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second
okay
plate
thank you madam chair this is
certification closed session
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code virginia 1950 as amended each
member of the board of supervisors upon
rotol
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knowledge
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meeting by the board of supervisors
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who believes that there was a departure
from the requirements
shall say so prior to the vote
indicating the substance of the
departure in his or her judgment has
taken place
are there any supervisors who believe in
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since being none if you agree that the
matters heard discussed or considered
during the closed meeting were pursuant
only to the motions
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please signify by saying yay or yes
tim lovelace yes luanne wallace
carl ray yes steve brady yes
david e yes boris christian yeah
and rebecca died ma'am you have approval
to return to recession
uh yes well i would like to uh
make a motion that we advertise
uh for an assistant emergency management
director
full-time position and let jess powers
alonzo
uh our emergency management
coordinator is that right
you're the director or coordinator
coordinator
so would it be an assistant america
emergency management
coordinator deputy deputy
okay i'd like to rephrase it's a deputy
emergency emergency management
coordinator
if you could document that i just
restated that
thank you
oh i i
yeah i just want to make sure
okay i just want to make sure i stated
this right correctly
for your help to help you in your
position is that right
okay uh and you guys can work on the job
description
uh and put it out there to advertise
okay i'll say
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no
there's good
i want to thank the board uh
for tonight uh as far as the budgeting
for the turkeys and i know we got
we were able to get those extra turkeys
out this year and
that extra funding i want to thank the
staff and lonzo
everybody that works in the county
offices for uh
working hard on these ppe grants and all
this money and i know it's a dish a lot
a load but
i really think it's helping our local
businesses i have one more thing
uh i called lonzo and i sent it to tim
and
carl i've got a drainage problem up
there
uh where the machine tool operation is
in forge creek
they're at casey dying you know and i've
gave the directions alonso
uh has the information in tim and carl
is going to talk to the vdot
i talked to the lady today and
the way that this is up there it's uh
it's like the drain pipes pulled away
from each other
and it's got two big caverns or holes
that's kind of
nailed in the road i'm afraid somebody's
whether it be private property or state
property or on the right-of-way
it's causing issues for v-dog it's
washout it's just coming out on the road
when they get the gravel
i'm afraid somebody's gonna have an
accident but i do appreciate you guys
and
county administrator for uh going out
one of the things i know mr powers uh
works consistently on is and
i think we got more of a problem than
this and we realize it's homeless people
uh sunday on my way to church i
encountered
a homeless person and uh luckily they
were there at rob luke's church and they
pulled over and the deputy
head and pulled him over once and asked
him did he need any assistance and
he said no he was trying to make his way
uh to tazewell county
but he was homeless and
i don't know how this coveted 19 money
works
but uh we are in desperate need of a
shelter
homeless shelter here in this area
region
uh somewhere i think uh where
we would have accessibility uh to
maybe put some of these people but i
just wanted to say that to
give the board enough time to i guess
kind of think about that but
i think we've got more of a problem we
realize here in
southwest virginia and if there's a way
that we can
look at this a little deeper and maybe
come up with a solution
i guess working with jess and you know
in regards to this and i know you work
on it constantly
18 a month now if there's anything that
we can look at as far as taking some of
this coat 19 money and
i don't know i don't i don't know the
answer to it but i want us to be able to
kind of look into that a little bit and
see if there's some resources there
uh to give them at least a meal and uh
some accommodations until we're getting
ready go in the winter
and it's gonna get fairly cold i reckon
it's cold out there right now
it's extremely cold and i don't know
where these people are
gonna have a place to shelter at but
i know jess puts him up when he can and
when he finds out about him he takes
action
but it'd be nice if we had a had a play
surface
that's all i had made
i would
they just float spot the spot they
really don't have a place
they'll stay with this person for a
while for a while until they wear out
it's just that you don't you're not
aware of it
there's there's a need for transitional
housing
i know methodist church
i take people
really that many people that reside here
that most of this transit is kind of
passed
through
at one time southwest virginia united
way of southwest
many many years ago
it was over in pokemon school
but it was a constant fight as far as
still worth pursuing
yes i've been approached by a couple
citizens that see if
the county had any uh buildings
at least like a home to hunt fifty foot
long 50 75 foot wide
they want to have a place to let kids
kind of have parties and
have a gang room like kind of like
hurricane over here
they want to set this up then another
one that wants a larger facility
for an auction house probably like 200
wide 200 feet long
and i told him i didn't know i just
drank before the forward i didn't know
we had anything like that that the
police are ran out at the county on
think
absolutely and just just to go back on
the housing issue right real quick
uh
as you all approved a letter on the dane
on the housing committee
that's that's one component um also in
the paper
a couple weeks ago you've seen uh
rebecca died myself and tony doty
that was part of the virginia department
of housing there is a component that
they're putting in for a major grant
for housing for the homeless
now the transit
demographics is a little different you
know we're trying to get
housing for the um
county citizens but the transient is is
a total different shelter so
we'll look into that too morgan
griffith's working on that and that's
where the secretary of
uh housing came down from the feds that
we had out here that tony had to bring
in there's
multiple units in it now that'll be for
russell county citizens but that transit
unit
is a different
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yes sir yes they are they're looking for
low low and we're
partnering with cover plateau housing
authority
yes and the town lebanon has undertaken
that themselves which is a good project
anything that would put that building in
good use
appreciate it yeah the uh that was a
good partnership
with kevin levin and vda
virginia department of housing thank you
the board tonight for voting for the
virginia housing
authority historic uh pilot project
and uh the community of state virginia
concerning workforce development and
workforce housing i appreciate that very
much
and um i need to say i just appreciate
your
support thank you thank you
like in fact
all right
uh