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good you're good
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all
right you ready bam
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everything up yes ma'am
good afternoon everyone i'd like to
welcome you to the russell county board
of supervisors september the 12th 2022
at 6 00 pm in the russell county
conference center i'd like to first
start off with a
call to order and roll kyle
tim lovelace
call ray
carl has called in he is ill right now
so he wanted to convey that to the board
david
steve brady
rebecca died yeah where's christian hey
luanne wallace
here
ma'am you have a quorum thank you these
are microphones working for you all in
the back
thumbs up all right at this time i'm
going to ask you to please rise for our
invocation and our pledge of allegiance
let us pray father god born in heaven we
love you we thank you we praise you
today father father we thank you for
allowing us to come out be a part of our
local government we thank you for
being with us during this troubling time
father be with us lead us guide us and
direct us help us make the right
decisions in your name we pray amen
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
united states of america
and to the republic for which
one nation under god
indivisible
tonight we have some very special guests
with us
and um those of you who are here are
going to recognize these folks for me
and so it is an honor when we get to
recognize people in their county who are
doing
fun things wonderful things
and making us very famous in the
meantime
so at this time
you guys are getting hold yourself
i am going to introduce
the bacon queen
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because we want to stand here so you
guys can see linda
she has just i'm going to steal her
thunder do you mind linda
she has just flown in from california
and she's been on the
kelly clarkston show
so she's having a great time
representing
what she does best tell them what you do
linda cooking and baking and
crafting a whole bunch of stuff
so mostly cooking and bacon okay and her
favorite recipe is
uh
what
would you say
yeah mexican cornbread yeah that's my
opponent that's not my favorite that's
mine
okay so what's your family favorite
that one likes lasagna one of them likes
parmesan chicken my husband likes
anything i could so
he stopped
so linda did not bring samples tonight
because like i say she just flew in from
california you remember
so
everybody voted on the staff
to give linda an apron that says
queen of cooking
linda here's you
wait a minute now wait a minute
and then i say linda's from castlewood
by the way
now we've got this lovely resolution and
i'm going to read it so bear with me
whereas
the legendary linda skins also known as
baking queen throughout southwest
virginia and the nation
is a resident of our neighboring wise
county that's not right is it
we're rewriting that
i signed it by the way
whereas linda skins performs at the
local virginia kentucky fair winning 25
separate ribbons for her cooking baking
and crafts has garnered rick
fame including an appearance on the
today show and we're adding kelly
clarkson when we rewrite
everybody get your recipes together
because you're going to buy a cookbook
off a limb they're from alabama the
company that's doing it they call it
published paladins cookbooks and a whole
bunch more
the new paula dean of russell county
now therefore
be it resolved by a unanimous vote the
board of supervisors here commends linda
skins also known as the baking queen for
her incredible contributions to
southwest virginia and to our appalachia
culture and to russell county
and be it further resolved that the
clerk of the board of supervisors
prepare a copy of this resolution for
presentation to linda skeens as an
expression of the board's admiration for
her contributions to russell county
adopted this day the 12th of september
2022
give linda a round of applause
quick center tomorrow corner in person
the wheat change recipes
i got to meet senator mark warner here
in lebanon a few weeks ago and we
exchanged recipes he gave me a lousy one
he said i gave him a good one but we
exchanged them and he gave me a letter
of congratulations
we love you landon
thank you
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all right
now remember
these are our resolutions for today
there's more to come so hang with me we
knew we'd have a big audience tonight so
we entertain you a little bit
by the way
have you been listening to country music
these days
no one's listening to country music have
you ever heard of a little place called
winchester street
49 winchester that's their address
and the boys from 49 winchester have
been all over the united states last
year working real hard
and making a name for themselves and
russell county
and so tonight
it is our absolute pleasure
that we're going to have the boys from
49 winchester come and receive their
resolution as we declare
april the 9th which is 4
9
as 49 winchester day so
caleb
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where my heart is come on now boys
give him a hand
just for you
if you wonder
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county line
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all right thank you
i just couldn't resist doing that
grand entrance and tonight
is their resolution
whereas the musical group 49 winchester
was formed in russell county on
winchester street
and they keep having their signs stolen
so we ordered miss debbie and mr gary a
case
and you might need a poll okay
whereas the group consists of isaac
gibson raise your hand isaac
the shelton
lead guitar chase uh chase chafin
noah patrick
all righty
tim hall on the piano
and justin laughlin i don't believe
justin was able to be here
and whereas the group has grown to
national fame and has contributed to the
country music genre that is enjoyed all
over the world and whereas the group's
greatest hit and most exceptional song
is the russell county line and should be
played during the next meeting of this
board of supervisors we may come out to
that one next time boys is that okay
whereas on august the 30th of 2022 the
group made its debut in the legendary
grand ole opry and henceforth annually
april the 9th shall be forever known as
49 winchester day in and throughout
russell county virginia and now
therefore be it resolved by a unanimous
vote the board of supervisors hereby
commends the group 49 winchester for its
incredible contributions to country
music and entertainment and be it
further resolved that the clerk of the
board of supervisors prepare a copy of
this resolution for presentation to mr
isaac gibson as an expression of the
board's admiration for the group's
contribution to russell county virginia
adopted this day
september 12
2022
thank you guys so much i appreciate it
greatly uh
russell county means a lot to us we were
born and raised here uh i plan on being
here until i'm gone people are always
asking me when i'm gonna move to
nashville and i don't think it ever will
uh this place means a lot to us uh it's
it's got some of the finest people we've
ever ever known and ever will meet uh
and it's always been that way it's a
it's a it's a
point of great pride to be where we're
from it's kind of hard for appalachian
artists to sometimes get a foothold in
this business
but we're glad we've been able to
break that mold a little bit and we
really appreciate the support we
appreciate this honor it means a great
deal to us thank y'all
wow
and now we have other presentations
and uh
doro
i'm so sorry that i don't have something
fun on
you but your presentation is next
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uh
all right i was blessed to be able to be
blessed
my spouse about speeding and i'm really
grateful that child gave me a little
more time to talk about benefits
southwest virginia um
real quick the reason we're doing this
um
related suicide is
an epidemic that is awful
veterans
themselves are
50 percent more likely to die of suicide
than their you know civilian peers more
than 6 000
veterans a year
die suicide and actually the suicide
rate between
18 and 34 year old male veterans
has increased 93 since 2006 so there's a
big need for us to
um
to look at this and do something
um about it we have
therefore partnered with
stop soldier suicide and organization
that has started as a
three people
call center for
for their um
for their soldiers and has now grown
into a national
organization that not only takes calls
but also is able to
do boots on the ground therapy
cut red tape and one of the big things
that i like about
the uh the organization and also
my friends um
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alfred who is the president of fallen
warriors
beth hurt who is also helping us with
wed fest
um it doesn't matter how you separate
from the military not everybody is able
to get an honorable discharge but if you
don't have an honorable discharge you
don't get the help that you
might need stop soldier suicide helps
anybody regardless of what's on your
dd214 which is your separation papers
we have bedfest again this year
september 24th at the russell county
fairgrounds
we hope it's going to be
great fun last year was wonderful the
russell county sheriff's office
helped us a great deal they participated
in the type of war we
thanked them yet again there was it was
it was big fun we wanna we had a 5k we
had a 12k rug we had a
car show and for this year we have upped
our game a little bit
we went ahead and
um
made sure we get everything packed into
one day because two days was a little
much
this year we are able to
present veterans their families and our
communities with
a lot more resources we have
organizations like the fallen outdoors
they organize they organize fishing
trips and hunting trips for veterans we
have the art center out of johnson city
they do
arts and crafts and painting and
everything artsy
for veterans it's it's phenomenal i i i
talk to them and they're just wonderful
they're going to be here you can
actually even
purchase
arts
art from uh from veterans while you're
at bedfest um we're gonna have
expo and we're going to have the army
recruiting
bringing their big
gaming truck so there's something for
the younger generation also
between the virginia state police and
caswell county sheriff's office they
will be doing canine presentation
um we're gonna have narcotics we're
gonna have patrol and
um
bomb surging dogs so that's gonna be
really a really big thing we will have a
scavenger hunt
which
we've always wanted to do something
because the fairground lends itself to
that
um
the big prize on that is
a uh four people
escape room
um
coupon for for bristol so that's that's
free so if you win this
there's no admission to do that you just
go and be a part admission into the
fairgrounds is free as usual
for our vet fest we will have a silent
option we have so far received
paintings
wooden flags
baskets for for
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all just people were so
generous to give to us so just come on
out this is
something everybody can do
we have a car show which cars jeeps
everything
is welcome
and of course in the morning we start
out with our
5k run walk in our 12k run
everybody can do that
we have this year we were
really blessed somebody
donated electronic timing so we actually
are really official this year
so
if you want to
if you want to partake in the 5k you can
go to tri-cities around tri-cities or
state of franklin track and field club
website
and you can register online right there
our opening ceremony is going to be
think the most important thing for
everybody because
it'll
give everybody
sorry
a chance to reflect on why we do this
and
this year i have mentioned it before
on our t-shirt we have austin dardy's
dog tags
austin is a
graduate from lebanon high school he
graduated in 2013. he went into the navy
right after he graduated did wonderful
did great has a little son
keaton
and
somehow
he
got in a little bit of trouble nothing
anybody should have
thought it
would push you to that point but
apparently he didn't have a hand to
reach out
and decide he decided the thing to do
was end his young life
i'm sure if
he would have known that stop soldier
suicide is there that
us as a community would always be there
for him to reach out that we don't judge
anybody that it doesn't matter
why we think
we have to end our lives
i'm pretty sure he would still be here
doesn't matter if you if you would have
lost a military career that would have
been sad but he would still be here for
his son
so
that fest yes it is called bedfest but
it is called also bridged again
it is very very important for me
that everybody in los angeles virginia
knows
that military-related suicide
affects everybody and we can all do
something about it and even if we just
go to the gentleman who's wearing the
veteran's hat at the at the store
thinking for our service that'll
you have no idea how that makes somebody
stay
we have resources where you can learn
how to how to help if you want to help
more
just
come out to our to our breakfast like i
said no admission there's going to be
stuff for everybody to do
and every penny that we make
we'll go straight to stop soldier
suicide we're not going to say well all
the prophets no everything we take in
goes straight
just absolute suicide and that is just
important to us last year we were able
to give four and a half thousand dollars
i think as
a first event that's really good
this year we want to double that and i
really ask everybody to come out and
help us
and make that a good event for everybody
to enjoy
and for us to be able
to pass on to stop soldier suicide
uh remind us again the date on saturday
or september 2014.
yes now starting
nine a.m
and the opening ceremony will be at noon
so if somebody doesn't want to do
the 5k or the 12k at noon is the opening
ceremony
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moving on um we put our psa report up
front so uh for a presentation
so i'm gonna ask um
to this um
presentation
i was the
preacher at austin
terrible
terrible tragedy
and i really recommend folks
come out and support this this is the
third world cup
but i command this way
for her hard work
in doing that
are you close to the mic yes
uh that being said
i felt like that
the board of supervisors and the public
needed to know a little bit about what
was going on
with russ county psa
uh
we were combined a couple of years ago
where now we are one single water
company and
we are facing challenges
but we are
we're making a lot of progress and i'm
getting a lot of things confidence
one thing
that i'd love you folks to look at i'll
not go through it
but i'll let you some
documents there that speaks about the
fire hybrids
in russell county and you'll notice
there's two different packets of them
and you'll notice the color codes
please understand when you go to the end
and you look
it explains to you about the color codes
and the fact that these
hydrants have either been
repaired replaced or removed
and the only reason that we would remove
is because
some of these hybrids were on deadlines
the lines had no water in them
we didn't want the possibility that
someone would pull up to a hydra
and waste all their time so we want you
know there's been a lot of
discussion in the public
about fire hydrants in russell county
and the fact that they were so many of
them out of operation that's no longer
true
one of the most uh
one one of our greatest goals on psa
was to make sure that we got these
things fixed
today
and i also want to thank you guys
without the support and
coordination with
the russ county board of supervisors and
lonzo lester helping us
this would have been a lot harder and
longer process and
the main thing we want folks
we want the people in russell county to
be protected
and we also want them to have
good clean drinking
now that being said
i left you some more uh documents there
that talk about some of the projects
that we have going on in russell county
at this time uh
i don't think most people understand
exactly how much we do have going on
we have projects going
that are in process that will soon be in
process and that we're looking at to get
into process
a lot of folks in the county
have approached us asking for help
getting water to their communities and
folks we want to
that's our business that's what we want
to do
we would love to see every
home in russell county served with clean
drinking water
that will take time
there are situations when it makes a
project
very difficult to do
but the main thing we have to do is
start a process apply for funding and
then see what happens
if you'll notice on the documents i left
you we have several things that we are
looking at that are processed
we just finished
a glade hollow and glade hill project
that was
funded well from our funding agencies
we'll soon start a natchez ford and
clinch mountain project
uh belfast we've got three three or four
faces going all going right now within
uh but one thing i want to point out to
you even more so
we have two projects that are very
important
the dance sewer project if you'll take a
look at that
that is a two and a half million dollar
project to take the sewer
from dank to the town of saint paul
ladies and gentlemen that is totally
grant funded right steve
something that's
very important
uh one of the things that hinders us
when we're trying to do water projects
is the amount of
loan we take on
as well as grant
one thing that they ask for
is for it to cash flow and for you to
have the revenue to pay the debt on the
project
uh we also
have a
project in date straight hall project
it's our it's uh
we're refurbished lines they are
replacing lines
and it is one and a half million dollars
and it is totally green
and we've got other projects house and
barn mountain that we're looking at we
we filed a
application
to get funded try to get funding to do
that
what i
main thing i'm here for folks as i told
you is i want you to know
that we are trying our best to do
everything we can
to get fresh good clean drink water for
us county
uh we're not sitting on our hands and if
you have a problem
or you have an issue or you have a
project
please contact us
we'll do anything we can to try to help
but please understand
it's a difficult process
and sometimes it can't be done i'm not i
would never paint somebody picture that
no matter what we can do but we will
always try
so
if you have some questions i'll be glad
to answer them uh
one thing i want to say to you just
being in
uh
your area
we're working at this time on a project
to try to get water for steve's little
aware of it to the high point area to
the very little service when you get out
of castle
we're working hard
to try to get a project started on high
points so we can serve that area down
there uh
we're continuously heading so and you
folks on board
if you have a problem or question
someone comes to you about it please
contact me i can't promise you i can
answer it but we have a really great
uh gentleman that works for us tracy
puckett our new director i guarantee you
i can get you an answer from you
so you folks have any questions
i do
when you look at the fire hydrants
they're supposed to be inspected um are
we doing that yearly or by
that that will be a yearly
thing that we do
one of the things that i would like for
the citizens to do
if you know of a problem
with a hybrid or anything please let me
know
i promise you
as long as i'm on the board it will not
get in the shape it was in again
that will not happen
so uh
congratulations madam chairman on the
election to the virginia association
president right the planning commission
congratulations
but thank you guys
if you need anything you have any
questions just please let me know
thank you
at this time i'm going to ask for a
motion for the approval of the minutes
from the left for me
i have a motion
i have a second i'll accept it either
way um all in favor
moving
over to the approval of expenditures
for payment
um
all
thank you
all right moving forward to item number
three on the agenda uh with the
committee appointments for the board
consideration and first we have
our tourism advisory committee for
district four that's been taken
yes ma'am chair i have uh lisa however
mr eaton has uh miss hubbard up for
consideration um all in favor oh i need
a motion he's got a motion
committee appointments
boris gave me more than one ticket mr
peter gave me a motion so i'm gonna take
it i know
the appointments but i think that's my
chair i won't argue that
ma'am tim seconded it
oh okay thank you very much
all right i have a motion and a second
all in favor
any opposed motion parents thank you mr
eden you've got we've got full
representation on the tac advisory
committee
for
our county thank you
next we have on the agenda the russell
county public service authority we have
a vacancy
mr harry ferguson's name in on that
position
it was mine getting my three-year term
and run out now
mr philip campbell could not serve
okay um
we have a motion for harry ferguson to
serve the unexpired term of the phillip
pounds
i need a
second all in favor
any opposed
any extension most prepared
next we come down to the russell county
library
and uh is this a
is
yes
she was she was taken off
okay so those people that have uh their
names that are presented currently for
the russell county public library you
just want to add this ashbrook to the
link
and that will give us the representation
okay
i think steve represented there's no cap
on the library board if you put bish
ashbrook back on is that the same number
that's been on there or
will that add an additional number
well she was on there before
as long as there's no limits or it's not
a set board like there's seven then
legally there's not an issue with that
i'll make a motion that we just
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thank you we have a motion to accept the
slate as presented with the edition of
nebashbury
thank you we have a motion in a second
any discussion
i'll call for the vote
all in favor
any pose
no
motion carries thank you steve
next we're coming down to the upper
tennessee river round table we have
okay i have a motion for matty gordon
all in favor
any extensions
motion parents thank you
next we're coming up on our citizen
comment period time if you have signed
up for
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now um let you all give me just one
moment before i start calling so
there's a couple in there's a couple in
here that may not be exactly
from the same uh so if you all would
give
me chairman's privilege
i'm going to jump around just a minute
okay if you want to speak and you might
not want to stop
uh brandon moore from
concerning the magazine trash facility
more are you here
so uh i'm coming to y'all today about
ongoing problems with the mocks and
trash dump
um on the russell county board of
supervisors facebook you have posted an
unmanned site such as moccasin uh would
be seven to six right
um about every day it's closed before
six
including yesterday when it closed 15
minutes before six
well uh july 25th i sent mr lovelos a uh
email about it um never got a reply so
i'm not sure what good he really is
but uh
you know you you
call it a convenience site
but it's convenient only for the person
open to closing directly
when you work five and six days a week
and you try to make it there before six
o'clock at times it's closed you know 5
30 5 45 other times 4 or 4 30
uh locked up where am i supposed to put
my trash i hauled around four bags of
trash yesterday i should have brought it
up here put it on your steps
um
it's getting ridiculous uh it's all the
time thing it's been emailed to the
board of supervisors no response
something needs to be done about it
next on the list
next on the list um now remember i'm
moving around so forgive me i'm taking
my privilege and chair
um we have victor hall who wants to
speak on psa matters
july 6th approximately 2 30 a.m in the
morning your main water line broke
you flooded my
garage my collectible card as a project
being built
i called the water company about the
damages they kept denying on anything
about it in three days
i finally
said you have to by law give me
the information i need so then they give
me the name of the insurance company
claim number with the phone number i
call the insurance company the first
words out of their mouth we're not
paying a dime
now the water company is up in there
because i'm kicking dust up about all
the damages i had
so much to the point to where they went
to my other house across the road
day after memorial day and they removed
the meter base and the meter i had no
service it's a house my sister lived in
she died
they removed my meter base my meter box
like it was never there i called them
they're playing games they're like oh we
were just digging for a meter to get a
meter
so there's not been a meter for five
years
why would you be digging for a meter to
get a reading you didn't read anybody
else's meter in the neighborhood that
day
and they sent the guys back out and
they're standing there telling me oh we
didn't we were just looking for a meter
um they need to make this right
they need to replace my meter base and
my meter because i'm close to having a
house ready for movement too
there's no reason for them to treat me
like this i've been a customer for
almost 20 years never laid on my bill
never in any trouble with i'll pay my
bill in advance many times
and i've got damages
a lot of damages from the flood i went
out at 6 30 in the morning i said what's
going on they said oh so we got a little
water leak here and i said oh okay he
goes we got it finished you know
repaired we're leaving
so we'll be back in a couple of weeks to
spread some dirt out and fix your land
two three weeks later they don't show up
i call them they sit out we've decided
you don't need no dirt but that same
morning i saw a flood line across my
garage
they didn't they didn't tell me that i
had been flooded
at early morning hours i called the
water company i said why didn't you
knock on my door the lady says we don't
like to get involved
i mean they're just blowing me off like
my damages don't count
and that's not fair
to me
to fair to anybody to have to endure all
this loss
you know that's what insurance is for
they said oh it wasn't negative well
there was a fire a guy doing a repair
said there was fire on gravel it
said we back charged the line probably a
little too fast
that's what made the line blow out look
i know it was an accident but it still
needs to be taken care of by the
insurance my meter base in my meter box
needs to be put back on my other home
that i'm restoring
there's no reason to treat me this way
they're playing games
and i'm not real happy about it
and
i mean that's the facts of the story i
got pictures
all the proof
i told them i was going to take it to
court if i had to that's when they
started playing games that's when they
just took out the meter base in the
meter box
and i'd like for whoever's in charge
over that department to look into it and
contact me
so we can rectify this without it
getting any messier than it already is
that's really all i have to say
thank you
thank you appreciate it
next um next on my agenda is annie
stevens
hello i'm amy stevens i work for
newgarden rescue squad
we came to you all about five months ago
requesting additional funding
we have yet to get that we did receive a
letter saying that we were going to get
additional funding throughout the month
our bills have went up
i got to investigating it and medicare
hasn't changed the reimbursement rate
that i can find since 2001.
so with that being said we've asked you
all for a little extra help uh you all
received the narcan grant we haven't
received anything from that the arbor
funds were received about three months
ago
we haven't received anything from that
so
i'm here again today
requesting
some additional funding for my rescue
squad for my sister agencies
and is that all i get to talk about
because i have more
okay so i have called i have emailed i
have text and i'm not getting anything
back either
the second thing
is the trash can was taken from finney
my road is disgusting there is a pile of
trash at penny
80 plus bags
when i go to work at the rescue squad i
have to dodge
huge bags of trash
boxes
you name it my road is horrible
and the last thing i'd like to talk
about is the psa
if they could work with the fire
department and show them where these
working
fire hydrants are so when we have like a
fire at three in the morning we're not
out searching for
a working
hydra
so
i'm asking if you want to look into that
and give me some answers i don't know
where else to go
thank you
all right next on our list is sandy
hands
hi my name is sandy hess from swords
creek
i have to admit that i struggled with
what i was going to say tonight if
anything
but i feel that it's very important for
you all to hear from the people that you
are elected to represent
last month we heard from a great
majority of the county on their views
about abortion
we heard several people give personal
recounts of how they had lost a child or
almost lost a child
we heard from several that gave biblical
reasons
that as to why we think abortion's wrong
we even heard from some that gave
scientific and medical validation that a
fetus is a living baby
i specifically expressed a concern
that abortion providers would come to
our county
and wanted a preemptive measure to
prevent it from happening instead of
waiting on it to happen and then trying
to do something about it
we asked this board to draft and approve
a resolution that would declare russell
county a pro-life sanctuary county
we asked for a resolution for protection
from conception through old age and
natural debt which mr breeding provided
we are fully aware that this is only a
statement that it holds no legal bearing
in actually prohibiting an abortion
clinic from coming to russell county
however it is a bold statement
a statement to the rest of the state and
the country that we do believe in
preserving the dignity of the preborn
and we are willing to protect it
that we believe every child should have
a chance at life
russell county would certainly not be
the first county to make such a
resolution
campbell county virginia adopted a
pro-life resolution in july of this year
eleven cities and four counties in
mississippi north carolina arkansas and
alabama are pro-life
and since june 19 states protect life at
conception
the u.s supreme court stated in polker
versus dove in 1977 that the u.s
the u.s constitution does not forbid a
municipality pursuant to democratic
processes from expressing a preference
for normal childbirth instead of
abortion
so there are plenty of examples is to
point to how we are able to do this
resolution
but the reason i struggled with what to
say is because i find it difficult to
believe this is even an issue
the fact that abortion was ever made
legal in the first place astonishes me
the fact that over 63 million babies
have died since roe versus weight was
decided astonishes me
the fact that there would be one baby
killed in russell county legally
astonishes me
and if we have the opportunity to at
least begin to do something about it
let it begin with this resolution
at least it's a start at least it's a
statement and your vote is your personal
statement
[Applause]
thank
you thank you miss hess would you like
to submit your written comments for the
record
okay
by the way if you have written comments
tonight
as you want to see
you may submit your comments
all right next person is michelle vance
shaw vance martin valley
i know you get three minutes you must
follow us but i'm hoping that you can
bear with me through this
i was encouraged to come up here by my
friends
continue my statement
so i've written it down so i don't lose
myself
our life means so much more to me than
saving the lives of unborn children
it is also saving the mental health of
the mother and even the father of the
upward child
35 years ago i became a pregnant
teenager
as a teenager i didn't feel i had much
of a choice at the time
i can remember sitting in the doctor's
office
or what they called his abortion day
talking to some of the other patients
who said it wasn't their first abortion
one lady said it was her poor
i also remember going into that room
and lying down
they give you headphones with some music
in no way
[Music]
keeps the sound down
the sound of the machine
literally sucking life out of your body
nothing could have prepared me for what
i went through that day or every day for
the last 35 years
i was blessed with two children after
marrying my husband
but i also anguished over several
miscarriages for which i thought god was
punishing me
i still deal with the guilt and remorse
every day
and hope to someday be able to meet that
child
abortion is being used as a form of
birth control
and a way to discard something we find
inconvenient at the time
there are many alternatives to abortion
the first being education
talk about sex
talk about birth control
don't make it a taboo
stop it before you get to the place
where you even have to think about a
decision
the second is banning abortions
don't gamble with the mental health of
people
this is something you deal with forever
i didn't have a choice like my friend
jody baker's parents
to give my child up for adoption
and know that my child would grow up
and be healthy and happy
because i killed her
i asked everyone to open your minds
this shouldn't ever be used as birth
control
life begins at conception
don't allow these clinics to infest our
community as drugs have
we as adults and leaders
must not only keep our community safe we
must educate them
i implore you to make russell county a
safe haven
i know as an
adult what i did as a child
as a parent i educated my children and
had open conversations
i hope no one has to go through
what i have and what i still do
there's nothing
that can be done for what i have and
i'm still going through
i luckily have wonderful children and a
wonderful husband and wonderful friends
but please
don't let other mothers good
it's a heartburn
please
stand with us
and naked know
that russell county is a safe place
and that you
and us and everyone else in this group
is here
for those people
who don't have parents
because
[Applause]
[Laughter]
[Applause]
oh
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members of the board
thank you for allowing me a few moments
and speak for you
i tremendously appreciate your work and
your concern
and your leadership in our community
i come tonight to
just share
that i'm a pastor of medical baptist
church
uh
hudson and i moved here every 10 years
ago
it's been a wonderful experience of
being in the environment of a community
like this
a community that is close-knit
that has strong morals that has
convictions
as love and concern for each other that
we have seen expressed here tonight
i come to ask you that as you come to
this
memorable moment
that if you could reflect the words
between esther that she had told to her
many centuries ago
that maybe you have come for such a time
as this
and i would ask you tonight to remember
the words of
the proverb but it says what god hates
that he hates the
shedding of innocent blood
if abortion is not a shedding innocent
blood on what is
but i raised the question a little bit
higher tonight i would ask you as my
friends have already alluded to that
perhaps we need to clarify this that
life does begin in conception
and that we protect all life and i'm at
the age of my life now but i would say
brothers and sisters we need to protect
our elderly people
euthanasia is also an issue
and when we say that
brussels county is a haven let's make
sure that we include all people that all
life is important
those that were disabled those that are
aged
those that have mental incapacities i
have friends tonight in nursing
facilities that are great christians
great people of god that are not able to
function
and i say their lives are precious
tonight
and i'm glad in the eyes of god we all
are loved we all are appreciative
and let us be people
that this will not be a day of infamy
but this will be a day of an incredible
victory because we stand up for the
lives of all people thank you
thank you
dr dawn zambonia
first tank
you randy williams
sheriff dye asked me to come down and
pray outside with you all
the protection of all people in our
county
i'm reminded again that the word of god
says if you love me
keep my commandments
well if we love the lord our god and we
pray that we open these meetings in
prayer
that we ought to be living according to
what the word of god says
the word of god says that life begins at
conception
and so i would like to ask who is
responsible
for taking
the resolution that the citizens of this
county
was put forth by
brother breeding
and changing it into this document which
does not say that life gives an
exception
nor does this
propose
a document to protect
all of life that brother king just
alluded to
i do not understand how we the citizens
of this county and you who are elected
do some
work on our behalf and come before you
meeting after meeting
to have this given to us
to ask you to uphold this document that
was originally written
you bring back
a one-piece paper paper that says
absolutely nothing
life begins at conception
i am here to encourage you to get rid of
this piece of junk
and to uphold the original resolution
which says
through all of life
again
one day
i am going to stand before the king of
kings and the lord of lords
and i am thankful i am going to be able
to stand before him and say i stood up
for what his word said
tonight
you also have the opportunity because
one day you are going to stand before
him this is not a time for talking out
both sides of our mouth this is a time
for doing what is right and in america
we need to do what is right this is
right and this is wrong we need to stand
for what is right because if we don't
spell out what we believe this does not
cover it
again we realize that sandy has said
the no piece of paper
is going to be how she put it along
but if we're going to make a statement
if we're going to make the stand
then let's make a big statement and
let's make a big stand and send a
message to governor youngren
thank you
next we have larry
my name's laurie hughes
i reside in district five
i play a vertically hard drive uh
i want to thank the board
mission you know here the uh
administrator
the attorney
all the people and
they were right to
address our grievances
is provided by the constitution we have
like
of course
and i'm going to concur with
everything's been said i'm going to
dress a little different as a christian
as father as a lost
to pass a resolution hiring the county
pro-life
this is pro-life center i understand the
action that has minimal legal standing
however
does give a loud voice to other parts of
the county in this state
because
i want to remind you what y'all use
the oath says according to virginia code
chapter 1 title 49
section 1 every person poor ending upon
the discharge of any folks at the
officer of the cowbell shall take
described to the falling oath i do
solemnly swear
prefer
that i will support the constitution of
the united states and the constitution
of virginia on what's between
and i will faithfully encourage this
church to give you some comfort on me as
a member of the board surprise according
to the best of my ability so help me god
so father described within title 15
that's 15.2-15-22
every elected county officer unless
otherwise provided below only before the
date of which his term office begins
shall qualify but take your prescribed
by the said
section 49
and give bond if that is required
the clerk of the county court
shall record the same order book
as such i have not if you have not
subscribed or given your assigned pledge
you should request recuse yourself
until it is again you don't have right
though you've not sunk
and i'm not going to ask you sick right
now but i will visit you i want to see
you signed up when you assign
i remind you though
all tigers were affirmed to uphold both
the united states the virginia
constitution implicit in the oath is the
pledge by all to abide by all political
laws
so again i'm referring to the
constitution virginia article one bill
of rights section one provides us that
all men are uh nature or equally free
independent have certain rights namely
the enjoyment of life
that's the enjoyment of life for
everybody
all right section two people the source
of power this section states that all
power is best in is consequently derived
from the people
that the masters
are the trustees and service that you
and trustees and service and minimal to
them that's the thing
the gov is or ought to be instituted for
the common benefit protection and
security of the people nation or
community capable producing the greatest
degree of happiness and safety it is
most effectual secured against the
danger of our male administration and
whenever any government shall be found
inadequate or contrary to the purpose a
majority of the community has in a
dutiable inaudible and an indivisible
right to reform alter or abolish it in
such a matter it shall be judged the
most conducted by the public will
and so much as a homilay person i
understand recovery is a
democratic cult that being the idea
which combines both proportionism and
democracy this means people can take
part in the decisions that affects what
you control
there is no monarchy
this is
about democracy a republican
so i present to each of you on the board
this is your people
this is your constitution this is your
citizens
and their public will is the majority
you must at all times be a member of
them that's the constitution that's law
as one of the men of this community i'm
sure quite a few others i demand
i do claim i need my requirements and
mine and tolerance to my inherent and
legal rights for you to abide by the
constitution and not your trespass said
demand
you're signed oh there's a legal binding
contract that you consistent with
consistency you must follow the will of
the people
or you may face legal ensuing litigation
your response to the man will be judged
forward
thank you
we have a copy would you like part of
this
next we have adam yes
my name is adam hess um from creek i'm
speaking on behalf of the high school
republicans of russell county in support
of russell county being a pro-life
sanctuary county i think it'll be a
great thing for the county and like
other counties to adopt the same thing
thank you
thank you adam
mr steven danbury
good evening uh my name is pastor
stephen dameron from soldier and
i talked
at the last meeting for unborn babies
i don't
i don't see how anybody whether in
politics
life can justify the taking of a
lifetime
i never thought i'd see a time in
russell county where you'd have one set
of adults
standing up against another set of
adults over unborn babies
and god gave us each and every child
that's ever been born each and every
child that's ever been aborted the will
of god or it wouldn't have ever been
there
and uh i just want to read something i
wrote down it said these killed
killed murdered unborn babies
will never have the chance to say i love
you mom
i love your dad
it's family will never get to hear it
say praise you jesus or seal it see it
kneel down at the doctor
all the birthdays will never be
celebrated
all in the name of politics or women's
right to choose
heal the baby
the doctor and the mom and politicians
say so they can go play and not the
child
no first tire cuts no first fishing
trips
no little ponytails no aggressive things
in psalms 127 it said low children are
inherited to the lord
and the fruit of the wound
is his report
i would hate to be responsible going in
and taking something out
that god put in for life
and just because you voted it don't make
your hands clean if you vote to legalize
abortion in your hands it's just as
dirty
as the doctor that performed the emotion
i stand for life whether it's at
conception
or until they die
life
begins at conception
it's not a fetus
it's not a blob
it's a baby
the heartbeat begins just the same as
the baby's bone
i think that
every adult were to stand for every
unborn baby that's not had a chance to
be where you are
just setting the seats that you're
sending
to get up and sing the songs
i you asked a question how many listen
to country music i don't
but just a while ago whenever you
brought those people in and you
recognize them
the baby that got aborted today will
never be recognized
it'll never be applauded for anything
that had ever done
this night was my sixth grade teacher
the boy and girl never get to have a
sixth grade teacher because they got
killed
because somebody
didn't want to take responsibility for
their actions
i know that sometimes things happen when
women get raped or incest
if you don't want the baby put it up for
adoption somebody will take that baby
but outside of rape
and i'm not saying this to be mean if
you don't want a baby
be abstinence don't go out and take a
chance to make something that you want
to kill
because that baby's got a right to life
and i thank jesus christ for mine and
for all of y'all
next on my list is scotty perkins
born
not aborted
1964.
at that time my mother and dad they
didn't take me to church
they didn't teach me the ways of the
lord
but they had no thought
that it'd be okay to murder me
because god gave me life
he chose to put me into this world he
gave me a purpose he called me and he
chose me
he chose me to show the world his
blessings to me
i'm just a simple man
that nobody but the lord really knows
and he knows all about me
he knows my failure he knows my success
he knows my thoughts he knows the intent
of my heart
he knows my love i didn't write down
comments i come in and sit down and
press
to speak from the heart tonight
because i've noticed a common theme
whenever
god's law and man's law seems to cross
account when we come before this board
and the school board
it seems like the first response always
is but the county attorney needs to
check into this
and see the legalities of what you want
to do and see if we are allowed you know
they arrested
peter and the apostles put them in jail
prison he said
and then whenever the holy spirit
released them i told them to go into the
temple and teach the people
whenever they
brought them out they said did what did
not we straightly command you not to
teach in this name
and then peter and the other
apostles said
we are to obey god
and not men
we have an opportunity this is the most
important vote
in the history of russell county they
has never been one in the history of our
county that's more important than this
vote on this resolution
and respectfully
it doesn't matter i appreciate the long
hours and the hard work that the
accounting and the county attorney puts
in to
trying to merge god's law with man's law
but we ought to obey god at some point
we have to use the life that god give us
and accomplish the purpose he put us
here for each one of us that's here
tonight god chose for us to be here he
chose for each one of you to be sitting
in the seat that you are tonight
in this most important vote in the
history of russell county
and he has raised you up for this
purpose and he believes that you have it
in your heart to follow his law and not
man's law
it doesn't matter what man wants what
matter is what god wants
we tonight have an opportunity here to
show the world that god's right
when you murder a baby and they call it
abortion but it is murder
that's a ugly word but that's what it is
i was not murdered so i get to come
tonight and speak
i got a chance to see why god chose to
put me into this world
a murdered baby has no chance to see
what their purpose was for god couldn't
last
in its body
tonight
i pray that god will move upon each one
of your hearts and you'll do what's
right in god's eyes forget what man said
i know i know oh well we we might be uh
have legal
i'm sorry i can't look at this anymore
i appreciate what you all tried to do
but i don't appreciate what this is
because this is compromise
this
if you vote on this
it's a flawed bow
because this does not satisfy god's
requirement for life
may god bless his children
god will bless his children and i pray
that god will bless you
and i believe that you will
make the right decision because god puts
you here
for this time for this purpose
amen
[Applause]
damn why did
i'm tim whiting i am from the cedar
bloodline
and we simply stand before you today
there's been so much that's already been
said
so much has already been brought before
us
before you ask the board
really this is not a should not be a
political issue at all uh to stand to
debate whether life is precious
so you all us here tonight you represent
your districts
uh you all will have a vote i know last
time we was here we had some that stood
some that did not stand
some that stood later
but tonight
the vote is really going to be in your
hand where your heart is
how much you love god how you see things
is what's really going to shine through
it's not about a political party it's
not about an affiliation it's about what
simply as these other brethren said
what's doing right in the eyes of god
we understand what this resolution is
uh and as they've already said this
that's been brought to us really it is a
shame uh we we want you you should vote
on the original version that was brought
forth we all agree i hope we all agree
that life is at conception in the womb
we all understand that it's nothing that
we should stand around
and even try to debate to convince you
all uh all of you all were raised in the
same county i hope that i was raised in
right here in russell county uh a good
christian county where we was taught the
truth
do what is right uh make the right vote
throw the throw the one you brought away
and vote in the one that was brought
forth we were here uh last week
do what is right
you're gonna give an account
i really feel like saying that tonight i
didn't pre-meditate what i would say
write anything down i just prayed and
said god
give me the right words to say
but you know you'll give an account unto
us
that you will
what you vote tonight you're given the
county everybody sitting out here in
this pews sitting out here in these
seats but you know what even after that
you're going to give an account to an
almighty god
where you put your amen where you put
your signature where you put your
raise of hand god i will judge you know
that it is a fearful thing to fall in
the hands of the living god
amen vengeance is mine said the lord and
we will repent
we do good we've got promise but if we
go out here and we do wrong and we'll
make the wrong choices no
i think you will stand and you will give
an account before god do what's right
look at all these
got the white shirts on trying to show
as much as we can that we're standing
for life would y'all stand can we do
that
sean we believe in life
we believe in life we believe in life do
what's right
[Applause]
thank you mr white
cody jackson
sorry
good evening members of the board as
always thank you for allowing us all
time to speak my name is cody jackson
and i am a resident of the cleveland
area the county and coordinator for the
russell county christian coalition i am
here again to encourage you to adopt a
resolution declaring russell county to
be a pro-life sanctuary let me make
clear the original is what i'm
encouraging you to adopt that defines
life at conception and as many have
stated talks about euthanasia and the
like um our coalition has a petition for
this resolution that we'll be submitting
that now has garnered over 1100
signatures of support we believe this
will give courage to surrounding
counties to do the same and send a
message to our state legislature that we
stand for lie
recently the blacksburg city council
adopted a resolution to support abortion
so if there was ever a time to take a
stand it is certainly right now it's
interesting that this was the question
that come up there are many passionate
opinions on both sides of this debate
but the real question that all of us
must ask ourselves is when does life
begin the pro-life position can answer
this question logically and
scientifically while abortion supporters
simply cannot if life begins at
conception then ending that life
intentionally is murder end of story the
science of biology typically defines
life as requiring eight characteristics
order sensitivity or response to the
environment reproduction growth and
development regulation homeostasis and
energy processing
a child at conception has all of these
characteristics including its own
distinct dna separating it as an
individual life apart from the mother
as soon as conception begins
there is a complete harmonious order as
the fertilized egg begins using all of
its cell machinery to achieve its goal
of growth and development
it responds to the environment by moving
immediately beginning a journey through
the fallopian tube of the uterus where
it will interact with the uterine wall
to implant this process is well
regulated
with each new cell reproduced from the
original working in consort to
differentiate and grow into all of the
future organs and bodily systems this
process is energy intensive and will
continue to be
over the entirety of gestation as the
cells process energy to accomplish their
work and of course from the first cell
to the billions that make up the newborn
the inside of all cells is the very
definition of homeostasis no other
conclusion can be reached but that it is
a new and distinct life and therefore
worthy of protection i also want to
relay a message from mr josh hetzler who
is from the founding freedoms law center
he may remember him from last year who
is currently working with bristol to
help draft an ordinance to hopefully
prevent the moving of the abortion
clinic within their city he and his
colleagues at founding freedoms would
love to work with each of you to draft
an ordinance unique to russell county
and its current laws to make good on the
resolution that we are asking you to
pass as chairwoman wallace stated her
support for such a measure i encourage
you to respond as he reaches out to lend
his support if all of you wish to
continue to run on a pro-life platform
this is your time to take a stand and be
on the right side of history by
declaring our county a sanctuary for the
unborn thank you
[Applause]
thank you mr jackson
uh michael cyrus
good evening my name is michael sautters
and i reside in hansonville i'd like to
thank ford for allowing me this
opportunity to speak so my concerns may
be heard
full disclosure i believe in god and i
am a follower of christ
however i suspect there may be
individuals
amongst us tonight that do not share my
beliefs in god therefore
to reach their hearts and minds of those
individuals that frame my comments from
a secular world perspective i should not
be misinterpreted as a weakness in my
faith
nor a lack of obedience towards god
a common talking point we often hear is
that abortion is health care
however when one studies the long-term
effects of receiving abortion you should
cause one to question the oblivion of
that statement
the following healthcare information i'm
about to
speak of was obtained from a
peer-reviewed published work entitled
medical assumptions at the foundation
grow versus wade and its implication for
women's health
scholarly scholarly work was written by
clark forsyth published in the fall
2014 printing of issues in law and
medicine
the maternal mortality data collected in
the u.s is flawed and unreliable there
are only two organizations that collect
abortion data they are the center for
disease control and a private group
called the allen gootman institute
in the united states the reporting of
abortion data is 100 voluntary therefore
it can be assumed that complications
resulting from an abortion procedure are
underreported in the united states
to obtain more accurate information data
from other countries needs to be
utilized
a 2000 study utilizing data from ireland
a 2000 study using data from denmark and
another 2013 study using data from
mexico
found that those three countries which
all prohibit abortions have lower
maternal mortality rates and better
women's health trends when compared to
countries that have widely accepted
accessible abortions
there are at least 99 international
peer-reviewed studies that found an
increased risk of mental trauma after an
abortion
a september 2011 study published in the
british journal of psychiatry reported
moderate to high increased mental health
problems after an abortion
at least 33 peer-reviewed studies have
found an increase in the risk of breast
cancer after an induced abortion
china's one child policy enacted in 1980
and ended in 2016 resulted in a country
where an immense number of abortions
were performed annually
often women received multiple abortions
over many years
the 2013
yang study from china found that one
prior induced abortion increased the
risk of breast cancer by 44
two induced abortions increases the risk
of breast cancer by 76
and three induced abortions increase the
risk of breast cancer by 89
these statistics alone should be enough
to see that abortion is not health care
abortion places the long-term health of
an expected mother at risk
a second common talking point that
proponents of abortion state is my body
my choice but i ask is it only a woman's
body that is affected when an abortion
is deformed
as individuals we each have unique dna
that serves as a blueprint for us as
individuals each individual's dna
consists of 50 from the mother and 50 of
the father
using dna
technology the criminal justice system
can identify individuals and use them to
perfect indicative individuals of a
crime as well as they can use it free
individuals that were incorrectly
convicted for crimes they did not commit
as such dna is a scientifically sound
and accepted technology
additionally dna is a tool that can be
used to identify individual body pieces
of parts sadly this technology has been
used on the battlefield to piece
together the burial remains of our
service members that have fallen on
foreign battlefields
using dna technology severed limbs can
be matched to the torso from which it
was separated
when an abortion is performed the
secular world refers to the byproduct of
the abortion as mere tissue yet if the
dna analysis was formed on this tissue
two distinct dna structures would be
found one dna structure would match the
mother from remnants of her blood but
there will also be a second distinctly
different dna found that dna would be
from the individual that was created at
the moment of conception and it was just
killed as a result of the abortion
procedure
in 2012 the commonwealth of virginia
enacted laws concerning wrongful
fetal deaths in virginia
in essence this expansion of the law
recognized unborn babies as protectable
beings by law in other words fetuses
were granted persons and are protected
by the same laws that protect all people
sadly virginia also
passed an exception except article 5
8.01-50 section b states nothing in this
section shall be construed
create a cause of action for fetal death
against the natural mother of a fetus in
other words while the child is a person
it's mother can still kill the child as
long as it's in the womb
as citizens of russell county here
tonight let us honor the personhood of
the unborn
may we be their voice and advocate on
their behalf to protect their rights as
a person
where the commonwealth virginia has
flawed and allowed a legal exemption for
a mother to summarily execute the unborn
let it be here and tonight that russell
county corrects that injustice
as leaders we expect you to do just that
and be leaders do not follow the failed
policies of the commonwealth of virginia
just as richmond drives its power from
the citizens of virginia you
as our local elected leaders drive your
power as leaders through the citizens of
this great county
we respectfully ask our leaders tonight
to act upon the wishes of the citizens
of this county and use the power that's
been entrusted to you to pass the
original resolution as written to make
russell county a pro-life county thank
you
[Applause]
thank you
i apologize again
i'm not doing very well
i apologize
i live right down the street as i
testified last time 1145 east main
street
except annex
right across the street
now you're wondering why i'm carrying
this i'm 83 years old
no i did not sign a testimony
i don't know how that got to be that
well i've listened to the testimony
i just signed my name
you signed your name when you come in i
thought i was just signing to say hey
i'm here okay all right i testified last
time about my son who was an abortion
baby
yeah when they
when he was born the doctor and i said
his name charles norris chuck norris
and he handed the baby to the nurse and
said dispose of this
the baby and the
afterburner
she wouldn't do it
he's never missed breath he's 220 pounds
he's got two beautiful children
and
i don't know i think uh you did this
last time i think that says it all but
to me
everyone has the right to lie he had
life if he hadn't
where would i be i wouldn't have two
more grandchildren and that that would
be a crime for me
so anyhow i just wanted to say
thank you i didn't know why i suppose i
didn't know i signed up yes
but i i did and that's good enough isn't
it thank you all right now
all right thank you
kenny darling
kenny bowling
again thank you for letting me speak the
second time i did speak uh
last meeting and i appreciate the work
that you did thank you board members and
chairman
and uh thank you for the work that you
do serving the county uh again i just
want to come before you with a little
bit of
uh practical experience
uh this is a
reminder of why we do not want this in
russell county um and i do want to
encourage you as others have emphasized
that you adopt the original resolution
take the strongest stand that you can
bible says satan marches around like a
roaring lion
seeking whom he may devour he's going to
march around with strength
we need the strongest resolution that we
can possibly have
i want to share with you a little bit of
this practical experience that i've had
i told you last time that the abortion
clinic in bristol has moved
as they announced on the news from state
and slaughter street into virginia so
they are seeking places
to move and set these up as there are
places in virginians i think
our former governor
uh saw this coming and allowed for
i want to share some of the things that
we have observed as we
went out to state and slaughter street
to appeal to women to not murder their
babies
and some of the things that we did
observe
were cyber bullying on facebook and
other means
uh for those that were coming and doing
the outreach certain individuals would
come
pray or they would read god's word
certain occasions they would
uh they would preach or they would just
simply reach out
uh offer alternatives
we saw
individuals knocked to the ground
we saw individuals bullied
by abortion clinic workers we have seen
escorts hired by the abortion clinic
uh threatened myself and others that did
outreach
at the abortion clinics
and this is done to protect their income
this is done this is not a this is not
health care this is not done
those individuals that their life is in
danger it is done for those that get out
of the car walk into the clinic
and choose this as an elective surgery
this is not health care
as the first lady that spoke said this
is done as
well
simply as take care of something that's
inconvenient
uh we've watched as female inmates have
been brought
from north carolina pennsylvania
tennessee driven around to the back door
in secret
by guards bringing those female inmates
in
you can use your imagination on those
this is to begin to protect income or
personal embarrassment
this again is not health care we've even
heard women say
when offered the option of abortion i
would rather or adoption excuse me i
would rather have
the abortion
sought to shudder
send shutters down our spine
as
the
option to keep the baby and see as
joanie has shared
to see that child grow up in a loving
home these women have declared i would
rather have
the abortion
this is a darkness we do not want in
russia
this is a darkness we do not want the
original resolution
needs to be passed
let me assure you i promise you i have
seen
these things i have seen this darkness i
have felt the evil of satan outside of
that abortion clinton
as i watched
individuals scream and yell and protect
essentially their income
or protect
just simply their matter of convenience
i appeal to you
adopt the original resolution this
pastor don
challenged you don't compromise
with a weaker
resolution
don't try
to please both sides jesus said you
cannot love or serve two masters
you'll love one
and you'll hate the other
he didn't say there was any middle
ground there is no middle ground in this
you can't please both sides stand strong
stand against the dark evil
of baby murder
we can name all kinds of stats
talk about science
etc
but jesus said if you deny me before men
then i will deny you before my father
question is tonight is
do you believe at the end of the meeting
when you take the vote what you said at
the beginning of the meeting
do you believe the prayer that was said
at the beginning of the meeting
do you believe the things
or is the mere prayer itself just to
have it
or are you praying to the true god that
you truly follow
because he said if you love me you'll
keep my commands
he said
thou shalt not murder
and i pray
that the murder of babies this evil
i know this is a resolution it's not a
law it's not binding
but it is a statement to almighty god
that i won't have it
that we stand with the lord jesus christ
who one day you will go before and give
an account
for every jot and every tittle and
everything including your vote
uh also a board member of the russell
county christian coalition
and uh they much more say other than we
just need to put the original
uh resolution out vote on it tonight get
this thing passed
uh washington county tazzle county but
canon dixon carol wives
just mentioned those six counties
already reached out to the brussels
county christian coalition
they said their eyes is on this meeting
tonight
um actually a pastor a preacher from
dixon county said they want to adopt the
exact same resolution that russell
county passes
and uh
the one he's talking about is the one
that mr green
uh put forth last month
as he told them being
i'm gonna take my three minutes tonight
uh we just keep voting on great
presidential pass
and after this we need to work on an
ordinance
we we need whatever we can
uh to show that we stand
guys
my name is joni baker i'm lebanon
residency freedoms district and first of
all i want to thank you all for allowing
us this opportunity
for everyone to come here tonight
now my story some of y'all heard
i was in foster care and i was a doctor
thank god that i had a biological mother
that was pro-life and she stepped out on
faith
and she sent me into foster care and i
got adopted by two strong christian
parents that also taught me the word of
god
the the things that michelle vance said
and this young man right here standing
up this is what we should be doing in
russell county and all over southwest
virginia we have led the way in this
county and i've stood with most people
in here
with our pro-second amendment
and everything else from overturning the
elections that needed to be done
now
i've been in law enforcement for over 20
years
and we go by a thing called protect and
serve
if we can't stand up and take a bold
stand for the unborn who are we
protecting and who are we serving just
ourselves
we stand up for the veterans we stand up
for the elderly we do all these things
for people mental health crisis we get
involved but we need to be a speaking
for the unborn be the voice of the
voices
i had a distinct opportunity to meet
governor ralph north
i said lord i don't know why you
provided this opportunity but you open
the door i'll walk through
so i spoke with the governor at the time
didn't know duncan's name
i showed him a picture of my wife
pregnant with our little girl belle rose
back here he said you have a beautiful
wife i said that's not why i showed you
that i already knew that i said this is
my child i said here's the ultrasound i
said and this is her after she was born
i said how we
comfort our children is by giving them
what they need
that is love and comfort and god will
make their way but we have to stand up
for people like michelle bold enough to
stand here and tell her story
we have to or what are we doing we're
just playing games we need to make sure
that russell county continues to lead
the way
and we lead the government the
government doesn't need to be a lead in
us thank you all
thank you mr baker
uh jonathan edwards
i don't bet you won't be here tonight
but i thought it's important enough to
come
i'm a father of two
i don't feel like i should have come out
here take time away from my life for
kids
on something as simple as this this is a
free throw
i don't mean disrespect i'm very
passionate about this
i'm not gonna get
paid i'm a father of two
i remember daryl
in five weeks
they didn't have their mother's feet
hard they had their feet hard
a lot of doctors wanted to see but
i do know this
my son before i walked out tonight
david five year old he said daddy where
are you going
i said i'm going to the government
center he said what's that
i said well i don't really want to go
because i said
i've got to go to do anything i do make
sure it's done right
he don't understand that
but one day he will
and i hope each and every one of you
hear god god almighty or dear man
a couple people stole bible verses i was
gonna use so i'm gonna do some other
ones
but uh anyway this is this is out of
jeremiah
it's uh
verse five
we've talked about life beginning that
reception
here's what god says
before i formed you in the womb
it says this after the first murder of
four
god comes to cain after he murdered his
brother abel he always says your
brother's blood cries out to me from the
ground
i looked up the stat earlier today we
have murdered 50 million babies in this
country
just thank your blood don't pray out to
god almighty
he knows
he knows and i want to applaud the great
woman that came up here
uh i i would say to anybody that's had
an abortion um
god loves you he loves me despite what i
am the sinner saved by the grace of my
own americans
and and god almighty provided a way that
you can be reconciled to him so you
don't have to get his justice there's no
social justice there's no environmental
justice there's just justice and god is
the author of it
um
and he
he will make a way
so that often the issue of rape comes up
uh
well
obviously i'm
not a woman but i've got i've got an
anthem right in the early 90s
and uh
thank god we didn't know what decades
not not your recently
and thank god she elected to have that
baby
i don't call it
uh material or whatever i call it
because
and he deserved a shot at life as much
as anybody else
did they did
and the difference
the difference between somebody
who says oh i'm pro-choice or i'm
pro-life
i don't believe the child
should pay the penalty for the father's
sins
period
i believe we ought to have a justice
system that
that batman's held accountable
preferably castrated or killed
executed but anyway i'm going
i'm going to give one more bible verse
actually a few more but it's uh it's in
first a lot has been said
and i don't stand up here condemning
anyone i'm just as i say a center safe
by grayson
this uh politics that's a man's game but
i'm gonna come with what god says
it's first john chapter three i'll start
in verse 6. no one who abides in him
keeps on sinning
no one who keeps on sinning has either
seen him or known him
little children let no one deceive you
i want you to listen to this part it
doesn't say repentance it doesn't say
that sin was perfection you may fall
into sin as a christian but you're not
going to stamp your life until um
listen to this part
whoever practices righteousness is
righteous as he is righteous whoever
makes a practice sinning
from the beginning the reason the son of
god appears to destroy the works of the
devil
for the devil's been saying
that
that word practice means it's a
calculated decision you don't fall into
it it didn't happen
it's calculated
and i pray you fear god enough
to practice what he says and not go with
the way of the world
we said a prayer before we came in here
and then we said one nation under god
the hypocrisy of this nation is we've
taken them out of everything except for
on our dollar bill or money
that's that's idolatry
okay
that's what it is
but if
anyway i could just keep going but the
point is
i i hope you've got enough spine and
enough conviction
to pass a resolution with some teeth or
some potential for some teeth maybe this
is a good starting point i don't want to
have to drive by the location one day
and tell my son david what's that well
son this is what they do
i don't want to have to tell them that
[Music]
thank you mr edwards
lynn head
my name's lynn hayes i'm from swords
creek virginia
and i'd like to start off by reading the
bible verse
it says he is the rock
it's in deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 4
he is a rock
his work is perfect
for all his ways is justice
a god of truth and without injustice
righteous
and upright and is he
now some reason or another you all think
you're between a rock and a hard place
because you compromised on the
resolution
that steve breeding drawed up
and we loved that resolution it had a
lot of teeth
it had a lot
of protection in our life from
conception all the way through the old
people
what i'm here to tell you tonight is you
can get out between that rock and that
hard place and climb up on the rock
the rock is the word of god
up on the rock and do what's right
tonight and ask that first resolution
that was before you let's make brussels
county stand out and shine like a beacon
of light into this lost and dying world
i also heard from an alliance a lawyer
from the alliance that you cannot be
sued for a resolution
he said it's impossible for you to be
sued for a resolution that's why we use
resolutions
so please take the first draft that was
bringing brought to you let's pass that
tonight let's make russell county and
making light into this state thank you
thank you mr hill
shelly
reynolds
shelby
and i pray to god that they didn't take
their lives and i've got to enjoy them
and play with them and i've got two
little ones
of the floor at home with me right now
and they have brought their story in my
life and i would be devastated to know
that my daughter chose to take their
life
and committed murder that's exactly what
it is i praise god
that
i've
shown enough
into her
that she chose life for my babies
and
i'm like everybody else i thank you all
and
stand on the word
god be pleased we will too
chloe reynolds
okay that ends those that signed up to
speak tonight i will offer you an
opportunity
i know the hour is getting late and she
knows all these important matters
so if there's anyone else here
just want to stand um say i'm pro-life
i think the word for the life that he
had blessed me with with my four
daughters i've got one grandson
i have one that like i said last time
didn't make it but it's wrapped in the
arms of jesus
and uh i can't wait to see it
see it and look up on his little face
and get him here today but um
the bible tells us that uh you know if i
everybody that has spoken that is here
if they spoke or not they're
they're they're letting their voice be
made known
and uh they're not letting the stones
cry out in their place but
it yeah he said unto them and thou shall
hold thy peace the stones will
immediately
cry out
i hope you don't let the stones cry out
in your place and that you will stand on
the word of god and you will
you will stand strong
and and look to him the author and the
finisher
he holds that
in his hands
and uh
i beg you to make this
country
thank you
name and address please jody shelton i
live in the swords creek area valley
uh i appreciate y'all having us here
tonight listen to what we got to say uh
back the month or so ago when just
reading sent out the uh
draft that he worked on i read it
greatest thing
that's what's wrong with our county our
state our country today is that we've
been just too willing to compromise
every little thing to appease
everyone coming and going and we don't
stand on our standards anymore
uh you know
i remember
years and years ago
my mom or dad said if you do that you're
gonna get whipped that's exactly what
happened
i'd get away with it
and uh you know we've we've let go we've
let down those stages and schools have
our community has
we don't need to though uh i think we
need to pass the
resolution that steve wrote up it's got
teeth in it
uh
i thought
heard from playing there a few weeks ago
said you know there's nothing that they
can do to you over a resolution
but i think we don't need to stop this
resolution
uh once we get this resolution in place
and i think everybody's gonna vote for
it tonight i feel confident in that
otherwise i don't think it would be up
on the board with the uh main stroke
down there
but once the resolution's passed i
really think we need to start working on
the ordinances it's not something that
we need to say all right we got the
resolution
we're done now
we have to come back in a month or so
and work on this ordinance and that's
what we need to do
uh
the
supreme court has already defeated roe v
wade
so
it's no good no more
let's not let's not worry about what our
state says what the
state says we have to do let's worry
about what russell county wants to do
what we want to stand on
well everybody's already here everybody
already told you we'll back you if you
do what's right and do what we think is
right we're going to back you 100
if not we're going to be here voicing
our displeasure
but uh i think i think we got a good
start on this we don't need to we don't
need to let up i really think we need to
pass
the original resolution
uh
life does begin at concession
that it's a little bit
uh
but i thank y'all for your time let's
pass the original resolution let's work
on this ordinance let's make russell
county a county that everybody in
virginia wants to be living in
not just
there on the other end of the state we
can do that we stand with y'all y'all do
the right thing
thank you mr shelton
[Applause]
i had to speak tonight i'd ask each one
of you as board members if you have
children and have grandparents think
about how they've been underwater
what have they been in your lives
if they've been aborted what would you
have
think about this
also i would ask you to think about
where you're going
there's going to be an answering day
watching
every one of us
are going to answer what we do
thank god he pays by my way i don't have
to get off the face here
and i can tell you i can read my word
first of all it says it's not place
and tonight i challenge each one of you
when it comes time to vote don't abstain
don't back down have a backbone
understand that what you believe in what
you know is right in your heart not what
somebody's told you they want you to do
stand for what you know is y'all because
i'm going to tell you all of y'all here
i think everyone's got children with
some grandchildren steve i want to thank
you for the draft that you brought out
we need the original draft and also do
work on the ordinance um i was told by
an attorney
that
the county the things in place for
themselves
they have to go
not if we put it in the resolution like
i said it's not legal
binding but it is it's fit
if you do an ordinance that is legal
binding and you can do an ordinance for
us account
you have it right yeah i worked on the
planning commission on 27 years we've
done ordinances then people told us you
know you can't do that state told us if
you want to do an ordinance for russell
county
specifically for us again you can do
that that orange is finding for us
so tonight
do what's in your heart what you know is
right i think everyone you sit in there
i know exactly what's right these people
know what's right they wouldn't be here
tonight they didn't know what's right
we were raised i think every one of
y'all probably were raised in a
christian family background somewhere
along the way
tonight i challenge you to do what's
right stand up for what you know is
right don't back down because you're
afraid to make somebody mad let them get
mad they got mad at christ they hated
him and he said in his word they would
hate us because they hated him you know
what's not that's fine let him hate me
god loves me
and i love him it's not that little baby
has no voice and i can tell you
something tonight i work your home i've
worked there against around 40 years you
know
i picked up babies i could carry my hand
in a washcloth
less than six ounces that baby was fully
formed in toes ten fingers head eyes all
four
that baby was premature
but even carried six fleets
that tells me life began quite a while
before that it began at the section
because it had be
don't think it don't on there i picked
them up the same day i picked that baby
up i picked the cousins or your old lady
passed away that's going my strength but
you know what god gave that baby live
for some reason he saw her take it out
let god be the one that takes makes the
decision to take it out or leave it that
should not be there to see it it should
be left there and be born and i have two
babies some of the people here their
families have had babies die
either or birther that would love to
adopt a baby and somebody can do it for
adults
i know it's several like i was with me
at the hospital
that passed away
they were little they were around less
than a pound each
you know what that was still like
when i picked up that little baby that
morning away less than six ounces and
carried at my hand and a washcloth to
take back the funeral home from the very
that baby was fully formed that was
alive until god's office take it out
that's god's decision we're not god we
don't need to play god we need to let
him do what he sees good to do and
tonight if you vote
to uphold this pro-life sanctuary you're
voting for god in that way because
you're backing him but you know what if
you vote against it's not you're voting
to let people commit murder right here
on count
and the bible says one of the
commandments thou shalt not kill it
don't say thou shalt not kill because
because it says thou shalt not kill stop
so we should not be killing babies
killing anybody and i believe in taking
care of our people from before birth
to their death
we need to take care of them
if we don't take care of them
we may be there when these days is the
only people nobody takes care of we
it's not each one of you i would
challenge you to vote in your heart what
you know is right and i think you know
what's right and don't stain and don't
back down
thank you
you mr meadows anyone else
i don't like publicly talking too much
definitely put it on my heart to say
something uh i fought the last four
years of my life to get an education
where i could do my dream job which is a
labor delivery nurse but i think oh that
i've been able to be in that field since
about february i remember my first birth
and i don't believe anybody in the room
had to drive because just life is such a
beautiful thing i remember the baby
coming out and taking its first breath
and it's just you feel god in that room
because god is that life and i also
remember last week i had two really sad
cases i lost a little baby it was 19
weeks it come out you know we uh
we're in charge of getting it ready and
everything and like kirby said they have
their little toes they have ten toes and
ten fingers the little all its face is
beautiful it's beautiful uh life's there
just as it is when it uh comes
to term and it's born and uh we've
turned a blind eye to these the boxing
clinics that's coming in and i i really
hope you don't turn a line onto this uh
the other little baby i was taking care
of them all was on boston that's
supposed to help and
take them off the drugs that
they they sadly don't use it like that
the baby was sitting and withdrawing and
it was so tight it couldn't move and it
was you know seasoned and tremoring
because of these drugs that we've been
sleeping in so i asked you tonight as a
nurse and as a child of god please pass
this resolution to protect these vacant
sites
thank you miss hubbard
i'm wayne over from sword street i'll
get to know me they're like yes but i'll
be brief i just want to say that the uh
resolution that we saw last month the
one we're seeing tonight pretty
different i just seen this new one or
revised one
sometime this afternoon it's quite
different from the original one and i'm
thinking well that's
it's saying a lot of what we want
uh maybe that's not too bad and then
pastor don got up here and some other of
these fine citizens and point out some
things that this one doesn't have so i
would like to encourage you to pass the
original one from last month here
tonight make our county sanctuary
pro-life county for
all thank you mr pablo
delena bob
um
i'm gonna approach this from a different
perspective from a businesswoman who has
been a woman in
that world for quite some time
so i rubbed shoulders with lots of folks
that i would call totally often followed
and i would say that i agree with every
single thing that has been said
unfortunately there are so many in our
world that are deceived they are totally
deceived as women
but we need to think of this even
further when i see the faces as people
have been speaking because
i served
and there is nothing else that matters
it is two-sided there is no gray areas
there is no in between
there is no
uh let's choose it's either right or
wrong it's either good or bad it's
either black or white it's not grey
and what i have seen in this secular
world that we live in now
is there's too much gray there's too
much compromise and business women need
to help all of these
young women
come to grips with some sanity because
it is not about health it is not about
our bodies they have totally
propagandized our women they're you
they're young people
and convince them that this is a good
thing to kill children so i'm going to
take it one step deeper
we love our lord and we understand that
but do we really understand what is
truly behind
the abortion
satan
needs
blood
period
you bring it into this community and you
will see a darkness
we drive through our community right now
and it's a beautiful place
when you have a right just a little
flame of candle of god
it's good
the moment you let dark come in
you watch what happens to our beautiful
community
and we can all say oh it's not dark
delane abortions
no it is
it's murder it's wrong
we need to stop it so as a businesswoman
i promise
my community
that i hope
everyone does well
because i'm gonna put
my money
behind people that do what's right
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my name is nathan kaiser uh green valley
road
that's steve brady is my
supervisor
and uh i'm also in favor of the previous
resolution that was brought by
brother breeding
uh at the last meeting because it does
state exactly what you need to say uh
this is a washed out watered down
version and i don't know whose idea
it was to change it uh the previous
version where it says exactly what i
want to say life is from concept is to
death
uh we should respect all life from from
conception to death natural death
um i loved uh
glenn hesse's uh rock and a hard place
you know that hard place is the world
it'll grind you up pretty hard
and you only really get in trouble with
it if you're between the rock and the
hard place
but like he said if you stand on the
rock
you're no longer between
the rock and the hard place
it's really quite a simple
analogy and it really makes a lot of
sense uh i appreciate that the first
time
i've ever heard that
but
it's not a time for half measures
in this country it's eat up with evil
every every way we turn and i was
talking some of the other day it's it's
happening so fast
uh i think we can all agree it's
happened a lot faster than you could
ever imagine
in the last five years there's things
that have happened that i it'll make my
it makes my head spin
and what we're talking about now things
that we're having to confront in this
world
uh it's quite shocking um
as far as legally
as far as concerns on legal matters
i know some have spoken to others i've
i've spoken personally with todd gackey
uh of family foundation in virginia and
they have a legal wing uh and i can't
it's escaping me right now the name of
it
uh but he said that that
and then josh i think it's the guy with
the little wings spoke to
to uh
some of the folks and there is no legal
issues here he said the way it was
originally written just fine and can be
passed and it should be passed
and he said russell county is leading
the way again he said we're trying to
work on this and said you guys are and i
called him he said you guys are out here
getting ahead of this and i said yes we
are we're not going to sit around and
wait for an abortion clinic to come into
our community just like we waited and we
let the transgender policies pass the
state of virginia when we should have
been standing up long before that we
should have been going and voting we
should have been active we should be
paying attention and we should have been
doing this all along
but we've gotten comfortable on our
couches at our houses watching football
games going and enjoying uh texas
roadhouse or ruby tuesdays or wherever
you might be it's time to get up get
involved because the evil is coming and
it's come for you it's coming for your
children
you better get right
and
to me this this
this one right here this resolution
we're looking at that's riding the fence
you know you know what the secret about
the fence is the devil doesn't want you
to know
he owns the fence
if you're riding the fence he owns the
fence you're his
so it's time to get off the fence
um
you know delaney's right uh this world's
all about compromise it will compromise
you right out of your soul
it's what it will do
and
before we get there i want to talk about
one more thing after that but i want
everybody if you and i want you to
listen carefully if you are in favor of
this resolution stand up right now
this one on the screen
if you're in favor of the
resolution from last week please stand
up mr kaiser yes ma'am
now
tonight everybody listen up real quick
tonight
is the last chance that you can go on
the department of education and submit
comments about title ix changes that are
coming
these changes
are all about the transgender agenda
they're going to make it a crime
for a teacher
for you to
in the classroom affirm
uh
gender at birth whatever the gender is
if you don't uh hold up that that
person's uh new gender or whatever their
dysphoria then
you're going to be criminally charged
uh not only that they're going to not
tell you if you have a teacher at that
school your child goes to they're not
going to be telling you that your child
is suffering uh from confusion of what
gender they are or what name they want
to be or even what species they want to
be
it's absolutely crazy these title nine
changes are coming uh proposed by the
democrat party
and if we don't go on and make comment
then they're going to go without
resolution now they're likely going to
pass them anyway but there will be
lawsuits and they'll use these comments
that we go on to make so if you're
interested and want to know more about
where to go and how to do that please
see me after the meeting and that's for
the board and for the audience because
12 p.m tonight is the last chance to
make comment on that
folks they're coming for the children
they want to indoctrinate them from from
from cradle to grave what they want to
do so
all right that's all i can thank you
thank you
i do that
is essential
i really didn't plan on some people
you know so all this stuff we see here
all these people use everybody this is
all careful always
even people
i i just i just hope that y'all
are listening to the people standing
here i'm gonna do something a little
different you know we've had a couple to
ask you know everybody's here to stand
i'm not gonna ask
everybody that's it's pro-life to stay
but i've not heard anybody i was
throwing mark down and it was four and
heavy it was pissed
if there's anybody here that's that's
for killing babies would you stand and
we're i'm not going to attack trust me
this is the time to stand if you feel
strong about it let it be known
if not i want to point out to these
folks that everybody here is pro-life
and uh so
you know
i i i
would really like to put you guys on the
spot when you vote on this thing i'd
like to see a roll call vote if it'd be
okay
and uh that's all i've got to say thank
you for your time could i get your name
and address please my name is uh paul
hernandez
uh swords creek you want my physical
address i'll give you that we have that
but you just didn't give us that at the
beginning thank you sir
yeah i've been a russell county business
all hearts clear
pardon me
all right
i'm tara fletcher and the pastor
living in that church
giving a big moment
this little small church talking about
there was a young lady
she got pregnant
her family
and the church there had built
little apartment
so suddenly
they converted
faster
they told this young girl that you could
move in that room
they gave her a place because
the child was born she lived in them
and then they moved away
back
had money in
okay
then the letter with the money it was a
note
thanks to the church
for taking in my mind
that man today
he's a surgeon that we don't
like saving lives helps people
i wonder how many doctors and nurses and
teachers we feel
god help us
we ought to know better
do the right thing
thank you mr quaker we'll pass the page
you have looked at this resolution
that's been on the screen of course you
have seen a resolution presented by
reading last month
we have passed that our county attorney
look at things
okay
thank you madam chair um
get all my stuff together um
i did research at the direction of board
on
the possibility of an ordinance to ban
abortion services in russell county
and like i said the board of supervisors
is governed by dylan's rule
and
i'm going to read a quote from
a case because that's what best explains
what what the power that this board has
is
it's it it states in virginia the boards
of supervisors of the counties do not
have broad general authority to adopt
whatever ordinance they deem appropriate
or desirable
the power of a county like that of a
municipal corporation is controlled by
dylan's rule which authorizes the
locality to exercise those powers or
adopt ordinances that the legislature
expressly authorizes by statute or or
that are conferred by necessary
implications
i've explained this to the board before
i think when it was when we were dealing
with the first amendment um resolution
and you don't just have broad authority
to pass
laws you have to pass you're allowed to
pass laws that you've been given
permission to by the general assembly i
guess it's the easiest way to say that
at this time there is no statute that
expressly authorizes boards of
supervisors counties to
adopt a resolution that would abandon
abortion services or any blanket health
services that does not mean that there
cannot be one it just means that there
is not one at this time i could not give
you legal advice that to proceed forward
with an ordinance is legal you would
almost certainly be challenged and lose
at the taxpayers expense at this time
um
i'll i'll jump around a little bit i
want to make sure i hit on everything
that i that i've done in this and i'll
start with
i spoke with
two representatives from senator
hackwork about legislation that he may
introduce in the next general assembly
session
and
um because my advice to you
is
you can pass resolutions but to me
the the best action is to pass a
resolution that would support
legislation that a senator or delegate
is going to put forth because they are
the ones that make laws in virginia not
local boards of supervisors they are the
ones that have the power to change that
and so to partner with them and to
support their actions will further the
cause that um
the people here have spoke about and
again i'm just assuming
the
the will of this board nobody's voted
i'm just i'm just putting that out there
so i was told that
they would not have any legislation
proposed legislation to look at until
about december of this year and the
reason that i was given for that is that
they want they are letting their legal
experts look at that legislation to make
sure that when you know if one of those
fields do pass
that it will it will survive
um litigation it will survive any
attacks and that's that's a wise move
and so what i will say is sometimes in
trying to craft laws that that make
things right it's a slower process than
people would want but you have to
make sure you thought about it from all
angles to make sure it survives i mean
to pass a law that just gets attacked
and shot down is just going to put you
further behind from
achieving your goals um
i do they were very cooperative with his
office i
appreciated the information that they
gave me and they did say that they
heard from other localities about doing
resolution because an ordinance is not
legally authorized at this time
and so they expect that to happen and
they did say that they would share once
they got all of their legislation
prepared they would share that with us
and this board could review and see if
you're in support of it i was told that
they expect there to be
about probably at least three bills
regarding abortion one would be from
conception one would be a viability and
then i don't know another one there
um but that's what they expect the board
could vote to support all of them and
rank one they could afford to choose all
of them the board could choose none of
them
but i do think that those actions will
be
most helpful in this cause um i did
rewrite
the resolution just a little bit i used
a lot of the language that steve had
um one of the reasons that i pared it
down
to one page trying to
keep the main things the resolution part
the resolve part is because you could
write pages on this you could write i
mean people have people written you know
books and
pages and pages and pages
but
if you want this to be a symbol for
russell county and to go to the
legislators and to go to richmond or to
go to the governor
you need to be succinct in your message
they're not going to read if every
locality sends you know
50 pages or whatever they want to send
they're not they're not going to get
that message yeah that's the important
part is getting the message um
as far as um
mr helzberg
and i'm i may be saying his name wrong
he was he was very wonderful to work
with i've worked with him but one thing
that i told the school board and i will
tell this board too
while he was a very nice one one of the
questions i asked him he works for the
freedom of
i don't want to say his organization
wrong but he works for that organization
he does not work for this board's
supervisors he does not give you legal
advice that's designed to protect you or
to protect taxpayers funds he gives
advice to advance his cause and that's
fine but that's what i'm hired to do is
not to take a position on not to you
know impose my own personal opinions but
to research the law and give you the
risk and give you guidance that you can
accept or that you can reject if this
board wants me to i'd be happy to work
with mr helzberg again but again that
has to be said
his his mission is his cause my mission
is to make sure you advance your causes
legally the right way
a resolution i think everybody's talked
about you know really doesn't do a whole
lot it basically just says
this is this is how this board of
supervisors collectively feels and
you know i did put it you know i left in
there i think steve had this in that you
would do it everything within your power
so if you your power were to expand that
would be great
and you can do more things but i mean i
have to advise you right now this board
does not have a lot of power when it
comes to regulating abortion
you know the again going to the
delegates going for the senators they're
the ones that have the power to give
counties that legislation there is no
other way
and so they are the people that need we
need to reach out to and work with to
hopefully get that legislation because
if there's a statute that that allows
you to do this then you can you can
advertise it for 30 days and vote on it
and and i will help you draft it but
until then there is no legal authority
for that and i'm happy to answer any
questions anybody has i did provide you
the
criminal pose on abortion right now and
those are the the criminal codes in
virginia and so that's what that's what
current laws are regarding abortion i
suspect you know based on the supreme
court decision that that will change
thing but
as as we sit here today this is what
exists
well i i got one thing i want to say
it's okay and i'll do spectate
what we're doing we're sending a message
i i've definitely prefer speech outline
on the
on the message
thing another thing you need to consider
is and you know as well as the crowd
knows that the democrats are controlled
and any piece of legislation if we don't
take a bold stance in this message
we we need to take over the center and
then we need to make sure that the
legislation comes down in virginia that
says no more
no more
just like tennessee but
i'm not going to sit here and spend my
wheels as a leader and not take bold
action in the way that steve's
presentation was i'm not gonna water
this thing down
and i'm just not gonna do it
and you know it it i appreciate cedric
hackworth he's a good christian man he's
trying to do the right thing
but when i talk to him on a daily basis
they know that the practice is involved
when you have a democratic controlled
senate that's gonna this thing won't get
out of committee
because of you know the actions of the
left
and we have got to send the message to
let all these people know that you know
we're going to clean house and senate
we're going to get used to it
and and then we'll get the laws
presented that will defend our without
getting rising
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we understand that rescue
but
it did keep several paragraphs
but
eliminated any kind of reference to the
state federal constitution
deleted the commemorative plaque and
basically locked out
public history
i feel we just need to make the state
we believe
uh the references state federal
constitution we'll just try to link this
to
this resolution
which gives us all of our god-given
rights
and it again as somebody
what county stands
uh
and as far as you know facilitating and
meeting recovery i look at you guys out
here i see what you've done
very important
motivate
care about the county
there's a lot of good that i think you
can do i think this board needs to turn
that energy and all that motivation
the reason the other issues
and there may be some exceptional ideas
out there as to how we
yes
i'll say
discussion
i have a motion in a second and i have
discussions so i'm going to start with
questions
um
i appreciate you guys i really do
and certainly
there
is that would say
what we're trying to do here tonight
is to make an impact
sit here and listen
to our return
and i understand
that god's ways are not happening i
recognize that
i certainly do
but if you want us to be able to move
this forward
in the way that we need to move
help me out tonight
with what we've got here and i
understand
you're not pleased
i understand
that i'm gonna take a vote
i'm gonna take a vote chair
since we're in discussion
the resolution has
basically no
anything
an ordinance all an ordinance is going
to just drag this thing out and play at
once
whatsoever
and
i'd rather
so i've read everybody else's resolution
and i'm not leaving here without reading
this one okay
so your ear open your ears
and listen to this resolution
all right
whereas the united states supreme court
recently overturned their decisions in
roe versus wade
and planned parenthood versus casey
which had previously held that the
united states constitution conferred a
right to abortion and whereas did the
united states supreme court held at
dobbs versus jackson women's health
organization
the right to an abortion was not a
constitutional law and that the
authority to regulate abortions was a
matter for people and their elected
representatives and
whereas
the fifth and fourteenth amendments to
the united states constitution provide
for the protection of human life and
whereas the board of supervisors of
russell county expresses their desire
for russell county to be a pro-life
counter
what did i just say
now
there
mr fair greeting i have before now
therefore be it resolved
the board of supervisors of russell
county declares that russell county is a
pro-life county and pledges to support
this resolution by all means within its
power
be it further resolved that the board of
supervisors of russell county virginia
hereby declares it has no interest in
the recruitment
facilitation or support of any companies
or providers whose business activities
serve to initiate support or expand
abortion services and the board shall
oppose the establishment of any such
facilities to the extent
of their power
as allowed by the state and federal law
certification of adoption and resolution
and that goes on to the undersign and it
has everyone's name as you can see right
there it says
we intend to stand
to be a pro-life sanctuary camp our
attorney has just explained to us
that we need to be succinct in our stand
that the federal i mean their state
representatives will be able to take
this and mold it and do the right thing
so that's that's our stand here not
necessarily every one of our standing i
understand that
but it does say
it does so
that we stand
with you
to be a pro-life sanctuary account
no comments from them from the audience
just free
this resolution you just really doesn't
say what a pro life
county is
there's nothing that defines it there's
no mention of
uh
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anything less than that that's what
steve's putting in
so let me let me ask let me ask you
something
can we add that phrase to what we've
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you can amend either resolution however
you see fit i drafted just another
alternative to be a little bit more
succinct like i said i took out a lot of
the constitutional but you can
what i'm asked to draft and then you all
you know you all take the action
um
this is just my legal advice you can add
from conception and
again that
i'll i'll take responsibility for that i
could have defined it i could have
defined it better i was i was more in
just taking pieces from steve's and
incorporating it and just making it a
little bit short i called for a motion
we've been on too far too long for these
people we see what you're up against
uh and the public sees it you see it
i mean it's just a resolution
resolution
it's not wild it's not an ordinance
and we know that we won't have it
have you even read this
the original motion
it talks about life begins at seventh
period that's what i suppose
and that's what steve did
that's what we're trying to vote on
right now
let's play we're getting better all
right i'll call for the vote
all in favor
we're voting on to go back
well let's just go
uh mr christian has asked that we have
we're voting on life begins with
exceptions already in there
all right this is in there it's not this
one that's on the
board audience knows
i would like for the audience to be
quiet enough that we as board members
can't speak and be heard
please
now
there
again
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any further discussion
yes please
trade
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no the only thing that i would
recommend that we didn't talk about is
when it talked about elder rights and
things like that um but resolution just
says that you'll do anything within your
power and so again like i said your
power is limited but i mean you're not
violating by not going by exceeding your
power so i mean you could pass the
resolution
it talked about other things just you
know what we've talked about mainly what
the crowd has talked about mainly was um
abortion um
it talked about um and i'm not and
obviously these are important issues too
it just was a little bit
further off topic but about from not not
only protecting human beings from
abortion but also the immediate threats
of human trafficking assisted suicide
passive euthanasia elder abuse illegal
drug trafficking and sexual exploitation
and date and endangerment of children so
it just these are issues
but that was one reason i took that
language
i'll vote yes to the original ordinance
oh
i just want to say that
please
please be mindful
that this may not get past the county
line
so remember that
we
excuse me just can't
we want to do the best we can do
to push it forward
nobody here does not want to see this
pushed forward we want our uh delegates
and our senators
and our veterans to be able to have the
power to do what he needs to do call
your senator call your delegate
get out of them
they have the power in their hands
call them just like you call me
stand before them send them letters
that's what they're there for thank you
for coming if you want to leave your
excuse
we'll take a break
come on
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so
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we're getting ready to come back in the
session is everybody ready
all right i need to do some housekeeping
a little bit because what i did before
i jumped over the approval of the
consumer and we've had no changes so far
so uh
i'm so sorry that we jumped that so i
need more
i apologize again to this board and to
the crowd
all right we're down to um
constitutional officers
reports and requests
thank you mr walker for
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mike's not honest
thank you i just want to talk to you
about a few things that's coming up
first of all uh we're working on getting
the tax tickets out and as everybody
knows or i hope they know there has been
a increase in value of the personal
property taxes
which is going to make people's taxes go
up quite a bit at least 20 percent
on uh vehicles um
cars trucks
campers
so in trailers i just want you to
realize that and i wanted the public to
realize too that if they have vehicles
that are over a hundred thousand miles
they can go to the commissioner's office
and they can do abatements on those for
high mileage a lot of people in the
county citizens i don't think know that
so that is an option for them
they can do okay
well you can go talk to the
commissioner's office i'm sure they'll
be glad to help you
the values those values come through
nada
um also
uh
with the i just wanted the public to
know that we you know they do have that
option that they can go
and see if they can get some of those
values
decrease and see what the commissioner
can do for them to help them on that
also
of course the taxes will be due uh
november the 28th this year
we do offer payment plans but now those
payment plans if it's not paid by the
28th there will still be penalty
interest added to that but you can get
yourself set up on a payment plan then
you know for next year you can we can
take out you know you can pay every how
much that you feel like get your budget
worth i just want the citizens to know
that they can come in and set up payment
plans too with us
because i know this is going to be a
hard year for people and we're going to
try to get the tickets out just as soon
as we can
uh another thing
that was brought out a couple of
meetings ago that some of the citizens
has been talking to me about was the
reversion money from the school
i think it was stated in the meeting
that the treasurer's one has the
authority to bring the money back in i
am the one who has the authority to
bring the money back into the county i
take it from the school fund
to the general fund but you as the board
you're the ones who has the authority as
to where that money goes after we bring
it back in i do not have the power to
make that decision so i just wanted to
make sure that everybody understood that
that it's not me that makes the decision
to where those reversion monies come
back to
that it goes that once it comes back out
of the school fund to the county fund
then you make the decision as to where
you're going to put that money and then
i do that at your direction
and the last thing i had was with our
delinquent taxes
i know that there's been a little bit of
confusion about that uh
when we have a real estate sale for
delinquent taxes
i just want to assure the citizens and
the board that i do everything possible
for
the taxpayer to make sure
to try to get those taxes paid a
delinquent sale is the last
option and it is not taken lightly by me
at all i
try to work with the citizens i try to
set them up on payment plans i try to
work out something for them but that has
to go both ways they have to work with
me too
to make it
you know
feasible for both of us
so i know there was some questions about
that and that's just sort of what i
wanted to talk to you about tonight it's
just a few things that's been brought to
my attention and i wanted you guys to be
aware of it
good
everybody the way i would want to be
treated if i was on the other side of
that desk
and
i would treat him i tried to treat
everybody equally and fair what i would
do for one i would do for the other
hundred thousand dollars
maybe
that might be a higher payment that you
might get
rates did not raise
it's just the value on personal property
that went up where we've been in this
coveted situation
where they couldn't get the chips for
the vehicles that caused our used
vehicle values to raise so that's the
nada values are higher
on
used vehicles
than what they were last year so just
for example i've looked at mine
and
one of my vehicles the value went up
five thousand dollars from what it was
last year
so
the value went up yes the values went up
so that's gonna make the tax amount to
be higher the tax rate did not go up
it's still a dollar ninety five so you
did not raise the tax rate but the
values did go up
anything else
thank you so much
all right uh no more constitutional
officers i see and thank you for staying
with us
county attorney reports and requests i
think he has worked open with russell
county
pro-life resolution katie unless you say
something else
i think we've taken care of that we can
move on to the
insurance retirement program this was
something that the board passed several
months ago
um to
give the employees an incentive to stay
and work with brussels county and to
also be able to provide them some help
with insurance if they retire before
they reach medicare age
one of the issues
when we passed um
the policy
was how can we work the constitutional
officer employees into this and they're
a little bit differently situated in
the regular county employees and so i
i listened
huh
so
thank you i listened to their concerns
and tried to think of ways to um
amend the personnel policy and this and
this um policy to allow them to let let
their employees participate
i've sent the board uh some language
that that i propose to amend it but we
lonzo and i met with some of the
constitutional officers today and they
brought up they said that helps but
there was still
one other issue and i think we got that
all resolved so um
what lonzo's posted up on the screen is
the insurance retirement program and i'm
trying to see
can you scroll down does that have the
language i added
yes okay it says elect a number six um
london's got five highlighted but
nothing changed there
and number six um i've added elected
constitutional officers are required to
adopt and implement and maintain the
most current version of the sixth league
and that says and or personally but when
we looked at the personnel policy it's
actually called paid time off so the
personal leave
needs to be omitted and just put and or
pay time
off sections of the personnel policy
duly adopted by the russell county board
of supervisors
they are not required to adopt the
entire personnel policy
the constitutional officers was
concerned that that some of our policies
would conflict with the way that they
handled things and they did not just
want to adopt our broad personnel policy
so this was a way to carve out an
exception to let them still participate
um
to let them still participate but
comply with what we expected them like
the monthly timesheets um
so that would be the amendment there
also in meeting with them today
i drafted a little bit more language to
add to the end of that paragraph to say
constitutional officers who choose to
adopt the paid time-off
policy may provide less paid time off
per each group of years of service but
may not exceed
um may not exceed the amount that is
provided for in the county's personnel
policy and one of the concerns was is
some of the constitutional officers do
not
give as much leave as the county does
because based on their based on their
department that would make it
almost impossible to operate and so
they did request that exception if the
board is
amenable to that because i think we
would have to do that the problem that
we have is um
is if we only allowed them if we only
amended the sick leave policy i don't
know that employees would be able to get
175 days that's contemplated by this
agreement so we wanted to let them use
both paid time off days and
sick leave days
personnel policy would have
an amendment in two places
um in policy seven
07-04 which is the lead with the paid
time-off and there's a section that's
already
labeled constitutional officers and
employees and you can just add to the
end of that paragraph the following
language
notwithstanding the maximum numbers
number of hours that may be paid out at
retirement an employee of a
constitutional officer who has adopted
the insurance retirement policy and
abided by the requirements of the
insurance retirement program
may accumulate
um hours
in excess of 240 hours to be used solely
for participation in the insurance
retirement program
if an employee retains hours in excess
of the maximum of 240 hours and later
chooses not to participate in the
insurance retirement program then the
employees shall not be paid out in
excess of the 240 hours and any
additional hours shall be forfeited and
that that 240 hours that's by code
regarding constitutional officers and so
those are those are added together but
that's all that they can be paid out and
they will have to sign a waiver
if they
choose if the constitutional officer
adopts these policies that employee will
have to
acknowledge that signing an
acknowledgement waiver that and
acknowledge that they can only be paid
out 240 hours six weeks
240 hours of paid time off if they
retire and she was not participating
into the program but after meeting with
them that the constitutional officers
did seem satisfied and i'm satisfied
that this will
protect the county from an unnecessary
library
yes to make those
okay
that sentence that i read would be added
to both persons
uh
thank you madam chair the last thing
that i have under me and lonzo may have
to answer some of the ford's questions
but since it involved the contract he
put it under me um as um
board's aware um
the board authorized ones though to send
out a request for qualifications um
regarding a consultant um to the board
for a particular contract and we did get
two responses um from that um request
for qualifications and lonzo and i met
with representatives of at both firms
and they were both
we deemed supposed to be qualified so
lonzo proceeded under our small purchase
policy
which allows for contracts um
professional contracts where this one
does contemplate engineering um under
sixty thousand dollars and so he worked
we worked with
the qualifications
the price
and it's my understanding of speaking to
alonzo that his recommendation
is to go with the firm protester
one of those reasons is
one of the people working there
i i can't remember london exactly what
his position with dq was but that was
something that was
uh
uh it's not it was david taylor he was
the director of the
system
and one of the things that the board of
supervisors trusted katie and i looked
and said
and doing
feasibility studies on landfills we
as a county operate a landfill so we
know how to maintain what the
regulations are on the existing one and
one that has been shut down
as far as the deq regulations
and gas monitoring well monitoring water
monitoring did you
we do that on a continuous basis and one
of the things they stood at
as far as
doing the interviews which as katie said
before we
they both were very qualified you know
engineering firms
but
and when we went through them and i put
them into the package one of the things
that
i considered as as
considering a landfill proposal was
that
this was one i had an engineering
company that had done
additions and extensions and you know
renovations to one but
the batista company had the experience
of implementing one from again and
that's what y'all have to consider at
the beginning that that is a very rare
skill set from an engineering
perspective
is to be at the front end during the you
know developmental stages and one of the
things that that the engineering firm
the board of supervisors wants to do is
have enough data whether this is
feasible at the beginning can't take the
account
recommendation would be but they did in
their um their costs middle their
proposal they did send a proposed
contract i did have several issues with
that it's my understanding um lonzo i
was not able to speak with him but
lonzodia that they want me to send my
redline version of my
suggestion so if this board does approve
the county administrator's request i
would do it subject to me being able to
negotiate and finalize a contract
because there's certain terms in there
if we can't get changed then i probably
couldn't advise the board to pass to
accept that contract
i'm sorry and let me just assure what
what the term conditions that katie's
referring to is more of
uh
where it be mitigated that legal is it
it has nothing to do with the
performance or the scope of work with
christ
that's got to be with the
yes where it would be mitigated if we
went into a civil suit or et cetera
it would be how liability sometimes yes
if something happened some failed
discussion
they got companies in both virginia and
west virginia they have one in the
shenandoah valley and uh
up in winchester area and they also have
west virginia so they're a pretty big
firm but
the of course the director of david
peter which was the director dq he was
the d
for virginia for 16. so that's the
amount
the
when you're when you're looking at uh
professional services
that's that's what you're looking at
rather than the amount and i wanted that
to consider because i didn't know how to
do it because i work with fee schedules
so i ask them to give me a fee schedule
plus incidental tiles plus
their qualifications so you know and not
to exceed them but when you
as
steve knows as an engineer and it's the
same way as attorneys no disrespect for
or any professional services when you do
it
one of the considerations during the
sporting matrix you know that
you know like
utilized during contract negotiations
is
again fact that
this this company had
experience on the front end
during initial development on that on a
new facility you know a new landfill so
that experience is very rare
especially you don't want to be into
an english say this or one of our
neighbors bristol so
if
based off of the experience and being
able to prevent it he would know the
front end phases from beginning to end
because he has experience for 16 years
for the state of virginia
i did have a not to exceed but that was
that was what i put in there not to
exceed because i wanted to put that in
there to stay one under virginia small
purchases
noah i
first sent them a draft not to exceed
i said
one one with one company was thirty five
to the other company was 35 135 145
what i put in their proposals to include
the scope of services during the
negotiation i wanted to make sure that
we capped this out because one of the
things that the board of supervisors had
conveyed to is they didn't want us being
the expended amount even though this is
our button
yes i did one was 35 they came in with
the cap at 145. but again
that was not a consideration on the
technical or engineering services
again if you want a full comprehensive
report feasibility study
on engineering services which you know
price is not a factor if you're you're
doing it but again
i'm not capping it out i wanted to stay
under the 60. what if the reason i put
that in is if they had went if i got
bids back that hit exceeded the 60 000.
yeah okay
yes i know but these i'm explaining to
the rest of
that
i didn't what i wanted to put in make
sure i didn't see the small purses
okay
discussion um all in front of the top of
the vote all in favor of the power of
the engineers
oh
okay next is
the county administrator reports the
request
thank you very
much to this contract on the feasibility
is it is being paid out by arpa funds
it it qualifies under infrastructure
evaluation so this will not come out any
county taxes this will come under the
autonomy but even they see it we we
still do our due diligence and financial
structure
first on the account administrator
request is now we're back to the auburn
fox again as of course y'all heard
during the
citizens comment period that the squads
the partisan departments in ems are
having issue
difficulties during this inflationary
period one of the things that as you all
know i went out with four supervisors to
ask for a thousand dollars a per month
increase
for the next 12 months for each of the
13 departments you have eight fire
departments and five ems departments
which
would equate to 156 000
so that's
that's why i need emotion
yes sir
it's a national thousand on top of what
we already have
on a monthly basis
foreign
we have utilized these uh and i've got
the treasure here and i'm not gonna put
our own spot but we have absolutely fun
to be able to cover these
and that's one of the things that we
have drafted in a letter and as y'all
know that the price of fuel has went
down there's bud though
and but
after december after the elections i'm
going to say this and this is my call
only it's going to go back up
so this this is to protect
this is to protect the humans
but when you go back in january it will
be 40
but that's that's my call and the squads
approached us to do it
y'all have had been very generous with
the ems and fire departments with giving
equipment money you've given radio money
to get them up that's going to take them
15 years out
russell county right now other counties
have have asked and i'm not going to say
which counties there'll be two big ones
that has asked for our model
for what we're doing to help the ms
you've read it in the papers so
uh y'all are taking the lead on this so
again
uh
the motion for 1000 per month for all 13
uh emergency departments for a total of
156 thousand dollars
yes
thank you ma'am chair second thing on uh
is just a reminder on the baiko 20 2022
annual conference this is at the
regional convention center in on
november the 13th through the 15th this
is the annual one
and as a discussion you know with the uh
chairperson wallace that y'all usually
choose on going either into november but
i think with all the legislation that
y'all have proposed especially over the
last two board meetings that january
would be the more important board
meetings
as far as fate goes so i'm given that
it's only for consideration
next on county administrator reports is
as vaco again we did russell county
board of supervisors hosted and many
board members attended region 12 and 13
legislative meeting right here in this
room in the russell county government
center on august the 23rd
and of course in your package you've got
a
vaco
appreciation you know thanking us for
supporting both regions of 12
and 12 and 13
and
for taking again the lead in in
southwest virginia
next
is
we're back on disposal site we're still
in negotiations with uh two property
owners right now for the phoenix
disposal site location
and
that's that's the current status so
actually i talked to them today
it looks very favorable
so uh i'll be getting with the county
attorney and
we're going to be proceeding with it so
i will say this
is
so
yeah and they're throwing it over the
hill and on the road on the side of the
road
that
so but but one of the things
but one of the things and and i won't
get it out too far on the weeds on this
we had negotiated with the problem
that was at the previous time we drew up
at least we got to the point to sign off
on him he backed out that put us looking
for property
and it was very difficult on the board
of supervisors to be able to find this
you know accommodating so we
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uh i'll give the board an update on the
fenney like i said we had discussions
with him today he looks very famous next
is the apa core system on it this is on
the russell county uh clerk of circuit
court of course
they another good
annual report
as far as the circuit board clerk from
the authors of the public accounts
so
and that is in the boards pack
next on the account administrator
request is the vdot
date and that's the date depot
renovation contract this is a contract
that i need approval on for for again
morse construction this is a vdot grant
and a vdot contract
but again we are the financial stewards
on it so we've got to approve the
contract so
thank you mr speaker
give me a second okay um
next on account ministry request is
dhcd's daint regional sewer line
extension agreement this is a
continuation
of dhcd's requirements for the regional
sewer line y'all approved the other
previous issues so this is just a
motion and agreement for the
extension
i think you'll have a motion in a second
in a discussion
next downtown ministry request is
department of criminal justice services
and this is the biggest witness program
grant for seventy thousand dollars this
is a total war seventy uh thousand
dollars through june 30th 2023
and it has no match
okay
county administrator request is the
voter registration ice tabulator you
know yeah of course it's in the packet
this is debate uh
the new code of virginia
shall also report all the department of
elections the number of results of
absolute balance
cast early in person pursuant to
subsection 24.2
701.1
separately
from the number and results of all
absentee ballots this is the part of
machines that will help us tabulate this
it's a sole source so
i need approval for
a ice tabulator for eight thousand six
hundred twenty-five dollars
um
next on the counter ministry reports is
the vdot resolution for highway system
project uh seven
opd-8097 which is
the uh
route 751
i have talked with the uh the town of
saint paul they do not object to this
and they know what their responsibility
is once it's reverted back so i need
approval and motion um
an account ministry request is this uh
the csa supplement allocation for eleven
thousand one hundred forty one dollars
and nine cents
this is what they need to do to finish
out the 522 and balance the books
uh
this is the county's local share
requirement
i need a motion for live thousand
141.000
next on the counter ministry request is
the school board reversion funds
correction as you can see
um
last time we we approved the uh
four 574 seven fifty two eighteen
uh
after we worked with the schools to pick
up the june
uh payroll cost
that was correction of two hundred and
eighteen thousand two hundred thirty
dollars and five cents for a balance of
what will come in back into the general
funds 356 thousand 522 dollars
um
next on the accounting unit australia
request is the national opiate
settlement payment this is the first
payment this is one of just many
payments this is the first installment
of 43 265.96
now with this
i need to bring this in but for the
board's consideration y'all need to
start looking for programs that
to be able to utilize these funds
because that's one of the things they do
look at
for utilization and it has to be
related to recovery so
i can do that
um as far as as far as what's been
settled so far i'm not sure i don't know
if lonzo has a number on those payments
but i just wanted to remind this is not
even a full settlement of the case it's
only settled part of the case so there
will be some additional phones i don't
know how this is structured you know
alonzo knows but there will be even if
it's just a few payments yes that
doesn't settle the whole case
that's why it says it comes through if
you sit on it and that was one of them
so you may be set in a while because
they're still going through the
administration and liquidation
so
if you have a program that's recovery
related you know you've got these funds
available that sitting restricted into
the general fund
i need a motion for approval forty three
thousand two hundred five dollars
madam chair on the next one for the russ
county deputy emergency management
coordinator i'd like to table that one
uh
i
we
we may have found a candidate so the
first candidate has has come back before
the board that we interviewed
so he's made
his desires that
uh known that he would like to have the
job so he's trying to work it out with
his ass says
okay next is ross county tourism
coordinator
okay
uh of course we all had uh shiloh little
doing but she's an intern she was right
now we're at the point where
her her internship was up she graduated
with honors so i need approval to
advertise for a russell county you know
tourism coordinator uh one of the things
i want to add on to it you know sitting
on the uh
casino board they call it the
transposor which we're doing very well
at
uh as y'all can see in the paper this is
one of the things that we're going to
try to capture under this this these
funds
because it is related to tourism so
we're we're working with uh senator
pillion on this and
israel quinn
and to see if we can't change the
terminations because right now you know
we're going to add that into this
current january legislation so
i ask for approval to advertise for the
russ county tourism
have a motion in a second um
number 16 the russ county planning
commission plan of course you approve
this the planning commission approved it
we need approval with dls to move the
right way when the father and son is the
revised plan had already been approved
this is the revised plan
they have a motion in a second
planning commission's class
all in favor
any assistance motion care
next on the counter ministry request is
the russell county library travel
request
uh for wool and small libraries
conference on the 1914-17
library of virginia
in richmond on the 9th through the 22nd
through the 23rd approval
requests
okay um board discussions and reminders
today and um
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home
and uh
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you know but i would love be able to add
something like that
everybody
uh
well
oh
i appreciate it
october 6th
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all right you're all good i'll declare
this meeting of jurors i'll see you now
we need to know
we have covered
any opposed