* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:01] CALL THE MEETING. ORDER ROLL. CALL DR. MOORE. HERE. MR. LEE. HERE. MS. EBRA BONNER. HERE. MR. DOOLEY. HERE. MR. CHAVIS HERE. FIVE BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT. THANK EVERYONE FOR COMING. WOULD YOU JOIN ME? WE'RE IN VACATION FOLLOWED BY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. I, FATHER, FATHER WHO ARE RIGHT IN HEAVEN, I'LL LEAVE THY NAME. THY KINGDOM COME. THAT WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. GIVE US US DAY, OUR DAILY BREAD, AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US. AND LEAD US. NOT A TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL FOR THE EYES OF KINGDOM AND POWER OF THE GLORY FOR FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN. PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THANK YOU. [4. AMENDMENTS TO AGENDA] DO WE HAVE ANY AMENDMENTS TO THE AGENDA? MR. CHAIRMAN? WE DO HAVE TWO AMENDMENTS TO THE AGENDA. THE FIRST ONE IS UNDER ITEM SIX E. WE WOULD LIKE TO ADD INVESTMENT UPDATE, GREG GARLAND, UH, FOR THE ABRAM SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS AND THE PAMELA FUNDS. UM, AND THEN UNDER SEVEN D WE WOULD LIKE TO ADD CHILDREN'S SERVICES ACT CONTRACT. AND I CAN GIVE A, A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THAT AT THAT TIME. OKAY. DO I HAVE A MOTION? I'LL SUB MOVE. SECOND. ROLL CALL DR. MOORE. AYE. MR. LEE? AYE. MS. EBRA BONNER. AYE. MR. DOOLEY? AYE. MR. CHAVIS? AYE. ALL VOTING? AYE. OKAY. WE'VE [5. CONSENT AGENDA] ALL HAD TIME TO GO THROUGH THE CONSENT AGENDA. DO WE HAVE ANY AMENDMENTS? MR. CHAIR? IF THERE ARE NO CORRECTIONS TO THE, UH, CONSENT AGENDA, OUR MOVE, THAT WILL BE ACCEPTED AS PRESENTED. SECOND. ROLL CALL. ROLL CALL. DR. MOORE. AYE. MR. LEE? AYE. MS. EBRA BONNER. AYE. MR. DOOLEY? AYE. MR. CHAVIS? AYE. ALL VOTING? AYE. OKAY. REPORTS. [6.A. Virginia Association Of Counties (VACo) Achievement Award] VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY'S VACO ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. WE'RE SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS. HOW ABOUT THAT? I'M EXCITED TOO. MR. CHAIRMAN . SO MR. CHAIRMAN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, JOE LURCH WITH, UH, VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES, UH, VERY PLEASED TO BE HERE WITH YOU TODAY. AMEN. I THINK THIS IS LIKE MAYBE THE THIRD TIME I'VE COME TO GIVE YOU AN AWARD. UH, I LIKE IT. THAT'S YOU TOO. I REALLY LOVE VISITING WITH YOU ALL AND I'M, I'M EXCITED ABOUT THIS YEAR'S AWARD. UM, SO, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BIT OF REVIEW MAYBE FOR YOU ALL, BUT FOR YOUR CONSTITUENTS. JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT VACO. UH, WE'VE BEEN AROUND NINE YEARS NOW CELEBRATING OUR 90TH YEAR. AND, UH, WE'RE HERE TO SERVE OUR MEMBER COUNTIES, UH, MAINLY THROUGH, UH, SUPPORT THROUGH ADVOCACY, UH, AT THE STATE AND THE FEDERAL LEVEL. BUT WE ALSO PROVIDE MEMBERSHIP SERVICES AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES. UH, THE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD PROGRAM WE'VE HAD AT AROUND SINCE 2003. UH, AND THIS IS OUR 22ND ANNUAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS PROGRAM. WE HAD A RECORD 145 ENTRIES THIS YEAR. SO IT SHOWS YOU THE, THE LEVEL OF INTEREST. UM, WE HAD 45 WINNERS SELECTED FROM 32 COUNTIES. SO SOMEBODY DID THE MATH AND SAID THAT'S 31% OF THE ENTRIES WERE SELECTED, UH, AS WINNER. SO IT'S TRULY A COMPETITIVE PROGRAM. UH, THIS IS THE NINTH TIME, UH, DENWITTY HAS WON AN ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. UH, YOU'VE WON THE SMALL, THE BEST SMALL COUNTY AWARD TWICE, UH, SINCE WE STARTED GIVING OUT THAT AWARD IN 2010. AND YOU'RE THE ONLY COUNTY TO WIN THE SMALL BEST COUNTY TWICE. UH, YOU WANT IT IN 2020 FOR, UH, YOUR FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE AND THEN IN 2023 FOR YOUR CITY PLANNING PROJECT. UH, SO I WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT FOR YOUR CONSTITUENTS. SO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE CRITERIA THAT THE JUDGE USE. THEY LOOK TO SEE IF A, IF A PROGRAM'S INNOVATIVE, IF IT SHOWS INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION, IF IT'S A MODEL THAT CAN BE, UH, DONE ELSEWHERE AND DOES IT, YOU KNOW, LOOK AT, UM, BASED ON PROGRAMS FROM ANOTHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ENTITY, BUT REPRESENTS AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH, UH, OR CUSTOMIZATION BY, UH, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT. SO YOUR SPRING SPORTS FACILITY PROJECT, WHICH I THINK Y'ALL ARE VERY PROUD OF, I GOT TO SEE A PICTURE OF THE, THE FINAL THING. I'D LIKE TO SEE IT IN PERSON SOMEDAY. UM, WHAT, UH, I THINK REALLY STANDS OUT WHEN I READ THIS SUBMISSION IS YOUR CITIZENS COMING TO YOU AND SAYING, HEY, WE GOT A PROBLEM. MM-HMM . UH, AND THEN THE COOPERATION, UH, AND SOME OF THE RESEARCH, YOU WENT TO OTHER LOCALITIES TO SAY, HEY, WHAT WERE SOME OF THE SOLUTIONS? YOU SAW A PRICE TAG THAT WAS PRETTY HEFTY, UH, ONE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS. UM, AND BY BRINGING TOGETHER THE VARIOUS GROUPS, UH, THE BOOSTERS CLUB, UM, THE BASEBALL DUGOUT BOOSTERS, PARENTS, LOCAL BUSINESSES, YOU WORKED AT THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE SOLUTION. AND YOU GOT THAT DOWN TO UNDER HALF A MILLION. SO YOU SAVED OVER 1 MILLION, UH, DOLLARS. [00:05:01] UM, SO WITH THAT, UM, MR. CHAIRMAN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, UM, I DO HAVE OUR NEW, LIKE, THIS IS OUR NEWER AWARD. I THINK YOU GOT THIS MAYBE RECENTLY. SO LOVE TO GET A PICTURE. AND I DON'T KNOW IF, IF YOU HAVE ANYBODY HERE TO MAYBE WANT TO EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, FOR YOUR CITIZENS. I DO. WE NEED PERFECT. THANK YOU. YEAH, MR. CHAIRMAN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. AND I, YOU KNOW, I REALLY DO APPRECIATE VACO, UM, AND AS ALWAYS, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S REALLY NICE TO BE RECOGNIZED. UM, NOT, NOT THAT WE DO THINGS SPECIFICALLY TO BE RECOGNIZED. UM, I THINK JOE DID A PHENOMENAL JOB IN KIND OF EXPLAINING THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT, BUT IT, IT IS NICE TO BE RECOGNIZED BY THE, BY THE COMMUNITIES, UH, THROUGH VACO ANYWAY, UH, SO JOE SAID IT VERY WELL WHEN THIS, THE CITIZENS CAME TO US WITH THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT. UM, YOU KNOW, ORIGINALLY WE WERE TAKING LIKE SEVEN, $800,000 AND THEN WE ACTUALLY REALIZED THAT THERE'S THIS THING CALLED INFLATION. AND SO IT CAME IN ABOUT $1.5 MILLION. AND IN, IN MOST, I THINK MOST JURISDICTIONS PROBABLY WOULD'VE SAID, WELL, LOOK, WE JUST, WE JUST HAVE TO PUT THIS OFF. WE CAN'T AFFORD IT. UM, CAN'T DO IT NOW COMPARED TO SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS. BUT IT, IT REALLY WAS AMAZING WHEN YOU, YOU PUT THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN A ROOM AND YOU, YOU DON'T GIVE UP, RIGHT? YOU DON'T GIVE UP. AND, AND SO BETWEEN THE COUNTY AND THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, TALKING TO THESE BOOSTER CLUBS THAT ARE, ARE INDIVIDUALLY SET UP AS LITTLE 5 0 1 C THREES, UH, THEY SAID, WELL, LOOK, WE, WE WANT TO DO THIS. AND BACK IN THE DAY THERE USED TO BE THESE THINGS CALLED BARN RAISINS WHERE WE WOULD JUST BUILD IT OURSELVES. UM, IF THE BOARD COULD TRUST US WITH THE FUNDING, UM, LET US FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THIS BUILT. AND SO WE HAD A, THE PERFECT FORMULA. WE HAD SOME LOCAL BUILDERS THAT, UH, WERE, WERE PART OF, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THEIR KIDS WERE PART OF THESE ATHLETICS. UM, AND THEY, THEY CAME IN AND SAID, WE'LL RUN THE PROJECT. AND IF WE WOULD'VE DONE THIS PROJECT TRADITIONALLY, UM, I DON'T EVEN THINK THE $1.5 MILLION WOULD'VE WORKED. SO, UH, WE HAD, UH, HANDICAPPED INDIVIDUALS IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT WERE USING A PORTA JOHN TO GO TO THE RESTROOM. UH, WE HAD GIRLS TRYING TO DRESS FOR SOFTBALL, UH, IN THE BACKS OF THEIR CARS. UM, SO THAT, THOSE TYPE SITUATIONS, UH, AND ON THE BASEBALL SIDE, UH, THEIR FIELD HOUSE HADN'T BEEN RENOVATED, UM, SINCE I WAS 13 YEARS OLD WHEN IT WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT. SO YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT THAT LOOKED LIKE. BUT, BUT TO BE ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER REALLY $400,000 FOR THE SPRING SPORTS SIDE AND THEN FOR THE, THE BASEBALL SIDE, A HUNDRED THOUSAND, AND TO BRING IT IN, UM, AT 4 58, UH, AND SURPASSED OUR EXPECTATIONS. AND I THINK AS THAT, TO YOUR POINT, JOE, IT SHOWS A MODEL. AND WE'RE SO PROUD OF THIS, UM, THAT WE, WE'VE GONE AROUND AND TOLD OTHER JURISDICTIONS ABOUT IT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU DO HAVE A CONCERTED EFFORT AND YOU, YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT THE RIGHT WAY, YOU CAN GET ANYTHING ACCOMPLISHED. UM, SO AGAIN, JUST, JUST, UH, THANK YOU TO VACO. WE APPRECIATE, UH, THE EFFORT. WE HAVE THE, I LOVE US CABINET OUT HERE THAT WE LIKE TO DISPLAY ALL THE VACO ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS. UM, BUT WHAT IT REALLY DOES SHOW IS THE INGENUITY AND THE ABILITY OF STAFF THROUGH OVER THE YEARS. 'CAUSE I'LL LOOK AT MINE, MY CAREER HERE IN DENWOODY, AND I LOOK AT ALL THOSE PROJECTS AND ALL OF THEM ARE, ARE JUST AMAZED. SO WE, WE THANK YOU AGAIN FOR COMING MR. LCH. I DO, UH, YOU MAKE US FEEL LIKE FAMILY, THE WHOLE VACO DEPARTMENT. SO THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR US. AND, UH, UH, SOMEONE TOLD ME THE OTHER DAY, Y'ALL FIGHT TO WHO'S GONNA COME HERE. SO, AND WE APPRECIATE THAT TOO. RIGHT? SO HE SAYS LOW, BY THE WAY. VERY GOOD. WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WELL, I LEARNED THAT, THAT JOE WAS A BOUNCER IN COLLEGE OR SOMETHING, SO HE, UH, YEAH, HE TOLD THAT STORY THE OTHER DAY. THAT'S RIGHT. SO I, I SEE WHY YOU WON. THAT'S GOOD. OKAY. ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING, MR. LURCH? I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU AND I FOUND OUT YESTERDAY ABOUT A LOVE ME ROOM AND I NEED TO PUT A LOVE ME [00:10:01] ROOM IN MY, AT MY HOUSE. I HAVE, I DON'T HAVE MUCH TO PUT IN IT, BUT, UH, YEAH. BUT ANYWAY, I, I LIKE THAT. WE'LL PUT ED AND VACO STUFF TO OUR LOVE ME BOARDROOM. THAT'S RIGHT. MM-HMM . SO, THANK YOU, JUDGE. THANKS AGAIN. JUST SAY THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU AGAIN. OKAY, WE'RE [6.B. Virginia Department Of Transportation] MOVING ON TO VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. MR. AARON, LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU TODAY, SIR. AS WAS I, I'LL BEGIN WITH THE ON YOUR ACHIEVEMENT. UM, THANK YOU. IT IS AN EXTRAORDINARY VOID AND I AM HONORED TO SERVE THIS BOARD. WELL. WE'RE WAITING FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR YOUR TRANSPORTATION. I MEAN, IT'S ALWAYS VDOT AND THE COUNTY COULDN'T, YOU COULD GIVE US AN AWARD FOR BEING SO PATIENT AND THAT'S RIGHT. EASY TO GET ALONG WELL. THAT THAT'S RIGHT. ALL THE ABOVE. YEAH, WE HAVE HAD QUITE A FEW THINGS GOING ON IN THE COUNTY THIS MONTH. UM, TOP OF THE LIST IS THE 7 0 3 BRIDGE PROJECT. UH, THAT DETOUR IS CURRENTLY IN PLACE. THE BRIDGE IS CLOSED ALL THE WAY TO TRAFFIC. SPOKE WITH THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER THIS MORNING. EVERYTHING IS ON SCHEDULE. SHOULD BE REOPENED, UH, BY THE END OF THE DAY ON FRIDAY. IT WILL, HOWEVER, BE REOPENED DOWN TO ONE LANE OF TRAFFIC AS IT WAS PREVIOUSLY. UM, DOES A MACHINE THAT THEY USE TO GROOVE THE DECK ON THE BRIDGE. THE REASON IT'S CLOSED THIS WEEK IS TO ECK THE BRIDGE, REPAVE THE DECK ON THE BRIDGE, THE GROOVING MACHINE IS, IS HELD UP. IT'S A RARE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. UM, IT'LL REMAIN ONE LANE UNTIL EARLY DECEMBER WHEN THEY CAN GET THAT PIECE OF EQUIPMENT IN THERE. AND ONCE THEY GROOVE THE BRIDGE, IT'LL BE FULLY OPEN TO TRAFFIC. BUT I'LL, UH, CONTINUE TO GIVE THE BOARD UPDATES AS I HAVE THEM. UM, I WAS TOLD THAT THAT GROOVING HAS BEEN PUT ON RUSH. THEY UNDERSTAND THAT. OKAY. AND IT'S, IT'S PUSHING THE COMPLETION DATE OF THE WHOLE PROJECT BACK. SO ANY UPDATES I GET, I'LL BE SHORT OF SHARE. WE PATCHED WESTBOUND FOUR 60 AT BUTTER WOOD ROAD, HAD OUR CONTRACTOR GO IN THERE AND DO IT LAST FRIDAY. RISE A LITTLE BIT SMOOTHER THAN THE LAST PATCH WAS THERE. UM, I AM WORKING ON MY PRIMARY RESURFACING SUBMISSIONS THIS WEEK FOR WHAT'LL BE DONE IN 26. THAT WHOLE SECTION OF WESTBOUND FOUR 60 FROM 85 TO ABOUT WATKINS EQUIPMENT, COMPLETE OVERLAY ON THAT IS GONNA BE MY TOP PRIORITY FOR 26 TO GET RID OF THE, THE CONTINUOUS BUMPS AND TIE EVERYTHING IN THERE. PRIMARY MOWING IS UNDERWAY IN THE COUNTY. UM, ROUTE ONE IS COMPLETE FROM HERE DOWN TO BRUNSWICK, UH, WORKING ON 40 AND FOUR 60 RIGHT NOW AS WELL. THIS WOULD BE A FULL RIGHT OF WAY TO RIGHT OF WAY. MOW MAY TAKE A WHILE TO DO BECAUSE THEY'RE DOING SUCH A WIDE WIDTH TRASH PICKUP. WILL COME ALONG WITH THAT. UH, PRIMARY MOWING AS WELL TOUCHED UP, UH, SOME SHOULDERS ON HALIFAX ROAD WHERE WE HAD DONE THE CLIPPINGS WITH SOME MILLINGS. THEY HAULED MILLINGS OUT OF THE RESIDENCY LOT FOR ABOUT THREE DAYS, PROBABLY CLOSE TO A HUNDRED LOADS OF MILLINGS. WENT DOWN ON THOSE SHOULDERS ON HALIFAX, HELPED BUILD 'EM UP, UH, WHERE THEY'D BEEN CLIPPED. UM, FROM THAT CLIPPING OPERATION, CONTRACTORS CAME IN AND FIXED THE DEFICIENCIES FROM THE PREVIOUS PAVING ON ROUTE ONE, UM, NORTH OF ROUTE 85 AND PUT THOSE MARKINGS DOWN AS WELL. SO THAT PROJECT IS WRAPPED UP AND ALL OF OUR RESURFACING WORK IN THE COUNTY IS DONE FOR THE SEASON. THE HALIFAX THROUGH TRUCK RESTRICTION PACKAGE IS GOING THROUGH ITS APPROVALS. UM, IT'S PROBABLY DOWNTOWN WAITING FOR THE COMMISSIONER'S SIGNATURE RIGHT NOW. UM, ONCE I GET THAT, I'LL GET AN APPROVAL EMAIL, I'LL POST THE SIGNS AND I WILL SEND OUT AN EMAIL TO THIS BOARD AND SHERIFF'S OFFICE LETTING EVERYBODY KNOW SIGNS ARE UP AND WE CAN BEGIN ENFORCEMENT THE STERLING THROUGH TRUCK RESTRICTION. UM, THAT PACKAGE, THE, WE ARE IN THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD RIGHT NOW. SIGNS ARE POSTED ON THE ROUTE. UH, WE'VE GOT ADVERTISEMENTS IN SEVERAL PUBLICATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. UM, I'VE ONLY GOTTEN ONE COMMENT SO FAR. THAT COMMENT PERIOD WILL CLOSE ON DECEMBER 14TH. I'LL PUT THE PACKAGE TOGETHER JUST AS THE SAME AS THE HALIFAX PACKAGE AND SEND IT UP DOWN FOR REVIEW AND APPROVAL. CAME THROUGH, UH, AND DID SOME LINE MARKING REFRESH ON ROUTE ONE AND SEVERAL OTHER ROUTES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY IN THE PAST COUPLE WEEKS AS WELL. CONTRACTOR, JUST GENERAL LIFECYCLE ROADWAY LINE MARKING REPLACEMENTS. UM, PLANTED TO DO SOME PATCHING, SOME DIG OUT PATCHING ON SEVERAL LOCATIONS ON ROUTE 40 IN DARVILLE IN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS. THESE ARE SOME HABITUAL SPOTS. I THINK WE'VE DUG THEM ONCE OR TWICE SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE IN THE PAST THREE YEARS. UM, JUST KEEP ON COMING BACK. SO PUT SOME ENGINEERING TO IT AND, UH, WE'LL GET THAT DONE LUCKILY IN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS, DEPENDING ON ASPHALT AVAIL AVAILABILITY. AND, UH, PUT AN ENGINEERING SOLUTION IN THERE AND HOPEFULLY THOSE [00:15:01] ONES WILL STICK THIS TIME. GOT NEWS TODAY THAT WE ARE GONNA GET A NEW OVERHEAD MESSAGE BOARD ON 85 IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS AS WELL. UM, MM-HMM . THIS WILL BE A MESSAGE BOARD ON SOUTHBOUND 85 JUST BEFORE ROUTE ONE. UM, IT'S JUST BEFORE, IT'LL BE A COUPLE HUNDRED FEET BEFORE THE DUBY ROAD OVERPASS, UM, TO ADVISE ANY SOUTHBOUND 85 TRAFFIC OF INCIDENTS THAT MAY BE GOING ON IN THE COUNTY AND POINT SOUTHWARD SO THAT THEY HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO EITHER GET OFF ON ROUTE ONE OR FOUR 60, USE AN ALTERNATIVE ROUTE. UH, RIGHT NOW THAT PROJECT IS SCHEDULED FOR ADVERTISEMENT IN FEBRUARY WITH CONSTRUCTION NEXT FALL. SO WITHIN A YEAR WE'LL LIKELY BE SEEING A NEW MESSAGE BOARD GOING UP ON THE INTERSTATE. GOOD. UM, DID A LITTLE PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS, UH, FOR TURN LANE RIGHT HERE. ATWOOD ELEMENTARY SPOKE WITH OUR TRAFFIC ENGINEERS OFF THE BAT. THEY, THEY DIDN'T REALLY RECOMMEND INSTALLATION OF A TURN LANE. THE RIGHT OF WAY IS PRETTY TIGHT. UM, WE DID GO OUT THERE AND PUT SOME MILLINGS DOWN ON THE SHOULDER TO HELP HOLD THAT TRAFFIC THAT'S USED IN THE SHOULDER FOR NOW. THAT IS ALL I HAVE. UH, ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS FROM THE BOARD? THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR LOOKING INTO THAT SO QUICKLY AND, AND AT LEAST GETTING US A, A BANDAID ON IT FOR NOW. THAT HELPS. JUST THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR MY FOUR 60 MELODY. GOOD AND SMOOTH. NOW I HAVE TO THINK I HAD A PROBLEM, BUT YOU FIXED IT BEFORE I COULD COMPLAIN ABOUT IT. I LIKE TO HEAR THAT . YEAH, MS. MOLLY. OH, UM, LET'S SEE. JUST THE, UM, AND I KNOW THAT YOU SET UP, YOU KNOW, OVERPASS, GRASS CUTTING AND ALL THAT. IT'S GETTING, GETTING A LITTLE HIGH AGAIN, SO MM-HMM . JUST WANNA MAKE SURE. WELL, EVERYBODY'S GETTING POSITIVE. THE ONLY THING I CAN GET IS PROMISES . IT'S COMING. IT'S COMING. IT'S COMING. IT'S COMING. IT'S COMING. 13 YEARS. IT'S COMING. IT'S COMING. IT'S COMING. OH YEAH, IT'S COMING. YEAH. BUT IT'S PATIENCE. OH YEAH. I GOT GOOD PERSEVERANCE. YOU, YOU SHOULD SEE THE, THE, THE PACKAGE FOR THE HALIFAX ONE. THAT WHAT I HAVE TO SEND UPTOWN IS I, IT'S AN INCH THAT OF JUST PAPERWORK EVERYTHING. WELL, AT LEAST YOU MAKING IT HAPPEN. I MEAN THAT'S RIGHT. THINK ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE COME BEFORE YOU AND I'M RIGHT THERE, RIGHT? YES SIR. IT'S GONNA HAPPEN. I COULD GET IT TOMORROW AS SOON AS I GET IT. WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE PUTTING 'EM UP. WELL, I DO APPRECIATE IT. I MEAN, I ALWAYS LOVE TO GO FORWARD MM-HMM . SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO. OKAY? MM-HMM . APPRECIATE YOU MR. AARON. JUST TWO THINGS REAL QUICK. YES, SIR. SO, I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THE, UH, ROUTE 7 0 3 BRIDGE. THAT MUST BE LIKE A PROMPT FOR SOMETHING, RIGHT? LIKE, I SHOULD SAY SOMETHING. BUT, UM, THE, THE, THE POINT OF BRINGING THAT UP, THERE'S AN LITTLE EVENT SATURDAY AT ONE 30 WHERE DIMITY NAVY NATION IS PLAYING SECOND ROUND OF REGIONS. UM, SO WE, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT FOR THE PEOPLE USING 85, THAT WAS, THAT WAS THE HOPE. SO THE SCHOOL SYSTEM HAD, HAD TALKED TO US AND SAID, IF THAT BRIDGE WAS GONNA BE OUT ON SATURDAY, WE, WE MIGHT WANNA DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH TRAFFIC. OKAY. 'CAUSE WE HAVE A PRETTY LARGE EVENT'S GONNA HAPPEN AT THE, AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AT ONE 30. UH, SO FOR SOME REASON THAT SLIPS, IF THAT, THAT THAT TIMELINE MOVES, LET, LET US KNOW OR LET'S HAVE SOME COORDINATION. I WILL ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. UM, IT, I'LL TALK TO THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER AND SEE IF THEY CAN OPEN IT ALL THE WAY. I DOUBT IT WILL BE LIKELY BECAUSE OF THE KIND, THE, THE BERRY WALL THAT'S IN THERE. THEY WOULD HAVE TO MOVE AND THEY WOULD'VE TO MOVE THE BACK. I I'M OKAY WITH THE ONE LANE. OKAY. I, IT JUST, WE WANT TO JUST MAKE SURE THAT THEY CAN PASS VERSUS GOING THROUGH THE DETOUR BECAUSE THAT, THAT GETS A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT IF POSSIBLE. WE DON'T WANT TO COMPROMISE SAFETY IN ANY WAY. BUT, UH, AND THE SECOND THING, UM, I KNOW THAT WE HAVE NOW THE TRANSPORTATION SAFETY SERVICE PATROL THAT'S COMING INTO DIM WOODY MM-HMM . UM, SO ONE OF THE PIECES HERE THAT THE BOARD, WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS AT THE STATE LEVEL TOO, BUT TRYING TO GET THAT, THAT SAFETY SERVICE PATROL FOR ALL OF DIM WOODY AND REALLY THE 85 CORRIDOR. UM, IF THERE'S ANY WAY THAT, THAT YOU CAN PROVIDE THE BOARD ON SOME ROUTINE BASIS QUARTERLY MM-HMM . JUST AN IDEA HOW MANY TIMES THE SAFETY SERVICE PATROL IS PRESENTLY COMING INTO DENWOODY. OKAY. I MEAN, JUST, JUST, JUST AN IDEA COUNT. I THINK THAT WOULD GIVE US AN IDEA OF, OF, OF THAT. AND I COULD TELL YOU FROM OUR FIRST RESPONDERS, UH, WHEN, WHEN IT'S THERE ON 85, WE'RE WE'RE BEING TOLD IT'S JUST A GAME CHANGER THAT, THAT PEOPLE TEND TO, TO GET OVER. UM, AND THAT, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH. ANYTHING ELSE? THAT'S IT. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. BUT AARON, THANK YOU. THANK YOU AARON. APPRECIATE IT. NO PROBLEM. HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING. [00:20:01] ALRIGHT, YOU TOO. OKAY. JOHN TYLER [6.C. John Tyler Alcohol Safety Action Program] ALCOHOL SAFETY ACTION PROGRAM. MS. ASHLEY. GOOD AFTERNOON, MR. CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. UH, MY NAME IS ASHLEY AND I RUN THE JOHN TYLER ALCOHOL SAFETY ACTION PROGRAM. WE ARE HERE TODAY TO TALK TO YOU KIND OF ABOUT WHAT WE DO, BUT SOME INTERESTING INFORMATION THAT YOU MAYBE WANNA KNOW ABOUT DEN WITTY, THE PLACE THAT YOU LOVE SO MUCH. UM, SO I HAVE VICTORIA AND ELLE WHO WILL BE SPEAKING, BUT TO KIND OF GIVE YOU A JUST GENERAL IDEA, WE HAVE A STATE OFFICE CALLED THE COMMISSION ON VAP, AND THAT KIND OF RUNS ALL THESE LITTLE BITTY ASAPS THAT KIND OF COVER THE JURISDICTIONS THROUGHOUT THE STATE. SO IN ADDITION TO DENWITTY, OUR ASAP COVERS AMELIA CHESTERFIELD COLONIAL HEIGHTS, EMPORIA GREENSVILLE GLAND OOH BUZZ WORD. THERE GOES, UH, HENRICO HANOVER, HOPEWELL, NOT AWAY. PETERSBURG, PALATAN, PRINCE GEORGE RICHMOND, SURREY AND SUSSEX. WOW. WE ARE THE LARGEST ASAP IN THE COMMONWEALTH AND WE ARE HAPPY TO SERVE YOUR CONSTITUENTS. SO ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT THE GIRLS ARE GONNA PROVIDE TO YOUR A OR TO THE BOARD IS COMING FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. VIRGINIA TRAFFIC CRASH BACKS FROM 2023, THAT'S PUBLISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES, UM, THE 2022 ANNUAL REPORT DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT. THAT'S PUBLISHED BY THE VIRGINIA STATE CRIME COMMISSION. AND THEN WE HAVE SOME COUNTY HEALTH RANKINGS AND ROADMAP SPECIFICALLY ABOUT DEN WITTY. SO THE COMMISSION ON BASE APP DOES A COUPLE OF THINGS. SO IN THE UMBRELLA THEY WORK ON ENFORCEMENT WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT ADJUDICATION, WORKING WITH THE PROSECUTORS IN THE COURTS, CASE MANAGEMENT AND OFFENDER INTERVENTION, PUBLIC INFORMATION LIKE THIS, AND EVALUATION AND CERTIFICATION OF ALL OF OUR LITTLE PROGRAMS. AND THEN TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE OF IDEA OF WHAT OUR ASAP DOES, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO ARIEL AND VICTORIA. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS ARIEL EPPS AND I AM A CASE MANAGER AT JOHN TYLER ASAP. AND I HAVE BEEN, WELL, I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO SERVE AS THE CASE MANAGER FOR DENWOODY COUNTY SINCE MARCH OF 2022. AND A HOMEGROWN GIRL GO DINWITTY. JUST WANTED TO GIVE SOME FACTS ABOUT THE DRIVING, UM, AND SAFETY IN DINWITTY. AS OF 2023, THERE WERE 667 CRASHES THAT WERE DOCUMENTED WITH 45 BEING ALCOHOL RELATED AND 162 BEING SPEED RELATED. THERE WERE FIVE ALCOHOL RELATED FATALITIES AS WELL AS FIVE SPEED RELATED FATALITIES. AND JUST FOR THE FISCAL YEAR OF 2023, THERE WERE 34 DUI FIRST THAT WERE DOCUMENTED IN, UH, WELL REPORTED FROM THE COURT. THERE WAS ALSO SIX MULTIPLE OFFENDER EVALUATIONS, THREE MULTIPLE OFFENDER MONITORINGS, ONE RECKLESS AND AGGRESSIVE DRIVING, AND THEN FOUR DUI SECONDS. IN THE FISCAL YEAR OF 2024, THERE WERE 46 DUI FIRST REPORTED AS WELL AS 11 D-U-I-D-U-I SECONDS. AND THEN 1D UI DRUG OFFENSE, ONE YOUNG OFFENDER OFFENSE, TWO MULTIPLE OFFENDER MONITORINGS AND TWO RECKLESS AND AGGRESSIVE DRIVING. JUST A SNAPSHOT OF SOME OF THE SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE AT ASAP, THE MAIN ONE BEING THE DUI AND RECKLESS DRIVING, UM, REQUIREMENT. THIS IS AN EDUCATION AND TREATMENT REQUIREMENT. TWO OF THE TREATMENT PROVIDERS THAT WE WORK WITH IN DENWOODY COUNTY IS PROGRESSIVE COUNSELING AND DISTRICT 19 COMMUNITY SERVICE BOARD. THANK YOU. YEAH. WELCOME. WE ALSO SERVICE YOUNG OFFENDER MONITORING. USUALLY THIS IS FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 21 THAT THE COURT ORDERS TO OUR PROGRAM. ONCE THEY COMPLETE THE ASAP REQUIREMENT, THEIR CHARGE IS USUALLY AMENDED OR DISMISSED. WE MONITOR THE IGNITION INTERLOCK, WHICH IS THAT LOVELY DEVICE THAT GOES INTO YOUR VEHICLE. YOU TOUCH ALCOHOL, YOU DON'T TOUCH THE ROAD. WE ALSO DO INTERVENTION INTERVIEW, WHICH IS A DMV REQUIREMENT. THIS IS USUALLY ONCE POINTS BECOME ACCUMULATED ON THE INDIVIDUAL'S DMV DRIVING RECORD, THEY COME SEE US. WE GIVE THEM A PLAN TO SET THEM ON THE RIGHT COURSE AND SEND THEM BACK ON THE ROAD. HOPEFULLY A SAFER DRIVER. WE ALSO OFFER RATE UP, WHICH IS THE RECKLESS DRIVING, UH, EDUCATION PROGRAM. THIS IS A 12 HOUR EDUCATION CLASS THAT INDIVIDUALS WILL COME SEE US FOR ONE WEEKEND OF YOUR DAY, WELL OF YOUR YEAR. AND WE SET THEM ON THE RIGHT PATH. GIVE THEM THE TOOLS AND RESOURCES TO MAINTAIN A SAFE DRIVING RECORD. THE MULTIPLE OFFENDER EVALUATION IS A REALLY IMPORTANT SERVICE THAT WE OFFER. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND OR KNOW THAT ONCE THEY'RE CONVICTED OF VEHICULAR MAIMING OR MANSLAUGHTER, OR MORE THAN 1D UI CONVICTION, YOUR DRIVING PRIVILEGE IS REVOKED INDEFINITELY. MM-HMM [00:25:01] . AFTER THREE YEARS OF THIS SUSPENSION TIME, THEY ARE ABLE TO COME TO SEE US TO PETITION FOR RESTRICTED PRIVILEGES. AND THEN AFTER FIVE YEARS, IF THEY'RE ELIGIBLE, THEY CAN PETITION FOR FULL RESTORATION. AND JUST TO PASS ON US THE TORCH, I KNOW, ASK MS. DONEL TO STEP UP AND SHE'LL GO INTO MORE DETAIL ABOUT SOME OF THE SERVICES WE OFFER. HI EVERYONE. MY NAME IS VICTORIA STANE. I HAVE BEEN WITH ASAP SINCE SEPTEMBER OF 2023. UM, I'M NOW THE CASE MANAGER SUPERVISOR. I OVERSEE ALL THREE OF OUR OFFICES, CASE MANAGERS IN THE JURISDICTIONS THAT WE SERVE. UM, AND PIGGYBACKING OFF OF MS. EPPS, WE ALSO OFFER COMMUNITY SERVICE MONITORING. SO WHEN CLIENTS GET CONVICTED IN A COURT, JUDGE ORDERS THEM TO COMPLETE COMMUNITY SERVICE WITH A NONPROFIT AGENCY, WE ARE ABLE TO MONITOR THAT AS WELL. WE OFFER IN-HOUSE URINE DRUG SCREENS, SO WE WILL TAKE THEM IN-HOUSE, WE SEND THEM OFF AND HAVE THEM VERIFIED BY ONE OF OUR LABS. TAKES ABOUT SEVEN TO 10 BUSINESS DAYS FOR US TO GET RESULTS ON THAT. UM, WE CAN DO IT FOR EITHER PRETRIAL OR POST-TRIAL CLIENTS, AND THEN WE CAN DO IT FOR ANY FREQUENCY THAT THE COURT ORDERS FOR THEM TO DO. WE ALSO OFFER DEFERRED DISPOSITION MONITORING. WE MONITOR CRIMINAL RECORD CHECKS. WE DO DMV CHECKS, URINE SCREENS ARE TREATMENT AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS, AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY SERVICE. WE ALSO CAN MONITOR DRUG OFFENDERS. UM, THEY CAN BE ORDERED TO DO THE FULL ASAP PROGRAM OR JUST TREATMENT OR JUST EDUCATION. UM, THE BIG ONE FOR BOND SUPERVISION, WE CAN DO THAT FOR PRETRIAL WHEN JUDGES ORDER THEM TO BE MONITORED FOR DRUG SCREENS. UM, GOOD BEHAVIOR TREATMENT, EDUCATION THAT CAN AFFECT KIND OF THE OUTCOME OF THEIR CASES WHEN THEY GO TO COURT. UM, AND THEN ONE OF MY PERSONAL FAVORITES, WE ALSO OFFER REMOTE ALCOHOL MONITORING DEVICES. WE HAVE TWO DIFFERENT VENDORS THAT WE USE FOR THOSE. THE DIFFERENT DEVICES IS LIKE A REMOTE BREATHALYZER. IT'S LIKE A BASICALLY PORTABLE INTERLOCK THAT CAN REQUEST TESTS AT ANY TIME DURING THE DAY. UM, WE ALSO OFFER THE SCRAMBLE BRACELET, WHICH IS A CONTINUOUS MONITOR THAT IS ATTACHED TO THE CLIENT'S ANKLE. AND WE'LL JUST PULL SAMPLES, UM, ALL THROUGHOUT THE DAY. WE ALSO CAN DO THAT PRETRIAL OR POST-TRIAL, AND THEN WE GET NOTIFICATIONS IF THERE'S ANY VIOLATIONS OR MISSED TESTS ON THAT AS WELL. I THINK THAT CONCLUDES ALRIGHT. SO, UM, THAT'S KIND OF OUR INFORMATION. DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, CONCERNS, COMPLAINTS, COMMENTS? NO, I DON'T HAVE ANY. MR. CHAIRMAN, JUST TO, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? OH, NO, I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S A GOOD PROGRAM. THANK YOU. YEAH, SAME, SAME THING. I WAS JUST GONNA COMMENT TO THAT. I MEAN, WE, UM, I'M ONE OF THESE GEEKS THAT ACTUALLY KEEP UP WITH SOME FATALITY STUFF. SO, YOU KNOW, IN, IN VIRGINIA WE KILL, UM, HOMICIDE WISE, ABOUT 600 LAST YEAR, ABOUT JUST OVER 600 HOMICIDES, COMMONWEALTH WIDE. UH, THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, WE HAD OVER 900, UH, FATALITIES ON OUR ROADWAYS. AND YOU KNOW, SO IF YOU LOOK AT RECKLESS DRIVING, AND WE ACTUALLY HAD A FATALITY YESTERDAY HERE IN DENWITTY. UM, AND AGAIN, WHAT, WHAT YOU ALL ARE DOING IS MAKING A TREMENDOUS DIFFERENCE BECAUSE THIS NUMBER WAS ACTUALLY MUCH HIGHER A FEW YEARS BACK. SO WE WE'RE STARTING TO SEE THE NUMBER COME DOWN A LITTLE BIT. UM, BUT ALSO FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC. I MEAN, ESPECIALLY IN, UM, IN A RURAL LOCALITY, UM, WE KNOW INDIVIDUALS THAT DECIDE TO NOT PUT UP THE KEYS AND THEY DRIVE INTOXICATED IT. AND SOMETIMES IN A RURAL LOCALITY, THEY DON'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT. UM, BUT THEY, THEY DO KNOW THAT THEY HAVE LOVED ONES THAT NEED HELP. AND, AND SO YOU JUST, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT AND THE FACT THAT THERE'S ALWAYS OPPORTUNITIES HERE, WHETHER IT'S THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE OR, OR INDIVIDUALS HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THAT WAY. BUT YOUR PROGRAMS ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE. AND, AND WE APPRECIATE YOU COMING AND TALKING TO US ABOUT IT. BUT, YOU KNOW, I, I REMEMBER THESE NUMBERS WERE A WHOLE LOT, UH, WORSE THAN THEY'RE NOW. SO IT, IT IS WORKING. IT IS WORKING. I KNOW SOMETIMES IT MAY NOT SEEM LIKE IT, BUT IT, IT'S MAKING A DIFFERENCE. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR COMING. [6.D. Richard Bland College] OKAY. RICHARD BLAND COLLEGE. TER ROBINSON. I'VE SEEN YOU BEFORE, HAVEN'T I? A FEW TIMES. HOW YOU DOING, SIR? I'M WELL. ALRIGHT. SO, UH, TO CHAIR CHAVIS, UH, VICE CHAIR LEE, UH, HONORABLE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND GUESTS. GOOD EVENING OR, OR GOOD AFTERNOON. I THINK WE'RE STILL IN THE AFTERNOON. UH, MY NAME IS TERRELL ROBINSON AND I HAVE THE PLEASURE TO SERVE AS THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS FOR RICHARD BLAND COLLEGE. UH, AND SO TODAY I AM GONNA PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING, UH, ALL THE GREAT THINGS WE'VE BEEN DOING AT THE COLLEGE. UM, SO JUST TO REMIND, JUST TO REMIND EVERYONE, UH, WE WERE FORMED THROUGH THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THROUGH ACTS OF THEM IN 1960. UH, AND THE FIRST CLASS OF RBC, UH, STARTED IN 1961. UM, YEAH, TO GIVE YOU SOME, SOME STATS, UH, ABOUT OUR, ABOUT OUR [00:30:01] STUDENTS, UM, I THINK SOME THINGS TO HIGHLIGHT IS OUR FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE NUMBER. UH, OUR STUDENTS, UH, WE'RE SEEING AN INCREASE WITH THAT. SO WE'RE UP TO OVER HALF OF OUR STUDENTS ARE FIRST GENERATION, THE FIRST IN THEIR FAMILY TO GO TO COLLEGE. UH, WE'VE ALSO SEEN A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN DUAL ENROLLMENT. UH, AND I'LL TOUCH MORE ON THAT LATER IN THE PRESENTATION. UM, AND WE PRIDE OURSELF IN THAT LOWER LEFT NUMBER. MM-HMM . TO KNOW THAT OVER THREE FOURTHS OF OUR PROFESSORS ARE FULL-TIME. UH, THAT'S, UH, COMES IN VERY, COMES IN HANDY WHEN WORKING WITH OUR STUDENTS. UM, OKAY. SO DIGNITY BY THE NUMBERS. LET'S, LET'S LOOK AT YOU ALL. SO TOTAL ENROLLMENT FOR FALL OF 24. WE'VE GOT 150, UH, DENWITTY STUDENTS. UH, AND THAT BREAKDOWN IS, 99 OF THEM ARE IN DUAL ENROLLMENT. UH, 10 ARE ONLINE AND 51 ARE TRADITIONAL. UH, I SEE SOME HEAD NODS. , GOOD NEWS. MM-HMM . YES. AND THEN JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHERE OUR STUDENTS ARE COMING FROM, YOU CAN SEE FROM THIS CENTRAL REGION, UM, 61%, YOU CAN SEE WE'VE GOT ABOUT 12 COMING FROM THE TIDEWATER AREA, AND THEN ABOUT 13% FROM NORTHERN VIRGINIA. UH, AND SO WE'VE SEEN A 11% INCREASE YEAR OVER YEAR. UM, AND FOR, WITH 40% OF OUR STUDENTS LIVING ON CAMPUS, UH, WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH OUR INTERNATIONAL STUDENT POPULATION THROUGH OUR IRBC PROGRAM. UH, WE HAVE ALMOST 30 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FROM ALMOST EVERY CONTINENT, UM, AT RICHARD BLANK COLLEGE. AND SO IN THIS PICTURE, YOU WILL SEE THE WOO BROTHERS, UH, THEY WERE ON, THEY WERE AT OUR COLLEGE, UH, LAST SCHOOL YEAR. UM, AND SO NOW THEY'VE TRANSFERRED, THEY'VE FINISHED THEIR DEGREE, THEY'VE NOW TRANSFERRED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. UH, ONE IS STUDYING MATHEMATICS, UH, AND THE OTHER IS STUDYING, UM, COMPUTER SCIENCE. ALRIGHT? AND SO, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT CYTO IN 2014, SHE RESURRECTED, UH, RBC ATHLETICS, UM, ADDING A NUMBER OF TEAMS. UH, AND SO, SO FAR AS OF AS OF TODAY, WE HAVE 14, UH, COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC TEAMS AT RBC, UH, WITH OUR NEWEST EDITION BEING ESPORTS. UM, AND SO FAR, I JUST WANNA HIGHLIGHT SOME SUCCESS. SO WE'VE HAD A LOT OF SUCCESS, RIGHT? UH, OUR, OUR WOMEN'S SOCCER TEAM, THEY WENT ALL THE WAY TO REGIONS. UM, WE ALSO HAD OUR, UM, MEN'S SOCCER TEAM GO TO REGIONS AS WELL. UM, BUT I WANNA HIGHLIGHT OUR WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL PROGRAM. UH, SO THIS IS THEIR THIRD YEAR IN A ROW. THEY'VE WON THE REGION 10 CHAMPIONSHIP. UH, AND SO IN 22, THEY WON THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. UH, AND SO YESTERDAY WE JUST SENT, UH, OUR WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL TEAM TO, UM, IOWA, UH, ON A BUS, UM, TO DC SO THEY COULD FLY OUT FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. SO, UH, LORD WILLING, HOPEFULLY THEY WILL BRING BACK SOME GOLD FOR RBC. SO THEY KICK OFF PLAY, UH, TOMORROW. AND SO WITH ALL THIS GREAT SUCCESS, I JUST WANT TO SHOW A, A PICTURE OF WHAT OUR FUTURE AT RBC LOOKS LIKE FOR ATHLETICS. UH, WE ARE ENVISIONING WHAT WE CALL THE RBC SPORTS PARK. SO LOOKING AT, UM, BUILDING A BASEBALL FIELD, LOOKING AT BRINGING TURF FIELDS, UM, TO OUR CAMPUS, AND ALSO LOOKING AT EVEN EXPANDING OUR BEACH VOLLEYBALL PROGRAM. AND ALSO THERE'S SOME COMMUNITY ASPECTS. WE WANNA HAVE A WALKING TRACK THERE AS WELL. UM, SO REALLY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT THE FUTURE OF RBC LOOKS LIKE. UM, AND OUR ACADEMIC INNOVATION CENTER, UM, THIS, UH, THE BOARD IS NO STRANGER TO THAT. UH, WE HAD HAD OUR COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR WITH KEVIN, KEVIN WAS THERE, AND ALSO CHAIR CHAVIS. YOU ALL WERE THERE AS WELL TO WITNESS THE RIBBON CUTTING, UH, A FEW MONTHS BACK. UH, SO WE LOVE THIS NEW SPACE. THIS IS 24,000, UH, SQUARE FEET WITH 14 BEING NEW CONSTRUCTION, UH, AND 10,000 OF THAT BEING RENOVATED SPACE. SO YOU ALL GOT TO SEE, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL SPACE FOR MORE LEARNING. WE'VE GOT PODCASTING STUDIOS, AND THIS IS ALSO WHERE WE'RE HOSTING OUR ESPORTS. UH, SO, YOU KNOW, PARENTS ARE TELLING YOU, GO TO BED, GET OFF THE GAME, NOW YOU CAN GET PAID TO PLAY. AND NOW IT'S ALL ABOUT STRATEGY, AND STUDENTS ARE GETTING SCHOLARSHIPS. AND SO IT'S A GREAT ADDITION TO CAMPUS. IT'S A PICTURE MM-HMM . UH, AND WHAT SEPARATES US, I I THINK THAT REALLY MAKES US UNIQUE, IS OUR GUIDED PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS PROGRAM. EVERY STUDENT THAT COMES TO RBC, THEY GET MATCHED UP WITH A LEARNER MENTOR. AND THIS IS BY THEIR DEGREE TRACKED. AND SO THIS LEARNER MENTOR KNOWS WHEN THEY'RE GOING TO CLASS. THEY KNOW WHEN THEY GRADES DROPPED, AND WHAT THEY DO IS THEY REACH OUT AND CONNECT WITH THEM TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON. BECAUSE WITH ALL THESE FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS, WE'VE LEARNED, SOMETIMES THEY DON'T KNOW TO REACH OUT TO PROFESSORS IF A DEATH IN THE FAMILY HAPPENS OR A SICKNESS OCCURS. AND SO THAT'S WHEN I LEARN OF MENTORS KICKS IN. AND SO BECAUSE OF THAT, WE HAVE MORE STUDENTS COMPLETING THEIR CLASSWORK AND ALSO MORE STUDENTS GETTING DEGREES. AWESOME. AND WE GOTTA, WE, WE GOTTA TALK ABOUT OUR DUAL ENROLLMENT PROGRAM. AS YOU SEE THAT BIG YELLOW ARROW POINT IN THE DENWITTY HIGH, WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THE PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE WITH DENWITTY HIGH SCHOOL. AND SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THE NUMBERS, [00:35:01] YOU CAN SEE WHEN WE STARTED THE PARTNERSHIP, WE HAD, WE HAD TWO SENIORS THAT DECIDED TO JUMP INTO THE PROGRAM. YOU SEE THE 2324 YEAR WE HOPPED UP TO 85 STUDENTS, AND THAT YEAR, TWO STUDENTS OBTAINED THEIR ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE. AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE 24 YEAR, THIS IS JUST THE FALL NUMBER. SO RIGHT NOW, FALL, WE HAVE 99 DUAL ENROLLMENT STUDENTS, AND, UM, WE EXPECT 14 TO GET THEIR DEGREE THIS UPCOMING MAY. SO REALLY PROUD OF THAT AND HOPE TO GROW THAT PROGRAM. WE'RE ALSO REALLY EXCITED ABOUT OUR TRANSFER SCHOLARS NETWORK. SO, UM, THROUGH TSN PELL ELIGIBLE, UH, STUDENTS THAT SHOW HIGH ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, UH, WE NOW HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH WHICH YOU CAN SEE A NUMBER OF IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS. SO TO ENVISION YOU CAN HAVE AN RBC STUDENT THAT GOES ON TO ONE OF THESE, UH, FINE INSTITUTIONS ON THE BOARD. UM, AND JUST TO HIGHLIGHT A SUCCESS STORY, MICHAEL MASON, OUR COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER, WE LOVE MICHAEL. UM, MICHAEL OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL, HE BARELY, BARELY MAINTAINED A 1.6 GPA. HE BOUNCED AROUND DIFFERENT FOSTER HOMES. UM, AND SO WHEN HE GOT TO RBC, HE FOUND HIS SUPPORT. HE FOUND THAT HE HAD THE RESOURCES TO BRING HIM UP. SO, UH, MICHAEL GRADUATED HIS PAST MAY WITH ALMOST A 4.0 GPA, HE WAS ACCEPTED INTO AM AMHERST COLLEGE. UM, AND THEY PAID FULL RIDE FOR HIM TO GO BECAUSE HE WAS A TSN SCHOLAR. AND HE ALSO GOT THE JINK, THE JACK KENT COOK FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP. AND SO MICHAEL HAS 0% ZERO DEBT. UM, MICHAEL CALLED ME LAST WEEK. UH, HE'S DOING REALLY WELL. UM, AND HE WANTS ME TO WRITE HIM A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION BECAUSE HE IS APPLYING TO BE A TRUMAN SCHOLAR. WOW. SO, I MEAN, YOU JUST IMAGINE THE PATH THAT HE'S TAKEN. 2022, WE BROUGHT UP, WE PARTNERED THE DRONE UP, UH, A DRONE AVIATION COMPANY OUT OF VIRGINIA BEACH. UM, THEY DECIDED TO PARTNER WITH US TO BUILD A TEMPORARY DRONE FACILITY. SO THEY PARTNERED WITH WALMART, SO, UM, TO TRAIN DRONE PILOTS AND TO SHIP THEM ALL ACROSS WALMART TO HELP THEM WITH THEIR DELIVERY SERVICE. AND SO, SO FAR WE'VE TRAINED OVER 200 PILOTS THROUGH THIS PROGRAM. AND THEY, WHEN THEY FINISH WITH US, THEY GET A UAS UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM, 12 CREDITS WITH US. UM, AND THEN WE, WE HOPE THAT THEY WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO INVEST, UM, IN OUR COMMUNITY AS WELL. SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING ON THE DRONE AVIATION SIDE OF THINGS. AND SO WITH THAT, WE'VE PARTNERED WITH, UH, GO VIRGINIA AND ALSO WITH VGR, UH, TO LOOK AT OUR, UM, TO LOOK AT OUR ACREAGE AND SEE HOW COULD WE BETTER UTILIZE THE LAND THAT RICHARD BLAND OCCUPIES. UM, SO THROUGH THAT STUDY WE HAVE LOCATED, THERE'S ABOUT 70 PLUS ACRES ON THE DENWOODY SIDE. I MAY MENTION , WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT BUILDING OUTTA INNOVATION PARKS. SO WE'VE GOT ABOUT SIX PARCELS THERE. UH, AND WE'RE LOOKING TO ATTRACT INDUSTRY PARTNERS. AND WE HOPE THAT THOSE INDUSTRY PARTNERS, ONCE, ONCE THEY COME IN, THEY WILL PROVIDE INTERNSHIPS AND APPRENTICESHIPS FOR OUR STUDENTS. SO REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT, UM, PARTNERSHIP AND THIS OPPORTUNITY. ALL RIGHT. AND THAT LEADS US UP TO 2023, UH, OUR RUN FOR INDEPENDENT GOVERNANCE. AND SO, UH, FIRST I WANT TO JUST THANK THIS BOARD BECAUSE BACK, UM, IN DECEMBER OF 2022, UH, YOU ALL SUPPORTED US WITH A RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT THAT I WAS ABLE TO TAKE WITH ME TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO SHOW THAT WE HAD SUPPORT. UM, AND JUST TO REMIND EVERYONE, UM, WE BROUGHT A BILL FORWARD, UH, THAT ASKS FOR INDEPENDENT GOVERNANCE. AND SO, UH, WE ARE STILL THE, WE ARE THE ONLY JUNIOR COLLEGE IN THE COMMONWEALTH THAT IS, UM, GOVERNED BY THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY. UM, AND SO WHAT WE'RE ASKING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS TO SAY, WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE OUR OWN BOARD OF VISITORS, UM, SO THAT WE CAN WORK ON OUR OWN PLAN AND WORK ON HOW WE BUILD OUT THE FUTURE FOR RBC. AND SO THAT LOOKS LIKE BUILDING OUT OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UM, AND ALSO BUILDING OUT WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH DRONE SPACE. AND SO, UM, WE HAD A, WE HAD A DECENT RUN. SO IN 2023, IT MADE IT, UM, THE LATE, UH, SENATOR FRANK RUFFY CARRIED OUR BILL. IT MADE IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE COMMITTEES. IT PASSED ON THE FLOOR AND ON THE HOUSE SIDE, WE HAD DELEGATE EMILY BREWER CARRY IT, IT MADE IT THROUGH EDUCATION, AND IT GOT HELD UP IN APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE. AND SO THE CHAIRMAN AT THE TIME, HE SAID, LET'S PUT THIS TO A STUDY. UM, LET'S FIGURE OUT WHAT IS THE BEST THING. AND SO HE, THAT STUDY WAS THEN TASKED BY THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION, AMY GUERA. AND SO THIS REPORT CAME OUT IN AUGUST, UH, WITH RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE FOR RICHARD BLAND COLLEGE. UM, AND HER CONCLUDING REMARKS IS THAT SHE FELT THE BEST ROUTE FOR US WAS TO PURSUE INDEPENDENT GOVERNANCE. AND SO, UH, IT IS MY ACTS OF THE BOARD. I HOPE THAT, UH, YOU ALL WOULD SUPPORT US AGAIN WITH ANOTHER RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT. AND I KNOW THAT I'VE PROVIDED, UH, THAT DOCUMENT AS WELL. AND SO WITH THAT, I WILL CONCLUDE MY REMARKS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU'RE WELCOME. ANYONE? NO, JUST, YOU KNOW, WHAT RBC IS DOING FOR OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THE DUAL ENROLLMENT, I'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS MANY YEARS AGO. IT'S A FANTASTIC [00:40:01] THING. I'VE HAD SOME OF MY CLIENTS FROM PRINCE GEORGE THAT HAD GONE THROUGH THE PROGRAM, BUT NOW IT'S OFFERED AT DENWITTY HIGH SCHOOL AND WE NEED TO START EARLY IN THE TRACK. UM, BUT WE NEED TO GET IT TO OUR PEOPLE, OUR CITIZENS, TO MAKE THEM AWARE THAT, THAT DENWOODY PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS A GREAT PLACE TO, TO SEND YOUR CHILD, CHILD TO RIGHT. AND WORK WITH RBC TO GET THAT ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE WHEN YOU GRADUATE. YES. LOVE IT. ANYONE ELSE? I'LL JUST SAY THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT PARTNERSHIP. UM, YOU KNOW, JUST OPENING YOUR SPACE TO US AND, AND JUST BEING A GREAT ASSET TO OUR COMMUNITY AND LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT ALRIGHT. WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS. YOU'RE WELCOME. YEAH. OH, OKAY. YEAH. UM, NICE SEEING YOU, TERRELL. GOOD TO SEE YOU. UM, I, I WAS TALKING TO HIM, YOU KNOW, MY NIECE WAS TRYING TO GO, UM, SHE WAS LOOKING AT OTHER SCHOOLS, BUT SHE DECIDED TO GO TO RICHARD BLAND, WHICH I'M GLAD THAT SHE IS THERE. AND SHE TOLD ME HER GRADES ARE GOOD. ALL RIGHT. SO I'M ALWAYS KEEPING AN EYE ON HER. SHE'S A FRESHMAN YOUNG PERSON, SO, AND SHE'S ENJOYING THE SCHOOL. SO RICHARD BLAND IS JUST DOING GREAT THINGS. WOW. I LOVE TO HEAR IT. RICHARD BLAND HAS REALLY GROWN SINCE WE'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD. UM, I THINK I'VE BEEN, I'VE DONE MAY MAYBE FOUR. WE'VE BEEN CUTTING FOR DR. SDO. YEAH. SO IT'S BEEN A REAL BUSY AND THIS NEW BUILDING YOU JUST BUILT, INNOVATION IS AWESOME. THANK YOU. I JUST LOVE IT. THANK YOU. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING OUT AND GIVING US A PRESENTATION. YOU'RE WELCOME, MR. CHAIRMAN. UM, JUST A COUPLE COMMENTS. ONE, I JUST WANNA THANK THE BOARD. YOU, YOU ALL ALLOW ME TO, TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME AT RICHARD BLAND COLLEGE, WHICH IS NEAR AND DEAR TO ME. UM, BEING THAT I, I WENT THERE. UM, BUT YOU KNOW, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT INDEPENDENT GOVERNANCE, WHEN MS. GRANT COMES FORWARD AND YOU PASS THE LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE, WE HAVE THAT RESOLUTION THAT'S, THAT'S IN THAT. SO WHEN YOU ADOPT THAT, YOU ADOPT IT IN, ITS IN ITS, UM, ENTIRETY. UH, I THINK THERE'S SOME CONFUSION WITH INDEPENDENT GOVERNMENTS FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT THEY'RE THINKING THIS IS RICHARD BLAND'S FOUR YEAR, THAT THAT'S REALLY NOT WHERE WE'RE AT. RIGHT. WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT MAKING IT A FOUR YEAR INSTITUTION. WE'RE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TRULY SEPARATING OURSELVES FROM, FROM WILLIAM AND MARY MM-HMM . UM, WHO, UM, INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, WILLIAM AND MARY HAS ALSO PROVIDED RESOLUTIONS OF SUPPORT MM-HMM . THAT THEY SEE THIS AS AN AMICABLE SEPARATION. UM, CORRECT. AND, AND THEN REALLY IT WASN'T UNTIL I GOT ON THE FOUNDATION TO START LOOKING AT THE FINANCES, UM, THEY REALLY DON'T PROVIDE ANY FUNDING ANYWAY. YEAH. SO, YOU KNOW, IT IS REALLY, I MEAN, WE TALK ABOUT A PARTNERSHIP. IT'S MORE IN NAME O ONLY. SO, YOU KNOW, BEING ABLE TO HAVE YOUR OWN BOARD OF VISITORS TO BE ABLE, AND WE'RE NOT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE. RIGHT. SO WE'RE, YOU KNOW, THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE MISSION IS A LOT DIFFERENT THAN, THAN WHAT RICHARD BLAND. AND YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE, THE SEEDS THAT HAVE BEEN PLANTED HERE. SO, UM, I WAS ASKED TO SERVE AS THE CHAIR OF THE INNOVATION PARK. AND I THINK, 'CAUSE IT IS ALL ON DIY SIDE, WE TELL PRINCE GEORGE THAT A LOT. BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S ALL ON OUR SIDE. UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY WE SEE HAPPENING AT THE, UM, THE INNOVATION PARK PIECE OF IT. AND I, AND THE OTHER QUICK NOTE THAT I WANTED TO SHOW WAS WHEN, UM, TERRELL WAS SHOWING YOU THE YEAR OVER YEAR NUMBER FOR ENROLLMENT, YOU SAW THERE WAS 11% GROWTH. UM, IF YOU'RE AT ALL CONNECTED TO EITHER COMMUNITY COLLEGES TWO YEAR IN TWO INSTITUTIONS LIKE, LIKE RICHARD BLAND OR FOUR YEARS, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE A LOT OF, UM, DIPS IN ENROLLMENT AT THIS POINT ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH. THAT'S NOT THE CASE HERE. RICHARD BLAND. YES. UM, AND, AND DR. MOORE, YOU NAILED IT TOO ON THE, ON THE DUAL ENROLLMENT SIDE. UM, BUT YOU DO ALLOW ME TO SPEND A WHOLE LOT OF TIME WITH RICHARD BLAND COLLEGE AND I I I APPRECIATE THAT. UH, EVEN MOST RECENTLY, YOUR STUDENT ASSEMBLY, UH, WE WERE ABLE TO HOST THEM HERE IN, AT, AT THE COUNTY, UH, GAVE HIM A TOUR OF THE AREA OTHER THAN BEING LOCKED IN THE YEAH, WE GOT LOCKED IN THE CORRECTION SIDE, . UM, IT WAS ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD TRIP. RIGHT. SO WE HAD A GOOD, GOOD TIME. HOPEFULLY SOME LASTING, LASTING MEMORIES THERE. BUT THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO TOO. YOU'RE WELCOME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU AGAIN. THANK YOU. OKAY. WE HAVE SOME ACTION ITEMS CON GREG GARLAND GRAY [Additional Item] ADD ON. OH, ADD ON. OH, THAT'S RIGHT. I'M SORRY, DOC. ALL RIGHT, MR. GARLAND. THANK YOU. IT'S GOOD TO SEE Y'ALL AGAIN. MY NAME'S GRAY GARLAND. I'M WITH THOMPSON SIEGEL WAMSLEY. AND APOLOGIES FOR NOT BEING ON THE SCHEDULE. NO, YOU'RE GOOD. YOU'RE GOOD. YOU'RE GOOD. TRY TO SHORTEN IT UP A LITTLE BIT. NO, YOU'RE FINE. OKAY. UM, THIS IS, THIS IS IMPORTANT PIECE. WE'RE GONNA START OFF WITH A COUPLE COMMENTS ABOUT THE MARKET ON PAGE FOUR, THEN RUN THROUGH THE ACCOUNTS, LOOK AT PERFORMANCE, AND THEN ESSENTIALLY RUN THAT. UM, COMMENTS HERE ARE RELATIVELY BASIC OR OBVIOUS THIS TIME LAST YEAR, UH, WHEN WE WERE LITERALLY SITTING HERE BEFORE, WE'RE WORRIED ABOUT INFLATION, WORRIED ABOUT THE FED HIKING, WORRIED ABOUT THE FED HIKING, AND THAT CAUSING A RECESSION, WORRIED ABOUT A RECESSION [00:45:01] CAUSING THE BEAR MARKET. AND SO HERE WE ARE, HIT SITTING TODAY, INFLATION'S DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY. THE FED IS CUTTING RATES. THE MARKET LIKES THAT. UH, THE ECONOMY IS AMAZING AND RESILIENT. THE MARKET'S UP SIGNIFICANTLY. EARNINGS ARE UP SIGNIFICANTLY. ESTIMATED EARNINGS ARE UP SIGNIFICANTLY. CEO CONFIDENCE IS UP SIGNIFICANTLY. SO WE ARE LITERALLY AT THE OPPOSITE OF WHERE WE WERE THIS TIME LAST YEAR. UM, THAT SAID, WELL, LET ME BACK UP. BEST GUESS, LOOKING FORWARD PATH OF LEASE RESISTANCE IS PROBABLY THE MARKET CONTINUES TO GO HIGHER. MM-HMM . UH, IF YOU JUST LOOK AT PAST ELECTIONS, GENERALLY, YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF VOLATILITY BEFORE THE ELECTION. THE YEAR OVERALL IS POSITIVE. AFTER THE ELECTION MARKET GOES UP, CONTINUES TO GO UP INTO THE FOLLOWING YEAR. AND IT'S THAT SECOND PRESIDENTIAL YEAR THAT THINGS GET A LITTLE WOBBLY, UH, ALL ELSE EQUAL, THAT PROBABLY STAYS THE SAME. THAT SAID, THERE ARE SOME CONCERNS. VALUATIONS IN THE MARKET ARE VERY EXPENSIVE RIGHT NOW. THEY'RE AS HIGH, IF NOT HIGHER THAN THEY WERE IN 1999. THEY'RE AS HIGH AS THEY WERE IN 21 BEFORE INFLATION KICKED IN, OR IT WENT DOWN ABOUT 30%. EVERYTHING'S PRICED FOR PERFECTION. UH, AND WE DON'T THINK IT'S A PERFECT WORLD. WE THINK THERE ARE RISKS OUT THERE, WHETHER IT'S A GEOPOLITICAL EVENT, A POLICY MISTAKE, AN INFLATION SPIKE, UH, YOU KNOW, A RECESSION. ANY OF THOSE THINGS ARE DERE DERAILERS. CONSEQUENTLY, WE'RE LOOKING AT THINGS CLOSELY, UH, WITH A BIAS TOWARDS TRIMMING BACK SOME OF OUR EQUITY EXPOSURE IF THE MARKET REALLY LEGS UP OR PERHAPS TRIMMING IT BACK, IF INTEREST RATES BECOME A LOT MORE ATTRACTIVE THAN THEY ARE NOW. I'M GOING TO SKIP THAT SECOND PAGE THAT, THAT SHOWS THE GRAPH AND GO STRAIGHT TO THE ACCOUNTS, WHICH IS ON PAGE SIX. UH, THIS IS, UH, THE ACCOUNT VALUES AS OF OCTOBER 31ST. UH, ON THE FAR RIGHT HAND COLUMNS, THE TWO RIGHT HAND COLUMNS ARE JUST THE COMBINED ACCOUNTS. MM-HMM . UH, THE COMBINED ACCOUNTS CURRENTLY ARE AT 7.8 MILLION. THIS TIME LAST YEAR THERE WERE 6.8 MILLION. SO THE MARKETS HAVE REALLY MOVED. MM-HMM . UH, LOOKING AT THE, UH, SECOND COLUMNS FROM THE LEFT, UH, ABRAMS, EVELYN ABRAMS SCHOLARSHIP FUND, THAT'S IN A TRUST, AS YOU RECALL. UH, THAT TRUST HAS RESTRICTIONS. IT REQUIRES US TO ONLY HAVE 50% IN EQUITIES, US LARGE CAP STOCKS. THE BONDS NEED TO BE INVESTED IN TREASURIES, UH, AND THE REST IS IN CASH. THAT'S RUN FAIRLY CONSERVATIVELY. THE PAMELA FUND HAS NO RESTRICTIONS. UH, WE HAVE A TARGET OF 70, 70% EQUITIES, WHICH IS RIGHT WHERE WE ARE. MM-HMM . WE'VE ALSO GOT THAT ACCOUNT DIVERSIFIED ACROSS LARGE CAP STOCKS, MID CAP, SMALL CAP INTERNATIONAL STOCKS. IT'S MORE OF A TRADITIONAL ENDOWMENT OR FOUNDATION PORTFOLIO. UH, THE INCOME OF THESE PORTFOLIOS ARE GENERATING ON A COMBINED BASIS, $200,000 A YEAR. UH, LAST YEAR, THAT WAS $176,000. NINE YEARS AGO. THAT WAS ABOUT $120,000. SO THE INCOME'S POPPING UP. PAGE SEVEN LOOKS AT THE ABRAM SCHOLARSHIP FUND. JUST SORT OF A HISTORY OF THE ACCOUNT, LOOKING AT THE ABSOLUTE NUMBERS. UH, SHORT STORY IS, IS THAT ACCOUNT STARTED OFF WITH $3.4 MILLION NINE YEARS AGO, YOU'VE PAID OUT $800,000 AND THE ACCOUNT'S WORTH 4.8 MILLION. IT'S BEEN A PRETTY AMAZING NINE YEARS. MM-HMM . NEXT PAGE, PAMELA SOCIAL SERVICES FUND. A LITTLE BIT SMALLER ACCOUNT. SAME STORY. YOU STARTED OFF ABOUT $2.3 MILLION OVER THE NINE YEARS. YOU'VE PAID OUT $686,000. CURRENT BALANCE IS JUST UNDER $3 MILLION. PRETTY AMAZING. MM-HMM . PAGE NINE LOOKS AT PERFORMANCE AS OF THE END OF JUNE. AND ALL IT'S DOING IS COMPARING IT TO OTHER ENDOWMENTS. UH, WE WORK WITH A COMPANY CALLED MERCER, WHICH IS A BIG GLOBAL CONSER, UH, CONSULTANT. THEY CONSULT FOR, UH, FOUNDATIONS AND ENDOWMENTS, REALLY ALL AROUND THE WORLD, BUT MOSTLY THE US YOU LOOK AT YOUR THREE AND FIVE YEAR RETURNS YEAR IN LINE, IF NOT AHEAD. THESE LARGER ENDOWMENTS. THE, UH, THE ENDOWMENT UNIVERSE FOR, UH, ENDOWMENTS WITH A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS OR LESS. THE AVERAGE SIZE OF ABOUT 70 MILLION ON THE, UH, UNIVERSE WITH A HUNDRED MILLION TO 1 BILLION, THE AVERAGE SIZE IS ABOUT 400 MILLION. THESE THINGS ARE INVESTED MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVELY THAN YOU ARE THERE IN HEDGE FUNDS, PRIVATE EQUITY, PRIVATE CREDIT, VENTURE CAPITAL. UH, AND YOU'RE KEEPING UP WITH THEM WITH A MUCH MORE CONSERVATIVE PORTFOLIO, A MORE LIQUID PORTFOLIO, A MORE TRANSPARENT PORTFOLIO, AND REALLY WITH A LOT CHEAPER FEES AS WELL. MM-HMM . SO WE THINK THESE NUMBERS ARE GOOD. HIGH LEVEL NUMBERS OF THE ACCOUNTS. AS OF THE END OF OCTOBER 31ST. THIS IS ON PAGE 10. UH, THE 70% MSCI ACT, WE ALL WE'RE DOING IS COMPARING IT TO A NORMAL INSTITUTIONAL ENDOWMENT BENCHMARK, WHICH IS AN INDEX OF 70% GLOBAL EQUITIES, 30% US BONDS, UH, THREE YEARS NUMBERS. THESE ARE AVERAGE ANNUAL RETURNS. YOU'RE AHEAD OF THAT BENCHMARK. FIVE YEARS, YOU'RE IN LINE LAST 12 MONTHS. YOU'RE SLIGHTLY BEHIND. WE'RE A LITTLE BIT MORE CONSERVATIVE. WORRIED ABOUT VALUATIONS, WORRIED [00:50:01] ABOUT SOME OF THE FROTH IN THE MARKET, UH, BY BEING MORE CONSERVATIVE. YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT PAID OFF ON THE FAR RIGHT HAND COLUMN IN 2022. STOCKS WERE DOWN THAT YEAR, ABOUT 25%. YOU WERE DOWN A LOT LESS. UH, ABRAMS WAS DOWN 4%. LIN WAS DOWN 7%. DO YOU THINK THAT DEFENSE IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE IN THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENT THAT WE'RE IN DETAILED NUMBERS ON PAGE 11 FOR THE ABRAM SCHOLARSHIP FUND, JUST COMPARING THE DIFFERENT SLEEVES TO THEIR, UH, OR ASSET CLASSES, TO THEIR, UH, BENCHMARKS. THE FIXED INCOME, WHICH IS CONSISTS OF, CONSISTS OF TREASURY BONDS, UH, IS IN LINE WITH THE BENCHMARK, WHICH IS UNUSUAL 'CAUSE THAT BENCHMARK HAS CORPORATE BONDS, MORTGAGE BACKED SECURITIES, ALL KINDS OF THINGS IN IT THAT HAVE A HIGHER YIELD THAN THE TREASURY BONDS. BUT YET YOU'RE IN LINE WITH THAT. UH, THE LARGE CAP STOCK PORTFOLIO. IT'S BENCHMARKED TECHNICALLY AGAINST THE RUSSELL 1000 VALUE INDEX. YOU'RE NICELY AHEAD OF THAT ACROSS ALL CATEGORIES. NEXT LINE DOWN, YOU'RE ALSO AHEAD OF THE AVERAGE US LARGE CAP STOCK. THE EQUAL WEIGHT INDEX LAST YEAR TO DATE, IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS, YOU ARE BEHIND THE S AND P 500. THE BULK OF THOSE RETURNS, YEAR TO DATE IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS IS WITH 10 STOCKS REPRESENTING 90% OF THOSE RETURNS. FOR THE MOST PART, WE ARE NOT IN THOSE NAMES. THEY'RE VERY EXPENSIVE. THREE YEARS WE'RE IN LINE, FIVE YEARS SLIGHTLY BEHIND THE S AND P 500 AND SINCE INCEPTION, SLIGHTLY BEHIND. IF WE HIT A BEAR MARKET, WE WOULD EXPECT RIGHT OR WRONG THAT A LOT OF THOSE TECH STOCKS ARE GONNA GO DOWN HARD. WE THINK WE'LL CATCH UP TO THAT NUMBER. NO GUARANTEE. UH, PAMELA ON THE NEXT PAGE, PAGE 12, SAME COMMENTS. IN GENERAL, WHAT'S DIFFERENT? THE FIXED INCOMES OUTPERFORMING, UH, THE LARGE CAP VALUE, UH, EQUITIES, SAME COMMENTS AS BEFORE. MID CAP AND SMALL CAP ARE BASICALLY IN LINE WITH THEIR BENCHMARKS. THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIES ARE SLIGHTLY BEHIND. WE'RE JUST MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN THAT BENCHMARK RIGHT NOW. I'M GOING TO STOP, ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, ANY QUESTIONS. THE MARKET'S BEEN KIND TO, THE MARKET'S BEEN ALL OF US, NOT JUST THE, THESE TWO FUNDS. YEP. IT'S HARD, BUT IN GENERAL, YOU DON'T NEED TO PREDICT IT. RIGHT. IN GENERAL, YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB WITH THE FUNDS. THANK YOU YOU FOR YOUR TRUST, YOUR CONFIDENCE, YOUR SERVICE, YOUR HARD WORK. THANKS FOR EVERYTHING. TAKE CARE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IT'S GOOD JOB. OKAY, NOW THAT'S TIME NOW. ACTION ITEMS. [7.A. Contract Award, Site Work, Commercial Entrance, ADA-Accessible Sidewalks, And Parking Lot For Basketball/Pickleball Courts] ACTION ITEMS IS CONTRACT AWARD SITE WORK FOR COMMERCIAL ENTRANCE, A DNA ACCESSIBLE SIDEWALKS AND PARKING LOTS FOR BASKETBALL AND PICKLEBALL, . GOOD AFTERNOON, MR. CHAIRMAN. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, MR. MEKI. UH, SO THE FISCAL YEAR OF 2024, UH, THE COUNTY APPROVED $379,000 TO BUILD THE TWO BASKETBALL AND PICKLEBALL COURTS AT THE DIMITY COUNTY SPORTS COMPLEX. SO WE'RE CURRENTLY, WE'RE UNDER CONTRACT WITH CUSTOM COURTS CONSTRUCTION TO BUILD THESE. HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF THE SCOPE OF THE WORK AND THE LOCATION, ADDITIONAL SITE WORK IS GONNA BE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE THE VIRGINIA EROSION STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. REGULATIONS PROVIDE PUBLIC ACCESS AND A DA ACCESSIBILITY. SO WHAT WE DID IS ON OCTOBER 2ND, WE RELEASED AN RFQ TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY SITE UPGRADES. UH, WE WERE ABLE TO GET SEVEN VENDORS AND THEY, THE QUOTES THAT CAME IN RANGED FROM 149,960 TO 200 6370 $5,000. SO THE COUNTY IS WISHING TO ENTER A CONTRACT WITH WEB DEVELOPMENT LLC, WHO WAS OUR LOWEST, UH, QUOTE AT $149,960. UH, IF YOU DO APPROVE THIS, WE ARE LOOKING AT STARTING THIS WORK PROBABLY AROUND THE, AFTER THE FIRST OF THE YEAR WITH THE PROJECTION OF IT BEING COMPLETED BY LATE SPRING, EARLY SUMMER. UM, AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHERE WE ARE. IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS? ANY QUESTIONS? JUST A QUESTION. WHAT WILL THE TOTAL COST OF THE PROJECT BE AT THIS POINT? WILL IT EXCEED THE 3 79? YES. YES. SO WE'RE GONNA MOVE SOME FUNDS. THE, UH, $130,000 FOR THE WALK AND TRAIL AT EAST SIDE, THAT THAT MONEY WILL BE MOVED TO THIS PROJECT. AND THERE WAS ALSO $30,000 FOR A-A-A-D-A PARKS AND RECREATION STUDY TO BE DONE. SO THAT MONEY IS IN THE GENERAL FUND, AND THAT'LL BE MOVED OVER TO THE CIP TO ADD 160,000 TO THE PROJECT TO TRY TO GET THIS THING FINISHED. OKAY. SO YOU HAD YOUR ORIGINAL AMOUNT AND, AND THAT WAS TO CONSTRUCT THE BASKETBALL PICKLEBALL AT THE SITE. WHAT, WHAT, AFTER THE PROJECT BEGAN, WE STARTED TALKING MORE ABOUT, UH, MORE SITE WORK, MORE PARKING LOT AND ACTUAL ACCESS ROAD. AND ONE TIME, IF YOU RECALL, IT WAS GONNA BE BUILT AND WE [00:55:01] WERE GONNA HAVE CHILDREN OR PARTICIPANTS WALK FROM THE FOOTBALL, UH, PARKING LOT OVER TO THIS LOCATION. SO WHAT YOU'RE HAVING DONE NOW IS IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE OF ELABORATE PROJECT. SO YOU'RE, YOU HAVE NOT JUST, JUST THE PICKLEBALL BASKETBALL COURT AND, AND THEN AGAIN, MOVING TO THAT LOCATION, YOU ACTUALLY HAVE A PARKING LOT ON THAT SIDE AND AN ACCESS ROAD ON THAT SIDE. SO THE, THE PROJECT IS GETTING LARGER, UM, BUT THE ASSET ITSELF IS GONNA BE BIGGER. UH, BUT AGAIN, THE NOW WHAT YOU'RE, WHAT YOU'RE FOREGOING IN THIS FISCAL YEAR IS THAT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT FOR THE WALKING TRAIL. AND AS MS. HARTON SAID, THERE WAS AN A DA STUDY THAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO, THOSE TWO FUNDS WE'RE GONNA PUT TOGETHER TO ADD, TO ALLOW THE, THE WORK TO BE DONE HERE. OKAY. AND, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS SOME FEDERAL FUNDS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS IN THE ORIGINAL, WAS IT NOT? WAS THERE NOT SOME TYPE OF APA FUNDING OR THE 130,000 IS COMPRISED OF TWO $50,000 AWARDS WITH THE L-A-T-C-F MONEY, WHICH IS PART OF THE ARPA FUNDS. UM, AND THEN 22,000 OR SO OF, UM, FOR SUSTAINABILITY MONEY FROM THE STATE. SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE THE PRETTY MUCH THE A HUNDRED, MOST OF THAT 130,000 CAME FROM. BUT I GUESS WHAT I'M GETTING AT IS GREAT. THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECT IS GREATER THAN WHAT WE ARE FIRST EVENT. IT IS, THAT'S CORRECT. IT'S SO, SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE DIFFERENTIAL IN THE, IN THE COST. THREE THINGS. YEAH. GOOD POINT. YES. NOT, NOT A PROBLEM. OKAY. HAVE A MOTION. I'LL MAKE A MOTION BILL. BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE DIMITY COUNTY, VIRGINIA DOES HEREBY AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR TO EXEC EXECUTE AND THE ATTACHED CONTRACT WITH WEB DEVELOPMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $149,960 FOR SITE UPGRADES AT THE SITE OF THE NEW COURTS WITH ANY CHANGES SUBSTANTIVE OR OTHERWISE AS MAY BE APPROVED BY THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR VIA FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, DEITY COUNTY VIRGINIA, AS HEREBY AMEND AND REAPPOINT FY 2025 BUDGET AND THE FOLLOWING FUNDS GENERAL FUND TRANSFERRED TO CIP 30,000 GENERAL FUND, PARK AND RECREATION DECREASED 30,000 CIP FUND. NEW COURTS PROJECT 160,000 CIP FUND WALKING TRAIL PROJECT DECREASE 130,000 CIP FUND TRANSFER FROM GENERAL FUND DECREASE 130,000 SECOND. BUT ROLL CALL DR. MOORE. AYE. MR. LEE? AYE. MR. EBRA BONNER. AYE. MR. DOOLEY? AYE. MR. CHAVIS? AYE. ALL VOTING? AYE. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. MS. MARIE. [7.B. 2025 Legislative Program] GRANT, IT'S YOUR TURN. MR. CHAIRMAN CHAVIS MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, MR. MASSING, GOOD AFTERNOON. UH, STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY, TODAY TO SHARE WITH YOU, UM, THE PROPOSED 2025 LEGISLATIVE AGENDA FOR DIMITY COUNTY. UH, YOU HAVE THIS IN YOUR PACKET IN ITS ENTIRETY. I'LL JUST PULL OUT A COUPLE OF ITEMS OF INTEREST TO SHARE WITH YOU. UM, THIS AFTERNOON, UM, EACH YEAR AHEAD OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION, UM, MR. MASSENGILL AND I, UM, WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH OUR DEPARTMENT MANAGERS, UM, AND THEN THEY BRING INFORMATION FROM PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS WITH, WITH WHICH THEY'RE AFFILIATED, UM, TO COMPILE A LIST OF, OF PRIORITIES, OF ISSUES, OF TOPICS OF INTEREST THAT DIMITY WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AT THE STATE LEVEL, UM, FOR CONSIDERATION DURING THE UPCOMING SESSION. AND SO WE HAVE DONE THAT. UH, I WILL POINT OUT IN YOUR PACKET, THERE ARE SEVERAL, UM, COMPONENTS, ONE OF WHICH IS A RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT, UH, FOR RICHARD BLAND COLLEGE'S TRANSITION TO AN INDEPENDENT GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE. UM, AND MR. ROBINSON AND MR. MASSENGILL SPOKE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT, BUT THAT IS ALL THAT IS INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKET IN ITS ENTIRETY, ALONG WITH, UH, THE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA FROM THE VIRGINIA COMMISSIONERS OF THE REVENUE ASSOCIATION. AND THE, UH, MOST RECENTLY, UM, ADOPTED 2025 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM FROM THE VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES. AND YOU ALL WERE PART OF THAT PROCESS LAST WEEK, UM, DURING THEIR ANNUAL, UM, CONFERENCE. UM, WHAT I WILL HIGHLIGHT, UH, TODAY ARE JUST A COUPLE OF ITEMS IN THE FRONT OF YOUR PACKET THAT ARE, ARE DIMITY SPECIFIC THAT, UM, WERE KIND OF BORN OF OUR CONVERSATIONS AND MEETINGS WITH, WITH OUR FOLKS. UM, ONE OF WHICH, UM, IS A PIECE OF, OF LEGISLATION THAT WAS ACTUALLY PASSED LAST YEAR, LAST SESSION IN THE JOURNAL ASSEMBLY. UM, IT WAS SENATE BILL 6 45, WHICH PERTAINED TO LOCAL FISCAL DISTRESS, HOW THAT WOULD BE DETERMINED, UM, AND HOW THE STATE WOULD INTERVENE IN THOSE INSTANCES IN THAT LEGISLATION. UM, IT SPECIFICALLY REFERENCES PLANNING DISTRICT 19, WHICH, UM, AS YOU WELL KNOW, INCLUDES DIMITY COUNTY. AND SO WHILE WE WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT, UM, STATE INTERVENTION AND SUPPORT OF LOCALITIES IN FISCAL DISTRESS, UM, WE WOULD RESPECTFULLY REQUEST [01:00:01] THAT ALL REFERENCE TO DISTRICT 19 TO THE CRATER PLANNING DISTRICT BE REMOVED FROM THAT LEGISLATION. UM, AND THE LEGISLATION BE APPLIED EQUALLY TO ANY LOCALITY DEEMED TO BE IN FISCAL DISTRESS THROUGHOUT THE COMMONWEALTH. UM, ANOTHER ITEM THAT WE WOULD LIKE CONSIDERED, UM, IS LEGAL NOTIFICATIONS. UM, CURRENTLY, UH, NOTICES MUST BE PLA MEETING NOTICES AND ADS MUST BE PLACED IN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS. UM, AND IT HAS, HAS BECOME, UM, THE CASE THAT THAT IS NOT THE BEST WAY TO REACH THE WIDEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE. AND SO WE WOULD AGAIN, RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT ALTERNATIVE NOTIFICATION METHODS BE CONSIDERED. AND AND THEY MAY INCLUDE A WEBSITE POSTING, UM, A SOCIAL MEDIA POSTING, UM, SOME MESSAGE BOARD, UM, THAT WOULD JUST REACH A WIDER AUDIENCE WITH THOSE THINGS. UM, WE WOULD, UH, ARE, ARE REQUESTING THAT PUBLIC SAFETY RETIREMENT BENEFITS BE EXPANDED TO INCLUDE OUR E 9 1 1 DISPATCHERS. UH, THERE ARE 19 STATES THAT HAVE HAVE PASSED LEGISLATION EXPANDING THE RETIREMENT BENEFITS TO 9 1 1 DISPATCHERS. UM, AS THEY PLAY AN INTEGRAL ROLE IN PUBLIC SAFETY, THEY HAVE HIGH AND EXCESSIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEMANDS AND THEY HOLD AND FULFILL AN ENORMOUS COMMUNAL RESPONSIBILITY. UM, THIS WOULD BE OFFERED ON A LOCAL CHOICE OPTION BASIS, UM, AND WOULD BE OFFERED ONLY TO ONLY FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES. THOSE ARE OUR SUGGESTIONS. UM, BROADBAND SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ALL VERY FAMILIAR WITH. UM, THIS HAS BEEN A PRIORITY OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR MANY YEARS AND WE'VE ACTUALLY SPENT THE LAST SIX YEARS WORKING TOWARD EXPANDING BROADBAND TO UNSERVED AND UNDERSERVED AREAS OF DEITY COUNTY, UM, WITH A VARIETY OF FUNDING ME MECHANISMS TO INCLUDE THE VA, THE VIRGINIA, UH, TELECOMMUNICATIONS INITIATIVE, UH, WITH THIS REQUEST, UH, WE SUPPORT ALL EFFORTS OF THE STATE TO EXPAND AFFORDABLE BROADBAND TO RURAL AREAS WITHOUT A LOCAL MATCH REQUIREMENT. UM, SO THAT'S OUR POSITION ON THAT. AND WITH THAT, I WILL ASK IF, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, UM, WE HAVE, UH, SHARED A PRELIMINARY VERSION OF THIS WITH OUR, UM, STATE DELEGATION. AND, UM, ONCE THIS IS APPROVED, WE'LL SHARE THE OFFICIAL VERSION. OKAY. DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? AND THEN OF COURSE, UM, YOU'RE GONNA BE THE CONTACT PERSON ONCE SESSION STARTS AS THINGS CHANGE OR THINGS HAPPEN OVER TIME. YES, SIR. UM, MY PLAN IS TO, TO BE PRESENT, UM, AT LEAST WEEKLY. UH, THERE'S A GROUP OF OF STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT FOLKS THAT, THAT MEET WEEKLY. AND SO I'LL BE MEETING WITH THEM AND WE'LL BE ATTENDING SESSIONS AND FOLLOWING LEGISLATION THAT, THAT IS OF INTEREST IN WHITTY COUNTY. OKAY. GOOD. OKAY, WE'RE GOOD. I HAVE ONE THING. UH, AS FAR AS PUBLICLY SAFETY RETIREMENT BENEFITS, AND I KNOW A LOT OF TIMES ANIMAL CONTROL IS EITHER ASSIGNED TO A SHERIFF'S OFFICE OR A POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND I BELIEVE FALLS UNDER THOSE. CAN WE LOOK AT POSSIBLY ADDING ANIMAL CONTROL OR SEE HOW, HOW THAT FALLS INTO PUBLIC SAFETY FOR THEIR RETIREMENT? WE CAN DO THAT. THE, THE, I KNOW OUR GUYS WEAR BULLETPROOF VESTS AND GUNS, SO YES, SIR. THEY, THEY'RE ALSO PART OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY IN MY OPINION. I AGREE, ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. OKAY. GOOD POINT. DO WE HAVE A MOTION, MR. CHAIR? I MAKE A MOTION WE ACCEPT THE, UM, LEGISLATIVE AGENDA AS PRESENTED WITH THE ADDITION. YES, SIR. SECOND ROLL CALL DR. MOORE. AYE. MR. LEE? AYE. MS. EBRA BONNER. AYE. MR. DOLEY? AYE. MR. CHAVIS? AYE. ALL VOTING? AYE. OKAY, MR. INGAL. THANK YOU, MA'AM. THANK YOU, MARIA. THANK YOU. ALL [7.C. Proclamation: Celebrating The 150th Anniversary Of The Dinwiddie Masonic Lodge] RIGHT. UM, THE NEXT ITEM IS A PROCLAMATION CELEBRATING THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DIM WITTY MASONIC LODGE. UH, EDDIE PEARSON, WHO YOU ALL, UH, I KNOW, UM, ARE, ARE AWARE OF EDDIE, UH, SENT YOU AN INVITATION TO ATTEND A MASONIC LODGE EVENT ON DECEMBER 11TH. UM, THAT'S GONNA BE ON A WEDNESDAY EVENING. RSVP IS, UH, DECEMBER 6TH. SO THE PROCLAMATION I DIDN'T PUT OUT HERE BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA BE PRESENTING IT TO HIM, UH, AND TO THE LODGE ON, ON THE 11TH. SO THE DETAILS OF THE PROCLAMATION WE SOMEWHAT, UH, HIT AT THIS POINT BECAUSE WE KNOW IT'S GONNA BE SOMEWHAT OF A SURPRISE TO THEM. UM, BUT I HAVE YOU, I GIVE YOU MY WORD, MARIE AND I WORKED ON IT. IT'S A REALLY GOOD RESOLUTION. UH, SO EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T HAVE IT HERE BEFORE YOU, UH, WE JUST SIMPLY NEED A MOTION TO PASS THE PROCLAMATION. AND AS MANY OF YOU CAN ATTEND, I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO BE THERE WITH ME AND WE PRESENT IT 150 YEAR, 150 YEAR, UH, ANNIVERSARY IS A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT, UH, MILESTONE FOR ANY ORGANIZATION, BUT FOR THE MASONIC LODGE AND THE VALUES THEY HAVE AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING, [01:05:01] WHAT THEY HAVE DONE OVER THIS 150 YEAR PERIOD IS, IS ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE. BUT ANY, I'M AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, BUT JUST SIMPLY NEED A MOTION TO PROVE THE RESOLUTION. SO MOVE. SECOND ROLL CALL DR. MOORE. AYE. MR. LEE? AYE. MS. EBRA BONNER. AYE. MR. DOOLEY? AYE. MR. CHAVIS? AYE. ALL VOTING? AYE. AND MOVING [Additional Item] ON DOWN TO SEVEN D. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU MR. CHAIRMAN. THIS IS AN ITEM THAT'S COME UP. UM, THE CHILDREN'S SERVICES DEPARTMENT NEEDS THE APPROVAL OF ANOTHER CONTRACT. TRADITIONALLY, THOSE CONTRACTS ARE APPROVED IN AROUND JUNE, BUT WE HAD ONE THAT CAME UP, UH, MIDYEAR. THERE WAS A CHILD THAT NEEDED TO BE PLACED WITH, WITH, UM, THIS PARTICULAR VENDOR, CUMBERLAND HOSPITAL, AND WE DID GO AHEAD AND EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH CUMBERLAND HOSPITAL. BUT IN ORDER TO SPEND MORE THAN $50,000, WE DO NEED TO GET BOARD APPROVAL AND WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD GOTTEN BOARD APPROVAL IN CASE WE GET IN A SITUATION WHERE WE DO NEED TO SPEND MORE THAN $50,000. IT MAY BE SOONER OR LATER THAT THAT IS THE CASE. AMEN. I SEE THAT. OKAY. ALSO MOVE. SECOND ROLL CALL DR. MOORE. AYE. MR. LEE? AYE. MS. EBRA BONNER. AYE. MR. DOOLEY? AYE. MR. CHAVIS? AYE. ALL VOTING? AYE. THANK YOU DOC. HEARD MY LAWYER , I CALL YOU DR. ? YEAH. OKAY. IT'S [8. CITIZEN COMMENTS (3 MINUTES)] CITIZEN COMMENT, PERIOD. DO WE HAVE ANYONE SIGNED UP? YES. MR. CHAIRMAN, WE HAVE RAY ACO. GOOD AFTERNOON LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. GOOD AFTERNOON. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. AT THIS TIME, I WOULD ASK THAT MR. JASON SHIELDS BE APPOINTED TO FILL A POSITION BEFORE YOU TONIGHT FOR THE APPOINTMENT. DENWOODY AIRPORT AND INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY BOARD. MR. SEAL IS A PROUD CITIZEN OF DENWOODY COUNTY AND AN AVIATION EXPERT WHO OPERATES AN AVIATION COMPANY IN D WITTY COUNTY. SECONDLY, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AGAIN, I WOULD ASK THAT NO, I REPEAT. NO PERSON BE APPOINTED TO THE DEN WITTY AIRPORT AND INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY BOARD WHO MAY SIT ON A CONFLICTING AND COMPETING AVIATION BOARD IN ANOTHER LOCALITY. I FEEL THAT ALL THE BOARD MEMBERS SHOULD BE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTY. I HAVE BEEN DONE, I HAVE BEEN RIGHTFULLY UNDONE BY YOUR EXISTING BOARD. AND I THINK IT'S ABOUT TIME THAT YOU REALLY OUGHT TO CLEAN HOUSE. I THINK IT'S ABOUT THAT TIME BECAUSE I THINK IT'S, IN MY OPINION THAT I BELIEVE THAT THE FINANCIAL BURDEN THAT'S GONNA BE PLACED ON THE COUNTY DUE TO THE AIRPORT AUTHORITIES' ACTIONS, BOARD'S, ACTIONS BESTOWED UPON ON MYSELF AND SOME OTHER INDIVIDUALS AT THE AIRPORT. I THINK IT'S GONNA BE DEVASTATION. AND, AND I HOPE NOT, BUT I BUILT A $1.7 MILLION BUILDING THAT I NO LONGER OWNED. SO THAT BEING SAID, I THANK THE BOARD FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MICHAEL FRIEDMAN. THANK YOU. I I'M AN ATTORNEY IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA AND I, ONCE UPON A TIME UNTIL RECENTLY WAS GENERAL COUNSEL OF PROJE, A FIXED BASED OPERATOR AT LEESBURG AIRPORT. AND I WAS MANAGER OF KINGDOM AIR CHARTER BEFORE ITS RECON ACQUISITION HERE. I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE THROES OF REAPPOINT THE CHAIRMAN OF THE AIRPORT AUTHORITY. AND I WOULD SUGGEST TO YOU THAT'S A MISTAKE BASED ON MY KNOWLEDGE OF THE AVIATION COMMUNITY. UM, YOUR PRESENT AIRPORT AUTHORITY DRIVES BUSINESS AWAY. I WAS LOOKING TO MOVE THE CHARTER BUSINESS AWAY FROM MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA, AND I CAME DOWN HERE AND MET WITH THE AIRPORT DIRECTOR. WE DISCUSSED THE LEASE. I RETURNED THE LEASE WITH MARKUPS. I TRIED TO GET COMMENTS BACK, I PESTERED THEM. I CONTACTED THE ATTORNEY. I WAS TOLD TO CONTACT NO RESPONSE WHATSOEVER. THEY DID NOT WANT ME HERE AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHY. SO DUE TO THE WORK I'VE DONE WITH PROJE, I AM AWARE OF THE RAMP ISSUES THAT OCCURRED HERE. I'M AWARE THAT THE FORMER ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FAA FOR AIRPORTS HAS DETERMINED IT'S LIKELY THAT THE COUNTY'S GONNA END UP HAVING TO REFUND MONEY TO THE FAA FOR GRANT VIOLATION ASSURANCES. AND THE [01:10:01] BOTTOM LINE AS I SEE IT IS NO ONE'S GONNA COME HERE AND INVEST TO BUILD A BUSINESS IN A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN'T BE ASSURED THAT IF YOU COMPLY WITH THE RULES, YOU'RE GONNA BE ALLOWED TO STAY. WHEN THERE'S SUBJECTIVE RULES BEING THROWN OUT THERE AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE AND YOU ARE AT RISK OF BEING THROWN OUT, NO ONE'S GONNA MAKE THAT INVESTMENT. I WILL TELL YOU, I DON'T KNOW WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT ATTITUDE, BUT I KNOW THAT THE CHAIRMAN OF THE AIRPORT AUTHORITY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SETTING THE TONE. AND I THINK THAT TONE NEEDS TO BE CHANGED. LIKE I SAID, I DON'T KNOW WHO IT WAS, BUT IF YOU WANNA SEND THE WORD OUT TO THE AVIATION COMMUNITY, IT'S A VERY SMALL COMMUNITY IN VIRGINIA AND THE AVIATION BAR IS EVEN SMALLER. YOU NEED TO CHANGE THE TONE AND THAT MEANS CHANGING LEADERSHIP. AND THAT'S THE REASON FOR MY SUGGESTION TO YOU. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SIR. CHIP, HARRY AND GENTLEMEN, MR. CHAIRMAN, FELLOW SUPERVISORS, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE TIME TO SPEAK. I, UH, GOT TWO STATEMENTS I DO WANT ON THE RECORD, THEN I'LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER MINUTE OF WHAT HAPPENED THIS AFTERNOON. I WOULD ASK THAT MR. JASON SHIELDS BE APPOINTED TO FILL THE POSITION BEFORE YOU TONIGHT. HE IS A, UH, MEMBER OF THE, UH, SHOULD BE A MEMBER OF THE DENWOODY AIRPORT INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY. HE'S A CITIZEN OF DIMITY AND OWNS A BUSINESS CURRENTLY AT THE AIRPORT. HE'S ALSO A, UH, FAA DESIGNEE FOR, UH, MECHANICS. AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO REITERATE THAT I BELIEVE NO PERSON SHOULD SIT ON OUR BOARD. THAT'S NOT A CITIZEN OF DUNWOODY COUNTY. THEY'RE NOT LOOKING OUT FOR OUR INTEREST. UM, THIS SOMEWHAT OF A BREW HAHA STARTED BACK IN JULY OF LAST YEAR. AND I MET WITH YOU MR. MASSENGILL. 'CAUSE I TRIED TO BRING TO THE ATTENTION OF THIS BOARD THAT THE OTHER BOARD THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH THE AIRPORT AUTHORITY, IN MY OPINION, WAS ACTING WAYS THAT WERE GONNA COST ULTIMATELY THE BOARD SUPERVISORS CITIZENS OF DENWOODY COUNTY, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN A RESULT OF THE, UH, GRAND ASSURANCES MONEY LOSS OF MONIES IN THE FUTURE IMPOSSIBLE LITIGATION, WHICH THE LITIGATION TODAY WAS SETTLED BY THE JUDGE OVER HERE IN CIRCUIT COURT AT 2:00 PM DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE AGAINST HOT ROD MOTOR SPORTS AND MR. COREY. AND YOU DID NOT COLLECT YOUR ATTORNEY'S FEES. I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THEY WERE, BUT AT SIX 50 AN HOUR, THEY'RE IN THE SIX FIGURES THAT YOU'RE SPENDING TO CHASE A MAN THAT BUILT A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING THAT HE LOST DURING THIS INJUNCTION. YES, I'M THE MAN THAT BOUGHT THE BUILDING AND I'M GONNA RUN A BUSINESS OUTTA THAT BUILDING. I'LL RENT THE BUILDING. I'LL SELL THE BUILDING. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M GONNA DO WITH THE BUILDING, BUT I HOPE THAT THAT CASE IN INDEMNITY HISTORY IS OVER WITH. BECAUSE HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO ATTRACT NEW BUSINESS TO THIS COUNTY IF YOU TREAT BUSINESSMEN LIKE YOU DID MR. COREY. AND AFTER 30 SOME YEARS OF OWNING A BUSINESS HERE, YOU'VE DECIDED TO END MY LEASE. YOU WON'T TELL ME WHY. YOU WON'T GIVE ME A REASON YOU WON'T MEET. YOUR CHAIRMAN HAS REFUSED TO MEET UNTIL TODAY. NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE A VOTE, HOPEFULLY TODAY TO REPLACE HIM. WE CAN HAVE A MEETING, SOMEWHAT SUSPECT. UM, WE HAVE APPLIED FOR FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUESTS SINCE APRIL. WE HAVE BEEN TO COURT TO COMPEL. YOU HAD A FIVE DAY, YOU HAD A SEVEN DAY, NO ANSWERS TO ANY OF IT. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO START ASKING, WHY CAN'T THE CITIZENS KNOW HOW THEIR AIRPORT IS RUN? WHO PAYS WHAT FOR WHAT LEASE? WHAT IS BEING HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC? BECAUSE CLEARLY SOMETHING IS, OR YOU WOULD COMPLY WITH THE LAW. WE'RE GOING BACK TO COMPORT TO THE COURTS TO COMPEL, WHICH IS WHERE I DO NOT WANT TO BE. I'VE DONE EVERYTHING I KNOW TO DO TO PROTECT MY COUNTY WHERE I LIVE, WHERE I PAY TAXES OR I VOTE AND I CAN GET NO ANSWERS FROM ANYONE. THIS IS AN UNACCEPTABLE MANNER OF RUNNING OUR GOVERNMENT. IF THIS GOES INTO DECEMBER'S MEETING, I WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO FILE THE INJUNCTIONS, FILE THE SUITS, AND BRING THIS TO A VERY, VERY UGLY HEAD. IT DOESN'T NEED TO HAPPEN. I IMPLORE YOU TO VOTE AND PUT JASON SHIELDS ON THIS BOARD TONIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU HENRY CRON. MR. CHAIRMAN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. UH, MY NAME IS HANK CORONA. I'M THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF HOSPITAL TO HOME AND H TO H SERVICES, EMERGENCY SERVICES, LLC. UH, WE CONTACTED CENTRAL VIRGINIA AVIATION ABOUT FOUR MONTHS AGO ABOUT PURCHASING AN AIRCRAFT AND EVENTUALLY, UM, SETTLED UPON POSSIBLY LEASING THE AIRCRAFT AND LEASING A HANGAR SPACE AT THE AIRPORT. UM, WHEN WE WENT TO THE AIRPORT TO LEASE THE HANGAR, UH, WE MENTIONED THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT WORKING WITH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AVIATION, AT WHICH POINT THEY ADVISED US THAT WE WERE NOT ABLE TO WORK WITH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AVIATION AND HAVE ANY OF THEIR EQUIPMENT OR AIRCRAFT IN THE HANGAR. UM, AND I'D ALSO [01:15:01] LIKE TO READ, UM, FOR THE RECORD, UM, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. I WOULD ASK THAT JASON SHIELDS BE APPOINTED TO FILL THE POSITION BEFORE YOU TONIGHT FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE DENWOODY AIRPORT AND INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY BOARD. MR. SHIELDS IS A PROUD CITIZEN OF DENWOODY COUNTY AND AN AVIATION EXPERT WHO OPERATES, UH, IN, UH, AVIATION COMPANY IN MOODY COUNTY. UM, AND ANY, UM, I WOULD ALSO ASK THAT NO PERSON BE APPOINTED TO THE DE MOODY AIRPORT AND INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY WHO MAY SIT ON A CONFLICTING AND AND COMPETING AVIATION BOARD IN ANOTHER LOCALITY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU, DAVID SWEENEY. GOOD AFTERNOON, MR. CHAIRMAN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS YOU THIS AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS DAVID KEITH SWINNEY. I'M AN FAA CERTIFIED AVIATION POWER PLANT AND, UH, AIRFRAME MECHANIC. I WORK ON AIRPLANES PROUDLY SINCE 2017, I'VE WORKED AT THE DENWITTY AIRPORT SERVING OUR AVIATION COMMUNITY HERE, WHICH IS A LOT OF REALLY GOOD PEOPLE. BUT IN THAT TIME PERIOD SINCE 2017, I'VE SEEN A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE, UH, GENERAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE ATTITUDE BETWEEN ADMINISTRATION, BETWEEN THE BOARD AND THE BUSINESSES ON OUR AIRPORT. IT'S CREATING A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT. OKAY? THAT'S SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE IMPORTANT TO YOU AS A BOARD. WHEN PEOPLE START TALKING ABOUT HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS, THAT GETS A LOT OF ATTENTION AT WAY ABOVE YOUR LEVEL THAN OTHER PEOPLE IN THE STATE AND ABOVE. WE DON'T WANT THAT. WE DON'T WANT AN ANTAGONISTIC ATTITUDE ON OUR AIRPORT. WE WANT TO WORK TOGETHER WITH BUSINESSES ON OUR AIRPORT. WE WANNA WORK WITHIN OUR OWN COMMUNITY, AND WE WANT THE BOARD THAT WE DEAL WITH THAT WORKS BETWEEN US AND THE COUNTY TO BE AMENABLE TO THE BUSINESSES AND THINGS THAT WE DO SO THAT IT CAN GO PROPERLY. WE WANT BUSINESSES TO FLOURISH. THAT MEANS MORE REVENUES FOR THE, FOR THE BOARD AND FOR THE COUNTY. IT MEANS THAT PEOPLE HAVE JOBS. IT MEANS THAT PEOPLE IN THEIR FAMILIES CAN GO HOME AND ENJOY WHAT THEY DO AND STILL BE ABLE TO ENJOY THEIR AVIATION. AND WHEN WE HAVE THIS ANTAGONISTIC ATTITUDE THAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW, IT'S DELETERIOUS TO US, OUR BUSINESSES AND THE COUNTY. WE'RE NOT INTERESTED IN THAT KIND OF STUFF. WHAT, WHAT WE'D LIKE TO DO IS GET PEOPLE IN PLACE WHO WILL GIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO FLOURISH, TO WORK WELL WITH THE COUNTY, AND GIVE US THE ABILITY TO KNOW WHEN WE COULD PUT FORTH, UH, A BUSINESS THAT'S BEEN HERE FOR, YOU KNOW, CLOSE TO 30 YEARS. AND NOW THEY'RE TRYING TO KICK THAT OFF THE AIRPORT WHEN THEY TAKE AWAY OUR HANGAR SPACE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO USE. AND THEY WON'T TELL US WHY. THEY JUST SAY, NO, YOU CAN'T. AND WHEN PEOPLE COME TO US AND THEY SAY, OH NO, YOU CAN'T WORK WITH THEM, YOU CAN'T PUT YOUR AIRPLANES IN THIS SPORT IF YOU'RE GONNA WORK WITH THEM. THAT'S, AND THAT'S, I I DON'T EVEN SAY HOW THAT'S EVEN LEGAL. YEARS AGO FOR 17 YEARS I WAS A POLICE OFFICER IN HENRICO COUNTY. THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT I HAD TO DEAL WITH IN THE COURSE OF THAT TIME PERIOD THAT I DIDN'T PARTICULARLY LIKE. UH, BUT WHEN IT CAME TIME TO DO THE JOB, I HAD TO DEAL WITH THOSE PEOPLE IN THE CONFINES OF THE LAW AND WHAT'S PROPER AND WHAT'S RIGHT. AND I WOULD'VE ASKED THE BOARD TO PLEASE GIVE US THE, UH, THE PEOPLE IN POSITIONS THAT WILL DO WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO RATHER THAN GOING AFTER THEIR OWN, UH, HOSTILE ISSUES TOWARDS OTHER PEOPLE. JUST DEAL WITH WHAT'S RIGHT. SO I WOULD LIKE TO PUT ON RECORD THAT I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE BOARD TO HAVE MR. JASON SHIELDS APPOINTED TO THE BOARD, UH, POSITION. YEAH, IT WAS AT THE END OF MY TIME, SIR. THAT'S IT. THANK YOU, SIR. UH, BUT AGAIN, UH, HE'S A MEMBER OF THE, HE'S A MEMBER HERE IN THE COUNTY. HE HAS AN BUSINESS THERE AND HE WILL DO RIGHT WITH, FOR THE COUNTY AND FOR THE CITIZENS AND FOR OUR GENERAL AVIATION COMMUNITY. THANK YOU FOR THE TIME TO MAKE THE COMMENTS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. LISA BOOTH. GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD AFTERNOON. AFTERNOON, MA'AM. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, I WOULD ASK THAT MR. J SHIELDS BE APPOINTED TO FILL THE POSITION BEFORE YOU TONIGHT FOR THE APPOINTMENT. TO THE DENWITTY AIRPORT AND INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY BOARD, MR. SHIELDS IS A PROUD CITIZENS OF DENWITTY COUNTY AND AN AVIATION EXPERT WHO OPERATES AN AVIATION COMPANY IN DENWOODY COUNTY. [01:20:01] THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU STEVE EDWARDS. GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU FOR GOOD AFTERNOON. UH, THE ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO YOU. UH, I WORK, UH, WITH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AVIATION. UH, I'VE BEEN WORKING IN AVIATION FOR 40 YEARS, 35 OF WHICH WAS WITH THE VIRGINIA INTERNATIONAL GUARD. UH, I MOVED UP IN THE RAINS AND BECAME A MANAGER OF 75, UH, MECHANICS. AND I KNOW OVER THE EXPERIENCE OF OVER THE YEARS, UH, WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, SEE ALL MAINTENANCE OFFICERS AND, AND CHIEFS COME AND GO. UM, I'VE SEEN MANY, AND I KNOW THAT WITH EXPERIENCE, YOU CAN TELL WITH THE, WITH THE PEOPLE THAT WOULD COME IN AND FILL THE POSITIONS, THE MORE EXPERIENCE, THE MORE SUCCESS THE MISSION HELD. UM, AND WITH THAT SAID, I FEEL THAT THE POSITION OF THE DENWOODY AIRPORT AND INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY BOARD, UH, THE POSITION THAT IS OPEN IS NEEDED, YOU KNOW, WITH SOMEONE EXPERIENCE, UH, WITH AVIATION. AND I FEEL THAT, UH, MR. JACKSON SHIELDS, UH, HOLDS THAT, UH, QUALIFICATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CONNOR MILLS, MEMBERS OF THE BOARDS OF SUPERVISORS, I WOULD ASK THAT MR. JASON SHIELDS BE APPOINTED TO FILL THE POSITION BEFORE YOU TONIGHT FOR APPOINTMENT. TO THE DENWOODY AIRPORT AND INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY BOARD, MR. SHIELDS IS A PROUD CITIZEN OF THE DENWITTY COUNTY AND AVIATION EXPERT WHO OPERATES IN THE AVIATION COMPANY IN DENWITTY COUNTY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, KYRON COLLIER. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYBODY. GOOD AFTERNOON. AFTERNOON, SIR. UH, FOR THE RECORD, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD SUPERVISORS, I WOULD ASK THAT MR. JASON SHIELDS BE APPOINTED TO THE FIELD OF POSITION BEFORE YOU TONIGHT FOR THE APPOINTMENTS OF THE DEN WITTY AIRPORT AND INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY BOARD. UH, MR. SHIELDS IS A PROUD CITIZEN OF THE DENWITTY COUNTY AND AN AVIATION EXPERT WHO OPERATES AN AVIATION COMPANY IN DENWITTY COUNTY. THANK, THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU. I CAN'T MAKE OUT THIS LAST NAME OR THIS NAME. UH, 5 1 4 BURN STREET. GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD AFTERNOON, SIR. I DO APOLOGIZE FOR THAT. CAN I GET YOUR NAME, PLEASE? JOSEPH GREEN. THANK YOU. I THINK I WAS IN BETWEEN PRINTING AND CURSIVE. I THINK THAT'S WHAT I WAS DOING THERE. , MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. SUPERVISORS, I WOULD ASK THAT MR. JASON SHIELDS, WHO I BELIEVE BEEN IN THAT FIELD FOR 60 YEARS, BE APPOINTED TO FILL THE POSITION BEFORE YOU TONIGHT FOR APPOINTMENT. TO THE DENWOODY AIRPORT AND INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY BOARD, MR. SHIELDS OF THE PROUD CITIZEN DEN, WI COUNTY COUNTY AND AVIATION EXPERT WHO OPERATES AN AVIATION COMPANY IN DENWOODY COUNTY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. MR. CHAIRMAN, I HAVE NO ONE ELSE SIGNED UP. OKAY. IT IS [9. COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR COMMENTS] NOW TIME FOR OUR COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR TO AS CHAIRMAN. JUST FOUR TOPICS, WISDOM, JUST, JUST FOUR THINGS. SO ONE, UM, UM, TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE, THE VACO ANNUAL CONFERENCE. AND, UM, I THINK IT WAS SAID ONE TIME EARLIER, DR. MOORE MAKES THIS COMMENT EVERY TIME WHERE, WHERE DOES A BOARD OF SUPERVISOR MEMBER GO TO, TO, TO LEARN TO BECOME A BETTER BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEMBER? AND, YOU KNOW, WHETHER JOE'S HERE OR NOT, WE WOULD'VE SAID THIS, BUT YEAH, VACO GIVES THAT, THAT CRITICAL TRAINING. I THINK THAT'S NEEDED. AND, AND EVEN MORE THAN THAT, I THINK IT'S THE SIMILAR ISSUES, WHETHER IT'S BIG OR SMALL OR MEDIUM SIZED LOCALITIES. WE, WE ALL KIND OF WORK IN THE SAME SANDBOX AND JUST DIFFERENT SCALE. BUT WHEN, WHEN WE'RE ABLE TO NETWORK AND TALK TO OTHER BOARD MEMBERS, UM, FROM ALL ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH, WE SEE HOW MUCH WE HAVE IN COMMON, HOW MUCH WE HAVE IN DIFFERENT, AND AT THE SAME TIME HOW WE REALLY KIND OF COME TOGETHER TO MAKE SOME CHANGES. AND SO WHAT A, WHAT A GREAT CONFERENCE IT WAS, UH, FOR THE PEOPLE AT HOME. IT, YOU KNOW, THE CONFERENCE STARTED OFF WITH A, ON VETERANS DAY, IT HAD A MIL MILITARY APPRECIATION [01:25:01] AND, AND LEADERSHIP LESSONS. AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAD THREE, UH, SUPERVISORS, I BELIEVE ONE FROM PRINCE WILLIAM, ONE FROM LOUD, AND ONE FROM HANOVER THAT GAVE ALL, ALL, UH, VETERANS THAT GAVE THEIR UNIQUE PERSPECTIVES, WHICH I THINK WAS AN AB AND KEYNOTE SPEAKERS OF THE WHOLE CONFERENCE. BUT WHAT A PHENOMENAL JOB TO TALK ABOUT THESE MILITARY CHARACTERISTICS AND HOW THEY TRANSCEND INTO PUBLIC SERVICE. AND I THINK WE HAVE SO MANY LESSONS THAT WE LEFT MORE INSPIRED, JUST JUST BEING A, A PART OF THAT. UM, AFTER THAT, I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO WITH DR. MOORE TO, UH, AND YOU'D APPRECIATE THE STATE BUDGET, UH, AT WORK. AND, AND SO OUR, YOU KNOW, WE, WE WERE ABLE TO, JIM REBAL WAS THERE AND, AND, UH, GAVE KIND OF AN IDEA OF WHERE, WHERE WE MAY BE HEADED WHEN IT COMES TO THE OVERALL FISCAL PICTURE OF THE COMMONWEALTH, WHICH SEEMED TO BE FOR ANYBODY THAT'S BEEN IN THE YEARS PAST WITH JIM AL HAS NOT BEEN SO UPLIFTING. SO, YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR WAS PRETTY UPLIFTING. EVEN THIS YEAR WAS VERY UPLIFTING. SO, UH, YOU KNOW, IT WAS THE POINT OF ADVOCACY AND SPECIFICALLY TRYING TO EDUCATE OUR LEGISLATORS ON, HEY, YOU GOT A LITTLE BIT OF OF FUNDS NOW, MAKE SURE YOU, YOU, YOU SPEND THEM WISELY IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. SO THAT GIVES US A LITTLE BIT MORE. SO WE TALK ABOUT MARIE GRANT AND OUR WORK HERE WITH, UM, LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, THAT, THAT WE MIGHT HAVE SOME GOOD OPPORTUNITIES HERE. I I THEN WENT TO A PEER TO PEER MANAGERS AND ADMINISTRATORS GROUP, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE EVER DONE THAT FOR VACO. UM, GREAT CONVERSATION, GOOD WORK. I MET, MET SOME ADMINISTRATORS I HADN'T MET BEFORE. AND, AND GOOD EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION LATER. I I ALSO ATTENDED A, A BREAKOUT SESSION CALLED GET IN THE GAME. MR. LEE AND I, UH, WERE PART OF THAT. THAT'S ABOUT SPORTS TOURISM AND, AND AS YOU ALL KNOW, UH, WE HAVE THE DIMITY SPORTS COMPLEX, UM, AND, AND A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY HERE IN, IN THIS PARTICULAR REGION. BUT THERE, THERE WAS REALLY GOOD INFORMATION THAT WAS SHARED FROM PULASKI COUNTY, UH, HANOVER AS WELL, AND, AND CHESTERFIELD. AND, AND AGAIN, JUST, JUST THAT SPACE THAT'S CALLED SPORTS TOURISM AND HOW WE CAN IMPACT, UH, US FINANCIALLY IN A, IN A BIG WAY. SO, UH, REALLY GOOD CONFERENCE. THAT'S JUST A FEW OF THE HIGHLIGHTS I HAD, UH, THAT I WANTED TO KIND OF SHARE PUBLICLY. BUT AGAIN, I THOUGHT IT WAS, UM, WELL-PLANNED, WELL EXECUTED, AND I WALKED AWAY, I THINK, A BETTER ADMINISTRATOR FOR IT. UM, SECOND THING I WANNA TALK ABOUT WITH SHEETS AND THE, UH, THE GRAND OPENING RIBBON CUTTING LAST WEEK. UM, AND WHAT A PHENOMENAL, YOU KNOW, A A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, SHEETS IS MORE THAN JUST A GAS STATION AND A CONVENIENCE STORE FOR US. AND I MEAN, REALLY, THEY'VE, THEY REALLY HAVE DONE A, A REALLY GOOD JOB OF UNDERSTANDING THE MODERN CUSTOMER AND HOW TO, YOU KNOW, TO REALLY BE IN A COMMUNITY THE RIGHT WAY. UM, I THINK THEY'RE TRYING TO, TO, TO ESTABLISH THEMSELVES IN THE DEWIN COMMUNITY RIGHT OFF INTERSTATE 85. UM, I WAS SAYING YESTERDAY AT A CIVILIAN MILITARY COUNCIL MEETING, UH, COLONIAL HEIGHTS, VIRGINIA GETS TO SAY THAT THEY HAVE THE LARGEST ARBY'S IN THE WORLD. AND WE GET TO SAY WE HAVE THE LARGEST SHEETS, NOT THE BUILDING ITSELF, BUT THE OVERALL, UH, SITE ITSELF IS 11 AND A HALF ACRES, I BELIEVE, JUST UNDER 12 ACRES. UH, SO IT'S A BIG SITE, A BIG SITE. AND GLAD THEY DECIDED TO, UM, TO DO IT HERE IN, IN DEWIN COUNTY. AND VERY OPTIMISTIC THAT, YOU KNOW, TALKING TO THE MANAGER, I STOPPED IN. SO THE, THE RIBBON CUTTING WAS WHAT, THURSDAY? MM-HMM . SO I'VE BEEN THERE FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY, AND I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO COME TODAY. SO, UM, BUT EVERY TIME I'VE GONE IN, I'VE TALKED TO THE MANAGER AND, AND THEY, I THINK THIS SURPASSES THEIR EXPECTATIONS SO FAR. UM, SO GREAT, GREAT LOCATION FOR THEM. AND, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ASK ALL THE TIME, WELL, WHY, WHY CAN'T THESE ANNOUNCEMENTS HAPPEN FASTER? WE WISH THEY COULD TOO. UH, BUT, YOU KNOW, THIS SHEETS PROJECT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS, UH, JUST TO GET THIS TO BE LOCATED IN, IN . SO GREAT, GREAT OPPORTUNITY THERE TODAY. YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS LIKE TO SAY GOVERNMENT DAY IS LIKE ONE OF MY, MY FAVORITE DAYS. I WILL TELL YOU, I WAS A LITTLE BIT APPREHENSIVE BECAUSE IT WAS, IT WAS CHANGED THIS YEAR. AND, UH, ANNETTE, UH, DID A PHENOMENAL JOB WITH STAFF. UM, DIDN'T REALLY, YOU KNOW, HOW, YOU NEVER KNOW HOW IT'S GONNA WORK, BUT THIS PARTICULAR GOVERNMENT DAY, I THOUGHT WAS ONE OF THE BETTER ONES WE'VE EVER DONE. AND I LOVED HAVING IT HERE, WHERE OUR, UM, OUR SENIORS COULD NOT ONLY JUST LEARN ABOUT GOVERNMENT, BUT THEY COULD ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY BE IN THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH GOVERNMENT TAKES PLACE. AND JUST THE COMMITMENT OF, OF THE BOARD MEMBERS AND FOR STAFF TO PULL THAT OFF. WHAT A PHENOMENAL JOB THEY DID. AND, AND AGAIN, I KNOW I SAID IT EARLIER, UM, FOR THOSE THAT WERE THERE, BUT THE FUTURE IS SO BRIGHT AND DIY. I MEAN, THEY, THEY HAD, EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE SOME CONTENTIOUS MOMENTS, WE HAD A BUDGET EXERCISE THAT THEY HAD TO WORK THROUGH, BUT THEY WERE ALWAYS VERY POLITE. THEY WORK THROUGH THEIR, UH, CONFLICT THE RIGHT WAY. AND IT SHOWS YOU THAT IT, IT CAN BE DONE, IT CAN BE DONE. UM, AND SO WHAT A GREAT, GREAT DAY TODAY WAS, UM, YESTERDAY. YESTERDAY, UH, A LOT OF PEOPLE RECEIVED IN THEIR MAILBOX, UH, THE GENERAL REASSESSMENT NOTICES. AND I JUST WANTED TO, TO BRIEFLY TALK ABOUT THAT. UM, THIS DID NOT [01:30:01] COME AS A SHOCK TO, TO DEWIN COUNTY, OR, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS OUR, OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT. UH, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THE GENERAL REASSESSMENT, UH, FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF NOW. TH THIS, THIS ISN'T NEW. THIS, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I JUST WANT TO SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE AT HOME THAT MAY BE WATCHING US ONLINE AS WELL. UM, THAT WE, WE TOOK GREAT CARE AND ATTENTION IN, IN WHO WE SELECTED TO BE OUR REASSESSMENT FIRM. UH, WAMP LS HAD, HAS, UH, HAD DONE THE, THE PREVIOUS TWO REASSESSMENTS, AND NOW THIS, THIS REASSESSMENT. UM, THE QUESTION OF, OF WHETHER THE COMPANY HAS DONE A GOOD JOB OR NOT, I CAN TELL YOU, UM, THE LEVEL OF CONVERSATION, THE LEVEL OF, OF MEETINGS THAT WE'VE HAD FROM A GOVERNMENT TO THE COMPANY, UM, HAS, HAS PROBABLY BEEN THE MOST CONVERSATION I'VE EVER HAD WITH A REASSESSMENT FIRM. WHY? WELL, THIS IS THE LONGEST DEWINE COUNTY HAS EVER WAITED TO DO A REASSESSMENT. SO BETWEEN LORI STEVENS THE COMMISSIONER REVENUE, IT DOESN'T FALL ON HER OFFICE. IT FALLS SQUARELY ON THIS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND FOR ME, AS YOUR LIAISON TO THE COMPANY. UM, BUT WE, WE'VE HAD NUMEROUS CONVERSATIONS ALL THROUGHOUT THIS WHOLE PROCESS. SO 2019 WAS THE LAST TIME I KNOW THERE'S COMMENTS THAT HAVE SAID, WELL, I JUST PAID MY TAXES, AND HOW DID MY VALUE CHANGE THAT MUCH OVER A YEAR PERIOD OF TIME? IT DIDN'T, YOU'RE, YOU'RE REFLECTING BACK FROM 2019 TO WHAT THE PROPERTY VALUES LOOK LIKE NOW IN, IN 2024, I CAN TELL YOU, IT'S ALL BASED UPON THE MARKET. SO THE, THE GOOD THING ABOUT THIS PROCESSES THOUGH, IS THAT THE PROCESS SHOULD BE PLAYED OUT IF ANYONE AT HOME GOT THEIR NOTICE AND THEY FEEL LIKE THAT THERE IS SOME TYPE OF SPECIFIC ISSUE WITH THE VALUATION, THERE'S A PROCESS FOR THAT. SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE BACK OF YOUR NOTICE, THERE'S A WHOLE PROCESS THAT'S OUTLINED THAT TALKS ABOUT SPECIFICALLY GETTING BEFORE THE PEOPLE WHO DID THE WORK. AND THAT WASN'T YOUR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. THAT WASN'T YOUR COUNTY ADMINISTRATION. AND IT SURELY WASN'T YOUR TREASURER AND COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, IT WAS WAMP LS. AND SO WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE WHO HAS A QUESTION OR CONCERN THAT THEY NEED TO CALL THE NUMBER ON THE BACK AND OR SET UP AN APPOINTMENT TO SIT DOWN WITH CHLORINES AND GO THROUGH YOUR NOTICE. UM, NOW THAT BEING SAID, THIS BOARD AND THE COUNTY FOR, AGAIN, THE PEOPLE AT HOME, WE HAVE KNOWN FOR QUITE SOME TIME THAT THE OVERALL SALES RATIO WAS, WAS DIPPING. AND NOT JUST DIPPING SLIGHTLY. SO WHEN OUR SALES RATIO DROPPED BELOW, UM, REALLY THE LOW SIXTIES, THAT SHOWS THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF ROOM IN THE MARKET GETTING TO A HUNDRED PERCENT OR FAIR MARKET VALUE. SO WHEN PEOPLE AT HOME ARE STARTING TO RECEIVE THESE NOTICES AND THEY SEE THE SIGNIFICANT INCREASES, EVEN, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE, WE'RE VERY SYMPATHETIC OF WHERE WE'RE AT, I THINK IT REPRESENTS THE MARKET. IF THERE ARE SPECIFIC ISSUES, AGAIN, THEY NEED TO BE ADDRESSED. IF YOU GO THROUGH THE PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS, THE MEETINGS WITH THE, THE REASSESSMENT FIRM, AND YOU'RE STILL NOT HAPPY, YOU JUST REALLY FEEL LIKE THERE'S SOMETHING SPECIFICALLY THAT'S NOT RIGHT, YOU STILL GET TO GO FURTHER. YOU STILL GET TO GO TO THE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION AND, AND THEY'RE ABLE TO LOOK AT IT AND THEY'RE ABLE TO MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS IF THEY SEE FIT. IF THAT DOESN'T WORK OUT, YOU STILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO CIRCUIT COURT IF YOU NEED TO. UM, NOW ALL THAT BEING SAID, THE, THE VALUES, AND AGAIN, BASED ON THE MARKET DATA THAT, AND AGAIN, WAMPLER RINGS WOULD BE ABLE TO SHARE WITH ANYBODY AT HOME THAT QUESTIONS THE MARKET DATA, THE REAL DATA THAT'S THERE TO EVALUATE. UM, SO IF THERE'S, IF THERE'S QUESTIONS THAT'S THE RIGHT PLACE TO GO. THIS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT MANY TIMES, YOU KNOW, BEFORE YOU GET TO, UM, WHERE YOUR PRESENT VALUE IS, WHICH IS LOWER RIGHT AT THE 84 CENT TAX RATE. I KNOW IT'S BEEN SAID. AND AGAIN, KIND OF TALKING TO THE PEOPLE AT HOME, 'CAUSE MOST PEOPLE IN THE ROOM KNOW THIS, THERE'S NOT A MEMBER OF THIS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS THAT TRULY EXPECTS THAT THE TAX RATE IS GONNA STAY AT 84 CENTS. UM, I KNOW WE HAVE SOME GENERAL IDEA OF WHERE THAT EFFECTIVE TAX RATE IS GONNA BE, AND IT'S GONNA BE IN THE SIXTIES. UH, SO WE'RE GONNA SEE A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN, IN WHAT THAT EFFECTIVE RATE WILL BE, WHAT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS DETERMINES THAT RATE TO BE, WILL BE BASED UPON AND PREDICATED UPON THE BUDGET AS WELL AS WHAT THEY, UM, WISH TO HAVE AS THIS CALENDAR YEAR 2025 TAX RATE. SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. I MEAN, IF YOU FEEL LIKE THE MARKET VALUE IS OFF, ABSOLUTELY GO TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS AND, AND, AND PLAY IT OUT. BUT YOU REALLY NEED TO STAY ACTIVELY INVOLVED WITH THE BUDGET AND THE SETTING OF THE 2025 TAX SEASON CALENDAR TAX RATES. THAT'S, THAT'S THE IMPORTANT PIECE IN THIS. UM, WE'VE HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT, WELL, WHERE'S THE GOVERNMENT SPENDING? IF YOU QUESTION THE BUDGET SPENDING, ALL OF OUR FINANCES ARE ONLINE. UH, ALL OF WHAT WE SPEND MONEY ON FOR YEARS IS ONLINE. IF YOU WANNA SEE BUDGET PRESENTATIONS [01:35:01] AND FOR A DECADE PLUS, THEY'RE ALL ONLINE. YOU CAN SEE WHAT WE'VE INVESTED FUNDS, I MEAN, INVESTED EXPENDITURES IN ALL OF THAT'S THERE. WE'VE HAD BUDGET PRESENTATIONS, CIP PRESENTATIONS, FULL BUDGET DOCUMENTS ARE THERE, GOING BACK FOR PROBABLY A DECADE AND A HALF. AND SO I ENCOURAGE ANYBODY, IF THEY SEE ANYTHING AND THEY WANT TO TALK ABOUT EXPENDITURES, PLEASE TALK TO US. I MEAN, IF THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES THERE, WE'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE. UM, AND AGAIN, AND I KNOW FOR THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, TALK TO YOUR BOARD MEMBERS IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS. I KNOW IT HAD TO BE EMOTIONAL. WE KNEW THAT'S WHY WE STARTED PUTTING IT IN THE NEWSLETTER A YEAR AND A HALF AGO. THAT'S, WE KNEW THAT'S WHEN WE STARTED DOING, UH, TOWN HALL MEETINGS. EVERY TOWN HALL MEETING WE'VE HAD OVER THE LAST YEAR HAS BEEN ON THIS SUBJECT. 'CAUSE WE KNEW THAT THAT, YOU KNOW, YESTERDAY WAS SOMETHING THAT WE HAD IN MIND AS SOON AS WE HIRED THE COMPANY AND WE STARTED LOOKING AT THE MARKET DATA THAT, THAT, THAT WAS GONNA BE A REALITY. SO I APPRECIATE WHERE PEOPLE ARE AT HOME AND, AND AGAIN, A LITTLE BIT OF THAT STICKER SHOCK, THAT SIX YEARS OF OVERALL, UM, ADJUSTMENT IS WHAT'S BEING REFLECTED IN THAT. THAT BEING SAID, I ALSO WILL SAY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HAS SAID THEY DON'T WANNA WAIT ANOTHER SIX YEARS EVER AGAIN IF THEY CAN, IF THEY CAN HELP IT. I KNOW YOUR TERM ENDS IN THREE AND THAT A LITTLE OVER THREE YEARS, BUT IT'S REALLY, UM, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT SIX YEAR PERIOD, IT WAS A LONG WINDOW. NOW WHY DID WE WAIT SIX YEARS? WE WERE HOPING THAT FROM THE BOARD'S PERSPECTIVE, YOU WERE HOPING THAT THE MARKET WOULD COME FURTHER IN ADJUSTMENT. IF YOU REMEMBER, AFTER COVID, AND EVEN NOW THERE, THERE'S, THERE'S INFLATION CONSTRUCTION COSTS WENT THROUGH THE ROOF. THERE WAS A HOPE THAT, THAT THE MARKET WOULD COME BACK IN ALIGNMENT. UM, IT JUST DIDN'T COME BACK IN ALIGNMENT THE WAY THAT I THINK MOST PEOPLE, SO THE NEW NORMAL FOR HOME CONSTRUCTION, UM, MAY BE A REALITY. AND SO WHEN, WHEN STARTER HOMES THAT WERE ONE 50 ARE NOW AT 300, THAT CHANGES THE MARKET. I DON'T CARE WHERE YOU ARE IN, IN THE 507 SQUARE MILES OF, OF DEWINE COUNTY. SO MS. JEREMY MEMBERS, THE BOARD, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE OPEN TO FURTHER CONVERSATION. OBVIOUSLY THE CITIZENS HERE, WE HAVE SET UP A ROOM IN THE COMMUNITY ROOM UPSTAIRS THAT WE HAVE TERMINALS THAT ARE ESTABLISHED. ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO SEE MORE INFORMATION, THEY CAN COME IN, UM, UNDER THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT HERE AND, AND BE ABLE TO LOOK AT ALL THE INFORMATION THAT LED UP TO THEIR, THEIR REASSESSMENT. AND AGAIN, SPECIFICALLY IF THEY WANT TO MEET WITH, UM, THE COMPANY, THEN, THEN THAT'S ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY THERE AS WELL. SO, INFORMATION'S ONLINE AS WELL TO HELP YOU KINDA LOOK. IF YOU WANNA LOOK AT WHAT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD DID, YOU CAN GO AND, AND SEARCH BY KEY NAME, UM, OR ADDRESS, AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE, THE OVERALL DOLLAR FIGURES LOOK LIKE. SO HOPEFULLY THAT GIVES YOU SOME UNDERSTANDING OF, OF WHERE WE'RE AT. CAN I ASK A QUESTION, MR. CHAIR? SURE. HOME BOUND INDIVIDUALS. I HAD SOMEONE TO CALL ME PERTAINING. 'CAUSE THE PROCESS, IT'S ABOUT THREE WEEKS FROM NOW, WOULD TO BE ABLE TO, IF YOU'RE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THE NUMBER THAT YOU RECEIVED, AND, BUT I NEED TO KNOW WHAT, WHAT DO WE DO WITH OUR HOME BOUND PEOPLE? YEAH. SO, YOU KNOW, WE, IF THEY STILL HAVE A TELEPHONE NUMBER, I'M ASSUMING THEY CALLED YOU, IF THEY WERE HOME BOUND, UM, WE CAN, THEY CAN STILL CALL THE NUMBER THAT'S ON THE BACK OF THE, UM, NOTICE. UM, AND OR THEY CAN CALL HERE EVEN. AND, AND SO WE'LL GET 'EM IN CONTACT WITH THE, UH, ASSESSMENT TEAM AND THEN THEY CAN SCHEDULE A TIME TO HAVE A, A CONVERSATION WITH THEM. AND IF THEY WANT COPIES OF THEIR, THEIR DOCUMENTS ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT'S IN THE NOTICE, WE CAN, WE CAN PROVIDE THAT FOR THEIR SPECIFIC PROPERTY AS WELL. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YEAH, THANK YOU. GOOD QUESTION. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THAT? OKAY. ANYMORE? NO, SIR. OKAY. [10. BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS] BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS, MS. B***R, I'M GONNA STOP THE KEEP TODAY ABOUT THAT. OKAY, THAT'S FINE. UM, JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS I WANT TO TALK ABOUT. YOU KNOW, VACO, WE, UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE GO, WE ARE BUSY THE WAY THEY HAVE OUR SCHEDULE SET UP, , YOU KNOW, UH, YOU JUST HAVE TIME TO MAYBE RUN AROUND THE CORNER AND GET SOME COFFEE AND COME BACK AND ALL THAT, BUT YOU'RE BUSY AND WHICH MEANS THAT THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION, UM, THAT'S THERE FOR YOU TO BRING BACK, UH, TO YOUR CITIZENS. UM, I DID GO TO, UM, A COUPLE THINGS AND, UM, WHEN I WAS TALKING TO SOMEONE IN EDUCATION, ONE THING THAT STRUCK ME, UM, WITH, UM, WITH THE EDUCATION, UH, THE PART OF IT, THEY, THE PERSON, UM, SAID BECAUSE OF SOME MANDATES AND THINGS THAT'S COMING DOWN FROM, UH, THE SCHOOL AND EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TO PARTNER WITH DIFFERENT LOCALITIES AND, AND ALSO TALKED TO YOUR, YOUR, UM, SENATORS AND YOUR DELEGATES TO GET TOGETHER AND HAVE A PROPOSAL OR EVEN GO TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND TALK TO PEOPLE, BUT, UH, PARTNER WITH PEOPLE IN THE, IN YOUR, UM, YOUR LOCALITIES AS A GROUP, NOT JUST ONE AREA. I THOUGHT [01:40:01] THAT WAS REALLY INTERESTING AND THAT CAN MAKE A BIGGER IMPACT WHEN THEY GO TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BECAUSE THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE MANDATES. A LOT OF THE, UM, PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT, YOU'RE GETTING AWAY FROM TEACHING, YOU ARE, THE ONLY THING YOU'RE DOING NOW IS CHASING PAPER. MM-HMM . AND, UM, AND THE KIDS ARE THE LOSERS IN, UM, THIS SCENARIO. SO I THOUGHT THAT WAS REALLY INTERESTING WHEN I, WHEN I, UM, SAT THERE AND LISTENED TO THEM. UM, OF COURSE, UM, WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT VIRGINIA IS A GREAT STATE FOR BUSINESS AND, UM, OF COURSE ABOUT THE SURPLUS MONEY THAT, UH, WE HAVE, UM, AND RICHMOND, IT WAS A WHOLE LOT OF IDEAS ABOUT THAT. SO WE JUST HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH THAT. I ALSO, UM, UH, TALKED ABOUT, UM, I WENT TO A MENTAL HEALTH ONE OF COURSE, AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY TALKED ABOUT WAS REALLY INTERESTING. UM, AND, AND I WILL SAY THIS BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT THE, UM, ELECTIONS AND THINGS LIKE THAT THAT HAPPENED IN NOVEMBER, I MEAN, THIS MONTH. AND, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT IT, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT SIDE THAT YOU'RE ON ABOUT BEING REALLY, UM, DIVIDED, ALSO DEALING WITH THE STRESS MENTALLY, UM, BECAUSE OF THINGS THAT'S COMING, COMING OUT. AND THEY TALKED ABOUT, UM, NOT ALSO BEING DIVIDED, BUT ALSO PEOPLE JUST FEELING, UM, SCARED ABOUT CERTAIN THINGS, UH, PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT, UM, JUST HATEFUL THINGS. SO IT'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT THAT'S OUT THERE NOW THAT PEOPLE HAD SOME CONCERNS ABOUT. AND OF COURSE THAT TALKS ABOUT YOUR, YOUR MENTAL STATUS AND TRYING TO, UH, TALK TO SOMEONE BECAUSE NOT ONLY YOU TALKING ABOUT MENTAL STATUS, NOW YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE HOLIDAYS. AND THEY ALSO TALKED ABOUT IT'S SO MANY PEOPLE DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON THAT'S VERY LONELY. THEY, THEY'RE, UM, BY THEMSELVES AND JUST, THEY JUST DON'T HAVE ANYBODY TO TALK TO. YOU KNOW, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A FESTIVE TIME, YOU KNOW, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LONELY AND IF YOU KNOW OF SOMEONE, YOU KNOW, JUST TRY TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO, UM, JUST GET TOGETHER AND DO THINGS. WE WENT TO THE, UM, THE CIVILIAN, UH, COUNCIL YESTERDAY AND THE, UM, I BELIEVE IT WAS THE COMMANDER. THEY TALKED ABOUT, UM, THEY HAVE SOME SOLDIERS THAT'S LEFT ON THE BASE. AND IF YOU KNOW OF SOMEONE THAT WANTS TO HAVE THEM TO COME IN THEIR HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, THAT WOULD BE GOOD. AND I THINK THEY TALKED ABOUT ABOUT 200 PEOPLE. MM-HMM . SO YOU, IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE AND KNOW WE ONLINE THAT WOULD, UM, LIKE TO HAVE SOMEONE IN THEIR HOME, YOU KNOW, AND JUST, UH, GIVE THEM, UH, OPPORTUNITY TO SOCIALIZE WITH YOU, HAVE SOME DINNER AND WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS, THAT WOULD BE A GOOD TIME BECAUSE THEY DID SAY A LOT. A LOT OF THEM ARE LEFT ON THE BASE. SOME OF 'EM DON'T HAVE FAMILY, SO IT WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO DO THAT. SO I WANTED TO KIND OF MENTION THAT AS WELL. AND, UM, ALSO, UM, AT MY CHURCH, WE ARE DOING A THANKSGIVING DINNER FOR THE COMMUNITY OF ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO ATTEND ON THIS SATURDAY AT THREE O'CLOCK. AND LAST YEAR WAS A BIG SUCCESS. SO THEY'RE DOING IT AGAIN THIS YEAR. SO PEOPLE CAN COME AND THEY CAN EAT THERE OR THEY CAN GET A, A, A DINNER TO GO. SO, AND THAT'S GONNA BE FREE TO THEM. SO IT IS A THANKSGIVING DINNER, AND THAT'S GONNA BE AT, UM, FIRST BAPTIST WEST PETERSBURG IN NORTH BEND, WITTY, SO AT 3:00 PM THIS SATURDAY. SO THAT WOULD, UM, SO THAT WOULD BE, UM, YOU KNOW, UM, OPPORTUNITY TO ALSO, UM, FELLOWSHIP WITH PEOPLE. SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE GOOD. AND I THINK I'VE COVERED ALL THE SITES THAT I NEEDED TO COVER. OKAY. OKAY. MR. DOOLEY, UH, MY FIRST YEAR AT BACO, UM, VERY EYEOPENING, UM, YOU KNOW, GOOD TIME AND, AND WAS ABLE TO SEE THAT WE ARE NOT UNIQUE IN OUR, UH, EXPERIENCE THAT A LOT OF COUNTIES ARE FACING THE SAME THING WE ARE WITH PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES. AND I ATTENDED ONE OF THOSE COMMITTEE MEETINGS. UH, THE UNFOUND, OUR UNFUNDED MANDATES HAD EVERYONE, UH, SAME WAY THEY HIT US MM-HMM . WITH THE DRUG BOXES AND, AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. THE, THE VOLUNTEERISM IS DOWN ACROSS THE BOARD. UM, SO LACK OF FUNDING FROM THE STATE FOR PUBLIC SAFETY, FOR FIRE, FIRE EMS AND, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT IS, IS HITTING A LOT OF COMMUNITIES VERY HARD AS THEY TRY TO UP THE SERVICE, UH, FOR THEIR CITIZENS. UH, MY HAT'S OFF TO THIS BOARD AND OUR STAFF FOR THEIR COMMITMENT TO OUR CITIZENS TO PROVIDE THE SERVICE THAT THAT IS NEEDED WITH FIRE AND EMS AND WITH, WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. I THINK THAT, UH, WE ARE DOING A VERY GOOD JOB IN, [01:45:01] IN PUTTING OUR BEST FOOT FORWARD AND, AND MEETING THAT NEED AS BEST WE CAN AND STILL BEING GOOD STEWARDS OF, OF THE TAX DOLLAR. MM-HMM . UM, SO MY HAT'S OFF TO THE BOARD AND OUR STAFF FOR WHAT WE DO HERE. UM, GOVERNMENT DAY IS ALWAYS FUN. I, I JUMPED IN AND OUT QUICKLY TODAY. UM, BUT IT'S FUN FOR ME TO SEE THESE YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN THAT I'VE WATCHED GROW UP, STEP UP AND, AND SEE THEM INTERACT WITH ADULTS AND, AND COMPLEX, UH, PROBLEM SOLVING MM-HMM . MM-HMM . KNOW TO, TO LOOK BEYOND THEMSELVES AND WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE, WHAT THEY THINK IS IMPORTANT, AND TO, TO REALLY LISTEN TO THE NEEDS OF OTHERS AND, AND PUT THOSE ABOVE SOME OF THEIR OWN DESIRES WAS A LOT OF FUN. SO THANK YOU TO STAFF. THANK YOU FOR THE SCHOOL SYSTEMS THAT, UH, THE STAFF THERE THAT'S PUTTING THAT TOGETHER AND MAKING THE TRANSPORTATION AND, AND ALL THOSE WHEELS IN THE COG WORK TOGETHER. UM, THAT'S ALL I GOT. ALRIGHT. UM, COUPLE OF THINGS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN, HAVEN'T BEEN TALKED, BUT FIRST OF ALL, I WILL TALK ABOUT VACO. UM, JOE, THANK YOU FOR COMING DOWN. THANK YOU FOR THE STAFF AT VACO, UH, DEAN LYNCH AND HIS LEADERSHIP. UM, AT THE STATE LEVEL OF THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE PRESENTED TO US AS BOARDS, MEMBERS OF SUPERVISORS. UM, A LOT OF FORETHOUGHT I KNOW GOES INTO THE PLANNING OF THE ANNUAL MEETING. UM, WE MEET TWICE A YEAR, BUT THIS ONE IS THE BIG ONE. UM, WHEN WE BRING ALL OF OUR OUTSIDE ENTITIES IN THAT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO AS WELL AS THE, THE PLANNING THAT GOES INTO THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN. UH, I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO THE LEADERSHIP OF VACO, THOSE THAT WERE INVOLVED. UM, I SERVE ON THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE. JEREMY BENNETT IS OUR LIAISON. I THANK HIM FOR, FOR WHAT HE DOES FOR US AND ALL OF THE OTHERS THAT THE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES THAT WE'VE ALL SERVED ON OVER OUR TIME. UM, THE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, WE DON'T DO THINGS FOR AN ACHIEVEMENT, BUT LET ME JUST SAY THANK YOU TO THE CITIZENS THAT STEPPED UP WHEN THE NEED WAS PRESENTED BETWEEN BASEBALL, TENNIS, AND SOFTBALL, SOFTBALL, AS WELL AS FACILITIES THAT WERE NEEDED FOR THOSE THREE PARTICULAR SPRING SPORTS. THE OPPORTUNITY PRESENTED ITSELF FOR US TO HAVE A PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP, AND IT COULDN'T HAVE WORKED OUT BETTER, BUT BECAUSE IT TOOK PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER, WORKING TOGETHER THAT HAD A MUTUAL INTEREST, THAT MADE IT HAPPEN. AND THANK YOU TO THE PUBLIC FOR THOSE THAT PARTICIPATED, AND THANK YOU TO THE BOARD FOR SEEING THE, THE VISION IN DOING THAT TOGETHER AND STAFF, UM, FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN. UM, ALONG THAT LINE, WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO VISIT WITH OUR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS FOR THREE DAYS IN OUR ADVANCE THAT WE HAD. AND WE WENT AROUND THIS COUNTY, WE LOOKED AT SCHOOLS, WE LOOKED AT A VARIETY OF BUSINESSES. WE, UM, MADE A LOT OF OBSERVATIONS OVER TWO AND A HALF, THREE DAYS, UH, WITH THEM. AND SO THERE ARE A LOT OF DECISIONS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, UM, THE FUTURE OF DENWOODY COUNTY. BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S UNIQUE WHEN YOU CAN GET 30 TO 35 PEOPLE ON ONE SCHOOL BUS TOGETHER AND RIDING AROUND AND LOOKING AT THINGS THAT'S UNIQUE. A LOT OF COUNTIES AND, AND CITIES CAN'T DO THAT. THEY CAN'T BECAUSE THEY CAN'T EVEN BE IN THE SAME ROOM TOGETHER. AND, UH, I WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO THOSE, OUR STAFF THAT WAS INVOLVED AND TO OUR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND OTHERS THAT WERE INVOLVED BECAUSE IT MADE US BETTER. IT, IT PUT US ON THE SAME PAGE OF THINKING ABOUT THE NEEDS AND WHAT'S BEST FOR DENVER COUNTY. SO THANK YOU TO OUR, UM, COUNTERPARTS ON THE SCHOOL BOARD. UM, OF COURSE THE SHEETS OPENING, THE ONLY THING I'LL SAY THERE IS MONDAY THEY WERE OUT OF FOOD , WHICH, UH, TELLS YOU HOW PRODUCTIVE THAT THEY WERE. UH, I HAVE NOT COME BY THE, THE BUILDING WITHOUT MULTIPLE, MULTIPLE VEHICLES BEING THERE AS WELL AS AS TRUCKS. UH, IT'S GIVING THEM A REFUGE TO GET OFF THE ROAD IF YOU'RE NOT AWARE, THERE IS A, IS A HUGE ISSUE WITH PARKING FOR TRUCKS AND BEING ABLE TO GET OFF THE ROAD FOR CERTAIN AMOUNT OF HOURS. SO IT'S NICE TO SEE THOSE THERE. AND THE MOST IMPORTANT PART I SEE FOR IT FROM AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SIDE IS WHAT IT MAY BRING TO OUR COMMUNITY. WHAT, WHAT HOTEL, WHAT RESTAURANT, WHAT OTHER THINGS CANDLE SHEETS BRING TO OUR COMMUNITY. SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AS THEY COME THROUGH. COUPLE OF THINGS AS WE GO FORWARD. I THINK WE'VE GOT THE GRAND ILLUMINATION COMING UP THAT FIRST TUESDAY IN DECEMBER. UM, AT THE OLD HISTORIC COURTHOUSE. WE'VE GOT THE PARADE, WHICH WILL BE ON SUNDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER THE EIGHTH AT FIVE O'CLOCK. I THINK IT'S WHEN IT STARTS. AND, UM, THE LAST THING I'LL SAY IS WE HAVE A PRETTY GOOD FOOTBALL GAME THAT'S COMING UP ON SATURDAY. IT'S AT ONE 30 AT DENWITTY HIGH [01:50:01] SCHOOL. WE PLAY KING GEORGE. AND I'D LIKE TO SEE EVERYBODY THERE, UM, PACKED THE HOUSE. IT'S THE SECOND ROUND OF THE REGIONALS. AND, UH, WE'VE GOT A PRETTY DARN GOOD FOOTBALL TEAM. AND WE'RE PLAYING A TEAM THAT WE'VE BEATEN BEFORE AND THEY'VE BEATEN US, THEY'VE BEATEN US TOO. UM, I THINK IT OUGHT TO BE A PRETTY GOOD FOOTBALL GAME. AND LAST, I WILL SAY, WE HAVE A WHOLE LOT TO BE THANKFUL FOR. AND I'M GONNA PAT THIS GENTLEMAN RIGHT HERE. UM, GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS THIS PAST YEAR. HE ANSWERED A LOT OF PRAYERS. AND DAN, UM, I KNOW YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND ALL AND, AND OF COURSE THE DONOR. MM-HMM . UH, GOD HAS A PLAN FOR ALL OF US. AND, UH, IT'S JUST A PLEASURE TO SERVE WITH YOU AND TO SERVE WITH THE REST OF MY BOARD MEMBERS AND THE STAFF, THE COUNTY THAT WE, THAT WE WORK FOR, THE CITIZENS. UM, WE HAVE A LOT TO BE THANKFUL FOR. AND, UH, WITH THAT, I'LL SAY THANKS. UH, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYBODY. YEAH, THANK YOU, MARK. I WAS GONNA GIVE YOU ALL A BREAK AND I WASN'T GONNA SAY A WHOLE LOT, BUT, UH, I, I DO WANT TO THANK, UH, JOE FOR COMING AND, AND VACO AWARDS ARE SPECIAL AND, UH, JOE'S ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS WITH, UH, HE, UH, I WAS, UH, ONE OF HIS CHAIRMANS FOR PLANNING, UH, AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT A LONG TIME AGO. SO, UH, I I APPRECIATE THAT. UM, SPEAKING OF WHAT MARK WAS TALKING ABOUT, NEXT BOARD MEETING, DECEMBER THE 17TH WILL ACTUALLY BE THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF MY HEART TRANSPLANT. SO, UH, WE'LL HAVE A PARTY THAT NIGHT. UM, AND, UH, JUST A SMALL ONE. 'CAUSE I'M OLD AND ALL THAT SORT OF STUFF, SO YOUNG AND HOT. BUT, UH, ANYWAY, UM, I, I, I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU SAID AND, AND THIS BOARD IS REALLY SPECIAL. DEWINE COUNTY'S SPECIAL, SO, UH, AND THAT'S IT. THANK YOU, DAD. WE GO BACK. YOU'VE BEEN PRAISED A LOT TONIGHT, YOU KNOW? THAT'S RIGHT. YOU FEEL LIKE THAT BOUNCER IS REALLY KICKING IN. YEAH. YEAH. I MEAN, AT ONE TIME WHEN WE FIRST GOT ON THE BOARD, I THINK ALL OF US HAD, WE WERE CHAIRMANS OF, UH, OF THE BOARD, SOME SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, SO YOU'VE BEEN, UH, REAL GOOD FOR US. AND, UH, WE APPRECIATE YOU COMING TONIGHT TO GIVE US THIS AWARD JUST FOR US. IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST AN HONOR. YEAH. I'M GONNA KEEP HANGING OUT WITH YOU WHEN I GO TO, SO MAKE SURE I'M, I'M COVERED. . YEAH. UH, MARK, UH, DR. MARK MOORE, HE, UH, TALKED ABOUT THE BOARD ADVANCE A DRIVING TOUR. UH, IT WAS, UH, THREE HARD DAYS. MM-HMM . WHAT YOU LEARNED A LOT ABOUT THE COUNTY, UH, HOW GOOD THE SCHOOLS ARE, HOW GOOD THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS ARE, POUND ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT, WELL, I THINK WE TOUCHED ABOUT EVERYTHING FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER. IT TAKES ONE HOUR TO GET FROM THE CREAMERY TO WENT BACK HOUR AND 20 MINUTES, AN HOUR AND 20 MINUTES. SO IT'S A LONG RIDE WHEN YOU GO THROUGH DENWOODY COUNTY. UM, THE GRAND OPENING OF SHEETS, UM, MARK TALKED ABOUT IT. I WAS ABLE TO CUT THE, WE ALWAYS SAY WHO'S GONNA CUT THE RIBBON, RIGHT? WE ENJOY THAT. YOU KNOW, ME AND MARK ESPECIALLY, YOU KNOW, IT'S MY TURN , BUT, UH, I WAS GOING TO NORTH MEAN DOWN TO MAGGIE VALLEY THIS PAST WEEKEND, AND ON 85, I JUST, SINCE I CUT THE RABBIT THROUGH SHEETS, THROUGH SHEETS, ABOUT EVERY EXIT THERE, THE SHEETS, SHEETS, SHEETS. SO I STOPPED AND GOT GAS SOMEWHERE. I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT WAS AT. AND I ASKED THE GUY, DO YOU HAVE A WAWA AROUND HERE? AND HE GOES, UH, NOT REALLY. HE SAID, I WAS WITH THE OWNER OF SHEETS AT A DALLAS FOOTBALL GAME, AND HE'S 90 YEARS OLD. HE STARTED HIS BUSINESS WHEN HE WAS 16, 17, 17 SOMETHING. IMAGINE THAT. AND NEVER HAD TO BRING IN ANYBODY ELSE TO HELP HIM STAY TOGETHER. THAT'S AN HONOR. SO, UH, IT WAS, UH, IT WAS GOOD TO DO THAT. THE OTHER DAY, THEY, THEY DONATED $2,500 TO A, A SPECIAL OLYMPICS, $2,500 TO THE LOCAL FOOD BANK. SO THAT WAS, UH, EXCITING TOO. MM-HMM . VACO CONFERENCE WAS GOOD. IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO GO. UH, AND ALL THE, I DON'T, I CAN'T TELL YOU WHERE ALL I WENT. I MEAN, I KNOW TRANSPORTATION IS ALWAYS ONE OF MY BEST THOUGH. BUT GOVERNMENT DAY TODAY, I HAD THREE SMART GIRLS. I THINK WE CAN HIRE THEM TO DO OUR NEXT, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? THE LAYOUT, THE WHOLE MAP OF THE COUNTY, WHAT YOU CAN DO IN THE COUNTY. THEY LAID OUT ONE TODAY, LESS THAN 10 MINUTES. THEY WERE, I MEAN, I WAS LIKE AMAZED. AND THE WAY THEY PUT THE BUDGET TOGETHER TODAY WAS JUST AMAZING. ALWAYS LIKE, UH, THE GOVERNMENT DAY. I WISH [01:55:01] ALL OF YOU ARE A GREAT, SAFE HOLIDAY. DON'T EAT TOO MUCH TURKEY. DAN IS, HE'S REALLY WILLING TO COOK. MS. BONNER, SOME DEER NUGGETS, SOME DEER NUGGETS WITH MASHED POTATOES, BUT I HOPE EVERYBODY HAS A GREAT, GREAT THANKSGIVING. AND WITH THAT, [11. CLOSED SESSION] WE HAVE A NEED FOR CLOSED SESSION. THE BOARD WILL CONVENE INTO A CLOSED SESSION UNDER 2.2 DASH 3 7 1 A ONE, PERSONNEL COUNTY ATTORNEY, EVALUATION APPOINTMENTS, DIMITY AIRPORT AND INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY, APPOMATTOX REGIONAL LIBRARY BOARD, BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS BOARD OF EQUALIZATION, DISTRICT 19 COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD, DIY COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY, JOHN TYLER ALCOHOL SAFETY ACTION PROGRAM, ASAP PLANNING COMMISSION, VIRGINIA'S GATEWAY, REGION 2.2 DASH 3 7 1 180 5. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT DISCUSSION CONCERNING PROSPECTIVE BUSINESS OR INDUSTRY, OR THE EXPANSION OF EXISTING BUSINESS OR INDUSTRY WHERE NO PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS UPDATE AND 2.2 DASH 3 7 1 180 3. DISCUSSION OR CONSIDERATION OF THE ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY FOR A PUBLIC PURPOSE OR OF THE DISPOSITION OF PUBLICLY HELD REAL PROPERTY WHERE DISCUSSION IN AN OPEN MEETING WOULD ADVERSELY AFFECT THE BARGAINING POSITION OR NEGOTIATING STRATEGY OF THE PUBLIC BODY. ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND DISPOSITION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO GO INTO CLOSE PLEASE? SO MOVED. SECOND ROLL CALL DR. MOORE. AYE. MR. LEE? AYE. MS. EBRA BONNER. AYE. MR. DOOLEY? AYE. MR. CHAVIS? AYE. ALL VOTING? AYE. THANKS EVERYONE FOR COMING. WE'LL BE BACK AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. SEVEN O'CLOCK WITH A SMILE ON OUR FACE. . THE GAS IS $2 AND 49 CENTS. UH, SHEETS? YEP, SHE'S GOOD. CALL THE MEETING ORDER. I NEED A MOTION TO COME OUTTA CLOSED. MM-HMM . SO MOVED. SECOND ROLL CALL DR. MOORE. AYE. MR. LEE? AYE. MS. IRAN BONNER AYE. MR. DOOLEY? AYE. MR. CHAVIS? AYE. ALL VOTING AYE. WHEREAS THIS BOARD CONVENED IN A CLOSED MEETING UNDER 2.2 DASH 3 7 1 1 A ONE. PERSONNEL COUNTY ATTORNEY EVALUATION APPOINTMENTS, DENWOODY AIRPORT AND INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY, APPT REGIONAL LIBRARY BOARD, BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS BOARD OF EQUALIZATION, DISTRICT 19 COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD, DENWOODY COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY. JOHN TYLER ALCOHOL SAFETY ACTION PROGRAM, ASAP PLANNING COMMISSION. VIRGINIA'S GATEWAY REGION 2.2 DASH 3 7 1 1 A FIVE. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT DISCUSSION CONCERNING PROSPECTIVE BUSINESS OR INDUSTRY OR THE EXPANSION OF EXISTING BUSINESS OR INDUSTRY WHERE NO PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS UPDATE AND 2.2 DASH 3 7 1 1 A THREE DISCUSSION OR CONSIDERATION OF THE ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY FOR A PUBLIC PURPOSE OR THE DISPOSITION OF PUBLICLY HELD REAL PROPERTY WHERE DISCUSSION IN AN OPEN MEETING WOULD ADVERSELY AFFECT THE BARGAINING POSITION OR NEGOTIATING STRATEGY OF THE PUBLIC BODY. ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. DISPOSITION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. AND WHEREAS NO MEMBER HAS MADE A STATEMENT THAT THERE WAS A DEPARTURE FROM THE LAWFUL PURPOSE OF SUCH CLOSED MEETING OR OF THE MATTERS IDENTIFIED IN THE MOTION DISCUSSED NOW BE IT CERTIFIED, THAT ONLY THOSE MATTERS AS WERE IDENTIFIED IN THE MOTION WERE HEARD, DISCUSSED, OR CONSIDERED IN THE MEETING. I NEED A MOTION TO ADOPT PLEASE. SO MOVED. SECOND ROLL CALL DR. MOORE. AYE. MR. LEE AYE. MS. EBRA BONNER AYE. MR. DOOLEY? AYE. MR. CHAVIS? AYE. ALL VOTING? AYE. OKAY, [12.A. Rezoning Request Case P-24-12] NOW WE'RE MOVING ON TO OUR PUBLIC HEARINGS. A REZO REQUEST CASE P DASH 24 DASH 12 MR. BASSETT. THANK YOU MR. CHAIR. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. BOARD MEMBERS, MR. MASSENGILL. GOOD MORNING. UH, MS. CHAIR. AS YOU INDICATED, THE, UH, REZONING REQUEST THAT WE HAVE BEFORE US THIS EVENING. THE APPLICANT IS RESIN COMPANIES INCORPORATED AND THEIR AGENT IS CARRIE RYAN HUTCHERSON. THE REZONING REQUEST, UH, IS FOR THE, UH, PORTION OF THE PROPERTY THAT'S HIGHLIGHTED IN GREEN THERE, IT'S A 2.75 ACRE PORTION OF THE PROPERTY. UM, THEY'RE REQUESTING TO REZONE THE PROPERTY FROM AGRICULTURAL GENERAL, A TWO TO BUSINESS GENERAL B TWO WITH PROFFERS. UM, HOPEFULLY YOU CAN SEE ON THE, UH, NEXT SLIDE AGAIN, THE, UH, PORT OVERALL PORTION OF THE PROPERTY IS 2.75 ACRES, AND THE PROPERTIES IN THE, UH, GENERAL AREA OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY INCLUDE A MIX OF VACANT AGRICULTURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL USES. UH, THE INSTITUTIONAL USE WOULD BE CORINTH COMMUNITY CHURCH ACROSS THE STREET AND, UM, DOWN, UM, CLAY [02:00:01] STREET ROAD IS THE DEWITTE COUNTY MAN TRASH DROP OFF SITE. AND THERE OF COURSE, ADDITIONAL RESIDENTIAL USES ON CLAY STREET ROAD, UH, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE DEWINE COUNTY MAN SITE THAT IS OWNED M1 INDUSTRIAL LIMITED WITH PROFFERS. AND THIS PORTION OF PROPERTY WAS REZONED, UH, BY THE COUNTY IN 2015, UH, FOR THE MAN SITE. AND OF COURSE, THE RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY, UH, IS ALL ZONED, UH, B ONE BUSINESS LIMITED. ALL THE REMAINING PROPERTY SURROUNDING THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS ZONED A TWO AGRICULTURAL GENERAL. UM, IF YOU LOOK AT THE PURPOSE STATEMENT IN THE ZONING ORDINANCE FOR B TWO ZONING CLASSIFICATION, IT'S INTENDED FOR AREAS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY THAT ARE APPROPRIATELY LOCATED FOR THE CONDUCT OF GENERAL BUSINESS TO WHICH THE PUBLIC REQUIRES DIRECT AND FREQUENT ACCESS. GIVEN THAT THE SUBJECT PROPERTY HAS FRONTAGE ON ROUTE FOUR 60, THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS WELL-SUITED FOR GENERAL BUSINESS USES REQUIRING FREQUENT VEHICLE ACCESS. ADDITIONALLY, IN THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN, THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS LOCATED WITHIN THE FORD RURAL VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT AREA, WHICH ALLOWS FOR LIMITED COMMERCIAL USES FOR THIS GENERAL AREA. THE B TWO ZONING DISTRICT DOES ALLOW FOR COMMERCIAL USES THAT ARE COMPATIBLE WITH SMALL SCALE COMMERCIAL RETAIL DEVELOPMENT. UH, WHEN WE TOOK THE REZONING CASE TO THE LAND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE FOR DISCUSSION OF, UM, ANY TYPES OF IMPACTS RELATED TO THE PROPOSED REZONING, UM, THERE REALLY WERE NO COMMENTS FROM PUBLIC SAFETY. OF COURSE, PUBLIC UTILITIES, IT'S, UH, THERE ARE NO PUBLIC UTILITIES IN THE AREA, SO IT'S GONNA HAVE TO BE ON WELL AND SEPTIC SYSTEM AND, UM, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO MEET ALL APPLICABLE FIRE CODES AND BUILDING CODES. UH, WHEN THE PROJECT IS DEVELOPED, UH, LOOKING AT THE TRANSPORTATION IMPACTS, UH, ROUTE 6 21, CLAY STREET ROAD HAS A FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF LOCAL, OF A LOCAL ROAD AND HAS A STATUTORY SPEED LIMIT OF 55 MILES PER HOUR AND HAS AN AVERAGE ANNUAL DAILY TRAFFIC COUNT OF 390 VEHICLES PER DAY. THE PROPOSED USE WILL REQUIRE ACCESS BY A COMMERCIAL ENTRANCE, AND THE COMMERCIAL ENTRANCES ARE REQUIRED TO MEET THE SPACING AND DESIGN STANDARDS, UM, THAT ARE REQUIRED BY VDOT. FULL ACCESS COMMERCIAL ENTRANCES MUST NOT BE IN THE FUNCTIONAL AREA OF AN INTERSECTION AND, UM, THE REQUIRED INTERSECTION SITE DISTANCE IS AVAILABLE AT THE PROPOSED ENTRANCE, UH, WILL ALSO BE REQUIRED. UH, THE APPLICANT, UH, THERE WAS DISCUSSION ABOUT THE PROPOSED ENTRANCE, UM, INTO THE PROPERTY AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING, AND THE APPLICANT HAS, UM, LOCATED THE ENTRANCE IS FAR DOWN CLAY STREET ROAD, AWAY FROM ROUTE FOUR 60, UH, TO ALLOW FOR ANY TYPE OF STACKING THAT, UH, POTENTIALLY COULD OCCUR WITH PEOPLE TURNING FROM ROUTE FOUR 60 HEADING DOWN CLAY STREET ROAD AND THEN TURNING LEFT INTO THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. UM, YOU COULD HAVE APPROXIMATELY 11 VEHICLES, UM, STACKING ON CLAY STREET ROAD, UH, IF NEEDED, UM, IF THAT WAS EVER, UH, NEEDED, UH, DEPENDING ON, UM, HOW MUCH TRAFFIC WAS GONNA BE OCCURRING. UH, WITH THE SUBJECT, UH, WITH THE PROPOSED, UH, RETAIL STORE, UH, TRIP GENERATION DATA WAS PROVIDED, UH, WITH THE LAND USE AMENDMENT APPLICATION AND THE, IT'S ANTICIPATED THAT YOU WOULD HAVE 52 VEHICLES PER HOUR WITH 50% OF THE VEHICLES ENTERING EQUALING 26 VEHICLES PER HOUR AND 50% OF THE VEHICLES LEAVING, UM, BEING 26 VEHICLES PER HOUR. UM, IF TURN LANES WERE WARRANTED, UH, FOR THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, UM, THEY WOULD OF COURSE BE REQUIRED BY VO UH, DURING THE SITE PLAN REVIEW PROCESS, UH, VDOT HAS REVIEWED ALL THE INFORMATION, UM, SUBMITTED BY THE APPLICANT IN VDO T'S, UH, ENTRANCE SPACING REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMERCIAL ENTRANCES ARE IN ACCORDANCE WITH VDO T'S ACCESS MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS AND THERE ARE EXISTING TURN LANES ON ROUTE FOUR 60, UM, GOING FROM WEST TO [02:05:01] EAST AND ALSO ON CLAY STREET ROAD ENTERING CLAY STREET ROAD, UM, GOING EAST TO WEST, THERE IS A, UM, MINOR TURN LANE WITH A TAPER THERE FOR, UM, PEOPLE TO UTILIZE AGAIN WHEN EXITING ROUTE FOUR 60, UH, ONTO CLAY STREET ROAD. UM, THE APPLICANT, UH, DID SUBMIT PROFFERS AS PART OF THEIR REZONING REQUEST. UH, ONE OF THE PROFFERS IS THEIR TYING THE, UH, DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPERTY, UH, TO THE SITE PLAN. UH, THAT IS UP ON THE SLIDE. UM, THEY ALSO LIMITED USES ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, UM, THAT ARE ALLOWED UNDER THE B TWO DISTRICT. THE USES WOULD BE LIMITED TO DRUG STORES, AUTO AND HOME APPLIANCE SERVICES, FUNERAL HOMES, DRY CLEANERS, MACHINERY, SALES AND SERVICE. UH, I'M, I APOLOGIZE. UM, THOSE, THESE USES WOULD NOT BE PERMITTED, UM, ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. UH, IF THE B TWO ZONING IS APPROVED, THOSE INCLUDE DRUG STORES, AUTO AND HOME APPLIANCE SERVICES, FUNERAL HOMES, DRY CLEANERS, MACHINERY, SALES AND SERVICES, PUBLIC BILLIARD, POLLERS, POOL ROOMS, BOWLING ALLEYS, DANCE HALLS, AND SIMILAR FORMS OF PUBLIC AMUSEMENT AMUSEMENT CENTERS, CABINET FURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERY SHOPS, VETERINARY HOSPITAL CLASSIC AND COLLECTIBLE CAR SALES AND RESTORATION FACILITY, NURSERY AND LANDSCAPING SHOW, HORSE FACILITY AND RIDING ACADEMY, KENNEL AND FLEA MARKET. UM, BUILT BUILDING MATERIALS ARE, UM, ALSO LIMITED ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. UH, SINCE THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING, THE APPLICANT DID UPDATE, UH, THE BUILDING ELEVATIONS, UM, THAT ARE TO BE MADE PART OF THE PROFFERS. UM, THEY HAVE TWO DIFFERENT ELEVATIONS THAT THEY SUBMITTED AS, UH, PART OF THE REZONING, PROFFERS. THIS IS THE FIRST ONE, AND THEN THE SECOND ELEVATION. UM, BOTH CONTAIN, UM, A BRICK FACADE ON ALL SIDES. UM, AND, UM, THE APPLICANT, UH, CAN DISCUSS THOSE FURTHER AS PART OF THEIR PRESENTATION. UM, LIGHTING IS ALSO HANDLED IN THE PROFFERS WHERE THE LIGHTING INSTALLED ON THE PROPERTY SHALL BE DIRECTED DOWNWARD AND INWARD TO THE PROPERTY TO AVOID CASTING LIGHT ON ADJACENT PROPERTIES OR INTO THE NIGHT SKY. UM, PLANNING STAFF IS RECOMMENDING, UH, APPROVAL OF THE, UH, SUBJECT REZONING AND THAT THE REQUESTED ZONING CLASSIFICATION B TWO BUSINESS GENERAL, UM, WITH PROFFERS IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE SURROUNDING ZONING PATTERN AND SURROUNDING LAND USES AND THE PROPOSED USE CONFORMS, UH, WITH WHAT'S RECOMMENDED IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, UH, FOR THIS, UH, FORWARD AREA, UM, AS SET FORTH, AGAIN IN THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN. UH, AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING, UM, THE PLANNING COMMISSION, UH, VOTED BY A VOTE OF FIVE TO ONE, UH, RECOMMENDING DISAPPROVAL, UH, TO THE, UH, TO THE BOARD, UH, FOR THE SUBJECT REZONING. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OF STAFF AT THIS TIME? ANY QUESTIONS? NO. OKAY. THANK YOU. MR. CHAIR. WOULD THE APPLICANT LIKE TO SPEAK? I, GOOD EVENING, MR. CHAIR. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, UH, WE HAVE A, HERE IT IS PRESENTATION. UH, I'M KERRY HUTCHERSON HERE ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANT RIGHTS AND COMPANIES INC. AND, UH, I'D LIKE TO THANK THE STAFF OR RECOMMENDATION FOR APPROVAL HERE. UH, A LOT OF WHAT I WOULD'VE COVERED WAS COVERED BY MR. BASSETT'S PRESENTATION, SO I WILL NOT BELABOR TOO MUCH HERE. UM, GO BACK TO THE SITE HERE. UH, JUST TO REITERATE, WE'RE LOOKING AT JUST A 2.75 ACRE PORTION OF THE EXISTING TAX MAP PARCEL. SO THIS WILL BE SURVEYED OUT, UM, BEFORE DEVELOPMENT. AND, UH, THE, THE DOLLAR GENERAL STORY IS OUR PROPOSED USE. UH, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT REPRESENTS A GREAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COUNTY. IT REPRESENTS INCREASED TAX REVENUES, JOBS, [02:10:01] UH, THIS IS GONNA BE A DG MARKET STORE, AND SO IT'S GOING TO PROVIDE MORE FRESH FOODS AS AN OPTION FOR CUSTOMERS, UH, WHICH IS AN EXCITING, YOU KNOW, NEW PART OF THE DOLLAR GENERAL PROGRAM. UM, WE HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN THAT SUPPORTS THIS IN THE FOUR RURAL VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT AREA. COMMERCIAL USES ARE RECOMMENDED. UM, MR. BASSETT HAS POINTED THAT OUT BOTH IN HIS LETTER TO THE BOARD AS WELL AS IN HIS PRESENTATION. UH, ALSO JUST WANNA EMPHASIZE IN TERMS OF TRAFFIC SAFETY. UH, WE'RE FORTUNATE IN THAT THE SITE THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET UNDER CONTRACT HERE IS BENEFITED BY THESE TURN LANES COMING OFF OF FOUR 60. SO IF YOU'RE TRAVELING FROM THE WEST EASTBOUND AND WANT TO TURN LEFT ONTO CLAY STREET ROAD, YOU'VE GOT A DEDICATED TURN LANE FOR THAT. AND IF YOU'RE COMING EASTBOUND AND WANT TO TURN ONTO CLAY STREET ROAD, YOU HAVE A DEDICATED TURN LANE FOR THAT. AND THERE'S A, A STACKING, UH, VOLUME THAT WE'VE GOT FOR OUR ENTRANCE ON CLAY STREET ROAD THAT EXCEEDS THE VDOT MINIMUM STANDARDS. SO, UH, DOLLAR DOLLAR GENERAL STORES ARE NOT LIKE CHICK-FIL-A'S, WHERE YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, TONS AND TONS OF CARS GOING AROUND THE BLOCK WAITING FOR THE DRIVE THROUGH. IT'S RARE TO HAVE THAT MANY VEHICLES, UM, REALLY, UH, STACKING UP, TRYING TO GET INTO THE, THE PARKING LOT, BUT WE'VE GOT PLENTY OF ROOM IF THAT EVER HAPPENS. UH, GOING BACK TO THE PROFFER CONDITIONS, I THINK MR. BASSETT COVERED THIS PRETTY WELL. I I DID WANNA JUST REEMPHASIZE WHAT HE SAID. THE PROFFER CONDITIONS REGARDING USES ARE PROHIBITED USES. SO THERE'S SOME, SOME USES THAT WOULD BE PERMITTED NORMALLY UNDER THE B TWO DISTRICT. WE'RE PROHIBITING THOSE AND JUST NARROWING DOWN THE UNIVERSE OF PERMITTED USES, UH, CONSIDERABLY FROM WHAT'S PERMITTED NORMALLY. AND THEN THE, THE MAJOR ISSUE REALLY AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING WAS WHAT TYPE OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND BUILDING MATERIALS WERE GONNA BE OFFERED ON THIS STORE. WE WERE CHALLENGED TO COME BACK TO DOLLAR GENERAL AND ASK THEM TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT WOULD CREATE A REALLY ASPIRATIONAL TYPE OF, UH, OF PRECEDENT IN THE FORD RURAL VILLAGE AREA FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. SOMETHING THAT COULD BE LOOKED AT AS, YOU KNOW, A REALLY, UH, BOLD MARK FOR THE COMMUNITY. AND, UM, WE ALSO GOT SOME FEEDBACK FROM, UH, FROM FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY AT THE LAST MEETING THAT WERE SUPPORTIVE OF THE STORE, BUT THEY ALSO SAID, SURE, WE WOULD LOVE IT IF THERE WERE, THERE WAS MORE BRICK INVOLVED AND, YOU KNOW, MAKE THE STORE LOOK AS GOOD AS YOU CAN. WE LISTENED TO ALL THOSE COMMENTS AND HAVE COME BACK WITH PROFFER CONDITIONS THAT HAVE ENHANCED THE ARCHITECTURE. UH, I THINK THAT'S REALLY ALL I HAD TO COVER FOR THE MOMENT. I'D PREFER TO JUST SAVE TIME FOR QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVE ANY OR IF THERE'S ANYTHING TO COVER AFTER CITIZEN'S COMMENT. AND I DO HAVE FOLKS HERE FROM RETS AND COMPANIES, IN CASE YOU NEED TO TALK TO ANYBODY THERE AS WELL AS SUMMIT ENGINEERING. ANY QUESTIONS? SOMEBODY? I'M GONNA WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE CITIZENS. OKAY. THANK YOU. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU. MM-HMM . OKAY, WE'RE OPEN TO PUBLIC HEARING. DO WE HAVE ANYONE SIGNED UP? YES, MR. CHAIRMAN, WE HAVE EDITH DALTON. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. VERNON AND I BUILT OUR HOME IN FORD IN 1971. THERE WAS NUMEROUS CONVENIENCE STORES IN OUR AREA AT THAT TIME. NOW THEY'RE ALL CLOSED. VERNON AND I STARTED GETTING LETTERS FROM THE ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION OFFICE REGARDING REZONING A PIECE OF PROPERTY SO THAT A DOLLAR GENERAL STORE COULD BE BUILT AT THE INTERSECTION OF CLAY STREET AND COX ROAD. WE OWNED PROPERTY THAT IS CLOSE TO THIS LOCATION. WE ATTENDED THE FIRST MEETING THAT WAS HELD ON SEPTEMBER THE 11TH, AND THE SECOND MEETING ON OCTOBER THE 19TH, EXCUSE, EXCUSE ME, OCTOBER THE NINTH. ALL OF YOU KNOW, DOLLAR GENERAL STORES ARE LIKE A MINI WALMART. THEY CARRY A HUGE VARIETY OF ITEMS TO INCLUDE FOOD, MEDICINE AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, ET CETERA. AFTER THE OCTOBER 9TH MEETING, THAT'S WHEN I DECIDED TO GET A PETITION TOGETHER WITH SIGNATURES OF RESIDENTS IN THE FORD CHURCH ROAD, WILSON AREA WHO SUPPORTED A DOLLAR GENERAL STORE OR BEING BUILT IN THE FORD AREA. I WAS AMAZED AS TO THE SUPPORT THAT I RECEIVED. I HAD NUMEROUS RESIDENTS JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON AND ASSISTED ME WITH THIS ENDEAVOR. IT WAS OVERWHELMING [02:15:01] FOR ME TO HEAR THE GRATITUDE AND THE THANKS FROM THE RESIDENTS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING. WE HAVE NOTHING IN OUR AREA. THE PEOPLE'S MESSAGE WAS LOUD AND CLEAR. WE HAVE NO CONVENIENCES IN FORWARD CHURCH ROAD AND THE WILSON AREA. THEY FEEL AS THOUGH THEY HAVE BEEN OVERLOOKED WHEN THEY SEE OTHER DEVELOPMENT IN THE COUNTY. I HAVE PROVIDED CASEY DOTY DULY WITH HIS SIGNATURES OF 309 RESIDENTS WHO SUPPORT HAVING A DOLLAR GENERAL MARKET STORE BUILT IN OUR AREA. ALSO, I HAVE PROVIDED HIM WITH A LETTER FROM THE CONGREGATION OF CURRENT COMMUNITY CHURCH STATING THEY HAVE NO OBJECTION TO HAVING THE STORE BEING BUILT ACROSS FROM THEIR CHURCH. ALL OF THESE 309 INDIVIDUALS SAID THE SAME THING. WE WANT SOME CONVENIENCES, WE HAVE NOTHING AND WE DESERVE BETTER. THERE IS NOTHING FROM SUTHERLAND UP TO ROUTE 1 53. REMEMBER, IF YOU SHOP AT THE DOLLAR STORE AT ROUTE 1 53, YOU'RE GIVING YOUR REVENUE TO ANOTHER COUNTY. WE NEED THIS REVENUE IN DENWITTY COUNTY TO SUPPORT OUR PROGRAMS. RESIDENTS LIKE ME SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DRIVE APPROXIMATELY 25 MILES ROUND TRIP OR OR MORE JUST TO GET A BIRTHDAY CARD THAT COST A DOLLAR. HOW CONVENIENT. TAKE YOUR TRASH TO THE FORD MAN TRASH SITE AND THEN GO TO THE DOLLAR GENERAL STORE ALL IN ONE TRIP. WITHIN A FEW HUNDRED FEET, THERE IS NO PRICE TAG THAT YOU CAN PUT ON CONVENIENCE AND TIME. I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT YOU MEMBERS OF THIS BOARD APPROVE THE REASON ONLY REQUEST. AND I THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO ME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MA'AM. JAMES EDMONDS. OKAY, GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY. GOOD EVENING. I LIVE ON BALTIMORE ROAD, THE SAME AREA AS EITA DOES. UH, MOST OF THE PEOPLE I SPOKE TO, I WAS ONE OF THE SIGNATURES. I ACTUALLY CALLED AND SPOKE TO YOU. UH, I I'M ALL FOR IT, BUT I DO HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT STAFFING ISSUES. YOU GO TO THAT ONE IN SUTHERLAND, YOU CAN'T EVEN GET IN THE DOOR. OKAY? THERE'S NOBODY WAITING ON YOU. THAT'S THE BIGGEST ISSUE I HEAR FROM EVERYBODY. I'VE SPOKE TO THE SELF CHECKOUTS. THEY PUT ONE PERSON MANUALLY REGISTER THREE SELF CHECKOUTS AND THEY CLOSE 'EM ALL. OKAY? I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THE STORE BEING THERE, BUT IF THEY'RE GONNA DO IT, THEY SHOULD STAFF IT. THAT'S THE MAIN REASON MOST OF US GO TO THE 1 0 1 53. THAT'S, SO IF YOU WANT THE REVENUE, I'M JUST ASKING FOR IT TO BE STAFFED AND NO SELF CHECKOUTS. THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT. THAT'S ALL I GOT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU. THERESA CROWDER. HELLO. HELLO. HELLO. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING. UM, IT SEEMS TO ME THE FORD AREA AND I WAS RAISED IN FORD AND LIKE EDITH SAID, WHEN I WAS A CHILD, WE HAD FIVE STORES WITHIN A MILE OF EACH OTHER. AND ONE OF THOSE STORES YOU COULD GET FRESH MEAT. MM-HMM . SO I KNOW I'M OLDER THAN A LOT OF Y'ALL, BUT ANYWAY, I REMEMBER THAT. UM, IT SEEMS TO ME THE AREA HAS BEEN DISCRIMINATED AGAINST AGAIN, AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY I SAY THAT. STRIKE ONE IS, WE HAVE NO RECREATION FACILITY. YOU HAVE TO DRIVE TO MCKINNEY OR DRIVE TO PETERSBURG. WE HAD NORTH SIDE SCHOOL THAT WAS DESTROYED AND I KNOW IT WOULD'VE COST AN ARM AND A LEG TO FIX IT, BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE. STRIKE TWO. WE HAVE NO ACCESS TO THE HIGH SPEED INTERNET THAT WE HAVE PROMISED HOW MANY TIMES, KEVIN? SEVERAL. AND I KNOW THAT'S A DIFFICULT THING, BUT WE HAVE BEEN PROMISED. SO STRIKE THREE IS NO DOLLAR JOURNAL. WE HAVE TO TRAVEL AGAIN. SO I FEEL LIKE WE'RE BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE WE CHOOSE TO LIVE THE WAY WE DO. UH, MY LAST STATEMENT, OR ACTUALLY IT'S A QUESTION AND Y'ALL MIGHT NOT BE THE ONES TO ANSWER THIS. WHY IS THIS STORE REQUIRED TO BE BRICK? WHEN FROM COMA LAKE ROAD TO WELLS ROAD? THERE ARE SIX BRICK HOMES ON FOUR 60. MY MOTHER'S IS ONE OF THEM. THEY'RE AT LEAST 40 TO 45 YEARS OLD. SO WHY TRY TO GET DOLLAR GENERAL TO GO ELSEWHERE OR EXTRA EXPENSE TO MAKE THIS BRICK WHEN THE FOUR EXISTING DOLLAR GENERALS IN THE COUNTY ARE NOT? SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND, ARE YOU TRYING TO JUST NOT HAVE ANYTHING IN FORD? I MEAN, IT REALLY IS A LOT OF INCONVENIENCE AND I KNOW PEOPLE, THE ONES THAT DIDN'T WANNA SIGN, SAY, WELL, WE COME HOME FROM WORK AND WE RIDE BY ONE. WELL, IF YOU LIVE LONG ENOUGH AND YOU'RE ABLE TO RETIRE, YOU'RE NOT GONNA RIDE BY ONE EVERY DAY. SO I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY CONSIDERATION, PUT YOUR [02:20:01] SELF IN OUR SHOES OF HOW WE LIVE IN THE MIDDLE OF NO WAY, BECAUSE WE CHOOSE TO. BUT I THINK WE DESERVE A LITTLE, A LITTLE HELP WITH CONVENIENCES AND WE CAN HAVE THE TRASH THERE, WHICH WE ALL NEED, BUT NOT A STORE. AND THAT DOESN'T SEEM REAL FAIR. . OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MR. CHAIRMAN. I HAVE NO ONE ELSE SIGNED UP FOR THIS PUBLIC HEARING. OKAY. CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. OKAY. BOARD, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS JUST OF THE APPLICANT? UH, GOOD EVENING, SIR. GOOD EVENING. UM, MY QUESTION IS ABOUT THE LAYOUT OF THE BUILDING ON THE PROPERTY. OKAY. UM, WE HAVE ONE THAT WAS BUILT IN MY DISTRICT A YEAR AGO THAT THE FRONT OF IT FACES FOUR 60 MM-HMM . WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE THAT WAS BUILT ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO THAT'S IN THE NORTHERN PART OF DENWOODY COUNTY THAT IS VERY SIMILAR TO THIS LOT WHERE THE ENTRANCE IS IS OFF THE ROAD ON HOFHEIMER WAY, BUT THE ENTRANCE IS SQUARE CORNERED TO NUMBER ONE HIGHWAY. UM, MY ONLY CONCERN IS WE'RE GONNA HAVE A A COMPLETELY BRICK WALL THAT FACES FOUR 60 AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE CAN BE IN A CON IF THERE'S A CONVERSATION ABOUT IT BEING A CORNER. WHICH ONE AT, AT 1 53, WHICH IS IN NOTTAWAY COUNTY IS A SIMILAR SITUATION. IT'S SQUARED. SO YOU SEE THE ENTRANCE FROM FOUR 60, NOT A BRICK WALL FACING FOUR 60. SO IT'S JUST A CONVERSATION IS WHAT I'M GETTING AT. YES SIR. WELL, AND AND WE'RE HAPPY TO CONTINUE TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION, ESPECIALLY DURING SITE PLAN IF YOU KNOW THERE'S A WAY TO DO IT. WE STARTED LOOKING AT THE POSSIBILITY OF SHIFTING THE ORIENTATION OF THIS STORE. WE LOOKED AT A, AT A CORNER ENTRANCE TYPE, UM, OPTION AS WELL. UH, WE ARE STILL AT THE STAGE WHERE IT'S LOOKING LIKE SOME PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THIS SITE MIGHT MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO TURN IT OR DO THAT CORNER ENTRANCE. BUT, YOU KNOW, IF, IF THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN EXPLORE DURING SITE PLAN REVIEW, WE'RE HAPPY TO LOOK AT IT. UM, IT'S ALSO ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE YOU KIND OF HAVE TO GET INTO MORE OF THE DUE DILIGENCE LATER OF WORKING THROUGH, UM, THE APPROVAL PROCESS WITH THE COUNTY FOR SITE PLAN BEFORE YOU CAN DETERMINE WHETHER EVERYTHING WILL FIT. BUT THANK YOU FOR THE COMMENT. WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK AT THAT. OKAY. THANK YOU. UM, AND I KNOW ONE OF THE QUESTIONS, UM, WAS STAFFING, AND I'M SURE YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH STAFFING, BUT I KNOW ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH THE, UH, SUTHERLAND STOLE SEEMS TO BE A STAFFING ISSUE. IS THAT SOMETHING YOU CAN ADDRESS ON? IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN ADDRESS BY PASSING IT ALONG TO DOLLAR GENERAL AND EMPHASIZING TO THEM THAT THAT IS A COMMENT THAT WE'VE HEARD A FEW TIMES AND THAT THE STORE ON ROUTE 1 53 IS, HAS BEEN CITED AS A BETTER EXAMPLE, UH, OF BEING STAFFED BETTER. AND I'M HOPING ALSO THAT THE FACT THAT THIS IS A DG MARKET WILL COME ALONG WITH THAT A A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT APPROACH TO STAFFING. UH, BUT WE CAN PASS THAT ALONG TO THEM. WE CAN EMPHASIZE TO THEM THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE KEEP HEARING FROM FOLKS AND IT'S OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED. THANK YOU. MY CLIENT BUILDS THE STORES FOR THEM, NOT, DOESN'T RUN THEM, SO. RIGHT. UM, UM, YEAH, AND I JUST WANNA UM, KIND OF PIGGYBACK ON THAT TOO. AND I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU JUST BUILD THEM, BUT, UM, THE THING ABOUT, IT'S, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT STAFFING, UM, IT IS A PROBLEM AND I TALKED TO SOME PEOPLE. THEY SAID THE MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT TEAM, THEY MAKE THE MONEY AND THE INDIVIDUALS WORKING DON'T REALLY, UM, GET A FAIR SHAKE. SO YOU CAN'T KEEP THEM INVOLVED BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT MAKING ENOUGH MONEY. AND I KNOW WE HAVE A STORE IN NORTHERN END AND I THINK, UM, THE MANAGEMENT TEAM HAS TURNED OVER SEVERAL TIMES MM-HMM . AND THEY DON'T STAY LONG AND IT'S GOOD TO KEEP GOOD PEOPLE AND THEN THINGS IN THE, UM, IN THE AISLE BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE PEOPLE TO, UM, OPEN THE BOXES AND PUT THINGS ON THE SHELVES AND THAT THING. UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE, THEY LIKE SHOPPING AT DOLL GENERAL. I MEAN, YOU CAN BUILD THEM, BUT IF YOU, YOU DON'T HAVE THE STAFF TO, UM, BE IN, BE THERE TO SERVE THE PEOPLE, IT'S NOT GONNA WORK. AND, UM, AND I'M HOPING THAT EVEN DOWN IN THAT AREA, YOU WOULD, THEY [02:25:01] WOULD LOOK AT PEOPLE WORKING, LIVING IN THE AREA TO HIRE THEM TO GIVE THEM JOBS AND MAKE SURE THE WAGES ARE AT AT LEAST, UM, PRETTY, YOU KNOW, PRETTY DECENT TO KEEP PEOPLE BECAUSE THE TURNOVER IS JUST, IT'S JUST BAD. BUT, UH, AS I SAID ON THE FLIP SIDE, PEOPLE REALLY ENJOY WOR UM, SHOPPING AT DOLLAR GENERAL BECAUSE THEY CAN GET THINGS THAT THEY NEED. SO, UM, THAT, THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. IF YOU HAVE THAT, I THINK, UM, EVERYTHING WILL WORK OUT PRETTY WELL THERE. WELL, AGAIN, WE CAN CERTAINLY PASS THAT ALONG AND EMPHASIZE IT. AND IT HAS TO BE EMPHASIZED, YOU KNOW, THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S COME UP A FEW TIMES IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD MAKE IT EASIER FOR US TO JUST SAY IT SHOULD BE A PRIORITY. YES. YES. YES MA'AM. I HAVE ONE QUESTION. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF, OF LIMITING THE USE OF THE PROPERTY AS SPECIFICALLY AS YOU HAVE? SOME OF THAT IS REALLY GENERATED FROM WHAT DOLLAR GENERAL HAS DETERMINED OUR NOT COMPATIBLE USES WITH THEIR STORES. THEY WOULD LIKE TO PREVENT THERE BEING USES THAT THEY FEEL LIKE, UM, CREATE FRICTION OR NOT AS GOOD NEIGHBORS IN TERMS OF, UH, THE USES BEING TOO DIFFERENT. AND SO THAT, THAT LIST COMES FROM WHAT DOLLAR GENERAL PREFERS FOR US TO RESTRICT. IS THIS WHEN THEIR STORE CLOSES, THEY DON'T WANT THE STORE BEING REPURPOSED FOR THIS PROCESS? OR, OR WHAT IS, IF IT'S ALWAYS GONNA BE A DOLLAR GENERAL AND THEY'RE NOT WORRIED ABOUT CLOSING, WHY, WHY LIMIT THE USE OF THE PROPERTY? THEY PUT THOSE RESTRICTIONS ON THE, SO THIS IS GONNA BE A PORTION OF A PROPERTY OKAY. PURCHASED FROM THE SELLER. SO THOSE RESTRICTIONS ARE GONNA GO AGAINST THE SELLER'S PROPERTY AS WELL. SO THIS IS MORE THAN JUST THE DOLLAR GENERAL SITE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THEN? YES, SIR. OKAY. AND NOW THE ZONING CONDITIONS ARE JUST THE DOLLAR GENERAL SITE, BUT WE ALWAYS HAVE A CONTRACTUAL PROVISION WITH OUR SELLERS THAT REQUIRES THESE RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS TO BE PUT IN PLACE ON ANY PORTION OF PROPERTY THE SELLER RETAINS. SO BOTH PROPERTIES WOULD BE SUBJECT TO THOSE PROHIBITED USE RESTRICTIONS. AND I THINK LARGELY THE REASON WE DO THAT IS THAT IT'S A LOT EASIER TO HAVE A SELLER AGREE TO ACCEPT RESTRICTIONS ON, UH, THE PROPERTY THE SELLER WILL RETAIN IF WE SAY WE'LL TAKE IT ON OUR PROPERTY TOO. OKAY. THANK YOU. YES, SIR. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANKS ANYMORE. OKAY. I I'VE GOT A KIND OF A STATEMENT, UM, AND SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WERE ANSWERED. UM, THE FIRST ONE, HOW MANY OF Y'ALL FROM FORD ACTUALLY REALIZED Y'ALL HAD A FORD RULED VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT AREA? I BET THAT WAS USED TO YOU. UM, SECOND, MS. DALTON, I THINK YOU HAVE, UM, NOW BECOME FORWARD'S, UH, REPRESENTATIVE AS AN ADVISOR TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. UM, ABSOLUTELY. NOW ON, SO, UM, IF I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT IF I AGE, I'M NOT, NOT IN MY WILDEST DREAM THAT I WOULD BE IN THIS DOING WHAT I'M DOING NOW. WELL, WE, WE APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE DOING NOW. THAT'S RIGHT. GLAD THAT YOU'RE, UH, PART OF IT. AND THE THIRD THING, WHEN THEY BUILT THE, UH, DOLLAR GENERAL AT SUTHERLAND, IT WAS IN THE WRONG PLACE AND IT LOOKED WRONG. AND SO, UM, WE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT SAFETY, SO WE MOVED IT EAST AND THEN, UM, WE HAD A, A PROVISION, UM, MADE 'EM GO BACK, LOOK AT THE BUILDING, CHANGED IT FROM JUST A REGULAR DOLLAR STORE TO THE DOLLAR MARKET OR, AND I'M PROBABLY SAYING THAT WRONG, UM, TO, TO WHAT IT IS AT SUTHERLAND NOW. AND I, I THINK THAT'S WHAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION DID WITH THE BRICK, UM, PART OF IT. UH, AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION, THAT WAS A PROCESS THAT THEY WENT THROUGH, UM, TO HELP US, UM, WITH MAKING A DECISION. UM, YOU KNOW, I AGREE WITH YOU. UM, I THINK, UM, ANY BUSINESSES THAT COME TO THIS COUNTY, UM, I THINK IS A GOOD THING. BUT I DO THINK THAT WE HAVE A STANDARD THAT WE NEED TO, TO SHOOT FOR NOW. AND THEN WOODY, UH, I THINK THE NEW SHEETS, UM, MET THAT STANDARD WITH, WITH WHAT THEY DID AT THAT SITE AND IT COST THEM A LOT OF MONEY TO DO WHAT THEY DID AT THAT SITE. UM, SO I APPRECIATE WHAT DOLLAR GENERAL HAS DONE COMING BACK. UM, AND ALL WE WANT IS A GOOD PRODUCT. UM, AND I THINK THE CITIZENS AFFORD WHEN THEY SHOP THAT WANT A GOOD PRODUCT WHEN THEY GET THAT. SO [02:30:01] I'M IN FAVOR OF IT. UM, I I HOPE, UM, YOU KNOW, ONCE THEY BUILD IT, UM, STAFF AND IT IS HOPEFULLY THEY TAKE THAT, UH, TO HEART AND MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE WE CAN MAYBE COMMUNICATE WITH, WITH UH, DOLLAR CORPORATE TO UH, TO DO A BETTER JOB. SO ANYONE ELSE? SO AS I'M TAKING THAT AS A, A MOTION HE'S LOOKING. THERE YOU GO. ALRIGHT, I'LL MAKE THE MOTION IT RESOLVED. THAT IN ORDER TO CON ASSURE A COMPLIANCE WITH VIRGINIA CODE 15.22286 A SEVEN, IT IS STATED THAT THE PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR THIS RESOLUTION IS TO INITIATE INTO FULFILLMENT, THE REQUIREMENTS OF PUBLIC NECESSITY, CONVENIENCE, GENERAL WELFARE, AND GOOD ZONING PRACTICE. I MOVE THAT P 24 12 AS PRESENTED, BE APPROVED WITH PROFITS BY THE BOARD SUPERVISORS. I SECOND, SECOND ROLL CALL DR. MOORE. AYE. MR. LEE? AYE. MS. EBRA BONNER AYE. MR. DOOLEY? AYE. MR. CHAVIS? AYE. ALL VOTING? AYE. CONGRATULATIONS. YOU HAVE YOUR DOLLAR STORE. HOW ABOUT THAT? THANK YOU. OKAY, MOVING [12.B. Rezoning Request, P-24-15] ON TO REZONING REQUEST P DASH 24 DASH 15. IS THAT MS. HALEY GOING? YEP. YEAH. THANK YOU MR. CHAIR. UM, TO REITERATE, THIS IS CASE NUMBER P DASH 24 DASH 15. UM, THE APPLICANT IS THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF DIM WOODY COUNTY, VIRGINIA. UM, IS REZONING PROPERTY CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 7.95 ACRES FROM A TWO AGRICULTURAL GENERAL TO B TWO BUSINESS GENERAL TO CORRECT THE ZONING FOR THIS PORTION, UM, OF THE PROPERTY ON THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP. UH, THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF AIRPORT STREET, ROUTE FOUR 60, APPROXIMATELY 0.17 MILES EAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF ROUTE FOUR 60 AND ROUTE 2 26. UM, THE B TWO BUSINESS GENERAL ZONING CLASSIFICATION ALLOWS FOR THE CONDUCT OF GENERAL BUSINESS. UH, THIS PROPERTY IS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY A VARIETY OF BUSINESSES LOCATED AT 2 3 1 8 8 AND 2 3 1 9 4 AIRPORT STREET. UM, AND IT'S FURTHER DEFINED AS TAX MAP PARCELS NUMBER 20 DASH 78 C 20 DASH 78, F 78 K, 78 J, AND 78 I, UM, AS INDICATED WITHIN THE UH, DENWOODY COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE MAP, THIS PROPERTY IS LOCATED WITHIN A GENERAL COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT AREA. UM, THESE ARE AREAS THAT SUPPORT COMMERCIAL USES AND SUPPORT THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE ORIGINAL ZONING MAP FOR THE COUNTY. THIS PROPERTY IN THE AREA AROUND IT WAS INDICATED AS BEING ZONED A TWO. UM, BUT IN 19 78, 19 88 AND 1989 AS SHOWN ON THIS MAP ON THE SCREEN, UM, THE AREAS IMMEDIATELY TO THE EAST AND WEST OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, WHICH IS SHOWN IN BRIGHT GREEN HERE, UM, WERE PARCELED OFF AND REZONED TO B TWO, BUT THE SUBJECT PARCELS WERE NEVER REZONED, UM, AND RETAIN AN A TWO ZONING CLASSIFICATION. HOWEVER, FOLLOWING THE 1980S CASES, THE ENTIRE AREA WAS LABELED AS B TWO, UM, ON ZONING MAPS, PRESUMABLY DUE TO SOME TYPE OF INTERPRETIVE ERROR. UM, AND SINCE THE TIME OF THIS ERROR, THREE OF THE PARCELS INVOLVED IN THIS REZONING HAVE DEVELOPED COMMERCIAL USES INCLUDING A HAIR SALON AND AN ELECTRICAL COMPANY AND A PARKING LOT FOR THE ELECTRICAL COMPANY. MORE RECENTLY, AN APPLICATION FOR A BUILDING PERMIT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO DEVELOP MORE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY ON THIS PROPERTY. UM, BUT IN ORDER FOR THE OTHER VACANT PARCELS TO BE DEVELOPED, THE ZONING FOR THIS REMAINING PIECE OF A TWO PROPERTY HERE, UM, NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED TO B TWO BUSINESS GENERAL. UH, THE PROPERTIES IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA SURROUNDING THE PARCEL INCLUDE MIXED LAND USES INCLUDING OPEN SPACE AND COMMERCIAL USES. THE OPEN SPACE TO THE SOUTH AND NORTH OF THE PROPERTY IS ZONED TO A TWO AGRICULTURAL GENERAL AND THE PROPERTY TO THE EAST AND WEST IS ZONED B TWO BUSINESS GENERAL. UM, [02:35:03] THE IMPACTS ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, UM, DUE TO THIS REZONING WILL BE, ARE MINIMAL. THE PRO PROPOSED REZONING TO B TWO BUSINESS GENERAL WILL ACCOMMODATE, UH, THE EXISTING COMMERCIAL USES ON THESE PARCELS THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER. UM, PUBLIC UTILITIES ARE AVAILABLE TO THESE PROPERTIES AND THE POTENTIAL IMPACT ON PUBLIC SAFETY WILL BE MINIMAL. THE IMPACTS ON THE EXISTING TRANSPORTATION NETWORK ARE MINIMAL. THE SUBJECT PROPERTY HAS EXISTING ACCESS TO AND FRONTAGE ON ROUTE FOUR 60. UH, THE ROAD SYSTEM IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA IS ADEQUATE TO HANDLE THE TRAFFIC GENERATED BY THE COMMERCIAL USES THAT ALREADY EXIST HERE. UM, AND ANY FUTURE DEVELOPMENT WILL REQUIRE REVIEW OF THE IMPACTS OF COURSE ON THE EXISTING TRANSPORTATION NETWORK. SO FOR THESE REASONS, STAFF IS RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF THE REQUEST TO REZONE THE SUBJECT PROPERTY BASED ON THE FOLLOWING REASONS. THE ZONING CLASSIFICATION REQUESTED B TWO IS CONSISTENT WITH THE SURROUNDING ZONING PATTERN AND IS APPROPRIATE ZONING CLASSIFICATION GIVEN THE, UH, CURRENT APPROVED COMMERCIAL USES THAT ARE ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. THE EXISTING COMMERCIAL USES DO NOT HAVE AN ADVERSE IMPACT ON THE SURROUNDING PROPERTIES. AND THE REQUEST REQUESTED ZONING CLASSIFICATION WITH THE APPROVED COMMERCIAL USES CONFORM WITH THE UNDERLYING USES OUTLINED IN THE NORTHERN DI WOODY DEVELOPMENT AREA IN THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN FOR THIS GENERAL AREA. THANK YOU. DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? MM-HMM. NO, SIR. COOL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MA'AM. OKAY. WE WILL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. MR. CHAIRMAN, I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED UP FOR THIS PUBLIC HEARING. OKAY. WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. OKAY. BOARD HEARING. WHAT IS YOUR PLEASURE SINCE WE INITIATED I GOTCHA. I KNOW YOU'RE LOCKED OUT. I'LL MAKE THE MOTION. OKAY. BE RESOLVED IN AN ORDER TO ASSURE COMPLIANCE WITH VIRGINIA CODE SECTION 15.2286 A SEVEN. IT IS STATED THE PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR WHICH THIS RESOLUTION IS INITIATED IS TO FULFILL THE REQUIREMENTS OF PUBLIC NECESSITY, CONVENIENCE, GENERAL WELFARE, AND GOOD ZONING PRACTICES. I MOVE THAT REZONING OF P DASH 24 DASH 10 AS PRESENTED VIA APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. SECOND ROLL CALL DR. MOORE. AYE. MR. LEE? AYE. MS. EBRA BONNER AYE. MR. DOOLEY? AYE. MR. CHAVIS? AYE. ALL VOTING? AYE. OKAY. [12.C. Amendments To Dinwiddie County Code: Chapter 19, Article III. Real Estate Exemption For The Elderly And Disabled Persons; And Chapter 19, Article XIII. Personal Property Tax Exemptions For The Elderly And Disabled Persons.] GOING TO SEE AMENDMENTS TO DENWOODY COUNTY CODE CHAPTER 19. ARTICLE THREE, REAL ESTATE EXEMPTION FOR THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED PERSONS. AND CHAPTER 19 ARTICLE, PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION FOR THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED PERSONS. MS. LORI STEVENS. MR. CHAIRMAN, WHILE MS. STEVENS IS GETTING HER PAPERS READY, IT LOOKED LIKE WHEN THE BOARD PACKET GOT POSTED, SOME OF THE LANGUAGE GOT, UH, GARBLED AT THE BOTTOM OF SOME OF THE PAGES. AND SO I DO HAVE A CLEAN PRINT FOR YOU HERE THIS EVENING. OKAY, MS. BROWN, CAN YOU COME OVER HERE FOR A SECOND PLEASE? GOOD EVENING, CHAIR. MR. CHAIRMAN. EVENING BOARD MEMBERS. MR. MASSENGILL, JUST A COUPLE QUICK, UM, CHANGES THAT I'M REQUESTING. THE FIRST IS IN THE, UH, REAL ESTATE, UH, UH, NET WORTH. UM, CHANGING THAT FROM 100,000 TO 150,000. THAT STILL KEEPS US IN LINE WITH OUR SISTER LOCALITIES THAT WE COMPARE WITH. UM, BUT THIS DOES ALLOW FOR SOME OF OUR ELDERLY TO HAVE POTENTIALLY A LITTLE MORE IN THEIR CHECKING ACCOUNT OR IN THEIR MONEY MARKET MM-HMM . SO TO SPEAK. UM, SO THAT'S, WE HAVE NOT HAD TO, UH, DISQUALIFY ANYBODY, UM, FOR THIS ISSUE OTHER THAN FOR FOLKS WHO HAVE HAD SECOND HOMES. UM, SO THAT WAS AN OBVIOUS, UM, NON-QUALIFYING EVENT, BUT I JUST, I BELIEVE IT'S TIME TO, UM, INCREASE THAT NET ASSET LIMITATION. SO THAT IS THAT REQUEST. [02:40:02] AND THEN, UM, IN LINE WITH OUR PERSONAL PROPERTY, WE ARE ONE OF ONLY A FEW LOCALITIES IN THE COMMONWEALTH THAT EVEN OFFER PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX RELIEF OTHER THAN MOBILE HOMES. MOST LOCALITIES THAT OFFER PERSONAL PROPERTY DO OFFER MOBILE HOME, UM, AS THAT IS THE, UM, THE HOME. BUT WE ALL, WE GO A STEP BEYOND AND OFFER THE UP TO $300 ON TAX RELIEF FOR VEHICLES. MY ASK IS THAT WE GO AHEAD AND EXEMPT A VEHICLE, UM, ALONG WITH THE $20 LICENSE FEE FOR THIS, UM, THIS PART OF OUR POPULATION THAT, THAT REALLY NEEDS OUR HELP. UM, FOR THIS, THIS TIME OF THE YEAR OR THIS YEAR FOR OUR FOLKS, WE HAD 259 INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ABLE TO, UM, ENJOY THIS TAX RELIEF PROGRAM. UM, IF YOU ADOPT THIS EXEMPTION OF A VEHICLE, UM, FOR 2024, IT WOULD'VE MADE ABOUT 20, UH, $19,600 ADDITIONAL REVENUE. SO THAT IS, THAT IS MY ASK. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? NO. OKAY. I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. OKAY. THANK YOU MA'AM. THANK YOU. MM-HMM . WE BROKE THE PUBLIC HEARING. DO WE HAVE ANY SIGNED MR. CHAIRMAN? I HAVE NO ONE SIGNED UP. CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. OKAY. BOARD, JUST A QUESTION. UM, ARE THERE TWO ITEMS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE OR IS IT DONE WITH ONE RESOLUTION? SO DR. MOORE, THERE ARE TWO SEPARATE REALLY ORDINANCES IN THERE. RIGHT. ONE OF THEM DEALS WITH REAL ESTATE AND ONE OF 'EM DEALS WITH PERSONAL PROPERTY. SO WE NEED TO HANDLE THIS RESOLUTION. YOU HAVE KIND OF BUNDLES THEM TOGETHER. IT SAYS BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED THAT THE ORDINANCES ARE ADOPTED AS PRESENTED. RIGHT. SO THAT'S THE ONLY THING LEGALLY THAT WE NEED TO YOU CAN VOTE ON THEM TOGETHER. THAT'S RIGHT. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. MAKE A MOTION BE RESOLVED THAT THE ORDINANCES ARE ADOPTED AS PRESENTED. SECOND ROLL CALL DR. MOORE. AYE. MR. LEE? AYE. MS. EBRO BONNER. AYE. MR. DOOLEY? AYE. MR. CHAVIS? AYE. ALL VOTING? AYE. OKAY. MOVING [13.A. Appointments] ON TO ALL NEW BUSINESS APPOINTMENTS. MR. CHAIRMAN, IT WAS, I THINK IT'S YOUR PLEASURE NOT TO HAVE ANY APPOINTMENTS BEING APPOINTED TONIGHT. OKAY. [14. CITIZEN COMMENTS (3 MINUTES)] CITIZEN'S COMMENT BUD MASON, GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD AFTERNOON. UM, MY WIFE AND I ARE RETIRED. WE'VE BEEN LIVING IN SULAND THERE IN THE SAME HEIGHT FOR 30 YEARS. OUR NEIGHBORS HAVE LET THEIR SON WHO DOES NOT LIVE THERE, PUT A KENNEL OF DOGS, HUNTING DOGS. THEY'RE LESS THAN A HUNDRED YARDS FROM THE FRONT PORCH OF MY HOUSE. THE BARKING IS UNBEARABLE AND WE CAN'T EVEN SIT ON OUR FRONT PORCH AND HAVE A CONVERSATION. I HAVE AN ARTISTIC GRANDSON WHO LOVES TO PLAY SIDE. WHEN THEY GET TO BARKING, HE GETS SCARED AND STARTS CRYING AND HAS TO RUN BACK INTO THE HOUSE. LET'S SEE. I'VE HAD THE DEPUTIES AT MY HOUSE NUMEROUS TIMES BY THEIR REQUEST. WE HAVE TAKEN THEM TO COURT, BUT WITH THE WAY THE LAWS ARE STATED BECAUSE OF ZONE AQUACULTURE, THERE'S NOTHING THEY CAN DO. AND IT IS JUST TOTALLY FRUSTRATING FOR ME. AND I HAVE TALKED TO A LOT OF THE DEPUTIES AND THIS IS NOT JUST ME, IT'S A PROBLEM GOING OUT THROUGH THE WHOLE COUNTY. THERE'S A LOT OF ISSUES GOING ON ABOUT THIS. AND WITH THE AMOUNT OF TAXES THAT WE PAY, IT'S TIME TO UPGRADE THE LAWS TO THE 21ST CENTURY. 'CAUSE THIS IS AT THE POINT THERE, IT'S RIDICULOUS. I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO. UM, SHERIFF DUCK TOLD ME TO COME ADDRESS Y'ALL ABOUT THE ISSUE BECAUSE OF THE BARKING LAWS AND ALL THIS STUFF DO NOT APPLY BECAUSE IT'S AGRICULTURE. I MEAN, THE ONLY THING AGRICULTURE, LIKE MY PLACE IS A TOMATO PLANT. YOU KNOW, I DON'T MEAN TO BE SARCASTIC, BUT THIS IS AT THE POINT WHERE WE'RE RETIRED AND TRYING TO ENJOY OURSELVES. WE'VE WORKED HARD FOR WHAT WE HAVE AND CAN'T EVEN SIT ON OUR FRONT PORCH AND TALK. AND LIKE I SAID, DUCK TOLD ME THAT IT'S AN ISSUE GOING ON THROUGH THE COUNTY. HE'S HAD SEVERAL THINGS ABOUT THIS, BUT BY BEING HIS OWN AQUACULTURE, THERE'S NOTHING THEY CAN DO. SO I WANTED TO COME ADDRESS Y'ALL TO BE AT Y'ALL'S MERCY TO TRY TO DO SOMETHING. [02:45:01] I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY. . THANK YOU SIR. CAN YOU GIVE, WHAT IS YOUR ADDRESS? UH, 4 4 1 3 EAGLE DRIVE SULLIVAN. RIGHT OFF OF INE ROAD EAGLE DRIVE. OKAY. I MEAN IT'S, THANK YOU. IT IS A NEIGHBORHOOD. HE'S GOT PART OF SULLIVAN. I GOT PART OF SULLIVAN. OKAY. THAT'S ALRIGHT. THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING. SO I CAN LOOK UP YOUR ADDRESS. YEAH, I THINK YOU ON MY DISTRICT. AND UH, BUT LIKE I SAY IT IS, IT IS LIKE 13 ACRE TRACKS. YOU KNOW, IT'S ZONE AGRICULTURE, BUT IT'S RESIDENTIAL AND THIS HAS DISRUPTED THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD. I MEAN, IT'S JUST A NIGHTMARE. ALL OF US. I CAN'T HARDLY SLEEP AT NIGHT SOMETIME BECAUSE IT'S BARKING SO LOUD. GOTCHA. AND THERE'S NOTHING THE DEPUTIES CAN DO. I THANK Y'ALL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU. YES, SIR. JAMES EDMONDS, HOW ARE YOU'RE? HEY, HOW ARE YOU? UH, I JUST WANTED TO BRING UP A TOPIC THAT ME AND THE NEIGHBORS NOTICED. I LIVE ON BALTIMORE ROAD, THE NORTH SIDE OF FOUR 60, KIND OF, WELL, RIGHT NEXT TO VERNON. AND, UH, THE SPEED LIMIT THROUGH THERE. I EVEN CALLED INSPECTOR MR. DOOLEY ABOUT THE SPEED LIMIT THROUGH THERE IS 55. YOU STAND OUT THERE AND I GOT NEIGHBORS AT FARM. IT'S, IT'S THE SPEED LIMIT. IT SHOULD NOT BE 55 MILES AN HOUR. SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE. I'VE CALLED VDOT. THEY TOLD ME TO CONTACT Y'ALL. I CONTACTED Y'ALL. SO I CAME HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT IT. IT'S, I MEAN, A LITTLE BOY, THE NEIGHBOR'S LITTLE BOY WAS OUT THERE PLAYING THE OTHER DAY IN MY FRONT YARD AND TOOK OFF AFTER A BALL TOWARDS THE STREET. AND A CAR WAS COMING PAST. IF HE'D HAVE MADE IT SIX MORE FEET, THAT CAR DIDN'T EVEN SLOW DOWN. THERE'S NO REASON PEOPLE ARE GOING 55 DOWN THAT ROAD. I MEAN, I DON'T EVEN SEE HOW THEY'RE DOING 55 TO BE HONEST WITH YOU. SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THAT LOOKED AT THE SPEED LIMIT. DROPS SOME SIGNAGE PUT UP OR SOMETHING. BUT THERE'S NOTHING ON THAT ROAD. I JUST, THAT'S JUST A ASK I HAVE. OKAY. THANK YOU SIR. YEAH, THANK YOU. I'LL BE IN TOUCH WITH YOU WITH YEAH. THANK YOU MUCH. GAIL DEBRUIN. GOOD EVENING. I MAY BE A LITTLE LATE TO THE PARTY BECAUSE OF THE LADY THAT, UH, HAD TALKED ABOUT THE, UH, UM, ELDERLY AND DISABLED PERSONS FOR REAL ESTATE EXEMPTION. BUT I'LL GO AHEAD WITH WHAT I WAS HERE TO PREPARED FOR. UM, MY NAME'S GAIL DE BRYAN. MY HUSBAND AND I, UM, LIVE AT 3 6 0 8 CHEIN BOULEVARD IN SUTHERLAND. WE'RE BOTH RETIRED LIVE ON A FIXED INCOME. WE HAVE LIVED HERE SINCE 2018. AND DURING THAT TIME WE'VE SEEN MANY BIG BUSINESSES MOVE TO DENWITTY COUNTY, LIKE ALDI AND WALMART DISTRIBUTION CENTERS. AND MOST RECENTLY DOMINION ENERGY AND SHEETS, WHICH IN EFFECT MEANS YOU'RE GETTING A LARGE AMOUNT OF REVENUE FOR THEM. LIKE I SAID, WE ARE IN A FIXED INCOME AND PAY TO THE COUNTY $200 A MONTH FOR PERSONAL PROPERTY AND REAL ESTATE TAX COMBINED. NOW WITH THE ASSESSMENT INCREASED IN REAL ESTATE ESTATE TAX FOR 2025, IT'LL RA RAISE TO $354 A MONTH. THIS, THIS YEAR OUR HOUSE AND AUTO INSURANCE ALSO DOUBLED. SO ALL INCLUDED WITH TAXES AND INSURANCE. JUST FOR A MODEST HOUSE AND TWO CARS THAT ARE SIX AND 10 YEARS OLD, WE WILL PAY A 400. AND, UH, WE'LL WE PAY $445 A MONTH WITH A NEW ASSESSMENT IN 2025, OUR COST WILL INCREASE TO $582 A MONTH. THAT'S JUST FOR TAXES AND INSURANCE TO LIVE IN DINWOODY COUNTY. WE, AS SENIORS, NEED TAX RELIEF. PLEASE CONSIDER ELIMINATING REAL ESTATE AND PROPERTY TAX IN OUR COUNTY FOR SENIOR CITIZENS THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO LIVE WITHIN OUR MEANS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME IN CONSIDERATION REGARDING THE PLIGHT OF MANY SENIOR CITIZENS WHO LIVE WITHIN THE COUNTY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MA'AM. THANK YOU MR. CHAIRMAN. I HAVE NO ONE ELSE SIGNED UP. OKAY, MR. CHAIRMAN. UM, THE LAST LADY THAT SPOKE, KEVIN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADDRESS THAT? 'CAUSE IT'S PROBABLY MORE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM THAT, I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY'RE HERE, BUT, UH, I MIGHT BE HAVE AN IDEA, UM, AND MAYBE EXPLAIN WHAT, WHAT'S GOING ON. UM, MR. O'BRIEN, UH, I LEMME JUST FIRST SPEAK TO, UH, THE NOTICE THAT YOU RECEIVED. UM, AT THE VERY TOP, IT'S NOT A TAX BILL. OKAY. NOW, BY STATE LAW, UH, THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HAS TO SHOW YOU WHAT YOUR TAX BILL WOULD BE IN THE EVENT THAT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MAINTAIN THE SAME TAX RATE. UM, SO THAT, THAT WOULD BE THE WORST CASE SCENARIO, SO TO SPEAK. UM, [02:50:01] I WILL SAY UPFRONT THAT I, I'VE TALKED TO EVERY MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, UM, AND, AND WE LIVE IN THIS COMMUNITY TOO, RIGHT? UH, THERE'S NO DESIRE BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO MAINTAIN AN 84 CENT TAX RATE. UM, WE CAN'T CHANGE THE NOTICE. TAX RATE'S GONNA COME DOWN. UH, THE BOARD DOESN'T DETERMINE THE TAX RATE UNTIL THEY ACTUALLY GET INTRODUCED TO THE BUDGET. THE BUDGET PROCESS FOR OUR COUNTY DEPARTMENTS STARTS IN A FEW WEEKS. UH, BUDGETS ARE DUE TO ME FIRST WEEK IN JANUARY AND WE START WORKING WITH THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IN THAT TIMEFRAME. TYPICALLY IN THE MARCH TIMEFRAME, WE WILL ADVERTISE FOR A TAX RATE HEARING. IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT EVERYONE STAYS ENGAGED TO THE TAX RATE HEARING. 'CAUSE THAT'S GONNA DETERMINE THE ACTUAL TAX RATE, UM, OF WHAT THE NEW VALUES ARE BASED UPON. SO LET NOW LEMME BACK UP AND TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE REASSESSMENT PROCESS. UH, SO THE, THE, WE DECIDED ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, THIS BOARD MADE A DECISION. MR. DOOLEY WASN'T HERE AT THE TIME, SO HE GETS A REPRIEVE. BUT THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS DECIDED THAT, UH, WHEN THEY LOOKED AT THE, THE REASSESSMENT CYCLE, SO MANY OF YOU HAVE GOTTEN YOUR, YOUR NOTICES. AND WHEN YOU GOT YOUR NOTICE, YOU'RE THINKING, HOW DID MY VALUE GO UP THIS MUCH IN A YEAR? TECHNICALLY, THE LAST TIME THAT IT WAS LOOKED AT WAS IN 2019 WHEN THAT WAS DATA THAT WAS REALLY COLLECTED IN 1718. SO IN THAT PERIOD OF TIME BETWEEN 17 AND 18 TO 19, IT BECOME AN EFFECTIVE, UNTIL TODAY, THE COUNTY HASN'T, UH, ADDRESSED OR REEVALUATED ANY PROPERTIES IN DEWINE COUNTY UNTIL NOW. WHEN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF, TWO YEARS AGO, THE THOUGHT WAS, IF ANY OF US CAN REMEMBER THE, THE REASSESSMENT OF OH 8, 0 9, IF YOU REMEMBER, THAT REASSESSMENT CAME IN EFFECT ABOUT THE TIME THAT THE HOUSING MARKET COLLAPSED. BOARD WAS CONCERNED AFTER COVID, THAT THESE, THESE, UH, HOME PRICES THAT WE'RE SEEING NOW ARE SOMEWHAT UNPRECEDENTED. THE THOUGHT WAS THAT IF WE WERE TO WAIT TO GO TO A SIX YEAR CYCLE, THAT THE HOUSING MARKET WOULD MAYBE COME BACK TO SOME SENSE OF NORMALITY. UM, IT REALLY DIDN'T CHANGE THAT MUCH AS WE HOPED. INFLATION IS STILL HIGH, UH, VALUES ARE STILL STRONG. SO I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT LIKE STARTER HOMES. YOU KNOW, STARTER HOMES. AVERAGE HOME PRICE PREVIOUS TO THIS LAST REASSESSMENT WOULD BE SOMEWHERE AROUND 150, 160,000. THAT SAME HOUSE TODAY IS SELLING FOR 300,000 PLUS ALL THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. SO WHEN, WHEN YOU SEE THE, THE LOWER MARKET START TO INCREASE, IT JUST EXPONENTIALLY CHANGES THE WHOLE REST OF, OF THE COUNTY. UM, WAMPLER EENS IS THE REASSESSMENT FIRM. SO WE TOOK GREAT CARE, ESPECIALLY KNOWING WHERE WE ARE IN THE OVERALL PROCESS TO SELECT A FIRM THAT HAD FAMILIARITY WITH DE WITTY COUNTY. SO WAMP, LAUREN'S DIGITAL REASSESSMENT THE LAST TWO CYCLES, AND THIS IS THEIR THIRD CYCLE. WE WANTED SOMEBODY THAT REALLY UNDERSTOOD THE MARKET. AND I CAN TELL YOU IN ALL THE YEARS I, I'VE BEEN HERE AS COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR, 18 YEARS, UM, WE HAVE WORKED PROBABLY CLOSER WITH THIS REASSESSMENT FIRM THAN ANY OTHER REA REASSESSMENT FIRM THAT I'VE WORKED WITH. AND ONE REASON FOR THAT WAS BECAUSE WE KNEW, 'CAUSE WE, WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT THIS DATA, I KNOW FOR SOME OF YOU ALL, UH, WHEN YOU GOT THE TAX NOTICE, WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE BEEN WORRIED ABOUT THIS DAY FOR A FEW YEARS. AMEN. BECAUSE WE KNEW, UM, THAT WHEN YOU WENT TO YOUR MAILBOX AND YOU SAW THE VALUES, IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN FOLLOWING IT, AND AS PROFESSIONALS, WE FOLLOW IT. MS. STEVENS, GOD BLESS HER, SHE TELLS ME ABOUT EVERY DAY THERE'S A HOUSE SALE, WHAT THE HOUSES ARE COMING IN AT. SO WE KNEW THIS DAY WAS GONNA COME. UM, THAT'S WHY WE TOOK SUCH CARE AND ATTENTION TO FIND THE COMPANY THAT WE FELT COULD REALLY DO WHAT, WHAT WAS NEEDED AS FAR AS THE MARKET. BUT KEEP IN MIND THE, THE, THE WHOLE PROCESS OF REASSESSMENT IS TO GET THE OVERALL VALUES OF HOME. THIS IS BY STATE LAW UP TO A HUNDRED PERCENT OF FAIR MARKET VALUE. THAT'S, THAT'S THE GOAL. SO LIKE MS. LIAN YOU MENTIONED LIKE, UM, DOMINION ENERGY, ALL OF WHAT YOU SEE FROM DOMINION ENERGY AND THAT THOSE TAXES ARE BASED ON SOMETHING CALLED PUBLIC SERVICE TAX. AND THEY BASE THAT ON YOUR OVERALL SALES RATIO IN THE COUNTY. SO NOW THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE THAT VALUE UP, DOMINION WILL START PAYING MORE. SO THAT, THAT GOES INTO THE OVERALL EQUATION. WITH THIS. FOR THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS THOUGH, WHEN THEY DECIDED TO GO WITH WM, PLES AGAIN DOES CARE ATTENTION THAT WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO PUT INTO THIS. WE HAVE SEEN THE VALUES, OUR OVERALL SALES RATIO. SO IT GETS REALLY KIND OF TECHNICAL, BUT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE AT A CLOSE TO A HUNDRED PERCENT OF FAIR MARKET [02:55:01] VALUE. OUR SALES RATIO'S BEEN DROPPING. IN FACT, OUR SALES RATIO NOW IS IN THE LOW 60 PERCENTILE. SO ALL THAT SHOWS IS THAT THE MARKET HAS EXTREMELY CHANGED IN IN DEWIN COUNTY. THAT BEING SAID, THIS IS A MASS APPRAISAL APPROACH. IF THERE IS, UH, SOMETHING THAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT YOUR PROPERTY THAT YOU FEEL LIKE HAS NOT BEEN, UM, MAYBE PICKED UP BY THE REASSESSMENT FIRM, WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS. SO ON THE BACK OF THAT NOTICE, YOU WILL SEE DETAILS OF HOW TO MOVE FORWARD WITH ASK, ACTUALLY ASKING FOR A HEARING WITH THE MASS APPRAISAL COMPANY. SO THE REASSESSMENT TEAM WILL TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR SPECIFIC ISSUES. AND IF THERE, OR NOW THERE CAN BE ADJUSTMENTS. IT SAYS IT'S ON THE FORM, IT CAN GO UP, IT CAN GO DOWN, IT CAN STAY THE SAME. BUT IN SOME CASES, TAXPAYERS AND CITIZENS JUST FEEL LIKE, HEY, THEY, THEY JUST MAY NOT HAVE IT. RIGHT? OR MORE SPECIFICALLY, I WANNA KNOW WHAT THE MARKET IS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. SO THAT'S THE TYPE OF INFORMATION AT A HEARING THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO TALK AND GAIN INFORMATION ON. IF YOU'RE NOT HAPPY WITH THE HEARING, THEN YOU GO TO THE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. THE GOOD THING ABOUT THE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION IS THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS GETS TO NOMINATE TO THE CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE. THESE ARE DIMITY CITIZENS. THEY'RE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME. THEY PAY TAXES LIKE YOU AND ME AND THEY'RE ABLE TO EVALUATE. AND IF THEY SEE SOMETHING THAT'S OUT OF OUTTA WHACK, THEY CAN MAKE SOME CHANGES TOO. YOU GET THROUGH THE BOE PROCESS AND YOU'RE STILL NOT HAPPY. THERE'S ALWAYS A LAST RESORT OF GOING TO THE CIRCUIT COURT. JUDGE. THAT'S, THAT'S THE OPPORTUNITY. BUT THE REAL KEY, THE REAL KEY, 'CAUSE I'VE TALKED TO A FEW PEOPLE SINCE LAST NIGHT AND I'VE HAD A FEW PEOPLE ON THE PHONE THAT WHEN I'M TALKING TO 'EM AT 84 CENT AND I'M TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO EVERYONE AND THE BOARD CAN PLEASE SPEAK UP TO THIS, BUT THE BOARD HAS NO DESIRE AGAIN, TO KEEP IT AT 84 CENTS. IT'S GONNA COME DOWN. MY GUESS IT'S NOT GONNA START WITH AN EIGHT, IT'S PROBABLY GONNA START WITH A SIX. IT'S GONNA COME DOWN A LOT AND IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO COME DOWN A LOT BECAUSE I CAN TELL YOU I DO THE BUDGET EVERY YEAR. THIS COUNTY DOES NOT NEED 84 CENTS TO RUN. RIGHT? SO I'VE ALREADY TOLD THE BOARD THAT AND THEY'RE LIKE, GOOD. 'CAUSE THERE'S NO WAY WE GO TO 84 CENTS. SO IT'S NOT GONNA STAY THERE. BUT IT'S REALLY CRITICAL TO STAY INVOLVED WHEN IT COMES TO THE TAXES. I MEAN, 'CAUSE WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS, IS THE VALUE, BUT COINCIDING THAT 84 CENTS WHEN IT DROPS, YOUR TAX BILL'S GOING TO, IS GOING TO REFLECT BASED ON WHAT THAT NEW VALUE IS. UM, CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT THAT'S GONNA BE, BUT I CAN TELL YOU WHEN THE BUDGET'S PRESENTED, THE BOARD WILL EVALUATE THAT. THAT'S TOTALLY OPEN. UH, YOU KNOW, IF YOU EVER QUESTION ANY OF THE COUNTY SPENDING, WE HAVE DECADE PLUS BUDGETS ONLINE THAT YOU CAN LOOK AT BUDGET PRESENTATIONS, YOU CAN SEE WHERE ALL THE MONEY IS GOING. UH, BUT IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU STAY INVOLVED. THE BOARD WANTS YOU TO STAY INVOLVED AS THEY KIND OF WORK THROUGH THE TAX ISSUES AND ANYTHING THAT WOULD COME UP AT BUDGET TIME. THEY WANT YOUR INPUT ON THAT, JUST LIKE ANY OTHER BUDGET SEASON. AND IF YOU COME TO THIS, THIS ROOM AND SAY, HEY, WE WISH THAT YOU NOT DO THAT, OR WE, WE WANT YOU TO DO MORE OF THIS, THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO, TO TRY TO BALANCE THINGS OUT THE BEST THEY CAN. BUT I WILL TELL YOU, IF SOMEBODY LOOKING AT IT EVERY DAY, UM, THE REASSESSMENT FIRM AND EVEN TODAY, MS. STEVENS, AND AGAIN, CALLING THE TREASURER AND CALLING THE COMMISSIONER, THEY REALLY CAN'T HELP YOU AT THIS POINT IN TIME. I MEAN, IF YOU HAVE SOME TECHNICAL INFORMATION YOU WANT, LORI AND JENNY'S OFFICE IS ALWAYS THERE FOR YOU. MY OFFICE IS THERE FOR YOU, WILL HELP YOU THE BEST THAT WE CAN. SPECIFIC INFORMATION THOUGH DIRECTLY ON THE REASSESSMENT AND THEIR, THEIR DATA. IT REALLY NEEDS TO COME DIRECTLY FROM AMPS TO DO THAT. MR. CHAIRMAN, THERE WAS A COUPLE HANDS THAT THAT WENT UP. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO ALLOW SOME QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME. I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO STAY BACK AND I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS. THAT'S FINE WITH ME. WE GOT, I KNOW IT'S IMPORTANT. YOU WANT TO COME WE HAVEN COME FORWARD, COME FORWARD. WELL, YOU COULD BUT THE PEOPLE AT HUNG CAN'T HEAR YOU. NO, I'M JUST, YOU KNOW, YOU MADE A STATEMENT THAT, YOU KNOW, THE THE RATE WOULD COME DOWN, BUT WHEN YOU CHANGE THE VALUE OF SOMEBODY'S HOME, THEIR HOMEOWNER'S INSURANCE ISN'T GONNA COME DOWN. YEAH. IT WAS, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE ALREADY, THAT'S ONE OF THE INDICATIONS THAT, THAT WE HAD, UM, MR. EDMONDS EARLY ON MM-HMM . IS THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE FOR THEIR INSURANCE, THEIR INSURANCE IS ALREADY BEING ADJUSTED. SO WE, WE GET CALLS EVERY YEAR. YOU RAISE MY TAXES, I'M PAYING MORE, UH, FOR MY MORTGAGE. BUT NO, WHAT YOU'RE REALLY DOING IS YOUR INSURANCE HAS GONE UP AND YOUR ESCROW PAYMENTS ARE INSUFFICIENT AND THEY'RE INCREASING. UH, BUT, BUT THAT'S AN INSURANCE PIECE BECAUSE I CAN TELL YOU THE GOAL OF ANY REASSESSMENT IS TO GET AS CLOSE TO A HUNDRED PERCENT OF FAIR MARKET VALUE. BUT YOUR REPLACEMENT VALUE IS GONNA BE BASED ON THE SPECIFICS OF YOUR HOME. YEAH. BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE NOT ABLE, I MEAN, IF YOU'VE GOT GROUNDED COUNTERTOPS AND YOU'VE GOT HARDWOOD FLOORS, THAT'S [03:00:01] NOT WHAT NECESSARY. WE'RE NOT LOOKING ON THE INSIDE, BUT FROM AN INSURABILITY STANDPOINT, THEY PROBABLY ARE. SO THEY'RE GONNA HAVE A LITTLE BIT, BIT DIFFERENT INFORMATION. WE HAVE THE EXTENT OF THE HOUSING MARKET DOES GO BACK DOWN LIKE IT USED TO BE. YEAH. SO WHAT, WHAT IS, WHAT IS, WHAT'S THE PROCESS FOR THAT? WHAT'S THE PROCESS? I MEAN, IS IT GONNA BE SIX YEARS BEFORE YOU DO ANOTHER ASSESSMENT IF THE MARKET DROPS IN THREE YEARS? WELL IT'S, IT'S ULTIMATELY A DECISION OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. MY PROFESSIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS, AND I'VE HAD A LOT OF SHAKING HEADS ON THE BOARD, IS THAT WE SHOULD NEVER WAIT TO DO ANOTHER SIX YEAR. NEVER. I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, BEST CASE SCENARIO, DIY COUNTY HAS BEEN SAID TO DUN TONIGHT ALREADY, WE'RE NOT GROWING FAST ENOUGH TO CONSIDER LIKE AN EVERY YEAR APPRAISAL. YEAH. BUT WE, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE COMMISSIONER REVENUE'S OFFICE THROUGH MS. STEVENS'S OFFICE TO LOOK AT WAYS TO DO IT MAYBE EVERY TWO YEARS. UM, AND POTENTIALLY NO LATER THAN FOUR. NO LATER THAN FOUR. 'CAUSE I THINK WHAT YOU ALL ARE EXPERIENCING NOW, JUST LIKE I'M EXPERIENCING MY, MY HOUSE WENT UP TOO. YEAH. UM, WHAT WHAT WE'RE ALL EXPERIENCING IS, IS SIX YEARS OF, OF HOUSING MARKET AT ONE TIME. AND THAT, THAT'S A TOUGH PILL TO SWALLOW. UM, BUT TO YOUR POINT, AND THAT'S ONE REASON WE, WE, WE LOOK AT THE MARKET WEEKLY, YOU KNOW, MS. STEVEN'S OFFICE LOOKS AT IT DAILY. SHE REPORTS TO US ANY INCONSISTENCIES THAT SHE SEES OR ANY, ANY, ANY TRENDS. THAT'S ONE REASON WE WERE HOPING WE DIDN'T THINK, AND THIS MR DO PROBABLY CAN DO IT BETTER THAN ANYBODY TALK ABOUT BUILDING, UH, MATERIAL. BUT WE SAW MATERIAL AS HIGH AS IT WAS. WE SAID, SURELY THIS IS GONNA COME INTO CHECK. YEAH. AND, AND JUST UNFORTUNATELY PEOPLE ARE PAYING PREMIUM PRICES. UM, AND AND THAT'S HAVING AN IMPACT ON THE MARKET. YEAH. NOBODY'S SELLING BECAUSE INSURANCE. THAT'S RIGHT. BECAUSE OF INTEREST RATES. NOBODY'S SELLING'S GOTTA PAY TO GET IT. RIGHT. THANK YOU. I HOPE THAT HELPS. UM, IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK? OKAY, GOT ONE. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. I DON'T HAVE ANY REMARKS ALREADY PREPARED. SO I APOLOGIZE IF I RAMBLE. HOPEFULLY I WON'T. BUT, UM, YEAH, I CAME TO HEAR ABOUT THE, UH, REASSESSMENT, JUST LIKE A NUMBER OF OTHER PEOPLE. I'VE SEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK AND THE DEN, WITTY, YOU KNOW, UH, DEN, WITTY COUNTY COMMUNITY BOARD. I WOULD GO, LOOK, PEOPLE ARE UP IN ARMS, INCENSE, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE PROBABLY ALREADY SEEN IT. JUST ABSOLUTELY NOT EVEN SURE WHAT TO DO. NOT WANTING TO OPEN THEIR MAILBOX IF THEY HAVEN'T YET. RIGHT. I MEAN, I'VE SEEN INCREASE, AND I REALIZE YOU SAID IT'S, YOU KNOW, THIS HASN'T HAPPENED FOR SIX YEARS. I DEFINITELY, IN THE TINY LITTLE BIT THAT I'VE LEARNED SINCE YESTERDAY, YOU KNOW, WOULD REALLY HOPE THAT IT WOULD BE DONE MORE OFTEN THAN SIX YEARS, BECAUSE I'VE SEEN PEOPLE, THE RATES GO FROM, YOU KNOW, THE FIFTIES UP TO 107% MINE. MY PROPERTY HAS GONE UP 86%, 86%. MY TAXES, IF THEY WOULD STAY THE SAME, ALMOST DOUBLED JUST THE REAL ESTATE. RIGHT? 86%. WE HAVE NOT HAD A NEW ROOF. WE'VE NOT HAD A NEW HVAC SYSTEM. WE HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING. WE ALSO HAVEN'T, YOU KNOW, WE STILL HAVE THE SAME CRUDDY INTERNET. WE STILL HAVE ALL THE SAME STUFF. NOTHING HAS CHANGED. I MEAN, EXCEPT FOR THE HOUSING MARKET, BUT IT'S JUST NOT EVEN QUITE SURE WHAT TO DO. BUT I JUST AT LEAST WANTED TO EXPRESS MY CONCERN ABOUT THIS. EVEN IF IT DROPS FROM, YOU KNOW, THE, YOU KNOW, 84, 86, WHATEVER SENSE DOWN TO THE SIXTIES, THAT'S NOT GOING TO, YOU KNOW, YEAH. THAT'S NOT GONNA HELP. THANK YOU. WHEN IT'S 86%, YOU KNOW, THE ASSESSMENT IS 86% HIGHER. I DO NOT LIVE IN A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE. UM, SO I'LL DEFINITELY BE ONE OF THE MANY PEOPLE WHO COME AND, YOU KNOW, TAKE PART, LISTEN, IF WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, SOME THINGS TO ADD AND OFFER, UM, DEFINITELY WILL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. AND THANK, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT. AND, AND AGAIN, TO THE POINT, UM, THE MARKET IS THE MAJOR DRIVER IN THIS, RIGHT? SO OF COURSE, WHEN THE REASSESSMENT FIRM CAME BY, THEY, THEY LOOKED AT THE OVERALL QUALITY OF A HOME. UH, BUT KEEP IN MIND, THEY'RE NOT LOOKING INSIDE, BUT IT'S, IT'S GOING TO BE MARKET DRIVEN, RIGHT? SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE GONNA LOOK AT, UH, COMPARABLE HOUSES AND WHERE THOSE COMPARABLE HOUSES ARE SELLING FOR. SO ONE OF THE CONCERNS THAT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HAD EARLY ON AND, AND STAFFING IS WHEN, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT HOMES, THAT, THAT, AGAIN, PREVIOUS REASSESSMENT WAS 1 0 1, 1 50, 1 60. THOSE HOMES, ESPECIALLY IN CERTAIN AREAS OF THE COUNTY, [03:05:01] ARE SELLING NOW, UH, FOR OVER 300,000. AND, AND WE SAW, WE SEE THESE TRENDS. WE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE REASSESSMENT FIRM IS GONNA BE ABLE TO SHOW EXAMPLES OF THAT. AND, AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS, NOW, YOU MAY QUESTION, WELL, WHO WOULD BUY A HOME LIKE THAT AT THAT RATE? BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU, 'CAUSE IT'S, IT HAS TO BE OPEN. IT'S GOTTA BE TRANSPARENT. AGAIN, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS TOO. 'CAUSE IT'S OUR COMMUNITY TOO. NO, NO ONE WANTS THE BURDEN, UM, FOR SOMEONE TO HAVE TO, TO GET TO DOUBLE, RIGHT? SO I THINK THAT'S EVEN THE, THE, THE DECISION OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO SAY THAT'S WHY 84 CENTS CAN'T STAND. I WAS TALKING TO A GENTLEMAN TODAY. HE, HE LIVED IN A DIFFERENT, UM, MR. DOOLEY'S DISTRICT. UH, I TALKED TO HIM TODAY, HAD A CONVERSATION WITH HIM. AND SO I ASKED HIM, I SAID, WELL, LOOK, THIS IS, THIS IS YOUR PROPERTY NOW AT 84 CENTS. THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE PAYING BASED ON YOUR, HE WASN'T 80 SOME PERCENT, HE WAS MORE IN THE 50% CATEGORY, UH, AT THAT GOT DOWN TO THE SIXTIES. HE WAS NOT PAYING ANYWHERE NEAR WHAT HE SAW ON PAPER. RIGHT? AND SO, AND, AND AGAIN, I'LL JUST KEEP IN MIND WHAT'S CALLED THE EFFECTIVE TAX RATE IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO PUBLISH IN THE NEWSPAPER, OKAY? BECAUSE THAT'S GENERAL ASSEMBLY RULE. WE'VE GOTTA PUT THAT. WHAT DOES THE EFFECTIVE TAX RATE MEAN? SIMPLE MATHEMATIC MATHEMATICAL EQUATION. BUT WHAT WE HAVE TO COME UP WITH IS WHAT DOES THE TAX RATE HAVE TO BE NOW BASED ON THIS VALUE IN ORDER TO GENERATE THE EXACT SAME AMOUNT OF REVENUE THAT'S CALLED THE EFFECTIVE TAX RATE. SO THAT EFFECTIVE TAX RATE HAS TO BE PUT IN THE NEWSPAPER. SO AGAIN, NOW I SAY THAT FOR THE COUNTY, THAT'S AVERAGES. AND WE ALL KNOW HOW AVERAGES WORK, RIGHT? I MEAN, SOME OF YOU, IF YOU'RE 87%, SHE WAS CLOSE TO 80%, I WAS 30 SOME PERCENT, FIFTIES, SIXTIES. IT'S ALL GONNA BE DIFFERENT, RIGHT? BUT THE, THE LAW OF AVERAGE IS GONNA BE THAT EFFECTIVE TAX RATE'S GONNA BRING THAT NUMBER DOWN. AND SO THE, AGAIN, GENERAL ASSEMBLY REQUIRES US TO POST THAT. WE'LL HAVE TO TELL YOU WHAT THAT NUMBER IS, RIGHT? AND IT'S GOTTA BE DEFENDABLE. SO IF IT'S ABOVE THAT, THERE SHOULD BE SOME JUSTIFICATION OF THIS BOARD AS TO WHY. AND, YOU KNOW, COULD THEY GO LOWER THAN THAT? THEY COULD, BUT WOULD BRING LESS REVENUE THAN THEY HAD THE YEAR BEFORE. BUT THAT EFFECTIVE RATE IS A REQUIREMENT OF LAW THAT IT GET POSTED. SO THAT, AGAIN, SOMETHING TO TO, TO STAY, STAY FAMILIAR WITH. WHERE DID WE GET A COPY OF THE BUDGET WHEN IT'S 2025? SO THE, THE PROPOSED BUDGET, YES, THAT'S IN THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE, THAT'S IN MY OFFICE. AND SO, AND AGAIN, WE, EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, ALL OF OUR BUDGET WORKSHOPS ARE PUBLIC. UM, SOME OF THEM WILL BE IN THIS ROOM WHERE THE, THE PUBLIC CAN SEE 'EM LIVE. UM, AND NOTHING BEATS A PHONE CALL TOO. SO IF YOU, IF YOU WANT A, A COPY OF THE BUDGET, WE CAN GET YOU A COPY OF THE BUDGET. UH, AND IF YOU GO ONLINE, SO IF YOU, VERY BOTTOM OF OUR WEBSITE, THERE'S THIS TRANSPARENCY BUDGET. IT'S A LITTLE, UH, MAGNIFYING GLASS. YOU CLICK ON THAT BUTTON, IT WILL TAKE YOU TO MS. BROWN'S GOING THERE. NOW, UH, WHEN YOU GO TO TRANSPARENCY AND BUDGET AND YOU SCROLL DOWN, YOU'LL SEE BUDGETS. AND WHEN SHE CLICKS ON BUDGET, YOU WILL SEE EVERY BUDGET THAT WE HAVE PASSED. UH, 2026 IS THE NEW FISCAL YEAR. SO THAT'S JUST SO THAT DEPARTMENTS CAN MAKE, BUT IF YOU GO KAISHA, IF YOU CAN GO ALL THE WAY DOWN, UM, YOU'LL SEE BUDGETS GOING BACK AS FAR AS 2009. THANK YOU. SO YOU'LL SEE ALL OF THE BUDGET INFORMATION GOING THAT FAR BACK. AND IF YOU EVER HAVE A QUESTION, YOU FEEL FREE TO CALL. I'M GLAD TO TALK. YOU TALK YOU THROUGH IT. YES, MA'AM. I WOULD JUST LIKE YOU TO CLARIFY THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS BECAUSE THEY DROVE DOWN MY DRIVEWAY, STUCK IT OUT ON MY DOOR, AND DROVE OUT THE DRIVEWAY. I DON'T REALLY CALL THAT AN ASSESSMENT. I CALLED ANYONE ME EITHER IN MY DRIVEWAY. ABSOLUTELY. BUT WHAT, WHAT WE'LL DO FOR THAT, WE'LL GET YOUR ADDRESS. ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS REASSESSMENT THAT THEY WERE TO TAKE A PICTURE OF YOUR FRONT AND BACK, THEY DO NOT, THEY NEVER GOT THAT OF THE CALL. WELL, IF YOU GIVE US YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS, WE'LL LOOK AND SEE. IF THAT PICTURE DOESN'T EXIST, THEN THERE'S AN ISSUE. UH, BUT THE ONE REASON WE DO THAT, THAT'S NOT TO, TO KIND OF PRY INTO YOUR BACKYARD OR TO YOUR SIDE YARD. BUT THAT'S ONE WAY OF VALIDATION. WE HAVE HEARD OF COMPANIES IN THE PAST THAT HAVE DONE THAT. I'LL BE COMPLETELY OPEN, HONEST, TRANSPARENT IN THE WHOLE TIME. THIS IS OUR THIRD TIME WITH WARREN P LS. I, I HAVEN'T SEEN A SITUATION LIKE THAT. SO IF IT HAPPENED, IT WAS UNIQUE. NOT DEBATING IT, BUT IF THERE'S A PICTURE IN THEIR BACKYARD, UNLESS THEY DROVE THROUGH YOUR BACKYARD, THEN, AND THEN THEY, THEY TOOK THAT PICTURE SOMEHOW DRIVEWAY BEFORE I GET OUT THE, LITERALLY IT LOOKED LIKE A TEENAGER STICKING A POST ON MY DOOR AND THEY WERE GONE. WELL SEE, SEE ME AFTER, AFTER [03:10:01] TONIGHT, MA'AM. AND I, I WANT YOU, I'LL SEE THEM TOO. PLEASE DO. BUT GET, I'D LIKE TO HAVE IT FOR MY OWN, OWN SANITY TOO. I'D LIKE TO HAVE YOUR ADDRESS IN TOMORROW. OKAY. OKAY. MARK, YOU HAD SOMETHING. THEY DID IT FROM THE CALL. OKAY. DR. DR. MOORE. UM, MR. MASSI, EACH YEAR YOU PRESENT TO US A GRAPH THAT HAS THE COUNTY TAX RATE, THE OFFICIAL RATE THAT IS THAT THE BOARD SETS EACH YEAR. RIGHT? CAN YOU MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S POSTED ON THE COUNTY WEBSITE SO THAT EVERYBODY CAN SEE THE HISTORY OVER THE LAST 25, 30 YEARS OF WHAT THE ACTUAL TAX RATE HAS BEEN? YEAH, WE CAN DO THAT. AND IT HAS FLUCTUATED. I, I WANT YOU TO SEE HOW IT HAS FLUCTUATED OVER THE YEARS, AND YOU CAN SEE THE YEARS OF REASSESSMENTS. SO I THINK THAT WILL BE, IT'S A VISUAL, BUT I THINK YOU'LL SEE WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHEN WE SAY THE RATE WILL CHANGE. AND I UNDERSTAND THE VALUE GOING UP, RIGHT? VALUE GOES UP EVERY DAY. WE NEED GET, WE NEED TO GET BACK IN ORDER. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GO UP IN VALUE, RIGHT? EVERY DAY THAT'S HAD NOTHING. GOT ONE MORE QUESTION. DO YOU HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION? I'LL DEBRIEF. NO, YOU'RE GOOD. AND THIS IS MORE OF A QUESTION TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD BE REACHING OUT TO YOU GUYS OR IF WE SHOULD ACTUALLY BE, UM, CONTACTING THE ASSESSORS. SO WHEN YOU GO ON THE DI COUNTY GOVERNMENT PAGE, UH, YOU'RE ABLE TO LOOK AT 2020 FOUR'S BREAKDOWN OF YOUR PROPERTY VALUES. OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE MULTIPLE THINGS THAT, UM, FALL INTO YOUR ASSESSMENT VALUE, WHETHER IT'S SHEDS ON YOUR PROPERTY, FRONT PORCH, BACK PORCH, ALL OF THOSE THINGS. NOW, WHEN I GET ONLINE, I STILL SEE 20, 20 FOURS. I DON'T HAVE AN UPDATED, UH, ASSESSMENT. I'M LOOKING, WHAT I'M ASKING IS, WHERE CAN I FIND THAT? YEAH. DO I NEED TO CONTACT JUST BOTH PROFESSORS? UM, BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE TYPES OF THINGS I DON'T WANNA START AT APPEAL IF I DON'T TO. I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND. SO THAT'S CALLED A PROPERTY CARD. SO YOUR, YOUR PROPERTY RECORD IS IN THE COMMISSIONER REVENUES OFFICE, AND SHE HAS A LISTING OF WHAT YOUR, YOUR 2020 CURRENT VALUES ARE. THE, THE NEW VALUES, MS. STEVENS, IS THAT, IS THAT INFORMATION AVAILABLE YET? YES. ABSOLUTE. THE TRAINING ROOM THAT YOU GOT TO SET UP. OKAY. COMPUTER TURN. SO IF YOU WANT ACCESS TO THAT, IF YOU COME TO THE GOVERNMENT CENTER HERE BESIDE, UM, ACROSS THE HALLWAY FROM THE TREASURER'S OFFICE, WE'VE SET UP THREE OR FOUR TERMINALS OVER THERE. YOU CAN SEARCH FOR YOUR INFORMATION AND YOU CAN PRINT YOUR CARD AND THAT YOU CAN THEN EVALUATE OLD TO NEW AND THEN QUESTION. AND IF YOU WANT TO GO TO A HEARING, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I'M SORRY. YEAH, NINE TO FOUR, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY UNLOCKED. AND, UH, WE'LL HAVE A DEPUTY SHERIFF NEARBY TO HELP YOU OR A STAFF MEMBER IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. OKAY. THANK YOU. KAISHA. WHERE ARE WE AT? OR WE WITH COMMENT, CITIZEN COMMENT NOW OR CLOSING? APPROVE WITH THAT WE'RE CLOSING. YEAH. OKAY. [15. BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS] BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS. NOW WE CAN START OVER. I'M BACK ON TRACK. OKAY. DO WE HAVE ANY BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS? I'LL START. UM, I'LL SAY THAT, THAT MY PHONE HAS BEEN VERY BUSY TODAY. UH, I THINK KEVIN DID A, A FANTASTIC JOB EXPLAINING WHERE WE'RE AT, UH, AS FAR AS THE REASSESSMENT AND TAX VALUES GO. UH, THIS IS A PROCESS THAT'S GONNA TAKE SOME TIME AND IT WILL COME TO A COMPLETION IN MARCH THAT TIMEFRAME. WHEN WE GET THE, WHEN WE GET THE THE INFORMATION BACK, WE CAN MAKE AN EDUCATED DECISION, NOT MAKE KNEE JERK REACTIONS. UM, SO AGAIN, EACH OF US SAW INCREASES. I'M IN THE 60 TO 70% RATIO. UH, I'VE GOT FOUR KIDS AND A WIFE. AND SO WE'RE ALL SITTING LITERALLY IN THE SAME COMMUNITY IN THE SAME BOAT. NONE OF US ARE EXEMPT FROM IT. UH, WE'RE WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE THIS WORK. OUR STAFF DOES A PHENOMENAL JOB OF NOT DEFICIT SPENDING. THEY'RE VERY FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE. UM, I CAN'T THANK THEM ENOUGH FOR THAT, BECAUSE IT MAKES THIS JOB EASIER. UM, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I GOT. I, I APPRECIATE EVERYONE COMING IN. I, I'D LOVE TO SEE MORE PEOPLE HERE. OUR JOB IS TO REPRESENT YOU. AND I LIKE HEARING FROM, FROM OUR COMMUNITY. WE CAN'T REPRESENT YOU WITHOUT YOU CONTACTING US AND, AND TELLING US WHAT YOU WANT. SO THANK YOU FOR SHOWING UP. IT MEANS A LOT. DR. MOORE. DR. MOORE. ALRIGHT. THIS IS AN ITEM THAT I'VE BEEN WATCHING FOR ABOUT THREE YEARS. I'M ONE OF THOSE THAT SAID, LET'S WATCH THE MARKET AND SEE IF WE GET A LITTLE REPRIEVE FROM THE HIGH PRICES THAT WE WERE SEEING A YEAR AND TWO YEARS AGO COMING OUT OF COVID. UM, I WAS OF THE OPINION THAT BY NOW, DURING THIS PROCESS, WE WOULD'VE SEEN SOME FORM OF A DIP. BUT I'M GONNA GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF WHY THERE HASN'T BEEN A DIP. THERE'S A HOME [03:15:01] ON COX ROAD DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM GENTRY. WELL, WORKS 1400 SQUARE FEET, NO GARAGE, QUARTER ACRE LOT. IT'S SOLD FOR OVER $300,000. OKAY? MY HOME HAS GONE UP OVER 60% FROM MY LAST ASSESSMENT. I'VE BEEN WATCHING MY, MY INSURANCE BILL COMES TO MY MAILBOX FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS. IT HAS DOUBLED. OKAY? SO I KNEW THE TRAIN WAS ON THE TRACK, IT WAS JUST, WHERE WAS IT GONNA STOP. BUT IT HASN'T STOPPED YET. THE ECONOMY HASN'T STOPPED. THE ECONOMY IS STILL HOT. IF YOU WANNA SAY INFLATION IS STILL HOT. WAGES ARE STILL RISING, WHICH HAS A DIRECT BEARING ON BUILDING A HOME. NOW, THE INTERESTING PART IS THE VALUE OF MY PROP LAND ONLY WENT UP ABOUT 10%, 10 TO 12%. NOW MY ASSESSMENT THAT I GOT, WHAT I'M PAYING MY IN, MY INSURANCE COMPANY HAS IT. THE REBUILD COST IS 50,000 MORE THAN WHAT MY ASSESSMENT IS. YOURS MAY NOT BE THAT WAY, I'M TELLING YOU MINE. OKAY? SO THERE, FOR MY PARTICULAR SITUATION, IT'S GONE UP AND EVERYBODY PROBABLY IN THIS ROOM, IT'S GONE UP. BUT MY INSURANCE COMPANY WASN'T FAR OFF EITHER OF TELLING ME WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MY PROPERTY IF MY HOUSE BURNED DOWN TOMORROW, WHAT IT'S GONNA COST TO REBUILD IT. THE FLIP SIDE TO IT IS NONE OF US, AND I, I'VE GOT GRAY HAIRS MYSELF, OUR DOLLARS IN OUR PAYCHECKS ARE NOT GOING UP IN COMPARISON TO WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE COST OF LIVING. WHETHER IT'S TAXES, FOOD, INSURANCE, CAR, TAKE YOUR PICK. UM, IT'S UP TO THIS BOARD TO DECIDE WHAT IS THAT EQUIVALENT RATE GONNA BE COME MARCH ONCE THE UM, COUNTY ADMINISTRATION SHOWS US A BUDGET AS WE GO FORWARD. BUT I HOPE THAT YOU HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THIS BOARD. AND THOSE OF US THAT HAVE BEEN ELECTED, AND THERE'S FOUR OF US ON THIS BOARD THAT HAVE BEEN SITTING HERE FOR 13 YEARS THAT HAVE TRIED TO DO THE BEST THAT WE CAN FOR THE CITIZENS OF DENWITTY COUNTY. I ASK FOR IT TO SHOW YOU WHAT THAT RATE DOES, BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA BE KIND OF A TIMELINE TO LOOK AT WHAT HAS OCCURRED WITH RATES OVER TIME. SO I JUST HOPE THAT YOU WILL HAVE SOME FAITH IN US TO MAKE A WISE DECISION FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE SITTING HERE AS WE GO FORWARD. MR. CHAIRMAN, I GUESS, UM, WHAT I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT, UM, IS THE BUDGET PROCESS. AND, UM, I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD 13 AND A HALF YEARS. 'CAUSE I WAS APPOINTED BEFORE I GOT ELECTED. UH, BUT WE, UM, WE START WITH AN AMOUNT FROM LAST YEAR'S BUDGET. AND SO WE'RE GONNA DO THE SAME THIS YEAR. WE'LL START WITH AN AMOUNT FROM LAST YEAR'S BUDGET. UM, I DISLIKE THE BUDGET PROCESS BECAUSE WE GET, EVERY DEPARTMENT HEAD COMES IN AND TELLS US THEIR NEEDS AND THEIR NEEDS. CERTAINLY I WEIGH, UM, THE MONEY WE HAVE. SO IN THE LAST THREE YEARS, YOU CAN IMAGINE POLICE CARS HAVE GOTTEN EXPENSIVE. FIRE TRUCKS HAVE GOTTEN STUPID. HOW EXPENSIVE? SCHOOL BUSES ARE CRAZY NOW. UM, BUT KEVIN DOES A DOLLAR BILL AND I'M A VISUAL PERSON. SO HE BREAKS OUT THE DOLLAR BILL. WELL, ITS 60% IS FINE IS SAFETY AND SCHOOLS. YEAH. AND THEN THE OTHER 40% GETS BROKEN DOWN INTO ALL THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. SO, UM, I WOULD INVITE YOU, I'LL LET, IF YOU WANT TO GUESS, HOW MANY PEOPLE CAME TO THE BUDGET PROCESS LAST YEAR? UM, THE WHOLE TIME FROM, UH, FEBRUARY THROUGH MAY. UH, WHEN WE PASSED THE BUDGET, THAT NUMBER WAS UH, ZERO. SO WE'RE MAKING DECISIONS FOR THE BUDGET FOR THIS COUNTY WITH ZERO INPUT. NOW. I THINK WE DO A PRETTY GOOD JOB. UM, IT, IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE, UM, SOMEBODY CAME UP WITH THE IDEA OF CUTTING AND WRECK. WELL, IF YOU WANT TO BE THE PERSON TO SAY LET'S CUT FUNDING TO REC, UH, YOU CAN STAND AT THAT PODIUM AND THE 600 PEOPLE BEHIND YOU WITH KIDS AND, UM, GIRL SOFTBALL, UH, ALL THOSE DIFFERENT THINGS, YOU'RE GONNA GET [03:20:01] NERVOUS STANDING THERE. UM, 'CAUSE IT'S GOING TO GET TO BE A HOT SEAT. UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE SPENDING IN THE BUDGET NOW. UM, MAYBE WE TWEAK IT, SOME WE DON'T. UM, BUT THERE ARE MORE THINGS WE COULD DO TOO. YOU KNOW, WE NEED A, WE NEED WALKING TRAILS. WE NEED A PARK REC DEPARTMENT IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THEY CREATE THEIR OWN AGONY BECAUSE THEY DO A GOOD JOB OF WHAT THEY DO AND PEOPLE WANT MORE. UM, BUT IT JUST TAKES MONEY AND WE ALL PAY TAXES JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WE LIKE TO SEE, UH, WHAT WE, WE GET. AND ME PERSONALLY, I WAS LAYING ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR ONE, ONE NIGHT AND, UH, IT'S, IT'S NICE TO KNOW THAT A AMBULANCE IS COMING THAT IS, IS FULLY, UM, GOT EVERY GADGET THAT'S AVAILABLE NOW. UH, AND WE ALL TRAIN PEOPLE RUNNING IT. I'LL FIRE TRUCKS, SO THE BEST FIRE TRUCKS AROUND. UM, WE'VE GOT GOOD EQUIPMENT AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK WE WANT TO GO BACKWARDS FROM THAT. SO I APPRECIATE THAT YOU'RE HERE AND, AND WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS. MS. BALLER. YEAH. UM, UH, WELL FIRST OF ALL, I, I'D JUST LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE FOR COMING BECAUSE YOU TOOK THE TIME TO COME OUT AND ASK THE QUESTIONS THIS EVENING. AND, UH, OF COURSE, BEING ON THIS BOARD 13 YEARS, WE, WE STRIVE TO TRY TO DO THE BEST FOR EVERY CITIZEN IN THE COUNTY. AND IF CUTTING TAXES AND MAKING SURE THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO LIVE, UM, AMONG YOUR MEANS, THAT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TO US. AND AGAIN, WE ALL PAY TAXES. UM, IT'S NOT A FUN THING SOMETIMES, BUT, UM, IT'S THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO DO FOR, FOR, FOR OUR CITIZENS. I DO REMEMBER BEING ON THE BOARD, UH, AND I'LL NEVER FORGET THIS. WE, UM, WE TALKED ABOUT FIRE TRUCKS, UH, AND PUBLIC SAFETY. UH, AT ONE TIME PEOPLE USED TO COME AND VOLUNTEER TO, UH, BE A FIREMAN, JUST TO BE THERE TO HELP, TO COME OUT, TO GO OUT. THEY REALLY CAN'T DO THAT ANYMORE. THEY CAN'T REALLY AFFORD TO GET OUTTA THEIR BED IF THEY HAVE ANOTHER JOB AND COME AND DO THAT. WE HAD A GENTLEMAN THAT CAME IN AND HE SAID, I DON'T WANT TO SUPPORT A FIRE TRUCK. HE SAID, IF MY HOUSE CATCHES ON FIRE, IT CAN BURN DOWN. AND I WAS JUST IN SHOCK. WE HAD PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WAS IN SHOCK AS WELL BECAUSE HE FELT THAT WE SHOULD NOT EVEN LOOK AT BUYING A NEW FIRE TRUCK. AND I REMEMBER ONE OF THE FIREMEN SAYING AT THAT PARTICULAR MEETING, HE WOULD BE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD, HE'S TURNING RIGHT, BUT THE FIRETRUCK TURNING LEFT. AND THAT WAS JUST A EYE AWAKENING THING FOR US BECAUSE HE, HE, HE SAID HE PRAYED EVERY TIME HE WAS GOING DOWN THE STREET BECAUSE THE FIRETRUCK WAS, IS SUCH, UM, A BAD NEED FOR A NEW FIRETRUCK. SO WE HAVE TO LOOK AT ALL THOSE THINGS AND, UM, WE, WHEN WE DO THE BUDGET PRO PROCESS COMING UP, PLEASE, IF YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO COME, COME AND LISTEN BECAUSE IT'S REALLY A INTERESTING, WE HAVE A CLASS THAT COMES UP AND YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT THE, UH, THE WHOLE, UM, PROCESS IN DEN WITTY. SO WE ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO DO THAT. WE'RE GOING TO MAYBE TRY TO GET THAT INFORMATION OUT SO YOU CAN COME AND LEARN. EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN THROUGH THAT CLASS LOVES IT BECAUSE NOW THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT, UM, EYE OPENING THING WITH, WITH THE COUNTY. THEY SAY, OH, WELL I DIDN'T KNOW THE COUNTY OPERATES LIKE THAT. AND IT'S REALLY INTERESTING. SO, UM, THAT'S COMING UP IN JANUARY AND, UM, PLEASE COME OUT AND DO THAT AND, AND JUST FEEL THAT THIS, JUST KNOW THAT THIS BOARD IS GONNA TRY TO DO THE BEST WE CAN, NOT ONLY FOR YOU ALL, BUT AS, UH, THE COMMISSIONER SAID FOR SENIOR CITIZENS AND DISABLED PEOPLE, UM, IN OUR COMMUNITY, WE HAVE TO LOOK OUT, UM, FOR PEOPLE THAT'S IN NEED. AND, UM, I KNOW THAT, UM, A FAMOUS SCRIPTURE IS WHAT YOU DO TO THE LEAST OF THEM, YOU DO TO ME. SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE DO EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN DO TO HELP EVERYONE. SO, UH, AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT AND WE, THIS IS ON VIDEO TOO. YOU CAN GO BACK AND LOOK AT IT AND EVERYTHING IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. BUT, UM, WE ARE HERE TO HELP. SO YOU CAN JUST, UH, GIVE US A PHONE CALL OR THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR WHO HAS ALL THIS STUFF IN HIS HEAD. THANK YOU, . WELL, THIS HAS BEEN A LONG MEETING. UM, THEY'VE SAID EVERYTHING THAT I CAN SAY. I FEEL THE PAIN TOO. UM, BUT MY, MY THINKING IS, UH, LET US [03:25:01] GET THROUGH THE PROCESS. LIKE IT'S GONNA BE TO MARCH BEFORE, UH, WE CAN GET AN ANSWER. LIKE HE, UH, UH, KEVIN SAID, WE'RE NOT GONNA STAY AT 84. WE KNOW WE'RE GONNA GO WAY BACK. SO JUST PAY, HAVE PATIENCE FOR US. YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAY, WE GO, WE FEEL, WE FEEL THE SAME PAIN. YOU FEEL WE'RE GONNA DO THE SAME THING YOU DOING. WE GOTTA PAY FOR IT TOO. I'M AN OLD PERSON TOO. I DON'T MAKE THE MONEY I USED TO MAKE EITHER, SO I HAVE TO SLOW MY LIVING DOWN. BUT, UH, IT'S GONNA GET GOOD. JUST DON'T, UH, YOU KNOW, WE, WE JUMP TOO QUICK, BUT IT'S NOT GONNA BE AS BAD AS WHAT WE THINK IT IS. OKAY? SO HAVE PATIENCE WITH US. WE'RE GOOD BOARD. I THINK WE'VE TAKEN THIS COUNTY TO A ANOTHER LEVEL. SO, UH, GIVE US SOME MORE TIME. GIVE, I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, RECOGNIZE A GUY THAT, THAT MEANS A LOT TO US. MR. WAXMAN, UH, OUR SENATOR, THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT. YOU, YOU SAW A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN WHAT YOU WANTED TO SEE, I GUESS , BUT, UH, THANK YOU FOR, UM, STAYING AND HAVING PATIENCE TO, TO BE WITH, UM, ALL OF OUR RAMBLING AND TRYING TO CALM THINGS DOWN. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING IF I COULD? SURE. AS STATED, MY NAME IS OTTO WAXMAN. I'M THE DELEGATE FOR THE 83RD DISTRICT. UH, DENWOODY IS NEW TO THE DISTRICT, UH, PRESENTLY I LIVE IN SUSSEX COUNTY WHERE I'VE SPENT JUST ABOUT ALL OF MY LIFE, USED TO OWN THE PHARMACY THERE. STONY CREEK PHARMACY, A LOT OF PEOPLE FROM DENWOODY KNOW ME FROM THERE. BUT THE 83RD DISTRICT, THE NEW LINES ARE SUSSEX, GREENSVILLE, EMPORIA, SOUTH HAMPTON, BRUNSWICK, BRUNSWICK, UH, PORTION OF DENWOODY, THE, THE SOUTHERN EDGE, INCLUDING ALL OF MCKINNEY. AND, UH, ABOUT HALF TO MAYBE TWO THIRDS OF ALL OF WHITE COUNTY. IT IS A LARGE COUNTY. WOW. UH, I'VE BEEN MEANING TO COME HERE SINCE I WAS, UH, SUCCESSFUL IN REPRESENTING PORTIONS OF OF DENWOODY. I'M GLAD I FINALLY CAME TONIGHT. UH, TONIGHT'S DISCUSSION FOR THOSE IN THE AUDIENCE IS QUITE FAMILIAR. I SAID I LIVE IN SUSSEX, OUR SUSSEX COUNTY, I BELIEVE DID THEIR REAPPRAISALS AND REASSESSMENTS I THINK THREE YEARS AGO. MM-HMM . IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST ONES IN THE AREA SINCE THE, THE PRICES OF HOUSING AND LAND WENT UP SO MUCH, UH, WE HEARD VERY SIMILAR THINGS. UH, THEN THE NEXT YEAR IT WAS OLIVE WHITE HEARD THE SAME THING THERE, WHERE PEOPLE WERE UPSET WITH THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS WITHOUT REALLY REALIZING THAT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, AND PLEASE, MR. MASSENGILL, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, UH, THE COUNTIES ARE REQUIRED TO CHOOSE, UH, REASSESSMENT GROUPS FROM A, A LIST OF APPROVED SS THAT THE STATE APPROVES. RIGHT? AND, AND YOU'RE REALLY HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO WHAT THOSE APPRAISALS ARE. BUT AS YOU NOTED, UH, THE COUNTY HAS THE ABILITY TO CHANGE THE LEVEE, RIGHT. OR THE TAX RATE. UH, AFTER ALL WHITE MADE THAT CHANGE. BRUNSWICK COUNTY LAST YEAR DID THE SAME THING, HEARD THESE SAME TYPES OF DISCUSSIONS AND MOST OF THE COUNTIES, THEY ENDED UP GETTING WHAT THAT EFFECTIVE RATE WAS BASED ON WHAT THEY WOULD'VE PAID WITH THE NEW, NEW RATES AND LOWERED THE TAX RATE DOWN TO JUST ABOVE WHAT THAT EFFECTIVE RATE WAS FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR. UH, OF COURSE, COUNTY'S EXPENSES HAVE GONE UP. I, I KNOW WHEN I GO TO EAT AT A A RESTAURANT RIGHT NOW, IT, IT COSTS ME QUITE A BIT MORE THAN WHAT IT USED TO. AMEN. BUT, UH, I, I DID WANT TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION. UH, 'CAUSE I, I KNOW WHEN YOU FIRST GET THOSE REASSESSMENTS, THEY ARE QUITE HIGH AND, AND NOBODY WANTS TO, TO JUMP UP FOR JOY THAT WHAT THEY OWN IS WORTH MORE NOW . RIGHT. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE RECOGNITION, UH, AND ANYTHING THAT I CAN DO TO HELP DENWOODY COUNTY AS WE GET READY TO START SESSION IN JANUARY, I I I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU HONOR. THANK YOU SIR. APPRECIATE IT. OKAY, THANKS EVERYONE FOR COMING OUT. AND NOW WE NEED A MOTION FOR A CHAIRMAN SECOND ROLL CALL DR. MOORE. AYE. MR. LEE? AYE. MS. EBRA BONNER AYE. MR. DOOLEY? AYE. MR. CHAVIS AYE ALL VOTING AYE MEETING IS ADJOURNED. GOOD NIGHT EVERYONE. GOOD NIGHT. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.