[0:00] That what she said when we-
[0:01] I'd like to welcome Dr. Tommy Berry to provide the invocation, please.
[0:05] And you can lead the way,
[0:11] please.
[0:12] Father, thank you. Any place, at any time, we can come into your presence and ask
[0:18] for your guidance. And Lord, that's what we're doing tonight.
[0:21] Just simply that you would give us wisdom, that you would give our commissioners
[0:24] wisdom to answer and field some of the questions, Lord, that there may be in front
[0:28] of it tonight, that you would give them clarity for decisions in the future of all
[0:33] the people of Camden. Father, I thank you for this night and ask that you would
[0:36] have your way in it. And we ask this in your son, Jesus's holy name. Amen.
[0:41] Amen.
[0:44] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
[0:49] Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible,
[0:55] with liberty and justice for all.
[1:00] Thank you, Pastor Berry.
[1:01] Thank you.
[1:06] Please be seated.
[1:11] Well, I entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented.
[1:16] Make a motion to approve the agenda as presented.
[1:19] All in favor?
[1:20] Aye.
[1:21] Aye.
[1:21] Any opposed? Motion carries. Madam Clerk, the conflict of interest disclosure
[1:26] statement, please.
[1:27] Members of the Camden County Board of Commissioners are advised of their duty under
[1:31] the State Government Ethics Act to avoid conflicts of interest or the appearance of
[1:34] such conflict. If a board member has a known conflict of interest or appearance of
[1:39] conflict with respect to any matter coming before this board today, please identify
[1:43] the conflict and refrain from any undue participation in the matter involved.
[1:48] Thank you.
[1:50] Presentation. We'll begin with Ms. Karen Burt with the employee recognition.
[1:55] I'll start with introducing our new finance officer, Mr. Brian Lewis.
[1:59] Brian, if you wouldn't mind standing up. Joined us at middle of August.
[2:04] Much anticipated, much well-received new addition to the county.
[2:10] Brian comes to us from Elizabeth City.
[2:12] Prior to that, he worked for the town of Hartford and with the City of Chesapeake,
[2:16] Virginia as well. And we're very happy to have him on board. Welcome.
[2:19] Welcome, Brian.
[2:20] Thank you. Welcome.
[2:23] And then in the absence of our HR director, she sends her regrets.
[2:28] She had some childcare issues this evening and asked me to stand in for her.
[2:32] I have two service pins to present. So if Ms. Susan Hayden and Ms.
[2:37] Monica Skinner would come forward.
[2:42] I'll present them down here, but then you guys are going to have to come up for a
[2:44] picture, okay?
[2:47] This is your service pin for five years of service, and one for Ms.
[2:50] Skinner, 10 years of service.
[2:52] Yeah. Congratulations.
[3:05] We're going to take a picture real quick. Sit. Look at that.
[3:10] Wonderful.
[3:11] Come on up.
[3:14] I know. We have Mike on too.
[3:19] I like that. I like that.
[3:20] She's like, "No."
[3:22] One at a time.
[3:28] All right. One, two, three.
[3:33] Perfect.
[3:34] And then one more.
[3:35] Thank you.
[3:39] Congratulations.
[3:39] Yeah.
[3:39] Thank you.
[3:40] Congratulations.
[3:41] Many congratulations.
[3:44] Thank you.
[3:46] Hope you make it 20.
[3:47] Yes,
[3:49] that's the goal here.
[3:56] Thank you both, and congratulations.
[3:58] Thank you.
[4:02] Madam Clerk, public comment?
[4:05] Oh, we have-- Oh.
[4:06] I'm sorry.
[4:06] We have one more presentation.
[4:08] My bad. Sure.
[4:11] From Ashley Jennings.
[4:13] I did not skip over it.
[4:19] Bear with me for one
[4:20] second.
[4:30] Am I able to...
[4:32] Let me see your slide
[4:38] deck.
[4:45] There we go.
[4:50] Ooh, it's being jumpy, too.
[4:53] That might have been me.
[4:55] All right.
[4:57] So I'm here tonight to discuss something that the board approved for the Register
[5:01] of Deeds to offer to the public this year.
[5:04] But before I get to that, I also wanted to let y'all know that the first birth
[5:10] records book that y'all approved for preservation this year, book number four, was
[5:15] picked up and took off on August 27th to be preserved.
[5:19] It will ultimately end up being split into two books.
[5:22] So we'll have book four, part one, and book four, part two.
[5:26] It should take anywhere from 12 to 16 weeks.
[5:28] So hopefully January, beginning of February, we'll have that back.
[5:32] And then hopefully next year we can continue and maybe knock off a couple more
[5:36] books.
[5:37] That's great.
[5:37] So thank y'all for that as well.
[5:39] That's great. Thank you.
[5:40] But tonight,
[5:43] I was going to show y'all how you can sign up for the fraud alert notification.
[5:48] I do want to preface, it is just a notification system.
[5:51] It will not stop any fraudulent or potentially fraudulent records from being
[5:56] recorded. It will just notify you any time something in your name has been
[6:01] recorded, and this is for anyone within the county or that owns property in the
[6:05] county that lives elsewhere. We did launch this August 2nd.
[6:11] I think so.
[6:12] Around 9:00, 9:30. I just forgot to hit publish at 8 o'clock that morning.
[6:18] But on the county website, under Departments, if you go to Register of Deeds, which
[6:23] I'm already there, which would be right here,
[6:26] it is the fourth option, Fraud Detection Notification,
[6:31] and you do have to have an email address. So I'm going to just do a mock one.
[6:37] We'll do
[6:39] John Smith, and then we'll do J Smith.
[6:47] I'm just typing. It's hard to see, even with my glasses.
[6:52] So you would put your name and your email address, and then you would put any names
[6:56] that would match or could match. So if you have your full middle name or a middle
[7:02] initial or just first and last, you would put all of those up to five and then
[7:06] scroll down and hit Submit. The most important thing is, is once you hit Submit,
[7:10] you do need to check your email for the verification email.
[7:14] If you do not do the verification, you will not get notified. That is very key.
[7:21] You can sign up at any time. You can sign up multiple names.
[7:27] And any citizen that needs assistance with that, they can call the office and we
[7:30] can talk them through it, or they are welcome to come in the office and we can help
[7:33] them on our two public terminals as well.
[7:36] Spouses and co-owners need to sign up separately, or...?
[7:41] They can, but they don't have to.
[7:44] As long as one of the names is on there that's signed up should be sufficient.
[7:51] Is there any other questions?
[7:55] It's a good service. Thank you.
[7:56] Well, thank y'all.
[7:59] Hope this has helped, and I'll let you take over
[8:04] again.
[8:07] Thank y'all. Have a good evening.
[8:08] Thank you, Ashley.
[8:08] Thank you.
[8:15] Any public comment, Madam Clerk?
[8:16] No, sir.
[8:17] Okay.
[8:20] Old business, subdivision moratorium, Mr. Chad Sawyer.
[8:31] How are y'all doing this evening?
[8:32] Hey, Chad.
[8:33] Good.
[8:33] How you
[8:35] doing?
[8:36] Let's see.
[8:38] So I spoke with Matt Miller, who is working with Timmons Group, is helping us out
[8:43] with a lot of our engineering and design for the permits we're seeking
[8:49] and the groundwater storage tank. We call it clear well.
[8:54] So Matt said that NCDEQ reached out and needed some updates on what the current
[8:59] developments are in the South Mills area so that we could try to better get some
[9:04] flow projections. So this is a pretty good thing because NCDEQ is actually
[9:10] having a conversation with us, not ghosting us. So we're talking back and forth.
[9:16] They have some questions, we're answering them, telling them why we're seeking this
[9:19] permit and doing the best we can to advocate that we got a lot of development going
[9:23] on that's going to outrun the sewer plant.
[9:25] So that's why it's important that we need this NPDS permit to discharge into the
[9:31] river.
[9:34] The clear well, the engineering application was submitted to NCDEQ.
[9:39] This is the permit that needs to be submitted, go through the planning review
[9:42] process, and then they give us the authorization to construct after it's gone
[9:47] through the review process, so that, that way, we can actually put the project out
[9:50] to bid. So we're getting real close.
[9:54] DEQ did come back with some comments,
[9:57] which I mean, you all pretty much know the first time you submit anything, you're
[10:01] going to get some kind of comment back on it somehow.
[10:05] So it was resubmitted the very next day with some amendments based off of the
[10:10] comments that we got. And then,
[10:14] we're hoping that we'll get that authorization to construct pretty much any day
[10:18] now. So we're really excited about that, and we're really close.
[10:25] Sure. Great work. Thanks, Jim.
[10:26] Any questions?
[10:27] Thank you.
[10:33] Ms. Erin Burt with the Data Center Moratorium update.
[10:37] Yes. Planning staff, along with our assistants with Berkeley Group, are working
[10:42] through some definitions with data centers to define all of the potential uses that
[10:47] are a data center and reviewing some industry standards.
[10:51] Since we adopted the moratorium, Commissioner Eiland, Commissioner White, and I
[10:55] attended the NCAC and got some additional resources from NACO.
[11:00] And, I want to say it's the Piedmont,
[11:06] Cog in Virginia that has done a lot of work on this.
[11:09] And so pulling all those resources together to make sure that we're covering all
[11:14] our bases there. Staff anticipates that we will have draft language
[11:19] in October. So staff will request at the October meeting to set a public hearing
[11:23] for the November meeting to review that use.
[11:29] And that's all I have for that.
[11:31] Okay. Thank you. Ms. Lisa Anderson with the tax report.
[11:44] Good evening.
[11:44] Hey, Lisa.
[11:46] Good evening.
[11:46] This is the July monthly report. We have the top 10 from 16 to
[11:51] 25. Our 10-year percentage rate is at ninety-nine point three
[11:57] two. Our two thousand and twenty-five is ninety-seven point six seven%.
[12:01] Twenty-fours is at ninety-eight point five two, and our twenty-threes is at
[12:05] ninety-nine point oh seven. We have sent out 31 delinquent notices, did three wage
[12:10] garnishments, and four bank garnishments.
[12:13] And, just to update on the
[12:17] list that we were working on, I did reach out to Lauren, sent her an email,
[12:24] that Mr. Morrison was working on. Of those, we did have, I think it was 10 that
[12:30] did, when he was working on that, had paid on that top list.
[12:34] There is about eight, I believe it is, that they were working forward with the
[12:37] title work to do. I'm not sure what got done before he retired.
[12:43] But she told me to send her the list, and I did send, I haven't heard anything
[12:46] back. But she does have the list to see where it was.
[12:49] I believe, Erin, you said you thought maybe he had started on some of those.
[12:51] Yeah, I think Lauren had gone back when Mr.
[12:55] Morrison retired, all the records transferred over, and so Lauren had gone back to
[12:59] try to find out the title work that had been started, and I think it was complete
[13:04] on a couple of them, so we can move forward with a few of those.
[13:08] But not all of them. I think we were trying to do them two or three at a time-
[13:12] Right
[13:12] ... so it wasn't a whole big bundle.
[13:14] Right.
[13:16] But as soon as I get back, I'll hear from her because I sent her the email with the
[13:21] list and she's supposed to reach out and check on everything and let me know.
[13:24] Then I'll keep you all updated.
[13:26] Okay.
[13:27] Thank you.
[13:28] Thank you, Lisa.
[13:29] You're welcome. Thank you.
[13:30] I make a motion to approve the tax report as presented.
[13:33] All in favor?
[13:35] Aye.
[13:36] Aye.
[13:36] Any opposed? Motion carries.
[13:38] Thank you.
[13:39] Thank you.
[13:42] Sheriff Jones, surplus duty firearm request.
[13:49] Good evening.
[13:51] Good evening.
[13:52] Some of you may or may not know Major Brandon Henderson will be leaving the
[13:55] sheriff's office at the end of this month.
[13:57] He's going to be taking a job with the sheriff-elect Rodney Rawlins in Dare County
[14:02] as one of his chief deputies down there.
[14:04] So his absence is going to be missed by our office.
[14:08] Upon his departure, Major Henderson has requested to be allowed to purchase his
[14:14] duty weapon and all the accessories that are on the weapon.
[14:21] If it is granted, the sheriff's office, we cannot sell the weapon.
[14:25] We would have to transfer it to a duly licensed federal firearms dealer,
[14:31] which case we'll probably use Rodney's weaponry.
[14:35] And the prices that I'm going to tell you is going to be less the transfer fee that
[14:41] the firearm dealer may charge.
[14:46] As it stands, the Glock .45 nine millimeter that he's currently carrying, the one
[14:50] that I'm carrying, is currently valued, if we were to trade it in today for a new
[14:54] weapon, they would allow us $300 on the weapon.
[14:57] So that would be the price that we would charge Brandon for the weapon.
[15:02] The sight set is $53.15. The mounting plate is
[15:07] $50.40. The green dot holographic sight is $388.12.
[15:14] The Streamlight flashlight that's mounted on the underside of the weapon is
[15:18] $163.11. For a grand total of
[15:22] $954.78 is the money that we would collect for the
[15:28] weapon if the commissioners grant the
[15:32] sale of the weapon and transfer. I would also ask, if it is granted that we can
[15:37] sell this weapon, that the money we collect be put back into our equipment
[15:43] budget line so we can replace the weapon and the equipment.
[15:48] Now, the weapon is the only one that is at a discounted
[15:55] rate, because it's not a new weapon.
[15:58] But the accessories that's on it, those are all retail prices that it would cost
[16:04] us to replace it brand new. So I would request the
[16:10] surplus of the weapon.
[16:18] I make a motion to approve the surplus duty firearm request as presented.
[16:23] Can I make sure I'm clear on one thing before we vote?
[16:26] The amount that he would pay to purchase his weapon is
[16:31] $954 or?
[16:33] Correct. $954.78 less what the transfer fee
[16:39] from our office to the firearm dealer. I said I don't know what that would be.
[16:45] All right. Any other discussion or questions?
[16:49] All in favor?
[16:51] Aye.
[16:51] Aye.
[16:51] Any opposed? Motion carries to approve the surplus duty firearms request as
[16:57] presented by the sheriff.
[16:59] Thank you.
[16:59] Thank you.
[17:06] Ms. Burt with the planning department capital outlay request.
[17:09] I'm going to wear my planning hat right now.
[17:13] As we started last year, any time a department had a capital need that was not
[17:19] part of the approved budget, we asked that they come to the board of commissioners
[17:22] and make that request in a meeting.
[17:26] So I'm here on behalf of the planning department to do that.
[17:29] During the budget discussions for this year, the planning department had requested
[17:33] a plotter in their capital outlay budget.
[17:35] The board chose not to fund that request as the existing plotter was still
[17:38] operational. During routine monthly maintenance in August, a key component of the
[17:43] plotter broke.
[17:45] I was told there was much deep diving on eBay to try to find this mystery piece
[17:50] that they needed to replace. Nobody actually knew what it was called, but they
[17:53] could describe it.
[17:55] Anyways, the plotter is nearly eight years old and was
[18:01] purchased as a refurbished piece of equipment.
[18:03] Staff have sought quotes to replace the plotter that'll use the existing toner and
[18:07] paper stock they have so that we don't have to purchase new toner as well.
[18:11] The quote they received for the new device was $6,275.
[18:16] So staff requests a budget amendment in this amount and approval to purchase a new
[18:20] plotter.
[18:24] I'll make a motion to approve a budget amendment in the amount of $6,275 for the
[18:29] purchase of a new plotter.
[18:31] Any further discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?
[18:36] Motion carries.
[18:37] Thank you.
[18:38] Thank you.
[18:40] All right. If you'd like to continue on with South Mills Water Office.
[18:42] Put my manager hat back on.
[18:46] Recently, we completed the offices on the second floor of the administration
[18:49] building, and that allowed for both the soil and water conservation technician and
[18:55] the animal control officer to move to the admin building.
[18:59] This leaves the South Mills Water Office with one person regularly.
[19:03] Although water staff, I think Chaz and Terry and Bill are up there pretty
[19:08] regularly. Water staff use that space with some frequency.
[19:13] But the office is currently open on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday as staffing
[19:17] allows. Recently, we've had to close the office because we've had some staffing
[19:21] issues here at the Camden office, so we pull Regina down here for that.
[19:26] After hours and on the days when the office is not open, customers can use the drop
[19:30] box. Due to the occupancy of the building, it's staff's recommendation to begin a
[19:34] cashless payment system at that location, accepting only checks or credit card.
[19:40] I should have included money orders because we accept those, too, as payment.
[19:44] And customers wishing to pay in cash may still do so, but they would have to do it
[19:47] at the Camden office location.
[19:51] A few of you had requested some additional information as far as the number
[19:57] of payments that were received at that office.
[20:04] There are a number of times where there are very few payments received there.
[20:09] It's not nearly as busy as the central office.
[20:13] But they're still receiving cash, and so that cash has to be reconciled and
[20:19] then processed accordingly.
[20:23] And I'll do my best to answer questions you may have about this.
[20:27] And I think Chaz might be able to answer more technical questions if you have those
[20:30] as well.
[20:34] Anybody have any questions?
[20:40] Motion to approve the transition to cashless payments at the South Mills Water
[20:44] Office? Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed?
[20:49] Motion carries.
[20:53] Board appointments. Planning Board, the appointment of Kira Clark, and Tourism
[20:59] Development Authority, the reappointment of Tamara Devlin.
[21:06] Entertain a motion to approve the board appointments as presented.
[21:09] Motion to approve the board appointments as presented.
[21:12] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries.
[21:18] Ms. Burt, how many positions are remaining open on
[21:24] county boards, planning boards, or-
[21:26] We'll always take applications, I'll start with that.
[21:29] Sure.
[21:30] I believe we have one
[21:34] additional vacancy on the Board of Adjustment.
[21:36] I actually received an inquiry about that today.
[21:39] And I think there's one vacancy on Planning Board as well with this
[21:44] appointment.
[21:45] Okay.
[21:46] But those appointments can change, and we have folks that have changing
[21:52] circumstances, and something comes up, and they're no longer able to attend those
[21:56] meetings. So even though we may not have a number of open vacancies, I would still
[22:01] encourage folks, if you're interested in serving, to apply.
[22:04] And that way, we can hold your application, in the event that we have a vacancy
[22:08] that comes up, we can reach out and fill it that way.
[22:12] Mr. Chairman, I notice that we're about to Kira Clark to the Planning Board and the
[22:17] Business Walk Board, but I don't have an application nor know anything about this
[22:22] person that we're about to actually vote on.
[22:26] So typically, when we receive those applications, those applications are reviewed
[22:31] by staff and then recommended to the board.
[22:34] I don't think we've provided you applications in the past.
[22:37] Well, what does she bring to the Planning Board?
[22:40] She's a resident.
[22:41] Make sure--
[22:41] She's a resident of the county.
[22:44] Because I've had some people that all they want to do is just complain about how
[22:47] the county is
[22:49] going in the wrong direction and stuff like that.
[22:51] But
[22:53] if they have experience with the planning boards, the terminology on the
[22:59] UDOs, and
[23:01] all the paperwork involved there, that's why.
[23:04] I mean, I would look for somebody that's got some history on
[23:09] building construction, UDO, how it functions, why it functions this way, or why it
[23:13] does not function. I don't know this person.
[23:17] I'm going to take your recommendation on this at this point.
[23:20] But in the future, I'd like to have
[23:22] an application along with that person.
[23:24] Certainly. We can-
[23:25] I already know we're providing vacancies, but I don't know the person.
[23:28] We can provide copies of applications for future recommendations.
[23:31] Okay. Thank you.
[23:32] Do we need to make a motion to include the list of applicants and associated
[23:37] applications?
[23:38] I don't think so. I mean, we can just do that as policy and general practice.
[23:41] Okay.
[23:41] Karen and I can provide that when we build the agendas.
[23:45] All right. Any other questions on that topic?
[23:50] All right. NCACC Legislative Goals Conference, November
[23:56] 19th through 2026.
[24:00] I plan to attend. Who else is planning to go?
[24:06] Anybody?
[24:10] Troy? They like for us to appoint a delegate and an alternate.
[24:14] I can be the alternate.
[24:16] Troy's had the pleasure before. So Stephanie, I think-
[24:19] I have to.
[24:23] I'll make a motion to appoint myself as-- unless you want to be voting delegate, I
[24:27] don't mind. You good? Okay. I'll make a motion to appoint myself as voting delegate
[24:32] for the NCACC Legislative Goals Conference. All in favor? Aye.
[24:39] Any opposed? Motion carries. And I'll make a motion to appoint Troy Leary as
[24:43] alternate voting delegate for the NCACC Legislative Goals Conference.
[24:48] Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries.
[24:55] Consent agenda. Motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Any discussion?
[25:01] All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. County manager's report.
[25:10] We had a
[25:12] number of meetings preparing for the Board of Adjustment hearing that was held last
[25:16] Monday night, and then we held our hearing, well, first portion of the hearing last
[25:20] Monday.
[25:22] We had a safety personnel tour of the new high school that included representatives
[25:26] from the sheriff's office, EMS, and South Camden Fire.
[25:30] Brought up some good points, and I think that it was a good opportunity to get them
[25:34] in early to see the space and walk through it and understand the layout of the
[25:38] building a little bit better. We had EMS peer review, and I want to take a little
[25:43] sidebar there and brag on EMS for a minute.
[25:45] So I think you all probably saw the parks eagle award that our EMS employees
[25:50] received on the front page of the paper.
[25:52] And at that
[25:54] award ceremony that evening, I heard something that made me very proud of our
[25:59] service.
[26:01] When we started EMS, I told our director that I want it to be the gold
[26:07] standard, and that's a high bar to set, but I think that we have the ability to do
[26:11] that here in Camden. One of the advantages of the system that we have is it's a
[26:17] fairly small system. And so when we want to try something new or do something
[26:21] different,
[26:24] we have the ability to roll that out a little bit easier than larger systems with
[26:27] more personnel and more trucks and more stations.
[26:30] And so one of the folks that was there that night is also a part-time employee for
[26:36] Virginia Beach EMS. And we had made some change in one of the bags that they
[26:42] use on a regular basis, and it was just a small piece of equipment purchased off of
[26:47] Amazon, and he thought it would work better.
[26:50] We tried it out, and they roll it out to all of our trucks.
[26:53] And
[26:55] he regularly brags when he goes to Virginia Beach EMS about how Camden does things,
[27:00] and Camden is setting the standard.
[27:03] They, I guess, have recently adopted something that we did at Virginia Beach EMS.
[27:07] So I think that that's something that the board should be proud of.
[27:10] Certainly, something that I'm proud of, and I'm super proud to have a staff that's
[27:14] forward-thinking and innovative and looking for creative ways to solve problems
[27:18] that other systems wrestle with on a regular basis. So sorry about that sidebar.
[27:25] We are preparing for the Heritage Festival
[27:30] Sarah and Tara are looking a little tired back there.
[27:34] But the Heritage Festival's coming up on September 19th, and it is from 10
[27:40] to 3, right? 10 to 3 at
[27:44] the community park. I encourage everybody to take a peek at the maps and things
[27:50] that we recently posted online as far as transportation.
[27:53] We've made some alterations to how that's done this year to hopefully reduce the
[27:58] amount of walking folks are having to do from the drop-off point with the shuttles
[28:01] into the actual festival space. So I'm excited about those transitions that we're
[28:06] making there. We've had our biweekly construction meetings for the new high school.
[28:11] I have weekly planning meetings now.
[28:14] We did the new finance officers' orientation and county tour.
[28:17] We stopped to make it over to the water plant.
[28:19] We got there just after most of those folks had left that day, so we had to make it
[28:22] back over there. Attended a regional transportation planning meeting, which the
[28:26] county hosted here in the community room.
[28:29] Our Treasure Point site meeting, we're inviting all of the department heads to come
[28:33] down to Treasure Point tomorrow for our department head meeting to tour the site.
[28:37] That's moving along really well. We hope to have our temporary certificate of
[28:40] occupancy at the end of this month, and then hopefully we can move the extension
[28:45] office staff in there sometime late October.
[28:47] So really pleased with how things are moving there.
[28:52] The month of August was super busy for our HR department.
[28:56] We filled 11 positions in the month of August, three part-time positions, eight
[29:00] full-time positions. So it's nice to see those job listings shrinking down on the
[29:06] website, and nice to get our departments up to a full staff.
[29:10] And then, I mentioned earlier that we attended the NCACC conference in Durham.
[29:15] They had some fantastic sessions, both on data centers and on the tax reform
[29:20] legislation that's moving through
[29:24] the general assembly in Raleigh. One thing that's not on this list, but I do want
[29:28] to touch on, I know that
[29:31] Lisa sometimes struggles getting folks to...
[29:35] Especially those top 10 or top 30 unpaid and...
[29:40] And I wanted to talk to the board briefly about this.
[29:43] So we advertise those things in the newspaper.
[29:47] But I don't know how many folks are actually reading the newspaper, and we
[29:51] advertise them there to make sure that everybody knows who is paid and unpaid.
[29:57] And so if it's the board's desire, we can additionally post
[30:03] that information on the county website and share it on our social media pages as
[30:07] well, just to make sure that
[30:10] those names are out there. This
[30:16] is the way I look at it. We have some outstanding bills that are right around
[30:19] $6,000, and you all just approved a budget amendment to purchase a new plotter.
[30:23] So that person's unpaid taxes could have purchased that new plotter.
[30:29] And we have a great collection rate in the county.
[30:33] I'm super proud of the work that the tax office does.
[30:37] But I think it might be
[30:41] a little extra pressure on folks if their names are not just in the newspaper, and
[30:46] those taxes make it paid a little faster that way.
[30:50] So I leave that to you all. If you would like me to do that, I'm happy to move
[30:54] forward with that.
[30:55] 40 million outside. Only two things are guaranteed in life. Death and taxes.
[31:01] We all pay our taxes.
[31:04] Yeah.
[31:04] All right.
[31:04] Yeah. And the
[31:07] traditional way of finding that information was the newspaper.
[31:10] Right.
[31:11] I mean-
[31:11] And now we have a newspaper twice a week. Well, at the end of this month.
[31:14] Yeah, twice a week at the end of this month.
[31:18] Yeah. I think it's a good idea.
[31:21] We publish the agenda, but you have to really go looking for it-
[31:23] Mm-hmm
[31:24] ... if you're curious about it. It's not that the information's not there, but you
[31:28] have to look for it. It only gets published in the paper...
[31:31] Is it published in the paper once, Lisa? Is that correct? Yeah.
[31:34] So it's published in the paper once, and if you don't pick up that edition or you
[31:37] miss it, then you miss it.
[31:40] Maybe the first Facebook page. Is everybody on board?
[31:44] Yeah.
[31:45] Maybe the first post just be an announcement of, "This is going to be normal."
[31:51] Okay.
[31:52] So that people won't say, "Oh my goodness." You got to let somebody know.
[31:55] Nobody gets a heads up.
[31:56] No fault of the tax department, but it cannot come across as a surprise.
[32:02] Certainly. Yeah, and those names don't get there.
[32:05] I mean-
[32:05] Yeah, years
[32:06] ... they've made phone calls, they've reached out, they've tried to contact folks,
[32:10] they've sent letters. Those tax bills are unpaid
[32:15] not without notice.
[32:16] Mm-hmm.
[32:19] Okay.
[32:19] So if there's consensus amongst the board, I don't think I need a motion.
[32:22] I can move forward.
[32:23] Okay.
[32:23] Yeah.
[32:26] Thank you. Cecil, you got anything?
[32:27] Well, I just was going to share, too, about going to the NCACC conference.
[32:33] We had a board meeting the day before, so that was Wednesday through Sunday for me.
[32:39] But anyway, we had a great time, and Alan Thomas got sworn in as the new president.
[32:45] There were a lot of great breakout sessions.
[32:48] Wellness, there was one that I really loved, it was Wellness Advantage, investing
[32:51] in your workforce. Just some ideas for health among employees, county
[32:57] employees. I did attend the data center breakout, county fire protection, and
[33:03] tax policy changes. So nobody got hurt during that one.
[33:08] It was quite interesting. But anyway...
[33:12] And I did get to go by and meet Bryant, so harass him a little bit and get him used
[33:17] to it, so.
[33:18] Sorry, Bryant.
[33:19] Yeah.
[33:21] Yeah. That's it.
[33:24] Randy?
[33:25] I have nothing.
[33:26] Troy?
[33:26] Yes, I stopped by the museum a couple weeks ago, and there's interest
[33:32] that they would like to have some storage space somewhere because they have items
[33:37] that are being presented to them, and they just have nowhere to store them, and
[33:40] they would like to be able to update or just change out certain things once in a
[33:44] while at the museum. So they didn't know if we could see about a storage unit or a
[33:49] storage building. And so we're down.
[33:53] Well, now we get something different.
[33:55] Yeah.
[33:55] But that's just something they would like-
[33:56] A little rainbow in the woodwork.
[33:58] Yeah.
[33:58] Different than the next call.
[34:02] That's what their input was from the museum.
[34:07] I'll reach out to them and ask them how much space they're looking at.
[34:10] Sure.
[34:11] With the South Mills office not being fully occupied, there may be some space up
[34:15] there. It's not convenient. I mean, it's not right next door.
[34:18] But it's storage.
[34:19] But it's conditioned.
[34:20] Right.
[34:21] If folks are donating things to the museum, I certainly don't want to put them in
[34:25] an unconditioned storage shed.
[34:27] Right. Sounds good.
[34:29] But we'll try to track down some information.
[34:31] Okay.
[34:33] Cindy?
[34:33] I don't have anything, just the NCACC, and they've covered it, so I'm good.
[34:37] Okay.
[34:38] Thank you.
[34:40] All right. You have information from departments and agencies in your packet.
[34:46] Any general public comment, Madam Clerk?
[34:49] No, sir.
[34:50] Okay.
[34:51] Next regular meeting is October 5th at 7:00 PM.
[34:56] We will adjourn the Board of Commissioners and convene the South Water
[35:03] and Sewer District Board of Directors. A motion to adjourn.
[35:09] Any discussion? All in favor?
[35:12] Aye.
[35:12] Aye.
[35:12] Aye.
[35:13] Any opposed? Motion carries.
[35:16] Call the South Camden Water and Sewer District Board of Directors meeting to order
[35:21] and-
[35:24] Make a motion to approve the agenda as presented.
[35:27] Any discussion?
[35:29] No.
[35:29] All in favor?
[35:30] Aye.
[35:31] Aye.
[35:31] Aye.
[35:31] Any opposed? Motion carries. Any public comment for this portion?
[35:36] No, sir.
[35:36] We're good? All right. Chaz, you're up, my man.
[35:46] Y'all just like saving the best for last, don't you?
[35:48] That's right.
[35:51] Oh.
[35:51] All right. I will be reporting for the month of July.
[35:56] So there was a total of 156 distribution work orders submitted with
[36:01] 100% completion. One sewer work order completed with 100% completion.
[36:07] There was 97 locates submitted for the township of South Mills,
[36:13] 48 locates submitted for the Courthouse Township, and
[36:19] 32 for the Shiloh Township.
[36:24] Total water treated at the treatment plant was
[36:28] 21,127,000 gallons of water. That gave us a daily average of
[36:34] 681,500 gallons, which is 95% capacity of
[36:40] the water plant.
[36:41] Mm.
[36:42] So June and July this year, we were pumping a lot of water out.
[36:47] I can say that it has calmed down
[36:51] The weather's been a lot nicer. Kids are back to school, so there's not much
[36:55] swimming pools and things like that going on anymore.
[36:57] We have started doing some flushing around some different areas and things like
[37:02] that, too. So thankfully, we're back down to some better numbers.
[37:08] Our current capacity for the water plant is 720,000 gallons per day.
[37:14] The South Mills Wastewater Treatment Plant treated a total of
[37:19] 25,079 gallons per day. That's a 100,000 gallon per day plant, and that
[37:25] is 25% capacity. I do remember standing up here in front of you all and telling you
[37:29] all like 12% and 10% and things like that about a year ago.
[37:35] So the courthouse area wastewater treatment plant treated an average of 30,358
[37:41] gallons per day. That is a 50,000 gallon per day plant, so we're at 61% capacity.
[37:48] I can say that that usage has gone up since school was in.
[37:51] We've noticed the pump run times a lot longer and some different things, and it's
[37:56] just all from the new schools.
[38:00] But anybody got any questions or anything?
[38:04] I'm happy to report that Chaz is fully staffed now across all departments.
[38:12] And Chaz, I will say that when I went to see Aaron the other day and saw you in
[38:15] there, you looked very stressed. And I know that you're always out in the heat, and
[38:19] you got one thing hitting you right after the other.
[38:21] So I made you a Limon sour dough bread.
[38:28] You're welcome.
[38:29] It's not much. You got to add it to-
[38:33] I appreciate it.
[38:34] You're welcome. Thank you for what you do and for putting up with all that.
[38:37] I do want to give a shout-out to my friends over in Currituck.
[38:40] They had a very trying week last week, and
[38:45] a lot of people don't see what goes into a lot of it and everything, and they did a
[38:50] good job of keeping the water on over there last week.
[38:55] So sometimes it does get pretty stressful and most of the public doesn't see it.
[39:02] That's right. But you're-
[39:04] Because you're sheriff.
[39:06] You have, and you're still a great leader, and your employees like you, and you
[39:10] always come in, and you're positive, and that makes a big difference. So thank you.
[39:15] Appreciate it.
[39:15] You're welcome.
[39:17] I appreciate you.
[39:19] Anything else? Any other questions?
[39:22] All right, motion to approve the monthly report as presented.
[39:26] Motion.
[39:27] Any discussion? All in favor?
[39:30] Aye.
[39:31] Aye.
[39:31] Any opposed? Motion carried.
[39:34] I entertain a motion to adjourn the South Canaan Water and Sewer Board of
[39:37] Directors.
[39:39] Make a motion to adjourn.
[39:41] All in favor?
[39:42] Aye.
[39:44] Aye.
[39:44] Any opposed? Then we're all adjourned.
[39:51] This might be a world record, baby.
[39:53] Too close. You got to come.
[39:55] Nice shooting. Good night.