i
mentioned that we just purchased over
ten thousand worth ten dollars worth of
uh machinery for casselwood uh for home
acre earlier this year in august july we
actually replaced their mig welders so
they have three state-of-the-art big
welders in honecker high school today
so again if we want to continue to build
these programs
we need and we a partnership we need to
take that next step
and that's why i'm here tonight is to
share with the board that that next step
would be
helping with the construction of a again
a shell building so that we can put this
equipment in again we've got the
equipment so it it
it it literally is just a shale building
that we're constructing with concrete
slab and open space so that we can put
the equipment in
we have did this process out it's
project out and that process required us
to submit our ideas to the virginia
department of education through their
guidelines and osha requirements and
their regulation which obviously is
going to be very very very very strict
to deal with juveniles and giving them
the access to this type of equipment
i think we had to make some adjustments
we were thinking that we might be able
to do this on our own we were thinking
with the project we did with building
the gymnasium for copper creek
elementary school
we could use that as kind of a guide
that's about what we need to field well
again we had some surprises we submitted
that so we have put that out to bid the
bids have been received the bids have
been evaluated
and the lowest bid and it was by one of
our local contractors was for 280 000
for the entire project turnkey
a little expensive
but
with that being said we went back to the
drawing board with that contractor and
said can we get the price down
so uh with us our maintenance crew doing
some of the work we can get this price
down to about 195 000
and again we're talking about a uh
architectural block split face block
whatever burger you want to use we could
use local providers for that
we could ask them to have that
conversation maybe get the price down
even a little bit more but just visually
what this structure is going to look
like it's going to be a cinder block
building
it's going to be 40 by 50
it's going to be built on a 40
by 70 slab
in it you're going to have an office
storage
you're going to have restroom
you're gonna have a mechanical room dust
collection area
and then you're just gonna have a big
open space if you will so welding boots
that you saw in the schematic the
drawing in the upper right hand corner
and then other than that the plasma
table will be on the upper left
and then the rest of that building or
the rest of that room just be open we
would have dropped power you have those
machines in there appropriately
located if you will
again there's tremendous guidelines
number of kids that can be in there
minimum square footage per student
that's in their height of the facility
and you know just
again all of these things kind of drove
that price up so that's that's where we
were at
when you look at the next section
agriculture courses offered at lebanon
high school really i need to change that
to say agriculture course is offered at
all of our high schools okay and as you
look through that you see all the
courses that we currently offer and
you'll see why we need this maintenance
of home appliances and equipment study
of plumbing electrical wiring carpentry
fundamentals
mechanics agricultural mechanics
applications for mechanical skills to
farm power and machinery operating
maintaining farm machinery and equipment
and in planning and constructing farm
buildings and facilities so there's two
pages of course that we currently offer
and you'll see references in each of
those
course descriptions to the needs or why
we need this type of facility
when you have electives in agriculture
horticulture beef livestock management
we have sequences so you have a
follow-up course available and that's
the next section that you have there you
have the alignment with each course
and then the courses that you can take
after that the sequence with that based
on what you would like to specialize in
some of these courses we offer
some we don't
that would be an opportunity we could
expand our programs we could
if we could expand our facilities we
could
expand our program often excuse me i'm
trying to say
when you look at the next section again
you have uh those
courses
uh agriculture courses that can be
taught by licensed agriculture teachers
which all of ours are so there you have
a significant
list
of additional courses that we could
offer
again we have the hydroponics program
going in at southwest that is just or
above southwest it's just absolutely
incredible
uh millions of dollars
have been pumped into that program and
it's gonna be really exciting to see
that happen how great would it be for us
to have a hydroponics program eventually
here to where we could say we got kids
ready to go
all right we got kids ready to go there
right now make 15 18 an hour they
graduate here if they don't want to go
to college and that's fine
okay
if i if they do that's fine too we've
got the race program we can get them in
we get two years under the belt they can
go to any place they want to go
but the same breath they don't want to
do that they want to go to work here's
18 20 an hour jobs right here that we
can do these programs are things that
would be the future
uh agriculture clusters is the last
thing that we have and it just simply
shows you the grouping of all of these
courses that i've described and spoke
about
that are mentioned in the uh
presentation
um so
tonight i bring that to the board for
their consideration for your
consideration see if we can continue
that partnership
um whether it be through reversion money
at the end of the year whether it be
through a line item that we commit to
some point in time
here in the spring if if we have funds
available
whether we look for our friends with the
department of agriculture and look for
them for grants i think it would be
easily
defendable
to tag this with those types of programs
whether it be whether it be the
workforce development board
i think there's opportunities out there
that would easily be defendable to tie
into this and the end result would be
again we can continue to grow these
programs
we have home acre in a pretty good place
right now again we just had ten thousand
dollars worth of materials or building
supplies building uh equipment ordered
uh for castlewood we continue to grow
that program we can get this program off
the ground which is really where it's at
right now we've been able to focus
everything to the barns in the
greenhouse
but we got a give respect to the other
components of these programs i
appreciate your leadership absolute
vision because
everything evolves and ernie's here with
the chairman of the ida i already can
tell you
uh with education involved in industrial
development
and we've been really blessed i mean
there's a lot of companies that's you
know tied to agriculture
we've worked really hard to try to get
some agricultural industries back here i
said there's no need to reinvent the
wheel but they're going to be looking
for quality workers and i think you're
really getting ahead of the game here i
appreciate it i mean i'm in support
i think if you make a good investment
you get a good return and you can't
invest enough in our children
and by getting them trained some of them
are not going to go to four-year-old
school
but these technical trades have got to
be instrumental i mean plumbers make 35
an hour
you know they're going to be able to
stay here at home and work here and
that's that's our mission is to keep
them here let them go to work here
locally build a house raise your family
and i appreciate that because this
partnership relationship
and growth also helps us when we're out
here trying to get these companies to
locate
in russell county or southwest virginia
learning to tell you
uh some of these programs that you have
a line it's like the chicken in the egg
what do you do first
so we took a lot of risk stuck out there
and tried to get things to happen and i
i think it's just a blessing i really do
i think the good lord above that we're
getting these industries in here and uh
jobs and job creation and i think ernie
will tell you from the ida's perspective
it helps them to sell it they have that
piece of education that says
here we're going to train your workforce
here with our education program
and we've invested all this into this
and that and it really goes a long way
because
most of the counties you see in the
reach or not
taking those risks and making those
investments i think a lot of this is
preparing us to get them going from one
stage to the next the initial risk we
took four and a half years ago has
definitely paid off
the proof is here
i remember when we sit down and first
talked about this just trying to
revitalize these three programs
but never in my wildest dreams but i
would imagine living in high school and
take off like that i remember the first
year they had their lowest growth but
the next year they doubled
basically and i can see actually more
than that
but
this this is just outstanding and it
does it ties back into some of the
industry the idea is bringing in right
now we're agricultural based
and i i think you might even talk about
a partnership
exactly i was thinking about the idea
you missed the idea and i didn't i
didn't mention them earlier i think
that's a great partnership that's forty
thousand dollars
[Laughter]
and i have to have something to put it
we have federal funds that were
available to us at the end of the year
that we weren't expecting so we took
advantage of those federal funds and we
said no problem we we can take care of
that so you know and you know again you
know mr mcfadden's uh responsibilities
too think how powerful it would be to
have a business come in you take them up
to living in high school you take them
in there and you take them to a student
and you let the student take them over
to that plasma table which by the way
will cut inch and a half
slabs of metal
inch and a half okay so take them over
there to that table and let them let the
student
cut out uh the seal of russell county
right or or or maybe that company's logo
and give that to that company as a as a
party
gift as they go back and consider where
they want to put their
roots in southwest virginia
you know give them a take away
let a kid do it some of the projects you
know was growing a healthy product like
fish
and we you know with salmon we try trout
some of the other things that we have
the ability to do one thing i would
encourage you to maybe look forward is
uh maybe putting in some modern torture
types
you know we partner up let ernie work
with just
getting get you in touch with the owners
of the company and say hey you know they
might want to make an investment once
they come and tour the facility and they
look at it and say hey man this is
awesome
a good job
let them they might want to make an
investment into adding to where they can
raise the babies and
transfer them out or whatever but that
would give a lot of hands-on
absolutely you know the horticulture
program at the uh yeah at a vocational
school very proud of that i think
everyone's been there and visited that
facility you know that's that's still in
its infancy there too that program is
growing and those numbers by the way
aren't in that those are for the three
high schools but with that program alone
just to give you an idea how
self-sufficient that program is in this
short time they have in that in that
facility twice a year we have sales
christmas and
this year maybe not but christmas sale
and then a sale in the spring
uh over ten thousand dollars
and we take that money and put it right
back into the program we have
self-watering systems and so forth for
the hanging baskets if you've been in
there and chris here in christmas to see
literally 400 hanging
poinsettias i mean it's just impressive
to see that but
that's that's what we've got
we're tickled to death with it we're
very proud of it and again this is just
an opportunity for us to take that to
the next level whether it be us finding
280 thousand make it a turnkey job and
we can have it up and going and
really the contractor has said that he's
holding the spot for us in his
in his calendar okay there's financing
opportunities that we can expand it over
a period of time
to be able to pursue and be able to do
it i will tell you personally for me i'm
committed uh for the growth and
stability of our young people what kind
of construction schedule you look for
well really
ready for next next school session if is
this something we can move on in the
next couple months yes really i mean
again it's the the the complexity of the
structure
is is really not in existence it's a
very simple structure it's just again a
just a big rectangle that's hollow in
the middle
really uh
the uh you know the biggest thing would
be getting the power to the unit getting
the water to the unit and getting i
guess sewage away from the unit that
that's really it the rest of it is known
quantities for them and again you've got
sixty thousand dollars worth of
equipment on that page right there
that's ready to go in and we would take
whatever time it would take whatever
manpower it would take to get that
equipment in place and
yes there's there's a good chance that
we could have it ready for the start of
hopefully a normal school year
next year i'm impressed with the
equipment but i've been i'm impressed
with the numbers i mean
well and again if this continues we're
going to have to add a second instructor
there
which is just just absolutely again four
and a half years ago yeah he had nothing
there and the building when they built
the building 35 years ago
it it did not have anything associated
with an ag program i don't know what the
motivation was with the design at that
point in time but literally the only
place to put something like this inside
that building right now is the middle of
the gym
well agriculture is one of the largest
industries we have in this region
absolutely you know what i'm saying i
mean i don't i think we grow anything
and we raise anything basically here
it's got some best water
quality in this whole region
i'm really impressed i appreciate the
hard work dedication
uh somebody's doing something right or
you wouldn't
draw them
again
the school system couldn't do it without
the partnership that we've established
before the supervisors i mean you know
how many programs projects have we taken
on together over the last four and a
half years a dozen
you know
projects probably but you know at least
i would think
that we've taken on in you know again
nothing nothing massive like like you
know returfing a football field or
something of that nature and eventually
maybe we can get to that point again
i know that you have commitments also to
some other major projects in in in the
county but again something of this
nature at this scale
uh and you know again with this price
tag you know i think it's something that
we could hopefully with you know the
partnership with with ernie and some
other groups and so forth and for
supervisors before the bed you know if
we could get
three or four entities get
you know fifty sixty thousand dollars
per entity i mean really we can make
this happen
we could have this ready to go at the
beginning of next school i chair the go
virginia ag committee and we had a zoo
meeting this morning and
i i mean you're second president because
all these other counties are now taking
the lead they're wanting to i mean
they're not taking the leap they're
following
the these opportunities they're seeing
what needs to take place
and i think those investments and you
know we took a risk but i you know i
feel very confident that you know you
can see it's paying off and i like i
said i i think the kids in southwest
university county are your best
investment you know whatever we got to
do to do this
would you would you say the kids
reason they're into this program so much
as they respond to that hands-on
absolutely that's what i've seen i think
they like to go out there they want to
put their hands on it well there's two
there's two powerful variables that very
thing are they tactile and orientation
do they want to do that do they want to
see and deal with the mechanical aspect
of something how does it work or what
have you that along with a powerful
instructor yeah you know if you have and
this this is true for all lectures
art music again all electives you have
to have that dynamic instructor that
teacher your kids want to go to and want
to talk to and want to engage and so
forth and i think that's why mr mike was
so successful for so long he had a
wealth of knowledge he understood how to
do these things from his own background
and then his education again
made you made that process grow and then
kids like to be around they like to
engage they like to be out there they
like to do that stuff you know and think
about it how useful would it be for a
student to have the ability to simply
weld a broken tine back onto a piece of
equipment
you know
and that's something that we can do in a
week
uh safely
appropriately following the osha
guidelines dealing with juveniles and
this type of equipment but we can do
that and how useful would that be to
that family and you know what
you talk about making some money talking
about plumbers welders well you know
when i was a principal at john's high
school i had a kid
who had made some poor decisions
periodically throughout his high school
career i dealt with frequently and he
went and he is an underwater welder
works out at the naval yard
in north
he makes
85
an hour starting out
doing underwater
welding on ships repairs on ships and so
forth starting out i mean
again the opportunities there for
skilled labor there's no doubt about it
great
thank you dr
thank you for the opportunity
next on the agenda is mr powers
good evening madam chair thank you for
the members of the board for the
opportunity
i was asked to provide
a summary
of the external funding from russell
kent for russell county emergency
management
there's a yellow folder with a
spreadsheet at the very front of the
folder that i passed out
if you look going across the top of it
will show that dates
that we received
ppe
from the virginia emergency
support team
and at the bottom
of that column you'll see a total
those totals and those shipments go
across the page
until page six
of this spreadsheet
if you'll turn to page six
you'll show
the spreadsheet will show
that we have received
277 thousand dollars 627.10
of ppe
that we needed
for ems and emergency management and
emergency services
so there's just been six
this should be the total at the bottom
of the last page
two thousand three hundred ninety six
dollars
steve had my
okay
sorry about that
if you look at
the the column a t
on line number 23
it will show that we have received two
hundred and seventy seven thousand six
hundred and twenty seven dollars and ten
cents
that includes
two thousand three hundred and ninety
nine
ninety fives
one hundred kn 95s
41
280 surgical mask
1210 disposable coveralls
2
540 disposable gowns 35 000 gloves
340
goggles
767
face shields 680 boot covers
220
covers
and 200 emergency rvs response guides
5 000 bottles of hand sanitizer
100 body bags
1
700 flyers about covid safety and safety
protocols
30 thermometers
12
disinfectants
2 gallons 2 5 gallons of hand sanitizer
and six lysol 24 ounce cans
are these things purchased off the
government list
these are purchased from the virginia
department of emergency management for
the emergen virginia emergency support
team and they are replacement items from
uh if the
squads use them then they are replaced
to our air county
every monday i have to pull
from all the emergency support agencies
on what they have used in ppe
and prepare a report to send
to the virginia emergency support team
that's an all-day activity because i
have to get call reports
and also identify that those calls were
covered related
i just did not realize those n95 masks
that i saw nurses wearing today for 39
piece
what the county has been able to buy
have been 79.95 so that is the fema
contract price
of 39.95
so this is replacement from the state
yes it is it is a replacement for what
we've used and we have not been able to
purchase on our own
because these are these items have not
been available through amazon or through
our local suppliers
we we just got our first shipment of
n95s
from the cares act
uh two weeks ago
have you run into a situation where
you
needed something
back at the end of july we had a surge
in cases
and
the local ems agencies
the health department
nor the
southwest virginia emergency council
could provide the n95s needed to protect
their ems agencies
so we did an emergency order
through our emergency operations center
we opened it back up and requested it
uh
the next morning we had a shipment
to meet that need
from the virginia emergency support team
but it takes a lot of paperwork to get
that done
so
and those shipments are weekly and our
care shipments have been weekly
care
care zach's time
so we're getting two shipments a week
with truckloads of infra
supplies that we need
during the winter months here we're
going into a cold area station of winter
i've noticed some of these like
washington county set up
they set up tents you know to do the
drive-throughs
is that a possibility that
you can get those types of
emergency type tents for people to have
access through
not just everybody outside in the
weather
those are that's an item that we've been
trying to get
but they're not available okay so we're
using things like the farmers market
here that's got to cover and we're
working with dr brown
on a
mass
testing site next week
at the high school under the underhand
we're going to pull the cars under
the national guard is going to come and
do up to 800 tests
and we're calling it know before you go
to grandma's
because we'll get the test results back
a week before christmas
so we're hoping that that will defer
people from visiting their relatives
like in thanksgiving we had 154 cases
this past week
so we're hoping to let people know
you are covered positive please do not
visit your elderly residents or or
elderly family members
and then that's going to be a format
that we're going to use
for the mass vaccinations once we get
the vaccine available
thank you
if we continue down the column
i've listed
the other things that we're going to be
refunded for or reimbursed for or have
been reimbursed for
the cleveland flood we're working with
them to replace a pump station that was
damaged during the
the uh flood that we had we're looking
at the campground that was damaged or
electrical work the piers at the new
footbridge in cleveland and some other
items that fell with under the flood
guidelines
that's a 18 000 that we're working on
to get reimbursed to
russell county
we have received an eoc generator it's
also in your package to approve tonight
that eoc the emergency operations center
generator
that will power the whole building
of where i'm located
for emergency management management and
the voter registration office
it was almost fourteen thousand dollars
for the generator
but if we had to separate
the voter registration office and
emergency management that would have
been about twenty eight thousand dollars
because the wiring in the building has
one source and one panel
so it was cheaper just
to disconnect the incoming line
hook up the generator and then plug it
back in
so it's it's a straightforward issue
it should take
about a month to install and complete
that generator was 13552
we also have the local emergency
management
performance grant
that's fifty up to fifteen thousand
dollars they will
reimburse the county for seven thousand
five hundred of that that covers the
deputy coordinator
but the deputy coordinator does not
his budget line is not up to
fifteen thousand it's only at eleven
thousand
so that's something for the board to
consider
our funding for the lempg 2020 grant
of my associated costs was 2398.81
that is wages that have been refunded
back to the county
the cert training where i conducted a
training class
that is reimbursement of my wages
the psa flood i just got the
documentation this week
to start the
uploading the request for reimbursement
it was a hundred and twenty thousand
dollars plus three thousand dollars of
my time
so that
reimbursement will be 123
hundred dollars and six cents
we also had a grant for the eoc
the emergency operation center located
in my office
that was 49
741
that provided the equipment
to furnish and operate the emergency
operations center according to the state
code
also in that
funding we used ten thousand dollars of
that funding to address
an issue that lou had requested for us
to resolve
and that is with the tahoe does not
communicate
with the police ems and fire radios
so we use ten thousand dollars of that
grant
to upgrade the tahoe to be able to
communicate with fire rescue and ems
so that will resolve the date issue that
we have here in the flooding
the whole acre bridge project is going
to replace a bridge that was damaged
during the flood
the middle pier
was flooded out
and the
water department cannot get over to fix
their pump station that's across the
bridge
that's also used for residential use
for some people that live on that side
we had an emergency there a couple of
weeks ago they could not take an
ambulance across the bridge
so they actually had to carry the
patient from
their home
using that bridge as a footbridge to
load the patient into the ambulance
so that's they're working on that we've
got the contract in place that should be
finished in a couple of months
under the fema covid 19 grant
i can charge my overtime
that overtime has been paid by the
county
and
i i needed to generate this report
before i build fema for that overtime of
5457.48
the kovid wages under the cares act
i've calculated
by going back and
pulling out the numbers from my
timesheets
27
333.57
that was that was reported
last week to
alonso and alicia
so that we could get it included in the
cares act before the end of the month
we have a ppe transport
that's going to be available probably
next week 43
711.50
the cares ppe
the board of supervisors and the cares
committee
allocated 50 000 dollars
to
develop a stockpile or a cash of ppe
and
all we have been able to get in
is the 41 361
we still have orders that are backlogged
and it's it's difficult for us to get
we're competing with the federal
government and all the states
the lebanon flood project is 68 000
so we're finishing the details on that
hopefully to be reimbursed soon
the total of the external funding for
emergency management for this year
from january 1 through december 9th
is 760 000
848.57
associating
the funding with the flood
we are going to be reimbursed 254
100 dollars and six cents for the flood
grants so far this year
have been three hundred and sixty four
thousand eight hundred and fifteen
dollars and six cents
the cares
um act funds
for emergency management equals one
hundred and forty one thousand
nine thirty one forty five
and we wrote
uh russell county emergency management
wrote two school grants to provide ppe
to the school
one for the instructors and teachers and
maintenance staff
n95s
and other equipment that they need
gloves and gowns
and that came to 42 0505
also included in the school grant
was a equity grant
we had
5 000 math provided by the governor's
office of equity
and 2
500 bottles of hand sanitizer that went
to the school and 2 500 bottles of hand
sanitizer for communities in need
it's an equity grant it's not a a
quality grant
equality you give everybody
a mask and a bottle of hand sanitizer
but what this grant does is to make
people equal that do not have can't have
ability to find or afford the hand
sanitizers and the mask
like the grandmother that's taking care
of three kids that are in school and her
income is less than ten thousand dollars
so we're looking for individuals like
that
communities of color
and
disparaging communities so that we can
help protect them as well
is there any questions on that
i know you have good relationships i
serve on the board athletic agencies
and
i know that's a good partnership
relationship from my experience no
longer than i've been on there but
i think it's very critical
i know a lot of grandparents are
shut in
you know it's been really tough on a lot
of our senior people
and i know they've provided extremely
great service with the conditions you
know to be able to go out even with
young kids that they're working with
i just want to tell you i appreciate
that relationship partnership with that
because
i think working together
across those lines
they are one of our partner agencies
that went in with us on this equity
grant
also the home health care nursing
programs
and companies have also partnered with
us as well right well i appreciate it
yesterday we did a fifth testing trainer
course
so that that also helps us too because
we've got a number of ppe n95s
but according to osha
you cannot wear a ppe
unless you have been fitted for it
an n95 you have to go through a medical
evaluation and a questionnaire and then
be fitted for that
particular
of n95
and i've got more on that
attached to this presentation
i also included a letter of the health
equity leadership pilot program that is
also gives you information about the
program
and then the next thing that i have
it's a
landscape
page
and it talks about
my responsibilities as the emergency
management coordinator
and it lists
how much of my wages
have been charged to each of the
different programs
if you look at the grants
look under the grants
i've been able to charge fifteen
thousand six hundred and twenty seven
dollars and ninety cents
to those grants of my wages
the flood
i can charge 25 836.99
the fema cove it overtime 5
457.48
the cair's coved as i mentioned before
was 27
333.57
the wages that can be reimbursed to the
county of my wages
is 74
255.99
is there any questions on
uh
and thank you for taking the interest in
emergency management
i know i've answered you've had a lot of
questions and hopefully i've been able
to answer those for you
okay the next handout that i have
is osha 29 cfr code of federal
regulations
part 1910
it talks about personal protective
equipment
employers must assess the workplace to
determine if hazards are present
or are likely to be present which
necessitate the use of personal
protective equipment
darren kovid
personal protective equipment is
required
so
we're we're moving forward to meet this
code of federal regulations 1910-134
the respiratory protection standard
requires a respiratory program
medical evaluation
fit testing
use of
respirators
training
record keeping
fit testing procedures and and the
medical questionnaire
we were trained yesterday
uh levi orton and i
and 14 other people attended the
training
we now have 16 people trained
in russell county to be a fit tester
and also to train other fit testers
we were also fit tested and medically
evaluated
to wear the proper ppe
so we're going to meet the osha
requirement
1910-134
before you can be fitted for a n95
you must complete the medical evaluation
prior to the initial fit testing and use
on the job
the medical
questionnaire has to be completed
reviewed by a licensed
medical provider
and my deputy coordinator is a
registered nurse
so that's another benefit that we have
is because he can review the
questionnaire
and he can approve
that you are capable and able to
be fitted for a n95
osho says that no employees will be
permitted to work with a respirator
until trained
in respiratory production
if we don't follow osha guidelines
they can cite employers for failure to
not perform
the respiratory protection program
and we're almost there
the next thing we need to do
is to complete a
plan
a respiratory program plan
and that's something that
i need permission from the board to
continue
or if you have any questions on that
because i don't think kobe is going away
and we do have the m95s
and osha has
cited
numerous facilities in virginia and find
them up to 432 000
since september
and we don't want to be a target on that
radar
any questions on the
you said you needed commission
david we just went through the training
yesterday so this is all new so i mean
i'll say it okay never heard of it
before i mean i'm just asking so that's
something we just need to wait because
okay he needs to
he can provide us
carl you're the director had you heard
anything
of course have you heard anything
about this
about that training he's talking about
yeah
the fitness training plan and all that
so y'all need to meet
and
carl's the director of the horse is the
assistant so you need to meet with them
at the top of everything
can you move forward without
direction from the board at this point
in time with your plan
well we don't want to expend the time
unless
you know it's not assigned to us to
emergency management
so we will wait for that decision
you aren't required to do it
well you are required to do a plan
but we have to do anybody
i think you already
get with your director and assistant
director
the conversation but won't that cost us
another month of
no plans
so it will are you asking for
this board to help you make a decision
today to say
for my director or assistant director
does it have to come from them or is it
your board or this school
well
it's a program addition
to to emergency management
and
the only person that's qualified in the
county to sign off on the fifth testing
is the deputy coordinator
jess maybe i can help you clear up does
this need to become part of the eop or
does you just need guides to continue
training until you get the plan in place
this is a stand-alone plan okay and a
requirement this is the osha requirement
and not a
fema requirement right so you just need
to write a plan and present it and have
us approve it yes yes but you can
continue the training in the meantime
until you get plenty yes we are
certified as trainers now yes they are
understand we're certified as fit
testers so any employee
that is wanting to wear an n95
to work
they have to be fit tested for the
appropriate
n95 we've got 10 different styles to
choose from
and so we want to make sure we have the
perfect fit to protect that
that employee 100 percent jess can you
put that up on y'all's website of your
16 trainers that way it's a it's it's
the
squads and the businesses know who who
is already trained the trainers we used
to call them in the state well we had
one private uh consulting group
and then most of the other trainers are
with ems and fire departments okay good
i think i think luke's got a point here
to the fact that if it's necessary you
got to do it you got to move forward on
it made a big deal i mean it's just
you need to mow you i'll make a motion
and after review from the horus and carl
uh i'll make a motion go ahead and move
forward just go over with them and
make sure that everything's aligned the
national guard did a assessment of our
capabilities yesterday
and they're going to recommend a draft
plan for us to review
and then for us to complete i mean if
you like lucy
you don't have to wait another 30 days
for us
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we brought the national guard in
yesterday to train us
for this program
so you're going to take their template
and then make it match what the county
needs
to take the national guard's plan
and work with it and make it fit for a
rest of them so there's already that
plan out there that carl and noise work
with
madam chair what we did also
we knew that this was going to be an
osha requirement so we worked with the
health department
and they they declined
to help us with our respiratory
protection plan
we contacted the hospital they declined
as well
so
we would have to send people to
out of the county over to wise to
occupational therapy for them to be
medically evaluated and then to be fit
tested so we thought we could do that
cheaper in-house and we could go
in the middle of the night if we needed
to to fit test somebody to make sure
that they were protected
and i'm going to go ahead and second it
for discussion purposes so i know we're
in the middle of discussion but anyway
all right david you're making that
motion
all right lou you're going to thicken it
i will your box
and and but i would like to see this um
i would like to see this move forward
and i think it's important that you do
so and i don't i don't like the idea of
you having to wait on this but i'll make
that contingent also on your director
and your deputy director
working side by side with you because
they are our liaisons anyway
and i know that they're going to so but
i'll just make that public for
for the record
what what i was going to subject suggest
madam chair is as if he needs approval
to move forward to approve the plan um
with a review at your next board meeting
that way that the board can review i
don't know that it's anything that's not
i mean if it's a forum basically i don't
think that it's anything to change or if
you want to just completely delegate
that to the director
of emergency management services to on
behalf of the board i think that's fine
but if you if this school board wants to
review it you can preliminarily approve
it subject to review with the january
meeting
i think after the directors
review and look at it if they got any
okay
thank you chairman thank you board
members
uh
mr christian and i met alonzo
late last week
and we discussed the
deputy coordinator position
that was
approved by the board of supervisors as
a full-time position
i wrote a description proposal
that's in your packet
with concerns about moving forward with
a full-time deputy coordinator
and the concerns that i have
is that my
deputy coordinator
works three days at the hospital
as a registered nurse
he works three days for me
at 23 hours
and
if we go to a full-time position with 40
hours
i may lose him
and he is key to the respiratory program
as well
because you have to have
a medical provider
to sign off on those fit testing
uh forums
so what you're saying is nobody else
that can do that
he has to be a registered nurse or a
doctor because there isn't other people
out
lonzo and mr christian and i we've
reviewed the qualifications and what the
county can pay i don't think we can find
somebody with those qualifications
willing to work for that hey
um
yes it's in the proposal
what he's asking for currently he makes
nine dollars an hour
and if you look at some of the side of
test attendance at the trash disposal
site they're making 12.
it varies with the hospital schedule and
i work with his schedule
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i'm proposing to hire another part-time
deputy coordinator to be available when
levi is not
last year and well two years ago i had
two deputy coordinators
dr summerfield
and leva
and when one didn't work the other one
could you talking about having two
part-time
correct
and that would give us the opportunity
for me to train levi on the grants
the
the assistance the public assistance
applications
and also to bring another person on
board and start the initial training
with them
because it takes about two years to get
to the level that levi has achieved
under emergency management
you all had a chance to review
and if you look at the we have a grant
up to fifteen thousand dollars that will
pay
fifty percent of those wages
for that part-time deputy
if if i may mr eaton i haven't even had
a chance to review the proposed job
description that mr powers has provided
this is not an action item for tonight
so i think i think it's fun to go ahead
and talk about the concerns but this
isn't anything we have to take any
action on tonight
because
none of us have seen this
probably the ones with you to come make
recommendations
the whole idea of
the full-time system was to alleviate
overtime issues
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that's the reason i generated this today
based on our discussion with alonzo and
mr christian
and also
in consideration of the grant
that pays up to
half of fifteen thousand dollars
that i'm not able to use currently
because the part-time coordinator
uh his budget is only eleven thousand
dollars
my only concern is you know
you've got one coordinator that's kind
of
like
you really don't know exactly or you'll
be able to get the other person
you know to match it you know where they
you have to have somebody to be
absolutely
with their skin
because you can't schedule an emergency
you know you feel like
working come on thursday
yes
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right
because we didn't have the second deputy
coordinator
well i'm sure there aren't people out
there that you know i volunteered that i
get here
i mean that are qualified to go out and
assist damage
if nothing
mentioning else
getting a couple people in all of our
districts
get them certified
i mean i had i had a federal mind
inspector that retired
that he was willing he's got all these
qualifications he said he'd be willing
to volunteer well he's helping me yeah
but i mean you know people like that in
our area
but you know when there's these there's
emergencies you've got a lot of areas to
look at one time you need some people to
call on if nothing else to go out and
assist damage quantified right you could
probably staying like
especially
yeah
be two or three people each year
but they have to be trained and that's
the hard part yeah
currently i have
574 hours allocated
what kind of excuse what kind of
training would they have
they have to have the ics 100 200 300
400 700 and 800 class in order to go out
to systems yes yes they have to be
trained
because if they go out and assess damage
and something happens and they're not
trained then they don't
fall under the good samaritan law
to assist us so they could actually sue
the county
and
a good portion of those classes
you can do them online you can help like
that it's in the trainings online
through the fema
but that'd have to be set up as a former
program right
but i'm also an instructor for those
classes i just think it'd be good
uh
and paid
that's more cost than the county
and yet
a 401 4 times i'm not going to
come in here
my father talked about when
he's he's all you need a third person
that's why we call this ideal round of
getting a second part-time
coordinator
you don't have to pay no benefit if
the benefits are 57
of the wages
so if you have a full-time person making
of ten thousand dollars
the actual cost of the county would be
uh
fifteen thousand seven hundred dollars
so we would not be paying those
additional benefits
and in an exact time frame monday 8 30
to 4 30 tuesday so that you'll know when
your helper is going to be
monday tuesday wednesday next week it
might be thursday friday saturday night
or whatever
or it could be
two o'clock in the morning on sunday
right during the cave rescue
yeah
i worked there eight hours
was able to hand it over to levi for the
next eight hours and i went to the eoc
so he was on the field and i was at the
eoc
when i interviewed for uh betsy's and
levi's position
those were the only two that wanted to
work 24 7 on call
of the 18 people that was interviewed
only two
agreed to being on call
and
not coming in at 8 30
uh to 4 30.
that that was the hard part
we have to be ready in any hour
we do
last year at thanksgiving i spent
thanksgiving up at laurel bed lake
with the family of the drowned victim
because we were searching for the body
of the kayaker
and i was the only one there for russell
county on thanksgiving
but i was able to set up
and schedule
the rest of the recovery for the next
morning so we were able to get the teams
in the dive teams
the
drone teams so that we could locate the
victim
and we did within 15 minutes of getting
everybody set up
also in that package
the proposal for the deputy coordinator
also included the grant approval
and the acceptance in this year's budget
and last year
for your consideration
thank you madam chair thank you board
members
our next item is the approval of their
minutes from our november 2nd meeting
everyone had an opportunity to
read those
notes
all right
any discussion
those in favor
x's approval of our expenditures and
budget or excuse me our bills for the
month i'll make a motion david thank you
second thank you
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all right next is committee appointments
for
for consideration and it is with the
drill community center
uh
madam chair uh
i know those people are on there uh i
reach out for betty to see if there
be any recommended changes or anything
like that
so i'd like to make a motion to go ahead
and accept the ones on the list
second thing
as a slight okay
david rick tim you segmented
all those in favor
post
next is our citizens comment period
and the first one i have that have
signed the sheet is jim little okay
make this uh is it steel 1660 copper
edge cast wood yes it is
until my wife will let me move
um
madame chair
supervisors alonzo
uh just real quickly i'll put a plug in
that in heather's office you will find
calendars you can buy to help our effort
and mugs and edge glasses and
whatever else heather has chances on our
raffle we've got a basket with 500 worth
of value
local goods so
see heather there for tickets or any of
our
tac members
what i wanted to uh briefly and
heather doesn't even know about this it
was time sensitive so i wanted to speak
today
um
the vtc and the deq
are offering a course three
ceus
giving a certification as a certified
echo tour guide through the virginia
state park program
and i want to put we
have to have applications in by december
31st so it's very time sensitive but if
you have any of your residents that are
interested
four colleges universities vsu radford
tech
george mason along with the community
college program will apply
uh
this course towards part of their
waterway management
program also so gives an opportunity
clinch river is on it and being it's
part of the
upcoming state park program it would
give someone a
a good chance in a leg up and getting in
on it it's 160 dollars for the
participant students and
military prior and current
get a
discount there of 20 off of it
so uh
i'll get the information to heather or
contact me and we can get
signed up for that but i just wanted to
present that to you it's the most
expedient way of getting it out
just one more way to hopefully bring
we've had one
uh
student sign up for it already from the
county so
um
you know if there's any other doesn't
have to be a student but it does provide
a four-year certification
uh that is recognized by the virginia
state park system
i thank you
i just want to meet you
i appreciate that it might be something
you want to mention to the school board
dr wright
okay something for the seniors
i mean i kind of think that fits
the criteria
and the teachers can use the ceus
according to what the coordinator
uh said for their re-certification
uh on their teaching credentials also oh
so
any other questions then
okay thank you appreciate it
next is jerry connor
jerry connor
okay will you give us your acres please
268 miners drive castle
well my
question to you
all these small businesses in russell
county
were pretty well hurt well the
governor's coming out tomorrow more
restrictions
i was wondering what the county might
afford to help you know let's do like
campbell county does
over here in virginia
because they are absolutely going to
kill us
so it's getting to a point where how
much a small business how much do we
take
i mean how much we keep taking shut this
down
because this way i feed my family
i mean
i mean just look at it at my point i'm
feeding my fan
walmarts can be open all they want
i mean come on
this ain't picking tuesday
it should be straight across the board
so that's just
all i got to say
i think jerry you've heard
what it's given to them
facebook
he's coming out with more restrictions
tomorrow two o'clock two o'clock two
o'clock tomorrow
i gotta copy it
yeah
all right next
oh
order appointments
her appointment is supposed to end up at
the end of this year on the 31st uh for
a bylaws it gets put in front of you
guys
wait two year pointing back to a board
i was
hoping to present it this time that way
on the next meeting next month you guys
could officially appoint it um unless
you guys wanted to call for a vote now
for the appointment because he has been
a great benefactor and stuff to the area
she helped us with paul's night ride
about 200
and then she also helped us out with the
oxford ultra every year
so i just want to bring that forward
doing public expression time
to put on record
who did you want to appoint
we have an application process too can
you get her to fill out
okay thank you thank you
all right next we have mr samuel france
sean
i'm sorry i'm sorry
i'm sorry
sean have a brother named sam and i just
told him
all right is there anyone else any other
person
that has any comments there's a comment
here
okay
all right air constitution officers
katie you've got six things please
the first thing i want to start with is
the public hearing that we do need to
amend the agenda the public hearing that
we had earlier on the transfer of
property funds for supervisors the idea
we do need to take action on that where
it's my request to the board to take
action on that i've provided a deed so
if y'all can amend the agenda just to
add that as number seven to my list
okay
do we have a motion to amend that to add
it i'll be david thank you
second second clue all right all in
favor
okay sorry oh that's okay
and the first thing i have under my
reports request is a request to approve
um a resolution regarding courthouse
projects and the process that where
we're at in the ppa
processes that we have received
and bids gone through and reviewed those
and went through the detailed phase and
now we're to the point to pick a
proposal to go with the courthouse
committee which is
comprised of two members of this board
as well as as the judge and other
stakeholders regarding the courthouse
have
selected the proposals submitted by j.a
street associates and the resolution
that i have presented for you tonight
and i've worked with our consultant
curtis sales with with scans cuts
formulated a proposal to accept
and move forward with
entering into an interim agreement with
ja streets and associates regarding the
courthouse project
so i would ask you all to approve that
resolution
so do we have a motion to approve this
uh resolution i'll make that motion now
steve thank you do you have a second
take
thank you
all those papers
the the other component to that is that
um we are currently working on an
interim agreement and pursuant to the
ppea that has to be posted
for 30 days in a public hearing to be
killed on that to approve that interim
agreement and lonzo and curtis and i
have
worked on an agreement that's been been
presented to
j.a streets and associates and i think
you know there may be a couple of
changes that have to be made but
that's ready to be posted today
and we would be asking to set a public
hearing uh it has to be after january
the 11th but that week so that we can
approve that in agreement and move
forward with the design
phase of this project
so i don't i don't know i when i spoke
with curtis i said i wanted to speak
with the board to see what everybody's
availability would be that week if there
were other meetings or anything
but would the board be available for a
continued meeting in january to approve
that interim agreement
so he needs us to make well we'll meet
them forward
but the the agreement has to be posted
for 30 days
all right
that's i i'm looking to the board for
god until what would be a good it ha
it has to be after january the 11th but
if at all possible that week so not to
the you know their their timeline
so we want to try to keep as close to
those as we can
if the board is available
yes and so it would need to be after
that day
you have to have a public hearing okay
so you're going to have that timeline
yes it has to be posted
and curtis
curtis and lonzo and i finalized that
today and so we're going to post that
for the public to inspect
i'm sorry
your
favorite 12 yes
so we have a motion to
make sure that we reconvene on that day
to make sure we follow the guidelines
for the ppea yes and so londo can go
ahead and advertise that public hearing
it's just
we can continue the meeting from our
january meeting so it won't be a special
call meeting but he needs to go ahead
and get the advertisement out for that
how do you emphasize
your paper or social media
i'll double check you know some some
public hearings require a certain kind
of notice i don't know if this one was
specific but i'll double check but
alonzo usually puts it out on social
media and in the newspaper
all right so we have a motion to meet on
january 12th
or what time at what time what time
what time i can do
all right
is one o'clock okay for folks or
cars this is the toilet
yeah i can't do that
is
what whatever works for the board i mean
typically if you do set meetings during
the day it's harder for the public to
come if they are yeah
so this this is the day before the
public hearing yeah
you're gonna have to yeah i'm gonna do
if we go ahead and post this on december
the 10th with 31 days in december it's a
30-day clause can we do not do the 11th
we should make it easier
is that going to be the day of our
meeting
it'd be over 30 days
11th would be over 30 days because if i
advertise it tomorrow which is december
the 10th
to january which is 31 days in december
it's a 30-day requirement i'm just going
off what curtis said he said after
december the 11th so i don't i don't
know if he meant that day could work too
but that's when we spoke this morning
okay because he has the agreement and so
he's gonna i guess i don't know if he
sent that back in final form
well it's 13
at five o'clock
i mean that to say january the 13th
that's a win
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all right
all right january 13th at 5 for public
hearing of course do we have a second
second
carl
okay thank you
all right
all those in paper
anyone
um the second second item under
me is the
erosion and sediment ornament
coordinates that we had the public
hearing on kind of discussed this
briefly it's basically something that we
have to do a lot of it is not
discretionary i know when i spoke with
lonzo today i told him to
make his recommendations and i looked at
the code i mean there are a few things
that you can choose i mean the feed
schedule is one of those that and that
is something that you're required to
have a public hearing before you say it
and most of it is just
standard language and but i'll let lonzo
i guess discuss
what his recommendations are for the
discretionary terms but i would be my
request would be for the board to
approve that ordinance
okay so you need a motion for us to
approve these
yes ma'am okay
do we have a motion to approve the
russell county erosion and sediment
ordinance
i'll make a motion that we approve the
ordinances upon discussions about the
county administration okay
all right
do we have a second
and then we'll have a discussion i'll
take i'll
send that so
based off of the
discussion
now we'll discuss david well i have
i mean i would like to have a little bit
more time to review
that i have a few concerns as far as the
way that the language is on the
prosecution structure uh
is there something that we could do to i
mean is this got to happen today it's
something we can read and review and
come back to the
to the next meeting
vote i mean is there something you got
to have actually tonight
well lonzo said that there is one but
it's antiquate i wasn't i was under the
impression we didn't have this ordinance
but i mean i mean i think it's something
that you can
um
that you can review obviously we've made
that this but i don't think it's
something that would take a lengthy time
oh
is there any specific provisions that
you all want me to look at
well you know i mean as far as the
penalties uh
see what that is towards the penalties
uh
under
certain kinds of incidental situations
or something like that that might happen
that maybe would be the person's father
i mean you know what i'm saying i mean i
don't know how to find and how they get
fined i like to have a little bit more
understanding of how that how that makes
it work okay so i mean the the types of
penalties and types of evidence i guess
that would be obviously obviously if
someone is charged with a misdemeanor
they have to be proven guilty beyond a
reasonable doubt that they have
committed the infraction so well i mean
if they're going to be charged you know
i mean
i just like those
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that's mandated through the state border
control law okay so they would have
you'll have to get i would suggest that
you have someone from southwest virginia
deq office come over
and read you these
mandates that we're talking about thank
you because that was the fight katie and
this is pretty much a template from the
state
i mean we haven't put the wording in the
state
and the eq has done that
well i mean that's what i when i when i
address mr vance i mean without looking
into each specific thing when things
like that are prescribed as you know
a crime typically that's already been
decided by the state and it's not really
things that you all have discretion over
um just my
a lot of the stuff you just can accept
fees and you can decide if you're going
to be more strict than they're going to
be but you really don't have a whole lot
of leeway to be less linked to be more
lenient so but i mean i'm happy to look
into any specific provision to see if
there are other avenues but most of it
this is in speaking with lonzo this is a
forum he received from the states
let me
well i mean i've no i've never really
been and i think i think miss wallace
can probably speak to a lot of the deq
regulations better than me because i've
never but my understanding you know i
mean they're you know they're pretty
tough i mean they're pretty tough
sometimes but i mean that i mean they
serve a purpose but i guess the the
overreaching point is there's not a
whole lot you all can do to change it
they kind of they have their mandates
and you have to follow them but i mean
i'm happy to look in to see what
what if there are provisions like the
penalties that you have issues with if
there's any any way that we have any
discretion or if we pretty much just
have to follow the state law
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they would have to change law but let me
let me give you an example of today's
lesson at deq that i attended a board
meeting today virtually
and the county if you can look this up
online the county of the
city of winchester i believe or the
county of lancaster
lancaster
was fined in their erosion and sediment
control
uh were lacking a hundred and one
thousand four hundred dollars
five because they get familiar because
they were not doing what they were
supposed to be doing by mandate so um
there are funds there has been funds in
this county
and um air era we have been told that we
need to uh get their act together so to
speak
and so that's it
the only way that we can change how
things happen here
is to change it at the state level
currently we do not have control of the
general assembly right i understand that
well and maybe i can elaborate a little
bit on it we did meet with deq with the
state of virginia out of richmond they
came down in last month we had a meeting
with them
and this ordinance even though it is it
sounds strenuous it is the fire
basic it is that is this is the lowest
level that russell county can go because
we did not want to put a burden upon the
residents in any other capacities
whether it's business or residential
but one of the agreements that deq has
is
in ens
management it has to be in place or they
can start finding
that's just that's the way that's the
bottom line these are the minimum
requirements that's why we didn't even
extend
the you know the provisions as far as
certificate of competence and compliance
on residential but no plan we give them
that opportunity for all residential but
when it came to business
you know and ernie can tell you as we
had a i'm not gonna point out that one
we had to go back and back
and this is our basic minimum that's why
katie wanted that i'm telling you this
is well thank you thank you yeah yeah so
it is the fire one we took out
everything we could get down to yeah
well i appreciate it
probably just like the public well i
mean i like i mean knowing that lou had
the conversation that she was on that
meeting and
able great would give us a little bit
more of an explanation of how this works
i appreciate it because yeah that just
kind of gave you it gave me a little bit
more clarity we're at the lowest level
we can be
i just don't want to go
i don't want it
and like mr brady he made the point and
it's the best point it's
you can't go less restricted than
environment that's that's that's just
good in another point you need to make
any funds that's levied on the county is
going to come out of your general fund
we're just going to have the citizens of
russell county's pockets anyway
and so everybody needs to be a good
actor
i'm fine now
y'all explain thanks thank you
um
i i think luanne was your motion um you
wanted to discuss some of the issues
motion
okay
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no
i don't believe in being neglected
i know i
a second from carl and we've discussed
is everyone ready to vote
all those in favor of
passing our erosion and sediment or all
those in favor
anyone opposed
katie the next thing i have madame chair
is um
the um lender's agreements regarding
consolidation of
castlewood water and sewage authority
with the russell county psa there's four
um
there's four different agreements that
collectively make up the lender's
agreements
we approve these previously in form we
just need i need the board to finalize
these agreements subject to changes and
approval of legal counsel because there
are a few blank still narrows we don't
know the closing date
and and the exact figures but as far i
mean these are just standard lenders
agreements um regarding all of that debt
so i just need a final approval of the
board subject to changes made by legal
counsel and final approval of legal
counsel all right would you like these
one at a time
i think you can do it
okay
do we have a motion to accept these four
agreements subject to
uh our attorney's
final review okay so movement
steve you have a second i'll see
david any discussion
all those in favor
and the next the next item i have is i
was requested to review a lease
that the board of super board of
supervisors has with the clinch river
little league and this lease was entered
back in 2013. it is a valid lease
um there are um there is a provision
that that
we can give notice to terminate elise
it's my general advice
to the board of supervisors that have
sent a breach
of lease or other extreme circumstance
that we not terminate the lease
just because other people may be
interested or may not be happy with that
because this is an interest that
somebody has
invested you know that have may have
invested private funds with the
expectation that the lease was going to
be for such a period
and
typically when you draft a lease when i
would draft a lease on behalf of the 40
supervisors i would want to include
every remedy that i possibly could in
every avenue to get but that doesn't
necessarily mean that i would advise you
to use it at a given time and
i and i you know i think if
you know
what that probably was contemplated for
is if the board of supervisors decided
to take it back or if the leaseholder
decided you know i don't really know
that i can handle this anymore it gave
an avenue for it to revert back i
haven't been provided any facts
or any um any indication that the
clinchlet
clinch river little league wants the
lease to be terminated so
i it's my advice at this time to not do
that
i don't think any action needs to be
taken
unless the viewer wishes to take some
kind of action
and
mr salliers is here representing the
clutcher little league and
um i'm just wondering if this is not
exactly an order but
he said here for a very long time
i'm just wondering if you could have him
make a comment or two if you'd like to
does the board have an issue with that
bob you want to talk to us again
on this uh lease that we got
with the west county board supervisors
it's also in conjunction with the
russell county fire association they got
the same lease
and the reason it took so long is
russ county poor supervisor wanted us to
show so much progress
doing this
and i think mr breeding was down there a
time or two when we were in the process
of doing this with mr
important am i correct on that
mr horton was a chairman of the russ
county board of supervisors at that time
we've been about
we started in 1988
on these
things we had to do so much
improvement
before they would grant us this lease
so
this goes back to mr hort's term and
mr banner
uh
they they they were the ones that first
made this lease
and then it got approved when we
finished two fields
and uh on these fields
we also take care of
castle high school's softball field
the the christian school there has
access to it for their pe program
we've taken care of a lot of a lot of
things that went on down there that
people don't know about
we we've uh
we've very seldom come to the board of
supervisors requesting
no more than the four thousand dollars
that we get
and uh mr lovelace has been down there
on the new batting cage inside that
facility it's got uh
uh two hidden cages one pitching cages
and a weight uh
place in there
but you know we got to get control of
what we do
and how we let people come in there so
that's the lease is still
in no way do we want to give up the
lease off
we're willing to work with people but
people can't just say hey we're going to
take you to court we're going to do this
that's
that's a no-no to me
i would like to see every one of you i'd
like to give everyone a tour
of this leased project
that we we've been working on ever since
1988 it's not fully completed
but we we will hold
this year we'll hold two district
tournaments
on these fields
and that's where we that's where we make
our a lot of our money
we've helped several state tournaments
there
the average you can you can clear ten
thousand dollars state tournament
that has been put back in
these fields each and every year
that's hard to satisfy everybody i just
appreciate every one of these for
y'all's action
not asking us to give the lease up
am i correct on that
i don't think anybody's seen it
i think the people who came up here were
just they were
saying we're not involved with literally
we'd like access to the fields
you could work with them and try to work
something out that would resolve all the
issues
well we would love to do that but
then the question is with
the schools and everything that has
access to this field
and they'll need it more this year due
to corona because they're not going to
be able to play on the high school field
varsity live
it's where do these people's kids go to
school at
norton coburn
i mean you're losing when you holler tax
money you're losing what 80 8
162 of that
tax money that's going to wise county
so these these people live in
wrestlemania they live in russell
but they they they want to come in we've
even had them to come in
that when we'd have the field stuff
lined off cass what high school you use
they come in
in the middle of the day
they tire the you know they get on the
pitching down they dig holes they get in
the batter's box then here comes a high
school expecting us to have it ready
we gotta control it i'm here for
castlewood high school and clinch river
little not norton not cold
and i'm sure that
the other schools in the county that i
know the principals real well
they won't take care of their kids
before they take care of someone else
if you have any questions
i'll do my best to answer it well i
don't think none of us do that
in russell county schools
i think the the thing that they brought
to our attention for utilizations
completely taxpayers they pay taxes just
like your mail
and i think
i had no idea clue that they
supported school
and they lived in russia
well i know one of them i'm assuming
that one of them i don't
can't say this for sure but when she
looks out her bedroom window she's gonna
see castlewood high school every day
but she's got her kid in louisville
and eastside
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so my my point to everyone is i'll take
care of castlewood and clay triple
league
i've been in little league coal for 46
years
and i appreciate y'all
don't don't take our lease away from us
thank you now our safety director is mr
steve sullivan here y'all got something
about safety
i'll let him handle it
because little league really got a bunch
of safety rules that
a lot of your travel ball teams don't
have
and this year the six foot
and tough keeping kids six foot apart
i thank you for your time thank you
thanks bob
thank you the next thing that i have
madam chair is
is a right way on a piece of property
that
the board of supervisors purchased um
i guess about a year ago
and
we were working with um
another possible
access
and but
right now those those negotiations
haven't really gone anywhere so
we have
an easement by key western to our
property that way that we have you know
an access to it so i'm just asking the
board to approve this right away
so we need a motion to
save this
there's no purchase price associated
with this is this
part of the
part of the agreement of purchasing the
property so there's no additional cost
for supervisors for this right away
and this is a piece of property out
across from the pal's restaurant
i
have a motion to accept this
deed gift of easement
thank you steve you have a second
second
all
um sort of in conjunction with number
three of the lenders agreements that you
just passed um we are hoping to get a
closing date
regarding the consolidation of debt with
the psa
um hopefully by the end of january and
you know we do not have a date for that
yet but they do have some
vendors that need to be paid
and that money is already
verified and ready for the drawdown as
soon as we do the closing but
at this time
the psa would be requesting a
a short-term
loan um
to be given to pay the vendors and
pay the plane group for their business
plan
and rate study and that will be paid
back as soon as the loan is closed upon
i have drafted i am working on drafting
an agreement but i needed to get the
exact figure and amount but i'm asking
the board to approve that short-term
loan and and direct me to finalize
that loan agreement and authorize the
charity side
okay discussion um
can we add in that katie is this
something you're going to put in this
that it will be paid back to us
at one time
i can i don't that's not a problem and i
think that's the understanding but i can
put that in the agreement
yes
i mean i can i can put that i mean it's
going to be a really simple agreement
there's no need to make it
complicated this is not you know
long-term loan with the interest this is
just
just a don't want a strong a short-term
solution but that the money will be paid
back in its entirety for supervisors
i don't want it to be long for you
okay all right well steve answer my
question all right
all those surprises
and the last thing madam chair under me
is a public hearing we had regarding the
transfer of property to um
from the board of supervisors to the ida
and i have prepared a deed and i would
be requesting that that to be
that deep be approved at this time i'll
make that motion
second state any discussion
all right all those in favor
all right thank you madam chair
first on the county ministry reports is
of course russo county cares funding
financial summary
as y'all can see right now uh
this is a breakdown of the summary
between uh what we have given into the
keras relief fund
and uh
again the uh
i'm sure that
this came through yes
as of today
of course you have seen that we have
give out over 839 000 to the towns uh
the county operating expenses and that
takes care of our first responders and
chiefs
and
all the courthouses and what we have
given
uh it has a breakdown of the public
facilities the safety modifications that
we've had to do to all the bills and
business support
uh in grants and programs uh as we go
through on the community assistance and
that goes through the food pantries uh
the fire and rescue squads over four
hundred thousand dollars and food
pantries over 160.
uh of course we've also included our
modifications for this meeting and
telework and etc
and
as everyone knows that we're coming up
very soon on the 12 30
end date
everyone knows that has been dealing
with the cares act as the balance right
now with what obligations we got we got
about 71 000 remaining
there and there's one exception into it
that's my one that i asked to be added
which includes in this total for the
rosa county hazardous pay so this is in
that includes this so again right now we
got 71 000 remaining but there's
obligations and purchase orders still
coming through that we have to clear out
to make sure we do not overspend the
authors have looked at this and reviewed
it as of last week we are in compliance
with the single audit act and what we
have expended so far
so uh again we're coming at the end of
the period
we don't know what the current future is
on what they're appropriating if
anyone's been watching the house and
seen it between the heroes and the hills
act
i mean it's i can't sit and speculate on
what the outcome's going to be but i
know what we have and how we've expended
it to ensure that the russo county
citizens
have uh received the care that we can
give them the best and the businesses
and the donations and and of course uh
the balance like i said is is 71 000
423 that we have on obligations and
we've got other things that are coming
through
you have
we have never returned any federal money
before
we
will expand every dollar to take care of
russell county it's like that is an
assurance the uh
the next is the yeah
yes ma'am if i can take is this
appropriate time uh
i don't think we have to have a motion
but i want to clarify i want to say that
tonight ends all of our applications
for our cares money for the business
grant portion
see we've been accepting them all the
way through yeah because we're down to
this much we've still got a few bills
out
and
like you said we don't want to run over
so
we need a motion at this time to stop
our applications or can we just let the
public know that they end tonight we
can't take any more
well i mean if you're going to stop
taking application i guess i would i
think that would be
better to be forward action to be a
motion that you're going to cease
applications because that
it needs to be an official act of the
board not just
okay
all right can i have a motion then to
say that we stop receiving any more
cares applications because we are now
and we do have outstanding fields that
will probably
like us to inten and steve i promise
we're not going to send you back
it's very understandable but
right
right now on the grants
one of the things on the other side of
the coin that i want to do i don't want
to get their hopes up submitting grants
now not to say there won't be future
funding that will be available for
business grants but we have from a
financial fiduciary perspective we have
to make sure that we make the 70 you
know we expend the 71 000 but we don't
yes
right now what i have
setting right now is dedicated to the
sheriff's department and first
responders that's the 71 cluster uh
i may have overspent a little yeah
i get i guess you could suspend it i
mean i don't know that like lonzo said
if there's going to be additional money
that would be but you could maybe
temporarily suspend
then that's a whole new ball game yeah
yeah i mean i mean if that's what you
want just so the public can know that
the program you know may reactivate if
the if additional funds are received
right now that can be temporarily
suspended yes i would suspend it because
we don't know what's on the on coming
down
coming down
and
you're telling me uh we pretty well
committed to 71
first responders
yes what we have got right now and
there's two types of either expended or
it's obligated for the federal terms
right now we have obligated what is
coming through
we will
any further discussion
and all those papers
just elaborate on it a little bit more
the board does not meet again until the
fourth so any application would have
come through would have to stand anyway
which would go beyond the deadline
anyway
but one of the things that also point
out
we have not turned down any business
grants that were eligible during this
period
it is
there's currently right now in the house
bill which was
modified today that went through the
house there is 167 billion dollars
that's coming to the localities
so we don't know what sure it is
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okay
second on the county missouri request
and i mean reports is of course the
abstract of the votes that just recently
happened this was for the presidential
as everyone can see
as in your packet this is from uh
republican and the democrat between
the boats that was in the county
and how the sharper win between the
currently president trump and
um
vice president
and libertarian this is how the
breakdown of the county was during the
time
yeah of course to accept no i do not
have to accept these these are reports
and they've already been confirmed
electoral board certifies
of course it was all the uh as you can
see in your package it went all the way
through
next is
on account administrator reports
and
um is of course the vdot secondary
system construction secure plan and now
will jeff buchanan the current uh
lebanon residency engineer i'm gonna let
him speak on that
good evening chair board members uh good
good to be here tonight appreciate your
time on your agenda it's been a little
while i've been here
but good to see you all again
uh
with many other things code would sort
of put kink in our six year plan
as we normally would do it as you know
we did not have our
typical
spring public hearing and allocation of
fun because we didn't know what we were
going to be doing quite honestly
that out there was an allocation made to
the six-year plan and out here
fy2526
uh
in november uh central office is looking
to turn that around pretty quickly
the the best recommendation that we had
just put that those funds on the last
project on the six year plan in florida
creek
move forward public hearing next month
to complete the process
and then we'll come back in the spring
and do what we normally do
sit down with all the board or subset of
the board
look at the routes that we may want to
add
adjust the budgets and move forward and
get back on track basically
so tonight i just wanted to sort of
very briefly walk through why we aren't
where we are
um
you're not really missing out on an
opportunity to do anything with the plan
again the whole as the money comes into
the six year plan it's always five six
years out
so that's not to say we can't change
some things in the near term but we
haven't missed that opportunity to do so
normally we really missed an opportunity
to add projects and things of that
nature
we're just
cramming two years together and
basically doing two two planes in one
wheel but we do need to
go forward with the public hearing
that's the force pleasure
next month to complete the project or
complete the process excuse me for the
the current fiscal year that we're
basically halfway through at this point
and then like i said resume our normal
activities and schedule come springtime
and
get back on track to things so
that being said though i'll be quiet if
anybody has any questions or comments on
what we're looking to do with that
my best field does
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i'm good with that if everybody else is
i mean there's nothing i don't know that
there's anything else we can do at this
point and we're not losing it like you
said it's going to go on the last
project
then next spring that can be
nothing but we're doing for search
between now
anyway all the ways out here so
so i'm i i'll make that motion that we
accept the uh
six-year plan is well i know that we put
the public hearing yeah
i guess i shouldn't say i don't really
need any action tonight
so to speak yeah so yeah so the public
hearing will be next right
i'll give you one or two little quick
updates but uh
i'll get up before any other comments on
the six year plan process
um
as many of you we have had route 601
closed for several weeks
over the sandy ridge
area
don't have an exact date we were getting
pretty close to getting that back opened
up
should be able to back up before
christmas probably won't be paved but we
should be opened up the weather
committee before before christmas
we did finish up a couple of real rustic
projects this year uh 834 jackie guy
road inception behind davis hankins i
think they turned out uh pretty well
actually i think david savings was
probably the most
changed before and after
um
shoulder stone down both of those
projects
and the uh
the last thing i had uh that's lawson
didn't chat with
the sheriff issue we discussed and
uh nope not sure quite what we're going
to do but we are going to get
out representatives sheriff's department
state police folks together
brainstorm a little bit
i don't know where we go but we're going
somewhere it's just the best i can say
or hopefully we're going somewhere
but uh that's about all i had for you
this evening
any other questions comments um
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thank you jeff absolutely
next on the county's county ministry
reports is the uh of course uh the home
acre and castlewood countering closing
dates
uh
there's been mentioned you know to
ensure that leave them open long enough
uh so everybody have the opportunity to
do their beats uh it's getting at that
temperature one of the things and it's
also easier for our staff
it's just to leave them open rather than
close them down and open them back up
once they're winning their rides that's
the way it is so
i think
there's been discussion between the
board members looking at january the
12th and 21
that will get we closed last year the
14th so this will give everybody an
opportunity to make it through and be
able to utilize them
i think that would be 12th will be yeah
yeah that's another month
okay
so i will advertise it in the paper it's
closing then on the media side since
january the 12th 21.
next on the kennedy ministry reports is
of course the ross county
uh commission comprehensive plan this is
for y'all's review this is in rough
draft go through it
yes
and it's it's one of many sections so
the comprehensive plan is keyword
comprehensive so
this is one of many that you'll receive
over the coming months
so take a look at it
and it's a process that we've got to go
through
um a lot of the federal funding now and
the state funding are tied to our
comprehensive plan so
if we want to include it i've been
working with vdot as they know they make
me anytime that i don't have a route in
there on the smart scale
before the planning commission asking
for changes to it so
uh it is part of the process not just
from vdot but from department of housing
if any through any federal estate agency
they're asking for you know racialism
that's just the way that everybody's
working now so take a look at it any
changes you got then give it back to us
and we will make the corrections and
represent it back to the planning
commission
next is the account administrator's
request
of course this is the cares grants for
the approval
let me get back down here and
get through the planing commission
yes it would
of course as well you can see as we roll
through here while we have awarded two
businesses
and what we have the applications that
we have done to the number of businesses
and one of the things that
we will have is a summary for for
businesses
uh at the end the number of businesses
that we've got the rescue squads how
much we've given over 415 000 food
ministries how much we've awarded
um of course to the town of lebanon
you've got to remember the town 11 and
town of honaker
and
saint paul and
in cleveland if they had any businesses
in their area they also contributed to
the businesses this is a very
comprehensive list
of course as you see the town of
homemakers
town of lebanon's
and the awardees backed in
from the ross county board of
supervisors
but again one of the things i want to
emphasize is any one applications that
we did have
if they were eligible were given one but
we also did include we even took in the
components on the farms within the
county to make sure that all
farms had the opportunity
and
business this now in the last one this
is during december meeting we have 11
applications for 5 000 each additional
that's included in that 71 000 total for
55 000
i need approval for
the approval for these 11 applications
to uh approve these last these came in
today we reviewed them so we have a
motion to pay these grants
second have a second
call
discussion
all those papers
okay thank you
thank you manager
of course the next one that we added in
was the russell county employee kovid
19 slash pandemic
hazards pay this is uh of course katie
and i
and the school board have been working
with the auditors over this amount of
time
and uh as as everyone knows there was uh
because there was a constitution uh
departments that were given
um
hazards paid during this time for their
departments so
what we have came up with and the
auditors this as of today
that we are looking at uh 500 per
employee for full-time and part-time
that did not receive it from other
eligible grants because we cannot double
dip so that was part of that 71 000 net
which is approximately
100 000 of the cares for the hazards
pay per
employee along the wrestle county side
of between her voice on full-time and
part-time i'll need a motion
second let's see
any discussion
yes
i think it's quite noble
to um
to do this and i'm i'm
probably going to vote yes to do it but
i do have a little angst on this because
corner got up and spoke about his
business and i i realized that he was
having some problems and
we have people in the medical field we
have people in all kinds of businesses
and we're awarding our
government employees
i just have to say that i just i just
have to say that so
i don't know what the answer is but i
don't really feel good about that
okay
well maybe one of the things that we can
do what you've got to remember what
during this pandemic is is not normal
and one of the things that on the county
side of what we had between our
full-time and part-time
we had to continue operations during
this time we were here every day even
when everybody was at home at the state
home we were operating from the trash
through the public safety to the to the
deputies that were out on the road to
making sure the facilities were still
running and assisting the other
residents and working with
like
jess and us we were out working with the
multiple agencies
you know from the department of health
through
you know
through the rescue squads and the fire
squads we were still holding these
meetings we held these meetings in the
in this room during this time we know
everybody was claiming 2 million deaths
so
and as far as the county employees i i
would stand up for them you know on this
and say you know
they've been here i had to keep the
facilities running i had we had to keep
the water running we had
the basic necessities that that was
going on just didn't happen you know so
i
that's that's my stance you know on it
and i know that the beautiful now i'm
not going to argue but i'm going to
speak for the people that are not going
to get any money that they went to work
every day
and and you know i i understand that i
get it but if i don't say something
if i don't say something loud and clear
i'm not going to sleep well tonight and
that's fire and there's still a lot
that's that they like to need and that's
why we don't eat so much of this to the
fires and squash in the food pantries
you know
i mean we
we anybody that came out with her hand
out that was eligible we gave it to him
we i mean tim and
and rebecca will tell you they they
they didn't sleep a lot nights they was
trying to get it all out i mean
we did what we could with what we had
well you know our employees were
you had to have employees
i mean you can't just shut everything
down
and not be able to operate if you want
to focus with those types of meetings
that's reason
about how can you give it to someone
you know and i think i think we had
enough essential workers here that was
able to keep the county operation
running
and it's just food city has to pass
workers there to supply food for us so
i'm still going to argue with this we
could be here all night long and i'll
argue it so call for your phone manager
all right
all right all those a favor
uh
anyone opposed
thank you madam chair
uh of course uh next one on here is
another video uh
this is a
discontinuous of route 671 and route 678
of course that was a request that first
came through us
out of the transportation board of
course not living in residency i'm gonna
put that out
so you don't look over at jeff
say
i gotta take care of this so
this is the discontinuance on it this is
around 671 here the section
and 678
and
uh after conversations uh that he's done
his due diligence and checked with the
ctb
and his staff
and the discussions with uh mr lovelace
we are
this is a resolution and not support for
discontinuance around 671 and route 678.
so the virginia farmer tradition has
notified the rose county board of
supervisors of its intent to discontinue
again the ctb board
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and now and therefore be it resolved the
ross county board of supervisor hereby
does not support the commonwealth
transportation board's proposal
discontinues to vote route 671 and
overall 678 as identified
therefore
being therefore resolved that the ross
county board supervisor requests that
the roadways described on the attached
sketch which is route 671-6788 remained
included in the secretary system with
state highways with the understanding
that the virginia department
transportation will only maintain these
routes the extents of their use by the
general public and there be it therefore
further resolved the rosa county board
of supervisors requests that the
segments
on
route 681 678 be accordingly re-numbered
as part of the secondary system of state
highways
be it finally resolved the board
supervisor orders that a certified copy
of the resolution to the resident
engineer of course jeff said in the
office of the department of
transportation so it's a letter a
resolution of non-support to continue
with this route 671 and route 67.
so we need a motion to accept this
solution
yes ma'am i'll make that motion
second state any discussion
and all those in favor all right wait
wait wait wait wait hold it oh jet squad
to the extent of public use
the reason these segments showed up
almost an office list to begin with
because we really weren't doing much
maintenance on them now
and that's going to continue
okay
we'll be in the system
of the level maintenance again matches
the level of use which there's basically
no use
on the road we just wanted to
emphasize that
not really anything is going to change i
guess it's the best way to put it
but having a conversation with these
floodways and uh
okay
thank you thank you
thank you manager thank you jeff
next is the cares act funding this is
additional funding on the fast track to
broadband projects this is uh we have
put in for these grants for were
for broadband expansion and this was one
that was awarded 455 000 to the flat
circle area project that will be given
to a
point broadband for them to complete
we also put in for additional ones
through i go there we're waiting returns
on again
the broadband is another component of
the
future assistance so hopefully this is
another component not just the business
grants but these will be available also
no they could not but here what
they the i have talked to the review
committee they have them standing if
this goes through
in future they're right at the top of
the list
and so we but we also need to keep in
mind any future areas of service that's
needed and pick these up
and make the um yeah uh well it hasn't
opened up officially which hopefully
will be soon but
the philosophy of the ideas is submit
all you can make them say no
well that's required
yeah
they applied yeah and then see they had
some overlap showing then and they're
looking at corn valley and that so there
was some overlay
so it gets kind of complicated so you
know
but again if it hasn't had service
put it in for a grant
but i need uh i need a motion i need a
motion except 155 000 because this is we
have already received the money all
right so i need the money to accept this
money
second blue any further discussion
and all those in favor
thank you madam chair next is another
grant litter prevention and recycling
grant
this is uh
this is the annual recycled one that
goes to the county and all the towns
uh for uh you know for litter prevention
programs and recycling programs this is
how we pay for our tires out here every
year and we do the pickup and the waste
pickup
and it's a really good program but this
is how we afford it and we do use some
of it for
education through the schools and
prevention programs and litter programs
eleven thousand six thirty seven
that candidate
any discussion all those favors
next is the another grant this is uh
jess had spoken of on earlier this is
the russell county emergency operations
center uh junior grade generator grant
that he put in for that he spoke of
earlier i need the
motion for approval for
you see thirteen thousand
three
disgusting
because it says rocky mountain
we'll take their money too no
it's probably just
yeah it's probably just you know
right
no we're taking their money no
no
and
also for discussion uh fema is a 75 25
split so we will have russell county
will pay 645
of that there is the breakdown right
there so at uh of course the federal
projects is 96.80 the state is going to
fund 25.82
and of course our local was 6.45
okay those
that that could be any kind of yes
that's just time sitting after making
sure they do it right
all right all those
thank you madam chair
next is a request
um from the coming plateau housing
authority
second
uh
this is for the payment in blue of taxes
on the hud developments on behalf of
the coming plateau housing authority
uh is requesting the board of
supervisors weighs the authority's
payment in blue taxes the amount of four
thousand one sixty one twenty nine for
the physical years
ending on march the thirty first twenty
twenty i need a motion
on that one
and
but
there's two here and payment in lieu of
taxes on the piston place which is 28 08
75. ending that also on march 31st
okay we have a second i'll say
david any discussion
we've historically done this
for these agencies write all those in
favor
next is also another tradition the ross
county forest supervisors and you employ
turkey
this is part of the christmas turkey
from you know hammer turkey that we give
to the employees
that has already been budgeted
i'll make that movie
amazing
two seconds
okay i'm sorry i can't hear you are all
those in favor
next on account administrator uh request
is of course the 2020 holiday leave
schedule that was already given to the
state we have what is already in the
personnel policy these are additional
days that have been given you know by
the governor
uh
this for the uh additional four hours
on december the 23rd that's the
wednesday
an additional eight hours on thursday
the 31st so i need approval from the
board above what's in the personal house
you have a motion to approve the holiday
leaves campaign
okay next on the
account administrator request is the
russ county planning commission plans
approval i just need approval for the
plans so move
david
steve
any discussion
get all those in favor
thank you all right next item
75
carl do you have anything
to
say that i hope everybody stays safe
over the holidays merry christmas
david i'd like to
kind of do the same thing and like wish
everybody a merry christmas and
pray
that this
mess gets behind us
okay
a gentleman from my community in my
district
to reach out to
a
delegate wampler's office
about
a military
gentleman
and um he was from my district and i his
name is fred taylor i believe i think
i've sent all this over to you although
i can't just remember
but um
i would just like to make make it
publicly known that he has made a
request
that we do something um
to support
or
uh and memorialize this gentleman who
was killed in action or he's missing an
action still yeah
and so um i'm just letting you all know
that we're
we're trying to come up with something
and we haven't really discussed it
how how we can handle memorialize this
so this is just just to let you all know
and if you all have any suggestions um
now this gentleman said that he would
give us more information on it
and um he just
we just i'm just trying to get the ball
rolling here so just putting that out
there for public consumption
can you
uh just
second what everybody said about uh i
want everybody to have a merry christmas
and a happy new year let's all pray for
for a normal 2021
all right
the only thing that i have really is uh
i'm going to
appoint a committee
to um
work with
katie
lonzo
harvey and aston the tsa appoint
two of their board members
and asked tim and myself from the board
of supervisors
to
meet with katie
and finish up this uh discussion of
consolidation
look at their final
four documents
and just
do all this before their december 21st
meeting when they have to finalize
everything
and lonzo i'm gonna ask you to
get up with
their chair and
and thompson and liam i want to include
them too because they're the engineering
firm and y'all set a date for us to meet
and
get everything signed sealed and
get this going
but i'm sure if i may they help they
held their meeting today so they're not
planning on meeting again this month
they thought
no um when we when they met in november
they moved their meeting up to coincide
with our meeting
okay
so they're not so how can they get
should they
well we can meet you and tulipas and
lonzo to finish up all these topics
looking at everything and what they have
yeah we
we can begin
okay
[Applause]
they've already started doing everything
they need to do okay thank you i just
put a question
all right katie anything else so
katie uh you and lonzo y'all get
together and call us and let us know
what's convenient for you okay okay
all right with that being said the only
thing i do hope everyone has a wonderful
christmas stay healthy and i echo what
everybody else is i hope 2021 is
a better year for us
with that being said i'll
ascertain an adjournment and our next
meeting should be january the 4th yep
2021 so i'll make a motion
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back here
on january 4th do we have a second
second 10th all this is
sweetheart