Board of Supervisors Adjourned Meeting   12/4/2018

And we are very much appreciative of your attendance here today.

And I will ask David Black to kick it off.

29 million dollar increase from that local option 1% and we want to continue to see that collected 29 million

statewide.

We've seen in the first quarter of this current fiscal year that the sales tax collections have increased about 75 percent overall.

Will Vaco or VML be on top of this?

between the localities and developers and builders about new development proposals and some of the proposals that have been out there being floated around would ease back some of those restrictions and allow for those communications to take place once again.

bipartisan in trying to support an impact.

So I know that the new leadership and the home builders is working on it too and so we'll see how that goes.

some convening, some study of what does all this look like and I think that's certainly involved in the development community as well as your other stakeholders in the legislature.

Big changes are likely to occur.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Is there any chance at all that there would be some kind of approach, our rural electrification from the state's perspective, to increase the broadband payout?

I would think that the Albemarle part of their district or their region is one of the more attractive regions because we are working on that.

Hopefully next week's grant application will help to jumpstart that whole process.

And I don't know that we're going to be able to capture more money than that to create an incentive pool for world co-ops, but it's something different.

Now we're hearing from the people in the little half mile stretches in between.

If you're going to engage in the 21st century economy, you have to have it.

In summary it was interesting to me that they were not, that they seemed like they were sort of interested in

They may have been pushed a little bit out of the government's office to take this step.

and we're hopeful that it requires some significant dollars but it is going to require our board also to provide seed money because these grants are going to be matching grants and we're going to need that 25 to 33 percent in to be able to acquire those funds so that's something we're going to be talking about internally.

The question's on the PDC platform before we get Greg to sign this list.

We're local because that'll free up localities to be able to improve that funding that they shifted to education into other areas that are important for our citizens.

We'll have some more information from Jaylark probably by the spring.

Well if we have exhausted our questions so far on David's list, let's move on to what Greg had to say and then we'll

And we'll talk about all of these in just a moment.

So, but we missed the deadline on those last two?

Legislators need to know in advance, then you'd be given some options or something because just two weeks ago we were told this was the day you had to meet and I had to move some things to be here and the other guys couldn't do that.

and that would include, so now after the pre-file date, we would have no slots available.

So, with respect to the last two, as Greg mentioned on the weapons prohibition, there's already another bill anticipating that there will be additional bills, which Dave and I had those bills last year, we've had those bills again this year, so that's already done.

But notice of zoning violations, you're saying it's coming from

I actually got the request in on the House and the Senate side.

That bill is going to undo some legislation that passed a year or two ago and what we told David I think before was that you need to get BACO involved in that because if BACO had been involved in the first place that bill wouldn't have passed.

The patron of the bill two years later said that wasn't my problem and I don't have a problem if you want to certify.

Two weeks is not enough time to be requesting time with you all.

So, Craig, from your viewpoint, when should we be meeting?

We're waiting so late and then I didn't realize that we just told you the date.

And what makes sense is just to call the offices and see what, get a bunch of dates and say what date works for you.

Right, because we were, in all honesty, we were wondering why you were the only one.

We'll learn from this and next year we'll do it early.

Because we don't want to be in this position again next year.

So things do crop up.

So we will look towards that next year and not.

Those every other years are better as far as additional maybe secondary desires because we have the capacity.

And it's always a scramble to see who else is putting something in that we can tag on to as opposed to doing multiple, multiple, multiple things on the same topic which is sort of silly.

And to that point, Delegate Ferris did introduce this so we can sign on to it.

It takes a few minutes.

Which is a new thing.

Right.

Can I suggest one other thing that might be helpful?

And then I think we can be more effective with you and you with us in doing that.

Let me just pull that up now.

Rob and David already have that drafted.

So there are two issues.

That one is for the city of Barone.

David Knott, both I think had the bill last year, it was killed both sides last year, so we have requested an easy grant.

Trying to improve its language to maybe not kill it, or just to bring it back up again?

No, just to bring it back up again, but the language as is, you gotta understand, it doesn't exclude carrying all guns.

I understand, I mean it's shocking that you can have 19 or 20 rounds and kill 20 people, but you can't kill 21.

This bill got some discussion because it's more narrowly drawn.

Excuse me.

Another issue, how would this affect concealed carry?

also one that the city is supporting.

We'll see what happens.

The courts underlined rationale for seeking the enabling authorities to give locals control over these war memorials and the monuments that are on the county's property.

Is that correct or no?

Is that possible in building shoot-free files or not?

Well, when drafts come back you can amend them, but we're not out of time to do that.

That might be the place to do that, so that we have a clear understanding of what we can do as far as contextualization.

And delegate to Skano's bill last year did include contextualization.

Yes, and the one twig is just making it declaratory of existing law.

So if there can be some way that the move is not the first.

Targeting grants for businesses that pay higher wages.

That was, I believe, from the JLAC report.

It may also be time to look at perhaps what some other states do to incentivize business if there are other tools out there, especially outside of development areas that could be helpful in the commonwealth.

It looks like there is a bill that came in last year that has been pre-filed this year, SB number 193, which would give localities last year.

We can take it back on that.

Right now under state law there is a cap of 1% and David again has assured us that there would be solar energy related legislation coming in.

There are several bills that are showing up.

I know there's a coalition of folks up in the Northern Virginia area.

supporting funding for regional library systems

David's already spoken about the, both the counties and the planning districts' support for increased funding and health communications initiative.

Is this legislation just for our region or is this special legislation that requires a different passing level or is it a general approach that can just be standard?

We don't know what the circumstances are in all of the localities and in the research that we did about three years ago we know that there are localities where courthouses have moved around maybe not fully

I think the way it's worked is in this general way.

I guess it just depends on the way things are going.

The second issue is we have a lot of people in Missouri, I'll just say a lot, but numerous people

I think if the law says you can't carry a gun, you can't carry a gun even if you have a concealed carry gun.

in these particular circumstances we're talking about.

Sometimes, usually they catch those things in drafting, but I'll take a look.

But if I wanted to go to a public space and carry a concealed weapon, I can do that.

No, it doesn't override the second amendment.

We'll continue to keep an eye on that as it comes forward in the press.

So just put that in.

from schools.

We'll speak that up a little, maybe turn it into more of a study or pilot program to see if we can get some traction on that.

Isn't that right Ned?

That's about right.

I thought they were inflation adjusted, were they not?

I don't think that number is adjusted.

But you're talking funding.

I'm just talking it.

We ought to just see if we can't get that and send that to everybody so they at least have the accurate number and make sure it's what it is, real dollars.

And if we can get that fully funding piece back in line, that's really going to go a long way to helping lift the burden of what the local, what locals have picked up as the state funding has been completed.

You haven't been principal.

You could have part-time principals, that's right.

So, I mean, it's ludicrous.

I think he's also looking at the issue of school counselors.

That would be good.

Was that part of the 24 recommendations you had on school safety?

That's great.

Jane, you want to go next in case your deadline appears, and then we'll let Jordan come back to you.

We'll keep you informed about that.

That's going to get worked out.

46 days will go by quickly split, so very quickly.

It's kind of confusing about what makes it nonpartisan.

Okay, but when you hear about what's going on in Wisconsin, what went on, and we'll hear about it a couple of years ago.

I love it that you just talked about the balkanization of the transportation money because it just brings to mind what happens in communities on education when we depend more and more on property taxes to fund our education and less from the state from the income tax and other sources because we end up with school districts that are wealthier than others and are better funded.

And Virginia's got to step up their game too.

Our county staff has tried, let the state help.

That's not really a solution.

But if when you're going around talking to other groups, if anybody ever finds out the solution to this, to try to get a hold of these other, because we have the police officers saying they're stopping these tractor-trailer drivers, and they're going by, not ways, they're going by other maps.

Now there's a prohibition on trucks on stretching that road.

But I'm sure they're probably still using it.

They're still using it.

OK, thank you very much.

We're going to happen this year by just laying the foundation that we would like a minimum of $15 million, it doesn't have to all be in one year, phased in with time to enable us to open a regional park, which is what it is designed to be from the outset.

Have you had any luck with other localities?

No, in fact we had approached them through the TJPDC and they politely turned us down because Nelson, Rivanna both had other parks that they were preoccupied and the city of Charlottesville had other concerns and priorities.

Thanks, have a great day.

I think we can hold it all.

Our bosses have been around for a long time, so they often get hit up for bill ideas before maybe some other legislators.

I'm just saying like the earlier the better.

We will do a better job of planning next year.

We will take like a two minute break and then we will go into our closed meeting after this.

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Mr. Randolph?

Aye.

Mr. Dill?

Yes.

Mr. Galloway?

Yes.

Ms. Palmer?

Yes.

Thank you everyone.

I move that the Board certify by recorded vote that, to the best of each member's knowledge, only public business matters lawfully exempted from the open meeting requirements of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and identified in the motion authorizing the closed meeting were heard, discussed, or considered in the closed meeting.

Yes.

Very good!