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GOOD EVENING EVERYONE, AND WELCOME TO THE JANUARY 13TH WORK SESSION.
UM, I GUESS I SHOULD GET APPROVAL OF AGENDA.
UM, AND I DO HAVE AN ADDITION DISCUSSION OF WORK SESSION AND BUDGET MEETINGS.
SO COULD I HAVE APPROVAL TO ADD THAT TO THE AGENDA? MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA AS IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND.
[A.1. Warren County VA250 Signature Events Overview (2026) - Jane Meadows ]
THE AGENDA IS WARREN COUNTY VIRGINIA, TWO 50 SIGNATURE EVENTS OVERVIEW FOR 2026.GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO NEW BOARD MEMBERS.
I REALIZE THAT IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I SPOKE TO ANY OF YOU.
UM, SO THE LAST YEAR WE HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY DILIGENTLY TO PLAN AND START EXECUTING A FEW THINGS WITHIN TOURISM.
SO I'M GONNA GIVE BASICALLY AN OVERVIEW OF TOURISM AS A WHOLE FOR THE LAST YEAR AND WHAT WE'RE FOCUSING ON WITH THE VIRGINIA TWO 50.
I REALIZE THAT THE PRINTS SMALL, HENCE THE REASON I GAVE YOU PRINTED COPIES BECAUSE IF YOU'RE ANYTHING LIKE ME, YOU'RE BLIND.
UM, SO FOR THE ANNUAL UPDATE, SO THE WARREN COUNTY TOURISM COMMITTEE, WE HAVE I THINK APPROXIMATELY 19 PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN HELPING US, UM, WORK ON TOURISM THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.
THEY REALLY REPRESENT ALL ASSETS AND, UM, ASPECTS OF THE COUNTY.
SO EVERYTHING FROM HOSPITALITY HISTORY, UM, WHETHER THEY'RE NON-PROFITS, DIFFERENT COMMUNITY PARTNERS, UM, WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO GET THE FEEDBACK AND THE INFORMATION FROM THEM.
WE HAD OUR ANNIVERSARY MEETING, ACTUALLY, OR WE HAVE NOW MET FOR A FULL 12 MONTHS.
THIS WILL BE OUR FIRST YEAR IN JANUARY IN TWO WEEKS.
SO WE'VE BEEN MEETING MONTHLY AND WE'RE EXPLORING SITES.
SO WE'RE MEETING AT A DIFFERENT LOCATION IN ORDER TO BASICALLY GIVE EXPOSURE TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE TO DIFFERENT ASPECTS WITHIN WARREN COUNTY, UM, AND THE MOMENTUM.
SO WE REALLY WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ACCOMPLISHING SOME THINGS.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I REALIZED IS WHEN AN ORGANIZATION WOULD COME TO THE COUNTY FOR FUNDING FOR EVENTS, UM, THERE WAS NO STRUCTURE.
IT WOULD BE, HEY, WE'RE HAVING A CONCERT SERIES, OR WE'RE DOING THIS EVENT, CAN YOU GIVE US MONEY? UM, WE DIDN'T HAVE A FORMAL PROCESS TO EVALUATE AND REALLY SEE WHAT THE KIND OF BANG FOR THE BUCK IS.
SO WE'VE NOW FORMALIZED THAT PROCESS.
SO ANY ORGANIZATION, WHETHER IT'S A FESTIVAL OF LEAVES, APPALOOSA, UM, FOUR H CENTER, THEY'RE SUBMITTING IT SIMILAR THAT OUR PARTNER AGENCIES DO WITH THE, UM, BUDGET IN ORDER FOR US TO BASICALLY TRACK AND REALLY IDENTIFY WHAT IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE FUND FOR TOURISM.
UM, IN ADDITION, THE EXPERIENCE WARREN COUNTY, UM, WE HAVE UPDATED THE WEBSITE AND WE'RE CONTINUING TO TWEAK AND MODIFY THAT.
UM, AND THIS YEAR WE HAVE ACTUALLY SHIFTED THE COUNTY SPONSORSHIP TO THE RIVER TO BE UNDER TOURISM.
SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GEARING THOSE INTERVIEWS AND THOSE FOCUSES ON REALLY THINGS THAT ARE ATTRACTING PEOPLE TO THE AREA AND MAKING SURE THAT WE REALLY HIGHLIGHT THAT.
UM, SO WARREN COUNTY VA TWO 50, THAT'S BEEN OUR FOCUS FOR THE PAST PROBABLY SIX MONTHS.
THIS IS THE 260TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, OR THE START OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
AND SO WE'VE BEEN REALLY FOCUSING ON THAT.
SO AS WE GO THROUGH, YOU'RE GONNA SEE, WE'VE CREATED A SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK PAGE, UM, AND IT'S WARREN COUNTY VA TWO 50, AND WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO FOLLOW IT, UM, OR TO SHARE IT 'CAUSE WE DO UPDATED, UM, HISTORY FACTS AS WELL AS THE EVENTS THAT WE'RE HOSTING AND THAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE HOSTING IN THE AREA.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE A WEBSITE THAT TIES TO THAT.
WE'RE PARTICIPATING IN DIGITAL AND PRINT MARKETING.
WE REALIZED THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LIKE, I WANNA DETOX FROM ELECTRONICS, SO WE WANNA KIND OF GO OLD SCHOOL AND HAVE ACTUALLY MARKETING MATERIALS THAT ARE IN PRINT IN ORDER TO HIT BOTH SIDES.
UM, AND THEN ACTUALLY YESTERDAY THE RIVER STARTED, UM, PLAYING ONE OF THE ADS FOR THE EVENTS THAT WE'RE HOSTING, UM, FOR THIS COMING YEAR, UM, WITH ENGAGEMENT.
UM, RECENTLY THE TOURISM COMMITTEE PARTICIPATED WITH THE BLUE RIDGE ARTS COUNCIL IN THEIR DECK, THE HALLS TREE DECORATING CONTEST.
WELL, NOT CONTEST, BUT FUNDRAISER.
AND SO THAT WAS A FUN ACTIVITY TO KIND OF BRING DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE PERSPECTIVES AND ALSO HELP ONE OF OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
AND THEN WITH THE VIRGINIA TWO 50 EVENTS, I'M GONNA GO INTO SOME OF THE DETAILS AS TO WHAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN THE COUNTY
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AND WHO WE'RE WORKING WITH.SO YOU'RE GONNA SEE SOME OF THESE LOGOS, UM, OVER THE NEXT YEAR.
SO WARRING COUNTY IS A COMMEMORATIVE PARTNER OF THE, UM, AMERICAN REVOLUTION TWO 50.
UM, SO VIRGINIA IS VERY MUCH KIND OF THE CORNERSTONE OF THAT.
SO YOU'RE GONNA SEE A LOT OF THINGS.
I THINK PROBABLY MY FAVORITE IS THE TAG THAT SAYS AMERICA MADE IN VIRGINIA.
UM, VIRGINIA IS VERY PROUD OF THE, BASICALLY THE LEADERSHIP THAT'S COME FROM THE STATE OR THE COMMONWEALTH AND WHAT WE'VE DONE OVER THE LAST 250 YEARS.
AND WE WANNA SHARE THAT WITH EVERYONE.
SO FOR 2026, SOME OF THE COMMUNITY EVENTS IN FEBRUARY AT THE DOUBLETREE, UM, YOU'LL SEE THAT THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION IS HOSTING AN A TWO DAY CONFERENCE.
SO THE FIRST DAY THEY'LL BE DOING SOME TOURS ACTUALLY, OF HISTORIC HOMES IN, UM, VIRGINIA AND PARTS OF WEST VIRGINIA.
AND THEN THE SECOND DAY THEY'LL BE GOING OVER BASICALLY THE EARLY YEARS OF THE WAR.
UM, THE WAR WAS EIGHT YEARS, SO NOT A SHORT WAR.
UM, AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION IN HISTORY TO BE LEARNED.
IT'S ACTUALLY STARTING WITH THE HERITAGE SOCIETY.
SO WE ARE ACTUALLY, I SHOULD HAVE INTRODUCED SOME OF THE MEMBERS THAT ARE HERE FROM THE, UM, COMMITTEE.
UM, WE WILL BE HAVING OUR LANTERNS TO LIBERTY, AND I'LL GO INTO A LITTLE MORE DETAILS IN THE NEXT COUPLE SLIDES.
SO THEN MAY 30TH, WE HAVE OUR FREEDOM FLOWS FESTIVAL, UM, JULY 4TH, WE'LL HAVE AN INDEPENDENCE DAY FIREWORKS AT THE FOUR H FOUR H CENTER.
AND THEN OCTOBER WILL BE LIBERTY DAYS, SOME ADDITIONAL EVENTS.
THE, UM, LIBRARY IS DOING A WONDERFUL SERIES TO REALLY COMMEMORATE THE TWO 50 AND, SORRY.
UM, SO THEY HAVE OUR FLAGS, UM, STORY SILHOUETTES, CREATE A QUILT, AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT QUILTS LATER.
UM, AND A COUPLE OTHER THINGS, ESPECIALLY, UM, HIGHLIGHTING STUDIO, STUDIO THREE 30 AND THEN THE STORY WALK, WHICH IS AT EASTON PARK.
UM, PARKS AND REC AND SAMUELS HAVE WORKED TO REALLY HAVE BEAUTIFUL STORIES OUT.
UM, THEY'LL BE UPDATING THAT A LITTLE FURTHER, I BELIEVE IN APRIL.
AND THEN, UM, THE HERITAGE SOCIETY IS CONTINUING TO DO HISTORIC EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
SO OUR FIRST EVENT, AS ALL OF YOU KNOW, WE ARE WARREN COUNTY.
SO WARREN COUNTY IS NAMED AFTER, UM, JOSEPH WARREN.
SO HE WAS ACTUALLY THE PERSON WHO DISPATCHED PAUL REVERE, WHICH PEOPLE MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW.
SO THE ANNIVERSARY OF THAT MIDNIGHT RIDE WAS APRIL 18TH, 17TH 75.
AND SO ON THE SAME DATE, 250, ACTUALLY ONE YEARS LATER, WE'LL BE HAVING, UM, OUR LANTERNS TO LIBERTY, UM, EVENT.
SO WE'LL START AT THE HERITAGE SOCIETY.
THERE WILL BE HISTORICAL DISPLAYS, UM, VARIOUS DEMONSTRATIONS, VENDORS ON SITE.
AND THEN ONCE IT GETS DARK, WE WILL THEN HAVE A GLOW WALK DOWN CHESTER STREET TO THE, UM, GAZEBO.
AND AT THAT POINT, UM, WE'LL HAVE STUDENTS WHO ACTUALLY READ THE POEM FROM, UM, OR IT'S PAUL REVERE'S RIDE.
SO WE'RE EXCITED FOR THAT EVENT.
IT'S KIND OF THE KICKOFF EVENT, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE REALLY START TO ENGAGE EVERYBODY SO THAT THEY'RE AWARE OF WHAT'S GOING ON.
'CAUSE I THINK WE ALWAYS HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKE, I WISH I HAD KNOWN ABOUT THAT.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT THIS HAPPENED TWO WEEKS AGO.
THE SECOND EVENT IS THE FREEDOM FLOWS FESTIVAL, THE SHENANDOAH RIVER.
IT ATTRACTS A LOT OF PEOPLE TO THE COMMUNITY AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE VERY PROUD OF.
UM, SO IT'S A HUGE PART OF OUR HISTORY.
ROYAL ACTUALLY BECAME QUITE THE HUB FOR COMMERCE DURING THIS TIME PERIOD.
AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, A LOT OF THAT WAS ACTUALLY TRANSPORT ON THE RIVER.
SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE PARTNERING WITH SHENANDOAH RIVER STATE PARK AND REALLY HIGHLIGHTING THAT AS PART OF THIS FESTIVAL.
UM, AND WE'LL HAVE A LOT OF GAMES THAT ARE REALLY GEARED TOWARDS CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.
AND WE WANNA REALLY HIGHLIGHT AND EDUCATE PEOPLE ON THE HISTORY OF THE AREA THAT THEY'RE VISITING OR THAT THEY LIVE IN.
AND THIS WILL BE AT EUM PARK, THE 4TH OF JULY, UM, INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION.
THAT'LL BE AT THE FOUR H CENTER.
THEY DO AN EXCELLENT DISPLAY EVERY YEAR, AND WE'RE HAPPY TO CONTRIBUTE TOURISM DOLLARS SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE IT EVEN BETTER FOR THE 250TH.
THE FINAL EVENT, UM, THAT WE'RE HOSTING IS LIBERTY DAY, AND THAT WILL BE AT ROCKLAND PARK.
AND WE HAVE A HUGE SPACE THAT WE REALLY UNDER UTILIZE.
UM, SO IT'S 219 ACRES, AND WE'RE ABLE TO REALLY SPREAD OUT AND DO EVERYTHING FROM DEMONSTRATIONS, TRAINING ACTIVITIES, ENCAMPMENTS, UM, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE HANDS-ON DISPLAYS, THINGS THAT KIDS CAN REALLY GET INVOLVED WITH.
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AND, UM, WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO KIND OF BRING ALL OF OUR PARTNERS TOGETHER, TOGETHER AND HAVE THIS AS THE CORNERSTONE EVENT FOR THE COUNTY AND FOR, UM, OUR COMMUNITY.SO SOME ADDITIONAL EVENTS, WE'LL BE LAUNCHING A SCAVENGER HUNT.
WE REALIZE THERE ARE A LOT OF BUSINESSES THAT WANNA BE A PART OF IT, BUT MAYBE THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO, UM, ENGAGE.
AND THIS GIVES A GREAT THING THAT IF SOMEONE'S DOING A SCAVENGER HUNT AND THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A, UM, HISTORIC ITEM, UM, AND THEY'RE ABLE TO FIND IT AT THAT LOCATION, WE CAN FAMILIARIZE PEOPLE WITH VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN THE COUNTY THAT THEY MAY NOT HAVE BEEN OR IN ORDER TO GET SOME EXPOSURE.
UM, AND THEN STONE BRANCH ARTS CENTER IN JULY, THEY'RE DOING A QUILT EXHIBITION, AND THAT'S WHERE TWO DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS, SO THE LIBRARY AND ALSO, UM, THE STUDIO ARE DOING QUILTING CLASSES.
AND SO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PARTICIPATING IN THOSE WILL BE ABLE TO DISPLAY THEIR QUILTS AT STONE RANCH, WHICH IS PHENOMENAL.
AND BLUE RIDGE ARTS COUNCIL IS WORKING ON BASICALLY A SCHEDULE OF EVENTS.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE YET, BUT I'M EXCITED TO SEE WHAT COMES OUT.
SO THE COINS ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT, THOSE ARE CHALLENGE COINS THAT HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED FOR THE EVENT.
AND SO WHEN PEOPLE PARTICIPATE IN THE EVENTS, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO GET A CHALLENGE COIN.
SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED FOR THOSE TO COMMEMORATE.
UM, THIS, SO WE ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU TO REALLY FOLLOW THE SOCIAL MEDIA IF YOU PARTICIPATE, UM, AT WARREN COUNTY VA TWO 50, WE HAVE BOTH WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA.
AND I'M GONNA SAY WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO SEE EVERYBODY JOIN IN THE FUN AT THE SEMI QUINCENTENNIAL OR THE 250TH FOR SHORT.
SO HOPEFULLY WE WILL SEE YOU ALL AT ONE OF THE EVENTS.
ANY QUESTIONS? I KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I WAS THINKING BEFORE I WENT TO VACO THAT THIS WAS GOING TO BE A ONE YEAR ONE AND DONE, BUT I LEARNED AT VACO THAT THIS IS GONNA BE, WHAT, SIX YEARS? IT'S GOING ON EIGHT.
AND IT'LL BE A CONTINUAL WORK OF WHAT DO WE DO FOR YEAR TWO AND, UM, AND POSSIBLY EVEN ADD THINGS INTO THIS IF, YOU KNOW, WE FIND THAT PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN OUT IDEAS THAT THEY'RE TOO GOOD TO WAIT FOR YEAR TWO OR SOMETHING.
SO, UM, AND I DID WANT, THIS IS A SMALL REPRESENTATION OF WHO'S HERE, BUT WE HAVE AARON FROM THE LIBRARY, LIZ FROM THE HERITAGE SOCIETY, MATT OF COURSE FROM THE REGISTRAR'S OFFICE, THE REGISTRAR, AND THEN MICHAEL WHITLOW, WHO IS MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE WHEN IT COMES TO SOCIAL MEDIA AND SO FORTH.
SO, AND THAT'S, LIKE I SAID, JUST A SMALL GROUP.
IT, IT STARTED OUT, UM, WITH FIVE AND AS WE HAVE GROWN IDEAS AND THOUGHT ABOUT, UM, HOW TO MAKE THIS THE BEST WE COULD OVER THE YEAR, WE BROUGHT IN EVERY STAKEHOLDER THAT WAS WILLING TO COME IN.
AND EVERYONE THANK GOODNESS HAS BEEN WILLING TO COME IN AND HAS REALLY CONTRIBUTED GREATLY TO THIS.
AND, UM, WE ALSO HAVE GLEN WOOD FROM THE TOWN COUNCIL AND LIZZIE LEWIS WORKING WITH US AS WELL.
SO IT IS A COLLABORATION ON A LOT OF THINGS WITH THE TOWN.
UM, AND I'M, I COULDN'T BE PROUDER OF EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN GOING ON WITH IT.
'CAUSE UM, WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO BECOME BRANSON WITH TOURISM HERE BECAUSE WE REALIZE AS MUCH AS WE NEED TOURISM, WE DON'T HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO BECOME SOMETHING HUGE.
AND THAT'S SCARY TO PEOPLE THAT ALL THEY THINK ABOUT IS THE LEAF PEOPLES IN THE FALL, AND DO WE WANT THAT EVERY MONTH? AND UM, SO THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING, WE'RE BUILDING SMALL AND, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH THE THOUGHT THAT WE DON'T WANNA DELUGE THE AREA TO THE POINT WHERE NOBODY WANTS TO COME BECAUSE IT'S NOT FUN NAVIGATING TRYING TO GET AROUND TO IT.
BUT THAT WAS, THAT, THAT WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF MY QUESTIONS AND MAYBE IT WAS ANSWERED.
I WAS CURIOUS IF WE HAD ANY COHESION WITH THE TOWN OR FRONT OIL ON THIS.
YEAH, WE, LIZZIE AND GLEN HAVE BEEN A PART OF THE COMMITTEE PRETTY EARLY ON.
I THINK PROBABLY MONTH TWO OR THREE.
UM, 'CAUSE WE REALIZED THAT THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS THAT OVERLAP AND IT IS IMPORTANT TO GET THAT INSIGHT AND FEEDBACK.
SO IT'S BEEN REALLY HELPFUL AND GREAT TO KIND OF HAVE THAT SUPPORT AND PARTNERSHIP.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UM, AND YOU MAY HAVE TOUCHED ON IT AT THE BEGINNING, BUT THE FUNDING THAT'S COMING FROM TOURISM, SO IT'S, THAT'S THE TOURISM DOLLARS THAT WE YES.
WE'RE NOT, BECAUSE I KNOW THE 2% OF THE, UH, LODGING TAX CORRECT.
MEANT TO GO TO TOURISM DISCERNMENT.
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READ THE POEM, LISTEN TO MY CHILDREN AND YOU SHALL HEAR THE MIDNIGHT R PAUL REVERE.IS THAT LONGFELLOW? YEP, IT IS.
I DID, I DID NOT GOOGLE THAT
UM, BUT YOU MAY WANNA THROW THIS IN THERE TOO.
AND NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW THIS, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT PAUL REVERE SAID AT THE END OF HIS RIDE? OH, NO.
WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE WILLOW SHARE THAT
[A.2. Discussion - Emergency Operations Plan - Brian Foley - Brian Foley, Cost Recovery Manager ]
ON THE AGENDA, EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN, MR. FOLEY AND MS. WILBANKS, REMIND ME, I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT THE MS, THE, THE BOARD.GOOD EVENING, MADAM CHAIR AND DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
UH, IF I MAY DO A SIDEBAR BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN.
UH, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT, THAT KNOW ME, UH, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DON'T, UH, I'M LIEUTENANT BRIAN FOLEY.
I'M THE DEPUTY EMERGENCY COORDINATOR AND THE COST RECOVERY MANAGER FOR WARREN COUNTY FIRE AND RESCUE.
UH, I HAVE SERVED IN THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNITY FOR OVER 30 YEARS, UH, AND HAVE ANNOUNCED MY RETIREMENT AT THE END OF, UH, JANUARY.
UH, SO THE LAST FIVE YEARS HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY, UM, REWARDING FOR WORKING HERE IN WARREN COUNTY.
AND I'M, I'M VERY HONORED THAT YOU ENTRUSTED ME IN THE POSITION THAT I'VE HELD FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS.
WITH THAT BEING SAID, I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE TO YOU, UH, LIEUTENANT LISA WILBANKS, AND SHE WILL BE, UH, FULFILLING MY ROLE AS THE DEPUTY EMERGENCY COORDINATOR AND COST RECOVERY MANAGER.
UH, SHE'S BEEN IN THE OFFICE FOR PROBABLY ABOUT THE PAST, WHAT, TWO MONTHS, UH, GOING OVER TRAINING.
I'M TRYING TO DISTILL WHAT LITTLE KNOWLEDGE I HAVE LEFT, UH, ONTO HER.
UM, SO NOW GOING ONTO THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN.
UM, WE'VE, UH, UPDATED THIS, UH, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CODE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA.
UH, IT IS REQUIRED TO BE DONE EVERY FOUR YEARS.
UH, SO IF YOU REMEMBER BACK FOUR YEARS AGO, WHAT WAS GOING ON, UM, IT DIDN'T GET A WHOLE LOT OF ATTENTION BACK THEN BECAUSE WE WERE DEALING WITH C UH, MY PREDECESSOR, WELL, LIEUTENANT RICK FARROW, UH, WAS DOING A LOT OF THINGS.
I WAS PRETTY MUCH ALMOST BRAND NEW COMING INTO THE DEPARTMENT.
UM, SO A A LOT OF INFORMATION WAS KIND OF JUST BREEZED OVER ON THE LAST UPDATE WHERE THIS TIME WE'VE REALLY GONE THROUGH, I THINK I STARTED IN AUGUST, UH, OF UPDATING THIS AND REALLY GIVING A THOROUGH, EXCUSE ME, REVIEW.
UM, SO, AND, AND BASICALLY WHAT THIS IS, IS HOW THE COUNTY RESPONDS TO NATURAL AND AND MANMADE DISASTERS.
UH, AND THE REVISIONS ALIGN WITH THE, THE CURRENT RESOURCES, STAFFING, FEMA AND, UH, THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT GUIDANCE AND ALSO BEST PRACTICES.
UH, AND THESE UPDATES ALSO IMPROVE CLARITY, COORDINATION, PREPAREDNESS, AND OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY.
SO A COUPLE OF THE BIG AREAS THAT WE, UH, WORKED ON WAS THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND ASSIGNMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES.
UH, WE CORRECTED SOME SPELLING, PUNCTUATION, AND THE FORMALITY JUST TO PROVIDE MORE CLARITY AND CONSISTENCY WITHIN THE PLAN, UH, UPDATING PERSONNEL LIST, UH, TO REFLECT CURRENT POSITIONS AND TITLES AND ASSIGNMENTS.
AND WE JUST WANT TO ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY, UH, AND ACCURACY DURING AN EMERGENCY OPERATION.
UM, ONE OF THE BIG AREAS IN THERE WAS, UH, ABOUT THE COUNTY ATTORNEY.
SO WE REMOVED THE REQUIREMENT FOR CONTINUOUS PHYSICAL PRESENCE OF THE COUNTY ATTORNEY IN THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER.
UH, I IMAGINE THAT WOULD BE PRETTY EXPENSIVE TO HAVE THEM THERE THE WHOLE TIME.
PLUS, UH, NO ONE REALLY DOES THAT.
EVERYBODY HAS THEM AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION, UH, EITHER ON PHONE OR, YOU KNOW, VIDEO MEANS.
UH, SO NOW LEGAL SUPPORT WILL BE PROVIDED EITHER REMOTELY OR IT COULD ALSO BE IN PERSON.
UH, AND LIKE I SAID, AND THIS REFLECTS CURRENT OPERATIONAL PRACTICES, WHILE WE'RE MAINTAINING LEGAL SUPPORT AS REQUIRED.
SO WE ALSO UPDATED THE EXERCISE AND TRAINING, UH, TO, UH, ALIGN WITH, UH, FEMA AND VDA REQUIREMENTS.
AND WE CLARIFIED THE TRAINING AND EXERCISE EXPECTATION OF THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER STAFF.
ALSO, BIG AIR UPDATES ON DIRECTION, CONTROL AND COORDINATION WITHIN THE EOC.
UH, WE MODERNIZED THE EOC STRUCTURE, THE ROLE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STAFF, UH, IMPROVE THE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY IN ALIGN WITH CURRENT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES.
UH, AND WE DID THAT TO PROVIDE A CLEAR GUIDANCE FOR RESPONSE AND RECOVERY OPERATIONS.
UH, ONE OF THE OTHER AREAS IS WE'RE REQUIRED TO SEND SITUATION REPORTS
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TO VEM.UH, AND WE'VE UPDATED THE FORMAT AND STANDARDIZED THAT, UH, WITHIN THE PLAN, UH, EMPHASIZING ON OPERATIONAL STATUS COMMUNITY IMPACTS, UH, AND AN ANTICIPATED ISSUES.
UM, AND WE INTEGRATED THE EMERGENCY SUPPORT FUNCTIONS, ALL 17 OF THEM WITHIN THE PLAN WERE THAT PRE WAS NOT PRESENT, UH, BEFOREHAND.
UH, AND THEN ALSO WE JUST MADE SURE THAT THE REQUIREMENT THAT, UH, SUBMISSION THROUGH THE WEB EOC PORTAL THAT THE STATE USES, UM, TO MAKE SURE, UH, ACCOUNTABILITY IS KEPT.
UH, ANOTHER AREA IS JUST THE LEGAL ASSISTANCE.
WE CLARIFIED A BIT, A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THE ATTORNEY'S ROLE, UH, AND HOW THEY PROVIDE GUIDANCE AND, UH, LIABILITY MITIGATION.
ANOTHER BIG AREA UPDATE WAS COMMUNICATIONS AS FAR AS THE EMERGENCY, UH, MCOM GROUP THAT WE HAVE, THE AMATEUR RADIO GROUP.
SO WE JUST MODERNIZED SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGY, OR EXCUSE ME, TERMINOLOGY, UH, REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS AND THEIR STRUCTURE AND EXPANDED ON THEIR CAPABILITIES, UH, JUST BEYOND THE AMATEUR RADIO, UH, WORLD.
AND THEN ONE OF THE REALLY BIG AREAS THAT, UM, WE WORKED ON WAS THE EVACUATION EMERGENCY TRANSPORTATION.
SO WE BROADEN THE SCOPE TO CLARIFY INTER-AGENCY RESPONSIBILITIES WHEN IT COMES TO EVACUATIONS.
UH, AS YOU REMEMBER, WE HAD TO DO AN EVACUATION LAST, WAS IT LAST FALL WHEN WE HAD ALL THE RAIN THAT CAME THROUGH AND FLOODED THE TOWN OF FRONT OIL.
UM, WE ADDED AN EVACUEE PREPAREDNESS CHECKLIST FOR FAMILIES, SENIORS, MEDICAL PEOPLE WITH MEDICAL NEEDS, UH, AND PEOPLE WITH PETS.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING NOW THAT WE CAN JUST AUTOMATICALLY, WHEN WE SAY, HEY, YOU NEED TO EVACUATE, WE CAN PUT THAT MESSAGING OUT THERE.
THESE ARE THE THINGS YOU NEED TO BRING WITH YOU IF YOU'RE GOING TO A SHELTER OR TO A PLACE OF TEMPORARY REFUGE.
YOU KNOW, PLEASE BRING FOOD FOR YOUR PETS.
PLEASE BRING DIAPERS FOR YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR MEDICATION, AND ANY FOOD OR SPECIAL NEEDS FOR YOUR PETS.
UH, WE'VE ENHANCED THE PUBLIC INFORMATION STRATEGIES TO USE MULTIPLE, UH, COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORMS, UH, HOW WE'RE SENDING THOSE OUT THROUGH WEA MESSAGES, UH, LIKE WE DID WITH THE, THE BURN BAN, EXCUSE ME.
UH, AND THEN WE'VE ALSO IMPROVED, UH, PLANNING FOR THE VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, UH, AND ASSIGNING TRANSPORTATION NEEDS FOR THOSE, UH, CITIZENS THAT ARE AFFECTED.
UH, THIS DOCUMENT IS 230 PAGES, OBVIOUSLY.
UH, WE WOULD BE HERE TILL AFTER MIDNIGHT.
IF I READ EVERYTHING TO YOU, UH, I AM HAPPY TO SIT DOWN WITH YOU OFFLINE AND GO OVER ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS OR ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UM, PRIOR TO YOU ALL TO YOUR APPROVAL AT THE, THE NEXT BOARD OF SUPERVISORS REGULAR MEETING.
UH, OTHER THAN THAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS RIGHT NOW, I'D, I'D BE HAPPY TO TRY TO ANSWER THEM FOR YOU.
I DO SINCERELY THANK YOU FOR NOT READING EACH PAGE
AND OF COURSE, THIS CAME ABOUT 'CAUSE OF 9 1 1, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, WHEN THAT HAPPENED.
YOU KNOW, IT WAS UNPRECEDENTED EVENT.
AND I THINK IF I REMEMBER, UH, THE, UM, I THINK IT WAS THE SHERIFF THAT TIME, HE HAD TALKED ABOUT TAKING SCHOOL BUSES AND BLOCKING OFF THE EXIT RAMPS OF 66.
AND THERE AGAIN, AND, AND THAT'S THE THING TOO.
IT'S NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, THE, THE FIRE AND RESCUE, BUT YOU'RE REACHING OUT.
THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE INVOLVED IN THIS.
AND AS YOU SAID, UH, THE LAST THING WAS COVID, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT MAY COME UP AGAIN.
I DID HAVE A COUPLE QUICK COMMENTS, IF I MAY.
UM, AND I DID READ IT, NOT WORD FOR WORD, BUT I WENT THROUGH IT.
I JUST NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A COUPLE THINGS, MINOR THINGS, IT'S HARD TO KEEP UP WITH.
YOU HAD LI LISTED AS FAR AS THE ANIMAL, UM, FEED OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND THAT'S ACTUALLY EVER GROWN.
I THINK I DID CHANGE THAT IN, IN THERE.
WELL, THE COPY I GOT, IT SHOWED THAT.
SO I MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE UPDATED COPY.
AND OBVIOUSLY, WELL, THE OTHER THING TOO IS, AND MAYBE YOU CHANGE THAT TOO, BUT NOAH'S ARK THE PET STORE, I DON'T THINK THEY'RE AROUND ANYMORE, UNLESS YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE ORIGINAL NOAH'S ARK
BUT NO, SO LIKE I SAID, LITTLE THINGS, LITTLE THINGS THAT, AND THEN YOU PROBABLY UPDATED THAT TOO.
BUT I NOTICED, I GUESS, UH, MS. COLOR'S PREDECESSOR WAS LISTED AS FAR AS THE CHAIR, AND THAT'S A ONGOING THING.
AND THEN THE OTHER THING TOO WAS, UH, YOU WERE STILL LISTING, I DON'T, THE COPY I HAD DID NOT SHOW THE UPDATED SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT EITHER.
I'M PRETTY SURE ALL THAT HAS BEEN CHANGED.
'CAUSE I, AGAIN, I KNOW I DID THE, THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TODAY.
LIKE I SAID THAT THE, THOSE THINGS HAPPENED.
THE OTHER THING TOO IS THAT, THAT YOU MENTIONED AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, HOW DO YOU GET THE WORD OUT AS FAR AS WHAT PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO AND ALL? AND I THINK YOU'VE MENTIONED, UH, CABLE TV, AND THIS IS A QUESTION, I DON'T KNOW 'CAUSE I DON'T HAVE CABLE ANYMORE, BUT I KNOW THAT I THINK THAT THE TOWN AND COUNTY HAD A CHANNEL ON COMCAST, AND THEN I THINK THE SCHOOL BOARD DID TOO.
THE ONLY CONCERN ABOUT THAT IS, AND I KNOW YOU GOTTA REACH OUT
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ALWAYS POSSIBLE, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T HAVE CABLE ANYMORE.THAT, THAT WILL JUST BE ONE OF THE AVENUES.
WE WOULD SEND MESSAGING OUT, THERE'LL BE MULTIPLE SOCIAL MEDIA EMAIL, WE, UH, YOU KNOW, CABLE TV.
UH, I HAVE THE PHONE NUMBER TO, TO RIGHT.
SOMEBODY PHYSICALLY, UH, AT, UM, THE RIVER THAT WE CAN PUT SOMETHING OUT IMMEDIATELY OVER THE AIR.
AND THAT'S WHAT I KIND OF MISSED.
AGAIN, I, I DIDN'T SEE WHERE THERE'S ANY MENTION OF THE RADIO, BUT THE RADIO STATION MAY BE THE ONE THAT, YOU KNOW, IS, UH, THE MOST, UH, VIABLE FOR EVERYBODY.
BUT, UH, THERE AGAIN, IT MAY HAVE BEEN THERE OR MAY HAVE BEEN UPDATED, BUT I DID NOT SEE THAT.
THE OTHER THING I THOUGHT ABOUT TOO, AND I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE YOU SAID SOCIAL MEDIA, UM, THEY'LL PUT OUT, I THINK IT'S THEM, THEY'LL PUT OUT STUFF, YOU KNOW, IF, IF A, A, A CHILD IS MISSING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BUT I THINK ALSO, AND I MAY BE MISTAKEN, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE TO ME THAT THE CELL PROVIDERS WILL PUT OUT EMERGENCY MESSAGES TO YEAH, THAT'S THE WE OF THE WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERTS.
IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE AMBER ALERTS THAT YOU WOULD GET.
UH, WE CAN DO THAT FROM OUR DISPATCH CENTER.
I CAN DO THAT ON A PHONE CALL, UH, WHERE WE CAN PUT THAT OUT.
UH, AND IT GOES OUT IMMEDIATELY.
WE CAN WHAT THEY CALL GEOFENCE, SO WE CAN MAKE IT A CIRCLE OR FOLLOW THE LANDMARKS OF WARREN COUNTY ITSELF.
AND THEN SEND THAT MESSAGE TO EVERYONE IN WARREN COUNTY OR ANYONE THAT COMES INTO WARREN COUNTY.
I MEAN, LIKE I SAID, I FIGURED Y'ALL THOUGHT ABOUT IT.
I JUST DIDN'T NECESSARILY SEE IT.
I MEAN, AND I APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT YOU PUT INTO IT AND, UH, HOPEFULLY WE NEVER HAVE TO USE IT.
THE, THE ONE THING THAT I WAS WONDERING, UH, WHEN YOU SAID, UM, AN EVACUATION LIST, AND I KNOW, UM, IF YOU ANNOUNCE THAT THERE'S AN EVACUATION, LIKE LAST YEAR WHEN WE EVACUATED PARTS OF THE TOWN, YOU'RE IN SUCH A RUSH.
UM, IS THERE SOME WAY THAT MAYBE ON THE WEBSITE OR SOMETHING THAT THAT LIST COULD BE THERE WHERE PEOPLE COULD PRINT IT DOWN AND, AND HAVE IT 'CAUSE UM, WHETHER OR NOT THEY WOULD DO THAT, BUT, UM, THE, IT WOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR THEM TO DO IT.
AND IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE, THE SCHOOL LIST.
WHEN SCHOOL STARTS, YOU, YOU GET IT, YOU HAVE IT AND YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO GO WITH VERSUS, GEE, I REMEMBER THEY TALKED ABOUT THIS, BUT I'M, I'M SO IN A RUSH NOW, TRYING TO GRAB UP EVERYBODY THAT I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT ALL I'M SUPPOSED TO DO.
I'LL WORK ON, ON TRYING TO GET THAT ADDED TO THE COUNTY SITE.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WOULD SOMEHOW MAYBE HAVE IT, LIKE IF THEY WALKED INTO THE GOVERNMENT CENTER OR, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT PLACES IT WOULD BE THERE AND THEY COULD PICK IT UP.
BUT I KNOW FOR ME, UM, I THINK I WOULD BE SCRAMBLING SO MUCH TO TRY TO HURRY UP AND DO WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO AND GET OUT.
THAT I WOULD FORGET THE ONE THING THAT I NEEDED THE MOST.
YEAH, WE CAN, WE CAN WORK ON THAT.
ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR JUST REAL QUICK.
AND THERE AGAIN, MAYBE, MAYBE IT WAS IN THERE TOO, BUT, BUT, YOU KNOW, UH, ADVISING PEOPLE WHAT TO STOCK UP ON, YOU KNOW, WATER.
ESPECIALLY LIKE, I DUNNO IF YOU'VE EVER NOTICED THIS OR NOT.
WHENEVER THEY, THEY TALK ABOUT THE THREAT OF SNOW.
YOU HAVE WATER, YOU KNOW, YOU ALWAYS FILL UP THE BATHTUB WITH WATER.
UH, NOT NECESSARILY FOR DRINKING, BUT THOSE THINGS AND, YOU KNOW, HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF FOOD AVAILABLE.
ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY, NO, I JUST, UH, I WAS THINKING BACK TO, I THINK YOU WERE AT IT WITH ME, THE, UM, LIKE THE TABLETOP EXERCISE IN CU PEPPER A COUPLE YEARS AGO MM-HMM
AND, AND YOU WENT TO ONE LAST YEAR TOO, I THINK.
UM, THERE WAS A BIG, UH, EMPHASIS THERE ON COST RECOVERY AND, UH, POLICIES AND PROCEDURES TO DOCUMENT EVERY, EVERY OUTLAY THAT WE HAVE IN EMERGENCY.
UM, SO THAT WE CAN EVENTUALLY GET SOME FEDERAL MONIES, UH, IN REIMBURSEMENT.
AND, UH, SO I WAS JUST WONDERING IF, UH, THINGS HAVE CHANGED IN TERMS OF THE POLICY, UH, FROM SOME OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM FEMA.
IS JANE STILL HERE? JANE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS? UH, WE HAVE WORKED ON THAT, BUT I'LL, I'LL LET JANE, THAT'S MORE HER PRIVY.
WE ACTUALLY ACTIVATED IT WHEN WE DID THE WILDFIRES MM-HMM
UM, IT WAS SHORTLY AFTER, UM, THE ONE, UM, V DM TRAINING THAT WE WENT THROUGH WAS VERY SIMILAR.
AND WE REALIZED THE NEED TO, UM, BASICALLY SET UP LINE ITEMS AND COST CENTERS THAT WE CAN TRACK THROUGH PAYROLL MM-HMM
UM, AND I WAS REALLY GLAD THAT WE HAD SWITCHED PAYROLL SYSTEMS AT THAT POINT BECAUSE WE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WITH OUR OLD SYSTEM.
UM, AND REALLY GO THROUGH AND KEEP TRACK OF EVERYTHING FROM
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WHAT ARE REGULAR HOURS, WHAT ARE THOSE CALLBACK AND OVERTIME HOURS, WHERE ARE WE LIKE HAVING THE LINE ITEMS AND CODES SO WE CAN KEEP TRACK OF ANY OF THE SPENDING.IT'S MADE IT A LOT EASIER FOR US TO QUICKLY IDENTIFY ARE WE HITTING THE THRESHOLD SO BRIAN CAN THEN ACTIVATE? SO IT'S ACTUALLY MADE THINGS A LOT EASIER AND I WAS REALLY EXCITED.
SO IF YOU ALL HAVEN'T BEEN THROUGH THE VD TRAINING, THOSE TABLETOP EXERCISES ARE PHENOMENAL.
I THOUGHT THEY'RE REALLY INFORM, LIKE INFORMATIVE, SO I REALLY ENJOYED IT AND I THINK WE'VE LEARNED A LOT AND HAVE PUT A LOT OF THINGS IN PLACE.
WE JUST MET WITH VA MONDAY AND, AND TALKING ABOUT IN THE SUB REGION HERE IN THE NORTHERN CHATO VALLEY, THEY ARE PLANNING ON HAVING MORE OF THOSE MM-HMM
UH, TABLETOP EXERCISE FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS, SENIOR OFFICIALS MM-HMM
UH, THEY'RE JUST STILL WORKING AROUND SOME OF THE SUNSHINE LAWS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY, THEY CAN DO IT LEGALLY.
WHEN DO YOU, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA ON THE CALENDAR WHEN THOSE MIGHT BE? UH, THEY HAVE NOT.
THEY'RE, WE JUST, LIKE I SAID, WE JUST TALKED ABOUT IT MONDAY, BUT I KNOW THEY'RE PLANNING ON ON DOING THOSE.
WELL, I HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR RETIREMENT AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO WARREN COUNTY, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF WE'LL SEE YOU AT A MEETING BETWEEN NOW AND THEN, AND I'LL BE HERE NEXT WEEK HOPEFULLY FOR THE APPROVAL OF, OF THIS PLAN.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND WELCOME LIEUTENANT WILBANKS.
[A.3. Discussion - Board of Supervisors 2026 Committee Assignments - Board - ]
IS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, UM, 2026 COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS.I SENT THOSE OUT TO EVERYONE THIS MORNING.
UM, I HOPE EVERYBODY WAS OKAY WITH WHAT I GOT OUT TO YOU AND I SAID, MR. STAN MEYER SENT ME WHAT HE WANTED AND THE REST OF YOU KIND OF WERE LIKE, JUST GIVE ME WHAT YOU WANT.
SO I DID THE BEST I COULD TO PUT YOU WHERE I THOUGHT YOU WOULD WANNA BE, BUT IF ANYONE HAS ANY, UM, QUESTIONS ON WHERE I PUT YOU OR SO FORTH.
AND WE, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT A LIST.
DID YOU SEND OUT, DID YOU SEND OUT AN EMAIL WITH WHAT YOU WANTED ME ON OR I I SENT OUT INDIVIDUAL EMAILS TO EACH OF YOU THAT HAD, UM, WHERE I HAD PLACED.
UM, I PUSHED THE WRONG, I WAS LOOKING AT THE WRONG EMAIL.
WE ALL GET LOTS OF EMAILS, SO THAT'S EASY TO HAPPEN.
UM, ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION OR ANYTHING? DO, DO WE HAVE TO FORMALLY ADOPT THIS AT THE NEXT MEETING? YES.
AT THAT TIME ON THE AGENDA, IT'LL SHOW THE ASSIGNMENTS THAT, THAT YOU PUT FORTH.
I GAVE, UM, I HAVEN'T GIVEN IT TO MR. HENDERSON YET, BUT I'M WORKING ON, UM, I DIDN'T WANNA GIVE IT TO HIM UNTIL AFTER THIS IN CASE ANYBODY SAID, NOPE, I DON'T WANNA BE ON THAT.
I WANTED TO BE ON SOMETHING ELSE.
BETWEEN NOW AND NEXT WEEK TO CALL THE BALL, SO TO SPEAK.
AND THERE, AFTER SOME DISCUSSION, UM, I DIDN'T PUT ANYONE ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE BECAUSE THERE WAS A QUESTION IN MR. HENRY IF YOU WANTED TO.
UH, THE, UH, I WAS AT A FINANCE MEETING, UH, IT DIDN'T GO VERY WELL.
AND THEN, UH, I MISSED THE LAST MEETING.
I ALSO HEARD IT DIDN'T GO VERY WELL FROM SOMEONE THAT ATTENDED.
UH, HE MAY NEED A LITTLE RESTRUCTURE, UH, MAYBE A LITTLE CLEARER SET OF GOALS.
UM, THE OTHER THING, I THINK FOR THESE WORKING COMMITTEES THAT DO MEET EVERY MONTH, OH, NOT JUST FINANC AND AUDIT, BUT I, I THINK THEIR, UH, I THINK ME, THEIR MEMBERSHIP SHOULD BE, UH, OR CITIZEN APPOINTMENTS SHOULD BE SIMILAR TO BZA PLANNING COMMISSION WHERE, UM, EACH DISTRICT GETS A MEMBER, UM, YOU KNOW, NOT NECESSARILY LIKE WHAT'S AT THE AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY THING, IT MEETS ONCE TO EVERY SO MANY, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T, IT DOESN'T HAVE A REGULAR MEETING.
I DON'T GUESS THAT MAKES ANY DIFFERENCE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, COMMITTEES THAT ARE GONNA BE, UH, STRUCTURED FOR, YOU KNOW, UH, SPECIFIC TASKS AND THEY'RE GONNA MEET MONTHLY, UH, I, I THINK IT WOULD BE, UH, FAIR THAT, UH, EACH DISTRICT GET AN APPOINTEE.
I THINK IT, UH, THE TERM OF THAT MEMBER SHOULD COINCIDE WITH THE BOARD MEMBER FOR THAT DISTRICT.
SO IF, UH, YOU KNOW, HUGH DOES A BAD JOB AND, UH, HE GETS SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, ON BZA OR PLANNING COMMISSION OR FINANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEE, AND, UH, HE DOESN'T MAKE TOO GOOD A DECISIONS AND HE'S VOTED AWAY NEXT TIME, UH, MAYBE THE NEXT GUY WOULD WANT TO APPOINT, UH, AFTER WINNING AN ELECTION, MAYBE HE WOULD WANT TO APPOINT PEOPLE IN THESE COMMITTEES
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THAT MORE ALIGNED WITH HIM POLITICALLY, ESPECIALLY BEING AS HE WON THE ELECTION AS IT MAY, ALL, IT MAY HAVE BETTER ALIGNED WITH WHAT THE CITIZENS OF THAT DISTRICT WANT.ALL IS SOMETHING I'D LIKE TO SEE ALL PRETTY MUCH FOR ANY, FOR ANY WORKING, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAY, THE, THE FORESTRY ONE THAT MEETS ONCE EVERY TWO YEARS, IF THEY, IF, UH, WHAT WAS IT LAST TIME WHERE THEY PUT THE, SOME LAND GOT DONATED TO THE PARK AND THEY HAD TO LOOK AT THAT.
I MEAN, YOU, UNLESS SOMETHING LIKE, YOU KNOW, THEY NEVER MEET.
AND, AND IT'S SEVERAL OF THOSE.
BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE BIGGER ONES THAT ARE ALL REGULAR SCHEDULE, YOU KNOW, BZA ALL DOES IT, UH, PLANNING COMMISSION DOES IT ALL.
I THINK FINANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEE.
UM, THE OTHER THING WITH FINANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEE, AND IT, AND IT IS NOT THEIR FAULT, AND IT IS, I DON'T THINK IT'S A FINANCE DEPARTMENT'S FAULT, BUT, UH, THE TREASURER SEEMS TO, YOU KNOW, AND, AND I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S ALL HER FAULT EITHER, BUT THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT'S OBVIOUSLY STRUGGLING.
SO THAT FINANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEE IS GOING TO SUFFER SOME MORE SCRUTINY THAN IT NORMALLY WOULD.
ALL IF THE, UH, COUNTY'S FINANCES WEREN'T, YOU KNOW, THEY WEREN'T HAVING TROUBLE FINISHING THESE AUDITS UP.
AND, UH, AND I, AND I'M NOT POINTING FINGERS, I I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME, UH, LONG TERM, UM, SHORTFALLS, UH, THROUGHOUT, THROUGHOUT OUR AUDIT PROCEDURES OVER THE YEARS.
AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE JAMES JUST BROUGHT SOME OF THOSE TO LIGHT AND, UH, AND MAYBE IT'S A GOOD TIME.
HOPEFULLY WE'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING WITH THE, UH, YOU KNOW, HIRING A THIRD PARTY COMPANY TO GET THESE, UH, GET THE, GET, GET THINGS BACK ON TASK.
BUT THOUGH I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE'S THOUGHTS WERE.
THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF WHERE I, I'D LIKE TO SEE IT THERE, ANYONE'S THOUGHT BEYOND THAT.
UM, I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU EXACTLY MEAN BY IT DIDN'T GO WELL, AND THEN YOU HEARD IT DIDN'T GO WELL.
UM, THERE ARE, THERE'S SOME DIFFERENCES OF OPINION, YOU KNOW, AND WHEN THERE ARE COMMITTEE MEETINGS, THERE WILL BE DISCUSSIONS AND POTENTIALLY DISAGREEMENTS ABOUT APPROACHES TO THINGS.
UH, THERE'S NECE OF NECESSITY SOMETIMES.
UM, SO YEAH, I MEAN, I'M NOT, I NOT, I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE OUTCOME OF WHAT YOUR, OF YOUR COMMENTS IS.
WHAT ARE YOU ASKING? ARE YOU, DO YOU THINK IT SHOULD BE REVISED OR THE BYLAWS SHOULD BE CHANGED, OR, I MEAN, IS THERE SOMETHING SPECIFIC YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT HERE AS FAR AS, I I DID THINK THAT YOU WERE THE MOST PRODUCTIVE MEMBER OF THAT COMMITTEE.
IF, IF IT HELPS, WELL, THAT'S, THAT'S FLATTERING.
BUT I MEAN, WE'RE, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO, THERE ARE BYLAWS AND, AND, UH, THERE ARE SPECIFIC, UH, THINGS IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THAT I THINK EVERYBODY RECOGNIZES, KIND OF WE'RE SET ASIDE.
UM, AND THE, THE ESSENTIAL MISSION OF THAT COMMITTEE IS TO, UH, HAVE A, HAVE CITIZEN INPUT IN AND, AND CONTRIBUTION TO POLICIES.
YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT ESSENTIALLY POLICY ONE, AS I SAID THE OTHER NIGHT, POLICIES ARE SOMETHING THAT ARE MADE PUBLIC, THAT EVERYBODY HAS THE EXPECTATION THAT THE COUNTY FOLLOWS.
UM, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE LIKE, WE'RE TWO YEARS BEHIND HAVING THIS AUDIT, YOU KNOW, SO, UH, SERIOUS MATTER ANNIVERSARY.
THE, UM, ONE WOULD WOULD SAY, WELL, IF, IF IN AN IDEAL WORLD, ALL POLICIES WERE ESTABLISHED IN THE TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT, ALL WERE IN THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT THEN, AND, AND THE CHANGEOVER OF CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS OR THE CHANGEOVER OF EVEN STAFF, THOSE POLICIES ARE WHAT KEEPS THINGS GOING.
'CAUSE EVERYBODY CAN REFER TO THE POLICIES.
UM, SO THAT'S THE MISSION OF IT.
AND I THINK, UH, AT LEAST, AT LEAST, UH, AT LEAST ONE, UH, PERHAPS TWO SIGNIFICANT POLICIES HAVE BEEN, UH, COMPLETED BY THAT COMMITTEE.
AND, UH, I, I'VE ONLY BEEN CHAIR I, MAYBE THREE MEETINGS, MAYBE TWO MEETINGS.
UM, BUT, BUT, UH, THERE WAS A GENERAL AGREEMENT THAT WE NEED TO JUST STOP ON POLICIES AND PROCEDURES, BECAUSE THAT'S A BURDEN ON STAFF.
AND STAFF REALLY NEEDED TO HAVE THE LEEWAY TO FOCUS EVERYTHING THEY HAD ON GETTING TO THE POINT WHERE WE CAN HAVE THE AUDITORS HERE, UM, AND DO THAT.
SO, UM, I CAN, I CAN, I'LL BE A LITTLE MORE SPECIFIC.
ALL IF, IF IT HELPS YOU UNDERSTAND ALL STAFF PARTICIPATED VERY WELL.
UH, SOME OF THE MEMBERS DIDN'T PARTICIPATE AT ALL.
AND I FELT LIKE ONE MEMBER IN PARTICULAR, UH, DID NOT ADD ANYTHING PO POSITIVE.
SHE WAS VERY CLEAR TO REMIND ME THAT I WASN'T PART OF THE COMMITTEE THAT I COULD, YOU KNOW, SHOULDN'T BE SPEAKING.
AND, UH, I DIDN'T SEE WHERE SHE ADDED A, A SINGLE, MAYBE SHE DOES AT OTHER MEETINGS.
MAYBE SHE JUST WAS HAVING A BAD DAY.
BUT THEN, UH, LOOKING ACROSS THE ROOM, OH, I DIDN'T SEE,
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I DIDN'T SEE A, AN EQUAL REPRESENTATION FROM EACH DISTRICT AND ALL.AND I THINK THAT WOULD JUST BE ALL I GOT.
YOU KNOW, I GOT A COUPLE PEOPLE THAT I WOULDN'T MIND TO BE ON THE COMMITTEE.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY IS ALLOWED TO BE ON IT, BUT I JUST THINK IN GENERAL, IF, UH, UH, THE TERMS, UH, FOR COMMITTEE MEMBERS RUN CONSECUTIVE WITH THE BOARD MEMBERS, SAME AS ZA AND PLAN.
AND, UH, BASICALLY YOU GET A CITIZEN VOLUNTEER, UH, TYPICALLY, UH, AND, AND THAT'S NOT RENTED POLICY.
WE, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT ON PLANNING COMMISSION, TYPICALLY THE, UH, THE BOARD MEMBER OF THAT DISTRICT GETS TASKED FOR SEARCHING FOR CITIZEN VOLUNTEERING, TYPICALLY SPONSORS THAT VOLUNTEERING, THEY'RE REASONABLE.
THEY, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE THE REST OF THE BOARD WOULD HAVE TO APPROVE THAT.
AND IF THEY'RE REASONABLE, THEY'RE USUALLY SUPPORTED.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, AT THE POINT THAT YOU CAN'T GET A CITIZEN VOLUNTEER, AND THAT HAS HAPPENED ALL CURRENTLY.
NOW ALL THEN YOU MAY GO TO AN APPLICATION PROCESS, AND THEN IF YOU ABSOLUTELY COULDN'T FILL THE, YOU KNOW, THE COMMITTEE WITH AN EVEN, UH, NUMBER OF, YOU KNOW, A PERSON FROM EACH DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, THEN YOU, YOU NEED TO FILL SPOTS.
AND YOU, YOU MAY OPEN IT UP TO ANYONE THAT WOULD PARTICIPATE, BUT, UH, THE MEMBERS OF THAT THING ARE NOT.
UH, UH, SO IT'S A SIMILAR PROBLEM I HAVE WITH THE LIBRARY BOARD.
AND IT'S GOT THE SAME PROBLEM.
ALL, IT, IT, IT'S NOT ALL, TO ME THAT DOESN'T GIVE AN A, A FAIR REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE THAT ELECTED US HERE.
UH, 'CAUSE I DON'T HAVE, UH, I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S, I DIDN'T RESEARCH TO SEE, I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF IT'S ANYBODY FROM MY DISTRICT ON IT.
AND IF IT WAS, UH, I DIDN'T HAVE ANY, I DIDN'T HAVE ANY INPUT OR WAS, WASN'T ABLE, UH, TO HELP GUIDE, UH, WHO I THINK WOULD BE A GOOD FIT THERE.
I DO THINK, I DO THINK IT'S A NEED FOR, I DON'T WANT IT DONE AWAY WITH.
IF I COULD SUGGEST, UH, IN RESPONSE TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, THAT WE COULD JUST LOOK AT BASICALLY HAVE, UH, MR. GAL GENERATE A LIST OF ALL THE COMMITTEES AND, AND JUST GO THROUGH 'EM AS TO WHAT THEIR STRUCTURE IS.
AS IF, IF THE CONSENSUS IS EVERY SINGLE COMMITTEE NEEDS TO BE ORGANIZED THIS WAY, THEN THAT COULD BE DONE.
IF THE CONSENSUS IS, WELL, THIS ONE AND DOES NEED TO BE, BUT THAT ONE DOESN'T NEED TO BE, THAT COULD BE DONE.
BUT, BUT, BUT I THINK IT'S SORT OF A, LIKE A, AN ISSUE WE COULD TAKE UP IN TERMS OF HOW WE ORGANIZE COMMITTEES IN GENERAL MM-HMM
UM, AND I WOULD SAY IN FAIRNESS TO, UH, ANYBODY IN A COMMITTEE MEETING, UM, THAT IS PARTICIPATING OR NOT PARTICIPATING ON A GIVEN DAY, UM, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, MORE CONSIDERATION OF, OF LONGEVITY, IF YOUR OBSERVATION OF THAT WOULD BE MAYBE, UH, HELPFUL.
UH, I JUST WOULDN'T WANT TO HAVE A SITUATION WHERE THERE'S A CHANGE JUST BECAUSE YOUR, YOUR OBSERVATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL WASN'T PRODUCTIVE THAT DAY.
I MEAN, THERE COULD BE LOTS OF REASONS FOR THAT.
I MAYBE I SHOULDN'T PUT IT ALL.
I DO AGREE ALL COMMITTEES THAT ARE ALL, AND, AND IF, AND MAYBE THAT'S A BETTER WAY TO DO IT.
MAYBE WELL, FOR EXAMPLE, NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT.
'CAUSE THE ONES THAT DON'T MEET, BUT EVERY TWO YEARS, I DON'T, WELL THINK THAT YOU NEED TO GO THROUGH THAT MUCH TROUBLE.
FOR EXAMPLE, IS THE BZAA COMMITTEE OR IS IT A BOARD OR IS THE WELL AND SEPTIC APPEALS A COMMITTEE OR A BOARD? WELL, THEY HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE LEGAL OH, YEAH.
I MEAN THAT, THAT'S A, THAT'S A REASON FOR US TO PULL THIS ASIDE AND SAY, HMM.
WHAT COMMITTEES DO WE HAVE THAT HAVE JUST SORT OF CAME TOGETHER? I MEAN, OR I DON'T KNOW.
THERE WERE BYLAWS IN THIS THING.
I DON'T REM IT WAS, I THINK BEFORE MY TIME THAT IT MUST ASSEMBLED MUST.
UM, BUT THAT'S A SORT OF A, AN ADMINISTRATIVE JOB, I THINK, TO GO THROUGH WHAT ARE, WHAT OUR BOARDS AND SOME OF THESE BOARDS ARE PROBABLY IN THE ORDINANCE.
AND, AND, UH, NOT EVERYBODY HAS TO HAVE, YEAH, THE STATE MIGHT HAVE SAID FINANCE COMMITTEE OR TOURISM COMMITTEE OR WHATEVER THE COMMITTEE, THEY'RE REQUIRED.
SO, UH, I THINK IT'S A FAIR ENOUGH POINT, YOU KNOW, FOR ALL COMMITTEES TO BE ADDRESSING THAT SORT OF THING.
UM, BUT I WOULD SAY THAT WOULD BE NOT A REASON TO, UH, ALTER THE PRESENT DAY SITUATION WITH THAT, THAT WE COULD UNDERTAKE THE RESTRUCTURING OR THE CONSIDERATION OF RESTRUCTURING OF ALL THE COMMITTEES THAT WE HAVE.
UM, WHICH LEAVES OPEN, WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE PRESENT? WELL, WE'RE, 'CAUSE KIND OF AT THAT POINT IN THE GAME HERE, RIGHT? WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, UH, FILLING BOARD MEMBERS ON COMMITTEE.
I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD TIME TO MAYBE ADDRESS IT.
UH, THE, THE FINANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEE, UH, STUCK OUT TO ME BECAUSE, UH, IT IS A, IT IS A MONTHLY MEETING COMMITTEE, NOT JUST ONE THAT MEETS AS NEEDED, YOU KNOW, ONCE A YEAR OR ONCE EVERY TWO
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YEARS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.IT IS A MONTHLY WORKING COMMITTEE.
AND THEN, UH, WITH THE SCRUTINY THAT, UH, THE COUNTY IN PARTICULAR IS HAVING WITH FINANCE AND AUDIT BASED ON THE AUDIT DELAYS, ALL, I THINK THAT ONE TIMEFRAME WISE, NEEDS TO ADDRESS, NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED SOONER AND LATER.
I DON'T, I DON'T OBJECT TO THAT, BUT I DO THINK THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE CITIZEN REPRESENTATIVES ON THE, ON THE COMMITTEE.
AND, UH, IT'S A, IT'S A VERY, IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT TIME NOW, YOU KNOW, TO TO, AS WE'RE GOING TO GET THROUGH THIS 24 AUDIT AND THEN GET ON, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT ON GETTING OFF TRACK FOR A 25 AUDIT.
UM, SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, AND NOT, NOT KNOWING, UH, UH, JEREMY KOHL'S, WHAT YOU'RE, UM, 'CAUSE I DID, I DID KNOW I DID ASK FOR, TO BE ASSIGNED TO ANY THREE THAT I COULD BE THE BEST FIT FOR.
UM, BUT WITH THAT IN MIND, AND UNDERSTANDING THE SITUATION NOW, UH, I THINK A, THE COMMITTEE SHOULD CONTINUE IN OPERATION UNTIL WE ARE ABLE TO REORGANIZE.
UM, AND I STAND BY, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE, YOU'RE FINDING THE MOST WHAT YOU THINK ARE APPROPRIATE PEOPLE.
I'M WILLING TO CONTINUE WITH IT.
UH, IF YOU THINK OTHERS ARE MORE APPROPRIATE, THEN I'M WILLING TO GO WITH THAT TOO.
UM, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO KEEP IT IN.
I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO FIRE 'EM ALL NOW.
YOU KNOW? WELL, I DON'T THINK WE CAN DO THAT.
YEAH, NO, I THINK IT'S, UH, YOU KNOW, IF WE DECIDE TO DO THAT PROCESS, WE PUT A TIMELINE ON IT.
I GET A LIST OF THE VOLUNTEER CITIZENS THAT ARE THERE AND SEE WHERE DISTRICTS THEY'RE FROM.
I THINK WE'LL DO, WE SHOULD DO THAT WITH ALL THE COMMITTEES? I MEAN, WE SHOULD JUST GO THROUGH THE GO THROUGH.
WELL, WE CAN, WE CAN DO 'EM ALL.
BUT I THINK FINANCE AND AUDIT, UH, SHOULD HOLD A HIGHER PRIORITY BECAUSE OF ITS, UH, CURRENT ROLE IN OUR, OUR COUNTY'S CURRENT SITUATION.
UH, BUT YEAH, I KNOW, UH, I, I'D LIKE TO SEE A LIST OF THE, THE MEMBERS OF IT AND SEE IF WE GOT ONE FROM EACH DISTRICT.
AND THEN IF, UH, I DON'T HAVE ONE FROM MY DISTRICT, YOU KNOW.
UH, HOW MANY, DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE, CITIZENS ARE ON THAT COMMITTEE CURRENTLY? I THINK IT'S, UH, THREE CITIZENS AND TWO, TWO BOARD MEMBERS.
TWO, UH, UH, I DON'T THINK MY MIC WAS ON THREE CITIZENS AND TWO BOARD MEMBERS.
I, THE TWO BOARD MEMBERS WERE, UH, MRS. COOK OR MR. BUTLER.
AND, WELL, I, I JOINED BECAUSE MR. BUTLER LEFT.
AND IN THE INTERIM, ANOTHER SUPERVISOR DIDN'T, HADN'T COME ONTO THE COMMITTEE YET.
OH, HOW'S ANYBODY ELSE FEEL ABOUT, OH, LOOKING AT THAT COMMITTEE, MAYBE IN PARTICULAR? 'CAUSE IT'S UNDER HIGHER SCRUTINY TO GET IT UP MAYBE UP TO FIVE AND GET ONE FROM EACH DISTRICT.
I MEAN, IF WE, IF WE DID THAT, I, I THINK, I KNOW WE JUST REAPPOINTED SOMEBODY LIKE IN THE FALL.
UM, BUT UH, IF THERE ARE THREE, UM, I THINK THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO DISTRICTS MET, REPRESENTED THERE.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE THIRD PERSON'S FROM.
UM, AND ACTUALLY ONE OF THEM, I'M NOT SURE IF THEY'RE MY DISTRICT OR IF THEY'RE HAPPY, GREAT.
BUT, UH, IF WE NEED TO ADD TWO MORE OR ADD THREE MORE TO GET IT TO FIVE, I'D RATHER DO IT LIKE ADD, ADD AND, UH, FILL OUT DISTRICT LEVEL REPRESENTATION.
AND THEN MAYBE IF WE HAVE A DOUBLE FROM ONE DISTRICT, UM, AT THIS POINT, THEN THEY SUCCEED THEIR TERMS AND WE DON'T REAPPOINT THEM SO THAT IT GETS DOWN TO HAVING FIVE THAT WOULD, I JUST DON'T WANNA ARBITRATE.
IT SHOULD BE BY, IN OTHER WORDS, ATTRITION.
ATTRITION WOULD BE BETTER THAN JUST GIVING PEOPLE.
SO THEY'VE, THEY'VE ALREADY WENT TO THE TROUBLE TOO.
AND, AND IN VOLUNTEER'S PART, I MEAN, EVERYBODY'S, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, THIS IS SORT OF VOLUNTEER.
SO IT, IT'S, IT'S, AND, AND I'M NOT UNAPPRECIATIVE YEAH.
OF ANYBODY THAT, THAT TOOK TIME TO VOLUNTEER.
SO, UH, I WOULDN'T ARGUE THAT IF, IF WE BROUGHT IT UP TO, AND THEN IF WE HAD SOME DOUBLES IN THERE FROM OTHER DISTRICTS, WE JUST LEAVE THEM UNTIL THEIR TERM EXPIRES.
AND THEN WHEN IT'S TIME TO REASSIGN THAT DISTRICT, PICK ONE OR THE OTHER, OR MAYBE A NEW ONE IF, YOU KNOW, IF THEY DON'T WANNA, YOU KNOW, AT THAT TIME.
BUT YEAH, I, YOU KNOW, I DON'T, UH, NECESSARILY WANNA MARCH SOMEBODY OUT,
MAYBE I COME OFF THAT WAY AND I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T MEAN TO BE THAT.
BUT I, I DO WANT IT TO, I, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE REPRESENTATION, UH, ESPECIALLY ON THAT ONE 'CAUSE OF ITS, UH, SCRUTINY FROM EACH DISTRICT.
IF WE COULD JUST MAYBE ADD TO SEE WHO IT'S THERE.
IF I'VE GOT SOMEBODY IN MY DISTRICT, OH, MAYBE I'D TALK TO 'EM A LITTLE BIT.
MAYBE I'D SUPPORT 'EM AND LEAVE THEM THERE.
BUT IF, UH, IF NOT, MAYBE I'D WANT TO ADD ONE AND THEN MAYBE EVERYBODY ELSE COULD SEE HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT THEIR DISTRICT HOUSE'S BEING REPRESENTED.
MR. CARTER, DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS? UM, I THINK IN, IN YEARS PAST, I THINK THAT THIS BOARD WAS THE FINANCE COMMITTEE AND I REALIZE WHAT THEY'VE DONE BEFORE OR SINCE THAT TIME.
I THINK IT'S GOOD TO GET THE CITIZEN'S INPUT.
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SHOULD BE REPRESENTATION FROM EACH DISTRICT THOUGH.AND, AND I WOULD SAY, I THINK LIKE MR. HENRY MAY HAVE SAID THAT THEY WOULD RUN CONCURRENT WITH THE BOARD MEMBER'S TERM.
I THINK THAT WOULD ALSO LEND ITSELF TO SOME CONTINUITY AS WELL.
AND I THINK IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT COMMITTEE, ESPECIALLY AT THIS TIME.
UM, WE'RE TRYING TO GET THE AUDITS COMPLETED, SO THAT'S SOMETHING TOO.
AND I DID HAVE A COPY, I THINK, OF THE BYLAWS AND I COULDN'T FIND THAT.
UM, AND THEN THERE AGAIN, I THINK, UH, THERE'S A GOOD BASIS THERE AND WE DON'T WANNA LOSE THEIR INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE.
SO, UH, I THINK THIS WILL BE, UM, A MATTER FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION AND HOW WE WANT TO DO IT.
'CAUSE WE NEED, I THINK, I THINK THEY'VE BEEN, THEY CAN, AND THEY, THEY ARE, AND THEY CAN BE VERY HELPFUL, UH, BECAUSE GOODNESS KNOWS WE HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO.
BUT ANYWAY, SO, YOU KNOW, FURTHER DISCUSSION.
AND I'LL LEAVE IT UP TO MR. HENRY OR MR. JAMESON, MAYBE WORK OUT THE DETAILS AND BRING IT BACK TO A FORMAL MEETING.
SOMETIME MAYBE WE START WITH, UH, MAYBE MR. HAW WILL OH YES.
SUPPLIES WITH A, YOU KNOW, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED, I DON'T WANT PERSONAL INFORMATION, BUT JUST NAME AND DISTRICT.
MAYBE IF YOU COULD SEND THAT TO US AND THEN, OR TO ALL THE BOARD MEMBERS, AND THEN WE'LL SEE IF, SO HOW MANY OF 'EM ARE APPLICABLE? YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE ALL FROM ONE DISTRICT, OBVIOUSLY WE NEED TO FILL IN SOME SPOTS.
AND THEN WE, I THINK WE'VE KIND OF AGREED THAT ANYBODY THAT'S ALREADY THERE, WE JUST LET THEIR TERM EXPIRE.
WE WOULDN'T REMOVE ANYONE PER SE.
WE WOULD JUST ADD UNTIL WE GOT, UH, GOT ALL THE DISTRICTS FAIRLY REPRESENTED.
IS THAT, WAS THAT YEAH, THAT'S FINE.
I, I THINK JUST, BUT THERE IS A MEETING, FOR EXAMPLE, TOMORROW, SO, SO I MEAN, WE, WE NEED TO, WELL, WE'RE NOT, NOT GONNA CHANGE THAT.
SO, UM, AS THE GOAL OR IT'S A, IT'S KIND OF UP TO YOU TO, TO, WELL, WE DON'T HAVE ANY REPRESENTATION THERE, DO WE FOR TOMORROW? RIGHT.
AND THEN, WELL, THAT'S WHAT I MEAN, THE COMMITTEE, SHE DIDN'T ASSIGN TO THAT.
WELL, WE NEED TO PUT A SIGN, SEND A COUPLE OF US FOR TOMORROW.
THE COMMITTEE, THE COMMITTEES DON'T CHANGE UNTIL WE, UM, VOTE FOR THE NEW POSITION.
SO YOUR CURRENT COMMITTEES THAT, YOUR HONOR, YOU'RE STILL YOUR CURRENT COMMITTEES UNTIL THEY CHANGE WITH THE, UM, AT THE NEXT MEETING? WELL, THEY'LL STAY PUT FOR NOW THEN.
AND AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, WHAT I'VE HEARD AND MY THOUGHT ON REORGANIZING, UM, I'VE ATTENDED A FEW OF THE MEETINGS AND, UM, BECAUSE ONE, I WAS CHALLENGED THAT I NEEDED, I DON'T, DON'T GO TO THEM.
SO I DID GO AND THEN, UM, I HAD CITIZENS REACH OUT TO ME THAT HAVE BEEN ATTENDING AND, UM, GAVE SOME GOOD FEEDBACK AS TO, UM, DIDN'T FEEL LIKE IT WAS THE MOST EFFICIENT AND A PRODUCTIVE MEETING TOWARD, YOU KNOW, AN END RESULT.
UM, AND THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, KIND OF CURIOUS.
AND, UM, I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT WHEN I WENT INTO THE FIRST MEETING AND I KIND OF AGREED THAT I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE IT WAS THE MOST PRODUCTIVE, UM, YOU KNOW, MEETING, UM, WHEN I REALIZED MOST OF IT AT THAT MEETING AT LEAST, WAS GOING OVER THE PCARD AND THE FUEL AND THAT THING, WHAT WE GET AND OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO, UM, EXAMINE THAT.
AND I'VE NEVER HAD ANY OF THE COMMITTEES EVER REACH OUT TO ME AND SAY, HEY, I HAVE A CONCERN ABOUT THIS ITEM OR THAT ITEM.
SO I, I KIND OF FELT LIKE I, THAT'S PUBLIC INFORMATION THAT WE PUT OUT FOR ANYBODY TO SEE VIRTUALLY.
AND, UM, WHAT WAS THE BENEFIT OF THEM TAKING THEIR TIME TO DO THAT IF I GOT NO FEEDBACK FROM IT.
UM, SO I COULD SEE IN GENERAL WHAT THE, THE PEOPLE THAT WERE REACHING OUT TO ME SAYING, WHAT IS THIS COMMITTEE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING? AND WHAT ARE YOUR EXPECTATIONS OF IT? AND SO THERE'S WHERE, YOU KNOW, I ASKED THAT QUESTION SEVERAL TIMES FROM THE TIME THAT IT WAS STARTED, WHAT DOES THIS COMMITTEE DO? BECAUSE I THOUGHT THEY WERE LOOKING AT INEFFICIENCIES AND HOW WE COULD DO THINGS BETTER.
AND, YOU KNOW, GIVING US AN END GAME OF OUR SOFTWARE IS THE PROBLEM.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS, YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF THING.
AND I NEVER GOT THAT KIND OF FEEDBACK.
SO I, I'VE BEEN HONESTLY CONFUSED ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF IT AND, AND SO FORTH.
SO WHEN I THINK REORGANIZATION, I'M THINKING WORK WITH MS. SCOTT.
AND BECAUSE THIS WAS MS. SCOTT'S COMMITTEE, IT KIND OF GOT HIJACKED I THINK, A LITTLE BIT FROM HER.
UM, BUT IT WAS HER COMMITTEE AND
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HER, HER STARTING POINT.AND WHAT DID, WHAT WAS HER INTENTION? WHAT WAS HER FORESIGHT AND VISION OF WHAT THIS COMMITTEE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AND WHAT HER END RESULTS, UM, HER HOPEFUL END RESULTS WERE.
SO THAT'S WHEN I THINK REORGANIZATION OF IT, NOT TRYING TO THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE WASH, BUT I, I THINK IT'S, IT'S BEEN WHAT, THREE, THREE AND A HALF YEARS THAT IT'S BEEN IN EFFECT.
AND WE'VE HAD ONE, MAYBE TWO POLICIES COME OUT OF IT.
SO I JUST, I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT IT, REORGANIZE AND HAVE A CLEAR AND CONCISE EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT I'VE READ THE BYLAWS BEFORE.
I COULDN'T TELL YOU WHAT THEY ARE RIGHT NOW AMONGST ALL THE OTHER STUFF I READ, BUT THAT'S WHAT I THINK WE NEED TO DO.
UM, I THINK THAT, UH, IF I MAY, THE IN IN LINE WITH THE REVIEW, UM, REVIEWING THOSE BYLAWS IS, IS IN LINE WITH WHAT MM-HMM
MR. HAN WAS TALKING ABOUT THE WHOLE THING.
AND, AND I DO, I DO, DID READ 'EM FAIRLY RECENTLY.
'CAUSE SOMEBODY ASKED ME, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THIS COMMITTEE FOR? UM, AND, AND REALLY THE POINT OF THE QUESTION WAS, IS THIS IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMITTEE TO GO THROUGH LINES AND, AND SAY, WHAT'S THIS? THAT'S A FUNCTION THAT CAN BE DONE.
BUT THAT'S NOT THE PURPOSE OF THE COMMITTEE.
THE PURPOSE OF THE COMMITTEE IS CITIZEN INPUT INTO POLICY.
AND, AND ALSO MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE HAVE EXPRESSED FRUSTRATION AT THE SLOW PACE OF DEVELOPMENT OF POLICY, WHICH YOU JUST MADE A, A REFERENCE TO.
SO, UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK GREAT IDEA TO SAY WHAT IS THIS FOR? AND MAKE SURE THAT IT'S, IT, ITS PURPOSE IS SORT OF STRATEGIC AND, AND SOMEWHAT HIGH LEVEL.
WHERE DO YOU FIND THE BYLAWS THAT FOR? IS THAT IN THE COUNTY? I'M SURE IT'S ON.
I I BELIEVE IT'S ON THE WEBSITE.
IT MUST HAVE GOTTEN 'EM FROM THE WEBSITE.
UH, BUT IF NOT, UM, MAYBE IF MR. GA, YOU GO TO MEMBERS, WOULD YOU MIND, UH, SENDING OUT TO BYLAWS TOO, JUST TO, 'CAUSE I'M LAZY, SO, SO I THINK THAT IT DOES NEED TO BE STRATEGIC.
IT DOES NEED TO BE POLICY ORIENTED.
AND, AND WE DO HAVE, AND ARE IN A SITUATION THAT DEMONSTRATES WE NEED POLICY.
BUT I JUST, I DON'T FEEL FROM THE CITIZEN INPUT IN THE, IN THE COUPLE OF MEETINGS THAT I DID ATTEND, I DON'T FEEL LIKE THAT'S THE DIRECTION THAT IT'S AT, THAT AT THOSE MEETINGS, THAT THAT POLICY WAS NOT DISCUSSED AT ALL.
ABSOLUTELY BE BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN SET ASIDE, THAT EFFORT HAS BEEN SET ASIDE BECAUSE ALL FOCUS IS ON THE AUDIT.
AND WE DON'T WANT DISTRACT, WE DIDN'T WANT TO DISTRACT MRS. SCOTT AND HER STAFF BY MESSING AROUND WITH RIGHT.
THE AUDIT NEEDS TO COME ABSOLUTELY FIRST, UM, IN THIS HIGH, HIGH TOP PRIORITY FOR THIS.
THAT'S, THAT'S WHY WE JUST SIT TABLED IT.
AND SO WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT POLICY FOR THAT.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHY I DIDN'T ASSIGN ANYONE TO THIS, BECAUSE IN REORGANIZING IS GOING TO TAKE A LOT OF MIS SCOTT'S, UM, DIRECTION AND INVOLVEMENT.
AND I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO REORGANIZE IT UNTIL AFTER WE GET THROUGH THIS AUDIT AND THAT'S OFF OF HER PLATE.
UM, WE COULD STILL ADD TO MEMBERS, WE COULD GET THAT PART IS, YOU KNOW, SO AS FAR AS I'M, YOU MIGHT GET A MEMBER, IT MIGHT ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, HAVEN'T, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT THREE AND YOU GET A COUPLE MORE IN THERE.
MAYBE YOU NEVER KNOW WHO'S GONNA HAVE THE RIGHT IDEA RIGHTS HAVE AT THIS POINT, WHO'S GONNA BRING THE BRAINSTORM OR YEAH.
TRIGGER THE CONVERSATION THAT THAT HAS SOME GOOD CREATIVITY.
SO, UM, I MEAN, AND I, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SAYING DON'T MEET TOMORROW, BUT TO ME, WITH, WITH WHAT SHE HAS ON HER, THIS IS ANOTHER MEETING SHE HAS TO PREPARE FOR AND GO THROUGH.
AND IF IT JUST COMES DOWN TO LET'S DISCUSS THE, THE EXPENDITURES AND THAT HER TIME IS BETTER SPENT WORKING ON THE AUDIT.
'CAUSE THAT'S, I MEAN, IT'S WHAT IT NEEDS AT SIX O'CLOCK THAT COULD GO ON FOR AN HOUR OR TWO.
SO IF WE'RE GONNA REORGANIZE IT, WHY NOT SUSPEND IT FOR A WHILE? LET HER GET ONE THING OFF HER PLATE WHEN SHE'S GOT THE AUDIT, WHERE, UM, SHE CAN GO BACK AND CONCENTRATE ON THIS AND, AND AS A GROUP, REORGANIZE, REFOCUS.
IT JUST, I'M, I'M THINKING OF, OF HER AND, AND YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS PRODUCTIVITY AND SO FORTH ON BOTH SIDES.
UM, I THINK, IF I MAY, I DON'T MEAN TO INTERRUPT, BUT I THINK THAT, THAT, THAT THIS PROBABLY IS NOT A GOOD TIME TO, UH, SUSPEND, UH, WITH, ESPECIALLY
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WITH CITIZEN MEMBERS OF A FINANCE AUDIT COMMITTEE WHEN WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF A BIG AUDIT CHALLENGE, IT SORT OF HAS A FEEL OF LIKE, OKAY, SOME TRANSPARENCY THERE, MAYBE.WELL, I DON'T, I MEAN, I, I DON'T DISAGREE THAT IF YOU WANNA SEE IT THAT WAY, THAT YOU COULD, UM, BUT THE INFORMATION IS OUT THERE, SO IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE PULLING THE INFORMATION AND SAYING, YOU'RE NOT GETTING THIS BECAUSE IT'S FOR EVERYONE THAT IT, IT'S IN THE PACKET.
EVERYONE IN THE COUNTY THAT WANTS TO SEE IT HAS IT AVAILABLE FOR THEM TO SEE IT.
IF THEY CAN NAVIGATE THE WEBSITE, THAT'S A CHALLENGE FOR ME SOMETIMES.
AND I THANK GOODNESS I CAN NAVIGATE IT THIS WAY.
BUT, YOU KNOW, AT THE SAME TIME, UM, THEY, WHAT DECISION COMES OUT OF THAT MEETING AT THIS POINT THAT IS WORTHY OF TAKING HER ATTENTION AND TIME IN PREPARATION FOR THAT MEETING AWAY FROM WHAT WE ALL WANT DONE? AND THAT'S THAT AUDIT.
AND THEY REALLY HAVE, IT'S NOT LIKE THEY'RE SITTING THERE WITH HER CRUNCHING NUMBERS AND HELPING HER GET THE AUDIT DONE.
IF THEY WERE, I'D SAY ABSOLUTELY MORE PEOPLE THAT CAN HELP GET IT DONE THE BETTER.
BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT'S HAPPENING.
IS THIS HER? OOH, YOU GONNA BREAK CHAIR? YEAH.
I DID NOT MEAN FOR THAT TO HAPPEN.
WELL, I JUST SAID BEFORE, AND I DON'T LIKE THESE CHAIRS, BUT
I CAN'T ARGUE THE TIME BENEFIT MIGHT BE BENEFICIAL TO MS. SCOTT, BUT, UH, ON THE CURRENT SPOTLIGHT BEING ON FINANCE AND AUDIT MM-HMM
IT, IT MAY BE A BAD LOOK TO SUSPEND IT.
MAY, IT MAY, UH, YOU, YOU MAY GET SOME BAD PRESS OUT OF THAT.
I DON'T, WELL, I, YEAH, I, I'D BE A LITTLE HESITANT TO TELL 'EM NOT TO MEET TOMORROW OR, OH, I THINK WE CAN WORK ON ITS MEMBERS TO START WITH AND THEN BE WORKING ON HIS BYLAWS IN THE MEANTIME.
ANYONE ELSE'S THOUGHTS? I AGREE WITH WHAT MR. HENRY JUST SAID.
AND AS FAR AS I CAN RUN DOWN AND KIND OF GIVE YOU JUST AN OVERALL BRIEF SINCE, UM, THE, LIKE THE AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT ADVISORY COMMITTEE THAT DOES HAVE PEOPLE APPOINTED TO IT.
I THINK IT MEETS OFFICIALLY ABOUT ONCE EVERY FIVE YEARS.
AND THEN, UM, IF SOMETHING COMES UP, LIKE IF SOMEONE WANTS TO DONATE LAND OR A CONSERVATION EASEMENT AND THEY WANNA INVOLVE THE COUNTY, UM, THE AIRPORT COMMISSION, THAT'S, UM, A COMMISSION.
AND WE HAVE THOSE ARE APPOINTED BY THE BOARD.
ARE THERE FIVE? ARE THERE OTHER ONE FOR EACH DISTRICT? I THINK THERE'S MORE THAN FIVE.
ARE THERE FIVE? NO, I MEAN, AND THEY'RE NOT REPRESENTATIVE.
WE HAVE SOME PEOPLE THAT LIVE OUTTA COUNTY, BUT THEY ARE APPOINTED FOR THEIR EXPERTISE MORE THAN THE RESIDENCY.
AND THEN WE HAVE, UM, INITIALLY WE HAD ONE BOARD MEMBER, BUT THEN WE'VE HAD TWO, UH, IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
AND YOU KNOW, JOHN HAD ASKED FOR THAT.
UM, HE ALSO, WE HAVE THE WINCHESTER AIRPORT AUTHORITY, WHICH IS AN AUTHORITY, AND WE PAY $5,000 A YEAR, I THINK, TO HAVE A VOTING SEAT ON THAT.
AND OF COURSE, BROADBAND COMMITTEE IS A COMMITTEE.
AND, UM, THAT IS PRETTY MUCH ME AT THIS POINT BECAUSE THE OFFICIAL COMMITTEE, UH, ONCE WE GOT INTO OUR BROADBAND AGREEMENT DISBANDED AND I JUST GO TO THE MEETINGS TO REPORT BACK TO THE BOARD AND KEEP EVERYBODY, NO CITIZEN COMMITTEE THERE AT ALL.
SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS.
THIS, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE, I DON'T THINK IT'S, NO, BUT I'M, YOU KNOW, IT WON'T TAKE ME.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY POLICY THAT IS, UM, REPRESENTATIVE FROM DIFFERENT AGENCIES AND THAT WHEN I'M ON TO REPRESENT THE COUNTY, UH, ANY OF US COULD BE ON THAT, BUT NOBODY EVER WANTS IT.
WE ALL KNOW WHAT DRUG COURT IS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT THAT DEALS WITH, AND THAT'S USUALLY THE CHAIR AND THE VICE CHAIR, BECAUSE OF BEING THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PEOPLE, UH, FINANCE, WE ARE FIRE AND RESCUE.
THAT'S AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE THAT'S MADE UP OF ALL THE CHIEFS FROM THE DIFFERENT VOLUNTEER SYSTEMS. AND, UM, SO IT'S NOT A CITIZEN CHIEF STAT.
AND IT NEVER, UNTIL I GOT ELECTED TO BE SUPERVISOR, IT NEVER HAD A SUPERVISOR ON IT.
AND I SAID, I THOUGHT THEY SHOULD BE.
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SO I'VE, I'VE BEEN ON THAT AND JOHN'S BEEN ON IT RECENTLY.UM, THE SCHOOL HAS SAID THEY ARE NOT GONNA HAVE THE JOINT FINANCE COMMITTEE, SO I SCRATCHED THAT ONE OUT.
THEY'RE NOT SURE ABOUT, UM, THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE YET.
SHE'LL LET ME, ME KNOW THIS WEEK.
AND OF COURSE WE HAVE THE JOINT BUILDING COMMITTEE, WHICH IS JUST WHAT THE STRAIGHT COMMITTEE AND THEIR CITIZENS ARE IN.
NO, IT'S JUST, UM, STAFF AND BOARD, TWO PEOPLE FROM COUNTY AND SCHOOL AND THEN STAFF PARKS AND REC IS A COMMISSION THAT'S USUALLY HAD ONE, BUT I PUT TWO PEOPLE ON THAT IN CASE ONE HAS A COMMITMENT AND CAN'T MAKE IT.
IS TONY, YOU CAN ADDRESS THAT.
YOU'VE BEEN ON THAT, THAT'S A, THAT A GROUP? YES.
BASICALLY DOWN IN, UH, SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA, HEADQUARTERED THERE.
AND THEY HAD, UH, A LOT OF DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. UM, I THINK THEY PICKED UP NANOR COUNTY IN, IN WARREN COUNTY.
IT WAS LIKE 10 OR 15 YEARS AGO.
BUT, UH, AGAIN, THEY HAD, UH, PROGRAMS I GUESS MAINLY TO HELP, I GUESS MAINLY DISADVANTAGED WHEN IT CAME DOWN TO, IT'S BEEN A WHILE.
SO, UM, I HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THAT.
BUILDING LOW INCOME HOUSING AND THAT KIND OF THING.
UH, FINANCIAL, THE, UM, REGIONAL JAIL AUTHORITY.
YOU GUYS ARE, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE LIBRARY, YOU UNDERSTAND SOLID WASTE IS A COMMITTEE.
I DON'T THINK WE, WE MEET WHEN I CALL A MEETING, OTHERWISE WE GET ADVISED BY, UH, MIKE BERRY, UH, WHEN IT COMES BUDGET TIME, WHERE WE ARE WITH ALL THAT.
UM, AND I, I USED TO CALL A MEETING EVERY MONTH TO GO ALONG WITH THE BUILDING COMMITTEE SINCE THEY WERE HERE.
AND, UM, BUT I'VE BEEN TOLD BY MIKE THEY HAVEN'T NEEDED THAT FOR A WHILE.
SO, UM, TECHNOLOGY, YOU TWO ARE ON THE TECHNOLOGY, YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT.
TOURISM YOU JUST HEARD ABOUT, UH, THE TOWN COUNTY LIAISON WE ALL KNOW ABOUT, AND THEN THE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.
AND THAT'S ANOTHER COMMITTEE WHERE WE JUST LOOK AT THE POLICIES AND SEE WHAT NEEDS TO BE UPDATED AND SO FORTH.
AND, UM, WHO'S ON THAT? YOU AND, UH, I HAD BEEN ON THAT AND THEN I PUT TONY AND HUGH ON IT.
'CAUSE I FIGURED THAT'S A GOOD WAY FOR THEM TO LEARN POLICIES.
THERE'S A METHOD TO MY MADNESS AND YOU GUYS KIND OF LEFT THE DOOR OPEN FOR ME TO PUT YOU WHERE I THOUGHT YOU OUGHT TO BE.
MIX THIS UP A LITTLE BIT, HUH? YEAH, GOT SOME TRUCTURE.
SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S, YOU CAN MAKE COMMITTEES AS TECHNICAL AS YOU WANT, BUT UM, THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE SO TECHNICAL EITHER.
THE ONES THAT DON'T HAVE CITIZEN APPOINTMENTS AT ALL, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE DESIGNED TO BE STAFF AND A COUPLE BOARD MEMBERS.
OBVIOUSLY THEY WOULDN'T FALL UNDER THAT CRITERIA THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER.
THEN YOU HAVE OF COURSE YOUR PLANNING COMMISSION YOUR BZA AND THOSE ARE, UM, BZA AND WHAT'S THE OTHER ONE? UM, WELL, AND SEPTIC.
WELLS AND SEPTIC, WHICH I PUT YOU AND HUGH ON THESE THERE.
IS THERE A BUILDERS COMMITTEE OR SOMETHING? YEAH, UH, THERE'S, WE HAVE BUILDING COMMITTEE AS FAR AS STAFF, NO STAFF.
I MEAN, SOMEBODY WANTED TO, UH, THAT'S A SEPARATE, THAT'S THEIR OWN ORGANIZATION.
THE BUILDER'S COMMITTEE SENT ME.
WELL NO, I THOUGHT THERE WAS SOMETHING THERE.
I THOUGHT IT USED TO BE SOMETHING THAT IF THERE WAS A, I'M, I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
AN ISSUE WITH THE, THE DECISION THAT THE BUILDING OFFICIAL MAKES AND THEN THEY HAVE SOME RECOURSE TO GO BACK TO THEM.
I THINK, UM, MR. HUGH ISN'T, UH, THE BZA DOESN'T THAT ADDRESS THE, IF PEOPLE HAVE PROBLEMS WITH WHAT THE BUILDING INSPECTOR SAID THAT GOES BEFORE IT, IT'S USUALLY EVERY, OH, I GUESS NO, THAT THERE'S A, UH, DO THEY STILL HAVE A BUILDING? YEAH, THAT'S, UH, LIKE RH OAKS AND THEM ARE ON THAT.
THEY'RE, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY'RE APPOINTED, BUT THEY'RE, UH, YEAH, THAT ONE, THEY'RE ONE'S NEVER BEEN PICKED MORE FROM WHAT CAN WE ABOUT, UH, BUILDING, UH, BUILDING CODE APPEALS.
THERE'S A BUILDING CODE APPEAL FOR THAT'S NOT, NO, IT'S NOT.
B-C-B-C-A IS TYPICALLY A SETBACK VIOLATION.
YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE SOMEBODY GOT THEIR HOUSE-BUILDING CODES HAS NOT EVER BEEN ON THIS LIST.
I, IT SEEMS LIKE HE USED TO HAVE ONE A LONG TIME AGO.
SO I, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT HAS GONE THROUGH MR. BEAM.
IT SEEMS LIKE IT WAS LIKE A THREE MEMBER COMMITTEE AND WE TRIED TO PUT LIKE AN ARCHITECTURE AND MAYBE A BUILDER AND, AND WHATEVER THAT D LIKE I'VE SEEN A HOUSE AND IT WAS AT THE END OF A STREET AND THERE WAS A CUL-DE-SAC THAT WAS NOT BUILT.
AND ACTUALLY WHEN A SURVEY COME OUT AND DID THE LOCATION TO, EVEN THOUGH IT WASN'T BUILT, A LITTLE PIECE OF THE RADIUS CALLED TO CORNER OF THE HOUSE BY LIKE THAT MUCH OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, SO YOU HAD TO DO A VARIANCE FOR IT.
'CAUSE TECHNICALLY IT WAS NOT, I'LL FIND OUT ABOUT THAT.
DIDN'T MEET 50 FOOT SETBACK BECAUSE OF THE RADIUS OF THE CUL-DE-SAC.
YOU KNOW, LITTLE, JUST SIMPLE STUFF LIKE THAT.
AND THEN ONCE IN A WHILE, ONE GUY JUST PUT HIS HOUSE KEPT HITTING ROCK, KEPT MOVING OVER
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AND HE WAS 20 SOMETHING FEET FROM THE ROAD AND IT WAS LIKE, NOW YOU CAN'T, YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T A REASONABLE, UM, SO THEY DENIED THAT ONE.I'VE GOTTA FIND OUT ABOUT THE BUILDING CODE COMMITTEE 'CAUSE IT'S NOT BEEN ON THE LIST AND UM, I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S QUITE A LONG TIME.
IT MIGHT BE A STATE THING OR SOMETHING.
'CAUSE IT, UH, I THINK THAT GOES TO RICHMOND, WHATEVER THEY, UH, YEAH, THAT I'M NOT SURE.
SO, UM, WELL, WE CAN WORK ON THE ONE.
WE HAD ANOTHER AGENDA ITEM TOO, DIDN'T IT? YES, WE DO.
IF THERE'S NO MORE ON THIS, UH, MADAM CHAIR, IF I MAY, JUST SO I HAVE MY MARCHING ORDERS CORRECT FOR IT.
WE HAVE NOW, AS YOU ALL ARE AWARE, SCHEDULED FOR, FOR YOUR NEXT MEETING, UM, ACTION ON YOUR, YOUR COMMITTEES MM-HMM
BUT IS THAT STILL YOUR INTENT TO DO THAT? OR DO YOU WANT, DO YOU WANT ADDITIONAL TIME GIVEN THIS DISCUSSION AND POTENTIALLY THE REPORT I'LL PUT TOGETHER FOR YOU RELATIVE TO ALL THE COMMITTEES, INCLUDING THE ONE YOU WERE JUST DISCUSSING, UM, ITS MEMBERSHIP AND, AND TERMS AND ALL THAT STUFF.
THAT'S THE ONLY ONE THAT I DID NOT ASSIGN ANYONE TO SIMPLY BECAUSE I KNEW THERE WANTED TO BE DISCUSSION.
SO, AND YOU ALL CAN REACH OUT TO ME INDIVIDUALLY AND THEN WE CAN, UM, DECIDE ON THAT.
BUT OTHERWISE EVERY OTHER ONE WILL BE LISTED.
I'D SAY THE REST OF 'EM YOU DEFINITELY MOVE FORWARD ON IF WE NEED TO ADJUST THEM, WE, WE CAN GET INTO THAT.
BUT I, WE, UH, I DON'T THINK YOU WANNA TEAR EVERY COMMITTEE APART THAT AND BOLT, UH, IN THE MIDDLE OF BUDGET SEASON.
ALSO, UM, JUST, UH, JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS, THERE'S AN AIRPORT COMMISSION MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT THAT I'LL BE ATTENDING.
UH, I THINK IT'S RIGHT AFTER THE FINANCE AUDIT COMMITTEE.
SO ONE OTHER THING TOO, BEFORE YOU MOVE ON, YOU GOT ONE? MM-HMM
ONE MORE ITEM LEFT ON THE AGENDA.
JUST SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE COMMITTEES AND I GUESS, UH, I GUESS I'M NOT FORMALLY ON THERE, BUT I GUESS THAT'S JUST THE ROTATION FOR THE LIAISON AND THAT'S THURSDAY NIGHT.
AND I, I ASSUME THAT EVERYBODY HAD A, I GOT A COPY OF THE AGENDA FOR LIAISON, SO IF YOU ALL HAVE ANY, UH, THOUGHTS OR, UH, ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OR WHATEVER, PLEASE BE SURE TO FORWARD THEM TO MS. CALLERS AND NOT ME.
NO, I, I ASKED MR. CARTER SINCE HE'S VICE CHAIR, SO I'LL WORK RIGHT THE WAY DOWN FROM THERE.
UM, IF THERE'S NOT ANY MORE DISCUSSION ON THE ASSIGNMENTS THEN, UM, WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT
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THE CHANGE IN OUR, UM, MEETING SCHEDULE, WE DIDN'T REALLY DISCUSS WORK SESSIONS.SO, UM, IN DOING THAT, IF WE DECIDE THAT AT THE END OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE MONTH THAT THERE'S ONE OR TWO ITEMS THAT'S NOT GONNA TAKE A, A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF TIME AND WE WANNA ADD THOSE AS WORK SESSIONS, THEN WE COULD USE THE TUESDAY NIGHT TO PUT, UM, MIKE FEBRUARY.
AND I'VE PROBABLY GOT THE DATES, UM, I THINK THE FIRST MEETING IN FEBRUARY I'M GONNA GET THE CALENDAR 'CAUSE THEN I CAN DO IT BETTER.
I WAS UNDER THE INCEPTION THAT WE WERE GONNA TRY TO DO THE WORK SECTIONS AFTER THE DAY MEETING.
BUT WE REALLY DIDN'T MAKE THAT CLEAR.
SO IF WE'RE ALL IN AGREEMENT TO THAT FEBRUARY 3RD, WE COULD DISCUSS WHAT WE WOULD DO ON FEBRUARY 10TH, AND THEN INSTEAD OF COMING IN FOR A BUDGET MEETING ON THE 24TH, WE COULD DO THAT ON THE 10TH.
AND THEN WE WOULDN'T BE HERE FOUR TUESDAYS OUT OF THE MONTH.
WELL, THAT'S PROBABLY A GOOD IDEA.
LIKE I SAID, I JUST THOUGHT WITH THE DAY MEETINGS, THEY SHOULD NOT TAKE A LONG TIME SINCE WE'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING OTHER THAN ROUTINE HOUSE CLEANING STUFF AND WE START AT ONE, WE WOULD PROBABLY BE OVER, I WOULD THINK BY THREE AND WE'D HAVE ANOTHER COUPLE HOURS FOR A WORK SESSION JUST TRYING TO GET RID OF ANOTHER MEETING WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT.
AND THAT COULD BE, AND THEN LEAVE THAT UP TO, UH, MR. UL AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, WHAT COULD BE ON THAT AGENDA.
AND THAT COULD BE PARTICULAR, PARTICULAR ITEMS OF, FOR THE UPCOMING MEETING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
UM, SO I THINK MR. UL, YOU HAD SOME ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS OR WHATEVER ON THE SCHEDULING THAT WELL, OKAY.
SO THE, UM, AND I APOLOGIZE 'CAUSE I, I, I STILL DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO YOU
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IN FRONT OF YOUR, YOUR, YOUR EYES RELATIVE TO THE BUDGET CALENDAR.BUT, UM, THIS HAS CREATED SOME, SOME COMP EXTRA COMPLEXITY TO, TO THE BUDGET CALENDAR RELATIVE TO HAVING THE DEPARTMENTS COME IN AND, UM, VARIOUS PEOPLE ON VACATION AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, BUT, UH, I SAY ALL THAT TO, TO REALLY SAY THAT, UM, UH, THE, SO FEBRUARY 3RD, THE ONE THAT YOU WERE JUST REFERENCING, UM, WE, I THINK JUST RECALLING BACK TO DISCUSSION THAT YOU HAD, UM, LAST TUESDAY RELATIVE TO THOSE DAY MEETINGS, I REMEMBER MR. CARTER HAD MENTIONED THE FACT THAT YOU, YOU HAD, I THINK HE SAID IT ON TUESDAY.
UH, IT WAS YOUR, UM, UH, YOUR DESIRE OR MAYBE, UH, DESIRE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UM, KIND OF MORE ROUTINE, UH, HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS TAKE PLACE DURING THOSE SESSIONS, THOSE DAY SESSIONS.
UM, BUT, BUT RELATIVE TO, TO BUDGET, UM, PRESENTATIONS AND, AND PREPARATION, UM, OF COURSE WE HAD SCHEDULED FEBRUARY 3RD AND EVENING MEETING AT FIVE.
UM, WOULD YOU LIKE FOR THAT MEETING TO BE, TO TAKE PLACE DURING YOUR, YOUR POST YOUR, UH, DAY TUESDAY MEETING STILL? OR DO YOU WANNA STILL HAVE IT AT, AT FIVE JUST TO DISCUSS BUDGET? WELL, YOU'D HAD A, I THINK YOUR SCHEDULE SHOWED ON IT WAS FEBRUARY 9TH AND 10TH, TWO DAYS FOR INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS WITH THE DEPARTMENT HEADS.
WELL, THAT'S WHAT YOU ORIGINALLY HAD HAD PROPOSED.
UH, WE HAD ORIGINALLY PROPOSED FEBRUARY 3RD AS A, AS A FIFTH, UH, FIVE O'CLOCK MEETING FEBRUARY 10TH AS A SIX O'CLOCK JOINT MEETING WITH THE SCHOOLS.
UM, I'M JUST LOOKING DOWN THERE, THERE WERE NO TWO, TWO MEETINGS IN SUCCESSION.
SO I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHAT YOU'RE, WHAT YOU MAY BE THINKING ABOUT.
BUT WHAT HAD BEEN PROPOSED IS, I THOUGHT ORIGINALLY THE PROPOSAL WAS THAT EACH BOARD MEMBER WOULD INDIVIDUALLY MEET WITH ONE OF THE DEPARTMENT HEADS.
WELL, THE, THE, THE ORIGINAL INTENT WAS TO HAVE MARCH 4TH THROUGH SIXTH.
BE DAYTIME, JUST KIND OF RIGHT AT AT WILL AS YOU'D LIKE TO COME IN, UM, AT YOUR, AT YOUR LEISURE.
UM, BUT, BUT WE, I HAD, UH, BASED ON LAST TUESDAY EVENING, HAD PLANNED US TO SCRAP THAT, THAT WINDOW AND INSTEAD, WELL, I, WE COULD STILL MAKE THAT AVAILABLE.
CERTAINLY WE COULD STILL MAKE DEPARTMENT HEADS AVAILABLE DURING THE DAY.
BUT, UM, BASED ON LAST TUESDAY'S DISCUSSION, I'M, I'M NOW SEEKING, UH, FROM THE DEPARTMENT HEADS, UH, THEIR SCHEDULE RELATIVE TO THEM COMING IN, UM, IN THE EVENING TO, TO DO THEIR, THEIR BUDGET PRESENTATIONS TO THE BOARD.
UM, COMPLICATING ALL THIS EVEN FURTHER IS, IS THE SCHOOL BUDGET RIGHT.
PRESENTATION NOW, LAST NIGHT THE SUPERINTENDENT HAD, ITS HAD IT, UH, HAD HIS MEETING WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE SCHOOL BOARDS.
UM, OUTCOME, CONCLUSION TO THAT WAS THAT THE FOLLOWING WILL TAKE PLACE FOR THEIR BUDGET MEETING, UH, SCHEDULE.
UM, THEY HAD INTENDED OR, OR ASKING FOR A FEBRUARY 10TH JOINT WORK SESSION WITH THE BOARD THAT BEING IN THE EVENING.
UM, THEY ARE ALSO THEN ASKING, THEY'RE NOW ACTUALLY ASKING IF WE, IF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS WOULD BE AMENABLE TO HAVING A, UH, AN EVENING MEETING, A JOINT MEETING ON MARCH 4TH.
UM, THAT'S ONE OF THEIR STANDING MEETING NIGHTS.
UM, SO THEY'RE ASKING IF THAT COULD BE A JOINT MEETING NIGHT AS WELL.
WELL, I LIKE, I LIKED THE OVERALL TIMEFRAME AND I THINK YOU HAD, UH, EXPECTED THAT WE WOULD, UH, ADOPT THE BUDGET, I THINK APRIL 21 OR SO, PUBLIC HEARING, WHATEVER.
UM, BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT TO TRY TO GET THE BUDGET SET, ESPECIALLY FOR THE SCHOOLS.
OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE TILL JUNE 30TH, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO PLAY THAT GAME.
UM, BUT I GUESS, AND THERE AGAIN, I, I SHUT MY COMPUTER DOWN, BUT WHEN DO YOU, WHEN, WHEN ARE YOU FINISHED WITH THE BUDGET AS FAR AS YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS? WHAT WAS THAT DATE? UM, SO THE, UH, WE HAD, UH, ORIGINALLY PLANNED TO BASICALLY HAVE THE FINAL BUDGET WORK SESSION WHERE THE BOARD WOULD BASICALLY PROVIDE
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THEIR UP, UP OR DOWN RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, ON MARCH 10TH.UM, AND THEN, UH, THE FOLLOWING WEEK, THE, THE 17TH WE SCH WE HAD SCHEDULED TO HAVE THE BOARD, UM, AUTHORIZE THE ADVERTISEMENT OF, OF, OF THE BUDGET.
BECAUSE I GUESS I'M JUST THINKING RIGHT NOW, THIS IS YOUR BUDGET AND THEN ONCE YOU COMPLETE YOUR REVISIONS, THEN IT'S OUR BUDGET.
AND I DON'T KNOW AS FAR AS THE TIMING, IF IT MAKES SENSE TO HAVE THE DEPARTMENT HEADS PRIOR TO YOUR COMPLETION, WHICH MAY HELP YOU.
BUT, UH, BUT SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE, I THINK THEY WOULD LIKE TO COME AND AT LEAST PRESENT, YOU KNOW, WHY THEY ASKED FOR THIS, WHY THEY ASKED FOR THAT.
WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GIVE IT TO 'EM, BUT AT LEAST WE'D HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING HAVE THEY, UH, GIVE AND TAKE AND GO BACK.
AND I WOULD STILL LIKE TO, AND THAT SHOULD BE THAT THAT COULD BE DONE PRETTY MUCH ANY TIME AS FAR AS, UM, MEETING WITH THE, YEAH, I LIKE YOUR TERM.
I THINK YOU SAY PARTNER AGENCIES.
WE ALWAYS CALLED IT OUTSIDE AGENCIES.
UM, BUT NO, I THINK THAT WOULD BE GOOD FOR THEM TO COME TO PRESENT.
AND I MAY HAVE MENTIONED THAT LAST TIME TOO.
WE USED TO MEET WITH THEM OVER THERE AND EVERYBODY SIT OUT HERE.
BUT I THINK IF WE DID IT HERE AND IT GETS TO BE VIDEOTAPED THAT WAY PEOPLE SEE WHAT SOME OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS DO AND THEY MAY NOT BE, UH, AWARE OF THE SERVICES THEY PROVIDE AND IT MAY BE ABLE TO HELP THEM INDIRECTLY AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY MAY BE SITTING AT HOME WATCHING AND SAY, WELL, I NEVER KNEW THEY HAD THIS, THIS IS SOMETHING I REALLY LIKE.
LET'S GO AHEAD AND MAYBE VOLUNTEER.
AND THAT THERE WOULD BE A BIG BOON TO 'EM AS WELL.
SO AS FAR AS THE TIMING OF THAT, I DON'T THINK THAT IS AS CRITICAL AS WITH THE, UH, DEPARTMENT HEADS AS FAR AS WHAT YOU CAN WORK OUT.
I THINK STEVE, YOU PICK UP ON IT.
I THINK FEBRUARY 29TH IS PROBABLY AVAILABLE.
TO BE CLEAR, WE'RE GOING TO DO THE 10TH WORK SESSION AFTER THE DAY MEETING ON THE THIRD.
SO TECHNICALLY SPEAKING THE 10TH WOULD BE FREE.
SO WE COULD EITHER CANCEL A MEETING OR IF NEED BE, WE COULD USE IT FOR BUDGET PRESENTATIONS.
SO WHAT WAS THE, THE WEEK THAT THE, YOU SAID, UM, THE STAFF WAS SUPPOSED TO SET ASIDE THAT WEEK TO, FOR US TO JUST COME IN? WHY COULDN'T, SINCE THEY'VE ALREADY SUPPOSED TO HAVE SET THAT ASIDE? UM, EITHER.
I MEAN, IF ANYBODY HERE WANTS TO COME IN EVERY DAY, BUT IF THAT TIME IS SET ASIDE, WE COULD GO THROUGH SEVERAL OF 'EM.
IF WE STARTED AT NINE AND SAY FINISHED AT THREE OR SO, WE COULD GET, WE COULD KNOCK 'EM OUT AND A DAY OR TWO.
AND THAT WOULDN'T TAKE UP ALL THE TIME.
I, I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE HAVING TO GO THROUGH MY BUDGET PRESENTATION FIVE TIMES, WHICH IS WHAT THEY WOULD VIRTUALLY HAVE TO DO.
UM, IF WE ALL PICKED A DIFFERENT TIME AND SO FORTH.
I MEAN, TWO OF US CAN GET TOGETHER AND GO IN, BUT LIKE MR. CARTER SAID LAST THURSDAY AT OUR MEETING, I MIGHT ASK A QUESTION THAT TRIGGERS SOMETHING THAT HE HADN'T THOUGHT OF OR HE MIGHT ASK A QUESTION.
UM, THAT'S KIND OF THE BENEFIT OF US ALL HEARING IT AT THE SAME TIME AND, YOU KNOW, BOUNCING THE QUESTIONS OFF OF, UM, AND, AND IT JUST GIVES, AND I GUESS BECAUSE THAT'S THE WAY I'M USED TO DOING IT AND I CAN GET OUT OF MY RUT, BUT IT JUST SEEMED TO WORK WELL THAT WAY.
AND I, I THINK THAT WOULD LIGHTEN UP THEIR LOAD INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, I'M SETTING ASIDE MONDAY AND THEN NONE OF US SHOW UP ON MONDAY.
AND THEY HAVE PIDDLED AROUND IN THE OFFICE WHEN THEY HAD STUFF THEY WANTED TO GET DONE OUT AND ABOUT.
AND THEN I DIDN'T EVEN SHOW UP.
AND GOING BACK TO THAT TOO, I MEAN, UH, YOU KNOW, I SAID SOMETHING LIKE MAYBE HAD OTHER PRESENTATIONS AFTER YOU COMPLETE YOURS, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S AS CRITICAL.
I MEAN, THEY COME TO US AND THEY SAY, WE NEED THIS, THIS, AND THAT.
YOU LOOK AT IT, YOU BALANCE THE EXPENDITURES VERSUS REVENUE AND SAY, WELL, WE CAN'T REALLY DO THAT THIS YEAR, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO I THINK ANY TIME WE COULD DO THAT.
AND UH, LIKE I SAID WITH THE NONPROFITS, THE PARTNER AGENCIES, UH, I WOULD SAY LIKE A 15 MINUTE TIME LIMIT FOR THEM AND WE PROBABLY KNOCK ALL THOSE OUT ONE EVENING, ONE DAY, WHATEVER.
AND THEN AS FAR AS THE DEPARTMENT, I DON'T WANNA REALLY, UM, LIMIT THEIR TIME, BUT, YOU KNOW, SOME WILL TAKE LONGER THAN OTHERS.
SO THERE AGAIN, I'LL LEAVE IT UP TO YOU AS FAR AS MAYBE, YOU KNOW, TELL 'EM ROUGHLY A HALF HOUR THEY GO OVER, THEY GO OVER.
BUT, UM, LIKE I SAID, SOME ARE GONNA BE MORE DETAILED AND ESPECIALLY IF WE ASK QUESTIONS, THAT'LL STRING IT OUT TOO.
SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO, UH, AS FAR AS WORKING THAT OUT.
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I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD WAY TO GO.LIKE MS. CALLER SAID, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS UH, THEM HAVING TO DO IT FIVE TIMES AND ALL THOSE THINGS.
SO THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S PERFECT.
SO, SO I, I GOT THE CONSENSUS THAT YOU'RE OKAY WITH DAY BUDGET MEETINGS.
I WILL WORK WITH THE DEPARTMENT HEADS TO, TO SCHEDULE THAT, THAT ACTUALLY, THAT HELPS QUITE A BIT WITH REGARD TO SCHEDULING.
UM, AND, UM, UH, SO THAT'S THE CONSENSUS.
UH, AND ALSO I, ARE YOU OKAY, UH, WITH THE, THE SCHOOL'S, UM, REQUEST TO HAVE, UH, A FEBRUARY 10TH AND A MARCH 4TH EVENING BUDGET JOINT WORK SESSION? YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD FEEL FOR FEBRUARY 10TH IF WE'RE MOVING THE WORK SESSION TO AFTER THE DAY MEETING ON THE THIRD, THE 10TH IS OPEN.
IF WE HAVE A SEPARATE, UM, AND THEN THE FOURTH IS THE DAY AFTER MARCH 4TH, YOU SAID MARCH 4TH? YES, SIR.
THAT'S THE DAY AFTER OUR DAY MEETING.
SO I MEAN, IF THAT'S OUR NORMAL MEETING TIME, I DON'T, YOU KNOW, I DON'T MIND.
IF YOU HAVE A SEPARATE DAY FOR DEPARTMENT HEADS TO COME IN, OBVIOUSLY YOU WILL CHECK WITH EVERYBODY'S SCHEDULED.
I DON'T THINK, YOU KNOW, BASED ON, UH, JOHN AND HUGH, UH, THEY WOULD PREFER YEAH.
I MEAN, I THIRD TO ONE, I, I DO PREFER LATER IN THE DAY, LIKE RIGHT AFTER, AFTER LUNCH.
UM, AND, UH, ME TOO, STILL, DEPENDING ON WHAT DAYS YOU PICK, I MAY NEED TO PHONE IT IN ON, ON THE BIG SCREEN.
UH, BUT AS LONG AS WE'RE IN HERE WITH THE CAMERAS, I THINK THAT'S NO PROBLEM.
IT'S ONE TIME I SHOULD BE ABLE TO ADJUST MY SCHEDULE.
AND THEN THAT'S JUST PART OF IT.
I CAN SUCK IT UP TO GET THAT DONE.
I WAS GONNA SAY, IF IT SNOWS OR RAINS
BUT MAYBE, MAYBE NOBODY ELSE WILL.
I'LL BE, I'LL PUSH THE SNOW, BUT IF IT, UH, AND UH, UH, OH, I HAVE ONE ADDITIONAL QUESTION.
'CAUSE, AND THIS WASN'T INTENDED TO BE NECESSARILY A BUDGET DISCUSSION, BUT, UM, THE, UH, JUST WANNA MAKE IT, I GET, I WANT, I WANNA GIVE THE BOARD ONE, ONE LAST, UH, UH, UH, KIND OF OPENING MAYBE, OR, OR JUST JUST TO MAKE IT SUPER CLEAR.
'CAUSE I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T GET NECESSARILY, UM, UH, ANY, UM, OTHER DIRECTIVE LAST TUESDAY.
BUT, UM, AS I HAD INDICATED, THE, THE, WE, WE HAD INDICATED THERE A THRESHOLD OF, OF, I I SAID 25,000 FOR THE PARTNER AGENCY PRESENTATIONS.
UM, I KNOW THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION LAST TUESDAY, BUT THERE WAS NO CONSENSUS ON CHANGING THAT.
UM, I JUST WANNA MAKE IT CLEAR THAT UNLESS I HEAR OTHER, OTHERWISE TODAY, THAT'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD.
THE ONLY THING WOULD BE TO HAVE THE PARTNER AGENCIES AND HAVE LIKE A ONE SHEET SAYING BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITIES, THIS IS THEIR REQUEST, THIS IS HOW MUCH THEY WERE GIVEN LAST YEAR.
AND JUST GO DOWN THAT, THAT, THAT LIST.
AND I THINK, I DON'T, IT SEEMS, AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS, MIGHT HAVE BEEN WHEN THEY FIRST STARTED ST.
LUKE'S CLINIC, I THINK THEY HAD LIKE 5,000 THEY'D ASKED FOR.
UM, AND THE BOARD AT ONE POINT THEY ALSO SAID, YOU KNOW, THAT'S IT.
NO MORE REQUEST FROM PARTNER AGENCIES.
UH, SO, BUT YEAH, IF YOU HAD LIKE A A, A SHEET THAT LISTED AND THEN I GUESS WE'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT.
MAYBE IF ONE MEMBER WANTED TO SAY, WELL, I'D LIKE TO SEE THIS EVEN, THEY'RE ONLY ASKING FOR $3,000.
I'D LIKE TO INVITE THEM TO COME TALK TO US TOO.
THERE WAS A SHEET LIKE THAT FOR THAT PAST YEAR OR TWO.
I THINK MS. SCOTT HAS IT MM-HMM
SO, UM, AND YEAH, I THINK SHE JUST ADDS A COLUMN FOR THE NEW YEAR.
I THINK IT'S, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THEM TO COME FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN TO, FOR THE COMMUNITY.
THAT'S THEIR TAX DOLLARS THAT WE'RE SPENDING AND THAT THEY CAN SEE WHERE WE'RE HANDING OUT, UM, TO OUTSIDE EIGHT PARTNER AGENCIES.
UM, AND YOU KNOW, SO THAT THEY, THEY ARE AWARE AND THAT THEY DO HEAR WHAT THEY'RE DOING FOR THE COMMUNITY VERSUS SOMEBODY PUT IN FOR IT AND THEY WERE GIVEN IT NO EXPLANATION THAT THAT MIGHT NOT GO OVER REAL WELL.
SO, UM, I THINK THERE, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING THAT, WHETHER THEY COME IN OR WHETHER WE SIT AND SAY, OKAY, WE GOT THIS, THIS AND THIS, OR WE POST IT OR SOMETHING.
UM, I JUST DON'T WANNA GET INTO THAT SITUATION WHERE PEOPLE LOOK AND THEY SAY, WELL, THEY GAVE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS OUT TO THESE OUTSIDE AGENCIES AND WHAT DO THEY DO AND WHY'D THEY GET IT? MM-HMM
IT SEEMED LIKE A BIGGER NUMBER.
I MEAN, IF YOU'VE GOT, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S 20 OUTSIDE
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AGENCIES AND YOU GIVE VARYING AMOUNTS AND IT ADDS UP TO THAT.UM, AND I'VE LEARNED A LOT OVER THE YEARS OF WHAT THE SERVICES ARE THAT ARE OUT THERE AND YOU KNOW, WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE AS FAR AS WE NEED VOLUNTEERS, WE NEED THIS.
UM, SOMETIMES IT'S JUST THE HUMANE SOCIETY WILL SAY, YOU KNOW, WE NEED DOG FOOD, WE NEED, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF THIS, THAT, OR THE OTHER.
SO I, I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT WE'RE JUST IN THAT SITUATION STILL WHERE WE NEED FOR THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND JUST AS MUCH WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THIS AS WHY THE AUDIT'S NOT DONE THAT KIND OF THING.
I THINK IT'S, DO YOU WANT 'EM ALL COMING IN BACK TO THE I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT.
IF IT, YOU KNOW, IF THEY DON'T COME IN, I, I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE A LIST THAT SAYS THIS AGENCY HAS ASKED FOR THIS AND THIS IS WHAT THEY DO.
THEY NEED TO GIVE US, IF THEY'RE NOT PLANNING TO COME IN, THEY NEED TO GIVE US A SYNOPSIS OF WHY THEY WANT IT AND WHAT THEY DO FOR THE COMMUNITY.
SO MAYBE GIVE 'EM THE INVITATION.
'CAUSE SOME OF 'EM DON'T COME, EVEN THOUGH WE SENT THEM AND SAID, WE HAVE YOU DOWN FOR TUESDAY AT TWO O'CLOCK.
MOST DO, BUT THERE WERE QUITE A FEW IN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS THAT DIDN'T.
WHAT DOES THAT, WHAT DOES THAT SAY? I'M, I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE HMM, I WONDER WHAT THAT SAYS.
IT, IT, IT SEEMS A LITTLE DISCONNECTED, DOESN'T IT? WHETHER YOU USE COURT NUMBER OR NOT.
WELL, AND I THINK LAST YEAR WE, WE CUT 'EM OFF, DID NOT.
IF THEY COULDN'T COME IN, THAT WAS THE DIVIDING LINE.
WHICH I HATE TO DO, BUT YOU SURE NOT LETTING 'EM COME IN OR NOT GIVING 'EM AN OPPORTUNITY TO IT ALMOST, YEAH.
FEEL LIKE YOU NEED TO APPROVE 'EM IN IF YOU PROVED THEM IN YOUR PAST, BUT IF THE OPPORTUNITY WAS THERE AND THEY SHOULD COME IN AND THEY DIDN'T SHOW, MAYBE WOULD CHANGE YOUR POINT OF VIEW, BUT THAT'D BE A FAIR STATEMENT.
I THINK ALL THIS IS A BALANCE OF, OF WHAT YOU'VE BEEN DESCRIBING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE GIVING MONEY TO AND THEN BEING IN THE, THE WEEDS OF, OF SUCH SMALL THINGS WHICH ARE NOT TREATED.
AND IT'S A, IT'S A BALANCING ACT.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S PROS AND CONS EITHER WAY.
UM, THE, UM, I DON'T, I'M NOT, EXCUSE ME, I'M SORRY.
NO, I'M JUST NOT STRONGLY OPINION ABOUT IT.
OPINIONATED ABOUT EITHER APPROACH.
I JUST THINK WE SHOULD BE AS BALANCED AS POSSIBLE AND THE OUTSIDE ABC'S ALREADY MADE THEIR REQUEST.
AND JUST TO BE CLEAR, REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU SAY ON THIS, YOU'RE GONNA GET A LIST OF EVERY PARTNER AGENCY AND WHAT THEY'RE REQUESTING.
UM, SO THAT, THAT DON'T LOSE THAT, DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF THAT.
BUT UM, BUT SO YES, THEY, THEY'VE ALREADY MADE THEIR REQUESTS.
WE ALREADY HAVE THEM TABULATED IN, IN, INTO THE BUDGET AND, AND I DON'T RECALL IF THEY USED TO GIVE BACKGROUND INFORMATION PRIOR TO US MEETING WITH THEM OR THEY JUST EXPLAINED WHAT WAS GOING ON.
BUT THE OTHER THING TOO IS THAT TURN THE MICROPHONE ON.
UM, THE OTHER THING TOO IS, UM, SOME OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE GIVE $5,000 FOR WHATEVER, IT ACTUALLY SAVES THE COUNTY MONEY.
BECAUSE IF THEY WEREN'T DOING IT, SOMEBODY ELSE I-E-D-S-S, THEY MAY PICK IT UP AND THAT'S GONNA COST A LOT MORE.
SO I THINK IN THE LONG RUN IT ACTUALLY DOES TURN OUT TO SAVE SOME MONEY.
YEAH, THERE'S A LOT OF VERY GOOD ORGANIZATIONS, BUT THERE AGAIN, IF THAT INFORMATION THEY SUPPLIES REALLY GOES A LONG WAY, IT'S GOOD ADVERTISEMENT FOR THEM TOO.
WHAT, WHAT IF YOU BROUGHT THE, THE ONES UNDER $25,000, WHAT IF YOU JUST GIVE 'EM A DIFFERENT TIME CONSTRAINT OF LIKE 15 MINUTES OR SOMETHING? I THINK 15 MINUTES WAS ABOUT IT LAST YEAR.
AND THEY, THEY PRETTY MUCH STUCK TO, THEY WOULD GIVE 'EM A CHANCE TO, YOU KNOW, BE IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA.
YOU KNOW, THEY DONE THEIR DUE DILIGENCE AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THEY WOULD JUST, THEY WOULD HAVE THE MINDSET THAT HEY, YOU KNOW, GIVE 'EM YOUR BEST 15 MINUTES.
YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT GONNA BE AN HOUR DISCUSSION FOR BROWNTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER FOR $2,500, WHICH I THINK IS WORTHY SENDING THE MONEY TO, BUT I, I DON'T THINK DURING BUDGET SEASON THEY NEED AN HOUR OR TWO.
NO, I'M GETTING TOO DOWN IN THE WEEDS.
I THINK 15 MINUTES IS PROBABLY ADEQUATE FOR JUST ABOUT ALL OF THEM.
AND I WOULD ALSO SUGGEST IF I HAVE 'EM ALREADY, UM, TO MAYBE START THAT AT, YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT TWO, I, I THINK I WOULD LEAN TOWARDS DOING IT AT SIX AND THEN THAT WAY, YOU KNOW, I DON'T HOW MANY WE'VE GOT, BUT IF THEY DID IT BEFORE AN HOUR BE 12, IF WE ENDED AT NINE AND THAT WAY, 'CAUSE AT LEAST, WELL WE'RE ALL BUSY, BUT THEY'VE GOT STUFF TO DO TOO AS FAR AS DURING THE DAY TO TAKE CARE OF THE, THEY MAY PROFIT WORKING ON THE JOBS, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY LIKE BROWNTOWN COMMUNITY CENTERS, THE FACILIT AND VOLUNTEERS GONNA COME IN AND ASK.
THEY MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO COME AT TWO O'CLOCK.
THEY SAID IT'S KINDA LIKE YOUR PUBLIC HEARING RULE.
15 MINUTES AND THEN FOR THE ONES UNDER 25,000, WE INVITE 'EM ALL AND
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THEN YOU'RE GONNA GIVE US A LIST REGARDLESS.DOES IT, DOES THAT SEEM FAIR? ONCE THEY OVER 15, WE START TAKING MONEY BACK OUT.
WHAT I WAS SAYING, THE, THE DAYTIME I WAS THINKING OF DEPARTMENT HEADS, NOT, NOT THE, UH, PARTNER AGENCY.
SO, UM, THE PARTNER AGENCY AND EVEN THOSE YEAH, BECAUSE THEY'RE, UH, YEAH.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF VOLUNTEERS THAT, THAT'S FAIR.
SO INVITE ALL PARTNER AGENCIES, 15 MINUTE TIMEFRAME, MAX AND, UM, IN THE EVENING.
I, I, UM, I WILL THEN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE GET, GET THE BUDGET CALENDAR CLEANED UP AND UM, AND GET IT BACK OUT TO YOU GUYS.
UM, SO YOU HAVE IT IN, IN, IN HAND.
IF WE HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN, IF THERE'S NO OTHER QUESTIONS.
ALL IN AGREEMENT? AYE A THOSE OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT.