Sep 06, 2022 Board of Supervisors Meeting

[B. Adoption of Agenda – Additions or Deletions]

ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA.

ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONS OR DELETIONS HEARING? NONE.

IS THERE A MOTION TO ACCEPT AS PRESENTED? SO MOVE MADAM CHAIR.

IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND WE'LL CALL MRS. HAYES.

MR. MABE, MRS. COOK, MADAM CHAIR, MRS. OATES, MR. BUTLER.

UM, IT'S KIND OF HIGHLIGHTED AND I APOLOGIZE FOR THE STREAKS AND THE THINGS THERE, BUT THE INDEBTEDNESS WILL NOT CONSTITUTE A GENERAL OBLIGATION OR A DEADNESS OF THE COUNTY RATHER WILL BE SECURED BY REVENUE OR THE SANITARY DISTRICT.

PUBLIC

[C. Public Comment Period (60 Minute Time Limit)]

COMMENT, PERIOD.

60 MINUTE PERIOD WHERE EACH SPEAKER HAS THREE MINUTES.

ALL COMMENTS WILL BE DIRECTED TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND NOT TO THE AUDIENCE BE CONSIDERED OF YOUR FELLOW SPEAKERS.

THERE SHOULD BE NO APPLAUSE, BOOING OR OTHER AUDIBLE DISRUPTION TO THE PROCEEDINGS.

THROUGH A SHOW OF HANDS.

THE CHAIRMAN MAY ASK FOR A SHOW OF SUPPORT FOR COMMENTS MADE BY SPEAKERS, PLACARDS POSTERS, AND OTHER MEANS OF VISUAL DISPLAY OF COMMENTS WILL NOT BE PERMITTED.

THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE INFORMATION OR MATERIALS USED AS PART OF A FACTUAL PRESENTATION.

THE BOARD WILL NOT TOLERATE PERSONAL ATTACKS BY ANY ONE ON ANY OF THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE PROCEEDING.

ANYONE WHO VIOLATES THE GUIDELINES WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE.

MRS. HAYES IS ANYONE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK? WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO SPEAK AT THIS TIME? AND IF YOU WOULD SAY YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS PLEASE.

GOOD MORNING.

UH, TONY CARTER, LINDEN, VIRGINIA.

UM, I READ THE ARTICLE, I GUESS, WEEK OR TWO AGO ABOUT THE, UM, THE DAM SITUATION AT, UM, CHANDER FARMS. AND I THINK YOU ALL GOT A BETTER UNDERSTANDING, BUT WHAT I GAVE YOU, UH, WAS THE ORIGINAL AGENDA ITEM FROM 2007, TO GIVE YOU SOME CONTEXT AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, THEY INSPECTED THE DAMS, THE DAMS WERE FAILING.

UM, THEY NEEDED $600,000 WORTH OF REPAIRS.

UH, I THINK THE ONE DAM HAD TO BE BUILT UP FOUR OR FIVE FEET.

THE POS F THEY DID NOT HAVE THE FUNDS AND THE COUNTY GOT THE LOAN THROUGH VML BECAUSE THEY ONLY GAVE LOANS TO MUNICIPALITIES.

BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE AGENDA ITEM,

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SO THAT'S WHY WE DID IT.

UH, ONE, I THINK THERE WAS, UH, LAKES PROVIDE RECREATIONAL PURPOSES, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, IF THEY WERE BREACHED, THAT WOULD JEOPARDIZE FOLKS AT HOMES DOWNSTREAM.

SO THAT'S WHY WE STEPPED UP AND DID IT.

AND AGAIN, THE BML GAVE US A RATE AT THAT TIME.

I THINK ABOUT 3.5 AT THAT TIME MORTGAGE RATES WERE 6.3.

SO IT WAS A SAVINGS, UM, ALL THE WAY AROUND.

IT WAS A WAY TO HELP THE CONSTITUENTS IN THE SHANDRA FARMS AREA, UM, MOVING FORWARD.

AND THAT'S YOUR ALL'S CALL.

I THINK BML WILL, UH, DO ANOTHER FIVE-YEAR LOAN, UH, AT MAYBE AROUND 3% OR Y'ALL CAN PAY IT OFF, BUT THERE AGAIN, THAT'S YOUR ALL'S CALL.

UH, OKAY.

THE OTHER THING, DIFFERENT HAT FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS, I'VE BEEN WORKING DOWN AT THE HERITAGE SOCIETY IN THEIR ARCHIVES AS AN ARCHIVIST.

AND I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT SOME OF THE UPCOMING EVENTS ARE HAPPENING.

ONE IS THIS COMING SATURDAY AT 8:00 AM DOWN AT THE HERITAGE, THE SOCIETY, WHICH IS AT 1 0 1 CHESTER STREET, THEY'RE GOING TO BE HAVING A YARD SALE, UH, FOR STUFF THAT'S ACCUMULATED OVER THE YEARS THAT, UM, WILL BE AVAILABLE ON SEPTEMBER 22ND, WHICH I BELIEVE IS A THURSDAY.

UH, WE'LL BE CELEBRATING CONSTITUTION DAY.

AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, UH, GENTLEMAN, BISHOP LARRY JOHNSON, WHO'S BEEN BEFORE YOU SEVERAL TIMES, HE WILL BE THERE READING THE CONSTITUTION.

AND I THINK AT THIS POINT, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT LIKE AN ALL DAY EVENT WITH THE READINGS HAPPENING THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

WE ARE, UH, OPENING IN THE ARCHIVES TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY FROM 10 TO FOUR.

AND THEN CURRENTLY THE REST OF THE PROPERTIES ARE OPEN TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY 10 TO FOUR, BUT YEAH, EVERYBODY WANTS TO COME.

AND THE LAST THING IS ON SEPTEMBER 24TH AT 2:00 PM, WHICH IS A SATURDAY, UH, WE'RE GONNA, UH, UH, OFFER TOURS OF BEL AIR, WHICH THE HOUSE ON HAPPY CREEK ROAD.

IT'S ALSO THE OLDEST.

IT WAS ABOUT THREE MINUTES.

UH, IT WAS ALSO, UM, THE OLDEST, ONE OF THE OLDEST, IF NOT THE OLDEST MASONARY, UH, HOUSE, IT WAS BUILT IN WARREN COUNTY SOMETIME AROUND 1800.

UH, BUT THEY, THEY, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A, IT'S GOING TO BE CATERED BY DEVIN SMITH.

AND THEN ALSO BE ONE.

AND TO GET MORE INFORMATION ON THAT, UH, YOU CAN CALL 5, 4 0 6 3 6 1 4 4 6, OR YOU CAN GO ON THE WEBSITE, WHICH IS WARN HERITAGE, SOCIETY.ORG.

AND I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU, MR. CARTER, DOES THE WARREN HERITAGE SOCIETY HAVE A WEBSITE WHERE PEOPLE CAN GO TO SEE THE EVENTS LISTED? YEAH, THAT'S WHY I SAID THE WEBSITE IS WORN HERITAGE, SOCIETY.ORG.ORG, THE WORD.

UM, AND THEN THANK YOU.

YEAH, THEY DO.

AND JUST RECENTLY WE STARTED SOME BLOGS AND THE FACEBOOK GOT A FACEBOOK PAGE TOO, ABOUT DIFFERENT THINGS.

AND JUST ONE OTHER INTERESTING THING.

A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, SOMEBODY WAS CLEANING UP, WE REACHED TECHNICAL AND THEY GAVE, FOUND, UH, THIS BIG BOX OF WAKO HIGHLIGHTS.

DO YOU REMEMBER THE SCHOOL DISTRICT? WE GOT IT FROM 1940 UP TO 2000 AND IT REALLY NEAT.

SO WHERE DID YOU GRADUATE? 81.

I HAVE TO LOOK YOU UP.

AND IT'S STILL LISTED, YOU KNOW, WE CHAIRED THE FARM STATE.

THANK YOU MUCH.

ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK AT THIS TIME AGENDA, MR. HOOVER, MR. HOOVER, WE GOT YOU ON THIS, THE AGENDA.

OH REALLY? YES, SIR.

YOU HAVE YOUR OWN SLOT.

ANYONE ELSE FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING AT THIS TIME, YOU WOULD STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS OR WAIT TILL YOU GET UP THERE BECAUSE IT GOES INTO THE RECORDER.

I THINK WHEN YOU WERE THERE, UH, MATT DEVINE MCDONALD'S HARMS ROAD, CHERYL FARMS. UM, QUESTION ABOUT THE DAY OR I WAS GOING THROUGH OLD MANAGER REPORTS TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS DATING BACK 10 TO 12 YEARS.

AND I FOUND THAT OWNERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITIES WERE TRANSFERRED FROM THE POS TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

SO I'M STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW THE, THE FEES THAT COME OUT THE 36,000 EVERY YEAR COME OUT OF THE SHADOW FARM SANITARY DISTRICT BUDGET.

WHEN THE TITLE OWNERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY TO MAINTENANCE WAS TRANSFERRED 12 YEARS AGO FROM POS TO BOX.

AND THIS IS IN THE, IN THE NOTES FROM MANAGERS REPORTS TO BLS,

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EVERY DISTRICT STILL PAYS $36,000 A YEAR OUT OF OUR BUDGET FOR THE DAMS. SO WE THAT'S A QUESTION THAT NOT NECESSARILY, THIS IS USUALLY NOT A QUESTION ANSWER PERIOD, BUT, UM, THAT IS A QUESTION THAT WE WILL BE ADDRESSING, RIGHT? THANK YOU.

ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK AT THIS TIME? IF I MAY, FOR JUST A SECOND MADAME CHAIR, IF YOU LOOK AT THE OLD RECORDS, THE STATE REQUIRED THE COUNTY TO BE THE OWNERSHIP OF THE DAM.

SO IT WAS TRANSFERRED, THE TECHNICAL OWNERSHIP WAS TRANSFERRED SO THAT WE COULD ENSURE IT AND BE RECORDED WITH THE STATE AT THAT TIME.

UH, AND THAT WOULD BE, I BELIEVE WHAT WE'RE REFERRING TO THAT'S WHERE IT WAS DONE, BUT IT WAS ALWAYS FROM WHAT WE HAVE SEEN.

IT WAS ALWAYS A SHENANDOAH FARMS FACILITY, THE BEACH AND EVERYTHING.

AND SO IT WAS ALWAYS TAKE THE FUNDS FOR IT WERE ALWAYS TAKEN FROM THE LOAN AND THAT WE'RE ALWAYS TAKEN FROM THE SHENANDOAH FARM SANITARY DISTRICT FUNDING.

AS MR. CARTER SAID THAT WAS DONE TO PROVIDE THE VEHICLE, THE MECHANISM TO RECEIVE THE FUNDING FROM VML VACO STILL DOESN'T TOTALLY ANSWER IT, BUT, WELL, I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT IT WAS.

AND IF YOU WANT ME TO JUMP IN ON THAT, YOU KNOW, I'M SURE COUNTY OWNED VEHICLES AND OTHER THINGS THAT ARE USED IN SHADOW FARMS AND THAT ARE CHARGED THE SANDOW FARM.

SO THE FACT THAT THE COUNTY OWNS THE DAM, OR I DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAVE, IF WE HAVE TITLED TO THE DAM OR ACCORDING TO, TO, UH, YOU KNOW, SO WE DON'T HAVE TITLES OF THE DAM.

SO I DON'T KNOW THAT THE COUNTY TRULY DOES OWN THE DAM, BUT WE'VE TAKEN RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT, UH, REGULATORY WISE.

UM, BUT EITHER WAY, EVEN IF THE COUNTY DID ON THE DAM, THE COUNTY OWNED A TRUCK, FOR EXAMPLE, AND I THINK THIS IS TRUE EXAMPLE.

THEN YOU COULD USE THAT TRUCK IN GENITAL FARMS AND BILL GENITAL FARMS FOR IT.

SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S THE PARDON? WELL, SIR, IF YOU'RE GOING TO ASK, I THINK WE'RE GETTING, GETTING BEYOND PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD.

UM, AND, AND MAYBE THAT'S A DISCUSSION THAT NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE DURING THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND THAT'S AN OPEN, UM, COMMITTEE TO GO TO.

ANYONE ELSE AT THIS TIME FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING, IF NOT, WE'LL

[D. Report on the Regional Broadband Initiative – Brandon Davis]

MOVE ON WITH THE AGENDA.

AND NEXT IS THE REPORT ON THE REGIONAL BROADBAND INITIATIVE, BRANDON DAVIS, UH, I KNOW AT LEAST ON MY END OF THE COUNTY, I'M GETTING LOTS OF, WHEN IS THIS GOING TO START? WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SEE IT? SO I APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE THIS MORNING TO GIVE US AN UPDATE.

ABSOLUTELY.

I'M GLAD TO, WELL, I THINK I KNOW MOST OF YOU, BUT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE THAT I DON'T, I'M BRANDON DAVIS, I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, REGIONAL COMMISSION.

UH, WE SERVE THE COUNTIES IN THE NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY AND EXIST TO HELP THOSE COUNTIES WORK TOGETHER, TO ACHIEVE THINGS THAT THEY EITHER COULDN'T ACHIEVE ON THEIR OWN, OR, UH, WOULD BE MORE COST-EFFECTIVE TO DO TOGETHER AND TO MEET MANDATES THAT YOU WOULD HAVE TO MEET INDIVIDUALLY.

UH, IF YOU, IF WE DIDN'T MEET THEM ON YOUR BEHALF.

SO YOU CREATED THIS ORGANIZATION ALONG WITH YOUR COUNTERPARTS 50 YEARS AGO OR SO, AND WE'VE KIND OF EVOLVED OVER THE YEARS FROM A TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PLANNING ORGANIZATION AS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, SOPHISTICATION AND PLANNING HAVE GROWN TO A PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION THAT HELPS YOU ALL ACCESS THINGS THAT WE OTHERWISE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO ACCESS IF WE DIDN'T WORK TOGETHER, UH, IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM ALL POINTS BROADBAND ON THE LINE.

CAN WE HEAR YA? YEP.

CAN YOU ALL HEAR ME? GREAT.

DEFINITELY.

HOUSES AND, UM, COMMERCIAL FACILITIES OR INSTITUTIONAL FACILITIES THAT ARE CURRENTLY UNSERVED WITHIN THE EIGHT PROJECT, EIGHT COUNTY, UH, PROJECT REGION.

GREAT.

I THINK THIS IS, UH, KYLE ROZNER WITH ALL POINTS.

SO HE'S JOINED US TO HELP ANSWER THE TECHNICAL QUESTIONS.

UM, I'LL TAKE A MOMENT IF I CAN AND GO OVER THE RELATIONSHIP PIECE AND KIND OF WHERE WE'VE BEEN AND HOW WE'VE GOTTEN TO THIS POINT.

UH, BEFORE WE START TALKING ABOUT WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING FORWARD AND DELINEATE THE ROLES BETWEEN THE MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THIS INITIATIVE, UH, WE'VE CALLED IT THE NS VRC 2022 ACCELERATED FIBER DEPLOYMENT INITIATIVE.

YOU CAN CALL IT WHATEVER WANT WE'RE TRYING TO GET FIBER TO ALL THE UNSERVED HOUSES IN ALL OF THE FOLKS AND OTHER LOCATIONS.

WE'RE CALLING THEM PASSINGS.

IF YOU SEE THE WORD PASSINGS, THAT'S THE

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THE COUNTIES THAT ARE PART OF THIS PROJECT ARE, UH, FOUR OF THE FIVE IN THE NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, REGIONAL COMMISSION FOOTPRINT, AS WELL AS FOUR OUTSIDE OF OUR FOOTPRINT, WHEN WE WERE DEVELOPING THE PROJECT WITH A COMPETITIVE APPLICATION FOR STATE FUNDING.

AND THE WAY THAT WE DEEMED, UH, MOST FEASIBLE TO BE MOST COMPETITIVE WAS TO GROW THE SIZE OF THE PROJECT AND USE THOSE ECONOMIES OF SCALE AND PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER COMMUNITIES WHO ALSO TRUSTED US TO, TO HANDLE THE FINANCE PIECE OF IT AND, AND PULL THE APPLICATION TOGETHER WITH OUR INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER PARTNER.

UH, SO THOSE COUNTIES THAT ARE INCLUDED ARE AUGUSTA CLARK, FAUQUIER, FREDERICK PAIGE, RAPPAHANNOCK, ROCKINGHAM, AND WARREN COUNTIES.

UH, THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN GOING ON PROBABLY FOR A YEAR AND A HALF AT THIS POINT, SINCE OUR FIRST CONVERSATION, UH, TRYING TO DEVELOP A PARTNERSHIP AND PULL ALL THE PLAYERS TOGETHER THAT ARE NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH SUCH A LARGE, UH, GOAL.

AND, UH, WE FINALLY GOT UNDER CONTRACT ON JULY 26TH, 2022.

SO A LITTLE OVER A MONTH AGO, WE HAVE ALL OF THE CONTRACT DOCUMENTS IN PLACE.

THAT WAS A SIGNIFICANT LIFT.

AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, ON A PROJECT OF THIS SCALE, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS ARE, ARE, UH, IN AGREEMENT WITH SO MANY RELATIONSHIPS THAT EXIST.

I THINK AN INSIGHT I'VE SPENT MORE MONEY ON LINTON AND SIPHON IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS THAN I HAVE IN MY ENTIRE CAREER, BUT EVERY PENNY WAS WORTH IT, JORDAN BOWMAN WITH YOUR TEAM.

AND I KNOW ALL THE OTHERS WHO HAVE SUPPORTED WERE EXCELLENT IN WORKING WITH US TO HELP DEVELOP THOSE AGREEMENTS, THAT EVERYBODY WAS COMFORTABLE WITH THE ACCEPTED LEVEL OF RISK.

UH, LET'S SEE, THIS IS ACTUALLY THE LARGEST BROADBAND PROJECT IN VIRGINIA HISTORY, UH, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, AND IT'S THE LARGEST GRANT EVER PROVIDED TO A PLANNING DISTRICT COMMISSION, UH, ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH AND ALMOST EVERYBODY IN THE, IN THE STATE AS PART OF A REGIONAL COMMISSION.

THERE'S 21 DISTRICTS THAT ARE, ARE SERVING THE, THE VALLEY OR THE VIRGINIA.

I DO BETTER WHEN I TALK THAN READ, BUT I'M AFRAID I'M GONNA MISS SOMETHING.

IF I DON'T USE MY NOTES, LET'S SEE HERE.

UH, THE GRANT THAT WAS RECEIVED FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IS JUST SHY OF $97 MILLION.

SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE SCALE OF THIS EIGHT COUNTIES AND A TOTAL INVESTMENT OF OVER 300 MILLION IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH OVER 41,000 PASSINGS AND A 3,700 MILES OF FIBER TO BE LAID OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT THREE YEARS, UH, IT'S A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT UNDERTAKING.

UH, ALSO IT, IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED AND IT WILL NOT ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF OBVIOUSLY OUR INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER, UM, ALL POINTS OF BROADBAND, AS WELL AS, UH, THEIR PARTNERSHIPS WITH ELECTRIC UTILITY PROVIDERS, THE SHANDA VALLEY, ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, RAPPAHANNOCK ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, AS WELL AS DOMINION ENERGY, VIRGINIA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE REGULATIONS.

SO AS, AS PART OF THIS PROJECT, THE PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT IN THIS IS OVER $140 MILLION.

WHEN WE THINK ABOUT, UH, THE AMOUNT OF INFRASTRUCTURE THAT'S BEING, BEING LAID, YEAH, THE STATE IS PUTTING UP A BIG PIECE OF IT, WHICH WE'RE VERY THANKFUL FOR, BUT ALSO THE PRIVATE SECTOR HAS TAKEN SOME RISKS HERE AS WELL, AND IT DOESN'T WORK UNLESS FOLKS SIGN UP FOR IT.

SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE INVESTMENT THAT'S BEING MADE IN THE RISK THAT THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS TAKING, IT ALWAYS GIVES ME AN ADDED LEVEL OF COMFORT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO MAKE IT WORK JUST AS BAD OR WORSE THAN WE DO, BECAUSE THE ONLY WAY THEY SEE A RETURN ON THEIR INVESTMENT IS IF FOLKS USE THE SERVICE, A FIBER CONSTRUCTION IS SLATED TO BEGIN IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2023 AND WILL CONTINUE TO THE END OF JULY IN 2025 WHEN THE PROJECT ENDS.

UM, THE FIRST PHASE OF THIS PROJECT, WHICH WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW IS FOCUSED ON THE LOW LEVEL DESIGN AND THE POLE ATTACHMENT AND MAKE READY PROCESS.

AND I THINK THE INTENTION, I THINK KYLE MAY BE ABLE TO GO INTO MORE DEPTH ON THIS, BUT THE PLAN IS TO DO A LOT OF ENGINEERING AND DESIGN UPFRONT SO THAT WHEN YOU DEPLOY TEAMS OUT INTO THE FIELD, MULTIPLE ON MULTIPLE FRONTS FOR AN EIGHT COUNTY PROJECT, IF YOU RUN INTO A SNAG BECAUSE OF WEATHER, ROCK, ENVIRONMENTAL, UH, MIDDLE MILE PARTNERSHIP, UM, CORONAVIRUS, WHATEVER, WOULDN'T, WHATEVER WE DON'T EVEN EXPECT TO SEE, THEN YOU CAN REDEPLOY THOSE ASSETS FROM ONE FRONT TO ANOTHER ONE.

IF WE DON'T DESIGN THE PROJECT AND GET ENOUGH, LOW-LEVEL DESIGN UPFRONT, WE'RE GOING TO BE IN A POSITION WHERE WE RUN OUT OF WORK AND WE'RE GOING TO LOSE A CONTRACTOR TO SOME OTHER PROJECT SOMEWHERE ELSE, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF THIS WORK BEING DONE RIGHT NOW.

SO STRATEGICALLY I THINK THAT ALL POINTS IS CHOOSING TO DESIGN A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THIS PROJECT.

BEFORE YOU SEE TRUCKS IN THE FIELD WITH ALL POINTS SLAPPED ON THE SIDE OF THEM.

UH, LET'S SEE HERE FROM AN ADMINISTRATIVE STANDPOINT, THE REGIONAL COMMISSION IS THE GRANTEE.

WE RECEIVED THE WE'LL RECEIVE

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THE STATE FUNDS.

UH, WE WILL COORDINATE THE COUNTY MATCH.

THE PRIVATE SECTOR DOLLARS WILL NOT CROSS OUR BOOKS, BUT IN ORDER TO ACCESS THE STATE FUNDING, WE WILL HAVE TO SHOW PROOF OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT, AS WELL AS THE COUNTY MATCH CROSSING OUR BOOKS.

WE WILL NOT ACCESS STATE MONEY OR COUNTY MATCH UNTIL THE WORK HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED AND THAT SET FORTH IN OUR GRANT.

SO IT'S A REIMBURSEMENT BASE.

SO ALL POINTS IN OUR UTILITY PROVIDERS ARE TAKING ON THE RISK UPFRONT OF DOING THE WORK.

AND WHEN A DELINEATED SECTIONS OF WORK, I THINK THEY'RE A TECHNICAL NAME FOR THAT.

I'M NOT GOING TO TRY TO GET INTO, BUT WHEN SECTIONS OF WORK ARE COMPLETED AT THAT POINT, WE'LL PETITION FOR REIMBURSEMENT FROM THE STATE.

AT WHICH POINT THEY WILL EVALUATE WHETHER OR NOT THE WORK HAS BEEN DONE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROGRAM DESIGN AND ALL OF OUR AGREEMENTS, THEN THEY'LL DISTRIBUTE THE FUNDS TO US.

WE'LL PASS THEM THROUGH TO OUR, OUR THIRD PARTY PROVIDER, ALL POINTS BROADBAND.

LET'S SEE, I'M SURE I'M MISSING SOMETHING.

THIS IS A COMPLICATED PROJECT AND IT MIGHT BE BEST FOR US TO TRY TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU ALL HAVE.

I HAVE MORE COMMENTS I COULD PROVIDE.

I COULD TALK ABOUT THIS FOR AWHILE.

UM, KYLE, IS IT OKAY CHAIR, IF I TURN IT OVER TO OUR PARTNER, ALL POINTS, KYLE, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO ADD AT THIS TIME? YEAH.

THANK YOU, BRANDON.

UH, AND THANK YOU FOLKS FOR INVITING US TO SPEAK TODAY.

MY NAME IS KYLE ROZNER, UH, AND I'M WITH ALL POINTS BROADBAND.

UH, I HAVE A FEW SLIDES, UH, POSSIBLE FOR ME TO SHARE MY SCREEN AND PROVIDE THOSE, UM, A LOT OF IT'S WHAT BRANDON JUST WENT OVER, BUT I THINK IT'D STILL BE HELPFUL.

AND I'LL GIVE YOU SOME MORE DETAIL ABOUT HOW WE SEQUENCE THE CONSTRUCTION AND HOW WE THINK ABOUT THE PROJECT.

UH, SO CAN EVERYONE SEE THIS? OKAY.

YES.

GREAT.

SO JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ALL POINTS TO BEGIN.

UH, WE'RE A RURAL BROADBAND COMPANY OPERATING IN VIRGINIA AND A FEW OTHER MID-ATLANTIC STATES, AND WE'RE THE LARGEST RURAL FACING ISP IN THE MID-ATLANTIC.

UH, THE PAST FOUR YEARS WE'VE BEEN NAMED TO THE INC 5,000 LIST OF, UH, BESTEST GROWING PRIVATELY HELD COMPANIES.

OUR LEAD EQUITY SPONSOR IS SEARCHLIGHT CAPITAL PARTNERS.

UH, THEY HAVE ABOUT 9 BILLION IN ASSETS UNDER CONTROL, AND THEY HAVE, UH, THROUGH THEIR VARIOUS, THROUGH ALL POINTS IN THEIR OTHER INVESTMENTS.

THEY'RE THE NUMBER FOUR BUILDER, UH, FIBER TO THE HOME, UH, IN THE U S SO THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW, SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES ARE HUGE RIGHT NOW, LABOR ISSUES ARE HUGE RIGHT NOW, BUT WE HAVE A, A VERY, A GREAT RELATIONSHIP WITH SEARCHLIGHT AND THEY CAN PULL TOGETHER THEIR ASSETS AND BE A BIG CUSTOMER FOR THESE VENDORS.

UH, AND BRENDAN MENTIONED THIS.

WE ARE THE LEADING ISP AND PARTNERING WITH ELECTRIC UTILITIES BEYOND POLE ATTACHMENTS, AND I WILL GET INTO HOW WE DO THAT, BUT THEY'RE A BIG PART OF THIS PUZZLE.

SO TH THE INITIATIVE TIMELINE, UH, JUNE OF LAST YEAR, WARREN COUNTY JOINED THE REGIONAL INITIATIVE WITH THE REGIONAL COMMISSION, SEVEN OTHER COUNTIES, ALL POINTS IN THE THREE ELECTRIC UTILITIES, UH, AROUND THIS TIME, ALL POINTS ALSO BEGAN OUR HIGH LEVEL DESIGN, UH, WHICH IS OUR NETWORK FEASIBILITY, OUR PRELIMINARY DESIGN, UH, THAT INFORMED THE GRANT APPLICATION.

SO THAT IS WHAT WE USE TO APPLY TO BODY.

UH, AND THE APPLICATION WAS SUBMITTED IN SEPTEMBER OF LAST YEAR.

UH, THERE WAS AN, THE ANNOUNCEMENT.

THIS WAS NOT THE GRANT AWARD, AS BRANDON KNOWS VERY WELL.

THE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE GRANT AWARD HAPPENED IN DECEMBER OF LAST YEAR.

UH, AND THAT WAS GREAT, BUT THERE IS A CONTRACT PERIOD THAT THEN HAD TO GET NEGOTIATED AND PUT INTO, INTO PLACE.

UM, DURING THAT TIME, THOUGH, WE ALL POINTS BEGAN PROCURING OUR LONG LEAD TIME ITEMS. SO OUR MATERIALS, OUR FIBER, OUR HARDWARE, ELECTRONICS, ALL THE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS THAT ARE NEEDED, UM, AND THE CUSTOMER PREMISE EQUIPMENT THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR OUR CUSTOMERS WHO SIGN UP THE STUFF THAT WILL GO IN THEIR HOME, UH, WE'VE ALREADY BEGUN PROCURING THEM.

SO IT TOOK QUITE A LONG TIME.

UM, AND IT WASN'T JUST THIS PROJECT.

IT WAS FOR ALL THE BODY PROJECTS, BUT A FEW WEEKS AGO, WE FINALLY, UM, GOT UNDER CONTRACT AND THE FINAL GRANT AWARD WAS ISSUED, UM, FROM THE STATE AND DHCD, AND THAT BEGAN THE 36 MONTH PROJECT PERIOD.

SO THE SHOT CLOCK IS ON NOW AND THE PROJECT IS GOING.

SO HERE'S AN OVERVIEW OF THE, OF THE WARREN COUNTY ASPECT OF THE REGIONAL PROJECT.

UM, THIS IS AGAIN, A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE REGIONAL COMMISSION, ALL POINTS, THE COUNTY AND REC IS THE ELECTRIC UTILITY FOR THE COUNTY THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE PARTICIPATING IN THIS PROJECT.

SO ALL TOLD THERE WILL BE ABOUT 215 MILES OF DISTRIBUTION FIBER.

SO THAT'S FIBER THAT ALL POINTS WILL BE CONSTRUCTING, UM, AND 60, AROUND 60 MILES OF MIDDLE MILE FIBER.

UM, AND THAT IS FROM RAC.

AND THIS WILL, ALL THIS NETWORK WILL BE BUILT TO CONNECT, UM, 2,110 UNSERVED LOCATIONS OR PASSINGS.

UM, AND THESE ARE THE

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RED DOTS THAT YOU SEE ON THE MAP.

SO THIS IS THE TIMELINE FOR THE ENTIRE INITIATIVE, EIGHT COUNTY-WIDE.

UM, AND THIS IS, AND I'LL GET INTO SOME, UH, SOME KEY DEPENDENCIES THAT WE RELY ON.

THESE PROJECTS DON'T HAPPEN IN A VACUUM, UH, BUT THIS IS THE TIMELINE THAT WE'RE OPERATING UNDER.

AND, AND WE, UM, HOPE TO STICK BY WE'VE ALREADY BEGUN LOW-LEVEL DESIGN.

SO, UH, BRANDON MENTIONED THAT WE WANT TO DO A LOT OF THAT DESIGN WORK UPFRONT TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S A TON OF CONSTRUCTABLE NETWORK THAT CAN BE RELEASED TO OUR LABOR VENDORS.

UM, AND SO WE ARE DOING THAT NOW IT'S A LARGE NETWORK, AS YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S EIGHT COUNTIES GETTING THE UNIVERSAL COVERAGE.

UM, AND SO IT, IT TAKES A WHILE THIS WILL HAPPEN THROUGHOUT OR THROUGHOUT THE NEXT SIX TO 10 MONTHS.

UM, BUT THE, THE LOW LEVEL DESIGN, GO AHEAD, BRANDON.

YEAH, SORRY.

I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY EVERYONE PROBABLY REALIZES THIS, BUT THESE GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS RUN ON A FISCAL YEAR BASIS THAT OUR FIRST QUARTER STARTS JULY ONE.

HE'S TALKING ABOUT CALENDAR YEAR QUARTERS, HE'S IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

SO LET'S REMEMBER THAT AS WE'RE THINKING THROUGH THESE.

AND IF WE HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER IT'S A FISCAL YEAR QUARTER FOR OUR GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION VERSUS THE TRADITIONAL THOUGHT OF A CALENDAR YEAR, I JUST WANT TO MAKE, MAKE IT CLEAR THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT CALENDAR YEAR Q3.

SO THAT'D BE LIKE JULY ONE, RIGHT? YES, SIR.

YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT.

BOY, BRANDON, I APPRECIATE THAT.

IF A NEW DEVELOPMENT COMES UP OR JUST HOUSES HERE AND THERE, UH, THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE REQUESTING THOUSANDS OF POLE ATTACHMENT REQUESTS.

SO CALENDAR QUARTER, UH, TWO OF NEXT YEAR IS WHEN WE EXPECT FIBER CONSTRUCTION DIP AGAIN.

UH, AND, AND THIS IS NOT GOING TO BEGIN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE HOPING TO START IN MULTIPLE AREAS.

UM, WE DON'T, THIS ISN'T LIKE WE'RE GOING TO START AT BOTTOM OF AUGUSTA COUNTY AND WORK OUR WAY NORTH.

IT DOESN'T HAPPEN LIKE THAT.

WE WANT TO HAVE MULTIPLE FRONTS TO THIS BECAUSE IT'S A VERY LARGE NETWORK.

AND LIKE BRANDON SAID, WE WANT TO KEEP OUR CREWS ENGAGED.

SO BY THE END OF NEXT YEAR, UH, WE WILL BEGIN INSTALLING CUSTOMERS IN COMPLETED SDAS AND I WILL GET INTO, UH, FDA'S WHAT THOSE ARE.

UM, THOSE ARE FIBER DISTRIBUTION AREAS, ESSENTIALLY SUBSETS OF A COUNTY.

UM, THAT'S HOW WE DESIGNED THE NETWORK THROUGH FDA'S, BUT BY THE END OF NEXT YEAR, WE'RE GOING TO START INSTALLING CUSTOMERS.

AND THAT WILL CONTINUE ALL THE WAY UNTIL Q3 OF 25.

SO ALL THROUGH 2024, AND THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF 2025, UH, THE NETWORK WILL FINISH UP CONSTRUCTION AND THERE WILL BE CUSTOMER INSTALLATIONS ALL THROUGH THAT PERIOD.

SO I MENTIONED THE KEY DEPENDENCIES.

AGAIN, THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN IN A VACUUM.

IF IT, IF IT DID, THIS WOULD ALREADY, THIS PROBLEM WOULD ALREADY BE SOLVED.

UM, IT'S A BIG PROBLEM WE'RE FACING THAT TAKES A LOT OF PARTNERS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.

UM, THE, THE FIRST DEPENDENCY FOR LAST MILE DEPLOYMENT IS MIDDLE MODEL DEPLOYMENT.

UM, WE HAVE TO GET BACK TO THE LARGER INTERNET AND MIDDLE MILES THE WAY WE DO IT.

UM, SO THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE THE FIRST KEY DEPENDENCY.

WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE MIDDLETOWN NETWORK IS IN PLACE AND ON TIME, THE SECOND, AND PROBABLY THE LARGEST DEPENDENCY OF THIS ENTIRE PROJECT IS UTILITY POLE MAKE READY.

SO MAKE READY IS PREPARING THE ELECTRIC UTILITY POLES, UH, FOR A FIBER ATTACHMENT.

UH, AND THERE'S A LOT OF SAFETY CODE AROUND HOW TO DO THAT.

AND A LOT OF TIMES, YOU KNOW, THESE POLES ARE VERY OLD AND NEED TO BE SWAPPED OUT, ATTACH CURRENT ATTACHMENTS NEED TO BE MOVED.

UM, THERE'S A LOT OF ENGINEERING AND FIELDING EVERY POLE THAT NEEDS TO BE ATTACHED NEEDS TO BE INSPECTED IN THE FIELD.

AND JUST IN WARREN COUNTY ALONE, THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF POLLS.

YOU CAN THINK ABOUT THE WHOLE REGIONAL NETWORK, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF UTILITY POLES, THREE DIFFERENT ELECTRIC UTILITIES.

SO IT'S A, IT'S A MAJOR CAMPAIGN THAT'S STARTING AND WE'LL BEGIN.

WE'LL, UH, CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE, THIS YEAR INTO NEXT YEAR.

UM, SO THAT'S A HUGE DEPENDENCY.

UM, AND THEN FINALLY, WE, WE DO ALL THIS AND DO ALL THE NETWORKING AND UTILITY MAKE READY TO ENSURE THAT THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT QUEUE OF CONSTRUCTABLE, READY TO GO MILES FOR OUR, UH, CONSTRUCTION THEN.

SO AS YOU CAN, PROBABLY THERE'S A TON OF PUBLIC MONEY.

AND IN BROADBAND RIGHT NOW, THERE'S A TON OF WORK EVERYWHERE IN THE U S UM, SO TO GET EVENT.

AND IT HELPS THAT THIS PROJECT IS SO LARGE, BUT IF WE DON'T HAVE WORK, YOU KNOW, IF A CREW FINISHES ON FRIDAY AND WE SAY, WE DON'T HAVE WORK FOR YOU ON MONDAY, THEY'RE GOING TO DRIVE TO NORTH CAROLINA OR GEORGIA OR SOMEWHERE ELSE WHERE THERE'S WORK TO BE HAD.

UH, SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO KEEP OUR VENDORS ON A STEADY FLOW OF CONSTRUCTABLE WORK, UH, FOR A LONG PERIOD.

I, YOU KNOW, I I'VE MENTIONED THIS, BUT IT IS AN UNPRECEDENTED AMOUNT OF MAKE-READY THAT IS GOING ON.

AND OUR ELECTRIC PARTNERS ARE REALLY, YOU KNOW, I HAVE TO COMMEND THEM FOR THE STEPS THEY'RE TAKING, UM, IN A TYPICAL YEAR AND MORGAN COUNTY, YOU KNOW, REC MIGHT RECEIVE 50 POLE ATTACHMENT REQUESTS.

UH,

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AND IT IT'S, IT'S REALLY IMPRESSIVE WHAT RACS IS GEARING UP TO DO, BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE, THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED, IT'S A MAJOR CAMPAIGN.

IT'S GOING TO TAKE ALL HANDS TO GET THIS THING DONE.

SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT CONSTRUCT AND, UM, I MENTIONED FDA'S IS KIND OF HOW WE SPLIT UP PROJECTS.

UH, AND, AND THIS IS THE TIMELINE OF OUR CONSTRUCTION.

SO JUST IN GENERAL, WE LIKE TO START WITH MAKE READY AND LOW-LEVEL DESIGN.

SO WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT THE NETWORK IS DESIGNED AND READY TO BE CONSTRUCTED, AND ALL THE POLES ARE READY TO GO.

ONCE THOSE TWO BOXES ARE CHECKED, THEN WE CONSIDER THESE MILES CONSTRUCTABLE AND IT'S, WE SEND IT OUT FOR NETWORK CONSTRUCTION, THAT'S HANGING THE FIBER ON THE UTILITY POLES, UM, OR PUTTING IT UNDERGROUND IN CASES.

AND THEN FINALLY, THE LAST PIECE OF THE PUZZLE IS INSTALLING CUSTOMERS, UH, RUNNING DROPS TO PEOPLE'S HOMES AND OBVIOUSLY THE ONGOING OPERATIONS OF THE NETWORK.

SO, UM, THIS IS THE CADENCE.

A LOT OF TIMES THESE THREE WILL BE GOING SIMULTANEOUSLY IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE NETWORK.

UM, BUT THIS IS THE GENERAL CADENCE OF WHAT YOU'LL SEE.

SO RIGHT NOW, FOLKS, AREN'T GOING TO SEE ANYTHING ON THE FIELD OTHER THAN MAYBE SOME MAKE-READY FIELDING, UM, BECAUSE THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT HAPPENING BEHIND THE SCENES AND BEFOREHAND TO ENSURE THAT WE CAN GET TO NETWORK CONSTRUCTION.

OUR OBJECTIVE IS TO COMPLETE THIS ENTIRE THING WITHIN 36 MONTHS, WHICH IS THE CONTRACT PERIOD.

UM, OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, THE, THE MORE CONSTRUCTABLE ROUTES, THE ROUTES WHERE NO POLES NEED TO BE REPLACED OR NO ATTACHES NEED TO BE MOVED, IT BE PROBABLY THE FIRST TO BE BUILT.

UM, CAUSE IT'S, LIKE I SAID, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE A STEADY AND RELIABLE CADENCE, UM, TO ENSURE THAT OUR LABOR VENDORS ARE, UH, ENGAGED IN HERE FOR THE ENTIRE PROJECT.

UM, OUR CUSTOMERS WILL BE NOTIFIED 90 DAYS IN ADVANCE OF WHEN AN FDA WILL BE LIT OR THE CUSTOMERS WITHIN THAT FDA WILL BE ABLE TO SIGN UP.

UM, AND THAT'S NOT ONLY PEOPLE WHO HAVE PRE-REGISTERED ON OUR WEBSITE, BUT EVERYONE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR SALES TEAM OUT IN THE FIELD.

UM, YOU KNOW, HANGING DOOR HANGERS AND FLYERS AND MAILERS AND YARD SIGNS.

YOU KNOW, LIKE BRANDON SAID, IT'S IN OUR INTEREST TO HAVE AS MANY PEOPLE SIGN UP AS POSSIBLE.

SO, UM, WE'RE GOING TO BE VERY AGGRESSIVE IN THE MARKETING OF THE NETWORK AND, AND FOLKS WILL SEE A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY IN THE, IN THE PERIOD LEADING UP TO THIS.

SO THEY'LL HOPEFULLY KNOW THAT IT'S COMING TO THEM SOON.

SO, AND BRANDON CAN TALK ABOUT THIS AS WELL, BUT THIS IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO BE REPORTING.

WE'RE GOING TO BE ALL POINTS.

WE'LL BE PROVIDING MONTHLY REPORTS, UM, THAT ARE BASED AGAINST THREE MILESTONES.

THE FIRST IS MILES RELEASED FROM LOW-LEVEL DESIGN.

SO THESE ARE, THESE ARE READY TO GO.

REPUTABLE MILES THAT ARE, HAVE BEEN DESIGNED AND, UH, CAN BE RELEASED TO CONSTRUCTION.

UH, THE SECOND MILESTONE IS MILES CONSTRUCTED.

SO THAT'S PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD.

HOW MANY MILES HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED OF THE NETWORK? AND THE THIRD IS SERVICEABLE UNITS PAST, OR HOW MANY HOMES CAN RECEIVE SERVICE? I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT NO STATE OR LOCAL FUNDS ARE RELEASED TO ALL POINTS UNTIL WORK IS COMPLETE.

SO THIS IS A REIMBURSEMENT BASIS.

ALL POINTS IS NOT GETTING ANY MONEY UP FRONT.

WE ARE EXTENDING THE CAPITAL OURSELVES AND THEN GETTING REIMBURSED ONCE WE SHOW THAT MILESTONES HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED.

SO REALLY QUICKLY, I Y'ALL HAVE BEEN VERY GENEROUS WITH YOUR TIME.

UM, WE ARE, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT OUR SERVICE LEVELS AND AFFORDABILITY.

UH, ALL POINTS IS PARTICIPATING IN THE AFFORDABLE CONNECTIVITY PROGRAM, WHICH IS A FEDERAL DISCOUNT PROGRAM, $30 A MONTH FOR QUALIFYING HOUSEHOLDS.

UM, IF YOU, A HOUSEHOLD OF FIVE HAS INCOME OF 65,000 OR LESS, THEY QUALIFY IF A HOUSEHOLD HAS FREE, FREE OR REDUCED LUNCH, UH, SNAP MEDICAID, THERE'S A TON OF QUALIFIERS.

UM, AND PEOPLE CAN JUST GOOGLE AFFORDABLE CONNECTIVITY PROGRAM.

WE ALSO HAVE IT ALL OVER OUR WEBSITE AND WE'LL BE MARKETING IT PRETTY HEAVILY.

UM, AND WE'RE GOING TO GIVE A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR CUSTOMERS TO SEE IF THEY'RE ELIGIBLE AND SIGN UP.

AND HERE ARE THE SERVICE LEVELS THAT I KNOW THAT THIS IS NOT NEW TO Y'ALL, BUT WE HAVE HERE THE ACPS, THE AFFORDABLE CONNECTIVITY PROGRAM.

SO THIS IS THE DISCOUNTED PRICING.

THIS IS THE UNDISCOUNTED PRICING.

THERE WILL LIKELY BE PROMOS ON THIS BAY ON THESE BASE-LEVEL PRICES.

UM, YOU KNOW, W WE WE'LL RUN PROMOS AS THE FDA'S ARE BEING LED TO ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO SIGN UP.

UM, BUT TH THIS IS THE UNDISCOUNTED PRICING, THE STANDARD INSTALLATION FEE OF GO AHEAD, BRANDON.

WELL, YOU'RE GOING TO GET TO THAT STANDARD INSTALLATION

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FEE.

AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT PIECE OF THIS TO TALK ABOUT.

IT WAS THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WAS A PART OF THE NEGOTIATED APPLICATION THAT WAS VERY VALUABLE TO A LOT OF OUR PARTNERS.

THE DETAILS OF THAT ARE IMPORTANT.

BUT ONE THING THAT I DID WANT TO POINT OUT ABOUT THE SERVICE TIERS, UH, THE EVERYTHING ABOVE THE 50 BY 50 IS MARKET-BASED.

SO THOSE THINGS CAN CHANGE OVER TIME, BUT ALSO PART OF THE APPLICATION, UH, ALL POINTS IS GUARANTEED AT THIS 59 99, 50 BY 50 BASE TIER WILL REMAIN AT 59 99 ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION BASED ON THE CPI OVER OVER YEARS.

SO YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE IN A SITUATION WHERE WE'VE SUBSIDIZED A FIRM COMING IN AND BUILDING SOMETHING, AND THEN JACKING UP THE PRICES.

ON THE CONTRARY, IT WILL STAY AT, AT A COMPETITIVE PRICE FOR A VERY REASONABLE LEVEL OF, UH, INTERNET.

AND THE 50 BY 50 IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT SECOND 50 IS THE UPLOAD SPEED.

SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE WAY THAT THE USERS OF THE INTERNET ARE CHANGING, AND THE THINGS THAT THIS UBIQUITOUS SERVICE THAT'S BECOMING UBIQUITOUS IS GOING TO BE REQUIRED.

IT'S GOING TO REQUIRE MUCH MORE UPLOADING THAN CURRENTLY.

AND CERTAINLY IN THE PAST, DOWNLOADING, DOWNLOADING HAS BEEN EASY FOR US STREAMING VIDEOS AND RECEIVING EMAILS AND RECEIVING THINGS FROM VOLKS.

BUT WHEN YOU START SENDING TELEHEALTH VISITS AND SENDING TIME-SENSITIVE DATA PACKETS FOR YOUR HOME BUSINESS, THAT YOU'RE NOW PARTNERING WITH FAIRFAX OR SOMEONE ON, IN, IN A SENSITIVE INDUSTRY, UH, THAT UPLOAD SPEED IS GOING TO BE VERY VALUABLE.

AND THEY'VE DESIGNED THE SYSTEM, UH, TO HAVE PARALLEL SERVICE DOWNLOAD AND UPLOAD, WHICH YOU DON'T SEE WITH A LOT OF OTHER, UM, WAYS THAT YOU RECEIVE THE INTERNET THROUGH DSL OR CABLE, OR EVEN SOME FIBER W THE WAY THE PLANS ARE STRUCTURED.

THEY'RE NOT, UM, 50 50, THERE WOULD BE 50 AND 10.

IN FACT, MY OFFICE, I RUN ON A COMPLETE OFFICE OF 10, 11 PEOPLE OFF OF 50 DOWN AND 10 UP, AND IT'S BEEN COMPLETELY FUNCTIONAL FOREVER.

UH, SO 50 50 IS A SERIOUS, SERIOUS LEVEL TIER THAT'S.

THAT'S GOING TO MEET THE NEEDS OF EVERYONE RIGHT NOW, UNLESS YOU HAVE SOME, SOME EXTREME, UNIQUE, UNIQUE PURPOSE, BUT YOU CAN HAVE A WHOLE FAMILY DOING AT HOME SCHOOLING AND WORKING FROM HOME STREAMING, DOING ZOOM MEETINGS ON A 54 50 50, AND NEVER SEE A DEGRADATION OF QUALITY OR A BUFFERING MOMENT.

YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT BOOK POINT, BRANDON.

UM, WE, ALL POINTS IS GOING TO BE BUILDING, UH, A WORLD-CLASS PLATINUM STANDARD FIBER NETWORK THROUGH WARREN COUNTY.

UM, YOU COULDN'T CONSTRUCT A BETTER NETWORK, UH, IT, AND IT CAN GROW AS THE NETWORK NEEDS OF THE COUNTY GROW.

SO RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, A HOUSEHOLD MAY NEED A THOUSAND BY A THOUSAND OR A GIG.

THAT'S ONE GIG BY ONE GIG.

WE'RE GOING TO BE CONSTRUCTING THE NETWORK TO WHERE A LOCATION CAN RECEIVE 10 GIG BY 10 GIG.

NOW, NO ONE COULD USE THAT RIGHT NOW, BUT IN 10, 15 YEARS, WHO KNOWS WHAT TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES THERE WILL BE.

UM, SO WE ARE, WE'RE THINKING VERY LONG VIEW ON THIS, UH, AND ARE PUTTING ROBUST CAPACITY ALL THROUGHOUT OUR NETWORK TO ENSURE IT CAN GROWTH.

SO THE STANDARD INSTALLATION FEE IS GOING TO BE 1 99.

UM, THE IMPORTANT PART THAT I KNOW BRANDON WANTS ME TO COVER IS IN THE FIRST 12 MONTHS OF SERVICE AVAILABILITY, THAT IS 1 99, REGARDLESS OF DROP LENGTH.

SO IF YOU HAVE A THOUSAND FOOT DRIVEWAY OR A HUNDRED FOOT DRIVEWAY, IF YOU SIGN UP WITHIN THE FIRST 12 MONTHS, IT IS A 1 99 FOR A STANDARD INSTALLATION.

SO THE QUESTION THAT WE ALWAYS RECEIVE AFTER THAT, IS IT 12 MONTHS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CONTRACT PERIOD, OR IS IT 12 MONTHS FROM WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE? SO I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT THAT 12 MONTH CLOCK FOR THAT INDIVIDUAL USER DOESN'T BEGIN UNTIL THAT SERVICE BECOMES AVAILABLE FOR THAT PASSING.

SO IT'S NOT 12 MONTHS FROM NOW BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE EVERYWHERE, MAYBE ANYWHERE IN 12 MONTHS.

SO THAT 12 MONTH CLOCK STARTS WHEN THAT PERSON CAN ACTUALLY SIGN UP.

THAT'S CORRECT.

SO HOW CAN YOU HELP? I THINK THE NUMBER ONE THING IS SPREADING THE WORD FIBER DOT ALL POINTS, BROADBAND.COM IS WHERE FOLKS CAN PRE-REGISTER FOR SERVICE SIGN UP FOR UPDATES.

UH, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO BE, WE ARE CONSTRUCTING A MASSIVE NETWORK AND IT TAKES A LOT OF FOLKS AND WE ARE CURRENTLY HIRING SEVERAL POSITIONS AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO HIRE THROUGHOUT THE NEXT THREE YEARS.

UM, SO IT CAN GO TO ALL FOLKS CAN GO TO ALL POINTS, BROADBAND.COM, BACKSLASH CAREERS, UM, AND WE'RE HIRING ANYWHERE FROM ENGINEERING POSITIONS TO CONSTRUCTION POSITIONS, TO CUSTOMER SERVICE POSITIONS, SALES, EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.

I'M HAPPY TO TAKE WITH BRANDON AND HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS THAT FOLKS MIGHT HAVE.

YOU HAVE A COPY OF THE PRESENTATION FOR US, OR CAN WE HAVE IT EMAILED TO US OR SOMETHING? I'M SURE WE CAN.

ABSOLUTELY.

CAL CAN YOU FORWARD THAT PRESENTATION OVER TO EMILY AT THE WARREN COUNTY OFFICE, IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO IT'S SIR, THAT WOULD BE GOOD TO GET OUT ON OUR WEBSITE SO THAT EVERYONE HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE IT AGAIN,

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MISSES OUT.

I HAVE A QUESTION.

SO GUYS, WE HAVE A STAFFING SHORTAGE IN THIS COUNTRY, AND I KNOW THESE, THESE MILESTONES SOUNDED GREAT.

HOWEVER, I KNOW THE REALITY OF HOW HARD IT IS TO FIND PEOPLE, WHAT IS IT THAT YOU ARE DOING? AND I SAW THAT YOU ARE, YOU HAVE THIS, PLEASE, I WE'RE HIRING.

SO, UH, TELL ME WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE PROJECTS ARE STAFFED SO THAT WE CAN REACH THE MILESTONES THAT YOU'VE DESCRIBED.

SO THE, THE MILESTONES, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO BE CONTRACTING OUT OF LARGE, IF NOT ALL MAJORITY OF THE CONSTRUCTION WORK.

SO THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE ALL POINTS EMPLOYEES THAT WILL BE FIBER CONSTRUCTION VENDORS.

UM, AND I GOT INTO HOW WE'RE GOING TO AND HOW WE'VE ALREADY MITIGATED THAT.

UM, WE'RE A BIG CUSTOMER AND WE, WE PAY COMPETITIVE RATES.

UM, WE HAVE A TON OF WORK, NOT ONLY IN THIS PROJECT, BUT ALL AROUND THE STATE.

WE'VE ALREADY DEVELOPED GREAT RELATIONSHIPS WITH BIG VENDORS, UM, THROUGH OUR PROJECT IN THE NORTHERN NECK THAT WE'RE BUILDING CURRENTLY.

UM, SO WE FEEL VERY CONFIDENT THAT WE CAN MITIGATE THOSE CHALLENGES.

NOW WE ARE, LIKE I MENTIONED, WE'RE GOING TO BE HIRING DOZENS OF POSITIONS, UH, INTERNALLY.

AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM WHO'S OUT THERE RECRUITING, PUTTING POSITIONS.

WE PAY VERY WELL.

I MEAN, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE DOING ALL THAT WE CAN, UM, WE'RE STILL GONNA FACE AND CHALLENGES, BUT WE FEEL CONFIDENT THAT WE CAN MEET ALL THE MILESTONES THAT WE PUT FORWARD.

I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.

SO, UM, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT HAS JUST BEEN EXPLAINED TO ME, IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE AGILE APPROACH WITH TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN YOU'RE OUT PERFORMING AND DEPLOYING AND SOMETHING COMES UP WITH, YOU KNOW, A SHORTAGE IN SUPPLIES, RESOURCES, THEN YOU KIND OF SHIFT AND YOU KIND OF GO SOMEPLACE ELSE WHERE THOSE, THOSE TYPES OF RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE.

SO, UM, I GET ALL OF THAT.

UM, SO HOW WOULD, HOW DO YOU PLAN TO COMMUNICATE THOSE DIFFERENT DIVERSIONS? YOU KNOW, CAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE STILL GONNA KEEP THE PROJECT GOING, YOU KNOW, BUT HOW, HOW WILL THAT BE COMMUNICATED TO THE DIFFERENT COUNTIES? KYLE? I THINK I CAN PROBABLY TAKE THIS ONE IF POSSIBLE.

ACTUALLY PART OF THE, UM, PROCESS OF GETTING UNDER CONTRACT WAS A REQUIREMENT THAT WE THINK ABOUT THAT AND ACTUALLY DEVELOP A PLAN INTERNALLY ON HOW WE ARE GOING TO COMMUNICATE TALON, GETTING SOME FEEDBACK.

CAN YOU MUTE? I HAD A LITTLE BIT OF TROUBLE HEARING THE QUESTION.

ARE WE TALKING ABOUT COMMUNICATING TO THE BOARD OR COMMUNICATING TO THE PUBLIC? I SEE THE PUBLIC ACTUALLY TO THE PUBLIC.

GRANDFATHER USED TO SAY, UM, THAT I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE MY FOCUS AND THE WAY WE'VE PLANNED TO DO THAT, LIKE KYLE MENTIONED IS COMING BEFORE YOU A COUPLE OF TIMES A YEAR.

UM, SO WE HAVE A COMMUNICATIONS PLAN, UM, THAT, THAT WE HAVE PUT IN PLACE WITH NSV RC.

UM, WE'RE GOING TO BE, UH, PRESENTING TO THE BOARD LIKE THIS TWO TIMES A YEAR, UM, AND MORE UPON REQUEST IF NECESSARY.

UM, WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE HOLDING AS THE CONSTRUCTION MOVES ALONG AND, UH, MILES AND CONSTRUCTED IN WARREN COUNTY WE'LL HOLD PUBLIC EVENTS.

UM, AND THOSE WILL GENERATE A LOT OF, UH, INTEREST IN THE MEDIA AND WE SEE A BIG UPTICK EVERY TIME WE HAVE A PUBLIC EVENT.

UM, ALSO LIKE I SAID, WE'RE GOING TO BE, I THINK THE NUMBER ONE THING, FOLKS WILL SEE US IN THE FIELD, UM, WHEN WE'RE ARE CONSTRUCTING THE NETWORK FOLKS WILL KNOW, CAUSE THEY'LL SEE IT ON THE ELECTRIC POLES AND THEY'LL SEE A LOT OF, UH, ACTIVITY IN THE COUNTY.

AND THEN EVENTUALLY OUR SALES TEAM WILL MOVE IN AND BE VERY AGGRESSIVE IN OUR MARKETING AND SALES TO ENSURE THAT EVERY RESIDENT, WARREN COUNTY, WHETHER THEY WANT TO KNOW IT OR NOT WILL KNOW THAT ALL POINTS BROADBAND IS, IS BRINGING FIBER BROADBAND TO THE UNSERVED PORTIONS OF WARREN COUNTY.

SO THE CHALLENGE IS GOING TO BE PROBABLY NOT GETTING THE WORD OUT, BUT MANAGING EXPECTATIONS THE OTHER SIDE OF IT BECAUSE EVERYBODY NEEDS IT NOW.

AND WE WISH WE HAD IT YESTERDAY.

AND I'M SO THANKFUL FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT BACK IN DECEMBER, BUT REALLY, I MEAN, THAT WAS MORE ATTENTION THAN WE NEEDED BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH WORK TO BE DONE BEFORE WE CAN FLIP THE SWITCH AND HAVE THE LIGHTS TURNED ON THAT, UH, WE IMMEDIATELY SHIFTED FROM TRYING TO GET THIS GRANT TO MANAGING PEOPLE'S EXPECTATIONS.

SO THEY DON'T COME BECOME DISENFRANCHISED WITH THE WORK BECAUSE I MEAN IT'S $300 MILLION PROJECT WHERE YOU'RE BUILDING INTERNET ACROSS EIGHT COUNTY.

THAT'S HUGE.

I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S LARGER SCOPE THAN I CAN EVEN FATHOM WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO, TO ACCOMPLISH.

THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE A TEAM OF ENGINEERS DESIGNING IT.

SO THE COMMUNICATIONS PLAN, AT LEAST FROM MY PERSPECTIVE IS LESS ABOUT GOING DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLIC AS A SMALL GOVERNMENT.

WE'RE INHERENTLY PRETTY BAD AT THAT.

BUT WHAT I WANT TO DO IS I WANT TO MANAGE THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE COUNTIES AND THE REGIONAL COMMISSION AND LET YOU ALL HELP MANAGEMENT MANAGE THAT.

SO WHEN YOUR PHONE RINGS, YOU'RE EQUIPPED WITH THE RIGHT INFORMATION TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ON A FACTUAL BASIS.

SO THAT WE'RE ALL SINGING FROM THE SAME SHEET OF MUSIC AS MY

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IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT, IF YOU DON'T WANT US UP HERE, THAT'S FINE TOO, BUT WE'RE GOING TO PROVIDE MONTHLY REPORTS TO THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION BASED ON, UM, COUNTY LEVEL DATA THAT ALL POINTS GIVES US.

WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE SUBMITTING THOSE TO DHCD.

WE'RE GOING TO ADAPT THEM IN A WAY THAT HELPS, UH, HELPS THE COUNTIES UNDERSTAND WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT'S GOING ON.

UH, AND ALSO, UH, QUARTERLY.

WE'RE GOING TO PULL TOGETHER ALL OF THE KID LEADERSHIP TEAM FROM THE, ALL OF THE COUNTIES TOGETHER ON A CALL WITH ALL POINTS.

SO WE CAN GET TOGETHER ON A ZOOM CALL AND MAKE SURE WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE AND ASK THOSE HARD QUESTIONS AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR EXPECTATIONS ARE, UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGES THAT THEY'RE FACING AND THE SUCCESSES THAT THEY'VE HAD.

SO WE CAN BRAG ABOUT OUR SUCCESSES AND TRY TO OVERCOME THE, THE DIFFICULT POINTS OF DIFFICULTY.

SO THAT'S GOING TO BE MY FOCUS ON HOW WE BEST HANDLE THAT.

THEY'RE GOING TO DEAL WITH THE CUSTOMER THAT'S NOW OUTSIDE OF MY AREA OF EXPERTISE.

FOR SURE.

AND MY LAST QUESTION IS, UH, UH, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY ON YOUR SLIDE DECK THERE THAT, UM, YOU HAD 2000, WELL, 21,000, EXCUSE ME, 2100 PASSINGS, IS THAT FOR WARREN COUNTY OR IS THAT FOR THE WHOLE REGION THAT IS JUST FOR WARREN COUNTY AND IT MAY GROW IF MORE PEOPLE GET, YOU KNOW, UH, REACH OUT OR IS THAT ALREADY A CONCRETE NUMBER? OKAY.

SO WE HAVE BEEN AWARDED, UH, A CONCRETE NUMBER TO SERVE THESE PASSINGS.

WE KNOW THAT THERE WILL LIKELY BE MORE THAT COME OUT OF THE WOODWORK TO SAY, HEY, I'M NOT IN IT.

UM, AND WE WE'VE COMMUNICATED WITH DHD ABOUT THAT.

EVERY PROJECT IN THE STATE IS FACING THAT SAME ISSUE.

UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK TOO EARLY, BUT THERE'S ALWAYS A CHANCE THAT WE COULD PURSUE ANOTHER BODY GRANT TO, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR A FEW DOZEN OR A FEW HUNDRED PASSINGS THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT INTO THE FIRST BATCH.

I DON'T WANT TO PROMISE THAT BECAUSE THIS COULD BE THE TRUE UNSERVED NUMBER, BUT THEN WITH, WITHOUT ANY MORE.

BUT IF, IF YOU HEAR OF ANY FOLKS, TELL THEM TO GO TO FIBER DOT ALL POINTS, BROADBAND.COM, THEY CAN INPUT THEIR ADDRESS.

SEE IF IT'S ON SERVED WITHIN THIS 2100 PASSING LIST.

AND IF THEY ACTUALLY ARE UNSERVED AND ARE NOT IN THE PROJECT, THEY CAN TELL US THERE.

AND WE TAKE IN THAT DATA.

SO HOW WOULD THEY KNOW IF THEY'RE UNSERVED OR THE, THE WEBSITE THAT HE'S GIVING YOU WILL ALMOST BE LIKE A, CHOOSE YOUR OWN ENDING STORY AS YOU GO THROUGH IT.

IF YOU'RE PART OF THE PROJECT, IT'S GOING TO COME BACK AND SAY, CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'RE PART OF THE PROJECT, PUT YOUR INFORMATION HERE SO WE CAN CONTACT YOU AND GET YOU INTERNET.

IF YOU'RE NOT, IT'S GOING TO LEAD YOU THROUGH OTHER QUESTIONS THAT SAY, OKAY, WHY ARE YOU NOT PART OF THE PROJECT? HOW HAVE YOU TRIED TO GET ACCESS? DO YOU HAVE A CURRENT PROVIDER? IS IT JUST THAT YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR CURRENT PROVIDER? BECAUSE THE RULES OF THIS PROGRAM WOULDN'T LET US, UM, OVERBUILD OTHER AREAS.

AND I ALSO WANT TO BUILD CONFIDENCE THAT THERE'S NOT SOME GIANT BLOCK OF, UM, UNSERVED PASSING SOMEWHERE IN THIS PROJECT.

ALL POINTS DID EXTENSIVE FIELD WORK TO TRY TO IDENTIFY EVERY SINGLE LOCATION THAT'S UNSERVED BEYOND ANYTHING THAT I'VE SEEN IN NEVADA, THE APPLICATION ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH IN PREVIOUS YEARS, OR IN THIS GIANT ROUND, UH, TO TRY TO IDENTIFY EVERY SINGLE ADDRESS.

AND THEY WORKED WITH THE COUNTIES, PUSHING THINGS OUT ON FACEBOOK.

WE GOT A HUGE AMOUNT OF SURVEY RESULTS FROM PEOPLE.

THEY WENT OUT AND DROVE THE ROUTES TO IDENTIFY THE HARDWARE THAT'S ON THE POLLS TO SEE WHAT WAS SERVED AND WHAT WAS UNSERVED CREATED, GIS LAYERS OF INDIVIDUAL POINTS AND ADDRESSES AND UPLOADED THAT TO DHC SYSTEM TO TRY TO BOUNCE THOSE OFF OF THEM, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE COVERED EVERYBODY, UH, GOING ANY FURTHER TO IDENTIFY EVERY SINGLE ADDRESS THAT WAS ELIGIBLE FOR THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN IN FEASIBLE.

IT WOULD HAVE, IT WOULD HAVE INCREASED THE COST OF THE PROJECT TO THE POINT WHERE IT WOULD HAVE KILLED THE PROJECT OR PROBABLY WOULD HAVE DELAYED US BEYOND THE POINT OF BEING ABLE TO APPLY FOR IT.

SO I WANT TO BUILD A LITTLE CONFIDENCE THAT WHEN HE SAYS HE HIT A WHOLE BUNCH OF THOSE UNSERVED AREAS, I'M SAYING ALMOST ALL OF THEM, 47,000 PLUS IN AN EIGHT COUNTY REGION.

UM, THERE'S A LOT.

SO THERE, I'M SURE THERE ARE GOING TO BE FOLKS WHO CAN'T GET COMCAST OR SHENTEL OR WHOEVER.

UH, AND WEREN'T INCLUDED AS ONE OF THESE DOTS ON THAT MAP.

AND WE CAN SOLVE THAT AT A LATER POINT WHERE THERE ARE MULTIPLE MECHANISMS TO, TO TRY TO ACCOMPLISH THAT.

BUT ONE OF THOSE MECHANISMS IS HAVING A NEW PROVIDER IN THE AREA WHO'S ALREADY BUILT INFRASTRUCTURE PAST THAT HOUSE.

JUST BEING HONEST, YOU CAN STILL CALL THEM UP AND GET ACCESS, WHETHER YOU'RE PART OF THE PROGRAM OR NOT, YOU MIGHT NOT BE 1 99.

YOU MIGHT BE 4 99 BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO BUILD A THOUSAND FEET.

BUT THAT'S ME SAYING THAT NOT ALL POINTS.

YEAH, NO, I APPRECIATE THAT.

BRANDON.

I DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE IT SEEM LIKE THERE WAS A LOT OF UN-SERVED PASSINGS THAT WEREN'T CAPTURED.

WE HAVE, I JUST WANTED TO REINFORCE IT.

IN THE STATE, UM, OUT OF ALL THE PROVIDERS.

WE HAD PROBABLY THE HIGHEST ACCURACY AND FINDING UNSERVED

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SO WE FEEL VERY CONFIDENT IN THIS NUMBER.

AND AGAIN, THERE ARE MECHANISMS THROUGH DHCD TO WHERE IF THERE ARE ON CERTAIN PASSINGS THAT WERE SOMEHOW LEFT OUT OF THIS INITIAL DESIGN, THERE ARE WAYS TO CAPTURE THEM.

IS THERE ANY WAY THAT I COULD THAT LAW, I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK FOR ALL THE BOARD MEMBERS HERE, BUT I'M GOING TO SPEAK FOR MY DISTRICT.

IS THERE ANY WAY THAT I CAN GET A REPORT TO KNOW HOW MANY HOUSEHOLDS IN MY DISTRICT IS CONSIDERED, HAVE SERVED DAILY? JUST TO REMIND THE BOARD A YEAR AGO, WHEN WE WERE WORKING ON THIS, EACH BOARD MEMBER HAD A SECTION OF THE COUNTY DISTRICT THAT SHOWED THE, WHAT WE HAVE AS UNSERVED AREAS.

AND YOU TOOK THOSE OUT TO YOUR AREAS, UH, PARTICULARLY WHERE THERE WERE LOTS OF SPOTS.

WE HAD THEM IN MRS. UH, COOK'S AREA.

WE HAD ALL THE QUESTIONS THERE THAT WHERE SHENTEL PROVIDES SERVICE.

AND, UH, WE WERE LOOKING WHETHER THAT WAS GOING TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS AND BECAUSE OF THE SERVICE EXISTING, THEY WERE NOT.

BUT WE, YOU EACH HAD THAT MAP THAT YOU WENT OUT AND CONTACTED PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO SEE, WELL, WHAT WAS THE SERVICE LEVEL IN THE AREA CALO, AND THEN THAT HOLLOW AND ON THIS MOUNTAIN, ET CETERA, SO THAT YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT'S OUT THERE.

AND YOU CAN, WE CAN GIVE YOU THE BIG MAP AGAIN, IF YOU'D LIKE, YOU'RE WELCOME TO IT.

SO WHEN WE HAVE IN HERE THAT YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING AT FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW, THE ONE OTHER POINT I WANTED TO MAKE WAS WE UNDERSTOOD THAT IF SOMEBODY WAS ADDED ON AFTER THE INITIAL GRANT, THAT THEY WOULD HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY, I BELIEVE IT WAS GOING TO BE LIKE SIX MONTHS THAT THEY COULD APPLY AND THEN GET A DISCOUNTED RATE TO HAVE THE FIBER RUN TO THEIR CONNECTION.

AND THEN THEY THEN AFTER A CERTAIN TIME PERIOD, THAT DISCOUNT WOULD GO AWAY.

BUT IF WE DID MISS SOMEBODY THAT THERE WOULD BE A TIME PERIOD THAT THEY COULD CONNECT.

BUT IF I AM SORRY, PLEASE, BUT IF WE HAVE, IF WE KNOW 2100, YES, WE KNOW THE NUMBER.

SO I, I DON'T, YOU KNOW, I DON'T SEE HOW IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT THAT SOMEONE CAN SAY, FORT DISTRICT, YOU GET 10, 10, THERE'S, 10 UNSERVED HOUSEHOLDS.

YOU CAN SEE THE MAP THAT SHOWS YOU THE LITTLE DOTS ON THEIR, ON THEIR WEBSITES.

YOU CAN SEE THE LITTLE DOTS THAT ARE IN FORK DISTRICT TO SHOW YOU WHERE WHO'S POTENTIALLY GOING TO BE CONNECTED.

OH, I, YOU KNOW, I'VE SEEN THE LITTLE DOTS THAT MY EYESIGHT IS NOT ALL THAT GREAT FOR ME TO COUNT EVERY DOT ON THAT PAGE.

I'M JUST A, HERE WE, HERE WE ARE IN TECHNOLOGY.

YOU GUYS ALREADY KNOW WHAT YOU'RE OFF DOING.

AND I DON'T KNOW.

IT JUST WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I CAN JUST TO GET A NUMBER, YOU KNOW, TO, YOU KNOW, UM, TO FIND OUT HOW MANY HOUSE UNSERVED HOUSEHOLDS IN FORK DISTRICT IS GOING TO BE PART OF THIS IMPLEMENTATION.

BUT IF IT, IF IT'S NOT DOABLE, THEN I UNDERSTAND, BUT IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL FOR ME.

WE'LL GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE REPORT THAT WAS DONE AND SEE HOW YOU CAN DIVIDE IT BY HOW THE 2100 DIVIDES OUT.

UH, MOST OF THEM ARE IN THE SOUTH.

THEY BEING THE STATE STRUCTURED THE PROGRAM, THEY DEFINED UNSERVED AS IF YOU DON'T HAVE WIRELINE SERVICE MEETING, CERTAIN THRESHOLDS OF UP AND DOWN.

BUT, UH, VERY, VERY FEW IN THIS DISTRICT, VERY FEW IN MY DISTRICT, SOME IN HAPPY CREEK IN SHENANDOAH AND SOME IN FOUR, BUT THE BULK ARE DOWN THERE NOW.

AND, BUT WE'LL GET THAT, GET THAT MAP BACK OUT THREE THAT'S IN THE REPORT, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THERE'S A DIFFICULT TO COME UP WITH A NUMBER.

SO I, I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION.

I'VE I THINK I'VE GOT THE ANSWER, BUT I JUST WANTED TO, TO, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, VERIFY THIS, THE, UH, I KNOW THAT YOU, YOU SEE ON TV ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, THESE, UH, OF, UH, COMPANIES THAT PROVIDE THE, THE, YOU KNOW, SATELLITE OF A CONNECTION TO THE INTERNET.

SO THE, SO THE, THE, UH, HARD, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, UM, OH, UH, YOU, YOU KNOW, THE, THE HARD CONNECTION HERE, WHAT DOES THAT AFFORD YOU? OKAY.

SO AS IN DEVELOPING THIS PROJECT, THIS WAS A REAL MEANINGFUL QUESTION.

WHAT, HOW DO YOU DEFINE WHAT IS UNSERVED? AND, UM, RATHER THAN GET INTO WHAT'S UNDERSERVED VERSUS UNSERVED, THE WAY THEY STRUCTURED,

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AND ESSENTIALLY THE ONLY WAY YOU COULD ACCESS THAT WAS IF YOU HAD FIBER TO THE HOME.

SO EVERY OTHER PRODUCT THAT'S BELOW FIBER, UH, IS CONSIDERED UNSERVED FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PROJECT.

UH, WHETHER THAT'S STARLINK, WHETHER THAT'S A CELL TOWER HOTSPOT, WHETHER THAT'S THE, LIKE YOU SAY, THE SATELLITE WITH THAT HAS A LOT OF LATENCY.

SO IF I SAY SOMETHING, IT DOESN'T GET TO THE PERSON TO HEAR IT FOR A PERIOD OF TIME.

WHEREAS THIS TAKES THAT AWAY.

THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT IF WE'RE STREAMING NETFLIX, BUT IF YOU'RE MAKING A STOCK TRADE, IT IS FOR EXAMPLE, BECAUSE THE PRICE OF THE STOCK COULD CHANGE BETWEEN THE TIME YOU PUSH THE BUTTON AND THE INFORMATION GETS THERE.

THIS IS THE BEST THAT YOU CAN BUILD.

IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, WHEN THE SURVEY YOU TOOK THE SURVEY, AND IT WAS AN ONLINE SURVEY THAT KIND OF WALKED YOU THROUGH STEP BY STEP AND, UM, WAS ABLE TO, IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I DID IT.

UM, AND I THINK IT COULD KIND OF TELL YOU, OR YOU COULD, I'VE GOT CENTURY LINK.

SO I CALLED CENTURY LINK AND SAID, WHAT'S MY SPEED.

WHICH I'VE WAS SURPRISED.

IT WAS LIKE, UH, SIX UP, I THINK, WHICH, UM, MADE ME CONSIDERED UNSERVED.

BUT I, IT, THERE WAS, THERE WERE A LITTLE BOXES AND IT WAS REAL EASY TO GO THROUGH.

AND IT AUTOMATICALLY PUTS YOU THROUGH TO ALL POINTS THAT MY ADDRESS WAS CONSIDERED UNSERVED.

SO IT WAS A REAL EASY PROCESS.

UM, AND LIKE I SAID, ON MY END TO MAKE SURE I KNOW DR.

DALEY AND I WENT ON, UM, MIKE MCCOOL'S AND DID A LITTLE VIDEO TO GET THE INFORMATION OUT.

AND I JUST WENT KNOCKING DOORS, HANDING OUT A PAPER.

THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.

HERE'S THE INFORMATION I PUT MY CARD ON IT IN CASE.

AND SINCE THEN, I'VE BEEN GETTING A LOT OF CALLS AND EMAILS OF, OF COURSE, WHEN'S THIS GOING TO HAPPEN? WHAT'S THIS GOING TO HAPPEN SINCE DECEMBER? THAT'S WHY I ASKED YOU TO COME IN BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S, UM, YOU KNOW, BITING AT THE BIT TO GET THIS DONE.

SO I REALLY DO APPRECIATE, THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT WALKTHROUGH THIS MORNING ON THE TIMELINE.

AND, UM, AGAIN, WHAT SERVICE AND THE COST OF IT IS GOING TO BE FOR PEOPLE.

AND HOPEFULLY THOSE THAT FOR WHATEVER REASON, MAYBE HAVE MOVED IN SINCE DIDN'T GET ON, IT, THERE'LL BE AN OPPORTUNITY THERE FOR THEM.

BUT, UM, CERTAINLY FOR 2,110, WHATEVER IT WAS, WE'RE ALL ANXIOUS FOR IT.

THAT'S FOR SURE.

THAT'S RIGHT.

AGREED.

WELL, MY LAST STATEMENT, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WATCHING THIS DEPLOYMENT AND THE NEXT 36 MONTHS.

AS A REMINDER TO THE BOARD, UM, WE ARE FUNDING THROUGH THE REGION, THIS IN ADVANCE.

SO MR. ROBERTSON HAS A REQUEST ABOUT 1.6, 1.7, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

1.2, OKAY.

I'M HIGH 1.2 MILLION TO BE PAID TO THE COMMISSION.

AND THE COMMISSION WILL PUT THAT IN THE FUND SO THAT WHEN ALL POINTS DOES THEIR FIRST BILLING, THEY HAVE MONEY TO DO IT.

AND OF COURSE THE COMMONWEALTH ALLOWS US TO FINANCE THEM AND THEN WE APPLY FOR REIMBURSEMENT.

SO YOU'LL SEE THAT IN YOUR NEXT, UH, PAYMENTS, YOU'LL SEE A 1.2 TO THE COMMISSION TO GET THIS FUND CREATED.

AND THAT'S COMING OUT OF THE AMERICAN RESCUE MONEY THAT WE GOT, CORRECT? YES.

MATT IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT THIS AFTERNOON, BUT AFTER A WHILE, JUST TO BUILD A LITTLE CONFIDENCE THERE TOO, WE HAD A, WE'VE HIRED AN ADDITIONAL STAFF MEMBER FOR FINANCE PHASE BASED LARGELY ON THIS PROJECT, UNDER DEVELOPMENT.

AND WE HIRED HER EARLY ENOUGH WHERE WE COULD GET HER INTO OUR BOOKS AND UNDERSTAND OUR SYSTEMS BEFORE THE MONEY STARTED HITTING THE ACCOUNTS.

SO WE WEREN'T TRAINING WHEN THE HOSE WAS TURNED ON.

SO SHE'S TRAINED AND READY TO GO.

AND ALSO HAVE A FINANCE DIRECTOR OF 16 PLUS YEARS WITH 16 PLUS YEARS OF CLEAN AUDITS, UH, WHO, WHO TAKES HER JOB VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY.

UH, SO I HAVE FULL CONFIDENCE IN OUR ABILITY TO MANAGE THIS.

WE HAVE EXPERIENCE MANAGING PROJECTS, JUST LIKE THIS WITH MULTIPLE COUNTIES, MATT STRUCTURED, ALMOST THE EXACT SAME WAY, SAME STATE AGENCIES INVOLVED, UH, JUST A COUPLE MORE ZEROS, COUPLE FEET.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR, WELL, WE CERTAINLY DO APPRECIATE THE UPDATE FROM BOTH OF YOU.

LET'S SEE IF I CAN GET THOSE NUMBERS.

LORD PERFECTS OIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT.

MOVING ON REPORT FROM THE

[E. Report from the Lord Fairfax Soil and Water Conservation District – Richard Hoover]

MR. HOOVER,

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SORRY.

YOU HAD TO WAIT SO LONG, BUT YOU'RE IN THAT UNDERSERVED AREA.

SO YOU PROBABLY WERE INTERESTED TOO.

GOOD MORNING.

I'M DICK HOOVER, WARREN COUNTY DIRECTOR, AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE LORD, FAIRFAX SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT.

I WANT YOU TO KNOW HOW DEEPLY THANKFUL WE ARE FOR THE ENHANCED SUPPORT RECEIVED FROM WARREN COUNTY IN FISCAL YEAR 2023, AS A KEY PLAYER IN THE EFFORT TO CLEAN UP THE CHESAPEAKE BAY BEFORE THE DECEMBER, 2025 DEADLINE, LORD FAIRFAX FINDS HIMSELF CHALLENGED AS NEVER BEFORE THE MIGHTY SHENANDOAH UPON WHICH MUCH OF BAY HEALTH DEPENDS RUNS RIGHT THROUGH OUR JURISDICTION.

FURTHERMORE, IT'S ESTIMATED THAT 80% OF THE IMPROVEMENTS REQUIRED TO MEET THE 2025 DEADLINE MUST COME FROM, STEPPED UP AGRICULTURAL BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES PRACTICES, WHICH OUR DISTRICT IS TASKED TO PROMOTE AND TO ADMINISTER ONE STATE IS UNDER FIRE FOR A QUOTE GENERATING THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF WATER FALLING NUTRIENTS SENT TO THE BAY AND FOR BEING THE FURTHEST BEHIND IN MEETING CLEANUP GOALS ON QUOTE, AND THERE'S A LAWSUIT BROUGHT BY DELAWARE, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CALLING UPON THE EPA TO USE ITS ENFORCEMENT POWERS, TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL JURISDICTIONS ARE IN LINE TO MEET THE DEADLINE IN NIGHT AND 2025.

SADLY, THE PRESENT STATE OF THE BAY'S RECOVERY IS GRADED ANYWHERE FROM A D TO A MIDDLING C WITH LESS THAN THREE AND A HALF YEARS TO GO BEFORE THE CLEANUP DEADLINE, ALL EYES ARE NOW FOCUSED ON LORD TO HELP TAKE UP THE SLACK AND RESTORE A SUCCESSFUL CLEANUP MOMENTUM WITNESSED.

FOR EXAMPLE, THE DRAMATIC NEAR DOUBLING OF THE DISTRICT'S COST SHARE BUDGET FROM 4.45 MILLION IN FISCAL YEAR 22 TO NEARLY 8.4 MILLION FOR FISCAL YEAR 23 ACCORDINGLY, WE HAVE JUST EXPANDED OUR STAFF FROM FIVE TO SEVEN CONSERVATION SPECIALISTS.

THEY STARTED THIS PAST THURSDAY ON SEPTEMBER 1ST.

THESE COST SHARE PROGRAMS, WHICH WE PROMOTE AND ADMINISTER INCLUDE LIVESTOCK EXCLUSION FROM STREAMS AND THE INSTALLATION OF SUBSTITUTE WATERING STATIONS.

THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEWER MANAGEMENT FACILITIES, THE INITIATION OF NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT AND COVER CROP PROGRAMS AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS TO DEAL WITH STORM WATER RUNOFF IN URBAN AREAS.

FORTUNATELY, ALL FIVE OF OUR JURISDICTIONS, WINCHESTER PLUS CARR CLARK, FREDERICK SHENANDOAH, AND WARREN COUNTIES ARE ALIVE TO THE BAY CHALLENGES FACING LORD FAIRFAX AND STAND WITH US AND ALL ARE FULLY AWARE.

AND THIS IS IMPORTANT THAT DISTRICT COST SHARE PROGRAMS, WHICH CLEAN UP THE BAY ALSO BENEFIT THE LIVES OF DISTRICT CITIZENS BY AMELIORATING THE POLLUTION OF LOCAL WATERS.

I BELIEVE THAT, UH, ANN SWANSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY COMMISSION COMES PRETTY CLOSE TO THE REALITY OF WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT WE ARE FACING.

SHE SAID BOLDLY RIGHT NOW, IT IS VERY CLEAR THAT WE WILL NOT REACH OUR 2025 DEADLINE.

WE WILL HOLD OUR HEADS VERY, VERY HIGH AND WE WILL GET AS CLOSE AS WE CAN.

AND WE REMAINED WITH OUR FOOT ON THAT PEDAL.

MY POINT IS THAT LORD FAIRFAX IS KEEPING HIS FOOT ON THAT PEDAL.

IT'S MY GREAT PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE OUR SUPERVISORY CONSERVATION SPECIALIST, DANA GOEKEN OUR, WHO WILL BRIEF YOU ON WHAT LORD FAIRFAX

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HAS DONE FOR WARREN COUNTY AND ON WHAT IS IN-STORE DANA, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS YOU THIS MORNING.

UM, AS MR. HOOVER SAID, UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK GOING ON IN FISCAL YEAR 2022 HERE IN WARREN COUNTY.

THE DISTRICT COMPLETED STREAM FENCING PROJECTS THAT PROTECTED OVER 22,000 LINEAR FEET OF STREAM BANK AND CREATED 29 ACRES OF, UM, BUFFER AREA ON THOSE STREAMS. WE ALSO, UM, HELPED PRODUCERS WITH 50 OVER 50 ACRES OF COVER CROPS, AND THAT TOTALED OVER $364,000 WORTH OF COST SHARE.

WE'RE STILL WORKING ON ANOTHER $438,000 WORTH OF STREAM EXCLUSION THAT ONCE COMPLETED WILL PROTECT ANOTHER 11,300 LINEAR FEET AND CREATE ANOTHER 15 AND A HALF ACRES OF BUFFER HERE IN WARREN COUNTY.

UH, AS MR. HOOVER SAID, WE HAVE AN UNPRECEDENTED LEVEL OF COST SHARE THIS YEAR WITH OVER EIGHT POINT ALMOST $8.4 MILLION.

UM, WE'RE READY TO MEET THAT CHALLENGE AND DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO GENERATE SIGN UP ACROSS OUR DISTRICT.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WILL HELP US HELP PRODUCERS INSTALL CONSERVATION PRACTICES IS THAT PREVIOUSLY THE COST SHARE CAP PER PARTICIPANT WAS $150,000.

THERE WERE CERTAIN TYPES OF PRACTICES LIKE, UM, WINTER FEEDING FACILITIES, MANURE, STORAGE BUILDINGS, THINGS LIKE THAT.

THAT TEND TO BE VERY EXPENSIVE THAT WE, AS THE DISTRICT, IF WE FELT IT WAS A WORTHWHILE PROJECT, COULD REQUEST PERMISSION FROM THE STATE TO GO ABOVE THAT CAP.

BUT ONLY CERTAIN TYPES OF PROJECTS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THAT THIS FISCAL YEAR IN ORDER TO HELP US GENERATE MORE, SIGN UP AND GET MORE COST SHARE ON THE GROUND.

THE COST SHARE CAP WAS RAISED TO $300,000 PER PARTICIPANT.

GRANTED MATERIALS COSTS HAVE INCREASED.

UM, SO PROJECTS THAT USED TO COST $150,000 MIGHT COST 200 AND SOMETHING THOUSAND DOLLARS NOW, BUT THAT INCREASED CAP IS GOING TO HELP US, UM, CREATE MORE SIGNUP.

SO WE'VE BEEN FOCUSED ON SPREADING THE WORD AND GETTING AS MANY PEOPLE IN OUR DOOR AND GETTING STARTED IN THE PLANNING PROCESS.

SOME OF THESE PROJECTS CAN TAKE SEVERAL YEARS TO COMPLETE, BUT WE'RE ATTENDING, UM, LIKE LOCAL FARM BUREAU MEETINGS AND WORKING WITH OUR COUNTIES TO PROVIDE FLYERS ABOUT THE COST SHARE PROGRAM IN THEIR LAND USE MAILINGS.

THAT'S A VERY GREAT WAY FOR US TO TARGET OUR EXACT AUDIENCE, UM, OF AGRICULTURAL LANDOWNERS.

WARREN COUNTY HAS COOPERATED WITH US LAST YEAR TO DO THAT.

AND WE'RE HOPING TO DO THAT AGAIN THIS YEAR.

UM, PRESS RELEASES, PARTNERING WITH OTHER AGENCIES LIKE FRIENDS OF THE NORTH FORK, FRIENDS OF THE SHENANDOAH, UM, THE DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY VALLEY CONSERVATION COUNCIL, ALL OF THOSE, UM, ORGANIZATIONS ARE READY AND WILLING TO AND HAVE BEEN PROVIDED KIND OF THAT SAME INFORMATIONAL PACKET ABOUT THE TYPES OF CONSERVATION PRACTICES THAT WE OFFER SO THAT WHEN THEY'RE OUT SPEAKING TO LANDOWNERS, THEY CAN ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO CONTACT US.

UM, SOME OTHER HIGHLIGHTS ABOUT OUR PROGRAMS, OUR EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS HERE IN WARREN COUNTY REMAIN VERY STRONG.

WE HAVE A GREAT WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL.

OUR STAFF IS INVITED INTO THEIR SCIENCE CLASSROOMS SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR, AND WORKING WITH STUDENTS, LEARNING ABOUT MACRO INVERTEBRATES AND SOILS AND ALL MANNER OF, UM, DIFFERENT CONSERVATION TOPICS.

THIS PAST APRIL, WE HOSTED A FIVE TEAM LOCAL COMPETITION.

THAT IS, UM, A CONTEST WHERE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE JUDGED ON THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF SOILS, WILDLIFE AQUATICS, FORESTRY, AND A SPECIAL TOPIC, WHICH THIS PAST YEAR, UM, INVOLVED RECYCLING EFFORTS IN AN URBAN SETTING.

UH, ONE OF THE TEAMS THIS PAST YEAR WAS FROM MOUNTAIN VISTA GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL AND INCLUDED WARREN COUNTY STUDENTS.

WE WERE THE ONLY DISTRICT IN OUR AREA AND ONE OF ONLY TWO OR THREE ACROSS THE WHOLE STATE THIS PAST YEAR TO HOST A LOCAL COMPETITION.

WE'VE BEEN VERY PROUD OF THE PARTICIPATION THAT WE'VE GOTTEN FROM SCHOOLS.

AND EVERY YEAR WE, UM, YOU KNOW, KEEP ENCOURAGING AND WORKING WITH TEACHERS TO HELP THEM FIELD TEAMS. THEY'VE BEEN VERY COMPETITIVE AT BOTH THE AREA AND STATE COMPETITION BEYOND OUR LOCAL CONTEST.

WE ALSO WORK CLOSELY WITH THE SMITHSONIAN MASON SCHOOL OF CONSERVATION EVERY YEAR.

WE, UM, HOST ONE TO TWO STUDENTS TO, UM, COMPLETE PRACTICUM PROJECTS THAT THE STUDENTS COORDINATE WITH OUR EDUCATION AND PROGRAM SUPPORT SPECIALIST.

BASICALLY WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE, ALONG WITH MANY OTHER LOCAL AGENCIES PROPOSE PROJECTS THAT WE WOULD LIKE HELP WITH AND THEN THE STUDENTS CHOOSE WHAT THEY WANT TO WORK ON.

AND SO WE'VE

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BEEN VERY FORTUNATE TO GET ONE OR TWO STUDENTS EVERY YEAR.

AND THIS YEAR, UM, JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO, WE PRESENTED AN IDEA TO HAVE, UM, A COUPLE OF STUDENTS HELP US GET SIGN UP FOR PROJECTS WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE EITHER INSTALLED VOLUNTARY PRACTICES OR HAVE OLD PRACTICES THAT HAVE FALLEN OUT OF CONTRACT LIFESPAN, BUT THEY CAN SIGN UP AND GET A LITTLE MONEY TO HELP WITH MAINTENANCE OF THOSE PROJECTS.

AND THEN WE CAN CONTINUE TO GET CREDIT FOR THOSE THINGS THAT ARE STILL INSTALLED.

UM, WE ALSO HAVE COMING UP IN NOVEMBER, WE'LL BE HAVING OUR ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET.

WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE THAT IN PERSON THIS YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME, SINCE 2019.

AND, UM, WE JUST CREATED OUR SLATE OF NOMINEES AND THEY'LL GO BEFORE THE BOARD.

SO I WON'T GIVE ANY SPOILERS, BUT THERE ARE SEVERAL NOMINEES FROM WARREN COUNTY.

SO WE'LL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO RECOGNIZING THOSE FOLKS.

AND I'LL BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVE ANY, ANY QUESTIONS.

AND SO WHERE CAN I FIND INFORMATION ON THE AWARDS BANQUET? IS THAT ON YOUR WEBSITE? OR IT WILL BE ON OUR WEBSITE AND, UM, WE ALWAYS INVITE MEMBERS OF OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO ATTEND.

SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE INVITATION.

YES MA'AM.

WELL, THANK YOUR PROGRAMS ARE, ARE WONDERFUL PROGRAMS. I KNOW, UM, OUR FAMILY HAS PARTICIPATED IN THEM IN THE PAST AND WE WERE VERY PROUD TO BE THE 2010 FARMER OF THE YEAR CONSERVATION FARMER OF THE YEAR.

SO, UM, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF PROJECTS.

YES, MA'AM UM, I HOPE MORE PEOPLE TO AVAIL THEMSELVES OF THEM BECAUSE FARMING IS NOT CHEAP AND ALL THE HELP.

IT DEFINITELY IS.

SO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE EFFORTS YOU'RE DOING.

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, MR. CARTER, AND MR. SMITH MORNING, MEN, CHAIRMAN AND BOARD MEMBERS.

REPORT FROM THE VIRGINIA

[F. Report from the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) – Ed Carter]

I'M, I'M, UH, MINE'S GONNA BE KIND OF DULL COMPARED TO ALL THAT, UH, OKAY.

ON OUR MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES FOR THE PAST MONTH.

AND DURING THIS MONTH, UH, WE REPLACED A THREE PIPES ON PALMER ROAD, PALMER PALMER, ROY ROAD.

WE'VE COMPLETED 50% OF OUR SECONDARY MOWING.

WE SHOULD COMPLETE THE REST OF THAT THIS MONTH.

AND WE HAVE BEGUN A MOWING ON OUR PRIMARY ROUTES FOR THE SECOND TIME WE'VE GRADED AND APPLIED STONES ON OUR STABILIZED ROADS.

UH, OF COURSE THAT'S AN ONGOING PROCESS.

UH, EVERY MONTH WE HAVE, UH, CLEANED UP SOME TREE AND BRUSH DEBRIS ON VARIOUS ROUTES.

WE'RE GOING TO BE PRETTY CONSERVATIVE EFFORT ON, UH, DAYLIGHTING SIGNS, UH, THIS MONTH AND NEXT MONTH, BE SURE THAT THAT AS YOU KNOW, THIS HAS BEEN SORT OF A FAVORABLE GROWING SEASON.

SO WE'VE GOT A LOT OF EXTRA GRASS AND, AND STUFF OUT THERE THAT WE'RE WANTING TO WORK WITH.

UH, WE COMPLETED THE RURAL RUSTIC PROJECT ON ROCKY HOLLER ROAD, AND WE WILL BE COMPLETING THE BOX CALL REPLACEMENT ON SEVEN TWENTY FIVE BOWMAN HOLLER ROAD.

AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL NOT GET WASHED OUT ANYMORE.

CAN'T SAY IT WON'T OVERTOP, BUT AT LEAST IT'LL STILL BE THERE.

WHEN THE WATER GOES DOWN, WE'LL BE DOING SKIN PATCHING AND ASPHALT PATCHING ON VARIOUS ROUTES.

AND WE WILL BE DOING SOME DITCHING OPERATIONS ON THREE 40, AND WE WERE PAIRING, UH, SHOULDERS ON VARIOUS OTHER ROUTES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY THIS MONTH.

AND WE'LL ALSO BE DOING DRY RUNS FOR OUR SNOW SEASON WHERE WE WILL GET ALL OF OUR EQUIPMENT OUT AND, AND BEING SURE IT'S IN WORKING ORDER.

UH, WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF, UH, ADDING THOSE, UH, ROADS TO THE SECONDARY SIX YEAR PLAN AND THE LATEST TWO YEARS THAT YOU SENT THE LIST ON AND THE ORDER IN WHICH YOU HAVE THEM.

AND THEN, UH, ONE OF THE CONCERNS THAT HAS COME UP A NUMBER OF TIMES IS THE CON NOTICE THE CONCRETE MEDIAN THERE AT THREE 40 AND 5 22 AND YOUR CLUB ROAD, WE'RE GOING TO BE PLACING, UH, TRYING SOMETHING THAT WE'VE SEEN IN OTHER AREAS WHERE ORDERED, AND IT WILL BE REPLACING REFLECTORS AROUND THAT NOSE AS OPPOSED TO PAINT.

HOPE TO HAVE THOSE INSTALLED WITHIN THE NEXT 60 DAYS.

AND SEE IF THAT DRAWS MORE ATTENTION, WE DON'T REALLY PAINT THE NOSES BECAUSE THERE'S TOO MANY NOSES OUT THERE BY THAT.

I MEAN THE, THE ROUND PARTS AND WE CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THEM.

SO WE'RE GOING TO PUT REFLECTORS ON THIS ONE AND SEE HOW THAT WORKS,

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SO WHEN YOU SAY REFLECTORS, IS THAT SOMETHING LIKE TAPED AROUND THE SIDE? YEAH.

AND WILL IT GO RIGHT AROUND THE EDGE? AND THEY ACTUALLY, UH, ADHESIVE ON THERE AND THEN THEY REFLECT AT NIGHTTIME ACTUALLY BETTER THAN THE PAINT.

THERE'LL BE AMBER REFLECTORS.

AND IT SHOULD BE VISIBLE DURING THE DAY.

MY GUESS IS THEY'RE GOING TO GET RUN OVER, BUT WE GOT SHOT.

WELL, I, WHEN YOU FIRST SAID REFLECTORS, I THINK I WAS THINKING LIKE YOU HAVE DITCHES AND STUFF.

AND I THOUGHT, BOY, THE MOWER'S GOING TO GET THAT THING.

BUT TAPED ALONG THE EDGE OUT PRETTY STRAIGHT.

YOU'RE DOING THAT BY THE WAY.

AND THEN, UH, ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR CONCERNS IS WE HAVE GOTTEN ONE HALF OF A HOUSE VALE ROAD COMPLETED ON THE PAVING OUT.

THEY SHOULD BE PUTTING THE OTHER HALF DOWN THIS MONTH AND THEN WE CAN FINISH CENTER, LINING THEM A PORTION OUT THROUGH THERE.

UM, WE HAVE COMPLETED OUR PIPE INVENTORY.

ONE OF THE, ONE OF OUR THINGS THAT, UH, THAT THE STATEWIDE FROM A STATEWIDE PERSPECTIVE IS THAT WE HAVE A SET OF METRICS THAT THEY WAS ESTABLISHED FOR MAINTENANCE PURPOSES.

AND THOSE METRICS INCLUDE HOW MANY MILES OF UNPAVED ROAD THAT WE, WE GRADE EVERY YEAR, HOW MANY SHOULDERS THAT WE GRADE, HOW MANY, MUCH DITCHING THAT WE DO, HOW MANY PIPES IT REPLACED, ONE OF THE PROBLEMS IS THAT WE, UH, DON'T, UH, IT'S PRETTY EASY TO GET MILES OF ROAD, NOT SO EASY TO REMEMBER.

AND NOWHERE, ALL THE PIPES THAT WE HAVE BEEN PLACED OVER THE YEARS.

SO WE, WE HIRED, UH, COLLEGE STUDENTS FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS AND WE HAVE COMPLETED 90% INVENTORY.

NOW, PHYSICAL INVENTORY OF THE PIPES IT'S BEEN ENTERED INTO, UH, UH, A GEOMETRIC OPPING, A GEOGRAPHIC SYSTEM, UH, THAT IS COMPLETE IN WARREN COUNTY FOR THE SECONDARIES NOW, OKAY.

THE, UH, THEY WILL BE DOING PRIMARIES WITHIN THE NEXT 60 DAYS IN OUR ENTIRE AREA.

AND SO WE CAN GET A TOTAL NUMBER OF PIPES THAT WE HAVE FOR EVERYTHING WE HAVE IN THE RESIDENCY.

UH, THERE IS A STAR STUDY THAT IS BEING PROPOSED FOR ROUTE THREE 40 AND 5 22 BETWEEN COUNTRY CLUB ROAD AND GUARD HILL ROAD.

UH, STARS IS A STRATEGICALLY TARGETED AFFORDABLE ROADWAY SOLUTIONS.

SIMPLY IT IS A CONSULTANT GROUP THAT COMES OUT AND SAYS, WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE THIS PIECE OF ROADWAY SAFER? AND IT'S PRIORITIZED BY THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS THAT WE HAVE RECORDED.

AND THAT IS A HIGH NUMBER BETWEEN COUNTRY CLUB, ROUTE AND GUARD HILL ROAD.

ALSO THE TRAFFIC COUNTS BETWEEN 66 AND GUARD HILL ROAD IS 32,000 A DAY.

UH, THAT IS THE HIGHEST, UH, TRAVELED PRIMARY ROAD WE HAVE IN THE ENTIRE STATE AND DISTRICT THAT MANY CARS ON IT.

SO, UH, THAT YOU WILL SEE PEOPLE OUT THERE SITTING AROUND AND THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE COMING BACK WITH SUGGESTIONS OF THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE THAT PIECE OF ROAD SAFER.

MR. CARTER, YOU SAID IT WAS A HIGHEST IN THE, IN THE WHAT DISTRICT AND THE STANTON DISTRICT IN 11 COUNTIES IN THE STANTON DISTRICT, THAT PIECE OF PRIMARY ROAD NOW NOT INTERSTATE PRIMARY ROAD.

HAS THE HIGHEST AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC COUNT ON IT OF ANY OF OUR PRIMARIES IN THE STAND.

SO WHY DON'T WE STOP? SO WHILE I CAN TELL YOU, MR. CARTER, COUPLE OF THINGS I WAS GOING TO TELL YOU IS THERE'S BEEN AN INCREASE IN THE TRAFFIC THERE.

UM, FOR TWO WEEKENDS OR IN A ROW.

I HAVE SEEN THE BACKUP OF PEOPLE TRYING TO TURN LEFT, COMING OFF 66 ON TO 5 22 TO GO, UM, SOUTH BACKED UP FOR, I MEAN LIKE CRAZY BACKUPS.

THIS IS GOING ON FOR AT LEAST TWO WEEKS IN A ROW.

AND THEN AGAIN, THE TRAFFIC GOING ON TO RELIANCE ROAD FROM 5 22, AGAIN, HAS STARTED TO BACK UP INTO 5 22, UH, REGULARLY.

AND IT'S CRAZY BECAUSE CARS WILL DART OUT OF THE, THE 5 22 LANE TRYING TO GET OVER TO GET AROUND.

OH MY GOODNESS.

IT, YEAH, I WAS GONNA CALL YOU UP, BUT I SAW YOU WERE COMING THIS MORNING, SO I FIGURED I'D GIVE IT ALL TO YOU TODAY.

IT'S IT'S NOT A PIECE OF ROAD YOU WANT TO BE ON BETWEEN FOUR AND SIX.

UH, IT'S GOING TO TAKE PROBABLY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT 60 DAYS TO GET RESULTS OF THE STUDY AND MORE YEAH.

IT'S TERRIBLE.

WELL,

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SO YEAH, IT'LL BE DONE, I THINK OVER THE NEXT YEAR.

AND THE IDEA IS TO COME UP WITH RECOMMENDATIONS, THAT SMART SCALE PROJECTS, EITHER SMART SCALE PROJECT OR WHAT AVAILABLE FUNDING WE HAVE, THERE MIGHT BE SOME THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, LIKE ADDITIONAL MARKINGS OR SIGNINGS, OR MAYBE SOMETHING SMALL ENOUGH THAT WE CAN USE SOME SAFETY MONIES FOR.

UH, BUT IT'LL TAKE A WHILE FOR THEM TO PUT IT TOGETHER.

I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THAT IT'S GOING AWAY.

WHEN, WHEN IS THE PROJECT COMMENCING FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE TURN LANE? UH, TWO ON TO RELIANCE.

I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT THE DATE WAS ON THAT.

DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER THAT THERE WAS A SMART SCALE? OH, IT'S OKAY.

I THINK IT'S HOW ABOUT WE MAIL THE BOARD IF YOU WOULD.

THAT WOULD BE, YEAH.

LET'S BECAUSE I, IF I GET THE MOST COMPLAINTS I GET IS ABOUT THE TURN LANE THERE, BECAUSE IT, IT, IT EITHER, SOMETIMES THE TIMING IS OFF WITH THE LIGHT, BUT MORE THAN THAT, IT'S JUST THE DANGER OF GETTING BACKED UP INTO 5 22 PEOPLE COMING OVER THAT CREST AND CARE AND THEY'RE SLAMMING ON THEIR BRAKES, OR WORSHACK GOING INTO THE RIGHT LANE IN FRONT OF OTHER TRAFFIC.

I GET THAT FREQUENTLY.

MADELINE, THANKS, MATT, MR. DAILY ON THE BORDER AND EMAIL WITH THAT DATE ON IT.

MR. CARTER, YOU SPEAKING OF THE SMART SCALE AND STUFF.

AND, UH, AND I, I MEAN TO ME TO MAKE MYSELF RATHER, UH, HAD TO SAY TIRESOME ON THIS, BUT, UH, UH, IT'S, IT'S ON THE, UM, UM, IT'S ON THE, THE, THE LACK OF A TURN LANE INTO, UM, UH, INTO THE DEVELOPMENT, UH, HIGH, NOT EXACTLY.

AND THAT, THAT WAS SUBMITTED AGAIN THIS YEAR.

I DO NOT KNOW.

WE DON'T KNOW YET HOW IT SCORED.

WELL, IT IS THERE, IS THERE ANY WAY THAT WE CAN GET THIS TO SCORE HIGHER AND HIGHER BECAUSE THAT IS, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT, IT REALLY IS A, UH, A SERIOUS, UH, THE ONLY THING THAT IMPROVES THE SCORE OVER THE EXISTING DATA IS THE LOCALITY CONTRIBUTING FUNDS TOWARDS IT.

OKAY, THERE YOU GO.

NOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO IS THERE, IS THERE, UH, A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE, CERTAIN AMOUNT? I KNOW IT, IT, I MEAN, DIFFERENT LOCALITIES, THE NORTHERN AREA, LOCALITIES WHO HAVE A DIFFERENT TAX BASIS, YOU KNOW, UH, SOME OF THEM SUBMIT SIGNIFICANT FUNDS TO IT THAT MAKES IT SCORE HIGHER.

BUT, UH, I MEAN THE DATA, THE DATA IS WHAT IT IS.

AND SO THAT'S HOW THE SCORING IS DETERMINED UNLESS, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU IT'S, IT GOES AGAINST THE BENEFIT TO COST RATIO.

IF THE BENEFIT IS MUCH HIGHER THAN THE COST, YOU KNOW, AND I'M THROWING THESE NUMBERS OUT, OKAY.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE CORRECT ONE IS, BUT LET'S SAY IT'S 10 TO ONE.

YOU KNOW, I GET A BENEFIT RATIO OF 10 BETTER THAN THE COST.

UH, THEN THAT MAKES A SCORE HIGHER.

BUT SO MANY OF THESE THINGS, UH, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE WORTHWHILE PROJECTS, WHEN YOU START APPLYING THE DOLLARS TO THEM WITH LIMITED DOLLARS, THEN THE COST BENEFIT RATIO IS, OR BENEFIT TO COST RATIO IS WAY LOW.

SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE HIGH MY BREAKS ON THAT.

SO WHAT, WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS SIT DOWN WITH YOU AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT THIS BECAUSE OF, I WANT TO REACH OUT TO THE FOLKS OVER AT HIGH KNOB AND LET THEM KNOW THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, IF THEY CONTRIBUTE, THEN IT WILL PUT THEM HIGHER, BUT I DON'T WANT TO COME ALONG AND, UH, AND ENCOURAGE THEM AND GET THEM TO, YOU KNOW, TO CONTRIBUTE SOME FUNDS AND THEN NOT MOVE THE NEEDLE ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO GET THIS DONE IN A, IN A, UH, UH, AN APPRECIABLE TIME.

WELL, ONE THING ABOUT IT IS, UH, A EVEN IF IT SCORES WELL THIS TIME AND MAKES THE CUT, YOU'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, FIVE, SIX YEARS BEFORE THE MONEY EVER BECOMES AVAILABLE, IT'S PAINFUL.

THE TURN LANE PROJECT, THAT'S THE FALL OF 20, 26 IS WHEN IT'S SUPPOSED TO GO TO ADVERTISE.

DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING ON THE, UH, ON THE HIGH KNOB? NOT, NOT ON THE, UH, NO, WE, WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING THAT TELLS US HOW IT'S SCORED.

LARGE VOLUME OF TRAFFIC IS BETWEEN THE INTERSTATE AND GUARD HILL.

DR.

DALEY, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING? JUST THE QUESTION MA'AM WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT THIS

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DON'T THEY GO SOMEPLACE AREN'T THEY ALL SIT DOWN ON SHENANDOAH AVENUE ON AND ON THE BRIDGE? UM, NO, THEY, THEY MAKE TURNS OFF AT DIFFERENT PLACES.

ACTUALLY, IT'S IT, YOU KNOW, THEY PROBABLY, UH, IT GOES FARTHER THAN GARDE HILL, BUT THAT'S THE SCOPE STUDY BECAUSE ONCE YOU GET, YOU WERE LIMITED, ONCE YOU HIT THE BRIDGE AS TO WHAT WE CAN DO.

SO MY, OKAY.

BECAUSE MY, MY QUESTION IS WHY WE SHOULDN'T EXTEND THE SCOPE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE NEED TO DO WITH THE TRAFFIC THAT SITS AT EACH LIGHT ALL THE WAY THROUGH, DOWN.

BECAUSE TO ME, SAME DAY.

UH, THE TOWN, AS YOU KNOW, UH, MAINTAINS ITS OWN STREETS AND CLEVELAND, THE PRIMARIES.

SO WE WOULD DO, IF THE TOWN WANTS TO STUDY THROUGH THERE, THEY WOULD, IT, OKAY.

WE CAN DO IT.

WE DID ONE ON 55, UH, FROM, UH, ON THE, UH, COMING IN FROM THE EAST ALL THE WAY UP TO, UH, THE MAIN DRAG, THE MAIN THREE 40 BUILT-IN.

AND THE, WE, WE SUGGESTED A NUMBER OF THINGS WITH THAT STUDY, BUT IT REQUIRED A CONSIDERABLE INVESTMENT.

SO THE BULK OF THAT, UM, AND THAT STRIP THERE, SIR, IS IN THE TOWN LIMITS.

WELL, YEAH.

UH, BUT THE ROADWAY ITSELF, ISN'T THEY, UH, SO V DOT GETS THE ROADWAY THERE IN THE TOWN.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE TOWN LIMITS, THEY RUN RIGHT DOWN THE STATE RIFE WAY ACROSS BOTH BRIDGES ACROSS AND THEN COME RIGHT BACK UP STATE.

SO THE TOWN DIDN'T ENCOMPASS THE BRIDGES.

NO, THE DNX, THE BRIDGE IS WHAT I REMEMBER BECAUSE THEY WERE, AND THAT WAS BEFORE MY TIME, I JUST KNOW THAT WHEN THE BRIDGES WERE, WHEN THE SOUTH FOURTH WAS DONE, THEY GAVE THEM TO THE COUNTY.

SO THAT WOULD HAVE TO DO WITH MONEY.

THAT'S MY, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR, WELL, WELL, THE.IS HERE.

MA'AM UM, THERE WAS AN AGREEMENT, UH, IT WAS AN ADMINISTRATIVE AGREEMENT APPARENTLY WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE BOARD THAT INDICATED YEARS AGO, THE V DOT MOWING THE AREA, THE ISLANDS IN THE AREA, LONG FIVE, 20 TO THREE 40 NORTH AND THREE 40 SOUTH DOWN TO SIX 19, THAT BECAME A RESPONSIBILITY OF THE COUNTY.

AND THE COUNTY TOOK THAT.

AND IF YOU LOOK DOWN IN THE WEEDS IN THERE EVERY SO OFTEN YOU SEE A LITTLE DOT, THAT'S A FLOWER.

AND WE DID THAT SO THAT IT WAS NO LONGER V DOTS RESPONSIBILITY, AND RSW WAS TAKING CARE OF IT FOR US AND OUR FRIENDS OUT AT RSW.

THEY DON'T HAVE THE PERSONNEL NOW WHO WANT TO COME OUT TO WORK, SO THEY CAN'T TAKE CARE OF IT.

AND SO THE COUNTY IS GOING TO TAKE IT OVER AND IS WORKING ON THAT.

AND MR. COLE FELT, AND BRAD ARE THEN OUT THERE WORKING THIS LAST WEEK.

AND WHEN THE RAIN CLEARS UP ENOUGH, THEY'LL BE BACK OUT THERE AND WE'LL GET THAT CLEANED UP.

AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT WE WANT TO DO.

LONG-TERM TO HIM, PROVE THE PLANTINGS IN THAT AND MAKE IT A MORE WEED FREE, BUT WILL THAT IS ON US AND NOT ON V DOT.

YEAH, WE, WE WOULD BE, WE'LL DO THE MOWER AND WE'LL GIVE IT BACK.

AND SAID, CAN Y'ALL PLEASE.

BUT WE DON'T HAVE THE PEOPLE TO TAKE CARE OF THE, UH, THE PLANNINGS.

AND, AND THERE WAS, UH, I BELIEVE THERE, THEY GOT A GRANT AT THAT TIME, YOU KNOW, TO DO THAT MEDIAN STRIP.

AND WE MOLDED BY MISTAKE THREE YEARS AGO, THEY SPENT $12,000 PUTTING IT BACK IN.

I GOT THAT EDUCATION WHEN I SIMPLY ASKED TO QUIT, I CAN'T STAND JOHNSON GRASS.

AND FOR THOSE, AND FOR THOSE THAT, DON'T THE JOHNSON GRASS.

WHEW.

THAT'S A FARMER'S NIGHTMARE BECAUSE IT'LL TAKE A FIELD OVER.

AND MY HUSBAND, UNTIL HE RETIRED NOW, HE'S GETTING A LITTLE EDGE, UH, WORK ON THE JOHNSON GRASS.

I WOULD GO OUT WITH SCISSORS AND CUTS THE TOP OFF.

SO IT WOULDN'T RECEIVE BECAUSE IF YOU CUT THAT OFF, IT DOESN'T, IT'LL DIE OUT.

I'VE DONE THAT FOR TRUCKLOADS OF JOHNSON GRASS.

SO WHEN I SAW IT, I WAS LIKE, WHY THE HECK ARE THEY LIT? AND THAT STUFF GROW THERE.

YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING ELSE IS MOWED AND THE JOHNSON'S GRANTS IS UP TO YOUR HEAD.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT STARTED THIS, YOU KNOW, I SIMPLY MADE A CALL

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NEXT TIME YOU MO MO THE JOHNSON GRASS, THEN I FOUND OUT, YEAH, FOR $12,000, YOU GOT BURNED ON THAT.

I, YEAH, I WASN'T GOING TO DO THAT TO MY, MY, UH, MY CINNAMON'S, OUR BUSH HOG WOULD DO THAT WHOLE AREA.

GOOD DEAL.

I SAID, THAT'S FINE.

I JUST NEED SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, A FISHER FROM THE COUNTY SAYING THAT YOU'RE ABANDONED IN THAT, AND WE'RE GOING TO CLEAN IT UP AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO ABANDON IT.

UM, CAUSE YEAH, I FORGOT THERE WERE FLOWERS IN THERE UNTIL SOMEBODY TOLD ME, HE REMINDED ME AND I WAS LIKE, WELL, I HAVEN'T SEEN THEM IN YEARS, BUT I SEE THAT JOHNSON GRASS, YOU CAN SEE HIM IN THERE.

I HAVE A QUESTION WHEN YOU GOT DEEP IN THE WEEDS, FIGURED AWAY DEEP IN THE WEEDS WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING THE P THE FLOWERS, JOHNSON, GRASS.

THIS, THIS WAS OUR PROJECT.

IT WAS THE COUNTIES.

THE COUNTY HAD AN ADMINISTRATIVE AGREEMENT.

AS I SAID, NO FAULT OF THE BOARD THAT WE WERE GOING TO TAKE CARE OF THIS.

AND WE GOT THIS GRANT AND WE HAVE THE, AND IF YOU LOOK CAREFULLY, THERE ARE LITTLE YELLOW FLOWERS DOWN IN THERE.

AND SO WE'RE TALKING TO, UM, THE, UH, TOWNS, UH, THEIR BEAUTIFICATION, OR, WELL, NOT THE BEAUTIFICATION, THE RE THE CREEK, UH, MONITORS.

AND THEY'VE GOT SOME IDEAS AS TO WHAT WE COULD PLANT THERE.

THAT WOULD BE MORE LIKE A BOY, A SMALL, LOW LEVEL BUSH GREENERY AND SO FORTH, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, RATHER THAN FLOWERS, PER SE, SOMETHING THAT WHAT IT'LL BE WON'T, UH, GET CAUGHT UP WITH THE WEEDS AND SO FORTH.

SO WE'RE WORKING ON THAT.

LONG-TERM BUT SHORT-TERM, WE'RE GOING TO GET IT CLEANED UP FOR THE FALL.

IT'S ON US, NOT ON V DOT.

OH MY GOODNESS.

UM, WELL, ON MY END, I DID WANT TO THANK, UM, KENNY AND HIS GROUP.

THEY DID AN AWESOME JOB ON THAT.

UH, RURAL RUSTIC ON ROCKY HOLLOW, EVERYONE THAT LIVES THERE AND IS GOING THROUGH IT, LOVE IT.

IT'S MY, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE LIVED THERE.

STEVE'S 65.

I'M FEELING HIS AGE ON TELEVISION.

OH, WELL, AND IT'S NEVER LOOK LIKE THAT.

IT IS, YOU CAN PASS AND I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO WASH OUT, KNOCK ON WOOD.

UM, BUT THEY, THEY DO IT'S KNOCK ON WOOD WITH YOU ALL GET SOME HORRENDOUS.

YEAH, WE DO.

IT'S GOING TO TEST IT, BUT I TELL YA, IT'S, THEY'VE DONE AN AWESOME JOB.

IT, UM, IT JUST GOES TO SHOW, I DON'T KNOW.

I'VE NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY WE WENT TO CONTRACTORS, NOT TIME TO DIGITAL ON ANY CONTRACTORS, BUT YOUR GUYS CAN DO IT BETTER AND CHEAPER.

AND I, I JUST REALLY APPRECIATE THE GREAT JOB THEY DID.

AND, UM, IF YOU WOULD PASS THAT ON TO HIM, I DON'T KNOW ALL THE GUYS, I KNOW KENNY, AND I DON'T KNOW KENNY'S LAST NAME, BUT I JUST COFFEE.

I THOUGHT IT WAS COFFEE, BUT I WASN'T SURE.

BUT THEN, UM, WHO ELSE WAS ON HIS CREW, BUT THEY DID A GREAT JOB ON BROWNTOWN ROAD.

I KNOW THE CULVERTS HAD BEEN SITTING THERE ON THREE 40 AND THAT CENTURY LINK HAS BEEN THE PROBLEM THERE.

I GOT, UM, I MADE A TELEPHONE CALL, THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION, CAUSE I WAS REALLY TIRED OF SENDING EMAILS AND NOT GETTING ANY RESPONSE.

AND EVIDENTLY, UM, THAT RATTLE SOME CAGES BECAUSE I DID GET A RESPONSE FROM A REALLY NICE LADY WITH CENTURY LINK.

AND, UM, SHE TOLD ME TO CONTACT MY POINT OF CONTACT PERSON AGAIN, WHICH I DID.

AND WITHIN A COUPLE OF DAYS, A TREE THAT WAS, UM, A REALLY SCARY TREE THERE ON THREE 40 ON THE LINE, UM, WAS TAKEN DOWN AND THE POLE REPLACED BECAUSE IT HAD CRACKED THE POLE OFF AS WELL.

AND A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS THAT HAD BEEN, UH, OF TELEPHONE WIRE THAT WAS ACROSS A RESIDENCE YARD FOR TWO YEARS, THEY CAME AND TOOK CARE OF THAT AS WELL.

SO IF I NEED TO GET YOU HIS INFORMATION TO MOVE, TO PUT THAT UNDER THEIR RADAR MORE, BECAUSE I THINK THE REASON THAT'S HELD UP IS THEY'RE NOT MOVING THEIR LINES FOR YOU GUYS.

SO, UM, I'LL GET YOU THAT POINT OF CONTACT PERSON BECAUSE SHE, SHE REALLY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HER TITLE IS, BUT SHE MOVED SOME FEATHERS DOWN.

I DO KNOW THAT, THAT THERE ARE LOCAL CONTACT HAD ADDRESSED SOME ISSUES FOR US, THE DESIGN UNDERSTANDING SOMEBODY ELSE BOUGHT CENTURY LINK OUT AND THAT THE NEW PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT IT WANTED TO IMPROVE THEIR IMAGE.

SO LET'S START ME A GOOD WAY TO DO IT.

THEY GET, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF THEY CAN'T GET TO IT RIGHT AWAY, IF YOU JUST GET A WELL ANSWERING THE PHONE HELPS.

TOLD HER, I SAID, YOU'RE THE FIRST PERSON THAT I FEEL EVEN SLIGHTLY, THAT'S GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE HERE.

WELL, I, I

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AND LIKE I SAID, WITHIN A COUPLE OF DAYS, YEAH.

I WAS SEEING ACTION.

SO, UM, I'M HOPING THAT HOLDS TRUE.

UM, BUT I KNEW THAT WAS THE LAST REPORT I HAD GOTTEN IS THAT YOU WERE WAITING ON CENTURY LINK TO MOVE THEIR LINE.

SO YOU COULD DO THE WORK, RIGHT? YEAH.

IF YOU, IF YOU WILL, UH, JUST SEND ME AN EMAIL OR CONTACT, WE'LL GET AHOLD OF.

UM, OTHER THAN THAT, THE ONLY OTHER QUESTION, AND I KNOW I'VE ASKED THIS A DOZEN TIMES, BUT I WAS AT A FUNERAL THIS WEEKEND AND WAS ASKED THIS AGAIN.

SO A LEFT FLASHING, CAUTION LIGHT AT BROWNTOWN AND SCALA VISTA.

AND, AND OUR TRAFFIC PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE, THEY WON'T PUT MORE IN THERE.

I BELIEVE YOU SPOKE WITH OUR TRAFFIC ENGINEER, PUT HIM IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH, I DIDN'T, I, I KNOW I ASKED SOMEBODY, BUT I DON'T.

IT HAS TO DO WITH THE WIDTH OF THE MEDIAN STRIP AND THE, UH, SIGHT DISTANCE THERE AS WELL.

WHAT THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT.

AND THEY TRIED THIS OVERALL ROUTE 33 AND THEY TOOK THEM OUT, BUT THE MEDIAN ARE SO WIDE WHEN PERSON IS, IS, IS ESTIMATING HOW FAST SOMEONE'S COMING FROM THAT DIRECTION.

BY THE TIME THEY GET OVER TO THE MEETING, IF THEY MISESTIMATE THAT ONCOMING CAR.

AND THEY TRY TO GO ON, IT CREATES A CONFLICT THERE.

NOW WHERE'S 33 33 IS A SPOTSWOOD TRAIL BETWEEN RAY ELTON AND HARRISONBURG IS A VERY HEAVILY TRAVELED FOUR LANE ROAD.

I KNEW I HAD GONE UP TO HARRISONBURG TO MAZE PLUMBING.

AND I DON'T KNOW, I THINK THAT'S 42, MAYBE 42 PARALLELS AROUND 11, BETWEEN BROADWAY IN HARRISONBURG.

THIS IS OUT AND ROUND 11 IS ON THE EAST SIDE OF 81, NO, GOING INTO, WELL, I KNEW THEY, IT WAS WATER THERE AND THERE WAS A LEFT CAUTION, CAUSE I WAS REALLY AMAZED.

I THOUGHT, OKAY, IF THEY'RE USING DISTANCE THAN HOW THESE GUYS HAVE THIS LEFT, FUCK FLASHING ONE EAR.

CAUSE THIS IS A WHOLE LOT WIDER.

UM, CAUSE THERE'S TWO TURN LANES IN TWO THROUGH LANES.

OUR, UH, YOU KNOW, IT, I'M NOT TRYING TO PASS THE BUCK, BUT WE CAN'T AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, YOU KNOW, SAY THAT WE, WE HAD, WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING HAS TO SIGN OFF ON THAT.

AND AS YOU KNOW, THE LAST TIME THAT THEY WOULD NOT DO THAT, WELL, AT LEAST I CAN SHOW THAT.

I ASKED AGAIN.

UM, THE ONLY OTHER THING I HAVE IS I'M BEING ASKED AGAIN ABOUT THE SHOULDER ON SMITH RUN.

THAT IT, IT NEEDS TO BE WHEN YOU GET PUSHED OVER.

CAUSE SMITH RUN IS SO NARROW THAT THEY'RE AFRAID THEY'RE GONNA LOSE A TIRE.

AND I CAN SEND THE ADDRESS WHERE IT SEEMS TO BE THE WORST, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHEN IT WAS DONE ON THE ENTIRE SMITH'S RUN, BUT UM, IN ONE PARTICULAR PLACE.

OTHER THAN THAT, THAT'S ALL I HAVE ANYONE ELSE FOR MR. CARTON.

THANK YOU, MR. CARTER.

YOU'RE QUITE WELCOME.

HOPEFULLY THE WATERS DOWN OFF THE BRIDGE.

WHEN YOU GO BACK, I SAID, I UNDERSTAND THE WATER WAS OVER THE BRIDGE.

HOPEFULLY IT'S DOWN WHEN YOU GO BACK.

WELL THAT'S ALL RIGHT.

IF I JUST I'VE LIVED WITH IT FOR 30 SOME YEARS OUT THERE.

SO YEAH.

HAZARDS OF LIVING IN THE COUNTRY.

[Work Session: A. Discussion – Northwestern Community Services Board (NWCSB) Performance Contract and Proposed Concurring Resolution Regarding a Financing by the NWCSB – Katie Heritage]

ME.

BUT I WONDERED, UH, NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY SERVICES IS HERE AND I WONDERED IF WE COULD AMEND THE AGENDA TO ALLOW THEM TO MAKE THEIR PRESENTATION BEFORE WE GO INTO THE BOARD REPORT.

SO THE WAY YOU WOULD DO THAT IS, IS MOVE BECAUSE IT'S A WORK SESSION ITEM IS IF SOMEONE WOULD I MOVED TO TEMPORARILY, TEMPORARILY RECESSED AS REGULAR MEETING IN ORDER TO CONSIDER ITEM A OF THE WORK SESSION.

AND IF SOMEONE WANTED TO SAY SO MOVED, WE COULD GET THAT DONE.

I CAN DO THAT.

SO MOVED SECOND, UH, ROLL CALL MRS. HAYES.

MR. MABE, MRS. COOK.

I MET HIM CHAIR.

AYE.

THIS IS OUT BY MR. BUTLER.

MORNING THAT THE RESOLUTION FOR THE FUNDING IS SOMETHING THAT IS KIND OF FALLEN APART FOR US.

NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY SERVICE BOARD PERFORMANCE CONTRACT PROPOSED CONCURRING RESOLUTION REGARDING A FINANCING BY THE NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD.

MS. HERITAGE.

THEY'VE GOT YOU DOWN FOR THE SPEAKER, BUT YES, I'M SORRY.

I DON'T REMEMBER YOUR NAME.

SORRY.

IT'S MIKE AL I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.

THIS IS GREG GOOP MEYER.

HE IS OUR CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AND THERE'S, WE'RE ONLY GOING TO DEAL WITH ONE ITEM THIS

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SO, UM, THAT'S ANOTHER ISSUE, UH, BUT WE ARE REQUIRED BY CODE TO PRESENT OUR PERFORMANCE CONTRACT TO ALL OF OUR LOCALITIES, UH, BEFORE THE END OF SEPTEMBER.

AND WE ARE RIGHT ON TARGET WITH YOU ALL.

AND WE LIKE, UH, WE HAVE A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION THAT WE PUT TOGETHER, UM, THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY GIVE YOU HARD COPIES.

THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL BECAUSE MY, YEAH, WE'RE ALL ON ELECTRONIC TODAY AND IT'S, IT'S, IT'S NOT CLUB.

SO, UM, WE CAN DO IT EITHER WAY.

UM, GREG'S GOING TO GO OVER SOME OF THE DETAILS, BUT, UM, AND THEN I'LL INTERJECT WHENEVER IT NEEDS TO BE.

THANK YOU, MIKE.

THAT ARE NOT ON THIS LIST BECAUSE THEY'RE IN, IN THE, IN THE WORKS LIKE THE DRUG COURT AND, AND THE, UH, OTHER, UH, SERVICES THAT ARE STILL GROWING AND DEVELOPING.

OR BUDDY? UM, SO, UH, NORTHWESTERN, UM, COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD, WE'VE BEEN IN BUSINESS FOR ABOUT 48 YEARS SINCE 1974.

WE'RE ONE OF 40 CSBS IN THE STATE.

WE SERVICE THE FIVE COUNTIES AND THE CITY OF WINCHESTER.

WE HAVE ABOUT A $23 MILLION ANNUAL BUDGET AROUND 250 EMPLOYEES.

AND WE SEE AROUND 7,300 CLIENTS PER YEAR.

UM, OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS, WE'VE GROWN ABOUT 37% IN VOLUME AND CLIENT.

NUMBER OF CLIENTS SERVED, UM, OF, OF THE CLIENTS THAT WE SERVE 20% OF THEM RESIDE IN WARREN COUNTY.

AND SO THAT, THAT EQUALS ABOUT 1500 OF OUR 7,300 CLIENTS ARE RESIDING IN CURRENTLY IN WARREN COUNTY.

THE WARREN COUNTY GROWTH OVER THE LAST SEVEN YEARS HAS BEEN ABOUT 43%.

SO ABOUT THE SAME AMOUNT OF GROWTH AS OUR TOTAL CSB, WE'VE SEEN AT THE CSB FOR WARREN COUNTY.

UM, UH, APOLOGIZE IF I'M GOING FAST, I'M NOT GOING TO TOO MUCH DETAIL WITH REGARDS TO THE BUDGET PRESENTATION ITSELF, BUT I'M JUST MORE OR LESS JUST HITTING THE HOT SPOT.

SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, BE SURE TO JUMP IN AND ASK, WELL, I HAVE A QUESTION.

SO WHAT WAS THE, UM, THE CAUSE OF THE 43% INCREASE WITH WARREN COUNTY? WELL, THE, UH, IT'S SPREAD PRETTY EVENLY OVER ALL OF OUR SERVICES, UM, MENTAL HEALTH.

SO WE HAVE MET, WE CATEGORIZE THEM IN THREE GENERAL CATEGORIES, MENTAL HEALTH, SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER AND INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.

SO THE OVERALL MENTAL HEALTH HAS INCREASED ABOUT THAT PERCENT, BUT SUBSTANCE USE HAS INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY MORE.

AND, AND AS YOU ALL KNOW, SUBSTANCE USE IS A MAJOR PROBLEM IN OUR, IN OUR REGION AND ESPECIALLY, SO THAT'S WHY I THINK YOU ALL ARE TAKING A BOLD STEP AND CREATING A DRUG COURT THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE PART OF AND WE'RE PREPARING FOR.

UM, SO THAT'S BEEN A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE.

UH, WE, AT ONE POINT WHEN I FIRST STARTED BACK AT NORTHWESTERN IN 2015, WE HAD ONE SUBSTANCE USE THERAPIST TODAY WE HAVE OVER 40, BETWEEN 40 AND 50 SUBSTANCE USE PROFESSIONALS IN OUR AGENCY.

SO THAT TELLS YOU A LOT AND WE'RE STILL ONLY ADDRESSING A MINOR DROP IN THE BUCKET.

THE PROBLEM IS SO COULD YOU SPEAK INTO THE MICROPHONE? OKAY.

YEAH, THE PROBLEM IS SO IMMENSE AND WE'RE ONLY ADDRESSING A VERY SMALL FRACTION OF THE NEED HERE.

UM, WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR, OUR, OUR FUNDING IS VERY LIMITED.

UM, SO IT BECOMES A REALLY A CHALLENGE, BUT WE'VE INCREASED OUR, UM, SERVICES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 94% OVER THE LAST SEVEN YEARS FOR SUBSTANCE USE AND FOR SUBSTANCE USE.

CORRECT.

SO THE 40% I WOULD, I MEAN, EXCUSE ME, THE 43%, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CASELOAD INCREASING CASELOAD'S CORRECT.

CLASS NUMBER OF CLIENTS, OR YES.

AND I, I THOUGHT THAT WE WERE HITTING A MILESTONE WHEN WE REACHED 5,000 CLIENTS AND THAT WAS LIKE FOUR YEARS AGO.

NOW WE'RE OVER 7,000 CLIENTS.

HAVE YOU ALSO SAID THAT THERE WAS THREE, UH, SUBSTANCE ABUSE, MENTAL HEALTH AND WHAT WAS THE OTHER ONE INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? UH, UH, AUTISM DOWN SYNDROME, UM, SOME OTHER DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND THEN MENTAL HEALTH AND A MENTAL HEALTH POPULATION.

MENTAL HEALTH ALSO INCLUDES FOLKS THAT HAVE CO-OCCURRING MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS, WHICH IS VERY COMMON ON PAGE THREE IS A LITTLE MORE OF AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE.

BUT YET, LIKE MIKE MENTIONED, WE ARE WITH, THERE ARE OTHER THINGS ON, ON THAT WE ARE PROVIDING

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BUT ON PAGE THREE IS MORE OF AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF ALL THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE.

AND I'M SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT OUR MOST DIFFICULT AREA THAT WE'RE WE ADDRESS.

AND IT'S BEEN REALLY PRONOUNCED SINCE COVID IS OUR CRISIS SYSTEM.

I'M SURE THE WARREN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN FRONT ROYAL POLICE DEPARTMENT ARE HEAVILY INVOLVED IN THIS STATE HOSPITAL SYSTEM IN ESSENCE IS BROKEN.

IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO GET PEOPLE INTO THE STATE HOSPITAL SYSTEM.

SO THEY HAVE TO WAIT IN OUR EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS, SOMETIMES FOUR OR FIVE TO SEVEN DAYS BEFORE THEY CAN GET A BED FOR THEM.

IT JUST TAXING ON THE ENTIRE SYSTEM.

IT IS JUST AN ENORMOUS PROBLEM.

AND WE DON'T SEE A WHOLE LOT OF LIGHT AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW, UM, STATE HOSPITAL SYSTEM, ESPECIALLY WITH CHILDREN IS OPERATING AT ABOUT 30% OF ITS CAPACITY.

UM, AND IT'S SO DIFFICULT TO GET, UH, CHILDREN ADMITTED INTO COMMONWEALTH AND THERE'S ONLY ONE STATE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN.

I KNOW THAT VALLEY HEALTH MIKE IS ADDRESSING, TRYING TO ADDRESS THIS ALONG WITH, WITH DELEGATE WILEY.

UM, AND THEY'RE TRYING TO ESTABLISH MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY WITH A NUMBER OF BEDS IN WINCHESTER.

AND ALL OF OUR LOCALITIES IS PROBLEMATIC.

THAT IS ACTUALLY TRUE.

THEY DID GET SOME DOLLARS, BUT IT'S PROBABLY ONLY 10% OF WHAT THE NEED IS, RIGHT? YEAH.

SO IT'S, BUT I, I MEAN, THEY HAVE DONE A REALLY, UH, UH, AN EXCELLENT JOB AND GETTING SUPPORT FROM THE ALLEGATION.

SO ON THAT NEXT PAGE, PAGE FOUR, YOU'LL SEE WHAT WE JUST SPOKE ABOUT THE VOLUME GROWTH BY NOT TRYING TO BE, NOT TRYING TO BE A PAIN, BUT CAN, Y'ALL GET A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE MICROPHONE.

THEY'RE GOING TO HAVING A TROUBLE.

I LIKE HIM, BUT NO PROBLEM.

YOU JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO RECORD YOU BETTER.

SURE.

THAT'S GREAT.

SO YOU'LL SEE THERE ON PAGE FOUR, THE SERVICE GROWTH BY THOSE THREE CATEGORIES WE JUST SPOKE ABOUT, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER 94% OVER THE LAST EIGHT YEARS, AND THIS IS TOTAL FOR OUR, OUR ALL CSB ACTIVITY.

AND WARREN COUNTY LOOKS VERY SIMILAR TO THIS WITH REGARDS TO THE BREAKOUT BETWEEN OUR THREE MAIN SERVICES.

SO YOU CAN SEE THAT 94% INCREASE IN SUBSTANCE USE OVER THE LAST EIGHT YEARS, UH, FOR OUR TOTAL AGENCY AND, UH, THE MENTAL HEALTH.

UM, IT WAS 36% GROWTH OVER THAT.

THAT WAS THAT SAME TIME PERIOD.

AND AGAIN, WARREN COUNTY MAKES UP ABOUT 20% OF THAT VOLUME.

SO THE NEXT PAGE YOU'LL SEE THE SERVICE SERVICE GROWTH FOR JUST WARREN COUNTY OVER THE LAST SEVEN YEARS, UH, FROM ABOUT 1,046 TO 1,505.

AND THAT REPRESENTS ABOUT A 43% GROWTH OVER THE LAST SEVEN YEARS, OUR BUDGET FOR 2023, UH, THERE'S ONLY A 1% GROWTH IN OUR REVENUE.

UM, WE, WE ACTUALLY ARE PROJECTING A, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE STACK GRAPHS, UH, THE ONE ON THE LEFT IS WHAT WE PROJECTED IN 2022.

AND THE ONE ON THE RIDE IS OUR 2023 BUDGET.

AND YOU CAN SEE OVERALL, IT'S ONLY A 1% GROWTH IN REVENUE, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT IT BY BREAKING IT OUT BY THE CATEGORIES OF REVENUE, THE, THE FIRST, UH, THE LOWER DARKER COLOR IS OUR CLIENT BILLING.

AND SO, UM, WE BUILD IT'S PRIMARILY MEDICAID.

UH, SO WE BILL MEDICAID AND THAT REPRESENTS ABOUT 46% OF OUR REVENUE AND THE NEXT HIGHEST STACK PART OF THAT IS THE STATE REVENUE.

AND YOU CAN SEE THAT STATE REVENUE IS GOING UP ABOUT 180,000 ACTS AROUND 200,000.

SO WE ARE SEEING AN INCREASE IN OUR STATE FUNDED PROGRAMS. UM, AND THEN THE, UH, THE NEXT STACK IS THE, UM, THE COMMUNITY, THE, UM, CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE LOREN COUNTY, THE OTHER COUNTIES THAT WE SERVE.

AND THAT'S ABOUT A TOTAL OF 6.7% OF OUR FUNDING COME FROM THE LOCALITIES AND OF THAT 1.5 MILLION ON THAT RICE OUT OF THAT STACK GRAPH 343,000 OF THAT IS A WARREN COUNTY'S CONTRIBUTION TO OUR 2023 BUDGET.

UH, WE DID YOU SEE EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING IS GOING UP EXCEPT FOR THE FEDERAL REVENUE.

UH, THAT'S THE, UH, THE, THE 1.1 MILLION COMPARED TO THE 910,000.

SO WE HAD A DROP OF ABOUT 200,000 AND EXPECTED FEDERAL REVENUE COMP PRIMARILY, UH, THE, UH, THE SOAR GRANT, I THINK IS 150 OF THAT LOT OF OUR HOUSING GRANTS.

AND THAT, THAT BRINGS UP ANOTHER ISSUE IS HOUSING IS VERY IMPORTANT TO OUR CLIENTS, VERY IMPORTANT TO OUR SYSTEM, BUT LACK OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND LACK OF ACTUALLY HOUSING UNITS, UM,

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AND SPEAKING OF HOUSING ON THE NEXT PAGE, YOU'LL SEE A PIE CHART OF OUR EXPENSES.

AND SINCE WE ARE LOOKING AT, UH, HOUSING, SO THE THIRD LARGEST PIE SLICE IS FACILITY COSTS, AND THAT IS THE RENT WE PAY FOR OUR CLIENTS.

SO WE, WE PAY THE RENT FOR OUR CLIENTS AND ALL THE APPLICATION FEES, AND WE MAKE SURE THAT THEIR BILLS ARE PAID AND, AND, AND WE GET MONEY FOR, FOR THAT FROM VARIOUS SOURCES, SOME OF IT FROM THE STATE AND SOME OF IT FROM, UH, OUTSOURCE OUT, UH, OUT OF THE STATE GRANTS OR JUST NON-STATE GRANTS.

BUT, BUT THAT IS A BIG CHUNK OF OUR TOTAL EXPENSE PIE IS THE RENT PAYMENT FOR THE HOUSING FOR OUR CLIENTS.

BUT THE, I THINK THE MOST, UH, COMPELLING PART OF THIS IS OUR SALARIES.

71% OF OUR TOTAL EXPENSES IS SALARY WAGES AND BENEFITS.

SO WE'RE, WE'RE, UH, OBVIOUSLY A SERVICE COMPANY.

UM, AND, UH, THE 71% THAT ACTUALLY REPRESENTS, WE, WE, WE, UH, GRANTED OUR EMPLOYEES A 5% COST OF LIVING INCREASE THIS YEAR.

SO ALSO ALL EMPLOYEES GOT A 5% COST OF LIVING INCREASE, UH, WHICH WAS WELL-DESERVED.

AND AS I HEARD, YOU ALL MENTIONED IN A PREVIOUS PRESENTATION THAT, UH, EVERYONE IS EXPERIENCING SHORTAGES IN STAFFING.

AND SO THIS IS, THIS IS ONE OF OUR WAYS TO MITIGATE SOME OF OUR STAFFING SHORTAGES IS INCREASE OUR SALARIES OF OUR CURRENT EMPLOYEES.

AND THEN THE, UH, THE STARTING SALARIES OF SOME OF THE, OF, OF MANY OF THE KEY, UM, POSITIONS THAT WE HAVE SHORTAGES IN.

THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHAT I HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE FINANCIALS IN ANY QUESTIONS, ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD.

SO IT, IS THERE ANY COST SHARE PROGRAMS THAT YOU HAVE THAT FOR THE LOCALITIES IN SUMMIT TO OFFSET SOME OF THESE EXPENDITURES? WE HAVE, WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH SOME OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS SPECIFICALLY IN PAGE COUNTY WHERE THEY PAID HALF THE COST OF A THERAPIST, AND WE PAY THE OTHER HALF, WHICH IS A BENEFICIAL ON HAVING THOSE THERAPEUTIC SERVICES AVAILABLE TO CHILDREN IS AN ESSENTIAL ISSUE.

UM, AND SO WE HAVE THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM AND WE'VE OFFERED THAT TO OTHER LOCALITIES ALSO, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF WHAT, YEAH.

I AM JUST LOOKING AT THE, YOU KNOW, YOUR EXPENDITURES, BUT SO, UM, SO WHICH DEPARTMENTS DO YOU, AND I'M NEW HERE ON THE BOARD? SO THIS IS MORE EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND.

SO WHAT DEPARTMENTS DO YOU HELP WITHIN THE COUNTY? DO YOU PROVIDE SUPPORT? OH, MOSTLY THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES.

WE WORK WITH THEIR CHILDREN, THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.

UM, WE, WE, LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE RELATIONSHIPS, UH, WITH ALL OF OUR SUPERINTENDENTS, UM, AND THE, THE SPECIAL NEEDS DIRECTORS IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEMS, UH, HERE, WE'RE ALL, I'M, UH, WE'RE ALL OF OUR STAFF OR OUR UPPER LEVEL STAFF ARE INVOLVED IN THE CPM T IN FACT PROCESS WITHIN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS. AND THAT'S REALLY A DSS PROCESS.

UM, SO WE'RE HEAVILY INVOLVED IN THAT.

I'M ACTUALLY CHAIR OF TWO CPM, TS ONE IN WINCHESTER WHEN SHENANDOAH COUNTY, KATIE HERITAGE IS IN THE BACK.

AND SHE'S CHAIR OF THE CPMC HERE IN WARREN COUNTY, AND A LOT OF ISSUES COME OUT OF THAT SPECIFICALLY HOW TO ADDRESS CERTAIN KIDS.

AND THOSE THINGS TEND TO BE SOMETHING WE'RE HEAVILY INVOLVED IN.

SO CAN I CONSIDER YOUR, YOUR SUPPORT IS A FINANCIAL, UM, EXCUSE ME, A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, OR DO YOU DO ON HANDS ACTUALLY HELPING WITH CASES AND HELPING THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES? DID WE DO DIRECT HANDS-ON? WE HAVE, WE HAVE, UH, ESPECIALLY WITH CHILDREN, WE HAVE, UH, CASE MANAGERS AND THERAPISTS ASSIGNED TO MOST OF THE CHILDREN WE SERVE, UM, IN WARREN COUNTY AND ALL OF OUR OTHER LOCALITIES.

UM, SO WE'RE HEAVILY INVOLVED IN DECISION-MAKING PROCESS FOR THOSE YOUTH.

UH, I BELIEVE IT WAS SEEN AS AN ATTACHMENT TO THE, TO THE COUNTY BOARD, UM, AND IT WAS PRESENTED TO THE, TO THE STATE AND IT WAS APPROVED.

I THINK, UM, DR.

PANDIC IS, UM, VERY ACTIVE.

UH, HE PARTICIPATES IN OUR CPM T UM, DR.

PANDA.

YEAH, SHE IS.

SHE'S A NEW HIRE FOR US.

SHE'S OUR NEW MEDICAL DIRECTOR, MATT.

OH, MATT .

YEAH, I THOUGHT YOU SAID DR.

SHE'S OUR MEDICAL DIRECTOR.

YEAH, MATT , HE'S BEEN WITH US LONGER THAN I'VE BEEN THERE PROBABLY 10 TO 12 YEARS.

SO, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? SO WHAT ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE CONTRACTS OR,

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AND, UM, SO IT, IT IS INCLUDED IN THAT BUDGET THAT I GAVE.

SO THAT IS THE ITEM THAT THE BOARD IS GOING TO HAVE TO ACT ON IT, THEIR NEXT MEETING.

AND IF I'M OKAY, I THINK THAT CAUSE YOU WANT THE BOARD TO APPROVE THAT.

WE'RE REQUIRED TO PRESENT OUR PERFORMANCE CONTRACT TO OUR LOCALITIES.

UM, IF, IF IT'S NOT APPROVED BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER, IT'S NO REFLECTION ON YOU ALL THAT AUTOMATICALLY GETS APPROVED, BUT THAT WAS, THAT WAS WHAT WE WERE GOING TO TALK ABOUT WAS THE PERFORMANCE CONTRACT.

IT'S A VERY DETAILED IN THE POWER POINT IS A SUMMARIZATION OF THAT WITH REGARDS TO THE REVENUE AND EXPENSES.

UM, BUT, UH, I BELIEVE IT WAS SENT TO THE COUNTY.

UM, I BELIEVE THE BOARD MEMBERS ALL HAVE, I THINK YOU ALL HAVE IT, THE, I WANTED TO ASK IF THE BOARD HAD ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE CONTRACT WHILE YOU'RE HERE.

SURE.

ABSOLUTELY.

IF YOU KNOW THAT MOST OF THOSE FUNDS ARE RESTRICTED FUNDS, THEY HAVE TO BE SPENT IN A PARTICULAR CATEGORY.

WE HAVE VERY LITTLE FLEXIBILITY IN TERMS OF WHERE WE CAN PUT THOSE DOLLARS.

SO WHAT CATEGORIES, WHAT KIND OF CATEGORIES THAT YOU ARE RESTRICTED, MENTAL HEALTH? THE ONES THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, S SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER PROGRAMMING, UM, AND ID INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY.

THEY FALL IN THOSE SPECIFIC CATEGORIES.

WE HAVE SOME FLEXIBILITY WITH OUR LOCAL DOLLARS, BUT THOSE END UP BEING, YOU KNOW, SUPPLEMENT SOME OF THE FOLKS THAT HAVE NO INSURANCE THAT WE CAN'T BILL FOR.

SO IF I UNDERSTAND YOU CORRECTLY, IF WE DON'T, YOU HAVE THE DEADLINE OF SEPTEMBER.

SO IF THE BOARD DOES NOT DISAPPROVE OF THIS PERFORMANCE CONTRACT, IT WILL AUTO AUTOMATICALLY BE RENEWED.

IS THAT WHO I AM UNDERSTOOD? WHAT WAS JUST SAID? I GUESS HE CAN, IT'S AUTOMATICALLY APPROVED.

I DON'T KNOW IF RENEWED AS PART OF THE LANGUAGE THAT'S USED, BUT, UM, IT'S IN THE CODE THAT SAYS THAT, THAT WE HAVE TO PRESENT OUR PERFORMANCE CONTRACT TO OUR LOCALITIES, UM, PRIOR TO THE END OF SEPTEMBER.

SO IT'S A STATE PROCESS FOR MY UNDERSTANDING.

BASICALLY IT'S A, IT, I THINK THAT IT'S JUST A CUSTOMARY THING FOR YOU TO PRESENT IT TO THE COUNTIES, BUT WE HAVE NO BEARING ON THE PERFORMANCE CONTRACT.

IS THAT CORRECT? TO MY UNDERSTANDING, YEAH.

I'M GOING TO BE SHRINKING.

IT'S A 40, 48 YEAR OLD PROCESS RIGHTS IN PLACE HERE.

UM, AND SO YOU HAVE OBVIOUSLY SAY SO ON HOW MUCH LOCAL DOLLARS YOU PUT INTO TO OUR SYSTEM.

UM, BUT IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, THE PERFORMANCE CONTRACT IS WHAT IT IS, RIGHT.

IT'S BETWEEN YOU.

WE DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF FLEXIBILITY IN WHAT THE CATEGORIES ARE FROM YEAR TO YEAR.

AND THE ONLY, THE ONLY THING THAT WE HAVE INVOLVEMENT IN IS OUR COMMUNITY'S INVOLVEMENT.

YES.

DOLLAR WISE.

SO WHEN HERE THE $342,746, THAT'S OUR ALLOCATION AS PART OF THIS, HOW, HOW DO YOU GET TO THAT NUMBER? IS IT VALUE USING THE, UM, DATA OF HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU'RE SERVING? AND THAT'S A QUESTION THAT'S ASKED EVERY SINGLE TIME THAT WE PRESENT THIS IS, IS IT'S A REQUIREMENT IN CODE THAT WE SECURE 10% OF OUR FUNDING FROM OUR LOCALITIES.

AND THAT'S NEVER BEEN AN ISSUE WITH NORTHWESTERN AND OUR LOCALITIES, HOW IT GOT TO THE NUMBER IT'S GOTTEN.

IT'S JUST CHANGED OVER THE YEARS.

THERE'S SOME YEARS WHERE IT GOT REDUCED, SOME YEARS HAVE GOT INCREASED AND IT'S DIFFERENT IN CLARK COUNTY, DIFFERENT IN FREDERICK COUNTY, DIFFERENT IN SHANNON OR DIFFERENT IN THE CITY.

SO THOSE NUMBERS DON'T REALLY SEEM TO BE FAIR, BUT THEY ALL KIND OF HOVER AROUND THAT 10%.

AND I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, IT'S A 10% OF WHAT IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT.

I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE.

WE WE'VE, OUR COUNTY IS OUR SMALLEST JURISDICTION AND, UH, THEY'VE NEVER HAD ONE OF OUR CLINICS IN THEIR COMMUNITY.

LAST YEAR, WE PUT A CLINIC IN CLARK COUNTY.

YOU MIGHT'VE SEEN THE NEWS PRESS ON THAT AS A RESULT OF THAT, INCURRED SOME ADDITIONAL COSTS, SOME RENT, AND SO, YOU KNOW, SPECIALIZED SERVICES IN THEIR AREA.

UM, SO WE ASKED THEM FOR A 10% INCREASE, THEY GAVE US A 10%

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INCREASE.

IT DIDN'T ADD TO A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY.

DOESN'T EVEN REALLY COVER, NOT EVEN A PORTION OF WHAT IT COSTS TO PUT THAT CLINIC THERE, BUT, BUT IT WAS A, A GREAT THING THAT THEY DID AND ADDED THOSE DOLLARS TO LOCAL FUNDING.

SO IF IT'S 10% EACH YEAR, THEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT OUR TOTAL REVENUE INCOME FOR THAT YEAR.

AND TAKE 10% OF THAT TO COME UP WITH THIS YEAR'S 342,000, IS THAT YEAH, IF THERE'S ANY WAY TO SCIENTIFICALLY DO IT, THAT'S, THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE.

SO IT IS THAT HOW IT'S DONE OR NOT HOW IT'S DONE.

I HEARD YOU SAID IF IT WAS SCIENTIFIC.

WELL, IF WE STARTED OUT WITH A DOLLAR, EVERY LOCALITY, WE ASK THEM FOR A 5% INCREASE EVERY YEAR, THAT WOULD BE A FAIR AND EQUAL PROCESS BASED ON NUMBER OF RESIDENTS IN THEIR COMMUNITY.

BUT IT'S JUST, DOESN'T WORK, ALWAYS WORK THAT WAY.

INTERESTINGLY, FREDERICK COUNTY AS A MUCH LARGER COMMUNITY AND IS ONLY 80, $70,000 MORE THAN US, WHICH IS INTERESTING TO ME ABOUT HOW THE CALCULUS WORKS.

IT'S ABOUT A PENNY, A PERSON THERE, MAN, A DOLLAR PER DOLLAR.

SO IT'S, IT SEEMS TO ME IS THAT PERHAPS BECAUSE WARREN COUNTY HAS A HIGHER NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE PROGRAM, OR JUST A GREATER NEED, IT'S PROBABLY A BUNCH OF THOSE FACTORS IN PLACE.

WE DON'T WORK OUT THE NUMBERS THAT WAY.

WE START OUT WITH WHATEVER NUMBER WE GOT THE PREVIOUS YEAR, AND WE ADD WHETHER OR NOT 5% AND MOST YEARS, SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE AT NORTHWESTERN, WE ASKED FOR 5% INCREASE FROM OUR LOCALITIES BECAUSE NORMALLY IT COSTS THAT MUCH IN TERMS OF, UH, OF OUR EXPENSES EVERY YEAR.

WELL, I APPRECIATE, I JUST WANT TO SAY, I APPRECIATE YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE DRUG COURT.

UM, YOUR PARTICIPATION IS CRITICAL TO THIS PERFORMANCE AND WELL, TO EVEN LAUNCHING A DRUG COURT, HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE OTHER SERVICES COME IN TO HELP AUGMENT WHAT YOU OFFER, UM, AS A RESULT OF THE DRUG COURT BEING FORMED.

UM, SO THAT WILL BENEFIT THIS ENTIRE COMMUNITY.

I'M HOPING WE DO SEE A MAJOR BOOST IN THE SERVICES AS A RESULT OF THAT DRUG COURT, THE SMALL NUMBER OF CLIENTS IN DRUG COURTS SAY WE REACHED 10 CLIENTS IN THAT FIRST YEAR.

WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE 80 CLIENTS THAT COME FROM THE COMMUNITY THAT ARE PART OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, BECAUSE WE'LL HAVE THAT CAPACITY.

SO THAT'S GOING TO BE A MAJOR.

AND THAT, AND THAT CERTAINLY WAS A FACTOR IN OUR EVALUATION OF THE INVESTMENT INTO THIS PROGRAM.

UM, BECAUSE WE DO, WE ARE DESPERATE FOR SERVICES AND WARREN COUNTY, YOUNG PEOPLE ARE OVERDOSING RECORD AND ALARMING RATES.

AND SO WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING AND IT'S BETTER THAN DOING NOTHING.

SO ANYWAY, WE'RE, I'M VERY THANKFUL FOR YOUR HELP AND I'M THANKFUL FOR ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.

SO THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A DISPLAY OUT THERE.

BACK TO THE MEETING AGENDA.

SO WE DID A MOTION LAST TIME.

SO IF SOMEONE WOULD, WOULD, UH, UH, MOVE TO RESUME THE REGULAR MEETING, I MOVED TO RESUME THE REGULAR MEETING.

SECOND ROLL CALL, MRS. HAYES, MR. MABE, MRS. COOK.

REPORTS OF BOARD MEMBERS.

[G. Reports – Board Members, County Administrator, County Attorney]

THIS IS COOK.

UH, YES.

UM, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND START MY REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES GOING ON AT THE AIRPORT.

SO, UH, THE AIRPORT HAS CREATED A EVENT SUB COMMITTEE AND THEY HAVE PUT TOGETHER A COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC EVENT.

THAT'S GOING TO BE IN OCTOBER, OCTOBER 8TH, AND THEY'RE CALLING IT WINGS AND WHEELS.

AND, UM, THEY'RE GOING TO, UM, HAVE, UH, I'M GOING TO CALL IT A SHINDIG, IF YOU WILL.

YOU KNOW THAT IT'S GOING TO, UM, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE, OF THE EVENT IT'S REALLY TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.

CAUSE WE'VE DONE A LOT OF NEAT STUFF OUT THERE.

WE PAINTED THE ROOF, WE KIND OF WORKED DOWN ON THE RUNWAY AND IT IS, IT'S LOOKING REALLY NICE.

SO, UM, WHAT THEIR, THE, THE EVENT IS GOING, WE'RE GOING TO BE HOSTING THE HILLTOWN CRUISER CLUB.

SO THAT'S THE, THE WHEELS PART.

AND THEN, UM, WE OF COURSE WILL HAVE THE, UM, FRONT RURAL SKYDIVING WILL BE THERE, BUT BE PART OF THIS EVENT, UH, SKYLINE SOARING CLUB OF, UH, SOME OF THE AIRPORT TENANTS ARE GOING TO BE DISPLAYING THEIR AIRCRAFT OUT THERE.

WE HAVE SOME REAL NICE, I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO THE MODELS OR ANYTHING, BUT I UNDERSTAND THEY'RE REALLY COOL STUFF TO COME OUT AND LOOK AT.

UM, WE ALSO REACH OUT TO AIR, UM, AIR CARE.

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SO FAMILIES AND KIDS COULD COME OUT AND CHECK OUT THE HELICOPTERS, SEE WHAT WE'RE DOING.

AND THEN ALSO THERE'S, UM, UH, THE S UH, THE EAA, AND DON'T ASK ME WHAT THAT STANDS FOR, BUT IT'S THE AVIATION ASSOCIATION AND, AND THEY HAVE A SPIRIT OF AVIATION AND WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO.

THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A WOMEN IN AVIATION TABLE IN THE TERMINAL TO REACH OUT TO WOMEN IN THE AVIATION.

SO, UM, WE'RE REALLY EXCITED.

AND OH, AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE FOOD AND DRINKS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO EVERYONE'S GETTING REAL EXCITED AND IT SEEMS LIKE IT MIGHT BE GROWING AS FAR AS THE ACTIVITIES THAT WE'RE PUTTING OUT THERE BECAUSE I'M SEEING EMAILS TO GO.

WHAT ABOUT LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL FUNDRAISING XYZ.

SO, UM, IT'S GOING TO BE A, A REALLY BIG EVENT.

I THINK.

UM, I WANT TO THANK, UH, DISCOVER FRONT ROYAL.

UM, I REACHED OUT TO THEM AND THEY'VE ACCEPTED TO, TO PROMOTE, PROMOTE OUR EVENT, USING THEIR DIFFERENT SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS THAT THEY HAVE AVAILABLE.

UM, THEY'RE GOING TO, YOU KNOW, ADD IT TO THEIR EVENTS CALENDAR.

SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE OUT THERE HELPING US PROMOTE AND TO GET, UH, THE COMMUNITY AND THE PUBLIC OUT TO THE EVENT.

SO, UM, SO TO KIND OF WATCH THAT SPOT AS WE MOVE TOWARDS OCTOBER, UM, WHEN THERE'S NEW THINGS ADDING ON TO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING OUT THERE, I'LL JUST UPDATE EVERYONE HERE AT THE BOARD.

AND SO, UH, I'M REALLY EXCITED.

I'M REALLY EXCITED AND EVERYONE ELSE'S TOO, IT'S REALLY GREAT TO SEE OUR INTERNAL DEPARTMENTS WHO SUPPORT THE AIRPORT ON TOP OF THE AIRPORT COMMISSION AND THE TENANTS.

UM, IT, IT'S A REALLY GOOD ENERGY.

UM, LASTLY, JUST TO UPDATE WHAT, UH, WHAT THE, SOME BUSINESSES GOING ON AT THE AIRPORT, UH, WE'RE GOING TO, UM, RENT OUT THE AIRPORT HOUSE TO SKYLINE, UM, UH, SKYDIVING FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER TO KIND OF HELP THEM THROUGH SOME, UM, UH, BUSINESS, YOU KNOW, SPACE STUFF.

SO I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT AND, UM, WE'LL BE, PROBABLY SEE THE, THE, THE AGREEMENT COMING, YOU KNOW, IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

UM, LASTLY I ATTENDED THE FOUR, I THINK IT WAS, I ATTENDED THIS WHEN I WAS A CANDIDATE, BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I ATTENDED THIS AS A, UM, A BOARD MEMBER THAT I, UM, I ATTENDED THE, WITH THE WARREN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE COMMUNITY ADVERTISEMENT COUNCIL.

IN OTHER WORDS, THEY CALL THEMSELVES CAC.

AND, UM, THIS, IN THIS COUNCIL THAT IT'S, THAT GOES ON, UH, BY MONTHLY, IT, THERE IT'S COMPOSED OF CITIZENS IN THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AND WITH THEIR, UM, THEIR MISSION TO SHARE INFORMATION AND, AND COORDINATE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTIVITIES.

AND THIS IS THE, TO STRAIGHTEN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.

IT GIVES THEM A FORUM FOR CITIZENS TO COME AND, UH, TALK ABOUT ISSUES THAT ARE GOING ON IN THE COMMUNITY.

AND IT ALSO GIVES LAW ENFORCEMENT THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO SEE WHAT THEY CAN DO TO FIX IT.

BUT IT IT'S, IT'S A, UH, BUILDING RELATIONSHIP, UM, FORUM.

SO AS AN EXAMPLE, UH, THE TYPES OF TALK TOPICS, UH, WHAT WAS IT A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO? I MEAN, THEY TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SR SRO AND, UM, SHERIFF MOCK, UM, EMERGENCY TRAINING EXERCISES THAT AT THE SCHOOL THAT THEY, THEY GO OUT AND THEY WORK WITH, UM, THE SCHOOLWORK, UM, FIRE AND RESCUE.

THEY, UM, THEY ATTENDED THE MEETING THAT I WAS AT AND THEY SHARED THEIR ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION ABOUT COUNTY FIRE STATIONS.

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING? UM, THERE WERE, THEY ALSO MENTIONED ABOUT US, OF COURSE, SEPTEMBER IS SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH.

AND THE SHERIFF IS THEY'RE PLANNING TO DO A EVENT ON, ON SEPTEMBER 18TH AT THE MOOSE CLUB.

SO I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE INFORMATION ON THAT, BUT I'M SURE THAT'S GOING TO BE POSTED OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

AND THEN, THEN THEY TALKED ABOUT THE TRIAD, UM, UH, WHICH IS A, WHICH IS A, I GUESS, A PROGRAM THAT, UM, FOCUSED ON REDUCING CRIMES AGAINST OUR SENIORS AND HOW THEY REACH OUT TO OUR SENIORS, GO TO THE SENIOR CENTERS AND, UM, HELPING THEM TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S OUT THERE FOR THEM.

AND, AND THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO ME BECAUSE I DO, UM, UH, VOLUNTEER AT THE WARREN KENNESAW SENIOR CENTER, DELIVERING FOOD, AND I LOVE OUR SENIORS.

SO THAT, THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, UH, IT, IT WAS VERY INFORMATIONAL FOR ME.

SO ANYWAY, JUST SO FOLKS KNOW THAT THIS COUNCIL MEETS BY WEEK BY MONTHLY.

AND I THINK THE NEXT MEETING THEY SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 21ST.

SO I'LL BE POSTING THIS ON MY FACEBOOK AS WE COME ALONG AND THEN THEY ALWAYS MEET IN THE PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING.

AND SO IF ANYBODY IS INTERESTED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT THIS PRO, UH, WHAT THE SHARE OF THE CAC IS, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN REACH OUT TO THE, THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT THEY HAVE ON THEIR WEBSITE.

THEY HAVE A WHOLE NICE LITTLE PAGE THERE ABOUT IT AND WHO YOU CAN CONTACT AND HOW

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YOU CAN GET INVOLVED.

SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT IT WAS REALLY A GOOD MEETING AND, UM, AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO REPORT.

THANK YOU, MR. MABE.

WOW.

UM, I'M JUST GOING TO HIT THE MAJOR POINTS ON, ON MY, MY WEEK LAST WEEK.

UH, WE HAD AN EDA MEETING THAT I ATTENDED, UM, THE RSW JAIL.

UH, I W I ATTENDED AS THE ALTERNATE THERE, UH, ALONG WITH, UM, MRS. OATES, UM, SHANNON DAUGHTER, SANITARY DISTRICT, THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

UH, WE HAD A MEETING LAST MONDAY.

UM, IT'S ACTUALLY A GOOD MEETING.

UM, AND, UH, I ALSO INTERVIEWED WITH TWO CONSTITUENTS FOR THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, AND I ALSO WENT TO VISIT, UH, EITHER DIRECTLY OR VIA PHONE OR VIA EMAIL, UH, CONSTITUENTS IN SHANNON OR FARM SHANNON DOOR SHORES, BLUE MOUNTAIN, AND THE ROCK ROCKLAND AREA.

AND, UH, THAT'S, THAT'S MY SIMPLE REPORT THIS WEEK.

THANK YOU, SIR.

MRS. OATS.

YES, MA'AM.

UM, I SPENT A LOT OF MY LAST WEEK IN SCHOOL MEETINGS.

UM, THE FIRST ONE, THE, WE, WE HAVE MET, UH, RECENTLY IN THE FINANCE SUB COMMITTEE MEETING TO DISCUSS FUNDING OF THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS AND MOVING FORWARD WITH, UM, A TWO YEAR MORE PLANNED STYLE BUDGET SO THAT WE, NO ONE IS SURPRISED, UM, BY THE CONCERNS OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.

AND, UM, THEY'RE NOT SURPRISED AT OUR LACK OF MONEY.

AND SO ANYWAY, SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THE COMMUNICATION CHANNELS ARE WORKING.

UM, AND WE ALSO HAD AN ADVANCE AND THE ADVANCE WAS EXCELLENT AND IT WAS TODAY.

AND I ATTENDED THAT WITH, UM, WITH, UH, CHAIRMAN COLORS AND DR.

DALEY, AND IT WAS AN ADVANCE TO DISCUSS MOVING COMMUNICATION CHANNELS FORWARD, UM, BUILDING TRUST BETWEEN THE TWO BODIES.

AND I THOUGHT IT WAS AN EXCELLENT, UM, COUPLE OF HOURS SPENT AND HOPEFULLY YOU'LL HEAR MORE, UM, INITIATIVES FROM THAT MEETING.

UH, I ALSO AM WORKING WITH, UM, DR.

BALLENGER TO ESTABLISH A GOVERNMENT DAY.

UM, I LOVE YOUNG PEOPLE AND I WANT YOUNG PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS.

AND SO I WORKING WITH HIM TO HOPEFULLY ESTABLISH A GOVERNMENT DAY IN THE SPRING WHERE STUDENTS CAN COME IN AND SIT IN THESE CHAIRS AND MAYBE DO A MOCK DECISION PROCESS OF SOME SORT AND, UH, GIVE THEM THE ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

UM, I THINK THAT, UM, UH, GENTLEMEN, I'M, I WISH I COULD REMEMBER HIS NAME, BUT ANYWAY, HE SAID, ALL POLITICS ARE LOCAL AND HE'S RIGHT, BECAUSE YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AFFECTS YOU WAY MORE THAN FEDERAL DECISIONS, ZONING, AND ROAD DECISIONS, AND ALL THOSE THINGS AFFECT YOUR LIFE A LOT MORE THAN, THAN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOES.

SO KIDS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT.

UM, I ALSO PARTICIPATED IN DISCOVER FRONT ROYAL.

UM, I AM HELPING THESE GUYS.

UM, I, YOU KNOW, I'M A RECRUITER FULL-TIME, AND I'M HELPING THESE GUYS MAYBE, UH, ATTRACT SOME DIRECTORS, TOURISM DIRECTORS.

AND SO, UM, I HAVE A LITTLE DATABASE OF LOTS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, AND, UH, I SOURCED A COUPLE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY APPLIED.

SO THEY'RE GOING TO BE INTERVIEWING FOLKS IN THE UPCOMING, UM, WEEKS FOR THAT POSITION FOR THE DIRECTOR.

AND, UM, OUR , I ATTENDED THAT MEETING AS WELL, AND THEY'RE HAVING STAFFING ISSUES.

SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A JOB OR YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING IN YOUR RETIREMENT YEARS, OR ANY OF THOSE THINGS ARE STILL, YOU WOULD WELCOME THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE OPENINGS THAT THEY HAVE THERE.

THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

LOT MORE TO DEAL WITH, AND WE DO BEING A LARGER DEPARTMENT, BUT, UM, IT WAS A REALLY GOOD MEETING.

UM, ON AUGUST 26TH, DR.

DALEY, MRS. SCOTT, SERGEANT FRITZ AND MYSELF WENT UP TO THE FREDERICK COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

UM, I WAS IN, I GOT A CALL AFTER OUR MEETING WHERE WE DID VOTE TO GET THE SHERIFF HAS FOUR VEHICLES AND TOLD I NEEDED AN EDUCATION ON PROCUREMENT OF POLICE VEHICLES.

AND I WOULD SAY, WELL, I'M ALL FOR LEARNING AS MUCH AS I CAN.

UM, AND SO WE WERE INVITED UP TO GET AN EDUCATION ON, UM, WHO THE WOES OF, UM, PROCUREMENT IT'S ACROSS THE BOARD, BUT ESPECIALLY GETTING, UH, POLICE VEHICLES.

AND IT WAS A REALLY GOOD MEETING.

UM, I LEARNED A LOT.

I, YOU KNOW, IF I'M WRONG ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM ADMITTING IT.

AND IF I DON'T HAVE THE INFORMATION AND SOMEBODY IS WILLING TO GIVE IT, I'M WILLING TO LISTEN.

SO, UM, LIKE I SAID, WE, WE GOT A LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION THAT GENTLEMEN IS THE FLEET MANAGEMENT OFFICER FOR THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.

AND I FORGET HOW MANY THEY GET, THEY HAVE A WHOLE

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AND WHAT WE ARE DOING NOW IS FACT FINDING, AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A WORK SESSION WITH THE BOARD TO FIGURE OUT WHERE WE GO AND HOW WE CAN BEST MANAGE, UM, OUR FLEET AND GET THE BEST BANG FOR THE TAXPAYER'S BUCK WHILE DOING IT.

UM, THEN ON AUGUST 29TH, WE HAD A MEETING, UH, WITH PARK AND REC WE'RE REORGANIZING.

THEY'RE TRYING TO, UM, AGAIN, FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN BEST MANAGE, UM, OUR DEPARTMENTS TO OPTIMIZE OUR TAXPAYERS DOLLARS, TO THE BEST BENEFIT AND, UM, GIVE THE BEST SERVICES WE CAN FOR THE COMMUNITY.

AND, UH, SO THAT'S A WORK IN PROGRESS AS WELL.

I THINK WE'RE HEADED DOWN A GOOD ROAD FOR THAT PERSONALLY THEN ON AUGUST 31ST, WE, UH, HAD A SMALL MEETING, UM, WITH CAPTAIN MEDICO AND A COUPLE OF OUR VOLUNTEER, UH, SYSTEMS. WE HAVE, UM, AN INCENTIVE PROGRAM THAT HAS BEEN AROUND MID NINETIES.

I THINK CHIEF SITTING BACK HERE, SOMEWHERE, SOMEONE, UM, AND IT HASN'T BEEN UPDATED.

SO WE ARE WORKING WITH THE VOLUNTEERS ON A NEW POLICY THAT MAKES IT, UM, FAIR AND EQUITABLE BECAUSE OUR SYSTEM IS, WE ARE NOT PRIMARILY A VOLUNTEER SYSTEM.

WE'RE A BLENDED SYSTEM.

AND THE VOLUNTEER SYSTEM ITSELF HAS CHANGED WHERE YOU HAVE MORE PEOPLE DOING ADMINISTRATIVE OR FUNDRAISING THAN ACTIVE, UM, FIREFIGHT IN AN EMS CALL.

SO WE'RE TRYING TO FAIRLY DISTRIBUTE THAT INCENTIVE SO THAT EVERYBODY HAS AN OPPORTUNITY, UM, TO GET THAT INCENTIVE.

AND, UM, WE, UH, IT WAS A GOOD MEETING.

WE WILL READDRESS THAT.

AND, UM, I THINK CAPTAIN MEDICO'S TWEAKING IT AND WE'LL PROBABLY TWEAK IT AGAIN, BUT IT WAS, IT WAS A GOOD MEETING.

UM, SEPTEMBER 1ST WE MET, WE WERE INVITED TO MEET WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD, UH, FOR THAT ADVANCE.

AND, UM, I THOUGHT IT WENT REALLY WELL.

IT WAS A GOOD AFTERNOON.

UH, AND I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME MORE WHERE IT BRANCHES OUT, NOT JUST, UM, THE CHAIR, VICE CHAIR OF EACH BOARD, BUT THE BOTH BOARDS, THE ENTIRETY.

SO I LOOK FORWARD TO DOING THAT.

WE, UM, WE ALL SAY THE SAME THING.

WE WANT TO WORK WELL TOGETHER, BUT WE HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO WORK.

WELL, WE'RE A DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY NOW, SO WE'RE FIGURING OUT HOW NOT TO BE DYSFUNCTIONAL.

SO, AND THE OTHER THING, UH, GOVERNMENT DAY, WE, UM, THE CERTIFIED SUPERVISOR CLASS, MRS. OATES, AND I TOOK, THERE WAS A QUESTION PUT OUT TO ALL OF THE GRADUATES ABOUT A CITIZENS, UM, GROUP OF WHERE YOU BRING IN.

UM, AND I FORGET THE TWO CATEGORIES OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD THAT THEY WANTED TO KNOW HAD ANY OF THE LOCALITIES DONE THESE CITIZENS ACADEMIES.

AND I SAID, WE HADN'T, BUT I WAS INTERESTED IN LEARNING.

SO OUR INSTRUCTOR, MIKE CHANDLER, WHO IS JUST AN AMAZING INSTRUCTOR, I THINK HE KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT VIRGINIA GOVERNMENT.

AND HE MUST KNOW EVERYBODY THAT'S EVER BEEN IN VIRGINIA GOVERNMENT SINCE HE'S BEEN ALIVE, HAS OFFERED TO TEACH THAT.

AND, UM, I FORGET THE TWO TOPICS, BUT WE'RE GONNA WORK WITH THAT.

ONE WAS PLANNING AND WHAT LOCAL GOVERNMENT, GOVERNOR AND PLANNING.

PLANNING AND ZONING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLANNING AND ZONING IS HUGE BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENT BUCKETS.

THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT HERE IN TOWN.

SO WHEN WE GET THAT, UM, ORGANIZED AND FIGURED OUT, WE'LL GET THAT OUT TO EVERYONE.

BUT I, I THOUGHT THAT WAS ANOTHER GREAT OPPORTUNITY AND HE IS A PHENOMENAL TEACHER.

YOU WILL NOT GET BORED WITH THEM.

SO THAT IS MY REPORT.

DR.

DALEY, THANK YOU, MR. JONES.

AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE DANNY AND SAM WHO WORKED VERY HARD TO MAKE MR. JONES LOOK GOOD.

AND WE'VE BEEN ADDING ON TO THAT, TRYING TO GET, WE DO A GREAT JOB.

SO I WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU ALL TO PAUL BARBER.

UM, PAUL'S OUR LATEST SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN.

TODAY'S HIS FIRST DAY.

SO WE HAVE OUR INAUGURAL LUNCH AND OUR FAVORITE IT HANGOUT.

I'LL GIVE YOU ONE GUESS WHERE THAT IS, BUT SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT IDEA.

UM, PAUL'S PREVIOUSLY WORKED FOR WEST CORP, WHICH IS A CONTRACTOR FOR V DOT.

HE, UH, INSTALLED SOME BASIC NETWORK MAINTENANCE INSTALLED FIREWALLS AND TRAFFIC SIGNAL NETWORKS.

HE SPENT SOME TIME WORKING FOR THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLAN,

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HE, UH, PREVIOUSLY ENROLLED IN LAUREL RIDGE, TAKING SOME BASIC COMPUTER CLASSES AND HAS SEVERAL CERTIFICATIONS AND BASIC TECH SUPPORT.

THE GREAT THING ABOUT PAUL IS HE'S GOT A GREAT POSITIVE CAN-DO ATTITUDE.

HE'LL BE A GREAT ADDITION TO THE TEAM.

I JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU GUYS IN OUR DIRECTION.

SO WELCOME TO, I JUST SAID, LET'S DO LUNCH BACK.

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.

WELCOME.

AND THAT WILL ALLOW US TO CONSOLIDATE ALL OF OUR STAFF AND COORDINATE TO MAKE SURE WE ALL KNOW WHAT EVERYBODY'S DOING UP THERE, THIS RIGHT HAND AND THE LIFE LEFT-HAND BUSINESS OVER THERE.

SO, UM, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT A NUMBER OF PROJECTS UP HERE AND EVERYBODY ON THE BOARD IS VERY BUSY WITH SOME THINGS AND WE'D NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RIGHT HAND KNOWS WHERE THE LEFT HAND IS AND EVERYBODY'S GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IT'S ALL THE SAME DIRECTION WHERE WE'RE GOING.

SO NEXT TUESDAY, UM, BEGINNING, WE WILL HAVE, UH, SOMETHING FOR YOU AT FIVE O'CLOCK.

AND WE WILL BEGIN OUR SESSION WITH SHARON AND CARLA AT FIVE 30.

AND WE WILL BE REVIEWING THIS PAST YEAR, BUT PRIMARILY TALKING ABOUT WHERE YOU, THE BOARD WANTS TO GO THIS NEXT YEAR.

AND WHAT'S YOUR VISION IS THIS NEXT YEAR, WHAT YOU HAVE.

AND, UM, KIND OF WITH THAT IN MIND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE, UH, TOURISM AND OUT OF ONE OF THE EARLY SESSIONS, TWO YEARS AGO, TOURISM WAS A PRIORITY AND WE'VE MOVED THAT FORWARD.

AND WE TALKED ABOUT A DRUG PROGRAM BACK THEN, AND WE'VE MOVED THAT FORWARD.

AND WE TALKED ABOUT BROADBAND AND YOU HEARD WHERE WE ARE ON BROADBAND, UH, THERE, AND YOU, WE TALKED ABOUT BACK THEN, WELL, WHAT'S GOING ON AT THE AIRPORT? WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE AIRPORT? AND NOW WE'VE GOT A CHAMPION MOVING THAT AIRPORT LONG, AND WE'VE GOT OUR SANITARY DISTRICTS AND SOME OF THOSE, AND WE HAVE SOMEBODY WORKING WITH THOSE SANITARY DISTRICTS, AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO NEED ANOTHER CHAMPION.

SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES UP THERE.

UH, WE HAVE HEARD NUMEROUS TIMES WHEN OUR MEETINGS WITH THE TOWN COUNCIL AND WITH OTHER GROUPS ON THE NEED FOR A 20, 22 YOUTH CENTER, SOMETHING THAT WE CAN'T REALLY DEFINE, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT IS BECAUSE WE'RE NOT 2020 TO USE.

SO THAT'S THAT WHAT WE HAVE IN MIND IS NOT GOING TO WORK.

AND SO WE ARE FORMING A COMMITTEE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE, UH, 20, 22 YOUTH, UH, ORIENTED AND INCLUDING THOSE YOUTH.

AND WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOUR SUGGESTIONS AS WHO MIGHT BE ON THIS COMMITTEE.

THIS WILL BE MORE OF AN AD HOC COMMITTEE, SIMILAR TO THE BROADBAND COMMITTEE, THE TOURISM COMMITTEE, THAT DRUG COMMITTEE, ALL OF WHICH ARE INFORMAL GROUPS THAT MEET ON A REGULAR BASIS, BUT THEY'RE JUST THERE TO COME AND DO A PROJECT TO MOVE IN THAT DIRECTION.

WE HAVE BEGUN, UH, CONSOLIDATING OUR, UM, MAINTENANCE CREWS WITH PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS AND EFFECTIVE THE 18, NO 1819, EXCUSE ME, THE 19TH, MONDAY, THE 19TH PAYROLL FOR SUNDAY, THE 18TH, MONDAY, THE 18TH, 19TH, RATHER THEY MAINTENANCE CREWS WILL BE TOGETHER AND THEY WILL ALL BE WORKING FOR MR. KOHLFELD AND THEN MR. BARRY, AND THEY ARE PRACTICING DOING THAT THIS PAST WEEK, WORKING ON CLEARING OUT THESE ISLANDS AND GETTING THEM STRAIGHTENED OUT AND WE'LL WIN THE DRIES UP A BIT.

WE'LL GET BACK OUT THERE AND WORK ON THOSE SOME MORE.

UH, THEN THE NEXT STEP OF THIS IS THAT OUR STAFF AT THE YOUTH CENTER, MR. AND HIS STAFF WILL MOVE OVER TO THE COMMUNITY CENTER.

SO ON THAT WILL BE THE 1ST OF OCTOBER.

AND I THINK THAT MIGHT BE A SATURDAY.

THAT MIGHT BE A FRIDAY OR A SAT.

IT MIGHT BE A SATURDAY RATHER, WHATEVER IT IS, THE FIRST MONDAY THERE, THEY WILL BE OVER THERE THE FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER, THE FIRST IS OUR DATE FOR THAT.

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AND IT WILL ALSO ALLOW US TO PREPARE MORE SPACE TO CREATE THIS YOUTH CENTER.

AND WE'VE GOT A NUMBER OF OTHER GROUPS THAT, UH, USE THE YOUTH CENTER AND WE'LL BE WORKING WITH THEM ON HOW MANY OF THOSE CAN BE IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND HOW MANY WE HAVE TO HELP BE ELSEWHERE AND WHAT THOSE ARRANGEMENTS ARE GOING TO BE SO THAT WE CAN ESTABLISH THIS YOUTH CENTER.

AND WE'LL SEE HOW THAT MOVES FORWARD.

IT'S A WORK IN PROGRESS AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

MA'AM WELL, I DEFINITELY WANT TO BE A PART OF THAT COMMITTEE.

UM, THAT'S BEEN ONE OF THE THINGS I CAN'T PUT MY FINGER ON WHAT TO DO, BUT WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING FOR THE YOUTH THEN.

UM, AND I'VE ALREADY REACHED OUT TO A COUPLE OF PEOPLE THAT ARE VERY MUCH INTERESTED AS WELL, UM, THAT WE HAD DISCUSSED BEFORE.

THAT MIGHT BE A JOINT COOPERATION ON THAT.

SO I'M REAL EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

UM, ANY QUESTIONS FOR DR.

DALEY ON ANY OF THE TOPICS I MIGHT MENTION TO MRS. COOK, SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE WINGS AND WHEELS IF SHE ASKED REAL NICE I'LL BET SHE COULD GET CHIEF PANZANO TO BRING A COUPLE OF FIRE TRUCKS AND AN AMBULANCE CROSS THE STREET WE'RE ALREADY WORKING ON THAT.

MA'AM MR. HAM.

I HAVE NO REPORT MOVING ON THE AGENDA, BUT CONSENT

[H. Consent Agenda]

AGENDA.

ARE THERE ANY ITEMS TO PULL FOR DISCUSSION? YEAH.

UM, YEAH, I'D LIKE TO MOVE ON H, 19 OR DISCUSSION.

AND I HAVE A QUESTION ON EIGHT.

DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION ON THE NEED OF THE OTHER ITEMS? IF NOT, IS THERE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE CONSENT AGENDA THAT IS PRESENTED WITH, UM, ITEM EIGHT AND I AM 19 POOL FOR DISCUSSION.

SO MOVED SECOND ROLL CALL, MRS. HAYES, MR. MABE, MRS. COOK.

HI, MADAM CHAIR.

I MRS. MR. BUTLER.

MRS. KERR BUTLER HAD TO WEEK HE SNUCK OUT ON YOU.

UM, MRS. COOK NUMBER

[H19. Authorization to Advertise for Public Hearing – Z2022-05-01, Ordinance to Amend Warren County Code Sections 180-8, 180-28, 180-28.1 & 180-43.3 re: Light Industrial (LI) Zoning District and Data Centers – Matt Wendling]

19.

YEAH, I JUST WANTED JUST TO GET SOME CLARIFICATION ON THIS.

SO WHAT WERE, UM, LET ME PULL IT UP REAL QUICK.

I'M SORRY.

SO THE AGENDA, THE TOPIC IS JUST TO AMEND ZONING TEXT TO OUR CURRENT CURRENT ORDINANCE.

AND, UM, AND WHAT I'M, YOU KNOW, UNDERSTOOD CAUSE I MADE PHONE CALLS LAST NIGHT AND TALKING TO ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE, BUT ANY EVENT.

SO THE ALL WE'RE DOING IS THAT WE ARE, UM, REVISING THE ORDINANCE TO ADD, UM, LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONING IN OUR COUNTY.

AND BY WHAT I SEE HERE IS THAT AT THE, UH, UNDER THE STATEMENT OF INTENT, THE DISTRICT IS, UM, ENLIGHTENED INDUSTRIAL USE XYZ.

AND THE USES OF THE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT IS, IS GOING TO BE PERMITTED BY, RIGHT.

AND THEN YOU HAVE A LIST OF DIFFERENT TYPE OF, UM, BUSINESSES ON MEMES, YOU KNOW, OR USES OF THE LAND IF YOU WILL.

SO IN, IN ONE QUESTION I DO HAVE IS THAT, UM, SO FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES RIGHT NOW.

I KNOW WE HAVE INDUSTRIAL OUT THERE, LIKE ON THE CORRIDOR AND YOU, UM, THERE'S LITTLE SPOTS HERE AND THERE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.

SO ARE WE GOING TO BE REZONING ANY OF THE CURRENT INDUSTRIAL PROPERTIES TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL OR IS LIGHT INDUSTRIAL KIND OF LIKE A CHILD OF INDUSTRIAL, RIGHT.

UM, I JUST NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT.

IN THE CORRIDOR, ALONG WITH THE INDUSTRIAL, THEN WE WOULD WANT TO GO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL, UNLESS THAT APPLICANT HAS A USE THAT'S LISTED SPECIFICALLY FOR INDUSTRIAL, MORE, MORE APPLICABLE TO AN INDUSTRIAL.

UM, BECAUSE WITH THE DATA CENTER, I'LL JUST KINDA ADDRESS THAT, UH, IT'S A LISTED USE IN BOTH.

WE SHOULD BE ABLE, WE SHOULD BE, WE WON'T HAVE TO RESEMBLE IF IT'S A PROPERTY THAT'S CURRENTLY LIKE COMMERCIAL, WHICH WE HAVE A LOT OF COMMERCIAL

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SO WOULD THEY HAVE TO COME IN AND REQUEST TO TAKE AN INDUSTRIAL PIECE OF PROPERTY AND REZONE IT TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL? IF IT WAS A USE THAT, UM, WAS MORE APPLICABLE TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL, THEY COULD DO THAT.

UH, IF IT'S THE SAME USE, UM, UH, SOME OF THESE MIGHT BE BY CP OR BY RIGHT.

UH, LISTED AS A USE IN THE INDUSTRIAL AND THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO NECESSARILY REZONE.

UM, THEY ARE, SOME OF THESE USES ARE, ARE SIMILAR IN BOTH THIS DISTRICT.

BECAUSE IN MY SIMPLE LINE OF THE ZONING, I KEEP SEEING THIS PICTURE HERE, I, OUR LAND FLAT, AND THIS IS COMMERCIAL, THIS IS INDUSTRIAL XYZ.

SOMETHING LIKE GOING, SO WHERE IN THAT MAP, DO I SEE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL? RIGHT.

SO IT'S JUST, UM, I GUESS IT'S JUST MORE OF A NEED THAT MAKE COME UP AND THEN WE'D HAVE TO DETERMINE IF A PIECE OF COMMERCIAL PROPERTY OR INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY CAN BE CONSIDERED LIGHT INDUSTRY.

WOULD IT BE MORE CONDUCIVE TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL? AND THAT WOULD BE THAT LANE YOU SENT THIS LIST OF THINGS HERE.

THAT'S CORRECT.

AND, AND WE WOULD MEET WITH A STAFF.

GO AHEAD, MR. DENNIS COMMENT, THAT ALSO INCLUDES RESIDENTIAL THAT'S CORRECT.

SO RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY COULD BE REZONED TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL.

ALSO JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND, BECAUSE THAT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE ON WHERE THIS HAPPENS.

WE HAVE SOME SMALL RESIDENTIAL, LOTS IN THE CORRIDOR ALSO, AND, UH, THERE'S POTENTIAL THERE THAT IT COULD HAPPEN.

SO LET'S JUST SAY, I WANT TO OPEN UP A DAYCARE OR NURSERY FACILITY AND I GO OUT AT NIGHT, UH, FIND A PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT'S IN, UM, A COMMERCIAL AREA IN ORDER FOR ME TO, UH, TO OPEN UP THIS FACILITY, I'D HAVE TO COME BACK TO THE PLANNING AND ASKED TO, TO BE REZONED AS A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT.

THAT'S CORRECT.

YOU COULD, IF IT W IF IT WAS AN AGRICULTURAL, IT'S A LISTED USE IN AGRICULTURAL ALSO, SO IT REALLY DEPENDS UPON.

SO, YEAH, SO WE WOULD LOOK AT KIND OF THE BIG PICTURE.

IF THERE WAS TYPICALLY WE LOOK AT WHAT'S THE ADJOINING PROPERTIES, IF THEY'RE ADJOINING BY AGRICULTURAL, THEN OBVIOUSLY THE AGRICULTURAL, UH, WOULD BE THE, MAKE THE MORE SENSE IF THEY'RE A JOINED BY INDUSTRIAL OR COMMERCIAL, OR WE'LL JUST SAY INDUSTRIAL, THEN IT MIGHT BE THAT THAT LAND USE THE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL WOULD BE, WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

SO IT REALLY DEPENDS UPON WHERE WE'RE AT IN THE, IN THE COUNTY, IF YOU'RE LOOKING IN THE CORRIDOR IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, WE'RE LOOKING MORE ALONG THE LINES OF LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USE.

SO THE ONE THING I WILL MENTION WITH ANY TYPE OF ZONING OR WE'RE REZONING, A PROPERTY, WE WOULD MEET WITH THE APPLICANT, YOU KNOW, AND FIND OUT WHAT TO USE THEY'RE LOOKING SPECIFICALLY TO DO AND ADDRESS THAT USE SPECIFIC TO THE UNDERLYING ZONING DISTRICT.

WHAT WOULD BE NECESSARY? WOULD IT BE A BI-RITE, WOULD IT BE A CONDITIONALLY PERMITTED USE? UH, AND THEN WE KIND OF GO FROM THERE BEFORE WE EVEN BROUGHT IT FORWARD TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION OR BOARD.

SO, UM, LAST QUESTION IN THE, UM, OUR TITLE PAGE HERE, IT SAID ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH, THE PLANNING COMMISSION WILL VOTE ON THE APPLICATION BECAUSE OF VARIOUS REASONS.

SO WHAT IF THE PLANNING COMMISSION COMES BACK AND SAYS, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE DO NOT APPROVE OF THIS.

AND HERE WE ARE BEING ASKED TO APPROVE THIS PRIOR TO THEIR APPROVAL.

AND, AND GRANTED, I KNOW IT'S JUST AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR PUBLIC HEARING, BUT I MEAN, IS THERE GOING TO BE A HICCUP IN THE PROCESS? UM, IF THE PLANNING COMMITTEE COMES BACK AND SAYS, WE DON'T APPROVE THIS, DOES THAT AFFECT OUR VOTE AND LETTING IT GO OUT FOR PUBLIC HEARING? NO, NO, NO, IT DOES NOT.

IT, THE FIRST, IF THEY DID DENY IT, THEY HAVE TO LIST REASONS.

WHY THEY'RE DENYING IT.

UM, AND IT WOULD, IT JUST ALLOWS THE

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PROCESS.

IT'S GOING THROUGH THE PLANNING COMMISSION, THEY VETTED, YOU KNOW, THE TEXT AMENDMENT AND WHATNOT.

AND, UH, WE WOULD MAKE SURE THAT YOU WOULD HAVE THEIR INFORMATION, THEIR RECOMMENDATION PRIOR TO YOUR PUBLIC HEARING, UH, ON THE APPLICATION.

AND WHEN THAT, WHEN THAT I SHOULD SAY ON THE TEXT AMENDMENT, SO THAT WOULD BE TAKEN CARE OF.

WE'RE JUST AUTHORIZING THAT PUBLIC HEARING.

NOW, UM, WE FULLY INTEND TO HAVE THE PLANNING COMMISSION MOVE THIS FORWARD THIS MONTH, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, WHETHER THEY APPROVE IT OR DENY IT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, AND THEN IT WOULD BE, IT, IT WOULD BASICALLY BE IN YOUR COURT TO MAKE A DECISION ON THAT.

I HAVE A QUESTION ON THE BUY, RIGHT? WHY WAS BUY RIGHT THERE? BECAUSE THAT, THAT MAKES ME UNCOMFORTABLE.

UM, WE TOLD THEM ABOUT FOR THE DATA CENTER.

I, IF MR. PETTY WAS HERE, HE WOULD PROBABLY BE THE BETTER THE TWO.

UM, AND MAYBE MS. LOGAN MAY HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A BETTER IDEA OF HOW THEY CAME UP WITH THAT.

WHEN I STARTED AS THE PLAN DIRECTOR AND THEY, IT KINDA CAME TO ME AND JOE SAID THAT, UH, MR. PETTY SAID THAT, UH, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT DOING FOR BUY, RIGHT.

IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO AT LEAST HAVE SOME OVERSIGHT WE WOULD HAVE IS, IS IN THE SITE PLAN, REVIEW PROCESS, UM, FOR THAT.

AND IT WOULD BE BASICALLY AN INDUSTRIAL.

I WAS ON WHAT WE CAN SAY.

WE'RE COMFORTABLE WITH THEM.

WE'RE NOT.

SO THE BUY RIGHT.

BOTHERS MEANS, CAN I ADD SOMETHING BECAUSE I'VE, I DID SOME RESEARCH ON THIS BEFORE TODAY.

SO IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS IS ALREADY ZONED LIGHT INDUSTRIAL.

THAT THAT WOULD BE A BI-RITE USE, BUT IF IT WERE AGRICULTURE OR RESIDENTIAL OR ANY OF THE ABOVE, IT WOULD STILL HAVE TO BE REZONED WITH, FOR THAT PARTICULAR USE IN MIND, REGARDLESS.

SO THE ONLY THING THAT WE'RE DOING IS PROVIDING A TEXT AMENDMENT MEASUREMENT TO INCLUDE THAT POTENTIAL USE INTO THE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL, UH, DESIGNATION.

IS THAT THAT'S CORRECT.

SO WE'RE NOT ACTUALLY GIVING ANYBODY A PERMISSION.

IF YOU WILL, TO DO A, UH, DATA CENTER IN AN AGRICULTURAL AREA, YOU STILL HAVE TO REZONE THE BRIBERY, CORRECT THE PROPERTY.

I, AND THIS, AGAIN, THIS IS JUST AUTHORIZATION TO ADVERTISE TODAY.

YOU HAVE TO STILL MAKE IT JUST PUTS IT IN OUR CODE.

THAT IT'S ABOUT THAT.

IT COULD BE ABOUT, RIGHT? YES.

I SHOULD PROBABLY MENTION THIS.

ALSO IF THE DATA CENTER IS WITHIN THE HIGHWAY CORRIDOR OVERLAY DISTRICT AND A STRUCTURE EXCEEDS 50,000 SQUARE FEET, AND THEY DO NEED A CUP FOR THAT, A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR THAT.

SO THERE IS THAT PUBLIC HEARING AND EVERYTHING INVOLVED WITH THAT GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS, AND MOST OF THESE BUILDINGS ARE PRETTY BIG.

SO THEY'RE GOING TO PROBABLY REQUIRE THAT IF WITHIN THE CORRIDOR OVERLAY DISTRICT IN THE, IN, SO TAKE HIM BY RIGHT OUT, SHOULDN'T BE ANY MORE BIG DEAL THAN PUTTING IT IN.

YOU TAKE IT OUT, YOU CAN TAKE IT OUT IF YOU WANT.

SURE.

YOU COULD PUT IT BY CVP.

AND AGAIN, THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAS HELD, THEY'RE PROBABLY HEARING AND HEARD THOSE ARGUMENTS ALSO FROM ACTUALLY WHEN THEY HAD THE MEMBER OF TOWN COME BACK BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T MAKE A DECISION.

UH, THE STORY BEHIND THAT WAS WE WERE, WE HAD THREE MEMBERS THERE THAT EVENING AT THE LAST MEETING AND OUR CHAIRMAN, MR. MEYERS, RECUSED HIMSELF FROM MAKING A DECISION FROM PARTICIPATING BECAUSE HE FELT THAT THERE WAS A PERSONAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

WE UNDERSTAND THAT.

AND THEN AT THE TIME, UH, BECAUSE WE WERE BASICALLY A TWO MEMBERS, WE WEREN'T SURE IF THAT WOULD, WE HAD A FULL QUORUM.

AND SO CONSEQUENTLY, WE JUST DECIDED TO POSTPONE THAT, THAT, UH, DECISION UNTIL THIS UPCOMING MEETING.

AND THAT'S KINDA WHERE WE'RE AT WITH THAT.

SO THAT'S, UM, IT'S BEEN A LITTLE BIT PROLONGED.

AND A LOT OF THE DIALOGUE, A LOT OF THE, UH, INFORMATION CAME OUT BASICALLY TWO MONTHS AGO, THREE MONTHS AGO NOW FOR DURING THAT PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS FOR THE PLANNING COMMISSIONS.

AND CERTAINLY IT'S, IT'S UP TO YOUR WILL AS TO WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION CAN APPROVE OR DENY IT, YOU KNOW, BASED ON WHAT THEY'VE HEARD, YOU KNOW, SO HOW THE REST OF THE BOARD FEELS, BUT IT MAKES ME UNCOMFORTABLE.

SO, BUT

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IT GETS IT ON WHEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE 23RD, 27TH MEETING, ARE WE DOING THIS MONTH? I THINK FOR PLANNING, WELL, MR. HAM, IF WE WERE TO MOVE THIS FORWARD WITH THE WORD BUY RIGHT IN THERE, DOES THAT MAKE THAT WHERE BY RIGHT.

HAS TO STAY IN FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING OR BETWEEN HOW WOULD THAT WORK? BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN ADVERTISED FOR BY RIGHT AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION WOULD BE HOLDING THEIR, UM, THEIR DECISION ON WHEN THE BUY.

THAT'S A TOUGH ZONING QUESTION FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER RIGHT HERE AND I'D WANT TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT MORE ON EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.

I MEAN, YOU'RE ALLOWED TO GENERALLY MAKE SOME CHANGES, BUT IF IT'S FUNDAMENTAL TO WHAT IT IS, AND YEAH, I THINK WE'RE MOVING BY RIGHT.

MAKES THIS WHOLE ACTIVITY POINTLESS BECAUSE THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT IS THAT WE ARE ADDING DATA CENTERS AS A USE IN LIGHT INDUSTRIAL AND INDUSTRIAL IN OUR TEXT AMENDMENT.

IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY CAN DO IT IN AN AGRICULTURAL SETTING OR RESIDENTIAL SETTING.

AND IF IT'S LARGER THAN 50,000 SQUARE FEET, THEY STILL HAVE TO HAVE A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.

SO THE PROCESS IS STILL, UH, NECESSARY FOR HOW WE TREAT IT.

IT JUST GOES INTO OUR TEXT AS A POTENTIAL USE BY RIGHT IN LIGHT, INDUSTRIAL AND INDUSTRIAL.

BUT IF THEY WERE LESS THAN 50,000 SQUARE FEET AND THEY OVERLAID SOLELY BY RIGHT IN A SITE, IN A REVIEW OF THE SITE PLAN.

WELL, AND I, I GET THAT PART, BUT LET'S SAY WE HAVE A TRACK OF LAND THAT NOBODY'S INTERESTED IN AT THIS POINT.

AND THE LANDOWNER COMES AND SAYS, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO CHANGE THIS TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL.

THEN WOW.

A DATA CENTER COMES IN AND SAYS, OH, I WANT THAT PIECE OF GLAND NOW.

AND BY RIGHT, I CAN DO IT.

AND WE HAVE NO SAY OVER IT, NO, WE HAVE TO RE WE'D HAVE TO REZONE IT TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL.

THE ZONING, THE REZONING IS A PUBLICATION.

THAT AHEAD OF TIME THOUGH, WE WOULDN'T, THAT'S WHY, BUT THEY COULDN'T REZONE IT LIGHT INDUSTRIAL WITHOUT THIS BOARD'S APPROVAL BECAUSE IT, IT MAY BE A, A TRACK OF LAND THAT'S NOT BEING USED.

BUT IF IT'S INDUSTRIAL, IT'S ONLY GOING TO BE IN A PARTICULAR LOCATION IN THE COUNTY, WHICH FRANKLY IS ON MY D IN MY DISTRICT, THERE WAS NO OTHER INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY THAT I'M AWARE OF.

AND THEN ONCE IT'S REZONED AND IT'S BY, RIGHT, YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OVER WHAT THE DATA CENTER WANTS TO DO IS WHAT MY CONCERN IS.

THERE'S TINY LITTLE PARCELS HERE AND THERE AND SEE WHERE YEAH.

IT WAS SIMILAR TO THE SHEETS PROPERTY.

I MEAN, IF THAT MAN HAD SAID HE WAS HONEST AND CAME UP FRONT AND SAID, SHEETZ IS INTERESTED IN THIS, I WANT TO REZONE IT.

WHAT IF HE HAD DECIDED TO SAY, I WANT TO REZONE IT.

AND AFTER IT WAS REUSED ZONE, SAY, SHEETZ IS INTERESTED IN, WELL, THEN YOU'RE BY WRIGHTSVILLE.

BUT A LOT OF THEM, A LOT OF REZONINGS ARE DONE THAT WAY, WHERE THE SPECIFIC ITEM IS NOT IDENTIFIED.

THIS IS A THREE STEP PROCESS.

YOU KNOW, YOU CREATE HAVING LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DATA CENTER THAT IT'S ALLOWED PERIOD INSIDE THE LIMITS OF WARREN COUNTY.

AND THEN SOMEBODY COMES IN AND APPLIES.

I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MY PROPERTY ZONED LIGHT INDUSTRIAL, OR THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

WHEN PART OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN MAY COME BACK AND SAY, WE BELIEVE THESE AREAS 1, 2, 3, 4 SHOULD BE ZONED, LIGHT INDUSTRIAL.

THEN THE THIRD STEP, IF THE FIRST TWO ARE APPROVED WOULD BE FOR SOMEONE TO PROPOSE SOME TYPE OF FACILITY ON A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY.

BUT NOTHING HAPPENS UNTIL YOU GO THROUGH ALL THREE STAFF.

I GET THAT.

BUT I'M JUST SAYING THAT ONCE IT'S GOT THE BUY RIGHT IN THERE, IT'S ABOUT RIGHT.

ONLY IF YOU REZONE THE PROPERTY, IF YOU DON'T, IF, UM, THE, THE COLOR'S FARM CANNOT BE USED FOR A DATA CENTER, UNLESS THE COLORS COME IN AND APPLY TO THE BOARD TO HAVE THE PROPERTY REZONED AS LIGHT INDUSTRIAL.

I GET THAT, BUT I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU BECAUSE THE DATA CENTER GUY COME TO ME AND SAID, IF YOU CAN GET THIS REZONED,

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BUT I THINK THAT CAN HAPPEN REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE SITUATION IS IN OUR COMMUNITY, REGARDLESS NOW.

UM, I WOULD JUST SAY, THAT'S FINE.

WE WORK WITH THE APPLICANT TO IN NORMALLY THOSE PROFFER STATEMENTS, YOU SEE PROFFER OUT E-CIGARETTES AND THAT WOULD BE A REASON YOU COULD ACTUALLY DENY THE REZONING.

IF YOU WERE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH, YOU KNOW, A POTENTIAL USE THAT YOU DIDN'T WANT THERE.

SO, OKAY.

OH, THAT'S JUST MY CONCERN THAT I DON'T BUY.

WORRIES ME THAT, YOU KNOW, THE GENTLEMEN THAT ONE OF THE RELIANCE ROAD THING, HE THREW OUT WELL BY, RIGHT.

BY RIGHT BY, RIGHT.

HE WANTED BEYOND BUY.

BUT BY RIGHT, HE DIDN'T HAVE TO ASK US FOR ANY OF THE THINGS THAT HE COULD DO WITHIN THAT BOX OF .

FOR EXAMPLE, THE HO THEY'RE THE PROPERTY THAT THE MARRIOTT IS ALONE OR OUT IN THE CORRIDOR, UM, WHEN THAT PROPERTY WAS REZONED TO COMMERCIAL, THEY WERE ONLY ALLOWED IN THEIR PROPER STATEMENT FOR USES.

SO A HOTEL, UM, I THINK CARWASH RESTAURANT, I MEAN, IT WAS FOR VERY SPECIFIC USES.

SO THE BOARD KNEW WHAT THEY WERE GETTING WHEN THEY ALLOWED THE REASONING.

SO THAT'S KIND OF AN EXAMPLE.

UM, SO WE WOULD BE AWARE OF WHAT THE REZONING BY, RIGHT.

OR, OR WHAT THE REZONING USES WOULD ALLOW FOR THAT LIGHT INDUSTRIAL.

AND IT MIGHT NOT BE EXACTLY, BUT IT WOULD BE NARROWED.

I MEAN, THAT WOULD BE WHAT WE WOULD BE DOING AND WORKING WITH THE APPLICANT TO GET THAT TO YOU.

AND THEN IF THEY DIDN'T WANT TO DO THAT, I MEAN, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A REASON, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT THE WORK LIST AS, OR AS RECENT FOR DENIAL, IF THEY DIDN'T FEEL THAT THEY FELT THAT THE USE OPEN IT UP JUST TO WAY TOO MUCH IN THAT, ON THAT SPECIFIC PROPERTY.

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? SO JUST A THOUGHT, BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANY LIGHT INDUSTRIAL NOW.

UM, WE DON'T HAVE ANY AREAS EVEN DESIGNATE IT IN THE COMP PLAN FOR LIGHT INDUSTRIAL RIGHT NOW.

SO THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE SOMETHING THE PLANNING COMMISSION WILL BE WORKING THROUGH.

UM, RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST A TEXT AMENDMENT WITH THESE OPTIONS.

AND IF YOU DO WANT TO ADD IT AS A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT, IT WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK FOR A WHOLE NEW PUBLIC HEARING AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

SO, UM, BECAUSE THAT'S TOTALLY DIFFERENT THAN, THAN THE BUYER, RIGHT? YOU DON'T HAVE TO SELL.

AND YOUR OTHER, THE BOARD'S OTHER OPTION WITH THIS QUESTION IS TO DELAY THIS FOR A MONTH, LET THE PLANNING COMMISSION SEND YOU THE RECOMMENDATION, WHATEVER THAT RECOMMENDATION IS, AND THEN SCHEDULE YOUR HEARING IN OCTOBER, THAT GIVES YOU THE ADVANTAGE OF SEEING WHAT THEY DO BEFORE YOU SCHEDULE YOUR HEARING.

IF YOU WANT TO JUST TABLE THIS ITEM AND PUT IT ON NEXT MONTH, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA BECAUSE THAT WILL GIVE US SOME TIME TO TALK TO MR. PETTY.

I BELIEVE HE'S BEEN CARRYING THE WATER ON THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE.

AND SO, AND, AND MAYBE GAIN SOME MORE INFORMATIONS AND SHARE SOME BETWEEN EACH OTHER.

I THINK THAT MIGHT HELP THE SITUATION.

SO I WOULD MOVE THAT WE TABLE THIS UNTIL OCTOBER.

IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT MOTION? SECOND ROLL CALL, MRS. HAYES, MR. MAIN, MRS. COOK, MADAM CHAIR.

THIS IS MR. BOOK.

UM, MY QUESTION ON

[H8. Use of Raymond E. Santmyers Youth Center for the Warren County Public Schools Elements Program for the 2022-2023 School Year – Caitlin Jordan/Dan Lenz]

NUMBER EIGHT, I'M SORRY.

I MUST HAVE THE WRONG BOARD MEETING.

I HAVE SEPTEMBER 6TH, 2022, BUT I WAS OUT FOR A WEEK AND UPDATED ONE.

SO WHICH ONE IS NUMBER EIGHT, IF YOU COULD.

YEAH, THAT WAS GREAT.

NOW WE WANT YOU TO ANSWER EIGHT.

AND MY QUESTION HERE IS SIMPLY IF WE'RE GOING TO TURN THE YOUTH CENTER BACK INTO A FUNCTIONAL YOUTH CENTER, HOW'S THE SCHOOL GOING TO HAVE CLASSROOM THERE AT SAME TIME.

THAT'S 30 DAY NOTICE IN THEIR MAIL.

SO EVEN IF WE VOTE ON THIS, THAT'S GIVEN THEM TILL JUNE, IT'S GOT A 30 DAY OUT THAT FOR ANY REASON, EITHER PARTY EITHER THE SCHOOL BOARD OR THE COUNTY CAN PROVIDE WRITTEN NOTICE TO THE OTHER PARTY SAYING WE'RE TERMINATING.

UM, AND BECAUSE THE PLANS FOR THE YOUTH CENTER ARE SO PRELIMINARY, THE ELEMENT'S PROGRAM IS ALREADY SET UP THERE.

AND SO WE NEED TO HAVE A LEASE IN PLACE UNTIL WE HAVE MORE CONCRETE PLANS OF MOVING, MOVING FORWARD, AND THEN WE CAN ADDRESS IT AT THAT POINT.

AND I, UM, I DIDN'T WANT TO VOTE ON IT AND THEN SAY, WELL, YOU GOT TO GET OUT BY THIS DATE TYPE THING, BUT IF IT'S IN THE CONTRACT, NO, AND THAT WILL GIVE PLENTY OF TIME FOR THE COUNTY AND THE SCHOOL BOARD TO DISCUSS HOW THE, HOW TO PROCEED FORWARD.

CAUSE THAT WAS, THAT WAS MY ONLY CONCERN OF HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO BOTH OF THESE AT THE SAME TIME? UH, I,

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TECHNICALLY, NO ONE'S GOING TO GET HURT.

I MEAN, YOU HAVE TO MOVE SOME STUFF AROUND, BUT REALLY NOBODY'S GOING TO GET HURT AND THEY'LL CONTINUE TO USE THE YOUTH CENTER NAIL.

SO THE ELEMENTS PROGRAM CAN CONTINUE IN UNTIL THERE'S CONCRETE PLANS ABOUT HOW TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE YOUTH CENTER.

AND THEN AT THAT POINT, THERE CAN BE AN ACTUAL PLAN AND LOGISTICS PUT IN PLACE ABOUT HOW TO HAVE A SMOOTH TRANSITION AT THAT POINT IN TIME.

I BELIEVE.

I UNDERSTAND.

AND THAT WAS MY ONLY CONCERN THAT I KNOW IN OUR COMMITTEE MEETING, THAT WE THREW OUT A NEW YEAR'S EVE THING, AND I WAS LIKE, THIS ISN'T GOING TO WORK WHEN WE'VE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T RENT THE HOUSE TO TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE AT THE SAME HOUSE, I GUESS YOU COULD.

BUT AS LONG AS WE GIVE THEM THE 30 DAY NOTICE AND WE SHOULD KNOW PLENTY OF TIME WHEN WE'RE READY TO MOVE FORWARD AND BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT WELL, THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

SO IS THERE A MOTION ON ITEM EIGHT? NOW THAT THAT QUESTION I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS APPROVE AND AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR TO EXECUTE THE LEASE OF THE RAYMOND S SANMAR ST.

MYERS.

WOULD SOMEONE LIKE TO READ THE MOTION TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION? IS IT THE ONE IN OUR PACKET? I DON'T THINK I HAVE THE RIGHT STRING AND I KNOW SHE GAVE IT TO ME.

YOU CENTER FACILITY FOR USE BY THE WARREN COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD ELEMENTS PROGRAM FOR THE TERM OF AUGUST FOR 1 20 22 TO JUNE 2ND, 2023.

SECOND.

ROLL CALL MRS. HAYES, MR. MABE, MRS. COOK.

HI, MADAM CHAIR, MRS. OATES CLOSE SESSION.

[I. Closed Session – Virginia Freedom of Information Act]

COULD I READ IT PLEASE? AND THEN SOMEONE CAN SAY SO MOVE.

YES.

I'VE GOT IT HERE.

SO I DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT ONE.

IT, YEAH.

AND WHAT I'M GOING TO READ, ADD SOMETHING THAT WE THOUGHT OF DURING THIS MEETING TO FULL DISCLOSURE AT THE END, YOU READ IT BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT WENT.

I MOVED THE BOARD ENTER INTO A CLOSED MEETING UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 2.2 37, 11 81 OF THE VIRGINIA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT FOR THE DISCUSSION OR CONSIDERATION OF THE ASSIGNMENT APPOINTMENT, PROMOTION, PERFORMANCE, DEMOTION SALARIES, OR RESIGNATION I A SPECIFIC PUBLIC OFFICER OF THE PUBLIC BODY, SPECIFICALLY IN REGARD TO THE WARREN COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION, THE BOARD OF BUILDING CODE APPEALS IN THE SHENANDOAH AREA ON AGING.

I ALSO MOVE THE BOARD INTO, AND TO CLOSE MEETING UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 2.2 37, 11 83, FOR THE DISCUSSION OR CONSIDERATION OF THE ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY FOR A PUBLIC PURPOSE, SUCH PROPERTY BEING LOCATED IN THE HAPPY CREEK MANAGERIAL DISTRICT, OUTSIDE THE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF FRONT ROYAL OR DISCUSSION IN AN OPEN MEETING WOULD ADVERSELY AFFECT THE BARGAINING POSITION OR NEGOTIATING STRATEGY OF THE PUBLIC BODY.

FINALLY, I MOVED THE BOARD INTO HER INTO A CLOSE MEETING UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 2.2 37, 11 87 AND EIGHT FOR CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL PERTAINING TO PROBABLE LITIGATION AND THE PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE REGARDING THE CHALLENGE OF A TAX ASSESSMENT BY SHENANDOAH REALTY HOLDINGS, LLC, REGARDING PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1000 NORTH SHENANDOAH AVENUE, FRONT ROYAL VIRGINIA TAX MAP, 2 0 5, 3 A AND THE WARREN COUNTY CODE RELATING TO THE REFUND OF ERRONEOUS ASSESSMENTS, UH, AND THE ABOLITION OF A SANITARY DISTRICT AND THE VOLUNTARY SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE TOWN OF FRONT ROYAL OR SO MOVED.

SORRY, I WAS GIVING YOU THE LEVEL OF BOARD MEMBER HERE RIGHT NOW WITHOUT THE VOTERS.

CAN'T DO THAT.

SO MOVED SECOND ROLL CALL.

MRS. HAYES, MR. MABE, MRS. COOK.

I MET HIM CHAIR, MRS. OATES.