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ALL RIGHT.[1. ROLL CALL]
GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE, AND WELCOME TO THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE JEN WITTY COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR JEN WITTY, EXCUSE ME, FOR DECEMBER THE 19TH, 2023.CAN WE GET ROLL CALL MR. CHAVIS? HERE.
AT THIS TIME WE'LL DO AN INVOCATION, UM, THE LORD'S PRAYER AND A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
WILL YOU PLEASE STAND AND JOIN ME? OUR FATHER JAR HEAVEN HALLOW THY NAME, THY KINGDOM COME.
TH WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASSED AGAINST US.
AND IT IS NOT THE TEMPTATION WITH THE DIVERSE FROM EVIL.
FOR NINE, THE KINGDOM OUR GLORY.
FOR OUR MEMBER ON HEAVEN, I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH STANDS, ONE NATION UNTO GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
[4. AMENDMENTS TO AGENDA]
ALRIGHT, ARE THERE ANY AMENDMENTS TO THE AGENDA TODAY? NONE FROM STAFF.ANY FROM BOARD MEMBERS? UHM? NO.
CAN I GET A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED? SO MOVED.
[5. CONSENT AGENDA]
ALRIGHT.YOU HAVE THE CONSENT AGENDA BEFORE YOU, YOU'VE GOT YOUR SUMMARY OF CLAIMS. YOU'VE GOT VRA 2019 C TAX EXEMPTION, BOND REQUISITION NUMBER 49.
YOU'VE GOT SURPLUS OF COUNTY PERSONAL PROPERTY AND YOU'VE GOT A VARIETY OF MINUTES THAT WE HAVE.
UM, BEFORE US, UH, ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS TO THOSE DOCUMENTS PRESENTED? IF NOT, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED.
[6A. Virginia Department Of Transportation]
THIS AFTERNOON WE GOT THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION WITH US HER, HOW ARE YOU THIS AFTERNOON, MY FRIEND.HOPE EVERYBODY ELSE IS WELL TOO.
WE'VE BEEN ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES THE PAST COUPLE WEEKS.
ALL THESE STORMS. I WILL TELL YOU, YOU HAVE, IT'S BEEN SOMETHING EVERY MONDAY I'VE BEEN PULLING MY HAIR OUT
UM, TO GET STARTED WITH WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING SINCE I HAVEN'T BEEN HERE IN A COUPLE MONTHS, SOME, ALL OF OUR MOWING WRAPPED UP OUR TYPICAL SEASONAL MOWING.
HOWEVER, WE ARE STILL DOING SOME BRUSH TRIMMING ON FOUR 60 WAY OUTSIDE ALONG THE OUTER EDGES OF THE RIGHT OF WAY.
THAT'LL JUST BE TO KIND OF COME IN AND CLEAN UP SOME OF THE SAPLINGS AND BRUSH THAT'S GROWING JUST TO PREVENT THAT FROM CREEPING IN ON US OVER THE YEARS.
UM, WE DID GET SOME ASPHALT PATCHING DONE WITH OUR NEW CONTRACT AND LOOKING FORWARD TO DOING MORE WITH IT ONCE WE GET WARM WEATHER AND CAN CONTINUE TO GET ASPHALT.
UM, WITH THAT IN MIND, A QUICK UPDATE ON THE FOUR 60 PAVEMENT THERE AT BUTTER WOOD ROAD.
STILL WORKING WITH THE CONTRACTOR, DEVELOPING AN MOT GETTING THAT ASPHALT IS, IS AN ISSUE RIGHT NOW.
UM, TYPICALLY THE ASPHALT PLANTS SHUT DOWN THIS TIME OF THE YEAR FOR REGULAR MAINTENANCE START BACK UP SOMETIME LATE JANUARY, FEBRUARY, JUST DEPENDING ON TEMPERATURES ARE THE MAIN CONTROLLING FACTOR IN THAT.
HOPEFULLY WE HAVE A WARM JANUARY AND CAN START GETTING SOME ASPHALT.
UM, CAN I ASK A QUESTION? GO AHEAD.
SO WALK ME THROUGH EXACTLY WHAT WAS DONE ON THE SHOULDER WORK.
I KNOW WE PUT NEW GUARDRAIL IN, WE PUT SOME OTHER, UM, PIPING IN DOWN THERE.
SO AT THE TOE OF THAT SLOPE ON THE SHOULDER, THERE WAS A PAVED DITCH MORE OR LESS THAT RAN OR ALONG THERE.
AND THAT PAVED FLUME HAD HAD BEEN UNDERMINED BY THE WATER OVER THE YEARS AND WAS ALL FALLING IN CRUMBLING AND DESTABILIZING THE BOTTOM OF THAT SLOPE.
UM, SO THEY WENT IN AND REMOVED ALL OF THAT CRUMBLE IN CONCRETE FLUE AND THEN PLACED RIP WRAP ALONG IT AND RIP WRAPPED UP THE ENTIRE SLOPE TO STABILIZE IT.
UM, THE AREA THAT YOU SEE THAT TRAVELS LATERALLY TO THAT THROUGH LANE RIGHT THERE ON THE SHOULDER, IT'S UM, WE INSTALLED A TRENCHED DRAIN YEP.
AND SO ALL THAT WATER, BECAUSE PART OF THE ISSUE THERE IS WATER GETTING UNDERNEATH THOSE CONCRETE SLABS, THIS WILL ALLOW THAT ALL TO DRAIN.
AND SO ON TOP OF THAT PIPE THAT WE PUT IN IS 57 STONE.
THE WATER WILL HIT IT AND FILTER DOWN TO THE UNDER DRAIN AND IT'S TEED TO A CONNECTION THAT GOES OUT THERE TO THAT SLOPE.
AND SO IT'S SHOULD BE HELPING GET SOME OF THAT WATER OUT OF THERE.
AND THEN ONCE WE COME IN AND ACTUALLY DO OUR WORK ON THAT THROUGH LANE, THAT'LL BUTT UP AGAINST THE UNDER DRAIN.
AND SO IT'LL KEEP ALL THE WATER OUT OF THERE IN THE FUTURE.
AND WE'LL HAVE TO COME THROUGH AND
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DO REGULAR MAINTENANCE ON THAT.IT'S A, IT'S A FOUR INCH DIAMETER CORRUGATED PLASTIC PIPE AND RUN A BASICALLY A SEWER SNAKE UP IT AND CLEAN IT OUT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE AND I SHOULD BE, SHOULD BE GOOD.
UM, SO I'LL, I'LL GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ONCE I GET WITH THE CONTRACTORS AND THE SAME CONTRACTOR THAT OWNS ASPHALT PLANT WILL LIKELY BE DOING THE WORK, SO WE'LL CO COORDINATE WITH THEM AND SOON AS THOSE ASPHALT PAINTS GET OPERATIONAL, NEED IT DONE.
UM, WE'RE PLANNING SOME MORE PIPE REPLACEMENTS ON ROUTE 6 22 ON BALTIMORE ROAD, UM, DESIGN AND EVERYTHING IS COMPLETE.
GOT THE MATERIALS PRETTY MUCH JUST WORKING ON SCHEDULING 'EM.
THE AREA IS IN A LOW SPOT RIGHT THERE AT THE COUNTY LINE AND WITH THE MOUNT OF RAIN WE'VE HAD IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS, WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO DO IT PROBABLY FOR ANOTHER COUPLE WEEKS AS LONG AS WE HAVE DRY WEATHER.
UM, IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT AS
SO BEAVERS ARE POSING A PROBLEM THERE AS WELL.
SO WORKING ON GETTING THOSE REMOVED AND SOME OF THEIR DAMS REMOVED TO HELP DRAIN THE AIR BEFORE WE GET IN THERE AND DO THE PROJECT.
UM, WE DID HOWEVER, REPLACE A PIPE ON WHEELER LANE LAST WEEK.
UM, NOW ONTO BAIN ROAD, THE BRIDGE THAT WE DO HAVE CLOSED IN THE COUNTY.
UM, I'M WORKING WITH THE PROPERTY OWNERS SURROUNDING THAT STRUCTURE.
UM, WE ARE PURSUING A RIGHT OF WAY DONATION RATHER THAN GOING THROUGH A RIGHT OF WAY NEGOTIATION PHASE.
UM, THAT WILL GREATLY SHORTEN THE DURATION OF THE PRELIMINARY WORK ON THE PROJECT.
UM, SIDE ELECTRIC DOES OWN ONE OF THE PARCELS THERE, SO WORKING WITH THEM, UM, IS, IS GONNA PROBABLY BE THE BIGGEST HURDLE RIGHT NOW.
UM, ALREADY TALKED TO ALL THE PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE AREA AND THEY ALL SEEM AGREEABLE.
SO WORKING THROUGH THAT AND ONCE WE GET THAT RIGHT OF WAY DONATED, IT'LL, IT'LL HOPEFULLY SPEED THAT PROJECT UP.
UM, LOOKING TO GO CONSTRUCTION ON THAT, HOPEFULLY IN THE COMING SEASON IF WE CAN GET THROUGH THAT RIGHT OF WAY DONATION AND EVERYTHING IN THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS.
WE WILL, WE RECENTLY CHANGED SPEED LIMIT ON COLEMAN LAKE ROAD.
THIS IS A SECTION FROM FOUR 60 DOWN TO WHITE OAK.
IT WAS PREVIOUSLY STATUTORY 55.
UM, GEOMETRY WISE YOU COULD NOT GO 55 MILES AN HOUR.
SO THIS SPEED LIMIT CHANGE WAS MORE OR LESS BASED ON THE EXISTING GEOMETRY.
UM, IF THESE SIGNS HAVE NOT BEEN POSTED, THEY WILL BE POSTED WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS.
WE'LL NOTIFY SHERIFF'S OFFICE FOR ENFORCEMENT AND I DOUBT THERE WILL BE MUCH ENFORCEMENT BECAUSE AGAIN, THE GEOMETRY WARRANTS AT A LOWER SPEED.
BUT THAT IS ONE CHANGE TO NOTE IN THE COUNTY.
UM, I SPOKE WITH OUR TRAFFIC ENGINEERS THIS AFTERNOON ON HALIFAX ROAD.
UM, THE STUDY IS COMPLETE, HOWEVER, I'VE GOT TO GET CONCURRENCE IN A LETTER OF SUPPORT FROM THE CITY OF PETERBURG BECAUSE THE, THE RESTRICTION ITSELF WILL BEGIN AT FLANK ROAD.
THE SIGNS FOR THE RESTRICTION WILL BE INSIDE THE CITY.
ALSO, THE DETOUR FOR THE RESTRICTION GOES THROUGH CITY LIMITS.
SO JUST LIKE WE DID WITH OUR NEIGHBORING LOCALITY THAT THE RESTRICTION ACTUALLY GOES THROUGH ON THE SOUTHERN END OF HALIFAX ROAD, I'VE GOTTA GET THAT LETTER OF SUPPORT FROM THEM AND THEN WE WILL MOVE FORWARD WITH OUR PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT PERIOD FOR THAT THROUGH TRUCK RESTRICTION.
SO SOME PROGRESS BEGIN WORKING WITH THE CITY OF PETERSBURG VERY SHORTLY, UM, THAT MAY HAVE TO GO TO COUNCIL AND, AND HAVE A VOTE AND EVERYTHING SO THAT, THAT WILL DETERMINE HOW LONG THAT'LL TAKE.
BUT IF NEEDED, I'LL GO IN FRONT OF CITY COUNCIL AND GIVE THEM, GIVE THEM MY SALES PITCH.
UM, LAST BUT NOT LEAST, WE DID SOME, SOME CHANGES AT TRANQUILITY IN FOUR 60 AT THAT INTERSECTION.
WE ADDED A LITTLE BIT OF CENTER LINE IN, IN THE, UM, MEDIAN CROSSOVER THERE WITH SOME SHARK'S TEETH YIELD SHARK'S TEETH.
UM, MADE SOME SIGNAGE IMPROVEMENTS AT THAT INTERSECTION AS WELL.
THAT WAS INITIATED BASED ON A REQUEST FOR A TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT THAT INTERSECTION.
TRAFFIC SIGNAL WAS NOT WARRANTED.
SO WE WENT AND, AND LOOKED AT WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO TO IMPROVE SAFETY.
THE MEDIAN CROSSOVER WAS WIDE ENOUGH THAT WE COULD INDEED DIVIDE IT AND PUT THOSE SHARK'S TEETH, THE YIELD MARKS IN THERE AND SOME SIGNAGE, UM, THAT KIND OF INITIATED ITS DISCUSSION AT OUR LEVEL.
SAY, WELL, LET'S DO THIS FOR THE WHOLE
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CORRIDOR.SO WE'RE GONNA START DOING A STUDY FOR ALL OF THE MEDIAN CROSSOVER INTERSECTIONS ON FOUR 60.
SO YOU MAY SEE SOME CHANGES COMING BEFORE WE FINALIZE THAT STUDY.
WE WILL, WE'LL PRESENT OUR FINDINGS TO, TO THE COUNTY, UM, JUST AS A ADVANCED WARNING OF, HEY, THIS, THIS IS CHANGES WE'LL SEE OUT THERE AND GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE ANY INPUT AS WELL.
UM, THERE WAS AN ISSUE AT LES ROAD THAT WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT WAS CORRECTED YESTERDAY.
UM, AND THAT INTERSECTION WILL BE PART OF THAT STUDY AS WELL.
SO ARE YOU SPEAKING GOING WEST OF TRANQUILITY OR ARE YOU SPEAKING GOING EAST OF TRANQUILITY WITH THE CROSSOVERS? WE WILL BE GOING WEST OF TRANQUILITY.
ANY WAY WE CAN LOOK AT CLAYBURN ROAD
IN THAT PROCESS, BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT TRAFFIC OR THAT'S, THAT ONE'S GOT THE TRAFFIC TALKED ABOUT THAT IN A LONG TIME.
CLAYBURN AND INE THE CROSSOVER THERE.
YEAH, I I KNOW THAT I, I BELIEVE DO BELIEVE THAT THAT ONE WILL BE INCLUDED.
YEAH, I WILL, I WILL MAKE SURE THOUGH THAT IS ALL THAT I HAVE THIS AFTERNOON.
ANY QUESTIONS, SIR? UH, I, I THINK YOU TALKED TO MR. MAKI ABOUT THE SIGNAGE AT GONZALES AND YES, SIR.
GOING TO GET THAT FLIPPED AROUND.
I HAD THEM TAKE IT DOWN, BUT EITHER WAY IT, IT WASN'T EITHER WAY IT WASN'T CORRECT ON THAT POST BECAUSE IT'S STILL DECEIVING TO A DRIVER THAT WANTED TO GO WESTBOUND.
EVEN APPROACHING IT, THEY WOULD SEE EASTBOUND ONLY, WELL, YOU CAN USE CROSSOVER AND GO WESTBOUND.
UM, AND THE ONE WAY ARROW ON THE OTHER SIDE OF 4 64 WESTBOUND THAT INDICATED ONE WAY WESTBOUND WOULD BE CORRECT.
THEY PUT SOME MORE REFLECTIVE TAPE ON THE STOP ON THE POST FOR THE STOP SIGN AS WELL.
UM, BECAUSE OF THAT, THAT DELINEATOR POST THAT WAS MOUNTED ON THERE, THAT SIGN WAS, WAS NOT CORRECT EITHER.
UM, BUT THAT INTERSECTION WILL BE PART OF THAT STUDY THAT I JUST TALKED ABOUT.
SO THERE MAY BE SOME MORE CHANGES IN THEIR FUTURE AS WELL.
I HAD A, THE ALL THE ROAD INTERSECTION, WELLS ROAD IS, IS, IS ONE OF THE, I GUESS, INTERSECTIONS THAT WOULD BE WEST OF TRANQUILITY.
UM, THAT ONE, WHEN YOU'RE GOING TURNING TOWARDS WELLS NORTH TOWARDS WALES COMING FROM THE EAST, I MEAN COMING FROM THE WEST MM-HMM
THE WAY, IT'S A SLIGHT CURVE THERE AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU CAN DO WITH IT, BUT IF YOU, IF YOU'VE GOT A SLOW VEHICLE, LIKE A TRACTOR OR SOMETHING, YOU'RE, AND SOMETHING'S COMING DOWN GOING WEST, IT'S VERY HARD TO GET ACROSS THERE AT SOME TIME BECAUSE YOU LOOK IN THERE, THEY'RE NOT THERE, THEN YOU LOOK AGAIN AND THEY'RE THERE.
AND SO IT'S HARD TO GET ACROSS IN A TIMELY FASHION.
SO THAT WOULD BE GOING FROM THE EASTBOUND LANES OF FOUR 60 CUTTING ACROSS WESTBOUND TO GO UP WELLS ROAD.
IF, I DON'T KNOW IF MIKE COULD CUT SOME TREES BACK IN THE INTERSECTION TO MAKE, SO YOU CAN SEE ABOUT OR SOMETHING, BUT IT IS A DANGEROUS MM-HMM
I, I TAKE WELLS ROAD TO COME TO WORK EVERY MORNING, SO I HAVE HAVE NOTICED THAT MYSELF, I'M COMING FROM THE NORTH, SO I, I DON'T COME THAT WAY FROM THE, FROM THE CROSSOVER OFTEN.
UM, BUT I'LL LOOK AT IT AND IT MAY BE SOME, A MATTER OF JUST SIMPLE SOME BRUSH TRIMMING THAT WE CAN DO, UM, AND THAT MAY BE ABLE, THEY MAY BE ABLE TO CAPTURE WHILE THEY'RE OUT THERE TRIMMING THAT BRUSH.
UM, THAT'S PLANNED ALREADY IN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS, BUT I'LL, I'LL TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
AND THE LAST LAST QUESTION I HAD IS THE ONE ON COLEMAN LAKE ROAD WHERE YOU REDUCE THE SPEED, WHICH I UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE THAT IS A, A WINDING ROAD AND UH, IT'S, IT'S HARD TO DRIVE 55 ON THAT ROAD.
BUT HOW DID YOU COME ABOUT CHOOSING THAT ROAD? OR WHAT, WHAT CAME ABOUT? HAVE YOU CHECKED ALL THE ROADS OR IS THAT JUST ONE IN PARTICULAR THAT YOU KNEW WAS A PROBLEM? UM, I BELIEVE THAT ONE, WE DID RECEIVE A REQUEST FOR A SPEED STUDY ON THAT ROUTE.
YEAH, I HAVE ONE, UM, QUESTION.
UM, RIGHT DOWN FROM YOUR OFFICE, THAT CREEK, UM, IS FULL OF WATER.
I MEAN, AND I, I PASS BY AND I'M REALLY CONCERNED IF WE HAVE ANOTHER BIG RAIN AND IT'S FLOODED, UM, ARE YOU GONNA HAVE SOME SIGNS ABOUT HIGH WATER OR PEOPLE NOT TO DRIVE THROUGH BECAUSE IT'S PRETTY HIGH NOW, YOU KNOW, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, THINKING THAT THEY CAN GET THROUGH AND GET SWEPT OFF.
SO I'M JUST KIND OF CONCERNED ABOUT THAT BECAUSE IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE IT'S BEEN FULL.
BUT I MEAN, WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT THAT? I MEAN, IS IT, UH, SOMETHING, I MEAN, CAN THE WATER GO BACK OR
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IS IT JUST BE IN THE STREET OR WHATEVER? WHAT I'LL DO IS I'LL CHECK AND I'LL GO THROUGH CENTRAL STATE BECAUSE THAT, THAT BRANCH GOES ALL THE WAY THROUGH THERE AND MAKES SURE THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY OBSTRUCTIONS THAT MAY BE CAUSING AN ABNORMAL BACKUP.I'M NOT AWARE OF US HAVING ANY BEAVER ISSUES THERE IN THE PAST, BUT I'M NOT GONNA SAY IT'S NOT POSSIBLE THAT THEY HAVE NOT FOUND THEIR WAY IN THERE AND THAT COULD BE CAUSING IT.
BUT IF, IF WE DO GET ANOTHER LARGE STORM EVENT, UM, AND IT DOES LOOK LIKE IT'S GOING OVER TOP, WE WILL POST SIGNS OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, WARNING MOTORS OF THE HIGH WATER.
'CAUSE UH, AND I THINK THE BEAVERS DO GO OVER TO CENTRAL STATE BECAUSE I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE DRAINAGE, A COUPLE OF 'EM JUMPED OUT OF THERE AND PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE AT ONE TIME, BUT FOUND OUT THEY WERE BEAVERS.
SO I SENT 'EM OVER THERE FOR A MONTH LATER.
YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE SOMETHING, WHEN YOU LOOK AT, LOOK AT THEM UP CLOSE THOUGH.
I, I SAW ONE ON THE SIDE OF, UM, BOWL NOW COURTHOUSE ROAD IN PRINCE GEORGE.
I THOUGHT IT WAS A DEER LAST WEEK.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE BIG, THAT LARGE, THAT STAND UP.
BUT WE HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH USDA.
THEY PROVIDE THE SAME SERVICE THAT THEY DO FOR FARMERS, OTHER AGRICULTURAL PARTNERS TO US WHERE WE CALL THEM AND THEY HAVE SOMEBODY COME OUT THERE AND PERFORM A REMOVAL FOR US.
THEY DON'T KILL 'EM, DO THEY? OH, DON'T ASK NO.
CRATER ROAD, HALIFAX, I MEAN, NOT CRATER ROAD, HALIFAX 7 0 3.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? KEVIN? YOU GOT ANY? AARON? JUST I GUESS IF YOU'RE LOOKING NEXT COUPLE MONTHS, SNOW REMOVAL.
I THINK IT'S SOMEWHAT ANTICIPATED WE MIGHT GET MORE SNOW THIS YEAR THAN WE'VE HAD IN YEARS PAST.
UM, ANY, ANY COMMENT THERE? HOW YOU'RE PREPOSITION AND I, I KNOW YOU ARE, UM, YOU IN THE PAST COUPLE WEEKS BECAUSE WE'VE HAD PEOPLE OBVIOUSLY SEEING THAT FORECAST THAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GET MORE THAN, THAN AVERAGE.
WE'VE HAD MORE PEOPLE CALLING AND WANNA SIGN UP, THANKFULLY.
UM, IN, IN DENWOODY, I'M, I'M COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT WE HAVE, UM, ACROSS THE RESIDENCY.
I'VE GOT ABOUT 58 PIECES OF CONTRACT EQUIPMENT SIGNED UP RIGHT NOW ON TOP OF MY ROUGHLY 160 PIECES OF ESTATE EQUIPMENT.
UM, SO FOR DENWOODY COUNTY, I'M FEELING VERY COMFORTABLE MM-HMM
AND, AND WE HAVE FOLKS CONTINUING TO SIGN UP AS WELL.
I KNOW THERE HAVE BEEN SOME QUESTIONS ON THE BOARD ABOUT THE, THE NEW ADDITION OF A YELLOW CAUTION BLINKING LIGHT MM-HMM
BUT, UH, WE HAD THIS DISCUSSION OF TRANSPORTATION SAFETY YES.
THE FACT THAT THAT WAS NOT UNIQUE TO JUST DIMITY COUNTY.
THAT WAS DONE, I GUESS COMMONWEALTH WIDE IN, IN MOST CASES.
SO IT WAS, IT WAS DONE STATEWIDE.
UM, SOME LOCALITY SOONER THAN OTHER.
THERE WAS SOME DOCUMENTATION, SOME EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTATION, UM, ON THAT CHANGE WHEN THEY DID IT IN ANOTHER LOCALITY TO THE NORTH.
RIGHT NOW I'M TRYING TO GET MY HANDS ON THAT EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTATION AND THEN I WILL SHARE THAT WITH Y'ALL TO MORE OR LESS PUT OUT TO THE PUBLIC THAT HEY, THIS, THIS CHANGE NEEDS TO BE MADE AND ONCE I GET IT, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN ADVERTISE ON OUR END AS WELL.
WELL THANK YOU ERIN AND MERRY CHRISTMAS.
[7A. Contract Award, Psychological Services]
WE'LL MOVE ON TO ACTION ITEMS. AND THE FIRST ONE IS A CONTRACT AWARD FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES.SO, HEY MS. HOW'S GONNA DO IT? I'M GONNA DO, WE COULD TAG, I'M GONNA DO A THREE OR FOUR OF THESE TODAY.
UM, AS PEOPLE ARE OUT OF THE OFFICE, UM, WE HAD BEEN UNDER CONTRACT WITH GREENBERG AND ASSOCIATES FOR SOME TIME THAT CONTRACT EXPIRED.
WE PUT OUT AN RFP FOR, FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES IN SEPTEMBER.
WE HAD TWO RESPONDENTS, UM, ONE OF WHICH WAS DR.
GREENBERG, THE OTHER ONE EVENTUALLY DROPPED OUT OF THE PROCESS.
SO, UM, WE ARE, UH, ASKING FOR APPROVAL OF THE CONTRACT WITH DR.
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? ALRIGHT.
IF NOT, I ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE CONTRACT AS PRESENTED.
[7B. Contract Award, Replacement Of Fire Alarm System At Courthouse]
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CONTRACT AWARD FOR REPLACEMENT OF FIRE ALARM SYSTEM AT THE COURTHOUSE IN GENE.SO, WHICH, YEAH, I'M DOING THIS ONE TOO.
UM, SO THE FIRE ALARM SYSTEM AND THE PANEL THAT'S OVER THERE IS THE ORIGINAL ONE THAT CAME WITH THE BUILDING IN IN 1996.
AND AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN BRINGING ITEMS TO YOU OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS.
THINGS HAVE BECOME OBSOLETE AND NEED TO BE REPLACED OVER AT THE COURTHOUSE MECHANICALLY WISE.
SO, UM, THE, THIS, THE FIRE PANEL IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.
IT IS NOT FUNCTIONING PROPERLY AT THIS TIME.
UM, LATITUDE 360 IS THE CONTRACT WE HAVE FOR OUR REGULAR PREVENT PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS FOR THE FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS. SO THEY, UM, ARE GOING TO, TO DO THIS PROJECT FOR US.
UM, SO WE'RE ASKING FOR APPROVAL OF THE CONTRACT.
WE HAD HAD DONE AN EMERGENCY PROCUREMENT ON IT 'CAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE REPLACED AND THE, THE FUNDING'S JUST GONNA HAVE TO COME OUTTA JANE'S BUDGET.
SO YOU HAVE A CONTRACT BEFORE YOU, UH, ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? IF NOT, WE'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE CONTRACT AS PRESENTED.
[7C. Contract Award, HVAC Equipment Replacement At DVFD And MVFD]
YOU.SEVEN C IS A CONTRACT AWARDS FOR HVAC EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT AT DENWOODY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN MCKINNEY.
FIRE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
IF I CAN'T HOLLY KNOW, THREE LETTER ILLNESSES ARE DECIMATING PUBLIC SAFETY RIGHT NOW, SO.
UM, AS YOU CAN SEE FROM YOUR MEMO, THIS WAS AN FY 23 CIP PROJECT.
UM, BUT WE CONTRACTED WITH DJ G TO GO OUT AND DO THE DESIGN WORK THERE.
ACTUALLY THAT COST THERE IS THE BID DOCUMENTS AS WELL AS SOME OF THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT THAT THEY'LL DO FOR US.
UM, BUT WE PUT THAT THERE SO THAT YOU CAN SEE THE COST THAT CAME RIGHT OFF THE TOP OF THE PROJECT JUST TO DESIGN IT.
UM, WE BID THE PROJECT OUT IN OCTOBER.
UM, YOU CAN SEE THE BID RANGE THERE, UM, FROM 556,000 UP TO ABOUT $823,000 WAS THE RANGE.
UH, THE LOW BID WAS OUR CURRENT MECHANICAL HVAC CONTRACTOR OF WARWICK.
UM, SO TWO PARTS TO WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR TODAY IS TO ONE, TO APPROVE THAT CONTRACT WITH WARWICK TO DO THE WORK AT BOTH THE MCKINNEY AND THE THE DENWOODY FIRE STATIONS.
AND AGAIN OF, UH, BECAUSE THE PROJECT IS OVER, OVER THE ORIGINAL CIP BUDGET IS THE TRANSFER OF $150,000 FROM THE UNDESIGNATED FUNDS TO, AND ANN CAN PROBABLY SPEAK TO THAT IF YOU NEED.
IT JUST, THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS TODAY YEAH.
STUFF IS THROUGH THE ROOF, CORRECT? IT IS.
I GOT IT IS GONE THROUGH THE ROOF.
I JUST HAD A QUE HOW MANY UNITS ARE ARE IN EACH ONE? DO YOU KNOW? RIGHT NOW THERE'S THREE THREE EACH.
THERE'LL BE GOING TO FOUR UNITS.
UM, WE DON'T LIKE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE, THE, THE STATION'S 4,000, A LITTLE OVER 4,000 SQUARE FEET OF LIVING SPACE RUNNING ON TWO UNITS AND A SMALL UNIT.
UM, SO A LOT OF TIMES WE'RE HEATING A BIG TRAINING ROOM ALONG TO KEEP A BUNK ROOM WARM.
SO WE HAD, ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAD DJ G DO WAS SPLIT THE ZONING UP BETTER 'CAUSE BOTH OF THESE FIRE STATIONS NOW HAVE PEOPLE LIVING IN THEM.
WHEN WE BUILT THESE STATIONS, NOBODY LIVED IN THESE FIRE STATIONS.
SO IT DIDN'T REALLY MATTER WHAT WE DID.
SO WE'VE ZONED THE BUILDINGS UP A LITTLE BETTER.
SO HOPEFULLY WE'LL ACTUALLY REDUCE OUR COST BECAUSE WE WON'T BE HEATING SPACES.
WE DON'T NEED TO BE HEATING BECAUSE THEY'LL HAVE ITS OWN OUT BETTER.
THAT WAS ONE OF THE TASKS WE GAVE DJ JG FIGURED THIS BUILDING OUT.
SO WE'RE NOT HEATING A 1200 SQUARE FOOT TRAINING ROOM THAT'S USED ONE NIGHT A WEEK BECAUSE WE'VE GOTTA KEEP THE BUNK ROOM WARM FOR THE TWO GUYS THAT LIVE THERE.
SO ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? ALRIGHT.
ENTER A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE CONTRACT HAS PRESENTED.
SO MR. CHAIRMAN, I BELIEVE THAT, UM, RESOLUTION ALSO HAS A BUDGET APPROPRIATION AS WELL.
IT JUST IN ADOPTING THE CONTRACT.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTAND WE'RE ADOPTING THAT, UH, BUDGET RESOLUTION AS WELL.
BUDGET RESOLUTION AS WELL AS THE CONTRACT.
ALRIGHT, ROLL CALL MR. CHAVIS.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERY MERRY CHRISTMAS.
[7D. Contract Award, Solid Waste Collection And Disposal Services]
ALL RIGHT.ITEM SEVEN D IS A CONTRACT AWARD FOR SOLID
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WASTE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL SERVICES.UM, OUR CURRENT CONTRACT WITH MERIDIAN EXPIRES AT THE END OF THE MONTH.
SO WE HAD RELEASED AN RFP EARLIER IN THE YEAR AND WE HAD TWO RESPONDENTS.
ONE, UM, ONE OF THE BIDS WAS MUCH HIGHER THAN THE OTHER ONE.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA GO WITH MERIDIAN WASTE AGAIN FOR OUR, OUR NEXT FIVE YEAR CONTRACT.
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? NO SIR.
HOW MUCH OF A INCREASE WAS IT PERCENTAGE WISE? UH, THE INCREASE BETWEEN LAST YEAR THIS YEAR OR BETWEEN LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR? UM, THE PERCENTAGE WAS VERY LOW.
REALLY LIKED NO MORE THAN $10 PER, THERE'S A LOT OF MOVING PIECES TO IT.
YEAH, YOU'VE GOT, YOU'VE GOT THE, UH, THE MAN SITES WITH, WITH THE, UM, ROLL OFF THE COMPACTORS THAT HAVE TO BE PULLED.
AND THEN YOU HAVE THE BIG TRAILERS THERE AT THE LANDFILL THAT YOU PUT COME UP ON THE HILL AND DUMP STUFF IN.
AND THEN THE DUMPSTERS THAT ARE LIKE AT THE SCHOOLS AND AROUND AT SOME OF THE COUNTY FACILITIES IS ANOTHER RATE.
SO IT'S A LOT OF MOVING PIECES TO IT, BUT THE INCREASE WAS NOT VERY MUCH OVER WHAT WE'RE ALREADY PAYING.
WE DON'T HAVE ANY FUEL SURCHARGES ADDED ON OR WILL BE ADDED ON IN THE FUTURE.
NO, WE DON'T HAVE ANY FUEL SURCHARGES.
WELL, THAT'S ONE THING THAT WE'VE GOTTA HAVE.
IT DOESN'T GO AWAY
ALRIGHT, SO YOU'VE GOT THE CONTRACT BEFORE YOU FOR MERIDIAN, UH, FOR SOLID WASTE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL SERVICES.
CAN WE GET A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE CONTRACT? SECOND MOVE.
ALRIGHT, ROLL CALL MR. CHAVIS.
[7E. Contract Award, Security Management System]
ALL RIGHT.THE NEXT ONE IS SEVEN E AND IS A CONTRACTOR AWARD FOR SECURITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.
SO THIS IS OUR ELITE CONTRACT AND GROUP CONTRACT THAT WE'VE HAD SINCE 2013 FOR OUR SECURITY SYSTEMS AND WE'VE ADDED TO THAT CONTRACT OVER THE YEARS.
WHEN WE PUT THIS BUILDING IN THE PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING, WE DID SOME UPGRADES IN THE PAM BUILDING, UM, LAST YEAR.
SO IT IT COVERS ALL THE SECURITY THAT THAT WE HAVE OTHER THAN, UM, THE, THE RECREATION BUILDINGS THEY'RE ON, THEY'RE ON A DIFFERENT SYSTEM.
UM, SO WE ASKED THEM FOR A NEW PROPOSAL.
IT'S A SIX YEAR AGREEMENT WITH THE UPDATES AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE EXISTING SYSTEM SIMILAR TO WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING IN THE PAST.
IT'S PRETTY MUCH A TURNKEY SYSTEM.
IF IT BREAKS, THEY COME AND FIX IT.
THEY ALSO DO OUR BADGES, PROVIDE US THE BADGES.
UM, SO THE TOTAL, THE, THE COST PER YEAR IS THE 285,007 FOR THE TOTAL COST THAT'S IN, THAT'S IN HERE.
THE CONTRACT IS NOT COMPLETELY FINISHED YET BECAUSE THEY HAVE A CONTRACT WITH, UM, WITH THE STATE THAT WE'RE RIDE THAT WE RIDE ON.
BUT THAT'S, THAT CONTRACT IS IN FLUX AT THE MOMENT THAT THEY HAVE TO RENEW AS WELL.
SO THE CONTRACT IS NOT A HUNDRED PERCENT STRAIGHT, BUT THIS IS THE DOLLAR VALUE THAT WE WILL HAVE.
SO IT WOULD WOULD NOT BE ABOVE THIS DOLLAR AMOUNT? NO, THE, THE DOLLAR VALUE IS WHAT'S IN HERE.
IT'S JUST THE LANGUAGE IN THE CONTRACT AND THAT WE NEED TO FINISH.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS JUST NEED TO BE APPROVED ON BECAUSE THE STATE CONTRACT IS KIND IN FLUX.
UH, ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? NO.
IF NOT, I ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE CONTRACT FOR ELITE CONTRACTING.
ALRIGHT, ROLL CALL MR. CHAVIS.
[7F. Remote Participation Policy]
F UH, REMOTE PARTICIPATION POLICY MR. AL, MR. CHAIRMAN, THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ADOPTED A REMOTE PARTICIPATION POLICY IN MARCH OF 2020.UH, SINCE THAT TIME THE VIRGINIA CODE PROVISIONS REGARDING REMOTE MEETINGS HAVE CHANGED.
AND SO UNDER THIS AMENDED POLICY MEMBERS WOULD BE PERMITTED TO PARTICIPATE REMOTELY BASED ON SEVERAL DIFFERENT THINGS.
ONE WOULD BE A DISABILITY OR A MEDICAL CONDITION.
ANOTHER WOULD BE A MEDICAL CONDITION OF A FAMILY MEMBER.
UM, AND THEN THIRD FOR A LIMITED NUMBER OF TIMES EACH YEAR.
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UH, IT COULD BE FOR A PERSONAL MATTER JUST OUT OF OUT TOWN MAYBE.UH, AND SO THE POLICY DOES GIVE A PROCEDURE THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE FOLLOWED IN EACH CASE FOR REMOTE PARTICIPATION.
AND IT'S, IT'S FAIRLY SIMILAR TO, TO WHAT'S BEEN PREVIOUSLY DONE, BUT, UM, GIVEN THE RECENT CODE CHANGES THAT MADE SENSE TO, TO, UH, CHANGE PROBLEM, LOOK AT IT.
SO I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
IF NOT, THERE IS A RESOLUTION THERE, UM, THAT YOU COULD ADOPT IF IT IS YOUR PLEASURE.
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS TO MR. SAL? OKAY.
IF NOT, YOU HAVE THE, UM, RESOLUTION BEFORE YOU, THE POLICY CHANGE BEFORE YOU, UM, CAN WE GET A MOTION TO ACCEPT THAT? SO MOVED.
[7G. 2024 Legislative Program]
THEN WE'VE GOT ITEM SEVEN G AND THAT'S THE 2024 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM.AND MR. CHAIRMAN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD IN YOUR, IN YOUR PACKET, YOU'LL SEE THE 2024 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM, WHICH BASICALLY HAS SEVEN KEY FEATURES.
ONE, IT FULLY SUPPORTS THE VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY'S LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM THAT WAS ADOPTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING IN NOVEMBER.
IT SPECIFICALLY RECOGNIZES THE COUNTY'S INTEREST IN THE SURPLUS PROPERTY AT CENTRAL STATE.
AS YOU KNOW, CENTRAL STATE IS OF, OF THE 500 AND SOME ACRES THAT'S THERE, THE 180 ACRES THAT THE, THE HOSPITAL IS BEING BUILT ON, WILL WILL LEAVE A REMAINING 359 ACRES THERE.
THE COUNTY HAS INTEREST IN WORKING WITH THE COMMONWEALTH ON THAT.
UH, THIRDLY, WE, WE FULLY SUPPORT THE VIRGINIA, UH, COMMISSIONERS REVENUE ASSOCIATION'S PACKAGE.
I'VE TALKED TO MS. STEVENS IN REGARDS TO THAT AND, AND I FEEL LIKE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE COUNTY SHOULD SUPPORT.
UM, WE FULLY SUPPORT A RESOLUTION FOR RICHARD BLAND COLLEGE TO, TO TRANSITION TO AN INDEPENDENT GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE AND THAT THAT'S ATTACHED FOR YOUR PLEASURE TOO.
UH, THE PARTNERSHIP FOR PETERSBURG, WE, WE FULLY SUPPORT ANY ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO ALLOW THE CITY TO BECOME, UM, YOU KNOW, MORE SOVEREIGN THERE, BE ABLE TO GET SOME OF THE WORK DONE.
IN ADDITION TO THE CITY OF PETERSBURG CASINO PROJECT, WE, UH, JUST OFFICIALLY LIKE LAST YEAR, WE FULLY SUPPORT THE FACT THAT THE CITY OF PETERSBURG IS, IS SEEKING THE, THE CASINO, HOWEVER WE BELIEVE IT'S THEIR RESIDENCE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO VOTE ON THAT.
AND, AND IT'S NOT OUR DECISION, BUT WE, WE SUPPORT WHAT THE RESIDENTS OF, OF PETERSBURG WOULD SUPPORT TO GET THAT TO A REFERENDUM.
AND THEN, UM, LASTLY IS A, A BUDGET AMENDMENT THAT, YOU KNOW, WE WERE WHEN WORKING WITH THE CITY OF PETERSBURG, BUT WE SUPPORT ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO FERNDALE PARK.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE, WE PUT THIS LANGUAGE IN HERE LAST YEAR, UH, IF IMPLEMENTED, THAT WOULD BE THE CITY OF PETERSBURG AS THEY'RE THE, THE OWNERS OF THAT PROPERTY, NOT EVEN THOUGH IT'S GEOGRAPHICALLY AND IN DENWOODY COUNTY, BUT THAT, THAT'S, UM, YOUR LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M MORE THAN GLAD TO, TO TRY TO ANSWER THOSE.
IF NOT, I JUST SIMPLY NEED A MOTION TO ADOPT AS PRESENTED.
[8. CITIZEN COMMENTS (3 MINUTES)]
WE HAVE IS CITIZEN'S COMMENT PERIOD.AND I'LL OPEN THE CITIZEN'S COMMENT PERIOD.
IS THERE ANYONE SIGNED UP? MR. CHAIRMAN? I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED UP.
IS THERE ANYONE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK DURING CITIZEN'S COMMENT PERIOD AT THIS TIME? ALRIGHT, HEARING NOTE, WE'LL CLOSE THE CITIZEN'S COMMENT PERIOD.
[9. COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR COMMENTS]
WE HAVE, UH, COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR COMMENTS.MAY I YOU YEAH, MR. CHAIRMAN, YOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENT THIS YEAR IS, I'M GONNA HAVE A BRIEF LAST COMMENT, SO I'M NOT GONNA SAY TOO MUCH.
I'M GONNA LET YOU KNOW THAT THE, UH, I DID ATTEND THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING, UH, LAST WEEK.
AND TWO KIND OF CRITICAL THINGS HAPPENED THERE.
ONE WAS AN, THE, THE ENROLLMENT STUDY DRAFT REPORT CAME OUT, UM, THAT'S GONNA BE FINALIZED HERE, UH, SHORTLY, AND WE'LL GET THAT THAT TO YOU ALL.
BUT WHAT IT, WHAT IT DID SHOW WAS THAT THEY, THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, EVEN THOUGH WE'VE SEEN A, A DIP IN ENROLLMENT UP UNTIL THIS YEAR, WE BELIEVE, UH, THE, THE NEW, UH, DATA SUGGESTS THAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE A KIND OF A STEADY, NOT NECESSARILY A, A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE, BUT YOU'RE GONNA SEE A STEADY OVER THE NEXT, UH, 10 YEAR ENROLLMENT.
AS YOU KNOW, THAT ENROLLMENT STUDY IS GONNA DOVETAIL, UM, IN, INTO POTENTIALLY A REDISTRICTING PLAN OF MAYBE MASSAGING SOME OF THESE DISTRICTS A LITTLE BIT, WHICH HASN'T BEEN DONE IN, IN A, IN A COUPLE DECADES OR MORE.
SO I JUST THOUGHT THAT WAS A, A REAL IMPORTANT THING TO, TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT.
UH, SECONDLY, CITIZENS ACADEMY, AND I KNOW DR. MOORE, YOU'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT.
SO I'M NOT GONNA SAY TOO MUCH ABOUT IT OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS A NEW INITIATIVE.
MARIE, UH, GRANT CAME TO US WITH THIS, THIS CONCEPT, THIS IDEA.
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I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE'S ANY OF US THAT PARTICIPATE IN THIS THAT WE DIDN'T THINK, WE DON'T THINK NOW THAT IT WAS ABSOLUTELY A WONDERFUL PROGRAM.AND MARIE, I KNOW WE THANKED YOU LAST NIGHT, BUT MM-HMM
AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK.
IT TAKES A LOT OF WORK BEHIND THE SCENES TO, UM, TO, TO CAREFULLY EXECUTE AND PLAN OUT EACH ONE OF THESE SESSIONS AND, AND YOU DO IT EXTREMELY WELL.
AND, AND WE THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING THERE.
UM, AT THE END OF 2023, I GUESS THIS IS, THIS IS DR.
MOORE'S LAST MEETING IS IS CHAIR.
SO THE, I KNOW THAT YOU ALL LIKE TO THINK THAT THIS IS A, THIS IS ALMOST LIKE A MARRIAGE FOR A YEAR.
I KNOW A A LOT OF, A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS WORST TIME, TIME OVER THE YEARS, BUT I WANTED TO PUBLICLY THANK YOU DR. MOORE, FOR YOUR, YOUR HARD WORK AND EFFORT IN, IN TRYING TO LEAD THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
AND YOU HAVE DONE SO, SO SUCCESSFULLY, UM, OVER THIS, THIS PAST YEAR.
AND, UM, IT, IT'S WORTHY OF, OF NOTING THAT AS CHAIR AND AS YOU PASS THE BATON OVER TO MR. CHAVIS FOR NEXT YEAR, UM, WE'LL BE SITTING DOWN AND TALKING ABOUT WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE HOOKED AT THE HIP WITH ME FOR ANOTHER YEAR.
UM, AND I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT MR. MOODY LATER TONIGHT.
BUT, UM, AND UNDER BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS, SO THE CHAIRMAN HAS ASKED ME THAT I CAN ACTUALLY TALK A LITTLE BIT UNDER BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS, JUST SO EVEN SO HARRISON, I'LL, I'LL SAY SOME COMMENTS ABOUT THIS BEING YOUR, YOUR LAST MEETING.
UM, AND I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW EARLIER TODAY, AS YOU KNOW, WE HAD A MEETING AT THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE WITH THE SECRETARY OF ADMINISTRATION TO TALK ABOUT SOME KEY, UM, OPPORTUNITIES FOR DENWOODY.
AND, AND AS MYSELF, MS. COLLINS AND MS. MORGAN WAS LEAVING, MORGAN INGRAM WAS LEAVING.
WE GOT A CALL FROM, UM, ALICIA LEE.
AND AS YOU ALL KNOW, DAN LEE HAS, UH, TODAY HAS BEEN 46 DAYS THAT HE'S BEEN AT, AT, UM, AT VCU.
BUT ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER, UM, I GUESS THAT WAS WHAT, 17TH? 17TH, UH, WE GOT A, GOT A PHONE CALL THAT, THAT THE WAIT WAS OVER.
AND LATER THAT DAY ON SUNDAY, HE, HE WENT, UM, UNDER SURGERY TO GET A NEW HEART AND A, AND A NEW LIVER.
AND WITH THAT NEARLY 20 HOUR, 18 HOURS OF SURGERY, UH, HE, HE HAS RECOVERED EXTREMELY WELL.
WHEN WE GOT THE CALL TODAY, UH, MS. LEE INDICATED THAT HE WAS AWAKE AND WAS COHERENT.
AND IF WE WANTED TO COME BY, HE WOULD, HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE US.
AND SO WE HAD THAT OPPORTUNITY AND, AND MS. LEE ASKED THAT, IF I WOULD, UNDER MY COMMENTS, JUST, JUST CONTINUE TO THANK THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, THE COMMUNITY, UM, AND THE GENERAL, JUST GETTING GENERAL PUBLIC AT LARGE FOR ALL THE FAULTS AND PRAYERS.
UM, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE RECOVERY PROCESS IS KNOWING THAT YOU'VE GOT PEOPLE IN YOUR, IN YOUR CORNER.
AND, UH, THE NURSE TODAY STANDING BESIDE MR. LEE, INDICATED THAT THE SUPPORT STRUCTURE IS SO IMPORTANT WHEN WE'RE TRANSITIONING NOW FROM WAITING FOR THE SURGERY TO THE RECOVERY PHASE.
AND SO, UH, WE JUST CONTINUE TO ASK FOR, FOR, UH, MR. LEE AND HIS FAMILY TO BE IN OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS, UM, THROUGH THE RECOVERY PROCESS.
BUT THE GOOD THING IS, AS THE NURSE INDICATED TODAY, EVERYTHING SEEMED TO BE GOING EXTREMELY WELL.
UM, THE NEXT 24 TO 48 HOURS IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
I MEAN, HE IS PROGRESSING EXTREMELY STRONG AND, UM, APPEARS TO BE HEADED IN, IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION THERE.
AND THE THE LAST THING THAT I'LL SAY IS, UM, JUST AS WE WE GET TO THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY, JUST WANNA WISH EACH OF Y'ALL A, A MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS.
UM, WE GOT A BIRTHDAY COMING FROM MS. BONNER LATER THURSDAY.
SHE GOT THOSE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS AND BIRTHDAY PRESENTS TOGETHER.
AND, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I SAY IT EVERY NEW YEAR'S, BUT IT'S A, IT'S A GOOD TIME AS WE KIND OF CROSS OVER TO 2024 THAT WE JUST GIVE, GIVE THOUGHT TO WHERE YOU'VE BEEN, WHERE YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU'RE GOING.
AND SO REALLY THINK ABOUT WHAT WE WANT TO ACCOMPLISH TOGETHER IN 2024.
[10. BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS]
AND SO THAT LEADS US INTO BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS.AND I'M GOING, I'M GONNA ASK HARRISON IF YOU WANNA GO FIRST OR IF YOU WANNA GO LAST.
WELL, I JUST HAVE A COUPLE QUICK THINGS TO TODAY.
ADD A LITTLE BIT LATER ON TONIGHT.
BUT I WOULD LIKE TO THANK DR. MOORE FOR THE WELL JOB WELL DONE THIS YEAR.
YOU, YOU'VE CARRIED IT WELL, YOU'VE STEERED THE SHIP REAL WELL.
AND I LIKE TO, UH, WISH EVERYBODY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR, AND IT'S, UH, BEEN A JOY WORKING WITH THE FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS, BUT I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT LATER ON THAT THE GUY.
OH, UM, UH, UH, NOT A WHOLE LOT.
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YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN BACK AND FORTH, YOU KNOW, UM, TEXTING, TALKING ABOUT, UM, DAN, UH, LEE, I THINK, UM, IT, IT'S BEEN SO POSITIVE, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO UPLIFT PRAYERS AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE ALL ON ONE ACCORD WITH HIM.AND, UM, I BELIEVE THAT THE MORE PRAYERS GO UP, THE MORE ANSWERS COME DOWN.
AND I THINK, UM, EVEN WHEN WE DECIDE ON SUNDAY TO PRAY AT ONE TIME, I THINK THAT WAS, UM, THAT WAS GOOD.
I THINK GOD WAS PLEASED WITH THAT, SO THAT WE CAN, UM, JUST SEND ALL THAT, ALL THAT FAITH AND PRAYERS TOWARDS, UH, DAN AND HIS FAMILY.
SO I, I KNOW GOD IS GOOD BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WHEN I SEE HIM, I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA TELL HIM, YOU'RE A MIRACLE PERSON.
I SAID, I, I'M GONNA TELL HIM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DID
AND, UM, WE ARE JUST HAPPY FOR HIM TO, UM, GET THE THINGS HE NEEDED AND TO IMPROVE.
UM, THE OTHER THING, UH, DR. MOORE, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL AT DOING WHAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING, LEADING, UM, IT'S A LOT.
YOU KNOW, YOU ARE A BUSINESS OWNER.
YOU ARE BACK AND FORTH, YOU RUNNING DOWN THE STREET IN CHOIR PRACTICE AND EVERYTHING.
EVERY TIME I TURN AROUND, YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING.
AND, UH, FOR A WHOLE YEAR IT'S A, IT IS A LOT OF DEDICATION.
AND, UM, AND OF COURSE I'M GOING TALK ABOUT HARRISON A LITTLE LATER.
I'M NOT GONNA BE LIKE, BILL LAST NIGHT,
BUT, YOU KNOW, UM, BILL, I DON'T EVER REALLY SEE HIM GETTING KIND OF CHOKED UP, BUT HE GOT A LITTLE CHOKED UP LAST NIGHT TALKING ABOUT, UM, HARRISON.
SO, BUT, UM, WE'LL ALL BE THERE AND WE ALL GONNA DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT A LITTLE LATER.
BUT, UM, BUT I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA KID WITH HIM ABOUT THAT.
AND ALSO, UM, UH, JUST THE, UM, THE, UM, THE COUNTY ITSELF.
I THINK, UM, ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO SAY, I KNOW, UM, DR.
MOORE'S GONNA SAY SOMETHING ABOUT LAST NIGHT, THE CITIZEN ACADEMY.
YOU KNOW, UH, WHEN YOU, WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE COUNTY AND TALK ABOUT, UM, THE CLOSENESS AND GLAD THEY LIVE IN DENWOOD, I THINK IT'S GREAT.
I THINK IT'S GREAT BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO SAY THOSE THINGS AND THEY SAID A LOT OF POSITIVE THINGS ABOUT THE COUNTY AND THE PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THE COUNTY AND WHAT THEY DO.
AND, UM, SO LOOKING FORWARD TO ANOTHER, UH, WHEN THEY DO IT AGAIN WITH MARIE AND, AND MAY BECAUSE THEY SAID A LOT OF GOOD THINGS ABOUT HER AS WELL.
SO, UM, WITH THAT SAID, I JUST WANT, I WISH, UH, THE COUNTY AND EVERYONE, UH, UH, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND, UH, PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.
WELL, I WANT TO THANK MARK, UH, FOR, HE'S BEEN TRAINING ME ALL YEAR,
UH, I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF WORK, A LOT OF TIME SPENT WITH KEVIN.
UM, WAS A HARD TIME DIVORCING IN THE LAST TIME.
I DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE THE RING NOW, BUT, BUT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO, UH, ANOTHER PROSPEROUS YEAR.
MS. MS. BONNER'S BEEN TOGETHER FOR A PRETTY GOOD WHILE NOW CHAMBER.
WE WENT OUT TO THE WINERY FRIDAY NIGHT, SO THAT WAS A GOOD TIME.
UH, SENT ALL THE AWARDS GIVEN OUT TO, TO FOLKS.
UH, MSHA RECEIVED ONCE SHE PASSED AWAY ABOUT WHAT A MONTH AGO.
AND THEIR TRUE DAUGHTERS, UH, ACCEPTED HER AWARD AND IT WAS VERY EMOTIONAL.
BUT, UH, A LOT OF GOOD THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN DENWOOD COUNTY.
THE ACADEMY OF SEEING THESE FOLKS LAST NIGHT, HOW EXCITED.
I MEAN, THESE FOLKS BEEN WORKING IN THE COUNTY FOR YEARS.
A LOT, BUT THEY DIDN'T KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF WHAT WAS GOING ON, WHAT WE GO THROUGH.
BUT THEY WERE EXCITED LAST NIGHT, MARIA, ABOUT WHAT YOU DID AND BRINGING 'EM ALL TOGETHER.
AND, UH, THEY WERE EXCITED AND WE WERE EXCITED TO SEE THEM EXCITED.
UH, WE, UH, IT'S JUST, UH, SO MUCH GOING ON.
I, I TOLD THEM WHEN I FIRST GOT ON THE BOARD, I REMEMBER SITTING HERE THE FIRST NIGHT AND I'M GOING, WHAT AM I GETTING MYSELF INTO?
JUST, UH, JUST ANN'S THING, YOU KNOW? AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S WHAT YOU GO THROUGH, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T LOVE ME
I GET PICKED AT A LOT BECAUSE I CRY
BUT ANYTHING, IT'S JUST, UH, LIKE A, AGAIN, I'M GLAD GOD PLANTED ME WHERE I'M AT RIGHT HERE.
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ALL THE TIME.THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALK ABOUT ALL THE TIME.
AND THAT'S ONE OF BILL'S FAVORITE SAYINGS.
AND SO I'M GONNA GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO DAN.
THIS IS FOR FOREVER RIGHT HERE.
'CAUSE IT'LL BE, UM, SOMETHING THAT, UM, YOU CAN COME BACK AND LOOK AT ONE DAY.
UM, WE'VE BEEN PRAYING FOR OVER 40 DAYS.
AND I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF PRAYER.
AND I BELIEVE THAT GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS WHEN I GOT THE TEXT SUNDAY MORNING AT ABOUT SIX 30.
THAT DAN, YOU WERE GONNA GET THAT HARD AND YOU WERE GONNA GET THAT LIVER.
UM, I, WHEN I GOT THAT, THE JOY CAME OVER ME.
AND SUNDAY MORNING I HAD THE OFFERTORY PRAYER.
AND OF COURSE WE HAD LIT THE JOY CANDLE AT OUR CHURCH FOR ADVENT.
AND, UM, I KIND OF BROKE DOWN IN THE PULPIT.
'CAUSE DAN AND I HAVE BEEN PROBABLY ABOUT 25 YEARS, WHETHER ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION ON THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TOGETHER.
AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU WORK WITH SOMEBODY THAT LONG, UM, YOU BECOME VERY GOOD FRIENDS.
NOT JUST FRIENDS, BUT VERY GOOD FRIENDS.
AND, UM, SO IN THAT PRAYER, I, I PRAYED FOR THE PERSON, THE FAMILY OF THE PERSON THAT HAD LOST THAT DONOR.
THAT PERSON THAT WAS THE DONOR.
AND I PRAYED FOR THEM TO HAVE PEACE AND SOLACE, BUT I ALSO PRAYED FOR THE JOY.
AND IT WAS SO FITTING THAT THAT DAY WAS THE JOY CANDLE FOR THE FAMILY, FOR DAN'S FAMILY, AND FOR DAN THE JOY OF THE NEXT CHAPTER OF HIS LIFE THAT WILL CONTINUE.
SO DAN, UM, GOD'S GOT A PLAN FOR ALL OF US.
UM, AND YOURS IS TODAY, BUDDY.
AND WE JUST PRAY FOR YOU AND WE PRAY FOR THE CONTINUED RECOVERY.
'CAUSE IT'S A DAILY RECOVERY AT THIS POINT.
LOOK FORWARD TO YOU BEING BACK IN THIS ROOM VERY, VERY SOON.
UM, THE, I WANNA RECOGNIZE BILL AND BETTY HANEY, UM, BILL, THEY BOTH HAVE BEEN ON THE SCHOOL BOARD FOR THE COMBINATION OF THEM TWO 20 YEARS.
UH, BILL WAS ON THE SCHOOL BOARD FROM, UH, 2004 TO 2019.
AND THEN BETTY TOOK THE BATON FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS, FROM 2019 TO 2023.
AND, UM, THEIR COMMITMENT TO THE DENWITTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS PHENOMENAL.
UH, I'VE HAD GREAT RELATIONSHIP WITH BOTH OF THEM TO BE ABLE TO WORK WITH THEM THE LAST 12 YEARS.
AND I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR THEIR COMMITMENT TO THIS COUNTY AND TO, TO THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT HAVE COME THROUGH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IN THE LAST YEAR, LAST 20 YEARS, THAT THEY HAVE DIRECTLY IMPACTED WHETHER IT'S BEING A SCHOOL TEACHER.
'CAUSE BETTY, I KNOW WAS A TEACHER OR BILL AS THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER.
SO THANK YOU TO TO BOTH THE HANEY FOR THEIR COMMITMENT.
OF COURSE, THIS PAST THURSDAY NIGHT WAS A PRETTY COOL NIGHT.
UH, WHEN WE GOT TO ABOUT SEVEN O'CLOCK, WE HAD THE, THE CHAMBER CHRISTMAS PARADE.
WE LIT THE FIREPLACE AND SMOKE WAS ROLLING
I THINK I WAS THE ONLY ONE IN A CAR THAT WAS OPEN THOUGH.
BUT YOU, WHEN I SAY THAT, I MEAN SITTING, WELL, I BELIEVE ME, LITTLE ON THE NIPPY SIDE, BUT EVERYBODY THAT WAS INVOLVED WITH THE PARADE, UM, UH, I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO THEM AND ALL OF THE CITIZENS THAT CAME OUT.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE NUMBERS WERE, BUT IT WAS DIFFERENT.
YOU KNOW, WE WERE AT THE MOTOR SPORTS PARK THIS YEAR.
UM, BUT IT WAS, IT WAS A GOOD NIGHT.
WE HAD A LOT OF PARTICIPATION.
SO THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY THAT PARTICIPATED AS WELL AS ALL THE CITIZENS THAT CAME OUT.
UM, AND THOSE THAT, THAT PUT IT ON IN PARTICULAR, MORGAN INGRAM AND THE CHAMBER CHAMBER, ALL OF THEIR HELP MM-HMM
NOW MARIE'S BEEN PRETTY BUSY OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS 'CAUSE SHE DIDN'T ONLY JUST DO THE CITIZENS ACADEMY FOR THE LAST 12 WEEKS.
SHE PUT OUT THE DENWITTY CHRONICLE.
WITH, WITH HELP FROM EVERYBODY ELSE.
SO IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE DENWITTY CHRONICLE, IT IS AVAILABLE HERE AT, AT THE ADMIN BUILDING.
AND IT'S AVAILABLE ALL, I THINK, AT ALL OF OUR REC BUILDINGS.
ALSO, I RECEIVED MINE THIS PAST WEEK.
UM, SO THANK YOU, UH, FOR THAT.
AND IF YOU HAVEN'T GOTTEN A COPY, PLEASE GO AND GET IT.
'CAUSE THERE'S SOME VERY, VERY GOOD INFORMATION THAT'S IN THOSE.
LAST NIGHT WE HAD THE GRADUATION FOR OUR SECOND, UH, CITIZENS ACADEMY.
UM, AND THE NEXT CITIZENS ACADEMY WILL START IN MAY.
THE SAD PART IS IT'S ONLY 12 WEEKS, BUT, BUT THERE'S SOME PEOPLE ASKING FOR EVEN MORE STUFF.
UH, IE VDOT AND MAYBE SOME OTHER THINGS THAT CAN BE INVOLVED, ACTUALLY GOING OUT TO THE AGRICULTURAL AREAS OF THE COUNTY AND BEING ABLE TO SEE AN ACTIVELY WORKING FARM, THAT TYPE OF THING.
SO THAT MAY BE SOMETHING THAT WE WORK ON GOING FORWARD.
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KNOW WE'VE GOT A, A LIMITED TIME SCHEDULED TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.BUT, UM, THE IMPORTANT THING HERE IS THERE'S 25 SPOTS AND NOW'S THE TIME TO CALL IN TO THE ADMINISTRATION.
CALL MARIE, UM, AND GET YOUR NAME ON THE SPOT FOR THAT MAY, MAY OPENINGS.
SO I WANNA TAKE A COUPLE OF MINUTES AND JUST GO OVER JUST A FEW THINGS THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN DAN WHITTY COUNTY THIS YEAR THAT, THAT THIS BOARD AND THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD A PART OF.
UH, OF COURSE WE STARTED THE YEAR OUT TALKING ABOUT THE BUDGET AND THANK GOD WE GOT TO THE END OF IT.
AND I, AND THIS YEAR'S BUDGET'S GOING TO BE TIGHT TWO.
UM, BUT THANK GOD TO THE ADMINISTRATION, THOSE THAT WORK IN EVERY DEPARTMENT, THEIR, UM, FRUGALNESS, I'LL JUST SAY
I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO THE ADMINISTRATION AS WELL AS EVERY DEPARTMENT HEAD AND EVERYBODY THAT, THAT WORKED ON THAT BUDGET PROCESS.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT OF COURSE WE'RE WORKING VERY HARD ON IS THAT, IS THE FIRE AND EMS INVESTMENTS.
SO WE DID SOME THIS PAST YEAR AND WE WOULD BE DOING SOMETHING GOING FORWARD.
AND WE ALL KNOW THAT THAT'S NOT A, AN INEXPENSIVE, UH, PROPOSITION.
UM, BUT IT'S SOMETHING WE'VE GOT TO DO MOVING FORWARD.
UM, OF COURSE IN, IN THE NORTHERN END OF THE DISTRICT, WE'VE GOT SHEETS THAT HAS MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THEY WILL BE COMING IN FRONT OF, UH, UM, AMAZON AND AT THE AIRPORT YOU CAN SEE TREES COMING DOWN THERE.
AND THAT'S JUST THE BEGINNING.
'CAUSE WE'VE GOT SOME MORE STUFF COMING, BUT I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT IT IS,
UM, BUT THAT BEING SAID, THAT THAT'S A GOOD THING.
UM, FOR THE, FOR THE CITIZENS OF DENVER COUNTY.
OF COURSE, THE RADIO PROJECT, UH, WE ARE COMING TO THE CONCLUSION OF THAT, THANK GOD.
AND THEN, UH, GOING UP BECAUSE WE ARE, IT, IT, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT NOW, I THINK THREE YEARS, UM, TO GET IT INTO PLACE.
UM, SO THAT, THAT'S A GOOD THING.
OUR COUNTY FAIR, WHICH WE HAD A COUPLE OF, WHAT, A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO NOW, PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST ATTENDANCES THAT WE'VE, THAT WE'VE HAD SINCE WE HAD THE FAIR.
WE HAD GOOD WEATHER AND WE HAD, UH, GOOD PARTICIPATION.
SO THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR CITIZENS THAT PARTICIPATED AS WELL AS OUR, UH, COMMUNITY, UH, CLUBS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE, RAWTON AND OTHERS.
UM, IT, IT WAS A GREAT OUTING FOR THEM AND A GREAT FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITY FOR 'EM.
UM, WE HAD OUR FIRST FALL ADVANCE THE BOARD, UM, AND YOU SAY, WELL, YOU'VE NEVER HAD ONE OF THOSE BEFORE.
WELL, NO, BUT THAT SETS THE STAGE FOR THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION COMING IN, MEANING THE NEXT BOARD, UM, WHEN WE BRING ON CASEY DOOLEY TO HAVE SOME KIND OF A INSIGHT INSTEAD OF WAITING UNTIL BUDGET TIME THAT WE CAN KIND OF PRIORITIZE.
SO THAT, THAT WAS A, A VERY GOOD, UH, SEVERAL DAYS, UH, IN THE ADVANCEMENT.
THEN OF COURSE, WE'VE GOT THE REC SIDE, SO WE HAVEN'T TALKED A WHOLE LOT ABOUT IT LATELY, BUT WE'VE GOT OUR BASKETBALL COURT AND OUR PICKLEBALL COURT THAT'S GONNA BE COMING TO THE SPORTS COMPLEX.
UH, ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE AS YOU COME IN, UM, PAMELA, ROBERT, PAM RV PAMPLIN, WHAT'S THE NAME? RV PAMPLIN, UM, THE ROAD COMING IN.
SO THAT'S GONNA BE A GOOD THING COME SPRINGTIME AND IT'S GONNA SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR, OUR YOUNG, UM, CITIZENS OF THE COUNTY SO THAT THOSE ARE ALL GOOD THINGS AS WELL AS PICKLEBALL FOR WHOMEVER WISHES TO PLAY.
SO IT, IT, WE BOTH KNOW THAT'S AN UP AND COMING THING.
UM, VACO AWARDS, UM, I THINK WE ARE THE ONLY COUNTY THAT'S GOTTEN TWO BEST SMALL COUNTY AWARDS SINCE THEY'VE BEEN DOING THE AWARDS.
SO WE RECEIVED OUR SECOND ONE THIS YEAR, UH, WHICH IS KUDOS TO THE ADMINISTRATION IN PARTICULAR TAMMY AND AND KEVIN FOR THE WORK THAT THEY DO THERE.
BUT IT'S A REFLECTION ON US AS A COUNTY AND HOW WE WORK TOGETHER.
UM, I THINK WE DO A GREAT JOB.
WE ARE, WE ARE TRYING TO WALK IN ONE DIRECTION AND THAT'S WHAT THAT'S ALL ABOUT.
AND THEN THE LAST I WANNA SAY IS WHEN YOU'RE IN THIS SEAT, IT, THE PEOPLE THAT WE WORK WITH IN EVERY DEPARTMENT IN PARTICULAR, KEVIN ANN, TAMMY, JEAN DENNIS, I CAN NAME 'EM OFF AS WE GO DOWN THE, AND OUR CONSTITUTIONALS.
UM, IT TAKES ALL OF US WORKING TOGETHER.
WE WILL ALWAYS BE A TEAM AS LONG AS WE'RE TOGETHER.
UM, AND I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO YOU BECAUSE FOR WHAT YOU DO EVERY SINGLE DAY, AND IT'S A 24 HOUR A DAY JOB TO RUN DENWITTY COUNTY.
UM, AND JUST SAY, SAY THANK YOU TO THAT.
AND, UM, WITH THAT, I JUST WANNA SAY PEACE AND BLESSINGS TO EVERYBODY.
UM, REMEMBER THE REASON FOR THE SEASON AND THAT'S JESUS CHRIST.
UM, AND I HOPE EVERYBODY HAS A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR'S AND WE'LL HAVE SOME MORE COMMENTS THIS EVENING IN OUR BOARD.
AND WITH THAT WE HAVE MR. CHAIRMAN.
BEFORE THAT, I THINK MS. HOWTON HAVING WEDNESDAY, MR. CHAIR,
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I WOULD JUST LIKE TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY, UM, TO RECOGNIZE HOLLY CASEY, WHO'S HERE TODAY.ALL OF THE PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS THAT YOU JUST APPROVED COME ACROSS HER DESK AND SHE WORKS VERY HARD ON YEP.
GETTING THEM ALL TOGETHER AND, AND GETTING ALL THE, THE I'S DOTTED AND THE T'S CROSSED, ALL THE, ALL OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE DO.
COME THROUGH HER BECAUSE EVERYTHING THAT'S MORE THAN $5,000 HAS TO GET HER HER TOUCH ON IT.
SO SHE, UM, YOU KNOW, MY FOLKS WORK IN THE BACKGROUND, BUT SHE CAME DOWN TO, TO GIVE ME BACKUP UP TODAY ON SOME 'CAUSE SINCE I WAS PINCHING ON SOME OF THESE ONES I WASN'T AS FAMILIAR WITH AS OTHERS.
SO I'D LIKE TO PUBLICLY THANK HER FOR HER HARD WORK AND, AND LET YOU ALL PUT A NAME AND A FACE TOGETHER.
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THAT, WE NEED TO, UH, TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION.THE BOARD WILL CONVENE INTO A CLOSED SESSION UNDER 2.2 DASH 3 7 1 1 A ONE.
PERSONNEL APPOINTMENTS CRATER PLANNING DISTRICT COMMISSION CRATER DISTRICT AREA AGENCY ON AGING TRANSPORTATION SAFETY COMMISSION, BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS, DENWOODY COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY, VIRGINIA'S GATEWAY REGION DENWOODY AIRPORT AND INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY, APPOMATTOX RIVER WATER AUTHORITY, AND DENWOODY COUNTY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.
MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO GO INTO CLOSE? PLEASE SHALL MOVE.
WE HAVE PUBLIC HEARINGS TONIGHT AT SEVEN O'CLOCK.
WE HAVE A SPECIAL RECOGNITION THAT WE'RE GONNA DO BEFORE WE GO INTO THE PUBLIC, UM, UH, HEARINGS.
SO WE'LL BE BACK IN TO TAKE CARE OF THAT BUSINESS.
WE'LL CALL THE EVENING SESSION OF THE DEITY COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO ORDER.
[12A. Reverend Christopher Hillman- Department Of Social Services Advisory Board]
THING ON OUR AGENDA THIS EVENING IS A SPECIAL RECOGNITION FOR REVEREND CHRISTOPHER HILLMAN FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD.AND WE HAVE, AND MR. CHAIRMAN, THERE'S MR. CHAIRMAN, THERE'S A COUPLE OTHER PEOPLE THAT ARE HERE TONIGHT THAT I THINK WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SPECIAL RECOGNITION.
WE HAVE, UH, LOUIS COLLINS, WHO IS THE CHAIRMAN OF OUR SOCIAL SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD.
AND I SEE DONNA HARRISON IN THE BACK THERE, UH, WITH, WITH SOCIAL SERVICE, OUR DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL SERVICES.
AND SO IF IT, IF IT PLEASE THE BOARD, WE COULD GO DOWN, UM, TO THE FLOOR, READ THE, READ THAT RESOLUTION, UM, AND THEN WE'LL MOVE FORWARD.
DO YOU ALL, WE HAVE A RESOLUTION OF THE PASSED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS THIS EVENING.
UH, IT SAYS REVEREND CHRISTOPHER, UH, HILLMAN, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER FROM 2017 TO 2023.
WHEREAS REVEREND CHRISTOPHER HILLMAN JOINED THE DIY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD ON JUNE THE 20TH OF 2017.
AND WHEREAS REVEREND HILLMAN SERVED CITIZENS OF DIY COUNTY AND BLACKSTONE AS PASTOR OF SHARON BAPTIST CHURCH, AND WHEREAS REVEREND HILLMAN HAD A HEART FOR SERVICE AND WILLING HANDS THAT WERE ALWAYS THERE TO IN THE TIME OF NEED, WHEREAS REVEREND HILLMAN SERVED ON THE DI COUNTY FAITH BASED INITIATIVE AND PASTOR'S ROUND TABLE FROM THEIR INCEPTION.
AND WHEREAS REVEREND HILLMAN REPRESENTED AND ADVOCATED FOR THE CITIZENS OF DENVER WI COUNTY AND, UM, CONSUMERS OF DENVER WHI COUNTY'S DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOR SIX YEARS NOW THEREFORE BE RESOLVED THAT THE BOARD SUPERVISOR ON HIS 19TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2023 DESIRE TO EXPRESS THEIR APPRECIATION TO REVEREND CHRISTOPHER HILLMAN FOR SIX YEARS OF LOYAL, DEDICATED SERVICE TO DENVER COUNTY AND TO EXTEND TO HIM THEIR WARMEST REGARDS AND BEST WISHES FOR MANY YEARS OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS.
AND TO BE FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DENVER COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS THAT THIS RESOLUTION BE PRESENTED TO REVEREND CHRISTOPHER HILLMAN AND A COPY SPREAD UPON THE MINUTES OF THIS MEETING FOR ALL ATTORNEYS.
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UM, CHRIS, I WANNA SAY THANK YOU.WHEN I CAME ON THE BOARD, YOU WERE APPRECIATE ALL EXPERIENCING TOGETHER AND WE MISS YOU.
WE FOUND A REPLACEMENT, BUT IT'S JUST NOT YOU.
AND
APPRECIATE IF I COULD, AND I'M THROUGH YOU TO THE OFFICE TOO.
SO FOR THOSE THAT DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE SOCIAL SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD IS, LEMME JUST EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT THIS, THIS REALLY UNIQUE GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS THAT AMAZING WORK FOR COUNTY.
SO ADVOCACY, YOU KNOW, WE'LL AGREE, WE CAN DISAGREE ON A LOT, BUT WE PROBABLY ALL AGREE THAT THERE'S A THRESHOLD IN THIS COUNTRY THAT PEOPLE FALL BELOW THAT IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO LIFT FROM MONEY.
AND SO I, I'VE DEBATED A LOT OF DIFFERENT POLICY, PUBLIC POLICY, BUT I'VE NEVER DEBATED THAT SOMEONE SHOULD BE GIVEN FOOD WHEN THEY'RE HUNGRY TO BE GIVEN CLOTHING WHEN THEY NEED IT, AND TO GET THOSE BASIC HUMAN NECESSITIES WHEN NEED.
THE SOCIAL SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD IS A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS THAT COME TOGETHER TO BE THOSE ADVOCATES.
YOU DON'T NECESSARILY HEAR FROM THE MOTOWN PROFIT.
SO THESE FIVE INDIVIDUALS ARE THE INDIVIDUALS THAT COME AND ADVISE DONNA AND MYSELF AND HOW WE CAN BEST SERVE THAT POPULATION AND THEN THE COUNTY THAT NEEDS A VOICE.
SO MR. HILLMAN, REVEREND HILLMAN, WHEN YOU, YOU TRANSITIONED, WE WERE ORIGINALLY AN ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD AND HE BECAME PART OF THE ADVISORY BOARD.
SO NOT ONLY THROUGH THE SERVICE THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, HE ACTUALLY TRANSITIONED INTO THIS CAPACITY AND JUST DISPLAYED A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF LEADERSHIP.
AND THE ORGANIZATION IS BETTER TODAY BECAUSE, CHRIS, WHAT YOU DO, AND NOT, NOT ONLY FOR THE PUBLIC THAT WE SERVE, BUT FOR OUR EMPLOYEES.
BECAUSE PART OF BEING THAT ADVOCATE IS MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE A STAFF THAT FEELS SUPPORTED AND FEEL LOVED AND, AND HEARD.
AND, AND THAT ADVISORY BOARD TODAY IS DOING THAT WORK.
YOU, YOU HELP SET THE GROUNDWORK FOR THAT.
AND EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW THAT YOU'RE GONE, WE KNOW YOU NOT TOO FAR AWAY.
AND EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE IN NORTH CAROLINA, IT'S NOT UP 85.
MR. CHAIRMAN, I HAD ONE COMMENT, SIR.
UH, I GOT A PHONE CALL FROM A DEAR FRIEND BACK SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
HE PASSED AWAY ON SUNDAY, BUT HE CALLED ME AND HE SAID, I KNOW A GOOD REPLACEMENT FOR THE SOCIAL SERVICES BOARD,
AND, AND CHRIS CALLED CHRIS AND HE, HE GRACIOUSLY, UH, TOOK THE POSITION.
AND I, I APPRECIATE YOU SERVING, UH, FOR THIS DISTRICT REPRESENTING DISTRICT ONE.
I REALLY THANK YOU MR. I APPRECIATE YOU AND MR. WALLACE.
ALRIGHT, CAN I GET A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE RESOLUTION THAT WE JUST PRESENTED? YES.
[13A. FY 2024 Budget Amendments: FY 2023 Fund Balance Re-Appropriations, School Appropriations]
NOW WE'VE GOT THREE PUBLIC HEARINGS THIS EVENING.THE FIRST ONE IS THE FISCAL YEAR, 2024 BUDGET AMENDMENTS, UH, FISCAL 2023 FUND BALANCE RE UH, APPROPRIATIONS AND SCHOOL APPROPRIATIONS.
MS. HARTON, GOOD EVENING BOARD.
UM, THIS TIME OF YEAR, EVERY YEAR WE, AFTER THE AUDIT IS COMPLETE, WE TAKE A LOOK AT WHERE WE ENDED UP THE PRIOR YEAR AND HOW WE NEED TO ADJUST
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OUR CURRENT YEAR BUDGET IN LIGHT OF THOSE FUND BALANCES.UM,
AND SO WE'VE ADVERTISED FOR THAT AND THAT'S WHAT WE'LL BE DOING TONIGHT IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE CODE.
UM, AS YOU KNOW, THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS CAN ONLY BE SPENT FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES AND SO THOSE BALANCES DO NOT GO BACK IN THE GENERAL FUND.
THEY STAY IN THOSE SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS AND WE NEED TO REAPPROPRIATE THE EXACT AMOUNT, UM, THAT WE HAD AT YEAR END.
IF, IF WHAT WE BUDGETED FOR THIS YEAR DOESN'T QUITE MATCH UP WITH THAT, IT'S A TRUE UP OF THE FUNDS.
THE, UH, SECOND AMENDMENT THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT TONIGHT IS TO, UM, APPROPRIATE THE ADDITIONAL MONEY IN THE E SUMMONS ACCOUNT IN THE GENERAL FUND BECAUSE THAT MONEY CAN ONLY BE SPENT THAT COMES FROM THE TICKETS CAN ONLY BE SPENT ON E SUMMONS EQUIPMENT.
AND FOR THAT PROGRAM, THE THIRD AMENDMENT WE'LL HAVE TONIGHT, UM, APPROPRIATES THE ADDITIONAL STATE FUNDS THAT THE, THE SCHOOL BOARD RECEIVED AFTER THE GOVERNOR APPROVED THE, THE, UH, FY 24 BUDGET BACK IN SEPTEMBER AND THE SCHOOL BOARD APPROVED THESE IN NOVEMBER.
UM, SO THOSE WILL AFFECT THE SCHOOL OPERATIONS FUND, THE SCHOOL NUTRITION AND SCHOOL GRANT FUNDS.
THE FOURTH AMENDMENT, UM, DECREASES THE SCHOOL'S YEAR END TRANSFER BACK TO OUR GENERAL FUND TO MATCH UP WITH, WITH THEIR TRUE BALANCE.
WE HAD APPROPRIATED ABOUT 500,000, BUT THEY ONLY ENDED UP WITH ABOUT 120,000.
SO WE NEED TO TRUE THAT UP AS WELL.
THE PREVIOUS BUDGET ACTIONS THAT WE'VE TAKEN THIS YEAR, UM, AFTER WE APPROVED THE BUDGET ORIGINALLY IN THE SPRING, UM, WE HAD AN AMENDMENT TO TRANSFER ABOUT $175,000 TO THE SCHOOLS FOR THEIR PARKING LOT.
UM, WE AMENDED OUR BUDGET AGAIN IN NOVEMBER FOR THE, THE E 9 1 1 DISPATCHER GRANT THAT WAS RECEIVED AND FOR THE, UM, RAGSDALE COMMUNITY CENTER PUMP HOUSE FOR 192,000.
AND THEN OF COURSE THE 150,000 WE HAD TO DO EARLIER TODAY FOR THE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT HVAC PROJECT.
SO THOSE ARE THE, THE PREVIOUS ACTIONS THAT WE'VE TAKEN AND, AND THE ONES THAT ARE LISTED IN YOUR BOARD PACKAGE, THE ONES WE NEED TO TAKE FOR TONIGHT.
SO WE'RE JUST ASKING FOR APPRO OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION IN YOUR BOARD PACK.
BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD, LET ME READ A DISCLOSURE.
UM, AT THE DECEMBER 19TH, 2023 MEETING OF THE DENWITTY COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, I MARKE MOORE INTEND TO VOTE ON FISCAL YEAR 2024 APPROPRIATIONS AMENDMENTS FOR DENWITTY COUNTY.
THE APPROPRIATION AMENDMENTS WILL DETERMINE HOW MUCH MONEY IS APPROPRIATED TO THE DENWITTY COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD.
MY WIFE IS EMPLOYED BY THE DENWITTY COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD.
THESE AMENDMENTS MAY AFFECT ALL SCHOOL BOARD EMPLOYEES IN THE COUNTY AND I'M ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TRANSACTIONS FAIRLY OBJECTIVELY AND IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST.
ALRIGHT, SO WE NEED TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING PORTION OF, OF THIS CASE.
IS THERE ANYONE SIGNED UP? MR. CHAIRMAN, I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED UP FOR THIS PUBLIC HEARING.
IS THERE ANYONE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS CASE? ALRIGHT, HEARING NONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING PORTION.
BOARD, WHAT IS YOUR, YOUR PLEASURE THIS EVENING? I THINK WE HAVE FOUR PIECES OF THIS, BUT I THINK WE ARE VOTE ON ALL OF IT AS ONE, AS A RESOLUTION.
ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? IF NOT, OR ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE, THE RESOLUTION OBJECT.
YOU GO AHEAD MR. CHAIRMAN, I MAKE A MOTION.
WE, UH, APPROVE THE RESOLUTION AS PRESENTED.
[13B. Rezoning Request, P-23-7, River R LLC]
WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE CASE.UM, B AND THAT'S REZONING REQUEST.
UM, MR. BASSETT, GOOD EVENING.
GOOD EVENING BOARD MEMBERS, MR. INGAL.
UH, MS. CHAIR, AS YOU INDICATED, UH, THIS IS THE, UH, PUBLIC HEARING FOR REZONING, KHP DASH 23 DASH SEVEN.
UH, IT'S RIVER RLLC AND THE AGENT, UH, HERE THIS EVENING IS MS. VALENCIA JONES TO REPRESENT THE APPLICATION.
THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE, UH, SLIDE, UH, IS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF RIVER ROAD, UM, JUST A LITTLE EAST OF WHERE HART
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ROAD, UM, CONNECTS INTO RIVER ROAD AND THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS CURRENTLY ZONED, UM, RESIDENTIAL CONSERVATIVE RR.AND THE APPLICANTS, UH, THIS EVENING ARE REQUESTING TO REZONE TO RESIDENTIAL LIMITED R ONE.
UH, THE EXISTING EIGHT ACRE PARCEL DOES HAVE ONE DWELLING ON IT CURRENTLY, AND IF THE REZONING IS APPROVED, UM, AND THE PROPERTY IS FURTHER DEVELOPED, THE EXISTING DWELLING WOULD HAVE TO BE ON ITS OWN INDIVIDUAL PARCEL AND THEN THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO, UH, FURTHER DIVIDE THE PROPERTY.
UH, BEYOND THAT, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, UH, THE CLAY ESTATES SUBDIVISION, UH, IS DEVELOPED, UH, NORTH OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY NORTH AND EAST OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY.
UM, THE LOT SIZE SIZES WITHIN THAT SUBDIVISION RANGE FROM A HALF AN ACRE TO ONE AND A HALF ACRES.
UM, AND AS YOU CAN ALSO SEE THE ADJACENT PROPERTY ACROSS RIVER ROAD, UM, IS ZONED A TWO AND INCLUDES SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES RANGING IN SIZE FROM THREE ACRES TO ONE ACRE, UM, IN THE R ONE ZONING DISTRICT.
UM, IF THE PROPERTY IS REZONED AND DEVELOPED, UM, IT CAN BE DEVELOPED AT ONE LOT, UH, ONE DWELLING UNIT PER ONE AND A HALF ACRES IN LOT SIZE, UM, DUE TO THE FACT THAT, UM, THIS AREA IS NOT SERVED BY PUBLIC WATER AND SEWER, SO THEY WILL HAVE TO UTILIZE ONSITE SEPTIC AND, UM, WELL, WELL WATER FACILITIES.
IN ADDITION, EACH LOT WOULD HAVE TO MAINTAIN 100 FEET OF ROAD FRONTAGE ALONG RIVER ROAD, SO POTENTIALLY THE PROPERTY COULD ACCOMMODATE FIVE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOTS.
AND I HAS INDICATED, UH, THE EXISTING RESIDENCE WOULD HAVE TO BE ON ONE OF THOSE LOTS.
SO IT'S LOOKING LIKE COULD HAVE, UH, APPROXIMATELY FOUR NEW LOTS, UH, DIVIDED, UH, WITHIN THAT SUBJECT PROPERTY.
UM, LOOKING AT OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, UM, THIS, UH, PROPERTY IS WITHIN THE PHASED GROWTH AREA OF THE PLAN AND ALLOWS FOR A PHYSICAL TRANSITION BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT AREAS AND RURAL CONSERVATION AREAS.
AND ALSO THE PHASED GROWTH AREA IS APPROPRIATE FOR LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.
AND AGAIN, THERE IS NOT, UH, PUBLIC WATER AND SEWER AVAILABLE HERE.
UM, SO THEY WILL HAVE TO UTILIZE INDIVIDUAL WELL AND SEPTIC SYSTEMS. UM, ALSO TO NOTE THE R ONE, UH, ZONING DISTRICT, THE COMPOSITION AND PURPOSE OF THE DISTRICT INDICATES THAT RESIDENTIAL LIMITED DISTRICT R ONE IS COMPOSED OF CERTAIN QUIET LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL AREAS, PLUS CERTAIN OPEN AREAS WHERE SIMILAR RESIDENT RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT APPEARS LIKELY TO OCCUR.
AND, UM, AS INDICATED IN THE STAFF REPORT, WE DO FEEL LIKE, UH, THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, UH, DOES MEET THE COMPOSITION AND PURPOSE STATEMENT OF THE R ONE ZONING DISTRICT.
ALSO FURTHER LOOKING AT THE LAND USE CHAPTER WITHIN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN STRATEGIES FOR STRATEGIC GROWTH AND SMART LAND USE.
UH, STRATEGY NUMBER SIX INCLUDES DIS DIRECT NEW DEVELOPMENT TO AREAS PLANNED FOR FUTURE GROWTH.
AND OF COURSE IN THE PLAN, UH, THIS IS AN AREA DESIGNATED FOR FUTURE GROWTH.
UM, THIS REZONING ALSO ALLOWS FOR FUTURE GROWTH IN AN AREA THAT ALREADY HAS SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION AS WELL AS SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCES ON INDIVIDUAL LOTS WITH SIMILAR LOT SIZES.
UH, WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE IMPACTS WITH THE LAND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, UM, WE REALLY DIDN'T HAVE, UM, ANY ITEMS THAT STOOD OUT, UH, TO THE COMMITTEE.
UM, AND YOU CAN SEE THE, WHEN VDOT LOOKED AT THE REQUEST, UM, THEY HAD NO OBJECTION WITH THE PROPOSED REZONING AND THEY JUST INDICATED, DEPENDING ON HOW THE PROPERTY'S DEVELOPED, UM, THEY WOULD HAVE TO UTILIZE CERTAIN TYPES OF ENTRANCES, UH, INTO THE PROPERTY.
UH, AGAIN, PLANNING STAFF IS RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF THE REQUEST, UH, GIVEN THAT THE REQUESTED ZONING CLASSIFICATION R ONE RESIDENTIAL LIMITED IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE SURROUNDING ZONING PATTERN AND
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SURROUNDING LAND USES, THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT FITS WITH THE CHARACTER OF THE EXISTING DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE GENERAL AREA OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND THE PROPOSED USE CONFORMS TO THE UNDERLYING USES RECOMMENDED IN THE PHASE GROWTH AREA IN THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN FOR THIS GENERAL AREA.UH, THE PLANNING COMMISSION, UH, ALSO RECOMMENDED, UH, APPROVAL OF THE REQUEST.
AND, UM, JUST TO NOTE, THEY DID INDICATE, UM, THEY WERE, UH, AFTER GREAT DISCUSSION, UH, WITH, UH, THE FIVE LOTS AND THE FIVE LOTS, UM, HAVING INDIVIDUAL, UH, DRIVEWAYS, UH, ALONG RIVER ROAD.
UM, THAT'S ALL I HAVE RELATED TO THE STAFF REPORT.
AGAIN, THE APPLICANT IS HERE THIS EVENING AND AT THIS TIME I'D ENTERTAIN ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
ANY QUESTIONS FROM BOARD MEMBERS? JUST TO CLARIFY, THIS IS ALL WELL AND SEPTIC, CORRECT? YES.
SO THAT THEY WOULD, THE LOTS WOULD HAVE TO PERK AND HAVE A, HAVE A, UH, DOUBLE THE SIZE FOR, FOR IF IT FAILS, RIGHT? YES, THAT'S CORRECT.
UM, MR. BASSETT, ARE THERE ANY STIPULATIONS AS FAR AS THE SQUARE FOOTAGE OF A HOME THAT MAY BE BUILT ON THESE LOTS? NO, THERE WERE NO.
ARE THERE ANY RESTRICTIONS FROM A COUNTY POINT OF VIEW? NO.
THAT COULD OR, OR, OR CAN BE PLACED ON IT? YEAH, NOT, NOT IN GENERAL, NO.
SO YOU SAY THEY CAN BE FIVE LOTS WITH THE HOUSE ALREADY ON IT NOW, RIGHT? YOU STILL GET FIVE LOTS OUT OF IT, OR IS IT FOUR FIVE INCLUDING A LOT FOR THE EXISTING HOUSE? THE EXISTING HOUSE.
AT AN ACRE AND A HALF EACH OR IS IT? YES, THEY HAVE TO BE AT LEAST AN ACRE AND A HALF MARK, DO YOU ENVISION THIS TO BE SOMETHING VERY SIMILAR TO RIDGES ROAD WHERE WE'RE SHARING DRIVEWAYS? DO YOU ENVISION THAT AS WE GO FORWARD? UM, THE PLANNING COMMISSION LEFT THAT OPEN AS, AS DID VDOT.
THE PLANNING COMMISSION ACTUALLY INDICATED IN GENERAL THAT THEY WOULD BE MORE COMFORTABLE HAVING INDIVIDUAL DRIVEWAYS FOR EACH, EACH LOT, UM, IN THAT SECTION OF RIVER ROAD.
MR. CHAIRMAN DID LOTS BEHIND IT THERE.
ALL R ONE IN THE SUBDIVISION BEHIND IT? YES.
THE LOT SIZE ON THOSE, IT VARIES FROM A HALF ACRE UP TO, UM, TWO ACRES FOR SOME OF THOSE.
THE ZONING WAS TIGHTENED UP A LITTLE BIT SINCE THEN? YES, THAT'S CORRECT.
THE LOT SIZES AND THE ROAD FURNISH REQUIREMENT, WELL, MY FIRST HOME IN DENWOODY COUNTY WAS ON EUGENE DRIVE IN CLAY ESTATES.
BUT MOST OF THE HOMES THAT ARE IN THERE ARE 1500 AND NOT SO THAT, THAT'S MILES MY, MY, MY QUESTION.
AND WHEN I LOOK AT RIVER ROAD RIGHT, THE CORRIDOR DOWN THROUGH THERE, THE HOMES THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT, WHICH ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD, YOU KNOW, I I KNOW WHAT HOMES ARE THERE.
UM, SO THAT, THAT'S WHY I ASKED THE QUESTION ABOUT THE SQUARE FOOTAGE AS WE GO FORWARD.
MY THING IS WHAT'S AROUND THERE NOW IT SHOULD MATCH, YOU KNOW, WHAT FOOTAGE THEY HAVE.
IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN PUT A STIPULATION IN ON THAT? UM, UH, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE A VOLUNTARY PROFFER BY THE APPLICANT IN THIS CASE.
I DON'T WANT, YOU KNOW, UM, WELL, I DON'T THINK IT'S RIGHT FOR, UH, TO ALLOW SOMEONE TO COME IN AND DEVALUE THEIR HOMES BY PUT, YOU KNOW, PUTTING IN A, A SMALLER FOOTAGE.
UH, THAT'S THE ONLY CONCERN THAT I RIGHT, I UNDERSTAND.
I MEAN, I BUILT ON A, UM, ACRE AND A HALF, THAT'S WHEN YOU COULD DO THAT AND NOW YOU HAVE TO HAVE THREE ACRES IF YOU'RE JUST OUT IN THE, THE RURAL AREA.
UM, AND THE SETBACKS, IT'S HARD TO GET THE, AS MANY, UH, SETBACKS AS YOU NEED TO FIT THOSE, BUT I KNOW YOU'VE ALREADY, UH, FIGURED THAT OUT.
THAT WOULD, THAT THE ONLY CONCERN THAT I WOULD HAVE IS DEVALUE IN WHAT THEY ALREADY HAVE THERE.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NOT RIGHT NOW.
IF THE APPLICANT WOULD LIKE TO COME
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FORWARD.JUST STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
VALENCIA JONES AND 4 1 1 2 RALPH ROAD, SOUTH CHESTERFIELD, VIRGINIA 2 3 8 0 3.
WHAT, WHAT ARE YOUR INTENTIONS FOR THE PROPERTY? WHAT, WHAT DO YOU ENVISION BEING ON THE, ON THE LOTS? UM, IT'S GONNA BE, UM, SINGLE FAMILY, ONE LEVEL.
UM, AT LEAST 1500 STARTING SQUARE FEET.
OUR GOAL IS TO ALLOW FOR, UM, HOMES TO BE MODERN CONSTRUCTION, BUT OBVIOUSLY STILL UNDER A 300,000 SO THAT IT CAN BE AFFORDABLE FOR THOSE THAT LIVE IN THE COUNTY.
SO THOSE THAT WORK AT AMAZON OR ALDI OR WALMART, THAT THEY CAN REALIZE HOME OWNERSHIP SOONER THAN HAVING TO RENT AN APARTMENT.
SO I HEARD YOU SAY 1500 SQUARE FEET.
IT WOULD AT LEAST BE I HEARD YOU REQUEST, RIGHT? OR ASK IS IT GOING TO BE AT LEAST THAT? SO THERE'LL BE TWO BEDROOM, TWO BATHS, AND THEN THEY CAN OPT FOR A THREE BEDROOM, TWO BATH IF IN FACT THAT WORKS IN THEIR APPROVAL FOR THE HOME OWNERSHIP.
BUT THAT'S A VOLUNTARY PROFFER.
I MEAN, HOW, HOW WOULD WE GET THAT IN TO THE BOARD IN WRITING AT THIS POINT? WHAT IS TYLER? TYLER, WHAT WOULD BE THE PROCESS? ALMOST ALWAYS THE, IF IF THERE ARE PROFFER SUBMITTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE REZONING, THOSE ARE SUBMITTED, YOU KNOW, REALLY PRIOR TO, UM, THE, THE, THE NIGHT OF THE, THE PUBLIC HEARING.
UM, IS IT, YOU KNOW, IT'S SOMETHING THAT HAS TO BE WRITTEN OUT AND SO IF IT, IF IT IS A DESIRE OF A, AN APPLICANT TO MAKE A VOLUNTARY PROFFER, THEN THAT'S USUALLY SOMETHING THAT IS OFFERED IN WRITING AHEAD OF TIME.
SO THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING THE QUESTION.
YOU GOT A QUESTION? OH, YEAH, I WAS, YEAH, I WAS JUST GONNA, UM, ASK, SO, UM, YOU'RE, UM, ENVISIONING AFFORDABLE HOUSING? UM, WELL, IT'S JUST IN FACT THAT IT WOULD BE UNDER A 300,000, SO IT'S NOT NECESSARILY CONSIDERED AFFORDABLE IN SENSE OF, YOU KNOW, IT'LL BE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF STANDARD.
IT'S MIXED USE, YOU KNOW, OPEN FOR EVERYBODY.
I MEAN, FAIR HOUSING LAWS, I WOULDN'T SAY.
WHAT IS IT GOVERNED TOWARDS? I'M NOT GONNA GET INTO THAT.
YEAH, I'M JUST GONNA SAY THE PRICE STRUCTURE RIGHT, IS THAT WE, OUR GOAL, THE SIGNAGE WOULD SAY UNDER 2 99 OH FOR THAT AND THEN TO MEET THE 1500 SQUARE FEET.
IT WILL BE A TWO BEDROOM, TWO BATH, WHICH IS 1500 SQUARE FEET.
AND THEY HAVE THE OPTION OF ADDING A GARAGE.
THEY HAVE A, A OPTION OF ADDING, UM, YOU KNOW, AN ADDITIONAL BEDROOM OVER THE GARAGE.
THEY CAN ADD A UNIT IF THEY WANT TO HAVE A RENTAL UNIT.
SO IT CAN STILL ADHERE TO THAT, UM, VALUE THAT YOU WERE ASKING IN REGARDS TO WILL IT INCREASE THE VALUE? YES.
AS IT, AS WELL AS IT STILL STAYS WITHIN THAT PRICE POINT THAT WE AREN'T BUILDING HALF A MILLION DOLLAR HOMES FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE TO, UM, YOU KNOW, AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT THERE AREN'T HALF A MILLION DOLLAR, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE TO AFFORD THOSE HOMES, BUT THAT'S NOT THE GOAL.
THE GOAL IS FOR, YOU KNOW, THOSE THAT EMPTY NESTERS, NEW GRADUATES OF COLLEGE, YOU KNOW, SO ON AND SO FORTH TO BE ABLE TO REALIZE HOME OWNERSHIP.
AND, AND YEAH, AND, AND I GUESS I'M NOT WHAT I, WHAT I, UM, WHAT I'M SAYING ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING, YOU KNOW, UM, AND I DO UNDERSTAND, I KNOW YOU SAID, YOU KNOW, AMAZON AND ALL THESE, AND I WAS JUST KIND OF THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU ARE ENVISIONING IS, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE AS YOU SAY, YOU KNOW, MAYBE A COLLEGE STUDENT, SOMETHING, BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE PROPERTY, THE HOUSES THAT YOU HAVE MM-HMM
BUT ALSO I SAID YOU, YOU'RE SAYING ALSO THAT YOU CAN ALSO ADD ON YEAH.
DIFFERENT THINGS, UH, FOR THE, FOR THE PROPERTIES I GUESS TO INCREASE THE VALUE EVEN MORE SO.
IT'S NOT GOING TO, UM, AFFECT ANY OF VALUES THAT ARE AROUND WHAT WE CALL IT IS WE STAY COMPARABLE TO WHAT IS IN THE AREA.
AND EVEN WITH CLAY ESTATES, I MEAN OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE GOING TO BE MODERN BUILDS, SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY MAY NOT BE BRICK STRUCTURE ALL, MOST WILL PROBABLY BE SIDING HARDY BOARD, THAT KIND OF THING, JUST BECAUSE IT'S A LITTLE LESS THAN BRICK STRUCTURE.
BUT IN THE SAME RESPECT, IT'LL BE MODERN BUILD, UM, PREFAB, UM, DESIGNS AND UM, SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE CAN QUALIFY AS FIRST TIME HOME BUYERS.
THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT YOU WERE ASKING.
YEAH, THAT'S EXACTLY, THAT'S A BETTER TERM.
UH, WHAT'S THE AVERAGE HOUSE NOW AROUND? IS IT A
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THREE BEDROOM? UM, UM, 1500 SQUARE FEET.ACTUALLY A CAPE POD IS TWO BEDROOM, TWO BATHS IS WHAT WE WERE SEEING IN TERMS OF AN AVERAGE MORE CONCERN WAS US THE, UM, ACREAGE AS IT, YOU KNOW, AS WE WERE DOING THE COMPS.
UM, BECAUSE AS THEY'VE STATED, THERE ARE HALF ACRE LOTS, UM, NOT ALL ARE AN ACRE AND A HALF, SO A TWO BEDROOM, TWO BATH, AN ACRE AND A HALF IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE SOME OWNERSHIP.
BUT AT CAPE COD YOU HAVE TWO, YOU HAVE TWO FLOORS YOU CAN TAKE.
THAT'S WHAT SOME OF YOU CAN ACTUALLY TAKE THE, UH, THEY COULD TAKE THE THIRD, A SECOND FLOOR AND TURN IT INTO TWO BEDROOMS OR A BEDROOM THAT'D MAKE IT THREE BEDROOMS, RIGHT? MM-HMM
WHATEVER THEY'RE DESIGNED, YOU KNOW, WE OBVIOUSLY WE CAN GIVE YOU THE OPTIONS, YOU DO WHAT YOU LIKE TO DO WITH, YOU KNOW, THE DESIGN.
BUT WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET TO THE POINT IS, IS THERE ANY TWO BEDROOMS HOUSES IN THAT AREA NOW? OH YES.
THE HOUSE THAT IS EXISTING ON THE PROPERTY THAT HAS BEEN THERE SINCE 1975 IS A TWO BEDROOM, ONE BATH, AND THEN THAT'S, THAT'S THE HOUSE THAT'S ALREADY ON THE PROPERTY.
YEAH, THAT'S A TWO BEDROOM, ONE BATH.
SO IT'LL STAY TILL THE END AND THEN THAT ONE WILL COME, THAT ONE WILL TURN INTO A NEWER PROPERTY AS WELL.
HAVE YOU BUILT PROPERTIES BEFORE OR THE PERSON? YES.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE A COMPANY SI BUILDS.
THEY'RE COMING OUT OF, UM, CHICAGO AND THEY ARE DOING SOME WORK HERE IN HAMPTON, VIRGINIA.
SO THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE A STOP AND, UM, WORK WITH US ON THE PRE-FAB PART SO THEY SHIP IN, YOU KNOW, UM, OUR STRUCTURES, MOST OF OUR STRUCTURES.
BUT YES, A CONSTRUCTION TEAM IS GOING TO BE WORKING ON IT.
SO UNFORTUNATELY IT WILL NOT BE ME
BUT YES, WE HAVE BUILT, UM, WE WERE DOING A LOT OF RENOVATION LIKE IN PETERSBURG AND THEN IN DC BEFORE COVID.
AND THEN JUST HAVING FAMILY LAND HERE AND HAVING INTEREST AND BEING FROM THIS AREA, IT WAS JUST NICE TO COME BACK TO AN AREA WHERE WE COULD KIND OF HELP DEVELOP AND GIVE SOME NEW, UM, HOUSING IN THIS MARKET.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OF THE APPLICANT? ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.
ALRIGHT, WE'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING PORTION OF THIS CASE.
DO WE HAVE ANYONE SIGNED UP? YES, MR. CHAIRMAN, WE HAVE JAMES JOHNSON, CHAIRMAN MOORE.
UH, I LIVED DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THAT LITTLE BOX IN AREA HE HAD UP THERE.
SHOWED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF RIVER ROAD.
ALL THE LOTS ON THAT SIDE OF RIVER ROAD ACROSS FROM THIS PROPERTY ARE TWO TO FIVE ACRE LOTS.
THE ZONING, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A, OR, YOU KNOW, A STIPULATION IN HERE THAT ONE AND A HALF GO TO TWO ACRES TO BE COMPARABLE, WHAT'S ACROSS THE STREET.
'CAUSE CLA ESTATES BEEN THERE FOR A LONG TIME AND I KNOW THE ZONING HAS CHANGED SINCE CLA STATE WAS PUT IN.
AND IF THE LOTS, THE LOTS GO UP TO TWO ACRES, YOU KNOW, I'M PROBABLY NOT GONNA HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT, BUT WE GOT A LOT OF TRAFFIC IN THERE WITH THAT DUMPSTER RIGHT BESIDE THAT, THE ZONING REQUEST AND THERE'S A LOT OF TRAFFIC IN THERE MM-HMM
BUT IF YOU INCREASE THE, YOU KNOW, THE LOT SIZE, YOU KNOW, THAT PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE TOO BAD COMPARED TO, YOU KNOW, THE LOT STRAIGHT ACROSS FROM IT.
ALRIGHT, THANK YOU MR. CHAIRMAN, I HAVE NO ONE ELSE SIGNED UP FOR THIS PUBLIC HEARING.
IS THERE ANYONE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS PUBLIC HEARING CASE? OKAY, HEARING NUMBER, WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING CASE.
UM, ANY, ANY COMMENTS AT THIS POINT FROM BOARD MEMBERS? UM, I MEAN WE'VE HEARD A, A VOLUNTEER, UH, OPTION OF 1500 SQUARE FEET, UM, BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE THAT IN WRITING BEFORE WE DO ANY, MAKE ANY DECISION GOING FORWARD.
UM, WHAT IS JUST ANY, ANYBODY OTHER COMMENTS, MR. CHAIRMAN? THAT COULD BE WHAT, WHAT'S SAID, BUT IT'S NOT, NOT, IT CAN'T BE, IT'S NOT LEGAL I GUESS, RIGHT? THAT'S RIGHT.
THEY HAVE, IT'S, IT'S VOLUNT VOLUNTARY BY THE APPLICANT.
MR. CHAIRMAN, IF I COULD, AND MR. SOUTHALL PLEASE JUMP IN.
SO THE, THE, THE ITEM BEFORE YOU TONIGHT IS, IS, IS A STRAIGHTFORWARD REZONING AND THE, THE APPLICANT HAS NOT SUBMITTED VOLUNTARY PROFFERS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CASE.
UM, MR. SOUTHALL, IF THE APPLICANT WANTED, I GUESS THE, THE OPTIONS TONIGHT IS THE APPLICANT
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HAS LISTENED TO SOME OF THE COMMENTS MADE BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.IF THE APPLICANT WISHES TO MAKE A VOLUNTARY, UM, PROFFER THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE DONE.
IF THAT'S DONE AND IT'S OF A CERTAIN SIGNIFICANCE, THEN, THEN WE WOULD PROBABLY WISH TO RE ADVERTISE A HEARING BASED ON WHAT, WHAT VOLUNTARY PROFFERS WOULD BE GIVEN TO GIVE PROBABLY DUE NOTICE TO THE COMMUNITY THAT THERE'S BEEN AN AMENDMENT.
BUT THAT'S BASED ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROFFER.
UM, OR THE BOARD CAN VOTE JUST STRICTLY UP, DOWN ON, ON THE MERITS OF THE CASE, NOT CONSIDERING ANY, ANY VOLUNTARY PROFFER AT THIS TIME.
SO I THINK WOULD YOU NOT AGREE THAT AS THAT THE, THE APPLICANT, IF THEY WISH TO MAKE A DECISION ON WHETHER THEY SO DESIRE TO MAKE A VOLUNTARY PROFFER WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE EVERYTHING YOU'VE OUTLINED MR. MASSENGILL IS AN OPTION? YEAH.
SO MR. CHAIRMAN, MY, OUR RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE, I GUESS ME AND THE COUNTY ATTORNEY THAT IF THE APPLICANT WISHES TO MAKE A VOLUNTARY PROFFER, UH, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU COULD ASK AT THIS TIME.
IF THEY ARE, THEN I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT YOU WOULD TABLE TONIGHT'S DISCUSSION TO ALLOW FOR PROPER NOTIFICATION TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AS TO WHAT THAT PROFFER MAY LOOK LIKE.
IF THE APPLICANT DOESN'T WISH TO DO THAT, THEN THIS IS, THIS IS A SIMPLE UP AND DOWN OR DEFERRAL.
AND TO BE CLEAR, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT VOLUNTARY PROFFERS TOTAL, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT THE APPLICANT OFFERS OF THEIR OWN ACCORD.
WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING YOU ASKED FOR.
YOU CAN ASK THEM, YOU KNOW, IF, IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO OFFER SOMETHING, BUT IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN SAY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE DEMANDING THAT YOU PUT FORTH THIS PROFFER.
WELL, WHAT IS THE, THE PLEASURE OF, THERE'S FOUR OF US HERE, MR. CHAIRMAN, I, MOVING FORWARD, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF WE ASKED THE APPLICANT IF THEY WOULD LIKE US TO MOVE FORWARD AS IS OR IF WOULD SHE LIKE TO POSSIBLY COME BACK AT A LATER MEETING AND ASK, OFFER SOME VOLUNTARY PROPERTIES BASED ON THE CONVERSATIONS WE'VE HAD? OF COURSE IT'S VOLUNTARY, ABSOLUTELY.
BUT SHE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT, SO THAT'S UP TO, UP TO HER.
WOULD THE APPLICANT LIKE TO COME FORWARD? I'D LIKE TO MOVE FORWARD.
ALRIGHT, SO YOU HAVE THE CASE BEFORE YOU, ANY OTHER COMMENTS AS WE GO FORWARD? YOU HAVE THE, UM, THE RESOLUTION THAT YOU CAN, UM, THAT WE EITHER FOR OR AGAINST, UH, IF SOMEONE WISHES TO MAKE THAT MOTION THIS EVENING PACKET, MR. CHAIRMAN, I A COUPLE COMMENTS BEFORE YES SIR.
THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, IN MY OPINION IS, IS KIND OF CAUGHT IN BETWEEN TWO AREAS.
ONE, YOU'VE GOT A SUBDIVISION RIGHT BEHIND IT, IT, THE REZONING WOULD FIT VERY WELL WITH THAT.
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE HOUSES ACROSS THE STREET THAT ARE A LITTLE BIT, UH, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BIT LARGER HOMES.
SO IT IS A SITUATION, IT'S KIND OF A TOUGH CALL, WHICH WOULD BE THE BEST WAY TO DO IT.
SO, UM, JUST, JUST OFFERING THAT UP BEFORE WE TAKE A VOTE.
YEAH, IT'S, IT'S, IT, IT REALLY IS CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT AVENUES.
UM, THE LOTS, CLAY ESTATES PROBABLY WAS BUILT IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES, SOMEWHERE IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD 40 YEARS AGO, GIVE OR TAKE.
UM, I WAS THERE IN 89, SO, UM, AND OF COURSE ZONING HAS CHANGED SINCE THAT TIME.
AND OF COURSE THE STREET, THE HOMES THAT ARE ACROSS THE STREET ARE ON THOSE LARGER LOTS.
UM, AND I, I SEE THE VALUE IN THAT ALSO AS WE GO FORWARD.
SO, UM, I MEAN, I, I JUST KNOW WHEN YOU'RE SITTING ON YOUR FRONT PORCH, YOU'RE GONNA BE LOOKING ACROSS THE STREET AND I GO DOWN THAT ROAD JUST ABOUT EVERY DAY.
I LIVE WITHIN TWO MILES OF THAT SITE.
UM, SO I WOULD LIKE FOR IT TO BE IN A SITUATION WHERE IT'S SIMILAR, UM, AS WE GO FORWARD.
I, I GO BACK TO DON'T WANT TO LOWER THE STANDARDS ON THE PEOPLE THAT'S ALREADY THERE.
YOU KNOW, I, I CAN SEE THE TWO ACRES, UM, THAT WOULD BE MORE
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COMPATIBLE, BUT THAT'S MY OPINION.THAT'S, UM, I'M JUST TRYING TO PUT MYSELF IN A SITUATION THAT I WOULD, I WOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE IN AND ANYONE ELSE TOO.
SO YEAH, I GUESS, UM, JUST, YOU KNOW, UH, JUST LISTENING, I THINK, UM, ALSO, UM, SHE DID SAY THAT THEY COULD INCREASE AS WELL, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY HAVE UP OR SIDE OR WHATEVER.
SO I GUESS THAT'S A POSSIBILITY AS WELL IF, UH, THEY COULD DO THAT IF THEY WANTED TO, TO INCREASE THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY.
UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING AS WELL TO THINK ABOUT.
MARK, THE, THE LOTS, IF YOU LOOK TO THE EAST, GOING DOWN RIVER ROAD, THE LOTS 19 DASH THREE A, 19 THREE B AND 19 THREE C, WHICH ARE DIRECTLY ADJACENT TO THAT PROPERTY.
DO WE KNOW THE, KNOW THE SIZES OF THOSE LOTS? SO MOVING AWAY FROM THE, THE, THE LARGE PARCEL 19.4 AND YOU GOT 19.5, BUT THESE THREE, THESE FOUR LOTS HERE, THREE A THAT LEAD YOU DOWN TO THE ENTRANCE ON EDGERY GOING INTO CLAY ESTATES.
DO WE KNOW WHAT THOSE CORRESPONDING LOTS ARE? SIZE WISE? MR. CHAIRMAN? 19 THREE B IS ONE ACRE.
AND LET'S SEE, AND 19 THREE C, UM, THAT'S THE ONE.
IT JUST SAYS AN ACRE, THE ONE BESIDE, THAT'S JUST OVER AN ACRE.
SO IT'S IT'S IN THE IT'S IN THE AC YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR IS WHAT IS THE SIZE OF THOSE, THOSE LOTS.
AND THEY'RE ALL, UH, SEPTIC AND, AND WATER.
WATER SEPTICS SYSTEMS. SO RIVER ROAD.
SO IT WOULD BE COMPATIBLE THERE.
I'M TRYING TO GET THIS OFF THE TABLE, OUT
SO I'LL, I WILL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED.
SECOND, I'M, I'M SORRY, MR. CHAIRMAN STATEMENT, CAN WE PLEASE GET MR. MOODY TO READ THE STATEMENTS SINCE IT IS A ZONING MATTER.
IT'S ON PAGE FOUR OF THE REPORT.
MR. CHAIRMAN BE RESOLVED THAT IN ORDER TO ASSURE COMPLIANCE FOR VIRGINIA CODE SECTION 15.2 DASH 2286 A SEVEN.
IT IS STATED THE PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR WHICH ITS RESOLUTION IS INITIATED AS TO FULFILL THE REQUIREMENTS OF PUBLIC NECESSITY, CONVENIENCE, GENERAL WELFARE, AND GOOD ZONING PRACTICE.
I MOVE THAT REZONING P DASH 23 DASH SEVEN AS PRESENTED TO BE APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
[13C. Conditional Use Permit Request Case C-23-7, Stoney Creek Materials]
ALRIGHT, ITEM NUMBER C, CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT REQUEST CASE C DASH 23 DASH SEVEN.UH, STONEY CREEK MATERIALS AND GOOD EVENING, BRAD.
MR. CHAIRMAN, THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, UH, FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS BRAD ROBINSON WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT.
I'M GONNA GIVE A BRIEF, UH, STAFF PRESENTATION FOR CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT C DASH 23 DASH FIVE.
THE APPLICANT FOR THIS APPLICATION IS STONY CREEK MATERIALS.
THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT TO UTILIZE THREE PARCELS, WHICH ARE IDENTIFIED IN OUR RECORDS AS TAX PARCELS 86 DASH 41 87 DASH EIGHT AND 87 DASH 17 TO UTILIZE THOSE THREE PARCELS AS AN OPEN PIT, SAND, AND GRAVEL MINE.
THE PARCELS ARE LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF TROUBLE FIELD
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ROAD IN THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE COUNTY.THOSE PARCELS ARE APPROXIMATELY 1.2 MILES EAST OF THE INTERSECTION WITH BLACK BRANCH ROAD.
ALL PARCELS TOGETHER ARE APPROXIMATELY 110 ACRES, PLUS OR MINUS.
THE PARCELS ARE ZONED, UH, A TWO, WHICH IS OUR AGRICULTURAL GENERAL DISTRICT.
THE A TWO DISTRICT REQUIRES THAT A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT BE ISSUED FOR A USE THAT INVOLVES OPEN PIT MINING FOR MINERALS OR MINERAL SANDS.
UH, THE COUNTY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DESIGNATES THE PROPERTY AS BEING WITHIN ANY RURAL CONSERVATION AREA, WHICH IS INTENDED TO LIMIT NEW GROWTH AND ENCOURAGE THE CONTINUATION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL AND RESIDENTIAL USES.
UH, IN ADDITION TO THE SUBJECT PARCELS, THE SURROUNDING PROPERTIES ARE ALSO ZONED A TWO.
SOME OF THE USES IN THE AREA INCLUDE SINGLE FAMILY DWELLINGS, FARMLAND AND FOREST LAND USES OR UNDEVELOPED PARCELS.
THERE IS A CREEK THAT ALSO RUNS, UH, TO THE WESTERN UH AREA, BUT IN THE WESTERN AREA OF THE PROPERTY, THE PROPOSED, UH, MINING OPERATION IS TO BE OPERATED SIMILAR TO SOME NEIGHBORING MINING OPERATIONS THAT ARE ADJACENT TO THE SITE.
THESE WERE ISSUED IN THREE PREVIOUS CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS IN 2012 CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.
C DASH 12 DASH FOUR WAS ISSUED FOR WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE PEGRAM MINING OPERATION AND 2016 CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT C DASH 16 DASH ONE WAS ISSUED FOR SHAN'S MINING OPERATION AND THEN IN 2020 AUGUST OF 2020 THERE WAS ANOTHER CONDITION USE PERMIT C DASH 20 DASH FOUR ALSO FOR ANOTHER SHAN'S MINING OPERATION.
AND THESE, UH, APPLICATIONS ARE HIGHLIGHTED ON THE SCREEN JUST SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE THEY ARE IN RELATION TO THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES WHICH ARE IN YELLOW.
THE PROPOSED, UM, HOURS OF OPERATION FOUR.
THE SAND AND GRAVEL MINE ARE PROPOSED TO BE FROM SEVEN TO FOUR 7:00 AM TO 4:00 PM MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AND WITH AREA CITIZENS IN MIND SATURDAY HOURS ARE FROM 8:00 AM TO 2:00 PM AND I'LL JUST MENTION THAT UH, THESE ARE ALREADY IN PLACE FOR THE EXISTING OPERATION.
USE PERMITS ANY ADDITIONAL SATURDAY HOURS WOULD BE, UH, FOR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS ONLY.
THE SAND AND GRAVEL MATERIALS MINED USING AN EXCAVATOR.
THERE IS NO BLASTING INVOLVED OR USED TO EXTRACT THE MATERIAL.
THE MATERIAL IS THEN STOCKPILED ON THE MINE SITE.
THE STOCKPILE MATERIAL WAS LOADED FROM THE STOCKPILE INTO A RUBBER TIRED LOADER USING AN EXCAVATOR OVER TIME.
POOLING OF WATER TAKES PLACE IN THE MINE PIT, WHICH CREATES A SMALL LAKE.
AS THE MINING, UH, IN EACH AREA OF THE SITE IS COMPLETED, THE BANKS OF THESE LAKES ARE SLOPED AND THEN THE BANKS ARE STABILIZED WITH SEED.
THE MINING PIT AREAS ARE BUFFERED FROM THE SURROUNDING AREA BY CONSTRUCTION OF EARTH AND BERMS THAT ARE EX FROM THE EXTRACTED TOP SOIL.
AND THESE EARTH AND BERMS ARE THREE TO THREE FEET IN HEIGHT AND FOUR FEET WIDE.
AND THE EXCESS TOPSOIL IS USED TO RECLAIM THE MINE SITE AFTER THE MINING OPERATION BY SPREADING AND DISKING IN THIS TOP SOIL TO A DEPTH OF FOUR INCHES AND SEEDING ON ALL AREAS NOT COVERED BY WATER.
THE STOCKPILE SAND AND GRAVEL MATERIAL IS PROCESSED ON SITE USING A SCREENING PLANT AT APPROXIMATELY 80 TONS PER HOUR.
THERE IS NO CRUSHING OF ROCK MATERIAL ALLOWED AS PART OF THIS OPERATION.
ANY OVERBURDEN OR WASTE MATERIAL WAS STOCKPILED ON SITE AND SEEDED ANY RUNOFF FROM THE STOCKPILED AREAS DRAINS BACK INTO THE MINE PIT AREAS.
THE STOCKPILED WASTE MATERIAL IS EITHER SOLD OR UTILIZED ON THE SITE TO RECLAIM THE BANKS AND THE SLOPES AFTER THE SAND AND GRAB WAS PROCESSED ON THE SITE, IT IS HAULED OFF SITE USING THE HALL ROAD THAT EXTENDS FROM TR FIELD ROAD INTO THE SITE ALONG AN EXISTING FARM SERVICE ROAD.
THE HALL ROAD IS WATERED AS NEEDED TO CONTROL DUST.
IT'S ESTIMATED THAT NO MORE THAN 50 TRUCKLOADS OF MINE SAND AND GRAVEL MATERIAL IS HAULED OFFSITE EACH DAY DURING THE HOURS OF OPERATION.
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LAND USE WOULD RETURN TO THE PRE MINE AGRICULTURAL USE.THE ENTIRE SITE IS TO BE RECLAIMED BY REVEGETATING THE SITE USING THE STOCKPILED TOPSOIL AND ANY STOCKPILED OVERBURDEN.
AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THE PROPERTY IS DESIGNATED BY THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS BEING WITHIN THE RURAL CONSERVATION AREA.
SO TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPACTS OF THIS REQUEST ON THE UH, SITE AND THE COUNTY'S SERVICES, UH, TO BE CLEAR, IT IS THE DEPARTMENT OF MINES MINERALS AND ENERGY, WHICH IS UH, MORE SPECIFICALLY THE DIVISION OF MINERAL MINING WHICH ISSUES AND OVERSEAS THE PERMIT IN THE LICENSE TO OPERATE THIS MINE.
THEREFORE, THE MINING OPERATION WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS OF THAT PERMIT IN THAT LICENSE.
UH, DRAINAGE SAFETY AND RECLAMATION PRACTICES ARE MADE A PART OF THAT PERMIT AS ARE PERIODIC INSPECTIONS BY THE OPERATOR.
UH, WITH REGARDS TO COUNTY'S UH, UTILITY SCHOOL SYSTEM PUBLIC SAFETY, THE EXISTING UTILITIES ARE HANDLED ON SITE AND MECHANICAL SYSTEMS ARE UTILIZED AS PART OF THE MINING OPERATION.
UH, THERE ARE PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES TYPICALLY INVOLVED WITH THIS TYPE OF USE AND THOSE HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED PREVIOUSLY, UH, WITH THE PREVIOUS CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS AND THE CONDITIONS THAT WE WILL GO OVER IN A MOMENT.
UH, AND IN ADDITION, THERE ARE IMPACTS ON THE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK THAT HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED BY VDOT THROUGH THE COMMERCIAL ENTRANCE PERMIT.
SO IT SET FORTH IN, UM, SECTION 22 DASH 22 OF THE COUNTY'S ZONING ORDINANCE.
ANY PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER WHICH ALLOW A USE WITH A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT SHALL NOT PROHIBIT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM DENYING AN APPLICATION FOR A PARTICULAR PERMIT UPON FINDING AFTER PUBLIC HEARING THAT THE ISSUANCE OF SUCH PERMIT WOULD NOT BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE INTENT, PURPOSE, AND DESIGN OF THIS CHAPTER AND OR SECTION 22 DASH TWO OF THE COUNTY CODE.
AND THAT IS A SECTION OF THE COUNTY CODE THAT PERTAINS TO CONDITION USE.
PERMITS PLANNING STAFF HAS REVIEWED THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST AND RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE CONDITION USE PERMIT SUBJECT TO THESE CONDITIONS, WHICH I WILL GO THROUGH AND I WILL JUST, UM, EMPHASIZE THAT THESE CONDITIONS ARE IN PLACE ON THE ADJACENT MINING OPERATIONS AS WELL.
UM, CONDITION NUMBER ONE, THE USE OF THE PROPERTY IS LIMITED TO OPEN PIT, SAND AND GRAVEL MINING AND TRANSPORTATION.
THE OPEN PIT AND SAND GRAVEL MINING SHALL OCCUR ONLY ON THE PARCELS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED IN THIS REQUEST, WHICH ARE 86 DASH 41, 87 DASH EIGHT AND 87 DASH 17.
AND THE ONLY ACCESS TO THE SITE IS THROUGH, UH, ACROSS PARCEL 87 DASH 13.
THAT PARCEL IS BEING UTILIZED BY THE EXISTING MINING OPERATIONS.
UH, CONDITION NUMBER TWO PERTAINS TO HOURS OF OPERATION.
AS I MENTIONED, UH, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY WAS 7:00 AM TO 4:00 PM AND ON SATURDAYS 8:00 AM UNTIL 2:00 PM EMERGENCY OPERATIONS, UH, ON SATURDAYS FROM 8:00 AM TO 4:00 PM AM CONDITION NUMBER THREE PERTAINS TO A MAXIMUM DEPTH OF THE MINING PITCH PITS, WHICH IS NOT TO EXCEED 14 FEET CONDITION.
FOUR, NO CRUSHING OF SAND, GRAVEL, OR STONE IS ALLOWED ON THE SITE CONDITION.
FIVE, NO BLASTING IS PERMITTED AS PART OF THIS OPERATION.
NUMBER SIX, NO PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE MINING SITES IS PERMITTED.
CONDITION NUMBER SEVEN REQUIRES, UM, BERMS FOR MINING SITES STARTER IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO AN ADJACENT PROPERTY LINE.
CONDITION NUMBER EIGHT, UH, PLACES A LIMIT ON THE NUMBER OF TRUCKLOADS THAT ARE MINED MATERIAL AND THE OPERATOR'S REQUIRED TO MAKE A DAILY INSPECTION OF THE, UH, THE SERVICE ROAD WITHIN 200 FEET OF ANY ENTRANCE TO THE MINE IS REQUIRED TO SWEEP ANY DEBRIS WITHIN 200 FEET OF ANY ENTRANCE TO THE MINE.
UH, NUMBER NINE UH, REQUIRES THAT ALL APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL PERMITS SHALL BE OBTAINED AND FILED WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS MAINTAINING GOOD STANDING BY THE OWNER AND OPERATOR.
AND COPIES CAN BE PROVIDED TO THE COUNTY UPON REQUEST.
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REQUIRES COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS.AND LASTLY, CONDITION NUMBER 11 ALLOWS THE COUNTY, UH, AN AN MINIMUM AN ANNUAL REVIEW OVER A MINIMUM OF ONCE PER CALENDAR YEAR.
UH, THE PLANNING COMMISSION HEARD THIS REQUEST AT THEIR MEETING ON NOVEMBER THE EIGHTH, 2023.
AT THAT MEETING, THEY RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF THIS REQUEST, UH, SIX TO ZERO.
UH, THAT CONCLUDES STAFF'S PRESENTATION.
I CAN ANSWER QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE.
THE APPLICANT IS PRESENT AS WELL.
ANY QUESTIONS OF STAFF AT THIS TIME? UH, ONE QUESTION.
I NOTICED THE PLANNING COMMISSION DID HAVE SOME COMMENTS ABOUT NUMBER EIGHT.
UH, DIDN'T REALLY SEE 'EM IN THE REPORT HERE ABOUT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF TRUCKS.
IS THAT GONNA BE FROM EACH OPERATION OR THE TOTAL TRUCKS? THAT QUESTION WAS ASKED THAT PLANNING COMMISSION IF IT WAS ACCURATE AGGREGATE, BUT IT HAS BEEN INTERPRETED BY THE COUNTY THAT IT'S APPLICABLE TO EACH CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.
SO EACH CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT THAT'S BEEN ISSUED IS ALLOWED THE 50 TRUCKLOADS, BUT THE APPLICANT'S HAS INDICATED THAT THEY WERE WELL UNDER THAT AMOUNT.
IS THIS THE SAME, SAME OPERATION GOING ON OR JUST DIFFERENT? IT'S THE SAME MINE AND OPERATION, YES.
THEY, THIS REQUEST IS ESSENTIALLY JUST ADDING THREE ADDITIONAL PARCELS INTO THE OPERATION BUT IS THE SAME OPERATION, I MEAN THE SAME, THEY'RE NOT MINING BUT IN ONE SIDE AT A TIME.
IS THAT, IS THAT CORRECT? UH, CORRECT.
AND, AND SOME OF THE PARCELS ARE GOING OUTTA COMMISSION.
THEY ARE THESE THREE, THEY'RE ADDING THESE INTO THEIR OPERATION 'CAUSE SOME OF THE PREVIOUS PARCELS HAVE, UH, ARE REACHING THEIR LIFE.
ALL OF THOSE TOGETHER, I MEAN HANS IS RIGHT, THERE'S TWO PREVIOUS SHANDS AND ONE PEGRAM.
SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE GONE OR THEY STILL, I BELIEVE THEY'RE ALL STILL IN OPERATION RIGHT NOW, BUT THREE OF THE PARCELS WILL BE COMING OFFLINE AT SOME POINT.
I BELIEVE THE APPLICANT MIGHT BE ABLE TO ANSWER THAT AS WELL.
I BELIEVE ALL OF THE, RIGHT NOW ALL OF THE CONDITION USE PERMITS ARE STILL ACTIVE BUT AT SOME POINT THE THREE PARCELS FROM THE FIRST CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT, WHICH I BELIEVE IS PEGRAM, WILL ESSENTIALLY WILL EVENTUALLY BE COMPLETED.
WE'LL ASK THE APPLICANT TO COME FORWARD IF HE HAS ANY COMMENTS OR WE CAN ASK ANY QUESTIONS THERE.
JUST NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
TODD BRYANT, UM, CENTRAL HILL, VIRGINIA, SMITHFIELD, VIRGINIA.
ANY QUESTIONS OF THE APPLICANT AT THIS TIME? MR. CHAIRMAN? JUST, UH, MR. ROBINSON DID A FINE JOB OF TRYING TO EXPLAIN IT, BUT COULD YOU EXPLAIN, UH, DO YOU HAVE JUST ONE SET OF OPERATIONS GOING ON AT ONE TIME ON ALL THREE OF THESE SITES OR IS IT THREE DIFFERENT OPERATIONS GOING ON? NO, IT'S JUST ONE OPERATION GOING ON PER PARTIAL.
WE ARE ABOUT TO CLOSE THREE OF THEM OUT AND WE ONLY DO ONE PARTIAL AT A TIME.
WE DON'T OPEN THE WHOLE PIT UP.
SO YOU, YOU DON'T SEE YOU GETTING OVER 50 LOADS A DAY TOTAL? WE AVERAGE ANYWHERE FROM 1525 AT THE BEST PER DAY.
IS THAT ALL THREE SITES TOGETHER? YES SIR.
UM, UM, DO YOU HAVE ANY, UH, PROBLEMS WITH THE NEIGHBORS, WITH THE MINING AND EVERYTHING? NO SIR.
OKAY, WE'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING PORTION OF THIS CASE.
IS THERE ANYONE SIGNED UP? MR. CHAIRMAN, I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED UP.
IS THERE ANYONE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS CASE TONIGHT? ALRIGHT, HEARING NONE, WE'LL MOVE FORWARD.
YOU HAVE THE STANDARD STATEMENT BEFORE YOU, IT'S ON PAGE SIX OF THE STAFF REPORT.
WHAT IS YOUR PLEASURE THIS EVENING? DO I NEED TO READ IT? YES SIR.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT IN ORDER TO ASSURE COMPLIANCE WITH VIRGINIA CODE SECTION 15.2 DASH 2 2 86 A SEVEN, IT IS STATED THAT THE PUBLIC PURPOSE OF WHICH THE RESOLUTION IS INITIATED IS TO FULFILL THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE PUBLIC NECESSITY,
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CONVENIENCE, GENERAL WELFARE, AND GOOD ZONING PRACTICE.I MOVE THAT THE CONDITION PERMIT REQUEST C DASH 23 DASH FIVE AS PRESENTED FOR AN OPEN PIT, SAND AND GRAVEL MINE AND OPERATION BE APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS OR UH, NO WITHOUT CONDITION BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
MR. CHAIRMAN, I DO HAVE ONE NOTE IN THE RESOLUTION THERE IS PRESENTED, IT SAYS C DASH 23 DASH FIVE.
ON THE AGENDA IT SAYS C DASH 23 DASH SEVEN.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE RIGHT NUMBER THERE.
YEAH, YOU SAID FIVE MR. CHAPS, I WAS JUST, IT CONFLICTED WITH THE AGENDA SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THE AGENDA SAYS SEVEN.
OKAY, I'LL SECOND THAT MOTION.
ALRIGHT, ROLL CALL MR. CHAVIS.
[14A. Appointments]
AND NEW BUSINESS THIS EVENING.WE HAVE SOME APPOINTMENTS THAT WE NEED TO MAKE THIS EVENING.
MR. CHAIRMAN, FIRST WE HAVE, UH, APPOINTMENTS THAT ARE NEEDED FOR THE TRANSPORTATION SAFETY AND PLANNING COMMISSION.
MR. CHAIRMAN, I WOULD LIKE TO REAPPOINT MR. SAM HAYES FOR A TERM EXPIRING 9 30 27.
YOUR ROLL CALL MR. CHAVIS? AYE.
MR. CHAIRMAN, WE ALSO NEED TO MAKE A BOARD APPOINTMENT, UH, REPRESENTING THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE TRANSPORTATION SAFETY AND PLANNING COMMISSION.
I'D LIKE TO, UH, REAPPOINT, UM, MR. BILL CHAVIS TO A TERM TO EXPIRE 9 30 20 27.
THREE A'S ONE ABSTAIN MR. CHAIRMAN MEMBERS OF THE BOARD WE NEED TO, UM, MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO THE COURT IN REGARDS TO THE DIY COUNTY BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS, MS. TRACY SHEETS 12 31 28.
OKAY, CAN WE GET A SECOND? SECOND.
MR. CHAIRMAN, MR. BOARD AN APPOINTMENT TO THE DIMITY COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY.
MR. CHAIRMAN, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO REAPPOINT THOMAS BRYANT RAY TO A TERM EXPIRING 12 31 27.
AND LASTLY, UH, TWO APPOINTMENTS ARE NEEDED TO THE VIRGINIA'S GATEWAY REGION.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO REAPPOINT MR. DAN LEE, UH, FOR A TERM TO EXPIRE.
TWELVE THIRTY ONE THIRTY ONE TWENTY FOUR.
ALL VOTING? AYE MR. CHAIRMAN, WE ALSO, UM, TO CONSIDER MR. HAMPTON GORDON FOR VIRGINIA'S GATEWAY REGION.
MR. CHAIRMAN, I'D LIKE REAPPOINT MR. HAMPTON GORDON TO A TERM EXPIRING 12 31 24.
[15. CITIZEN COMMENTS (3 MINUTES)]
COMMENT, PERIOD.AND LET ME READ A STATEMENT BEFORE WE GO INTO THAT.
IT SAYS, THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS DESIRES TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS ON MATTERS THAT ARE NOT LISTED UNDER THE PUBLIC HEARING PORTION OF THIS MEETING.
IT IS FOR THE, THAT PURPOSE THAT THE CITIZENS' COMMENT PERIOD IS PROVIDED.
THIS TIME IS NOT INTENDED TO BE A QUESTION OR ANSWER PERIOD, NOR IS IT A TIME FOR DIALOGUE WITH BOARD MEMBERS OR STAFF CITIZENS WHO DO NOT, WHO DO TAKE PART IN THIS, UH, COMMENT PERIOD MUST ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS THE BOARD WITH DECORUM LOUD, DISRUPTIVE, OR AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR TO INCLUDE OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE SHALL BE AVOIDED.
AVOID WORDS OR ACTS THAT ARE AIMED AT EVOKING VIOLENCE OR CAN BE DEEMED TO BE THE BREACH OF THE PEACE.
AND LASTLY, DIRECT ALL COMMENTS TO THE BOARD'S CHAIRMAN AND WE'LL OPEN THE CITIZEN'S COMMENT PERIOD.
DO WE HAVE ANYONE SIGNED UP? YES, MR. CHAIRMAN, WE HAVE CHRIS RIZZO.
I JUST WANTED TO GOOD WISH THE, UH, ALL OF YOU, UH, MERY.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PATIENCE DURING THE LAST YEAR.BEEN OUR FRUSTRATIONS AT TIMES, BUT WE'RE ALL HERE TO TRY AND MAKE DIGNITY MUY BETTER.
SO NOW WE SEE THIS FOR WHAT IT IS, THE COERCION TACTICS, THE FALSE TRAFFIC DATA, THE OBSCENE, MANGLING, AND VIRGINIA PLANNING CODE, THE WILLINGNESS TO JEOPARDIZE THE WELFARE OF LESSER VALUED CITIZENS WITH THE HOLDING THE WITHHOLDING OF FOIA INFORMATION JUST TO NAME A FEW OF THE STRANGE ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE DENWITTY COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
THE LIKELY SCENARIO GOES LIKE THIS.
HE HAD PALS AMONGST THE BOARD.
TRUE THE SOUTHERN BLOCK WOULD BE SEEN FOR THE CLOWN CAR SIDESHOW THAT IT WAS, BUT THEY WOULD STILL GIVE HIM WHAT HE WANTED.
HE WAS OF THE INDUSTRY KNEW HOW TO MANIPULATE THE SYSTEM, HAD ATTORNEYS AND COULD MAKE THE WHOLE DEAL LOOK ABOVE BOARD EVEN MORE VALUABLE.
HE HAD CARRIE COYNER AS HIS RE REGISTERED AGENT FOR COX ROAD LAND, LLC AND HIGHMARK ENGINEERING, AS WELL AS HER POLITICAL FINANCIAL REAL ESTATE LEGAL REACH.
IN ADDITION TO HER MEDIA AND FAMILY CONNECTIONS AT THEIR DISPOSAL, THE LACK OF MEDIA COVERAGE, THE RECALLING OF TWO REPORTERS JUST AS THEY WERE TO MEET WITH THE CITIZENS AND BLOCKED ACCESS TO INFORMATION POINT TO SOMEONE WITH POWER.
IT SEEMS NO ONE DARE REFUSE MS. COYER.
WHEN THE CITIZENRY SUSPECTED FOUL PLAY, IT HELPED TO HAVE A MEMBER OF THE BOARD PRIVATELY GIVE PEP TALKS, LAY OUT ACTION PLANS PRIVATELY CALL THE DEVELOPMENT ACCRUAL THING TO INFL ON THE PEOPLE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT PUBLICLY WOULD SAY LITTLE MORE THAN THE BOARD IS ETHICAL AND THE OFFICIAL BUT USELESS VOTE AGAINST THE DEVELOPMENT WOULD HELP HIM SAVE FACE NORTH IN WITTY CITIZENS WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO SEE THROUGH IT, BUT THEY DID.
AND THEY WEREN'T THE ONLY ONES.
MY BOSS MADE SURE I UNDERSTOOD THAT IT WAS RIGGED.
FRIENDS, COWORKERS, AND STUDY GROUP PEERS DECRIED THE PLANNING BOARDS AND COMMISSION, EXCUSE ME, THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ACTIONS.
WE EVEN LISTENED TO THE DENWITTY DEBACLE REGURGITATED TWICE AT A WAITING ROOM IN JOHNSTON WILLIS.
ONE LADY PUT AN EXCLAMATION POINT ON THE SUBJECT SAYING THAT'S WHY YOU THOROUGHLY VET YOUR OPTIONS BEFORE YOU CHOOSE WHERE TO LIVE.
UNFORTUNATELY, WE DON'T ALL HAVE THAT LUXURY.
AND SO THOSE LOTTING POWER OVER OTHERS TAKE THE WIDE GATE, LEAVING THE DAMAGE IN THEIR WAKE SERIOUS AND SOMETIMES IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE.
SOMEHOW THAT DAMAGE SEEMS TO BE WORTH THEIR VICTORY.
BUT FOR THOSE WHO TAKE THE NARROW GATE, PSALM 37 TELLS US, BE STILL BEFORE THE LORD AND PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM AND DO NOT FRET WHEN MEN SUCCEED IN THEIR WAYS, WHEN THEY CARRY OUT THEIR WICKED SCHEMES FOR EVIL.
MEN WILL BE CUT OFF, BUT THOSE WHO HOPE IN THE LORD WILL INHERIT THE LAND.
SPECIAL THANK YOU TO AUDREY DRILL, JILL AND TRACY FOR PUSHING ME TO SPEAK THE TRUTH EVEN IF MY VOICE SHAKES.
THANK YOU MICHAEL MULLEN, HOWER.
GOOD EVENING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
MICHAEL MULLEN, HOWER 38 0 5 CHE BOULEVARD, SUTHERLAND, VIRGINIA.
I'M HERE TONIGHT TO SPEAK ON A TOPIC THAT IS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN.
YES, UM, I BELIEVE TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, BUT IT NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT TO LIGHT.
OUR CURRENT SYSTEM RIGHT NOW WHEN YOU, OUR, OUR CONVICTED OF A CRIME AND YOU HAVE COURT COSTS AND FINES THAT ARE CONNECTED WITH THAT, YOU ARE LED INTO THE CIRCUIT COURT CLERK'S OFFICE TO WHERE YOU ARE GIVEN AN OPTION OF EITHER PAY IF YOU CAN OR A NEED, A PAYMENT PLAN.
WHAT ALL CITIZENS DON'T KNOW IS THAT IT IS POLICY VIA BARRETT CHAPEL THAT THE VERY NEXT DAY AFTER YOU SIGNED THAT AGREEMENT, THERE IS A AGGRESSIVE LIEN PUT AGAINST YOUR PROPERTY.
RIGHT NOW, THERE ARE BETWEEN 200 AND 500 CITIZENS ON THAT PAYMENT PLAN.
THIS IS, THIS IS DOUBLE JEOPARDY.
YOU GET YOUR SENTENCING FROM THE JUDGE, THEN YOU GO INTO TO, TO PAY YOUR FINES.
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FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS TRYING TO REFINANCE MY HOUSE.OKAY? THEY SAID, NO, THERE'S A, THERE'S A HOSTILE LIEN.
MY CREDIT SCORE WENT FROM 7 7 7 78 OR SEVEN 60 TO 6 0 2 AND IT, IT SHOWED 51 MONTHS PAST DUE.
MR. CHAPEL SAID, I DIDN'T REPORT IT TO THE CREDIT AGENCY.
THERE'S THERE'S TEAMS OUT THERE THAT SCOUR THE FOR, FOR, FOR COURT PROCEEDINGS AND DIFFERENT DEBTS AND, AND LIENS IN THAT.
SO WHAT YOU'VE DONE IS YOU'VE DESTROYED MY FINANCIAL FUTURE.
AND THE BAD PART ABOUT IT IS IT'S ON, IT'S NOT ON THE PAYMENT PLAN.
AND THE CLERKS DO NOT ADVISE YOU OF THAT.
I'LL GUARANTEE YOU, HAD I BEEN ADVISED OF THAT I'D HAVE TAKEN A PERSONAL LOAN, I WOULD NOT HAVE SIGNED THAT AGREEMENT.
IT FALLS UNDER THE LAST PAGE OF YOUR HANDOUT.
MORAL I TURPITUDE, IF YOU READ THAT DEFINITION, THERE'S A BIG GRAY AREA THERE.
THERE'S A HUNDRED SHADES OF GRAY IN THERE.
IT READS AN ACT OR BEHAVIOR THAT GRAVELY VIOLATES THE SEDIMENT OR ACCEPTED STANDARDS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT HAS GROSSLY VIOLATED THAT.
AND IN CLOSING, UH, 19.2 DASH 3 58, PROCEDURE ON DEFAULT DEFERRED PAYMENT OR INSTALLMENTS.
IT LISTED HERE, IF YOU READ THROUGH IT, THAT THERE, THERE'S, THERE'S FOUR OR FIVE DIFFERENT STEPS THAT NEED TO BE GONE THROUGH, SUCH AS A SUMMONS OR A WARRANT.
DENWOODY COUNTY CHOOSES TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE THROAT WITH A CHECK.
HOW ARE YOU THIS EVENING? HOW ARE YOU? HANNAH BISHOP 11 8 0 3 COURTHOUSE ROAD AND ALSO THE EXTENSION AGENT FOR DENWITTY COUNTY.
AND I JUST WANTED TO COME FORTH AND EXPLAIN WHY WE'RE HERE REALLY QUICKLY.
UM, SO I HAD A GROUP TONIGHT OF ABOUT 25 TO 30 OF OUR FOUR H CLUB MEMBERS WHO WERE LEARNING ABOUT PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE.
SO, UM, I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO PRACTICE ONE OF OUR FOUR PILLARS.
UM, WE HAVE OUR AG, OUR STEM, OUR HEALTHY LIVING, AND THEN CIVIC ENGAGEMENT SLASH CITIZENSHIP.
SO I WANTED THEM TO HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE A MEETING AND LEARN HOW TO PROPERLY VOICE CONCERNS IF THEY'RE EVER IN A POSITION WHERE, UM, THEY MAY NEED TO.
I ALSO, UH, WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT JUST TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT, UM, OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS AND GIVE YOU A VERY, VERY QUICK JUST SNAPSHOT OF WHAT, UM, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON.
UM, WE HAD 184 PARTICIPANTS FROM DENWITTY GO TO OUR FOUR H OVERNIGHT JUNIOR CAMP.
WE'VE GROWN TO 10 CLUBS WITH ABOUT 23 ADULT VOLUNTEERS.
AND WE ARE NOW AT 224 CLUB MEMBERS, WHICH IS MAYBE THE BIGGEST YOUTH CLUB IN DINWITTY.
UM, WE ARE ACTUALLY, OUR CALENDAR IS FULL.
OUR CLUBS ARE MEETING TWO TO THREE TIMES A WEEK.
UM, AT THIS POINT BETWEEN MELISSA AND I, WE MANAGED FOUR AND SCHOOL PROGRAM PROGRAMS, WHICH REACHED 1,092 YOUTH LAST YEAR.
UM, WE'VE ALSO FUNDED 10 KIDS TO GO TO FOUR H CAMP THROUGH OUR GOLDEN TICKET PROGRAM IN THE ALVIN BAJA MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT.
WE WERE SELECTED NONPROFIT OF THE YEAR BY THE CITIZENS THROUGH THE BEST OF DENDY BANQUET.
AND WE'VE MANAGED TO NOT BE ON THE DEWIN COUNTY COMMUNITY BOARD IN A NEGATIVE WAY.
UM, AND THIS IS NOT TO TOOT MY OWN HORN.
I AM VERY AWARE THAT WE HAVE A VERY SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY AND I'M THANKFUL FOR YOUR SUPPORT AS WELL AS THE SUPPORT OF OUR CITIZENS, OUR CLUB MEMBERS, AND OUR, UH, PARENTS AS WELL.
AND I CAN'T GO WITHOUT SAYING THAT MELISSA IS A VERY CRITICAL PIECE TO WHAT WE DO.
AND HAVING THAT EXTRA PERSON IS A HUGE HELP.
AND I KNOW THAT I'M VERY LUCKY.
UM, I DO WANNA ADD THAT WE HAVE PUT IN A REQUEST TO MAKE THAT POSITION FULL-TIME.
SO HOPEFULLY THAT WILL BE COMING TO YOUR, UH, FOREFRONT HERE IN THE FUTURE.
BUT I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
WE COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU.
AND CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR RETIREMENT.
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CHRISTMAS.MR. CHAIRMAN, I HAVE NO ONE ELSE SIGNED UP.
IS ANYONE ELSE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK THIS EVENING? ALRIGHT, WE CLOSE.
[16. BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS]
TAKES US TO ITEM NUMBER 16, AND THAT IS BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS.UM, I'M GONNA START WITH MR. MASSENGILL.
GIVE HIM A FEW MINUTES THIS EVENING, UH, TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS.
THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
UH, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK OF THE BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS, EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT A MEMBER OF THE BOARD.
I HAD MY COMMENTS EARLIER TODAY, BUT AS WE KNEW THE TIME WOULD COME WHERE AFTER 37 YEARS OF UNWAVERING PUBLIC SERVICE, MR. MOODY DECIDED THAT HE, UH, HE DIDN'T WANT TO SEEK REELECTION.
AND IN FULL DISCLOSURE, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I KNEW THIS DAY WAS COMING MM-HMM
AND, AND SO I, I WROTE DOWN SOME MARKS.
USUALLY I DON'T LIKE TO READ STRAIGHT FROM A PAPER, BUT THIS IS SO PERSONAL TO ME.
SO I'M, I'M NOT GONNA TRY TO DEVIATE TOO MUCH FROM MY KIND OF PREPARED REMARKS.
UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, I, I TRULY BELIEVE THAT EACH PERSON IN THIS WORLD, UH, HAS BEEN BORN WITH CERTAIN TALENTS AND GIFTS FROM OUR CREATOR.
UM, SUCCESS IN LIFE IS, IS FINDING OUT WHAT THOSE GIFTS AND TALENTS ARE, AND THEN USING THEM TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.
UM, WHEN A PERSON USES THESE GIFTS AND THEIR TALENTS THE CORRECT WAY, I TRULY BELIEVE THEY CAN, THEY CAN LIVE OUT THEIR CALLING IN LIFE.
THERE'S NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT HARRISON, YOU, YOU HAVE LIVED OUT WHAT OUR CREATOR PUT YOU ON EARTH TO DO.
MS. MR. MOODY IS THE TRUE CHRISTIAN PUBLIC SERVANT.
SO, JUST REWIND A LITTLE BIT OF THESE 37 YEARS OF SERVICE.
I'VE HAD THE DISTINCT PLEASURE TO WORK WITH MR. MOODY.
UM, I WAS 27 YEARS OLD WHEN I TOOK THE POSITION OF ASSISTANT COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR.
IN FACT, ONE OF THE COLLEAGUES ON THE BOARD REFERRED TO ME AS BABY BOY.
AND I, I THINK I DIDN'T KNOW HE KNEW MY NAME FOR YEARS.
AND WHEN I STARTED, I NEEDED SOMEONE, I NEEDED SOMEONE TO LOOK UP TO.
UM, AND I, THAT'S WHEN I BEGAN TO WORK WITH HARRISON MOODY.
AND I, I STRESSED WITH HARRISON MOODY BECAUSE IF I EVER DARED SAY THAT I WORKED FOR HARRISON MOODY, HARRISON WOULD CORRECT ME AND SAY, I DON'T, YOU DON'T WORK FOR ME.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT A HEART OF A PUBLIC SERVANT IS ALL ABOUT.
SO, A YOUNG 27-YEAR-OLD PROFESSIONAL, AGAIN, I NEEDED SOMEBODY TO LOOK UP TO, SOMEONE TO, TO REALLY KIND OF GUIDE ME, SOMEONE THAT COULD WATCH, THAT I COULD WATCH, SO I COULD DO A BETTER JOB AND DO IT MORE EFFECTIVELY.
SO WHAT DID I SEE? UH, I WATCHED TRULY A HUMBLE PERSON.
AND YOU SAW IT TONIGHT, BE VERY DELIBERATE IN HIS SPEECH.
ALWAYS SOFT SPOKEN, BUT ALWAYS KIND.
UM, I WATCHED A PUBLIC SERVANT STUDY THE ISSUES, ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS, THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, AND TRULY CONSIDER ALL SIDES OF EVERY ISSUE.
UM, KNOWING THAT HE WAS IN THE POSITION THAT HE WAS GONNA MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY AND SOMEONE ANGRY.
BUT THEN AFTER HE CAREFULLY EVALUATED, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES WE'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION WHERE HE HAS GONE THROUGH THE INFORMATION, HE SAID, WELL, I'M, I'M GONNA GO TO GOD AND PRAY ABOUT IT.
AND EACH VOTE THE SAME, STEADFAST INTEGRITY WITH, WITH EACH OF THESE VOTES FOR 37 YEARS.
YOU KNOW, WE LIVE IN A WORLD TODAY WHERE, WHERE VERY FEW PEOPLE WILL TAKE A STAND FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN.
HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE BELIEVES IN.
AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HE KNOWS WHY.
I SAW A PUBLIC SERVANT THAT WAS ABLE TO DISAGREE WITH HIS COLLEAGUES IN A WAY THAT WASN'T DISAGREEABLE.
THAT YOU HAD THE COMPASSION AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THAT YOU COULD CARE DEEPLY ABOUT OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITY, THOSE THAT YOU AGREED WITH, AND THOSE THAT YOU DIDN'T AGREE WITH.
AND THOSE THAT KNOW ME, KNOW, I STARTED MY CAREER IN THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE.
AND SO IN RICHMOND, UM, THERE'S A, THERE'S A DIFFERENT BELIEF.
YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE THE WAY THAT I BELIEVE, OR
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MOST LIKELY, I'M, I'M TAUGHT TO ALMOST DISLIKE YOU.SO WHEN I CAME HERE AT 27 YEARS OF AGE, I SAW SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT IN HARRISON MOODY.
SO FOR 37 YEARS, HE'S LISTENED TO CITIZENS, HE'S DEBATED THE ISSUES, HE'S MADE, THE HARD DECISIONS, UM, WAS, WAS SOME NIGHTS LOVED AND SOME NIGHTS HATED.
BUT THAT'S THE JOB OF A PUBLIC SERVANT.
YOU SEE, THE FIVE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE OF THE 28,000 PEOPLE IN DIM WITTY COUNTY THAT HAVE TO THINK ABOUT OTHERS RATHER THAN THEMSELVES.
AND, AND HARRISON DID THAT EACH NIGHT, BUT HE DID IT CONSISTENTLY WITH DIGNITY.
HE DID IT WITH CLASS, AND HE DID IT WITH GRACE.
SO AT 27 YEARS OLD, I NEEDED A LEADER.
NOW, 48 YEARS OLD, I HOPE HARRISON MOODY, UM, AT HIS LAST BOARD MEETING, UNDERSTANDS THAT IT WASN'T JUST KEVIN THAT NEEDED A LEADER, THE COUNTY NEEDED A LEADER.
AND YOU'VE DONE THAT THROUGHOUT YOUR CAREER HERE.
AND IF YOU REALLY LOOK AT SOME OF THESE AREAS, HARRISON, YOU KNOW, WE COULD TALK ALL NIGHT ABOUT THE FACT WHEN YOU FIRST GOT ON THE BOARD, THERE WAS NO PARKS AND RECREATION.
AND, AND NOW OUR PARKS AND, AND REC DEPARTMENT HAS WON NATIONAL AWARDS, UM, IS LOOKED AT AS LEADERS IN THIS, IN THIS REGION.
UM, AND, AND YOU STARTED THAT FOR NOTHING.
WE COULD TALK ABOUT ALL YOUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUCCESSES.
YOU KNOW, WE ROTATE CHAIRMANSHIPS, BUT SOME REASON, YOU KNOW, IT ALWAYS FELL ON YOU WHEN WE MADE A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT.
UM, SO WE GOTTA CALL YOU BACK EVERY NOW AND THEN, JUST SO WE CAN MAKE A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE COMMUNITY
UH, WE, WE COULD TALK ABOUT VACO, THE VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES.
AND AGAIN, YOU KNEW WHAT YOU STOOD FOR.
SO YOU WENT AND, AND FOUGHT FOR IT, AND NOT JUST FIGHTING FOR IT.
YOU LET IT AS VACO PRESIDENT, AND THEN THAT WASN'T ENOUGH.
SO YOU HAD TO GET INVOLVED ON A NATIONAL LEVEL ASSOCIATED FOR IT.
SO WE HOPE THAT AFTER ALL YOUR WORK IS COMPLETE.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, I THINK ALL OF US ASKED THIS QUESTION, AND WE'RE GONNA GET TO A POINT IN OUR LIVES.
DID, DID WHAT I DO OR WHAT I DID, DID IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? AND, YOU KNOW, I I I'VE TALKED TOO MANY TIMES ABOUT PEOPLE THAT ARE LEAVING.
UM, DID IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? AND NO DOUBT WHAT YOU DID MATTER.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I I WANT YOU TO ABSOLUTELY KNOW THAT WHEN YOU LEAVE HERE, SO MY, ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS IS CHARLIE BROWN
SO CHARLIE BROWN ONCE SAID, GOODBYE ALWAYS MAKES MY THROAT HURT.
SO I'M NOT GONNA SAY GOODBYE, BUT I'M GONNA SAY THANK YOU.
AND ON BEHALF OF A GRATEFUL WORKFORCE, THANK YOU FOR BEING THAT LEADER.
WE APPRECIATE IT, MR. CHAIRMAN.
I BELIEVE THE COUNTY ATTORNEY WANTED TO MAKE JUST A, THAT'S ANOTHER STATEMENT.
ALRIGHT, THANK YOU MR. MASSENGILL AND MR. MOODY.
THEY ASKED ME THIS EVENING IF I WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING.
AND I, I SAID THAT I, I DID, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, THIS IS YOUR LAST MEETING.
AND THE WHOLE TIME I'VE BEEN COUNTY ATTORNEY, YOU'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD.
IN FACT, SINCE I'VE BEEN 1-YEAR-OLD, YOU'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD
AND SO I, I THOUGHT ABOUT IT AND, AND I SAID, WELL, I, I, I'VE GOTTA MAKE IT INTO A WORD SO THAT IT MAKES SENSE.
BUT THE, THE WORD WAS TEACH, AND I MISSPELLED THAT.
IT'S T-E-E-C-H-I THINK IT WAS ANDREW JACKSON WHO SAID, IT'S A POOR MIND.
IT'S A CANNOT THINK OF MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SPELL A WORD.
AND SO EACH OF THOSE STANDS FOR SOMETHING THAT YOU TAUGHT ME, MR. MOODY.
AND I KNOW OTHERS FEEL THE SAME THING, BUT THE, THE FIRST THING, AND I BELIEVE MR. MAGA HIT ON SOME OF THIS, BUT IT'S THOUGHTFULNESS.
EVERY, EVERYTHING THAT CAME BEFORE YOU, YOU WERE ALWAYS VERY THOUGHTFUL.
YOU THOUGHT OF IT FROM EVERY ANGLE THAT, THAT I COULD THINK OF IT.
A LOT OF TIMES YOU WOULD THINK OF IT FROM ANKLES THAT I DIDN'T THINK OF.
AND A LOT OF TIMES WHEN I WOULD PRESENT SOMETHING WHERE I'D SAY, I DON'T EVEN KNOW, THE, THE BOARD MIGHT LAUGH AT ME FOR EVEN SAYING THIS, YOU WOULD ALWAYS CONSIDER IT AND IT WOULD BECOME PART OF YOUR THOUGHT PROCESS.
AND SO YOU, YOU'RE ALWAYS REALLY THOUGHTFUL.
UM, AND THE FIRST D IS FOR ENDURANCE.
UM, YOU KNOW, IF, IF, AND I KNOW WE HAVE SOME YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE ROOM, BUT IF YOU GET A CHANCE TO, TO GIVE, TO GIVE YOUR LIFE TO SOMETHING LIKE MR. MOODY DID FOR THAT LONG AT A POSITION, UM, IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT, THAT YOU SHOULD DO.
BE AND, AND, AND MAKE THAT DIFFERENCE.
BECAUSE, UM, I MEAN, IT JUST SPEAKS FOR ITSELF, THE ENDURANCE.
IT'S KIND OF LIKE CAL RIPKIN, YOU PLAYED IN EVERY GAME FOR
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YOU ALWAYS HAD AN UPLIFTING WORD.YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES AS THE ATTORNEY, I DEAL WITH ALL THE, THE PROBLEMS, RIGHT? IT'S RARE THAT THINGS COME TO ME BECAUSE THEY'RE HAPPY.
UM, AND, AND SO, YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER A COUPLE TIMES OVER THE YEARS I WOULD GET KIND OF DOWN AND YOU WOULD ALWAYS HAVE AN ENCOURAGING WORD TO, TO LIFT ME UP, TO UPLIFT ME.
UM, FOURTH, FOURTH IS C AND IT, IT'S, YOU CARE, YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT THE COMMUNITY.
IT CAME ACROSS AND EVERYTHING THAT, THAT YOU DID.
AND, AND YOU WANTED WHAT WAS BEST FOR THE COMMUNITY.
AND IT, AND IT'S, I THINK IT, IT EVEN SPEAKS TO, TO, TO WHY YOU WERE SO THOUGHTFUL, WHY YOU ENDURED, WHY YOU WERE ENCOURAGING YOU, YOU REALLY CARED ABOUT THE COMMUNITY AND, AND, AND, AND SERVING IT.
UM, AND, AND LAST IS H AND H COULD HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT, BUT I, I CHOSE HUMBLE.
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE, YOU'RE SOMEONE WHO SERVED ON THE BOARD FOR, FOR, FOR ALL THOSE YEARS.
UM, AND ONE OF THE LONGEST SERVING ELECTED OFFICIALS IN VIRGINIA, PRESIDENT OF VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES.
BUT YEAH, WHENEVER YOU INTERACT WITH PEOPLE, YOU'RE ALWAYS VERY DOWN TO EARTH.
UM, AND, AND YOU DON'T, YOU DON'T GO UP ON A HIGH AND MIGHTY, UM, LADDER.
AND I'VE, I'VE ALWAYS APPRECIATED IT.
AND SO I JUST REALLY QUICKLY, WHAT, WHAT DID, WHAT DID YOU TEACH ME? YOU KNOW, TO BE THOUGHTFUL, TO ENDURE, TO BE ENCOURAGING, TO REALLY CARE AND TO BE HUMBLE.
NO, UM, WELL, ONE THING I CAN SAY ABOUT TERRACE, I THINK IT'S BEEN, WHAT, 12 YEARS.
AND, UM, I, IN 12 YEARS, I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS MAN GET MAD.
THE REST OF US MIGHT RAISE OUR VOICE A LITTLE BIT, BUT HE'S NEVER DONE THAT.
AND I WAS JUST KIND OF WAITING FOR HIM TO DO IT AT SOME TIME, AT SOME POINT.
HE WAS ALWAYS THE SAME, UM, QUIET, SOFT SPOKEN, TRYING TO, UM, UH, GET THINGS DONE.
AND WHAT I, YOU KNOW, WHAT I MISS AND AND HAVE LEARNED FROM HIM IS, UH, THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE WISDOM HE'S HAD OVER THESE YEARS.
HE KNOWS ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, HE WOULD ALWAYS ASK THE QUESTIONS THAT MAYBE WE DIDN'T THINK OF AT THE TIME, BUT OVER, OVER THE YEARS, WE HAVE LEARNED TO KINDA PICK UP ON SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HE HAS TAUGHT US AND EVERYTHING.
BUT, UM, 37 YEARS IS A LONG TIME.
YOU CANNOT BE IN THIS POSITION IF YOU DON'T CARE FOR PEOPLE.
NOW, IF YOU DON'T CARE FOR PEOPLE, THIS IS NOT THE JOB FOR YOU.
AND, UM, YOU HAVE, UM, BEEN IN THIS POSITION, YOU'VE RAN SEVERAL TIMES.
YOU HAD PEOPLE TO RUN AGAINST YOU, BUT YOU STILL COME OUT ON TOP.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S BECAUSE GOD WANTED TO KEEP YOU IN THIS POSITION.
AND, YOU KNOW, I, UM, YOU KNOW, UM, TYLER WAS TALKING ABOUT, UH, TEACHING AND I WAS LOOKING AT SOMETHING AND IT SAYS, UH, GRANT US, UH, PEACE, TEACH US PEACE.
GOT OUR STEPS IN THE WAY OF PEACE.
AND I THINK, UM, YOU HAVE DONE THAT, YOU KNOW, WITH THIS BOARD.
AND, UM, I CAN SAY, UM, EVEN THE BOARDS THAT YOU'VE BEEN ON AND KIND OF GOING OUT ON THE LIMB AND SAY, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE BEST BOARD THAT, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN LOOK BACK OVER THE TAPE AND JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, WE ARE THE BEST BOARD THAT YOU'VE HAD.
AND, UM, WE JUST, UM, UM, I'M GONNA MISS YOU.
I, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GONNA GET LIKE YOUR BUDDY 'CAUSE I AM NOT CRYING.
THAT'S THE SECOND TIME I, THE SECOND TIME I SAID BILL, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AND AS LONG AS I'VE KNOWN HIM, I'VE NEVER GOTTEN SEEN HIM BE TEARFUL EITHER.
BUT, UM, UH, WE'RE GONNA MISS YOU.
WE'RE GONNA STILL TRY TO KEEP IN CONTACT.
I TOLD YOUR WIFE ON TU ON THE THIRD TUESDAY, I'M GONNA CALL YOU AND SAY YOU YEAH, NO, YOU'RE NOT HERE FOR THE MEETING.
AND SHE SAID, NO, NOT ON TUESDAY CALL.
SO, UM, UM, BUT I JUST TOLD HER I WAS KIDDING.
I WAS NOT GOING TO DIS DISRUPT LIKE THAT.
BUT, UM, UH, WE'RE GONNA MISS YOU.
AND, UM, WE KNOW THAT YOU'RE GONNA BE GREAT DOING WHATEVER YOU DO.
YOU, YOU SAID THAT YOU WANNA SPEND TIME WITH THE GRANDKIDS AND JUST, YOU KNOW, TRAVEL AND DO SOME THINGS.
SO, AND THAT'S A GREAT THING BECAUSE YOU PUT IN YOUR TIME TO DO WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR DENWITTY AND FOR THE CITIZENS OF DENWITTY BECAUSE, AND, AND I KNOW YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO, UM, LOVE YOU AND RESPECT YOU, YOU KNOW, AND WHAT YOU HAVE DONE, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR DENWITTY COUNTY.
AND, UM, UM, I, I JUST, UM, WISH YOU HAPPY TIMES AND, AND JUST, AND I KNOW YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS MAN AND JUST, UM, GOING AND DEALING WITH YOUR FAITH AND TRAVELING AND TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT GOD.
SO I KNOW YOU'RE GONNA DO THAT AS WELL.
AND I CAN HONESTLY SAY I DO LOVE YOU.
WELL, UH, MS. BONNER LIKES TO
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GOT ON THE BOARD, UH, WE REPLACED EVERYONE.BUT HARRISON, THERE'S FOUR OF US THAT GOT ON AT THE SAME TIME.
AND I THINK ME AND MS. BON WAS THE ONLY TWO THAT HAD NOT BEEN IN THE GOVERNMENT, RIGHT? SO WE HAD THREE PEOPLE WE COULD TURN TO.
UH, YOU KNOW, YOU ALWAYS FIND THAT SPECIAL PERSON, YOU KNOW, AND DAN LEE WAS MY, I'M NOT GONNA DO IT, BUT HE WAS THE PERSON THAT I GRABBED TO AND, UM, HUNG ONTO HIS COATTAIL TO ASK QUESTIONS.
AND HE ALWAYS TRIED TO GET ANSWERS FOR ME.
THEN HARRISON AND I, WE, UH, WE GOT CLOSER TO, UH, HARRISON.
PEOPLE DON'T KNOW, HE HAS A LITTLE CHURCH AT HIS PLACE THAT WE USED TO GO TO AND HAVE, UH, YOU KNOW, HOW WE HAVE SOME MINISTRIES, OR HE EVEN WENT OUT AND FOUND A INDIAN, A FULL-BLOODED INDIAN, WHICH I AM TO BRING DOWN AND, UH, TO LET US MEET HIM.
AND WHERE WAS HE FROM? ALASKA, SOMEWHERE.
I MEAN, THAT'S HOW FAR HE REACHED OUT TO, TO GET PEOPLE THAT HE WAS INTERESTED IN.
UH, AND THEN A MINISTER FROM MY HOMETOWN CAME UP ONE TIME AND PREACHED, THEY INVITED ME TO THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT JUST WHAT HE DOES HERE, BUT HE AND HIS WIFE HAD A, THEY HAVE A MINISTRY OUTSIDE OF HERE THAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT WHAT THEY DO, BUT THEY DO SO MUCH OTHER THAN BILL BOARD OF, YOU KNOW, YOU GOT OTHER MINISTRIES OTHER THAN WHAT, AND THEY DO, THEY STAY BUSY ALL THE TIME.
THEY TAKE IN KIDS THAT NEED, UH, FOSTER CARE.
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT, BUT HE DOES.
HE JUST DIDN'T STAY ON THE BOARD FOR 37 YEARS TO BE SELFISH.
HE DID IT BECAUSE HE LOVES PEOPLE.
SO THAT'S WHAT DRIVES ME TO BE A BETTER PERSON, BECAUSE I HANG OUT WITH PEOPLE LIKE THAT.
PEOPLE LIKE DAN LEE AND MARK MOORE THAT WORKED SO HARD IN, UH, IN HIS CHURCH, MISS BONNIE AND OUR GREAT MAN, RIGHT THERE IS MR. MASSING GUILD THAT KEEPS US ALL TOGETHER.
YOU KNOW, THAT KEEPS US PULLING FOR ONE DIRECTION.
THAT'S THE BETTERMENT OF DEWIN COUNTY THAT GETS THOSE LITTLE PLAQUES THAT WE GET, YOU KNOW, WE ALL PULL TOGETHER AND WE BECOME STRONG BECAUSE WE HAVE LEADERS LIKE HIM THAT TAUGHT ME ABOUT GOVERNMENT AND TAUGHT ME HOW TO LOVE PEOPLE.
HE GAVE ME THAT HEART THAT I CAN CRY.
I DON'T LIKE TO CRY IN FRONT OF PEOPLE, BUT IF GOD PUTS IT IN MY HEART TO CRY, MS. BONNER, YES, I'M GONNA CRY
BUT LAST NIGHT WE HAD GRADUATION FOR, UM, CITIZENS ACADEMY AND TO WATCH THOSE FOLKS TELL WHAT THEY LEARNED AND WHAT THEY SAID, IT WAS HOW MUCH WE CARE ABOUT PEOPLE.
I, RIGHT, MS. MARIE, THEY SAID LAST NIGHT, THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID.
YOU CAN'T SIT UP HERE AND TAKE WHAT WE TAKE AND NOT LOVE PEOPLE.
THERE'S TIMES THAT I WOULD LIKE TO CRY.
YOU'RE ON THE WAY PEOPLE TREAT US, BUT GOD PUT US HERE.
AND IF GOD IS NOT GOING TO TAKE CARE OF US, HE WOULDN'T.
YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID ONE TIME, IF GOD'S FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US? AND I'M NOT PREACHING, I'M JUST TALKING THE WAY THAT I FEEL TONIGHT, BECAUSE THIS MAN RIGHT HERE HAS BEEN A MENTOR TO ME.
AND I'M GONNA MISS YOU, AND I WISH YOU THE BEST, AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO HELP YOU, WE'RE RIGHT HERE.
DAN LEE, IF YOU'RE LOOKING, I LOVE YOU.
WELL, I'M GONNA START BY SAYING, HARRISON, OUR RELATIONSHIP STARTED ABOUT 25 YEARS AGO.
THE, THERE WAS A BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEMBER THAT WAS ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION, AND I STARTED IN THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY IN THE EARLY NINETIES, AND THEN I TRANSITIONED TO THE, TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
AND HARRISON WAS THAT PERSON THAT WAS ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION FROM THE WATER SUPERVISORS AT THAT TIME.
SO FROM A RELATIONSHIP POINT OF VIEW, IT GOES BACK ABOUT 25 YEARS.
BUT THE WORD THAT COMES TO MY MIND FOR HARRISON IS HUMBLE.
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MORE HUMBLE SERVANT.AND I MEAN SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE OF DENWITTY COUNTY, THE PEOPLE OF, OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, AS FAR AS THAT'S CONCERNED WITH VACO AND OF THE NATION FOR NACO, UM, THAT HAS DONE WHAT HE HAS DONE AND HOW HE HAS PRESENTED HIMSELF TO PEOPLE.
UM, I'VE NEVER HAD A CROSS WORD WITH HIM, AND THAT THAT IS THE GOD'S HONEST TRUTH.
WE'VE HAD CANDID CONVERSATIONS.
UM, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE BOTH AGREED THAT IT WAS ONE THING WE WERE GONNA DO, AND THAT WAS WHAT IS RIGHT FOR DENWITTY COUNTY.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME, THAT CAME TO MY MIND TALKING ABOUT HARRISON.
THE OTHER IS NOW I TRULY FEEL GOD HAS BROUGHT US ALL TOGETHER.
12 YEARS AGO, THE, THE FIVE OF US, GOD BROUGHT US TOGETHER FOR A REASON.
UM, WE'VE DONE SOME AMAZING THINGS IN 12 YEARS.
UM, BUT THERE, THERE'S A TIME THAT WE ALL KNOW THAT LIFE COMES FIRST.
AND I THINK AT THIS POINT, HARRISON HAS KIND OF HIT THAT POINT IN HIS LIFE.
YOU KNOW, WE TALK ABOUT PEOPLE THAT RETIRE FROM THEIR REGULAR JOBS AND, UH, HARRISON HAS A JOB, BUT IT, IT'S NOT A SUPERVISOR, IT'S A FARMER.
AND HE'S BEEN DOING THAT EVER SINCE HE WAS A CHILD, LITERALLY.
UM, BUT HE GAVE HIS LIFE, HIS TIME, HIS TALENTS, AND HIS LOVE OF PEOPLE TO THE CITIZENS OF COUNTY.
UM, AND THAT GOES TO THE HUMBLENESS.
THE LAST THING I WANT TO SAY IS THAT WE'RE A TEAM.
WE'VE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT BEING A TEAM.
WE DO THINGS AS A TEAM, WE WORK TOGETHER AS A TEAM.
AND THERE'S NO I IN TEAM AND THERE'S NO, I IN HARRISON MOODY.
AND BEING WITH HIM HAS MADE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US, ONE A BETTER SUPERVISOR.
BECAUSE HE'S AN EXAMPLE OF IF YOU'RE GONNA LIVE YOUR LIFE, THAT'S NOT A BAD EXAMPLE TO LIVE YOUR LIFE BY.
AND ALL WE CAN DO AT THE END OF THE DAY IS HOPE THAT PEOPLE WANT AND LOVE YOU, CARE ABOUT YOU.
AND, UM, IT'S JUST, IT'S BEEN A JOY WORKING WITH YOU.
I I KNOW GOD HAS STILL GOT, UM, PLANS FOR YOUR LIFE GOING FORWARD, YOU AND DEB AND, AND THE FAMILY.
UM, JUST KNOW THAT THOSE OF US THAT HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH YOU, UM, YOU'VE MADE US BETTER PEOPLE.
I'VE GOT A LITTLE, LITTLE SPEECH I'D LIKE TO SAY TO EVERYONE.
DEAR FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS, COUNTY STAFF, ESTEEMED CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS, AND RESPECTED CITIZENS OF DENVER COUNTY.
I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY AFTER ALMOST 37 YEARS OF SERVICE AS A MEMBER OF THE DENWITTY COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, THE TIME HAS COME FOR ME TO BID FOR WELL TO THIS POSITION.
AS I STEP AWAY, I'M FILLED WITH BOTH GRATITUDE AND ATTENTION OF SADNESS.
FIRST OFF, I WANNA THANK GOD FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY YEAH.
TO SERVE THE CITIZENS OF DENWOOD COUNTY.
I ALSO WANNA THANK MY WIFE DEBBIE, FOR SHARING ME WITH THE COUNTY.
SHE GAVE UP A LOT TO LET ME SERVE, AND I THANK HER AND LOVE HER FOR IT.
I ALSO HAVE ASKED FORGIVENESS TO MY WIFE AND FA FOR NOT BEING THERE ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS WHEN MEETINGS AND FAMILY EVENTS WERE SCHEDULED AT THE SAME TIME YOU ALL GAVE UNSELFISHLY SO I COULD ATTEND TO COUNTY MATTERS.
WORD OF WARNING TO EVERYONE, TAKE TIME FOR FAMILY LIFE IS SHORT.
MY JOURNEY SERVING THE PEOPLE OF DEWIT COUNTY HAS BEEN NOTHING SHORT OF AN INCREDIBLE HONOR.
IT HAS BEEN A PRIVILEGE TO WORK ALONGSIDE EACH OF YOU ADVOCATING FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OUR COMMUNITY AND STRIVING TO ENHANCE THE LIVES OF OUR FELLOW RESIDENTS.
REFLECTING ON THE YEARS SPENT IN PUBLIC SERVICE, I'M DEEPLY HUMBLED BY TRUST, BY THE TRUST AND SUPPORT BESTOWED UPON ME BY THE CITIZENS OF THIS REMARKABLE COUNTY.
YOUR CONFIDENCE IN ME HAS BEEN THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND EVERY DECISION, EVERY INITIATIVE, AND EVERY EFFORT MADE TO CREATE POSITIVE CHANGE AND PROGRESS.
TOGETHER, WE NAVIGATED CHALLENGES AND CELEBRATED TRIUMPHS.
WE FOUND COMMON GROUND AND MADE DECISIONS THAT HAVE SHAPED THE FABRIC OF OUR COMMUNITY.
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THROUGH COLLABORATION, PERSEVERANCE, AND UNWAVERING DEDICATION, WE'VE WITNESSED GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT THAT WILL LEAVE A LASTING IMPACT FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.THE UNWAVERING COMMITMENT AND HARD WORK OF MY FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS, COUNTY STAFF, COMMUNITY LEADERS, AND THE CITIZENS OF DENWITTY COUNTY, YOU'LL SUPPORT, DEDICATION, AND PASSION FOR OUR COUNTY'S WELLBEING HAVE BEEN THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR COLLECTIVE ACHIEVEMENTS.
ONE MORE PERSONAL NOTE I'D LIKE TO ADDRESS.
DAN LEE, IF YOU'RE LISTENING, I PRAISE GOD AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION FOR THE SUCCESSFUL TRANSPLANTS YOU HAVE OBTAINED.
THEN WE IS FORTUNATE TO HAVE SUCH A DEDICATED SERVANT, AND YOU AND I KNOW THE BOARD CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU BACK UP HERE WITH YOUR EXPERTISE, KNOWLEDGE, AND 101 DUMB IDEAS,
AT SOMETIMES WE'RE QUITE INNOVATIVE, WE LOVE YOU, DAN.
DR. MOORE, YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT CAPTAIN OF THE SHIP THIS YEAR AND IN THE YEARS PAST.
YOU TRULY HAVE THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITIZENS OF DENWOOD COUNTY AT HEART.
I KNOW WHEN YOU COME TO A MEETING, YOU'RE PREPARED AND READY TO TACKLE THE ISSUES AT HAND.
MS. BONNA, YOUR CONCERN FOR YOUR FELLOW MAN AND DEDICATION TO THE BOARD IS IMMEASURABLE.
YOU'RE A DEFINITE ASSET TO THE BOARD AND THE CITIZENS OF DEITY COUNTY.
AND FINALLY, MR. CHAVIS, YOU ARE A PEOPLE PERSON.
YOU AND I GOT A LITTLE CROSSWAYS THE FIRST TIME, FIRST MONTH OR SO.
YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO SAY THAT
WE KNEW THAT WE BOTH WERE ON THE SAME PAGE WHEN IT CAME TO SERVING THE CITIZENS OF DENWOOD COUNTY.
IT WOULD TAKE ME HOURS TO THANK ALL THE COUNTY STAFF AND CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS FOR THE UNWAVERING DECLARATION TO THE BOARD OF, OF DENWOOD COUNTY.
NOTHING WOULD'VE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT YOUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR JOB IN THE COUNTY.
I DO DO WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK OUR COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR, KEVIN MASSENGILL, FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT OF OUR COUNTY.
AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF GOING THROUGH SEVERAL COUNTY ADMINISTRATORS, WE FINALLY LANDED ON BABY BOY
AS ED BRACEY REFERRED TO YOU AS YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE HAD THE FORESIGHT TO ALL ALLOW THE BOARD EVERY YEAR TO PLAN OUR PRIORITIES, AND THEN WITH THE HELP OF OUR STAFF, IMPLEMENT THEM IN A TIMELY MANNER.
YOUR INTEGRITY IS IMPECCABLE AND YOUR PEOPLE, SCHOOL PEOPLE SKILLS WILL BEYOND MEASURE.
AS I MOVE ON TO THE NEXT CHAPTER OF MY LIFE, I CARRY, I CARRY WITH ME CHERISH MEMORIES AND VALUABLE EXPERIENCES AND A PROFOUND SENSE OF PRIDE IN WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED TOGETHER.
WHILE I MAY BE STEPPING DOWN FROM THIS ROLE, MY COMMITMENT TO SERVING OUR COMMUNITY REMAINS UNWAVERING.
I EXTEND MY HEARTFELT GRATITUDE TO EACH ONE OF YOU FOR YOUR COLLABORATION, FRIENDSHIP, AND UNWAVERING SUPPORT.
THROUGHOUT MY TENURE, I'M CONFIDENT UNDER THE CONTINUED GUIDANCE OF THE STEAM BOARD, DENWOOD COUNTY WILL CONTINUE TO THRIVE AND PROSPER.
I ALSO WANT TO CONGRATULATE OUR NEXT BOARD MEMBER FROM DISTRICT ONE, CASEY DOOLEY, FOR HIS ELECTION.
I KNOW YOU WILL DO A GREAT JOB.
IN CLOSING, I EXPRESSED MY DEEPEST THANKS TO THE RESIDENTS OF DENVER COUNTY FOR ALLOWING ME THE PRIVILEGE TO SERVE YOU.
IT HAS BEEN AN HONOR BEYOND MEASURE.
NOW, I THINK THERE'S ONE MORE THING ON OUR AGENDA TO SEE.
AND MR. CHAIRMAN, ONE MORE THING.
IF I CAN BE AN ADMINISTRATOR JUST FOR A SECOND, GO RIGHT AHEAD.
I'VE GOT TO MAKE TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS.
ONE, UM, I ALSO WANTED TO RECOGNIZE AND WELCOME CASEY DOOLEY TO THE, TO PART OF THE TEAM AS DR. MOORE PUT IT.
AND I KNOW HARRISON AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS, AND I THINK EVERYBODY HOPES THAT YOU TAKE THIS FURTHER THAN ANYBODY COULD.
THAT'S WHAT WE ALL HOPE OF OUR REPLACEMENT.
AND I, I TRULY BELIEVE OUR BEST DAYS ARE AHEAD OF US, BUT CASEY LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU IN THIS NEW CAPACITY.
UM, LASTLY, JANUARY 10TH, WHICH IS A WEDNESDAY, WE'RE HAVING A RECEPTION AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC'S GONNA BE INVITED TO THAT AT EAST SIDE COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT CENTER.
AND THAT'S FROM FOUR TO SIX O'CLOCK, UH, FOUR THE
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37 YEARS OF, OF MR. MOODY'S SERVICE.SO WE, WE HOPE THAT EVERYONE'S ABLE TO ATTEND THAT AND COME TO, TO THAT RECEPTION.
AND, AND I THINK MS. MOODY'S INDICATED TO ME SHE WANTS ME TO ROAST YOU WITH THAT.
SO WE, WE WILL HAVE TO SEE WHETHER THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN OR NOT.
I, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID.
BUT SHE'S GOT SOME INCRIMINATING PHOTOS APPARENTLY THAT NEED TO BE SHOWN.
SO SHE'LL PROBABLY GIVE YOU SOME INFORMATION.
LASTLY TO UNTIL WE GOT, WE HAVE ONE MOTION AND I'M GOING TO CALL ON MR. CHAIRMAN.
MY LAST ACT AS A BOARD OF SUPERVISOR IS TO MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN.