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Good evening. My name is Brian Van Gogh. I serve as chair of one kind of order supervisors and I'm called to order our meeting of Tuesday March 10.

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And on my microphone, I apologize Tuesday March 10, 2026. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance?

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Okay, so for the record we have a forum supervisor Marshal will not be here this evening, so with that we will move on with the adoption of the

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of the agenda. Can I have a motion to adopt the agenda?

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So moved.

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Second.

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I'll second it.

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All right. All those in favor say aye.

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Aye.

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All right. Our agenda is adopted.

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So next up we have a special presentations and appearances.

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And up under three A is the introduction of

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of Matt Garvey director of emergency communications via Stephanie Straub, Deputy County Administrator.

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Good evening, members of the board.

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It's my pleasure this evening to introduce you to Matt Garvey, our new ECC director.

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Matt comes to us from Frederick, Maryland with over 25 years of progressive experience in the industry.

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We started with us mid February.

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Chairman of the Board.

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Wow.

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Thank you for this.

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I'm honored to be here, and I'm sorry, a little nervous.

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All right, but I'm up to the challenge.

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You guys have a wonderful communication crew

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and I'm looking forward to serving the county,

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my wife and I are in the process of moving down here

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from Frederick, so that's an honor

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and looking forward to wonderful things here.

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Well, thank you, Mr. Garvey.

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We appreciate you joining our team

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and we wish you all the great success.

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We have outstanding emergency communications center

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team and so we're very appreciative for you joining that team and welcome. Thank you very much.

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Welcome, thank you.

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Okay, next up, under special presentations and appearances,

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is Salt Council Award and Memory in an honor of Nancy Groot. I will read off an item here

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and Sheriff Smith and Deputy Ron Kessner,

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who's also our Triide Coordinator,

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we'll join me up here in just a second

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and Mr. Groot, could you come forward with the Sheriff, please?

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So the Orange County Sheriff's Office triad seniors

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and law enforcement together.

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Let me read this nomination.

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I respectfully submit this nomination for Nancy Jackson grew it in recognition of her

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more than five years of dedicated service to the Orange County Sheriff's Office Triad Program.

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Nancy served in the Triad Program until the time of her death on January 21, 2021,

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Nancy was deeply passionate about serving senior citizens and other vulnerable members of Orange

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county. Alongside her husband, Bob, she faithfully served as part of the project life saver

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team. To Nancy, the individuals that they assisted were never merely clients, they were friends.

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Nancy cared for each person with a sincerity, compassion, and heartfelt commitment. Beyond

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her compassion, Nancy was a woman of action. At every triad function she could be found

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working diligently, setting up, packing up, taking the lead, and the kitchen to ensure every

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attendee felt welcomed and cared for. She consistently stepped forward whenever help was needed,

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never seeking recognition, only wanting to serve. Nancy also shared her creativity generously,

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A talented crafter, she lovingly created flower vases for our annual conference because she

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believed the tables should be beautiful, and inviting.

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It was one of the many thoughtful touches that reflected Nancy's spirit.

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She gave not only her time, but her heart.

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Nancy made countless contributions to Orange County.

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Try to add far too many to fully capture here.

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Those of us who had the privilege of serving beside her, as well as those that she served, are profoundly fortunate to have shared and heard dedication, warmth, and friendship.

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Her legacy of service and compassion will continue to inspire us.

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For these reasons, I hold heartedly and respectfully nominate Nancy Jackson Groot for this service award.

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Being that Nancy is deceased, the award will be presented to her husband Bob Groot on her behalf.

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For those who are here with the Triad group, would you please stand in honor of Nancy?

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bit, Nancy and Bob, who had seven years ago in 2019, and got out of the door, so this is place ahead.

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Nancy was full of energy and full of love.

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Bob and Nancy already buried in the urban law enforcement profession from the life I've spent in true friends and supporters of the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

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They continue to support our agency by becoming tired of volunteers who have spent countless hours supporting the program and the community.

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As a matter of fact, when I took my training from probably life-saving, the rule is graciously

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allowed us to use their property for the practical portion of the training. Nancy's passing

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is tremendous loss to our community. I'm thankful for her timing and passion she gave to our community

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and Bruce.

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Thank you.

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Thank you everybody.

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Thanks for watching.

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Cheers off everybody.

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Thank you.

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So I know there's going to be a little reception out in the lobby. So it's okay if you get up and go out and greet Bob.

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We are very grateful for our triad volunteers.

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Let's give them all a round of applause.

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You know, in our community with seniors and law enforcement working together

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and our triad volunteers, there's nothing we can't do to help our fellow citizen.

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It's such an honor to recognize Nancy and to have a bob here to receive that notification

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and recognition on her behalf and in her memory.

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thank you all for for that.

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So next up, we have our consent agenda and do I have a

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motion to approve and I just want to make one particular point about our

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consent agenda. As we were going through the legislative process, there was a

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to send a letter to Governor Abigail Spamberger requesting that she vetoed Senate Bill 443.

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And just for those of you, you can see this in the agenda packet. But that particular bill

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would allow a buy-write use on any parcel that was approved for utility scale solar under an

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existing special use permit, which meant that there was no approval at the county for

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these kinds of facilities. So, Vaco contacted us. We were not aware that that bill had

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made it through. It sort of, as Vaco told us, kind of went and went with a bunch of bills.

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And so, once we found out about it, we agreed in individual discussions because it was important

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for us to get that letter to the governor. So we did that and now what we're doing is coming back

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and approving that as part of our consent agenda. So we have formal board approval of a letter

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that we have sent to Governor Spamberger. A number of counties have joined in that effort. So I just

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wanted to mention that as an information item for individuals. So I'll take a motion to approve the

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center agenda. So moved. The second, second, all those in favor saying I. I. We have approval

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of the consent agenda. Okay. Next up is old business. We have none. And following that

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is new business. The Virginia juvenile community crime control act plan merger with the

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the show. Fines from our office on youth. She is the director of office. The office. Do you have that? Okay.

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You have. Okay.

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All right. Good evening, Mr. Chairman members of the board. I am here this evening.

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To propose a merger between Orange County, VJ Triple CA. It's a lot easier and shorter to say.

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With green and Madison, a little bit about our VJ triple CA, sorry I thought I would have this in front of me.

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VJ triple CA was enacted in 1995 by the Virginia General Assembly.

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It gave communities the opportunity to address needs specific to their localities when it came to juvenile the link one sees.

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with accountability and in hopes of reducing

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recitivism with our youth.

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The mission of VJ TripleCA is before you.

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I am not going to get into all of that,

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but I wanted to make sure you had the information

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to kind of see what it's about.

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But the main reason I'm here is about our proposition.

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Orange County right now receives

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$21,728 from the state, adding that to the $2,181 maintenance of effort that is required.

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By the state, our budget is $23,999 to use for services based on our plan that we develop by annually.

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Our current plan programs, we currently have nine, and they include administration, which helps cover some of the costs

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of managing the program's community service,

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pre-D and post-D electronic monitoring,

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child-specific services,

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and those are services that encompass any service

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that's not directly on our plan.

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So it could be anger management, anything like that.

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So it's kind of a catch-all group.

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We also have substance abuse education and treatment,

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mentoring, which has become a big thing for us,

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which we really like.

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Healthy social behaviors and personal skills,

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Those are classes that work toward cognitive behavioral therapy trainings.

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One example of that is I just actually came from teaching decision points, which is a

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class for youth to teach them four steps to kind of get out of that trouble cycle.

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And so that encompasses those type of classes.

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And then our last one is public school prevention.

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In our plan, we've built in $2,500 for a subscription to an evidence-based online class platform called third millennium, and we offer that to the schools to send referrals over for kids for numerous things.

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It could be substance abuse, true and see a conflict wise, if they're not getting along with somebody to kind of help teach them those skills.

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So, that is what our planning compasses. On the next slide, we have Madison's plan along with their funding.

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So, Madison only gets $8,079 a year or their plan totals $8,079. They have to expend $1,494 and then they get $6,585 from the state.

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Their list of programs is a little bit smaller and the pre-D and a post-D electronic monitoring is actually something our office manages.

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is so it's not even really their program.

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So really they have three programs that they manage.

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On the next slide, we have Green County.

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Their annual funding is 7,596 dollars.

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They are not required to do a maintenance of effort.

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So all of their funding comes from the state.

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Again, here is their list of services

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and we do their pre-deimposed electronic monitoring as well.

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On the next page, trying to tie it together

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what our connections are.

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As I stated, we are doing green and Madison and...

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Whole Peppers, GPS monitoring currently. We started that in 2024. Due to DJJ changes, the probation officers aren't allowed to do that anymore. So we took that on, otherwise they wouldn't be able to offer that. And if you guys have seen the budget, when kids are in detention, it's a lot more expensive than when I have kids on monitoring. So they were very happy that we could continue that. And also, all of our localities are located within the 16th district under that Court Service Unit.

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So they are neighbors, and we've had kids cross county lines for different things, so.

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Benefits of combining the plan, more pulled funding for broader reaching programs.

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An example for Madison and for agreeing in their smaller, and so they don't have as much money and they don't have as many programs.

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So hopefully, by pulling all of our funds and also pulling our resources will help more kids, not just an orange, but in Madison and green.

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Um, this also allows judges a wider variety of offerings, which I know they're very happy about.

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Um, keeping youth in our community and out of juvenile detention, um, so potentially

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reducing, um, detention costs again to our localities.

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And then also the possibility of hiring a part-time person to manage pieces of this plant.

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Currently, I'm the only one that manages it for orange and the GPS, um, pieces for green and

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and co-pepper, but this would allow us to pull our funds and look at hiring somebody else that can

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devote a little bit more time to directly that program to make sure all of the kids are getting what they need.

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The next slide shows our combined plan funding, so if we total all of those together, we have a

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grand total of 39,584 dollars and we are proposing that Orange County be the fiscal agents as we are

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managing the plans, so that would come through our finance, our treasure's office and everything.

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The next steps, planning team approves the merge.

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We have already gotten that completed and approved.

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That's by the judges, the court services unit.

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And so our next steps are the board of supervisors and all free localities.

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They are very specific in the type of resolution that's needed.

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So the copy is in your packet.

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So you can see what that is.

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Then we'll officially designate the fiscal agent,

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even though we are saying orange,

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we will have to officially do that.

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and then the resolution, and then I have until April 1st to create the plan for the next two years.

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So a little tight on time. But this was brought about by the court services unit. They're the ones that

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requested this. And when we looked at it, it just really makes sense with what we're doing as neighbors

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and some of the things we're already doing for each other. So at this time, I would like to request

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for your approval to do the resolution so that we can urge these three plans.

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Okay, thank you. Questions from the board.

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I'm sorry.

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Ms. Coleman, you're pleased to be first.

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Thank you for that information.

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I just want to make sure I understand the

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the positive impact for Orange County.

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I get it for Green and Madison and also for us being good neighbors.

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I'm all about that and for helping more of our youth in the region,

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not just in our county, but what is the big selling point for Orange County?

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because it looks like we're getting a considerable amount now, and the other two counties

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are getting quite a bit less, and we're just pulling it all together to help them.

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So it's a help us understand or help me understand what the big positive point is for orange

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county kids.

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I will say my biggest plus for this is by pulling the funding we can hire a person to help

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manage these programs for our kids here as well.

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They can do the outreach, we can build more outreach into our program so that we are physically seeing these kids more often,

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whether it's in school, at home, in our office, and then we'll have a person dedicated directly to that.

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Yes, they will be doing stuff in other localities, but to give you an example, I have eight kids on GPS right now, five of them are Orange County.

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So, I've not really had an abundance of kids come through for Madison, great in call

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pepper.

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It's one here, two there.

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So, by pulling these funds, yes, it will help them financially and oversight and

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everything here will definitely help our kids to have more hands on a approach.

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Thank you.

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I was just curious why Orange County gets so much more funding than Madison

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Your guess is as good as mine. I've asked that question. When are we going to look at the funny this funding has been the same since I started in 2010

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We are not sure having asked the court services unit. How is this funding determined?

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I've not been able to get an answer. It's something through the state through an algorithm that hasn't changed in forever

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So I wish I could answer that, but I can't. We're sorry. We'll all this money be used for the the part-time

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person. No, not all of it will be used for part-time person. It'll be used for continuing services.

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Again, the outreach is what we're really looking at for our kiddos. So yes, it will be used for that.

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But we also pay for a lot of services mentoring substance abuse education and treatment with providers and online.

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If it's an intervention or excuse me, a prevention, not an intervention. So we'll continue to fund those programs as well.

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And then ultimately you think that this will, this will proportionally benefit orange, and you wouldn't be proposing it otherwise.

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I do. I am looking forward to having, again, if we make it work, if it's approved, that part time person with more hands on with our kids.

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Just to help with recidivism, the more eyes we have on them and the more we touch them, the less likely they are to defend again.

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so. Okay, that was all I had. Thank you.

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Oh, may I ask one more question. Yes. It, it this doesn't

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work. How do we get out of it? We would go back to our plan coordinator in Richmond. I do have

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a specific person that I report to for the plan and discuss that with her. I will say there are other

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localities that are already doing this. The Rappianic office on use, they cover Fredericksburg

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Caroline Spotseek, King George, and Stafford.

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And then the Channendo office on youth,

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they cover the cities of Wainsboro and Stan

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and the counties of Augusta and Highland.

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And between our court services and meeting

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with the Channendo office on youth,

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it just made a lot of sense with how they're doing things.

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We're looking at their programs.

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We actually had a meeting this morning

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for a trurincy program that we would be able to help fund

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with this that could help our kiddos.

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Any other questions?

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Okay. Thank you for that presentation. So with that, I will open the floor for a resolution.

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Number 260310-6a. In our agenda packet, do we have a motion to approve that resolution?

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Motion to approve.

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Thank you.

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To approve and a second, is there any other discussion?

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I just want to as a matter of, I support this.

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I think it is important that we monitor very closely, that we make sure that we're not degrading

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any services in orange. It sounds like it will enhance. I love the regional cooperation,

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so I appreciate that. The only thing I would ask is at some point, as you get into the year,

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maybe come back and tell us how it's going so we can, you know, when we run into our colleagues

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from Madison or Green, we can have a conversation about it and if they ask and know, you know,

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how things are working. Madison's getting their presentation today too. Megan Hood with the

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court services unit presented at their meeting that started at four o'clock. So they're getting

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all this for me today. Yeah, I'll see a little bit ahead of us. Okay. All right, with that, I'll

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the question. Roll call please. Miss Coleman. Yes. Mr. Nichol. Aye. Mr. Capelle. Aye. Mr. Van Holvin. All right. Resolution

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passes for to nothing. Thank you for your work on this. Appreciate it. Okay. Next up is an agenda item that we put on here.

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And in the last couple of meetings, we've had a matter for discussion and consideration,

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regarding the Ballyed link, Dominion Energy Consortium for proposing transmission lines,

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a 765KB line in Orange County.

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Yesterday there was a meeting that,

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I'm going to just refer to them as Valley Link from here on out. Valley Link held an open house in Orange County. Last night, it Lafayette station and there was an incredible turnout from Orange County.

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I mean, five, six hundred, I think people solved they couldn't get in and actually drove

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by and said maybe we'll have another opportunity.

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So I don't know how many we could have accommodated in a much better playing space.

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We probably could have had a thousand people show up and express their opinions on this project.

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And so I want to open this, we've got some based on that meeting, we've got some actions, we want to undertake this evening that will set Orange County and our Board of Supervisors and our Planning Commission up for moving some things forward.

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So, let me just open it to the board.

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I know all of us up here were at that meeting, open house.

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I'm going to call in the open house.

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That's what it was. It wasn't really a meeting.

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So, all four of us were there.

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We did not talk with three of us together because that would have been an illegal meeting.

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So, we managed to have conversation amongst us and with a whole host of constituents.

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So let me just open it up for initial impressions and I know we have some thoughts about maybe some next steps that we could we could talk about so we'd like to kick us off.

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I'll kick us off just because I'm probably going to be the shortest here.

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Oh, not in stature, and first of all, thank everyone

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it came out yesterday.

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That's exactly what's needed to, well, you know,

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we're all reeling a little bit and trying to figure out

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what to do, right?

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So that's the first step.

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We appreciate it greatly.

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Hyper and press of how many showed up.

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Looking forward to, as you all know, the March 24th board meeting,

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We will accommodate a little bit better and hope everyone shows up again, that's going to be our opportunity when we get a presentation from ValleyLank that we can actually speak, you know, how long or whatever depends I guess how many people show up and want to determine that then.

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But let's keep that momentum up because that's that's the the energy we need.

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of that analogy there on energy isn't it?

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But that's probably the energy we need to keep this thing

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going in the right direction.

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But again, thank you all very much.

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Appreciate that.

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So let me just maybe get one item out of the way

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since Supervisor and Hove and brought it up.

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So we have a meeting on March 24th.

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We invited Valley Link to attend that meeting.

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They've accepted our invitation and will attend that meeting

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make a presentation. We in conjunction with that, I would ask that we have the board approve

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a joint planning commission and board a supervisors meeting for March 24th and for this meeting

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to be held at the Orange County High School. And I have a second. Second.

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So let's we got

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motion in a second. So we'll just get that went out and and so we can so we can kind of work through these items that various individuals may be bringing forward any discussion on a joint planning commission and board a supervisor's meeting.

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I would press or hail a comment. Sorry. Okay. I'll get better that thank you with time. We all will. So I would just like to thank you for bringing that forward.

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Thanks to all who participated yesterday evening, but as I'm had a vibrant discussions last night with folks I want to remind everybody that was Dominions meeting Dominions set that meeting or information session.

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What is being proposed, what was just proposed by a supervisor,

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nickel, is that we have a larger venue where our citizens can come in, sit down,

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listen to a presentation and participate.

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And so I just want you all to know that last night was an excellent

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showing of citizens and community, but it was the minions meeting. We need as much momentum and

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participation in the meeting that we hold, and we have given careful consideration to make

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sure that when we hold a meeting with such important item to discuss that we will have it at this

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proposed venue that will better accommodate.

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And I appreciate the support and the effort to have that done. So thank you. And thanks to everybody for not only being there last night, but helps spread the word that March 24th is as important or more important to show up.

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Okay, any other discussion on the Joint Planning Commission Board of Supervisors meeting?

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No, I mean, I went to the the Dominion Open House yesterday and and as I pulled in I just I just started laughing.

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Because I was proud of Orange County and I'd mentioned to Andre May at the he's the rep for Dominion.

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when I went to their Gordon'sville meeting on another power line and he asked what I thought

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I said you're going to need a bigger room for Orange County and so I was really pleased

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and proud of my fellow citizens and looking forward to the meeting on the 24th I still don't

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know if it'll be big enough but I think it's about the biggest venue we have in the county and so

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we've done meetings I can only think of one other time we we did a meeting there and and I

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do have been involved with that situation as well. So, so this will be interesting. We'll

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look forward to it. And thank you Chairman Nichol for proposing it and getting it together.

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Very, very good. Absolutely. Any further discussion? So, just as a point of information,

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this meeting is one of our regularly scheduled meetings. We're going to hold it as I noted

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at the high school. It's a different location in order to accommodate our citizens. We will

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more likely than not. We may have some very minor business that we need to conduct

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from the board just to cover some of our regular basis. But our agenda is likely to be a little bit

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for that particular meeting, supervisor Capel,

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who is also the liaison to the Planning Commission.

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He and I met with Frank D. Pascal,

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who is our Planning Commission chair,

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who happens to be in the room this evening.

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We discussed having a joint meeting together

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so that we could hear at the county level,

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both from a Planning Commission

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and a Board of Supervisors standpoint.

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So we're all here in the same thing, and we're all hearing the same answers to questions

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that we ask and that we hear from the public.

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What we'll probably end up doing at the meeting for purposes of efficiency, we'll have

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to open both meetings, so I'll open the board of supervisor meeting, and then Chairman

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and DPSC, we'll open the planning commission meeting and more likely than not, we'll just have one of us that sort of directs the traffic if you will and I've stepped up to do that and then at the end we would both close our meetings, close our meetings together.

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We'll make sure all of that's, you know, laid out in the agenda, we'll get proper notice, so that everyone knows the address and location, expected it'll be at five o'clock similar time to our regular meetings.

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I suspect the first part of it will go for a bit and then we'll get into comments from citizens.

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And so with that, I'll call the question.

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Yeah, I just want one more comment.

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So I just want folks in the audience who have a watch.

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So this is a process and it's this application process

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that the company's entering to, it's not one

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that any of us have engaged with before.

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But with help ourselves reading, everyone here,

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engaging with members of the public, you know, we're learning more and more, but we're going to

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engage with the process. And so there's certain steps, things happen at certain times, and we're

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going to respond accordingly. And it doesn't help us to get ahead of the process. So I just want

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folks to know that this is a process. And I think we've learned a lot about it, but I know there's

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pressure for us to do certain things now versus at different times, but there's a time and

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for when we'll do particular actions based on the process we're engaged engaging with.

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So that at all. I appreciate you mentioning that because that is important. It is not a

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one week or two week process as it were and so we want to make sure that we're engaged actively

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monitoring and engaging all along.

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I do want to, well, let me call the question, let's, let's, let's, I'll just, to schedule the meeting with the planning commission, all those in favor for March 24th, five o'clock, joint meeting, to entertain a presentation from Valley link and

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questions from the board and the planning commission. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All those post motion passes for oh so we have a meeting set was that emotion or consensus.

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That was actually I've made the motion at the beginning has set who seconded.

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a supervisor, Coleman, back and on along.

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Yeah, so it was an actual motion, but not a resolution or anything.

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Okay, so

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maybe I'll just continue with

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with another piece of business regarding the board.

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I believe the board ought to take some action on and that has to do with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

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So, there's a process that's underway as speaking of processes that Supervisor Capel mentioned, where the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is undergoing a comment period.

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in that comment period ends on March 20th.

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So we don't meet until March 26th.

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So in order for us to affect any comments

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for that particular commission regarding a proposed

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expedited interconnection track that PGM is asking for,

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We need to authorize the board and in particular myself in the county administrator, county attorney, to work on this and let me if I could read a motion to that effect so that we're prepared to respond appropriately to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

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With that, I move that the Orange County Board of Supervisors authorized the preparation and submission of a comment to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regarding the ongoing PGM, Interconnection and Transmission Planning Reforms currently under consideration.

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The purpose of the comment will be to provide Orange County's perspective as a rural host community regarding the impacts of accelerated planning and the importance of coordination with local land use planning processes.

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A further move that the board direct the county administrator in term county attorney and

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consultation with the chair and members of the board to prepare a draft comment for review and to submit that comment to the federal energy regulatory commission before March 20.

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Do I have a second?

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I'll second that.

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We have a motion in a second.

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Is there any discussion?

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Yeah, if I manage to track this, just why this is important.

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So this is basically a request by PJM to fast track power generation projects.

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Basically they're looking to reduce the time from four years to 10 months.

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And so why is this important to Orange County?

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Well, we not only have this 765 proposal, but if you look at some of the PJM,

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documents that, you know, they're proposing other lines through Orange County. And on this

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particular 765, I mean, if you go back through the record, there's no, no indication that

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it was proposed for Orange County a year ago. And yet here we are a year later, and it's coming

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through Orange County. So they're already moving fast. So things come online, the planning process

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is moving fast, and as a rural county, we already are having problems keeping up with what their

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plans are. If they increase or shorten the time that it takes to get power generation online,

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it's just going to make those tales of the transmission lines they're going to be coming out

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as even faster. So that's why we need to comment because it doesn't help us do the planning that

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required to do. It doesn't help us have the the comprehensive planning place for the anticipated

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changes that the the PJM and others are going through that are that are going to impact our

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county. So we want to make sure they understand how this may impact us and are planning posture

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so that we can best serve our citizens as as the energy companies will try to accelerate things.

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Okay, any other discussion?

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Yeah, I think the motion is fairly straightforward that we will work together to submit that comment regarding the expedited process by March 20.

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With that, I'll call the question, all those in favor of the motion, please say aye.

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Aye. All those opposed motion passes for to zero.

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Mr. Chairman, we'll just want to quick comment.

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Supervisor Marshall isn't here.

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And I just want the public to know.

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He had had something planned long before we ever knew any of this.

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And I'm sure he would want to be here.

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But I just wanted folks to know that he had something pre-planned.

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And I expect these would all be five of votes otherwise.

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So we didn't mention why he was gone.

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So I just wanted to get that out there.

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Yeah.

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Thank you. Okay, I think you have a couple of items that you want to bring forward. Yeah, so there's a couple of things that we should get our planning commission gauge engaged in there aren't

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There aren't a whole lot of areas where we can have some direct involvement, but there is one code section

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152-222, which basically gives our planning commission the authority to look at transmission projects,

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utility projects in general, and determine whether they are in conformance with our comprehensive plan.

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And so, I'd like to make a motion. I'll just read this so we can have additional discussion.

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I've got some other things I could say.

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But basically,

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if I can get my notes here, I'd like to make a motion that the Orange County Board

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of Supervisors Direct the Planning Commission pursuant to Virginia code 152-222 to review the proposed

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valiantly transmission project and it's associated transmission corridor alternatives in relation

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to the Orange County Conference of Plan to determine whether the proposed project is consistent or

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inconsistent with the conference plan, identify the specific

428
00:42:47,370 --> 00:42:51,290
conference of plan policies and land use designations relevant to

429
00:42:51,290 --> 00:42:55,170
that determination and transmit written findings, recommendations to the

430
00:42:55,170 --> 00:43:00,130
Board of Supervisors for inclusion in the county's official record regarding the

431
00:43:00,130 --> 00:43:04,770
project. These findings, recommendations shall be delivered to the Board of

432
00:43:04,770 --> 00:43:09,390
Supervisors no later than the Board's second regular meeting in May, 2026.

433
00:43:09,390 --> 00:43:11,550
So, that's the motion.

434
00:43:11,730 --> 00:43:12,670
Do we have a second?

435
00:43:13,510 --> 00:43:15,250
So, we have a motion in a second.

436
00:43:15,390 --> 00:43:17,250
Is there any further discussion?

437
00:43:20,410 --> 00:43:21,830
I would just say one thing.

438
00:43:22,270 --> 00:43:29,750
I appreciated the conversation, the supervisor Capell and I had with the chair of the planning

439
00:43:29,750 --> 00:43:31,770
commission, chair DPSC.

440
00:43:31,770 --> 00:43:38,450
We talked about, and I know at their last meeting, they discussed valley link and looking

441
00:43:38,450 --> 00:44:01,670
at looking at these items through the planning commission priorities, what they, what their role is and advising the board so this like the joint meeting we have is entirely appropriate and needed so that we ensure that our planning commission has thoroughly reviewed this and made.

442
00:44:01,670 --> 00:44:10,950
these recommendations as noted. So I support this motion and that would be my comment on

443
00:44:10,950 --> 00:44:16,270
other comments. Discussion. I would just like to echo your comments and think

444
00:44:17,330 --> 00:44:26,710
supervisor Capel and Chairman Nichol and Mr. DePascuel for your work on this because I think

445
00:44:26,710 --> 00:44:33,490
very important, a very key aspect of

446
00:44:35,540 --> 00:44:40,240
dealing with this project is to get it

447
00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:47,380
vetted through how it compares to what's in our comprehensive plane.

448
00:44:47,900 --> 00:44:49,520
So thank you.

449
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:58,920
Other discussion? Okay. With that, I'll call for a vote. All those in favor of the motion, please say aye.

450
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:05,680
All those opposed passes for zero. All right.

451
00:45:08,700 --> 00:45:11,280
I think we have one more. Another motion from

452
00:45:12,500 --> 00:45:20,360
supervisor Capau. So, yeah. So, in light of, you know, the federal action to accelerate projects

453
00:45:21,060 --> 00:45:27,180
and also in light of the other, not only the proposal that we have now that we never

454
00:45:27,180 --> 00:45:34,160
We could really not have anticipated, and our comp plan is pretty clear that we weren't

455
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,840
looking for projects outside of existing right-of-ways.

456
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:42,200
There are other projects, as I mentioned before, that are in the planning process, and

457
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:48,900
also will come into the county potentially through places where there aren't existing

458
00:45:48,900 --> 00:45:49,720
right-of-ways.

459
00:45:49,720 --> 00:46:03,580
And then given the pace of the planning and it just really seems like the posture of PGM and all the planning entities, it's really changed as of late and they're really accelerating things.

460
00:46:03,780 --> 00:46:17,040
And so with that, we think it's important that our planning commission look at our comp plan in light of all the changes that are going on in the industry, in the energy sector, in the pace of planning.

461
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:32,120
And that we, you know, relook at our comp plan in our zoning ordinance, and just make sure that we have what we think we need to, um, to deal with any future planning projects that might be coming our way related to transmission or utilities.

462
00:46:33,500 --> 00:46:43,500
Um, so this would be more of a forward looking thing where we're looking at our comp plan and we're looking at the planning documents that that are around now.

463
00:46:43,500 --> 00:46:49,880
whether they've been proposed or not, but the R-TEP documents and other proposals that we've seen.

464
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:58,780
And having the county reevaluate our position given the changes that are going on, which are quite extensive,

465
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:02,000
and really not very well articulated until recently.

466
00:47:02,860 --> 00:47:09,980
And so I'd like to move that the Orange County Board of Supervisors direct the Planning Commission,

467
00:47:09,980 --> 00:47:16,320
and pursuant to Virginia Code 152-2223 to review the Orange County Conference of Plan.

468
00:47:16,740 --> 00:47:21,400
An identifier is where the plan may be clarified or strengthened to better guide the future

469
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:27,640
location character and extent of major utility infrastructure, including transmission facilities

470
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:34,520
proposed outside of existing rights of way and to consider whether the comprehensive plan

471
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:40,160
should be updated to address large regional infrastructure proposals whose potential routes

472
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:44,800
are configurations may change during regional transmission planning processes.

473
00:47:46,060 --> 00:47:49,200
The Planning Commission shall provide its findings and any recommended comprehensive

474
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:53,680
plan amendments to the Board of Supervisors no later than the Board's second regular meeting

475
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,180
in June of 2026.

476
00:47:56,980 --> 00:47:58,000
So, I have a second.

477
00:47:58,240 --> 00:47:58,880
Second.

478
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:03,160
So, we have a motion in a second, is there any further discussion?

479
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:03,900
I

480
00:48:07,230 --> 00:48:09,870
think this is right along the lines of your prior motion.

481
00:48:10,970 --> 00:48:16,250
With that, I will call for no discussion.

482
00:48:17,750 --> 00:48:19,850
I'll call for a vote.

483
00:48:20,370 --> 00:48:21,930
All those in favor of the motion.

484
00:48:22,690 --> 00:48:23,530
Please say aye.

485
00:48:24,670 --> 00:48:25,830
All those opposed.

486
00:48:27,130 --> 00:48:29,570
Motion passes for zero.

487
00:48:30,810 --> 00:48:32,450
So a final item.

488
00:48:32,450 --> 00:48:50,450
And then we'll have some further a little bit of further discussion, but a final item is I mentioned earlier we have this now approved joint planning commission and board of supervisors meeting coming up on March 24th.

489
00:48:50,450 --> 00:49:19,850
And that is a venue where we'll hear from Dominion, and it seemed to us that it would be appropriate and helpful for the board to provide a set of questions in advance so that valley link in Dominion could understand the areas that we want to discuss and that they might be able to cover in their presentation or answer as part of our process.

490
00:49:19,850 --> 00:49:29,630
here locally. So this project as we all know has potential significant impacts to a wide

491
00:49:29,630 --> 00:49:35,870
swath of Orange County, and there are a number of topics that the board and the public

492
00:49:35,870 --> 00:49:41,750
would benefit from from understanding the project more clearly, including the system need for the

493
00:49:41,750 --> 00:49:47,830
project, assumptions about the electrical load and growth, the alternatives that are considered

494
00:49:47,830 --> 00:49:52,450
and the potential impacts on our Orange County community.

495
00:49:53,210 --> 00:50:00,610
Providing these questions ahead of time to Bally Lane gives them the opportunity to prepare

496
00:50:00,610 --> 00:50:09,190
thoughtful and responsive answers to those questions and it helps ensure that Orange County

497
00:50:09,190 --> 00:50:19,370
during the March 24 discussion has a venue and a meeting that is both informative and productive

498
00:50:19,370 --> 00:50:25,230
as possible for our citizens. So with that I'll make the following motion. I move that the Orange

499
00:50:25,230 --> 00:50:33,750
County Board of Supervisors transmit the list of questions to Dominion Energy Valley link in advance

500
00:50:33,750 --> 00:50:42,050
of the schedule briefing on to the board for March 24 and that request that valley link provide

501
00:50:42,050 --> 00:50:47,790
written responses to the board for inclusion in the public record regarding the proposed

502
00:50:47,790 --> 00:50:56,890
transmission project known as Joshua Falls to eat. I will ask for a second.

503
00:51:01,190 --> 00:51:02,950
I'll second that

504
00:51:02,950 --> 00:51:03,810
discussion.

505
00:51:05,830 --> 00:51:09,370
What we will do, maybe what we will do just for the public's

506
00:51:10,670 --> 00:51:16,290
information is we want to give valley link as much time as possible, which is

507
00:51:16,290 --> 00:51:21,330
why we're taking this action now two weeks in advance. So there's no, we're not

508
00:51:21,330 --> 00:51:25,850
trying to do any gotcha stuff on the day of or anything like that. This gives

509
00:51:25,850 --> 00:51:31,890
them the ability to thoughtfully review the questions, provide these answers, and

510
00:51:31,890 --> 00:51:37,930
have a couple of weeks to get that work done. I not only think that that's appropriate, it's

511
00:51:37,930 --> 00:51:45,550
something that we need to begin to do so that we can understand this process and the project that

512
00:51:45,550 --> 00:51:51,690
they're bringing forward. And so with that, what we would do is submit a series of questions. We'll

513
00:51:51,690 --> 00:51:59,190
publish those questions so that you all can see those and understand what we're asking. And so when

514
00:51:59,190 --> 00:52:05,530
you show up on March 24th, you'll know what we asked about and I suspect we'll have some follow-up

515
00:52:05,530 --> 00:52:12,910
questions depending on the answers that come back to us. And that process will be open,

516
00:52:13,430 --> 00:52:21,410
public for all to see any other discussion. No, I'm, I think we're doing the right thing.

517
00:52:24,690 --> 00:52:29,150
Thank you,

518
00:52:29,150 --> 00:52:29,970
questions to

519
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:58,320
By we link all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed. That motion passes for to zero. So let me if I can open the floor for any other comments from the board before we move on to the next agenda item. Mr. Chairman. Yes. I would just like to again, thank you.

520
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:07,500
Supervisor Capel, Supervisor Van Hoven, Planning Commissioner, Chairman, Mr. DePasclaw,

521
00:53:08,100 --> 00:53:15,840
everyone who's been involved in bringing together some proactive,

522
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,420
effective, and intentional

523
00:53:22,420 --> 00:53:33,780
action so that we can better explore this project, get better answers, do an in-depth review

524
00:53:33,780 --> 00:53:40,280
of how it compares to our comp plan. All the things that we just mentioned, there's been

525
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:47,720
a lot of work that goes into these motions and thoughtful process to make sure that Orange

526
00:53:47,720 --> 00:53:56,560
county is leading this conversation and not just following along or trying to play catch up

527
00:53:56,560 --> 00:54:02,280
which is what we've been doing for the past few weeks. Nobody's fault of our own, but

528
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:10,500
I feel a little more empowered and I feel much more confident now that we have these approved

529
00:54:10,500 --> 00:54:16,040
motions in this intentional action that we're going to move forward. And I feel like we've set

530
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:25,320
to set the pace for our citizens to be more empowered as well and mostly through our March 24th

531
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:26,020
meeting come up.

532
00:54:26,180 --> 00:54:31,920
That is going to be an excellent opportunity for our citizens to learn, be more engaged,

533
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:35,060
and to be empowered with information and a voice.

534
00:54:35,500 --> 00:54:41,680
So I think everyone for making that happen and I'm very proud of that, so just thank you

535
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:42,140
all.

536
00:54:43,620 --> 00:54:44,100
Thank

537
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:49,920
you.

538
00:54:50,020 --> 00:54:50,920
Any other?

539
00:54:51,420 --> 00:54:51,620
No.

540
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:52,360
Up and now.

541
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:57,000
I want to thank all the citizens for the input going out.

542
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,540
So it's one thing to do a lot of study and figure out.

543
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:01,420
But I can tell you for myself.

544
00:55:03,100 --> 00:55:09,140
There's several folks out there that I probably learned more from on how to go about doing this.

545
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:15,240
Then one can learn reading on an internet and trying to figure out laws and regulations.

546
00:55:15,240 --> 00:55:19,240
So there's, please keep the inputs coming because they're highly educational.

547
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:30,000
There's things we have done to night that came out from public interaction.

548
00:55:31,300 --> 00:55:31,300
So

549
00:55:33,410 --> 00:55:37,670
not at a knee jerks, just out of while we just learned this.

550
00:55:37,670 --> 00:55:40,990
Let's get this going. So please keep the comments coming.

551
00:55:42,850 --> 00:55:44,850
Thank you. Supervisor Van Hoven.

552
00:55:44,850 --> 00:55:47,810
Let me close this portion with a few comments.

553
00:55:50,990 --> 00:55:55,570
So we knew Dominion was embarking on a number

554
00:55:55,570 --> 00:55:57,650
of different transmission projects.

555
00:55:58,190 --> 00:56:02,090
So it's out there that different things were out there.

556
00:56:02,190 --> 00:56:04,910
There were some discussions, I think,

557
00:56:05,010 --> 00:56:08,710
as you mentioned earlier, supervisor Capelle,

558
00:56:09,490 --> 00:56:13,910
that there was a proposal last year, kind of vague,

559
00:56:13,910 --> 00:56:19,870
the may go here, may do this, may be called this, may start in Lynchburg and go up to

560
00:56:19,870 --> 00:56:31,250
fuck a year, all that changed in early February. When we discovered that this 765 KV line was

561
00:56:31,250 --> 00:56:40,190
coming all the way through Orange County. On February 10, a one month ago today, I sat here

562
00:56:40,190 --> 00:56:45,340
and inform the community that there was a mailer that was going to go out.

563
00:56:46,530 --> 00:56:48,950
It was a result of a discussion,

564
00:56:50,610 --> 00:56:55,830
pursuant to Dominion and Valley Link asking staff for some information.

565
00:56:57,090 --> 00:57:03,670
I engaged with representatives from Dominion to ask some of the details around that,

566
00:57:03,670 --> 00:57:07,190
where they explained that we're going to have open houses and some of the process.

567
00:57:07,190 --> 00:57:15,890
It was going to happen both in March and then potentially June, July with an application planned

568
00:57:15,890 --> 00:57:23,210
to be filed sometime in the September timeframe on February 10th, excuse me February 12th,

569
00:57:23,270 --> 00:57:28,730
that mailer went out to some of us, the U.S. Postal Service took about two weeks to get

570
00:57:28,730 --> 00:57:35,230
it to us. For others longer, for some of my neighbors, they got a little bit shorter, but

571
00:57:35,230 --> 00:58:00,230
Many individuals and citizens throughout property owners all throughout Orange County began to receive these fires with a map and a website, a map that you sort of couldn't even tell what was on the map. In fact, the entire community I represent wasn't even noted on the map. It's one of the largest most densely populated areas of all of Orange County didn't even show off on the map.

572
00:58:02,290 --> 00:58:21,890
On February 24th, again, I brought to the public's attention this proposal for transmission lines, talked about what was coming in terms of the meeting on March 9th yesterday, 530.

573
00:58:23,620 --> 00:58:34,160
We know now today on the 10th, one month out that this is going to have an incredible and

574
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:42,440
likely negative impact on our county, going through homes where individuals have had invested

575
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:49,080
their life savings on their farm, losing their house, splitting their farms, not in existing

576
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:57,220
right away but a 200 foot cut through Orange County. 200 feet of right away cutting through our

577
00:58:57,220 --> 00:59:03,580
county, a transmission line that in Orange County will be the most powerful line ever built

578
00:59:03,580 --> 00:59:10,020
and I'm told that it's the most powerful line ever built by Dominion. I know there are other 765 lines

579
00:59:10,020 --> 00:59:17,460
out there but it's slated to tear apart farms, residences, properties all across our county

580
00:59:17,460 --> 00:59:27,240
And have negative impacts to our citizens, our rural character, the historic and natural resources that we value so much.

581
00:59:27,660 --> 00:59:35,080
The viewshed of our entire county will be altered for ever.

582
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:44,820
This transmission line is equal to 500 K-300 KV lines combined into one.

583
00:59:44,820 --> 00:59:49,920
They'll have massive transmission towers as high as 160 feet.

584
00:59:50,340 --> 00:59:58,560
Maybe as low as 135, but if you see some of the 500 lines are about 85 feet, they're going to double that.

585
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:09,000
Four hundred and fifty transmission towers into in throughout the 115 miles of this line.

586
01:00:09,220 --> 01:00:17,440
We had a couple hours, last night and apparently in June or July, a couple more hours for open houses.

587
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:26,760
and grateful that Dominion agreed to come for our March 24 meeting. That's important. It's our

588
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:33,060
responsibility representing all of you and many others out there to engage in the process,

589
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:41,300
understand it, talk about what's important in Orange County, discover what is really going to happen

590
01:00:41,300 --> 01:00:44,020
and get real answers to real questions

591
01:00:44,020 --> 01:00:45,660
and to your real concerns.

592
01:00:48,070 --> 01:00:50,910
While this application process is governed

593
01:00:50,910 --> 01:00:53,630
by the State Corporation Commission,

594
01:00:54,510 --> 01:00:57,730
and it's important to note that I received an email

595
01:00:57,730 --> 01:01:01,530
from the Dominion attorney,

596
01:01:02,770 --> 01:01:06,090
an in-receive an email from their PR person

597
01:01:06,090 --> 01:01:09,030
or their routing person or their substation person,

598
01:01:09,250 --> 01:01:10,190
but from their attorney.

599
01:01:10,190 --> 01:01:17,130
asking if we, you know, had anything we need to talk about and

600
01:01:19,140 --> 01:01:22,220
oh boy do we have something to talk about.

601
01:01:23,580 --> 01:01:33,080
Orange County, unfortunately, in the way this will play out does not have a role in approving or denying this application.

602
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:41,860
But we do have a role and we'll have a role to actively monitor and engage in this process.

603
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:50,060
There is not one vote of electricity that is coming to the benefit of Orange County through this line.

604
01:01:50,860 --> 01:01:55,220
There's not a substation plan here where they're going to offload some of that electricity.

605
01:01:55,220 --> 01:02:02,920
we are a pastor for this massive transmission project.

606
01:02:03,820 --> 01:02:12,120
I said last time we were together on February 24th that it was important for citizens to attend.

607
01:02:12,460 --> 01:02:16,460
These meetings provide comments and input. There's lots of comments and input.

608
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,000
And that's how this process should work.

609
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:43,020
So if the process is designed to be 100% in terms of its timeline and valley link wants to move that to 25% of the normal timeline, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, especially for something that has no conceivable benefit to our community.

610
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:53,540
So, I will call on our citizens to continue to engage, to provide that input, to valley link,

611
01:02:54,140 --> 01:02:57,080
to show up on March 24th.

612
01:02:57,220 --> 01:03:03,800
So, you can hear not only from valley link, but here are questions that we've asked,

613
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:10,780
and that we'll ask on that day so that we can get the kind of answers that result in a open

614
01:03:10,780 --> 01:03:13,460
transparent set of communications.

615
01:03:14,460 --> 01:03:15,440
It's what you deserve.

616
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:18,120
It's what the citizens of our county deserve.

617
01:03:19,220 --> 01:03:21,900
And with the project of this extensive,

618
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:27,060
we shouldn't shut it down to just a couple of two hour meetings.

619
01:03:27,900 --> 01:03:30,820
We ought to be engaged all the while.

620
01:03:31,820 --> 01:03:34,620
And I went to the meeting up in co-pepper,

621
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:37,440
because I wanted to sort of see what it was all about.

622
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:46,400
up at Brandy Station and so that was the first meeting last Thursday and then I went there

623
01:03:46,400 --> 01:04:01,020
last night, saw many of you there, saw an incredible amazing turnout, five, 600 people on a

624
01:04:01,020 --> 01:04:04,620
a night, beautiful Monday night, by the way, in our beautiful,

625
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:11,020
amazing county and saw people

626
01:04:11,020 --> 01:04:18,360
coming to say what was important, talking about the impacts to them personally, to their

627
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:22,040
neighbors, what they were seeing with this transmission line.

628
01:04:22,860 --> 01:04:29,600
So a month ago this started and really started because now we had an idea what actually was

629
01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:35,260
being proposed. And so we're going to continue to engage. We're going to continue to monitor.

630
01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:41,180
We're going to continue to ask all of you for your help, your support, and your involvement.

631
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:50,960
It does matter. And it's important as we go forward. And so I hope you will all join this board.

632
01:04:50,960 --> 01:05:03,680
On March 24th, five o'clock at the Orange County High School, we'll put out proper notices and join us and please bring your comments and your input to the process.

633
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:14,920
And before I leave, I think we have a representative of Dominion Harris George here, George Jameson. Thank you for being here.

634
01:05:15,460 --> 01:05:31,060
I appreciate you coming out and I appreciate you being here, Andre said you would be here the night we're not going to have any formal presentations, but I just wanted to recognize you for being here and thank you for that.

635
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:32,580
Well, thank you for having me.

636
01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:33,660
Thank you being here.

637
01:05:34,060 --> 01:05:41,260
And we'll have more to talk on March 24th and appreciate you all accepting the invitation to come to that meeting.

638
01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:41,840
Yes, sir.

639
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:51,800
Excellent. Thank you. And we'll just let us know the logistics. Yeah, we will. We will have it. Not only send our questions. We'll provide all the logistics and information.

640
01:05:52,680 --> 01:05:57,840
And our countries are contact. So I. Yes, sir. Spectal. That's who we'll go through as we have.

641
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:02,320
All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.

642
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:03,700
Just one.

643
01:06:04,020 --> 01:06:04,820
One is one.

644
01:06:04,860 --> 01:06:05,440
No, no, no, no.

645
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:05,600
No, no, no.

646
01:06:06,180 --> 01:06:09,160
I know we talked about this privately.

647
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:17,460
Yeah, but hats off to Sheriff Smith, and his team yesterday for managing traffic,

648
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:23,580
making sure

649
01:06:23,580 --> 01:06:25,320
everything was was good.

650
01:06:25,820 --> 01:06:27,720
The people were exceptional.

651
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:29,940
Our county residents were exceptional.

652
01:06:30,140 --> 01:06:33,000
Dominion folks were, you know, everyone was on best behavior.

653
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:38,180
But everyone's afraid of Sheriff Smith, so I'm sure that has something to do with it.

654
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:41,440
I appreciate you bringing that up.

655
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:44,660
We did have great support from the Sheriff.

656
01:06:46,100 --> 01:06:53,480
And I'll tell you for 605 or 600 people coming out who had deep concerns,

657
01:06:53,660 --> 01:06:55,520
a lot of fear, a lot of anger.

658
01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:58,420
We conducted ourselves great.

659
01:06:59,160 --> 01:06:59,760
You know what?

660
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:02,300
That's what's so good about Orange County.

661
01:07:03,380 --> 01:07:04,560
Isn't that amazing?

662
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:10,220
We can engage in a way that is respectful

663
01:07:10,220 --> 01:07:14,140
and dignified and thoughtful and meaningful

664
01:07:14,140 --> 01:07:17,640
because we love this place where we are.

665
01:07:17,820 --> 01:07:20,200
We love it, we want to protect it,

666
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:21,760
and we want to protect our citizens.

667
01:07:22,500 --> 01:07:24,780
So thank you and supervisor Coleman.

668
01:07:25,820 --> 01:07:26,780
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

669
01:07:26,780 --> 01:07:29,840
and piggybacking on Supervisor.

670
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:40,400
Bells comment. I'd also like to give a nod and a great appreciation to Mr. Tony Wilson and Chelsea Wilson curms

671
01:07:41,620 --> 01:07:54,160
Lafayette station. And if they had any other staff there, I wasn't aware of, but I saw Tony and Chelsea doing a great deal of excellent work and heavy lift for hosting.

672
01:07:54,940 --> 01:08:07,820
I'm certain when they agreed to allowing someone to have a meeting, I doubt very seriously they had any understanding of what the capacity of that meeting really would entail.

673
01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:12,480
So, Lafayette station, they did a great job, so.

674
01:08:12,580 --> 01:08:15,180
Under the circumstances. Yes. Okay.

675
01:08:20,110 --> 01:08:27,590
Okay, so let's move on from our valley link discussion to a department director

676
01:08:27,590 --> 01:08:36,070
constitutional officer reports? Is there anything I don't think we have any of those? Is there

677
01:08:36,070 --> 01:08:42,750
we don't have a county attorneys report? I forgot to ask if Amy was on. I know she had the

678
01:08:42,750 --> 01:08:50,830
link. I'm on Mr. Chair. I thought you were Amy because I knew you had the link. So do you have a report?

679
01:08:51,150 --> 01:08:55,990
No, I have nothing at this time. Thank you. Thank you so much for

680
01:08:55,990 --> 01:09:02,310
serving still serving us as our interim county attorney in this process you've

681
01:09:02,310 --> 01:09:08,850
been a great resource for us and thanks for sitting in here tonight. Next up is

682
01:09:08,850 --> 01:09:10,730
our county administrators report.

683
01:09:11,690 --> 01:09:18,650
Thank you members of the board. Did you know it's budget season for Orange County and

684
01:09:18,650 --> 01:09:21,850
If it could you hit your mic, just so, yes, sorry.

685
01:09:22,570 --> 01:09:23,750
Thank you.

686
01:09:23,970 --> 01:09:25,150
Sorry about that.

687
01:09:26,070 --> 01:09:27,690
It's a budget season.

688
01:09:28,330 --> 01:09:34,410
So in order to stay on schedule with proposed timeline that we looked at previously,

689
01:09:35,490 --> 01:09:42,490
we need to get the board's consensus on placing an ad for our real estate tax rates.

690
01:09:43,210 --> 01:09:55,830
We are very much in the throws of doing the budget right now and there's still a number of things that could come about to change the numbers that we have including the general assemblies actions.

691
01:09:57,030 --> 01:10:07,870
So I would propose that we go ahead and do our ad, which needs to be run 30 days before the public hearing at the current tax rates.

692
01:10:07,870 --> 01:10:12,470
And I just need a board consensus on that to get that ad going.

693
01:10:13,030 --> 01:10:15,370
And thank you for bringing that up.

694
01:10:15,370 --> 01:10:19,250
I know when we kind of looked at the schedule originally,

695
01:10:19,310 --> 01:10:26,310
we had thought maybe the 24th, but to provide that early advertisement,

696
01:10:26,570 --> 01:10:28,430
we'll just go ahead and do that tonight.

697
01:10:28,830 --> 01:10:33,590
That kicks off our budget season, if you will, or the county,

698
01:10:34,170 --> 01:10:37,390
and allows us to continue moving forward without any disruption.

699
01:10:37,390 --> 01:10:41,430
So, do we have a consensus at the board for that advertisement?

700
01:10:42,670 --> 01:10:43,490
Yes, yes.

701
01:10:43,810 --> 01:10:47,790
Okay. We have consensus and please move that ahead.

702
01:10:48,270 --> 01:10:53,930
There will be work sessions and public hearings and all kinds of activity around our budget

703
01:10:53,930 --> 01:11:02,910
as we move forward through May when we anticipate ultimately about mid-May adopting the formal budget.

704
01:11:02,910 --> 01:11:08,190
So thank you for bringing that up to our attention and appreciate that.

705
01:11:08,430 --> 01:11:08,830
Anything else?

706
01:11:09,210 --> 01:11:09,970
Sure. That's it.

707
01:11:10,150 --> 01:11:10,510
Mr. Chairman.

708
01:11:11,030 --> 01:11:13,790
All right. Next up is board comment.

709
01:11:15,210 --> 01:11:16,430
Do we have any board comment?

710
01:11:16,630 --> 01:11:19,370
We've been chatting it up a little bit up here.

711
01:11:20,050 --> 01:11:21,030
So anything else?

712
01:11:23,410 --> 01:11:23,810
Okay.

713
01:11:25,330 --> 01:11:30,370
With that, we will move to where we don't have any information items this time.

714
01:11:30,370 --> 01:11:34,650
We have appointments, divorce, commissions, and committees.

715
01:11:36,150 --> 01:11:42,450
So I know I've talked to all of you individually about our,

716
01:11:42,450 --> 01:11:44,450
we're going to have a two step process.

717
01:11:44,610 --> 01:11:51,270
I just want to put this out there for the public for our new parks and recreation advisory committee.

718
01:11:51,710 --> 01:11:57,790
What we're going to do is take this up in the early April timeframe and have our district appointments.

719
01:11:57,790 --> 01:12:03,770
we have five districts, five appointments, go through that process so I would ask all of you

720
01:12:03,770 --> 01:12:09,650
to have your, and I know we've talked about this, but just so everybody in the public knows,

721
01:12:10,170 --> 01:12:15,490
please have those applications sent in for the district appointments. Once we do that, we'll move on

722
01:12:15,490 --> 01:12:22,330
to the at-large appointments for the Parks and Rec board and continue to move that forward.

723
01:12:22,330 --> 01:12:33,170
All right, are there any other items in terms of boards, commissions, and committees, any nominations for this evening?

724
01:12:34,870 --> 01:12:37,530
We do have one, Stephen Hine.

725
01:12:37,990 --> 01:12:40,110
Thank you for reminding me.

726
01:12:42,590 --> 01:12:43,730
That's me.

727
01:12:45,310 --> 01:12:48,590
On the Health Center, commission.

728
01:12:50,310 --> 01:12:56,190
Yeah, it's right in front of me. Thank you, Latoya, for refreshing my recollection. We have

729
01:12:56,190 --> 01:13:02,830
an at-large appointment. I will nominate Steven Hein, who's agreed to serve a four-year term

730
01:13:03,950 --> 01:13:07,370
through February 28th or 2030.

731
01:13:09,870 --> 01:13:15,230
Any others? Okay, so we'll just go and do that by consensus.

732
01:13:15,230 --> 01:13:18,590
everybody at OK with Stephen Hein?

733
01:13:19,430 --> 01:13:19,690
Proved.

734
01:13:21,390 --> 01:13:26,630
So please notify Stephen and thank you for reminding me.

735
01:13:27,250 --> 01:13:27,370
All right.

736
01:13:27,590 --> 01:13:34,070
With that, we'll move next to our calendar items.

737
01:13:34,870 --> 01:13:37,270
Again, you'll see on here.

738
01:13:38,830 --> 01:13:46,550
We may end up doing a work session on our budget and advance of that.

739
01:13:46,550 --> 01:13:55,550
Well, that will not interfere with our board meeting on the 24th and please be mindful March 24 board meeting will be at the high school again.

740
01:13:56,310 --> 01:13:59,050
I think if you say it enough times finally it seems so.

741
01:14:00,610 --> 01:14:05,670
Any other items on the calendar any questions or the group.

742
01:14:05,930 --> 01:14:09,600
Okay, and then we have to schedule a public hearing.

743
01:14:11,060 --> 01:14:20,040
I mean, make sure I got that right, yep, for to consider, is that still accurate for the 14?

744
01:14:21,020 --> 01:14:21,360
Yes.

745
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:24,120
The April 14 for the public hearing.

746
01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:26,060
Stop the saying.

747
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:26,880
Right.

748
01:14:27,580 --> 01:14:37,960
taxation and, but this is a public hearing to consider changing the deadlines for the land

749
01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:49,300
use program and other taxidate programs to align better actions. Great. So if there's consensus of the

750
01:14:49,300 --> 01:14:56,840
board, we will go ahead and schedule that for April 14th at our regular meeting. Any objections? Okay.

751
01:14:59,630 --> 01:14:59,970
And this...

752
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:19,540
And I know we have a proposed work session schedule currently slated for I think three work sessions. One is March 24, April 14th and April 28th. So we'll look to get those scheduled what we may end up doing.

753
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:29,020
We'll sort of send the note around to check timing and everything and confirm those and then

754
01:15:29,020 --> 01:15:31,820
advertise those work sessions like we normally do.

755
01:15:32,140 --> 01:15:38,640
So you see the dates, please make a note of that and we'll have to decide on a start

756
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:46,480
time so if y'all can please email me separately so we don't have them in a verdant meeting,

757
01:15:47,140 --> 01:15:48,740
we will cover that as well.

758
01:15:48,740 --> 01:15:59,490
And then we have to schedule a work session on the V dot secondary six year plan to be held on April 14th.

759
01:15:59,590 --> 01:16:02,530
And we can do that just in advance.

760
01:16:03,930 --> 01:16:07,670
Do we have the broadband authority that day? Is it on?

761
01:16:08,550 --> 01:16:10,790
No. We on the 28th.

762
01:16:11,190 --> 01:16:14,310
It's the 28th. Okay. That's what I thought. Okay. Good.

763
01:16:14,310 --> 01:16:23,790
So we'll we'll do that as well and then schedule public hearing on ZTA 2601 that is the

764
01:16:25,670 --> 01:16:32,630
the recently unanimous approval from the planning commission where we will

765
01:16:34,150 --> 01:16:49,630
Consider the leading a buy right for data centers through a change in our ordinance that will public hearing will be held on April 14th.

766
01:16:50,750 --> 01:16:51,930
Everyone good with that.

767
01:16:52,630 --> 01:17:00,670
All right. So we got that rolling on as well. So all of those are will be scheduled accordingly.

768
01:17:01,670 --> 01:17:04,190
And then we have a public hearing.

769
01:17:05,610 --> 01:17:07,110
Is that to. Oh, that's today.

770
01:17:07,650 --> 01:17:18,200
So yes, we have a public hearing on proposed supplemental appropriation and budget amendment with the Andrew Oliver our finance director.

771
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:24,360
The floor's yours. Good evening, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Vice Chair, members of the board.

772
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:30,440
We're convening this public hearing to amend the FY26 operating budget and to add the

773
01:17:30,440 --> 01:17:36,340
Career and Technical Education CTE building to the capital improvement program CIP.

774
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:41,620
Orange County Public Schools was notified that it had been awarded a $2.2 million grant

775
01:17:41,620 --> 01:17:46,820
through the school construction assistance program or SCAP from the Virginia Board of Education.

776
01:17:46,820 --> 01:17:49,700
This grant will support the construction of the new CTE.

777
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:53,940
The total estimated cost for this project is $23 million.

778
01:17:54,820 --> 01:17:56,620
Tonight we are taking TTE actions.

779
01:17:56,940 --> 01:18:01,820
The first is to amend the FY26 operating budget to recognize the $2.2 million

780
01:18:01,820 --> 01:18:06,400
scrap grant revenue and to appropriate defines for the CTE building project.

781
01:18:07,280 --> 01:18:12,440
The second is to add the CTE building to the CIP to establish the project within it

782
01:18:12,440 --> 01:18:16,060
and to set the total project budget at $23 million.

783
01:18:17,200 --> 01:18:22,980
Because this amendment exceeds 1% of the total expenditures, a public hearing is required under the code of Virginia.

784
01:18:24,100 --> 01:18:27,860
Just to recap, total estimated costs of the project is $23 million.

785
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:34,660
Funding sources include the $10 million scap grant and $20.8 million in local funding.

786
01:18:35,580 --> 01:18:41,020
The local funding may come from debt, cash, or other financing options, all of which will require a broader approval

787
01:18:41,020 --> 01:18:43,260
and this will come before you at another time.

788
01:18:43,260 --> 01:18:46,920
We're not committing to any of that funding at this time.

789
01:18:47,680 --> 01:18:53,260
So at this time, I would recommend the board open the public hearing and following the public hearing as the board adopt the resolutions.

790
01:18:54,360 --> 01:18:58,360
Thank you. With that, I will open the public hearing.

791
01:19:01,050 --> 01:19:02,870
And do we have any speakers?

792
01:19:03,210 --> 01:19:10,730
No, sir. All right. No speakers for this public hearing. I will close the public hearing.

793
01:19:10,730 --> 01:19:23,130
And now we will consider resolution number 260310-15A1, a resolution to amend the fiscal year

794
01:19:23,130 --> 01:19:28,870
2026 operating budget for the career and technical education building project.

795
01:19:30,270 --> 01:19:31,970
Do I have a motion?

796
01:19:32,550 --> 01:19:33,150
So moved.

797
01:19:33,870 --> 01:19:34,650
I have a motion.

798
01:19:35,030 --> 01:19:35,870
Do I have a second?

799
01:19:37,190 --> 01:19:39,610
We have a motion in a second.

800
01:19:39,610 --> 01:19:51,470
any discussion, though. This is the continued process by which we not only are fortunate to receive

801
01:19:51,470 --> 01:19:59,190
a $2.2 million grant, but to formally begin the process as we finance the CTE building

802
01:19:59,190 --> 01:20:06,390
as a capital project in our plan. We've worked extensively with the schools division

803
01:20:06,390 --> 01:20:14,490
in the school board and appreciate their, in the superintendent, appreciate all of their help to get things in place.

804
01:20:14,790 --> 01:20:22,390
And so without any further discussion, I will call for a roll call vote.

805
01:20:23,290 --> 01:20:24,310
Mr. Capel.

806
01:20:24,990 --> 01:20:25,550
Capel.

807
01:20:26,350 --> 01:20:26,470
Hi.

808
01:20:27,490 --> 01:20:28,670
Mr. Van Helvin.

809
01:20:28,750 --> 01:20:29,130
Hi.

810
01:20:29,670 --> 01:20:30,270
Ms. Coleman.

811
01:20:30,790 --> 01:20:31,770
Hi. Mr. Nichol.

812
01:20:32,030 --> 01:20:32,470
Hi.

813
01:20:32,670 --> 01:20:35,830
The resolution passes for zero.

814
01:20:36,850 --> 01:20:40,350
good day for our accounting.

815
01:20:43,250 --> 01:20:46,530
Okay, now we come to that portion.

816
01:20:46,670 --> 01:20:48,150
One additional question.

817
01:20:50,090 --> 01:20:52,710
Oh, rats. I didn't do the other one.

818
01:20:53,130 --> 01:20:54,310
Yeah, sorry.

819
01:20:55,850 --> 01:21:01,330
I'm ready to get to public comment. So bear with me for just a second.

820
01:21:01,330 --> 01:21:22,890
Um, do we? We have another resolution for the capital improvement program. Uh, and that is resolution number 260310-15A2 a resolution to amend the capital improvement program to include the Korean technical education building project in the capital improvement program. Do I have a motion.

821
01:21:24,140 --> 01:21:34,910
So do I have a second I mean, yeah, I'll second it for sure. All right. I'm kind of a hangar on on this way

822
01:21:35,790 --> 01:21:40,930
Showing up. Okay, so we have a motion in a second is there any discussion?

823
01:21:40,930 --> 01:21:48,350
I think by now we've covered the bases, so I will call for a roll call vote with no discussion seen

824
01:21:49,430 --> 01:21:49,950
Please

825
01:21:49,950 --> 01:21:53,030
Ms. Coleman, aye. Mr. Nickle.

826
01:21:53,150 --> 01:21:54,390
Aye. Mr. Capeau.

827
01:21:54,630 --> 01:21:55,030
Aye.

828
01:21:55,270 --> 01:21:56,010
Mr. Van Hogan.

829
01:21:57,190 --> 01:22:01,210
All right, we have a resolution adopted to amend the CIP.

830
01:22:01,330 --> 01:22:05,190
It includes the CTE building project by a vote of four.

831
01:22:05,610 --> 01:22:06,110
Zero.

832
01:22:06,950 --> 01:22:10,710
Now, I think we're ready to move to public comment.

833
01:22:11,290 --> 01:22:13,390
How many speakers do we have?

834
01:22:13,590 --> 01:22:14,750
We have six speakers tonight.

835
01:22:14,810 --> 01:22:15,430
Six speakers.

836
01:22:15,930 --> 01:22:19,290
OK, so we're going to try

837
01:22:19,290 --> 01:22:26,470
Some of the little new in prep for some of the things we have coming, so normally I think

838
01:22:26,470 --> 01:22:29,970
when I introduce our public comment, we've opened up public comment.

839
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:45,000
And for every one of our board meetings, in the past, we've had one or two minutes or sometimes three minutes. We're going to keep it at three minutes. We're going to have a timer, just get every use to it.

840
01:22:46,140 --> 01:22:56,080
And to be prepared, you know, we're not going to get too crazy if you go to three minutes and five seconds, but we want to kind of keep things flowing.

841
01:22:56,080 --> 01:23:05,840
please be respectful in your comments, please, when your name is called, come up, give your

842
01:23:05,840 --> 01:23:12,040
name and your address for the record. Make your comment. Well, once you give your name and address,

843
01:23:12,200 --> 01:23:21,500
we'll start the clock, if you will, and go through your comments, whatever they may be. And so with

844
01:23:21,500 --> 01:23:25,580
that we will call our first public commenter.

845
01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:27,060
We have Daniel Bowser.

846
01:23:28,480 --> 01:23:31,740
I have right before we start, I mean, does that make a noise?

847
01:23:31,780 --> 01:23:33,760
Do we need to be prepared for something full?

848
01:23:34,100 --> 01:23:35,620
I understand, I have not heard it,

849
01:23:35,780 --> 01:23:37,220
but I hear it does get your attention.

850
01:23:37,660 --> 01:23:43,960
Okay, so when this is our first time, thanks for asking about that.

851
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:46,960
So there is a noise that will give you a little,

852
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:49,220
like I said, don't be shocked, don't be afraid,

853
01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:50,420
that's everything's fine.

854
01:23:51,500 --> 01:23:52,860
I don't even know what the noise is.

855
01:23:53,060 --> 01:23:55,940
So we're trying, you're the first, all right?

856
01:23:56,100 --> 01:23:56,880
You're the perfect, you're the perfect.

857
01:23:57,040 --> 01:23:58,360
Sorry, he's got to be a first, right?

858
01:23:58,640 --> 01:24:00,140
That it's always got to be a first.

859
01:24:00,280 --> 01:24:02,700
So please state your name and address and we'll start.

860
01:24:03,020 --> 01:24:05,780
Daniel Baszett, 29228, Lama Lane,

861
01:24:05,960 --> 01:24:09,660
Roadsville, Virginia, good evening.

862
01:24:09,700 --> 01:24:13,240
Members of the board, Mr. Chairman, I live in Roadsville.

863
01:24:13,460 --> 01:24:14,320
I stand before you tonight

864
01:24:14,320 --> 01:24:16,560
because we're community is facing across rows.

865
01:24:17,020 --> 01:24:18,720
The proposed and minion energy transmission

866
01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:23,820
lives present a permanent industrial threat to the soul of Orange County and the rural life that

867
01:24:23,820 --> 01:24:29,340
we have all worked so hard to protect. In Roadsville, across this county, the land tells a story,

868
01:24:29,900 --> 01:24:33,860
much of the soil here has been held intended by the same families for generations.

869
01:24:35,220 --> 01:24:40,040
For these residents, their acreage isn't just an asset, it's their family heritage and their history.

870
01:24:41,990 --> 01:24:46,970
To fly through these multi-generational forms that massive industrial corridors is devastating

871
01:24:46,970 --> 01:24:52,090
below to the very people who have been valuable in the county for over a century.

872
01:24:53,470 --> 01:24:57,870
We're asking them to watch their legacy be carved up for a project that offers them nothing

873
01:24:57,870 --> 01:25:05,760
in return. We are just not talking about losing the views. We're talking about destruction

874
01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:11,520
of their history. We must also have transparency and who is paying for this. Is the financial

875
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:16,500
burden falling that Orange County families to fund infrastructure that primarily serves data

876
01:25:16,500 --> 01:25:18,780
centers or interest outside our borders.

877
01:25:19,820 --> 01:25:24,820
We should not be as to subsidize a project that offers us no direct local benefit while we

878
01:25:24,820 --> 01:25:26,080
suffer the local consequences.

879
01:25:28,080 --> 01:25:30,180
These lines are a direct hit to property values.

880
01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:33,260
The most of us, our home, is our largest asset.

881
01:25:33,820 --> 01:25:36,700
And these towers will slash that equity overnight.

882
01:25:38,080 --> 01:25:42,780
Furthermore, the environmental impact on our watersheds and our local ecosystems is a price

883
01:25:42,780 --> 01:25:43,820
to hide a pay.

884
01:25:43,820 --> 01:25:51,780
We are the stewards of this land and allowing these high voltage corridors to clear our countryside as a failure of that stewardship.

885
01:25:53,900 --> 01:25:59,620
Finally, we live here because of the beautiful rural character of Orange County. It's our greatest asset.

886
01:26:00,640 --> 01:26:03,340
And once that beauty is gone, it's gone forever.

887
01:26:04,520 --> 01:26:09,200
I urge us more to stand as a shield to your constituents and demand that to me and explore

888
01:26:09,200 --> 01:26:14,760
its undergrounding or alternative routes that respect our land, our history and please protect

889
01:26:14,760 --> 01:26:18,400
our wallets, our environment, and our generational legacy.

890
01:26:19,140 --> 01:26:20,540
Thank you for your time.

891
01:26:20,540 --> 01:26:21,880
Okay.

892
01:26:29,990 --> 01:26:30,750
Okay.

893
01:26:31,130 --> 01:26:33,170
We have Russell's the Wensky.

894
01:26:37,120 --> 01:26:37,640
Russell.

895
01:26:39,320 --> 01:26:41,860
Do you have three in use.

896
01:26:42,500 --> 01:26:43,140
Yes.

897
01:26:44,540 --> 01:26:45,600
Hold on.

898
01:26:45,700 --> 01:26:46,280
This is second.

899
01:26:49,780 --> 01:26:50,140
Come on.

900
01:26:50,380 --> 01:26:51,100
You've got.

901
01:26:51,520 --> 01:26:53,780
You'll be number two on our.

902
01:26:53,900 --> 01:26:55,160
Using our.

903
01:26:56,700 --> 01:26:58,540
Maybe you have 75 minutes.

904
01:26:58,740 --> 01:26:59,100
I don't know.

905
01:26:59,260 --> 01:27:00,240
That was.

906
01:27:02,860 --> 01:27:03,200
Okay.

907
01:27:03,540 --> 01:27:04,140
Okay.

908
01:27:04,140 --> 01:27:04,980
are a place to stay.

909
01:27:05,060 --> 01:27:05,540
Thank you most.

910
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:09,240
Mr. Winsky, I live at 16461 Terry's Run Road.

911
01:27:10,700 --> 01:27:14,520
I'm a newcomer to the county, but at the same time I've been coming down in this area

912
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:16,660
for the last 15 years or so.

913
01:27:16,960 --> 01:27:19,820
I'm not understanding the county was always that this was supposed to be an agricultural

914
01:27:20,300 --> 01:27:24,660
county, you know, in respect to land and, you know, not, not have heavy industry.

915
01:27:25,320 --> 01:27:31,840
I'm originally came from Prince William County, which I stayed there for 47 years and it got

916
01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:34,700
where we had to start living with these data centers.

917
01:27:35,100 --> 01:27:36,580
They started with the power lines.

918
01:27:37,480 --> 01:27:40,580
They came through, our taxes kept going up.

919
01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:45,600
And a lot, the promises of cheaper power, more

920
01:27:45,600 --> 01:27:48,520
than kind of a power never happened that.

921
01:27:48,720 --> 01:27:53,200
My real estate taxes went from a reasonable figure

922
01:27:53,200 --> 01:27:55,800
to, I only listened, two and a half acres.

923
01:27:56,860 --> 01:28:00,160
My real estate taxes were over $6,000 a year.

924
01:28:00,160 --> 01:28:05,020
That, something that I think a bunch of these people are forgetting about, it's not just

925
01:28:05,020 --> 01:28:10,280
a matter of cutting a 200-foot wide squat to our country, you know, destroying everything

926
01:28:10,280 --> 01:28:10,780
in there.

927
01:28:11,300 --> 01:28:17,960
But my particular place is that one of the Danes will state, this family dates back to the slaves

928
01:28:17,960 --> 01:28:26,120
at Monpilier, okay, the Danes are buried on my place, this part lies in the right to the

929
01:28:26,800 --> 01:28:28,200
of this cemetery.

930
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:30,040
That.

931
01:28:30,040 --> 01:28:34,400
Another thing that comes up which, you know, the budget was brought up that you were planning

932
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:37,140
on reviewing the budgets in our tax rate,

933
01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:44,860
the area, putting it in a 750, a kill-out

934
01:28:44,860 --> 01:28:53,100
car line, not only is taking a 200-foot swat, but you can't, you can't healthy live within

935
01:28:53,100 --> 01:28:59,500
thousand foot of that size power line. Our homes which are there, how are you going to tax

936
01:28:59,500 --> 01:29:05,100
a person on a home that you can't live in? You know, the government makes some kind of

937
01:29:05,100 --> 01:29:12,500
restitution for taking your place, but it's a very small, minimal amount. They try to offer you

938
01:29:12,500 --> 01:29:18,260
fair mark and value for what it is. What's the fair mark and value of a house you can't live in

939
01:29:18,800 --> 01:29:23,540
or use of the property that you can to I've got some data and two different sources

940
01:29:23,540 --> 01:29:29,560
I can give it to the board and they probably have this information already but I like to

941
01:29:29,560 --> 01:29:33,780
you know hand it to them so that they can review it in case some of the people here don't know

942
01:29:33,780 --> 01:29:36,380
about it. Thank you.

943
01:29:43,270 --> 01:29:47,990
What that data basically represents is that not only do they take the land

944
01:29:47,990 --> 01:29:54,810
but they present the magnetic fields that's given off by these power lines you have to be

945
01:29:54,810 --> 01:29:59,650
minimum of a thousand foot away in order to take and live in a home.

946
01:30:01,590 --> 01:30:09,190
That's basically it. I'm aggravated with it. Thank you. Thank you for coming.

947
01:30:17,030 --> 01:30:19,090
Next, we have Aaron Pry.

948
01:30:27,680 --> 01:30:45,320
Good evening. My name's Aaron Pryne. I live at 7456, Oakwood Lake Drive in Roadsville. And I'm one of the ones that they're going to cut my property. And it is my house is within a hundred feet from their lives. So I'm hoping that you all can support us.

949
01:30:45,340 --> 01:30:50,940
all of us in this county because I believe you all feel the same way that we do and what

950
01:30:50,940 --> 01:30:56,520
this gentleman said is absolutely right and same with this one. This is our county and these people

951
01:30:56,520 --> 01:31:02,560
want to come in and destroy everything that I've been here 44 years. So I'm not sort of a newbie,

952
01:31:02,900 --> 01:31:08,020
but I am not born and raised here but my children were and they all went to school here and my son

953
01:31:08,020 --> 01:31:14,080
will inherit the property, but it'll be unlivable like this gentleman said. I mean 100 feet from their

954
01:31:14,080 --> 01:31:19,840
in, from their, plus all the wetlands that'll go, and that's only one line. There's two lines

955
01:31:19,840 --> 01:31:25,620
that we don't know where they're going to decide, but I hope that you will talk to SCC and make

956
01:31:25,620 --> 01:31:31,320
them go if they come through here that it all goes underground. We've just been cabled, so we're all

957
01:31:31,320 --> 01:31:38,060
used to things going underground, but this overhead stuff is just terrible. And I hope you all will

958
01:31:38,060 --> 01:31:48,320
support our county and take care of us like you've done for as many in a since 1734. So thank you very much for the evening. Thank you.

959
01:31:54,120 --> 01:31:55,940
Next we have dated Butler.

960
01:32:00,840 --> 01:32:03,420
Next we'll have crystal rust

961
01:32:10,110 --> 01:32:14,630
and crystal rust. I live at 1 3 1 6 3 Saint dress road.

962
01:32:15,510 --> 01:32:21,610
I don't know what else I can say that everybody else hasn't said, but it'll be 10 years in May

963
01:32:21,610 --> 01:32:25,990
since me and my husband bought the property here. This was supposed to be our forever home.

964
01:32:26,590 --> 01:32:35,030
With two young kids, I'm sorry. It will make our house on an habitable. It goes to our property.

965
01:32:36,070 --> 01:32:41,630
It's not just a massive ice war. It causes cancer. They're going to tell you on March 24th

966
01:32:41,630 --> 01:32:54,610
that those EMFs do nothing, they do, they cause leukemia and children, I have a three and a five year old, I can't live there and I won't be able to sell it either.

967
01:32:54,750 --> 01:32:56,030
I have no options.

968
01:32:57,810 --> 01:32:58,550
They don't care.

969
01:32:59,310 --> 01:33:01,190
We've already heard from representatives.

970
01:33:01,890 --> 01:33:04,830
One gentleman was told, small sacrifice for the many.

971
01:33:05,210 --> 01:33:11,610
They don't care, they know it's a sacrifice, they know we're sacrificing our land and our health for something that doesn't

972
01:33:11,610 --> 01:33:12,970
benefit us directly.

973
01:33:15,770 --> 01:33:19,950
I was talking to the environmentalist last night and they said after

974
01:33:19,950 --> 01:33:27,250
they clear that 200 feet, their maintenance is spraying herbicide. That's groundwater. We're all

975
01:33:27,250 --> 01:33:34,870
on well. It's a double dose. It's the radiation from those lines and it's ruining our water

976
01:33:34,870 --> 01:33:40,790
sources well. They don't care and it's not for us as for data centers that nobody wanted

977
01:33:40,790 --> 01:33:46,750
up north either, and they certainly don't want them down here, and this is a slippery slope.

978
01:33:47,290 --> 01:33:52,270
Once this starts, it will never stop. They'll put data centers in orange and coal pepper

979
01:33:52,270 --> 01:33:59,530
and wherever these lines go, and it won't stop. I understand from this meeting, my first

980
01:33:59,530 --> 01:34:06,670
one ever, because I'm so wild up, that we're all on the same page here. So I appreciate that.

981
01:34:06,670 --> 01:34:12,090
I will be there on March 24th, but this is terrifying.

982
01:34:13,050 --> 01:34:15,890
This was supposed to be somewhere I lived forever.

983
01:34:16,850 --> 01:34:18,970
And now I feel like I'm being pushed out,

984
01:34:19,170 --> 01:34:19,930
one way or another.

985
01:34:21,290 --> 01:34:23,450
So thank you for your time this evening.

986
01:34:32,960 --> 01:34:34,880
Final speaker, it's Bonnie Finchon.

987
01:34:52,830 --> 01:34:56,610
Bonnie Finchon, 16567 Mallory's Ford Road,

988
01:34:56,970 --> 01:34:57,770
Gordon's Will Virginia.

989
01:34:58,950 --> 01:35:00,550
First of all, I'm gonna thank all

990
01:35:00,550 --> 01:35:03,890
for the effort you're making to get ahead of this mess

991
01:35:03,890 --> 01:35:05,830
with these transmission lines.

992
01:35:07,810 --> 01:35:12,730
I can empathize with your shock and dismay

993
01:35:12,730 --> 01:35:15,210
of being broad sided with this.

994
01:35:15,210 --> 01:35:17,750
Many of us in the community felt the same way

995
01:35:17,750 --> 01:35:19,110
about the data center thing.

996
01:35:19,510 --> 01:35:22,330
So I understand trying to play ketchup

997
01:35:22,330 --> 01:35:24,670
and figure out where are we?

998
01:35:24,670 --> 01:35:26,610
How do we get here and what do we do now?

999
01:35:26,610 --> 01:35:34,210
So I feel I feel for you. I really do we shouldn't be surprised by this

1000
01:35:34,650 --> 01:35:36,830
the data center was the beginning

1001
01:35:37,690 --> 01:35:44,810
the transmission lines are nothing more than something to support those data centers and I agree with what the

1002
01:35:44,810 --> 01:35:51,570
later just said they are bringing these transmission lines in ahead of us at any sort of parameters

1003
01:35:51,570 --> 01:35:57,730
with or try to set parameters with the data centers where they have to pay for these

1004
01:35:57,730 --> 01:36:01,310
transmission lines if they get into our county.

1005
01:36:02,830 --> 01:36:09,050
But this accelerated rate is the same accelerated rate that went along with the data

1006
01:36:09,050 --> 01:36:09,850
centers.

1007
01:36:10,330 --> 01:36:11,470
Shubbing get it through.

1008
01:36:11,790 --> 01:36:13,770
We won't try to get anything done.

1009
01:36:14,170 --> 01:36:16,970
The normal course of things we're going to just push it in.

1010
01:36:16,970 --> 01:36:35,590
And here we are, now it's the transmission lines, and if they get in, our county is going to be nothing, but data centers. I'm sorry. There's, there's no reason in this world for us needing 765 killable lines running through here.

1011
01:36:35,810 --> 01:36:44,490
That's not to feed communities or anything like that. That is, for these data centers, I'm sorry. That's the way I feel about it.

1012
01:36:44,490 --> 01:36:49,150
I appreciate y'all's effort to try to get ahead of it.

1013
01:36:49,210 --> 01:36:53,350
What can we do as citizens to support your efforts?

1014
01:36:53,770 --> 01:36:58,090
Can we send emails to what is the federal energy

1015
01:36:58,090 --> 01:36:59,670
regulatory committee?

1016
01:37:00,230 --> 01:37:03,350
Our commission is there a place that we can send emails

1017
01:37:03,350 --> 01:37:07,210
to verbalize what your our concerns are

1018
01:37:07,210 --> 01:37:09,530
with this thing trying to come through our community?

1019
01:37:10,390 --> 01:37:12,510
The SEC, where do we write?

1020
01:37:12,510 --> 01:37:20,930
Tell us what we need to do to support what you're trying to do and we will be glad to just tell us we don't know what to do

1021
01:37:21,350 --> 01:37:29,970
I mean we don't know what the processes are but there's got to be a way for us to express our concerns at the federal level at the state

1022
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:43,060
Oh, and y'all know how we feel here. I mean, we've said what we had to say everything with the water, everything. We've touched on all of this, even with the data center. So tell us what we need to do.

1023
01:37:43,240 --> 01:37:53,760
Give us information that we can help support your efforts to try to protect our county from these monstrosities. Thank you so much.

1024
01:37:53,760 --> 01:37:54,260
We

1025
01:37:59,830 --> 01:38:04,190
do have one additional speaker, this Sarah Closkey.

1026
01:38:12,420 --> 01:38:18,620
Sarah Closkey 24405, Montview Lane, Orange Virginia, all of that phone.

1027
01:38:19,600 --> 01:38:26,240
I appreciate everyone speaking up and participating in the process and the boards.

1028
01:38:27,400 --> 01:38:34,280
Best efforts that I think we all want to avoid this type of development in our rural county.

1029
01:38:35,800 --> 01:38:44,660
And I appreciate the lady that last spoke to reduce the impacts on wildlife by avoiding

1030
01:38:44,660 --> 01:38:50,380
having these right-of-ways come through our land where it's going to be increased chemicals

1031
01:38:50,380 --> 01:38:53,820
in our streams and loss of pollinators.

1032
01:39:00,060 --> 01:39:05,820
So the clearing of the right-of-ways has an impact and the maintenance as well.

1033
01:39:05,820 --> 01:39:13,380
And I think other people are more informed than I am about how eminent domain works,

1034
01:39:13,620 --> 01:39:19,520
but I don't think that any restitution would make up for the long-term mental and physical

1035
01:39:19,520 --> 01:39:26,440
effects by those impacted by proximity to these potential lines.

1036
01:39:28,000 --> 01:39:35,800
And I don't know when the appropriate time for these questions that I have about

1037
01:39:38,160 --> 01:39:45,320
noise abatement, noise is an issue about, you know, the decreased value of land that people

1038
01:39:45,320 --> 01:39:51,480
have worked on and worked for for their adult lives, and I feel that farms are holding

1039
01:39:51,480 --> 01:39:57,760
the wind and orange county against suburban sprawl. It's right on our doorsteps,

1040
01:39:59,860 --> 01:40:00,540
and,

1041
01:40:05,780 --> 01:40:05,780
you

1042
01:40:05,780 --> 01:40:13,380
the farming legacy of this county, you know, I don't think there's ever any compensation that

1043
01:40:14,460 --> 01:40:21,560
could be offered to make up for the decreased quality of life that a project like this through our

1044
01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:23,940
county would cause.

1045
01:40:27,970 --> 01:40:32,270
I'd like to refer people to the last lady asked a question about the

1046
01:40:32,270 --> 01:40:40,010
the R.C. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and how to submit comments to that.

1047
01:40:40,590 --> 01:40:49,170
The Facebook page Orange County Data Centers has a man on their name, Michael Regan,

1048
01:40:49,310 --> 01:40:58,030
R.E.G.A.N., who has sounded the alarm about sending in these comments to the F.E.R.C.

1049
01:40:58,030 --> 01:41:13,390
And he has detailed instructions on how to do so, and also he is offering a help session for people like me who might be non-native computer people.

1050
01:41:14,210 --> 01:41:25,330
This coming Saturday at the Orange County Library Wilderness Branch from 10 to 1, and he advises bringing your laptop.

1051
01:41:25,330 --> 01:41:35,010
And he would help you, especially if you have your comment ready to submit that comment through the owner's process there.

1052
01:41:36,270 --> 01:41:39,790
And then I just put a philosophical note here.

1053
01:41:41,190 --> 01:41:51,730
The great Indian chief, I believe it was Joseph said that the white man will not understand until the last tree is gone that you can't eat money.

1054
01:41:54,630 --> 01:41:55,110
So

1055
01:41:58,240 --> 01:42:03,460
I know we have a few other speakers, so who's up next?

1056
01:42:03,540 --> 01:42:05,360
Next we have Michael Regan.

1057
01:42:05,640 --> 01:42:06,260
There we go.

1058
01:42:06,440 --> 01:42:08,140
Michael Regan is here.

1059
01:42:09,440 --> 01:42:10,720
Ask a new shot received.

1060
01:42:11,040 --> 01:42:12,000
Good afternoon, Board.

1061
01:42:12,460 --> 01:42:15,400
First, I want to thank the Board for the tremendous actions they've taken today.

1062
01:42:15,760 --> 01:42:18,760
I want to thank the residents for the tremendous actions of what they've done.

1063
01:42:19,200 --> 01:42:22,460
And I just want to reiterate, I was at home on my farm.

1064
01:42:22,460 --> 01:42:24,280
Raising my kids happy to be alone.

1065
01:42:24,280 --> 01:42:32,300
and I've learned more about regional transmission, expansion plans, and FERC, and SEC, or state

1066
01:42:32,300 --> 01:42:36,700
corporation commission than I would ever care to, but that's not just me, that's the entire

1067
01:42:36,700 --> 01:42:37,020
community.

1068
01:42:37,280 --> 01:42:41,280
So now we're engaged and we're looking and I'm sure that's making the gentleman in the back

1069
01:42:41,280 --> 01:42:45,140
a little bit uncomfortable, but I just want to draw attention to a couple of things that we're

1070
01:42:45,140 --> 01:42:47,260
sighted here today and I think they're critically important.

1071
01:42:48,240 --> 01:42:54,100
The original sighting location of the each substation up until 2025 in their P.J.M.'s regional

1072
01:42:54,100 --> 01:42:58,760
transmission, transmission plans, the EAT facility was described at a 765

1073
01:42:58,760 --> 01:43:02,980
killable substation, approximately 65 acres in fall,

1074
01:43:03,140 --> 01:43:07,380
cure county near the existing transmission hub that services more than

1075
01:43:07,380 --> 01:43:10,700
Virginia. It makes sense from a great perspective that

1076
01:43:10,700 --> 01:43:13,640
hub contains the infrastructure that moves electricity into northern

1077
01:43:13,640 --> 01:43:18,180
Virginia, but it's not there anymore. We know that it's now

1078
01:43:18,180 --> 01:43:22,680
arbitrarily proposed to not build in coal pepper county. In that decision,

1079
01:43:22,680 --> 01:43:30,520
that single decision that happened sometime in 2025 after the PGM's approval process to relocate

1080
01:43:30,520 --> 01:43:34,680
that terminating substation for projects of this scale at significant planning decision.

1081
01:43:35,080 --> 01:43:39,620
Yet, most of the surrounding counties that the officials I've spoken to had no visibility

1082
01:43:39,620 --> 01:43:41,440
into winner how that decision occurred.

1083
01:43:41,800 --> 01:43:45,500
Maybe fall-cured it if you've got some buddies out there, probably asking questions, maybe

1084
01:43:45,500 --> 01:43:46,340
I'll go up there for a meeting.

1085
01:43:46,840 --> 01:43:50,360
But anyways, the practical result today is that Orange County now sits directly in the corridor

1086
01:43:50,360 --> 01:43:51,780
or one of the largest transmission lines

1087
01:43:51,780 --> 01:43:52,920
proposed in the region.

1088
01:43:53,520 --> 01:43:54,980
And certainly as you've all discussed,

1089
01:43:55,920 --> 01:43:59,360
when planned or the project moves between two end points,

1090
01:43:59,500 --> 01:44:02,160
the counties in between are those that suffer the physical burden.

1091
01:44:03,580 --> 01:44:04,840
And I will say, you know, unfortunately,

1092
01:44:05,260 --> 01:44:07,340
and I don't mean to alarm anybody, but again,

1093
01:44:07,420 --> 01:44:10,280
I am reading every plan I can get a hold of

1094
01:44:10,280 --> 01:44:11,500
that's publicly available.

1095
01:44:12,000 --> 01:44:14,820
The Joshua Falls E proposals part of a broader,

1096
01:44:14,980 --> 01:44:16,620
regional transmission expansion

1097
01:44:16,620 --> 01:44:18,900
that could affect Orange County Central Virginia

1098
01:44:18,900 --> 01:44:25,960
through multiple 765 kilovolt corridors rather than the standalone project. If you read the latest

1099
01:44:26,740 --> 01:44:34,740
PGM, February 26th letter to their board, they discussed the Vante substation as a 765

1100
01:44:34,740 --> 01:44:40,760
kilovolt loop. So two of these potentially through the county or our surrounding counties to

1101
01:44:40,760 --> 01:44:45,880
loop this back to Joshua Falls. So that brings you back to what we've already discussed,

1102
01:44:45,880 --> 01:44:59,960
The Federal Energy Regatory Commission, they're considering that proposal for the EIT, and that's to accelerate approval of very large power generation and storage projects. For example, the battery energy storage systems that are considered shovel ready.

1103
01:45:00,370 --> 01:45:16,850
So, under that proposal, that's at least 250 megawatts that could move through the process in 10 months, instead of 4 years, and as the meaning energy describes it themselves, this is an energy essentially highway that they can on and off track energy or demand as needed.

1104
01:45:17,770 --> 01:45:25,170
So, with this transmission lines comes these power systems that they're so desperately trying to accelerate in the federal arena right now.

1105
01:45:25,170 --> 01:45:31,330
So for the current, the concern for us, is that accelerating that large generation and

1106
01:45:31,330 --> 01:45:37,470
storage that creates the demand and the need that they need for the reliability studies for new transmission lines.

1107
01:45:38,010 --> 01:45:44,510
So the transmission lines that they're proposing right now are going to be based on demand created through the EIT.

1108
01:45:44,710 --> 01:45:46,070
And the demand is not necessarily the consumer.

1109
01:45:46,330 --> 01:45:51,570
It's the amount of power they have that's sitting there idle, waiting to get out and transmission lines.

1110
01:45:52,670 --> 01:45:56,550
So, and then in a couple of, was already said, I've lost my time, I'm just going to go

1111
01:45:56,550 --> 01:45:57,170
with five minutes later.

1112
01:45:57,310 --> 01:46:01,570
We then have the big buzzer go off, which is, which is good because nobody got scared,

1113
01:46:01,570 --> 01:46:03,670
but if you could just wrap it up, please.

1114
01:46:03,690 --> 01:46:04,610
Okay, I will wrap it up.

1115
01:46:04,970 --> 01:46:11,830
So, I will just say that I will just reiterate that if you do want to get your voice

1116
01:46:11,830 --> 01:46:15,310
on record, I'm so proud of all that I've looked at the federal documents filling up now

1117
01:46:15,310 --> 01:46:19,010
with comments from Orange from the Lisa from surrounding counties.

1118
01:46:20,580 --> 01:46:29,760
And if you'd like to some help on that, you can look up on Facebook, but again, we will be at the wilderness library assisting people filing their comments and making the voices heard. Thank you.

1119
01:46:30,320 --> 01:46:30,560
Thank you.

1120
01:46:30,560 --> 01:46:30,800
Thank you.

1121
01:46:36,240 --> 01:46:38,500
Next, we have Nancy Levesk.

1122
01:46:45,300 --> 01:46:46,520
All right, I was late to the board.

1123
01:46:46,640 --> 01:46:48,880
It took me an hour and a half to get here from Northern Virginia.

1124
01:46:49,480 --> 01:46:50,120
So thank you.

1125
01:46:50,200 --> 01:46:51,240
My name is Nancy Levesk.

1126
01:46:51,500 --> 01:46:52,780
I'm at 3-1-1-0-6.

1127
01:46:52,920 --> 01:46:55,480
There's a road in Levesk Grove.

1128
01:46:58,430 --> 01:47:00,770
Just kind of reiterating what everybody else said.

1129
01:47:00,770 --> 01:47:08,910
I've been 20 plus years transit as a marine and I finally end up in northern Virginia retire here stay here

1130
01:47:08,910 --> 01:47:18,030
but I came to Orange County for the beauty of Orange County, which this transmission line ends up about a thousand feet from my home.

1131
01:47:18,090 --> 01:47:26,910
I spent $30,000 put a nice patio out on the back, be able to sit and dream a coffee, don't have to worry about explosive devices going off or anything else.

1132
01:47:26,910 --> 01:47:35,050
And now I'm going to have to look at some transmission lines that had no value to anybody in our area.

1133
01:47:35,830 --> 01:47:42,710
As the one guy mentioned, I think there are many more options that can fund this power serves they are needing of north.

1134
01:47:43,310 --> 01:47:51,060
They should not affect the hundreds of miles of beautiful Virginia landscape that is going to be destroyed because of it.

1135
01:47:51,060 --> 01:47:55,340
And just the shout-off to the sheriff, nobody caught me while I was feeding to get here.

1136
01:47:55,820 --> 01:47:56,660
Thank you.

1137
01:47:57,840 --> 01:48:01,020
The shout-out has closed.

1138
01:48:01,480 --> 01:48:03,660
Thank you.

1139
01:48:06,440 --> 01:48:09,640
All right, now our final speaker, Jerry Garanami.

1140
01:48:18,540 --> 01:48:25,680
Hi, I'm Jerry Gariani at 28401 Mind Run Road in Rosal and then District 2.

1141
01:48:25,680 --> 01:48:32,480
And I'm one of the houses that where it goes right by the house and makes my house uninhabitable.

1142
01:48:33,280 --> 01:48:39,940
And so I just want to urge, today, come to the board to urge, I know there's a lot of activity going on.

1143
01:48:40,180 --> 01:48:49,560
And there's a lot of, I went to the Planning Commission meeting and I know there's a strategy to begin engaging with the State Corporation Commission.

1144
01:48:49,560 --> 01:48:59,380
But I'd like to urge the Board as the executive body to start thinking on a broader strategy to fight this.

1145
01:48:59,780 --> 01:49:09,180
And one of the strategies is to assuming that we work with the SCC on a case.

1146
01:49:09,520 --> 01:49:14,540
But what if we lose that case and they vote to approve the transmission line?

1147
01:49:14,540 --> 01:49:18,940
The next step is the SEC can only be appealed to the State Supreme Court.

1148
01:49:20,220 --> 01:49:25,340
So we need to, you know, and that's a significant effort to bring a case to the State Supreme Court.

1149
01:49:26,160 --> 01:49:32,100
So I'm urging the Board to start building a coalition of all the 78-9 counties.

1150
01:49:32,840 --> 01:49:43,860
To look for, look for the proper legal counsel that specializes and taking things like this to the State Supreme Court and start building the case now.

1151
01:49:43,860 --> 01:49:59,020
And that does a couple of things that helps prepare the case for the SEC, but then also be prepared right away for a state Supreme Court case.

1152
01:50:02,610 --> 01:50:12,170
And so I'm just urging that we do, and I know that that's a that's a cost burden, but if we work with all the counties and all the counties pull the resources.

1153
01:50:12,170 --> 01:50:19,530
And all the counties bring it to this Supreme Court as a group, that strengthens the case.

1154
01:50:20,170 --> 01:50:22,670
So this urging to start that now.

1155
01:50:23,350 --> 01:50:29,390
I'm also would like to kind of get the board and the county staff to start thinking

1156
01:50:29,390 --> 01:50:36,050
out of the box of this broader strategy to look at things like, well, a lot of the folks

1157
01:50:36,050 --> 01:50:48,930
I talked about, like, my home, would be uninhabitable and a certain distance away from that high voltage for a lot of reasons that everybody's talked about.

1158
01:50:49,190 --> 01:51:01,930
You know, can the board look at rules and regulations to say, okay, if you're going to be, if a home is a certain distance to 100 yards, 500 yards from a high voltage line, it's, it's condemned.

1159
01:51:01,930 --> 01:51:09,990
and does that force value length, then if all comes, if all those fails, now that it's protecting

1160
01:51:09,990 --> 01:51:14,430
the homeowner that they're going to get paid for that home at a fair market value, and

1161
01:51:14,430 --> 01:51:20,010
that just like Nancy said, sit on your porch and have to live underneath the line.

1162
01:51:20,510 --> 01:51:24,890
So things like that, I guess I'm urging to think out of the box and start thinking of strategies

1163
01:51:24,890 --> 01:51:33,130
that also would drive the, you know, valiant link to think about the cost of what that means

1164
01:51:33,130 --> 01:51:38,930
would cost across the county because when I talk to the person yesterday, I said, why did

1165
01:51:38,930 --> 01:51:43,830
you pick this route? They said, well, it's a cheapest route. Well, let's not make it the cheapest route.

1166
01:51:43,830 --> 01:51:49,410
Let's make it expensive for them and try to stop this that way. So I'm just urging to start thinking

1167
01:51:49,410 --> 01:51:55,510
about these things and build this strategy, and then let us know like Nancy said. And lastly,

1168
01:51:57,630 --> 01:52:05,430
like the last speaker said, I'm a veteran, my neighbors are veterans, and so I'm really

1169
01:52:05,430 --> 01:52:10,690
hoping we win this case because and we push this out of the county because if we don't, I mean it's

1170
01:52:10,690 --> 01:52:14,590
like living in North Korea, right? I'm such people come in and take your property and destroy it.

1171
01:52:15,290 --> 01:52:17,290
And for those of us who are veterans, it's like,

1172
01:52:17,430 --> 01:52:18,290
well, why do we bother?

1173
01:52:18,610 --> 01:52:19,990
Why do we bother doing this?

1174
01:52:20,470 --> 01:52:22,230
You know, you're just going to take our property.

1175
01:52:22,950 --> 01:52:25,010
So thanks for listening.

1176
01:52:25,350 --> 01:52:28,610
Thank you for having me.

1177
01:52:28,910 --> 01:52:29,050
Thanks.

1178
01:52:31,230 --> 01:52:35,890
Any other speakers who didn't have a chance to sign up, came late,

1179
01:52:38,350 --> 01:52:40,930
come on up, please state your name and address.

1180
01:52:42,630 --> 01:52:59,890
Okay, hi, my name is Stella Bradford for zero five-rage road barber film is my address and I just would like to thank the community for showing up

1181
01:53:00,550 --> 01:53:09,050
I think I could speak on behalf of a lot of young people that I'm not even affected.

1182
01:53:09,050 --> 01:53:32,230
I'm in Barbara's cell but I know a lot of people my age that are and who are working right now and can't be here to say that they don't appreciate this and really what is the point like, you know, we've really tried a long time to imagine a future in orange and that's really hard to afford in general.

1183
01:53:32,230 --> 01:53:38,430
And then once you can't afford it, that was the first thing I said to my first ever comment

1184
01:53:38,430 --> 01:53:44,250
and my first ever meeting was what, you know, once we can afford things, it's unenchievable

1185
01:53:44,250 --> 01:53:52,410
and even for our veterans that fight for our country. This is how they're fate. Orange County

1186
01:53:53,530 --> 01:54:00,550
raised founding fathers of this country. And I think Orange County needs to really stand up for

1187
01:54:00,550 --> 01:54:06,250
entire nation and really set a precedent for the entire world to take, you know, their youth

1188
01:54:06,250 --> 01:54:11,650
and their future generations seriously because really what's the point if we're having children

1189
01:54:11,650 --> 01:54:20,430
to a dead world? What is the point? And, you know, what are we fighting for? And I know what I'm

1190
01:54:20,430 --> 01:54:28,050
fighting for, and it's to steward this land, you know, my ancestors took from people. And I don't

1191
01:54:28,050 --> 01:54:35,890
like that. But it's the facts. And I really, you know, I take every, you know, day, seriously

1192
01:54:35,890 --> 01:54:41,290
to try and first of all, make up for that. And second of all, take care of the land and make it

1193
01:54:41,290 --> 01:54:47,510
not all for granted. Like this entire Revolutionary War was for granted if we destroy this country,

1194
01:54:47,510 --> 01:55:15,190
via this county so fast, you know, it's our 250th birthday for this country and I really think we need to pay attention to it a little bit better and, you know, take care of our own selves and stand up for ourselves and remember that the young people can't say much right now, we're at work, we're one paycheck away from being homeless.

1195
01:55:15,190 --> 01:55:30,210
Like, we really can't speak up because the things, you know, the 1% have cornered us into, you know, the situations they've cornered us into being, you know, the private investment firms.

1196
01:55:30,530 --> 01:55:35,910
All of this is really messed up, you know, our excitement for the future.

1197
01:55:35,910 --> 01:55:46,890
And we need to protect it county by county town by towns because I mean the people who founded this nation did it in this very area first.

1198
01:55:47,010 --> 01:55:52,450
They didn't have a rule book. They figured it out. So we need to set some precedents. Please.

1199
01:55:53,550 --> 01:55:54,370
Thank you.

1200
01:55:58,800 --> 01:56:00,500
Okay. Any other speakers?

1201
01:56:04,050 --> 01:56:04,530
Okay.

1202
01:56:04,530 --> 01:56:14,930
I will close the public comment and we have a motion for a closed meeting, so we have some

1203
01:56:14,930 --> 01:56:20,030
items we have to talk about in close, and that's.

1204
01:56:20,290 --> 01:56:27,270
Yes, Mr. Chair, I recommend a motion to enter a closed session as permitted by the Virginia

1205
01:56:27,270 --> 01:56:33,030
Freedom of Information Act for the purpose of discussion, consideration, or interviews

1206
01:56:33,030 --> 01:56:40,290
of perspective candidates for employment as county attorney as permitted by section 2.2, 3711,

1207
01:56:40,550 --> 01:56:47,210
A1 of the Code of Virginia. For discussion concerning a perspective business or industry or

1208
01:56:47,210 --> 01:56:52,830
the expansion of an existing business or industry, where no previous announcement has been made

1209
01:56:52,830 --> 01:56:58,730
of the businesses or industries interest in locating or expanding its facilities in the community

1210
01:56:58,730 --> 01:57:05,290
as permitted by Section 2.2, 3711A5 of the Code of Virginia.

1211
01:57:06,190 --> 01:57:11,110
And for consultation with legal counsel employed or retained by the public body,

1212
01:57:11,470 --> 01:57:16,470
regarding specific legal matters requiring the provision of legal advice by such counsel

1213
01:57:16,470 --> 01:57:22,410
as permitted by Section 2.2, 3711A8 of the Code of Virginia.

1214
01:57:24,110 --> 01:57:26,450
Did I have that in the form of emotion, please?

1215
01:57:28,090 --> 01:57:28,990
So, man.

1216
01:57:29,650 --> 01:57:29,890
Second.

1217
01:57:31,090 --> 01:57:31,210
Second.

1218
01:57:31,570 --> 01:57:32,790
So, all those in favor?

1219
01:57:33,370 --> 01:57:33,710
I.

1220
01:57:34,550 --> 01:57:35,270
All right.

1221
01:57:35,510 --> 01:57:38,870
So we are now going to go into closed meeting.

1222
01:57:39,410 --> 01:57:41,730
I want to thank everyone for coming out tonight.

1223
01:57:43,090 --> 01:57:49,310
For expressing your comments to us and look forward to seeing you all on March 24.

1224
01:57:49,990 --> 01:57:53,050
After closed, we'll come back in and adjourn the meeting formally.

1225
01:57:53,430 --> 01:57:54,190
Thank you very much.

1226
03:19:49,170 --> 03:19:55,650
Okay, we are reading from the meeting, some closed meeting. We have a sort of case.

1227
03:19:55,990 --> 03:20:02,710
Yes, sir. Excuse me, I wasn't on Mike. So we are recombining from closed meeting. And we have a certification.

1228
03:20:03,850 --> 03:20:12,470
Members of the Board to the best of your knowledge, or the only matters discussed in the closed meeting public business matters, lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements.

1229
03:20:12,470 --> 03:20:18,770
And we're only such business public business matters as we're identified in the motion by which the closed meeting

1230
03:20:19,910 --> 03:20:25,450
Was convened we're heard discussed or considered in the closed meeting. We'll have a roll call vote

1231
03:20:26,090 --> 03:20:27,530
Mr. Van Hovins

1232
03:20:27,530 --> 03:20:29,790
It's Callumann. I

1233
03:20:29,790 --> 03:20:31,230
Mr. Nichol. I

1234
03:20:31,230 --> 03:20:32,810
Mr. Coupel. I

1235
03:20:33,930 --> 03:20:36,390
Members of the board may have a motion to adjourn

1236
03:20:37,630 --> 03:20:41,330
so moved second all those in favor. I

1237
03:20:41,330 --> 03:20:47,150
We are adjourned. Thank you and see you all on March 24th at the High School.

1238
03:20:47,230 --> 03:20:48,430
Notice this is the follow.