Agenda
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Pledge of Allegiance
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Invocation - Public participation is optional; those who wish to join the Board of Supervisors in prayer are asked to remain standing after the Pledge.
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1. Ambulance Funding Request
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1.a. Consider request for authorization of funding to purchase an ambulance. Funding Source: Capital Account 709105-480573 $429,394.00
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2. Augusta County Recreational Facility
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2.a. Consider Augusta County Recreational Facility conceptual planning in the amount of $12,000.00. Funding Source: Beverley Manor Infrastructure $6,000.00 South River Infrastructure $6,000.00
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3. Consent Agenda
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3.b. CLAIMS:Consider claims paid since October 1, 2024.
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3.c. STREET ADDITION:Consider Community Development's and VDOT's recommendations to adopt resolution for acceptance of the following into the Secondary Road System in accordance with VDOT requests:Westgate Subdivision
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3.d. STREETLIGHT REQUESTConsider approval of three streetlights located off of North Windsong Court within Windward Pointe subdivision.
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3.a. MINUTES: Consider minutes from the following meetings: Regular Meeting, Wednesday, September 11, 2024Staff Briefing, Wednesday, September 25, 2024Regular Meeting, Wednesday, September 25, 2024Regular Meeting, October 9, 2024Staff Briefing, October 21, 2024
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**(END OF CONSENT AGENDA)**
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4. Matters to Be Presented by the Public
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5. Matters to Be Presented by Staff
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6. Matters to Be Presented by the Board
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7. Closed Session
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7.a. Convene into closed session.
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8. Adjournment
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Good evening folks. I'm Pam Carter and I'm
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substituting for Jeff Slavin tonight for a little while.
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We're, thank you for being here.
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We appreciate your attendance.
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I think that we will be starting off with some students
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from the Stuart Middle School that's gonna lead us
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in the pledge, and then after that,
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I'll have Pastor Jamie McClanahan
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from Wayne Hill Baptist Church,
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which will be leading us in prayer.
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So if the students will come forth and tell us your name
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and tell us what you want to happen when you graduate. We would really appreciate that.
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I'm Brooklyn and when I graduate I want to be an audiologist and help people to hear.
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I'm Valerie and when I graduate I would like to go to Astrology,
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we'll learn about Astrology a little more, and I am in seventh grade.
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You all have some wonderful aspirations. Proud of you.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
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and to the Republic for which it stands,
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one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
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Let's pray.
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Father God, we come before you in the name of Jesus and the power of the Spirit.
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We pray God for your blessing over those that are here.
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We are grateful for those who are serving in government.
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God, we pray a blessing over them tonight as they meet or that you would give them
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wisdom from on high discernment as they lead.
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We pray for protection for them and their families.
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God, we enter into a season of Thanksgiving where we just want to say thank you to them.
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Thank you for all the things that are seen and much that is not seen that they do for us.
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God, we're grateful for the freedom that we have in our country.
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We're grateful, Lord, for the ability to be able to meet like this without fear.
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And we're grateful for the ability to be able to worship as we please.
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And so, God, we just pray that we wouldn't take these for granted.
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We just, we live in a great country.
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We have many freedoms and we want to say thank you for those.
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God, I'm also thankful for the law enforcement that are here, pray that they would know how
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thankful we are for them as citizens, and God, also, that they would be protected
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as they serve, even today and this week, that as they go out, that there would
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be protection on them, that they would have wisdom and discernment to make
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difficult decisions under pressure. God, we are thankful for all that you've
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given us and we pray for a blessing over this meeting. Thank you for these men and
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women who are serving. For it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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Thanks to each of
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you for being here tonight.
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Okay, start off with our ambulance funding
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request. Chief.
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Madam Chair, members of the board, good evening. Coming for you
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this evening to request the approval to order another PL custom ambulance for
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Goodman Specialties. As you know our ambulance fleet replacement plan is a
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10-year replacement plan. We have 10 units and currently seven which front
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line and three reserves. With that being said during their seven years of
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front line we run them up to about a hundred thousand miles we rotate them
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around the county and then the last 25,000 miles is usually through their
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reserve status. The price of this ambulance is $429,394. That includes the 1,000 HGAC.
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The estimated delivery time has reduced. Last year was 36 months. We're down to 24 to 27
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months as outlined in the memo that you should have received in your packet. I did
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do a little bit of checking, which was also in your packet from different locations.
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Chestfield Fire and EMS has ordered a P.L. Custom as well as a Horton, and there's one was 125,
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and one was 425, and the other was 450. Henrico County Fire and EMS has ordered a Horton,
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which was 421,000. Harrisonburg Rescue back in 2023, which was one we talked about last year,
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was at 4 or 5, and that was about the same as ours was last year. Churchfield Fire
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Our rescue just ordered one for $438,000.
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That was a Horton.
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Stores Traff Rescue got it to Mirrors
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the day ordered back in 23, and it was $406,000,
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which was just delivered not too long ago.
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And in Badatoc County, they're spending
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around $430,000 for theirs.
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So that's just trying to do a little bit of research
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on that and kind of see what everybody else is paying.
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So that's before you this evening.
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Misery loves company.
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Yes, it does.
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Questions for the chief from the board?
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Chief, what was the price we paid
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on the last one we ordered?
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It was, I think, 402, the last one we ordered,
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I think came in at 402.5 something.
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I don't have it right off the top.
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It's about a 6.5% increase over last year to this year.
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Did they give you a reason why they went up so much?
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No, sir, I mean, it's, like I said,
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it's average across the all all vendors right now
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did the other localities here
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did they put it out for beds or did they just I did not ask them that sir I
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know a lot of them use ACAC but I don't know how many bid it and how many use
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ACAC had
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some folks that asked me some questions in the process that we've
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been going through on order needs and I guess we've got them all from
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Goodman, hadn't we? Yes sir.
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What's the process on on doing that when we need one
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it we just call them up and tell them that we need one or? Yes since we already
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have a developed spec and it's the same spec that we've been working off of for
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the last four years which is the medic in mind they already have that spec
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set aside so as you know when we need it we sign the contract we send them a
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PO and the contract signed and say we need the next ambulance so they
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They just built it off of the specs that we've already approved that have been approved for
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three years.
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So, we never know without putting out the bids whether that price is good or bad or...
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Well, I know that HGAC has been audited quite a bit.
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I think the last audit was the end of last year to make sure it's there.
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But I have had manufacturers tell me that if we go outside of HGAC, it's going to
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cost us more than using HGAC.
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Now, that's what manufacturers are telling us.
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Well, in my opinion, you know, in order to hold these companies accountable
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and want your business, you almost have to put it into bids.
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Well, it is bided through HGAC. HGAC bids everybody.
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So they have to put in a bid and they're audited constantly by HGAC.
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So it's not just given. They have to bid on it and meet that requirement.
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So it's still a cooperative type agreement and process but it doesn't seem like that the Goodman
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should be getting the same business every every time so well I mean we're very happy with
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PO custom product I mean they're they're a very well-built ambulance we have very minimal
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issues with them especially since we switched to gas but the unit itself the build the quality
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of their their craftsmanship is outstanding and Goodman is the only one
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that can sell PL custom so in our area we cannot buy from anybody else so other
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comments or questions if you're through are you through mr. Scholl I'm sorry I'm
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still thinking okay we can come back if you think think of something else you
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You know, it's kind of, when we go buy vehicles on a personal level, we usually go to two or
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three dealers, you know, looking to see what's the best price.
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And so I'm just still kind of concerned, you know.
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So we kind of get complacent.
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In the way that we do things rather than being proactive to try to search out for the
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citizens' taxpayers to see whether we are getting the best day when things are not.
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Well, ultimately that's what I try to do. When I reached out to all the other localities because
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it was multiple vendors that have been used and they're all in the same price range. So it's not
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like they're ripping us off. So I think that when you look at it, and that's not apples to
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apples. So a lot of people's specs, ours would probably still even be a little bit more
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like the Horton at Churchville ordered similar to ours that's a complete
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different manufacturer and theirs was 438,000 ours is 429 so and their
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design was almost similar to ours so that I mean to me that's you're we're
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still kind of doing that I mean it's not through a cooperative but I mean
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reaching out to these localities find out what they're spending and if you know
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we had if I had a locality tell me that well I'm getting what getting them
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for 300,000 and my next phone call is to be wise ours for you know if
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you want to continue our business, then you need to sharpen your pencil.
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But everybody's in the same price range.
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And I don't like price either.
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I think it's ridiculous.
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What stuff costs these days?
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Yes, Madam Chairman.
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Yes, sir.
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What is it you all need?
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You need a motion to approve the contract?
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A motion to approve the contract.
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Well, I consider that price sort of a stress test to see if your heart's still pumping
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adequately but sadly tractors cost $400,000 to you so I moved except second
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okay motion's been made and properly seconded let's vote
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Okay,
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next on the agenda is the Gusset County Recreational Facilities.
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Mr. Fitzgerald?
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All
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right, before you tonight is a request in regards to a potential possibility of Augusta
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County Recreational Facility. You'll remember for years, years ago we had a plan to look
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at a rec center at the far end of our building down below Parks and Rec. Mr. Bailey was
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the board member of Beverly Manor at the time and had saved money over the years to
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to look at doing that and then elections happened and priorities changed so it
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kind of went away but there had been a group that came to me and wanting to
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discuss the possibility of having some type of rec center that would include
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some athletic fields some track space basketball course those types of
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things at the end of our building closed our new Parks and Rec
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Department and it included folks included Miss Bragg, Mr. Wells, the folks from the
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Planning Commission, Parks and Rec Commission. We had a meeting with Mr.
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Wells, the other Wells, Mr. Andy Wells at Parks and Rec. Myself, Ms. Wetzel, Mr.
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Wolf met to discuss the possibilities, what that might look like. And the
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The first step in that really is to have somebody have an engineering firm look at some concept
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planning, look at the area down there, as to what size a facility could be there, what's
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the layout might look like, how many fields could be there, those types of things.
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Really need that information ahead of time so that we can start putting together some
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ideas about what that might look like and then from that some cost estimates as
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to what that type of facility may cost to build. So the first step of that was to
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get a quote from Balzer Associates. Balzer is our on-call contractor
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for this type of scope of services and you'll find in your packet the scope
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The services are there for them to do some base mapping,
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have three to four concepts of 100,000 square foot facility
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along with the associated parking,
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multiple use fields and other amenities,
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doing an assessment of concepts relative to traffic
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and current conditions and surroundings.
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Meet with some staff to go over that
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and then refine those conceptual plans
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to basically give us a plan to consider.
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Their lump sum fee for that is $12,000 to do that planning work and in talking to
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Ms. Bragg and Mr. Wells they had asked that we put that on the agenda today for
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consideration for them to split that out of their soon parks and rec
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infrastructure funding.
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Okay. Discussion from the board? Yeah, Chairman. So what
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What is exactly being planned, or is it just up in the air?
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The concept that they're going to look at is a 100,000 square foot rec facility that
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would have indoor gym space inside.
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Ideally, there would be some track space in there as well.
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We're not certain, we'll have to do some work to figure out whether that fits and
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how that fits and what that looks like inside that recreational facility.
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And then on the outside, look at multi-use fields and what I thought would be that there
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would be more of a turf type field that could play multi-sports on it.
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You could play soccer and field hockey and whatever else on that field as you could mark
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them on the turf.
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So there'd be multi-use fields there.
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But really taking a look at that main facility as the rec center and then the associated
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of fields that may fit in around it and come back to us with basically a master plan as
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to say this is what could fit down there, this is what the layout could look like, where
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your fields would be.
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And then with that an associated cost estimate on what would something like that look like,
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how much is that, what would it take to build it, those types of things.
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And so before, you know, folks got too excited about, you know, going forward really need
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to kind of know what we're dealing with, so this is the section where we need to get them
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to take a close look at it.
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I think it'll fit down there no problem, but where it goes, how it lays out, and then
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ultimately what is going to cost us to move forward, I think is what we're looking
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for here with this scope of services.
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So are we looking at, like, a gym facility, like, you know, what I'm concerned about
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but it's competing with the private businesses
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that offer gym services all around the county there.
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So, you know, exercise bikes, you know,
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treadmills, weightlifting.
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I would be concerned about, you know,
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supporting anything that would have that
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that would compete against our private businesses
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that I think, yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, I think our group
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and Mr. Bragg and Mr. Wilson,
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I mean, we weren't really looking for a fitness center.
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Okay.
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Looking more like an opportunity to have some sports tourism in here where we'd have weekend
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basketball tournaments, weekend volleyball tournaments where folks could come in and play,
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travel, sports inside, on a court, indoor track facilities and that type of thing,
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not necessarily a fitness center, more of a recreational type of center.
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Okay, so the sports tourism, so stay away from the things that would compete with their local businesses.
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correct yeah okay correct yeah I am I'm not looking to build a physical fitness
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building down here it's more for different types of sports for our young
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people but my priority is the fields we've got young people in our community
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having to go to Crozet to play soccer I think we need to do something about
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that and I think we can do that I was educated about the use of a field
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for multi-purpose things.
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That was something new to me, that you
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can play multiple sports on one field
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by merely changing the color of the boundary lines on the field.
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And I found that very interesting.
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And that's why I'm anxious to see what
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balls we'll come up with as far as recommendations.
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Are there going to be tennis and pickleball courts
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looked at?
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That was a lot of the conversation
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on what we can and can't fit because we had lots of ideas for this little piece of property so we
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really need to go back and shape it out and see what happens. A lot of emphasis in localities now
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there's a lot of conversations about the sports tourism and our teams locally are having to go
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outside of Augusta and farther away to go to tournaments and things like that
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to have the facility locally if that's doable, like he was saying, for the volleyball, for
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the cheer competitions, for the basketball tournaments, that kind of thing.
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The schools can use it, obviously, for that kind of inner-county kind of tournaments.
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You also have the travel component.
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But when you talk to other localities, allowing for the tourism part, the travel tourism part
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helps pay for the operational costs, and depending how they do it, you know, you can, there's
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funding there that can cover some of the expenses in operating it, so.
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So this request is to figure out what we can put there, and to put you some jigsaw, a puzzle
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kind of things, and see what fits, how many fields, is it soccer, is it baseball, is it.
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I think I agree with Mr. Wells, we were talking about the multi-use, and they use the different
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color paints for the lines for the different sports, but we really were looking to see
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what's possible to be done.
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So, do we have a study that says these sports tourism activities are the most currently that
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this would be a good idea because, you know, what I know is the limited pickleball seems
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to be very big right now.
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Tennis seems to have waned a bit, no offense to the tennis players, but, you know, Wainsborough
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has just extended from four courts to eight courts taking up a couple more other
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courts maybe there more maybe it's 12 courts across is also another sport that's
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gaining popularity in the area and as mr. Fitzgerald said the group that met was
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a good cross section of different people planning commission rec committee this
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was what so was there community development was there I mean it wasn't
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just three or four people sitting there. I guess we had close to a dozen people in
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the room expressing different ideas and points of view. So we we came to the
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conclusion, well let's see what Ballzer can show. What's a could possibly fit
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down there. We'll go from there. And I know Pickleball has frequent tournaments.
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You can see them all during the summer occurring on the weekend. So
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that'd be something you know. You have Stanton has courts at Montgomery
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Hall, but the county with our 77,000 only has two courts here, so.
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In Weir's Cave.
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Yeah, in Weir's Cave.
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Right, so only two courts.
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Just as a side note with that, we had meetings today.
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There's a group in Stewart's Draft that's very interested in exploring the possibility
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of putting four courts in the Stewart's Draft Park.
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And we're just in the planning, trying to figure it out stage for that also,
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but hopefully we can get more pickleball throughout the county.
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but we are actively looking at it as Stewart-Straff Park, we hope, so.
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And then I think we were looking also at the Beverly Manor property that has
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old grown-up broken down tennis courts there that need to be mowed there. So
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but I can get behind this and I would split it with the Wayne District too.
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Thank you.
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I was going to make the offer to also contribute to this four ways.
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Well,
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can I offer to help pay for the study and vote against the project?
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If that's your prerogative.
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It is.
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Doc makes a very good point.
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I mean, I'm not sure I'd even heard of Pickleball several years ago when they wanted
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to build those courts down there.
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and people down there are nuts.
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I'm just amazed at the different ages of people that play.
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I mean, people go over and play with their grandkids.
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I mean, when many sports do you play with your grandkids?
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And there are people there all the time.
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And they're gonna now put pickleball courts
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inside the facility there.
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So, yeah, so it'll, it amazes me.
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The person who started all this,
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I just refer to as the pickleball queen
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because that's all she talked about.
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But guess what? It turned out that she was right, and we got somebody to fund it.
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And all the county got out of that was being a pain, you know, with permits and stuff, just saying.
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And go ahead and take credit for educating me that lacrosse wasn't up-and-coming sport in the area.
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Because if it hadn't been for you, I still wouldn't know that.
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Having only played this summer, pickleball, I had a seven and eight-year-old with my wife and I, pretty bad on the courts there.
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So they were pretty humiliating.
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Did you play tennis?
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I've played tennis in the past, not for the last.
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15 years. So it does help if you know tennis. It's a wrist in there. So the plans
[30:07]
that were developed back when Mr. Bailey was here, how much work was in that or
[30:16]
what was the concept of that? And yeah, I'll have to check. I'm not sure they
[30:23]
actually ever physically put together a plan. I know he was saving money in his
[30:28]
infrastructure to to fund something but I don't I've never seen actually a set of
[30:34]
plans or a layout or design or any of that I could check with with Andy to see
[30:42]
if he's got something but I don't I'm not sure that exists I'm not sure it
[30:45]
ever got to that point because he may recall he'd say million dollars or
[30:50]
so in his infrastructure and then didn't run again and the next board
[30:54]
member said that's not a priority for him and used the money elsewhere so I'm not
[30:59]
certain we actually have a set of plans to look at. Well does this aspect be
[31:06]
voted on tonight I'd like to see if there were a set of plans and maybe take a
[31:12]
look at that before we move forward with this.
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I mean 15 years or better maybe
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20 years I think pickleball came out in the 60s and it's been 15 at least 15
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years I doubt if they were even looking at down instructor surface or
[31:39]
artificial surface back in because that's a that can be a big maintenance savings
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and
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we postponed this for two weeks and give you an opportunity to look and see
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if it is and see if it's something that we can what's the pleasure of the
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yet? No.
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It's easy to postpone it until the 21st.
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Second. Or the 20, what is it,
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25th?
[32:22]
25th. 25th.
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Is there a second to postponing it? Yeah, second. I mean, motion to
[32:31]
postpone to the 25th. And that's fine. That's what you want to do. I'm just not
[32:38]
sure what a 15-year-old plan is going to. Well, it may not be a 15-year-old plan,
[32:44]
but nobody's had time to look to see what it is and so you know two weeks is not going to
[32:51]
Make or break this deal. So I
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Think it also would be a good. Sorry to interrupt you
[32:58]
I think it also be good if we looked at our other properties that we have including the rundown gym
[33:05]
That's on the Wilson property
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property,
[33:08]
Wilson High School property, that I don't know how much that would cost to get
[33:14]
a roof fix on it, and what we have to do with the school to get that, and if it's even realistic
[33:19]
or if it's just way out of our range there to fix it.
[33:24]
But it at least has walls up on it there.
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I don't know how much damage is inside, but-
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Yeah, it's got a roof, I think that-
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the courts there how much that would cost and how many things we could fit there
[33:41]
I think that would be. I think staff would agree with you and that's
[33:46]
leading to a recommendation you'll see with the comp plan which is a parks and
[33:52]
rec master plan that would talk about all that type of stuff what you do with
[33:57]
those fields what you do with the berry farm what you do with the Wilson GM tennis
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scores I think yeah we don't currently have a parts and rec master plan but we're
[34:09]
going to need one moving forward so Mr. Scholl that was a motion to postpone
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and Dr. Seaton second okay let's vote okay
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we have four to two and with one
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absent to postpone all right moving along the consent agenda I'll make a
[34:51]
motion that we approve the consent agenda as presented.
[34:55]
Yeah, I'd like to remove a couple of items
[35:00]
from the consent agenda.
[35:04]
The 9-11-24 and the 10-9-24 meetings.
[35:11]
I think we can do the consent agenda on the other remaining
[35:17]
items.
[35:20]
Dr. Seaton, is this in reference to the discussion that was held in January of this year?
[35:29]
For one of them.
[35:30]
And it's also related to the minutes of the meeting that were incomplete on 10-9-24.
[35:38]
Which ones from were you polling because of the discussion in January?
[35:43]
So the 10-9-24 doesn't accurately reflect the meeting, the motions that were made on 10-9-24.
[35:59]
Relating to the January meeting?
[36:01]
Related to the January meeting.
[36:05]
I want to bring to your attention that the minutes were approved.
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moved. I have the duty of refusing to recognize your motion according to Robert's rules of
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order section 47.7 and also 48.2. It's frivolous and it's delitory behavior and you're wasting
[36:28]
this organization's time by keep bringing it up and I'm not going to recognize it.
[36:32]
So I still ask that 10-9-24 is removed from the consent agenda as well as the 10-9-11-24
[36:41]
That's removed from the consent agenda. I want those voted on separately
[36:48]
Did you not understand what I just said?
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It's not frivolous. I have the right to ask those removed.
[36:56]
Well, I'm not going to recognize you
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So I'll just keep on going
[37:02]
There so this is not a this is a right to ask those to be removed from the consent agenda
[37:10]
We can remove them, but that doesn't know because we need to vote on them
[37:14]
You can vote on them separately. That's my right to have the pleasure of the board. That's my
[37:19]
Right to have them voted on separately.
[37:23]
What's the attorney say? What's the attorney say? I made the reference to
[37:29]
Robert's rules of order revised 12th edition that you can look up in section
[37:34]
47.7 and 48.2 that the chair has the right
[37:39]
to not recognize your motion because it's frivolous and it's
[37:44]
Dilatory and it's a waste of this board's time for you to continue to do that. So the motion that was made on
[37:51]
9 on 10 9 24 does not accurately that this the one that's in the minutes does not
[37:58]
accurately reflect the minute the motion that I made if we want to play the
[38:04]
recording let's play the recording the recording is totally different than what's
[38:09]
in the minutes right now if you want to ignore the recording if you want to
[38:13]
ignore actually what wanted what you want to do you can do that but you
[38:18]
to vote on this. I just have a question if I may. Absolutely. This has been the
[38:23]
same question that has been asked for almost a year and it has been denied
[38:29]
for almost a year. So my question is how many more years are we going to do this?
[38:36]
So the minutes need to accurately reflect what the motion was made back
[38:40]
on 10 9 24 and it does not. I'm talking about the other thing that you keep
[38:46]
one in the ad. So what I'm talking about is 10, 9, 24, I made a motion, these
[38:53]
minutes do not accurately reflect that motion, and so it's not an accurate
[38:58]
minutes. And I have the right to pull it from the consent agenda and have it
[39:02]
voted on separately. I'm not preventing the will of the
[39:07]
majority.
[39:09]
I'm just stating that. Do you feel these minutes do not reflect your
[39:15]
comments about that meeting 10 9 24 minutes do not reflect the motion that
[39:22]
was made that I made on 10 9 24 regarding regarding the the items that have
[39:29]
been discussed but it's the motion was made and the minutes don't reflect the
[39:34]
motion that was made I mean that's the simple thing they don't reflect the
[39:38]
minute the minutes the motion this has got to stop well then put the the actual
[39:46]
wording of the motion into the minutes the actual wording of a motion does not
[39:52]
go into the minutes it's the action of the board that goes into the minute the
[39:56]
wording of the motion I'll argue with you about it the wording of motion
[39:59]
rules there is there a second to approve the consent agenda but best
[40:07]
specify if I mean I'm not recognizing Dr. Seaton's request. So I'm at no the
[40:13]
attorney what's the rules on removing from the consent agenda I have the right
[40:17]
to remove it from the consent agenda the 9-11 and the 10-9-24 meetings minutes.
[40:28]
Certainly any member can request that items be removed from the consent
[40:33]
agenda to be voted on separately. It's a different question as to the motion that I think Dr.
[40:43]
Seton refers to. Robert's Rules of Order does speak to the content of meeting minutes.
[40:51]
And 48-2 indicates that those minutes should contain what was done at a meeting and not
[40:59]
what was said at a meeting. Further 48-4 indicates that secondary motions which
[41:09]
would be a motion to amend, which I think is what occurred on 10-9, I believe
[41:14]
that the motion was made to approve the minutes and then the secondary motion
[41:21]
made by Mr. Seton, which wasn't seconded but didn't need to be, but that
[41:27]
motion was lost so the motion was not stated in the minutes and they are not
[41:33]
typically included in minutes according to Robert's rules of order if it was
[41:38]
lost and it was it did not pass so it's thank you for that clarification so
[41:49]
is
[41:49]
there a motion to well Mike has made the motion to accept the consent agenda
[41:53]
is published is there a second so what about the 9-11-24 if it relates to the
[42:01]
January meeting I'm not 9 11 24 doesn't what's the topic I have the right
[42:09]
to remove it from the agenda from the consent agenda it's not regarding the
[42:15]
January 3rd meeting thank you all right we'll pull the two is there second
[42:22]
where you've seconded that seconded dr. Seaton's request no
[42:33]
I don't have a
[42:35]
they're just removed so the motion you'd be looking for would be to do the
[42:39]
consent agenda that would include the claims street addition street light
[42:44]
request and then the minutes of nine twenty-five twenty-four staff and regular
[42:50]
staff and regular and the ten twenty-one and ten twenty-one that would be the
[42:55]
motion to approve all those you would remove 9 11 24 and 10 9 24 and vote on
[43:01]
them separately. Okay, so the motion is to approve the consent agenda with the
[43:09]
removal of two of those two meeting minutes. Let's vote.
[43:26]
Okay, motion carries.
[43:31]
Chairman, I'd like to amend the 9-11-24 regular meeting minutes on page 12. My
[43:41]
statement during that meeting was not included in the minutes. I would like
[43:44]
those included. My statement was, as the only veteran on the Board of Supervisors, I appreciate
[43:49]
the location of the memorial being in front of the courthouse and in front of the administration
[43:54]
building. Veterans deserve our recognition.
[44:01]
The second thing was,
[44:05]
I asked Ms. Wetzel
[44:07]
about who owned the lease that had the radio tower that we voted on and she
[44:19]
stated Crown Castle Delaware Corporation and I think that should be
[44:23]
included in the minutes.
[44:30]
It's right after it. So it might be page 13 or bottom of it.
[44:39]
Again, am I not correct that we don't necessarily put word for word statements, so it reflects
[44:48]
the business that was conducted?
[44:52]
I mean, that is correct in terms of, again, the rules that the board has adopted to live
[44:59]
by.
[44:59]
Thank you very much for your time.
[45:00]
Um, indicate that that is more of a transcript of the proceedings.
[45:04]
Minutes are meant to be actions taken by the board.
[45:08]
Um, it's the pleasure of the majority of the board.
[45:12]
So it's fair to say that really none of us get basically word for word statements, it's just some of it.
[45:19]
I think it's important to know who owns the, who the county was taking, leasing the, uh,
[45:27]
The site from
[45:29]
So is there a second to dr. Seton's motion well
[45:37]
and our
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Board rules say that things don't have to be seconded at this point in time
[45:44]
so let's take a vote whether to
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Approve dr. Seton's motions a
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motion did not pass
[46:03]
Five to one with one abstention
[46:07]
Thank you for so I'm motion. Also
[46:11]
on the 10 9 24
[46:14]
regular meeting. These minutes do not accurately reflect the discussion during
[46:19]
the meeting regarding the various meetings before that and I make a motion
[46:24]
to add these questions to the minutes that were part of the motion I made.
[46:28]
Whether he would so I motion to add these questions to the minutes that were
[46:34]
part of the motion and this is going to be on page 27. Whether he would vote
[46:39]
For body cameras. This is regarding the chairman and he said no when he found out that the animal shelter was
[46:46]
charging illegal fees, which he stated the nebulous whenever somebody else does did
[46:53]
Whether he would vote to live stream the Bza and planning Commission
[46:56]
And whether he tried to get a government employee fired or disciplined who has a private citizen spoke before the board by meeting with the state?
[47:05]
by him meeting with the State Veterinarian, Dr. Charles Brodas, and Deputy Director David
[47:11]
McGreevy at VDAC's regional office in Harrisonburg on 622-23.
[47:19]
Mr. Chairman, I have a question for Dr. Seaton.
[47:23]
You want, I'm curious, why do you want that in there?
[47:29]
Because that was part of the January 3rd meeting and that was part of multiple meetings.
[47:34]
That was part of the minutes.
[47:35]
That was part of the motion that was made last meeting.
[47:38]
Which two points.
[47:39]
First of all, why do you want just part of your conversation and there's nothing that
[47:43]
you're adding about Ms. Carter because you also asked her questions.
[47:47]
So I find it interesting that you only want one set of the questions added and not the
[47:51]
other.
[47:52]
The second part was, and you just said, and it's actually in our minutes, that
[47:55]
you moved to add the questions to the candidates and we voted no.
[48:02]
But the questions themselves was part of the motion, just like I'm making today was part
[48:08]
of the motion.
[48:08]
But you were the losing vote, so does that mean in Robert's rule it does not come back
[48:14]
up?
[48:16]
No, because this is a different motion because this deals with the motion of the last
[48:20]
meeting.
[48:21]
Well, I don't think for the next three years we're going to sit there every single
[48:25]
meeting and say, well, it's different, even though we voted on it multiple times
[48:29]
and in Robert's rule, if you make a motion, it loses then the person who loses the motion
[48:37]
doesn't get to bring it back up.
[48:39]
This is a different motion because this applies to the last minutes and not into the previous
[48:43]
minutes.
[48:44]
But the question is the same and it has been for a year now.
[48:48]
It's not the same.
[48:49]
It's a motion that applies to these minutes and I'm asking, it's a primary motion.
[48:56]
I'm asking these questions to be added to the minutes on page 27.
[49:01]
I think that Robert's rules, the question that was asked that you asked was that those
[49:07]
questions, and it doesn't matter if it's today, yesterday, or the day before, you've asked
[49:11]
the question that they be added to the minutes, and every single time for a year, we've said
[49:18]
no.
[49:19]
And so this is a continuation of the same question, whether it's week after week
[49:24]
week after week, it's still the same question.
[49:28]
So I don't think...
[49:28]
So I wasn't the one who tried to get somebody fired, who was a civilian, who was up here,
[49:34]
who spoke before.
[49:37]
There's been an investigation.
[49:39]
There's plenty.
[49:40]
Do you know anything about what happened?
[49:42]
Yes, actually.
[49:43]
Okay.
[49:44]
I mean, I know what you said, but I'm not going to rehash it, and I think it's interesting
[49:49]
again that you're only interested in one person's answers and questions being added
[49:53]
and not the other persons, so it's not a question of you want accuracy in the
[49:59]
in the minutes because you're not asking for everything to be included. So are
[50:05]
you amending my motion? Are you making a motion to amend it to include those
[50:09]
questions? No, but as chair let me tell you what I'm doing. I have the authority
[50:14]
to not recognize that and I'm not going to recognize that motion. We're
[50:23]
You continue to bring it up. We're going to move on to the next subject.
[50:27]
So Virginia Code 22.2, 29021 of the Virginia Personnel Act.
[50:35]
It is a violation of a speaker's right to engage with elected public officials.
[50:40]
This is an issue where a public official is trying to suppress a speaker who's acting properly.
[50:51]
So you are out of order sir matters to be presented by the public don't you have to
[50:59]
don't you have two sets of minutes that we haven't passed yes we didn't we voted
[51:03]
on the one and I'm what do we have this that still needs to be passed move we
[51:10]
adopt. All right folks.
[51:14]
Adopt as written as written currently written. Of course I said all that.
[51:47]
All right the October.
[51:53]
Okay matters
[51:58]
from the public Mr. Fitzgerald. Do not have
[52:02]
any one signed up tonight. Okay matters to be presented by the staff.
[52:10]
Do have a
[52:10]
couple things from staff tonight.
[52:13]
First, I will share with you, just so you know,
[52:16]
you'll see it on your calendar.
[52:17]
But November 25th, the board had agreed that week
[52:21]
to include both your meetings on the 25th.
[52:25]
So just for your calendar's purposes,
[52:27]
looks like we're going to be asking
[52:30]
to come in at 2.30 that day for a joint board and EDA
[52:36]
meeting.
[52:37]
What we would do at that meeting
[52:39]
is review the economic development strategic plan that has been prepared as part of our
[52:45]
comp plan process. And so we'd like to present that to you and the EDA at 2.30 that day.
[52:52]
We will start our work session at 4.30 that day. In this room, our other meeting will
[52:59]
be in a room down the hall, but at 4.30 in this room we'll start our work session.
[53:04]
do our work session till around six. We'll have entering in at seven o'clock that
[53:10]
evening. We'll have our normal meeting on the 25th and that will get you all
[53:15]
taken care of before Thanksgiving. So just for your calendar purposes that's
[53:19]
what the thought is right now. The other thing I wanted to share with you is
[53:25]
I've had some conversation with Dominion Energy. Some of you may have heard
[53:29]
about this proposal, some may not, but there is a proposal out there that they have submitted
[53:35]
to PGM, which is the group that manages electrical supply across Commonwealth.
[53:42]
What they do is they look at areas where they see a need for additional electricity
[53:48]
and then they ask power companies to, I guess, give proposals to how they could help.
[53:53]
Dominion Energy has a proposal into them, very preliminary, to
[54:01]
essentially add another line from Dooms to Lexington. This would be adding
[54:07]
another tower beside the existing towers that are out there, which would
[54:12]
also mean that they would have to widen their easements in those areas and
[54:17]
do a lot of extra work. That word has kind of got around some folks that
[54:23]
start asking questions and I talked to Dominion today about that and they were
[54:28]
very clear to me that that was a very preliminary proposal. They won't know
[54:33]
until February whether PGM even accepts that proposal. If it if it does get
[54:38]
accepted it will have to go through its full project process that they
[54:44]
normally would go through when they do type of project like that but I just
[54:47]
put that before you. They have offered to come to the board and do a
[54:52]
presentation if you'd like them to do that while it's in proposal phase or if
[54:58]
you want to kind of wait to get selected about PGM in February we could bring
[55:02]
them back in February to kind of talk about that project further but really
[55:06]
up to you but I did want to put it on your radar that it's out there kind
[55:11]
of been on the streets a little bit I talked Spencer Souter and Rockbridge
[55:14]
and they've been hearing a good bit about I think Dominion went to Rock
[55:17]
bridge this week and gave a little brief overview of the project and but they did
[55:23]
want to make sure that you all knew that it was very preliminary it's nothing
[55:26]
set in stone but it is out there for you to see but I'll be willing to bring
[55:31]
them whenever you'd like to do so but the the third thing I have is a request
[55:39]
that we had received from Project Groves as you know they have a lease
[55:44]
over to Berry Farm and have for many many years and you know we allow them to
[55:49]
build a barn over there and they would like to put solar facilities on the
[55:56]
rooftop of that barn. They have an opportunity to get some grant funds and
[56:02]
have been working with a company that would put rooftop solar on the barn to
[56:07]
provide some power for those projects over there. Their lease with us
[56:12]
requires the board to approve that so you had to approve the barn going on the
[56:17]
property as part of the lease so they they've asked if if I would bring it
[56:22]
back to you all essentially to allow them to work to install these solar
[56:29]
panels on top of the rooftop over there if that be the board would be okay
[56:34]
with that. Yes, it may be approved.
[56:41]
Any further discussion? All in favor of the
[56:45]
motion? Let's vote.
[56:59]
Okay. 6-0 with one abstention. Absence. I'm sorry absence.
[57:06]
Yep. Thank you. Okay. All right. I think that's all I have.
[57:13]
Okay. Matters to
[57:14]
presented by the board, Mr. Garber?
[57:21]
We'd just like to say that we should all
[57:23]
be pleased that we got through an election
[57:25]
and we didn't shoot anybody and we didn't burn anything down.
[57:28]
Obviously, there were people that were happy and people
[57:31]
that weren't.
[57:31]
But here's what I could tell, that a rather peaceful event
[57:35]
and that's always something to celebrate.
[57:38]
And I would also say that never
[57:45]
mind, I can't say it.
[57:46]
Just keep in mind, we're not missing somebody tonight
[57:49]
out of convenience keep him in mind. First
[58:00]
thing I'd like to do is congratulate
[58:03]
the Stewart's Draft, Draft Express Band that they have been going through their
[58:09]
competition season and they came out with the state championship for the
[58:14]
Classe bands and we're very proud of that group and they work hard and
[58:19]
they're a lot of fun so I want to congratulate them and something else
[58:25]
just to put on our radar and start thinking about, you know, we've gone through the reassessment
[58:30]
and I know that in the past there's been conversations about looking at what an in-house
[58:38]
reassessment would look like and department and so forth. So I would like to ask that at some
[58:45]
point we start evaluating that and determine whether that would be a better route for us to
[58:52]
So I didn't want to bring that up and maybe get the wheels started on that.
[58:58]
Just throwing that out there.
[59:00]
Yeah, it's been under discussion.
[59:01]
Okay.
[59:04]
So it's already on our radar.
[59:06]
Okay.
[59:06]
Okay.
[59:07]
And we all came back from Vaco and I think that it was a very good session.
[59:12]
And I think actually I learned more this round than I have in some of the previous ones.
[59:18]
So it was a good, good few days.
[59:22]
Mr. Shaw?
[59:23]
I don't have anything.
[59:25]
Mr. Wells?
[59:27]
No way.
[59:28]
Dr. Seton?
[59:29]
Yeah, thank you.
[59:32]
Just to go over, we went to the VACO, the meetings I attended, it was kind of clear in the
[59:42]
education budget, elections, conferences that we had.
[59:46]
that they really hope they as the speakers, not necessarily all the representatives that
[59:55]
were there, but they were hoping that a Democrat would win and they were
[1:00:00]
We're looking at taxes going up by the minimum of $3 to $4 billion in Virginia, if they have
[1:00:06]
a Democrat governor. So I think we should all be aware of that. That's a whole lot of taxes
[1:00:12]
for us there.
[1:00:16]
I was made aware tonight that the Fishersville
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Library Survey was completed, and so we're going to try to work with what the field,
[1:00:29]
the people who keep up the field and want to see changes, we're gonna work with
[1:00:33]
them to add things to the survey, make sure everything's in the right location,
[1:00:42]
and then try to get this approved in the near future there. I think I had asked
[1:00:47]
for it to be in the 25th, the November 25th meeting there.
[1:00:56]
And thank
[1:01:02]
you, that
[1:01:04]
Okay, well, I've got a couple things. First of all, I wanted to brag a little bit about
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an activity that occurred out in Craigsville a week or so ago. I was contacted by a company
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and I think they contacted Mr. Wells first about the end of September about doing a
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– PBS wanted to do a documentary about the effects of a prison closure on a community.
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and they selected Craigsville to be the community that they highlighted. So very
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quickly their film crew came out so they I got in contact and I think it was on
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October 23rd and they were filming on the 25th so very quick turnaround they
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interviewed Mayor Fox they went over to the prison itself to take a look
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around they interviewed Chief Martin from the fire department myself and then
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they also interviewed lots and lots of the citizens to get their point of view
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on this documentary. It's Laura Flanagan. She's on PBS. I watched a couple of her
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shows so I'll be really interested to see what this how it turns out. They're
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planning on it to show it sometime in January. They don't have the exact date
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yet but once I get that date I will certainly broadcast it to you all.
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let you know.
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Second thing is I'm sorry I didn't have this before you but it's a
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request for some infrastructure money from the Craigsville Fire Department and
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it's to cover the cost of a lot of the new hose that they're going to be
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required to purchase and it's a total of $8,647.28 so I would like to be
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able to take that out of my infrastructure
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and cover that cost for them.
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Move or second whatever is needed.
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OK, let's vote.
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Thank you.
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And the last thing that I had was a result of the VACO
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conference, a discussion that happened.
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Evidently, we're not the only locality that's
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getting bombarded by FOIA request.
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and one of a couple of the entities said that they have decided to have a report
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given to the public and to the board on the top five users of FOIA and the costs
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that are associated with those requests, the cost to the county.
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And I think in the spirit of transparency for our citizens,
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that we should provide that information to them.
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And speaking with Mr. Oleg and Mr. Fitzgerald a minute to comment,
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but I think that our citizens might be very interested to see who all's
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doing four-year request and the cost to us.
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So you'd like that to be provided at the end of the month?
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How much would that be fairly easy for you to pull?
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We have a system that I think we could pull it very easily and pull it,
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you know how many hours it takes and we've got a we've got a four-year
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software package that Erica manages for us and Jennifer's involved in that but
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it's correct me if I'm wrong but I just I don't see that big issue yeah I think
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we have the data available to do that there's
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something you'd like to see at
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the end of the month during your staff meeting work time is that where ever
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suits you suit staff well let's just plan on doing it as part of a staff
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brief and we can put that in the report and just put it in there each month.
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Do we need a motion or a show?
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I don't think you need a motion.
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Is there anyone that's opposed to doing that?
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If that's the board's direction, that's what we'll do.
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Yeah, I think clarity is always good, except for I'm concerned that we're doing this
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to intimidate people instead of allow them.
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So I would vote against it.
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It's readily available as a FOIA request anyways.
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anybody could get it but I'm just concerned that this is going to this is
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meant to suppress people asking for a FOIA for asking for information. I would
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view it as a means of transparency to our citizens where their dollars are
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going so I guess we do need to have a motion well
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it's since Dr. Seton refuses
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is it?
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I had asked that they provide that at work session but Dr. Seton is
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against doing that so I wanted to know what the rest of the feelings of the
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board were.
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I'm not what I worry about is that this report is being obtained to
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to try to dox people to intimidate their ability to ask for this information.
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So therefore you're opposed to doing this?
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I would be opposed to any intimidation of citizens.
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Well the truth can be mighty intimidating sometimes.
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Now what is the motion on the floor? I've already got one.
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The motion is to ask staff to bring a report of the top users of FOIA for the month and the cost to the county.
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Okay.
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And Ms. Bragg made the motion it's been seconded no I'll second okay let's vote
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five
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yes one no and one absent okay
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any redoes I got one thing I know I know but
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it came in I said we didn't have anybody from the public but I did want to
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share with the board that we did get one e-comment today and we will send this
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e-comment to you on email but it it regards the sympathize that the county
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needs it's interesting because we talked about this earlier the county needs
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soccer fields desperately every other municipality around Augusta has public
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soccer fields Augusta County has two small fields of Sturkshraft Park
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Augusta United must bar fields and churches, schools, HOAs, private property owners, scrambling
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when weather causes disruptions, no fields with lights, in the winter months practice
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may be played on baseball fields.
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Kids need a safe alternative place for after school activities.
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And so this Ms. Kathleen Cavender submitted that today.
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So we'll send that to you on email, just a matter of the record.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I got that, but I can't read it, so if you'd resend it, it was highlighted
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when it shows up highlighted, it might as well be blank, so if I get it some other way,
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I can read it.
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Well, we will.
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We will get it sent to you again.
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Great.
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Yeah.
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Then we do have a closed session.
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Thank you.
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Do we need a break before closed session?
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Okay.
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Mr. Shaw.
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All right, I move that the Board of Supervisors of Augusta County convene
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into closed session pursuant to one, the legal counsel exemption under Virginia
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Code 2.23711A7. Consultation with legal counsel and briefings by staff
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members or consultants pertaining to actual or probable litigation where
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such consultation or briefings in open meetings would adversely affect the
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negotiation or litigation posture of the public body. For the purposes of this
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This subdivision probable litigation means litigation that has been specifically threatened
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or on which the public body or its legal counsel has a reasonable basis to believe will be
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commenced by or against a known party.
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Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to permit the closure of the meeting merely
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because an attorney representing the public body is in attendance or is
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consulted on a matter. A, the purpose of the closed session is consultation with
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legal counsel and briefings by staff members pertaining to probable
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litigation. The subject matter of the closed session is probable litigation
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between Augusta County and a certain commercial property owner
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are pertaining to the 2024 reassess evaluation of the owner's real estate property for purposes
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of taxation.
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Is there a second?
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Okay.
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I have a question for the attorney.
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So it seems to say here, how would discussing this in open session adversely affect
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our negotiator and our litigating posture?
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I mean it requires that so I need to know how it would adversely affect our
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negotiating, live-getting posture. I think in this situation my assessment would
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be that to address that issue would itself compromise our position. What
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issue? The issue that there is a certain commercial property owner who
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contests, disagrees with, continues to dispute the 2024 reassessed valuation of
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that owner's real property for purposes of taxation. That litigation is
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probable and forthcoming in all likelihood and to go further into that I
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think would would compromise the position of the county.
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Anything more
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specific then that I I write I think that we're our our specificity is the
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purpose of the session is to consult for the body to consult with legal counsel
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and also to receive briefings by staff and then the subject of that is the
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specific subject I just outlined and then we have the particular exemption
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from the Virginia Code also cited and I think those make it proper a proper
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motion and a proper closed session so we have a motion so we have a motion on the
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floor to enter into closed session let's vote okay
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six oh we're now in closed
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session