Board of Supervisors Adjourned Meeting - Joint Meeting with Scottsville Town Council   10/26/2020

Thank you.

Good evening everyone.

I would like to call the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors to order for this joint meeting with the Scottsville Town Council October 26, 2020 at 5 p.m.

The supervisors who are electronically present at this meeting are Supervisor Donna Price of the Scottsville District, Supervisor Bea LaPisto-Kirtley of the Rivanna 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.

Thank you, Chairman.

I think all of our people are present.

We unfortunately have a vacancy on council right now.

One of our councilors, who was really doing a good job with our planning commission, had to relocate and therefore leave his seat vacant.

We appreciate you having us with us, having us with you today, and sitting on my left is former Mayor Nancy Gill, who is responsible for our being with you today.

Yeah, and then we had hoped to do something, I think, first of the year, and then the pandemic came, so...

We're now together, which is a good thing.

So we thank former Mayor Gill for helping to make this day's historic event possible.

It is Thomas Unsworth, our town clerk online.

Absolutely.

Councillor Bullock?

Yes, here.

Do we have Councillor Gritzko or Munson with us here?

I believe we have a few who will be joining us late, but you do have a quorum.

Thank you.

Some of you know me and some of you don't.

I moved to Scottsville in 2007 to purchase a business, an existing business, and after the deal fell apart, I started in my own little business.

But my first six months here, even though streetscape was going on and the place looked not in the best condition it has looked,

Actually, Mayor Gill invited me to look at becoming active in the community and that's something I've always done no matter where I live.

So I volunteered to serve on the Government Services Committee and then I was appointed to the Board of Zoning Appeals.

So I worked on the BZA for a while and

After that, a vacancy came on council and I was selected to fill the vacancy and then won three consecutive two-year terms.

During my time as a council person, I was liaison with the planning commission.

So when Mayor Gill became mayor, she allowed me to stay on that body and I ended up being chairman of the planning commission.

And then when she decided not to seek another term as mayor,

I've been here 13 years.

Most of those years have been involved with the town government in some form or other.

So I have interacted with some of the supervisors before and several I haven't.

We have a presentation to make.

We have designated council people whose responsibilities fall not only on town government but on committees and other aspects of our community to handle each portion of this presentation.

Vice Mayor Laura Belussi has actually put this presentation together.

Thank you very much.

I don't believe so at this time other than to say it's a pleasure and privilege to have you all here.

So um this is we'll kind of see how this goes today I know that we have some um that you guys will be doing some presentation material then we have some time for discussion yes we want to note that with us from our side we do have our county executive Mr. Jeff Richardson our county attorney Mr. Greg Campner

and our senior deputy clerk with us today, Mr. Travis Morris.

Excellent.

Thank you.

Welcome all.

Okay.

So just go ahead and start that in screen share then.

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And let me just get so that I can actually get to my notes.

So bear with me for just a moment.

This is something I should have started from the very beginning.

Well, I'm going to not give you the full screen just so that I can continue to see my notes.

So we'll go through it in this format.

So again, the town council and the staff, thank you ever so much for meeting with us today.

Again, to our knowledge, as Chairman Galloway mentioned, this is the first time in our knowledge that both bodies have met.

This is a beginning, just the first step in a long collaboration that we hope encourages discussion and actions between our governing bodies.

Tonight's goal is to discuss specific ways to improve how the county of Albemarle and the town of Scottsville can better serve our residents.

We're seeking ongoing proactive steps that include thoughtful planning, funding, and community engagement.

And all of our proposals have no cost, initially, other than time and communication.

So you can relax, don't worry.

We understand that the work that needs to take place, however, will not be accomplished in just one annual meeting, but in a series of project and committee conversations throughout the year.

Each of my colleagues has one to two topics to focus on this evening.

Mr. Lawless and I will begin with discussing representation suggestions.

Councilor Payne will speak on a few infrastructure topics, followed by a discussion with Councilor Munson and Councilor Bullock on economic development.

Councilor Gritzko will discuss topics on our shared environments, and then we hope to open up the meeting to discussion and questions.

Please take notes and join us in an open conversation following this presentation.

I'd like to begin with four steps to improve representation of our area residents, both within our town limits as well as within Southern Albemarle.

Step one, resume monthly reports from the board representative and or county staff liaisons.

We very much appreciate

Supervisor Price joining our town council meetings when she's able.

We know how busy all of you are on the Board of Supervisors.

Thus, we seek additional staff liaison updates on a variety of projects that impact our residents within the entire Scottsville District and Southern Albemarle, as well as updates on projects that may have been put on hold so that we can better respond to our constituents' inquiries.

Step two.

We ask that we schedule one joint Board of Supervisors and town council meeting annually.

October is preferred.

That's the time we're both gearing up to talk about capital projects.

We're both looking at our budgets.

We're both planning for those long term investments of projects and potentially looking at our plans.

You already commit and promote your collaboration with the City of Charlottesville with 62 boards, commissions, and advisory committees within the county and with the University of Virginia as part of the Planning and Coordination Council.

Currently, the town of Scottsville is the only governing body within Albemarle County until today that has not met regularly with you to discuss shared goals and founding efforts.

In addition, I know you have ongoing partnerships with Asmont Area and the Yancey Advisory Piano, yet they remain unnamed on your community development effort.

Again, let's meet again.

Step three, we'd like to coordinate town council whenever possible as if we were a community advisory committee on county processes, plans, and budget priority discussions.

Based on your community development page and advisory councils, all CACs receive the following.

They meet monthly with county staff and a board of supervisor representative.

Those meetings inform and support the development of your master plans.

Scottsville has several master plans which impact the county infrastructures we are discussing.

Roads, schools, basic utilities.

At those CACs you have designated staff liaison that helps support and shape budget priorities and they ensure ongoing community engagement.

Now the town council is not asking to become a CAC, but we are asking to have the dedicated liaison from the planning commission, reports from the board of supervisors that reflect the same content that a CAC would receive at a monthly meeting, a dedicated liaison from the county staff, and to be a formal body that ensures collaborative planning and ongoing community engagement on behalf of the greater Scottsville area.

And finally, step four, I'd like to ask my colleague and the town of Scottsville administrator Mr. Lawless to speak to how incorporating Scottsville existing and planning documents can help inform county staff and area community residents.

Thank you very much.

And could I have slide five on there, please?

Absolutely.

Thank you very much.

Good afternoon, board and members of the public.

My name is Matthew Lawless, and I serve as Scottsville's town administrator.

The Scottsville town charter provides for the same basic structure of government as Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

I'm a Virginia native, William & Mary graduate, and previous local government work experience includes City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

The collegial staff level relationships with my peers in both of those neighboring governments means a lot to me and helps me do good work here in Scottsville.

When I'm not at work, you might see me running around the backroads here or acting with community theater.

Part of my work is to lead the community outreach and draft the long range plans for the town of Scottsville.

Our staff is too small for a dedicated planner, so I wear that hat.

In the past two years, Town Council has completed several notable planning efforts and adopted guiding documents.

These align very well with Albemarle County organizational goals, so our recommended action for you is to incorporate town planning documents on county websites and include appropriate references to town plans in your county plans.

First and most important of these is the Scottsville Comprehensive Plan.

As you know, the comp plan sets a long-range vision for land use and development, and it connects to many of the local government's services and projects.

Scottsville's 2018 comp plan update describes healthy growth.

We can say yes to new homes and businesses, invest in public spaces, and enhance our quality of life.

Our comp plan is in many ways equivalent to one of Albemarle County's development area master plans.

so the board may wish to afford it a similar status.

A primary goal in Scottsville's comprehensive plan is to focus more attention on the redevelopment of the former Hyasung Tire Cord Factory, a 60-acre site which shut operations in 2009.

The town won a state planning grant to complete the west downtown small area plan.

After extensive public outreach, the draft plan is ready for planning commission vote on November 2nd.

The small area plan calls for mixed use, mixed income redevelopment of the factory site to create small business and workforce housing opportunities while protecting wetlands and enhancing parks.

The redevelopment may include Habitat for Humanity or Piedmont Housing Alliance, and we may need financing support through historic tax credits or a community development block grant for which the town is an eligible applicant authority.

Now, supporting Scottsville's comprehensive plan and small area plan are several other niche studies

all completed with grant funding support from state agencies and intern expertise from the University of Virginia.

In 2018, we completed a mixed-use, mixed-income market study, which showed strong demand for homes in our area, especially at a purchase price below $300,000 and monthly rent below $1,000.

And that's reinforcing the median statistics that we have here in the community already.

We found strong business demand for restaurants, pharmacies, and outdoor equipment.

So we followed up the market study with an economic development study focused on the tire cord factory site.

An experienced developer from the Richmond and Petersburg market completed a financing pro forma and architectural sketches.

Yes, renovation there is feasible, but to assure a market affordable housing, state and federal assistance will be needed.

Finally, the town also adopted in 2018, the Van Cleef Nature Area Plant.

This is an assessment of conditions and a program of goals for the town's largest park being about 60 acres and including a five acre lake with stocked fishing.

The park started as a flood control project and the dam at Scottsville Lake is critical infrastructure but we also have about two miles of trails, picnic areas, and excellent fishing.

In all of these planning areas the town is well aligned with Albemarle County's strategic goals.

If we

formalize our planning linkages, I think we can assure many years of effective partnership.

I look forward to working more closely together with your staff.

Thank you for your consideration of town-level planning.

Thank you, man, and thank everybody for being here today.

The most important

The structure we have in infrastructure is our town levy.

It was built after the floods of 69 and 72 and even 85.

And it's been a success.

It takes, you know, yearly maintenance and care to maintain.

And it's maintained by the volunteers of the

Scottsville Volunteer of Fire Department and some and other individuals and also, you know, inspected by the Army Corps of Engineers.

So in order to protect the assets, which we consider to be $16 million within our town limits from the James River, this levy is very important to us and the

The lifespan of our pumps and our equipment is only about 10 more years and that's just an estimate so you know sometime within the next 10 years it's going to cost a quarter of a million dollars to revamp this and continue to protect the town.

We'd like to see you know Albemarle County

assist us in any way they can.

I know that there is an annual fee, you know, that Scottsville gets around $17,000.

But, you know, in five or six or seven years time, we're talking about $250,000.

Infrastructure,

is a big word in a small town.

We have the same issues and problems with infrastructure as Albemarle County, but on a smaller scale.

We're lucky to have a good relationship with VDOT through our town council and administrator.

and Clerks and all of the people that make sure that the roads are safe in Scottsville.

But we have 8,000 vehicles a day that pass through this small community.

So our roads are vital and everything associated with the roads are vital too.

So we appreciate any help the county could give us.

and recognize us as a part of Albemarle County that does need this kind of help.

Infrastructure is everything from buildings to broadband.

And I think we're a little bit behind on our broadband in Scottsville and internet access.

And that's

really is a detriment because we can't invite businesses or people to be here if they don't have that access.

That's just the world we live in now.

There are other counties around us and even the other parts of our counties that are way ahead of us.

So we would like to be included in any type of proposals that could strengthen and

bring a viable internet access or broadband in Scottsville.

I would like to thank Albemarle County for their cooperation with the Scottsville Police Department.

The Police Department, headed up by Chief Jeff Fullwinkle,

They have a very good working relationship with both the police department and the sheriff's department.

Our fire department works with ACFR and our rescue squad, even the old one was disbanded.

We have a new paid professional staff at the location here in Scottsville.

that had a few bumps starting off, but I think they've caught up now and they're serving our community.

But police fire and rescue are very vital to Scottsville.

We have mutual aid agreements with our police department with Albemarle County and vice versa.

And our fire department works with ACFR,

at any location they're called to.

So thank you again for the cooperation we've had.

And we just need to continue to get better and serve the community here in the Southern Albemarle County.

Okay, great.

He's here.

All right, take it away.

Yeah, well, thank you all for taking the time to engage with us.

We really appreciate it.

I'm sure probably most of you know the history of Scottsville but we at one point were the one of the largest inland ports in the United States and are over the course of our history due to forces beyond our control.

The size of the town has sort of waxed and cleaned and we're at a point now where we are very interested in growing the town

So that being said,

We have a lot of opportunity to grow here.

We have there's 200 plus or minus acres of land on the northeast side of town that is already platted and ready for building.

So if there would appreciate some help just keeping us in mind if you all as you all hear about

developers who are interested in providing housing, building housing, affordable housing, and rentals.

We are very interested in hearing those proposals and the town council is very open to consider rezoning to match

the requirements of the developer if that developer is interested in working with us to maintain the character of the town.

As Mr. Payne has already mentioned, we have a wonderful facility down here in the factory that could be used for a lot of different things.

So could be an X-park, could be it's zoned industrial, but we are very interested in considering rezoning that as well to

to open it up for other uses.

And we have a small area plan that I think has been provided to you that gives you an idea of what the town would like and the kinds of things that we're open to for that but very, very interested in working with a developer who would like to do something with that.

So I'd like to thank Supervisor Price for helping me get on the Albemarle County

Economic Development Commission.

And that's been a great help and a great assistance for me to understand the bigger picture of what's going on in Albemarle County.

But it has come to my attention that the folks in the development office really look at Scottsville as sort of a sleepy little town that doesn't want to grow anymore.

And I think that may come in part from our

lack of interest in becoming a large area of development like Crozet.

We don't really want to become Crozet, but we want to grow more than we are now.

And what I would very much appreciate from you all is just keeping us in mind as you think of

and many others.

any recommendations that you might give in terms of directions to go.

And I think that we will probably start to see more of those in part because of COVID.

We're already starting to see more interest in Scottsville as a place to live.

It's more affordable down here for obvious reasons.

And if you are working from home, you only have to go into Charlottesville once or twice a week.

you know, it's not a bad commute at all.

And in many ways, it's not much longer, doesn't take much longer to get down here than it does to get to some of the new developments out 29 North.

So would appreciate you all keeping us in mind.

Yeah, good afternoon, everyone.

My name is Zachary Bullock.

I've lived in Scottsville since 2016 and came on council in 2017 filling a vacancy and been on since.

and in that time I've primarily spent my efforts working on the architectural review board as well as talking about the river and Laura told me I was the only one who got an unattractive picture in the slideshow so I feel very honored by that.

Thank you Vice Mayor and Nancy also for laughing.

So to begin with our historic preservation, so we have an architectural review board that certifies renovation and new construction within

the historic overlay district of the town which are the historic um town limits right um and we we have an ordinance that oversees that as well as professional design guidelines why do I mention that we have a historic um an architectural review board you do too um and we both do similar work we both value the history of our historic county and town and although we have

different areas of influence with those boards.

We share a common history down here in Scottsville and there are some features of our history that we might seek joint interest in preserving.

Currently the town is in the process of applying to be a certified local government, which basically certifies the work we do at the state level with the additional training, potential funding of both for training and for renovation.

Canal Basin Square highlights the history of this town and one of the buildings associated with it, the oldest and largest in town, is the Canal Basin Warehouse, which is an important piece of our history, shared history, as well as tourism.

So I'm interested in possibilities for networking between our boards for both shared expertise and where we can find common cause in our historic preservation in town limits.

The second is the James River.

The James River is the southern border, as you know, of Albemarle County, and you are the primary governing body of substantial stretch of that river.

The town basically has authority up to the riverbank.

You guys go to the middle of the river.

And the James River, even though you may not live down here, is an important piece of our county's history.

As Stuart mentioned, Scottsville being one of the largest inland ports.

The efforts with the town right now has been on cleanup of what you see there as the CSX lay down yard.

As Mr. Payne mentioned, we have a levee system in this town that protects us from the river, but it also means that we are a river town without much river access.

The lay down yard which you see there is what you see when you are looking at the river from the only street level view of the river in town, which is on East Main Street.

and we've over the last three years made some progress to get this cleaned up and we have made progress but we need to do more.

The river access also is limited at the public boat launch which is overseeing the DGIF.

and we're interested in opportunities with you all to see how we can improve access to the river by networking with DGIF at our boat launch.

Then also thinking about this lay down yard area which is about 500 feet of land as you come into town which is our view when you enter Scottsville and Albemarle County.

It limits access to the river for tourism because CSX owns the northern bank of the James, pretty much from Lynchburg to Richmond.

So in order to access it, you need to lease it.

You need to contend with CSX.

And there's a popular demand here for access to this river.

I see people trespassing on CSX land all the time with their fishing rods, which tells me that the people want access to this thing.

and it could be a real boon for us as a town and a county to take advantage of this natural asset both for its economic and its scenic potential.

And in closing, we already have shared a common interest in this by

certifying it or attempting to certify it as a scenic river, getting its scenic river designation, which we all signed off on in the last year.

And so we're interested in seeing other ways that we can work together to further preserve and protect the James River.

Councilman Briscoe.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Supervisors, I first of all want to thank you for the service that you have given to our county in this very difficult time of COVID-19 as we all in governing bodies have tried to do many different things with restricted budgets.

I can only imagine in the small challenges in terms of

Our smallness as a town compared to the largeness of the county.

Can imagine all that that's meant for you.

So thank you for what you do.

I want to tell you about three stories.

I'm going to couch what I'm going to share about the uniqueness about the town of Scottsville, partnerships, and also kind of getting on the map, so to speak, in the context of our environment and in context of our parks.

In 2010, I had lived in Scottsville for 10 years and finally decided to join the council.

So I've been on the council since 2010.

And in 2012, I was talking to the town administrator, learned about this 63 acre park called the Van Cleef Nature Area and started a committee to look into opening it up to the public.

It had really not had much access.

And

Our former mayor, not one of our former mayors is sitting next to our current mayor, but a couple mayors ago, Barry Grove, who we all know finally, and Miss who passed away a couple of years ago, he was a little skeptical at the time about how this would work.

And when over 60 people showed up to a public meeting about it, he

started to realize this, maybe there was a lot of interest out there.

And very quickly, Barry became a huge advocate and remained so for the rest of his life.

But that opportunity to understand the interest out there.

So as you all know, throughout the county, there's a lot of parks.

And that's a wonderful thing.

And I'm thankful for all that you all do.

What's unique about our town is that we have not only the James River,

but we also have Kite Knot, a very under-known historic site that has the opportunity to be a corridor in this area.

So there's a uniqueness in our town that if you look at the map of Scottsville, you'll also notice right in the middle, right in the green space, that's literally the green space in the middle of the town is the Van Cleef Nature Area, the 63-acre park.

And that area has been the focus of my being on the town council

Talking about partnerships, you all may be familiar with Dan Mahon, who's been with the county for a number of years.

And Dan has helped a number of times I've called him, he's given me really good advice, he's come to meetings, I've met with him at his office, he's come to visit us on site several different times.

And usually almost

Almost every conversation I will have with Dan, he'll say something like, hey, it's a good thing that you're involving me because it reminds me to focus on Southern Albemarle because his focus is drawn all over the place.

And many times invariably, he will say something like that.

And so supervisors, I'm honored just for the opportunity overall that you have a chance to focus on our town and to recognize that, like Dan Mahan,

We are one of many parts of the county, but we look forward to a closer partnership with you and like Dan, as we make our needs known and also ways that we can be more supportive of things going on in the county.

It's very cool.

The last story that I want to tell you is about my granddaughter, Georgia.

Six of my children grew up in Scottsville, all six of them, and now I have a grandfather with six kids and my little

oldest granddaughter in the area plays soccer in the Scottsville Soccer League.

And I'm not sure saying she plays soccer is accurate.

She's on the soccer field on Saturday morning.

As everybody else is running around, she's chatting with her friend.

When I coached for 13 years in the Scottsville Soccer League, I coached 10 and up.

I was not, I didn't have the mental fortitude to coach four year olds, but I'm thankful for the people that do.

I mentioned Georgia to you because when I think of

Scottsville.

When I think of the county, I think of my kids who grew up here.

I think of the opportunities they've had.

In fact, all of them went to Piedmont.

I have my 19-year-old youngest one taking classes there now.

They all got their first jobs in Scottsville.

And now I have six grandchildren, three live just outside the town.

But to me, the Georges of the world, the young people, the children, the grandchildren, that's why we do what we do.

And my hope

in terms of the parks and creating maps that people can understand and getting what we know in sync with what's going on in the county.

We want to make sure that we pass on this amazing legacy that we've been given to not only one generation, but many generations.

So my hope and what we do in partnering with you is also to make sure that our resources are more incorporated with the county.

You'll notice whether you talk about blue ways, green ways,

We did something really simple a few years ago, changed the name from the Mink Creek Impoundment, the lovely name for our lake at the time, to Scottsville Lake.

Go figure, we call it Scottsville Lake.

But the lake now is a place that's stocked with trout, stocked with catfish.

People go and use it, and we are wanting to get more of our resources in line with the county.

So thank you for this moment to explain to you the uniqueness, but I hope those simple

vignettes into our town will remind you of something else that one other person said to me some years ago as we were developing the park.

First, early on, I was walking there and this person was taking pictures and they said, oh, we got this great place, nobody knows about it.

And I said, well, I'm hoping to change that.

And the same thing, we go back to our town.

Thank you, Dan.

So I'm just going to jump in right here and do a quick recap.

So again, in regards to our areas, I'm asking for consistent reports from the county staff and supervisors.

I would love to have an annual meeting on the books and on the calendar before we leave tonight for October to meet again.

and would like to fit within county staff structures, not necessarily as a named board or commission, but to certainly use the structures that you have in place so that we can connect on all these projects.

In regards to infrastructure, we acknowledge the board and all of your staff's commitment to supporting projects such as Scottsville Elementary School, Total Creek Bridge, the emergency communications, radio improvements, our library, Java,

and the outstanding parks care, but there's still work to be done to include our emergency response team on the regional operations plan and to think about the levy in the next 10 years and what happens with that cost and the possible infrastructure breakdown if we don't support that.

In economic development, as you can see, we have a lot to offer.

We have a lot of infrastructures already in place.

Currently, the county plans don't necessarily reach to include or think about the town of Scottsville or our area.

We'd like to change that.

And we hope tonight is just the first step into working together to make those improvements.

And that includes not only actual businesses and housing development, but also tourism aspects, including our river.

And finally, within the environment, we've done a lot of positive work in terms of the environment and maintaining our parks and trails, but there are always opportunities to continue to partner in those.

And as Mr. Gritsko said, we no longer want to be kept a secret.

We are ready and willing to work with you.

Thank you, Vice Mayor Malussi, and thanks again to the Board of Supervisors for this historic meeting.

We hope it's not the last one.

We hope we can do this on a somewhat regular basis.

You've seen the different areas that we work together.

You've heard about areas where we can work together better.

We here in Scottsville are proud of our town.

We look at it as the southern entrance to Albemarle County, so we want to make sure that people coming up from the south have a good first impression.

There are a number of people who have moved here from other areas, and when I talk with them and they find out that town council, the mayor,

Everybody is a volunteer.

We don't get paid to do this.

We do it because we have a strong feeling for our community, our fellow citizens, and our town.

Our paid staff is our town administrator, our town clerk, and our police department.

Everybody else is volunteer.

Fire department is volunteer.

Everybody in town government is volunteer.

And we wouldn't do it if we didn't think it was the right thing to do.

So again, thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

So typically what we like to do is we go through our order, the speaking order.

They have it on the agenda there where we will all have a chance to do that.

Thank you Chair Galloway.

who was the person who initiated this.

It has taken a while for a variety of reasons, but I am so excited that we did this.

And secondly, I want to thank each and every one of you for the positive attitude of this meeting.

It is so refreshing in an era where so many people find difficulty in reaching common ground.

This is one of the most positive meetings that I've been at

in the time that I've been on the board since January.

And each and every one of you contributed to that.

and I am very, very appreciative.

I'm gonna start right off on representation.

I will commit to doing a better job than I have thus far this year.

And Mayor Smith, I'd like to offer to you that we attempt, we look to schedule on the Thursday after our regularly scheduled board meetings opportunity for you and I and whoever else you may want, the vice mayor, your town administrator, whoever it may be,

and I'm happy to come down into Scottsville.

I'm also going to commit to making sure that our agendas for our regular board meetings are sent to you in advance to help make sure that you're aware of things that are coming up at our regular board meetings that are available online as well.

And that will be the first step to improving the communication for me as your supervisor.

And I took a lot of

As we were going through here, I have appreciation for each of you for everything you did.

I think, Councilor Bullock, you get the award for the ugly picture.

But I think that was important because that showed an area that we really do want to continue to work on.

and Councilor Gritzko.

I'm just thinking to the times I coached the kids in soccer and you always hope that the group that was chasing the ball didn't run over the kids sitting down looking at the flowers in the middle of the field.

But I thought this was a very positive presentation.

I agree I would like to see this on an annual basis and

I'll defer to our chair in terms of the timing for looking to schedule that and everything.

But I've got some really good notes here for some things that I will take forward from this meeting.

And I thank all of you for, again, one of the most positive meetings that I've been a part of.

And I really do appreciate that.

Yes, and first of all, I want to thank Mayor Smith and actually everyone that participated.

And once again, my dear wonderful colleague Supervisor Donna Price stole everything that I was going to actually say.

You know, what can I say, but I am with her on everything she said.

I absolutely have a yearly meeting with you all.

I would be very, very much in favor of that.

Anything that we all can do working together, I'm in favor of that.

I do applaud you guys.

You were succinct.

You told us what you wanted.

Now it's going to be up to us to see what we can do with the constraints we have.

But definitely working together, I am all in favor of that.

And if we have yearly meetings or

twice a year.

I know Supervisor Price is going to meet with you after every monthly meeting that we have.

I think that's fantastic.

I did have one question on internet because you did say you wanted additional, I think this is Vice Mayor Meluzzi, you did have, for business reasons, you wanted additional internet.

Is it in a specific area?

And the reason why I ask that is because I've also, I've been

I will ask my fellow councilors to join in with me in just a moment, but I would say that not just the town of Scottsville, we do have fiber within the town, but right now it's limited just to businesses and not to residents.

And as we all know with COVID, our working environment has changed.

Yes and actually what you're saying echoes what we're facing throughout the entire county especially rural areas so that's that's nothing new I just didn't know if it was a specific area because I do know that CenturyLinked are working on additional grants and they're finding out about the grant funding some of it is in November so some of it will be in

Well, and one of the things that's unique about the town of Scottsville is we're at this juncture of Fluvanna, close to Nelson, and Buckingham County.

I mean, we literally cross boundaries, which means that we have access to internet options outside of CenturyLink.

No, absolutely.

And I know SEVEC is doing a lot regarding getting internet through their lines and everything.

So the landscape is changing in there.

I just mentioned CenturyLink because I know they're working on some grants.

No, there's others, absolutely.

And I do love, I don't know what the name of the park was, but the 63 acre park surrounded by the river, that's a gem.

That is something that we have to advertise.

Yes and the last question I have regarding

Mr. Bullock in the, how shall I say it, that ugly photo.

Lay down yard.

It's CSX, so they're the railroad that runs through here, right?

So trains run through all the time carrying freight and such.

And so Scottsville, they have an office in town, and Scottsville is their midpoint between Lynchburg and Richmond.

And so in the conversations that we've had with their representatives, it's mostly the conversation that lay down yard is that it's not moving, because it's convenient for them.

and the most recent conversation we had a few months ago was with their regional operations, Hazmat, their PR guy, and then our local, the local roadmaster.

And the local roadmaster has been much more committed to keeping the site tidy, but if that river gets up to 19 or 20 feet, and it's gotten up to 19 and 18 feet, five times, that's my cat,

Can I add to that?

We call it a lay down yard, but what it is, it's a storage yard for barrels of materials for railroad spikes, for railroad ties.

for anything that the railroad needs to use to maintain their line.

All this stuff was stored somewhere else.

It was rented out to a woodyard.

Supervisors, just one other thing if I might add and support is both

Town Councilor Bullock and Payne.

Just a quick thing would be been on the council for a while and one of the things that happened was that our

town really has had this here for a while and to the credit of Councillor Bullock he really has kind of pushed this to the forefront and the sad part about it is we don't have a lot of ways to view the James River from the town and by juxtaposition unfortunately this rail yard is exactly at the one spot where you can see the river so it's

It's in probably the worst location that could be.

That's why it's become to our special attention.

I do have a relocation forward.

It would be Columbia, Virginia.

Yeah.

CSX in our discussions has expressed that if we could find an alternate location, they're interested in considering that.

But we haven't found a location that they're agreeable to at this time.

Well, you know, what I'm saying is, 20 and 30 years ago, that material was somewhere else.

And the railroad hasn't moved.

So

I just want to add in here while the opportunity is open.

I did some research in regards to partnerships CSS has done with other communities, and they have completely transformed areas along the railroad and the river in Lynchburg and in Richmond.

So they have taken sites that used to look like our site and made them into immaculate, incredible tourism parks.

And Bea, I might add that I worked for the railroad for 32 years and a lot of railroad yards.

I've seen this stuff and I know that you know it can be

kept better than it is in Scottsville, number one.

Yeah, the sense that I get from from listening to them is that it's more about inertia than anything else.

There's just not enough people complaining about it to make it worth their moving it.

So there isn't any structural reason why they shouldn't.

It's just going to cost them some money and until there's enough motivation for them to do that, they're not going to.

So any

It also is one of the last remaining homes of a train depot in Albemarle County's history or Virginia's history for that matter.

CSX also controls that.

Thank you, and I won't take up any more time, but this has really been great and I definitely, I like what you all are doing.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Sure, thank you.

Thank you all.

I have two more short questions with respect to the lay down area.

How large is it, like a quarter of an acre, half an acre?

And also, Laura, when you said other railroads have taken care of these, was it in your research, was it CSX?

Or was that other railroads?

I think the lay down yard is probably about 500 feet long.

Okay.

In regards to the rail company, I believe it is CSX, but I would need to triple check my facts just to make sure.

But based on my information, I believe it is.

All right.

Great.

So Matt Lawless mentioned that I think, I couldn't quite hear him, that the town of Scottsville was not eligible for a DHCD grant.

Is that what I heard?

And why is that?

And then I heard a little something extra that you were working on becoming a certified government.

Supervisor, I beg your pardon.

Okay, are eligible, not eligible.

Yes, we can apply.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

And with respect to Dan Grisco's presentation, thank you, Dan.

You took me on a tour years ago, I think before it actually even opened of that.

And I thought it was really wonderful and I really appreciate it.

Can't quite remember if it was open at that time.

I will say that I send people down there all the time and even people from Esmont have no idea

that it's there.

And I just have had this happen about two weeks ago.

Somebody was looking for places to walk in Southern Albemarle, an Esmont resident.

And I said, well, why don't you go down to Scottsville and walk in there?

And she had no idea.

She wrote me later and said, oh my goodness.

So I don't know how we can get the word out.

But I will say that with the new Yancey Community Center, our new director of that, Ed Brooks,

has a wonderful email list.

And we are making a trail that a lot of people in that community are interested in behind Simpson Park.

So I could connect you with him.

Maybe you could, or you can just email him.

It's Dan Brooks at Albemarle, excuse Ed Brooks, excuse me.

But he might be able to put an announcement on his mailer for that, just to at least get some more Southern Albemarle knowing that it exists.

You did mention a corridor and I didn't quite hear that either.

Could you tell me what you meant about when you mentioned that?

You just said the word there is a corridor there that few people know about and I didn't know about it or maybe I do.

I think what I was referring to is just the fact of the

Oh, okay.

I probably didn't hear.

I think that's the part I I kind of missed is the Pine Knot

The other thing I just wanted to say, I know many of you already know this, but we have several fiber to the home projects that have been, we have gotten grant money from right around the town of Scottsville, going through like the Hatton Ferry area and Langhorne area.

So we do have some in the works that should be coming on board in the next

certainly in the next year.

Those are CenturyLink projects, but there's quite a few coming online in that corridor along the James River there from Scottsville over towards Howardsville, and many more that we're trying to apply for.

and of course, you already all probably know you're getting an electrical upgrade there with Appalachian power.

So maybe they'll come to the forefront like CVIC has after they get some of their infrastructure improved.

But we are very much the broadband authority is very much focusing on Southern Albemarle because we know it's been a problem.

Yes, we haven't done enough.

We haven't done enough all over the county, but it's definitely a focus.

And anyway, yes, I am perfectly willing to meet once a year in October.

It sounds like a very good idea.

And I've heard nothing that I disagree with.

And thank you all and

I'll finish.

I'll stop there.

If I might, I'd just like to add if you take a look at all of the walking options in Scottsville, there's enough to keep you busy here all day.

So there's Van Cleef, we've got the Levee Walk, there's also a historic walking tour that we offer that's self-guided, and we're very, very close to Tahteer State Park as well, which gives you additional boating and walking options

added to that.

And I just wanted to add just a very specific suggestion in terms of getting the word out.

Did you have it on the right, Supervisor Palmer, or are you good?

Yes.

I'm sorry, I thought I said it.

I must have turned off my mic and then said it.

Yes, thank you, Ned.

And it really is great to see everyone from Scottsville.

I used to spend more time down in Scottsville, social time as well as, of course, when I was on the school board, I was in and out of Scottsville and Yancey as well.

So you all have a real treasure and a great community.

Just, well, I will, let me just start by saying that I'm seeing a change in the desire of

Scottsville Town Council to work maybe with partnerships with the Board of Supervisors and I applaud you for that.

It is just wonderful.

As we all know, partnerships are two-way streets and so for you all to be the first to reach out to us is really cool and I thank you for that.

Some of these requests are pretty

Pretty much no brainers.

Sorry to be trite, but absolutely I would be interested in meeting with you all annually.

I think that's a great idea.

To update our website and load up all of your information is, again, we have a brand new website.

We need to be able to make you shine on that new website.

So I think that's really a cool idea.

One thing I would add about our website, I don't know if you all have signed up for, well I do agree and I think Donna's, it's great that Donna will be able to connect more with you and is committing.

I used to try and get down, I came several times with Rick I think, you know, once a year for a town council meeting.

But having said that, are you all hooked up to email?

If you aren't signed up for our email, then you should make sure you are because that, in addition to increasing our communication one-on-one or from board to council, email is something that goes directly into your inbox.

We send it to our constituents and lots of folks in our community.

So you should investigate just signing up for email.

That's just a really quick, simple thing to do.

You'll get all of our agendas and everything automatically and ahead of time and all of our work.

Let me just think, I'm looking at my list here.

I agree certainly about the access and connectivity.

We're struggling with that all over the county, and I just want to make sure that I have to say this, that it's not only lack of connectivity in the rural area, but even in my urban ring, we have a lack of connectivity.

We've got to solve it.

If nothing else, this pandemic has really brought out the need for increasing connectivity and making sure that everybody has good access, whether you live in the rural area in a town like Scottsville or in the urban ring in Jack Jouett, urban ring right outside of Charlottesville.

So that's great.

I have a question about economic development.

I, as the liaison for our Economic Development Authority, I have heard and been involved in conversations where Roger Johnson and Doug, folks have talked about working with you all around economic development.

Doug, I mean, maybe you can speak to this, I think, because my understanding was that we weren't working as trying our best around economic development.

Obviously, things can always be improved.

Focuses can be tighter.

All I can, and I was just going to say that, Diantha, is that things can always be improved.

I do think having Stuart on the EDA brings a very valuable perspective about the interest of not just the town of Scottsville, but of Southern Albemarle more broadly, and that's been very helpful.

to the overall interest.

The EDA also is changing as new members are now coming on.

I think that's going to contribute to EDA's work to understand its opportunities in supporting the work of the Economic Development Office going forward.

I think that will be very helpful.

I do know that I can't speak for Roger, he's not on this call, or JT, but I think they've worked with Matt and T down there on the Hyson plant specifically.

and we'll continue to want to make sure that we are doing what is reasonable and responsible and try to advocate for our shared economic interest in presenting our best face forward on what could be, we would think for both the town and the county, a significant reinvestment in adaptive reuse of critical property.

down there.

So I don't know what that looks like, but I know that the math has been working hard to make sure that we are working together to take advantage of any opportunities that come along.

Otherwise, I think that we're completely open from an economic development standpoint from the staff level and from EDA to see how we can continue to partner as we go forward.

So that's what I would say, Diantha.

Well, it is because I do think Scottsville is a diamond in the rough, and I don't mean that pejoratively at all, but you do have the, you're just a little gem, and I do think that economic development is in your future, and I'm sure we would be happy to help you with that.

I do have a couple of other thoughts.

I know John runs

A commuter transit service from Buckingham County.

And as someone who's as Liz is invested in broadband, I'm pretty invested in transit and transportation.

And I'm just I've never heard anything from your community about an interest in

transit or the need for more transit.

Yeah I think that's a really good point.

There's

six or seven thousand cars a day I think through Scottsville.

We're a bottleneck for folks coming up from Buckingham to work at UVA and we've looked into rideshare and vanpool kinds of options and we've looked into very interested in having

Someone like John, expand the number of trips that they have coming down here.

So we really just kind of sync it up to the work schedules of the hospitals.

That's where a lot of folks are working and they're on shift work and the John schedules don't really match up to those very well.

We also are real interested in seeing if we could provide some kind of daycare around here as well so folks could come up through Buckingham, drop off their kids, jump on the van pool and go to work and come back and pick them up and hopefully stop for dinner somewhere as well too.

I would say, let's put that on our parking lot or our ticklers list or whatever you want to call it.

I will say that in the past, John's Commuter Service from Buckingham, and I probably shouldn't speak for John, but I do know that they were not

allowed to stop and discharge passengers at the CAT transit station in downtown Charlottesville based on what the CAT director at the time was allowing.

With the new regional transit partnership, we now have, Albemarle County has it in our contract

that the transit station and all of their infrastructure has to allow any transit service that Albemarle County works with has to allow us to be able to use those stops.

So I think in the past that could very well have been a barrier because there was no way to stop and let people off.

That's gone.

so I would be very interested in having and I'm sure the board would be too but it would be very interesting to have that discussion around transit.

The other piece that I noted was Ann and I just had a CACVB meeting today a tourism board meeting and I'm not sure while I hear Scottsville referenced or the southern part of the county I'm not sure what your connection is with CACVB

That is on our list.

I'm part of the Events and Tourism Committee and one of my committee members, their task was to reach out to the CACBB and take steps to improve it.

and just the no-brainer right off the top of that.

The CACVB is investing in two mobile places that we're going to wrap with.

One's coming to here.

Yeah, they are definitely, Mr. Alalas can speak to this a little bit more, but they are, Scottsville is one of their destinations, but it happens to be on a weekday, not a weekend.

So that's something that, you know, our museums open on the weekend, our busy river time is typically in the summer and a weekend.

So that still needs to be worked on.

Well, schedules can be a little flexible at times too.

Yeah, once a month, right?

It fresh in your mind.

Definitely.

The other thing that I would just like to ask because over the years, I guess in my 22 years, because I have been around Scottsville and I know that you all are a town and I'm aware that you have, I think you have a meals tax.

and you do have a certain amount of taxing authority for your jurisdiction and I don't want to get into all of that.

The only point I'm making is that has anyone ever looked at how Scottsville compares with other towns your size?

for operating budget, tax burden, just that might be helpful for the Board of Supervisors to understand capacity.

I think we understand your challenge, well at least we on the surface understand your challenges.

I'm sure there's some that we don't really know about.

but I've often wondered what your capacity is as far as financial capacity and I think the only way to really get at that or one way to get at that might be if we had a comparison that we could look at but it would obviously you'd have to find communities that are very much like you but you could probably do that.

That might be a starting point in the future for partnership negotiations around cost sharing, working together.

Just a thought.

It might be very helpful for both your board and our board in working together.

So I guess with that,

I'm looking at my notes again to make sure I've gotten all of my, but I am thrilled to do this and look forward to getting together again soon.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, everyone.

It's been really fun to see the photographs and hear some of the updated stories of such an authentic historic town.

That's really great.

And I look forward to hearing discussions with other board members and staff about their responses to the suggestions about integrating some of these documents and things with where the processes may or may not be the same.

So we'll learn all about what's possible

there.

My direct question really is about the Hyasung plant because back in 2010 or whatever I think it was about then when they gave a very abrupt notice didn't even let the workforce board in there to meet with the staff before they scattered so there was a big scramble back then to try to find all these employees who had gone to the winds with without any help for transfer for new jobs for any number of counseling opportunities that

our workforce department was ready to provide.

But tromping around down there, there was a lot of discussion back then about getting an environmental phase one study done and also thinking about ways to maintain or improve the actual rail access to the property in case

That kind of industrial, or not industrial a la smokestacks, but industrial a la modern industry manufacturing would be able to use the rail because there's so few places, probably five places in the whole of Albemarle and maybe even fewer, who actually have available acreage.

and The Rail.

So I don't know if that solution has ever been found or not, but that's something I would be interested to learn more about.

And I don't need answers today, but it's something that would be fun to get some feedback later about where you are on all of these sort of upgrading the study information so that a potential buyer might have a head start on what's going to be involved.

I remember there were a lot of good discussions about how the traffic would come in and out and that kind of thing.

And you all may have found solutions in the ensuing 10 years.

So there's a lot that may be unknown for us.

Thank you, Supervisor Mallek.

So I guess the first question, I took the chance to look over, I did not know what the Scottsville's annual budget looked like, or the size or what it entailed.

But I did review that prior to the meeting.

Do you all have a reserve or keep a reserve or something like that on hand?

Or is that, it showed some funds being expended from it, not a lot, but I didn't know when you were talking about the levy and such,

Mr. Chairman, yes, thank you.

The town's fund reserves in two investment accounts are about $500,000.

So proportionally, it's the better part of 80% of one year's budget in the bank.

But for major capital projects,

No, I think did I miss that?

I thought I heard, I remember that number now from earlier.

So I didn't connect that to kind of a reserve.

Thank you for that.

Yes, sir.

And I'm presuming the Fed money they came through, that's for COVID related type stuff.

You don't typically get Fed money.

Correct.

And since that hasn't come up so far in the meeting, I want to respect and appreciate the support from the county on CARES Act assistance.

We have $100,000 of CARES funds that we're working with and using for emergency programs, everything from small business grants to discussing food bank assistance now.

And that's critical in this declared emergency.

As Supervisor McKeel said, the town's revenue base relies pretty heavily on meals tax.

That's our single largest source.

And it takes a big hit in our current adopted budget.

Only one of our meals tax payers has gone out of business so far.

Regulars and tourists are supporting the others.

But it's a threat to our budget.

And the CARES funding that we've contracted with you on is vital for delivering emergency aid.

I guess this will be a comment and then if it is okay with the mayor and vice chair and our vice chair and county executive.

You know I did not hear any objections to maybe having an annual meeting set moving forward.

I would think it would be proper to have a conversation with perhaps our two bodies leadership to see if the timing of October really is the best time.

This year is a little bit different than the normal year.

Especially if your thoughts are to get ahead of some budget type things, it may be pertinent to do even sooner than that.

So if it's all right, if maybe the mayor and vice mayor and the chair, vice chair, county executive Richardson and Mr. Lawless, we can get together and kind of discuss some ways of how this could happen and follow up to this meeting.

and then perhaps get an annual meeting date on the books for both bodies to consider.

I think your idea or your picking up of how the CACs work is a smart one.

I would make a recommendation along the line of how the CAC works.

So the CACs have each individual chair and one of the things I'm hearing sometimes is information from the county of how things are going on.

nitty-gritty details of things.

So for example, the CAC that I'm liaison to just had at its meeting a few days ago, folks from the county came to go over the climate action plan.

Separate staff came and went over the Rio small area plan, the form-based code that's coming to that.

How that works is each individual CAC chair just reaches out to those areas and then schedules them into their meeting.

I would think, I don't mean to speak for the county executive, if Mr. Richardson is agreeable, I would think that if there are particulars like our economic development office or maybe our transportation planners or any of those areas, just like our CACs do to reach out, they'd be happy to come down and make a presentation to the town council that would be both

I would think it would be beyond just informational for you all, but it would be pertinent to whatever particular items or areas that you're thinking about.

So we could talk more about how maybe staff can interact and be helpful throughout the year, perhaps in a follow-up meeting and that could be good information for our next meeting to see how it goes.

Maybe some of that can get put in place between the town administrator and county executive.

Mr. Richardson, are you there?

Any issues with what I'm suggesting there?

No sir, what you've laid out seems very logical and doable to work with our staff to try to work some of this stuff in like you've outlined.

Thank you for that.

And then I know that

Just hearing some of the topics being discussed, like when Supervisor McKeel was discussing John and some of that, she's the chair of the Regional Transit Partnership, these regional bodies that run through TJPDC.

Of course, I know you all are aware of it.

Like I serve on, we serve on the Regional Housing Partnership.

Well, we all serve on different things, but that could also be a place where, if not aware of when those type of meetings happen, that we could certainly help get the word out so that you know when

the Transit Partnership and the Housing Partnership is meeting because that, you know, the Housing Partnership has folks from Nelson and areas down there that are facing a lot of similar things that you are and I would think that the way and how that's being discussed could be useful as well.

I think that's, well, Diantha did move through my notes here, so I think that's what I had.

And then what would, I guess it would be best is we'll shoot out

We'll follow up after this meeting with some dates for a follow-up meeting to happen in the coming weeks and just see what we can get on the books on if that's agreeable to you all.

Could I just add while I'm thinking about it, and I don't mean to keep going back to this, but maybe we could go in and someone in the county could go in and sign the

Mr. Lawless, do you all have a

Obviously, your supervisor has an email, but then there's a collective, a BOS email account.

Do you all have a town council collective email that we could set that up for?

Absolutely.

Mayor Smith, we kind of followed our normal where we go through each supervisor for comments, reactions, questions.

We've got you all set up to do that.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We do appreciate this meeting so much.

I'll take care of that if I could, Ron.

My name is Eddie Payne, town councilor going into my third year born and raised in Scottsville, educated in Albemarle County, both at the high school level and the community college level.

I can remember when Barracks Road was a cow path and 29 was a two lane road.

So I've seen a lot of things in this county in my lifetime.

And some of what I'd like to say is not directed toward anyone personally, because it's been such a positive meeting, and I hope you all will take this as a positive.

But there are some people in Southern Albemarle County and the Scottsville area that just don't seem that we're getting much bang for the buck.

I'll use myself as an example.

I pay property tax on my vehicles and my home, but I don't use your school system.

I have no grandchildren there.

We have our own police department.

I don't use your water and sewer.

But I do use a lot of the offices and agencies in Albemarle County that you provide that the town of Scottsville cannot staff or afford.

So I do appreciate that.

but I almost feel like asking for an a la carte of tax, you know, you get what, you know, kind of like Ruth Chris Steakhouse, you know, but there are all other people in here that just feel that over the years Southern Albemarle has been left out and so I'm an advocate for those people and

I just hope that meetings like this will move us forward because there was a statement made last year by one of the higher ranking Albemarle County employees that the rural areas should not expect the same level of services as the more urbanized areas of Albemarle County.

And I took great exception to that.

because our tax rate is the same.

So if the services are being provided, let them pay for it, and we'll pay for what, you know, we get.

But that's not the way this government works.

It's not the way Albemarle County works.

And it should work.

But we just need more attention.

Here in Scottsville, when you read in the paper that Claudius Crozet Park is going to expand their pool

and Scottsville doesn't have a swimming pool, makes people wonder sometimes.

We appreciate the parks and recreation here in Scottsville, don't get me wrong, but I was down the other day having dinner at the tavern, I looked over at all the kids playing soccer and I imagined them in a swimming pool.

So we'd like to have, you know, some

level of services that equate to the rest of the county.

I understand why Crozet needs those.

I just want you all to know why we'd like to have some too.

And thank you for your concern.

Okay, thank you Councilman Payne.

Mr. Mayor Smith, if I may, I would like to respond.

Mr. Payne, I really appreciate your comments.

I think it would be fair to say, at least I know representing my district, which is a very urban district, that I think there are, I think, your sentiment

are not only good questions, but are ones that are shared by folks around the county.

And it's contingent upon the Board of Supervisors to make sure we're communicating what the return on the tax investment is.

Regardless of the level of services or where they're coming, I think that part of it has to be clear.

I know that part of the CAC committee and why I'm thrilled that you all picked up on that as a structure for a point of connection for partnership because a lot of those citizen advocates or citizen members who serve those committees are starting to understand the ins and outs of government, how it impacts the very localized areas and start to

um have not just a better understanding for their own informational purposes but then start to understand how they can also sway and impact and talk with those who are making decisions um you know on budget related items so i don't take a you know you you mentioned you hope this was received in a positive light well sir it certainly fell positively on my ears why you would be asking that question because i think it's a fair question that every citizen in the county should ask and then we do our part

and working on our budget to make sure that we explain why we're expending the resources the way that we are.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chair Galloway and thank you, Councilor Payne.

I do want to point out that at the present time, there are $14 million worth of county-funded programs, projects that are being developed in the Scottsville District.

and 20 million dollars in the other five districts combined.

What is currently funded by the county in the Scottsville district is twice that of the closest other district and the total for the other districts is about four or five million.

So at the present time I think we can clearly say that Albemarle County is funding down in the Scottsville district.

Well the Scottsville district you know goes from the Charlottesville city limits down to the James River

I'd like to see how much of it ends up in Southern Albemarle County.

$11.8 million is at the Scottsville Elementary School right now.

That's right.

I just would like to thank everyone for your conscientiousness and thoughtfulness and your responses to what we said.

I feel like we shared something with you and you heard us.

And so I'm looking forward to getting our

You know, committees locked up, our shared documents locked up, and some of these other things, particularly comments about the river and some of our green spaces, which is a real asset that we can hopefully get some collective movement on.

I also wanted to reach out in particular to Supervisor McKeel for your recommendation of looking at past towns.

We have done some of that work, but we will continue to do that and knowing that that is a critical piece of information to make informed decisions is quite helpful.

Mr. Gallaway, I also greatly appreciate you picking up on the CAC structure.

One of the questions that I have for you and the staff is in addition to the follow-up meeting where we schedule our meeting, is there

Here I will follow up tomorrow with the staff in our office and someone will reach out to Matt

and to be able to give him some direction there to where it doesn't feel fragmented in any way so that Matt can maneuver and get what he needs.

Probably, I would imagine for sure, Emily Kilroy.

our director of communications and public engagement.

She'll definitely want to follow up with Matt on some things that we've talked about tonight that we can connect you to very easily and then work from there with Matt and somebody from our office.

Anyone else?

Once again thank you Albemarle.

Mayor Smith, I would like to thank you guys for your time and I know former Mayor Gill that this has been a long time coming and it got going a little later than what we had expected.

I appreciate the fact that we're able to get the meeting with the folks.

Okay, thank you again.

Bye.

Thank you all so much.

Okay, I just lost my video.

Second.

There are still other people in the meeting, by the way.

Get them cleared out after we take the vote.

You want to go ahead and call the vote?

Ms.

Yes.

Ms.

Palmer?

Yes.

Ms.

Price?

Aye.

Mr. Gallaway?

Yes.

Ms.

LaPisto-Kirtley?

Aye.

Ms.

Malek?

Very good.

And Travis, I know we have to keep one screen technically logged in, but you'll mute out and then I'll text you when we need to get back together.

Is there a way to go ahead and handle the rest of these?

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

Second.

Second.

Right so we'll go ahead.

So the motion carried.

We haven't voted.

Roll call.

The sound threw me off.

Go ahead with the roll call.

Ms.

Ms.

Ms.

Price?

Aye.

Mr. Galloway?

Yes.

Ms.

Capisto-Kirtley?

Yes.

Ms.

All right, very good board and there are no motions coming out of closed meeting and with no objection we will adjourn to October 28, 2022 p.m.

That's an electronic meeting pursuant to ordinance number 20-A14

That is a joint meeting with the City of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia.

And you said 2 p.m.?

2 p.m.

That's what I have here.

OK.

All right.

Thank you all.

Thank you.