Thank you very much.
And board.
We have a final agenda in front of us.
I do want to point out that attachments E and F for item
number 16, which is EMEA 25 four and Z is EMEA 25 518
on Fifth Street, Phase two were replaced on line on August 13.
Copies of the changes are both over
where our sign ups are and I believe
you have the attached attachments here
at are with us up here as well.
This is not an amendment to the final agenda,
just noting that the information was swapped out.
Are there any changes to the final agenda?
Is there a motion to adopt the final agenda?
Some of.
Second, the motion has been made and seconded.
Without objection.
If the clerk will please call the roll.
Mr. Galloway?
Yes, sir.
Currently, I. Hi, Miss Mallett.
Yes, Mr. Missal.
All right, Mr. Pruitt.
All right Miss Duncan?
Yes.
Very good.
We have an agenda approved, and we will now
move to item number five.
Briefing announcements by board members and Supervisor Pistole
curtly.
You're leaving us off?
Yes.
I am happy to announce that there will be a pant hobbs
community celebration on Sunday, October 4th,
from 3 to 6 at 1525.
Stony point Road.
You are invited.
There will be food and a bunch of other stuff.
So please, if you can attend attend.
Thank you.
Supervisor Malik.
Thank you very much.
Just a quick update from the invasive species bills,
which were passed with our local delegates
help at the General Assembly and signed by the governor.
House Bill 88 allows roadside management
of invasive species in be the rights of way
big, big, big step forward.
So when we see takeovers of alliances and the scars
from that, they've been planting willfully,
that is now taking over of we need
to send things to Greg Cooley and he will work on that.
House Bill 109 closes the invasive plant
commercial viability loophole.
That was Holly Siebold from Loudon
to try to restrict the sales of things
which we know are invasive and should not be here.
This was ten years in the making and the Nursery Mens Association
in Virginia was behind this work.
All considered and part of it.
And behind it all the way h sb 89,
HB 8388 expands powers of public service districts
to include invasive plant control.
So Katrina Coulson and Senator Sulayem carried that one.
And lastly senate Bill 163 allows
volunteers to assist with invasive plant
control on state owned lands.
Senator McDougal had to get that passed
because we trip over our own rules all the time.
But anyway, I just wanted to bring that to attention
because I, like many other people miss
the early signs of a whole lot of things on our property
that now I'm killing myself trying to pull out because I
didn't catch them in year one.
And we all need to try to catch them in year one.
Thank you.
All right, Supervisor Duncan, I am
looking for an advisory member to serve
on the advisory board for the Department of Social Services.
As you have to live in the Directorate District.
It is a great way to sort of serve
as a communication bridge between what
the US is doing in the community, between the board
and the community.
This is a great way to participate
kind of in the humans services.
Part of what the county is offering.
The only requirement is that you live in the district.
And so if there are people that are interested, please email me.
Thank you.
Supervisor Pruitt.
Yes, as I do so many times a year,
I'd like to remind folks that election laws are always
coming up.
Our next election is going to be on the 3rd of November.
There are a lot of things on the ballot.
We have two federal offices, both our congressional
representative and Senator as well as for referenda,
that's three constitutional referendum referenda and one
local spending referendum that we recently authorized
registration to vote and update your registration is going to be
up until October 23rd.
So that is coming up fast.
You can still vote on a provisional after that,
but that is your deadline to change and update
your registration Early in-person voting
starts very soon.
It starts in September 18 and runs in
through the end of October.
And additionally, I mentioned this previous meeting,
but I'll say it again Fridays on the Canal final Friday
of every summer, Friday month in Scottsville.
I really butchered that.
But the thing that matters is coming up on the 28th will be
the Drew pace band down by the canal in Scottsville at five.
That's all I got.
All right.
Supervisor Missal.
Great.
Thank you, Chair.
A couple of comments.
One is Java is sponsoring a wills for seniors.
It's a free life planning from a local estate planning attorney.
And it is coming up this way.
Advance notice in October, but October will be here before we
know it, October 13th.
And I'd just encourage the community
to go to their website, the Java website, to confirm eligibility
and to sign up in advance for that.
It is one day only and by appointment only.
Second announcement is there is plans.
There are plans for two historical markers
to be located in the L.A. area there.
They've they've been planning this for quite a while.
And the event will be occurring I should
know that it's not on here.
It is coming up in September or middle of September
so I don't have a date that the event will be at 2 p.m.
at Yancy Community Center and it'll be a dual marker
historical installation for both the Esmond High School,
which was from 1915 to 1959, and Benjamin Franklin Elementary
School from 1960 to 2017.
Sorry, it's on Sunday afternoon, September 27th.
There it is.
Benjamin Franklin.
Yancey Yes.
Don't forget the answer.
OK.
Thank you That's all.
Thanks.
Very good.
I do not have any announcements.
Oh, I actually do.
Over the by.
I'm pretty sure this weekend coming up
is moving weekend for UVA starting tomorrow.
I like to always just remind folks
that that's going to be a lot of new people on the roads
and that every all of us can execute some patience as people
maneuver around and get jammed down, especially in the barracks
road, Yuba area grounds area.
But just everyone below extra careful, little extra
considerate and we'll make it through that weekend All right.
With that, we will move to number six proclamations
and recognitions.
And we do have three different items today.
The first is a proclamation recognizing Kosovo,
African-American history Day 2026
and we have is a Dayvon Dayvon Williams with us.
Did I say the name right now I'm representing
Lucille Smith got here.
Lucille Smith will be with us.
How this will work as supervisor missile
or read the proclamation today as a motion
the board will take a vote and then
we would welcome you in anyone else
to come down and make some remarks.
And then we will probably make some comments
and ask some questions as well.
So a supervisor missile.
Great.
Thank you.
You.
It's my pleasure and honor to make this as a motion.
Whereas the historic community of Coatesville, Virginia,
listed on the National Registry of Historic places
represents an important chapter in the history of Albemarle
County and stands as a testament to the generation of families
whose perseverance Labor faith and commitment
helped shape the county's agricultural, industrial, and
cultural heritage.
And.
Whereas, for generations the African-American community
of Coatesville played an essential role
in Albemarle County's growth by cultivating and supporting
the region's internationally recognized, award winning apple
orchards construct in countless miles of railroad
working in local mines, harvesting timber
and contributing to the industries that
fueled the county's economy and development And.
Whereas, the community's enduring spirit is reflected
in institutions such as the First Baptist Church,
Coatesville, which this year celebrates its 142nd anniversary
as a pillar of the Fellowship leadership and service
for generations of Coatesville families and the broader
Albemarle County Community.
And.
Whereas, Coatesville has produced individuals whose lives
and achievements have strengthened Albemarle county,
including Cornelia Johnson, a proud daughter of Kerrville,
who became the first African-American woman to serve
as a police officer in Charlottesville and later,
the first elected female sheriff in the city of Charlottesville.
Breaking barriers and paving the way for future generations
of public servants And.
Whereas, Coatesville History Day,
hosted by the William H. And Virginia, a Williams family
foundation and the country house Project
in partnership with First Baptist Church,
Coatesville brings together descendants, residents,
historians, preservationists and visitors
to celebrate the community's rich heritage through genealogy,
oral histories, historic preservation
and educational programming cultural activities,
while ensuring that the stories and contributions of Coatesville
continue to inspire future generations.
therefore be it proclaimed that we, the Albemarle County
Board of Supervisors, do hereby proclaim
the fourth Saturday of August as Coatesville
all African-American History Day in Albemarle County, Virginia,
and recognize the remarkable history enduring legacy
and continuing contributions of the Coatesville community while
honoring the generations whose stories have enriched
the character of Albemarle County this 19th century.
2026.
Second, Thank you.
Very good.
The motion has been made and seconded.
Without objection, if the clerk will please call the roll.
Mr. Galloway.
Yes, Mr. Peace to Kirtley.
I miss Malik.
Yes, Mr. Missal.
Hi, Mr. Pruitt.
I miss Duncan.
Yes.
Thank you.
Board and please come forward.
If you'd like to make some remarks, and we'll do likewise.
And then we'll bring the proclamation down
Good afternoon.
I have to acknowledge and chair Mr. Galloway
and the members of the are Board of Supervisors.
Thank you.
And i so graciously accept this proclamation
and I would like to say that I am a transplant here from Little
Rock, Arkansas.
But I'm a member of the First Baptist Church of Coatesville,
and I'm the historian there.
And I have written their history.
And I'd also like to say that my husband, who grew up
in the coastal area, once upon a time
was chair of this city school board,
and he served on that board for nine years.
And also as the chair of the Albemarle Charlottesville public
Defender's Office.
So that's a lot of history there.
And I so graciously accept this proclamation
from Albemarle County.
Thank you so much.
We're going to invite the supervisors to make
any remarks they wish to do so supervise, just let this go.
Currently on a personal note, where in Arkansas are you from?
I grew up in Little Rock.
Little Rock.
OK.
Is miles from the Capitol to My late husband
was from Arkansas, born and raised.
So this is really an honor for you all.
And it's an honor for us to be able to present
a proclamation to you for you, because I think
without everybody's effort I don't
think we'd have much of a county, frankly,
sounded like you all.
You were.
So the African American community was so involved.
I think not only Coatesville, but frankly,
throughout the entire county.
I mean, what you did for especially for agriculture,
which I'm not like, but everything you built
and faith based, I think it's extremely important You kind of
set the stage for everything.
And you do you just all have contributed the the community
has contributed so much.
And continues to do so.
So I don't want anyone to think that something was done.
And then that's it.
No, it's a continuation of everything
that has been done before You past generations,
and it's truly an honor that you're
part of what we're all part of the same county
because you really without those efforts,
I'm not sure how well, we would have done, frankly.
Thank you.
You.
Thank you.
Supervisor Malik.
Thank you very much for coming.
And I so appreciate the work of our local
parishes our residents and descendants to call recognition
to our history, not just a house or a president, but all of us.
As a native, I grew up here living in the history every day.
But I was in my 60s before I learned a much more complete
story, and it was my constituents who helped me to do
that.
Every district and rural area has about all of it,
or First Baptist Coatesville or Little Church in Browns Cove
or Piedmont Baptist and Yancey Mills
that all hold the communities together.
And so we all need to work together
to continue to strengthen each other
and to make that story even more known.
Thank you very much, Supervisor Duncan.
I. I teach a u.S. history class for high schoolers,
but it's also a U.S. and local history class.
And so as part of the research for it.
When I was first doing it, as I was looking
at kind of black history in America County,
and there are so many communities like this,
like everywhere in the county And when you start looking,
when you start seeing road names and churches,
you just realize like how rich the fabric was and still is.
And so this is a really sometimes it's
hard to like find that information
or have it kind of told cohesively
And so this is really fantastic to do a day like this.
I was just kind of skimming the article from last year's History
Day and the pictures and all of the stuff that's happening.
So this is really exciting that we're doing this.
I hope this spreads to a lot of the other communities
are here because this is a really really rich, deep history
that's really important.
So thank you.
Supervisor Pruitt.
Thank you so much for joining us here today.
You know, you were mentioning teaching us history.
And I remember when I took U.S. history.
And I think about U.S. history, what
do we think we think of like all these famous people, this litany
of famous people and famous places
that we categorize and orient our knowledge around.
And when you live in a country with a history, like ours,
there is a long period of who was
excluded from being able to be a famous person in this country.
And if that's the only way we think
about history and this litany of fame and power,
are we completely erased?
Like so much of what we are as a country
or what we are as a people or what we are as Albemarle County?
And it's so easy for these places
where we there isn't a government of Coatesville,
there isn't something to hold that memory and that story.
And if we only think about the people of power,
then we forget all these people we get from power.
And we forget all the history that
makes us a full and complete community.
So I want to just thank you all so much for helping us capture
and enshrine and tell this story of a full and complete history
of this community and what we are together as a country.
Thank you.
Supervisor Missal.
Thank you.
I'd just like to say ditto to what everybody said,
but I also have some things to say.
Thank you for this.
And Coatesville is a really special place.
I didn't really didn't realize how amazing it
is it was until I started to learn some of the history.
And I'm really envious of history.
And so the work that you're doing
in building the database of the past
and thinking forward to the future is essential.
I've had an opportunity to do some of that in my other job
and I'm happy to partner with you
and see if there are ways that we can continue
to build that database, because I know
that's where the power and the information
is really leveraged amongst the that the community.
So thank you for this opportunity.
And very much look forward to handing you this in a second.
OK.
I join with my colleagues on their remarks.
And I have a question.
I know that a handful of years ago
and the effort that was made to gather oral remarks
or to hear folks passed down through that storytelling
in that way, and they were actually
having their stories recorded for the record
and the particular event.
I remembering was at the Antique Community Center.
Does that still go on?
Are we still collecting specifically
from that oral history way, the actual vocal record of hearing
folks tell the history that oral history is still
being collected.
And I would also like to say that it took me about ten years,
but I have a complete video of the history of Coatesville
just completed, and I would like to give provide
a copy to the Historical Society because great, it's
a lot of information in that video and whatever is doing
and the foundation is taking it to another level
But it would be wonderful if you could actually see what's really
going on with this project.
Yeah, I would love to see that.
And all my life all the time that I've been here,
everybody always said the community of Coatesville.
But Coatesville is a village, historic village
And you had some others that joined everyone.
I introduced and everybody.
Hello, everyone.
Good afternoon.
My name is Devin Williams and I'm
the founder of the Country House project First,
please forgive me for my tardiness.
We've got to kind of schedule order.
I have to go pick up the illustrious Cornelia somewhere.
That's not why we're late.
I'm just like.
I just did target person sometimes.
But I want to echo everything.
And first, the hope.
Thank you so much You're welcome.
Thank you so much.
So, Coatesville is the home place of my grandfather, Francis
Williams, senior He raised a family in Washington, DC,
but he was very, very proud of his album.
Our county community village of Collinsville Oh,
it left an indelible mark on the memories of soul.
Many people don't even live here in Albemarle County All up
and across the eastern seacoast is
for people who descend from Collinsville
who have this very vivid and palpable image and memory
of Collinsville.
And so what we celebrate with collinsville History Day
is that memory.
When a place no longer exists, how does memory celebration.
Take the place of.
And so that's what we're doing this coming Saturday.
And every Saturday before fourth Sunday for here until eternity.
And so we want to teach the young people
to keep this tradition going.
We want to make sure that this community knows
that we are in vested and making sure that people can always
have access to the story of Coatesville
and not just the story that is covered only in the textbooks.
But one that tells a fuller, broader picture.
As Mr. Pruitt said about how not everyone with a famous last name
can get some credit for the work that they've put
into a community or a village.
And so many members of Collinsville
and those who disintegrate are Albemarle County.
Many of the African Americans you find in Charlottesville
later in the centuries are from Coatesville
and they all make incredible contribution to this community,
but they don't tell the story of coal.
So they don't forget.
They hold it in their hearts, but they move forward
and they forge to other cities like New York.
There are hundreds of Coatesville descendants
in New York, Baltimore, D.C., all over Virginia, Richmond,
in particular.
And they hold that story.
And so when we hosted calls for History Day last year,
it was very evident that this community.
Finally got an opportunity to have a platform
to speak their truth, to tell stories
to remember collectively, and the human and the human mind
has no understanding of how important it
is to share a collective past with someone else
and see yourself in stories and in memories.
And so this is what we do, and we have fun doing it too.
So history.
An amateur historian, but I like to have a good time.
And so I know young people like to have a good time
in this next generation.
They want to see a digital future.
And so that's what we're doing, trying to bring Kosovo
into this next era with the history, with the genealogy,
with the oral storytelling, the whole bit.
So thank you so much for this honor today
as well And we'll have supervisor missile bring
the proclamation down while he's working.
May I make one additional comment?
And that is this reminds me of the Giving Word project
that was inaugurated, first of all, on cello.
But I was at the opening there.
And the family members who went to the kiosk
and learned things they had never known before.
And then when it was moved to the on the Smithsonian Memorial
Day you see when that museum opened,
we had several bus loads of people who
went up to participate in that.
I just was so impacted by the feelings of the family
members and the descendants and how important it was to them.
And I'm really glad that you're doing this locally.
That's terrific.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
And these two things will be receiving.
Thank you both.
And just evidenced also, here's my call I think.
And it's nice to be here.
Good to meet you.
So I know there's something they can
do to help connect, communicate with to say one thing.
Just make good afternoon, everybody
I want you all to know I'm the chronicler of Albemarle County.
I was office in Charlottesville and then became a city chair.
But I remember the days when I was walking to downtown mall.
Some of you might remember and others don't, that
was an insurance company then that man name died in power.
Every morning he'd come and he said, You all
get back this cold milk is coming through.
So come is really a special place.
And that's where I got my start.
Matter of fact, I was even a school bus driver
for Albemarle County one time.
So I kind of delivered the rail.
So Albemarle can is really wonderful to see.
Think.
Thank you, Cheryl, You all right?
We will move to item B under six.
We have the Virginia Association of Counties achievement award
we have with us Jeremy Bennett, the Vaiko
director of Intergovernmental Affairs and we'll
have some staff joining Mr. Bennett after his remarks.
Yes, Well, thank you, Mr. Chair.
Members of the board.
Good afternoon.
My name is Jeremy Bennett.
I said Director of Governmental Affairs
with the Virginia Association of Counties.
It's my pleasure to be back in my former home
county of Albemarle.
And before I begin the presentation,
just allow me to say what a privileges to follow
the proclamation for Kosovo.
I mean, recognizing that local history just
shows how great Virginia is and, you know,
great the local government can do that.
But it is my distinct privilege today
to present the Bako Achievement Awards
all county and for the benefit of your constituents
may not be familiar with the Virginia
Association of Counties.
Baker was it existed since 1934 to serve and support
your efforts as county officials.
We support counties in many ways versus through our advocacy
efforts in the state legislature and the federal level.
And we also serve counties through
our educational programs, member services and communications
efforts.
And I'd be remiss of not recognizing
Supervisor Malik, who is on the Baker Board of directors
and a former Baker president But in 2003, we
established our achievement award program
to recognize counties that have adopted innovative approaches,
providing public services and identifying programs
that could serve as models for other counties to emulate.
And today, I'm very proud to present Albemarle County one
Achievement Award for the 44 program,
and I know there will be folks who could speak more to it
But just it's amazing to see the strategic vision of the county,
that community engagement as you plan
for smart growth in a very dynamic and growing community
So this is very close.
24th Annual Achievement Awards program.
And this year we received 103 entries,
of which only 40 winners were selected from 26 counties.
So as you can tell, is a truly competitive program
is less than 40% of the entries were selected as winners.
I was kind of a rock star of this program.
You won the achievement awards 11 times already,
and you're tied for 12th all time awards across
the Commonwealth of Virginia.
You won a achievement award four years in a row,
five of the past Six years.
And you want to achieve in one thing or another year of 2003
and one awards since 2005 and 2000
Eight, 16, 18, 21, 23, 24 and 25.
So keep, keep, keep on rolling with the applications.
You guys are really knocking it out of the park
And when our judges were evaluating criteria,
several the guidelines that they looked into,
you know, winning and winning programs.
What does a program offer?
An innovative solution to a problem situation
or deliver your services?
Is does the program promote intergovernmental cooperation
and is it a model that other local governments can look to
and the ACA 44 definitely hits all those criteria.
I believe that Tonya Swartz and Trooper James Wilkinson and then
all might be here.
And I would turn the I turn it over
to them to talk a little bit more
about the program, the subject matter experts
and then present the award.
And maybe get a picture that we could
share with the rest of the membership
at our annual conference this year right So unfortunately,
Ben can be with us today.
But I know you all have seen quite a bit of all three of us
in the past year or two.
I'm joined by James Wilkinson as well.
So thank you to Vaiko for this honor on behalf of the County.
I'm pleased to accept this achievement award for C 44.
Our update to the county's comprehensive plan
adopted just this past October.
Albemarle expects to welcome 31,000 new resit events over
the next 20 years.
We set out to build a plan that was technically sound and shaped
by the people who call our county
home More than 2700 residents participated through 87
public meetings, 39 questionnaires and tools
like our TAC kits, which enabled neighbors
to lead their own conversations and share their input with us.
Today, our growth management policy continues to channel new
development into just 5% of our growth area out
of the county's land, while protecting 689mi² of rural area.
For agricultural forestry and conservation Paired
with our seven big moves that turn this 20 year vision
into a near into near term priorities.
8044 gives us practical bridge between long range planning
and everyday decision making.
I'd like to thank our Board of Supervisors ERs and Planning
Commission, our leadership Yep, our internal and external
partners and above all, our residents
whose voices are reflected on every page of AC 44.
Looking forward.
AC 44 Implementation is now in full swing
across efforts that include zoning modernization
and multi-modal transportation planning and activity center
planning.
Thank you again.
To echo for this award Great.
And I see people jumping in.
We're going to have the chief Congratulations.
Thank you.
I appreciate and supervise there's
any remarks supervisor of Mr. currently.
Thank you for bringing this award to us,
and thank you for all the work the staff has done frankly,
to earn this at.
I commend our staff for making our county truly one
of excellence.
In my opinion So thank you.
And thank you, Jeremy, for coming.
Supervisor Malik Thank you.
Being old I can say that I first participated in the review
in 1985, and the reason that I've
been so strident about having community action on this
is because of all the thousands of our predecessors
who weighed in at every five year interval and all
those different chapters all these years, who
have built where we are today.
And so sweeping it out and putting in something brand
new was not honoring their effort as well.
So I'm really pleased with where it turned out.
I know it was a struggle and that's
okay because things good things are hard to achieve.
And I appreciate all of everybody's work.
Thank you.
Supervisor Duncan.
Well, since I didn't participate in
that, oh, I'm like super excited that, you know, I could.
But no, it's a really great project.
I was looking at the list of all the nominations and awards
and there's a lot of things that the counties are doing,
and I imagine deciding which ones are worth the awards is
a lot of effort.
So thank you to Vaiko for doing this.
And also, I just stands out that, you
know that it was an achievement and you know a lot of people
participate voted and so it's nice kind of county award
that you put in the work, and you
can get a really good product supervisor prewitt,
congratulations your at this was a really Herculean task
that staff engaged with.
I got to participate both as a member of the public
and then as a supervisor for over a year in the same process,
which is a fun experience.
And I know i sometimes grouse that we are less politically
engaged, popular, us and y'all.
You all put in the work to make sure we got some engagement
on this process.
And I know that's not always easy.
And required a lot of work from staff.
So congratulate and very well deserved.
I will also just add Mr. Bennett really
is lauded on all these plaudits for Albemarle County
But the thing I caught is that there's at least 11
locality is that have won more awards than us.
There.
I don't really know how we change that,
but I'm going to fight with the boards.
I'm going to task, Mr. Richardson
to make sure that we catch up.
I want to be at least top five.
I don't even know who's in the top five,
but I want to be in the top five,
make a motion We have to make a motion
to up our game as we should be applying
to every single category supervisor missile.
Thank you.
I congratulate lations.
You said 87 public meetings.
I mean, it's a Herculean effort, right?
And so it's great to take time to celebrate
and it's also great to start thinking ahead.
Right.
Looking forward to what this really means for the county.
Also, super tricky trying to balance,
you know economic development.
Let's go.
Let's get this moving and preserve our rural areas
at the same time I mean, you were walking a line
the whole time.
You were doing it.
So thank you.
And thank Ben for me when you see him.
Yeah, we appreciate you coming down to acknowledge our staff.
I mean, you know, as I work through these kind of things
you just expect that the process is the norm because that's
how we're doing it, right?
It's like.
And I would imagine other places do a similar have
a similar kind of reaction.
But it's nice when somebody outside looking in.
I identifies or acknowledges that know that process
is a pretty good one.
And it's one that others can look to.
So you all should be very proud of the work that you
that you did with that.
And thankful to Vaiko for pointing that out And then
like fashion those others that were winning awards
as well, that we look there and go, okay, can we
you know, the sign of award winners
is that they're constantly looking around
to figure out how to get better, which
is probably part and parcel to winning
some acknowledgment award.
So look forward to continue you that kind of learning.
So thank you very much for being with us today.
And did you get your pictures for the little satisfy
everything OK.
Very good.
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much.
You all have a good day.
I'm going to join Stefan Carter Mountain before his actor Rich
self.
Thank you, Jerry Congratulations again.
Thank you.
OK.
All right.
Board our next item.
See what I'm on this reluctant to have
to do but it is a resolution of appreciation for Police Chief
Shaun Reeves.
And I'm going to take my prerogative as chair
to read this proclamation in the form of a motion
resolution of appreciation for Shawn Reeves.
Whereas Colonel Shawn Reeves has completed more than 30 years
of public service beginning as a military police
officer in the United States Army from 1996 to 2000, one.
And as a sworn lay in law enforcement officer
in the Commonwealth of Virginia and.
Whereas, Colonel Reeves has faithfully
served the County of Albemarle for 25 years First joining
the Albemarle County Police Department as a patrol
officer in 2000, one, steadily advancing through several roles
before being appointed chief of police in 2022.
And.
Whereas, during his time with CPD,
Colonel Reeves played a pivotal role
in several priority projects, including
creating the Cyber Crimes Unit, developing a community coalition
around mental health crisis response,
advancing the body worn camera program,
and serving as the lead AC PD representative on the county's
incident management teams for Covid 19.
The at ready statue removal and the events of August 12th.
And.
Whereas, Colonel Reeves provided leadership in key initiatives
to ensure an effective response to mental health
emergencies including launching the Human Services Alternative
Response Team or Heart, which established the county's Cobra
sponsor model for behavioral health crises Crises
through collaboration among law enforcement.
Fire Rescue. fire and social service professionals
and opening into crises.
Innovate prevention Team Assessment Center
and partnership with Region ten.
And.
Whereas, Colonel Reeves championed
the safety of our community through initiatives
such as Rescue Task Force Training,
building relationship ups with local and statewide public
safety partners, participating in the Project Safe Neighborhood
Partnership and Training Officers,
and the use of Narcan in the field, which resulted
in dozens of lives saved.
And.
Whereas, During his tenure as Chief of police,
Colonel Reeves modernized law enforcement practices
to meet the needs of a growing community,
he championed initiatives to attract and retain high quality
police officers His updated departmental policies
and procedures to improve service delivery
and establishment employee mental and physical
wellness program to ensure ACP officers have access
to the resource they need to effectively respond
to calls for service and sustain long term
careers in law enforcement.
Now, therefore be it.
Resolved by the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors
that Colonel Shawn reeves is hereby honored
and commended for his many years of exceptional service
to the County of Albemarle.
The Albemarle County Police Department,
Albemarle County residents, the broader community in which we
live, and the entire Commonwealth of Virginia with
knowledge that Albemarle County is strengthened
and distinguished by Colonel Reeves dedication commitment,
professionalism and compassion in meeting community needs
and be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be
spread upon the minutes of this meeting of the Alabama County
Board of Supervisors as a lasting,
visible testament to the esteem in which Colonel Reeves is held
by this board and previous for its for his lasting legacy
of community service and the tangible results from his work
to make Albemarle County better for future generations Signed
this 19th day of August 2026, second rate.
The motion has been made and seconded without objection
if the clerk will please call the roll.
Mr. Galloway.
Yes, Mr. Curtly.
I miss Malik.
Yes.
Mr. Missal.
Hi, Mr. Pruitt Hi, Ms..
Duncan.
Yes.
And Chief would love to have you join us for some remarks.
Mr. Richardson, do you want to make any remarks as the chief is
coming forward?
Mr. Chair, thank you.
This organization yesterday enjoyed a wonderful opportunity
to spend some time with Sean and his family,
as well as the Moore County Police
Department, some retired special guest who were here yesterday
celebrating Shawn.
And so we tell folks that were there yesterday
that today would be another opportunity at the board.
A superb officers level in a public meeting
to thank our six police chief since the inception
of our police department in 1984 for his service
to not just this county, but to our nation
and to celebrate a wonderful full service
retirement and 30 years of service to our United States.
The state of Virginia and Albemarle County.
So with that, Mr. Chair, I'll turn it back over to you.
And thank you to the board members
who were able to come yesterday and thank you for the board's
attention to this today.
And Chief, we would love it If you made some remarks
and then we're going to talk about you to you have here done.
Thank you, Chair Galloway and members
of the board for the kind remarks
on both humbled and honored today,
I am joined by my beautiful wife, Christina Reeves, and also
the acting chief of police.
Now Major range Jamison, as well as people from our team.
Everything that you've listed those accomplishments
and achievement of the would not have
been possible, quite frankly, without the support
from across the organization without the work of the men
and women, the Elmore County Police Department,
my job was easy as providing vision and direction.
It is people like Major Jamerson Officer Carson
members, my command staff that really pushed those initiatives
forward, even though I realize that i joke with Mr. Henry
that Deputy County Executive, the cops hit two things.
They hate change.
They hate the way things are so knowing that and still managing
to execute change leadership.
And the past four and a half years, it
truly has been my honor and privilege
to serve this county as the chief of police.
And then looking back, as Richard Richardson says
for 25 years and serving and our police department
served this community.
For more than half of the police department's entire existence,
it really hits home with me.
And I have full faith and confidence
that our police department is in great hands.
We're we're headed in the right direction.
Absolutely.
With the help of Christy Shiflett and her team.
But more importantly, the deputy county executive,
Mr. Trevor Henry.
And for Jeff Richardson's leadership,
Jeff, really in Trevor both push me
and challenged me to get out of my comfort zone
and be a better leader and a better person that ultimately
made me a better chief of police.
And for that I'll always be grateful.
So thank you, gentlemen, and thank you
to this board for your unwavering support through some
of the most difficult times in law enforcement
that we've had in the past decade.
In my senior leadership, through a global pandemic,
through the Unite the Right rally, through the KKK rallies,
even though the that does happen in the city of Charlottesville,
our jurisdiction, as you know, it
was sucked directly into those of the statue removal
being the first jurisdiction to legally remove
a statue during that time in our in our state's history.
And being part of that plus other significant major criminal
investigations.
It's really been my honor and privilege
to serve this community.
And I thank you all for your support and continued support
and take care.
And you will be missed.
Yes.
Supervisor of pistol, currently, you know,
this is going to be hard for me.
I will get through it.
You have been a steady and committed dude.
You have person in the police department
that has shown progress Star community
and you've continued to go forward.
I'm just going to mention a few things
that I think will resonate with our resident.
Your collaborator should with the fire department
has been extraordinary because it shows everybody.
We're all on one team and we support you.
And they look up to us, by the way.
And they look up to the police department.
So that helps.
Of course, we look up to the police.
They look up to the police department.
Yeah, I'm going to catch heck for that.
You know the body worn cameras shows that our community is
you're showing transparency is showing what we can do.
So that people, our community will trust us.
That's extremely important.
The hearts team shows innovation.
And it shows you care because we're looking at helping people
in a little bit different way.
Cyber crimes, I think we're going
to see that very, very busy every single year that that's
really going to be right up there.
But on a personal level, you can't live on a personal level,
you have shown to be a remarkable leader
and to command everybody and to move move progress in such a way
that it wasn't a knee jerk reaction.
It was well thought out.
It was well presented, and it was well received.
You've you've helped us, the police department,
in so many areas to become a better community And for that.
I'll always be thankful and grateful.
Thank you.
And if I may, sir, I'd be remiss if I
didn't recognize Mr. Academic.
When we talk about the heart team prior to her arrival,
all I did was get vision, direction and start
planting those seeds.
It was it was all khaki that really took the leadership role
and got it across the goal line.
So I didn't want to stand here and take all the credit
for that.
When it was kalki back here that did a lot of the work.
So I know that.
But I was waiting for Cathy retires
to mention supervisor Malik Thank you,
Sean and to all your department.
And I'm talking a lot about my childhood today, which
is surprising considering.
But way back in the 50s, we had about 20,000 residents and one
chair and he sat at the corner of Birch Road,
and Tina Lane and waited for a call because where else would
you go to be able to go in all those different directions
and while previously ship prevented connections
of officers on patrol with their constituents,
community policing has brought this whole new world to us here
and returned us basically to the old the old version,
but brought our department to be a true anchor in our community.
I am so proud of the way the department has evolved
over the last 19 years, and I recognize
that that was a dramatic change that you all managed.
I know you mentioned officers don't generally like change of,
but there were staff who walked away
But to the tremendous credit to all who stayed,
we are so proud of what you have achieved.
Leaders such of you as you have guided all those successes.
Congratulations and thank you.
Thank them.
Supervisor Duncan in the short time
that I have gone to kind of interact with you,
I've been very impressed.
And so, you know, everything that everyone
is saying rings true So thank you for your service.
And I did also just want to highlight you know,
the one thing that I'm really happy that we have is the heart
team and sort of having the vision for it,
but also being willing to work with Cathy
and willing to work with another department to do this
Not not everyone would do that.
Not every police chief is willing to do that.
And so I really appreciate your effort in doing that.
And the collaboration, because I think it's
really important that we have that.
And again, if I may, that's a testament
to Mr. Richardson in the culture that he
set in this county in his expectation
is that as leaders that we work together, collaborate to problem
solve.
So I appreciate the acknowledgment
but that that speaks volumes.
It's not just me.
You could any department head could be up here
and they would do the same thing.
And collaborate cooperate with one another.
So thank you.
Supervisor Pruitt, thank you so much for your years of service
to this to this county.
We have been through a period of a lot of change
as a county over the last several decades.
We've grown significantly.
And what we look like has changed a lot.
There's been a lot of changes as a country during that same time.
And unsurprisingly, like the Air Force and what
we expect out of police and the role
of police in our jurisdiction has changed a lot.
And so much of that has been under your leadership really,
really dramatic changes in how we respond to and engage
with issues of mental health that you've led,
how we respond and engage with public unrest, how
we work with and don't work with,
sometimes challenging relationships
with state and federal partners.
You have led a really steady shift through that period
and this is also a period.
It's not lost on me right where police and elected officials
are often at loggerheads in a lot of jurisdictions.
And that's especially true to put the Tiger
on the table of jurisdictions that
are led by Democrats during the last several years.
And that, at least during my service on the board,
has not been the case.
And I think some of that is this board being
on the same level as you on in lockstep with your best self.
That's a two way street.
And I'm so grateful to have had the partnership of a police
department where I feel like we all
have a shared vision of how to protect and serve
this community.
And I'm very grateful for that.
And I'm also going to share a dumb, embarrassing story, which
I think is appropriate on the moment of your retirement
The first time we, you and I met embarrassingly late,
I had already been elected.
And my apologies and I had not met you or actually
seen you before.
And when I met you, I this is a very inappropriate response.
And I regret it.
But I said, wow, you're the chief of police here.
You're very young to be the chief of police is what I said.
Could control myself the First thing out of my mouth.
And, like, sir, I've been in law enforcement for over 25 years.
I've years old.
To which I said that hot damn double congratulations.
I wouldn't have guessed that this
is all just to say you're now going to go to him and say,
I'm a retired Third career law enforcement officer,
and so many other people are going to say, How dare you?
So young Thank you, sir.
Thank you for that.
And I really appreciate, again, the support and the recognition
for the trials, tribulations that our police officers have
gone through and recognizing the political, political climate
and just understanding with respect
to our elected officials, it is imperative.
And that is one thing that, again,
that I believe in as chief of police, as a chief of police
unlike elected officials, we have to be apolitical.
We serve our community.
We're public service just like every other part of it,
but especially so it that we don't take political sides.
We force the laws as they are, not as they should be.
And we're tasked with uphold the Constitution
And I think that that is impaired live as a chief
and as officers that we remember that.
Supervisor Menzel thank you I have a couple of observations.
And I think one, regret I'll start with the regret
and that is that I haven't had an opportunity to really work
with you for very long, and I would
have liked that a great deal.
Second observation is 30 years of service.
I didn't realize you could start in this business
when you were ten, she recalls her first comment.
The other is that as I've been listening to you,
you spent almost your entire time
deflecting praise and sharing it and pointing to others
and away from yourself and to me that
rises to the top of the most the strongest characteristic
of a true great leader.
So congratulations and looking forward to next steps for you.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, I echo both your too young and to the the the
marks and the signs of good leadership.
You know I have a gratitude for you and the service you've done.
I think the thing that is unusual for anybody
in any organization these days is the fact that you went
from patrol officer to chief in one organization,
and that's remarkable, especially in this time.
And but I think the unique thing, in addition
to the remarks that have been made, is that I think now is
and I've held chiefs, you and those who come
before you in very high regard.
But now moving forward, you have kind of
helped us shape the mold of what we want our chief to be.
And out Mercer County, because of the things that
have been mentioned, we share an idea
and a sense of how policing should happen in our county.
We've been on the same page.
We have found different things to put in place
that kind of back up what that philosophy or that approach is.
But you know, the person that solidify it and truly
molded it together has been you and the leadership
that you've had.
So I think that's something that you
should be incredibly proud of and know that every chief that
comes after you is going to be judged
against what you have molded for this position here in Albemarle.
And I think that's something you should be very proud of.
So with that, in joining with all the remarks
that have been said, I just again,
on behalf of the Board of Supervisors in the county,
we all appreciate what you have done
for all the residents of the county,
knowing that we're a better place.
And a better community because of all of your service.
So thank you much, Shawn, and enjoy your retirement.
Well, our remarks thank you for Well, I
can think about a number of safe travels All right.
Thank you.
Board.
See if we can get caught up on some time in.
But we have public.
Our next item is item seven public comment
matters previously considered are currently
pending before the board other than scheduled
for public hearing.
We have no one signed up, so we will move to item number
eight, which is our consent agenda And I did.
I'm not aware of anything that needs to be
pulled from that from consent.
Are there any items, is there a motion
to adopt the consent agenda?
Some of the second.
All right.
The motion has been made and seconded.
Without objection, the clerk will please call the roll
Mr. Galloway?
Yes.
You.
So currently I miss Malik.
Yes, Mr. Missal.
All right, Mr. Pruitt.
I miss Duncan.
Yes.
All right The consent agenda is approved.
Thank you.
And that will take us to item, not
look at our four minutes ahead of schedule on item number nine,
Affordable rental housing incentive program
requested on Fifth.
And our director of housing, Stacey
Peth the MIC Jacob joining as well.
It kalki move into the front row Good afternoon Good afternoon.
I think i have this close enough to my mouth today.
I'm Stacey, the director of housing and i'm
here with Jacob Sumner, the Chief financial chief
finance Officer.
And we are here to please rent the affordable rental housing
Incentive program incentive request for the attain
on Fifth project.
I would like to note that you will
see that tenant fifth will be coming back to you
later this evening.
So this agenda item right now is solely
focused on the incentive program I think it is not the Affordable
rental housing incentive program,
otherwise known as our hip, because that's easier
to say was approved by the board in February of Two, 2024.
And it really implements Appendix 8.2 of the County
Code of Ordinances and Appendix 8.2
is the ordinance that allows the county
to provide grants or loans to developers
for the construction of affordable housing projects
that are eligible for a grant through the incentive program.
The amount of the incentive would
be equal to 15% of the total taxes paid
on the property each year for a total of 30 years
to be eligible for.
And I hope incentive construction
of new affordable rental units must
be included in the project The project must contain at least
11 residential units to make it really
financial feasible for developers to take advantage
of this project.
Must be located in Albemarle County.
Specific Lee Within the development areas with options
to move outside of that, if appropriate.
The applicant must own or control the project site
and have an approved rezoning of the project site.
If that is applicable to that project And at least
20% of the total rental units on the property
should be affordable at or below 60% of area.
Median income There is an opportunity
for projects that fall outside of those program parameters
to become eligible for incentive,
and those are early looked at on a case by case basis.
And this would be one of those cases the RFP application
process is non-competitive and applications
are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year.
Those applications once received and reviewed
by the Department of Finance and Budget and Housing Office
staff for program compliance.
The project budget provide it with the application
must demonstrate that the affordable Unitech
Construction would not be feasible without the incentive
grant and as always, the incentive is approved
by the board specifically for the Maintain on Fifth project.
This would apply to phase Two of A on Fifth project
and attain on Fifth is what it was formerly known as Capsular
Crossing this specific Phase two project proposes
to construct an additional 165 rental units
throughout the property for a total of 309 units
a total of 62 or 20% of those 309 units
would be provided as affordable housing
and broken into two to affordability levels.
10% or 31% of 31 units would be provided at 60% of AMI.
With the addition of the other half of those 31 units provided
at 80% AMI all affordability periods would last for 30 years.
The units therefore opposed include a 22 bedroom
two bath units and 42 three bedroom, three bathroom units.
It's important to note that through this larger
three bedroom sized units are just not a lot of that.
Their size units in the county.
It's difficult for families of any income level to find them,
particularly those with below median income.
The unhip incentive if approved, would
be approximately $5 million over the 30 year compliance period.
And if the board approves the incentive then
a performance agreement would be drafted
that would include the terms of the grant, the annual grants
amount that is estimated to be paid out timeline
for those payments, the total affordability period, as well as
reporting and compliance requirements
So we want to open it up to the board for any questions.
Again, Mr. Sumner is here to answer
any of the financial side.
It's like here mr. Sutton is here to answer those.
Supervisor.
Mr. Curtly Yes.
Could you please go back to page five?
I think that's it.
No wrong.
OK out of the 309 units, I know they're
constructing an additional 165 new rental units.
Correct?
That's correct.
But the entire 309 units, they're all rentals, Correct.
Will all be rentals.
The what we're offering the incentive program?
Well, they cover the Affordable units of the $165.
Or will they be dispersed throughout the entire 309?
Or would they be able to land?
The 309?
Are there all section?
I believe at the moment, they would most of them would
be in the old section.
So the existing units are there.
So we're paying in an incentive to refer basically.
Yes.
So most of them will be in the existing units.
There will be some in the new units,
but due to the income that will be lost,
providing those lower rents even in the existing units, that's
what this incentive allows.
OK.
Thank you.
No other questions.
Supervised are Malik.
Thank you.
So when I was reading the packet the first time there
seemed to be a discrepancy about the new units
versus the affordable units versus the entire property.
But I understand the rebate is based
upon the value of the entire property.
Yes, ma'am.
And yet we're immediately giving up half of the below the 60% AMI
and below right off the bat So I'm concerned about that.
So that's I don't really have a question.
I just think that we're giving up
on the first day of making an achievement of what
we should be getting.
Thank you.
Supervisor Duncan is this only the second application we've
had that's using the R correct Do
you know if we have more applications using
this in the pipeline?
I believe I just received an email about one,
but I haven't had a chance.
Literally.
Right before we got up here.
So just potentially one.
Yes.
So far i have some sort of curious if kind of big picture,
if this is working or if we should make adjustments
at some point to how this is working or not
getting applications.
But that's all I have.
I'm Supervisor Pruitt I'd begin by echoing kind of actually
both the two previous comments because they,
you know they have different normative flavors,
but they got at the same issue, which is up.
I would continue to share whether or not
this is a program that has been appropriately calibrated
to the current economic moment.
If the first for profit that we've had
come before us trying very hard and with a property that they
got at a bargain, still is not able to fully come
into accordance with our expectation.
That indicates, I think, a flaw in our design
of the program that it is this challenging and they've made.
I would say, very good try at trying
to comply with our standards Also, we're, I
think in real time kind of figuring out
the speed bumps of how we're going to implement this.
This is almost more of an internal thing here.
But I think there's a sequencing problem here with the agenda
as I'm looking at it and experiencing this as a board
member, because there is an exchange of things of value
that is happening with our hip and also
with the final approval itself related to proffers
of those things of value.
All speak to one another, right?
Money is fungible, units are convertible into money, which
is fungible, but we're making a decision on one part
before the rest of it even comes to us.
And frankly, a lot of the I think,
more substantive discussion we're going to have on finance
is related to the project And that scope
of benefits to the community and benefits to the company
is going to happen in the latter half.
But we're kind of backing ourselves
into a potential decision in the first half
with the decision on our hip.
So I will just observe that i know
how I feel about this project.
But if I didn't, this would be very frustrating for me,
for it to come before me in this broken
out part and with a kind of dispositive element.
Earlier in the meeting, before we had an opportunity
to substantively engage with the rest of it,
it feels like those need to walk a little closer together
in the same way we might have like necessary variances come
immediately after a zoning decision right?
Steep slope requirements, which we have for this.
Come immediately after zoning decision.
Those feel married in a way to the zoning decision
that this also feels like it needs to be married up
and it's not currently, which again,
I'm very familiar with this project.
So in this instant moment it is not a crisis for me.
But if this was a more controversial project
that I didn't know anything about,
I this would be a very hard thing to come before me first.
Sorry, belabored that point a little I think there is also
this is maybe a bit of a I was recently
trying to remind myself that I was correctly
remembering the exact criteria of this program.
This board probably.
Secondly, saying this.
I found it hard to find our own policies on it
and i know when I first sat down with the applicant,
they had had a hard time finding the exact policies of it,
and I had to, from memory, having voted on it, lay it out,
which is not a great position.
And particularly the thing that two previous supervisors
mentioned is a thing that I don't think we are advertising.
Well, which is that the affordability requirement
applies to newly created units.
So that is the unit of analysis is newly created
for how 20% of that being newly being affordable while the tax
credit applies to total project value.
So there are two separate scopes of analysis.
The creation of affordability requirement
is only analyzing new units in a read of,
whereas the tax benefit is analyzing
the entirety of the project that is, that is not intuitive
that that would be how that would work.
And I'm not sure.
I'm not sure that's a part But especially
if you're not someone who very steeped in our local zoning
culture.
And this kind of goes into the general thing
I've expressed worry about is that you shouldn't need
to be steeped in local zoning culture
to be able to successfully apply like it is.
It is great for Williams and Mullen,
and they get the business of being
the experts who you have to come to, to, to get things through.
And I hate that I'm trying to maybe harm their bottom line
on this, but it should be relatively easy to figure out
what the rules are.
Are And I worry that it's not an you
need to partner with these experts or be one of the people
already in the developer pool.
That being said I think if the applicant had the opportunity
to present at this another just procedural thing,
I don't think we have an opportunity for the applicant
to present on this for no.
And again, we're deciding it first.
If the applicant had the opportunity to present on this,
I'm sure they would make a good explanation of the challenges
in fully complying with our with our requirement on this.
And they have come quite close.
They got to the spirit of doing 20%.
And so I am comfortable knowing that they
did their homework trying to deliver what we've
identified as being of value.
I'm comfortable looking aside that requirement
that we've implemented in approving this.
Thank you.
And I appreciate having the opportunity to kind of lay out
these concerns.
I have.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
If you could just clarify something for the board.
I just want to clarify that the affordability application that's
before the board right now.
And then the rezoning applications for this evening
are independent, that a decision today does not
obligate the board in terms of its zoning decisions.
This evening, nor does the zoning decision
to see this evening obligate the board on anything
regarding the affordability incentives before the board.
At the moment that is well taken.
I realize I said that they.
But they are in play each other.
I i in practice feel like they heavily speak to one another,
but of course formally they don't.
Supervisor Missal.
Yeah.
Thanks very much.
So I've had the opportunity probably like Supervisor
or other supervisors to have seen
this and other areas and other venues
and appreciate the vision and the design
and the goals for the development You know,
the more we do these things as our second one, the better we're
going to get at it.
And maybe the next time the sequencing changes a little bit.
Or there's a different approach to how we learn about it, I also
have been thinking about that sequencing
a fair amount because I want to ask the applicant questions
and, and it feels like that might inform that.
But on the flip side is if we don't agree to this, if we
don't move forward with this, they don't have a project.
And so they're going to have to go back to the drawing board
and they're going to have to figure this
out and do a whole different pro forma and capital stack.
So it's a chicken and egg thing kind of.
And I think that, you know, if we do support this,
they'll be able to move forward as planned
and as they will likely present to us later today.
I also know that.
And having worked on this and learned so much
about this over the last few years.
We need every possible source of funds
to make affordable housing reality
a reality in this community.
We all know that.
I think maybe Chair Galway mentioned that the other day.
In one of our other meetings we were
talking about how we need to do everything we
can to leverage every avenue.
And this is one of those avenues that we
can leverage It also just ticks the box in other ways.
So I know this is independent of the zoning, but it's hard for me
to separate a project from its funding source
because without one, it's the other was not a reality.
But I just the way this has been designed
and the infill that we're going to be seeing and seeing later
in the use of this and the reuse of this and the approval
in in terms of quality of life I think that this development will
bring and the reasonable approach to parking, etc., etc.,
are things that we can learn from that will help affordable
housing come to the community as well.
So it's multilayered to me.
So that's all I guess I was supposed to ask questions,
none of that was a question Sorry,
anybody asked the question.
So I don't you know what?
I'm so well ask them.
You supposed to ask.
No, no.
I've written down since it was my turn.
I'll come back later You go ahead of me.
Well, I'll.
A few comments based on some of the comments that
have been made as my involvement with the creation
of this incentive program was pretty on at the point.
And so I feel like I have a good memory of why things are
in place that they are given.
When we passed it first, the sequencing.
OK.
Today, you know when it was discussed,
when we put this into place, I don't
know that we ever foresaw that we
would be making a decision on the incentive
and then having a zoning question on the same day.
But we did very clearly because of what
we heard from developed the developer and community
and applicants was that if we don't know,
we're going to get the incentive to keep your point about
or changes the pro forma, they need
to know that before they go through the whole rezoning
process.
And that was an I agree.
That's reasonable.
If I'm not getting it, then that may change the whole way
or even putting the application in.
I'd rather know that before I put the application.
And then proceeding through everything.
So the board was the one that when
we passed the incentive back in February, what, four years ago
that said, we have to come up with the process of how
to get the incentive question in front of us
and say, oh, we can decide that.
And this is only the second the second one.
So there can be commentary on the process.
Yes, because that's how we're going to learn and get better
if we continue to do the program But I don't want
I don't want to make it.
Because at one point, we felt like the incentive would
be made after the rezoning.
Well, that that's kind of backwards.
And how this stuff works because you're also
going and finding all the other things that you
need to find out to see if you can make a project work.
And the board agreed to that with our vote,
we also agreed to some flexibility
and part of the conversation of giving it
to the whole project, the whole property versus just
the affordable property is math.
If we changed this to just to give the tax rebate on just
the units that were affordable that $5 million
would be significantly less over the 30 years.
And so therefore, the incentive to help
make the project would be significantly less.
One of the critiques that we've received since we put it
in place was that.
And why we're seeing this mix some at 60 and some at 80
is the reality of what we've been hearing
for the last 3 or 4 years, even with the 15%
of the whole project for 30 years,
it's still difficult to get them all to that lower at my point.
And that has been borne out.
And all other project projects for profits.
Nonprofits are all having the same kind of issue with that.
So I say all of that to say is that we
had these discussions at the time when we voted on it.
We said, this will be the process moving forward.
And we made the decision on that.
That doesn't mean you have to be thrilled with it
or happy with it or can't critique it.
But it is what we put in place for people
to be able to count on.
And so now we have one that's here.
I have no problem voting on the incentive
and then looking at the applicants and the anger.
And this means nothing for your decisions for tonight.
They're completely disconnect it.
But this one has to be known first because if this money goes
away, if this incentive goes away,
then they may not even want to proceed with the piece tonight.
Now, I would hope that in future times
it might be a different than the same day.
I mean, that's kind of interesting
that they've come to that point.
But I still think the sequencing is fine
and we baked in flexibility.
So if you know and again, I'm not counterpoint and stuff.
But if we wanted the extra third 10% to be at 60,
well, then we'd have to kick up the 15% to something else,
right?
I mean, that's just that's how this is working And at the time,
I remember baking in flexibility because we
could say if we buy into a project,
we believe in that project.
And everyone knowing that everything
is going to be the same, it's not
going to be a cookie cutter every single time.
The board should have its prerogative
to be able to say, All right, well,
there it is now you can trust it or not, or believe it or not,
that's up to each of you to do that.
But the fact is, is if we wanted all 20% to be at 60%, am I ?
We could move the incentive.
We would have to go further than the 15%.
This is bringing it forward.
The 60%, I don't know At at the higher bedrooms,
if they would have issues filling
filling the units at 60% for the for the three bedrooms.
I mean, this gets into with the homeownership
where you get so far in the subsidy
but then there are other barriers that pop up
from allowing people to go through even though you've
given strong subsidy.
But that's a different tangent.
Jacob is one of the ways to think about this.
I looked at 5 million over 30 years.
And I just did some basic math.
It came out to about $225 a month per unit.
If I just focus on the Affordable units,
is that kind of a way to go into that?
So I took i took 5 million divided by 30.
I divided that by 12, and then I divided that by 62,
and I got a monthly amount.
And that was about what the subsidy is.
And I don't know if it translates to the rent that way.
I don't know if I state that in my math is correct to then
go, Yes, each of those 62 units, the county is
subsidies subsidizing just over about $220 per unit.
Is that a is that a way to think about it.
Or is that just not that's too simplistic That
is a way to think about it.
Your math is right.
You are accurate on that.
I would say that translation into how it impacts those rents,
I would look to Stacy to comment on that.
But you are correct.
When we looked at the five, what the impact
of that property and its assessed value over the face.
AI and what the rebate would look like from the change
in that assessed value.
That equates about that $5 million over those 30 years.
So I think moving as we get these projects in place,
we need to track it.
And that way because that I mean,
it doesn't sound like a lot $225 a month.
You know, when we did this to 29.
And I backed into the water fees,
that was about another and 35 $145 a month on it.
So there.
It's interesting how things are baked in,
but that's basically what this means.
So if we want to do an extra 10% at 60,
there's probably some number It's probably
maybe somewhere between 25% and a third more than what we're
offering that would be able to be
able to provide that same level of per unit subsidy at the 80%.
But it would just go higher.
I'm you know, I'm supportive of the
and so I'd be supportive of even having a conversation.
If we wanted to go further.
And while it's lost revenue is the cost.
But it's but this isn't cash coming out
of our pocket from a standpoint of we put it into a fund.
And now we're taking that fund out and providing a grant.
So this is a way that gives us a different option
besides the cash burden of being able to help
some affordable units, I'll go back around just to see
if there's any other commentary or questions that have popped up
because as we build on top for another supervisor, a pistol
curtly, no questions.
Thank you.
Supervisor Malik.
Thank you so there's this.
All right about this.
The spirit of the 20%.
I know, Mike made that comment.
And I don't know how to interpret whether this has it
or not.
Does not seem is it.
Are we really expected to believe that the applicant has
no 20% alternative in their briefcase when they have already
gone through all of the application for the tonight
for Mr. Sumner?
And I met with them several times
and went through several different scenarios.
And this was the one that all parties came to.
Yes.
That that Jacob and I felt was fair for the county as well as
fair for the applicant.
And the $200 per month subsidy that was just mentioned.
Is that linked to a parallel rent reduction
or is that rent reduction built in because it's
in a federal funding program?
I mean, how do we see a track bill.
So we add that that there's track IT mechanisms will be laid
out within the performance.
So there will be a performance agreement
to track these payments over that 30 year period.
There will be reporting requirements
in bedded in that performance agreement.
So we can track that and it'll be
based on the 60% because that doesn't necessarily mean,
it took $225 to meet the percentage.
So they're going to be obligated to meet the percentage of am I
not that they're giving us a set amount per unit.
It's just one way of looking at what you're cost ones.
That's why I brought that up.
Correct.
And basically the per unit is also
attributed to the 10% and 80.
Am I, which is not going to have the same deficit.
So there's no, that's not clear either as far as how it's really
impacted here.
OK.
Thank you.
I don't have any other questions.
I guess Supervisor Duncan, this is the point that I'll mostly
save and bring up later tonight, but just sort
of what we're talking about, thinking
about how things cost if you look
at the timeline of this project there's been a really long time.
And I have questions on that later tonight.
But just kind of how long it's taken to get before us
is also money that they're spending
on this in as effectively affordability supervisor
prewitt, any further.
I'm mainly just wanted to clarify
that when I mentioned the difference in analysis
between how which units are being analyzed
for the affordability set aside versus which units are
beholden for the the tax abatement,
that was not a critique of our policy for that.
I think our policy is probably necessary on that.
It's more of a concern about the public availability
of that knowledge.
So I was not sure if that was, you responding
to my statement on that I also do take the I'm remembering now
this converse we had about sequencing.
I think maybe some of my concerns on this coming
to a separate and first is maybe specifically informed
by we mentioned the brief case of alternative performance.
I was aware of the existence of some
of those alternative performance, which would also
speak to what comes before us in the Second half.
I appreciate now what I'm thinking about
is that we are down to one alternative and that analysis
of alternatives at this point in time.
So that might be my concern, might be a little obviated on
that, although I do still think I mean,
we're sitting here kind of wanting
to ask the applicant questions It does feel
like this may be my fourth.
It could walk in a different way.
Like they could have come to us six months earlier
with this part and then done the rest of it later.
But if they're going to come in the same day,
it does feel like it might make sense for them
to walk together kind of.
Again, we're feeling it out in real time.
Yeah.
Supervisor Russell, any thanks.
Just a couple quick comments.
One is it's really simple math, right?
It's inputs and outputs basically.
And when you think about this idea of the sequencing
and the 20% and the etc., a lot of work has been done by staff.
And thank you for saying that in advance of this.
It might be interesting to have two options that
come before you.
So I don't know how that would look,
but one is if you wanted if you wanted, you know, 20% at 60%,
this is what it would take.
And we can do it as a developer, but it's
going to take the county to do this to make that happen.
So just understanding where those parameters are
and probably a lot of that work is kind of done
behind the scenes with you all just
be interesting to hear that maybe
the applicant can share some of that tonight.
That's great I was going to say something in addition,
though, I've forgotten.
Oh, the amount the also just the breakout of the 30.
If you take 30, the 5 million divided by 30, what is that?
It was like 120 some or 220 some.
I'm forgetting what it was 166, 166 a year.
And the reason I did that last evening was thinking, all right,
well, if we took money as out of a half and put cash towards it
it would cost us about $167,000 a year for over a 30 year
commitment.
So that's another way to kind of look
at how where these funds are coming forward to equate it
to something, to judge it.
But all right.
If there are no further comments,
then looking for a motion to we're
I do have a motion included.
OK.
There we go.
So I I would suggest that the board adopt
the resolution that's attached to the staff report is be is.
And boy Yeah.
Yes, sir.
That's correct.
All right.
I move, that the board approve our hip incentive
for the attain on Fifth project and authorize the county
executive as attachment B be as a
to execute the related performing agreement.
I sign that correctly.
Second.
All right.
The motion has been made and seconded.
Is there any further discussion?
All right.
If the clerk will please call the roll, Mr. Galloway.
Yes.
Okay.
So currently I miss Malik.
So, Mr. Missal, I. Mr. Pruitt, I can.
Yes, I didn't get the last word.
I thought you voted already.
Sorry about that, Claudette.
All right.
Motion carries 5 to 1.
And that moves us to item number ten.
Thank you, Mr. Richardson.
Yes.
Yes, sir.
Just one before the board moves on to zoning.
Zoning, modernized I did want to recognize
as Miss Cathy Dimmick, who supervises Dr.
Pathy and our housing program.
And we recently were very sad to learn, very happy for Dr. Pathy,
but very sad to learn that she will be leaving us very soon
to take a position with ceded.
Gastonia, North Carolina And I'll turn it over to Ms..
Dimmock because board.
I did.
I do believe this be the last time we see her
in lane on a Torreon because of the the scheduling
of our meetings and her departure.
So turnover can you just say a few words about stacy
and then invite the board to wish her well?
Thank you very much.
Yes.
I believe Stacy has 48 hours left with us.
And so unless she appears at future meetings, which she'll
be most welcome to, I suspect she'll
be dedicated to the doings in Gastonia
from now on I just wanted to acknowledge
that Stacy has been here just over seven years or so.
And has maximized that time in our community
and moved the Office of Housing from a direct service
sort of HUD based program only to one that includes
a robust policy arm and staff that are dedicated to making
sure that we're in compliance and maximizing other people's
money from the state and from the federal government which
I know you will appreciate and has
created a document on which we stand in terms of housing.
Albemarle, how we move forward, what policy
levers we continue to pull, or new ones we decide
we want to pool in order to meet this community's
affordable housing needs.
Her impact will be felt for many years.
So we're deeply appreciative of her efforts
and her wicked smart ways.
Thank you, Stacy.
And I'm going to invite Supervisor Waters to make
any remarks.
Supervisor Lopez Stoker.
Hi, Stacy.
I'm going to be sad that you're leaving, but I will tell you,
I remember a few years ago when you presented
to the board the incentives package
and our heads were spinning, but you came up with something
that I think will contain new to move forward, maybe
change a little bit.
I don't know.
But you came up with something, You know,
you're office developed something for us
to work on because we didn't have an incentive
package that I remember.
And I appreciate that.
And I appreciate all the hard work you've put into it
and all the of the phone calls that were you've
answered my questions.
And I have always been forthright.
And I really do appreciate that.
We will miss you.
Thank you.
And a shout out to Kaki because of the hearts team.
Thank you for that.
And I know you're not retiring any time soon or not.
Thank you.
Supervisor Malik, thank you.
And thank you for shepherding what
has been a very challenging, ongoing problem, because what
you walked into was no list, no people,
no management of vouchers.
I mean, it was awful.
And I'll make a place for ten years, never get anywhere.
So I appreciate all of the order, which
you have brought to the operation along with all
the order that our county executive has maintained
as well.
And I will always remember the many things
I learned during our drive to Culpeper
and back on the Four for Progress
because I had all to myself, I could
ask lots of great questions and she always had good answers.
So thank you, Supervisor Duncan.
One of the things that always kind of comes up
in teaching history is considering
the context in which things were formed and kind of the context
that we're learning.
And it's is easy for me to like get frustrated of like, why
don't we do X, Y, Z?
Why isn't this this way or whatever?
But like it's helpful to remember that we are currently
like a growing, like we're in the middle of becoming a growing
county and kind of modernizing policies
and changing kind of a lot of things.
And so thinking about housing like the fact that like,
you know, we didn't have a housing plan, you know,
a few years ago.
And so we're kind of recognizing the work that
goes into creating the future county that we want to have
and who we want to have living here
and how we make that possible is it's hard work
It's a lot of work, and it's easy to forget that,
like it's a process and it takes time.
And so I'm really grateful for the work
that you've done in kind of helping
to shepherd that and move it along and it's, you know,
we are we have made a lot of progress in that area with you.
And so thank you for that.
Supervisor Pruitt Yeah.
Talk about like ways in which departments have changed really
dramatically during people's tenure Right Like your tenure
has been shorter than Chief Reeves, But I mean,
we barely I out.
It was administered these federal grants
or these vouchers.
And sometimes we'll give you a proffer
and it's your job to figure out where it goes
that that used to be the job.
And now it is a department with multiple direct reports,
a policy arm administering a fund that you create and develop
policy around developing a massive plan.
And that's implementing that's cross-functional.
It is a radical shift in this organization.
I remember you were the first person I talked to
in county government and one of the first people
I talked to in the county who was not affiliated with UVA.
Right.
Like five years ago, not long after I moved out,
was I want to get involved in housing policy.
I'm going to call this lady.
She seems relevant.
And you just made like half an hour
or two, maybe even an hour of your day saying, yeah, you know,
I just broke this department out.
And it's now here's all the plans I have
and in that way, Stacey, you were very much like my entryway
into county government and all the things
that we were planning and could do.
And you had you had a whole vision
of what you were going to accomplish in the next five
years.
And it's really exciting to have come alongside in that process
and also seem all those things have.
Thank you.
Supervisor Missal Thank you.
You.
Yes, I echo all of these.
Thank Stasia.
I had a chance to catch up with you before the meeting
and it's really exciting.
What you're about to do.
And I wish you all the best in that initiative
and that endeavor.
You know, I think, I mean, you spearheaded
to the launch of what is probably
one of the most critical issues facing this community.
And laid the groundwork for moving forward
with that initiative.
So thank you for your insight.
Thank you for your community partnership
It's partnerships with me with the university on projects.
And I'm just grateful for all of that.
So best of luck.
Thank you.
Best wishes.
Well, I will say that just over the past year,
part of the an event happened that has
made me suffer a lot of separation anxiety
the past 12 or 13 months.
And haven't Mr. Richardson today just hasn't been great
for that front.
When you bring it to make sure departures to us today.
So I'm holding you to account for that of Stacy.
I mean, you came on shortly after I came on the board
because I know that not just working together in Albemarle,
but the work that we did together
through Central Regional Housing Partnership
and the one thing I've always appreciated
is your candor and willingness to speak on things and topics
and speak freely about it and echo all the comments
that housing Albemarle would not be in place
or what it would be if but for your efforts
are very appreciative of that.
I will say and I guess it's always a sign when somebody
leaves the organization.
And we always talk about, oh, we're going to stay in touch.
And we're going to, you know, let's do that.
I'll do that.
And we'll see if you, you know, tell me to buzz off or not.
When i reach out to you and your new position.
But I think one thing that's critical.
And that we've learned or I've learned
and working on these housing issues
is that it's because we know it's not just
in your jurisdiction and everybody's
trying to figure these things out.
So as you move to your new opportunity
and wish you the best of luck in that,
I hope that you will continue to be like, You know what?
This is an idea.
This is a process that would work really well in Albemarle.
That we can still have that idea exchange and that relationship
because without it's just like we learned
when we go to Vaiko or the Naco or we go to housing conferences
or talk to folks who are doing housing around the country
without that collaborative effort, none of us
are going to make any progress.
So again, thank you for all of your time
and efforts in Albemarle.
Sincerely appreciate it.
And we wish you the best of luck in your new role.
Thank you.
I don't really have a lot to say because I didn't
know you were going to do this.
You're welcome to say anything that you
would like if you would like.
I just.
I, I have really, truly enjoyed and appreciated the time
I've spent here in the county Take
in Ron's why it's place the former chief of housing.
He was in that role for two decades a little bit more
than that was a bit intimidating right.
So this guy has been there forever.
So thank you initially for taking a chance on me
to say that.
And I truly appreciate I'm not I'm not leaving
because I don't like my job.
And I don't like our more county government.
It's just new roles that I'm looking for.
And I have appreciated.
Everybody in the county that has worked with me because I know I
can be a pain in the neck to get what I want.
And I see it is probably going to take
it's a relief that I'm not going to constantly poke them
for can we do this?
Can we do this?
Can we do this housing wise?
So thank you for everything all of you have given me
since I've been here.
And it's nice to hear that I've given back to the county.
Thank you.
Thank you All right.
Bored.
We will move to item number ten work sessions.
Zoning, modernization, Phase two articles
five The overlay zoning districts and six use tables.
Sounds exciting.
And it is And we have Leo with us today.
Good afternoon.
Was the board and company you state.
And I'm so glad you're so excited about this out Be
careful what you ask for so so as we have mentioned,
we are here to talk about articles Five over the zoning
districts and Article six use tables
are drafted into the phase two of the zoning modernization
project.
My name is Leah Brumfield, Senior planner to the Zoning
Division of Human Development.
And here we go.
The focus of this presentation is going to be to share updates
and keep the board informed on our progress on this project
with a couple of questions.
At the end.
Just start when new project background recap a brief look
at Article five.
Looking at the regulations for our overlay zoning districts
and then we'll look at Article six, which
has a lot of broad language and formatting updates on the use
tables.
Then go into work session questions for the board
and look at next steps and timeline of the project.
So the focus questions that we're
going to be looking at the end are
whether the use and formatting changes recommended
in the executive summary are acceptable to the board.
And then also whether the types of changes
recommended in the executive summary align
with the expectations of the board for phase two,
which is intended to be non substantive
without public engagement for the zoning modernization
project.
I will ask the board to generally hold their questions
until the end of the presentation
to avoid repetition or answering a question that's going
to be on the very next slide.
After you ask that question.
So for anyone just tuning in to the zoning modernization
project, we have a quick recap in phase one,
we established the tone, language, style and ordinance
format of the new drafts, working with Berkeley Group
to draft articles, new articles.
One, two, three and ten, which were focusing on administration
processes and the nonconformity of the ordinance with very
few changes requiring either staff or public input.
Really just copy editing.
This phase laid the framework for the rest of the project
with the language and the tone and the style
of the entire articles These four articles
were brought before the PC and the board,
and they were given general approval.
They were not adopted at that time because of the reformatting
and re organization of the ordinance
will require a wholesale adoption all at once.
Phase two, which is the topic of this work session,
includes rewriting the rest of the ordinance with staff topic
expert input to make sure that when we are rewriting
the ordinance, we're not changing how we actually
administer any of our regulations.
Where possible.
Some of the regulations are being clarified or slimmed down.
These are things that are administrative practices already
or that don't really change how we do anything Again,
no substantive changes are intended
to be included in this phase except for the minor things
that I have highlighted at the end of the presentation
So today we're doing.
We're addressing articles five and six,
but after we have drafted the rest of the articles
for Phase two, we anticipate the ordinance being adopted
this winter and a new style, a new format replacing
the current ordinance wholesale We're currently
scheduled for a December public hearing for adoption,
but with Roger and informed base code coming up
for the board in November and the timeline for making things
match up to get into the board packets,
we are recommending moving that public hearing to January
and then enactment of that ordinance would follow shortly.
We would need a little bit of leeway
to get an Unicode specific access and cross-references
in other sections of the ordinance to line up
with the new zoning ordinance.
So that would be a short delay for enactment phase three
is rewriting the regulations to bring them
into alignment with the comprehensive plan, which
is all of the bigger changes, which is the substantive things.
We anticipate that after a cleaning
up our audience in Phase two, this work
will be much more straightforward than if we
had just tried to do it.
Now, as we work on Phase two, we are discovering
things in our ordinance that we haven't really been enacting,
but which we need to clean up.
And so this is one of the really great outcomes
of phase two because of this more substantial work.
Phase three will involve both staff and public input
and we are going to be looking for topic level expert
discussion groups for that public input.
So as we do have the goals and the alignment
of the comprehensive plan to work with.
And they were so recently adopted,
we are going to be translating that document into the zoning
ordinance as was prioritized for the board earlier this year.
And we met through all the actions
and looked at those ones.
So the staff and public input that we're looking at
will focus on more the details of how we're
going to act in that direction.
So we have our direction and then
we're looking at which ways we are going to be enacting it
with very specific acts.
But as noted our priorities are emerging goals.
They are set from the comp plan and there they
are prioritized by the board's direction.
Earlier this year.
So then at the end of phase three,
we and hopefully will adopt all those alignment changes
and then have a zoning ordinance that matches our plan
So as we are looking at phase 2 today,
we do want to keep in mind the goals specified
for this phase of the project We are rewriting the ordinance
and phase two to just do better formatting plain language,
make it easier to understand.
We are consolidating and clarifying
uses to have a more streamlined ordinance.
We are removing duplicative language,
so something that is self enacting
in the Code of Virginia.
We're not putting into our new into our ordinance
And then we are simplifying our review process where possible.
So again, these changes are not really substantive policy.
It's just whether it's on the page in a certain way or not,
where we do have any drafts on phase two
that do appear to contain policy changes,
these are either required by state law.
So we had some new some new laws that were passed in July.
And so some of those would be reflected.
We have either a clarification, so something that looks new,
but actually, it's just explaining
what we have been interpreting this as for a long time, where
we have a minor change which is being brought to the board's
attention.
So first, we're looking at Article five of our overlay
zoning districts.
These regulations are currently located
in our ordinance in Article three,
Section three of the zoning ordinance.
So that's where all of the overlay district regulations
are right now And since the overlay zoning district
regulations are pretty specific.
They're very self-contained.
Rewriting them was fairly straightforward Each overlay
zoning district is separated into its own subsection.
They don't really cross-pollinate much.
And so rewriting it, we established
the intent and purpose of each in a more consistent way.
We wrote the application of the overlay zoning
district in a very clear way so that if someone
reads the applicant ability section,
they understand if that applies to them
or not But again, the substance, the regulation
has not really changed.
Two things I did want to bring to the board's attention,
Article five.
First, we did move the language about
the floodplain administrator power and responsibilities
into Article two, which was a article brought to the board.
Previously, the administration section,
because the establishment of the floodplain administrator
is not actually how we administer the floodplain.
It is establishing the person who does it.
So that's different process.
That's not in the regulations.
I did also want to note we reserved
some sections in the entrance water regulations
for future language because we do have a zoning text
amendment in process right now that our RB staff is actively
working on for outdoor storage sales and display of vehicles.
So that is reserved in the draft that you saw in your packet
So Article six was the really the bigger
left on this particular section of work
It consolidates all the uses across all of our district
sections into a consistent use permission tables, format
So in the current ordinance, anyone who's unfamiliar
or permitted uses are listed under each district.
We have the R.A. for marginal Historic district
or one or 2 or 4, etc. and there's just
a long list of every single use that you
can do either permitted by a administrative approval by right
or permitted by a special use permit approved by the board.
So some of these are also spread in section 4, which
is our basic regulations section if something applies everywhere.
So our accessory solar facilities
that is in section four.
But you can do it in all districts
if you don't know to look for it in section 4,
you might think you can't do it in any district.
And then again, we have some things
that are only in Section five, which is
our supplemental regulations.
So that makes looking for use permissions a bit tricky.
And our new format is widely accepted
to be a more modern, user friendly approach.
And so the other big change of other than formatting
is updating the names of our users
for consistency across districts and for consistency
with current usage in modern planning and also consolidating
uses where uses are similar and the use
permit plans that exist right now
are the same today, so no changes for the use permissions.
Just what they're named.
This is kind of a visualization of what we just
said we had the old list just going down
the line, very long, very descriptive
and then a cleaner, neater table.
We did have another specification here,
which is a clearly a here.
It's alphabetized looking at the use permissions,
clarifying whether something is only permitted as an accessory.
Use which we have a number of those
uses where you can only do it if you
have the use that you can have the secondary use
as an accessory too.
So you cannot have an accessory apartment unless you have
a primary residence.
There so much more, much easier to read,
much more streamlined and consistent across all
the districts.
So the naming conventions.
So other than the formatting the big changes in Article six
were the language updates here are just called pulled out
a couple of the examples to show you
general trends and a few of the specific
uses to bring to your attention.
One consistent change across a multiple uses
was to give uses that are primarily the same,
but differ in their intensity.
A major minor naming distinction.
So things like a religious assembly
use over 200 or under 200.
That comes major and minor.
A home occupation in which we actually
have that naming convention.
Major and minor, but we also have class AA in class B,
again, consolidating those as they are essentially the same,
but just in different districts Now
it's the same name across all districts.
Similarly, farmworker housing, motor vehicle repair,
renewable energy systems, country stores data centers.
These are all currently differentiated
in two different categories.
And so we just renamed them under that naming convention.
One thing that I did want to bring to the board
attention that is kind of a example of how we are pulling
things out of the ordinance and cleaning up and seeing more
easily what we are actually allowed to do
is update in language for clubs and lodges, clubs and lodges as
listed in multiple multiple zoning districts.
Almost all the residential and commercial as well.
But clubs and lodges within the supplemental regulations
and sections contains the use of gun clubs
and shooting ranges as a secondary use
and this table pulls into two separate uses.
We have social clubs and lodges and then
we have gun gun clubs and shooting
ranges This isn't a change because in the summary
regulations.
We specify that anywhere you can have a club or a lodge,
you can have a gun club and shooting range
by special use permit.
That's what's currently in the ordinance.
This was a little bit surprising to staff
when they were reading some of this,
where we were a little bit surprised at that was actually
in there because we don't get a lot of permits or applications
for that.
But this is something that is an excellent illustration of how
this process combing through the ordinance,
looking at what we actually have without making changes.
First, is really giving us a clear
the scope of what we have to do in future phases.
So also as you may have noticed on the prior slide,
a few of the language updates included consolidations.
So where the uses were essentially the same.
We did consolidate them to focus more
on regulating the impact and the nature of the use as opposed
to the individual uses.
There's a lot of examples here where
all the uses that are essentially
offices there have the same impact, the same traffic
and they're allowed the same in all different districts.
They're just listed individually in different districts.
Now.
They're all just office business,
professional admin Same thing with light industrial,
heavy manufacturing.
And then also in the next slide, our
retail where a use could have been fit into this easily,
but it doesn't actually match up with the exact permissions.
We separated out that use.
So for example, all the wholesale distribution
and warehousing use is a light industrial use.
It is by its nature a light industrial use
We did not consolidated into that category,
because in two different districts.
It has a slightly different use permission.
So in phase Three, we may be looking
at whether those uses can actually all
be consolidated into a more simplified use category
and whether we had made unnecessary distinctions
in the past and it was just maybe
a holdover from previous expectations
or an old way of zoning So as I mentioned,
we have a lot of retail uses in our current ordinance.
We have 25 different named uses which are
all retail sales and service.
And so we have consolidated these
into 4, 3 retail uses that are listed here.
Retail sales and service, general neighborhood
retail sales and services and site and transit commercial.
So the current zoning ordinance describes a type of retail use
that is supportive of surrounding residents or office
or the surrounding industrial uses.
But it doesn't actually name that separately
as an individual use in consolidation.
I'm sorry, in consultation with the long range planning
team who just completed our lauded 8044 plan,
we have named that neighborhood retail and services
highlighting that these uses are intended to serve
the surrounding neighborhood.
They're not something that people are necessarily
going to drive 50 miles in order to come to.
They're not the big box stores and it's not a big department
store.
It's not a business to business that kind of thing.
We will be writing the limitations
on this on these types of stores kind of put those boundaries
on it in the use performances stage,
which is going to be article seven of this current phase.
And that's just again, what do we actually do right now
If someone came in for an application today and wanted
to have a use that is listed in the ordinance as retail stores
and shops on a single floor are compatible with the residential
characteristics of a district with a gross for not exceeding
4000ft².
That becomes our supplementary regulations
or argues performance standards.
So we also created the category for site intensive commercial.
These are uses that can't be contained within a building.
Usually they're more intensive.
They use a large, larger number of acres, as most of the time,
these would be uses that are permitted
in highway, commercial and industrial districts.
And again, this is just a consolidation
of these types of uses that already exist.
So the use changes that I mentioned that were actually
changes are still very minor changes that we do not believe
will impact any applications due to their infrequency of receipt
of application Are the removing crematoriums and outdoor drama
theaters from the rural areas.
Zoning district combine agricultural museums
and historical centers into a single use
and removing livestock sales from our commercial districts.
This is a little bit of an attempt
to get ahead of phase three and see fill out
how we're doing here because we don't believe that these will
have any application be forthcoming
over the next few years.
We haven't had any previously I think that the last application
for an outdoor drama theater was over 25 years ago or something
like that 70s.
I bet you if you wanted.
It was it was a time.
So that I think will be something that will not really
have an impact.
Climate atriums are currently permitted
under funeral homes in the commercial district
county, which is more logical given truck
traffic, truck, traffic, necessity,
proximity to our urban centers.
And then agricultural and historical centers
are largely permitted the same across most districts.
So combining them doesn't really make a lot of change.
It creates a small amount of change.
In permission But the primary goals of both of those uses
is focusing on the agricultural history of the county.
So both of those would be essentially the same.
They're just named slightly different.
And I think that a use that could
be applied for under either term could
be argued to be applied for under the other term.
So as such, we recommend these changes
as for review by the board here listed on are screened for easy
for easy reference.
But the other thing that we had, which
was poor recommendation from the Planning Commission, which
has a little bit more formatting is changing the permissions
for farmers markets.
Industrial districts to align to mirror
the ones in all other districts, which
has to be a square footage and a permanency distinction
between major and minor farmer's markets as opposed
to a square footage in an existing building which
is the current distinction.
So with that in mind I would ask the Board these two questions.
Are the just mentioned use and formatting changes
acceptable to the board and do overall
all the types of changes that we're recommending
that you saw in your executive summary packets
for these two articles aligning with your expectations
for this phase.
All right.
Supervisor.
Look, Mr. Kirkland the I like your simplified review process.
All I wanted you know, can you well,
can you tell me the simplified review process?
Well, that saved time for developers.
We do believe it.
Well, the big simplified review process change
was regarding initial site plans, which we currently
have a requirement for an initial a preliminary
and a final site plan for all applications,
even if there is no change between those two site plans
and then with guidance from the current development
planning team who reviews those applications
and also with encouragement from our local development community,
we made the preliminary site plans and maybe
calling them wrong.
Appreciate it.
Sure.
It's preliminary initial, but the first site plan
is going to be optional, unless there is grading
or architectural review board requirements So that will remove
an entire step of the process.
OK.
So that will save time both for commercial and residential.
Yes that is.
Thank you.
And you mentioned about Major and minor
and you mentioned data centers.
Do do we have can we get a lot of questions regarding data
centers ?
But we do have numbers on that regarding
because you had mentioned for churches,
as you know, under 200 over 200 major minor,
Do you have the same thing?
Numbers for data centers?
Yes, it's a square footage distinction that's
currently in the ordinance.
I believe that's the most that page.
Yeah.
Let me pull that.
Where 30,000ft²?
Yeah.
40,000ft².
Pardon?
40,000ft².
Okay.
So that's the considered.
I know.
I'm familiar with the 40,000ft² that we currently allow.
That's considered a minor.
No, that's a major.
That's a major.
OK.
And I do not believe there is actually
any difference in treatment between them right now.
Only go to that experiment as p.
Yes, they are both especially use permits,
which I believe was the previous distinction when the board most
recently talked about that.
So they are different but they're just
a different distinction.
And based on the supplemental regulations,
the uses are the same.
They're both special use permits and it's not it
has nothing to do with square footage sensors, just one set.
You just had the 40,000, correct?
I mean, I'm sorry.
Could you repeat that?
OK.
So you have the 40,000ft².
But what you're saying is you have no distinction between
the major and minor regarding the 40,000ft².
There are other things that you may
consider it to be a major minor, but not the square footage.
Is that correct?
For commercial districts it's the same
for industrial districts.
The minor are permitted to buy.
Right.
Okay.
And again that's what we have now.
So.
Yeah.
And could you explain a little bit more
regarding the farmer's markets?
Sure So the farmer's markets distinction
in the commercial districts and in the residential districts
is a distinction between whether the farmer's markets are
permanent and how many days a week.
They can be held.
So we would call it a farmer's market.
Still.
But if we think about something like Eastern Market
in in Washington, D.C., or a French Albemarle market where
there are stalls that are permanent
and the farmers come out, you know, three, four days a week
and sell their wares, that would be a major farmer's market,
the main farmer's market is the one where they come out.
They put a pop up tent up, they put their table out,
and then they go away.
And it's only, you know 1 to 2 days a week.
So that is the distinction currently in the ordinance
and the difference between industrial districts
is that we have a distinction for a total square footage
of whether it's a major or a major
or a minor farmer's market.
And then we're just saying, you know
what, let's just make it the same as all the other districts.
Yeah.
And thank you very much.
Those are all my questions.
Supervisor Malik Thank you.
Yes.
And yes to your questions.
But I do a your questions.
But I would love some clarifications and/or put them
on a list to clarify later and bring back because I just
want to make sure that, you know, well,
in advance of things that may or may not have made sense to me.
And maybe others as well.
So going through my page.
Here we are in on blood hazard districts,
it's clear that page 11 of my homework care
amendment of district boundaries There
are three categories of when the district the decider agent
could make a decision and natural manmade changes more
detailed studies have been conducted by record engineers
or in individual documents.
The need what I mean, do they decide ?
See the last individual request take the place of A and B?
It was not clear if you have to have all three of those things
or just what.
So the flood hazard overlay district, we actually
didn't make hardly any changes to even
in the language that is what's currently in our ordinance
right now.
The the language there is interpreted by the floodplain
administrator and the need that is required
would be something that would be meeting a much higher bar
than just i want this.
Yeah, yeah.
OK.
Very good.
I just wanted to make sure that was not clear when I read it.
And I thought, Huh, somebody else may say the same thing
and get equally worried that when
they don't need to do the okay, now
I'm on to the use table in Section five of a still article
five.
OK.
Oh no, skip that one.
Nevermind the public utilities I don't think this
came up in the later channels.
So this is on page 22 of 36 of the packet on article five
Electric gas Oil of communications facilities
as permitted in all districts.
There's no mention of transmission lines.
And I think there in your future work
there should be because we can't look away
from an issue that is making everybody
crazy for the next many, many years.
And so I think since it's not in here,
if there's a different place for it,
then you can explain that in the future.
But to me, that's a very big gap right now
as you see fighting with itself about how to do this.
We need to be prepared and have our things done
before they change something.
In my opinion this is article five.
Still natural resource extraction Division five point
5AA552A.
A use permitted in the district is unlikely to create an effect.
Adverse public health, safety, and welfare.
I'm extremely troubled by unlikely to create.
This is a 40 year old approach that I remember
as causing all sorts of trouble for many other generations
of work And I would ask you to be a lot more specific.
And get some other criteria there
because that does not give citizenry a lot of confidence
that somebody is watching.
They want to assume that government
is doing its protection job.
And if we're not going to, we need to very explicitly tell
them that they're on their own.
Okay.
Article six agricultural districts use table.
I assume that used to be a rural area
and now it's just called because we don't officially have
egg districts in our zones.
So that's a question.
You all will have to figure out how
to explain But my concern burn is artisan manufacture
drink while it's listed in the industrial page
is not showing up in the a and we've spent like five
years talking about this.
And it was proposed and agreed.
When applicants are told many, many years ago.
This is going to be done in the zoning agreement
and it's not in here, I would just
ask you to make sure that it gets in there.
So we don't have to have a repeat.
I can list off a dozen preexisting artisan cabinet
makers all throughout the Whitehall
district and the Ravenna district for sure, and probably
others as well.
That so I just think some fairness
there is important Thank you.
Passionate.
Oh, you're so welcome.
And a slow reader, which is why it
makes it easy for me to do these things
and makes everybody crazy.
Like, oh God, here she goes again.
Farmer's markets, major and minor.
You did talk about that a little bit when
the farmers market, farm sales off farm sales on farm sales
was done in 2012, It was very specifically done
for no permanent structures allowed
And then all of a sudden one popped up in the Jewett district
a couple of years ago with no process whatsoever coming
to the Board of Supervisors.
Many, many constituents raised concerns to him.
As Duncan's predecessor, and nothing was done about that.
This is a grocery store in the rural area.
It is not selling local stuff.
Most of the time they're out of season vegetables
and they're selling meats and things like that.
So i just ask you to very carefully define
going forward what we're talking about here,
because it's a big, big leap from a cluster of tents
at any number of different places
early to churches, cozy churches,
other places where they do have true farmer's markets
and are using existing approved.
You got entrances.
And that was the whole point of that
So that is something for the future
of 6.4 commercial districts commercial districts,
inner waste.
Fill is that considered as a standalone in commercial
that you would have our commercial zone used to make
a dump for asphalt. It's permitted right now, yes.
OK.
Work to do.
I will not worry about that right now.
Industrial.
OK.
We talked about an artisan.
I think I am one more folded over what is that Oh, okay.
Yeah, that's just referring back in to the transmission line gap
under public use services and utilities I will stop there.
Thank you very much for all your.
I love the read of this.
Having struggled with small print from the old one
and always having to go back and forth from chapter to chapter.
You've made huge progress.
So thank you, Supervisor Sir Duncan Thank you
for the presentation and how well organized was it?
Was in reading through the packet.
It was kind of hard for me to wrap my mind around what exactly
the changes were, and now it makes a whole lot
more sense I really like the change and having the tables,
you know, when you are trying to figure out what you can do
and reading through the code like it's a good exercise.
So like when the code and clicking
through and like reading the text, but it's very confusing
and kind of time and town sort of So having the tables
is great.
And I am very much looking forward to phase three.
Yes, me to supervisor proof.
I'm I agree the tables are great.
These tables are really standard practice.
And I'm happy to see us using them at a few questions.
Can we actually go to the previous slide
that had the recommended changes these all
feel pretty innocuous I will say I just
don't know that I understand why we're doing the first one.
Like you said, we're not currently getting them
but we already have the policy.
And we could get them.
So I'm like, do we not want to have it?
It almost feels like it's a sneak policy decision,
like we're taking this opportunity
to remove crematoriums and amphitheaters as things
in the rural area.
And I'm not sure that feels like one
that doesn't feel like an intuitive thing for me
to make a decision on today.
And I'm not sure it feels like a thing i necessarily
even agree with right.
Because crematoriums are like funeral homes, but they're also,
unlike funeral homes, they're much more in my experience,
having burned up to family members, they are lighter touch.
They're smaller facilities because they're not
doing the same degree of wraparound services.
So can I understand why this is in front of us
in this exact moment?
Absolutely.
So i will address the two questions separately
because they're on the same line,
but they are actually two different reasons.
The crematoriums is a public like service kind of thing
that we would normally put in our commercial districts
or industrial districts per our comprehensive plan.
So businesses that people come to from all around the county
are intended to be located in our development areas
not in our rural areas.
So that's the reasoning for the crematoriums.
And then also the services that they would need.
As far as utilities.
So that's just kind of bringing it into line
with what we have now.
We have different crematoriums than we did in 1980
when this was first adopted.
The outer drama districts sorry, the elder drama theaters
are something that we acknowledge.
Hey, this seems like it should be something
that we actually really like.
It's something that's really interesting.
How does it play into all the other outdoor
recreational things that we want in the rural area?
And so when we're looking at that,
we're trying to consolidate uses.
Well, what's the difference between outdoor drama theater
and an outdoor acoustic amphitheater?
How do we treat these two different uses
that are basically the same?
Well, right now, you can do one in the rural area,
but you can't do the other one.
And we need to investigate that more more in depth.
And that is on the current work plan
for the rural area plan really are
uses plan that I believe will be forthcoming from the
from the planning division.
OK Let's kind of engage in a little bit more
discussion on this.
Like to just having not thought deeply about either of these two
issues prior to this moment My instinct is I
like both of these in the rural area,
the disposition of human remains is
a right of cultural significance and community significance.
It's a community based thing.
We just heard from people talking
about the history and the place based nature of coal spill.
A think to slurp black rural communities have
is their own funeral parlor.
It's like a very anchoring thing in a culture.
And while I appreciate the point you're making,
I think you need the ability to have
a funeral parlor in the rural area
because it's a place anchoring service.
And so that kind of almost stepped in that way.
I'm agreeing with your point.
Right.
Crematorium is should be treated like other kinds
of funeral parlors.
But I maybe in this moment in realizing
that we don't allow funeral parlors period in the rural area
And so maybe that's the thing I'm concerned with.
And I think I might be having similar for different reasons.
Concern on outdoor drama theaters because both of these I
heard of like I can see concerns in the rural area, right?
Like I don't want to put Wolf Trap on Langhorne Road
because I don't know that we can support it right now.
But I want Wolf Trap to be in Albemarle County
and I would think it would belong in the rural area.
So like both of these feel like uses.
I hope if I say yes to this first bullet,
we aren't leaving it alone.
We are going to come back and actually
talk about how we want to locate and place those uses,
because both of those, I think have tremendous value
in our rural area.
And I think it sounds like that's kind of the plan
that we will have a more fulsome discussion of this later.
And right now, we're just tidying them up and cleaning
them together with like uses.
But I want to just clarify, am I going
to get another crack at this to talk about where it does belong?
Yeah, absolutely.
If specially with your note about the funeral
homes being something that maybe we do need in the rural area
that that would be something that I think
should be investigated thoroughly
and should be part of a community discussion.
Also, just kind of the clarification
on the outdoor drama theater that is currently
allowed in the rural area is only
for a historical production.
How about an event that happened in Albemarle County's history
that such a funny use to have?
What a funny thing.
What a funny county.
OK For that.
For the 200th anniversary.
We had a pageant and a cast of thousands pageant
for where we been.
I was little history, man.
Oh, okay.
Oh, I'm stepping aside.
That the rest of this?
Yeah, sure.
The the major minor change you know some of the comparable uses
previously were broken into class A
and I immediately think i might not
want I might want enumerated classes subdivide into use
rather than major minor subdividing a use
because I have more than two subdivisions
is major minor got to be granular enough for all uses.
It's it possible.
We outgrow the level of granularity
that offers it's possible.
We don't have any uses currently that I
believe are really divided into three categories like that.
We only have things that are divide that are similar,
that are divided into something that falls under this that
may not have been obvious is I don't feel repair shops and body
shops.
So those are basically the same thing.
They look very similar.
One has a much higher impact.
So that becomes the automobile repair shop major.
And then everything else falls under minor
is currently the subdivision of uses always going
to mean the same thing.
Like, is it always going to mean ministerial versus legislative?
No, not always.
Is the goal for it to always mean the same thing.
Ministerial versus legislative.
Some of them are actually differentiations on the use
performance standards.
So how many buildings you can have the home
occupations is a good example of this.
We have men are home occupation and are just, you know,
administrative, maybe administratively approved
with basically a formality.
It's just a home office for most people.
But a major home occupation.
You have an exterior building and we require a site visit.
So it's really a process as opposed
to a ministerial versus us.
But administrative understood.
I guess I'm just thinking, if we're
going to have a uniform subdivision type,
I might intuitively assume like going through
as a lawyer preparing to outline for something.
That's the context in which I normally
read other counties codes.
Oh, I might assume that those breakdowns are always
going to mean the same thing I can see why.
Maybe that's not possible, but oh, that's just a hiccup.
I see that presenting major here means you bump up
to legislative review.
Major here means it's you're still
saying it administrate of review,
but you have to have an extra toilet.
You know I. I don't know that I have
anything I would change on my not in my head today on that.
But that's just a consideration that would pop in my head
There's the change in language on manufactured home
communities.
I'm assuming based on our previous conversation
about the rural area, this is also something
that we might have a more fulsome discussion
because currently, we have no subdivision and one use type
right?
That is not the case in all localities.
Plenty of Virginia localities have multiple subdivisions ends
of types of use in the same way we have our 1 or 2.
Appreciate it.
Well, our one, our two are for etc.
You might have one and two and three that
are different kinds of mobile homes of varying
types of density and the level of infrastructure here,
we don't have that as far as I know.
Last I checked home.
And this doesn't contemplate that change.
Does that mean that change is not being contemplated
or does that mean.
It's not in front of us today So one of the things
that the General Assembly did adopt
in July, which I'm sure you're familiar with, essentially just
treats manufactured homes as a stick built homes everywhere.
So we aren't changing for the rural area, at least
how we do the subdivisions the new term in the in the use
tables is a manufactured home community that does
have a different essentially a different density than a stick
built. And that's for rentals.
So where you're only renting, you know,
a pad and then you put your own manufactured home on the pad
and the land is not subdivided.
So that's really the two different ways
that either you subdivided it like a normal neighborhood
or you have the communities where everything is
a little bit closer together.
It's intended to be more affordable
and the land is not actually subdivided.
Right.
I, absolutely.
I want to make sure we that I'm correctly understanding
the impact of the General Assembly's legislation
on this having not thought about it deeply.
But I, I understood it to be an anti subordinate action rather
than an anti classification kind of rule, something that
says that we can't non preferentially treat,
we can't require for more onerous land use restrictions
that we would not apply to a comparable position
state built house.
But I didn't think it prevent us from having permissions
for it hired entity than we might otherwise
provide a state built house.
And I'm just making sure I understand that correctly,
that as far as I understand it, is correct.
OK.
We don't currently allow a higher density of manufactured
home in the rural area.
So this does not this does not bring that up.
I don't know whether that I don't believe
that would be something that would fall
under the recommendations from housing Albemarle,
although that may just be an interpretation question.
I, absolutely.
I think you're right.
I also think this board has wrung
its hands on this issue a bit and not to speak for the board,
but I have expressed an interest in revisiting that question
because currently from a dollars and cents perspective,
in part thanks to our friends on the Service Authority,
it does not seem economically feasible to build them elsewhere
and and I think if we're not having that conversation,
then we're not really having a conversation about mobile homes.
And I realize that was not really what this draft that's
in front of us is doing.
But it was there.
And so I'm asking the questions.
I apologize.
I this is my last thing.
So i apologize.
Chair Can you explain to me one more time that the gun club.
It sounds like it.
Gun clubs were previously an accessory use that was always
approvable with all other clubs and you're making them separate
club Is that a fair categorization
And so the current ordinance does not mention gun clubs
anywhere except for 5.1.02, which is the supplemental
regulations and the regulation reads there,
regardless of any zoning district regulation,
gun clubs and shooting ranges shall be permitted by special
use permit only and that is underneath the clubs and lodges,
supplemental regulations.
So it's a type of club in Lodge, it's
not necessarily accessory to a club and larger to type.
And it's saying that if the type of club that you are trying
to open is a gun club or a shooting range,
regardless of what the Use commission says elsewhere,
it has to be by special use permit.
I understand which one makes it confusing, what
one needs to do to create a shooting range
and to makes it so that all shooting ranges
have to be social clubs.
If I'm reading that correctly, that's a consequence.
I think that the assumption is that they
are okay so that's helpful.
I'm also just thinking there are gun clubs that
don't have physical locations.
I have a friend who created a gun club that
doesn't have its own range.
They go to other ranges.
What does it mean to be a gun club?
I think this makes sense.
Thank you for explaining all I got.
Supervisor Mitchell.
Great.
Thanks.
I have Appreciate it.
I've been waiting for the image of all of us.
I didn't see it.
So if you're still to come.
But to answer your questions briefly.
Yes.
And yes.
And i'm encouraged also to hear that this is intended
to simplify the process.
One thing to consider, I know you're
I think you mentioned that yourself there yourself
extracting where items that are self extracting therefore
already in Virginia code are being removed Yeah.
So the self executing sections of the code of Virginia area
is things like this ordinance This
is intended to make places better and protects the water
and provide light and air and all of those lists of things.
There are many, many lists that are like that in the ordinance.
We are not copying them into this new ordinance
unless it's something that we really
feel like makes a good impact.
Got it.
So it's not necessarily process related things.
It's more sort of background information.
Yeah we have a lot of the background information.
If there is a process that the Code of Virginia has,
then we're not copy into our ordinance.
So could the the state.
They might change those regulations.
And in fact, they did recently.
Yeah, they changed a review timeline.
And so now if we weren't doing zoning modernization,
we would need to go through and change our entire ordinance
where we have those review timelines written down.
And so now we just need to do what the state says.
Yeah, my only $0.02 is if there are areas that you notice,
when you're looking at it that could potentially
be helpful for applicants to reference.
Maybe there's a link to the state code or something
that to back up because that's an evergreen document.
You can kind of, you know the link is there,
maybe the link will expire, but it might also
track to an update I also had the same similar question
that Supervisor Pruitt had, which
was those four recommended use changes felt to me like why not
put those in into phase three?
They are they.
Is it beneficial to get public input for those?
Is the one thing that felt to me like it
was a bit of a subjective change that might
benefit from public input.
So that's, again, my $0.02.
Is it helpful to leave those the way they are and pull them out?
We addressed them in phase three because I think a lot
of our discussion was sort of around similar conversations
that we'll be having in phase three or is it is it better
to put them here ?
Yeah, I think these were really highlighted and selected
because we don't get applications for these.
So I got arguably the public doesn't care about them.
That's obviously not true.
The public cares about everything,
but we have not received any applications for these
and they are things that are very, very in line
with the comprehend to plan and also we
are trying to shorten the lists of all the uses.
So these are things that just, you know, unnecessarily
pad the list.
They're only in 1 or 2 districts.
So it's not really something that is contributing anything
to the new ordinance.
I totally get it.
I think for me, just that the fact
that they had there hasn't been an application for 25 years
to me doesn't remove it from consideration Who knows, Right?
Somebody might come along tomorrow with an application.
Just a thought.
And then a clarification and I'm done.
No, I think I'm saying this you can correct me
if I'm not saying the right thing,
that none of what we were looking at today is and does
doesn't expand or restrict existing permissions
within the ordinance.
Correct.
Except for these four things on the screen.
Right now.
Yeah.
OK.
Thank you.
That was also why I called out those four.
Thank you.
All right.
I'm a yes on your initial questions.
We're a little past time for this item.
I just I can offer my comments at a different point.
Do you have what you need from the board.
And what you've heard?
Any clarifications needed I think
before we come to public hearing,
I think we would just want kind of like a general round
Robin feeling on.
Should we put these uses back?
Because we've had two members of the board say,
yes, they should be put back until we talk about
them more in more engagement.
So this was kind of getting to the second question, which
was the types of changes expected for this phase.
So is, is this in expectations for this phase or do we need
to pull back on this ?
All right.
Did you have additional comment?
I'm not sure I was in the pull back
until public discussion on certainly the of the theater one
because I would love it if four county players could have things
here rather than just up in Orange County at the ruins.
So the I would agree that while the original one out on
and beaver Dam out there on 250 was people
were concerned about traffic.
But it was a totally different time
and the roads and everything were very different.
And i would expect.
I mean, I would dearly love to be able to have a workshop type
place here.
Maybe not with 10,000 people at a time, but a couple thousand.
We could certainly handle.
So I hope that there'll be more discussion about that
going forward.
And so I'm my yes is a yes with that caveat in there
So it sounds like a I don't hear strong feelings to keep them
out, but sounds like put the back is the okay.
Yeah, I would also agree.
And I thought supervisor Pruitt made a lot of good points
earlier.
I think that as we save for later.
So does that clear it offers a less clear
and I will I will note for country players, unfortunately
would not be able to operate under outdoor drama theater
unless they're re-enacting a battle that
happened in our county.
So what I neglected to say was we need
to change that description.
Yes, in the public process so that it can do things better.
Yeah.
Unless you interpret Shakespeare in the realm of an album
or county battle, absolutely.
I think what staff has suggested to remove on the four things
on the previous slide actually do all makes sense.
If we understand we're revisiting
in a more substantive way.
Yeah.
The yes it is particularly the first two,
which I feel pretty strongly.
It sounds like other people feel strongly about the first two,
but I think as an intermediary non substantive step type,
I don't want to make you keep dust on your work table
while you're going into stage three, right?
I don't know.
That's it sounds like I would imagine that no matter
what we do, if a theater wanted to set up shop,
it would figure out a way to get to us to be able to approve it
wherever they were.
But that is a i'd I'd love to have to see how
that conversation plays out.
No, knowing a little bit about it,
what it would mean in the rural area.
But it is a clear what we've I don't
know that I'm clear on what we are saying to do,
but the it sounds like the for the theater
use and the crematoriums, we're going to leave that.
And it can address it later.
We can maybe discuss it.
But that's the piece that we're saying.
Keep it.
So when you say leave it, leave it in the ordinance
and then we will take it out in phase three
or change it or expand it or do additional research, which
is to have a further discussion and some
there currently, two small legacy uses that are narrow,
that are permissible.
I think we want to keep the permissible narrow underutilized
things in place and potentially have a discussion on expanding
them rather than remove them in the interim
to have a later discussion on expanding them.
Well, that's okay.
Great.
Sorry to step on your brother.
No.
Know.
That was good.
Glad you stay with it.
Any other things?
All right.
We were slated to go to recess at 3:30,
so let's we're running a little behind,
but let's just do a ten minute and we'll come back at 350.
Did you have everything you needed before we moved to do?
We need to take make sure that we
know where our next steps are.
We really just quickly run through that.
We are drafting currently article
seven and eight, which is used performance standards
and community design standards.
And then we will be working with the building, the topic based
discussion groups for phase three.
So that's kind of like happening in the background
right now And then we are going to be coming back
for our public hearings in December and in January.
So just letting everybody know where that is Thank you.
All right.
We are recess.
Well, something here And to be able to host it.
All right, everyone, we are back from our recess
and we are ready to move to item number
11 strategic plan execution analysis and reporting
or the spirit Report for fiscal year 26.
And Mr. Flint's with us in the lead us through this item.
And afternoon.
OK.
So you received our Speer report and today we're
just going to walk through that information
and just highlight, obviously, there's a lot of metrics
and a lot of great work in it today.
This is going to be a highlight of those things.
And it is also provided online for our community as well.
And so this is going to be a two part presentation in a I'm
also going to introduce one of my staff, Gabe, Jacqueline.
He is going to go through the report as well.
He plays a key role on our team and managing all of the metrics
and data work with our departments
and want to also acknowledge all of the department leadership
that's here today.
There are my backup plan in case you ask a really hard question
that we don't have the answer to.
But now that all joking aside when I acknowledge them,
this has been a journey that Albemarle
has been on for several years, we
keep getting better and better and refining it as we go,
but we could not do it without their dedication and their staff
managing the work.
And measuring that work.
So as I said you know, this is a program,
it is more than just data.
We're going to walk through the report
and then we're going to also talk
about what's next So the program,
you know, you've seen this slide before,
but it's important for the public
to understand why we do this work and why we in Albemarle
believe that the measurement is so important.
And so we talk about where are we succeeding,
where should we pause or stop or where are we not making headway?
Is it about our staff, our structure, our systems, lack
of resources and where we in trouble?
What what areas do we need to refocus or redeploy
something or re-imagine here?
And so that data is really something
that helps our decision making.
So we want to continue you to have accountability
with our staff, our processes, our partnerships We also want
to have that decision making.
But we want to be transparent to our community about the work
that we're doing, how hard we're working.
And in some areas where we may not be meeting expectations.
And then again, there's community outcomes.
This information is not to be stagnant,
but to be used to make change and to continue to improve.
So as you'll see, this spear, our strategic plan
and officer sphere is just one component
of a much larger picture.
You are just discuss 8044 this morning or this afternoon.
There is an amazing award that the team received
and great work from Community Development and others,
but that is that 20 year long range view
But when you look at your strategies,
you need to break that down.
And so we're looking at those strategic plans.
And then with that how are we performing?
How we're performing on that progress,
then informs our annual budget.
And so we work together to make sure
that these things stay connected and consistent.
So with that, I'm going to bring Gabe
and he can introduce himself and his role
and I'm going to help him guide through this report.
Good afternoon.
Board Gabriel Giacalone Performance measurement Program
Manager I'll be walking us through part two
of this presentation where we will cover
each strategic plan, goal sharing, key metrics
and several stories of success from our fly
26 Starting off with Goal one Safety and Wellbeing.
We have a number of metrics on this
and the next slide keeps an app's metrics are both
looking very good.
Fire Rescue is looking great for rural areas
and wildfire rescue's Development Area response
isn't quite where we want it yet.
This 81% is a significant increase from last year 72%.
And this is a direct result from investments made in the F2 y 25
budget.
And it's a great success story to get to share today.
And I'll speak a little bit more about it in a few slides.
Police response time metrics are similar to what
we saw last fiscal year as investments
that we made with the f y 26 budget
have not yet come into play.
And it should also be noted that we continue
to see an increase in the number of calls for service over time.
And year over year.
So that is always at play here.
With that said, as of very recently,
we have seen early signs of a positive shift in these success
rates due to f y 26 investments and some amazing data
center strategic deployment by police
If we continue to see these trends,
those improvements may be reflected in next year's fire
report.
But we are keeping a close eye here
as we continue to prioritize this and carry out
the recommendations of the recent public safety staffing
studies and now some great stories of success.
F f y 26 With safety and well-being.
First year we have a story about our morals Heart
team at the forefront of research and facilitation,
where they presented at an international conference
and were recognized as leaders in their field.
And gave two presentations on their work
Our next story in December 2025 County leadership gathered
for a continue City planning event where
we ran through several crisis scenarios and a tabletop
exercise.
And these activities allowed our executive team and department
leadership teams to role play how their departments would
collaborate in the event of a crisis
And then lastly, as I mentioned before, in f y 26,
we saw the real impact of county investments
with the additional response resources that
were allocated to Seminole Trail and North Garden districts back
then.
F y 25 These resources were first
deployed in January 2026 and immediately improved response
time and reliability in those districts.
All right.
Go to metrics and go to Brazilian equitable
and engaged community.
We have three key metrics for f y 26.
The first is our expected reduction in GHG emissions
from f, y 26 climate projects.
We did a great job here in reaching 95% of our goal
and our climate team is very proud of their work
here on a number of projects that made this happen.
Our second metric here is what we
wanted to meet 100% of the pollution reduction
requirements mandated by the Chesapeake Bay team D L
standards.
And these standards are generally concerned
with the amount of pollution that localities
are sending to the Chesapeake Bay through their waterways
and thanks to many efforts largely including the biscuit
run stream restoration, we reached
100% of these requirements.
And that's why Texans are fantastic story
to bring to you today.
And lastly, on the engagement front,
we held 18 get engaged in local government
pop up events and exceeded our target for unique interactions,
reaching over 3800 people at those events
and some stories out of goal to starting with the climate
summit.
The climate summit in October 2025
brought Albemarle County High School students
together with county staff and community organizations
to explore local climate challenges.
Equity and solutions while building climate literacy
and civic engagement are the biscuit
run stream restoration, which I mentioned earlier,
was a huge success.
Albemarle County and the city of Charlottesville
completed substantial construction on a project
to restore approximately one mile of the biscuit run stream.
They addressed erosion, sedimentation and habitat loss
while supporting those Chesapeake Bay TMD standards
that I referenced before the project included planting
approximately 9800 native plants and installing 47 structures
structures designed to mimic beaver dams
and improve stream health.
And then lastly, we have the invasive Species Management
Program where we expanded our efforts to protect natural areas
from invasive species, improving habitat, health
and biodiversity, and long term ecosystem resilience
with additional staffing and f y.
26 Active management on county parkland for invasive invasive
species grew from 95 acres to 128 acres.
Now for a goal, three infrastructure and placemaking.
Our first metric is focused on our digital infrastructure
and our efforts to improve accessibility
through ADA compliance on our public website
and I'm proud to say that we reached 84% compliance
by the end of f y 26, and we continue to improve on that.
The second and third metrics are focused
on our physical infrastructure and connection
through sidewalks and rides on microcap
and we exceeded each of our goals
here, which is another great success
story to report our stories and goal three We start
with some really great transportation projects, stories
through the revenue sharing and smart scale programs,
Albemarle County completed several major transportation
improvements and f y 26 and we have upgrades and crochet.
We have a new bicycle and pedestrian bridge over us.
The 29 and we have new roundabouts at Route two for us
to 50 and Hillsdale driving Greenbrier drive together
these projects improve safety connectivity traffic flow
and access for residents across the county.
And I use those roundabouts a lot.
And I can testify to the fact that they speed things up
a second.
We have the Monarch and Nation Tribute Park.
This park was created through a partnership among Aramark
county, Habitat for Humanity, the monarch and Indian nation
and community partners to honor the Munchkins enduring
connection to the land dedicated in September 2025,
the Park features native plantings
interpretive elements and spaces for reflection
that celebrate monarch and history of resilience and living
presence.
And then lastly, here we have our partnership with John
to improve multimodal connectivity in f y 26
John's Connect Services is for 29
North and crews areas saw ridership increases
of 4.8% and 22.6% respectively.
Collectively represent over 50,000 riders.
Joint demand response saw a modest 2.1% increase over 28,500
riders and local funding of 3.5 million was leveraged,
with 4.9 million federal and state dollars to provide these
services.
All right, Go forward.
Quality of life.
We start with two brilliant, tactful metrics
Our first metric here is the present percent
of assessed real estate value from commercial sources.
A longer term goal here to achieve is 15%.
And I know that's been said here a lot in for y 26.
We were trying to stay as close to 11.3 as possible.
All the percent did drop here a bit.
But given the incredible work of Ido and many big wins
they supported in the past year, which
we will talk about in the next slide we are still
optimistic that this value will meet our longer term.
15% goal, especially when Astra's undergoes operational.
The next metric we have here is supporting
the creation of affordable housing units
and we have reached 2576 units as of the end of f
y 26 with an additional 2863 potential units
currently in the pipeline.
I'm given these units in the pipeline
and the recent investments in affordable housing.
We're optimistic that we will remain on a productive path
in reaching our goal of 10,070 units created between 2019
and 2040 And we have some amazing stories and milestones
in our goal for this year, starting with AstraZeneca is
a record breaking investment that in a futures AstraZeneca is
4.5 billion investment at remain a futures is a landmark
accomplishment in economic development for this county
and it reinforces the region's growing reputation as a life
sciences and advanced manufac turing hub.
The project is expected to create roughly 600 high quality
jobs and strengthen the local biotech supply chain
and next we have the expansion of pickleball courts
at Darden Cow Park.
Darden Cow Park now has 12 dedicated public
pickleball courts following a successful community engagement
partnership effort led by Albemarle County
Parks and Recreation in the Albemarle County Parks
Foundation, Central Virginia Pickleball and local supporters
and the Court's officially opened on June 20, 2026.
We have lastly here the agro spheres ribbon cutting.
Agassi visits a University of Virginia
startup celebrated the opening of its first commercial
Biomanufacturing facility in Monroe county in April 2026,
marking a major milestone for the region's
agricultural biotechnology sector.
And the company's success highlights
the power of local research entrepreneurs
and the public private collaboration
to drive sustainable innovation and economic growth.
Go five Education and Learning on the Education and Learning
Front.
We start with Albemarle Career Exploration Academy Construction
on the 60,000 square foot Albemarle Career Exploration
Academy or Ace Lands Land Campus advanced to near completion
by the end of F y 26 and the new facility will house eight
Scholars Studios and serve up to 400 students daily from
Albemarle Monticello.
And western Albemarle High schools with specialized career
focused learning opportunities Next, we have Mountain View,
upper elementary construction construction
on the upper elementary reached substantial completion
by the end of that, by 26, expanding the mountain View
Campus alongside Mountain View Primary School,
the new school will serve students in grades 3 to 5
and then lastly, we have our PBC partners ships in F y 26,
Albemarle County, Part partnered with PBC
to provide professional development for county staff,
including training in conflict resolution, planning, and time
management and meeting facilitation
for more than 110 employees participated across 14 sessions,
strengthening workforce skills and supporting continued
improvement and service delivery.
And now our last goal here got six.
Workforce and customer service in f.
Y 26.
Both of our workforce health metrics
are looking very strong enough by 26
and represent clear improvement and success since f y 24
when this strategic plan was written and three really
great stories out of goal six here
we start with our supervisor conference,
the supervisor conference and February 2026
had more than 120 counties supervisors participate
in a conference focused on employee development.
Emerging technology and including Microsoft Copilot.
The training equips supervisors with practical strategies
and modern tools to strengthen organizational performance
and streamline their work.
Next, we have a really cool story
about optimizing temporary employee records.
Thanks to our new financial management system, the county
identified an opportunity to reduce costs and improve payroll
records by removing approximately I did
250 inactive temporary employee records from its system.
Streamline.
Streamline this process is expected to save approximately
$45,000 annually in software licensing costs,
while improving data accuracy.
And then lastly, we have the enhanced modernization
of mapping and geographic information systems.
G is the county modernized its GIs services
with improved search and partial tools.
New sketch and measurement features and expanded
data export capabilities.
These upgrades make accurate spatial information
more accessible, supporting greater operation and efficiency
data driven decision making and a better experience
for staff, partners and the public.
Thank you Board for your time.
And I will now hand the presentation back over
to Christy for questions and close up.
Thank you Sorry, there was a Q&A in there.
So let me go backwards.
Are there any questions about the data that you saw
or the report in general?
Our comments, I'd love to hear from the board.
And then and then after that time,
also, I'll go through a little bit of what's next.
OK.
Supervisor on at this took early.
Yes, absolutely.
I noted that when we talked about job that was a modest two
point something increase.
And I was wondering, since they use the word modest,
I was wondering whether or not that is in competition
with our micro-cap service.
In other words, it's a decrease in John
because there's an increase in microcap.
I'm just wondering if that I'd be true or not.
Mr. Sumner can come up.
And because he's the one that worked with us on this metric
to ask and answer that point for you.
Thanks.
Good afternoon.
Jacob Sumner Chief Financial Officer Great question.
It is not in competition as this a different level of service.
We use the word modest because the other statistics that
were preceding that part of the story
was substantial short increases in substantial ridership
and services related to the connector routes
so as to point something more of a norm and normal.
It is more of a status quo for that level of service
as opposed to the connect service,
which is seeing expansive growth.
OK.
Thank you And I have that.
I just wanted to give a shout out.
I know we did that the pickleball courts, brand
new pickleball courts at Darden, how I wanted to give a shout out
to the Parks and Recreation Foundation for doing.
And when they me here.
But I mean, for doing that because I
did that was at no cost to the county that
was paid for by the parks and Rec Foundation right Supervisor
Malik So thank you.
I'm really enjoyed seeing this evolve and learn something
new every time.
And I, I have some questions, but I
think I'll just send them to you because it's not really as much
helpful.
But one suggestion I guess, that I
can't resist under a goal to we talk about implementing
the Climate Action Plan and biodiversity the action plan,
making those part of the development review
seems to be the biggest gap because we're always finding out
afterwards about impacts when if we found out forehand,
it would be very helpful.
So I would just leave that with you to think about and others.
I'll send in.
Thank you.
Supervisor Duncan This is all really great and helpful.
I don't have any questions.
Super buzzer Pruitt, I think to add.
Thank you all so much Supervisor missile i
don't know whether to ask this question now
or to wait for the next steps, but I'll just ask it.
And then you can tell me it's clear.
So when we reach a goal like we've
hit our 100% target, for example, whatever
that goal is, what next?
Do we just shelve that.
And then take it off the list, or do we actually increase
the target and is it.
How do we do that as a, you know, an evergreen document?
I will say that this board gets the drive that answer.
This is the first time, you know, like I said,
we've been doing this three years.
Yeah.
So I think we can determine together
how we want that to work My profession will answer
would be that you would measure and maintain
that for a little while to make sure that that doesn't change.
Got it.
Yeah.
And then it would probably become operational.
Our maintain, right, Right.
The again.
What we'll talk about next is like the definition of strategy.
OK.
And when something is achieved or is
starting to become so routine.
Yeah.
You move on to different strategies.
Got great.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Do we have the information development area or urban area,
depending on which one.
If you're talking fire or police.
I mean, every time I see that the number
is lower than what the target is,
it just reminds me of the situation
that they're in with the volume of calls,
you might not be able to meet that time
frame because if they're on the backup call and you need.
The third backup team to get to the call.
So traffic could be an indication to
beyond just the volume of service
And I would imagine it's the same for the police response.
Simon The urban area, so do we have that level of detail
beyond just volume of calls, but also going look,
these particular areas in the urban area
because of the traffic situation also is a problem.
And adds X amount of time, I think
that is what is so wonderful about our Sphere report is
that you are able to get a glimpse of all of the services
or at least most of the services in the areas.
When you want a deep dive into.
So something rises to the occasion, catches your eye,
you want to know more about it then
that allows us to go directly to the department
like you're asking and ask for those specifics
and those details.
And I would say absolutely Ali.
Both fire rescue and the police department
have a lot of information about their calls
for service, what's happening in the field, why
things are occurring.
And so we have that information that
actually is something that Gabe tracks as well
and that we can dig into.
I think it would behoove us to have just because of well, I
mean, I rant often about transportation
funding in the state.
But I don't recall really diving in beyond calls for service
the volume of calls and service and what that puts on the team.
But discussing transportation system and how it works
and what it could be adding to the delay
and trying to make this because that is something
that the state needs to understand,
that if you're not getting your transportation on your road
projects done either maintenance or better projects that need
to be put into place that that's impacting
public safety in a way that is beyond just saying,
I don't want to sit in traffic or, you know,
whatever So I'd be interested in some of that
as we continue, especially with our legislative agenda
and some focus that transportation,
I hope we'll get throughout the fall and a couple
of different venues.
OK.
And then the rural area, just from hearing
from other counties about it, same thing
for paving versus on paving for some of them.
So it's more than just an urban area issue.
There could be transportation projects out there
that slow down the time.
So even if you are well staffed and even
if you had the proper ratio that you
wanted for the level of service that you're receiving,
do you miss the target because of infrastructure constraints?
And I don't I don't know the answer.
I'm assuming.
So, but I don't know.
I don't have any hard and fast data on that,
both for our chief acting chief and chief were here The step,
you know, and you see both at the same time.
It makes you nervous about finances.
The they're probably doing something really important.
But Absolutely.
And so I was like, well, Scooter,
so we'll absolutely connect with them about that transportation
question And I'd also like to offer for us to talk about,
in the future are those targets that the department set.
I think we have high expectations of ourselves
and especially when it comes to public safety,
they want it to always be 100%.
And so there's also that of, you know, what is fair,
What's a fair expectation versus that high performing one.
Any other comments or questions?
Yes, sir.
If I may, that discussion on kind of the I've
previously expressed that I find I said this particular response
to our fire for a response times in that I,
I don't think it's realistically possible to have 100%.
And when you have a standard rate,
a standard can only serve as purpose.
If it's able to incentivize.
And gesture toward something that's feasible.
And when there's too much of a disconnect between a law
and expectation and what is feasible,
then it becomes a dead letter and it actually
can disincentivize it's like leaning in toward that goal.
So that's kind of a I thought I have along that axis.
And that I think the same could probably be said of our police
rural response times.
But as I was sitting here thinking about this
or and chair gallery where speaking it, it also it.
I don't know that I need a response to this.
But I am wondering if we are using spear as a storytelling
tool or as a program evaluation tool I feel like it's
been conceived of and talked about as a program evaluation
tool, but in practice, not being the person who's feeding
the inputs, it feels more like to me as a supervisor,
it's being used as a storytelling
tool, which isn't a problem.
We need both of these things.
But I think it, it will be better
at whatever it is when it is very firmly one of those things.
If that makes sense.
A storytelling tool that says, I am a storytelling tool.
And that's what I'm doing is going
to be a more effective storytelling
tool and a program evaluation tool that
says That's what I'm doing.
I'm about informing the loop.
I'm not going explain that.
I am about like helping inform and orient and make
second decisions and follow on decisions
and informing and orienting and making second on the decision
is better equipped to do that.
It feels right now that maybe spear spears somewhere
in between.
So that is a reflection I wanted to share.
Supervisor Malik, did you have an just.
I was just going to echo that.
I think I would love to learn more at some point
about the drop to ten minutes for PD response
in the rural area because I mean,
it's been a long time since they had
to come 2014 when we were broken into,
but it took them 25 minutes.
And that was completely understandable
because of the distance of the car accidents
and other things along the way.
So I just always I know that there's a great desire
to improve and have, but I agree that reality
is really important, especially for people considering
moving to a certain place.
We can't have people moving half an hour beyond where I am,
and you are.
And then say, I want ten minutes something or other
because it's going to happen.
And so it's not fair to anybody to set people up
to make those kinds of issues.
And the other side of the story.
I would tell for the transportation issues is a
and it came to mind because of the storm last Friday
and four roads of four roads in and out of silver all
blocked by huge trees and wires down and everything.
A 36 hour power outage, but we need to also.
And it's not even addressed in here.
So I'm probably saying it out of turn.
But figuring out improvements to our communication strategies
and things like that happen is really important
to keep people from going to these same places
where they're going to have to turn around or stop and get
stuck in large traffic jams, etc.
So people were basically just parking their car
in Rogers parking lot and walking home
because they weren't going to get anywhere.
Any other way.
So that was crazy.
But it's just one of these emergency resiliency planning
things that as I said, doesn't really fit here.
But I'll leave it on your doorstep anyway.
Thank you.
I and the others.
All right.
I think we're ready for next step.
OK.
Oops All right.
And I'm going to respond to Supervisor Pruitt's
comment I think you are right.
It is both right now.
And it is to try to meet our constituents where they are,
which is some people do not love data like we love data.
And some people just want to hear about impact.
And so we have done both.
But I will tell you that behind the scenes,
it's a lot of program evaluation,
we just don't publish that in this report,
but it is published online every data point
that we collect is on our website
But I also would say that the more feedback we get
about making it more and more program specific like
and evaluation, we can make that shift and we can do that.
So for this, I think I just want to go back to a few key.
This.
Like we've said to the point of it's
a program which is Spear's one component of where
we have started to measure performance and have data.
And so you're very familiar with that one.
We've mentioned.
And there's the budgetary analysis and reporting.
So that was new last year and went into the adopted budget
that was really for us to speak to your decisions
about putting key investment in our.
I remember very vividly Joe Galloway saying okay,
we invested money in this thing last year.
How can we tell if that investment is working?
And so we have taken that effort and built
this budgetary analysis and reporting.
So you'll see that more and more each year.
We can track because sometimes it
takes multiple years to see that impact.
And then lastly, we have the delivering the services.
And so you're very familiar with the annual Community Report
that our communications and public engagement team
has been doing for some time and our team
and their team are working together
to connect that more of the core services
and have that data connected as well.
So you'll be seeing some updates to that in the future.
So this is for our public to understand kind of what's next.
And that is that we're in year four of the strategic plan
and we're going to begin to determine how we fund
that last year of this plan.
As you move through the fall and spring and then
we're going to look for insight and perspective
early in the process as we move through the next strategic plan
effort.
Sorry, I hit the wrong one.
Let me go forward.
And so, as you know we have this process
that we're going to that you're going to be going through,
where we're going to look at long range planning.
You're going to take the last year of the strategic plan,
try to invest and move and progress things forward.
As you see fit.
And then we're going to have a discussion
about the next strategic plan.
And that is coming up And so we'll be doing that again.
And I'd also like to offer to you all that the next Speer
Report is going to have multi years.
And so instead of having the One year snapshot,
we have enough data to show the progress over time.
And so that's the next iteration.
And refinement that will be providing So with that,
I am done for my presentation and initial questions
for your time.
Go ahead.
Not if you have additional session.
No, of Did you want to make a comment?
You leaned in like I like the I thank you.
I like the idea of having a multi year snapshot
that we can see and look at our progress like any others.
Great.
You have what you needed from us.
Yes.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Chris.
Thank you, Chris.
Thanks.
All right.
The next item, number 12, we're ready for our closed meeting.
And we do.
We have a motion to go in.
I remember that the board of Supervisors convened a closed
meeting pursuant to Section 2.2-37118 of the Code
of Virginia under subsection eight to consult with legal
counsel regarding specific legal matters,
including possible agreements with AstraZeneca LP require
the provision of legal advice by such counsel Second, all right,
the motion has been made and seconded.
Without objection that the clerk will please call the roll.
Mr. Galloway.
Yes, Mr. Peace Secretary.
Ms..
Malik Yes Mr. Mitchell.
All right.
Mr. Pruitt.
I miss Duncan.
Yes.
All right.
We are All right.