Planning District Commission Meeting   12/3/2020

Do you all see recording?

Better tell Dale he's muted.

All right, Christine, do you mind doing a roll call?

Commissioner Herring?

Here.

Commissioner Rutherford?

Here.

Ms. Bishop, are you there?

I think you're muted, Dylan.

Commissioner Smith, I'll come back to her.

Here.

Commissioner Price?

Here.

Commissioner Gentry?

Here.

Commissioner Stolzenberg?

Here.

Chip, I'll turn this over to you, sir.

So we could go right into the presentations if you'd like.

Is that correct?

I'm gonna try to pull up just a

Congratulations on your order.

So Sara, thank you for everything you do for us.

Thank you.

And Sara, you've been eight years, nine years?

Yes, so I've been at the PDC for 10 and I have been a member and going to the ACT conferences for I think six years now, so yeah.

Let me get out of my sharing so he can share.

Is that up on the screen, the legislative priorities?

It is.

Chip, if you want to add anything on the cigarette tax issue, I'm glad to take any questions that you all might have.

Are there any questions?

Do you expect there to be more rent relief money either from the state or from CARES Act funding?

You might want to ask Christine and Chip how that's going to work or how they think it's going to work at this point.

Do you know any more than that?

Gotcha.

So are there any questions for Sara?

And so we're really reaching out to, like I said, not only the chambers, but maybe some of the departments of economic development and whatnot, just to let them know that that service is available to them.

Congratulations again.

Thank you.

Hey, Sara, would you mind sending the link out, email the link out to us on that?

I'd really like to take a look at that.

I would be happy to do that.

Absolutely.

If that wasn't too thorough and that was an okay overview, I'm happy to take any questions.

Do we have any questions for Dominique?

After the stream cleanup?

Are they also connected with what we're doing?

Rory, did you have something?

So, did you all get free three notched after the... Oh, man.

I think yes is the answer.

I'm afraid we're going to be in the research part of that for quite a while though before we're able to.

Well done.

Thank you.

Are there any changes or modifications?

Mr. Chairman, I move that we accept the minutes as presented.

Okay, I think we'll take these together as the reference.

I'm ready to do both if you're ready.

All right, Chip, do you want to go ahead and discuss the monthly financial reports?

And Mr. Chairman, with that, that is the financial conditions.

Thank you, sir.

I'd be glad to answer any questions.

Any questions for Chip?

Somebody tried to make that motion earlier.

Christine, you want to do a roll call vote?

Commissioner Herring?

Aye.

Commissioner Rutherford?

Aye.

Commissioner Smith?

Aye.

I saw you come on.

Yes?

Motion passes.

And Christine, I believe this one is yours.

You gonna pull up your screen, Christine, or would you like for me?

I'm gonna pull up mine.

Okay, that's all.

And over 8,800 households across the Commonwealth have received emergency support.

Are you going to pull up your screen?

Got to push the little blue Share button.

OK.

Can you guys hear me?

Yes.

And then in early January, they're gonna conduct what they're calling desk monitoring or really auditing of how our program went and getting some feedback from us in the process.

Next up is the financial summary.

If you have questions on any of the previous part that I shared or any locality specific questions, as always, I'm happy to take those questions.

Any questions for Christine?

Christine, you may be aware of this, but there was a typo in the Nelson County average per household, an extra digit

Okay, thank you.

Christine, can you move up to Louisa County so I can take a look at that?

That's 2,358 per household.

So that's why the larger localities may look a little bit out of sync with the others.

In our pool as a pending applicant, should the local funding not be available, as we near the end of the program, we'll then go into all those pending applications and close anybody who received funding through a different program so that it's more accurate as we report it to the state.

So it's something we're going to be watching closely and we may end up spending some of our own resources to help this out.

Is there a reason why?

Christine, how many lines of data did you have to send in with your latest report?

So it is very manual.

Congratulations, I know you're working super hard at this and it just seems awfully silly to take this out of the local control.

And so I think in a lot of ways, the state was trying to solve a problem for some areas that may not have been a problem in others.

That's their problem.

They're not getting ours.

I'll negotiate for you, Christine, let them know.

The director's report, I believe, is next on the agenda, sir.

Chair, that's my report.

I think you said 83 people attended that?

And we've taken that very very seriously with this website and that's what we're shooting for is that the community will get to know it by one name and they'll be sharing that one name that people can easily find on the internet.

So that construction will be taking place at the same time.

making sure that that corridor is well served in transit as it possibly can be.

Let's start tonight with Mr. Rutherford of Nelson County.

Sorry, I just.

Yes sir.

So.

Just let you guys know.

So even virtual the entire time.

Dylan?

I'm having audio trouble tonight.

We can.

And with that being said, I don't really have anything to add.

How about Keith Smith, Fluvanna?

We've got Firefly in Volhana County.

We have Firefly as well, but probably more than you.

We got more than you.

No, we got more than you.

Are we going to do this in front of all these people?

That's you at this cocktail, all right?

I think everybody's ready to get Christmas going here.

How about you, Willie?

I've quite a bit today and just checking on some things and I can tell people have heard the news and they're wearing more masks and paying more attention to the rules and regulations so maybe we'll get it back in line but anyhow right now it doesn't look too good and I don't have anything else I was expecting Bob to talk a lot as usual but since he didn't show like say really relatively November has been a pretty quiet month for us

Actually, Bob is on the line, so I'll call with Bob next.

That's for me.

Let's move on to Charlottesville, Michael.

But that was pretty big for the city last month.

Thank you, sir.

Then we can do zoning.

So that's getting really close to completion and we can give you an update in February.

All right.

So hats off to you, Jesse, and others who've been able to achieve some successes that we're still striving for.

You just need about, I don't know, $35 million sitting around.

Yeah, we don't have that right now, but thanks.

Andrea.

Thank you.

I think he froze up.

Yes.

I'm ready to make whatever motion you're looking for.

You're still muted, my friend.

Are you using Babyok's internet?

We're good.

I'll take a motion.

Second.

We'll see who says niggie.

Commissioner Herring?

Aye.

Commissioner Rutherford?

Aye.

Commissioner Smith?

Thank you, sir.

Commissioner Wilkinson.

See you in 2021.

Commissioner Babyok.

Somebody keeps trying to say that Santa Claus is a farmer just because he's going ho ho ho.

Commissioner Payne.

After much deliberation, I... Commissioner Gentry.

And I'm sorry about Bob, but you know, he's got that special Louisa dialect.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.