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I think in the James City County Board of Supervisors to order for the purpose of a business meeting. This is even if you please call the roll.

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Member, Mr. Eisenhower. Mr. Hipple.

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Here. Mr. Larson. Here.

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We need a motion to allow Mr. Stadler to participate electronically due to a health related issue. Do I have a motion to include her?

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Yes. So moved.

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Please call the roll please.

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Mr. Eisenhower.

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Hi. Mr. Hipple.

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Mr. Larson.

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Hi. Mr. Moodwen.

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Hi. Mr. Kirsten Kirsten.

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So, welcome to the meeting.

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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We'll have a number of items on today's agenda.

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We're going to start off with a couple of presentations.

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And the first delighted to welcome to the podium, Dean Lynch, the Executive Director

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of the Virginia Association of Counties.

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Mr. Lynch is a very important part of the representation for Counties in Richmond and a great source of information,

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education and training for county supervisors and the county government to buy and large so welcome.

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Thank you for taking time to be with us today.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, it's good to be here. Mr. Chairman, members of the board, Mr. Stephens.

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I'm Dean Lynch, Executive Director of the Virginia Association of Counties and for some of you who may not be familiar

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with Virginia Association of Counties or Vaco, we were founded in 1934 to support the efforts of

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officials through education programs, through advocacy, and through our business development services.

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And thank you for making it possible for me to be here today to be in this stunning part

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of the Commonwealth of Virginia to recognize Ms. Ruth Larson and her achievements in the

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Certified Supervisors Program. A little bit about Ms. Larson's program that she went through is

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This program was founded in 2006, we have had over 100 graduates of the program representing

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40 counties across the Commonwealth.

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Ms. Larson completed over 100 education hours to complete the certificate program and this

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program is affiliated with the Virginia Association of Counties and Virginia Tech.

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So congratulations, Ms. Larson, I'm completing this program and it's good to be here today

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to award her her certificate, and her pins,

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thank you

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for the opportunity, Mr. Chairman.

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Thank you.

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Congratulations to Ms. Larson.

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Thank you.

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We'll be reading your turnpapers that I showed that they caught all the type of draft

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colors.

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Well, it was an incredible, it's a great program.

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I have to say I'm so glad that I did it and I really appreciate everything that they

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co-staff puts into it.

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I appreciate all the support of my colleagues and all the help from county staff and I learned

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so much.

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And as with any they co-program really, one of the best parts about it is the collaboration

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with people all across the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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And so you learn not only things about your own county

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and counties like yours, the counties that are nothing like yours either.

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So, but I really appreciate this a very busy time for vaco.

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They're dealing with general assembly and issues that are happening there.

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And I know that Dean has headed back immediately to go to committee meetings,

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but I really appreciate you coming down Dean.

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Thanks.

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And I would point out that as Larson, as she completed her certification program,

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was also elected the second-by-share of Baco at our annual leading this year. Congratulations

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on that as well.

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Thank you.

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We now have a presentation from one of our favorite groups, the James City County Clean

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County Commission, and it's Chair Peg Bourmon, is here today.

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Mr. Chairman, members of the board, Mr. Savings. Can you hear me? Excuse my voice, it comes

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goes. Good afternoon. I'm peg bourbon. I'm from downtown in life foot. I'm happy to be here and

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I'm back. I'm going to talk a little trash just like I used to. I don't think that I have gone

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away anywhere. But I want to give you a presentation from our Clean County Commission.

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maybe some of our members would be here, but I guess they can't make it.

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We have Charles Latheman from Berkeley, Kevin Radcliffe from Roberts, 10 Wim

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Stanley, he's been also from Roberts, Rachel West is from Berkeley, Heath Richardson is

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Stonehouse and Emma just finished her term with us this past fall and she's decided she's

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not going to stay because she's going to go. She's going to be moving back to New York or

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something as soon as school them. But anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I have,

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we have some good news about a lot of things. We have a newsletter that was launched

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this month, and it's called all hands-on deck. Perhaps you all might have got one. I think

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the case is in and out email. We also did a podcast,

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We're happy to have Heath Richardson with us, I forgot to say he's been a volunteer with the

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Boy Scouts and a lot of other things that we've done, but he's with us now on the commission

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and we're very glad to have him.

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One of the, beginning we, we've just launched a program this past fall, about, it's called

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literally, and it's literally clean up kids.

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And we have, we develop these things, different kids to, to be passed out at the libraries.

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And you can, you can check out a kit and go out and clean up something you turn it back in.

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and then we have a report from them.

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We've had eight checkouts since November,

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and right now we've got two that are circulating

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in each of the libraries from Croker and Williamsburg.

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A group can also be formed,

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and a team can go to the office or tuning road

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and check out it and keep it as long as they want,

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as long as they're working with them.

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Does each library does have five Emma was real

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instrumental in getting this started?

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And we have the different topics are available

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on the website or on YouTube.

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And she does it was one, two, three, four, five, six.

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About 10 different topics that she put together.

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volunteers at work with it as well as the topics that she had. The letter and recycling

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expo in 2020.

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I don't think I'm, and thank you, Mr. Glennon, for coming out and supporting

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us during that time frame. We all look like a rounded rats, because there was cats and dogs

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rain and as well as rain drops. Also, there were results from there, and he was very instrumental

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in getting all the statistics about EverCard that came in. And of course, it was in conjunction

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with the hazardous waste that was on the other side of the school, all the information

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there. We had from James City, we had 103 cars with 136 people. We had from Williamsburg,

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there were 18 cars with 25 people. York County had three with five people and we had two cars

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that came from New Kent jurisdictions. So that it could have been considered a success. I guess even

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was very wet but the 2021 was much more successful.

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We had we didn't do the tracking of

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four people can to restore 53 for shredding 14 tires 10 for the glass and 18 for shoes

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And clothing, 328 pounds of plastic,

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two tires that actually came in.

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And then we had 154, 155 pairs of shoes that came for this solves for shoes.

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Four pieces of clothing, and all that kept saved 400 forth through the environment. And we had

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them three thousand pounds of paper that seemed to be the most popular part of it. And it was

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cold day, but it was a sunny day. And then we had Earth Day, I hope that it's going to be

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a new tradition for us because in the past we've celebrated our, our, our, our, our, our

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Weasburg garden clubs and an earth day was celebrated with us and we're not even a black

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gum.

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I'm not sure, I sure.

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But this year we're going to be planning American Chestnut and that will be on our

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day and thank you, Mr. Eisenhower, for joining us.

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We had the James City Routaine Club gave the presentation of the Will Barnes Gym Robertson,

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some of you might remember, Jim.

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We had the recipient for that.

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She was from War Hill and I can't remember her name now, but we also dedicated the Will Barnes

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shelter which had never been done because the first one we had is still it and I said well we've

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haven't done it so we're going to do it so we had ribbon cutting for the shelter as well as the

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flower box as the Jamesy Routans had installed and we had a nice volunteer from the county that

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agreed to do it for us so it was very much appreciated this year I'm going to

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I'm going to hold y'all to it now that you got an invitation.

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The fallinator in rain gardens was at Veterans Park also on tears and I tried my best

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to get everybody's sign up, but somehow I didn't get them all.

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But we had so many people that was just gratifying to see that many people out there.

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As you can see the picture, there's a large number of garden, as you can see over here on the left.

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at the same time, but we had another planning in the September for the fall planning.

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We want to make sure everybody takes a look at that sign when they're out there.

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And we had in March, again, we had the number was, but we had people out cleaning up in different areas of the county.

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We also had disperse.

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So we gave her a real initiation on that day.

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And we had 94 volunteers that came.

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I think it was a 22 or three headed up.

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And there was a lot of you out there.

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I think for that.

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And that was, it was really great to have so many people that came out for.

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But we had 119 tires, I think on yours sheet it might have 27, we had 119 tires or club.

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And some of them I think they risk life and limb for it to get those tires up out of those ravines.

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Because there was so many of them.

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and they do a real good job five tons of litter that was collected, disposed of.

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And we cleaned up 42.5 miles within the county.

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That's just, it was another picture of the cleanup.

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I put a couple, we had to have our presentation in.

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So, we did the litter index on January 8th.

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We would plan to do it in November or October, November, and of course I wasn't able

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to do it at that time, and so I'm glad I was, well we did all of these on the water shed,

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And the one is just for this year, one with the five colors on it, that was for the just for this year.

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And as you can look at this, you can tell the one point for Regina and Cassie from the county.

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And we, everybody did a scoring of how they, they thought the litter was,

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November, and then we did another, we did another, we did another, we did January of 20,

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and then November of 20, and then we didn't do 21 until this year.

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And you can see that some of the areas, each one of the colors is watershed,

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And it gives you the comparison as the scoring as how it's done.

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Some places stay about the same.

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Some are greatly improved.

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And, unfortunately, we had some letter, but not nearly as long as the adoptive spot.

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We, this sign is from the Warhill High School Environmental Club and that's, they aren't

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our newest, but this, they were in Newland, the area over by the 4H Camp near the, on the

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capital trail and there, there are our newest group and each year the sign will have the class

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senior class on that, like 2021,

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2022, so forth. We'll be on that sign. Kevin and I toured them

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eight spout there and cleaning it up. But we did find it on the eighth of January,

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and Deborah Road was very, was very, and there was all kinds of trash scattered up and down there,

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And it was just so, it was, it was disgusting to see that much trash,

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but we informed the

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right person to get it cleaned up, you do, and that's having the adoptive spots.

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We've had three campaigns, Angeds and literature that we've passed out at any event we have,

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and trying to educate people about it.

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Also, we can compare the how much waste is minimum.

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And with that is a lot of the plastic and stuff that was being recycled,

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can't be recycled now.

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And so that's going into the trash.

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But we have clean county was instrumental in getting the glass.

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and we're still working on the zero tolerance for litter. As you can see we're with

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keep James City clowning beautiful and keep America beautiful. That's what we do

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them. This litter index and with the spring cleanup, of course that's a more magnified.

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And then we've got the new program with them literally and under them.

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beautification, we've got the adopt spot in, we had an app only, one application for 2021,

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and they requested money for their volunteers.

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Well, we couldn't approve that because that was not part of the program, but they're still a good pro, they're 22, and the first checks have been received and the final

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So project is completed by April 30th and the checks will be going out in May.

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And so finally, overall, we've had 26 litter cleanups with $294 and 20 groups did displays or presentations.

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And we've had approximately 1,359 people in attendance down here.

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I wasn't sure which Mr. Larson or Mrs. Larson or Mr. Eisenhower will be needing to get us a replacement for Emma, because she's from the James town.

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So, and from Stonehouse, we now have two, that's myself, and I picked on John for many years, so we finally got a couple.

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But Mr. Hippel.

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Mr. Hippel, we can use two right there.

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We can use at least two in each district.

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And ask if the board of anybody would like to ask me questions or you did say June 18th is from the Wilburne's day.

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Will be Wilburne's down to a clock. I think.

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Hi Paggets too. I just wanted to say hi from afar. Thank you for everything you're continuing to do. It's so nice to see you at the podium again.

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And I just did all their pictures up there, so they've been helping out, so I gotta give

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a shout out to my kid as well as a great thing for kids to help that with, because it

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really gives them incentive to not be for your doing.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate the accolades.

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It's all for the Clean County Commission.

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It's not me, but I'm just up here talking.

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Well, Ms. Bormann, it is a large part due to the efforts that you put into this patient on

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the Clean County Commission to help you in that task. I'm very sorry to hear that we'll

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be losing Emma because she has really made a significant contribution to the program stepping

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up to help out as co-chair for a while and leaves at the end of the school year. But the real

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test is that you are able to motivate other people to get involved as well, not just the members

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of the commission, but all those volunteers out there. And we really do appreciate the lean and

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do a better job of discouraging litter.

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So you didn't really lose your voice.

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It's great to see you in such good spirits

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and so healthy.

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Okay, well now move to the consent calendar

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and we have a very large consent calendar.

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I'm gonna go through very quickly

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and then see if anybody has anything

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that'd like to remove for further information or discussion.

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We have acceptance of housing vouchers,

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grant, we have additional appropriations of $220,000

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For the 2019 scattered site housing rehabilitation community development block grant, we have 2021 scattered

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site housing rehabilitation community development block grant adoption of the amended housing

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rehabilitation program design.

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We have competitive $127,000 for the automatic cardi-apomanary resuscitation devices.

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We have a contract awarded $245,738 for emergency communication center, HVAC backup.

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We have dedication of streets in Mason Parks of best partnership.

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We have a grant award of $47,797 for the Commonwealth attorneys, the VSTOP grant program fund, grant award of $3333 for fiscal year 2022 law enforcement officers.

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safety and wellness addressing psychological needs of $16,000 for state homeland security

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program, almost done here, 21 emergency management, and finally adoption of a set of minutes

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from previous board meetings. Do you have a motion?

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The approval of the consent agenda. So I'll make the motion.

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The motion to approve the consent agenda, Mr. Davis, call the roll please.

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Just as I was looking through these grants, just a kudos to staff for the doesn't address all the needs of these particular programs, but it is a step.

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I think it does the law enforcement safety and wellness addressing the psychological needs of law enforcement is this something that we had done before.

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after me.

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Thank you.

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This is something we're doing new.

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It's an initiative to look out for the officers, the welfare, and take cameras of the

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games in county family.

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So we're looking forward to it.

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It's an ongoing contract.

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We're working with.

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And I'm assuming it will be anonymous, and I'm not, but between them and the person who they'll

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be talking with, et cetera.

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Absolutely.

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And if they can go on their own, it'd be mandatory, but they'll be leading us.

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This was Chief Ash.

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It was the community animal response team.

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I just want to, you could just talk about that.

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It started after Hurricane Sandy.

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A lot of the regulations change.

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When we do sheltering, we have to also make sure we're providing

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offerings for walk, things like that.

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They're in a shelter.

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The owners would be responsible for.

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But when they're in a separate area, the shelter making sure that they're taking care of

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have food, those types of things.

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So those are another volunteer group.

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Okay.

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Come out today to answer any questions you want to have that.

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Those items.

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All right.

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With that, we'll move on to board discussion.

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And we have five items with us today for us today, plan update.

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Good afternoon, Mr. Chair.

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Tags.

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An Andrew McPay, the project manager with mostly architects.

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Building one of the space needs assessment, the facility's master plan provides a roadmap

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to meet the county space needs for the next 20 years for the most critical facilities.

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At the 75% identified as the master plan.

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Some of the narratives in the document that you now have,

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assessments were developed for all of

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So these master plan options and projected out for the year 2040. With the school board, we have at the next regular meeting in February, and we're tentatively scheduled with the courthouse.

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Thank you, Sean.

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Mass going off.

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Let's turn.

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Project.

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The study is pretty much wrapped up, and we can discuss next steps at the conclusion of the presentation.

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But back in 2020, we completed a space needs assessment.

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And that looked at all the existing space available for county facilities.

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It looked at the current personnel populations within the county departments,

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facilities master plan to fulfill those 24 space needs.

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The level of detail, this is not a, you know, so if you ask me, what color is a carpet going to be?

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Detailed direction, but it should be used as a guide as the county then moves forward with the development of the individual projects to meet those 20, 40 space needs.

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And that's also a living document.

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As you find, you go through the next 10 years, can update that plan periodically and check off boxes as you implement different projects.

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And then you will keep moving that time for really sensitive advance or so I apologize

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about it.

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All right.

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So preliminary budget estimates, as Sean said, were developed for HD.

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And those projects were based on $20, $21, and then we took those $20, $21, and escalated

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them over the next 20 years.

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based all at one time, it's something that you will create a plan for and plan for over the next 20 years and beyond.

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So the plan looks at the most critical needs of the facilities.

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You know, this is not a wish list. This is a needs assessment.

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The 2020 net, one needs there in the leftmost column.

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That's the budget for county administration, school administration, and the Winsburg James City County Courts.

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You'll see the total budget is 200, but again, these are all of the projects, these are

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all of the needs for the entire county and, you know, when the terms of the courts,

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it's city and county, and the terms of schools said, we developed what was called the master

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plan, and then we all said the alternative concepts, we're only going to look at the master plan

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today.

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These are only the blue diagrams, as they're indicated in your final facilities master plan

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study, or to as the water tower site.

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So, the opportunity way site includes what's already existing, which is the law enforcement center, the LEC, a future administering city county school administration office.

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So, five of those facilities don't even exist today. One does and one will be expanded on as 10 years of birth built in through the foresight of yourselves and the folks who plan that facility.

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So, it has no growth needs in the first 10, but we need a plan for that.

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So, the law enforcement center is at the very top of this screen.

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You see a small addition and also a covered park in area, a plan for it.

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And then you see the other building, then between fire administration, excuse me, between

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fire station six, and the detail is all in the study, in terms of that spill.

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We've got six facilities being proposed, that's the general services administration building,

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the general services warehouse, residential facility, and then the fire training tower.

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And those are all practical training, okay, as opposed to $47 million.

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And you see how they, those currently let up to best serve the county's needs.

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And you see how the six percent, the actual call center would move out of where it is now

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next to fire station one, that would move into the county administration building, and the

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That's not a short-term project, that's a long-term project, you know, fire services change as systems fail.

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That building will need to be renovated.

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So again, we're trying to forecast that we need to put about a 6700 square foot expansion on that building.

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The existing fire station 22, and this would be about a $6.8 million additional renovation to fire station 2.

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Fire Station 3, we were proposed the existing base could be renovated to serve either storage needs or dormitory, fitness needs of the fire station again over the next 20 years.

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And fire station 5, similar to fire station 2, need some more base base.

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We're proposing a bay, basically their plan south of the existing station.

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The JECSA would then at that point occupying would be demolished.

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There was a basically where general services is now, and a consolidated facility

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be built for JECSA.

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We'll keep the operate.

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So the skinny leg that you see facing Tony Road, that would be the administration portion of that building.

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This point.

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This is a big picture analysis.

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We just want to confirm that the building could building and get a renovation of that facility.

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And the registrar would move into this medical would move out of this facility and social services

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with at that point occupying the entire facility.

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So this may very well be a two-step process

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with expansion onto that building for that,

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again, the 20-year need.

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And a lot of these aspects have that one, too,

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or phasing portions, you can make them more affordable, right?

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And that's a strategy that the county has utilized

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many times over the past 50 years.

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The recsendums, so that this administration wing

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You can also use these multi-purpose rooms for overflow and flex space.

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And this is your existing campus and the future of it in any questions where we're

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glad to that.

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Thank you very much Mr. Bell.

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Anybody have any questions from Mr. Bell at this time?

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Cutting those big numbers into smaller numbers and starting to move them along the calendar

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to create CIP project and no one goes unneeded.

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Does that make sense?

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It does, and I think it's important to understand that presumably we're not looking at any one of those three, but rather, this is kind of a continuum so that some closer to 20 years out.

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Well, so the cost is more.

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Yes.

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Right.

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I think when you even, even if we were doing everything under in 2040 dollars, it's important to remember doing that over to those needs to just keep stacking up.

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And this is also clear that this is not the entirety of our capital improvements, they're going to be other issues that we are dealing with inventory.

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Yes, Mr. Chairman, that is correct.

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The, I guess, connecting the dots on this, it would probably be appropriate to these projects sort of rank ordered in the order of need.

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And then how that translates into the proposed budget this brought forward to us because the CIP there should be looking out at least five or ten years on this so that we have a reasonable figure of

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I guess

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Things that should be tackled first and sort of a rank order and how how you would plan on building that it does we go forward and time much to what Mr. Bell had suggested so

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Any other questions?

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It's a very big number. I'm sure very scary to people that might be watching from home,

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operate.

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So, I am, and work through it. So, thank you very much.

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Sure. Thank you very much, Mr. Bell. So, our second discussion item is

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looking at minimum wage impacts in Alice's and that's a Patrick T.

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Inges to Virginia's minimum wage upcoming changes,

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James City County's plan and what's some of the

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minimum wage move from

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9.50 to 11 per hour. Next January, we will

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buy with 12 an hour by 2023 employees will migrate

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bulb an hour, and the resulting modified pay scale, salary range 6 will be our new minimum,

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and that will mean we're income.

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Have approximately 1,100 employees, 75% of those are full-time.

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We currently have no full-time employees that earn less than $12 or under the 12 an hour.

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So, those 264 non-fultime,

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so the other thing we have to look at is the big compensated,

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the same as someone who perhaps has only been here one or one and a half years.

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And there's also full-time employees who would be adjusted, in the example below that's cut off

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little bit. Full-time circulation assistance that may then well be within a few

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dollars of that individual. Our goal, we've completed phase one. We met the

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$11 now, we're on January the first, and then we are hoping on phase for

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next January. Each of these phases, again, have compensation adjustments, and that

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does include our benefit changes, so 0.5% wage increase and our cutoff is 16 per hour, no adjustments

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occur to staff over 16 per hour, 15.99, so 12 dollars, oh, I'm sorry.

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So this is what the

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cost summary looks like for fiscal year 22, we're estimating 113,070 and that shows you

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benefit break out for the compression adjustments for a full time.

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And one of the reasons

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we're looking at $2 an hour and the city of Newport News in December raised their minimum

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start to 12 an hour as well.

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Yes, sir. One question, when you're looking at these figures, a certain part of it is

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a compression half of it, or I don't have an exact figure, but yeah, the total is closer to

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40 or at 60 40 split. Those two numbers be added together of the total cost. Yes. Okay. So the total cost for a

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wage is for our folks who are under 12. Okay. And understand where you're coming from start and mid-February of this year.

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And then next year minimum wage is bump to 12. Yeah. And that's one of the pieces we're working into the

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20, 3, 20, 4 budget is our goal of us because I could see it coming next year to the same

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time we're going to take care.

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Where are we getting the funds for the adjustment?

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That piece I have no concern with funding yet.

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The issue with the $12 in doing it early, we didn't have to do it this year.

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I do believe it's hours and hours, so we're competing with somebody that's indoor and a controlled

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environment versus our staff that is often outdoor.

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we could accelerate and do it a little quicker. I know I spoke with Patrick Mitch and Newport News

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going to fill challenge for local governments as well as private sector right now in terms of

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I suspect some of that money that we have available to address this question this year is due to

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our inability to build strategic and so she could I probably spent the general fund saving 3 or 4 or

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5 times in her opinion but I feel confident that we can find it. People we have shortages all across the

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with some of our staff, so I think it's important that we recognize that and hopefully the citizens understand it's very important, especially as they call and have issues about.

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Yes, ma'am. And it's certainly the case that it's not just us that our experience this question locally and I think we've seen evidence that it is a national problem.

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That's very day job. We have no issue with getting staff and of course we've bumped it up

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considerably as well which you know some jobs you need to take a real look at they've been

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paid way too low for very long time but other areas it's very very hard to to fill positions

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and so it's your right, it's an ongoing issue.

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Pre-budget catch up on our revenues and expenditures, Mistake.

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Eight on the County's finances, as well as touch on a few matters regarding the upcoming

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budgets for fiscal year 20th is comment at that time.

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So some of our topics this afternoon will include an update on the fiscal year 2020.

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COVID-19 update in terms of finances, and also we'll touch on meeting this year.

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I provided a detail update on last year, fiscal year 2021, and that would not change

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significantly from what I previously reported.

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As a quick read, or purchase orders was about 192 million.

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That resulted in a year in health and dental claims.

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So that was a good trend to see.

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Also included in that 26 million was about 8.1 million that came back to the

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Kliciers budget as well as funding needs for the school division and future

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budgets.

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Also as part of our 22 budget, we had set aside and then the balance went to our

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unassigned fund balance.

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Excuse me and that was about 11 million to allocate 7 million of that for a

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property acquisition which was those courthouse properties.

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require that we maintain an unassigned fund balance fund that would include the other

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funds that we talk about where we have our other programs, housing, social services, some

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of our ongoing debt. That requirement would equate it to about $30 million. Our balance

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was $56 million for expenditures that were cut from the budget due to the uncertainty of

444
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:29,720
the pandemic, but statement replacements and items of that nature. So we've definitely dipped

445
00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:32,620
into our fund balance more in recent times,

446
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,160
then we have sure that we are staying well above

447
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,160
that requirement of 30 million.

448
00:44:38,900 --> 00:44:42,480
So the next two set our fund balance provides cash flow

449
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:46,400
to us to help us get through not only tough economic times,

450
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,660
when the revenues are down, but off twice a year.

451
00:44:50,140 --> 00:44:52,400
So there's certain months where our cash is high

452
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,300
and certain months itself could be low

453
00:44:54,300 --> 00:44:56,660
because it's been a while since we've collected taxes.

454
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:58,980
So we have to maintain a healthy caro.

455
00:44:58,980 --> 00:44:59,980
We have significant...

456
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:08,240
In projects on our CIP every year, we try to avoid going to market and borrowing money every year, because it costs money to borrow money.

457
00:45:08,780 --> 00:45:20,660
There are really wait until we have several significant projects that make sense to borrow for, and then we had a time where our actual cash normally would be low, because it's been several months again since we collected taxes.

458
00:45:21,580 --> 00:45:25,220
We do receive some threats to a year to get those reimbursements.

459
00:45:25,220 --> 00:45:28,360
So again, that fund balance is there for those purposes.

460
00:45:29,180 --> 00:45:33,500
In balance, how are we going to continue to pay that extra going forward?

461
00:45:34,020 --> 00:45:36,940
The example that came up today was minimum wage.

462
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:40,220
We've been to replenish our fund balance when we do use it.

463
00:45:41,180 --> 00:45:45,740
Generally, when we use fund balance, it's really after we've determined that we don't have

464
00:45:45,740 --> 00:45:50,780
looking at the current year and we're doing a projection on where we think we're going to end

465
00:45:50,780 --> 00:45:52,920
the year grants that we've been awarded.

466
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:57,980
that's just tonight. That was half a million dollars of grants. 10 grants are

467
00:45:57,980 --> 00:46:02,600
across six departments. Utilize other people's money, aside our own.

468
00:46:05,050 --> 00:46:05,590
So moving on

469
00:46:05,590 --> 00:46:09,390
of this year, fiscal year 22, presented here is green much better than we were

470
00:46:09,390 --> 00:46:13,270
this time during the height of the pandemic. I mentioned earlier that general

471
00:46:13,270 --> 00:46:17,610
property taxes is the county's largest reservoir really in the other local taxes.

472
00:46:18,330 --> 00:46:22,970
The state and federal and then the uses of fund balance. I'll talk about the

473
00:46:22,970 --> 00:46:28,510
local tax sales tax for education. It used to come to the county as revenue and then we paid it to the

474
00:46:28,510 --> 00:46:33,810
schools as an expense. And now it goes directly to the school division. It doesn't funnel through us at all.

475
00:46:34,950 --> 00:46:40,990
Last year in fiscal year 21, we used to define some purchase orders. We did have some supply chain

476
00:46:40,990 --> 00:46:46,390
issues that we had to buy some things 21. We had reduced our overall budget by 10%. There were some

477
00:46:46,390 --> 00:46:53,590
ankle year 22, we're using fun balance to fund $5.8 million of planned projects back to the

478
00:46:53,590 --> 00:46:58,410
school division for the design of a new preschool and we again had some outstanding purchase orders

479
00:46:58,410 --> 00:47:03,730
from last year of about $1.5 million. There are a focus on the harder hit areas through the

480
00:47:03,730 --> 00:47:08,870
pan, during the pandemic. This is a snapshot of how our major tourism drip in our meals and

481
00:47:08,870 --> 00:47:13,690
lodging has a one month lag so we're really looking at about four to five months worth of activity

482
00:47:13,690 --> 00:47:20,170
as a pandemic really did hit us hard last year, not on this slide, but worth mentioning,

483
00:47:20,950 --> 00:47:26,290
is and put the numbers on the slide because it got hard to see, but basically for sales

484
00:47:26,290 --> 00:47:31,850
tax, when we compare ourselves how we're trending this year to 2019, sales tax, we are now

485
00:47:31,850 --> 00:47:39,750
trending about 1.2 million. And so that's about a 30% increase, most 13% over the actual numbers

486
00:47:39,750 --> 00:47:45,330
before the pandemic. So that's a highly volatile times. So obviously we had the

487
00:47:45,330 --> 00:47:50,270
Omicron variant here now that is impacting our local economy and we've had some

488
00:47:50,270 --> 00:47:56,750
recent inclement weather, a downward trend again. Not shown in the figures above is the

489
00:47:56,750 --> 00:48:04,330
new cigarette tax. It was a new tax $1,000 and through December we've collected almost 350,000.

490
00:48:04,490 --> 00:48:09,230
But that's really only three months we will come in above budget. And just as a reminder

491
00:48:09,230 --> 00:48:12,950
or that specific revenue source was your mark for CIP.

492
00:48:13,290 --> 00:48:15,410
For the same amount, all expenses did come in evenly.

493
00:48:15,670 --> 00:48:17,670
We would expect to have spent about half

494
00:48:17,670 --> 00:48:20,370
or about 50% of our budget since for six months,

495
00:48:20,570 --> 00:48:23,670
and it's really skewing that at 72%.

496
00:48:23,670 --> 00:48:24,970
And I'll touch on that next.

497
00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:31,720
So this stands, most of the departments that are under that,

498
00:48:31,740 --> 00:48:34,440
where you're seeing the 46, 43%,

499
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:36,480
that is primarily due to turnover.

500
00:48:37,220 --> 00:48:39,940
The question came up earlier again about the minimum wage,

501
00:48:39,940 --> 00:48:45,300
not being budgeted this year or, and that is just a cross of board, we are seeing it in every

502
00:48:45,300 --> 00:48:50,300
department where we had turnover and vacancies. We've also had some early retirements.

503
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:57,600
For those areas tracking above 50 admin, that's where we pay the county's annual insurance premiums,

504
00:48:57,720 --> 00:49:02,620
it's also where we pay the county's annual audit. The entry, very similar scenario,

505
00:49:02,820 --> 00:49:09,320
most of their equipment maintenance contracts and their software contracts are due at the

506
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:14,000
That's the one that was at 72 percent, that was really thrown off that overall percentage.

507
00:49:14,580 --> 00:49:21,880
That's the area that we fund our outside-rated general fund's contribution to social services, housing, capital programs,

508
00:49:22,240 --> 00:49:25,040
all of that money gets transferred at the beginning of the year.

509
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,500
So again, it's going to skew higher than 50.

510
00:49:28,020 --> 00:49:35,280
So real quickly, in terms of the COVID-19 funding, as a reminder, I did want to mention that the financial information that I present

511
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,020
does not include COVID funding.

512
00:49:37,020 --> 00:49:43,020
And those dollars don't get co-mingled or distort just our ongoing operational outlook.

513
00:49:43,820 --> 00:49:47,600
COVID funds, of course, are one-time funds that are really meant to help with the pandemic

514
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,500
and they're not an ongoing revenue source for the county.

515
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:57,340
It's December 31st, 2021, and we met that deadline and fully utilized every dollar.

516
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:02,260
Our ARPA funding uses for our approved by you earlier this, some start some of those

517
00:50:02,260 --> 00:50:03,300
capital projects.

518
00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:11,620
We are continuing to watch inflation and also the supply chain and make modifications as we need to.

519
00:50:12,100 --> 00:50:17,380
I also wanted to mention in terms of ARPA, the Treasury Department just recently released its

520
00:50:17,380 --> 00:50:21,680
FICO and BACO to ensure that we have all the proper procedures in place.

521
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:25,580
So, these have been some severe economic ups and downs.

522
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:30,720
We've seen recovery in certain revenue items such as tourism, but again, when you've

523
00:50:30,720 --> 00:50:36,560
personnel issues turnover and significant increases in the cost of construction.

524
00:50:39,740 --> 00:50:45,020
So to touch on the upcoming budget, of course 2324 is our two-year budget. The first year

525
00:50:45,020 --> 00:50:51,140
is appropriated. The second year is a plan. We are in the midst of our real of what's been done on

526
00:50:51,140 --> 00:50:55,380
the budget at this point. We have been working finances been working with human resources

527
00:50:55,380 --> 00:51:01,040
on the personnel needs for the next two years. The CIP requests have been submitted,

528
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:05,520
reviewed and sent to the Planning Commission to begin their work in terms of

529
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:09,580
the action of those requests. We've received our outside agency funding

530
00:51:09,580 --> 00:51:13,880
requests and we've begun our analysis of those and we're also working on our

531
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:18,740
revenue projections for the next two years. There is great uncertainty of course

532
00:51:18,740 --> 00:51:24,020
with the state's budget. And then in closing there are a few days that I

533
00:51:24,020 --> 00:51:28,360
thought were worth mentioning. We obviously had our pre-budget public hearing back

534
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,940
January 11th, here with you this afternoon,

535
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:32,700
providing a financial update,

536
00:51:33,540 --> 00:51:35,720
actions and working to balance the budget.

537
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:38,480
March 28th, the County Administrator,

538
00:51:39,260 --> 00:51:40,960
should be releasing his proposed budget.

539
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,300
On April 5th, we have a community meeting,

540
00:51:44,500 --> 00:51:46,920
likely to be virtual, that we will have.

541
00:51:47,100 --> 00:51:50,900
April 12th will be our public hearing on the tax rates and the budget.

542
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:52,580
We have another meeting.

543
00:51:54,540 --> 00:51:56,300
And with that, that concludes my remarks.

544
00:51:56,380 --> 00:51:58,900
Happy to respond to any questions, comments in a half.

545
00:51:58,900 --> 00:52:16,660
Thank you very much for that brief. I wanted to bring it up. I know that our, you know, 12% and the fun balance is I just would love to see us if we could push it to 14 and you know, even if we dip down to 10 that gives us a lot of room to

546
00:52:16,660 --> 00:52:21,520
I'll be on a maneuver and buy a certainty if there's anything we can and I know damn

547
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:26,520
boards. I'll always tell us 12's a good number. You're most on don't get to 12.

548
00:52:28,300 --> 00:52:32,940
I just want to say thank you. I always appreciate these updates and I think they're so

549
00:52:32,940 --> 00:52:39,480
important to the citizens about January for sure. We've seen with the new variant plus the

550
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:46,000
weather. Oh, at least some local residents that I know went out. Eight there. That does help

551
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:57,580
us as well with meals tax and some of the hotel yours did we've had COVID. The tourism market

552
00:52:57,580 --> 00:53:04,060
right now has been strictly leisure. So we've had nothing really in a James Town said

553
00:53:04,060 --> 00:53:10,040
that they have several school groups that are scheduled to come out as well. So we'll hold our

554
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:18,340
that any conversations that you've had with the schools as they are talking about their budget.

555
00:53:18,780 --> 00:53:29,500
I did see something briefly in the newspaper that they would very much like to do if you've heard anything from your counterpart there or not.

556
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:34,900
Most of what we've discussed has been very similar related to compensation and also capital needs.

557
00:53:34,900 --> 00:53:40,960
Okay, I do know that they're pursuing some pretty significant grants that are result of the COVID funding.

558
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:42,700
She's an area that they're looking at.

559
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:49,960
She has also shared with my counterpart as shared with me that they have some significant increases in their health insurance premiums.

560
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:57,520
And I know they're utilizing the help of a consultant to pursue other programs as well to see if there's some cost savings there.

561
00:53:57,520 --> 00:53:58,920
Okay. Thank you.

562
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:00,300
Is that how they're doing anything?

563
00:54:02,270 --> 00:54:06,210
Now, actually, Ms. Larson asked a question I was going to ask so I'm welcome.

564
00:54:06,210 --> 00:54:11,270
I've heard that they're talking about raises with teachers, which are sort of needed.

565
00:54:11,610 --> 00:54:16,530
And I think the biggest concern right now is that given the rate of inflation, the 10%

566
00:54:16,530 --> 00:54:18,410
of raise and have effectively zero.

567
00:54:19,570 --> 00:54:28,010
So it's a concern, I don't know, I, yeah, skin that cat, but I think that's something we'll

568
00:54:28,010 --> 00:54:29,610
to wrestle with in this upcoming budget.

569
00:54:29,910 --> 00:54:35,110
We had a structural change, right, where we used to pass that money through and it appeared

570
00:54:35,110 --> 00:54:38,390
in our budget, but now it's going directly to the schools.

571
00:54:39,090 --> 00:54:39,610
We tools.

572
00:54:40,570 --> 00:54:47,770
Do you have a sense of the money that we receive from sales tax that we've kept?

573
00:54:49,050 --> 00:54:53,450
How much up in that comes to the county that we maintain?

574
00:54:53,450 --> 00:55:01,730
We previously went in one eight percent or now goes to the school division. So they get theirs directly. We get ours and we keep it.

575
00:55:02,530 --> 00:55:06,670
Okay. So they've seen the same type of increase in the 20 to 30 percent range.

576
00:55:06,710 --> 00:55:19,530
So I guess what I'm wondering about is if we looked what that would look like if we had already applied that direction of the sales tax money for education to the schools.

577
00:55:19,530 --> 00:55:22,970
The only thing that is left, we really received very little federal funding.

578
00:55:23,150 --> 00:55:27,290
And I think we received about $8,000 for payment and lieu of taxes.

579
00:55:27,830 --> 00:55:32,490
There are rest of that category's constitutional officers and money that we receive from this.

580
00:55:32,850 --> 00:55:36,750
However, because of turnover, we haven't received the full alignment.

581
00:55:36,930 --> 00:55:39,390
When we have turnover, we have expenditure saving

582
00:55:43,900 --> 00:55:44,960
one more.

583
00:55:45,180 --> 00:55:46,720
Yep, that 4.9 million?

584
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:49,020
Yes, right.

585
00:55:49,020 --> 00:55:58,100
Right, so when we look at the amount here, am I doing this right?

586
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:00,820
Same federal.

587
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:09,660
And so there we saw the $4.9 million reduction compared to last year.

588
00:56:11,460 --> 00:56:11,540
What?

589
00:56:12,340 --> 00:56:21,720
The 15.6 million for this year? Yes. Yes. Today we've received 7.4 per exceed our 15.6.

590
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:29,800
I believe my revenue projection showed about a $2 million increase in our sales tax.

591
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:34,760
but miss day that budget number had we had the schools and this year's budget that 15 million would be

592
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:39,820
what the what the actual impact on our budget is going to be now that we have

593
00:56:39,820 --> 00:56:45,780
decided to directly let that money flow to the schools and it line graph

594
00:56:45,780 --> 00:56:51,620
would stop there i'm sorry go back one if you don't mind please so there is a line there for the school division you see that

595
00:56:51,620 --> 00:56:54,600
hundred million that it is really in that zero

596
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:59,220
and miss day if they have a work experience in greater sales tax returns the school division would be

597
00:56:59,220 --> 00:57:04,160
Especially we didn't take anything away from what is there year in surplus that would return to the county.

598
00:57:04,340 --> 00:57:06,400
That number still should be the same.

599
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,720
It was really a significant increase.

600
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:16,000
Compare that will be provided through that direct funding to them.

601
00:57:16,740 --> 00:57:22,440
Some what smaller overall increase in funding that they were looking for from localities.

602
00:57:22,860 --> 00:57:25,400
Then we might have seen in previous years when this would have been included.

603
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:29,360
Thank you very much for that report.

604
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:34,420
I think that's a lot of positive news and interesting ideas to be pursuing.

605
00:57:34,900 --> 00:57:41,320
Mr. Hamble's suggestion about the fund balance, to address some of our future needs,

606
00:57:42,100 --> 00:57:44,180
by taking them off the table now.

607
00:57:44,900 --> 00:57:45,040
Great.

608
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:51,280
All right, good afternoon, Chairman and members of the Board of Supervisors.

609
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:55,480
I like the accomplishments of county departments during fiscal year 2021.

610
00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:00,400
I do want to make one note about the documents format.

611
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:05,820
You may recall that in our previous annual report document, we were response.

612
00:58:07,020 --> 00:58:11,460
So now, as our pandemic response has become a protracted event,

613
00:58:12,780 --> 00:58:14,500
throughout the department's accomplishments.

614
00:58:16,220 --> 00:58:19,320
There are operational items that are related to COVID-19

615
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:21,060
as that's sort of a come-of-part.

616
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:25,920
I'll begin with a brief summary of our COVID-19 response.

617
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:30,000
The Greater Williamsburg Community Partners.

618
00:58:30,700 --> 00:58:33,440
It opened on January 22nd, 2021,

619
00:58:33,900 --> 00:58:35,640
and over the course of nearly four months,

620
00:58:35,900 --> 00:58:39,220
the clinic administered 22,840 doses

621
00:58:39,220 --> 00:58:42,440
of the modern vaccine to local residents and workers.

622
00:58:43,260 --> 00:58:46,820
County departments expand at home versions of some of their special events.

623
00:58:47,740 --> 00:58:52,620
Social services housing unit provided more than $1.4 million in assistance

624
00:58:52,620 --> 00:58:56,900
for pandemic-related needs including emerge to the previous fiscal year.

625
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:05,040
In county administration, a second assistant county administrator position was created

626
00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:07,440
with approval from you all the Board of Supervisors.

627
00:59:08,100 --> 00:59:10,720
We established a diversity equity and inclusion team

628
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:16,880
and the communications division launched from the helm on E-45, the comprehensive plan update process.

629
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:21,880
Substantial progress occurred for several important transportation along for its road.

630
00:59:24,980 --> 00:59:32,140
The Office of Economic Development worked with the NFS and assisted more than 125 small existing small businesses,

631
00:59:32,700 --> 00:59:37,120
with securing all available pandemic relief funding to association for its role.

632
00:59:39,260 --> 00:59:42,540
After two years of proper financial software system called Munis.

633
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:47,720
FMS managed over 30 million dollars in federal funding of funding.

634
00:59:48,300 --> 00:59:50,960
Those are acronyms for a reason. That's a mouthful.

635
00:59:52,740 --> 00:59:56,280
Worked with departments to restore operational budget needs.

636
00:59:57,020 --> 00:59:59,020
The county closed out FY 2021.

637
00:59:59,020 --> 00:59:59,960
one, let ready.

638
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,180
Was reaffirmed during that process.

639
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:07,600
Our fire department took the lead on behalf of James City County,

640
01:00:07,780 --> 01:00:13,660
see communication center consoles to enhance social distancing and improved technology. The department

641
01:00:13,660 --> 01:00:15,140
also improved live.

642
01:00:17,570 --> 01:00:22,650
For general services, following the implementation of extensive floodplain

643
01:00:22,650 --> 01:00:28,050
management activities, the county has been elevating the first community in Virginia to receive

644
01:00:28,050 --> 01:00:34,790
a class 5 reading. As a result, county home of special flood hazard areas. General services

645
01:00:34,790 --> 01:00:40,070
fleet and equipment division continues to incorporate alternative fuel equipment into

646
01:00:40,070 --> 01:00:44,770
the county's fleet and the department also gets to a virtual format for its benefit, open

647
01:00:44,770 --> 01:00:50,430
enrollment and new employee orientation was conducted in partnership with Virginia Tech

648
01:00:50,430 --> 01:00:56,070
and York County. HR also developed and implemented the county's COVID-19

649
01:00:56,070 --> 01:00:59,670
businesses to replace the county's 25-year-old financial system.

650
01:01:00,330 --> 01:01:03,550
They worked with cost communications to.

651
01:01:03,810 --> 01:01:08,410
Parks and Recreation partnered with more than 40 community organizations to offer more equitable

652
01:01:08,410 --> 01:01:13,810
access to recreation services, including a day support program for young adults with disabilities,

653
01:01:14,410 --> 01:01:19,090
front park shoreline stabilization project, mitigated the eroding of steep banks along

654
01:01:19,090 --> 01:01:22,510
the Chica Harmony River and Gordon Creek through the establishment.

655
01:01:22,510 --> 01:01:28,010
The Police Department was the recipient of the Board of Supervisors 2020 Chairman's Award

656
01:01:28,010 --> 01:01:32,510
in recognition of its professionalism and positive comm-incident command system.

657
01:01:33,170 --> 01:01:36,770
The plan was nationally recognized and shared as a model for best practices.

658
01:01:37,790 --> 01:01:43,070
The 2020 Police Chiefs Award was given to members of social services, the Benefit Program's

659
01:01:43,070 --> 01:01:48,790
eligibility phone line, received over 12,000 calls from citizens inquiring about medical and

660
01:01:48,790 --> 01:01:49,970
financial assistance.

661
01:01:49,970 --> 01:01:58,970
Excuse me, supplemental nutrition assistance program or SNAP, which experienced an 18% increase and the Medicaid program in which over

662
01:01:58,970 --> 01:02:03,110
10 men and C was also achieved for 10 children in the foster care program.

663
01:02:04,390 --> 01:02:13,430
Last but not least, after a delay due to the library's ongoing partnership with William and Mary resulted in a successful one book, one community reading event.

664
01:02:15,350 --> 01:02:18,590
This concludes our FY 2021 annual report.

665
01:02:18,590 --> 01:02:22,170
Thank you for your time and we would be happy to answer any questions.

666
01:02:22,370 --> 01:02:23,590
Thank you very much, bud.

667
01:02:25,370 --> 01:02:27,190
Thank you very much.

668
01:02:30,010 --> 01:02:30,890
Thank you very much.

669
01:02:30,890 --> 01:02:32,690
Thank you Mr. Chair, members of the board.

670
01:02:33,670 --> 01:02:38,310
Over the past on the first steps of developing the natural and cultural assets plan.

671
01:02:39,030 --> 01:02:42,870
Miss questions from the board and input to incorporate into the process.

672
01:02:43,490 --> 01:02:44,290
Thank you.

673
01:02:44,990 --> 01:02:47,370
My master, hear me better. Please let me know.

674
01:02:47,370 --> 01:02:48,130
Thank you.

675
01:02:48,150 --> 01:02:48,610
Are you okay?

676
01:02:48,930 --> 01:02:49,410
All right.

677
01:02:49,710 --> 01:02:50,550
I'll try not to mumble.

678
01:02:50,910 --> 01:02:53,410
Because they're actually designed to be printed out at six feet.

679
01:02:53,970 --> 01:02:54,030
Barch.

680
01:02:55,210 --> 01:02:59,610
So you will have an opportunity to see those maps, a quick reminder of the project origin

681
01:02:59,610 --> 01:03:04,210
for any members of the public, current out familiar with the project, talk about the progress

682
01:03:04,210 --> 01:03:04,810
to date.

683
01:03:05,010 --> 01:03:10,170
Show you some of the came out of your 20-35 strategic plan and a firm community priorities

684
01:03:10,170 --> 01:03:12,110
established during your recent update.

685
01:03:12,110 --> 01:03:16,630
for new missions, we're taking very much from the community work that's already been done.

686
01:03:17,550 --> 01:03:23,350
In your strategy, an action environment, 3.1 assets and why do we need to evaluate them?

687
01:03:24,390 --> 01:03:29,710
Well, as we have explained in the past, nature is also part of our asset portfolio,

688
01:03:29,850 --> 01:03:33,730
its valuable places are so that we can add them to our resource inventory,

689
01:03:34,270 --> 01:03:38,370
know their worth, and then decide to just farms and forests that contribute to the economy.

690
01:03:39,190 --> 01:03:43,370
Protecting preserving water quality and supply, and you have a lot of your water coming from

691
01:03:43,370 --> 01:03:43,530
storm.

692
01:03:43,530 --> 01:03:44,750
Storms are going to keep happening.

693
01:03:45,350 --> 01:03:48,970
But if we preserve some of those areas that are subject to storms, that will also save

694
01:03:48,970 --> 01:03:50,250
us funds in the long run.

695
01:03:50,990 --> 01:03:57,030
And then public health format, this gentle man or woman on a trip through one of your parks,

696
01:03:57,170 --> 01:03:58,770
there is a number of barred house calling.

697
01:03:58,890 --> 01:04:00,130
Things for plantations.

698
01:04:00,290 --> 01:04:06,450
You think about battlefields, civil war, revolutionary war, as well applications for this

699
01:04:06,450 --> 01:04:12,690
such as when you're working on your long-range transportation plan, next time you update your strategic plan for the county,

700
01:04:14,550 --> 01:04:17,310
Agutzu, actually start to create some of the maps.

701
01:04:18,090 --> 01:04:27,510
Now, they are there a draft now, but what we're doing is we're grabbing the most high-quality intact pieces of the landscape that we have modeled, using Landcover 2020,

702
01:04:28,310 --> 01:04:35,550
and then also we're able to get LiDAR, which is basically satellite imagery beam to Earth that tap the data for your county.

703
01:04:35,550 --> 01:04:41,030
And we're looking at those large chunks of landscape, but also how they connect through corridors.

704
01:04:42,450 --> 01:04:45,550
So there's a six step process that we've been going through.

705
01:04:46,650 --> 01:04:51,070
Stu data. So as I said, we've been able to obtain and create some new data for the county.

706
01:04:51,250 --> 01:04:54,090
So this land cover information that we've created commused in many others.

707
01:04:54,090 --> 01:04:58,410
A lot of work together data, but some of that data comes from the community.

708
01:04:58,610 --> 01:05:00,010
So I'll talk about that in a moment.

709
01:05:00,410 --> 01:05:03,990
And so where are areas where action may be needed?

710
01:05:03,990 --> 01:05:08,950
And action could be as simple as a landowner taking action on their own land and then ranking.

711
01:05:09,350 --> 01:05:11,050
So what should we actually do?

712
01:05:11,230 --> 01:05:13,350
I call this the so what number of the effort.

713
01:05:14,490 --> 01:05:17,050
Making maps is fun on implementation.

714
01:05:17,810 --> 01:05:21,790
So we'll be creating a strategic plan that goes with this and people.

715
01:05:22,490 --> 01:05:25,410
So if you'll be patient, we will get to that phase.

716
01:05:25,870 --> 01:05:27,830
Just a highlight that we're here in January.

717
01:05:28,250 --> 01:05:30,570
We've just had our steering committee committee.

718
01:05:32,910 --> 01:05:43,570
But they just gave us a lot of great input that we are currently actually county staff that's also giving us advice and then we check in every two weeks to make sure that we're on track.

719
01:05:44,150 --> 01:05:49,650
Lay anyone in the community can go online so place to me and they'll be able to tell us why.

720
01:05:50,550 --> 01:05:53,170
So yeah, this is a favorite place to get engaged.

721
01:05:53,710 --> 01:05:54,670
That was my favorite one.

722
01:05:54,810 --> 01:05:56,130
This is a place we like to watch.

723
01:05:56,290 --> 01:05:59,110
Sorting them out into making sense of all that.

724
01:05:59,110 --> 01:06:00,710
Breathe that's flown and then we interpret it.

725
01:06:01,550 --> 01:06:04,750
So of course some areas have been developed so you've taken them off the map.

726
01:06:05,130 --> 01:06:08,990
And then we're walking at different landscapes and trying to understand what it's like on the ground.

727
01:06:09,930 --> 01:06:15,070
So this is the first map, and I wouldn't be trying to think about how you might compare

728
01:06:15,070 --> 01:06:15,910
to other localities.

729
01:06:16,090 --> 01:06:16,830
You have a lot.

730
01:06:18,090 --> 01:06:19,090
So that's good news.

731
01:06:19,170 --> 01:06:20,290
Difficult than others.

732
01:06:20,810 --> 01:06:24,290
An example of that would be if an area has a lot of cultural resources.

733
01:06:24,730 --> 01:06:27,670
So it's right now we're just kind of looking at all of these things you see in the

734
01:06:27,670 --> 01:06:29,070
on green or very high quality.

735
01:06:29,790 --> 01:06:33,790
And then we're going to do it additional analysis once we fit and make it look like spaghetti.

736
01:06:34,430 --> 01:06:38,270
So what we do is to try to tease out the different themes that we want to look at.

737
01:06:38,970 --> 01:06:45,330
This data come from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and that can be helpful to us as we look at, say,

738
01:06:45,810 --> 01:06:51,030
Agforce them, you know, they're placed dependent and conserving them is really important.

739
01:06:52,270 --> 01:06:57,190
So you have a normal place is where you can pick berries and fruit, and farms and working with a committed economy.

740
01:06:57,770 --> 01:07:05,170
And so what we're looking at is areas that are at least 13 over time, not just as you think about your economics,

741
01:07:05,170 --> 01:07:11,730
thinking about the viability of forestry and the cax on that map. And then water, and planes,

742
01:07:12,890 --> 01:07:17,950
and these rivers and streams, we mapped all those, and we'll also be looking at how well

743
01:07:17,950 --> 01:07:23,690
forestry is of good news. And then recreation, now how we get out there and enjoy them, but they're

744
01:07:23,690 --> 01:07:29,210
also maybe places that are places for hunting or fishing, but that community really loves walking

745
01:07:29,210 --> 01:07:34,890
or biking or walking the dog on that road. So we'll be getting all of those assets on the map,

746
01:07:34,890 --> 01:07:37,950
and then looking at how well the landscape supports them.

747
01:07:38,550 --> 01:07:40,590
Heritage and culture are defined by the community.

748
01:07:41,570 --> 01:07:44,890
So we will, of course, include and have included things

749
01:07:44,890 --> 01:07:46,830
that are already identified as community.

750
01:07:46,850 --> 01:07:47,670
You can post it online.

751
01:07:47,750 --> 01:07:50,450
People telling us landscapes that are significant to them

752
01:07:50,450 --> 01:07:50,930
and why.

753
01:07:51,570 --> 01:07:53,250
And then, of course, they're going to put your property.

754
01:07:53,730 --> 01:07:57,230
So you've got a lot of historic places and sites

755
01:07:57,230 --> 01:07:59,090
that one of our community members

756
01:07:59,090 --> 01:08:02,730
Allen Outliers, as you probably know, you appointed him

757
01:08:02,730 --> 01:08:05,810
very vocal and knowledgeable, local historian.

758
01:08:06,090 --> 01:08:07,990
So he's been helping us push the part and probably

759
01:08:07,990 --> 01:08:10,090
a map that you'll continue to update over time.

760
01:08:10,210 --> 01:08:11,770
Because as you know, you're, you're so

761
01:08:11,770 --> 01:08:14,310
to know that, let's say we had a piece of landscape

762
01:08:14,310 --> 01:08:17,410
that, biologically, we rated as highly significant,

763
01:08:18,150 --> 01:08:19,010
but it all did.

764
01:08:19,030 --> 01:08:21,910
It's part of the setting of our county, it's an iconic place.

765
01:08:22,330 --> 01:08:26,170
So we would also use that to bump up the next steps

766
01:08:26,170 --> 01:08:27,670
and expanded public engagement.

767
01:08:29,110 --> 01:08:32,170
So in the near term, our GIS team is working now

768
01:08:32,170 --> 01:08:37,070
getting all those comments and sketchy about three weeks. We thought we would launch it

769
01:08:37,070 --> 01:08:40,970
on Valentine's Day just for a little fun. It gave us enough time to get all those comments

770
01:08:40,970 --> 01:08:45,630
and we have so far from our didn't having the online effort that will promote with help

771
01:08:45,630 --> 01:08:50,450
from county media. So that like take this sticky dot from your card and stick it, grind

772
01:08:50,450 --> 01:08:55,030
your survey, some people really sick of surveys, and some people just like a good old

773
01:08:55,030 --> 01:09:00,570
fashion paper map. Comments that you have in addition to the general public, you can feel,

774
01:09:00,570 --> 01:09:11,670
So that'll be all through February and into March and then like I said, the comment stations and then the staff of the county will also be doing outreach to your existing county committees.

775
01:09:12,470 --> 01:09:16,490
So you've already got established committees for history and you've got other committees for parks.

776
01:09:17,190 --> 01:09:28,770
So they will be sort of we have a little show and tell presentation making so they can kind of take this around and and get those comments from those different experts that you've already pointed because there's a lot of knowledge that comes into this process.

777
01:09:29,370 --> 01:09:35,470
So, we will be taking all of that together and then re-running the maps, and once we know

778
01:09:35,470 --> 01:09:39,030
where those most important places are, then we'll be looking at how they connect.

779
01:09:39,830 --> 01:09:45,090
So, getting to a longer term, like I said, we're refining these maps now, we're going to

780
01:09:45,090 --> 01:09:50,530
be launching the online survey on Valentine's Day, we're going to be then taking that information

781
01:09:50,530 --> 01:09:54,470
from the public moving into the springs and looking at both risks and opportunities.

782
01:09:55,730 --> 01:10:01,890
Finally, we'll come back to the community with some strategies and we'll be also back to the

783
01:10:01,890 --> 01:10:02,930
Board of Supervisors.

784
01:10:03,110 --> 01:10:07,550
So we want to get more kind of vague notion, summer, but part of this depends on how much input

785
01:10:07,550 --> 01:10:11,550
we get, how much time Virginia, some people think we're in Charlottesville, we're in Skotsville.

786
01:10:11,670 --> 01:10:14,030
It's a little town on the James Shepherd's RGIS analyst.

787
01:10:14,530 --> 01:10:19,010
And Lauren Durand is our landscape architect and her background is in culture and heritage mapping.

788
01:10:19,910 --> 01:10:21,830
So, kind of a perfect team for the county.

789
01:10:21,830 --> 01:10:26,290
So with that, are there questions or comments from the board at this time?

790
01:10:26,650 --> 01:10:30,790
Yes, Graham, if somebody was asking, I think that's a perfect data to launch it.

791
01:10:31,090 --> 01:10:31,330
So good.

792
01:10:31,770 --> 01:10:32,170
Good for that.

793
01:10:32,310 --> 01:10:33,870
I did have a question about the survey.

794
01:10:34,210 --> 01:10:35,270
Yes, that's a great question.

795
01:10:35,470 --> 01:10:38,790
The survey is literally half drafted sitting on my desktop computer.

796
01:10:39,570 --> 01:10:43,670
So as soon as I get back to the office, I'll, we've much, because we want to have time

797
01:10:43,670 --> 01:10:43,990
to.

798
01:10:44,170 --> 01:10:44,410
Perfect.

799
01:10:44,570 --> 01:10:44,890
The survey.

800
01:10:45,030 --> 01:10:45,790
Make sure it makes sense.

801
01:10:45,830 --> 01:10:48,830
Have the right and straggled to provide input with those questions?

802
01:10:49,590 --> 01:10:51,170
We'll pass it through them on.

803
01:10:51,170 --> 01:11:00,250
questions comments? Question I own a chunk of land and somebody goes that's the spot I like

804
01:11:00,250 --> 01:11:06,630
and they start pinning this piece of land is significant because of this this and this but I

805
01:11:06,630 --> 01:11:13,590
can see that also being a risk I could see it starting out as a plan of these are significant areas

806
01:11:13,590 --> 01:11:20,080
for James City County which I agree we ought to keep as many as possible but also we have

807
01:11:20,660 --> 01:11:27,240
I'm going to compensate me for this significant part that I own and pay taxes on.

808
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:31,780
If you own a piece of land and you see that it's like neon green, super important.

809
01:11:31,940 --> 01:11:35,240
We think it's the best on this significant piece of the landscape.

810
01:11:35,980 --> 01:11:41,140
So, as I'm doing my farm plan or as I'm, let's say I want to develop my land.

811
01:11:41,300 --> 01:11:45,960
We showed them examples of how other counties have used this information and how private developers,

812
01:11:46,340 --> 01:11:48,120
as well as private citizens use the information.

813
01:11:48,660 --> 01:11:53,180
an example of a landowner in an important, said, well, I still got to put my dream house there

814
01:11:53,180 --> 01:11:54,420
and I said, that's great.

815
01:11:54,720 --> 01:11:59,000
But you know, I'm going to actually shift it over here a little, but she's going to manage

816
01:11:59,000 --> 01:11:59,940
it how she wishes.

817
01:12:01,020 --> 01:12:03,520
And so it's really changed my development layout.

818
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:06,800
And so he actually redesigned it with smaller lots.

819
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:13,240
We'll be sure to do a robust engagement and that's part of the, you know, on the website

820
01:12:13,240 --> 01:12:16,920
we have a, because people will have those kind of concerns like, what does this mean if I'm

821
01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:17,520
on this map?

822
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:23,060
They will and, you know, and I'm worried too that they'll they'll may not understand the whole thing

823
01:12:23,980 --> 01:12:25,980
Yeah, I was publicly accessible

824
01:12:26,780 --> 01:12:33,780
You know, so sometimes people say well, this is a favorite fishing hole where like well, yeah, but it's not open to the public because if we put on a map

825
01:12:33,780 --> 01:12:36,640
Some of these things favorite fishing hole. They're like, oh, we can go fish there

826
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:45,720
I'm a kayak. This is not you know taking people's land and saying it's available forever. I know that's what some people would you know

827
01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:46,900
Probably worry about

828
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:54,820
And I love it and I think when you actually overlay your park systems and your trails and things

829
01:12:54,820 --> 01:12:59,100
There's plenty of that pristine or great quality land that's available to the public already

830
01:12:59,100 --> 01:13:01,720
So they can already get out there and I can just tell you anecdotally

831
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:05,440
I've I've started our firm 14 years ago

832
01:13:05,440 --> 01:13:13,680
So we've done many many dozens of plans of Virginia and across the south and have not yet had a situation or someone thought

833
01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:14,780
That

834
01:13:14,780 --> 01:13:15,560
I'll come over to you.

835
01:13:15,880 --> 01:13:16,640
That's right.

836
01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:19,240
Maybe that will show up as a significant place.

837
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:20,260
I think it's a stop-up.

838
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:22,840
Any other questions, comments?

839
01:13:23,880 --> 01:13:25,600
Well, this is a very exciting project.

840
01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:29,320
And she'd give us some terrific tools to work with.

841
01:13:29,580 --> 01:13:32,840
As we update our conference of plan in the future,

842
01:13:32,980 --> 01:13:34,760
as we consider various proposals,

843
01:13:34,900 --> 01:13:37,900
as we think about how to invest county resources

844
01:13:37,900 --> 01:13:41,820
in preservation of our environment and the viewsheds

845
01:13:41,820 --> 01:13:42,480
and the like.

846
01:13:42,940 --> 01:13:44,420
So I appreciate very much all the hard work

847
01:13:44,420 --> 01:13:48,340
going into this, both on your part, and on our advisory team,

848
01:13:48,660 --> 01:13:51,040
steering committee, and staff.

849
01:13:51,700 --> 01:13:54,040
And supervise McLean, and can I make one more quick comment?

850
01:13:54,100 --> 01:13:54,300
Sure.

851
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:57,020
I should have thought of this when you asked the question.

852
01:13:57,460 --> 01:13:59,400
We've already had a situation in the county,

853
01:13:59,420 --> 01:14:01,600
and I don't mean situation in negative tone.

854
01:14:01,900 --> 01:14:04,820
But where a landowner said, I'm actually developing my property.

855
01:14:05,460 --> 01:14:06,940
I heard that there's this plan.

856
01:14:07,680 --> 01:14:10,960
I want to know how my development might fit in with this,

857
01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:13,840
and so even though we're not done, we're still able to grab the map.

858
01:14:13,840 --> 01:14:18,840
They took a look and said, OK, so I think based on this, I'm going to put my buildings over here.

859
01:14:19,860 --> 01:14:26,280
So there's already a person who's developing a piece of property who's already wanting to use the information for their plan.

860
01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:31,700
So it can actually be seen as a positive tool and to quote the past president of the Home Builders Association.

861
01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:35,180
Please just tell me what you want and what you value.

862
01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:37,040
And I'll do my best to take care of it.

863
01:14:37,060 --> 01:14:39,460
But if I don't know, I can't do that.

864
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:42,000
So I leave you with that thought.

865
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:43,600
And thank you so much for the fire.

866
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:45,220
I appreciate it.

867
01:14:47,080 --> 01:14:49,940
That is the last of our board discussions.

868
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:51,400
We have one board consideration.

869
01:14:52,460 --> 01:14:54,620
Would anyone care for a recess for?

870
01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:54,820
Right.

871
01:14:55,500 --> 01:14:57,680
Why don't we just take a short recess right now.

872
01:21:02,900 --> 01:21:10,580
We now have a board consideration, James City County Park's master plan update, Mr. Perkinson.

873
01:21:15,060 --> 01:21:16,860
Thank you. Mr. Chairman, members of the Board.

874
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:25,380
We are pleased to share with you the park master plan updates for Upper County Park, the James City County Recreation Center Park and the Warhill Sports Complex.

875
01:21:26,020 --> 01:21:32,120
The master plans are long-term planning documents created to provide a conceptual layout to guide the future growth of each park.

876
01:21:32,880 --> 01:21:40,880
These plans were prepared in 2021 by an interdepartmental team of county staff in the Department of Parks and Recreation, General Services and Community Development.

877
01:21:41,740 --> 01:21:48,100
Following the process used in the shaping our shore's master plan update, the team met on site at each location and held several planning meetings.

878
01:21:48,660 --> 01:21:59,120
Each park was reviewed separately taking in the county water restrictions, equitable access, environmental concerns, resource protection areas, zoning, building codes, new trends and citizen needs.

879
01:21:59,860 --> 01:22:06,300
initial drafts are created in these meetings and presented to the board in April of 2021 and the team

880
01:22:06,300 --> 01:22:11,260
solicited input from the public through a month-long survey period, a virtual public meeting

881
01:22:11,260 --> 01:22:19,320
in a Facebook live presentation in May of June of 2021. We received 174 online in paper surveys

882
01:22:19,320 --> 01:22:25,140
regarding the plans. And so the plans were revised based on that input from the public and from the

883
01:22:25,140 --> 01:22:32,620
and the proposed plans that we brought today have been supported by the Parks and Rec Advisory Commission and the James City County Planning Commission.

884
01:22:34,160 --> 01:22:35,820
So these master plans are conceptual.

885
01:22:36,540 --> 01:22:40,840
The elements may not be drawn to scalar located in their exact future positions.

886
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:48,420
Following approval, the elements of these plans will be prioritized and included in the Parks and Recreation Capital Improvements Program requests.

887
01:22:49,160 --> 01:22:51,100
before any improvements are made,

888
01:22:51,220 --> 01:22:52,820
the special use permits for each park

889
01:22:52,820 --> 01:22:54,920
would need to be amended to include the changes.

890
01:22:55,460 --> 01:22:58,260
So what I thought I'd do is go through each park map

891
01:22:58,260 --> 01:23:00,120
and kind of talk about our existing amenities

892
01:23:00,660 --> 01:23:02,160
and what the team is proposing

893
01:23:02,160 --> 01:23:04,000
and adding in each master plan.

894
01:23:04,620 --> 01:23:06,540
So to start out with, I have upper county park.

895
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:09,980
So upper counties, one of our oldest parks

896
01:23:09,980 --> 01:23:10,960
that opened in 1984,

897
01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:14,180
there was a draft master plan for the park,

898
01:23:15,020 --> 01:23:16,200
created in the early 90s,

899
01:23:16,200 --> 01:23:19,680
There's no current approved master plan for the site.

900
01:23:20,540 --> 01:23:23,340
So we started with existing park amenities, which there are many.

901
01:23:23,580 --> 01:23:30,240
This park is fairly well built out, and we incorporated citizen feedback and data from

902
01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:34,360
our 2017 Parks and Rec Master Plan to guide potential future amenities.

903
01:23:35,140 --> 01:23:39,780
So the master plan identified a lack of several park amenities in this region of the county,

904
01:23:40,520 --> 01:23:44,420
notably hard surface trails, gymnasiums, rec centers, and indoor pools.

905
01:23:44,420 --> 01:23:50,320
In the Citizen Survey, a multi-use trail splash pad and off-leash area where the most requested

906
01:23:50,320 --> 01:23:51,500
amenities at this park.

907
01:23:52,240 --> 01:23:57,980
Currently this park features a 25-meter outdoor pool, a toddler pool, basketball, and

908
01:23:57,980 --> 01:24:03,740
sand volleyball courts, picnic shelters, a playground, mountain biking trails, a primitive

909
01:24:03,740 --> 01:24:08,640
camping area for youth groups, restrooms, and a seasonal concession.

910
01:24:09,220 --> 01:24:14,300
Our team is recommending the following additional amenities, the replacement of the existing

911
01:24:14,300 --> 01:24:21,140
with a splash pad spray ground feature, a half-mile paved multi-use trail,

912
01:24:21,680 --> 01:24:26,480
community gymnasium with two full-sized indoor courts and fitness area,

913
01:24:27,480 --> 01:24:33,380
pickleball or tennis courts, an off-leash dog area, and an archery range for county programs,

914
01:24:34,260 --> 01:24:38,360
and additionally park maintenance area and increase parking to support those new amenities.

915
01:24:41,830 --> 01:24:46,310
The next park we looked at was the James City County Recreation Center Park,

916
01:24:46,310 --> 01:24:52,590
So this is essentially all the grounds around the rec center, but it also includes a parcel

917
01:24:52,590 --> 01:24:57,550
that was adjacent to the rec center that was a former side of a JCA water tower.

918
01:24:58,050 --> 01:25:02,390
So similar to Upper County Park, there's no existing master plan for this area, but it

919
01:25:02,390 --> 01:25:04,350
is largely developed outside of that parcel.

920
01:25:04,810 --> 01:25:11,290
There was a conceptual plan for that area from the early 2000s, but no adopted plan.

921
01:25:12,110 --> 01:25:18,130
So in our Citizen Survey, we've got a huge response from our skateboarders on the expansion,

922
01:25:18,290 --> 01:25:20,170
the potential expansion of the skate park.

923
01:25:20,870 --> 01:25:25,590
We've got a lot of feedback also on the addition of an off-leash area.

924
01:25:26,150 --> 01:25:30,910
So currently we have the Recreation Center, the skate park, two-lighted softball fields,

925
01:25:31,490 --> 01:25:37,610
two-lighted rectangular fields, a 2.1-mile multi-use paved trail, and an ADA accessible playground.

926
01:25:38,330 --> 01:25:44,730
Our team is recommending, in addition to that, the possibility for future expansion of the

927
01:25:44,730 --> 01:25:51,250
James City County Recreation Center, expansion of the skate park area, picnic shelter,

928
01:25:51,850 --> 01:25:58,030
an off-least dog area, restrooms to support the picnic shelter, skate park, and off-least

929
01:25:58,030 --> 01:26:02,590
dog area, and a restroom concession building to support the softball fields on this site.

930
01:26:04,130 --> 01:26:12,930
And lastly, we looked at the Warhill Sports Complex, so the Warhill Sports Complex Master Plan was last updated in 2016 and since that time,

931
01:26:13,230 --> 01:26:17,990
new features such as a private indoor pool facility and community garden have been added to the park.

932
01:26:18,530 --> 01:26:27,070
Additionally, some amenities are originally featured on the park master plan have been represented at other park locations such as the potential running center at James Town Beach event park.

933
01:26:27,070 --> 01:26:42,090
Since it is used by so many different groups before we even started our process, we held a meeting with our 22 community partner organizations to solicit feedback and determine needs for this complex.

934
01:26:43,090 --> 01:26:53,570
The feedback we got from them primarily were more lighted rectangular fields, more full-size baseball fields, and softball fields to support the growing participation and senior softball.

935
01:26:53,570 --> 01:27:04,570
And then additionally in our citizen survey, we citizens expressed a desire for full-size baseball fields, again an awfully stock area and tennis courts.

936
01:27:05,370 --> 01:27:19,590
So we recommended the following additional amenities to this plan, a synthetic turf field complex featuring two lighted softball and multi-use fields and two lighted large baseball multi-use fields.

937
01:27:19,590 --> 01:27:23,130
and restrooms and concessions to support that area.

938
01:27:23,650 --> 01:27:27,390
A stadium complex featuring a baseball and softball field.

939
01:27:27,930 --> 01:27:31,770
Redesign connector road between Long Hill Road and Opportunity Way,

940
01:27:32,030 --> 01:27:33,590
and just to give a little more insight on that,

941
01:27:34,410 --> 01:27:38,930
we currently have a connector road about where that letter H is,

942
01:27:38,990 --> 01:27:40,890
the connects from the parking lot,

943
01:27:41,710 --> 01:27:46,870
and essentially connects opportunity way to the entrance to the park on Long Hill Road.

944
01:27:46,870 --> 01:27:52,390
Our proposal is to take that road out of the middle of the park and go around our park amenities

945
01:27:54,930 --> 01:28:01,990
The addition of the existing private indoor pool facility, lighted pickle ball and tennis courts

946
01:28:03,270 --> 01:28:11,690
We added the existing community garden to the plan and the existing general services grounds maintenance facility and of course parking to support these

947
01:28:12,470 --> 01:28:16,170
new amenities and then also there were a few items on the

948
01:28:16,170 --> 01:28:24,330
2016 master plan that we proposed to eliminate, one large field from the baseball complex A to

949
01:28:24,330 --> 01:28:30,370
to enable us to expand parking in that area. Seven of the multipurpose rectangular fields.

950
01:28:30,710 --> 01:28:37,290
We kept four that are the letter F on this plan, but we had 11 in that area originally.

951
01:28:38,370 --> 01:28:42,950
A proposed indoor sports facility of BMX Park and the running center.

952
01:28:42,950 --> 01:28:54,110
So, just to reiterate, following the adoption of these plans, the individual amenities that we've mentioned will be prioritized and included in the Parks and Recreation Capital Improvements Program requests.

953
01:28:54,930 --> 01:29:06,410
Community input, citizen needs, and available funding will drive the timing of funding for these projects, and before any other improvements are made, the special use permits for each park would need to be amended to include any changes.

954
01:29:07,010 --> 01:29:08,630
So, I'd love to take any questions.

955
01:29:18,340 --> 01:29:27,640
So thank you very much. First of all, I think Parks and Rec does a great job. I think it's one of the best amenities that we offer here.

956
01:29:27,640 --> 01:29:35,380
Um, however, I have some concerns, one being, um, pool.

957
01:29:36,420 --> 01:29:44,300
Um, yes, we have a private pool out at, um, the War Hill track, but what planning is there

958
01:29:44,300 --> 01:29:57,620
moving forward for more public pool space for our high schools, if we should get into a

959
01:29:57,620 --> 01:29:59,980
Our high schoolers being able to board use this.

960
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:28,900
This year, they weren't here because you're coming up against a private organization club trying to get their practice in as well, plus, you know, it doesn't aquatic facilities are very expensive to run. So, you know, they have to look out for their bottom line as well. So, while that this may not be part of it, I hope it is part of a master plan in the future, having some food.

961
01:30:28,900 --> 01:30:32,920
So, we cannot have our high schoolers practicing there.

962
01:30:35,510 --> 01:30:44,230
If we waited years for a softball field out at the Warhill Track, we're going to do two.

963
01:30:45,390 --> 01:30:55,010
You know, it's better than zero, but I do feel like we do owe the softball players in our community a little bit more than that.

964
01:30:55,010 --> 01:30:56,510
So I'm a local ball.

965
01:30:57,410 --> 01:30:59,650
Users for the past few years.

966
01:30:59,890 --> 01:31:03,090
And I know it is a growing sport.

967
01:31:03,150 --> 01:31:04,610
And I appreciate that.

968
01:31:05,130 --> 01:31:10,490
But I don't want other things to get in the way of,

969
01:31:10,490 --> 01:31:16,370
you know, I want other emphasis to also be put on the younger people in our area as well though.

970
01:31:16,830 --> 01:31:22,070
I should say that pickle ball seems to be very popular across the age groups.

971
01:31:22,950 --> 01:31:30,770
But so which I am glad to see some emphasis put on the skate park and some expansion of that.

972
01:31:31,670 --> 01:31:39,170
So I very much appreciate that we're list as we continue to move forward with our parks and rack.

973
01:31:39,630 --> 01:31:46,870
Maybe can you talk a little bit about why, because the splash, we changed the,

974
01:31:46,870 --> 01:31:52,610
I think we changed one pool out at Chikami Park to a splash pad as well.

975
01:31:53,510 --> 01:31:58,770
What's the, um, what's the appeal of a splash pad versus a toddler pool?

976
01:31:58,870 --> 01:32:05,730
Well, yeah, it's, um, some of it is Parks and Recreation trends that we've really seen the trend of a splash pad.

977
01:32:06,330 --> 01:32:07,830
It's, it can serve a lot more ages.

978
01:32:08,170 --> 01:32:13,890
So every, it is limited and who, who can use it, they are a little bit difficult to maintain.

979
01:32:15,210 --> 01:32:36,550
They, you know, there's even some safety issues, even though there's so shallow, there's some safety issues that are involved that aren't quite as big a concern with the splash pad. So that's what a lot of people want to see. And you've seen them pop up. Most folks are going in the trends are going towards more of the splash pad, which, you know, kind of include more inclusive of all different ages and levels of ability. So thank you.

980
01:32:39,190 --> 01:32:52,210
The question on the off-leaf dog areas, I see the one over by the rec center is in that area where the old water tower used to be, and it's pretty, pretty heavily tree, which is, which is a benefit.

981
01:32:53,130 --> 01:32:55,330
I'm assuming that when that thing is put in,

982
01:32:55,410 --> 01:32:57,190
I'll leave as many trees around it for a shed,

983
01:32:57,730 --> 01:33:02,130
upper county and existing one that's being just been built

984
01:33:02,130 --> 01:33:07,730
over at Veterans Park and that is the surface and when it gets to be wet

985
01:33:07,730 --> 01:33:13,330
and chewed up whether there's any aspect

986
01:33:13,330 --> 01:33:15,890
been given to studying what other parts have done

987
01:33:15,890 --> 01:33:17,630
as to different types of surfaces.

988
01:33:17,830 --> 01:33:22,190
I know it's sometimes they use mulch as opposed to trying to maintain grass

989
01:33:22,190 --> 01:33:29,050
because it gets to be the part-track process and planning these out as to how you might tackle

990
01:33:29,050 --> 01:33:30,970
those different problems at each one.

991
01:33:31,250 --> 01:33:35,670
Right, and we've been looking into the different types of surfaces like you said it can

992
01:33:35,670 --> 01:33:39,870
range anywhere from an artificial turf that, you know, a design, we would look at that.

993
01:33:39,950 --> 01:33:47,190
But that is probably one of the biggest parts of those dog areas that we need to continue

994
01:33:47,190 --> 01:33:50,690
to research and look at other parks and see what they do.

995
01:33:50,690 --> 01:33:56,310
They all seem to have their pros and cons of different types of materials that you can use out there.

996
01:33:56,970 --> 01:34:01,530
And just to circle back to the shade, we do intend on keeping that forested area at the Rex Center.

997
01:34:02,750 --> 01:34:07,550
There's a one up at Upper County Park being built in an area that's straight or solo, just open for you.

998
01:34:07,550 --> 01:34:14,510
It's kind of a lot of it's brush kind of, you know, two, three inch wide trees growing up, but there are some larger trees in that area.

999
01:34:14,610 --> 01:34:17,310
So we could be selective and how we plan that.

1000
01:34:17,570 --> 01:34:18,410
That would be helpful.

1001
01:34:18,590 --> 01:34:19,510
Thank you.

1002
01:34:21,300 --> 01:34:27,540
I do have one quick question if I might. Could you repeat and what was the other? What were the other ones?

1003
01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:34,640
Absolutely. We're considering the conversion of the toddler pool, the baby pool at Upper County Park to a spot.

1004
01:34:35,820 --> 01:34:46,530
The off-leash area, the paved multi-use trail, which we really, there is a real lack of paved multi-use trails in that,

1005
01:34:46,530 --> 01:34:51,610
pickle ball or tennis, but it would essentially, there's already a pad there for another court

1006
01:34:51,610 --> 01:34:58,210
space next to that. We added an archery area for our county programs. This would be kind of a

1007
01:34:58,210 --> 01:35:03,810
permanent home for that out of the way. And then just a maintenance area for our park staff.

1008
01:35:04,250 --> 01:35:09,490
All right. Thank you. I just wanted to just to put a plug in. We need some help up in the

1009
01:35:09,490 --> 01:35:16,250
upper county park. We're going to be getting about 1800 more homes over here as Stonehouse has built

1010
01:35:16,250 --> 01:35:20,330
So I think the need is going to increase over in upper counties.

1011
01:35:20,850 --> 01:35:23,830
So thank you for all you're doing to look into these things.

1012
01:35:23,830 --> 01:35:30,430
I think the archery component would be great because I know a lot of the micro-inquits would use if they love archery.

1013
01:35:31,150 --> 01:35:32,890
So anyway, I'm putting a plug-in for them.

1014
01:35:34,030 --> 01:35:36,770
But thank you. I appreciate all the updates.

1015
01:35:37,430 --> 01:35:38,050
Thank you.

1016
01:35:39,230 --> 01:35:39,790
I had the questions.

1017
01:35:40,670 --> 01:35:42,150
Anybody really interested in for approval?

1018
01:35:42,630 --> 01:35:44,650
If we have motion to approve any further discussion?

1019
01:35:46,870 --> 01:35:52,510
Mr. Hibble, aye. Mr. Eisenhower? Aye. Ms. Sadler? Aye.

1020
01:35:52,690 --> 01:35:54,670
Ms. Lawson? Aye. Mr. McLean. Aye.

1021
01:35:55,150 --> 01:35:57,670
Thank you. So now we move on to board requests.

1022
01:35:57,950 --> 01:36:03,670
Just very quickly. Mr. Person aye went out last week.

1023
01:36:04,050 --> 01:36:12,650
And you all may have noticed for some time a display on property that is...

1024
01:36:12,650 --> 01:36:22,150
at American flag and soldiers, that type of thing, there is a plan underway for an Iwo

1025
01:36:22,150 --> 01:36:29,290
Jima Memorial there, and Mr. Personai went out and won. And he is working with Mr.

1026
01:36:29,370 --> 01:36:34,710
Purse to make a presentation to the board. That will be in the near future. Did you all set up

1027
01:36:34,710 --> 01:36:37,950
a final date for that, Mr. Purse? Will that be in February?

1028
01:36:41,010 --> 01:36:42,650
Yeah, I haven't confirmed, but that's the plan.

1029
01:36:42,650 --> 01:36:52,810
Okay. Thank you so much. And then also have up to date we did get have a presentation from the

1030
01:36:52,810 --> 01:36:59,830
student youth travel organization. They're talked about the student travel is starting back.

1031
01:37:00,250 --> 01:37:04,650
It's not where it was, but they are seeing some increase in student travel.

1032
01:37:04,650 --> 01:37:17,090
And then also Ms. Sattler and I participated in a Zoom with a group of citizens last week that we were requested to participate in.

1033
01:37:17,230 --> 01:37:18,610
So, thank you.

1034
01:37:18,830 --> 01:37:27,590
First there was a do soon resolution for an eight million dollar bond for plain landing and they'll be coming to us within the next couple of months for approval.

1035
01:37:27,590 --> 01:37:34,470
and also the EDA approved a request to extend the sales agreement study period for the property

1036
01:37:34,470 --> 01:37:42,190
under contract tomorrow, but that's in congratulations, Ms. Larson, on completing your

1037
01:37:42,190 --> 01:37:47,130
Baker certification, your colleagues are very proud of you, and thank you for your participation in that.

1038
01:37:47,250 --> 01:37:48,970
Thank you.

1039
01:37:49,970 --> 01:37:55,830
Let me just report on a couple of meetings I attended last week, I attended the Hampton Road

1040
01:37:55,830 --> 01:38:00,830
transportation planning organization meeting followed by the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission meeting.

1041
01:38:01,350 --> 01:38:08,210
A lot of discussion of transportation issues, obviously opportunity to interact with the other members of the region.

1042
01:38:08,350 --> 01:38:16,590
We heard a very interesting briefing on economic development, including a fascinating report on the port of Virginia Ports,

1043
01:38:17,690 --> 01:38:23,650
which was presented by Stephen Edwards, the CEO of the Virginia Ports Authority.

1044
01:38:23,650 --> 01:38:32,450
And then I wanted to take a moment to recognize that we lost another distinguished citizen

1045
01:38:32,450 --> 01:38:38,230
Bill Person who served as both Commonwealth's attorney and then later as a judge that's

1046
01:38:38,230 --> 01:38:39,190
the way recently.

1047
01:38:39,890 --> 01:38:47,950
If you have had not had the opportunity to see the obituary that he wrote himself, it is

1048
01:38:47,950 --> 01:38:57,850
fascinating and very unique document, so I think it's important to recognize the many contributions

1049
01:38:57,850 --> 01:39:05,610
that he made as a member of the court system here in the Williamsburg James City County area.

1050
01:39:06,650 --> 01:39:07,410
And which is family.

1051
01:39:08,630 --> 01:39:09,910
Well, thank you.

1052
01:39:10,190 --> 01:39:12,870
And that's it, Mr. Stevens, do you have a report of county administrator?

1053
01:39:13,350 --> 01:39:14,650
Nothing to share with you today.

1054
01:39:15,990 --> 01:39:30,130
With that, I would look for a motion to go into close session for the discussion would adversely affect the bargaining position or negotiating strategy of the public body.

1055
01:39:30,130 --> 01:39:40,590
So a dissection 2.2-371-A3 of the code of Virginia and pertaining to 6616, Cranston Mill pond

1056
01:39:40,590 --> 01:39:48,390
road as well as property along the Brickbat Road, Carter, James Town Road, Carter, and the

1057
01:39:48,390 --> 01:39:49,550
Ford Road, Carter.

1058
01:39:50,510 --> 01:39:55,270
Also for consideration of a personnel matter, the appointment of individuals to County

1059
01:39:55,270 --> 01:39:56,630
awards and or commissions,

1060
01:39:57,330 --> 01:40:00,190
percent of the section 2.237-11A,

1061
01:40:00,190 --> 01:40:01,410
one of the code of Virginia,

1062
01:40:02,010 --> 01:40:03,630
and pertaining to the planning commission.

1063
01:40:04,830 --> 01:40:08,390
And consultation with legal counsel,

1064
01:40:08,570 --> 01:40:10,930
employed or retained by a public body

1065
01:40:10,930 --> 01:40:13,070
regarding specific legal matters,

1066
01:40:13,430 --> 01:40:15,750
requiring the provision of legal advice,

1067
01:40:16,470 --> 01:40:17,590
by such council,

1068
01:40:17,670 --> 01:40:20,270
pursuant to section 2.237-11A,

1069
01:40:20,270 --> 01:40:22,250
eight of the code of Virginia,

1070
01:40:22,250 --> 01:40:29,170
and discussion of the award of a public contract involving the expenditure of public funds,

1071
01:40:29,790 --> 01:40:39,930
including out interviews of bidders or offers, and discussion of the terms of scope of such contract,

1072
01:40:40,570 --> 01:40:47,210
where discussion in open session would adversely affect the bargaining position or negotiating strategy of the public body.

1073
01:40:47,210 --> 01:40:53,570
percent of the section 2.237-118-29 of the code of Virginia. So we're hitting a lot of

1074
01:40:53,570 --> 01:40:57,970
different sections of that code. Do I have a motion to move out to closed sessions?

1075
03:09:04,880 --> 03:09:08,120
Act session and look for a motion to certify.

1076
03:09:08,400 --> 03:09:12,040
Chair, I certify that we only spoke about those matters that we said that we would.

1077
03:09:12,100 --> 03:09:16,080
Thank you. We have a motion to certify the closed session. Mr. Stephen Scholar, please.

1078
03:09:16,560 --> 03:09:21,160
Choice an hour? Aye. Mr. Hippel? Aye. Ms. Larson? Aye. Ms. Sadler? Aye.

1079
03:09:21,400 --> 03:09:22,880
Mr. McLean? Aye. Mr. McLean? Aye. Mr. Chair.

1080
03:09:23,440 --> 03:09:31,300
Mr. Chairman, I'm making a motion that we adjourn until 8 a.m. on February 3, 2022 for the local government day at the Capitol.

1081
03:09:31,300 --> 03:09:33,900
Motion to adjourn, Mr. Steven's called roll please.

1082
03:09:34,080 --> 03:09:37,060
Mr. Rice Sauer, aye, Mr. Hibble, aye, Ms. Larson, aye.

1083
03:09:37,080 --> 03:09:39,700
Ms. Sadler, aye. Mr. McLean, aye.

1084
03:09:39,960 --> 03:09:41,180
So adjourn, meeting adjourn.