Board of Supervisors Regular First Meeting   7/1/2020

Good afternoon, everyone.

I call the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors to order for our July 1, 2020, 1 p.m.

meeting.

This meeting is being held pursuant to and in compliance with ordinance number 20-A8.

and ordinance to ensure the continuity of government during the COVID-19 disaster.

The supervisors who are electronically present at this meeting are Supervisor LaPisto-Kirtley, Rivanna District, Supervisor Donna Price of the Scottsville District, Supervisor Liz Palmer of the Samuel Miller District, Supervisor Diantha McKeel of the Jack Jouett District, Supervisor Ann Mallek of the White Hall District, and myself, Supervisor Ned Gallaway of the Rio District.

The persons responsible for receiving public comment are the Board of Supervisors of Albemarle County, and the opportunities for the public to access and participate in the electronic meeting are posted on the Albemarle County website, on the Board of Supervisors homepage, and on the Albemarle County calendar.

And we also have with us today, as typically join us on the dais, is our County Executive, Mr. Jeff Richardson, our County Attorney, Mr. Greg Kepner, our Board Clerk, Claudette Borgeson,

And with that board we will please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thank you everyone.

And if everyone who is on the call or on the meeting will please join in a moment of silence.

Thank you everyone.

and board we're going to go to the adoption of our final agenda and as you all know that a couple of changes we're going to make.

Do we need to pause?

I just got a message that our outgoing feed is frozen.

Travis should I be pausing or continuing?

You're muted Travis there.

Please pause.

Sorry about that.

Just a quick update.

We got two different outgoing ways to participate and one was live and working and one was not, so we paused to get that in order.

So we were about to adopt our final agenda.

There are a couple of changes we need to make.

Item 8.2, fiscal year 20 appropriations, that item will need to be pulled from the consent agenda.

Then we will need to, I believe we'll take an action to defer.

We'll address that after the approval of the consent agenda.

and then we are going to add an update by Dr. Denise Bonds on COVID-19 and that'll be after item number 17 and that's right before we go, actually that would be after item 13, right?

So we'll put that in right before closing.

Hopefully we'll be able to be on time.

So with those changes, are there any other changes that need to be made to the agenda?

So moved.

Everybody made that motion.

I go by the yellow square, whoever I see first.

Mr. Galloway?

Yes.

Ms.

LaPisto-Kirtley?

Aye.

Ms.

Ms.

Ms.

Ms.

All right, very good.

Next item on the agenda, number five, brief announcements by board members, and then you should have in your run of show.

This will be the order.

We'll be doing questions, comments as we proceed through the meeting today.

No, nothing.

Very good.

Supervisor Price, any announcements?

Not at this time, thank you.

Just quickly then, this morning there was a COVID testing at the White Hall Community Building in White Hall.

Monday morning was the beginning of the time to make appointments, Monday and Tuesday, and all the appointments were gone before 9 a.m.

on Monday.

So when you have things scheduled in your districts,

Please alert people to not be shy about calling to sign up because the slots will not linger very long.

And so I look forward to hearing they have 72 slots and then a long list of people on the waiting list in case there were no shows.

So I think that shows a lot of interest in finding out information and a lot of support and concern on the part of our citizens as well.

And just to alert everyone,

MPO will be discussing and considering improvements to our process to develop smart scale programs going forward.

So you'll be hearing a lot more about that in the August meeting.

But Mr. Boyles has proposed some very good ideas to have that be done within house now going forward.

And I look forward to sharing more details with you as things come forward.

That's all for me.

Ned, could I just throw one thing in really quick?

I just forgot to mention just a nice thing, pleasant, good thing to happen.

We had a Esmont-Jaba senior parade yesterday, where the police department lined up cars and with flashing lights and drove by the seniors houses in Esmont that participate in Java.

And I just thought I'd throw that out.

It's very

Nice thing that they did and was very much appreciated by the community.

Thank you.

I saw some video of that, I think, on social media.

Number six, Proclamations and Recognitions.

Do we have anyone signed up today, Travis, for a public comment?

Do we need to vote on the deferral?

The deferral will handle after the consent.

Right.

Got it.

Thank you.

And if there are any citizens online waiting to speak with their telephone, you would need to hit star 9 at this time to make sure staff knows you would like to speak.

While we're getting Ms.

Thank you, Chair Galloway.

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We ask that you address your comments directly to the board as a whole.

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And if you represent a group or organization, you may identify that group so that it may be recognized.

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Each individual is permitted one opportunity to comment during each of the public comment periods per meeting.

Back and forth debate is not permitted.

and we ask that you do speak loud so that it can be recorded.

All comments are live streamed, recorded, and published on the Albemarle County website.

Thank you.

Is our speaker online?

We're having technical difficulties.

Bear with me for a few minutes please.

Okay, Mr. Chair, if we could take a brief pause to sort this out, it would be appreciated.

Okay, Mr. Chair, we can try again.

Dukes, we have you sign up for public comment today.

Mr. Chair, we would like for Ms.

Dukes, Linda Dukes, to please repeat her comments.

Yes, we can.

I'm hearing more than one person speaking at once.

Yes, can you hear me?

I'm hearing more than one person speaking at once.

We can hear you.

Ready to go back?

Excellent.

Are we ready to go back?

Thank you.

I'm assuming you're able to hear me.

My name is Frank Dukes.

I'm a longtime resident of Albemarle County since 1973, albeit a couple of years in the county and the others in the city, and I'm in the Rio district.

I understand you will be having a public hearing on August 6, so I will reserve

My time for that primarily, my comments are directed to the removal of the Johnny Webb statue and my hope is that the board will make a strong statement about why you would be removing the statue, why it does not accord with our values and our aspirations for justice as represented in the courthouse and I appreciate you taking this step and I look forward to seeing that done.

Thank you Mr. Dukes.

Very good.

Ms.

Yes, ma'am.

Ms.

Ms.

Thank you very much.

Thank you to the whole board of supervisors.

I live in Earliesville and Ann Mallek is my representative for which I am very grateful.

I want to go on record as saying that it feels like a terrible miscarriage of justice could happen in a building that is protected by a Johnny Rich sculpture when some of the people that go into that court

For them it is a representation of all the bad of the last 400 years and we are at a time in our history now where there is the chance to make a real change.

I attended the Highland discussion on Monday evening and I think they've made some really great points about how

Many a story can be told and we've had to listen to the story told by white men representing the Confederacy for an awfully long time, over a hundred years.

It's time for a completely different story to be told.

Other voices need to be heard.

It's time for there to be maybe perhaps a teeny plaque

about the Confederacy, and then statues that are appropriately sized for what happened in Court Square.

These are my comments.

Thank you very much.

The story can be told and we've had to listen to the story told by white men representing the Confederacy for an awfully long time, over a hundred years.

It's time for a completely different story to be told.

Other voices need to be heard.

It's time for there to be maybe perhaps a teeny plaque

about the Confederacy, and then statues that are appropriately sized for what app in Court Square.

These are my comments.

Thank you very much.

The story can be told and we've had to listen to the story told by white men representing the Confederacy for an awfully long time, over a hundred years.

It's time for a completely different story to be told.

Other voices need to be heard.

It's time for there to be maybe perhaps a teeny clap

All right we need to if there's a double feed happening we just need to stop get this sorted out and come back on.

I don't know if that means we all need to sign out sign back in but we need to take a pause to figure figure out the double feed issue.

I'm going to run back there and get you an answer.

I'm not sure what we're looking at.

Members of the public are listening.

We're going to take a pause.

Okay, Mr. Chair, can we take... Okay, we are ready.

Right, are we back live there, Travis?

We are.

Do we have Mr. Dukes on standby, or are we...

Ms.

I've got it on the Board of Supervisors link.

That's where I am.

I don't know what's going on.

And we are ready.

Oh well.

Bob there, Travis.

Do we have Ms.

Can you hear me?

Mr. Chair, we do have Ms.

Ms.

I can hear you.

Ms.

Mr. Chair, at this time we are unable to resolve our technical difficulties.

I believe that we need to skip over public comments at this time and possibly come back to it at a future point in the meeting.

Dukes, if you are listening, we were able to get two people in to speak today.

We will welcome, if you want to send your remarks by email,

make sure they are part of the record and hopefully we will also have public comments sorted out by 6pm this evening that you would be able to also enter your comments in at that time and then of course if the issue is on the statues then we'll be having that item back as a separate public hearing if the vote goes through today so there'll be ample opportunity to speak to it.

I do apologize that the technical difficulties are preventing the public comment at this point.

Like I said, 6 p.m.

would be your second attempt.

The board will move to our consent agenda next.

And we had pulled item 8.2.

We'll deal with that afterwards if there is a motion to approve the consent agenda.

I'm sorry, I should have caught this quicker.

I called the clerks on my February 25th minutes.

I have asked to have the correct spelling of Greer throughout that discussion.

So if I could just have the February 25th minutes as amended.

I apologize for getting in there quickly.

I'm sorry, I assumed it was always part of the motion because I have bundles of corrections to hand in.

So I hope it's in public all the time.

I don't know.

Yeah.

So motion I'll move that we approve the consent agenda

No, that's right.

Alright, Supervisor McKeel made the motion.

Supervisor Malek seconded.

Is there any further discussion?

I hear someone else.

Alright, we can call the vote, please.

Yes.

Ms.

Ms.

Ms.

Ms.

Ms.

All right and the first item for deferral was that 8.2 fiscal year 2020 appropriations.

I move we defer 8.2 until more information is gathered.

All right.

Supervisor Malek made the motion.

Supervisor Palmer with the second.

Ms.

LaPisto-Kirtley?

Yes.

Ms.

Ms.

Ms.

Ms.

Aye.

I believe Supervisor LaPisto-Kirtley was muted and was trying to get back in.

Ms.

And I don't that was just the only item very good so we can move into our action items today number nine

Albemarle County's May 2020 Allocation of Federal Cares Coronavirus Relief Funds.

Lori, I expect we'll be logging in if she's not already.

Mr. Richardson, I don't know if you have anything to introduce or should I just go to Lori?

Mr. Chair, I'll ask Lori Allshouse please to lead this discussion in overview.

Thank you, Lori.

Thank you.

Today I'm going to talk with you about the—let me back it up one slide here.

All right.

Can you see the first slide here?

It's my staff request.

I'm just checking in to make sure you can see the slideshow.

Today, staff is requesting the Board of Supervisors approve an implementation plan for $9.5 million in federal CARES CRF funding.

The CARES Act of 2020 provides a number of different programs to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

There's one program called the CARES CRF Program, which provides assistance to state, local, territorial, and tribal governments to deal with things that are impacting these jurisdictions categories due to the pandemic.

Virginia received $3.1 billion in CARES funding and has shared this allocation with local jurisdictions based on population.

So the county is to spend, our allocation is $9.5 million and we must expend it by December 30, 2020.

We wanted to mention, we have just found out that there's new guidance out from the U.S.

Treasury that just came out yesterday that is giving us a little more flexibility on this deadline.

We're working closely with the county attorney's office and others to make sure that we totally understand what the guidance is.

The thing about this program is that continual guidance is coming out from the federal government on the expenditures and so we're all paying very careful attention to what we can and can't do with it and especially around this deadline.

So when we got the information about receiving this allocation, there was some guidance in the letter.

One was that we're to share with the town of Scottsville.

And in a few moments, I'll share with you information about that.

And that's based on population.

Also, that it's supposed to be used for qualifying expenditures.

And again, there's your timeline.

The expenditures are those incurred during the period of March 1st.

to December 30, 2020.

All the expenditures are to be incurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

And there's a clause in there about your budget.

They're not to be accounted for in a budget that's been most recently approved on March 27, 2020.

Our understanding of that is that's our fiscal year 20 budget.

And we did not have pandemic, COVID-19 pandemic items specifically identified in the 2020 budget.

So we feel that we are meeting that in compliance with that.

There are important guidance is not to be used for ongoing services or any base operations.

This is basically funding for one time expenditures.

So when we received this funding, a group of staff worked together to identify what is our goals about the CARES funding for Albemarle County.

Our first goal is to make sure that we spend it by the deadline and we meet that important compliance requirement.

The other item we thought about was, let's make sure we spend it on our highest priority items.

And over on the left side of this slide, you can see in the blue banner, we already have response and reconstitution goals around the COVID-19 pandemic.

So basically what our goal is is to spend this funding on these top priority goals.

And the other important goal for us is that we want to manage these funds correctly.

They are federal funds, they come with federal guidelines, and we want to make sure we all stay within those guidelines.

So when we put together our plan that we're going to present to you in just a moment, our approach is based on numerous items.

First of all, we want to make sure we're compliance oriented.

You don't want to spend these funds and then realize that you might have not spent them exactly like the federal government has instructed you to, and then you may not be able to utilize them.

You have to have a very systematic approach.

The deadline is still December 30th.

We're studying if we have any more flexibility on it.

But to spend funding in that timeline, we have to be very systematic in our approach.

We also need to be nimble.

What I mean by this is that if we need to change course, just like our 366 approach that we're taking to our regular budget, if we need to change course or change direction,

to ensure that we're doing things correctly and in a timeline, we will be making those choices and making those changes.

Again, we need to be timely with this funding.

We need to stay very focused with it.

And then we also need to be mindful that we do have staff capacity limits.

And so we have to be thoughtful in how we direct these funds and doing it in a way that our ability in the organization is there to manage it.

So this slide in front of you, I'm going to get my copy because I can't see the full picture on my slide because I'm seeing everyone's faces.

Let me pull this up so I have it with me as well.

So this slide is basically the implementation plan that we're going to ask you to approve today.

So it's a chart and it has several columns and I'm just going to go a little slower on this so that you can see it.

The categories are on the left, and so what we're doing is we're taking these funds and dividing them in a few categories for expenditure.

You'll see in the middle expenditure examples.

This isn't all we're going to be doing, but it gives you examples of some of the eligible expenses that these funds can be used for.

Then the other thing we did in the columns over to the right, we identified some of the funding that can be spent from March to June.

So that's your fiscal year 20.

So some of this can be reimbursed for expenditures that we've already incurred.

And the next column is expenditures that we're estimating for July to December.

And then you can see the total on the end.

So I'm going to go back to the categories.

The first category is General Government Services and Obligations.

The first thing on this list is funding for the town of Scottsville.

We will provide funding to Scottsville for eligible expenditures of the amount is $50,000 and this is based on their population as a proportion of Albemarle counties.

also any other COVID-19 related expenses that satisfies criteria such as staff redeployment to work on COVID-19 items, supplies and support to regional entities such as public health precautions that are being taken at the regional jail as an example.

It also can be used to match FEMA funding and we'll coordinate this very carefully with the FEMA funding as well and you can see the dollar amounts at the top and it totals 3.5 for this category.

The next category we've entitled Technology, and this is for eligible technology and community school-related broadband expenditures.

The guidance isn't as clear in this category, but we've been doing a lot of research on it, and we believe that there are places that we could use the COVID-19 funding in this category.

So you can see that there could be some reimbursements, and then you can see some estimates for July to December in the total of $1 million.

The next category is Human Services and Community.

And this is $2.5 million in total.

Again, you can see the different categories for the timelines.

This is really important funding that we can get out into the community.

Eligible items are things like supporting vulnerable populations, helping homeless and homeless prevention support, emergency financial assistance, food delivery, medical-related prevention supplies,

and other eligible expenditures.

The next column is economic development.

So this funding can also support businesses.

So our vision for this is to provide small business grant or loans to reimburse for cost of business interruptions or any other eligible business-related support.

The human services category and the economic development category is more than half of the funding at $5 million.

And then you can see at the bottom the $9.5 million in total.

Again, some of it are reimbursing things that we have done to date, and some of it is placed in the fiscal year 21 timeframe for future expenditures.

It's very important to note that this is a plan, it's not a budget.

Funding can move from category to category and from column to column based on actual expenditures and projects that we're doing.

We're going to monitor this over time and adjust as required.

Again, as I said earlier, we need to be very nimble with this funding and very systematic as we move it out.

We go through order.

None at this time.

No, thank you, Chair Galloway.

Thank you, Ms.

Alshouse, for your presentation.

Supervisor Palmer?

Is there more coming back to us later about more details about these categories, such as are there

small business loans beyond the microloan program that we did have.

Is that planned for later?

Yes, we will be bringing to in just a couple weeks because of the timing of this, we're going to be bringing more information back to you on two of the categories, the human service and community and the economic development category will be in front of you with much more details on the 15th.

I have a question for Ms.

Alshaus.

Thank you very much.

Great presentation.

I did want to ask, I'm very interested in the technology because I've been dealing with some communities in my area that do not have broadband and the children don't have broadband internet access.

So I'm very much interested in seeing if we can partner up with

Yes, our IT director, Mike Culp, has been very intensely working on this and really studying what other jurisdictions are doing, really studying what is the eligibility criteria around this funding.

I know that they're dealing with other issues, but it's not going to be until late 2021, early 2022.

And if another pandemic hits and we have to go virtual for another year, that's a year and a half where children aren't learning.

Thank you, Chair Galloway, and thank you, Lori, for the great presentation and leadership bringing the plan together.

Yes, we were very anxious to see if there's a way to use CRF, the coronavirus relief funds, as a means to accelerate our broadband expansion.

So with the passage of this plan or approval to move forward, we'll start those conversations.

Very good.

There's just a couple quick slides.

So I just wanted to share that there are other CARES programs that you'll hear about in the community.

So this is a very specific one called the CRF funds.

So when we talk about this, we'll be very specific with that category and using those initials.

But we just wanted to mention that there's other CARES funding coming through different programs and different ways into the community.

into our region and into our various departments in the county.

So this is just a slide to share with you that we're aware of at least 9.1 million other programs that are coming into the community in various ways.

And there are also more competitive grant or application projects that we may explore in addition to these funding streams.

So just wanted to keep that in mind as well.

And then finally, this is just a quick snapshot of what's ahead.

As I mentioned earlier, we'll be bringing back some additional information as I mentioned on July 15th.

And then you'll probably be pretty much on a regular basis as we line up appropriations and move this fund in the different categories for expenditure.

We'll build that right into our regular preparation process that you are involved in on a monthly basis.

We're also going to give you updates very regularly on how this is moving forward, what the expenditures are, and what the progress and results are.

We will also monitor the expenditures on an ongoing basis.

Again, compliance is very important here, and we're going to pay very close attention to that.

And our goal is to expend all the CARES CRF funding by the timeline that you see there.

So thank you very much for the time on your agenda and what staff is just requesting that you approve this implementation plan so we can move forward.

All right the motion was made by Supervisor LaPisto-Kirtley, seconded by, was that Supervisor Price?

Yes Chair Galloway.

Any further discussion?

Mr. Galloway?

Yes.

Ms.

Ms.

Ms.

Ms.

Ms.

Very good.

That motion is approved.

All right, Board, the next item on our agenda, number 10, Civil War Monuments and Memorials.

And Mr. Kamner, I have you down.

I am, Mr. Chair.

And can you see my slides?

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Mr. Chair, members of the Board, Greg Kamner, County Attorney, this is a

The presentation and introduction to the new enabling authority that becomes effective today.

The board is very familiar with this section of the Virginia Code.

It's been part of the local discussion for the last three or four years today.

This section has the amendments become effective and they authorize localities to remove, relocate, contextualize, recover war memorial monuments and memorials, but there are some procedural requirements that must be followed.

The monuments and memorials that

have been the subject of the most discussion are those located at the county courthouse grounds, the at the ready statue, the cannons and the stacked cannon balls.

The new authority provides a four step procedure and the matter for discussion for the board today is whether or not to direct that public hearing be advertised and the

The new section requires that that notice be published at least 30 days prior to the public hearing on the matter.

And if the board chooses to hold a public hearing based on that 30-day period and the time that it takes for the daily progress to run the ad, August 6th is our anticipated early estate for that public hearing.

I wanted to alert you that there is an alternative first step in the procedure that the enabling authority provides, and that is for the board to conduct an advisory referendum.

And based upon the requirements for holding a referendum, they're treated as a special election, and we would go to court to ask the court to order the special election.

and the state requirements for conducting a special election, which have to be 81 days after the election is ordered, but can't be held more than 55 days prior to a special election unless it happens to be held on the same date as a general election.

Based upon my math, it appears that the November 3rd general election would be the earliest date that

That could be held.

After that, and it is just an advisory referendum, and after that, if the board decides to proceed, then the four steps that were shown on the previous slide would begin.

So I wanted to share that with the board.

There is that alternative procedure, but these are the four primary steps in the process, whether the referendum was conducted or not.

This is the recommended motion if the board decides to proceed with advertising a public hearing.

The language here has been modified slightly from the recommendation in the executive summary.

Thank you, Greg.

We'll go through our order.

Okay, thank you very much.

I would just like to know what the cost would be for a referendum.

I'm not looking to actually identify or have additional costs associated with this.

Well, it's the first time this item's officially been on our agenda, so I would imagine

We'll move to a motion after I go through the order.

Thank you.

And do you have that, Mr. Camp?

I don't have a dollar amount that we would have to get a quote from a printer.

I went back and looked at the

I will just say that on a personal level, I think this is something that is long overdue.

I don't think

A war memorial or statue such as this should be in front of a courthouse.

A courthouse represents justice for all.

I don't want anyone to feel intimidated.

I don't want to memorialize or celebrate

anything or anybody that was against the, that was in favor of dissolving the union.

And that's exactly what it was.

It was to dissolve the union.

It was to maintain enslaved people.

I do not fault the individual soldiers.

They did what they were told to do.

However, I do fault the leadership at that time for wanting to dissolve the union and make... It was all about greed and power because the economic engine of the South were the... So I think this is long overdue to have this discussion.

I'm looking forward to having a public hearing next month.

Thank you.

Mr. Gallaway, I have no questions.

Mr. Campner, I thank you.

I will go ahead and make my comments now.

We have a major issue that's confronting our nation.

I want to thank the residents of Albemarle County for the manner in which you have proceeded in your communications with us as members of the board.

This is an issue that engages the passions on all sides of the issue.

For those who will say it's the way it has always been, it is part of our history, that does not necessarily mean that it is right.

Today we are initiating a conversation, a conversation about what we are to do regarding the at-the-ready statue, two cannons, and the stacked cannonballs on the grounds of the Albemarle County Courthouse.

At a later time, a decision can be made on what action will be taken,

Today, however, we merely begin the conversation that relates to an issue that is tearing our country apart.

157 years ago today, in and around the tiny hamlet of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the fate of our nation hung in the balance.

The Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia met.

As often the case in momentous events, even the outcome of the battle itself was far from certain.

and up for the valor of Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in leading his men who were out of ammunition in a desperate bayonet charge into the advancing Confederate forces and blunting their encircling movement, the Union may have lost that battle, which would have then opened up the heart of the nation to the Confederate forces who may have then forced a settlement dissolving the Union.

Just as Gettysburg was the decisive battle of the Civil War, leading to the ultimate Union victory two years later,

As Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama marked the turning point towards the end of legalized segregation in America, the death of George Floyd, one of countless black Americans murdered simply for being black, may finally mark the opportunity for our nation to fully address a stain on the soul of America.

In commemorating the Battle of Gettysburg, President Lincoln spoke some of the most eloquent words in history, and he concluded his remarks with these words, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government by the people, of the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Turning then to what happened after the Civil War, there was a period of reconstruction,

and after that the imposition of legalized segregation, mass incarceration of black males, and the Jim Crow era of literacy tests, poll taxes, and the grandfather clause, all of which were restrictions specifically enacted to disenfranchise black Americans.

Once black Americans were successfully removed from government involvement, the vast majority of Confederate iconography was erected starting in the early 1900s.

Some say that removal of the statues is wrong because that is removing or rewriting our history.

My question in reply is whether that is the history which we want to exalt through the retention of these memorials erected under such circumstances.

What history and legacy will we leave our grandchildren?

Will we look to the past or live in the future?

Answering those questions are what this process is all about.

I regularly pledge to strive for justice and peace among all people and to respect the dignity of every human being.

Our obligation as a government is to ensure that we act in a way that serves the needs of all of our residents so that we are truly acting as a government of the people, by the people, for the people.

I support this process of public engagement and participation by all our residents in order to determine what action should be taking regarding the disposition of the at-the-ready statute, the two cannons, and the stacked cannonballs on the grounds of the Albemarle County Courthouse.

I do not support the holding of an advisory referendum.

Now is the time to take action.

Thank you, Supervisor Price.

I will save my comments for after the public hearing, after we hear from the public, and thank you, Donna, for going through that.

And in the interest of time, I will stop here.

Thank you.

I too am going to save my comments until after the public hearing, but I would like to take this opportunity to thank our representatives in the General Assembly for giving us this opportunity.

Albemarle County since 2017 requested local control of our monuments and memorials.

and so for me this is a wonderful opportunity that we've waited a long time for and I also want to just thank the community for their outreach and their thoughtful emails and I am very much in favor of taking this to public hearing.

Thank you.

Well, thank you.

No questions.

I'm also grateful for all the learning that has happened for me personally in the last 15 years.

I grew up here and what I have learned in the last 15 years was never presented in any of the schooling that I had in the 1950s and 1960s, even though there were very good opportunities to do that.

So it has been lifelong learning is one of those really important things for us as people and

I've certainly benefited from the help of many others who have brought me along and I look forward to the public hearing and getting on with the next steps for which we finally have the authority.

Thank you and I concur with Albemarle.

I recall going down just two years ago I believe advocating at the committee meeting for us to have control over our property and anything displayed on it.

and feeling after leaving that meeting very defeated but that was not going to be likely and here it is just a year afterwards and citizens have made some changes and we have a new law in effect so I'm glad this day's here that it's in front of us and that we can proceed to the public hearing to hear from everyone and move on to be able to move on for us to be able to take a vote on it so I'll be looking forward to that.

And with that board, if there are no other comments or questions, we have a motion in front of us.

So moved.

Second.

Second.

The motion was made by Supervisor LaPisto-Kirtley.

Ms.

Ms.

Ms.

Ms.

All right, very good.

That motion carries.

I do want to remark, Greg, that I appreciate all your time and effort.

You work on the legislative packets for us year in, year out.

I think all of us would agree that, you know, at one point in time this was a topic that was on there that you were saying should we continue.

There have been a couple of different topics of

All right board the next item on our agenda

Number 11, Long Range Planning Projects Update.

And the first one is the Rio 29 Form-Based Code.

And Rachel should be joining us.

Yes, this is me.

I'm going to go ahead and share my screen here.

Okay, so good afternoon members of the board.

I'm Rachel Halkenstein.

I'm principal planner and community development.

I'm joined today by Makayla Cardy, senior neighborhood planner and individual neighborhood planner to provide status updates on our two long-range planning projects.

The first one we'll talk about is the RIO 29 form-based code.

I'll go through just a couple of slides to give you an update on where we are and then I'll pause for some questions and discussions before we get into rosé.

So last time we came to you with this project was in December of 2019 when we brought what we called our Rio29

framework, draft framework for the form-based code project for your review.

And as you recall, before that time, we had a pretty heavy period of intense engagement on this project where we worked with the steering committee.

We had a series of public workshops, some stakeholder focus groups where we invited property owners and developed the development community.

And then a series of planning commission workshops on the form-based code content.

And we took all of that feedback and turned it into this draft framework, which was essentially an outline of content for the foreign-based code that we brought to you.

And once you all reviewed that in December, you guided us to turn that into a zoning ordinance amendment for the Rio 29 area.

And that's what we're working on right now and what I'm here to give you a quick update on since it's been a while since we've talked to you about this.

So our current work is a lot of technical ordinance drafting where we have a staff team working on turning that outline we brought to you into some technical code content.

We're working with internal and agency reviewers as part of this to run some kind of proposed standards by them to make sure, ensure consistency.

We're working with folks from

for example, VDOT, economic development office, our transit partners, and fire and rescue.

And then lastly, we're collaborating with the architectural review board to develop some design criteria for a BRIO 29 specific certificate of appropriateness that will be part of the four base code project.

And then secondly, we're preparing for some future consultant work on this project.

If you recall, when we talked about this in December,

We asked for a little bit of funding for some peer review and scenario modeling and these are items that we will work with an outside expertise on form-based code to review our draft code content to give us some feedback and some comments on the draft comment.

from work they've done across the country on foreign-based codes, as well as mocking up some development on a couple of sites within the RIAA 29 area to show and demonstrate what the regulations we've drafted would look like in a real site development.

So I just wanted to give a quick update on kind of the timeline and the work plan for this project and impacts from COVID-19 of our schedule.

So if you recall when we brought this back to you last year we said we would need about a year to turn the framework into a final draft ordinance for your review and adoption.

That timeline has slipped a little bit because of COVID-19.

We had a period of time where we weren't able to work on this project because we

had to regroup and focus on other things as the stay at home order went into place.

So that caused a little bit of delay for our project.

We also had funding for a consultant be temporarily frozen while you all were reviewing the revised budget.

So that delayed consultant work a little bit.

So our best guess for our new timeline would be first quarter of 2021 to bring the final draft to you, hopefully by February.

would be ready for your review and adoption at that time.

As far as engagement, our work in the first two quarters of 2020 have really been internally focused so we've been able to kind of keep moving forward on that.

We do anticipate some engagement in the fall and we think we'll be able to do virtual engagement with this.

We don't exactly know how that will look but we'll probably be

opportunities for some virtual meetings with stakeholders and property owners as well as some online engagement opportunities.

Thank you.

Do I, the scope of the consultancy sounds I think appropriately limited if I understand correctly what you mean.

I mean, so someone would research what other communities have done, which I know is something that we have done already with Places29 over and over.

So I hope that people will be looking, I guess at a future meeting or in an email, perhaps you can share some more details about what this means so that we make sure or

from you that there will be a very strict scope written out that we will be having them adhere to.

Because so much work has gone into this, I'm very worried that somebody is just going to take off and give us a whole lot more copy paste from someplace else.

Sure, and I'll address that quickly, and I'd be happy to follow up with an email with a copy of the scope.

But we are looking for folks who have written form-based codes before.

There are a couple of expert firms that really just do this as focus work.

And so we're looking for someone who's actually written code before, not just to do research of what other localities have done.

And it will be scoped so that they review drafts

So we are asking them to write the code for us.

We are asking them to go pull best practices.

We're actually asking them to review a draft ordinance and provide any comments or feedback based on their experience.

I see.

Very good.

No, we've been directed.

Very good.

And then the next one is the master plan update.

Let me pull up my presentation.

It's loading.

So I'll just do a similar quick update on the Crozet master plan update and where we are on that project.

So they're actually tracking really similar timelines.

We were before the board last on this project in December of 2019 where we brought

At the completion of our first phase, we called visioning, we brought out draft guiding principles and goals for your review and feedback.

We heard some feedback from the board that we kind of then incorporated into our next phase of work.

And then phase two is kind of focus topic area conversations with the community.

And we scoped initially five in-person workshops on a series of topics with the community.

In January and February, we were able to complete the first two of those in-person workshops.

And then with the shift to operations due to COVID-19, we had to least scope how that would look and how the engagement would work for this project because it is such a heavy engagement.

So post-COVID, where we are now, we're doing virtual engagement and a series of workshops has been turned into a series of online engagement opportunities where we have

through the platform publicinput.com.

We've been using across the organization a series of focused questionnaires.

We invite members of the public to participate in on topics where we walk them through questions and mapping exercises on topics of things like traffic and transit, bicycle and pedestrian connectivity, housing, a couple examples.

So we're working through our workshops that way online.

and then subsequent to that we're doing virtual CAC meetings with the Crozet Community Advisory Committee where we bring topics from the online feedback where we have kind of mixed feedback or there's not clear direction from members of the public for the CAC to deliberate on and discuss and those are held as virtual meetings through Zoom similar to yours.

And then lastly we're hoping by the end of the summer we can have a virtual open house type of

where folks are invited to participate in the summary of recommendations that we've pulled together through this virtual and in-person feedback as well as to discuss implementation.

We don't have the format exactly worked out with that yet, but we would like it to be an opportunity for some dialogue with members of the public and not just that static online engagement that we've been doing with some of the workshops.

So we'll have more information on that as we roll that out.

Just a summary of kind of what we've seen so far with participations or in-person workshops in January and February.

We estimated we had about 40 people at each of those workshops.

and then we've always been doing an online component with our workshops just for those folks who aren't able to come out in person or the timing doesn't work for their schedule and we saw about 60 and 80 participants online with those in-person workshops.

Since we've gone virtual, it's a bit of a mixed bag on participation right now and it's probably a little bit too early to make any conclusions about this.

as some of the online materials are still open.

But you can see housing preservation didn't have a strong turnout with the online workshops so far, only 17 participants.

But bicycle and pedestrian connectivity, the community I think is really passionate about this topic, and we had 128 participants online.

And then streets and transit, we just rolled that out online at the end of last week.

And so far, we've seen 34 participants.

So we're still open with these two that have lower participation, so we hope those numbers fill up.

I think perhaps with the housing and preservation workshop, it's such a focused topic that focuses on a couple of specific neighborhoods that maybe it didn't have as much widespread interest in some of the other topics, but we did do direct mailings.

We've had an ad in the Crozet Gazette about the project linking to the online

So we've tried to still do as much outreach as we can to get the word out on these.

And then lastly, I want to just provide an update on the schedule.

It's like I said, tracking similar to the Rio 29 project where we had

several weeks of delay on the project where we had to regroup and think about how we would conduct engagement in the virtual capacity, but still feel like we got a good cross-section of the population to participate and were able to do outreach and get the word out.

So that delayed the project.

We estimate probably about two months, and we think we'll have a final draft to the board in the first quarter of 2021.

So that's all I have on Crozet.

I don't have any questions at this time, but I think the last two presentations have been a great example of how hard

I agree with what Liz just said about working through the COVID challenges and that it's been great and this work is really outstanding and exhibits a high level of community engagement.

Just wondering

Rachel, do we track how much money we're spending and staff support and everything on when we do this master plan work?

You mean how much staff time is spent on it?

How much money are we spent?

What's the financial

um um cost not saying and I don't mean that it's bad I'm just simply saying do we track how much you know this is costing the community uh all the taxpayers I'm just curious about because it really I know that specifically with Crozet it is really and high engagement which is great I am all for that but um and I would ask the same question about the other master plan

So we do our master planning mostly in-house.

I understand it's in-house and I understand we have a consultant that's doing part of this work.

That's exactly what I'm getting at is what

A financial commitment to this.

So I think what you're answering my question in a way is that you really don't.

I'm just trying to figure out, Rachel, not trying to put you on the spot, but I'm just trying to figure out if we're tracking how much time, I don't know, do we have a baseline from the pan tops or any of the other master plans?

How much staff time is that?

Just a financial commitment on the behalf of the community.

Yeah, you don't.

Okay.

And I don't want you to go out and spend a lot of time doing that.

I was just wondering if we had some sort of an idea or a baseline.

That's great.

Thank you, Supervisor Mallek.

Thank you.

I would say just in answer to the previous question, our CIP for years had different amounts budgeted that were to anticipate staff time needed to accomplish these things.

I expect the all-time

Great.

The place is 29 because its geography is so huge.

It did take a tremendous amount of resources, both multiple consultancies and lots of time.

But on the positive side, I will say that staff has done a spectacular job of welcoming people into the process by telephone, by

If people are lucky enough to have online access, but having the telephone access and people being able to call in has brought such a good cross-section of people who could not necessarily come to Western to a big law meeting.

And so these are these little aspects of things that we're doing differently now that I hope we will always continue because of the benefits that we're seeing from getting such good ideas and good involvement.

So I look forward to the next step.

Thank you.

I don't have any questions or comments at this time.

Rachel, thank you for the presentations.

Is there anything in addition you need from us?

All right.

Well ahead of schedule now after some hiccups there at the beginning.

We're running ahead of schedule so we can go ahead and do our recess or I don't know if perhaps if VDOT is ready to roll or Kevin is ready to roll, maybe we could fit them in and then do a recess around the allotted time.

I don't know if anybody knows if Kevin or VDOT are ready to roll.

Someone's checking with Kevin right now.

Well I think then what's best just since they're not ready I don't want to put them on the spot to go forward.

We'll go ahead with our recess and then we will pick up and if we could reach out though to see if VDOT will be ready to roll when we come back that would be great.

Yes sir Mr. Chair we will align just like you're saying and we when you come back from break we'll try to have one of those two ready to go from a time management.

Very good.

Thank you for that.

All right, we'll do start our 15-minute recess and be back in 15 minutes.

Okay, we're live.

All right, thank you.

The next item on our agenda is number 12, Virginia Department of Transportation Quarterly Report.

We have with us our Charlottesville Residency Administrator, Ms.

Kerri Shepherd.

Okay, yes I will.

Let me pull this up.

You can see it.

Great.

Okay, excellent.

Well good afternoon Mr. Chairman and members of the board.

Thank you for having me at the meeting today to provide a quarterly update.

As I present, I will try to take pauses for questions and I will also ask again at the end for any additional thoughts and concerns.

So I'll go ahead and start with the preliminary engineering projects in the county.

First project is the 240-250 roundabout.

Right now, we are waiting to get to the PAC milestone.

We passed the right-of-way phase, which is great, and our ad date is currently November of 2020.

We have the 240 bridge rehab over Linking Hole Creek.

Last milestone, again, was right-of-way.

We are looking towards PAC at this point with a spring 2022 ad date.

We have bike and pedestrian enhancements in a lot of different locations.

And we had to react we're gonna re-advertise that one after after going through the pack So that's the add date for that one is to be determined Next we have the 726 bridge replacement over toadier Creek that just started construction about a week ago We're expecting it to wrap up in about a year Next we have the 708 bridge repair over NF hardware and

We just passed preliminary field inspection and now our next milestone is public hearing.

We have not set a date for that.

We're expecting sometime in the fall, but we have not received guidance on how to hold public hearings at this point.

So more information will be coming out about that one.

Add date is still currently set at March 2022.

Next is the 641 bridge replacement over Marsh Run.

TFI has been passed and looking again towards public hearing.

Ad date is October 2025.

Next is our Route 667 bridge replacement over Piney Creek.

Last milestone was public hearing.

Next is field inspection.

Ad date is January 2023.

And then we have the 702 bridge replacement over Maury Creek.

Last milestone was field inspection.

And our next is the right-of-way phase.

Ad date is currently set at March 2022.

Next we have Route 29 Solutions projects.

We're working on automated traffic signals throughout kind of through the city.

Angus signal in VDOT operation, the others will follow.

So we're currently developing agreements with the city to operate those other signals that cross into the city limits.

Completion date is still to be determined.

And then we have the Hydraulic Hillsdale South project.

The pre-application was submitted.

Final application will be due this August.

and next we have the Albemarle County design build project.

Next milestone is right-of-way plan approval.

We are expecting the first submission in late July of this year.

Anticipated construction start date is next summer.

The Route 2649 roundabout again heading towards right-of-way plan approval.

We are expecting our first submission mid-July 2020 with construction start date also next summer.

Next is the Exit 124 diverging diamond.

Again, right-of-way plan approval in process.

First submission is expected early July 2020, so sometime in the next couple weeks, and plan to start winter of this year or early 2021.

Next we have the connector road between Ryan Mills and Burkemar Drive extended.

We did receive 100% design submittal and now right-of-way plan approval.

Anticipated construction start date is fall of this year.

Next, 118, exit 118, the improvements at the ramps.

This is currently under construction.

So my data is a little bit behind, but so that one has already started.

And the one after it has also already started, the 29 Northbound-Pontane Avenue ramp is under construction currently.

Very good.

No, none at this time.

Thank you very much, Ms.

Supervisor Price?

Thank you, Trey Galloway.

Ms.

Shepherd, thank you for your presentation at this point.

Carrie, thank you very much.

I don't have any real questions, just a comment that our community is going to really see some construction projects when it comes to highways and roads over the next few years.

Thank you.

Carrie, could you go back to page one for just a second?

After the 20 years of not getting anything built, it is really great to see things moving along.

So on the

The second, the 240, where did it go?

The 240 bridge replacement over Lincoln Hole Creek.

I know that this was begun before you came, so I just want to make a quick note.

The community in Crozet is panic-stricken, to say the least, that their only north-south connection will be shut down for months.

And so over a year ago, I began asking Joel and then Alan

and now you, to consider that this project, which is not a crisis, could be swapped out and change places with the Eastern Avenue Bridge because once the Eastern Avenue Bridge is constructed in three, five years, whatever it takes, then people will have an alternative

thousands of people and all the school buses and the ambulances and everything else to get north and south, which will be missing.

So that's just to catch you up a little bit on that.

And the only other point is on the 641 Marsh Run and Advanced Mills to reiterate that, to make sure that that is still as is condition, in other words, not giant size, but in it's replacing the bridge and the piers as they are today.

I know this has gone through many cycles over 20 years, and one of the plans that keeps popping back up now and then is a giant bridge to span the whole bottom land, which would really damage all the village there and also bring in a lot of 18-wheelers that we just can't handle on the curvy roads.

Thank you very much.

Okay.

Next we have a couple things that we've finished, so some county safety and operational improvements that we have made, Route 29 and hydraulic is complete.

and then 743 Earliesville Road.

The permanent post mounted radar feedback signs are in place as well as the flashing stop sign at Ray's Ford.

This fall, as far as bridge projects with our state forces, we have the Route 640 Gilbert Station road bridge repair.

Again, that will be this fall.

Hopefully it will not be delayed due to the railroad clearances.

I think we should be still on target for the fall.

So that's good news.

And then last but not least, various bridge repairs

Maintenance projects on 6429 and other routes.

This is just an ongoing maintenance project.

Usually nighttime or allowable daytime lane closures will be expected.

And this is really just in reference to repairs on substructure, beam repairs, deck patching, that kind of thing.

I will move on now to our traffic engineering work orders.

So these are the ones that we have completed.

The 601 Free Union Road Bridge over Branch Piney Creek.

We had a sign review for that and we installed new yield one-way bridge.

Signs completed mid-month of June.

Sign review on 1115 Broadway Street is complete and the no outlet sign has been installed.

1765 Fontana Drive sign review, that's also complete and a speed limit sign has been installed.

and 627 Quarters Road also sign review.

It is complete and stop ahead signs have been installed.

Continuing on with our traffic engineering work orders.

Currently under review, we have Cantops Mountain, 250, the phasing analysis.

Also 29 and South Hollymeade, same thing.

We have an intersection review of 250, 601, 855 Old Ivy exit ramp.

This is still ongoing.

Also, an intersection review for traffic calming at 1427 Hillsdale and 866 Greenbrier.

Fifth Street, Old Lynchburg Road, there's a STAR study in place that we are coordinating with the county on.

743 Earliesville Road and 660 Ray's Ford Road mini roundabout proposal.

And currently VDOT recommends

funds identified through the county to carry on a project, a proposal specific with the design elements to include survey drainage environmental considerations before proceeding at this point.

1301 Harrison Street is an intersection review that is still undergoing.

1915 Eastern Avenue intersection review for always stop and speed review that's in progress

And last, we have a speed review on Dickwoods Road.

And that is it for our traffic engineering items.

Thank you.

No questions at this time, thank you.

I have no questions on these specific, but I would like if you could, Carrie, to say a few words at the end of your presentation about how Virginia's amended budget will affect transportation in this area.

It's really nice to see all these things moving forward, but I think it would be good to hear a few words about that if you can, if you're prepared for that.

I may have some questions later, but I think I'm okay right now.

Yes, thank you.

I will wait, I think, for Kevin to come up to talk more about the 743-660, and I'll add one other project for your list at the end, too.

Carrie, I have a question about the Hillsdale and Greenbrier intersection review.

It seems that the traffic calming and the comma ongoing has been ongoing for quite a while.

And this, I mean, it's been stated, I mean, well before you came on, this was the report we were getting on that.

And if he hasn't, I'll know to ask him when he comes ahead as well.

Next, I'll run through our land use open items.

We've got the Brookhill development on Route 29.

Polo Grounds improvements is nearing completion.

It will include two miles of internal subdivision streets and a connection to Ashford Boulevard.

We also have the Lewis and Clark extension on Route 29.

That construction is also ongoing.

The developer is hoping for an August opening.

Before then, a detour will be needed for the intersection reconstruction at Quail Run.

We also have North Point on Route 29.

The median work is ongoing.

We will continue to expect nightly lane closures through July, and hopefully that'll be wrapped up at that time.

They're constructing two of three major 29 entrances, and then a signalized R-cut at Lewis and Clark, which has not yet started.

That will be under a separate developer.

And last, we have the Rivanna Village Phase 2 on Route 250, awaiting plan approval.

and what's holding that up is agreements for the retaining wall maintenance needed between VDOT and Albemarle.

And speaking of the budget, I wanted to add this last slide in about our pavement allocation to just generate awareness for some funding shortfalls that we are experiencing.

So what I have put in front of you is for Culpeper District, Charlottesville Residency, our primary pavement allocations from 2016 to date

and our secondary pavement allocations from 2016 to date.

And so I'll just start with the primary.

As you can see through the years, it's been a range of over a million and a half, five million, close to four, close to three, three.

And then this coming year, we are at $927,000 for our primary pavement repairs.

This entire sum of money

is currently programmed to repave Route 22 Louisa Road, which is a total of 5.35 miles.

But again, that eats up the entire allocation for our primary pavement resurfacing.

For our secondary pavement allocations, this year Albemarle has seen a little bit of a drop.

But compared to other localities, it's not nearly as severe.

So we are thankful for that for the secondary payment allocation.

And we weren't, you know, we didn't have to cut nearly like we did for the primary payment allocation.

And just to just to put a quick rough number on it and put it into more perspective, the Culpeper district resurfacing program in calendar year 20 was $30 million.

and next year our program is $14 million.

So less than half of what we're used to and that includes interstate primary and secondary repaving.

So to answer the question about how our budget is being affected right now, our pavement resurfacing program has definitely taken a big hit.

Luckily our residency budget has

has stayed pretty steady.

The only portion that has taken another hit is our snow budget, our snow allocations for this coming year.

But I just wanted to generate awareness for this and just bring it to y'all's attention so you can see and get a real feel for the numbers and how far

You know, that amount of money really takes us.

And if you have any additional questions about that, feel free to ask.

But as far as we are right now, that concludes my formal presentation.

Very good.

Thank you, Carrie.

Supervisor LaPisto-Kirtley?

Not at this time.

Thank you, Chair Galloway.

Ms.

Shepherd, could you go back one slide, please, to the Rivanna Village Phase 2, Route 250.

So what all is involved in that particular application or proposal there?

I'm not exactly sure what all of the outstanding items are.

I don't know how many comments are left.

I'd have to talk to the land use engineer to really figure out, Adam Moore, to really figure out exactly what comments might be outstanding.

I assume the major item because he's called it out for me is the agreements for the retaining wall.

I would appreciate it and I'll ask Mr. McDermott as well on that and then if you could go to your next slide please.

And you know pretty clearly here over the last three to four years, it looks like we are seeing a substantial decline in both the primary and secondary pavement allocations.

While we might be able to look at the most recent decline as somehow being connected with the pandemic and economic changing situation, it's pretty clear that this began well before that.

The allocations are based on pavement ratings, so the decrease is likely a mirror of how good the pavements actually are.

You're right, the most recent cut is because of the pandemic and the economy in general.

As far as the specific years about why it's steadily gone down, I mean, it is usually because of the pavement condition rating.

So if they're higher, we would get less funding.

Yeah, I mean, clearly this last 2020 to 2021, I think we all understand there are going to be impacts there.

Is it a fair conclusion to draw

that starting from 2017 under the primary pavement allocations as we see a decline that that may be an indication that the current condition of our roadways is high.

But then my question is if we continue to diminish or decrease the amount of the allocations then aren't we going to run into an infrastructure deficiency at some point and that may then

Yes, that's an excellent point and that is very true.

That's something that we're concerned about in the Culpeper District, especially with the calendar year 21 projections.

There's really nothing locally here or district level that we can do about that other than ask those who have the ability to influence that to speak up about it.

So elected officials, for example, can help us generate awareness at a higher level than we can about

Okay fair enough and when you say elected officials clearly we on the board of supervisors of the county would fall into that.

Okay, thank you very much.

I appreciate that further explanation.

And I have no further questions.

Thank you again for your information.

So, I believe that you said that our maintenance money is pretty much the same for the Culpeper District that it was last year.

Yes, you did.

It has remained pretty

pretty steady.

It's a little bit less.

So we were told last fall, I believe, that the Culpeper District was going to be getting the necessary equipment to pull ditches again.

and I thought that meant like this year until I was corrected and I was told it was actually the following year that we would be expected to have that equipment.

So the equipment in particular I'm assuming that's been discussed is the AC loader and that piece of equipment is extremely expensive and I know that the Charlottesville residency Joel prior to me and I will support it as well has tried for quite a number of years to get an AC loader without success because they are so expensive.

I believe at this time our I think I want to say I want to say it's either 2023 to 25 that were projected to get

that equipment.

So it's still pretty far out there.

Now I will say that it's not impossible for us to continue to pull ditches.

I think there is one AC loader within the district and so we could borrow it.

We could use other means to clean out ditches where there are problems.

It would help us to have that for sure, but it should not prevent us from doing routine maintenance where it's needed.

I certainly will.

I have in the past and that's one of the things I get a large amount of complaints about in Southern Albemarle is that the ditches need to be cleaned.

and I'll email you some of those spots.

The secondary pavement allocation, what goes under that?

What is the secondary pavement allocation good for?

Is that for our resurfacing of our rural roads or our, I'm sorry, rural rustic road program?

The secondary pavement allocations are for any road that's considered a secondary, which is a route 600 and higher.

If it's under that, then it's a primary, so like 64, 250.

But anything that has a route number that's 600 or higher is considered a secondary road.

And this allocation includes asphalt and surface treatment.

We generally do more surface treatment on these roads because we can get a lot more mileage.

And a lot of them are already just their surface treatment anyway.

So we just go back with what's out there and repair it.

But to further answer your question, the row rustic funds are completely different from these secondary pavement allocations.

So those are handled from a separate pot of money as part of your secondary six year plans, which is what you

You prioritize, as a county, you tell us really what to do and how to spend that money.

I don't believe it has at this point.

Of course, the only funding that we can guarantee in the Rural Rustic Program is the funding for the next fiscal year and all those items in the out years

You know, the remaining five years of that six-year plan are good estimates based on historical figures, but we can't 100% commit to that funding until the year prior.

Okay, so I read an article that said that the transportation funding that there would not be a six year road plan for Virginia next year, and that was a news article.

So I was trying to understand what that really meant.

Could you comment?

You know, it's kind of a broad thing.

I did not see that article.

I know that the secondary six-year plan and the six-year plan are different sets of money, but I do not know, to be honest.

I did not see that article.

Thank you very much.

That's all my questions.

Good afternoon, Carrie.

Thank you.

Good information to have.

Can you just help me a little bit with, I understand what you're saying about the payment allocations and our funding, but in general VDOT has been receiving less money over the years because of the not raising the gasoline tax and amount of

Gasoline being sold.

And I guess I'm talking here really large, you know, big picture.

And the governor this last year, the great fanfare, announced a transportation funding omnibus bill

which was to raise gasoline tax and index it to inflation was my understanding, which would have naturally kicked in I guess today.

Can you just help me a little bit with sort of that bigger picture as it relates to our funding?

That is an excellent question and I will have to research that and get back to you to explain that.

I need to educate myself first before I can explain how that works.

Yeah, because I attended Governor Northam's big pronouncement about this and of course the state went through a lot from the pandemic and reduction in funds.

But I was thinking that today, July 1, would kick in and I didn't think that that had been taken out of the bill.

But anyway, maybe we can talk about that another time.

Oh goody, thank you.

Just, Kerry, somewhere in your emails is a request for assistance at the intersection of Greenwood Road and Greenwood Station where we have a lot of overgrowth on both sides, both corners of the intersection as people try to walk to or drive to the Greenwood Post Office.

So we have a combination of high speed and so many Greenwood

Road people flying across the intersection and landing up in the front yard of the of the Greenland Post Office that it's a little scary to work in there.

So there is a request for in your file for number one trimming if possible and updating me about

If you were at the extent of your right-of-way there, then we'll find something else to do.

And also a request for investigation before we stop there in order to prevent people from getting killed.

So that's the only one that is down in the depths of your files.

And I had to laugh.

when you mentioned the reduction in the snow budget for next year because the dogwood trees are covered in huge red berries.

And the last time I remember that happening was 1992-3.

And in 1993, we had the most amazing five feet of snow you ever saw.

So I hope that there's enough sand and salt stockpiled somewhere.

But I look forward to hearing more about Greenwood Station when you can.

We'll leave this item.

Yes, sir.

I was going to address Supervisor Palmer's question on the six-year improvement plan.

As Carrie did note, that is separate from our secondary

was not affected that we've heard yet from the recent changes because of coronavirus.

That was approved and that funding was as we know will remain steady for this next

which is the funding that would support things like revenue sharing grants and transportation alternative grants.

The state has determined that they are not going to update that six-year plan improvement plan for FY21.

So projects that were applied for revenue sharing or transportation alternatives last year will not be done this year.

They're going to put that off another year.

Thank you, Kevin.

All right, well, we're kind of at time on this item.

Carrie, was there any, I think there were a couple of things you're going to get some information and bring back to us.

And have a good afternoon.

Great, it'll be great to know you're still there if we need to bring you back in for a question or two.

Thank you, Chairman Galloway and other supervisors.

Okay, I'm gonna start sharing my screen now.

Okay, I believe you can see my screen now and I'm here just to present the transportation planning quarter report for this past quarter.

Just really highlighting some of the things that we've been working on over this past quarter and of course you have your report which goes into some of these in more detail and then some other updates I'll also go over since that report was submitted and happy to take any questions throughout the presentation or at the end.

So first, getting back to actually the point I just made during the, during Kerry Sheppard's report was that last year we submitted revenue sharing and transportation alternative grants for three projects, the Berkmar Drive extension to Airport Road, including a roundabout there, the Old Lynchburg Road, Morris Creek Greenway, bicycle and pedestrian improvements,

and the Taber Street-High Street pedestrian improvements.

Funding was not announced as it typically is this spring because, as I mentioned, the state postponed the new six-year improvement plan.

So these, as far as we know, will not be funded until at least next year for July 2020.

21 would be typically when that funding would start if they move forward with that.

So those projects are on hold.

I will point out that the numbers that you see adjacent to each of those are the rankings that each of those projects were at in the most recently approved Albemarle County priorities list so you can kind of get an idea as to where they all sat.

Moving on down this list, of course, we just had our conversation on the SmartScale proposed applications for this year.

The submittal date will be August 3rd, and we are moving forward with these projects that you can see here.

The Hydraulic 29 improvements package, US 250 access management and right turn lanes from Route 20 to Rolkin Road in Pantops, the Fontaine Avenue 29 bypass diverging diamond,

Old Lynchburg Road, Fifth Street extended intersection improvements, the Route 20, Route 53 intersection improvements, Belvaneer-Raya Road, John Warner Parkway-Raya Road intersection improvements, and of course that was not passed as a resolution during our meeting previously, at the last month's meeting, and we are still working with the Department of Transportation on kind of

Re-evaluating that project to see what our best options are for scoring and moving that forward.

Of course, we proposed the R cut at Belveneer and a potential roundabout at the John Warner Parkway intersection.

And we're trying to figure out if the best option is to combine those in the one

or separate those.

I'm also going to talk a little bit about the Rio Corridor Study, which may play into that here in a minute.

So we might get back to that one.

The U.S.

29 shared use path in Seminole Lane to Carsbrook Drive, Frays Mill, Brunley Station Road intersection improvements, the R-cut there, and the I-64 Exit 107 Crozet Park and Ride.

Those were all the transportation priorities that we are looking at for grants right now.

Moving on to the major planning projects that we're working on, the Fifth Street Extended STAR Study is still ongoing.

We had alternatives presented at a virtual public meeting in June by the VDOT consultant for all the intersections throughout that area.

And of course that starts at Harris, just inside the city line and goes all the way down to the end of the four lane section at Old Lynchburg Road.

The final study is expected to be completed this summer.

So we're just finalizing that right now.

the Crozet Transportation Study.

This was mentioned briefly by Rachel in her presentation earlier.

We have got a scope and cost approved for that

Way in early July.

So any day now we hope to get the final approvals on that study to move forward with.

The idea behind that is it's supposed to support the Crozet master plan to help us identify the projects that are necessary to move forward with or the priority projects out of that.

And it also is supporting the Barnes-Lumber redevelopment project there.

What we know is the library avenue connection over towards Eastern Avenue.

and some of that was partially funded or about more than halfway funded by the Barnes-Lumber development proffer that was in there.

So that is moving forward now.

We are also working currently on the Eastern Avenue South extension.

that is being managed out of the FES project management division.

Jack Kelsey is the project manager on that.

Currently the transportation analysis is underway and surveys underway.

They expect the completion before spring 2020 so that we can look at that for the revenue sharing application next year.

The Rio Road corridor study, as I just mentioned,

Staff has been working with the consultant on development of a scope and cost for that project.

So based on the interests and desires of the board, we have moved forward with that at this time.

The climate action plan has come back to staff now after the board's comments.

Transportation staff particularly worked leading the mobility and land use sector team

And now we are responding to and addressing the comments and questions from public organization stakeholders, staff, including the comments that you all had during the board meeting when the phase one was presented to you.

So we are back to work on that.

We are also, our transportation staff is also assisting in the Broadway Blueprint study right now, kind of finalizing our recommendations on that.

Broadway, of course that is associated with the Woolen Mills redevelopment willow tree, looking at that corridor adjacent to the city and how we can continue to enhance the development of that area.

Moving on to transit issues,

We continue to look at bus stop improvements.

Right now we have been working a lot with developers on how they can incorporate improved bus stops into their developments.

This has happened on a number of projects on Raya Road.

Of course, we're starting to have them incorporate that

Parkway Place, which was pulled, but we may see again at some point in time, and also working with the Albemarle Business Campus, resoning submission as to how they can redo bus stops to incorporate what we're looking for in that.

And we're also working on the same thing as we move forward with a lot of our

our ongoing construction and design projects, including things like the Commonwealth Drive, our sidewalk project, which is in design right now.

We are looking at how we can best incorporate the transit stop improvements into that.

Also, of course, we continue to participate in the Regional Transit Partnership.

As you heard at the Regional Transit Partnership meeting in June, there are a couple grants submitted by the TJPDC for a Regional Transit Vision Plan.

for the entire region, and then the Albemarle County route expansion plan is another grant that was submitted by the TJPDC.

I'll also point out that the Afton Express continues to move forward.

You can see in my presentation there, the picture shows the insignia and tagline that they're going to use, our drive, your destination, and say Afton Express with the mountains and

working on how to before the service actually begins early next year.

As far as bicycle and pedestrian projects that we're working on of course we've got the quality of life bike ped projects that had been approved by the board a number of years ago so a bunch of those are moving forward including the one that I mentioned earlier for

the Old Lynchburg Road project sidewalks.

We also have the Avon bicycle and pedestrian improvements and that was a recommendation from the recently approved corridor study that we completed and that's being considered for a revenue sharing or transportation alternatives grant next year.

In the Berkamarle shared use path design is underway.

Of course we

Tacked that onto a previously awarded revenue sharing project to extend the Berkmar Shared Use Path from Hilton Heights Road where it currently ends at the end of the VDOT project extension project and bring it onto Rio Road.

The Route 20 Shared Use Path, that was one that had been discussed as a smart scale project.

The board decided it wasn't time to move forward with that.

and I know that the TJPDC, we've had some discussions with them, they're looking at how best to form a stakeholder committee and evaluate how that might move forward.

So really in the early stages as to how we want to look at moving that up if it's going to be a future project.

Another project similar to the Route 20 Shared Use Path that was identified in the

in the Jefferson area bicycle and pedestrian plan was the Rivanna River Bridge.

And we are still working with the TJPDC and regional partners in VDOT on evaluating potential location and concept for a Rivanna River Bridge primarily focused on the area between south of Free Bridge

all the way down to essentially the Woolen Mills area, so near the Morris Creek intersection with Rivanna River.

Another project that staff has been looking at along with some help from VDOT is the Solomon Road Inglewood Drive sidewalks.

Supervisor McKeel has brought this to our attention I know a number of times and we're kind of looking at some potential concepts for that.

We don't have anything to share quite yet on that but we are are still working with VDOT to look at that.

and also bicycle and pedestrian facilities inventory and mapping.

That's looking at conditions of sidewalks and also identifying new projects.

The conditions of sidewalks, we're hoping we can look at that to start evaluating where we need to be putting maintenance money to improve sidewalks throughout our region.

Moving on the development projects, these are just the things that are really active right now that transportation staff has been looking at.

I know most of these you've seen before or have looked at already.

I won't go over them all, but to know that we are involved in a lot of these reviews and working with the developers to try and incorporate any transportation needs and addressing transportation issues in their

in their developments.

The reported transportation issues, kind of a catch-all area here.

As we talked about a while back, the Miller School Road, Owensville Road through truck restrictions, we have asked VDOT to remove our request for the Owensville Road through truck restriction and they are working on correcting the signage for the Miller School.

We have also been getting a lot of complaints about speeding concerns recently.

Those come in all over the county and there were way too many to even begin to list here.

And we will be talking to

the Department of Transportation on how best to organize these because they come in so frequently and how best to address those.

Obviously we do have resources such as those radar speed reading signs that we put out that do work and eventually if the problems continue we work with the Albemarle County Police Department

and we can also move to those traffic calming planning processes.

However, those do take staff time, as you can imagine, and so trying to figure out how we can address those when they get to that point is something that we are trying to work on administratively and internally.

The next piece, I'm sure that we're going to want to have some conversation about this, as it was mentioned in Carrie's

presentation as well as Earliesville Road, Ray's Ford Road intersection.

She mentioned what's been some of the work that's been done out there right now and we're trying to determine what the next steps will be.

The rural rustic road hard surfacing, as Carrie correctly pointed out, that money is separate from the other paving programs that she was discussing.

The money, I'll just point out also, the money has gone down

slightly on what we get for hard servicing roads.

So these are roads that are not currently paved, but we would like to have paved.

That amount of money that we get from the state has gone down slightly, but not significantly.

So we continue to move through that process of identifying and prioritizing those roads and they are approved in the secondary six-year plan every year by the board.

This year the ones that were approved for funding were Reservoir Road and Wesley Chapel Road.

As you all know, after we have identified those and they've come up for funding, what we do then is we reach out to all the landowners on that road

and let them know of this potentially upcoming project and give them an opportunity to comment.

Those comment letters went out now for Reservoir Road and Wesley Chapel Road and the board will be seeing resolutions to accept those as

Rural Rustic Roads here in the next two months, I believe it is, or in late summer, early fall, so that we could get started on those projects in this winter and finish them up next spring.

So those two will be coming to you and we'll be providing you with any information we hear back from residents about those.

And then finally, I wanted to touch on another item that was

brought up to us a few a few meetings ago which was the old ivy bridge replacement project.

This is a project that's being done by VDOT and this is old ivy over the US 250-29 bypass just north of ivy road.

The proposal was that VDOT was going to remove the superstructure and

Deck, and replace all that.

And when they went out to public hearing they had a lot of comments regarding bicycle and pedestrian accommodations on that.

So the board rightfully asked if what we could do about addressing that.

Dan Butch and I, the other transportation planner, have been working to try and figure out how we can do something on that and through the assistance with VDOT

What they have come up with, while not everything we would have liked, does accommodate bike and ped facilities on that.

What they are going to do is they are going to slightly widen that road.

Right now it's currently just two 12-foot lanes with no accommodations, no shoulders, no sidewalks, nothing.

That's the existing bridge.

They are going to be able to widen that just

about two feet and they're going to narrow the lanes a little bit and they're going to provide a four foot shoulder on one side that will allow bicycles and pedestrians on there.

So it does give some accommodation which I think was the goal.

We would have liked to have seen more but because they're not replacing the substructure of that bridge

they can't really expand it anymore.

So that four foot is really, well, the two extra feet that they're giving us is what they thought they were able to do.

So I think that it's good news, obviously, is in the future we may have potential crossings if we really want to accommodate the bicyclists and pedestrians, but I think this is a great short-term solution for us.

Thank you, Kevin.

That's a lot of information to get through.

Board, we do have a little bit of time here to go through some questions and comments.

And with that, Supervisor LaPisto-Kirtley, you're up first.

No, thank you very much, Kevin.

I really appreciate everything you've done, everything you're doing.

Supervisor Price.

Thank you, Chair Galloway.

Mr. McDermott, that qualifies as a thesis in transportation for master's program work, I think.

If you wouldn't mind going back to the beginning of your slides, I have two or three I want to ask some questions on, however.

Well, one thing to keep in mind is that my ranked numbers don't consider the cost, but SmartScale is a cost

benefit analysis.

So it's really not apples to apples when you're considering whether our prioritization and the smart scale scores would work.

It really comes out to what is the actual cost of solutions, how much is available.

When I started here four years ago, the first year,

of SmartScale that I made applications for.

We were wildly successful.

We got seven projects funded.

The next year, we originally were told we weren't getting any projects funded.

They ended up coming back and finding enough funding to get one of those funded.

So, you know, I would expect that

things like hydraulic 29 because we have the 18 million to add to that.

Even though it's a fairly high cost project, we're putting in 18 million of our own funds.

I think that stands a very, very good chance of moving forward.

Also the Route 20, Route 50 intersection improvements, that one scored really well last in the 2018 round.

We're adding a little bit of local funding to it.

I think that stands a good chance.

I think maybe of all of these smart scale projects, I would

Thank you, Mr. McDermott.

I would have expected nothing less from you, but it sure would be nice to have easy answers to complex questions, wouldn't it?

Could you go to your next slide please?

I'm sorry it might be the one after that.

Oh, that was discussing development projects.

Yeah, Breezy Hill Resoning.

And I understand that you all have been working on some aspects of trying to improve traffic along 250 along that corridor.

Well obviously Breezy Hill will be coming to the board for a public hearing before it's much longer.

We have continued to work with the developer.

They've offered proffers that I think will help things along but Route 250 is a very congested road right now.

I will also point out one thing that I think you got to keep in mind as we're moving forward that is there are multiple improvements already funded on 250 including diverging diamond that Carrie mentioned at exit 124, improvements at route 20, route 250 intersection that were funded in the smart scale

just last year.

So those things alone will help that but um but overall still I think we're going to see a lot of problems on 250 and that's that's a concern as we continue to look at the Breezy Hill development.

And that's all that comes before us.

But having seen that on here, it just brought the question to mind.

I have no further questions right now.

And again, thank you.

That was an incredible amount of data.

Very, very well presented.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Kevin.

My electricity and my internet went out at the very, very beginning of your presentation.

And I just now got it back going and time to ask my questions.

So I apologize if you went over this because I heard none of your presentation.

On the Old Lynchburg Road, Moores Creek Greenway bicycle and pedestrian improvement plan.

You explained that there's going to be no revenue sharing for next year.

I see on your slide here that the funding not announced until 2021.

There was a section of that project that we thought if we did it all together we may be able to, it might be a better project, but of course I'm talking about

an area that I have a lot of complaints about that's unsafe trying to get under the 64 bridge on Old Lynchburg Road.

Do we have a cost on just making that little section from the apartment complexes on the south side to Azalea Park and the connection with the city trails into Fry Springs?

Do we have a cost on that?

We did get a, they broke that up into multiple projects.

As you recall, we used a little bit of our quality of life funding to hire a consultant to do some concept studies and give us some cost estimates that those were ultimately used for this grant.

and they did break out the cost of that sidewalk extending from the south side of 64 under the bridge.

And so we do have a separate amount of money.

I would have to get back to you.

I don't recall the details of that study.

I do have it that I can pull and send to you and look at it.

I think that that brought

That did look at bringing the sidewalk all the way to Azalea Park, I believe.

But I'd have to evaluate that again.

And I think the cost was close to half a million dollars for that.

But we could always reevaluate that.

And if we weren't going to do it as a revenue sharing project, we'd probably be able to get that cost down a bit.

I would appreciate that and for a future time that's great talking about that so that I can advocate for that.

I feel as though that's a real safety issue that we shouldn't be putting off multiple years down the line.

The other question I was going to ask also is the 250

250 West corridor through Ivy where we have the stores and the new development around Scotts Ivy Exxon.

We have new development projects coming forward in that area and then of course we have

the chronic problem of Owensville and people not being able to get out of there in the morning and Morgantown Road and that poor alignment.

I'm a little concerned, I am concerned about the increased traffic given this new development that's gonna, I assume, gonna move forward in Ivy.

Can you speak, I know you've done, you've looked at the transportation issues

with that.

I mean, I consider it, I've watched many a accident, fender bender and whatnot.

A couple years ago, we had the bicyclist, I can't say the word all of a sudden, who got killed there.

Well we did obviously as you recall a few years completed that corridor study that evaluated intersection improvements at Owensville Road and made some recommendations both short-term and long-term recommendations for it as well as recommendations in the town of or in the community of Ivy going through there.

My understanding is and I'm sorry Dan was actually the one that reviewed

the proposals for the IV applications, development applications but my understanding is that they are correcting some of those problems with that project particularly closing that open access area through there.

which is obviously a very big safety concern when you have open access because people can unpredictably make turns off of 250.

If you don't have a specific point where you know they're gonna make the turn, it's a safety concern.

And that was a recommendation from that corridor study.

I think my understanding is that the projects in Ivy are gonna address some of that.

And we do have recommendations for

other improvements that have been prioritized.

We will be getting back into the prioritization process this winter.

Okay, thank you.

I'll talk to you about that offline too another time.

Thanks.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ned.

I mean, you've been busy.

We can tell everybody in the transportation world right now in Alomar County has been really busy and thank you for this great report.

I do want to thank you on behalf of a lot of our citizens who are very

anxious to see with that old Ivy Bridge project a way of getting across that bridge.

So that is really good news.

Even a little bit of space there will help a lot.

So thank you very much.

I really appreciate it.

I really just have a maybe a comment or something came across my radar the other day and I'm trying to remember I think I received it from Virginia Transit Association.

We had a big annual meeting the other day.

But regardless, it's dated June the 2nd, and it's a spreadsheet on the INVEST Act, which is moving through Congress.

I don't know.

I'm just bringing this up, and I can give you this information later.

But what I thought was fascinating

If it passes or if it goes through, it would create a mobility innovation program to permit transit agencies to collaborate for on-demand services, which I thought would be very interesting for us.

That caught my attention.

And then the other

that caught my attention is that it provides money to help communities improve safety at rail crossings with a new $2.5 billion grade separation grant program.

I can't speak to the fact that I know we have rail crossings that have safety issues, but I know we do have a lot of train tracks.

And so I'll just point this out.

I'll be happy to get this to you at some point.

I can scan it and send it to you.

But it's called the New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America InVEST Act.

Alright, Diantha.

Supervisors, were you all good there?

It just broke off at the end.

I wanted to make sure.

We're good.

I think I have a big bad out here.

I just heard thunder here as well.

I'm glad I'm downtown and not at home or I would have disappeared.

I have a few questions, Kevin.

Thank you and I'll save some of the biggies for the end because there may be more to talk about.

Other people may want to weigh in on some of these.

So Wesley Chapel Road is one tenth of a mile and if you do not hear back quickly from landowners would you please get in touch with me so I can chase them because this is one of these three years of work and almost no money to get it done and we need to

They've already done all the grading and pretreatment and stuff in 2019 and I don't want to lose another year if we can.

So thank you on that.

Speeding, I agree, is horrific and the number one problem that comes up to me at town halls and probably to other people's districts as well.

And so speed cameras, which are allowed to send tickets through the mail, is something that I mention to people every time they call me about speeding.

because we will have to go to the assembly to get permission to do this but I certainly think it's worth a try so I hope that others will think about that and we can talk to Greg about it when he comes back to us later.

The bike ped condition survey was done by the planning district with a big grant fewer than two years ago.

So please ask for that and make sure it comes off the shelf so you don't waste a lot of time on that.

The Rivanna River pedestrian bridge has been around for

10 or 12 years at least, and I really am excited about the possibility of that possibly moving forward.

But landowners had actually donated land on the eastern or northern side for that, State Farm and others at the bottom, if you go off at Woollen Mills.

So there is, again, a lot of history and I hope your files are able to be managed so you can pick up work that other people did a decade ago and then go forward and not waste a lot of your time.

The Route 20 South shared use path, it is going to be starting from scratch.

And looking at alternatives, there have been board members who have said there are alternatives that were not allowed to be considered.

And so this is going to be a whole new process, not a revival of the existing plan.

And I just want to make sure we clarify that so people didn't

here what was said about how it's going to be coming back as is.

Depending on your interpretation, I just didn't want people to think that that was the case.

But we basically invested 18 months to here, and we need to start over and spend another 18 months in really good process with good public involvement, and then we will have a project ready somewhere when the next one comes, or maybe two that work together.

The two thorny ones are the race for early spill intersection and the question there is of communication because in March Ned and I were told VDOT is working on this, we've got this expensive thing from Kimlinghorn and it's way too big and so please don't have a cow because it's going to be shrunk and we're working on that and then everything disappeared.

So we have really good solutions that are very little money and to have

are out-of-town partners continually reverting back to something that's going to cost millions when their own people have suggested better solutions that are something we can affordably do or do it ourselves.

I really, really ask you to keep communication going.

I mean, the fact that I had to ask for a report today that had been done in March and wasn't shared with the net or me really made me crabby, unfortunately.

Please help us to stay involved, and that will help us to not get in your way, but also support you better when the time comes on that.

Because we're not going to wait for somebody else to get killed, somebody to get killed there.

I mean, that has been the rule.

At the other end of the race, Ford, the community fussed for 10 years to get something done with that four-way stop, and the day after somebody was killed, they got put up.

And I just can't live with that happening at the northern end of race, Ford, so I really

want to keep that going, but it does not have to be a Route 64 size project for sure.

And the Eastern Avenue South project, I was told three months ago that I would be notified when the survey team was starting because the landowner there who possibly could donate property wanted to be included and have not heard a peep.

So please help me get connected on that because for surveyors to work and not have access to all the property they need to look at would be a shame.

So let's try to get that schedule better, please.

And now the thorny one, which is Burleigh Station.

Since before the previous discussion and since, and even as late as today, we received another letter from members who use heavy trucking.

And more than a week ago, I sent a question to Chuck Brockter to say, here are the concerns I'm talking about.

Please answer these questions.

How will this plan that you all have worked on not result in all of these awful things that I'm hearing?

I've heard crickets.

So I'm very concerned, as I was at our meeting last time, that we are signing ourselves up for a limited

process here, and by going forward with this right now, as it's described and designed, somebody's going to say, here's $5 million, but you have to do exactly what's written on the plan now when it may be a disaster for the community.

So the question that comes up the most is, I'm driving, my truck is tiny compared to the ones that carrying 65 or 80,000 pounds of lumber.

Comes out of Burnley Station, goes north,

Crosses over, goes through the U-turn, and at one and a half miles an hour is going to be now heading south up a hill to the Burnley Station light.

When the light on 29 South changes, he's going to be overrun by high-speed traffic coming from the north, and the dodgem that's going to be going on there has been completely

ignored by the planning that's been going on.

And so I hope that others will understand the importance of this.

I mean, we're not talking about a few rear-enders here that is to be inconsequential because people aren't paying attention and they're speeding.

This is serious run off the road and hit a tree dying type of things that we're going to be building here if we're not very, very careful.

So I would love to hear more about

about that because I know you had planned to come back to us with more information about Burnley Station when we left the discussion at our last meeting.

So I will be quiet now and give you a chance to talk about that.

Sure.

And if you could send me, I don't think I got the email you sent to Chuck with those questions, but I can help track those down and figure out what we're going to do.

But we have discussed that the concern about trucks accelerating with VDOT and we'll continue to look at how we can address that issue.

I don't know of any other way to respond to the Burnley Station one that's

Like I said, it's a concept right now that we're making an application for.

If it were to get funded, then that's something that then during design, we'd have to dig deeper into these issues.

If we found that this wasn't the appropriate, even if it was funded and we found out it wasn't the appropriate solution, then we would address that.

We will come back to the board to make sure that whatever solution

is finally identified as one that the board agrees with and accepts.

So just as we did with the Albemarle bundle package that you all saw recently, that we came back and asked for board approval once we got the final designs for all of those.

So we'll do the same thing with these projects if they were to get funded.

But we will continue to see what information we can get

Prior to submission of that.

I don't think I was going to come back with information on Rio Road.

I don't know if we had said anything about Burnley Station, but I can definitely work on that.

Is it really an either or condition?

where we would not even consider doing two or three $50,000 projects that might really make a difference that have been suggested by lots of people in the community.

We would just not do those and wait for something in five years.

And I'm also very concerned that we are not taking enough time to get certain with what we're asking the state to fund.

They are going to get very impatient with us if we say, oh, we want $5 million.

And then two years later, well, we don't want it after all because we're fighting with ourselves or we don't like the plan.

I don't want to go back to the place where Albemarle County had a terrible reputation of never following through.

So it is a really strong concern of mine about this.

Sure.

As far as the raise for Earliesville, at this time, you know, I think that part of the issue disagreement among VDOT as to what could happen out there, what the appropriate solutions were.

And then they had gotten that study that showed that $2 million roundabout

and I think they went back, but no one was really comfortable.

People weren't comfortable at some levels of VDOT with reducing that at this time.

And that's why it never got changed because there were people at VDOT that did not want to make that a smaller project.

They believed the only way to safely address that was to either to have the bigger roundabout or have that fully constructed roundabout there.

So I think that was part of the problem.

there, we have not been able to get everyone at VDOT all together on the same page as to what the appropriate solution is out there.

If we want to move forward as I said in an email response to you now both last night and today and to the other board members if we want to move forward that that's going to have to be something that the county is probably going to have to look at on our own because the

The funding isn't available from VDOT to do any more studies at this point for us.

That was coming out of our secondary six-year plan money and that money has decreased significantly from all the other projects that we've been working on.

Well, moving it forward in another way that's small and sized properly is absolutely the goal.

Because we know the game plan is they tell us it costs millions of dollars so they don't have to do it.

And we're looking at that for 118 right now.

So anyway, I will be talking to others.

We'll figure out a way to shake the tree and get somebody to be involved in this.

So I'll pick up with the Earliesville-Rays-Ford piece.

I mean, the statement about if we want to move forward, it's on the county to do is exactly what we were trying to do on step one.

And that was spurned out of a conversation when Joel had a community meeting out in Earliesville and talking about ways, other than having to go through these large projects against all these other large-scale things that are already competing for funding that may not happen, and how to get these smaller improvements done.

and to his credit, Joel threw out some smaller scale ideas, smaller dollar amounts, and that was what put me in motion of trying to pursue a local option to get this done.

Now, I'm grateful for the things that have happened and came to get out there, the stop sign, the radar, but that was never the end goal.

For myself, while I'm appreciative of those, those were stopgaps until we got a more permanent type of solution in.

And all along I've made comments to this and it sounded like other supervisors would be in agreement or at least be supportive of the conversation of coming back and even targeting where those resources could come from in order to pursue a different type of project out there at the intersection.

So this isn't

The frustrating part for me is we've just lost time.

I mean, we're back to the step that I was hoping we would have just taken.

Um and then for the for the differences of opinions about scale to happen at a level above where I was hoping we didn't need to go.

And all I asked of Joel when he gave a quarterly report at one point was we were going to look at localized solutions out there and hope VDOT would be

and other local efforts to do so.

And so I'm saying that to Kerry.

I'm happy to pursue and I'm happy to do the work to get the support of other supervisors, like our process for other things, to attempt to get a solution out of that intersection and see where we can get with it.

That was what my hope and game plan was from the start.

So it may have taken us some time to get here, which is frustrating to me, but that's where I'm at.

I'm still of the same mind where I was

many, many months ago.

So whatever we need to do or whatever I need to do or to be helpful to get this step moving, then I'm all for it.

And if that means we need to put something together or bring it back to the board for consideration, if I need to put something on the agenda as an individual supervisor, I'm certainly

And I'll maybe leave that for an offline conversation that we can have to game plan what the next step is.

But I'm certainly not going to sit satisfied with what the current solutions are.

That was never the end goal.

Kevin, it was mentioned by Kerry that you might have, it looks like in the report, there were some more details about the Hillsdale Greenbrier traffic common solutions.

Yeah, there were recommendations that were made as you were, I think you participated in this traffic calming process that they went through or traffic calming study process.

They identified a number of both low cost and high cost solutions that they would like to work on.

The solutions being things like moving the signage and the stop bar and the pedestrian crossing to give better views.

they were going to close one of the turn lanes from Hillsdale onto Greenbrier, southbound Hillsdale onto Greenbrier because the the clearance or the view wasn't clear enough for vehicles coming to that stop there and a couple other minor adjustments were evaluated so and then they also did have long-term recommendations

similar to what we would look at it like raise forward like if we wanted to do a roundabout.

They got to that point and then I think the problem came once again to where would funding come for some of these things.

Some of the short-term solutions I think we could probably work with Cary to see if we can make that would involve

even striping and maybe movement of signs but if we wanted to do any major improvements once again we're going to have to find funding for that and that's where we get into the problems.

There's options for potential grants that we can evaluate

But we got a lot of grants that we're trying to get.

We got a lot of projects we're moving forward now.

When we keep adding these on, it does start to create not only strain because we owe local funding for a lot of these grants, but also because we just don't have the staff resources to continue to move all these things forward at once.

But I'm happy to share the results of that with you and we can

Thank you.

Yes, to the best of my knowledge that is on track.

I heard a report from the project manager on that just, I believe it was last week, and they are still moving forward with that.

I think they've

And that's tied to a couple other projects, right?

I'm not aware of the contract.

There is an

they do have a contractor already on board for that project is my understanding so that once they get this final documentation for right-of-way I believe they're able to move into construction immediately without the ad.

This last comment then is just I know that you'll I'm glad to see that the right of corridor study will be coming back to us

I'm here in very quick order.

So when I look through your report I see on Long Rile Road there's some different things that kind of overlap.

There was the consultant comment around the form-based code and small area plan on the development of conceptual designs and cost estimates for bike ped improvements.

And then down at the Belvedere one we've got

When we get to a corridor study, I hope that the work around all those other pieces will easily be tied in or pulled in to inform the corridor study and we don't lose the overlap because it's going to be real important that that intersection of 29 and any information we're gleaning from the small area plan and form-based code work

all the way down through past projects at almost every intersection on El Riah Road.

If there's other previous info, that all gets pulled into the effort.

Absolutely.

All right.

Thank you, Kevin.

That was my final.

and now it's two.

Actually, regarding the corridor study, I think if it's not included in the scope and listing all of those previous studies that we already have, they will be ignored.

So please be very, very firm in your direction when you hire somebody because in V-Trans, they never even read our long-range plans.

I mean, it was horrific, the waste of time and money that was going on in these things.

So we just have to be very firm about what we expect and what we're willing to put up with.

When the Hillsdale project was begun in 2001 and 2002, it always had a stop light at Greenbrier for a traffic stop, for traffic calming, and for pedestrians.

And I know this isn't fashionable anymore, but it certainly is a whole lot less than the millions of dollars that keep trying to be put out there for all these other efforts.