[0:13] it being 10 o'clock on thursday april 28
2022
[0:18] i'd like to call
the cable county commission
[0:22] to order for their regular meeting
at room 300 of campbell county
[0:27] courthouse
and as usual we begin with a prayer and
[0:31] a pledge
let us pray
[0:35] almighty god the fountain of all wisdom
you know our necessities before we ask
[0:40] and our ignorance and asking have
compassion on our weakness
[0:44] and mercifully give us those things for
which in our unworthiness we dare not
[0:50] and for our blindness we cannot ask
may your spirit be with us as we seek to
[0:55] do your will
on this day and every day of our lives
[0:58] seeking to serve you and do what you
would desire
[1:01] all this we ask through the worthiness
of your son jesus christ our lord who
[1:05] lives and reigns with you in the holy
spirit
[1:08] one god now and forever
amen
[1:13] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
united states of america and through the
[1:19] republic for which it stands
one nation under god indivisible with
[1:25] liberty and sciences for all
[1:34] and the first item on the agenda would
be to approve the regular commission
[1:39] agenda on this day
[1:43] somebody like to approve that move i'll
make the motion good
[1:48] and it's been moved and seconded all in
favor signify saying aye
[1:54] uh next item would be the minutes of the
regular commission meeting of february
[1:59] 10 2022
that we approve those mr prince second
[2:04] you've been moved and seconded all in
favor signify by saying aye aye aye
[2:09] and the next item would be erroneous
approval of erroneous assessments
[2:15] land consolidation split tickets probate
documentation from the county clerk's
[2:20] probate office
second
[2:24] been moved and seconded all in favor 65
saying aye aye it is approved
[2:30] next item would be to approve purchase
orders number 22-108-416
[2:36] through number 22-108-599
[2:40] pay jackets monthly payments to fifth
third that's fifth third bank
[2:44] for fuel card purchases hand-written
checks to oonam
[2:49] eight dollars and sixty eight cents and
guardian
[2:53] twenty thousand one hundred and fifty
five dollars and sixty four cents
[2:58] i'll make a question
move second second all in favor aye that
[3:04] is approved
citizens registered to speak we have
[3:08] two gentlemen with us
matt mcwhorter and adam phillips
[3:15] who would like to take a few minutes to
discuss the
[3:18] advantage valley magazine and
the renewal of our ad
[3:25] adam's with uh padco aren't you yes
right gentlemen uh
[3:46] thank you
i appreciate the opportunity to come in
[3:50] and speak with you all today uh we're
excited about the opportunity of
[3:54] starting the third annual edition of the
live delay advantage valley multimedia
[3:58] program that consists of
the regions from charleston here to
[4:03] huntington and in between and we've been
working on this project for three years
[4:07] now and have had great success
as far as in the way the employers are
[4:12] using the publication the partners like
hadco are using the publication as not
[4:17] only a business recruitment tool but a
talent recruitment tool
[4:21] and it's at this time it's so important
because we're seeing a large talent
[4:25] migration from these bigger cities where
people don't feel as safe they're very
[4:30] expensive so they're looking for more
affordable places to live work and play
[4:35] so it's a great opportunity for the
advanced valley area to really promote
[4:40] themselves you know to connect with
these audiences and adam would like to
[4:44] share how the employers in the in the
huntington area are using this great
[4:48] publication yeah i think uh
taking more or less a leadership
[4:53] position i think
of this magazine for the last couple
[4:57] years now you know we purchased a large
ad space in the front part of this
[5:01] magazine
really we started this a couple years
[5:04] ago actually it's pretty pandemics back
in 2018 we started hearing this kind of
[5:08] feedback from some of the hospitals and
some of our larger employers about
[5:11] the ability to
attract talent to the area
[5:15] one of the concerns was that we really
just don't have a showcase piece for the
[5:19] region to explain about the quality of
life
[5:22] of our community and so oftentimes when
let's say mountain health is trying to
[5:26] recruit a doctor it becomes a tough sell
without something like this because you
[5:31] know that that doctor
or engineer perhaps has to not only
[5:35] convince you know to not only see this
as any place to live and a great job
[5:39] opportunity they also have to convince
their spouse and their family that this
[5:42] is a great place to live so
we've really seen this as a tool to help
[5:46] accomplish that of some of our area's
largest employers we love this this is
[5:50] an organization called
uh our presence here they live and you
[5:54] can take this out to a trade show and
some companies that this is what our
[5:57] community is about it gives us kind of a
showcase piece for how we're going to
[6:01] attract and retain talent in the area
which is honestly uh next to you know
[6:05] just available sites that's really up
there uh the ability to uh staff your
[6:10] your company is the greatest concern
that companies have when they when they
[6:13] want to move into a community like
huntington so
[6:16] this is a great showcase piece for us
you know just very recently we've had
[6:21] great feedback from companies like
marathon even that just uh actually used
[6:25] us they on board about a dozen employees
several come out of the immediate area
[6:28] and this is something they were able to
use the great effect and
[6:32] you get constantly good feedback from
the hospitals from companies like alcon
[6:35] that actually advertises in here
prime engineering is another company
[6:39] we've recently given a bunch of these to
and they've been able to use that or if
[6:42] they're expanding their office
truly than the sage they're actually uh
[6:47] we're in the process of they've hired
about 30 individuals in the last six
[6:50] weeks and they're they're up to about 60
employees and they're going to be up to
[6:54] 150 uh within about a year so they have
to bring in a lot from their
[7:00] other offices to their headquarters in
florida for instance uh and so
[7:05] this is a great piece for them to be
able to accomplish that as well i think
[7:08] this will be uh you know just kind of in
the next 12 you know 18 24 months
[7:14] the scientist and trying to position
itself as a great place to live
[7:18] especially when it concerns the new core
project and our ability to attract and
[7:22] build off of that you know that's going
to be a powerful
[7:25] uh you know a powerful they're going to
be recruiting a lot of talent throughout
[7:28] the region and this is like mason county
jobs that those individuals are probably
[7:32] going to
live in huntington barbersville tays
[7:35] valley hurricanes so i think as we're
trying to kind of put together a
[7:39] coordinated effort to attract talent to
the region in support of that project
[7:43] this becomes a great tool as well
in addition to that the online aspect
[7:48] livability.com we're a leader in the
talent attraction media space so we're a
[7:54] national company we work with major
chamber of commerce economic development
[7:59] state economic development organizations
all across the united states
[8:04] so it's i personally worked on this
project for the last three years very
[8:08] proud to do so i'm a grandson of
marshall university my dad graduated
[8:13] from there and actually was one of the
last group of players that played for
[8:17] the infamous cam henderson so i heard a
lot of great stories my dad's even one
[8:22] of the books that have been written
about cam so in his time he had at
[8:26] marshall so i'm very proud to work on
this project and
[8:30] i livability will give huntington and
the area a chance to really get out
[8:34] there and get exposure and get all that
negative press
[8:39] it aside because of so much content that
we're building out and we're not able to
[8:43] do that without great supporters like
yourself
[8:47] you know support the initiative because
you're the ones that truly fund the
[8:50] project and help us and this regional
project
[8:54] is the best project we have nationwide
as far as the stakeholder support
[9:00] nationwide
in terms of bringing multiple
[9:04] communities together
in terms of bringing stakeholder support
[9:07] people that either do a paid advertorial
placement like marshall university on
[9:12] page one or you know
many organizations so
[9:17] it gets widely supported and it's widely
used and the exposure we get has been
[9:22] phenomenal within the package you'll
have analytic information related to the
[9:26] online
exposure of the program your personal
[9:29] online ad that comes with with your
package has already had 10 000 plus
[9:34] impressions and views
is because mainly the website itself
[9:38] livability huntington the liberal
advantage valley we're up to almost a
[9:42] half million annual page views
so this area is getting a lot of
[9:46] attention because of the affordability
and then the big picture is
[9:52] we're helping this area grow and prosper
and we're doing with the help of you all
[9:56] so we thank you so much
for supporting this initiative how many
[10:00] of these are printed
15 000 copies sir
[10:04] and how many have been distributed in
the past
[10:08] 15 000 copies and then there's online
readership of that print publication
[10:13] of over 160 000
annual readers
[10:18] yeah i'm not sure how many magazines had
could have all these advertisers get a
[10:23] certain amount of magazines exactly all
the advertising sponsors like yourself
[10:27] they get copies for their own
distribution
[10:30] so that's why the hospital get copies to
provide their talent recruitment packets
[10:34] to physicians nurses yeah you know so
it's we've handled these out uh probably
[10:39] a dozen or so businesses uh you know 20
at a time usually and
[10:44] places like special medical school west
virginia
[10:47] places that would need to recruit the
area
[10:51] and we're doing search engine
optimization for huntington so if you
[10:55] type in google move or relocate to
huntington
[10:59] it's going to position the livability
hunting
[11:02] website with all this positive content
ahead of all the other negative related
[11:07] content that you might find
and that's true for any community and
[11:11] these two get shared by the cbps and
things like this i know uh
[11:15] last year uh ashland floyd county became
a became an advertiser i think the
[11:21] director over there i think came across
one of these in the hotel over there and
[11:23] said we need to we need to be in there
no actually his father is on the
[11:29] planning
commission uh andrew steele father yeah
[11:33] i don't know if you owned mr steele
so he did some work with marketing with
[11:37] the school system county schools
so we we we have such great support of
[11:43] this project and we really appreciate
your all's
[11:46] um you know investment support in this
project too
[11:49] we
appreciate you
[11:52] telling us
of its it's a word valuability
[12:00] i just saw in the news today that
there's a lot of states and
[12:04] and uh municipalities trying to get you
on the musk to move to their community
[12:08] you know
twitter with them so you know this is a
[12:12] great way to maybe we could use this to
say come to west virginia and capitol
[12:16] county we have a lot to offer
i personally work when we do our
[12:20] tennessee statewide project i've worked
with amazon global economic development
[12:26] they're doing a huge project in downtown
nashville for their hq's their second
[12:32] headquarters in the united states and
they promote you know they use the the
[12:37] of the talent recruitment tool so there
are huge corporations all the way down
[12:41] to small moment
companies that need talent right now
[12:47] every community owner you hear from
everybody if you're you have friends
[12:51] that own a company it's just
it talent is the number one driving
[12:55] force in economic development right now
gordon will get you some of these so you
[13:00] can find some drivers
that would be very helpful
[13:06] shortage of personnel oh yes okay well
thank you guys we'll
[13:11] discuss it and
let you know wow thank you all right
[13:15] thank you
[13:17] next item on the agenda would be 2204
[Music]
[13:22] 28-114 the estate of robert lowry young
deceased
[13:28] regarding report of status conference mr
watson this is a
[13:34] status conference report from
steve fletcher as the fiduciary
[13:38] commissioner
just where he's met with the parties and
[13:42] their counsel
and he has indicated that
[13:47] he's set a hearing date from may
31st to
[13:53] conduct an evidentiary hearing on the
contested matter so
[13:57] that's just this is basically just a
status report
[14:02] and that's your report yes good
the move to accept
[14:07] a second
been moved and seconded uh that we
[14:10] accept the report all in favor saying
drop saying hi
[14:13] hi
next item is item 115
[14:18] letter from gordon mary
dc ems director
[14:23] and to
clarify i need to read into the record
[14:27] there were actually
two different proposals on a couple of
[14:30] the stations and i didn't see those
in the envelope station one had two
[14:36] proposals one was 64 900
it was for um against the metal
[14:45] the metal roof and the other ones for a
shingle river 35 900
[14:50] for
station seven
[14:53] then it was a metal roof option at 117
900.
[14:58] and the shingle roof was 37 900.
the letter from gordon on today's agenda
[15:06] is an acceptance of the
proposals presented for the shingle roof
[15:11] on ems stations one seven and nine
session one is the cost of thirty five
[15:17] thousand nine hundred station seven is
the cost of thirty seven thousand nine
[15:21] hundred and station nine is the cost of
thirty nine thousand nine hundred
[15:27] is there any allowance in there for
ulcer medicine for when they said it was
[15:32] a hundred and seventeen thousand dollars
i'm still trying to recruit
[15:37] i couldn't believe
[15:46] yes sir you need to do it
all right yes sir okay
[15:50] um
with that information
[15:53] do we have a motion that we approve mr
mary's
[15:57] acceptance
i'll second been moved in second and all
[16:00] in favor aye aye
next is item one one six is a resolution
[16:06] from campbell county commission
regarding employment of
[16:09] tasha carter as full-time emt joseph
thunderberg as per diem emt eli
[16:17] eli kaiser as full-time emt charles
dunlap as full-time paramedic and
[16:23] reclassification of hayley bays
to per diem emt and jamie wroten
[16:31] w-r-o-t-e-n
to advance the mt
[16:38] second second all in favor aye aye
next would be item number 117 which is
[16:45] approval of the capitol county
commission regarding
[16:48] campbell county ems
2022-23 budget
[16:52] the ambulance
2022-2023 budget request
[16:57] civil defense
2022-2023 budget request
[17:01] and porter's knob fund
2022-23 budget request
[17:07] would you like to know what the porter's
knob fund is
[17:11] i've never heard of porter's mountain
what is that
[17:15] porter's knob is located in salt rock
and we have a contractor lay an owner
[17:21] and we pay them so much a month or
use
[17:26] allowing them so we can place our power
on it
[17:30] and
we own the talent and basically we're
[17:33] written
and
[17:35] we generate money off that tower and it
splits
[17:38] 50 50.
[17:43] yes
in the if you get down in the budget
[17:46] there's a line item basically it's
called road repair and i have to
[17:50] maintain the road it's two miles long
and
[17:55] sometimes it costs time
[Laughter]
[18:06] the commission has nothing to do with
maintaining roads
[18:10] i'm glad you pointed that out
i still get ready request
[18:17] i moved to proof i second been moved and
seconded all in favor aye aye
[18:23] that is approved
next item is item 118 which is approval
[18:27] of
by the capitol county commission
[18:30] regarding the
[18:33] e 911
ccerc
[18:36] 2022-23 budget request
and
[18:41] i looked a little more closely
at that
[18:45] mr
911 and
[18:49] have some questions i
certainly will approve the budget but i
[18:53] want to know a few more things about
[18:58] could we pay down some on the building
and do you have enough in there to do
[19:02] that and
[19:05] about the building you want to build
when gordon's covering up your thing
[19:10] your
van anyhow and some of those kind of
[19:12] things
but
[19:15] we need to know some more about some of
those things i believe
[19:19] let me explain to you now
probably not because some of them would
[19:24] concern
how much uh
[19:27] like
we get uh every two weeks
[19:31] all of the invoices that are paid so we
have some idea of how much money is
[19:36] needed and how much you need to keep and
some of those kind of things and
[19:40] just
need to figure i think figure that out
[19:44] see if you might free up a little to
pay down a few things
[19:48] fish thought
[19:52] well
i want to say i actually was able to
[19:54] take a tour yesterday 911 center and um
that was very
[20:00] very informative and i appreciate
both your mike and
[20:04] mike's time yesterday i appreciate that
and it was it really opened my eyes to
[20:08] um a lot to what you guys do
um coming into this new role and um i
[20:14] don't know are we
moving to prove that today are we
[20:18] waiting no i
i think we could approve it but
[20:23] but
i appreciate that yes your time
[20:25] yesterday and it was uh you guys are
doing a great job there
[20:30] then i'll make the motion to approve
been moved and seconded all in favor
[20:35] saying drive saying aye aye
all right
[20:38] uh it's proof
item 119 is uh concerning the west
[20:43] virginia county's risk pool
policy renewal for 2022-23
[20:50] this is our liability insurance renewal
and our workers compensation insurance
[20:57] that covers the entire county like
officials
[21:02] also all of our employees as far as
workers tacos
[21:05] there is a
itemized
[21:09] list here of all the county's
vehicles and buildings and i know
[21:14] there's a lot of times in social media
some questions about
[21:18] things that the county has assets and
stuff and it's all still out right in
[21:22] our insurance policy every year so um
just like to point that out that our
[21:27] total uh estimated annual contribution
for the liability and workers cost
[21:32] insurance for the upcoming years going
to be eighteen fifty eight thousand
[21:36] eight hundred fifty six dollars
again that is the liability and the
[21:40] workers call but our response has gone
up last
[21:45] and when you look at the list of
vehicles and other things that we're
[21:49] covering yes and that's updated
usually monthly so
[21:56] entertainment
[22:03] been moved and seconded all in favor of
approval hi hi
[22:08] item number 120 is a resolution of the
capitol county commission
[22:13] in the matter of a cabin county
commission policy regarding executive
[22:17] sessions of the capitol county
commission
[22:22] the west virginia ethics commission
had
[22:28] updated
the open governmental proceedings act
[22:32] and
this is just setting it into a policy
[22:36] for the commission that
you'll follow these guidelines as far as
[22:39] executive sessions goes it pretty much
is what we were already doing anyway so
[22:47] but just that's a doubt in black and
white policy
[22:51] i'll move
in one second
[22:54] been moved and seconded all in favor aye
aye
[23:00] next item
is item 121 approval of senior citizens
[23:04] funding requests
from faith in action of the river cities
[23:09] for fifteen thousand dollars
and green bottom community and senior
[23:13] center for seventeen thousand five
hundred dollars
[23:19] we have
made
[23:21] similar grants to both organizations in
the past
[23:25] um
and i think what they're doing at green
[23:28] bottom with that they've got new
leadership and
[23:31] it seems that they're really gonna
turn it around quite a bit so
[23:36] i'm looking through right okay i'll
second
[23:39] been moved and seconded all in favor all
right
[23:44] the
funding request is approved
[23:48] letter from irv johnson campbell county
assessor
[23:52] to create a tax ticket
and it says finley darlene dash ed al
[23:58] which i think should be
have a common turn around but
[24:03] uh rural route 2 box 429 milton west
virginia 25541
[24:08] care of daniel s and nancy a adams 80
acres trace creek road milton farm
[24:16] tax year 2021 tax district 8 map partial
17 class 41
[24:25] and it thinks that the reason for
creating the tax ticket was a clerical
[24:30] error
i move to approve a second
[24:34] moved in second and all in favor hi
[24:40] item 123
is a letter of the capital county
[24:44] commission regarding capitol county
commission's objections to appalachian
[24:48] power's latest requests for
unprecedented rate increases
[24:54] it seems like we had
well not too long ago so
[24:59] people can't afford it everything's
going up so i moved to april
[25:03] hi second
been moved and seconded all in favor
[25:06] signify saying aye aye aye
letter from phyllis smith campbell
[25:11] county clerk
regarding city of milton precinct
[25:15] changes
[25:19] the area didn't change
what it didn't show was that the capital
[25:24] health care and
apartment complex is in a city limit
[25:31] so
they changed that to show that it was in
[25:34] the city limits and they had to move
into the city so
[25:39] that was the change they didn't
[25:54] all in favor of uh the precinct changes
i i
[25:59] item 125 is a letter from the cable
county commission regarding marshall
[26:03] university research corporation's
career opportunities for appalachian
[26:08] legacy
possibly to be known as c-o-a-l
[26:15] at project appalachian regional
commission power grant application
[26:21] yes
we know about that yeah this is just uh
[26:24] to support their grant application
and um
[26:28] it's going to help people
get jobs so i'll move to the grid
[26:33] a second
all in favor aye
[26:38] item number 126
is approval of software systems contract
[26:43] for hardware and software systems
on ibm as400
[26:50] 8286-40
a
[26:53] serial 217
d-b-e-w
[26:58] one year for five thousand eight hundred
and ninety dollars
[27:02] as-400s are
very old
[27:06] but they run
the biggest part of the county
[27:10] so
it's very important that we maintain it
[27:14] we have done this same contract now
a few years in a row just the one year
[27:21] right they do offer a three-year version
but it just seems there's so many
[27:27] things that happen we found it safer to
do the one year at a time
[27:41] number 127 is resolution of the capitol
county commission
[27:45] regarding
county budget revision number five which
[27:51] does
[27:53] um this is for the 4-h camp
and we were just moving money out of or
[28:00] out of capital outlay into utilities and
maintenance repairs
[28:06] make a question one second
oh in favor i i
[28:11] item number 128 a resolution capital
county commission
[28:15] state budget revision 11.
and
[28:20] since the sheriff had sent out the
postcards and the county was collecting
[28:25] a little more than we usually do during
this time period
[28:29] um when the county does better then show
you our special access applied to old
[28:34] travel county so library and part four
get a little more money
[28:38] we had to increase those two
line items
[28:42] and also increase the revenue
um
[28:45] parks and recreation park will give
another 70 000
[28:49] and the library will get another 420 000
so that'll bring their allocation for
[28:54] this
2122 you're up to 1 million 926 thousand
[28:58] 329 dollars
[29:02] judy rule doesn't do a little dance over
that and i don't think she'll
[29:08] she may come back for that
well that's a retirement present maybe
[29:13] for judy
uh
[29:16] it's been moved and seconded several
seconds
[29:20] all in favor of the resolution on the
budget revision
[29:24] i and
item number 129
[29:30] special fund 29 budget revision which is
fire and economic
[29:35] revision number two
that's a similar issue here we got a
[29:40] little extra money we had to
adjust the budget accordingly for fine
[29:44] economic goals
second
[29:48] all in favor aye aye
[29:52] that
revision
[29:55] is approved
place on record minutes to be recorded
[30:00] p ridge public service district regular
board meeting
[30:05] february 14 2022 salt rock public
service district regular board meeting
[30:11] march 8 2022
other documents to be recorded
[30:16] p ridge public service district managers
report
[30:20] january 2022 p ridge public service
district general ledger balance and
[30:26] income statement period eight
year ending 2022
[30:32] i'll make a motion to approve
a second all in favor aye aye did you
[30:37] notice howard underwood
attended the meeting no i did not
[30:42] he does that
uh commissioner's representation reports
[30:46] good and welfare of campbell county
this is not an advertisement but it's
[30:51] nice that uh
pepsico
[30:55] has built a hundred thousand square foot
state-of-the-art distribution center
[31:02] uh on county property
and we appreciate them doing that and
[31:08] it's
certainly a nice
[31:11] uh addition to
employment in capitol county
[31:20] well i mean it's out in the county
yes
[31:24] yes
yeah it was a nice tour
[31:27] huge facility
good thing
[31:31] i'd just like to say that we've got a
camera in the back of the room now and
[31:33] we'll be streaming
our meetings so we'll be on video
[31:38] it's something that we had to update our
audio system anyway so that was a good
[31:41] good time to make that investment so
stay tuned
[31:46] um and i just want to take a minute to
thank everybody so far in these two
[31:50] weeks that has been so welcoming um i
truly appreciate it the whole staff has
[31:55] been
wonderful and accommodating and
[32:00] i can't say enough and just really
appreciative and
[32:04] [Music]
it's definitely an honor so thank you
[32:09] well we'll probably change
[32:14] um
well we have a stack of papers to sign
[32:18] and we will
begin on that and
[32:22] adjourn when we are finished
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[32:27] you may certainly stay and watch you
sign papers