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[0:32] you

[0:38] October 8th City Council meeting please

[0:42] join me in a moment of silence

[0:54] please stand for the Pledge of

[0:55] Allegiance all righty well thank you

[1:18] everybody for coming out and we've got a couple of proclamations on the

[1:22] agenda and a couple of agenda items that

[1:24] we'll need to discuss I'm glad everyone

[1:26] was able to show up for it does anyone

[1:29] have any comments they want to talk

[1:31] about city manager's comments I think I

[1:37] said enough yesterday you good

[1:40] all right matters to be presented by the

[1:42] public non agenda items we got a couple

[1:44] of people Jack Johnson

[1:54] my name's Jeff Johnson I live it - over

[1:56] on Sunrise Street man my neighbors were

[1:59] wanting to know how to get a new city

[2:01] ordinance or code on the books if

[2:03] somebody could tell us how we'll do the

[2:06] legwork and get it done

[2:07] let's need to do that and also the

[2:11] neighborhood told me to make sure that

[2:13] we said Chad Osman it's done a great job

[2:16] y'all need to support him and help him

[2:18] in every way he is doing a good job I

[2:21] agree with he certainly is do you want

[2:23] to address the coordinates sure I mean

[2:25] really I think we talked about this

[2:28] today I was out riding with you we

[2:30] warned I need to know exactly what you

[2:33] proposed to change the ordinances and

[2:35] then depending on what that change is it

[2:37] may have to go through the Planning

[2:38] Commission or through zoning as well so

[2:42] we'll just have to take a look and see

[2:44] exactly what you want change forward

[2:51] again well I mean and there's also state

[2:55] code that we have to follow through

[2:56] because there may be some something that

[2:57] you want to have in a force in effect

[2:59] that the state doesn't allow us to

[3:00] regulate so there are things that we

[3:02] just have to look at as a whole to

[3:04] determine whether or not that would be

[3:06] an appropriate ordinance I thought I've

[3:10] gotta say tonight no but like I said the

[3:13] people owned the place cleaned up I'm

[3:16] like I said Chad is doing him good job

[3:18] it is

[3:20] I take Mike Martin I mean at the

[3:22] landfill saying you got a problem he's

[3:25] right there

[3:25] well he's doing a great job it's not

[3:27] often they get good compliments so we

[3:29] appreciate you coming down and saying

[3:30] that thank you thank you alright next

[3:33] for non-agenda is Miss Marni

[3:49] mr. mayor members of council my name is

[3:52] Nancy Marnie I'm a resident of the city

[3:54] of Bristol Virginia I am a property

[3:58] owner the city of Bristol Virginia is in

[4:03] crisis the city of Bristol Virginia is

[4:07] in a financial crisis this crisis has

[4:13] been acknowledged and validated by the

[4:16] state of Virginia by Moody's investment

[4:21] in New York City who was prepared to

[4:23] demote us to junk bond status and also

[4:28] by the most prestigious oldest bonding

[4:31] company in Richmond in the state of

[4:33] Virginia which is in Richmond and it's

[4:36] the city's bonding company I have some

[4:40] figures here that were correct as of

[4:43] October the 4th 2019 they came from the

[4:48] chief financial officers office in

[4:51] Bristol Virginia number one the total

[4:54] bonded debt in the general fund is 72

[5:00] million three hundred eight thousand two

[5:02] hundred and ten dollars that's the total

[5:05] bonded debt in the general fund the

[5:08] payoff is twenty forty three that's

[5:11] twenty four years from from now the

[5:15] solid waste disposal fund is thirty four

[5:19] million four hundred sixty one thousand

[5:22] seven hundred ninety dollars the payoff

[5:26] is twenty forty three when you add those

[5:29] two figures together as of October four

[5:34] 2019 the bonded debt of the city of

[5:37] Bristol Virginia is 106 million seven

[5:43] hundred seventy thousand dollars now

[5:47] there are other items that can enter

[5:49] into that figure but that's the two

[5:52] biggest figures that we have now this

[5:55] means gentlemen if we do not borrow

[5:58] anything not one

[6:00] any from October 4 for the next 24 years

[6:06] we owe a hundred and six million dollars

[6:10] that has to be paid back during that

[6:12] time that is not very comforting to me

[6:19] we are in a crisis and we must stay the

[6:24] course now the previous council set up a

[6:27] very very good course well thought

[6:30] through intelligent depth it was good

[6:34] your responsibility is to be the

[6:37] stewards of what they set up the reason

[6:41] we have gotten one step forward no more

[6:44] than that mayor please to you no more

[6:49] than that is because the previous

[6:53] council put a property tax that we all

[6:56] hated I'm included in that but it was

[6:59] that property tax that saved the day

[7:02] with Moody's and the state of Virginia issued a report

[7:07] very recently saying that we are doing

[7:11] better they didn't say we were doing

[7:12] well or we're over the hump they just

[7:15] said we're doing a little bit better

[7:16] that's all no more now crisis spending

[7:21] is what we are gonna have to deal with

[7:24] the jail in the the fire hall down there

[7:29] has serious structural problems that is

[7:32] a crisis the jail itself is a crisis a

[7:36] new school is not a crisis it is a won't

[7:41] it is a want it is not a crisis that can

[7:48] come at another time the council was

[7:51] very generous with the school board they

[7:53] gave money for raises for the teachers

[7:56] and rightfully so and then came back

[7:58] with another two hundred thousand

[8:00] dollars they were very generous but that

[8:05] new school is not a crisis situation

[8:08] period one word will solve it no come

[8:12] back next year in the

[8:13] session we'll see what happens then

[8:15] we're in a state of flux

[8:18] there are items that have been there

[8:22] items that have been figured into this

[8:24] budget right now that you are going to

[8:27] be dealing with tonight as a matter of

[8:29] fact but gentlemen let me urge you I

[8:33] urge you as a citizen as a resident as

[8:37] the most knowledgeable person you know I

[8:41] urge you to stay the course stay the

[8:47] course Thank You mayor thank you all

[8:51] right

[8:52] regular agenda items item 1 proclamation

[8:55] recognizing adverse childhood

[8:56] experiences Awareness Month

[8:58] staff report council this is a joint

[9:02] proclamation with Bristol Tennessee that

[9:04] recognizes the impact of adverse

[9:05] childhood experiences that these

[9:08] experiences have on childhood

[9:09] development and growth alright item 2

[9:12] his reading of the proclamation I know I

[9:13] read the last proclamation we did and

[9:15] judging by how long this is I'm gonna

[9:17] let you go ahead and take this one chief

[9:19] thanks proclamation recognizing adverse

[9:23] childhood experience Awareness Month

[9:25] October 2019 whereas Bristol Tennessee

[9:28] and Virginia recognize that a strong

[9:30] community depends on supporting the

[9:32] development of strong brain architecture

[9:33] and supporting the health and well-being

[9:35] of our children

[9:36] Jake create a foundation for lifelong

[9:38] health and responsible citizenship and

[9:40] whereas adverse childhood experiences or

[9:43] aces or stressful or traumatic

[9:44] experiences including abuse neglect

[9:47] family dysfunction and community

[9:49] violence in which can disrupt the safe

[9:52] stable nurturing environments children

[9:53] need to thrive and whereas aces can

[9:56] cause toxic stress which can affect

[9:58] brain development and lead to a lifetime

[10:00] of physical mental economic educational

[10:03] and social challenges and have been

[10:05] linked to public health problems such as

[10:07] obesity addiction heart disease and

[10:09] hypertension and whereas the economic

[10:12] burden of aces in Tennessee and Virginia

[10:13] is seen in direct medical costs and loss

[10:15] employee productivity and bristles

[10:18] continued prosperity relies on our

[10:19] current action to prevent these adverse

[10:21] experiences whenever possible and to

[10:23] mitigate their impact when they cannot

[10:25] be prevented

[10:26] and whereas trauma-informed care is not

[10:28] a therapy or intervention but a

[10:30] principle driven cultural change process

[10:32] aimed at shifting communities mental

[10:34] model to be more empathetic and

[10:37] resiliency focused and whereas adopting

[10:39] innovative collaborative trauma-informed

[10:41] approaches and workplaces schools

[10:43] communities and governments can prevent

[10:46] or mitigate mental emotional physical

[10:47] and/or social issues among those

[10:50] impacted by toxic stress and whereas

[10:53] numerous professionals in the Bristol

[10:54] Tennessee Virginia area have received

[10:56] trauma-informed care training and in

[10:58] 2019 through bristles promis launched a

[11:01] trauma-informed care community as best

[11:03] practice following recommendations to do

[11:06] so by the substance abuse mental health

[11:08] services administration and now

[11:10] therefore be it resolved at market fire

[11:12] Robbin mayor Bristol Tennessee and

[11:13] nillas were mayor Bristol Virginia do

[11:16] hereby recognize the month of October

[11:17] 2019 as adverse childhood experiences

[11:20] awareness month in Bristol to where A's

[11:23] awareness and encourage all residents to

[11:24] become informed about the impact of aces

[11:26] and toxic stress learning about

[11:29] trauma-informed approaches that promote

[11:31] prevention healing and resilience and in

[11:33] children adults and communities to build

[11:35] a stronger and healthier Bristol the

[11:37] Bristol Tennessee and Bristol Virginia

[11:38] City Council members along with partners

[11:40] the Bristol promise trauma-informed care

[11:43] community Tennessee Department of

[11:45] Children's Services ballot health

[11:46] Tennessee Commission on children and

[11:48] youth United Way of Bristol Tennessee

[11:49] and Virginia and others encourage

[11:51] community leaders business owners

[11:53] pastors educators coaches and the public

[11:56] to participate in upcoming educational

[11:59] opportunities by attending the events

[12:01] and trainings during the month of

[12:02] October for aces Awareness Month

[12:03] together a city leaders and community

[12:06] partners this Proclamation indicates

[12:08] their commitment to exploring ways to

[12:09] make Bristol a resilient community for

[12:11] all of its citizens all right thank you

[12:13] so we're looking for a council motion in

[12:16] a second on this I would make a motion

[12:20] that we adopt the proclamation second

[12:23] all right

[12:24] motion is made by the vice mayor and

[12:26] second by mr. Farnum and if there's no

[12:30] discussion we'll go ahead and call the

[12:32] roll Farnum yes

[12:34] wyngarde yes yes yes so I'm just like to

[12:39] recognize

[12:40] everyone who's in attendance for this

[12:41] Melissa Roberts mayor fire Robin from

[12:44] Bristol Tennessee and maybe Becky Haase

[12:46] with ballot health Aesir among others if

[12:49] you all want to come up and get a

[12:49] picture and get your Proclamation

[12:52] [Applause]

[13:32] first of all thank you all for

[13:34] recognizing the importance of adverse

[13:36] childhood experiences and how they have

[13:38] lifelong effects on people the study

[13:41] that was done in the mid 90s shows that

[13:43] once you get to an ace score of six you

[13:46] have a possibility of taking twenty

[13:48] years off of your life so you all

[13:51] through mr. E's office have signed up to

[13:55] do a longer presentation a little bit

[13:57] later this month and that'll be done

[14:00] here in the council chambers during one

[14:02] of your sessions I'd like to invite each

[14:04] of you and the community to several

[14:07] events that we have going on throughout

[14:08] this month this coming Thursday in

[14:11] conjunction with the push Film Festival

[14:13] we're going to be showing paper tigers

[14:15] this is a movie that is about a school

[14:19] out of rural washington state that went

[14:22] to a trauma-informed care event and came

[14:26] back and used those within their schools

[14:28] and saw an increase in graduation rates

[14:30] saw a decrease in substance abuse a

[14:33] decrease in absenteeism and really

[14:36] turned the school around so we'll be

[14:38] doing that this Thursday at noon at

[14:41] Theatre Bristol and also is showing at 6

[14:43] p.m. following the 6:00 p.m. we're going

[14:46] to be doing a panel discussion so we'll

[14:48] have members of the Bristol Virginia

[14:50] School Board or the Bristol Virginia

[14:52] schools Bristol Tennessee schools to

[14:54] talk about what they're doing so it's a

[14:56] great way to come out and kind of hear

[14:57] what the schools are doing for trauma

[14:59] responsive care on October 24th we're

[15:03] gonna be doing a training with Miss

[15:04] Becky Haase who is kind of the queen of

[15:07] trauma responsive care in our region she

[15:09] started this with the Johnson City

[15:11] Police Department and then moved it into

[15:13] the community she's been invited by the

[15:15] first lady of Delaware to help them with

[15:17] their trauma response she's been invited

[15:20] to train the entire Oklahoma City Police

[15:21] Department so she's going to be doing a

[15:24] training at the summit companies out on

[15:26] volunteer Parkway on the 24th from 2:00

[15:29] p.m. until 5:00 p.m. all of these are

[15:32] open to the public and they're free and

[15:34] I hope that you and everybody in this

[15:35] room will join us to get a jump start on

[15:38] adverse childhood experiences and

[15:39] becoming trauma responsive community

[15:41] thank you thank you

[15:44] I just wanted to take a second to

[15:49] compliment the Bristol Virginia city

[15:52] school system they are way ahead of all

[15:55] of us with working on this we really

[15:57] admire what they're doing they have

[15:58] fully embraced and trained and

[16:02] recognized that and also I know that

[16:05] city manager EADS and the council are

[16:08] concerned about children and the future

[16:11] of our community and are also interested

[16:15] in what can be done with helping folks

[16:17] have jobs and good livings etc and this

[16:20] is part of that so really appreciate it

[16:22] also we'll say there's several folks

[16:24] here the folks pre here from Mount

[16:25] Rogers are part of our trauma-informed

[16:27] care community so we're excited we're

[16:30] here at the same time and also Jackie

[16:33] Nolan in the back is part of it too so

[16:36] we're really excited about what what's

[16:39] happening here and we feel like we're

[16:43] helping it to really grow and spread

[16:45] across our whole region so appreciate

[16:47] you all a lot thanks thank you thank you

[16:52] alright item 2 is a proclamation

[16:55] recognizing good passion motor companies

[16:57] for their 100th anniversary staff report

[17:02] Council this is a proclamation to

[17:04] recognize good Mac Goodpasture Motor

[17:06] Company they will celebrate their 100th

[17:07] anniversary later this month and this

[17:10] proclamation recognizes and thanks to

[17:12] them for their commitment to the city of

[17:13] Bristol it's not very often that we get

[17:15] to recognize a business that has been in

[17:17] business for a hundred years not only in

[17:19] this locality but just about anywhere

[17:21] else in the United States so that's a

[17:22] tremendous honor and a pleasure for you

[17:24] all to be here in Bristol thank you all

[17:27] right thank you since you read the last

[17:28] one I'll take this one which sure by no

[17:30] coincidence is much shorter whereas the

[17:34] City Council of Bristol Virginia

[17:35] recognizes the Goodpaster Motor Company

[17:37] has been a customer oriented

[17:38] organization since its founding by Frank

[17:40] Goodpaster senior and his father-in-law

[17:41] st koppenhaver senior in August of 1919

[17:45] in Bristol Virginia and whereas in the

[17:47] five state region surrounding the

[17:49] tri-cities Goodpaster has been

[17:50] synonymous with trucks truck parts and

[17:52] truck service with a customer list that

[17:54] reads like a who's who in the southern

[17:56] Appalachian spanning

[17:57] the greater part of the 20th century and

[17:59] we're as good pastor Motor Company start

[18:01] a business truck transportation was just

[18:04] getting established paved roads with the

[18:06] exception it was not until 1926 that a

[18:08] fully-loaded two-ton truck was driven

[18:10] from New York to San Francisco and

[18:12] Goodpasture had been in business meeting

[18:15] the transportation needs of the area for

[18:16] many years already and whereas the

[18:18] owners of Goodpasture Motor Company past

[18:20] and present have been deeply involved

[18:22] with service to the city of Bristol

[18:24] Virginia to participation in borås

[18:26] committees and the chamber of commerce

[18:28] and therefore be resolved that Neal

[18:30] Osbourne mayor and the City Council of

[18:32] the city of Bristol Virginia do hereby

[18:34] recognize the contributions of good

[18:35] passenger Motor Company to our community

[18:37] and congratulate them for their 100 200

[18:40] 100th year in business in the city of

[18:42] Bristol Virginia looking for a motion

[18:45] and a second again I would make a motion

[18:48] that we adopt the proclamation second so

[18:52] motion from the vice mayor and second

[18:54] from mr. Farnum is there any discussion

[18:57] on this I just this is a city manager

[19:01] said it is rare to have a business a

[19:03] hundred years in operation anywhere

[19:05] especially here in the city and just

[19:07] think good passengers for what they have

[19:10] done over the years and continued to do

[19:12] they they're really good business

[19:15] partners in our community in a lot of

[19:17] different ways and I appreciate it all

[19:21] right if the clerk will call the roll

[19:22] please

[19:23] Farnum yes Winegard yes Hartley yes yes

[19:28] so I just want to recognize the good

[19:30] pastor family that's here and if you all

[19:32] come up and get a picture also we'll do

[19:33] this

[19:37] [Applause]

[20:18] I'd like to thank the city of Bristol

[20:20] for this Proclamation and I'd have to

[20:26] say that it's rare for a company to be

[20:29] this old in this town or this country

[20:33] particularly when it's in the same

[20:35] family but we stand on the shoulders of

[20:40] the founder Frank goodpasture's senior

[20:43] and Frank at Pasteur jr. and Archie's

[20:47] dad

[20:48] Archie Hubbard jr. plus a legion of

[20:53] dedicated employees over the years of

[20:58] course the customers pay our bills and

[21:02] since our founding in August of 1919

[21:05] customers have been recognized as the

[21:07] lifeblood of our business our commitment

[21:11] is to deal honestly treat people with

[21:14] respect and bring value to the

[21:17] transaction our law in corporate life is

[21:20] testimony to that commitment thank you

[21:29] alright item 3 is a presentation from

[21:32] the mount Rogers Health District I don't

[21:35] believe it's dr. shell alright

[21:46] thank you

[22:03] mayor council mysteries thank you all

[22:06] for having us this evening we wanted to

[22:08] bring some education to the city about

[22:11] the problems of substance abuse that are

[22:13] in our population and in the region and

[22:15] want to focus somewhat on the problem

[22:17] but more so on the solutions of what we

[22:18] can do together as a community to help

[22:20] with this

[22:21] so Bristol is not alone in battling a

[22:24] substance use crisis that has hit our

[22:26] nation and the United States 115 people

[22:29] die every day from an opioid overdose

[22:31] that's almost five per hour

[22:34] Virginia almost 3.5 people die every day

[22:38] from an opioid overview' overdose and in

[22:40] Tennessee the same nationally a baby is

[22:44] born every 25 minutes withdrawing from

[22:47] an opioid a condition called neonatal

[22:49] abstinence syndrome so the problem that

[22:53] we have is a problem of addiction is a very powerful problem

[23:02] that is recognized as a chronic disease

[23:04] and we want to talk a little bit about

[23:09] some of the effects of this addiction in

[23:11] our community most people think about

[23:13] opioids they think about overdose deaths

[23:15] and in Virginia that has risen over the

[23:17] last three years substantially

[23:19] regionally when we talk about addiction

[23:22] we talk about overdose deaths we talk

[23:24] about the rates per 100,000 of the

[23:26] population most of the deaths in our

[23:29] region currently are from prescription

[23:30] opioids but we are seeing a rise in what

[23:33] we call the synthetic opioids which are

[23:34] heroin and fentanyl from 2007 to 2017 in

[23:39] the mount Rogers Health District which

[23:40] spans eight localities we see about

[23:42] sixteen to thirty deaths per year in

[23:44] most localities such as Bristol we seen

[23:47] anywhere from one to three deaths per

[23:48] year just from prescription opioids as

[23:52] you can as you can see in Virginia and

[23:55] then the mount Rogers district and in

[23:56] Bristol compared again prescription

[23:58] opioids and synthetic opioids are

[24:00] somewhat close to the state rates in

[24:03] Bristol over the last seven years we've

[24:05] had approximately 17 deaths due to both

[24:07] prescription and synthetic opioids we

[24:11] look as another marker about opioid use

[24:14] with narcan Administration narcan

[24:16] a substance that counteracts the effect

[24:18] so when we look at we don't focus only

[24:19] on the opioid deaths which are very

[24:21] tragic by nature but we focus on some of

[24:23] the other harms they come to the

[24:24] community narcan is a administration is

[24:27] a sign of opioid use in the community

[24:29] and you can see that Bristol has higher

[24:31] than state rates for narcan

[24:33] administration over the last seven eight

[24:35] years we look at fentanyl overdose

[24:39] deaths we don't have as many of those

[24:42] but when we do have them they are in the

[24:44] category about age a little higher than

[24:45] then state rates and also our

[24:47] prescription opioids deaths also do pop

[24:51] higher than state rates in some of the

[24:52] age groups naloxone is a medication also

[24:56] known as narcan that can block the

[24:58] effect of the opioid so the reason that

[25:00] people die from opioids is because an

[25:02] opioid is a central nervous system

[25:04] depressant it makes your body slow down

[25:06] all over but specifically your brain and

[25:08] specifically your respiratory center so

[25:10] people die from opioids literally

[25:12] because they stop breathing so when you

[25:14] have Anna Locke's own it binds it

[25:16] stronger than the opioid to the receptor

[25:18] and it binds and it actually will knock

[25:19] the opioid off the receptor and allow

[25:21] people literally to start breathing

[25:23] again so it's a very much life-saving

[25:25] medication just a quick look at some of

[25:29] the overdose deaths for the state of

[25:30] Virginia and you'll see regionally where

[25:32] our concerns are when we look at all

[25:34] deaths total unnatural deaths for the

[25:37] state of Virginia over the last 10 years

[25:39] a natural death by drug overdose have

[25:42] now risen to be higher than either gun

[25:45] related fatalities or motor vehicle

[25:47] fatalities all drugs in general we've

[25:50] had a two-fold increase in all drug

[25:52] deaths over the last 10 years in the

[25:54] state going from around 700 per year to

[25:56] over 1400 per year and you can see that

[26:00] the state has affected all over dark

[26:02] colors being worse worse rates all over

[26:05] the state there is some effect of fatal

[26:07] drug overdoses when we look at

[26:10] prescription opioids which is more the

[26:12] drug of choice in Southwest Virginia we

[26:14] can see that the actual numbers of

[26:16] overdose deaths have not risen

[26:18] significantly over the last 10 years we

[26:20] still see about 400 to 500 deaths per

[26:22] year from prescription opioids but

[26:25] Southwest Virginia has a higher rate of

[26:27] deaths from

[26:28] Crypton opioids we look at other

[26:31] substances such as heroin we see a

[26:33] logarithmic increase over the last three

[26:35] to four years and the number of heroin

[26:36] deaths across the state thankfully

[26:38] Southwest Virginia not is quite as

[26:40] hard-hit by this

[26:41] likewise fentanyl again a logarithmic

[26:44] rise over the last three to four years

[26:45] in infant nil deaths also there are

[26:49] things called fentanyl analogues which

[26:50] are being synthesized and the the

[26:52] fentanyl is generally coming out of

[26:54] Mexico in China especially the analogues

[26:56] they are making fentanyl analogues

[26:58] faster than we can make a drug test to

[27:00] discover them to test them in people and

[27:03] you can see that fentanyl is a great

[27:05] source of opioid death across the state

[27:08] we do have some in South West Virginia

[27:10] not as much as some of the rest of the

[27:12] state benzodiazepines are something that

[27:15] are used for generally anxiety and we

[27:17] have a lot of anxiety prescriptions in

[27:19] our area thankfully generally

[27:22] benzodiazepines are not considered a

[27:24] drug of death they are more deadly when prescribed with prescription

[27:28] opioids which has been a habit for many

[27:31] years by physicians so Southwest

[27:33] Virginia does see a greater risk of

[27:36] benzodiazepine deaths but we've had some

[27:38] great education over the last few years

[27:39] and we are seeing less of these cocaine

[27:42] traditionally has not been slated as a

[27:44] drug of death we do think when we think

[27:46] about cocaine's associated with death

[27:48] more of a stimulant type activity like

[27:49] heart attacks or strokes or something of

[27:51] that nature but we have seen a rise in

[27:54] the last few years for cocaine deaths

[27:55] and these are generally because these

[27:57] have been cut with fentanyl so they're

[27:59] putting fentanyl and to the cocaine and

[28:01] people are dying as a result of the

[28:03] fentanyl exposure again Southwest

[28:05] Virginia not quite as hard-hit as some

[28:07] of the rest of the state from cocaine

[28:09] methamphetamine though you're probably

[28:11] more aware of traditionally

[28:13] methamphetamine again being a stimulant

[28:15] has not been a drug of death but usually

[28:18] less than 10 deaths per year when people

[28:20] made methamphetamine in their backyard

[28:22] toxic as it was at least they knew what

[28:24] they were getting now that most of the

[28:25] meth is coming out of Mexico we're

[28:27] seeing much pure meth and stronger meth

[28:30] but they're also getting at cut in with

[28:31] the fentanyl and we've had a logarithmic

[28:33] rise of methamphetamine deaths in the

[28:36] state of Virginia over 120 last year and

[28:38] Southwest Virginia is particularly hard

[28:40] hit by the

[28:41] methamphetamine deaths when people buy

[28:43] drugs off the street they don't know

[28:44] what they're getting and so they're more

[28:46] likely to die from those drugs so we

[28:49] look at not only deaths in our region

[28:51] which are very tragic but we look at

[28:53] some of the other harms that come as a

[28:55] result of this neonatal abstinence

[28:57] syndrome is when babies are born who

[28:59] have been exposed to opioids during

[29:00] their the mother's pregnancy and then

[29:02] they go into withdrawal when they're

[29:04] born Bristol has higher than state rates

[29:06] over double than in the state of

[29:09] Virginia I will tell you though that

[29:11] these numbers are low these numbers are

[29:13] just the babies born in Virginia most of

[29:15] the babies in Bristol are born in

[29:16] Tennessee the latest numbers that I have

[29:18] are quadruple that for the number of the

[29:21] rate of Naas babies from Bristol so we

[29:23] are very significantly hit by this when

[29:25] you talk to your school system you'll

[29:26] hear it as well so na s first then

[29:29] Bristol are generally higher than the

[29:31] state rates and you can see that

[29:33] Southwest Virginia has been in

[29:35] particularly hit by na s births we also

[29:38] look at things like HIV HIV rates are

[29:41] higher in substance users thankfully in

[29:44] South West Virginia and specifically in

[29:45] Bristol we have not seen a rise in HIV

[29:48] attributable to substance use at this

[29:49] point but it will often follow the

[29:52] lifetime cost of treating someone with

[29:54] HIV if they get contracted at age 35 is

[29:57] over $300,000 for lifetime cost if you

[30:01] do look at the ages of new HIV cases

[30:03] though we do tend to have stock higher

[30:05] than state rates in some of those age

[30:07] groups generally in the 25 to 45 range

[30:09] we also look at hepatitis C and this is

[30:13] where we do hit much higher than state

[30:14] rates for our hepatitis C nationally

[30:17] hepatitis C is recognized as an

[30:18] indicator of substance use in a

[30:20] community our rates are quadruple + over

[30:23] state rates for hepatitis C and Bristol

[30:25] and this is a regional effect as well a

[30:27] few you can see again Bristol rates are

[30:30] higher than state rates a few fun facts

[30:32] about hepatitis C are actually not so

[30:34] fun but 25% of people who inject rub

[30:37] draw drugs will become positive for

[30:39] hepatitis C within two years hepatitis C

[30:42] will actually linger on surfaces for

[30:43] over 3 weeks which means it's very

[30:45] transmittable and there is no vaccine

[30:47] for hepatitis C we do have back teens

[30:50] for hepatitis A and hepatitis B but not

[30:52] for hepatitis C yet

[30:54] and if someone gets hepatitis C the good

[30:55] news is they can be cured from their

[30:57] hepatitis C average cost of treatment is

[31:00] a hundred thousand to almost three

[31:01] hundred thousand dollars for treatment

[31:03] and if they get treated and don't go

[31:05] into recovery they can contract

[31:06] hepatitis C again in Virginia you do not

[31:09] have to be sober to get treated for your

[31:11] hepatitis C so you can still be using

[31:12] and still be treated when we look at

[31:15] hepatitis C regionally and across the

[31:17] state we can see that in 2011 it was

[31:19] mostly confined to Southwest Virginia

[31:21] but there has been a growth of this

[31:23] across the state over the last several

[31:25] years and again darker zwarst and

[31:28] Southwest Virginia has higher hepatitis

[31:30] C rates the CDC did a study in 2016 that

[31:33] looked at 220 counties that looked at

[31:37] the every county across the United

[31:39] States the top five counties the top

[31:42] five percent of counties which was 220

[31:44] across the state were selected for those

[31:47] that greatest risk for HIV and hepatitis

[31:49] C Virginia had eight states at risk for

[31:52] HIV and hepatitis C outbreak the closest

[31:55] one to us is with County but the rest

[31:57] are in South West Virginia Lee wise

[31:59] Dickinson Buckhannon Russell and

[32:00] Tazewell there's also Patrick County so

[32:02] we had only 5% of counties across

[32:04] Virginia where on this list 50 percent

[32:08] of counties in Tennessee were on this

[32:09] list 45 percent of counties in Kentucky

[32:12] and West Virginia are on this list we

[32:14] are inundated with hepatitis C around us

[32:17] hepatitis A is something you may have

[32:19] heard a little bit more about recently

[32:21] this is also has high risk groups

[32:23] including the substance using community

[32:25] but others can get it as well especially

[32:28] once it becomes once it gets into a

[32:30] community hepatitis A is not a substance

[32:32] using like a blood-borne pathogen like B

[32:34] and C it is more of the fecal-oral

[32:36] transmission route so this is something

[32:38] that if you have shared food or eating

[32:40] this food that has been prepared by

[32:42] someone with hepatitis A you can get

[32:43] hepatitis A it's quite contagious

[32:47] unfortunately at Matt Rogers district

[32:49] has the distinction of having the

[32:50] highest number of hepatitis A cases in

[32:52] the state right now we know that this is

[32:54] attributable to our proportion of

[32:56] substance users we also were concerned

[32:58] about food handlers and underwent an

[32:59] extensive restaurant education campaign

[33:01] most of the cases of hepatitis A in our

[33:04] district have been in Bristol Washington

[33:05] and Smith

[33:06] counties through the efforts of this

[33:08] educational campaign as well as

[33:10] vaccination campaign we have thankfully

[33:12] seen a decline knock on wood of

[33:13] hepatitis A cases in the last few weeks

[33:15] and we're happy about that

[33:17] but we are still vigilant and on the

[33:20] lookout for how we can help can help

[33:21] with hepatitis A when we look at opioid

[33:25] burden across the state of Virginia

[33:27] again Southwest Virginia is higher hit

[33:29] than that and it has a lot to do with

[33:30] the harms we've already talked about na

[33:32] s burst hepatitis C rates opioid deaths

[33:34] rates we know that there is across to

[33:38] every locality in Southwest Virginia and

[33:40] especially in Bristol as well as the

[33:42] others there is a cost of business a lot

[33:45] of businesses if you talk with them have

[33:47] difficulty finding people who will

[33:49] employees to pass drug screens when we

[33:52] look at the healthcare effects we look

[33:54] at the number of overdose responses EMS

[33:57] response times emergency room care we

[33:59] look at some of the harms just

[34:01] associated with the physical injecting

[34:03] of the drugs including cellulitis

[34:04] abscesses and bacterial endocarditis and

[34:07] the cost to our health system for that

[34:08] if you think about the cost of treatment

[34:10] for hepatitis C at 40 plus cases per

[34:14] year newly diagnosed Justin Bristol that

[34:16] would be a cost of four to 12 million

[34:19] dollars per year just to treat the

[34:21] number of hepatitis C cases that are

[34:23] positive every year

[34:24] additionally jail costs and I was hoping

[34:26] the article from the paper would come

[34:28] out with all the costs from the jail but

[34:29] you can read about it probably tomorrow

[34:31] I know they've been looking at cell at

[34:33] Sullivan County Jail and the effect of

[34:35] substance use and the overcrowding

[34:36] issues and I know that the Bristol jails

[34:38] had a difficult time with this as well

[34:39] but you know as a council in a city how

[34:42] much you've spent on jail cost how much

[34:43] your costs have increased over the last

[34:45] five years resulting from substance use

[34:47] we look at DSS over 500 cases of abuse

[34:51] and neglect per year currently up from

[34:54] years past they relate that 90 to 95% of

[34:58] these have some sort of substance use in

[35:00] the home even if that's what not what

[35:02] they were initially presented for and if

[35:04] you look at therapeutic foster care its

[35:06] 46,000 dollars just for a six-month

[35:09] stint of therapeutic foster child care

[35:11] per child we look at our schools we look

[35:14] at the impact in the schools we look at

[35:16] referrals less than 20 15 years ago and

[35:18] now they're getting

[35:19] fifty to sixty per year I will tell you

[35:21] with our rates of Naas when you think

[35:23] about how a child with na s who has no

[35:26] behavioral regulation how that looks in

[35:29] a classroom full of children when you

[35:30] have you know in years past a couple of

[35:33] troublemakers and now you have a whole

[35:34] classroom full of children who cannot

[35:36] regulate themselves it impacts the

[35:38] education of every single one of our

[35:39] students so the problem as we as I've

[35:43] alluded to is addiction

[35:44] so addiction is the state of being

[35:46] enslaved to a habit or practice or

[35:48] something that is psychologically or

[35:50] physically habit-forming to such an

[35:51] extent that it's cessation causes severe

[35:54] trauma we think about characteristics of

[35:57] an addiction being inability to abstain

[35:59] impairment of behavioral control

[36:01] cravings for the drugs or word

[36:04] experiences diminish recognition that

[36:06] you even have a problem and a

[36:08] dysfunctional emotional response

[36:10] addiction affects approximately 10% of

[36:13] our population is classified as a

[36:15] chronic disease much like depression

[36:17] because being a kind of an illness of

[36:20] the mind that sometimes Harbor to wrap

[36:21] your hands around as far as how do you

[36:23] treat that but we also diabetes affects

[36:25] approximately 10% of our population as

[36:27] well

[36:29] how does addiction start it's a little

[36:32] bit different for everyone sometimes

[36:33] it's just bad circumstances and bad

[36:35] timing you're in your environment you

[36:37] have an opportunity kids out partying that sort of a thing

[36:40] part of it is genetic why is it that

[36:43] some people will have a surgery and get

[36:44] a bottle of pain pills to go home from

[36:46] their surgery and by the end of them may

[36:48] actually be addicted to opioids versus

[36:50] some people take the whole bottle and

[36:51] stop them without any withdrawal

[36:53] symptoms whatsoever what's the

[36:54] difference genetically there we need to

[36:56] do further research and looking into

[36:59] this as far as how we can better treat

[37:00] our patients as physicians we have a lot

[37:02] of work to do as well we think about

[37:05] traumatic experiences and this goes back

[37:07] to the aces people are looking for a way

[37:09] out they've had a hard childhood I just

[37:11] want to be numb they don't want to think

[37:12] about it anymore how can we address that

[37:14] problem better so again coming back to

[37:18] the aces and I didn't know Becky and the

[37:20] team would be here tonight but we think

[37:21] about adverse childhood experiences and

[37:23] how is this affecting our all of our

[37:26] children and the generations that are

[37:27] coming up we know now that there are

[37:29] many grandparents raising children right

[37:31] now

[37:32] and what effect is that having on our

[37:33] society so we talk about abuse neglect

[37:37] and household dysfunction

[37:39] if 64% of adults have at least one ace

[37:42] and 12% have four or more if you have

[37:45] increased risk if you have increasing

[37:47] aces you have do have increased risks

[37:48] for smoking addiction obesity depression

[37:51] diabetes suicide addiction and other

[37:54] health related abnormalities the higher

[37:56] your score the increase your risk if you

[37:59] have an ace score of six or more you

[38:01] have a life that span that can be

[38:03] shortened by twenty years we talk about

[38:06] the resiliency and hopefully this is

[38:08] aces Proclamation month you'll have an

[38:10] opportunity to learn a lot more about

[38:11] this but we look about what can we do as

[38:14] a community to provide resilience for

[38:16] our children and for our young parents

[38:18] suffering and we and we'll talk about

[38:20] and you'll hear more about that from the

[38:23] resiliency team but we talk about

[38:25] competence building confidence in them

[38:27] having to make social connections having

[38:29] mentors that will help them with their

[38:30] character coping skills how do they

[38:32] control their behavioral regulation okay

[38:38] so again we know there's a problem what

[38:41] can we do for solutions thankfully there

[38:43] are a lot of great solutions on going

[38:45] out there and I want to highlight on

[38:46] those and then talk about what we can do

[38:48] as a community otherwise so one of our

[38:50] primary things is what we're doing right

[38:51] now education making people aware that

[38:53] there's a problem a lot of people if you

[38:55] talk to them they have been affected

[38:57] personally by substance use in their

[38:59] family or in a co-worker or a co-workers

[39:01] family so we like people to know that

[39:03] they're not alone when we talk about

[39:04] substance use or addiction and we need

[39:07] our community to know that it can

[39:08] decrease the stigma how people talk

[39:10] about it help them have them get into

[39:11] help there's also a big push to get a

[39:14] new unneeded medication out of our homes

[39:17] out of our medicine boxes and into

[39:19] proper disposal there is a drug

[39:21] take-back day and you have one of these

[39:23] in your pot in your packets they happen

[39:25] every April in October we have one

[39:27] coming up October the 26th at the Food

[39:29] City and any medications that are not

[39:31] needed in the house and we want everyone

[39:33] in the community to do this is to take

[39:34] all your unneeded medications and

[39:36] dispose of them properly environmentally

[39:38] soundly we don't want you flushing them

[39:40] we don't want to putting them in your

[39:41] garbage we don't want them in the water

[39:42] we don't want them in our

[39:44] Phil we want them to be disposed of

[39:46] properly there are additionally drug

[39:48] drop boxes and there's one for sherek

[39:49] office here in Bristol and every

[39:51] locality in South West Virginia where if

[39:53] you don't happen to make the drug drop

[39:54] date there are locations all over

[39:55] Southwest Virginia where we want people

[39:57] to dispose of environmentally friendly

[39:59] their medications

[40:00] additionally there are packets

[40:01] manufacture it's called Tutera which

[40:03] people can put unused medication in you

[40:05] can there's a little substance in here

[40:07] and you can put a little warm water and

[40:08] swish it around and it will completely

[40:11] environmentally safe Lee just eliminate

[40:13] that product such that no one can draw

[40:15] anything out of it we have packets that

[40:17] we'll put at the back of the room today

[40:18] if anybody wants these packets for drug

[40:20] disposal we would encourage you to take

[40:21] them we have them available to all of

[40:23] our health departments right down here

[40:24] in the street anytime anybody needs them

[40:26] so we really want to advocate for proper

[40:29] drug disposal in our community

[40:30] additionally our health care providers

[40:32] as I mentioned physicians we there are

[40:34] ongoing campaigns across Virginia

[40:36] Tennessee and many other states about

[40:38] how do we prescribe more smartly as more

[40:41] smartly is probably not a good term how

[40:43] do we prescribe better as far as our

[40:45] drug use and what about research for

[40:47] alternative pain medication treatments

[40:49] we don't want people to be in pain we

[40:50] want to treat them better but we want to

[40:52] treat them such that they don't have a

[40:53] form an addiction or have other problems

[40:56] from that we also want to educate our

[40:58] youth we have programs in our schools we

[41:01] actually have a grant going on right now

[41:02] that Bristol is participating in which

[41:05] is actually a to Tina to decrease our

[41:08] teenage pregnancy rates but it actually

[41:09] focuses on risk reduction and as such it

[41:12] speaks to substance use and how can we

[41:14] make an intervention even in the middle

[41:16] school to have these young students

[41:17] thinking about their futures and what

[41:20] will substance use do for that or take

[41:23] away we also have some after-school

[41:25] programming so when we think about

[41:27] prevention that would be what we would

[41:29] like to do we would like to prevent as

[41:31] many people from entering into addiction

[41:33] as we can but for those who are already

[41:35] in addiction there is hope and there's

[41:37] promise treatment for addiction is very

[41:39] hard-fought but it can be successful we

[41:42] have to have community support we have

[41:43] to have family support we have to have

[41:45] community programs for them and the

[41:47] individual has to want that as well for

[41:48] themselves but we think about treatment

[41:50] for addiction just like we think about

[41:52] diabetes depression we don't Excel is

[41:55] somebody with diabetes well you can't

[41:56] ever eat

[41:57] again just go you know make smart

[42:00] choices that doesn't work we we want

[42:02] them to make smart choices but we also

[42:04] want them to exercise and take their

[42:05] medication same thing for depression we

[42:07] use counseling exercise and medication

[42:09] assisted treatment so for addiction

[42:11] there is counseling support groups as

[42:13] well as medication assisted treatment

[42:14] and the state has gone a long way to

[42:16] increase reimbursements for physicians

[42:18] to do proper counseling and medication

[42:21] assisted treatment so we're seeing an

[42:23] increase in these in our community and

[42:25] we do want to see an increase in the

[42:26] right kind of medication to treat

[42:28] assisted treatment services revived is a

[42:30] program I mentioned the medication

[42:32] naloxone which can bring back a life we

[42:34] have revived programs that we can teach

[42:35] in a community and we would love to

[42:37] teach more here in Bristol we've already

[42:38] done some but this is something where we

[42:40] show people how to recognize an overdose

[42:42] to addiction excuse me an overdose to an

[42:45] opioid and then we can actually give

[42:47] them narcan so that they could

[42:48] administer this to a loved one there are

[42:53] other things that we can do to reduce

[42:55] some of the harms in our community

[42:56] recovery court is a wonderful thing that

[42:58] Bristol does participate in this is a

[43:00] thing that can help to decrease some of

[43:02] the overcrowding in your jails as far as

[43:04] you're trying to win or out those who

[43:06] are have substance arrest is because

[43:09] they're dealing in substances versus

[43:10] those who just really have addiction and

[43:12] need to have help for their addiction

[43:13] and get them into treatment we also need

[43:15] many more support groups in our in our

[43:17] area and we work with the faith-based

[43:19] community and the ministerial

[43:20] associations to increase our number of

[43:22] naaa meetings and there are other

[43:24] celebrate life and other kinds of

[43:26] recovery meetings in the community we

[43:27] would like to advocate for Naas we have

[43:30] regional we have work groups that we

[43:32] work with our agencies about plans for

[43:35] Naas helping to build support groups for

[43:37] substance using pregnant women and then

[43:39] the families after they're born to get

[43:41] them into supportive services we also

[43:43] have a school work group and a new

[43:44] research opportunity that we'll be

[43:46] working with an NIH grant to look at

[43:48] this more closely we want to provide

[43:50] birth control so that substance using

[43:52] pregnant women don't get pregnant and

[43:53] have babies until they're ready and in a

[43:55] good place for that HIV we refer to

[43:57] treatment there is pre exposure

[43:59] prophylaxis hepatitis C we want to be

[44:02] able to refer people for treatment and

[44:03] also reduce to use needles there are

[44:06] many good community things going on

[44:07] right now we've been working as a

[44:09] community on a her serger

[44:11] for planning grant and we have many

[44:13] agencies from across Southwest Virginia

[44:15] and Upper East Tennessee working

[44:17] collaboratively for community programs

[44:20] we also had a US Chamber of event

[44:23] Chamber of Commerce event back in the

[44:26] spring about sharing solutions and in

[44:28] getting a lot of this workforce into

[44:31] better employment because a lot of the

[44:33] reason they go back to their substance

[44:35] using is because they don't have any

[44:36] hope for a job or for a future so we've

[44:39] been working quite a bit on that angle

[44:41] as far as getting them gainfully

[44:42] employed so that they have something to hope for we also did receive an

[44:48] implementation grant to go forward and

[44:49] do though we more much more Street

[44:51] strategic planning regionally about how

[44:53] we can have better programs for those

[44:56] with substance use and again as I

[44:58] mentioned an NIH grant to help with our

[45:01] na s population to study them how do we

[45:03] help them learn achieve what can we do

[45:05] for them to have better positive

[45:08] long-term impacts comprehensive harm

[45:12] reduction is another public health

[45:13] strategy to reduce some of the negative

[45:15] health outcomes for people whose

[45:17] behaviors put them and others at risk

[45:19] for disease as well as injury it helps

[45:21] to improve outcomes for the substance

[45:23] user but also for first responders and

[45:26] for the community what you need to do

[45:28] for a comprehensive harm reduction

[45:29] program is to create a point of contact

[45:31] where people in substance use want to

[45:33] come whether or not they're quite ready

[45:35] for a recovery so you create a place

[45:38] where they want to come you actually do

[45:40] have needles for them which are clean

[45:41] which you can exchange for their dirty

[45:43] needles but it's more than the needles

[45:44] you have a program that brings them into

[45:46] healthcare you get them interested in

[45:48] their own health you get them into

[45:50] medical services you get them into

[45:51] behavioral health services because

[45:52] there's a great percentage of

[45:54] co-occurring but behavioral health

[45:56] problems and those with addiction we

[45:58] also want to get them tested and treated

[46:00] for their HIV and hepatitis C decrease

[46:03] our na Esper's provide vaccination so

[46:05] it's a program rarely where people can

[46:07] come in to begin the process of thinking

[46:09] about recovery there has been great

[46:12] concern about comprehensive harm

[46:13] reduction programs and whether or not

[46:15] they may increase crime in Baltimore the

[46:17] studies showed that they actually had a

[46:18] decrease of violent crime arrests do

[46:21] they encourage drug use no

[46:23] people who enter into comprehensive harm

[46:25] reduction programs are about five times

[46:26] more likely to go into recovery there is

[46:30] it a safe needle disposal system and

[46:32] nationally over 90 percent of syringes

[46:34] are returned Virginia does have a policy

[46:36] for this that's a one-to-one exchange

[46:38] and regionally the programs have had

[46:40] more syringes returned than they

[46:42] actually gave out hepatitis C can be

[46:46] decreased as much as 50 percent in a

[46:49] community by these programs so this is a

[46:51] very tangible step forward hepatitis C

[46:53] reduction in DC they did an analysis

[46:56] where they would say 44 million over two

[46:58] years but if you looked at Bristol and

[47:00] at over forty cases of hepatitis C per

[47:02] year if you present prevented half of

[47:04] those you would still save two to six

[47:06] million dollars per year just in

[47:09] hepatitis C treatments in Scott County

[47:12] Indiana they had a similar number of

[47:15] cases a few more than we do as far as

[47:16] five to ten cases of HIV per year and

[47:19] hepatitis C about forty to sixty cases

[47:21] per year in 2015 that had an outbreak

[47:24] this kind of allude to that study that I

[47:26] showed you earlier about the risk for

[47:27] hepatitis C and HIV outbreak but they

[47:29] had 183 new cases of HIV and 243 new

[47:33] cases of hepatitis C that year they

[47:35] instituted a syringe services program

[47:37] and were able to decrease their syringe

[47:39] sharing and by two years later they only

[47:41] had nine new cases back to the baseline

[47:43] of HIV and ninety two cases of hepatitis

[47:45] C so it did show it to be an effective

[47:47] program for reducing the burden of

[47:49] hepatitis C North Carolina has a syringe

[47:51] exchange program as does Tennessee the

[47:54] city has said CDC has said that if you

[47:56] want to prevent an a hepatitis C

[47:58] outbreak in your community there are

[48:00] four things you need to do number one is

[48:02] test everyone who will be tested number

[48:04] two is to get them into treatment number

[48:06] three is to have medication assistant

[48:08] programs for people to begin getting

[48:10] treatment for their addiction and number

[48:11] four is to have a syringe services

[48:13] program Smith County decided last year

[48:17] that they had a large burden of

[48:19] substance use in their community and

[48:21] many other harms associated and they

[48:23] decided as one of their solutions that

[48:25] they wanted to have a comprehensive harm

[48:27] reduction program in the county they're

[48:29] the first participant started in January

[48:32] of this year we have over 74

[48:34] participants this far it is a very

[48:36] structured program

[48:37] identification card the community has to

[48:40] be an on board law enforcement city

[48:42] council the citizens have to be on board

[48:44] with this we do have a trauma-informed

[48:46] program coordinator and a peer recovery

[48:48] specialist

[48:49] would have been able to link people to

[48:50] the programs we discussed as far as

[48:52] getting their vaccinations their

[48:54] hepatitis C treatments getting them on

[48:57] to birth control but also social

[48:58] supports housing food banks and even

[49:03] into recovery services in that program

[49:05] we have had three people go into into

[49:08] enter into recovery we've had one person

[49:11] who has finished their hepatitis C

[49:13] treatment one person awaiting test

[49:14] results there has been one overdose

[49:16] reversal with naloxone they had been

[49:18] connected to medical services and to

[49:21] mental health services so for Bristol

[49:25] where we would like to start is with a

[49:27] community health assessment and this is

[49:29] when we gather our community

[49:30] stakeholders and the agencies of the

[49:32] community and say what are your concerns

[49:34] for this community and what is agencies

[49:37] can we do to help our community how what

[49:40] kind of solutions can we provide to

[49:41] Bristol when it comes to the problem of

[49:44] substance abuse and other problems that

[49:46] this council decides are of significance

[49:50] we would like to plan a kickoff meeting

[49:52] begin collecting data have people decide

[49:56] on what are their top priorities as well

[49:59] as begin implementing strategies thank

[50:05] you very much for your time if anyone

[50:06] has any questions I'd be happy to

[50:07] entertain them you have any questions no

[50:12] questions but just to thank you for

[50:14] coming and presenting tonight welcome

[50:16] thank you for a living and I'd like to

[50:18] say I agree with you this is a major

[50:20] problem from from whichever perspective

[50:22] you look at it whether it be quality

[50:24] live economic development public health

[50:26] I was actually at a conference this

[50:28] morning with Steve Williams who's the

[50:31] mayor of Huntington West Virginia

[50:32] I see you've probably read up on him

[50:34] they had I think New York Times

[50:36] classified them as the epicenter of the

[50:38] opioid epidemic and they went and did

[50:40] some some really forward-thinking

[50:42] proactive things to kind of deal with it

[50:44] so I appreciate y'all bringing this to

[50:46] us and given this information and will work

[50:48] with you however we can do thank you for

[50:50] working with the community thank you we

[50:59] are going to take a five-minute recess

[51:00] for again to the next thing we are back

[51:04] so next item we have got on the agenda

[51:07] is a public hearing regarding three

[51:10] scheduled residential demolitions we'll

[51:13] go ahead and open the hearing staff

[51:15] comments counsel these are targeted

[51:17] properties which are vacant abandoned

[51:19] and neglected by the owners and they've

[51:21] been determined to be beyond repair the

[51:23] city building inspector concurred with

[51:25] this assessment they are deemed unsafe

[51:26] and hazardous to the public they also

[51:29] contribute to blight within the city

[51:30] neighborhoods and gateways and may lead

[51:32] to decrease surrounding property values

[51:34] additionally these structures can be

[51:36] hazardous tear your children and provide

[51:38] havens for vagrants and drug use

[51:39] attempts to locate the property owners

[51:42] have proven unsuccessful due diligence

[51:44] has been performed and recorded in order

[51:46] to identify and contact all property

[51:47] owners all property owners have been

[51:49] contacted by mail and given sufficient

[51:51] response time to either correct property

[51:53] issues or initiate demolition themselves

[51:56] CDBG funding is being used to perform

[51:58] demolitions those properties demolished

[52:01] by the city will have liens filed for

[52:02] the cost of the demo activities the

[52:04] properties to be to be demolished are

[52:07] 804 Madison Street 808 Buckner Street

[52:09] and 105 East Mary Street the demolition

[52:12] of these properties has been advertised

[52:14] in the Bristol Herald cougar and

[52:15] licensed and insured contractors have

[52:17] been solicited through a competitive bid

[52:19] process to perform the perform the

[52:22] demolitions the city manager and city

[52:24] attorney and the council have been

[52:26] informed of these demolitions through

[52:27] the consent agenda proved by City

[52:28] Council on August the 13th 2019 at a

[52:32] regularly scheduled City Council meeting

[52:33] a public notice for bids and the

[52:36] scheduled public hearing ran in the

[52:38] Bristol heroku on September 9th 2019 and

[52:40] a notice of demolition in the scheduled

[52:42] public hearing ran in the Bristol heroku

[52:44] year on September 17th 2019 no actions

[52:48] required tonight this is only a public

[52:49] hearing all right thank you it looks

[52:51] like no one has signed up to comment at

[52:54] the hearing so I'll go ahead and close

[52:55] the hearing

[52:58] so item five as a public hearing on the

[53:01] issuance of general obligation notes for

[53:02] the purchase of real property hearing is

[53:05] open staff comments counsel this is a

[53:08] for the financing of what used to be the

[53:10] Virginia Employment Commission building

[53:12] it's an amount not to exceed six hundred

[53:14] and fifty thousand dollars we anticipate

[53:16] the note to be for no more than six

[53:18] hundred eleven thousand dollars or

[53:20] within about that private or within that

[53:22] range this will be used for the

[53:25] acquisition of the property which will

[53:27] now the future in the future houses the

[53:29] Department of Social Services and the

[53:31] property is located at 192 Bristol Road

[53:33] a public hearing was advertised on

[53:35] September the 23rd and September 30th in

[53:37] the Bristol Hill Collier Council has

[53:39] discussed the building purchase and

[53:40] purchase options at the August 27th

[53:42] September 10th and September 24th

[53:44] meetings all right thank you so we do

[53:47] have one person signed up for public

[53:48] comment and that is mr. Pollard Thank

[53:55] You members of the council my name is

[53:57] michael potter i live at 101 ashley

[53:59] drive what's the total APR of the dead

[54:03] including expenses I think it's three

[54:05] point three nine percent if I'm not

[54:07] mistaken I saw that was the interest

[54:09] rate I didn't know if there were other

[54:10] expenses beyond I think the other

[54:12] expenses we'll be paying cash for okay

[54:15] but that still goes to the total expense

[54:17] total cost of a debt right I'm also

[54:20] talking my head I can't tell you what

[54:21] they BR is I know the rates 3.39 what's

[54:25] the rate do you know of the that we're

[54:28] currently generating on investments

[54:30] through the trial roughly two to two and

[54:33] a half percent depending on today okay

[54:37] so this would be costing as ruff roughly

[54:42] one a quarter percent more than what

[54:44] would be generated laughlin okay

[54:47] considering the city has the wherewithal

[54:49] to pay cash I would recommend making the

[54:53] best financial decision with a little

[54:55] lowest total cost including opportunity

[54:58] cost in this case it does seem that it

[55:02] will would cost a little bit less to the

[55:05] city to pay cash

[55:07] rather than to get debt because you

[55:11] little cost us about one half percent

[55:13] and I've heard no persuasive argument I

[55:16] heard I've heard arguments but not what

[55:18] I would consider the persuasive

[55:19] arguments not to pay cash I would rather

[55:22] do what will cost the city less thank

[55:25] you all right thank you very much so we

[55:29] will close the hearing and item six is

[55:32] resolution authorizing the issuance and

[55:34] sale of general obligation notes of the

[55:36] city of Bristol Virginia staff report I

[55:39] counsel this is the resolution that you

[55:43] have before you in regards to allowing

[55:47] us to borrow the funds for the purchase

[55:49] of the building as of the previously

[55:52] stated interest rates three point three

[55:53] nine percent it's a 10-year note and we

[55:58] have the ability to pay that note off

[56:00] early as well all right thank you very

[56:05] much so no one has signed up for public

[56:07] comment on item six so reading of the

[56:10] resolution I council ought to ask that

[56:13] the motion be made that read this by

[56:16] caption only it's been posted for

[56:18] sufficient time and sufficient copies

[56:19] have been made available to the public

[56:20] so do we have a motion to read this by

[56:25] caption only I would make that motion to

[56:31] read the resolution by caption only

[56:33] given the length of the resolution as

[56:37] well as its availability second all

[56:42] right so we have a motion by the vice

[56:44] mayor and a second by mr. Farnum do we

[56:46] need to take a roll call on this on this

[56:48] as well yes okay

[56:50] clerk call the roll please Ferno yes

[56:53] Winegard

[56:54] no currently yes yes all right if you

[56:59] would read by caption only the

[57:01] resolution please

[57:01] aye resolution authorizing the issuance

[57:03] in the sale of general obligation note

[57:05] of the city of Bristol Virginia and

[57:07] providing for the forum details and

[57:08] payment thereof all right so we're now

[57:11] looking for a motion in a second on the

[57:14] resolution

[57:16] I move that we approve the resolution

[57:19] adopt the resolution second okay so we

[57:26] have a motion by mr. Farnum in a second

[57:28] by mr. Hartley Council discussion I

[57:33] don't think his City needs to be going

[57:35] into any more debt we have the means to

[57:38] pay cash for this building and get it

[57:39] behind us and move on and to go into

[57:43] more debt right now it's just mm-hmm

[57:46] it's not what this city needs everybody

[57:51] knows our financial situation it was

[57:53] spoke up tonight by Miss morning and we

[57:58] don't know the future everybody's

[58:00] thinking there's one big apple gonna

[58:02] drop them on this city and cure our

[58:05] problems we don't know that that's gonna

[58:08] happen we need to be diligent and we

[58:13] need to not go in any more debt when we

[58:18] have the month say where we can just

[58:23] write a check for this

[58:30] well we just we have discussed this

[58:33] previously but you know to me again part

[58:37] of that is not knowing the future and I

[58:40] think right now it's important for us to

[58:42] keep cash on hand because there's a lot

[58:45] of other things for example with this

[58:47] building we talked about we don't know

[58:49] what the total costs for DSS to move

[58:51] there is my understanding is the state

[58:53] will reimburse us for some of that we've

[58:56] talked about potentially renovating the

[58:58] building therein we have no idea what

[59:00] the cost of that is or if we don't

[59:04] whether it demolish it so there's other

[59:07] expenses outside of just purchasing this

[59:10] building that we need cash on hand there

[59:12] are things that are continually coming

[59:14] up to this council that haven't been

[59:16] budgeted for that we need cash on hand

[59:19] for I can think of several of those for

[59:23] example you know we need to do something

[59:26] to the baseball stadium that's not been

[59:29] budgeted for and all these things that

[59:31] come up I mean there is a city manager

[59:33] contingency but that's nowhere near

[59:35] enough plus we need to be setting money

[59:38] aside to deal with are coming debt and

[59:43] other emergencies rainy day whatever we

[59:47] want to call it

[59:48] the thing I like about this it's a

[59:50] 10-year note but it's an early pay off

[59:53] in the first payment if I'm not mistaken

[59:56] mysteries isn't due until next year so

[59:59] we can budget we should pay early and

[1:00:02] pay this off if if we found ourselves in

[1:00:05] I want to correct that right before this

[1:00:07] meeting started we had some late

[1:00:10] breaking news from bond council and

[1:00:11] actually the first payment is going to

[1:00:14] be due 30 days after closing we'll do it

[1:00:17] on a monthly basis and that's simply

[1:00:19] because it's going to be a call as it

[1:00:20] cost the city less to pay it on a

[1:00:23] monthly basis and it will on a yearly

[1:00:25] basis okay well it's but still yet if we

[1:00:29] fund ourselves in a position at the end

[1:00:31] of the year I mean there's nothing

[1:00:33] preventing us from paying this off

[1:00:34] earlier so you know buying them that the

[1:00:38] building up there you know is it needed

[1:00:41] yes but I mean it came totally out of the blue it

[1:00:44] wasn't budgeted for this gives us time

[1:00:46] to budget for that in the future and

[1:00:49] like I say if it looks like at some

[1:00:51] point we're ahead we can do that but I

[1:00:53] think right now that this would be the

[1:00:58] best way I feel moving forward I

[1:01:01] definitely agree with what what both of

[1:01:03] you all are saying I see both sides of

[1:01:06] it and I've kind of been on both sides

[1:01:07] of this for a little bit at first I was

[1:01:09] on the side of okay we do have the cash

[1:01:11] let's just write a check and buy it and

[1:01:15] then I got to thinking more about well

[1:01:18] when I got here I learned quickly about

[1:01:20] how much little cash the city had just a

[1:01:23] few years ago and how we've done a good

[1:01:25] job of building that up and mr. Hartley

[1:01:29] mentioned things like the baseball

[1:01:30] stadium and we've been talking a lot

[1:01:32] about the schools and we can use a lot

[1:01:35] of cash for things needed at the schools

[1:01:38] we've also talked about the jail and the

[1:01:41] upcoming debt payments associated with

[1:01:44] the falls so you know I'm I'm not in

[1:01:47] favor of borrowing you know 50 million

[1:01:49] dollars to start up some kind of new

[1:01:51] development but with this it's you know

[1:01:53] six hundred and some thousand dollars we

[1:01:55] know roughly what our payment is going

[1:01:57] to be we can always pay it off early and

[1:02:00] we've talked about some other ways we

[1:02:01] can try to save in some other areas to

[1:02:03] offset that yearly payment that we'll

[1:02:05] have going forward so I'm on the side of

[1:02:09] the fence now you know we keep our cash

[1:02:11] you know we hold on to it for

[1:02:13] emergencies and for other things that

[1:02:15] are coming up that we know about and we

[1:02:17] just we get this building because it's

[1:02:19] definitely an upgrade for the offices

[1:02:21] that these folks are currently in you

[1:02:25] know I understand the allure of wanting

[1:02:26] to pay cash for it but but kind of like

[1:02:29] mr. Farnum and mr. Hartley have said you

[1:02:31] know you've got we have a finite amount

[1:02:33] of money set aside for whether it be the

[1:02:36] baseball field whether it be the jail

[1:02:37] whether it be inmate housing costs

[1:02:39] increases or you know just the other day

[1:02:41] we all of a sudden had 86,000 dollars

[1:02:43] more we had to get into the school

[1:02:44] system for for maintenance people that

[1:02:46] we weren't expecting so there they're

[1:02:47] always unexpected things that cannot be

[1:02:50] financed in in this case we have the

[1:02:54] flexibility to be able to finance this

[1:02:56] and it's it

[1:02:56] not a large amount of money compared to

[1:02:58] what we've what other councils have done

[1:03:00] in the past so so it makes the most

[1:03:03] sense to me to be able to finance it and

[1:03:04] must be able to keep this money on hand

[1:03:06] for projects in the future that we might

[1:03:08] have that we cannot finance so so that's

[1:03:11] where I'm at and you know I had had some

[1:03:14] concerns about buying the building to

[1:03:16] start with but you know it was a good

[1:03:17] opportunity for us to have it to upgrade

[1:03:19] a city office that certainly needed and

[1:03:23] we've had some discussions about moving

[1:03:25] a different City office to the social

[1:03:26] services building so hopefully we'll be

[1:03:28] able to kill two birds with one stone

[1:03:29] with this so so I I think it's gonna be

[1:03:34] good opportunity for us to move the

[1:03:35] office up there and I think we should go

[1:03:37] ahead and do the do the financing on it

[1:03:40] is there any other discussion I just

[1:03:45] once again I'm say it's a mistake adding

[1:03:47] to the debt we're already paying how

[1:03:49] many millions a year right now just in

[1:03:51] interest just in interest no principle

[1:03:56] it's over two million dollars am I

[1:03:58] correct on that yes and we are going to

[1:04:01] add to that now if we was a physically

[1:04:04] responsible responsible City what could

[1:04:08] we be doing with two additional million

[1:04:11] dollars that we are just squandering on

[1:04:14] interest because of bad decisions and

[1:04:19] we're going to add to that tonight it's

[1:04:23] not the right thing

[1:04:26] it's not right but I would you know none

[1:04:29] of us up here got us into that extra two

[1:04:31] million dollars I'd say that first

[1:04:33] what's the interest going to cost us

[1:04:36] additional what are we going to be

[1:04:37] paying additional with interest here to

[1:04:38] finance this as opposed to buying it do

[1:04:41] run that by me again so with the

[1:04:44] interest that you know we're financing

[1:04:46] we're paying the three point three nine

[1:04:48] percent interest group how much

[1:04:50] additional are we paying for this

[1:04:52] building over two but we just wrote a

[1:04:54] check for $600 it's ten years at three

[1:05:01] would three point three nine three point

[1:05:04] three nine

[1:05:06] the building's going to cost us seven

[1:05:09] hundred and sixty seven thousand two

[1:05:10] hundred ninety six dollars and that is

[1:05:13] total interest of another hundred and

[1:05:15] seventeen thousand two hundred and

[1:05:16] ninety six dollars and ninety-six cents

[1:05:18] over the course of the life and the odds

[1:05:20] of us paying it off early

[1:05:21] it's slimmed and then localities do not

[1:05:23] work like that let's say give it to you

[1:05:27] so six eleven and there was three point

[1:05:29] three million well I was gonna say you

[1:05:31] know if we finance it now and we hold on

[1:05:33] to our cash you know if it's a case

[1:05:35] where it's a 10-year note we possibly

[1:05:38] revisit at the end of this fiscal year

[1:05:39] in the next fiscal year depending on if

[1:05:41] we have a good year or a bad year we

[1:05:43] have good years we could look at making

[1:05:44] additional principal payments to it and

[1:05:46] we don't have to take ten years to pay

[1:05:48] it off and pay all that interest maybe

[1:05:49] we pay it off in three years or four

[1:05:51] years or something like that plan to be

[1:05:59] more physically responsible we wouldn't

[1:06:01] be financing the whole entire dollar

[1:06:02] amount we would be setting aside X

[1:06:05] dollar to pay down on it and then

[1:06:07] finance a number with a plan to pay it

[1:06:10] off in three to five years but to go

[1:06:12] into this one hundred percent financing

[1:06:15] it is not gonna be paid off anytime soon

[1:06:19] but we there are still gonna be

[1:06:20] additional cost around this whole

[1:06:23] project this whole project just come up

[1:06:24] out of the blue it wasn't discussed

[1:06:26] during any of the budget it just come up

[1:06:29] out of the blue I'm not saying it's it's

[1:06:31] bad that it's not needed but I mean

[1:06:34] there if you want to be responsible you

[1:06:36] talk about these things in budget form

[1:06:38] there

[1:06:38] the budget process that's all these

[1:06:40] things that are popping up is what while

[1:06:42] we need this extra cash on hand because

[1:06:45] there are things that haven't been

[1:06:47] accounted for and you can't account for

[1:06:48] everything you said that yourself just

[1:06:51] if you meant to game so that's why we

[1:06:53] need this it I think you know we can

[1:06:55] look back at this later and see but you

[1:06:59] know I mean I first starts thinking yeah

[1:07:02] maybe put down a little bit of money but

[1:07:04] if you're going to go in and try to

[1:07:05] renovate that for other offices

[1:07:07] what's that cost you can't borrow that

[1:07:10] money that you've got to pay for that in

[1:07:12] cash so where's that coming from

[1:07:14] I mean I think when this opportunity

[1:07:18] came up to buy the building in all five

[1:07:21] of us I think we agreed that the

[1:07:22] building was a good deal and it's

[1:07:24] definitely an upgrade for those offices

[1:07:26] and but the one thing I just keep

[1:07:27] thinking about as far as how to pay for

[1:07:29] it is I keep because we've been talking

[1:07:30] about it a lot I think about the schools

[1:07:32] and upcoming expenses with what needs to

[1:07:36] be done in our current school buildings

[1:07:38] and we've been talking about the

[1:07:39] elementary schools but also the middle

[1:07:41] school in the high school so that's kind

[1:07:43] of why I'm on the side of the fence of

[1:07:44] hanging onto our cash just because of

[1:07:46] some of those unknowns coming up soon

[1:07:52] there's any other discussion all right I

[1:07:57] call the roll please

[1:07:58] Farnum yes Winegard hartley yes I was

[1:08:04] born yes all right

[1:08:06] item seven release from performance

[1:08:08] agreement contractual obligations for

[1:08:10] studio brew staff report a counsel

[1:08:13] before I even get into the staff report

[1:08:15] I want to address performance agreements

[1:08:16] in general first and foremost

[1:08:19] performance agreements do have a place

[1:08:22] for localities to use and be able to

[1:08:24] leverage certain advantages maybe over

[1:08:27] another locality to get a business to

[1:08:31] your own City as compared to going to a

[1:08:33] neighboring city we have discussed

[1:08:36] performance agreements at length with ID

[1:08:38] a we've discussed it internally with

[1:08:40] Council I'm discussing internally with

[1:08:42] staff performance agreements should be

[1:08:45] used when we can have an attraction of

[1:08:48] regional impact and when I say regional

[1:08:52] impact I don't mean the Falls and but we

[1:08:56] have to use these performance agreements

[1:08:58] sparingly and wisely

[1:09:01] none of us sitting here tonight were a

[1:09:04] part of the performance agreement

[1:09:05] procedures back and when this took place

[1:09:08] and because this performance agreement

[1:09:12] that was entered into on June the 27th

[1:09:14] 2014 I think that was prior to mr.

[1:09:17] Hartley's term here as well so from this

[1:09:24] point forward and I've been looking at

[1:09:27] them differently for years now we have

[1:09:29] positioned ourselves in previous

[1:09:30] performance agreements live in here

[1:09:32] specifically with American merchants off

[1:09:34] the top of my head that we've protected

[1:09:35] the city and the various means either to

[1:09:38] do deeds of trust or through performance

[1:09:40] bonds that the entity has to obtain in

[1:09:44] order to protect the city

[1:09:46] this performance agreement that's before

[1:09:48] you tonight is for studio bird studio

[1:09:52] brew has been an integral part in the

[1:09:54] revitalization of downtown Bristol

[1:09:56] they've took a building that was and I

[1:10:00] won't say disrepair but was in pretty

[1:10:03] bad shape and they've turned it into a

[1:10:04] very nice building very nice

[1:10:06] business something that city of Bristol

[1:10:08] can be proud of and tonight they are

[1:10:11] asking that this council release them

[1:10:12] from the performance agreement this

[1:10:15] performance agreement as a stated

[1:10:16] earlier was signed on June 2 27 to 2014

[1:10:19] however the term did not commence until

[1:10:21] November the 20th of 2015 when they

[1:10:24] opened their doors for business

[1:10:26] the term was for five years which will

[1:10:29] expire on November the 20th of 2015 with

[1:10:33] this release of the performance

[1:10:35] agreement they have an opportunity to

[1:10:36] diversify their business model to be

[1:10:38] more competitive within the craft beer

[1:10:40] and soda industry in order to get the

[1:10:42] necessary funds to diversify their

[1:10:44] business they have requested to be

[1:10:45] released from this agreement with the

[1:10:47] city bvu authority has agreed to release

[1:10:50] them contingent upon the city and the

[1:10:51] ITA releasing them from the agreement BB

[1:10:54] you voted for o to release them the ITA

[1:10:57] voted 5-1 to release them what's

[1:10:59] important to note here in your packet

[1:11:01] I've included several conditions that we

[1:11:05] have asked the studio brew a crow spire

[1:11:07] and Pam and Eric Allen to agree to in

[1:11:10] order for that release we met late this

[1:11:14] afternoon once again to try to nail down

[1:11:17] some points in regards to this

[1:11:22] obligation that they would now acquire

[1:11:24] for the remainder of the performance

[1:11:26] agreement one thing that they're

[1:11:28] concerned about was whether or not the

[1:11:30] city wanted to have any say-so in the

[1:11:33] daily operations the management or any

[1:11:36] say-so over any type of transaction that

[1:11:38] they may have I assured them that this

[1:11:40] city has done a bad enough job getting

[1:11:42] into businesses that we should have

[1:11:43] never been involved with to begin with

[1:11:45] and the last thing that we want to do is

[1:11:47] be involved with a brewery or soda

[1:11:49] manufacturer so you have a list of

[1:11:53] obligations that Miss Allen and mr.

[1:11:56] Allen have agreed to the only change is

[1:11:59] items see gallons must allow the city to

[1:12:04] review any documentation of the outside

[1:12:05] investment transaction we had an

[1:12:08] internal discussion today basically they

[1:12:11] have provided me already with the

[1:12:12] necessary information that I need that I

[1:12:14] feel comfortable with at this point and

[1:12:16] we would also add that the city does not

[1:12:18] intend

[1:12:20] to have any authority or decision-making

[1:12:23] capability for studio bird alright thank

[1:12:31] you very much so no one has signed up

[1:12:33] for public comment so I'm looking for a

[1:12:35] motion and a second

[1:12:37] would your motion be to release the

[1:12:40] performance agreement with adding the

[1:12:43] contractual obligations in this addendum

[1:12:46] with the change you just mentioned in

[1:12:48] item 3c that's great okay I make a

[1:12:54] motion for that I'll second that

[1:12:58] okay so motion for that is for mr.

[1:13:01] Farnum and second is for mr. Hartley and

[1:13:04] council discussion

[1:13:07] well I've mentioned this before the side

[1:13:11] of the fence I'm on is since I've been

[1:13:12] here and not just with this situation

[1:13:15] but with everything you know I just

[1:13:17] wanted to say you know what what can we

[1:13:20] hear what can we do to help weather that

[1:13:24] sometimes getting involved with

[1:13:25] something or sometimes it's stepping out

[1:13:27] of the way for something what can we do

[1:13:28] to help and in this case it's a local

[1:13:30] business you know the goal is to and I

[1:13:35] read the you know the quote in the paper

[1:13:37] how the markets kind of changed a little

[1:13:38] bit and they have some ideas of what

[1:13:40] they can do to continue to grow and I

[1:13:44] think us this is not really us you know

[1:13:48] stepping in but in a way for us stepping

[1:13:50] out and giving them some more

[1:13:51] flexibility to do what they need to do

[1:13:53] so if that's in a way helping I think it

[1:13:58] could be viewed as a good thing where

[1:14:00] we're also still protecting the

[1:14:01] interests of the city with with some of

[1:14:03] the language we've added in here and is

[1:14:08] that something the city wants to get

[1:14:10] into involved with a agreement like this

[1:14:12] with every business no but but we're already in it here and you know

[1:14:18] there's a certain certain

[1:14:21] benefit it's kind of hard to measure but

[1:14:24] this particular business is a business

[1:14:26] that provides something in downtown and

[1:14:28] Bristol food drink nightlife you know

[1:14:33] we've worked really hard to revitalize

[1:14:35] our downtown area so it's definitely

[1:14:37] hard to to measure what that's worth but

[1:14:39] it's definitely something that if we can

[1:14:42] help them grow and you know I see this

[1:14:46] is a good thing hopefully this is

[1:14:48] helping and we can all enjoy what this

[1:14:51] business provides for many years to come

[1:14:55] also when they clear that maybe it's

[1:14:57] probably made clear to the public but

[1:14:59] part of this agreement would require a

[1:15:02] Crow's fire studio back respire LLC

[1:15:05] studio Barilla C and Pam and Eric Allen

[1:15:09] to repay if certain things happen within

[1:15:13] the business or the business fails to

[1:15:15] operate through November 20th of 2020 it

[1:15:18] would require them to pay back 20% of

[1:15:21] what the tax assessed value of the

[1:15:22] building was and when they received it

[1:15:25] back in 2014 which was one hundred

[1:15:27] ninety eight thousand three hundred

[1:15:28] dollars and twenty percent of the

[1:15:30] $80,000 in cash that the city provided

[1:15:33] to them that's a total of about fifty

[1:15:35] five thousand dollars that would be that

[1:15:38] they're on the hook for and the reason I

[1:15:41] came to that conclusion was they

[1:15:43] performed 80% roughly other performance

[1:15:46] agreement so far they've got roughly 20

[1:15:48] percent less left and so that's 20

[1:15:52] percent of what was initially given unto

[1:15:55] him by the city yeah and and to me you

[1:15:59] know one I first appreciate Allen's that

[1:16:01] what they've done with that business it

[1:16:04] was building its that there for a very

[1:16:06] long time in and really done a great job

[1:16:09] renovating it and restoring it and

[1:16:11] moving kind of the downtown activity

[1:16:15] more away from State Street back that

[1:16:18] way so I appreciate that

[1:16:20] I would say to their concern only speak

[1:16:24] for myself but you know we we don't want

[1:16:27] to get involved in fact we want to kind

[1:16:29] of get out of the way to let you do what

[1:16:31] you

[1:16:31] doing but is mysteries pointed out we do

[1:16:35] want to kind of still maintain that and

[1:16:38] I think that's a fair compromise you

[1:16:41] know for other than time you've met the everything in the agreement so to

[1:16:46] kind of prorate it I know a lot of if

[1:16:50] you get money from federal money from

[1:16:52] the a or C or different places like that

[1:16:54] there they have those clawback

[1:16:56] provisions but they prorated them over

[1:16:57] time so I think that's there and

[1:17:00] hopefully this will allow you all to

[1:17:03] continue to grow and expand in a

[1:17:05] different direction here in downtown

[1:17:07] I want to thank I think the city

[1:17:11] manager's office for their work on this

[1:17:12] and think they think the Allens for

[1:17:14] their investment in Bristol I know I ran

[1:17:16] into you the other day in the hall and I

[1:17:18] wouldn't shut up about the mystery pizza

[1:17:20] y'all have on your menu which is

[1:17:22] fantastic and all I'll keep coming and

[1:17:24] getting it you know even though we're

[1:17:25] not involved now yeah I think this is I

[1:17:28] think this just makes sense you know for us to be kind of backing off from

[1:17:31] being involved in these type of

[1:17:34] agreements as much as we can and it

[1:17:37] makes sense for you all obviously from

[1:17:38] business standpoint to be able to

[1:17:39] hopefully diversify what you do and and

[1:17:42] you know further your business so so I

[1:17:45] look forward to us passing this here in

[1:17:47] just a moment other discussion I was

[1:17:50] just gonna say I was excited too about

[1:17:52] well first of all you know what's

[1:17:54] happened like you said they've taken an

[1:17:56] old building and they fixed it up and

[1:17:58] they are open for business so they

[1:18:01] provide jobs and they also produce tax

[1:18:03] revenue to the city so for all of that

[1:18:06] thank you thank you for believing in

[1:18:08] Bristol Virginia and and I was excited

[1:18:11] about hearing about you know kind of

[1:18:13] what the next steps are this my

[1:18:16] understanding is it's the products of

[1:18:17] the root beer and the cream soda and

[1:18:19] distribution and I'd love to be able to

[1:18:22] have people all over the place pick up

[1:18:25] and see that label it says Made in

[1:18:26] Bristol Virginia so I think that's a

[1:18:28] good thing for us

[1:18:30] alrighty very good if the clerk would

[1:18:33] call the roll please

[1:18:34] Farnum yes Winegard no partly yes I was

[1:18:39] born

[1:18:39] yes onto the consent agenda

[1:18:42] need a motion in a second to take action

[1:18:46] on this I would move that we approve the

[1:18:49] consent agenda with one minor change on

[1:18:52] the meeting of the minutes from the

[1:18:55] meeting of September 10th item number

[1:18:57] four that should be Kathy Simpson who's

[1:19:00] the CFO for Hollins community service

[1:19:03] instead of Kathy Johnson all right so we

[1:19:07] have a motion to approve with the change

[1:19:12] that mr. Hartley mentioned so I need a

[1:19:13] second second

[1:19:14] all right so emotion mr. Hartley and

[1:19:17] second for mr. Farnum is there any

[1:19:19] discussion please call the roll

[1:19:22] Farnum yes wyngarde yes yes yes we stand

[1:19:28] adjourned

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