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[A. Call to Order]
SEVEN O'CLOCK AND I'D LIKE TO CALL THE MORE, UH, THE MEETING TO ORDER.[B. Presentation on Major General Dr. Joseph Warren from General George Washington and Daniel Boone]
ON, OUR AGENDA IS PRESENTATION OF MAJOR GENERAL, DR.JOSEPH WARREN FROM GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON AND DANIEL BOONE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR, UM, PROVIDING US TIME TO SPEAK TO YOU.
AND, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE, UH, SOME FOLKS THAT HAVE COME TO BE WITH US AND, UM, I'M HERE WITH US.
AND THE FIRST I'D LIKE TO DO INTRODUCE IS BILL
AND HE IS THE IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT OF THE STATE SOCIETY OF SUMS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
AND AT THE END, I WOULD LIKE FOR HIM TO SAY A FEW WORDS.
SECONDLY, I LOCKED IN HER DOSE, THE IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT OF THE COLONEL JAMES WOODS CHAPTER, OUR CHAPTER HERE IN THE NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY AND THAT'S DALE COREY, AND, UH, DALE IS ALSO COMMANDER OF THE COLOR GUARD AND UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP.
AND I'M GOING TO BRAG A LITTLE BIT IS, IS THIS CHAPTER THAT HE HAS HEADED UP AND IS NOW CONTINUING TO LEAD IS THE OUTSTANDING CHAPTER IN THE WHOLE UNITED STATES.
DID Y'ALL KNOW THAT NO, YOU GOT TO IMPROVE THAT PR STUFF.
UH, THESE ARE THINGS WHERE WE HAVE NO PARDON.
THESE ARE THINGS WE HAVE TO KNOW.
WELL, THEN IT HAS BEEN VIRGINIA OF COURSE, WAS THE PLACE, THE REVOLUTION AND, AND THE, UM, OUTSTANDING CHAPTERS HAVE MOVED TO OTHER STATES BECAUSE MANY STATES HAVE A GREATER POPULATION.
AND, AND WHO'S BEEN LEADING THAT, BUT THE TEXAS, UH, TEXAS ALWAYS IS UP THERE AND THE TOP ONE WASTING TIME.
THEY WANT ME TO SIT DOWN HERE SOON, BUT, UM, YEAH, AND, AND, BUT WE'VE ASSUMED THAT ROLE AND WE'VE LEFT TEXAS IN THE SHADE, TELL YOU THAT'S NOT RIGHT.
THE DUST, THAT'S WHAT WE'VE DONE.
SO NEXT I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE, UH, DALE CARPENTER.
HE IS, UH, WE'RE ALL CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTY.
AND, UM, AND DALE IS, UM, AS THE FOUNDER, THE CHAIRMAN, THE CONVENER OF THE, UH, GENDALL CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE, WHICH HAS BEEN ABOUT MEETING ABOUT EIGHT YEARS NOW ON A WEEKLY BASIS.
AND I'LL GIVE HIM A CHANCE TO SAY SOMETHING IF YOU'LL ALLOW ME AND JUST A LITTLE BIT.
UM, I, I NEVER, UH, I NEVER LIKED TO FEEL RUSHED, BUT I KNOW THAT I'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, YOU PUT ME ON A CLOCK.
AND, UM, SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS, UH, I LIKE TO REVIEW WITH YOU A RESOLUTION THAT I DID, AND I KNOW THAT ED HAS WRITTEN THIS, HE HANDED THIS TO ME JUST A LITTLE BIT AGO, WHICH I GREATLY APPRECIATE THAT.
AND HE IS, I'M FINDING OUT HE IS A ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORTER OF DANIEL MORGAN.
AND I WANT TO, I WANT TO MENTION DANIEL TONIGHT, BUT THIS RESOLUTION THAT WE HAVE HERE, IT ENTAILS THE NAMING OF THE NEW BRIDGES.
AND, UM, HAVING BEEN AN EDUCATOR FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, UH, I KNOW HOW, HOW WE CAN DO THINGS IN OUR COMMUNITY, SUBTLE THINGS, UH, THAT WILL HELP EDUCATE OUR CITIZENS, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN.
AND, UM, YOU ENDORSED THIS BOARD ENDORSED TWO YEARS AGO THAT A PLAQUE WOULD GO IN EACH PUBLIC SCHOOL, UH, COMMEMORATING, UH, DR.
JOSEPH WARREN, WHO WAS THE FIRST GREAT MARTYR OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
AND YOU'VE GOT A PLAQUE RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THIS DOOR THAT, UH, THAT WE PROVIDED YOU ALONG WITH ALL OF THE SCHOOLS.
AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT OF THAT.
BUT TODAY WE WANT TO, UH, WE WANT TO ASK YOU TO DO SEVERAL THINGS.
WE WANT YOU TO PASS A RESOLUTION AND HELP US TO ACHIEVE THE NAMING OF THE LARGER BRIDGE THAT COMES INTO FRONT ROYAL.
JOSEPH WARREN MEMORIAL BRIDGE.
WARREN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT DR.
I, UH, AND YOU CAN'T READ THAT, BUT HE IS ONE OF THE FOREMOST LEADERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
AND HE WAS, UH, BORN IN BOSTON.
THERE HE IS THE GUY THAT MOTIVATED PEOPLE LIKE SAM ADAMS, JOHN ADAMS, HE WAS LEADING THAT.
AND HE WAS, AND HE WAS ONLY JUST IN HIS MID TWENTIES WHEN HE STARTED DOING THAT, BUT HE WAS SMART.
HE BECAME A PHYSICIAN IN BOSTON, ONE OF THE MOST RENOWNED PHYSICIANS THERE, BUT HE CARED THE TORCH FOR FREEDOM BECAUSE HE SAW THE OPPRESSION
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OF ENGLAND ON HIS PEOPLE.AND SO HE FOUGHT HARD FOR THAT.
HE WROTE THE FIRST DOCUMENT, THAT CALL FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THIS NATION.
AND THAT BECAUSE OF THAT, THE KING DID NOT LIKE IT.
HE WAS KNOWN ON A NAME BASIS WITH KING GEORGE KING.
GEORGE SAYS, WE DID NOT LIKE WHAT THIS YOUNG MAN JOSEPH IS DOING, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
AND AT BUNKER HILL, IT WAS JOSEPH WARREN THAT ADVOCATED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STOPPING THE BRITISH BECAUSE THE BRITISH WERE COMING INTO BOSTON, CUTTING OFF FOOD SUPPLIES.
OUR PEOPLE WERE STARVING AND HE SAYS, WE MUST HAVE INDEPENDENCE.
SO 1200 BOSTONIANS AND PEOPLE LIVING IN THAT AREA ROSE TO THE OCCASION THAT JOSEPH WARNS CALL AND THEY SET UP RESISTANCE, THE BRITISH FOUND OUT ABOUT IT, AND THEY FORMED 5,000 TROOPS.
AND THEY BROUGHT THEM INTO THE BAY THERE AND PUT ALL THESE SHIPS, 55 SHIPS OUT IN THE BAY FACING 1200 MINUTES.
AND THEY BEGAN TO UNLOAD THE CRACK MARINES OF THE BRITISH ARMY.
AND THE MARINES CAME ABOARD ON THE 17TH OF JUNE, 1775.
AND THEY BEGAN TO ATTACK AND THEY FAILED.
THEY WENT BACK, THEY CAME AGAIN AND THEY ATTACK AND OUR PEOPLE HELD THEM OFF.
WE BEGAN TO RUN OUT OF MUSKET BALLS AND PATTERN ANYTHING TO FIRE.
IF WE HAD ANY POWDER LEFT, WE WERE PICKING UP ROCKS AND FIRING ROCKS AT HIM, GENERAL GAUGE THE BRITISH GENERAL THEN KNEW THAT IT WAS OVER.
AND HE SAYS, THERE WILL BE A THIRD CHARGE.
HIS COMMANDER UNDER HIM SAID THIS.
HE SAYS GENERAL, WE HAVE ALREADY LOST HALF OF OUR ARMY.
WE BROUGHT 5,000 MEN HERE, 3000 HAVE COME A SHORT ONE HALF OF THEM ARE WOUNDED OR DEAD.
AND GENERAL CAGE SAYS, WE WILL GO ON.
SO THE COMMANDERS OF OUR PEOPLE THERE TO RETREAT, HE WOULD STAY IN THE TRENCHES WITH A FEW MEN.
AND SOME OF THE MEN THAT HE WAS THAT HE WAS DOCTORING WITH HIS MEDICINE KIT THERE ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES.
AND OUR PEOPLE BEGAN TO RETREAT, GENERAL GAUGE ORDERED.
JOSEPH STAYED IN THE DITCH TO MINISTER, TO PEOPLE THERE.
AND HE ORDERED HIS TOP LIEUTENANT, GO KILL WARREN.
THE TOP LIEUTENANT WENT INTO THE TRENCHES.
HE CANNOT, HE DOES NOT HAVE THE HARP TO SHOOT.
HE HANDS HIS PISTOL TO HIS SERVANT AND HE SAYS, SHOOT HIM.
THE SERVANT SHOT HIM RIGHT THROUGH CHEEK.
THAT INSTANT WIFE HAD DIED A FEW MONTHS BEFORE HE LEFT FOUR CHILDREN.
HIS MOTHER TOLD HIM NOT TO GO.
AND HE SAID, MOTHER, MOTHER, DEAR, ALL AMERICA'S CHILDREN MUST NOW COME TO OUR AID.
I WILL SET AMERICA FREE, OR I WILL ANY DIE.
THAT IS THE MAN FOR WHOM THIS COUNTY HIS NAME.
AND THE QUESTION THAT I GET WHEREVER I TRAVELED IN THIS COUNTY IS WHY DID WE NAME THIS COUNTY FOR A YANKEE? YOU GET THAT HERE, WARREN COUNTY, WHEN I STARTED, MOST PEOPLE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE THE NAME WARREN CAME FROM.
BUT WHEN I TOLD THEM, THEY SAYS, WHY NAME AFTER A YANKEE? WELL, I'M GOING TO TELL YOU WHY.
I THINK THIS DALE, CORY RIGHT HERE IS SPENDING DAYS AND DAYS AND MONTHS, AND MONTHS, AND NOW YEARS SEEKING OUT ON THE SOIL OF WARREN.
WHAT IS NOW WARREN COUNTY, THE GRAVES OF OLD SOLDIERS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND ALL IN THESE HILLS, ALL AROUND US HERE ALL AROUND US ARE THE GRAVES OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS DID Y'ALL KNOW THAT Y'ALL KNOW THAT.
DID YOU KNOW RIGHT UP ON THIS HILL, OVER HERE IS TO BROTHER.
JOHN MARSHALL SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, WHO WAS AT VALLEY FORGE.
WE HAVE A RICH HISTORY HERE, FOLKS.
AND THE THING THAT I WANT US TO DO IS I WANT US TO PUT WARREN COUNTY ON THE MAP AS BEING A PATRIOTIC COUNTY ACCOUNTED THAT LOVES ITS HERITAGE.
AND I WANT PEOPLE FOR MILES AROUND TO COME TO WARREN COUNTY AND I WON'T THEM TO CROSS OVER THAT FIRST BRIDGE THERE.
AND I WANT THEM TO SEE THE NAME, THE GEORGE WASHINGTON, DANIEL MORGAN MEMORIAL BRIDGE.
AND AS SOON AS THEY CROSS THAT ONE, THEY SEE A HUGE SIGN.
AND IT SAYS WELCOME THE DOCTOR JANE, THAT DR.
JOSEPH WARREN MEMORIAL BRIDGE.
AND THEN THEY COME IN AND THEY SIT IN RESTAURANTS AND THEY ASK QUESTIONS.
WHY IS THIS NAME THAT WAY? AND THEN WE BEGIN TO TALK.
AND WE EXPLAINED TO THEM WHO WE ARE IN WARREN COUNTY, NOT WHAT IS IN WIKIPEDIA.
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I READ WIKIPEDIA DOING SOME RESEARCH.HAVE YOU READ WIKIPEDIA ABOUT WARREN COUNTY LATELY MAKES ME SICK.
AND THAT'S ONE REASON THAT I HAVE DONE WHAT I HAVE DONE HERE.
AND THAT'S ONE REASON I'M HERE APPEAR BEFORE YOU TONIGHT.
AND THESE MEN HERE ACCOMPANY ME.
NOW, THE RESERVOIR, ELLUCIAN HERE SAYS WHAT I JUST SAID TO YOU.
NOW YOU MIGHT SAY LARRY, LARRY, WHAT ABOUT DANIEL MORGAN? HE WAS IN WINCHESTER.
DANIEL MORGAN WAS WASHINGTON'S GENERAL WHEN WASHINGTON NEEDED HELP FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR UNTIL THE ENDS OF THE WAR.
HE CALLED UPON DANIEL MORGAN, A MAN WHO WAS SO UNCOUTH, THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS WOULD NOT EVEN MAKE HIM A GENERAL FOR YEARS AND YEARS BECAUSE HE CUSSED.
HE JUST WAS, AND HE WAS ONE HELL OF A SOLDIER.
AND HIS TROOPS WOULD FOLLOW HIM IN ANYPLACE.
WHAT MORGAN DID AT CAL PENN'S TURN THE REVOLUTION.
IT TURNED IT AROUND BECAUSE HE CAME UP WITH A STRATEGY.
HE CAME UP WITH A STRATEGY THAT WHEN I WAS IN THE MARINE CORPS, ONE OF THE FIRST COMBAT STRATEGIES WOLD, I KNOW YOU GOT THE SAME LESSON, COMBAT STRATEGY, DOUBLE ENVELOPMENT.
YOU REMEMBER THAT? REMEMBER DOUBLE ENVELOPMENT, DOUBLE ENVELOPMENT WAS WHAT DANIEL MORGAN CREATED AND USE TO DEFEAT THE BRITISH.
I DON'T HAVE TIME TO GO INTO MILITARY STRATEGY, BUT IT LIVES ON A YOUNG MAN THAT I, I KNEW JOINED THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS.
HE SAW ME AT WINCHESTER NOT LONG AGO.
AND HE SAYS, MR. JOHNSON, WHAT YOU TOLD ME AT SAMUEL'S LIBRARY ABOUT DANIEL MORGAN TEACHING COMING UP WITH A DOUBLE ENVELOPMENT.
HE SAYS, I'VE GOTTEN OUT OF THE WAR COLLEGE.
AND GUESS WHAT? WE STUDIED DANIEL MORGAN'S TACTICS.
HIS BACK WAS IN SUCH TERRIBLE CONDITION.
HE COULDN'T EVEN RIDE A HORSE.
AND SO HE ASKED, CAN I HAVE TIME TO GO BACK TO WINCHESTER? AND CAN I RECUPERATE AND GENERAL WASHINGTON AND GENERAL GREEN SAYS, GO BACK.
WE KNOW WE NEED YOU, BUT GO ON BACK AND RECUPERATE, THE WAR WENT ON.
WE WERE LOSING BATTLE AFTER BATTLE.
WE DIDN'T KNOW IF WE WERE GOING TO WIN YORKTOWN OR NOT, BUT IF WE WOULD BE DEFEATED AT YORKTOWN, THE REVOLUTION WAS OVER.
BUT WASHINGTON SAYS I WILL NEVER SURRENDER.
IF WE ARE DEFEATED AT YORKTOWN, WE WILL RETREAT TO THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY.
DID YOU KNOW THAT? AND SOMEBODY SAYS, WHY WILL YOU GO TO THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY? HE SAYS, I WILL GO TO THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY BECAUSE THE SCOTCH IRISHMAN AND THE GERMANS THERE WILL CONTINUE TO PULL THE TRIGGER ON THEIR LOCK UNTIL WE KNOW VICTORY.
THAT WAS THE PEOPLE THAT LIVED IN THIS COUNTY AND LIVED IN THIS AREA.
AND I WANT TO NAME A BRIDGE HONORING THE MEN THAT LED THEM NAMED POOP BRIDGES.
I GETTING HUNG UP ON THIS PODIUM HERE.
I'M A PREACHER IN REAL LIFE FOLKS.
SO NOW, SO NOW WASHINGTON GETS IN TOUCH WITH DANIEL MORGAN, DANIEL.
WHAT DO YOU WANT? HE ALWAYS ROSE TO THE OCCASION.
NO MATTER THE PAIN IN HIS BACK, HE SAYS, I WANT YOU TO GO TO MASS AND NOT IN MOUNTAIN.
IT'S A NATURAL FORTRESS, BUT WE'VE GOT TO HAVE A WAY TO GET IN.
I WANT YOU TO GO AND BUILD A ROAD INTO MASSIVE NUT AND MAT MOUNTAIN.
SO IF IT DOES NOT GO WELL AND WE HAVE TO RETREAT, WE WILL NOT SURRENDER, BUT WE WILL COME TO THE VALLEY AND THE SCOTCH IRISHMAN AND THE GERMAN OF THIS GERMANS TO THIS VALLEY WILL PICK UP THEIR MUSKETS AND THEY WILL FIRE UNTIL WE HAVE VICTORY.
DANIEL MORGAN GOT NUMBERS OF PRISONERS, AND HE BROUGHT THESE GERMAN PRISONERS AND OTHERS OVER TO THIS MOUNTAIN, RIGHT OVER HERE.
DON'T YOU ANY DAY YOU GO BY, YOU DON'T SEE MASS NUT MOUNTAIN.
I LOOK UP AND DIRT IS, I DIDN'T KNOW, THIS DANIEL MORGAN CAME AND HE BUILT A ROAD.
AND I GAVE YOU THIS TO LOOK AT THAT'S STANDING IN THE MORNING ROAD.
YOU SAY RIGHT THERE, DANIEL BORDEN'S ROAD, YOU GOT TO SWAP.
NOW, WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING? DOLORES, DO NOT PUT THAT IN THE MINUTES, PLEASE.
THAT DELORES LAUGHED AT THE SPEAKER.
NOW DANIEL WENT OVER THERE AND HE BUILT A ROAD.
I WAS TOLD IT WAS CALLED THE TUSCARORA TRAIL
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NAMED AFTER THE TUSCARORA ANS I STARTED INVESTIGATING THAT ROAD.TUSK, THE ROAR ROAD WAS NOT NAMED UNTIL THE 1930S.
WHEN GOVERNOR NOT GOVERNOR, WHAT WAS HIS NAME? PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WANTED MAKE, DO WORK TO PUT PEOPLE TO WORK.
AND HE SENT PROVES OVER THERE AND THEY BUILT THIS TUSCARORA PATH.
DANIEL MORGAN'S ROAD WAS THERE, BUT WHEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DECIDED, OR WHOEVER DECIDED IN THE PARK, SIR, WE'RE GOING TO NAME THIS TO TUSCARORA TRAIL.
THEY LOST DANIEL MORGAN'S NAME ON THAT.
BUT GUESS WHAT? YOU GOT A RIDE THERE WHO WERE I CIRCLED ON THAT PIECE OF PAPER I GAVE YOU CHART, OR YOU GO RIDE OVER THERE AND YOU GO TO THAT PLACE.
AND YOU, YOU PARKED DURING THAT PARKING LOT.
AND YOU COULD WALK FOR ABOUT 400 FEET BEFORE IT GOES STRAIGHT UP, RIGHT? THERE ARE COLUMNS, OLD STONE COLUMNS WITH A PLAQUE ON IT THAT SAYS DANIEL MORGAN'S ROAD.
NOW FOLKS, IF OUR CHAMBER COMMERCE IN OUR VISITATION COMMITTEES, CAN'T SELL THAT TO TOURIST.
I'LL BUY YOU A HAMBURGER AT MCDONALD'S OR WHATEVER.
BUT I THINK THAT THIS IS GOOD.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CAME TO OUR AREA WHEN HE WAS 16 YEARS OLD AND HE MEASURED ALL OF OUR LAND.
HE SURVEYED THERE'S A PICTURE, A PAINTER PAINTED A PICTURE OF HIM STANDING UP ON THE MOUNTAIN, OVERLOOKING THE SEVEN BINS.
YEAH, THE SEVEN BINS AND DANIEL MORGAN CAME TO HELP HIM.
SO THEREFORE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MY PROPOSAL ON THIS RESOLUTION IS THAT YOU SUPPORT, YOU SUPPORT THE NAMING OF THESE BRIDGES, THE TWO BRIDGES.
AND I GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.
I'M NOT GOING TO, I TOLD DALE I WAS GOING TO READ THIS SITE, BUT I BET MY TIME.
MY TIME HAS GONE THERE, BUT IT'S HERE.
AND I PUT ALL THE STUFF AND MORE TOO IN THAT, IN THAT RIGHT THERE.
NOW, WHAT I WANT TO DO IS I WANT WILLIAM
WE CALL HIM THE IMMEDIATE PAST.
PRESIDENT SAYS AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO SAY A WORD ON BEHALF OF THE, JUST OVER 2000 MEMBERS OF THE VIRGINIA SOCIETY, SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
I'D LIKE TO, UH, CONGRATULATE WARREN COUNTY, UH, ON FIRST, THE NAME THAT WAS GIVEN TO YOU, UH, AND YOUR PATRIOTISM AND YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE THINGS THAT, UH, THAT WE LOVE, UH, THIS COUNTRY, UH, WAS UNIQUE AND CONTINUES TO BE.
SO BECAUSE OF WHAT PEOPLE LIKE JOSEPH WARREN DID, IT WILL ONLY CONTINUE TO BE.
SO IF WE CONTINUE TO HONOR THE GOOD THINGS THAT THEY DID AND TRY TO BRING ALL OF OUR PEOPLE TOGETHER, TO HONOR THAT AND EMULATE THE GOOD THAT THEY DID, THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION, THE ABILITY TO GATHER THE, THE ABILITY TO DISAGREE.
UH, ALL OF THESE THINGS WERE LEFT TO US BY PEOPLE LIKE DR.
AND THERE WERE NO OTHER COUNTRIES THAT TRULY ENJOYED THAT IN THEIR DAY.
THANK YOU FOR THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE DONE.
AND I THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR THOSE THINGS THAT YOU WILL DO FOR, I KNOW THAT YOU WILL, WHETHER YOU HONOR OUR REQUEST OR NOT, I AM QUITE CERTAIN THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE AS YOU HAVE TO HONOR OUR PATRIOT ANCESTORS.
AND I HOPE YOU GET THIS IN WHATEVER MINUTES ARE TAKEN, BUT THIS IS THE HARDEST WORK IN SONS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION MEMBER IN THIS COUNTRY.
OR WE WOULDN'T BE THE NATION'S OUTSTANDING CHAPTER.
AND YOU SAID I'M THE PAST PRESIDENT OF THE COLONEL JAMES WOULD THE SECOND CHAPTER, THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
AND YES, WE ARE VERY PROUD IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND OUR CATEGORY.
WE'VE BEEN NUMBER ONE FOR 10 YEARS IN A ROW TAKING CARE OF VETERANS IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, WE'VE BEEN NUMBER ONE IN THE NATION.
AND LAST YEAR WE WERE NUMBER ONE IN THE NATION OVERALL.
NOW WHY ARE WE THAT? BECAUSE WE'RE THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND I'M EVERY ONE OF US, THE FOUR OF US HERE AND ALL OF THE SENATE, WE ALL HAVE AN ANCESTOR THAT WAS IN THAT WAR OUT.
THEY PAID DUES OR THEY PAID TAXES, OR THEY WERE IN THE GOVERNMENT.
THEY ALL SUPPORTED THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
AND OUR GOAL IS TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THE COLONIAL ERA.
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HISTORY.AND WE DO THAT THROUGH HISTORICAL EDUCATIONAL AND PATRIOTIC MEANS NOW RIGHT HERE IN WARREN COUNTY.
WHY DO WE WANT TO GO THAT JEFF WARREN COUNTIES IS JUST FULL OF HISTORY.
NOW, OF COURSE WE KNOW MORE AND DIDN'T COME AROUND UNTIL 1835.
BUT BEFORE THAT, WHEN THEY FIRST CAME DOWN HERE IN THE 1730S, YOST HYPE WOULD COME DOWN A WHOLE BUNCH OF GERMANS AND THEY CAME DOWN HERE AND SETTLED IT.
AND THAT LITTLE GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF PETER LEE, HUGH CAME HERE AND GOT ALL THIS LAND DOWN HERE.
AND LARRY YOU'RE INTERRUPTING ME WITH YOUR PHONE.
WELL, WE KNOW WHAT PRECEDENTS WE TAKE NOW.
ANYWAY, PETER LIU WAS GIVEN ALL THIS LAND.
WELL, HE WASN'T GIVEN IT TO HIM.
HE HAD GRANTS AND THE OFFICER HAD TO FIGHT WITH THAT A BUNCH.
WELL, THEY FORMED THE HUGH TOWN.
AND THEN MOST OF YOU PROBABLY KNOW WHAT IT WAS CALLED RIGHT AFTER THAT IT WAS CALLED HILL TOWN.
AND WHY WAS IT CALLED HILL TOWN? BECAUSE PEOPLE CAME HERE TO RAISE HELL, IT WAS THE CROSSROADS HERE, BUT THAT, AND THEN AFTER THAT IT BECOME FRONT ROYAL.
AND WE'RE NEVER REALLY QUITE SURE WHY IT WAS NAMED FRONT ROW.
AND I WAS ON, I WAS ON THE BOARD OVER WARN HERITAGE SOCIETY FOR A WHILE.
AND MY WIFE HAS ONE OF THE ARCHIVISTS HERE.
SO I GET TO HEAR ALL THIS STUFF ALL THE TIME, BUT THEY DO.
AND WHAT WE LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT IT, OF COURSE, BECAUSE OF OUR MILITARY STUFF IS FROM THE ROYAL OAK IS WHAT THE MILITARY COMMAND WAS.
SO WE'RE GOING TO GO WITH THAT ONE, WHETHER IT'S TRUE OR NOT, BUT WE'LL LIVE WITH IT.
BUT ANYWAY, THEN WE'VE GOT A WONDERFUL, PROUD HISTORY HERE.
AND WE ARE INTERTWINED WITH ALL OF THESE GUYS.
YOU CAN GET RIGHT UP HERE ON THREE 40.
YOU CAN LOOK TO THE EAST AND YOU CAN SEE THE PAST THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON CAME THROUGH.
YOU CAN TURN AROUND AND YOU CAN LOOK DOWN HERE AND SEE COMING UP FIVE 22 THERE, THAT WAS THE MAIN ROUTE COMING INTO THIS PART OF THE VALLEY FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS.
SO YOU'VE GOT ALL THAT HISTORY SURROUNDING YOU.
AND THAT HISTORY STARTED BACK IN THE 1730S AND IT PUSHED US ALL THE WAY ON UP TO TODAY.
AND WE'VE HAD PEOPLE FIGHTING IT, EVERY WAR RIGHT HERE IN THIS COUNTY, WE HAVE 12 VETERANS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR, A BURIED IN OUR COUNTY.
THAT'S 12 THAT I'VE FOUND SO FAR.
IT DOESN'T MEAN THERE AREN'T MORE, BUT THERE'S 12.
AND YES, THE HUGHES WERE TIED INTO THAT.
UH, BASICALLY TWO OF HIS SONS, WILLIAM AND SPENCER, THEY BOTH LEFT FOR LAND GRANTS.
THE OTHER WENT TO KENTUCKY, BUT ELIZABETH LIHUE, SHE WAS MARRIED TO PETER EDWARDS WHO WAS BURIED OVER ON THAT OLD CEMETERY.
SO HIS GRAVE HAS BEEN LOST TO TIME, BUT WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF GUYS STILL HERE.
WE'VE GOT THOMAS ALLEN, THAT'S UP AT THE RANDOLPH-MACON ACADEMY.
LIKE YOU SAID, WE'VE GOT JAMES MARK AND MARSHALL IT'S AFTER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTY, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, UH, UH, DANIEL CLOUD UP IN PROSPECT HILL AND HE WAS MOVED IN THERE WHEN THEY MOVED A LOT OF THOSE GRAVES FROM, YOU KNOW, THE JACKSON CEMETERY AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO ANYWAY, WE'VE GOT THIS REAL PROUD HISTORY AND WE ARE REALLY TIED INTO IT.
AND LIKE LARRY SAID, GEORGE WASHINGTON SURVEYED ALL OF THIS LAND AROUND IN HERE.
SO WE'RE TIED TO GEORGE THAT WAY, YOU KNOW, AND GEORGE CAME THROUGH AND HE WENT UP TO THE WINCHESTER.
BASICALLY HE COMES IN, HE HAS DANIEL MORGAN BUILT THIS ROAD THAT HE WAS GOING TO GO TO HIS LAST STAND.
THAT WAS GOING TO BE GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE AMERICAN COLONISTS LAST STAND RIGHT HERE IN WARREN COUNTY.
NOBODY ELSE CAN SAY THAT THEY CAN'T THAT'S OURS AND OURS ALONE.
AND OF COURSE, WITH JOSEPH WARREN, WE'RE TIED TO JOSEPH WARREN BECAUSE OF THE NAME, THE FIRST TRUE MARGARET OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
AND BECAUSE OF THAT, AND BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN GOING AROUND EDUCATING EVERYBODY, WHICH IS PART OF OUR, YOU KNOW, OUR MEANS WHAT WE LIKE TO DO, WE WANT TO DO IT EVEN BETTER JOB OF WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING AND KEEP THIS LIVING HISTORY GOING THAT WE HAVE FOR THE COLONIAL PERIOD.
AND WITH THAT, I ASKED YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
I ONLY HAVE A FEW THINGS TO SAY, UH, WE'RE NOT HERE AS REENACTORS.
OF COURSE, WE'RE HERE IN PERIOD DRESS.
JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF AMBIENCE.
UH, THE UNIFORM THAT I HAVE ON IS THE SAME UNIFORM THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON WORE, AND IT'S ALSO THE SAME.
IT'S THE STANDARD CONTINENTAL ARMY OFFICER UNIFORM.
SO THEY ALL WORE THAT SAME UNIFORM.
UH, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT WHEN THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED, THE PEOPLE THAT WE RESPECT, THEY WERE TREASURES.
I THINK WE HAVE ONE OF OUR OWN TREASURES HERE RIGHT NOW, THIS, UH, THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE WHAT I SAID, BUT, UH, LARRY HAS BEEN REALLY THE IMPETUS OF BRINGING US BACK TO THOSE, UH, FOUNDATIONAL, NOT ONLY THE FOUNDERS, BUT THE FOUNDATIONAL VALUES.
AND THAT'S WHAT REALLY INTERESTS ME AS THE SHENANDOAH CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE.
UH, WHEN THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED, THERE WAS AS MANY DIFFERENT RELIGIONS AND MANY DIFFERENT OPINIONS IS THERE ARE TODAY.
UH, THEY MAY HAVE EXPRESSED SOME A LITTLE BETTER.
I'M NOT SURE, BUT, UH, THE POINT WAS WHEN THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED, REGARDLESS OF ANYBODY'S, UH, PARTICULAR RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION, ESCHATOLOGY, ANYTHING ELSE THEY ALL
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KNEW AND ALL RESPECTED THE FACT THAT A GOVERNMENT AND A COUNTRY THAT WAS BASED ON JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES, IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR ESCHATOLOGY WAS A GOOD THING.AND SO THAT WAS SUPPORTED AND THAT WAS ENDED UP BEING DOCUMENTED IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
AND WE HAVE 240 YEARS PLUS ALMOST 245 YEARS OF PROOF THAT THEY WERE RIGHT.
SO WE ARE SO PROUD OF, UH, WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS COUNTY.
I'M A, I'M A NEW ENGLANDER, UH, PENNSYLVANIA ACTUALLY BY BIRTH, BUT A VIRGINIA AND BY CHOICE.
AND, UH, I CONSIDER FROM THIS AREA, UH, AN OASIS, IT'S A TRUE OASIS.
AND I KNOW THERE'S MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD LOVE TO LIVE IN A TOWN WHERE YOU HAVE A, UH, TOWN GAZEBO, NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER.
YOU MIGHT FIND A POLICE CHIEF, YOU MIGHT FIND A COUNCILMAN.
IT JUST, UH, IT IS THE MOST, THE CLOSEST THING I CAN SEE TO THE FREEDOMS THAT WE WERE GUARANTEED IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
AND WE'VE ENJOYED FOR 240 YEARS, AND I'M REALLY PROUD OF FRONT ROYAL.
AND I'M ESPECIALLY PROUD OF LARRY JOHNSON.
THE QUESTION IS, IS WHY I DO WHAT I DO.
I DO IT BECAUSE, BECAUSE I HAD SEVEN GRANDFATHERS AND FAULT IN AMERICAN REVOLUTION, SOME GAVE THEIR LIVES AT 17 UNCLES.
SOME GAVE THEIR LIVES WAS IN THE MARINE CORPS.
I COULD HAVE JUMPED ON SOME OF THOSE THINGS, BUT I FELT LIKE THE PRESERVATION OF OUR COUNTRY'S HERITAGE, THE PRESERVATION OF OUR CONSTITUTION AND THE EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL AT THIS TIME.
I THINK THE SUBTLE THINGS THAT WE DO THAT YOU DO WILL HAVE A GREAT IMPACT UPON THE LEARNING OF OUR CHILDREN.
WHEN THEY ASK QUESTIONS, MOM, DAD, WHO WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON, WHO WAS DANIEL MORGAN, WHO WAS JOSEPH WARREN, TRULY AMERICAN HEROES.
AND IF I HAD MY ROMAN CATHOLIC FRIEND HERE, WHO'S NOT WITH US DURING THE NIGHT, HE'S NOT FEELING WELL.
I TURNED TO HIM AND I'D SAY, UH, I'D SAY NED, IF ALL OF THESE MEN WERE ROMAN CATHOLICS, THE POPE WOULD HAVE MADE THEM SAINTS BY NOW.
I TRULY BELIEVE THAT WOULD BE THE CASE.
AND ONE THING THAT I'M SO PROUD OF IS EACH OF THESE MEN, WE ALL FOUR HAVE SERVED OUR COUNTRY AND UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES, AIR FORCE, ARMY MARINE CORPS.
AND THIS IS A WAY THAT OLD SOLDIERS CONTINUE TO SERVE.
I SALUTE YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU.
AND I'M SURE WE DO OUR FRIDAY MORNING NINE O'CLOCK, WE'LL BE RIGHT OUT IN FRONT OF THE BUILDINGS, RUSSIA AT THE MOMENT TO COMMEMORATE DR.
JOSEPH HORN, WE HAVE THE COUNTY FLAGS WHERE WE CAN HAVE STAFF KEPT THAT WAY FOR A WEEK BECAUSE THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH IS A WEEK AFTER HIS BIRTH.
SO WE HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL OUT THERE.
WE'LL BE IN THERE A FULL REGALIA AND FIRE OFF A LITTLE MUSKET FIRE.
I KNOW SOMETIMES YOU POST STUFF OUT HERE IN THE HALLS.
I ALWAYS ENJOY YOUR PRESENTATIONS AND TONIGHT WAS, UH, AN EXCEPTIONAL ONE.
THANK YOU ALL AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY AS WELL.
I RAN FOR SUPERVISOR AND
[C. Discussion – Proposed Amphitheater for Samuels Public Library]
IS PROPOSED AMPHITHEATER FOR SAMUEL'S PUBLIC LIBRARY, MICHELLE ROSS AND MELODY.I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SAMUEL'S LIBRARY.
UM, THANK YOU GUYS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LET US SPEAK THIS EVENING.
UM, WHEN I LET MELODY KICK OFF THE CONVERSATION, BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY HER PASSION PROJECT AND, UM, WITHOUT HER, WE WOULDN'T BE STANDING IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY.
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SO POSING AN AMPHITHEATER.AND I THINK OUR FIRST, UM, PROGRAM SHOULD BE HAVING THE, UH, THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION COMING TO THE PUBLIC.
THANKS A LOT, GUYS, JUST REALLY WELL.
UM, THE LIBRARY SITS NEXT TO RUSTY JEFFERIES AND BETWEEN THE TWO PROPERTIES LIES THE HILLSIDE ON THE NEXT SLIDE.
WHY IS THIS HILLSIDE? AND YOU CAN SEE THE PATH THERE THAT GOES TO THE BRIDGE, UM, BEFORE COVID THE CHILDREN OF RESI JESS JEFFRIES USED TO COME DOWN THE PATH AND GO TO STORY TIME AT THE LIBRARY.
WELL, I'VE BEEN WALKING BY FOR YEARS AND YEARS NOW, AND EVERY TIME I WALKED BY THIS HILLSIDE, UM, IT JUST CALLS OUT TO ME.
THIS NEEDS TO BE AN AMPHITHEATER.
SO THIS HAS BEEN MY PERSONAL PASSION.
MICHELLE'S RIGHT, FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
UM, I SEE THIS HILLSIDE AND I PICKED YOUR CHILDREN FROM THE SCHOOL USING THE SPACE FOR OUTDOOR LEARNING.
I SEE THE LIBRARIES CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT HOLDING PROGRAMS ABOUT DINOSAURS, ANIMALS, MAGICIANS, AND PUPPET SHOWS.
I CAN HEAR MUSICAL PERFORMANCES FOR FAMILIES, THE TOWN'S IRISH DANCERS CLOGGING, AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO STAGE PERFORMANCES.
SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T REALLY HAVE MUCH OF HERE IN MORGAN COUNTY.
THE SMITHSONIAN RESEARCH RESEARCH CENTER IS UP THE STREET, AND THEY'VE BEEN A NUMBER OF TIMES TO THE LIBRARY AND DONE PRESENTATIONS.
AND THE SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK OF COURSE, IS OUR NEIGHBOR.
UM, WE, THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL DOES A LEAVE, NO TRACE FROM TIME TO TIME.
THERE'S JUST SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES WE'VE TALKED AND TALKED ABOUT HOW MANY OPPORTUNITIES THERE ARE TO MAKE USE OF AN AMPHITHEATER AND HAVE OUTDOOR PROGRAMMING AT THE LIBRARY.
UM, THE LIBRARY HAS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EACH YEAR THAT COME THROUGH THE DOORS AND A FEW YEARS AGO, UM, IT'S A SIMILAR PROJECT.
WE HAD ADDED A CHILDREN'S GARDEN TO THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING, AND IT'S A QUIET RESPITE FOR OUTDOORS, UH, OUTDOOR READING.
AND, AND WE OFFER GARDEN PROGRAMMING THERE FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
AND THAT'S BEEN A VERY SPECIAL PLACE FOR FAMILIES, BUT YOU CAN SEE ON THE HILLSIDE, UM, THE IDEA WOULD BE TO HAVE A MATCHING BRIDGE A LITTLE BIT FURTHER DOWN BY THE ROCKS AND THEN THE MIDDLE A, UM, PAVILION THAT WOULD FACE THAT HILLSIDE AND THEN HAVE PERHAPS THREE ROWS OF SEATING.
UH, ALONG THE SIDE, OF COURSE, THIS IS SOME COLLEGES AND MY DREAM IS, UH, THE SWARTHMORE EXAMPLE, UM, SWARTHMORE COLLEGE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
SO WE WOULD WANT TO PUT, UH, TREES SO THAT WE WOULD HAVE SHADE.
YOU DON'T WANT TO SIT IN A HOT AMPHITHEATER WITH NO SHADE.
SO IF WE, THE SOONER WE GET IT GOING, THEN PUT SOME TREES UP.
THEN EVENTUALLY IT COULD BE A NICE SHADED SPOT FOR PROGRAMS. SOME OTHER SAMPLES ARE IN, UM, SCHOOLS IN PUBLIC SPACES AND LIBRARIES.
AND I KNOW MICHELLE CAN TELL YOU ABOUT LIBRARY.
SO THERE IS AN ARTICLE THAT WE HANDED OUT TO YOU GUYS AS WELL, BUT JUST RECENTLY APPEARED IN LIBRARY JOURNAL, WHICH IS PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AND THE IMPORTANCE OF OUTDOOR SPACES TO LIBRARY PROGRAMMING, HOW COVID KIND OF AWOKEN ALL OF US TO THE NEED FOR THAT.
AND WE HAVE OUR BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN'S GARDEN.
UM, BUT THERE'S A LIMITED SPACE CAPABILITY THERE.
WE HAVE BEEN UTILIZING THAT TO DO STORY TIMES AND TO DO GARDENING PROGRAMS. UM, THIS WOULD ALLOW FOR MORE CAPACITY, UM, AND A BETTER PERFORMANCE SPACE.
THE CHILDREN'S GARDEN ISN'T REALLY SET UP FOR THAT TYPE OF PERFORMANCE.
THERE ARE OTHER LOCAL LIBRARIES.
I REALLY CAN'T SAY IN A PUBLIC MEETING WHO, BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE ALL OF THEIR DUCKS IN A ROW YET THAT ARE PLANNING SIMILAR SPACES.
UM, SO REALLY THIS IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT YOU'LL SEE MORE AND MORE OF, UM, OTHER LIBRARIES USING.
AND IT COULD BE USED NOT JUST FOR THE LIBRARY, BUT FOR OUR COMMUNITY, FOR THE COUNTY AS WELL.
YOU KNOW, I ENVISION RESI JEFFREY'S EVEN USING THIS AS AN OUTDOOR CLASSROOM WHEN OCCASION, PERHAPS WE COLLABORATE WITH THE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT TO PUT ON BIG EVENTS.
UM, AND WE HAVE OUR HUGE SAMMY CON EVENT IN SEPTEMBER, BUT NORMALLY BRINGS IN THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.
SO THIS IS REALLY A BOON, NOT JUST FOR THE LIBRARY, BUT FOR WARREN COUNTY.
UM, THIS IS A, THIS IS A LOCAL ONE.
THAT'S PROBABLY A LITTLE CLOSER TO WHAT WE'RE IMAGINING.
UM, NORTHERN PARK, YOUR COMMUNITY PARK HAS THIS AMPHITHEATER AND IT HAS THE THREE STONEWALLS, OUR HILLSIDES A LITTLE BIT STEEPER, BUT IT'S THE SAME GENERAL
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IDEA.UM, AND THEN THEY HAVE A SLAB.
AND THEN ON THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU'LL SEE THAT THEY HAVE A COVERED PAVILION.
UM, WE WANT TO KEEP IT SIMPLE.
WE DON'T WANT TO, UM, GET TOO COMPLEX ABOUT THIS, JUST BASICALLY A SLAB AND, AND A COVERED SPACE, A STAGE.
UM, AND I THINK THAT IN ITS SIMPLICITY, IT WILL JUST BE MORE VERSATILE THAT WAY.
WE ARE PLANNING OUR INITIAL PLAN OF ACTION.
WE, UM, TOOK IT TO BOTH THE BOARD AND THE SAMUEL'S BOARD AND THE FRIENDS BOARD, AND THEY WERE VERY SUPPORTIVE AND GAVE US THE, THE NOD THAT WE SHOULD GO AHEAD.
DALEY AND, UM, HE ENCOURAGED US TO COME HERE TONIGHT.
UH, THE, THE LAND DOES BELONG TO, UM, RESI JEFFRIES.
SO WE WOULD NEED TO GET APPROVAL BY, BY THE SCHOOL, UM, TO, TO BE ABLE TO GO AHEAD WITH OUR PLANS.
UM, AS FAR AS DESIGN GOES, UM, MY BROTHER-IN-LAW DAN HOLTEC, WHICH I'M SURE A LOT OF YOU MIGHT KNOW, AND HE SITS ON ARCHITECTURAL BOARDS AND THINGS FOR THE COUNTY HE'S BEEN DOING.
HE'S A STRUCTURAL ENGINEER, UM, BEEN IN WARREN COUNTY FOR OVER 30 YEARS.
I USUALLY GO WHERE SOMEBODY DOESN'T KNOW DAN THAT HE'S HELPED THEM WITH THEIR HOUSE AND THEIR HILLSIDE AND THEIR WALLS.
UM, BUT HE, HE HAS AGREED TO, UM, DO THE DESIGN WORK AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE STRUCTURALLY SOUND FOR, FOR THE, FOR THE PLAN.
UH, WE ALREADY, MY, WHEN MY HUSBAND PASSED AWAY, UM, HE LEFT SOME MONEY AND SO HE MADE A GENEROUS DONATION TO THE LIBRARY.
SO WE'RE ALREADY, UH, HAVE SEED MONEY.
UM, WE'VE WRITTEN TWO GRANTS, UH, ONE TO LOWE'S HOMETOWN AND ONE FOR THE STATE FARM NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.
YOU DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE GOING TO GET THEM, BUT, UM, WE'VE BEGUN WORK ON TRYING TO REACH OUT AND GET SOME GRANT MONEY.
AND, UM, AND WE'VE BEEN SPEAKING TO DIFFERENT KINDS OF SPONSORS AND WE HAVEN'T BROADCAST IT TOO FAR UNTIL WE GET YOUR APPROVAL.
AND ONCE WE HAVE YOUR, YOUR APPROVAL, THEN WE CAN GO ON FROM THERE.
UM, OF COURSE THE FIRST QUESTION THAT YOU'RE GOING TO ASK THAT DR.
DALEY ASKED WAS, HOW MUCH DO YOU ANTICIPATE THIS IS GOING TO COST? UM, THE, THE, CHILDREN'S THE ONLY REALLY WAY THAT WE CAN, WE DO THIS AS WE KNOW THAT THE CHILDREN'S GARDEN WAS ROUGHLY 50,000 AND, BUT THAT INVOLVED, UM, IRRIGATION SYSTEM AND OFFENSING, AND WE WON'T NEED THAT.
WE WILL NEED THE STONEWORK AND, UM, SLAB.
I GOT A QUOTE FOR THE PAVILION OF 18,000, UH, FROM AMERICAN LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES.
THAT WAS JUST OUR FIRST QUOTE, JUST TO GET A BALLPARK, BUT WE'RE FIGURING 50, 50, NO MORE, 50, 60, SOMEWHERE AROUND THERE.
AND WE'RE PROBABLY ABOUT HALFWAY WITH INITIAL FUNDING.
UM, WE WOULD, WE WOULD KIND OF HOLDING OFF TO SEE WHAT IT IS THE COUNTY MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO.
I KNOW THAT AT ONE POINT THERE WERE PLANS FOR, UM, OR TALK ABOUT A AMPHITHEATER IN ANOTHER PART OF TOWN.
I'D RATHER YOU DID IT AT THE LIBRARY.
WE HAVE SO MANY MORE PEOPLE ON THIS SIDE AND IT WOULD HAVE SO MUCH USE THAT.
UM, WE KNOW THAT IT WOULD BE USED QUITE A BIT, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S IN YOUR BUDGET OR WHAT TYPE OF, UM, IN KIND SERVICES THE LAW THE COUNTY COULD DO HELP US WITH EXCAVATING OR STONES OR, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO THAT'S AN UNKNOWN FOR US, BUT ONCE WE HAVE APPROVAL, WE CAN CERTAINLY SEND THINGS OUT TO BID AND START TO CRUNCH SOME NUMBERS.
UM, ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU WANTED TO, YEAH, IT WAS INSURANCE PRICING, OTHER LIBRARIES THAT I'VE SPOKEN TO ABOUT SIMILAR PROJECTS, THEY ESTIMATE AROUND $60,000 FOR THE COST OF THIS TYPE OF PROJECT.
SO I BELIEVE THAT AN AMPHITHEATER CAN BE CRITICAL TO RESTORING SOME NORMALCY TO LIFE NOW, AND A BOON TO FUTURE GROWTH FOR WARREN COUNTY.
UM, IT WOULD BE A SOURCE OF JOY AND PRIDE IN A COMMUNITY THAT VALUES BEING IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS.
SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND I'M SURE.
WHAT, WHAT IS YOUR TIMELINE FOR THIS? I MEAN, DO YOU HAVE IT, DO YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC LAY OF TIME THAT YOU'VE ALREADY TRIED TO ESTABLISH TO SEE, TO GET IT? IF WE COULD GET THE MONEY, EVERYTHING IT WAS ALL READY TO GO.
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IT TAKE YOU TO DO? UM, WELL, PART OF THAT'S UNKNOWN, UM, I WISH WE'D HAD IT LAST YEAR SO THAT WE COULD HAVE STARTED A CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING OUTDOORS A LOT SOONER, UM, BECAUSE OF COVID AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW THAT'S GOING TO GO.UM, I DON'T, I MEAN, IT'S, YOU'RE TALKING THREE ROWS OF KNEE WALL AND, YOU KNOW, I'M SURE THE FOLKS COULD THAT ESTIMATE THAT I GOT CAN PUT UP, UH, UH, THEY TOLD ME, YOU KNOW, A FEW WEEKS, SO, UM, TO PUT UP THE PAVILION, BUT IT WILL NEED TO BE, UM, WE WILL NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT KIND OF SLAB OR DECKING, BECAUSE IT SITS OVER A DITCH IT'S OVER RUNOFF DITCH WHERE THE PAVILION WOULD GO.
AND YOU SAYING YOU'RE ABOUT HALFWAY THERE, UH, FROM A FINANCIAL THING.
YEAH, I THINK WE CAN, WE, WE ALREADY HAVE 20 AND, AND A PROMISE OF MORE TO COME.
SO, UH, SO I WOULD THINK THAT WE WERE, YOU KNOW, A GOOD 25 INTO IT AT LEAST.
OBVIOUSLY, ONCE WE GET STARTED THE SOONER, THE BETTER.
SO WHEN I SAW IT, I USED TO TAKE MY DAUGHTER TO SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY TO THEATER IN THE ROUND.
I DON'T KNOW WHO ENJOYED IT MORE SHE OR MYSELF.
THE FIRST THING I THOUGHT, WOULDN'T THAT BE COOL TO BE ABLE TO HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THEN THE KIDS BE A PART OF THAT.
SO IT'S, IT'S DEFINITELY A WONDERFUL PROJECT.
UM, EVERYBODY WE TALK TO THINKS THINKS THE SAME AS YOU THEY'RE LIKE, OH, THIS IS A GREAT IDEA.
SO I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYBODY WHO THOUGHT THAT IT WAS A BAD IDEA.
HAS THE SCHOOL BOARD APPROVED THIS USE OF THE PROPERTY YET? I HAVEN'T HEARD BACK FROM THEM YET.
THEY HAVE NOT BEEN NO TO MY KNOWLEDGE.
NO, YOU, YOU MENTIONED THAT THEY WOULD CONTACT MY DOCTOR DOCUMENT TOO.
A LITTLE BIT GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
THEY, THEY DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING EXCEPT ALLOW IT.
SAMPLE LETTER FROM WHEN WE DID THE CHILDREN'S CARD, THEY HAVE A LETTER IN THE PLAN, THE WHOLE BOOK THAT YOU GAVE ME.
I DON'T THINK THE IN WRITING FROM BOTH THE COUNTY AND THE SCHOOL, THEN WE CAN ASK DAN TO GO AHEAD WITH DRAWINGS.
I THINK IF THE BOARD, UM, ENDORSED THE CONCEPT OF THE PROJECT, THEN AS SOON AS WE GET A CONCURRENCE FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD, THEY COULD GET US A PLAN.
AND AS SOON AS WE HAVE A PLAN, THEN OUR PARKS AND RECREATION STAFF AND OUR PUBLIC WORK STAFF AND THE BUILDING OFFICIAL OVER THERE, WE CAN GO OVER AND LOOK AND SEE WHAT IT IS THAT THE COUNTY CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROJECT AND THEN SEE WHAT THEY HAVE LEFT.
BUT I THINK THE BOARD AND THE SCHOOL BOARD ENDORSEMENTS ARE THE FIRST TWO ITEMS. WELL, AND I THINK GETTING THAT, WE CAN ALSO ASK FOR PUBLIC DONATIONS TOWARDS THIS AS WELL.
SO, YEAH, WE HAVEN'T STARTED THAT UNTIL WE HEAR FROM YOU.
AND THEN WE CAN, ONCE WE START TO ADVERTISE, I'M, I'M CONFIDENT PEOPLE WILL BE, OH, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.
[D. Discussion – Warren County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office Renovations]
WARREN COUNTY, COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE RENOVATIONS, JEFF HAYES, MADAM CHAIRMAN, UH, WE'VE BEEN TASKED WITH HELPING OUT THE COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, UM, SEVERELY OVER, UM, SPACE ISSUES.THEY GOT ROUGHLY 2000 SQUARE FEET WHERE THEY'RE AT THERE.
WHEREAS INCLUDING MYSELF, WE HAVE A TOTAL OF SEVEN ATTORNEYS IN THE OFFICE.
ONE, WE HAVE ONE VACANCY, WHICH LOOKS LIKE WE'LL BE FILLING STARTING THE END OF THIS MONTH.
SO SEVEN ATTORNEYS OR STAFF, YOU HAVE TO GET A STRAIGHT UP STAFF.
AND WE HAVE A VICTIM WITNESS OFFICER WHO IS OFF-SITE IN
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THE OLD MANAGEMENT'S OFFICE IN THE OLD JAIL.RIGHT NOW I'VE GOT A LAWYER IN THE OLD FILE ROOM.
I'VE GOT TWO LAWYERS IN ONE LAWYER'S OFFICE.
I'VE GOT A LAWYER IN THE CONFERENCE WITH ALL OF OUR ADMIN STAFF FROM ONE LOCATION.
AND I, I SEE YOU HAD A PICTURE THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE FACT THAT WE LOOKED LIKE AN EPISODE FOR REPORTERS.
WELL, IF YOU HAD PLENTY OF ELBOW ROOM THERE, WE WOULDN'T BE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION EITHER.
RIGHT? SO, UH, WE'VE COME UP WITH AN AREA IN THE, UH, CURRENT ARCHIVES AREA THAT WE CAN SET UP FOR CUBICLES TO GIVE HIS STAFF ROOM TO WORK AND ALSO TALK TO CLIENTS AND ALSO HELP HIM OUT WITH HIS FILING AS WELL THAT HE HAS IN HIS OFFICE TO GET IT OUT.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO CURRENTLY MOVE THE FILES FROM THE JDR FILES FROM THE PARK, AS WELL AS THE FILE FROM THE COMMONWEALTH, THE ATTORNEYS, WE HAVE SPACE ABOVE THE OLD JAIL.
THAT'S NOT BEING OCCUPIED OR USED FOR ANYTHING ELSE.
THIS WILL ALSO SECURE THE FILES.
AND THEY WERE ONLY BE THE PERSONS WHO ARE ABLE TO GO IN THAT SPACE.
IS THERE ANY MOVE TO DIGITIZE THESE FILES AT ANY POINT IN TIME SO THAT THEY DON'T TAKE UP THIS HUGE AMOUNT OF SPACE? THAT'S A LOT OF GOING ACROSS SOME OF THE OLDER FILES.
WE HAVE THAT THE PRO REQUIRED RETENTION PERIODS ON THINGS THROUGH THE
AND QUITE FRANKLY, WE DON'T HAVE THE TIME OR RESOURCES TO GO BACK AND DIGITIZE ALL OF THEM.
AND EVENTUALLY THOSE CAN ALL GO INTO THE TRUCK AND WE'LL HAVE A WHOLE SET OF BACKUP FILES TO REQUIRE RETENTION.
SO IT'S A PROBLEM THAT OVER THE NEXT DECADE WILL FIX ITSELF.
BUT YEAH, UNLESS WE WANT TO SPEND SOME SERIOUS TIME AND MONEY YOU WITH SCANNERS AND PART-TIME HELP AND, YOU KNOW, BOARD, COMPUTER SPACE, WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO GO BACK AND DIGITIZE THE OLD STUFF, BUT WE ARE, HAVE A SYSTEM NOW WHERE WE'RE DIGITIZING AS WE GO FORWARD.
THEN MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE LAND RECORDS CAN NEVER BE DESTROYED OR DIGITIZE.
THEY HAVE TO STAY IN THEIR, THEIR, UM, ORIGINAL FORM.
AND A LOT OF THAT IS THERE AS WELL, ACCORDING TO THE CLERK, UM, SHE'S GOING TO MOVE EVERYTHING UP.
THIS WILL BE A TEMPORARY SPACE FOR ROUGHLY THREE YEARS.
THEY GAVE US TIME TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO WITH THE SPACES AT THE COURTHOUSE.
SO THIS WILL GIVE MR. BELL SOME RELIEF IN IMMEDIATELY FOR HIS STAFF.
IT TAKES ROUGHLY, UH, EIGHT WEEKS TO GET THE FURNITURE IN TO SET THIS UP, WHICH WILL GIVE US TIME TO MOVE ALL THIS STUFF.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT BASICALLY AT $34,000 TO SET THE CUBICLES UP AND DO THE WALLS, DO SOME PAINTING.
AND MOST OF THAT LOT OF STUFF WE'LL DO IN HOUSE LIKE THE PAINTING AND STUFF LIKE THAT, ADDING A DOOR.
AND, UH, THE FURNITURE COMPANY WILL COME IN AND SET UP ALL THE FURNITURE FOR US.
SO WE'RE ASKING BASICALLY 44, $34,000 WILL GET US INTO THIS PROJECT.
IF YOU WILL, ADAM, IS THE OLD JAIL OR BE UNUSED FOR ANYTHING TO HOLDING CELLS THEMSELVES? UH, JUST STORAGE.
THE UPSTAIRS 14 CELLS WERE BEING USED FOR, UH, THE, UH, COURTS.
COULD, COULD THEY, DELL JLB, COULD THEY USE TO DEPARTMENTS BE TORN AT COMPLETELY? AND DO YOU USE FOR WHAT YOUR NEEDS ARE NOW? RIGHT NOW, WE DON'T HAVE TO MOVE ANY WALLS OR ANYTHING.
WE'RE GOING TO USE THE EXISTING WALLS AND THE EXISTING SPACE.
WE JUST HAVE TO PUT THE DOORS BACK ON AND PUT LOCKS ON THEM.
SO MR. BELL WE'LL HAVE THE SPACE UP THERE.
THE CLARK WILL HAVE THREE SPACES IN JDR.
ART WE'LL HAVE TWO, SO THERE'LL HAVE THEIR OWN SEPARATE, BUT HOW ABOUT FOR THE FUTURE NEEDS? COULD, IT COULD BE USED FOR MORE SPACE IN THE FUTURE.
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FUTURE USE OF THE TWO BUILDINGS ON JACKSON JACKSON STREET.WE HAVE THE OLD WORK RELEASE BUILDING, WHICH IS A TWO STORY BUILDING.
WE'RE LOOKING AT A COUPLE OF OPTIONS IS TO REFURBISH THAT FOR MR. BELL STAFF OR REFURBISH THE OLD SHERIFF'S OFFICE FOR A NEW JDR FACILITY.
IF WE DID THE JDR, WE WOULD, UH, FREE UP ALMOST 6,000 SQUARE FEET IN THE COURTROOM FOR FUTURE GROWTH.
THEN IF WE MOVE MR BELL'S OFFICE TO THE OLD WORK RELEASE, THAT WOULD ONLY GIVE US 2000 SQUARE FEET.
SO WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO TOO MUCH WITH THE CURRENT SPACE, BUT IF WE MOVE JDR, MOVE, EVERYBODY WOULD JDR OVER AND IT'S NOT GOING TO BE THAT MUCH MORE FOR THE RENOVATION IS IF THE COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE OR YOU MAKE A JDR FACILITY.
SO THAT'S JUST SOME OF THE THINGS WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON ESTIMATES AND ALL THAT.
SO WE CAN LOOK AT BOTH AND FIND OUT WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO GO FOR US.
PARKING CONTINUES TO BE AN ISSUE.
AND SO I'M JUST THINKING, IF YOU'RE GOING TO ADD ALL THESE FOLKS AND YOU'RE GOING TO, AND IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO GROW BASED ON THE DEMANDS THAT COME OUT OF OUR STATE LEGISLATURE THAN YOU, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO CONSIDER WHERE THESE FOLKS ARE GOING TO PARK, RIGHT? IF YOU MOVE THE JDR OVER, IT WILL GIVE YOU ADDITIONAL COURTROOM AND ADDITIONAL OFFICE SPACE, BUT WE DON'T SOLVE, SOLVE OUR PARKING AT ALL.
IF ANYTHING, WE'RE PROBABLY LIMITING MORE THAN MORE, EVEN MORE.
AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING.
YEAH, THERE'S SOME OF THESE ALTERNATIVES ARE GOING TO LIMIT SPACES, UM, WHICH IS GONNA EVEN CAUSE GREATER ISSUES WITH PARKING.
SO THEN YOU HAVE THE OPTION OF LOOKING AT A NEW PORT AND A NEW LOCATION DOWN, BUT RIGHT NOW WE NEED TO GIVE MR. BELL SOME RELIEF FOR HIS STAFF.
BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT OTHER AVENUES TO WHAT ELSE WE CAN DO AND OTHER OPTIONS AS WELL.
HOW MANY PARKING SPACES CURRENTLY, IF YOU MAY NOT KNOW THIS AT THE SHARE THE OLD SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.
SO THAT WOULD GIVE YOU THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF SPACE OBVIOUSLY, AND GIVE YOU A, MAYBE A LONG TERM SOLUTION, BECAUSE YOU SAID THAT 6,000 SQUARE FEET, BUT HOW MANY PARKING SPACES ARE IN THAT PARKING LOT? I'M TRYING TO ENVISION IT.
IT'S PROBABLY RIGHT AROUND 50.
SO THAT'S RE THAT'S THAT'S REASONABLE WHOLE LAYER IF WE ADDED A DECKER.
THAT PARKING LOT IS PRETTY MUCH OUR FULL EVERYDAY ALREADY.
WITH CURRENT, WITH THE CURRENT DEMAND AT THE CORNER, I KNOW THE DAY THAT YOU TOOK US ON A TOUR, UM, MR. FOX AND I WENT, I PARKED IN THAT PARKING LOT AND I GOT, I THINK THE LAST PARKING SPACE.
UM, SO IT, I CAN ATTEST, I THINK WE MET AT ONE O'CLOCK THEN IT WAS FULL.
I MEAN, I, LIKE I SAID, THERE WAS MAYBE ONE OR TWO OTHERS.
IT WAS PRETTY MUCH FULL, UH, YOU'RE GUARANTEED TO BEFORE WHAT? MONDAYS AND FRIDAYS, FOR SURE.
ONE OF THE DOWNSIDES OF THE RECOVERY OF MAIN STREET AND THE NEW RESTAURANTS IS THAT WHAT USED TO BE READILY AVAILABLE PARKING BEHIND MAIN STREET IS NOW ALMOST ALWAYS FULL.
SO WE ARE GETTING A LOT MORE IMPACT.
UH, THE COUNTY PERSONNEL FILL THE LOT BY THE COURTHOUSE.
IF YOU ARE NOT IN ONE OF THOSE SPOTS BY EIGHT 40, YOUR PARKING AT THE SHERIFF'S LAW, WE NEED TO WORK WITH THE TOWN TO RESOLVE THE PARKING ISSUES DOWN THERE BECAUSE THEY CONTINUE IT.
OUR ECONOMIC GROWTH IS GOING TO IMPACT THAT.
AND WE HAVE A GROWING DEMAND AT THE COUNTY OR AT THE COURTHOUSE.
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A GROWING DEMAND.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT.
I MEAN, THESE ARE GREAT PROBLEMS TO HAVE IN TERMS OF NEEDING ADDITIONAL PARKING DOWNTOWN, BUT THIS WOULD GIVE HIM IMMEDIATE RELIEF FOR A STAFF AS WE FIGURE THAT, THAT NEXT STEP, IT WOULD BE VERY NICE TO HAVE A CONFERENCE ROOM BACK.
WHAT IS THE, WHAT IS THE TERM THAT THIS WOULD GIVE YOU RELIEF IN TERMS OF HAVING ENOUGH SPACE TO PUT THE BODIES? IT WOULD BE UNTIL WE ADD ADDITIONAL STAFF.
CAUSE THIS WOULD GIVE US THE SPACE ON IT
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IN TERMS OF THE USABILITY OF THE SPACE.I'M NOT DELIGHTED, FRANKLY, WITH PUTTING PEOPLE ACROSS AND DOWN THE HALL, BECAUSE THERE'S A CERTAIN SYNERGY THAT COMES FROM HAVING ALL MY LAWYERS IN ONE LOCATION, BEING ABLE TO SHARE FILES, BEING ABLE TO HAVE QUICK CONVERSATIONS ABOUT CASES.
YOU KNOW, THE COMMUNICATION IS THE ONE VIRTUE OF THE CRAMPED OFFICE.
SO IT'S NOT AN IDEAL SITUATION, BUT IT WILL GIVE US SOME OF THE SPACE WE NEED TO FUNCTION IN OTHER WAYS.
ULTIMATELY WE'D LIKE TO GET BACK TO A SPACE WHERE WE CAN HAVE EVERYBODY TOGETHER AND THE CLERK IS WILLING.
THIS IS REALLY THE CLERK SPACE AND SHE'S WILLING TO WORK WITH US, BUT SHE NEEDS HER SPACE BACK.
SHE SAID, SHE'S WILLING TO DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO GIVE HIM RELIEF IN HIS STAFF, BUT SHE WILL NEED THAT SPACE BACK FOR HER FILES.
SO THIS IS LIKE A THREE-YEAR POINT.
THIS IS A TEMPORARY AND HOW WE GET DOWN THE ROAD AND FIGURE OUT SOMETHING, WHAT WE WANT TO DO, WHAT MOVE WE WANT TO MAKE.
CAUSE I'M LIKE US TO LOOK AT 10 YEARS OR 15 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD.
SEE WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY, WE FEEL THAT IT'S, WE'RE GOING TO NEED IN THAT PERIOD OF TIME.
SIR, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING? I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY, THAT'S WHAT MR. HAYES IS DOING IS HE'S GETTING QUOTES TO FIGURE OUT THE ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OTHERS.
STILL FOR THE BUILDING COMMITTEE TO LOOK AT THIS, YOU CONFIGURE IS APPROXIMATELY, AS YOU SAID, THREE YEARS THAT WE'LL HAVE THIS AVAILABLE AND WE'LL BE MAKING SOME ALTERNATIVES IN BETWEEN THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? SO THIS IS ALREADY FUNDED.
THE BOARD HAS APPROVED THE FUNDING FOR IT.
UM, THIS PROJECT IS ABOUT 34, $35,000.
AND WE WANT TO, WE WOULD LIKE YOUR ENDORSEMENT AND BE AWARE OF THE FACT THAT WE ARE SPENDING WHAT YOU HAVE APPROPRIATED FOR THIS PROJECT.
[E. Discussion – American Rescue Plan Act of 2021]
AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT OF 2021 LIEUTENANT FARRELL, THAT CHAIR, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GOOD EVENING, UH, OUT WITH THE OLD AND IN WITH THE NEW.SO THEY SAY, SO THE PACKAGE THAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU, INSTEAD OF 7 MILLION EVEN IS FOR 7.8 MILLION AND SOME CHANGE.
UH, THE NEW NAME IS THE CORONA VIRUS, LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUND.
UH, IN YOUR PACKAGE, YOU HAVE SEVERAL THINGS THAT OVERVIEW FLYER EFFECT SHEET, THE FEDERAL REGISTER, THIS INTERIM FINAL RULE.
IT WILL PUT YOU TO SLEEP, BUT IT'S VERY DETAILED, UH, FOR THE PROGRAM.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE BLUE TAB LATER, THAT IS IN THE BACK, WHICH IS REALLY LAYS OUT A LOT OF THE DETAILED THINGS THAT WE COULD SPEND THIS MONEY ON.
UH, SO THE NEXT TIME WE COME TOGETHER, WE CAN GET MORE INTO PROJECT DISCUSSION.
AND THEN, UH, YOU HAVE A FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.
I'VE GOT THIS ONE DATED MAY 27TH, AND THE PACKAGE WAS MADE THIS MORNING.
WHEN I GOT BACK, THERE WAS A NEW ONE THAT WAS OUT TODAY.
SO YOU HAVE THAT FREQUENT LAST QUESTIONS THERE AS WELL.
UM, IN A NUTSHELL, WE ARE A DIRECT RECIPIENT, SO WE WILL GET OUR MONEY DIRECT FROM TREASURY.
UNLIKE THE CARES ACT THAT FUNNELED THROUGH THE STATE, UH, WE ARE, UH, EXPECTING THE 7.8 EXACTLY.
UH, THE EIGHT OH ONE THREE 86.
UM, THE FUND USES IN GENERAL, IT'S TO RESPOND TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY FUND.
SOME WORKERS PERFORMING ESSENTIAL WORK, UH, PROVISION OF GOVERNMENT SERVICES RELATED TO LOSS OF REVENUE AND OR NECESSARY INVESTMENTS IN WATER, SEWER, OR BROADBAND.
UH, THE TIMEFRAME, UH, THE INTERIM FINAL RULE ALLOWS US TO BEGIN SPENDING AS OF MARCH 3RD.
SO REALLY ANYTHING FROM HERE ON, WE COULD USE THIS FUNDING FOR AS LONG AS IT'S ELIGIBLE, WE HAVE TO INCUR THE COST BY DECEMBER 31ST OF 2024.
AND WE HAVE TILL DECEMBER 31ST OF 20, 26 TO BE COMPLETE, UH, WITH THAT SPENDING.
SO WE NEED TO OBLIGATE IT BY DECEMBER 24, WE NEED TO EXPEND IT BY DECEMBER OF 26.
SO WE DO HAVE A BIT OF TIME FOR SOME OF THE LARGER PROJECTS, WHICH IS GOOD NEWS, UH, LOCALLY, UH, MR. LIBERTY.
AND I UPLOADED OUR APPLICATION INTO THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT SYSTEM TODAY.
DAILY'S QUEUE FOR APPROVAL RIGHT NOW.
SO UNLIKE THE CARES ACT WHERE WE DID IT BY PAPER, THIS ONE IS GOING
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TO BE ELECTRONIC.SO AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING, UH, I'M GOING TO SEND JASON HAM PROBABLY TOMORROW.
THE COVER SHEET THAT HANDLES THE LEGAL EASE FOR YOU ALL TO APPROVE DR.
DAILY, TO BE OUR AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE AND BE ABLE TO, UH, JUST BASICALLY CLICK AND AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SO THAT I CAN THEN COME IN AND FINISH UP THE REST OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS SO WE CAN GET THE FUNDS IN.
I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE DOES IS SAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW THEIR RULES AND WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THEIR MONEY WITH YOUR CONCURRENCE.
I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND SIGN THAT AND GET THAT STARTED.
AND THEN YOU'LL APPROVE IT FORMALLY NEXT WEEK.
AND THIS IS, THESE FUNDS ARE NOT, WE DON'T HAVE TO DISTRIBUTE TO TOWN.
THE TOWN HAS ITS OWN ALLOCATION TWICE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU DO.
SO THAT, THAT IS THE NICE THING.
AND WE'RE NOT DEALING WITH THE STATE EITHER.
SO IT'S GOING TO COME STRAIGHT TO US.
WE WILL HAVE SIMILAR REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.
WE'LL HAVE TO DO AN INTERIM REPORT THAT KIND OF SAYS, HERE'S WHAT WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO USE THE MONEY ON.
AND THEN I'LL SUBMIT THE QUARTERLY REPORTS, JUST LIKE I AM TO THE STATE NOW OR TO TREASURY DIRECTLY.
AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO THOSE QUARTERLY REPORTS UNTIL WE'RE EXPENDED.
I'LL COME IN, I'LL FINISH IT UP.
AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK TOGETHER.
UM, IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS, WE'LL PROBABLY DO ANOTHER WORK SESSION AND TALK ABOUT HERE.
SOME OF THE THINGS WE COULD SPEND IT ON, UH, WE'LL NEED TO DO THE APPROVAL OF WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.
AND THEN MR. BIG LIZARD, AND I WILL SET THE ACCOUNTS UP JUST LIKE WE DID BEFORE EVERYTHING WILL HAVE ITS OWN ACCOUNT NUMBER.
UH, AND THEN WE'LL FUND EACH OF THE SUB ACCOUNTS THAT WE WANT TO DO AND WE'LL GO FROM THERE.
SO AS A FOLLOWUP TO THAT AFTER NEXT TUESDAY, YOU'RE NOT COMING BACK FOR A MONTH.
SO THAT MEANS THAT THIS WILL BE THE END OF JULY, BEGINNING OF AUGUST, BEFORE YOU LOOK AT IT AGAIN.
AND IF YOU FLIP THIS COVER PAGE OVER THAT LIEUTENANT FARREL GAVE YOU DOWN AT THE BOTTOM, YOU SEE SIX CATEGORIES RIGHT DOWN THERE, AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE, THE REPLACED PUBLIC SUB SECTOR REVENUE, YOU CAN KIND OF X THAT ONE OUT.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO QUALIFY FOR THAT, UH, BELOW THAT YOU SEE WATER AND SEWER INFRASTRUCTURE.
IF YOU CAN USE THIS TO FACILITATE SOMETHING TOWARDS DEVELOPING WATER AND SEWER, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE COUNTY AND THE NEGATIVE ECONOMIC IMPACTS, THEY'RE NOT NEARLY AS MUCH THERE.
IF YOU DRIVE AROUND AND LOOK AT THE SHOPS AND THE RESTAURANTS AND SO FORTH.
NOW A PREMIUM PAY IS AN ESSENTIAL, BUT MR. MICK, LIBERTY'S GOING TO TALK ABOUT OTHER ALTERNATIVES TO THAT.
AND THE LAST ONE I WOULD CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO IS THAT BROADBAND, UH, THIS CAN BE USED AS SEED MONEY FOR A BROADBAND PILOT PROJECT.
IF YOU APPLY FOR OTHER GRANT FUNDING TO GO WITH IT.
RIGHT? SO THE REALLY IT'S THE THREE OF THE SIX SUPPORT PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE, WATER, SEWER IN BROADBAND ARE REALLY WHAT APPLIED TO US, THOSE CATEGORIES.
SO LIEUTENANT FARRELL, UM, SO IS THIS THE SAME AS THE PREVIOUS WHERE YOU HAVE TO SPEND THE MONEY WITHIN A CERTAIN TIMEFRAME? LIKE WE WERE UNDER, YOU KNOW, WE WERE UNDER THE GUN TO SPEND IT BY DECEMBER 30.
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL CARES ACT FUNDS.
SO BY DECEMBER 30, FIRST OF 2024, WE HAVE TO OBLIGATE THE FUNDS FULLY EXPENDED BY DECEMBER 31ST OF 26.
UM, AND THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE QUARTERLY REPORTING THAT, UH, I'LL BE DOING TO HAVE THE PLACEHOLDERS.
HOPEFULLY WE'RE GOING TO BE DONE A LITTLE BIT FOR THAT.
UM, TWO OTHER ITEMS TO MENTION IF I MAY, UH, THE WARREN COUNTY AND THE RIVERMONT VOLUNTEER MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WILL BE COMING TO YOU ALL, HOPEFULLY AT THE NEXT MEETING ON THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR APPROVAL.
UH, WE'VE BEEN WORKING OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS BETWEEN THE VOLUNTEERS, THE CHIEF AND CAITLIN WORKING TOGETHER TO COME UP WITH THIS MOU.
UH, WE MET WITH THEIR, UH, THEIR BOARD, UH, SUNDAY NIGHT, THEY APPROVE THE FINAL CHANGES I GOT THEM BACK TO, UH, MS. WOODALL, THE PRESIDENT, AND NOW SHE NEEDS TO PRESENT IT TO HER GENERAL MEMBERSHIP THIS FRIDAY NIGHT PENDING THEIR APPROVED APPROVAL.
I'LL GET THEIR TWO SIGNATURES AND THEN BRING IT BACK TO YOU ALL, UH, FOR APPROVAL
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FOR YOUR SIGNATURES ON, UH, ON THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEM THERE.UM, AND THEN SEPARATELY, WE WILL WORK THE, UH, THE AGREEMENT FOR THE RENTAL HALL, BUT THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE YOU ALL.
THAT'LL JUST BE BETWEEN THEM REALLY, AND CAITLYN TO FINISH THAT UP ON THE, UH, COST RECOVERY SIDE, UH, IT IS TIME TO DO OUR CUSTOMARY, UH, INCREASE IN RATES.
UH, IF YOU REMEMBER, UM, MR. FOX, WE DID THAT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.
UH, THIS YEAR, UH, WE HAVE SOME VERY MODEST RATES.
OUR BASIC LIFE SUPPORT TRANSPORT CHARGE ONLY GOES UP BY $10.
ONE CHARGE GOES UP BY 11 AND ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT TWO BY 17.
THERE'S NO CHANGE TO THE MILEAGE OR OXYGEN CHARGES.
UH, THIS WILL NET US ABOUT $25,000 OR SO MORE IN COST RECOVERY, UH, REVENUE.
AND THEN, UH, ONCE THIS IS APPROVED, WE'LL GET IT UPLOADED.
AND WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THIS TAKE AN EFFECT ON JULY 1ST.
SO YOU'LL SEE THAT ON THE CONSENT AGENDA AS WELL.
ANY QUESTIONS? ANY QUESTIONS FOR LIEUTENANT FARRELL? OH, I'M ANXIOUS TO READ THIS LIST.
I THINK I'LL START WITH THE BLUE TAB.
[F. Discussion – Compensation Board-Funded and State-Funded Salary Increases]
BOARD FUNDED AND STATE FUNDED SALARY INCREASES DR.SO AS WE MENTIONED, WHEN WE WERE FINALIZING THE BUDGET, THEY HAVE A COPY OF THE SHEET, EMILY.
THE, UM, THING WE NOTICED WAS THAT THE STATE WAS COMING IN WITH MONEY, PROVIDING 5% INCREASES FOR STATE FUNDED POSITIONS AND THAT POSITIONS IN OUR COMPETENT CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS AND DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES.
SO IF YOU LOOK ON THIS LITTLE CHART THAT MR. NICK LIBERTY'S DONE, WE HAVE 233 FULL-TIME REGULAR COUNTY EMPLOYEES.
AND 63 ON ABOUT A QUARTER OF THEM ARE FUNDED BY THE COMP BOARD.
SO THAT QUARTER WOULD RECEIVE A 5% INCREASE.
AND THEN WE HAVE 77 PART-TIMERS AND IN SOCIAL SERVICES, WE HAVE 40 STAFF WHO ALSO RECEIVE THE 5%.
SO IF YOU TOTAL ALL THAT UP, WE HAVE 109 EMPLOYEES WHO WOULD RECEIVE THE 5% AND THE OTHER EMPLOYEES WOULD NOT.
AND SO WHAT WE PROPOSE TO DO IS IN YOUR BUDGET, YOU PUT $300,000 FOR SALARY INCREASES AND $300,000 FOR STEP THREE OF THE COMPENSATION PLAN AND BOILING THIS DOWN.
IF YOU LOOK ON PAGE TWO, THE COST OF THIS IS FIVE AND $91,000, INCLUDING BENEFITS TO GIVE ALL EMPLOYEES THE 5%.
SO WE PROPOSE TO USE THOSE TWO ITEMS. AND INSTEAD OF DOING RAISES IN DECEMBER TO GIVE ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES THE 5% SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE EMPLOYEE, A STATE FUNDED AND EMPLOYEE B IS NOT.
SO THIS ONE GETS 5% AND THIS ONE DOES.
AND IF WE GAVE IT JUST WITHIN THE OFFICE, THEN THESE TWO WOULD GET IT.
AND THE OFFICE NEXT DOOR WOULD NOT.
SO THIS WAY WE WOULD BE TREATING ALL WARREN COUNTY EMPLOYEES THE SAME AND THEY WOULD ALL GET 5%.
DALEY, UM, PART OF THAT IS ACTUALLY FUNDED BY THE COMPENSATION BOARD.
SO THE COMPENSATION BOARD IS FUNDING THE STATE EMPLOYEE, BUT THE COUNTY WOULD BE FUNDING.
THE WHOLE 5% FOR THE COUNTY EMPLOYEE.
IS THAT MY UNDERSTANDING THAT'S PART OF THE, THE STATE, THE STATE STATE, DOESN'T LIKE THEY DO THE SCHOOL BOARD.
THEY NEVER QUITE FUND THE WHOLE THING.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A TWO AND A HALF PERCENT RAISE FROM THE STATE, BUT THEY'RE ONLY GOING TO GIVE YOU 2%.
SO THE LOCAL IS GOING TO COME UP WITH THE DIFFERENCE AND THEY DO THE SAME THING HERE.
UM, EXAMPLE, WE HAVE SOME POSITIONS, WE PAY MORE FOR OUR EMPLOYEES TO KEEP THEM WITH OUR OTHER EMPLOYEES IN THE TREASURER'S OFFICE AND THE CLERK'S OFFICE OVER IN THE COURTHOUSE AND SO FORTH OUR DEPUTIES.
SO THE STATE PAYS THE 5% ON THE STATE APPROVED SALARY.
UH, EXAMPLE BEING, YOU CANNOT REALLY EXPECT TO HIRE DEPUTIES IN WARREN COUNTY
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FOR $30,000, BUT THEY PAY 5% OF $30,000.SO WE PICK UP THE DIFFERENCE IF YOU FOLLOW WHAT I MEAN.
CAUSE THIS IS GETTING COMPLICATED.
SO 5% OF THE STATE APPROVED SALARY, BUT IF WE PAY THEM $45,000, THEN WE'RE GOING TO GIVE THEM 5% ON THE ADDITIONAL 15, GIVE THEM 5%.
WE GIVE THEM 5% ON THE WHOLE 45 AND WE GET REIMBURSED ON THE 30.
BUT IS THAT REIMBURSEMENT AT 5% OR IS THAT THREE, 5% OF 30.
BUT I KNOW THAT SOMETIMES THEY SAY YOU GET A 5% INCREASE, BUT STATE ONLY IS GIVEN THREE AND WE HAVE TO MATCH THE TWO IT'S OVER IN DSS MAIL OVER IN DSS.
THEY'RE GIVING US APPROXIMATELY 80% OF THE 5% THERE.
THEY'RE GIVING US FOUR, IF WE GIVE THE EMPLOYEE FIVE.
AND MR. MICK LIBERTY SPENT A COUPLE OF WEEKS NOW TRYING TO FIGURE ALL THIS OUT AND FIGURE OUT THE STATE FORMULAS.
THEY'RE VERY GOOD JOB AT THIS.
THE MONEY IS ALREADY BUDGETED DOCTOR.
MA'AM, IT'S ALREADY IN THE BUDGET.
SO WE DON'T REALLY HAVE TO TAKE ACTION OTHER THAN TO JUST, WELL, YOU WILL APPROVE IT NEXT WEEK BECAUSE WHAT, JUST TO BE APPROVING THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO THE 5% INCREASES, BUT YOU KNOW THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE DOING 2% INCREASES IN DECEMBER AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE DOING STEP THREE OF THE COMPENSATION PLAN UNTIL THE 2223 BUDGET.
WELL, THANK YOU MR. MICK LIBERTY FOR DOING ALL THAT WORK.
I KNOW I WAS IN YOUR OFFICE ONE DAY WHEN YOU WERE WORKING ON THIS AND I KNOW IT WAS TAXING ON YOU.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS FOR DR.
DALEY OR MR. MICK LIBERTY? NO.
[G. Discussion – Warren County Broadband Committee]
WARREN COUNTY BROADBAND COMMITTEE, AND A MEMBER OF OUR COMMITTEE.VICKI COOK IS GOING TO PRESENT INFORMATION AND WHERE WE ARE AT THIS POINT.
AND I APPRECIATE YOU DOING THAT, ESPECIALLY SINCE IT WAS SO LAST MINUTE, WHEN YOU GOT TOLD THAT, HELLO EVERYONE.
UM, I'VE BEEN ASKED THOUGH, ALSO BEING PART OF THE MEMBER OF THE BROADBAND COMMITTEE.
I WAS ASKED BY, UM, MR. DALEY TO KIND OF GIVE YOU AN UPDATE OF WHERE WE ARE AND OUR STEPS FORWARD TO, UM, INITIATE THE BROADBAND EXTENSION EXTENSION PROJECT.
SO WHAT WE HAVE, UH, WHAT WE'VE PREPARED IS, UH, WHAT WE'RE CALLING THE PROJECT CHARTER AND REALLY WHAT THE CHARTER DOES.
IT DESCRIBES ALL OUR GOALS, OBJECTIVES, THE MILESTONES, OUR RISKS OF, OF THE PROJECT.
UM, I'M GOING TO BRIEFLY READ THE PROJECT DESCRIPTION.
SO WE ALL UNDERSTAND WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THIS.
SO, UM, THIS IS EXTENSION PROJECT IS GOING TO PROVIDE UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO HIGH SPEED, RELIABLE, SECURE INTERNET CONNECTIVITY, TO ALL WARREN COUNTY RESIDENTS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, TO UNSERVED AND UNDERSERVED RESIDENTS, SCHOOLS AND BUSINESSES.
THE, THE, UM, THE PROJECT WILL INCREASE ECONOMIC, ECONOMIC PROSPECTS, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO ALL THE RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES IN THE COUNTY.
UM, WITHIN THIS CHARTER, WE ALSO OPTIMIZE, OH, GREAT.
UM, WE ALSO, YOU KNOW, WE ITEMIZE WHO ARE SPONSORS, WHICH ALL, UH, THE WHOLE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IS THE SPONSOR OF THIS PROJECT.
UM, ALSO OUR PROJECT MANAGER IS MR. BAILEY.
HE'S GONNA GUIDE US THROUGH THIS, THIS PROJECT.
UM, WE'RE ALSO THE, WITH OUR PRIMARY OBJECTIVE, THOUGH FOR THIS PROGRAM IS REALLY TO PROVIDE, UM, THE UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO, UH, 95% OF THE WARREN COUNTY UNDERSERVED, YOU KNOW, UNDERSERVED AND, UM, UH, UNDERPRIVILEGED, UH, RESIDENCES.
SO THAT'S OUR PRIMARY OBJECTIVE HERE.
SO WHEN, ONCE WE START THE PROJECT, THAT IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO ACHIEVE.
WELL, NOW I'M NOT GONNA SAY WE'RE GONNA TRY IT.
THAT'S WHAT WE ARE GOING TO ACHIEVE.
SO WITH THIS CHARTER, NOW WE'RE GOING TO BE ASKING FOR YOUR APPROVAL SO WE CAN START WORKING, START, UM, REACHING OUT TO DIFFERENT COMPANIES TO GIVE US, UH, UM, I, UM, SOLUTIONS, DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOLUTIONS AND HOW WE CAN ACHIEVE THIS 95%
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BROADBAND PROJECT THROUGHOUT WARREN COUNTY.SO, UH, SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW.
UM, OF COURSE WE DO HAVE OBJECTIVES THAT'S IN THE CHARTER, AND I THINK ALL, YOU HAVE A COPY OF THIS CHARTER.
SO YOU HAVE ALL THE, OUR, OUR OBJECTIVES ON, UM, ALSO WE, WE TAKE IT A STEP FURTHER.
I, IT, UH, WE, AS THE COMMITTEE HAVE ITEMIZED THE TYPE OF RISKS THAT COULD BE INVOLVED WITH THIS PROJECT THAT I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE TAKE A LOOK AT IT, KNOW WHAT'S, WHAT'S COMING UP, NOT TO SAY THAT THEY WILL BE REALIZED, BUT THIS IS GOOD THAT THE COMMITTEE KNOWS, UM, UH, WHAT COULD HAPPEN.
AND THEN FINALLY, IT'S PART OF THE CHARTER.
AND AFTER WE GET THE APPROVAL FROM THE BOARD OF GOING FORWARD, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND DO A TIMELINE, A MILESTONE TIMELINE OF, UM, OUR, OF OUR NEXT STEPS.
SO WHAT'S THIS, THIS CHARTERS APPROVED.
ONCE YOU, EVERYONE IS AGREED, THIS IS OUR OBJECTIVES.
YOU HAVE ACCEPTED THE BREASTS, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CREATE THE TIMELINE.
AND THEN OUR NEXT STEP WILL BE REACHING OUT TO, UM, UH, COMPANIES IN JUST GETTING INFORMATION.
SO LIKE AN RFI, YOU KNOW, WE'LL GET THAT OUT.
AND SO WE CAN START SEEING THE TYPE OF SOLUTIONS AND THE, AND THE MONEY THAT THE FUNDING THAT WILL BE, UM, THAT WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT AND, AND KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ACHIEVE AS FAR AS DOING ANY GRANTS OR INCLINE AND, YOU KNOW, ALL THAT GOOD STUFF.
SO, SO THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO PRESENT.
UH, VICKI WAS NICE ENOUGH TO VOLUNTEER, TO BE ON THIS COMMITTEE.
AFTER ANOTHER MEMBER DROPPED OFF, AND YOUR EXPERTISE HAS BEEN SO MUCH APPRECIATED.
UM, WE HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE ON THE COMMITTEE FROM THREE OF OUR FIVE DISTRICTS.
UH, RAY BRAMBLE IS FOR SOUTH RIVER DISTRICT.
YOU'RE FROM FORT GRIP, UH, FORT DISTRICT, ROBERT HENKIN IS FOR NORTH RIVER.
UM, MR. MABE IS REPRESENTING SHANNON DOG HAS, UM, WE'RE STILL SEARCHING FOR SOMEONE AND WE NEED SOMEONE FROM HAPPY CREEK.
SO WE'D BE GLAD, UM, TO HAVE MORE MEMBERS FROM THOSE, UH, AREAS TO BE REPRESENTATIVE.
BUT EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE NOT, WE'RE, WE'RE COVERING THOSE AREAS.
AND, UM, AND WE HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE SCHOOL.
WE HAVE, UM, REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE COUNTY IT'S AND I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW IT'S, IT'S SLOW.
AND I, I'M NOT ONE, WHEN I THINK I WANT TO DO SOMETHING, I WANT IT DONE AND WANT IT DONE THEN, BUT IT'S BEEN, WE'VE JUST STARTED IN THIS AN END OF JANUARY, BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY.
AND EVEN THOUGH IT SEEMS SLOW BECAUSE EVERYBODY WANTS THE SERVICE.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE HUNGRY FOR IT, THEY NEED IT, AND THEY WANT IT NOW.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT, UH, IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S RAINING, SO I'M SURE THAT THERE'S A LOT OF INTERNET SERVICE THAT'S MESSED UP RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE WITH AT LEAST CENTURY LINK WHEN IT RAINS, THE INTERNET GOES WACKO.
UM, SO WE, WE WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT WE'RE WORKING REALLY HARD TO GET IT, AND WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO, TO WHERE, UM, IT'S, WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THAT.
WALT TOLD ME IT WAS GOING TO TAKE YEARS, BUT I'VE HAD A COUPLE THAT MAKES IT SOUND LIKE MAYBE NOT SO MANY YEARS.
SO, UM, I'M VERY OPTIMISTIC AND I APPRECIATE, UH, ALL THE EXPERTISE THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT TO THIS, YOU AND MR. HENKEN AND RAY BRAMBLE AS OUR COMMUNITY PEOPLE HAVE, UM, DONE US AN EXTRAORDINARY SERVICE, AND WE APPRECIATE IT.
WELL, THIS IS THE FIRST STEP TO GET THIS PROJECT STARTED IS TO GET THIS CHARTER APPROVED.
AND THAT GIVES US THE AUTHORITY TO START MOVING ON THIS PROJECT.
SO I HAVE, I HAVE QUESTIONS IF YOU GUYS CAN HELP.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN ANSWER THESE RIGHT NOW.
UM, SO IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE 16,606 HOUSEHOLDS, AND WE HAVE AN ESTIMATE THAT 90% OF THOSE HAVE COMPUTERS, BUT ONLY 83% OF THOSE HOUSEHOLDS ACTUALLY HAVE INTERNET.
IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT.
BUT THE RESEARCH THAT WE'VE DONE, WHERE DOES THE DATA COME FROM? OH, THE DATA WHAT'S THE, IT WAS PART OF THE CENSUS.
SO PART OF THE CENSUS IN 2019 AND SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL, UM, THE SCHOOL GAVE US ALL THE INFORMATION THAT THEY GATHERED WHEN THEY DID SURVEY AND, UM, TO GET THE KIDS UP TO SPEED FOR COVID, WHICH HAS BEEN A GREAT HELP.
UH, THE MAP THAT YOU SEE THERE IS A MAP THAT'S PROVIDED BY THE UTILITIES THAT GIVE US INTERNET, CORRECT.
MA'AM IF YOU REMEMBER, UM, MRS. LOGAN HAD THIS STUDY DONE ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO,
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SIX YEARS AGO.SO IT IS LATEST DATA, MRS. LOGAN, IT'S NOT PERFECT, BUT IT'S THE CLOSEST THAT WE HAVE IN THAT MAPS.
IT'S PROBABLY WITHIN THE PAST YEAR.
SO ONE OF MY, SO HERE, SO HERE'S ONE OF, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WANTED TO ASK THE BROADBEAN COMMITTEE IS SO ONE OF THE PROBLEMS AND WARREN COUNTY ISN'T JUST SERVICE IT'S SPEED OF SERVICE IS THAT FACTORED INTO THIS PLAN.
TRUST ME, MR. HENKIN IS, YEAH, I KNOW HIM.
I CALL HIM MR. WIZARD, AND THAT IS NOT IT, YOU KNOW, THAT MAN IS WHEN IT COMES TO THIS SERVICE IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WILL ONLY OCCUR IF WE CAN COMPETE AND HAVE PEOPLE CAN WORK HERE AND BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD THEIR DOCUMENTS AND UPLOAD THEIR DOCUMENTS AND DO ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE NECESSARY.
AND SO THAT, SO THAT IS A CONSIDERATION.
AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WAS INSTEAD OF JUST MAKING SURE PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS, NO IT'S GOING FOR, AND IT'S GOING TO BE, WE IN PART OF A REQUIREMENTS ARE ALSO PUTTING SECURE.
WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE LOOKING FOR SCALABILITY ON TOP OF THE DATA TRANSFER, UM, UH, REQUIREMENTS AS WELL.
SO, SO IN YOUR, YOUR CHARTER, YOU'LL SEE THERE'S, UM, FIVE REQUIREMENTS THERE THAT WE PUT TOGETHER THAT HOPEFULLY WILL ADDRESS, UM, SOME OF YOUR CONCERNS AND QUESTIONS.
SO, AND IF YOU THINK WE'VE MISSED ANYTHING, JUST PLEASE LET US KNOW SO WE CAN ADD IT TO THIS CHARTER.
AND THEN ALSO, IF YOU LOOK UNDER THE OBJECTIVES THAT ALSO GIVES YOU SOME MORE INFORMATION, AS FAR AS WHAT OUR, WHAT, WHAT OUR GOALS ARE.
WE, UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE HERE.
WE'RE NOT DOING SHORT-TERM, WE'RE LOOKING LONG-TERM AND THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF US WANTING TO REACH OUT TO, UM, ALL THE PROVIDERS AND HAVE THEM COME TO US WITH THE SOLUTION BASED ON THESE REQUIREMENTS THAT WE HAVE ON, ON THE CHARTER.
AND ARE WE STILL PURSUING LIKE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIPS FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, SO THE SHENANDOAH, I KNOW THE, THE, UH, PLANNING COMMISSION, THE SHANNON, I ALWAYS REGIONAL COMMISSION QUEUE THE REGIONAL COMMISSION.
I KNOW THAT THEY'VE BEEN LOOKING AT SOME OF THOSE TYPES OF PARTNERSHIPS BECAUSE REGIONALLY WE'RE SO MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN WE ARE INDIVIDUALLY.
SO I DIDN'T KNOW IF THAT WAS ALSO A CONSIDERATION.
IT IS ALSO IN THE CHARTER, READDRESS THAT AND GOING FORWARD WHEN WE'RE, I NEED TO READ THE CHARTER.
ONCE WE GO, ONCE WE START TALKING TO THE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE OUTSIDE, UM, COMPANIES, UH, WE ARE GOING TO RECOMMEND MAYBE PARTNERING WITH OTHER COMPANIES.
SO WE'RE NOT JUST STICKING TO JUST ONE COMPANY.
I CAN SAY IT BETTER WHEN I SAY IT, UM, FROM RAC SO THAT HE COULD, UM, BE PARTS OF THIS, TO SEE HOW WE CAN USE THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT REC HAS IN COLLABORATION OF THIS.
SO, AND HE WAS VERY OPEN TO THAT.
SO WE'RE, UH, LIKE I SAID, THE LEVEL OF EXPERTISE THAT WE HAVE ON THIS COMMITTEE IS, HAS JUST BEEN WONDERFUL.
AND I, I'M NOT GOING TO SAY WE MAY NOT HAVE MISSED SOMETHING ALONG THE WAY.
AND I SAY, WE, BECAUSE IT'S THEM, I JUST FACILITATE GETTING EVERYBODY CAUSE THIS, AS I'VE SAID FROM BEGINNING WAY OVER MY HEAD, I KNOW WE NEED IT.
THAT'S ABOUT AS FAR AS MY LEVEL OF EXPERTISE GOES, BUT THANK GOODNESS WE HAVE REALLY GOOD PEOPLE ON THIS COMMITTEE.
WE REALLY DO VERY, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.
AND NEXT, UH, WAS CONSIDERATION
[H. Discussion – Rescheduling of Regular 9:00 AM Meetings of the Board of Supervisors]
OF RESCHEDULING OUR MEETINGS, AND YOU SAID YOU WERE, I'M GOING TO WITH YES, YES.I'M GOING TO WITHDRAW THAT REQUEST.
AFTER, UPON DOING SOME ADDITIONAL RESEARCH, I'VE DISCOVERED THAT THERE COULD BE SOME UNDUE HARDSHIPS ON PARENTS WITH SMALL CHILDREN.
I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE THEM ANYMORE.
SO, BUT HAVING TO GET BABYSITTING IN THE EVENING TO DO PRESENTATIONS, AND I THINK THAT THAT IS A CONSIDERATION.
SO I'M GOING TO WITHDRAW THAT FOR NOW.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WHEN THEY ALL GROW UP, WE CAN REVISIT THIS TIME AS LONG AS YOU DON'T HAVE ANOTHER GENERATION.
WELL, WE'LL BE ON YOUR AGENDA NEXT WEEK FOR ADOPTION.
SO IF THE COMMITTEE CAN MOVE FORWARD, THANK YOU.
THAT WAS ALL THAT IS ON THE AGENDA.
DID ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING ELSE THAT THEY WANTED TO DISCUSS OR QUESTIONS? YES.
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MIND, SINCE I'M TAKING SOMETHING OFF AND WHEN I ADD SOMETHING, I JUST LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE WARREN COUNTY FRONT ROW, WARREN COUNTY DRUG PREVENTION COMMITTEE, AND, UM, WHAT, UH, WE HAVE IN THE PROCESS.SO I'D JUST LIKE TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW THAT THE WARREN COUNTY DRUG PREVENTION COMMITTEE HAS MET WITH JUDGE SHARP AND JUDGE FUNK.
AND WE WILL BE PURSUING AS A COMMITTEE, A DRUG COURT IN WARREN COUNTY AND INVESTIGATING WHAT THAT WOULD TAKE AND WHAT THAT'S GOING TO COST AND A FAMILY DRUG COURT.
IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT ALL THE CHILDREN THAT ARE IN FOSTER CARE, IN FOSTER CARE BECAUSE OF SOME ADDICTION ISSUE.
AND SO WE CAN POTENTIALLY HELP THOSE FAMILIES KEEP THEM TOGETHER, HELP RECOVERY WITH A FAMILY DRUG COURT.
THAT'S BEEN HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL IN ANOTHER PART OF VIRGINIA.
AND, UM, SO WE'VE MET LARGE GROUPS HAVE MET TO DISCUSS THIS, AND WE'RE GOING TO PURSUE THAT.
THAT'S GOING TO BE OUR, OUR, BASICALLY OUR PRIMARY TASK FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS, UM, OUR SECONDARY TASK.
HOWEVER, AND WE STILL PLAN TO DO THIS IS THAT THE SCHOOLS WILL BE DOING PRESENTATIONS IN AUGUST ON DRUG PREVENTION.
WE'RE GOING TO BE TRYING TO EDUCATE OUR PARENTS ON WHAT TO LOOK FOR.
UH, THE, THE, THE BIG ISSUE IS WITH PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION.
AND SO WE NEED TO INFORM OUR PARENTS WHAT, WHAT TO LOOK FOR WITH THOSE TYPES OF PROBLEMS. AND, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES YOUNG PEOPLE ARE GETTING WHAT THEY THINK IS PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION, WHICH IS ACTUALLY COUNTERFEIT AND LACED WITH THINGS THAT CAUSE DIRE EFFECTS.
AND SO WE ARE GOING TO TRY TO WORK WITH THE SCHOOLS AND WE'LL BE DOING THAT PROGRAM IN AUGUST.
UM, BUT THE DRUG PREVENTION COMMITTEE HAS BEEN QUITE, I THINK, QUITE PRODUCTIVE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT REPORT.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT? I JUST HAVE ONE THING, I THINK MR. HERRERA WAS GOING TO BE SPEAKING WITH RIVERMONT FIRE DEPARTMENT VOLUNTEERS.
AND I LIKE TO SIT IN ON THAT DISCUSSION IF IT'S OKAY WITH MR. FARRELL.
AND IF IT'S OKAY WITH THE BOARD.
IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.
GOOD EVENING MEETING IS ADJOURNED.