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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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