Planning District Commission Meeting   9/2/2021

This meeting of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission is being held pursuant to the Code of Virginia Section 2.2-3708.2, which allows the public body to hold electronic meetings in the locality in which it is located has declared a local state of emergency, and the catastrophic nature of the emergency makes it impracticable or unsafe to assemble a quorum in a single location.

And the purpose of the meeting is to provide for the discharge of its lawful purposes, duties, and responsibilities.

This meeting is being held via electronic video and audio means through Zoom online meetings and is accessible to the public with closed captioning.

And there will be an opportunity for public comment during that portion of the agenda.

Notice has been provided to the public through notice at the TJPDC offices, to the media, website posting, and agenda.

The meeting minutes will reflect the nature of the emergency, but the meeting must help by electronic communication means and the type of electronic communication means by which the meeting was held.

Great.

Christine, I see we had a few more people who get hopped on.

We are.

Excellent.

Let's go ahead and be quick.

Matters from the public.

Comments by the public are limited to no more than two minutes.

So I open matters from the public.

Is there anyone here who wishes to speak?

If you are, please put a notice in the comments or just go ahead and speak up.

I see we got Mr. Tubbs today.

I don't see anything in the comments.

Great.

All right.

At that time, last time,

Hearing no comments, we're going to move on away from public comments and public hearing, blah, blah, blah.

Moving into the public hearing of the Draft Home Investment Partnership Program Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report.

I believe Charise was going to make a presentation before we went into the public hearing.

Great.

Thank you very much.

Let me share my screen.

Green button at the bottom.

Makes sense.

Got it.

OK, so I'm doing a presentation on the CAPR, the Consolidate Annual Performance and Evaluation Report.

So the CAPR is what the Thomas Jefferson Home Consortium annually has to give to HUD in order to receive the home investment partnership grant.

What the report does is it evaluates our performance within the home program from the previous year.

And what that measures is the agency outputs and outcomes using accomplishment data.

So basically, let me step back a little bit home.

I think I've done enough presentations for most of you to know what it is.

But just in case, the home partnership program, we receive funds from HUD to help rehabilitate, acquire, and build new affordable units within our region.

The goal of the paper is to compare the anticipated performance projected in the annual action plan with the actual accomplishments we would achieve.

Sorry about that, should have took some water.

So for 2020, we had 45 home projects funded

The home programs included new construction of low to moderate housing projects, owner-occupied rehabs, and down payment assistance.

547,911 of home PY20 funds were available, 392,811 of home PY20 funds were committed to projects.

Basically what that means is that

The funds were set aside even if they weren't used, and they will be used for projects from the PY-20 home funds.

So as I said before, the TJPDC Home Consortium, this program provides annual entitlement funding through HUD for housing rehabilitation, down payment assistance, and new construction for qualifying households.

The funding amount from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development

varies from year to year.

So we don't get the exact same amount each year.

We get about 600,000.

10% of that goes to administration, and 15% of that has to go to what we call a CHODO project, a community housing development organization that does a project that adds a new affordable unit to the stock.

So it can't be a rehab project or a rental.

The remaining 75% is split evenly between the six localities, which are Charlottesville and the counties of Albemarle, Savannah, Louisa, and Nelson.

Each locality provides housing assistance through their designated subrecipient.

These organizations are experienced in their respective housing programs and have the endorsement of each local government and have boards comprised of local citizens.

I don't think I have a slide in here to let you know who those sub-recipients, who they've designated, so I'm just going to say it.

Albemarle uses a HIP.

Fluvanna and Louisa uses Fluvanna Louisa Housing Foundation, and Greene uses Skyline Cap, and Nelson uses the Nelson County Community Development Foundation.

So here's some statistics from what we've done in the last year.

Charlottesville completed 17 projects and used 170,000 funds, around 170,000 funds.

Albemarle completed 16 projects and used 242,000 funds.

I'm gonna get a sip of water, I'm sorry.

Sorry about that.

With PY20 funding, Fluvanna, Greene and Louisa didn't complete any funds in that last year.

Nelson County used four projects and they used about 12,000 funds.

So that's 37 projects with a total of $424,000 of home PY20 funding.

The types or the activities

that the funding went to.

For acquisition, it was about $57,000.

There was no acquisition and construction.

For new rehabs, it was six homes.

It was about $70,000.

For rehab, it was exactly 22 projects and $297,000.

And the type

There were homebuyer 15 projects, $127,000 and rehab was 22 with that $297,000 range.

So funding accomplishments in PY20.

And I'm just gonna let you know the difference between the last slide and this slide.

The other slide was PY20 funds.

The funds don't just stop at PY20.

You can reach back into other years if you still have funding left.

And use funds for the year that we're in.

So this is just talking about overall funds that was used in PY20.

So Charlottesville completed 21 projects and they used about $234,000.

Albemarle, 17.

projects and used about 325, well $326,000.

Fluvanna didn't use anything within last year.

Greene, they used

$89,000, almost $90,000 on two projects that they are building out there in Greene.

Louisa, they built one huge project for $152,000 and Nelson, they're four projects at around $12,000.

Once again, as you can see, the activities that were done, it was mainly rehab, which was like almost $450,000, and then acquisition.

I'm sorry, then acquisition and construction, which is about $246,000.

and then it rounds off with the six new projects, that's 70,000 and then the acquisition nine at 57,000 and by the type

It was mainly rehab projects that were done, which is that $440,000 figure.

Home Buyer, which is in the down payment assistance and loan area, which 18 projects took that with $221,000.

And there was one rental, which is that home in Louisa that was built at $152,000.

And here are the demographics of the people that were helped using home funding last year.

If you want me to read it off to you, I can.

But it helped a lot of people.

I think it's more interesting over here of the number of people served.

39 people were served, and they were mainly in the low category, 31 to 50%.

But the range is from home funds can help anybody who's 80% or below AMI.

And you guys let me know if I'm going too fast, going too slow.

So here are the home goals that were set from the annual action plan.

And this is how we came out last year.

We don't have any rental assistance.

We normally don't do that.

So that was not a goal and we did not do that last year.

Our goal for new units was five and we completed six.

Our goal for rehab units was 17 and we completed 22.

Our goal for acquisition of existing units was 14 and we only made it to nine.

But we have a lot of projects that are still ongoing.

A lot that got finished after the June 30th date.

So we are well on our way.

So that's my quick presentation.

Does anyone have any questions?

Anybody have any questions for Sharice at this time?

Hearing and seeing no comments, we're gonna move forward with the public hearing.

Thank you so much, Sharice, for the hard work you do.

I guess I assume the rules are- I'm terribly sorry, Jesse.

On page 17, there's one little minor title I thought I'd point out.

It's page 8 of the paper, page 17 of the packet.

It says 68%, Christine already noticed it, I guess.

It says 68% in words and 71% in numbers.

They're trying to do the same things.

They're right in the middle of the page under narrative.

Yeah, okay.

And then on page 21 of the packet, there is a chart that kind of confuses me.

It's page 12 of the paper and I'm trying to get it big enough so I can read it.

This is minority business enterprises and women business enterprises

and indicate the number of dollar value contracts for home projects.

We seem to have no minority anything.

I'm not saying that this is not correct.

I'm just saying it doesn't seem to be exactly

doing what we wanted to or something.

Yeah, that's been historically a problem in the area and what I'm told by our sub-recipients as to why they don't use vendors to fulfill that requirement.

It is a requirement by HUD and that's why they ask for it, is that in the area they can't find businesses that have minorities at the home.

All right.

Any other questions for Sharice?

Hearing and seeing none, we're going to move on to the, oh, I forgot to ask.

Sandy, is there any emails online or comments from the internet for matters of the public?

No.

None.

Okay.

Just to have this public hearing for the home, the draft home investment partnership program.

Going to open that up.

Is there anybody signed up, Sandy, or anybody see any hands raised?

No one signed up for comment.

Yep.

Don't see anybody.

All right, you guys don't see anybody.

Going to go ahead and close public, the public hearing as it relates to draft home.

Is there an action, there's no action required at this time, correct?

Correct.

Got it.

So moving to our, moving to the next piece, we're going to do our presentation, the draft a solid waste plan.

You're on mute right now.

I can, sorry.

The solid waste and recycling plan, it's time for the five-year update of the plan that's due in October.

This plan

We, before I get into the actual presentation, I know that there's lots of data that needs to still be updated.

And part of the issue with that is we were waiting for the census to be released.

So there are parts that still need to be updated, but I still want it to present something on the plan since it is due in October.

So, here we go.

So the solid waste and recycling plan for our region consists of Albemarle, Charlottesville, Fluvanna, and Greene.

Nelson works with region 2000 solid waste planning unit.

Louisa manages their own landfill reports individually.

Under the state solid waste regulations, the solid waste planning units are responsible for solid waste planning and reporting activities within the area that they support.

minus those two that the VDEQ knows about.

So working on this plan, we started working on this plan in March and representatives from the Region Solid Waste Planning Unit have been meeting since then.

Members include representatives from the City of Charlottesville, the Counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, and the University of Virginia.

The plan aims to address regional collaboration on how the region reduces, reuses, and recycles.

We also within this plan want to encourage education around those things and we have sought out partners to help us in promoting that.

One partner that we have is the Piedmont Composting

I forgot the name, the Piedmont Composting Foundation, and they will be helping us on the plan to promote composting.

As I said, the plan is due in mid-October to the VDEQ, even though they are aware that we have had some data issues.

It's not just us, it's everybody, just because of the way that the census came out later, much later this year.

So the activities that the Solid Waste Planning Unit, what we do is we conduct an annual census of the solid waste and recycling activities within our planning unit.

And we submit this report to the DEQ.

We submit an annual recycling rate report to them because we have to make sure that we're over 25 percent in our recycling rate.

This year we haven't received our final result from the DEQ.

When I sent it, I believe we were at 43, but it depends on what they give the final

Say, what we actually are.

So we are unofficially at 43, which is up 10% from last year.

But don't hold me to that until we get back to me and says they've accepted that.

The Solid Waste Management Plan maintains and updates this five-year regional plan that we have to do within our region.

It tracks that progress towards the goals within the plan that we've come up with and we've laid out.

Regional coordination and education are main things within our plan.

The plan does not necessarily

have any, the VDEQ does not necessarily give us any grit.

So a lot of what our goals are is to educate people on the benefits of recycling.

So education is a big theme throughout the plan on letting people know how to recycle and why it's to the best benefit in our region to do so.

And this is just a timeline of previous efforts with the solid waste and recycling plan on how the TJPDC has updated the plan and revised it and how it's been sent to VDEQ.

I also can share the goals that we've come up with.

One moment, if you guys would like to see those, I'll make it as big as possible to give you a bit more of what's going on with this plan.

We can see the table.

It's very small print.

Yeah.

So just to give you an idea, since there's no new data.

Well, there's some new data, but it's mainly the old data.

I just wanted to give you an idea of what we've been working on and what data will be updated.

So

If it's in your packet, I don't want to read all of these off to you unless you want me to.

But if you have any questions on any of these goals, any of these strategies, feel free to ask me if something is catching your eye.

All right, so does anybody have any questions for Charise?

Feel free to speak up or any comments, Charise?

I guess my question is how have recent kind of national and global trends in recycling affected this plan, right?

My understanding is a lot of plastics now like can't be recycled, maybe possibly all plastic secretly is not being recycled.

And single stream is being found to be less effective or profitable enough to sort out all of those different plastics.

Like, do we need to take that into account?

Well, within the plan, what we focused on, and those points were brought up by the Solid Waste and Recycling Committee.

And once again,

We've focused on what we can do within the plan.

And so in the plan, we hit a lot about educating and getting with as many vendors as possible to promote less use of plastic, since we know that there is a problem with recycling of plastic.

Glass is an issue in this area.

There's a big push by UVA to get glass recycling

within the area so it can be recycled and used like, I guess I'm not finding the right word, but a circular motion of that glass that's recycled in this area to be used in this area so people can benefit and profit off of it.

So yes, we've been trying to come up with very, very clever ways to do what we can in our purview to excite people in the area and to get vendors also involved

Cool.

That was good.

Excellent.

All right.

Any other questions for Cerise at this time?

I don't see any comments.

I don't either.

Great, moving forward into the consent agenda.

We have asked some action items that need to be completed, the minutes of August 5th, 2021.

We do not.

Got it.

Sounds great.

All right, moving forward.

It is the chair's recommendation that we approve the minutes as presented, unless there's further edits that need to be made.

Looking for a motion.

So moved.

We have a motion from Mr.

Herring.

I need a second.

Second.

We have a second from Mr. Galloway, I believe that was.

Yep, I'd be happy to.

Mr. Smith has left.

Mr. Babich, Mr. Barlow?

Yes.

Ms. Bishop, Mr.

Hi.

All right.

Sounds great.

You guys have it.

Moving forward into the monthly financial reports.

All right.

Thank you.

So we have 8.4 months available of operating expenses on hand.

Our goal is five.

So we are in excess of our goal.

As a reminder, the remainder of that is in a capital reserves account and is sitting at just over $375,000.

We had a great net gain in the month of July.

It was a good way to start off the new fiscal year of just over 11,000 in the month of July.

The majority of this is because we do have open positions that we're looking to fill, so our personnel costs were lower than we anticipated, but we are

I will note that later that we are really excited about the candidates that we have and then for our profit and loss we're about eight percent through with the year with one month down our income is at seven percent and our expenses are just over six percent so we're tracking well

on a monthly basis.

And then I can share that accrued revenue you will see in your report.

I have started the new accrued revenues report for FY22, which lists all of our new grant amounts.

And as you guys are familiar, we'll be tracking those month to month on the spenddown of those grants.

We have about $101,000 available per month in grant funding, and our 12-month average operating expenses are $101,000.

July's expenses were $90,000, so a little bit lower.

So with one month down, we still have plenty of grant money to cover all of the expenses that we anticipate for FY22.

Excellent.

Thank you so much, Christine.

Does anybody have any questions for Christine at this time in regards to the monthly financial reports?

Hearing none and seeing no comments at this time, I'm going to suggest that we approve the monthly financial report as presented.

We have a motion from Andrea.

Second.

Tony, a second from Mr. O'Brien.

Ms. Price.

Mr. Smith, Ms. Wilkinson, Mr. Babiak, Mr. Barlow, Ms. Bishop, Mr.

The chair votes aye.

Thank you so much.

Moving forward into business, we have no resolutions this evening that need to be voted on.

So that leads us into the draft FY23 projected operating budget and local revenue request.

All right, in your packet on page 136 is the FY23 projected budget.

As you know, and are very familiar, this is very projected at this point.

We still are awaiting a lot of news on applications that we've put in.

Both the body application, we're refining numbers until it's due mid-September.

The cigarette tax, we're continuing to refine.

So a lot of these numbers are our best guess at this point.

I do expect to refine it further before it comes before you in October for a vote.

I'm going to flip through a couple of pages, high level, but you can see some changes from FY22 into FY23.

Just wanted to note a couple of those.

While it looks like historically you all did not receive a budget memo for projected budgets, I believe in the next commission packet, I'm going to include a high level one to two page memo that details some of these things that I'm sharing with you.

O'Brien tonight.

So, you'll see the federal revenues increased.

That's due to anticipated increases in our home ARFA funding.

So, we expect them almost all of that will be passed through but that does increase our federal income.

As far as state revenue, that's a significant increase due to the Virginia Housing PDC Grant.

The entire grant, the pass-through portion that will be used to develop units will be split across FY 23 and FY 24

So that's why that one is so large.

Our local, you'll see a small increase in local and a small increase in per capita.

The per capita difference that we talked about last month is looking to get support from the local governments for the Regional Housing Partnership.

And so that's where you'll see an increase.

And I can detail that in just a second.

Please excuse the quick scroll.

I know that's not always ideal.

There we go.

This is the local per capita anticipated, and this is why we do this projected budget in order to set that per capita rate so then we can proceed with the applications to the local governments.

And so the per capita is set.

Here are each of the contributions for each of the jurisdictions for all of the programs.

I'm going to scroll over to the right so that it's a little more.

You'll see here that I included the regional transit partnership contributions from the city and the county.

and then a proposed contribution for the Regional Housing Partnership.

And then what we do is we take out of that the required local matches for our MPO and rural transportation programs.

The balance, as you all set as a policy, the balance of that, 75% of our remaining funds are to go towards regional projects, which are two or more jurisdictions.

And the remainder, 25, goes towards local jurisdictions for technical support, grant applications, and such.

So there is our local per capita.

And instead of scrolling, I'm gonna jump back up.

Excuse me.

All right, as far as expenses, looking at the difference between FY22 and FY23, I am excited to be projecting and planning for being fully staffed across the agency with an ED in a permanent position and a COO full-time in our finance, and then also with a full team of planners.

So you can see there's a jump in the personnel expenses going into FY23.

There's also, we have a rent increase coming, it's an anticipated rent increase, it goes up

and with our five year lease.

So that is an increase from year over year.

And then also you'll see a significant increase in our travel vehicle.

And that's projecting that we will need a vehicle for the regional cigarette tax administration in order to do compliance to the different vendors.

As far as that, the other jump that I put in here, and all of this obviously is subject to change as we learn more about our revenues, but I also put in a little bit more in the line item for professional development than we have in the past.

We have several staff members that are new for just a couple of years into their careers, and so ensuring that we are doing the proper trainings and conferences at the state level and making sure that we are keeping our staff

as competitive as possible.

I wanted to make sure that we wrote that into FY 23, assuming we have the revenue to cover it.

That is the projected budget.

I'm going to scroll down one more page.

It's in your packet.

I'm not going to go through this in detail.

But here are the revenues.

As you can see, as of right now, without any further notice of grant awards, there is a shortfall of about $100,000 just in the last week.

That's already come down several tens of thousands.

And so I anticipate by October it will be much closer

But then again, the budget will come back to you guys in March to pass the operating budget for the year.

Happy to take any questions about this.

This is just a draft.

Great.

Is there anybody who has any questions in regards to the

upcoming operating budget and local revenue requests at this time before it comes up in October.

And I assume is this a public hearing in October?

Is this to vote on a public hearing?

Got it.

Great.

Any questions at this time?

Mr.

Mr. Gallaway, please.

Christine, just so I understand this, the regional housing partnership money that is projected in there, that includes what they would have paid in the past plus what the additional is.

This includes going to the local governments to ask for a recurring contribution to the regional housing partnership.

This does not include what we were previously putting in was we were pulling from that 75% regional projects.

We were pulling from there.

We are not pulling from both places.

We will use those regional funds for other regional initiatives, such as broadband, cigarette tax, any other things that come forward, whether it be, you know, economic development, we've been looking into a SEDS application.

So the reason the money they ask if it was asked for in the current fiscal year was lower was because those funds were coming from a different source.

Can you repeat that question?

So if we would have gone to the localities in the current fiscal year, as we were going to potentially do to ask for current money, they were different amounts than what's in those columns or in that column.

And I'm guessing it's because you were sourcing it from that regional monies in the current year.

Correct.

Because the regional pot was covering the other 25,000.

I got it.

Thank you, Mr. Galloway.

Is there any other questions for Christine at this time?

Actually, Chair, I'm sorry, I do have a follow-up.

Go for it, Ned.

I'm sorry.

Awesome.

Any other questions?

Hearing and seeing none, I'd like to move on.

Happy to.

Just a staff office update.

We're still rotating two days a week with staff in the office and three days a week working remotely.

We did make some minor technology investments at the end of last fiscal year in order to have the OWL cameras to be able to operate in a hybrid environment.

And then our cleaning protocols and scheduling protocols are in place.

We are allowing outside entities to now use the Water Street Center.

No more than one per day unless there's enough space in between that there's an opportunity for cleaning.

So I wanted to share that.

Another staffing update.

We have an announcement from another planner that they will be leaving in mid-September.

This one was anticipated.

This is something we have known for several months was coming.

It is our planner, Nick Morrison.

He has relocated to North Carolina and has sought and found employment in North Carolina.

So we will be advertising for another full-time

Planner 1-2 position.

Second round interviews are currently underway for the open Planner 3-4 position.

And so I'm hoping to come back to you next month with news on a hire for that position.

As far as legislative, the regional legislative program for FY22 is getting underway.

Staff has been meeting with the local governing bodies.

to discuss the priorities for the program, and then a draft will be distributed to elected officials and key staff in early October.

and housing updates.

Staff here had our orientation meeting with Virginia Housing on the new PDC, the $2 million grant that we received.

We will continue to be meeting with them regularly.

It's intended to be a pretty high touch grant receipt so that the grantor of Virginia Housing will be very well involved in what we're doing.

The next steps for us will be to identify development partners and a process for being able to both advertise this opportunity and

Select Development Partners that have projects that fit the requirements.

As far as transportation, VDOT has developed a pipeline process.

We talked about this a little bit last month.

So just an update to that is that they, VDOT has started all of the kickoff, initial kickoff meetings for those projects.

As a reminder, there's one in Nelson County at the corner of the intersection of US 29 and Front Street.

Not Main, yeah, Front Street.

And then there's two in Albemarle County on the 250 corridor, one of them in Pantops and the other one in Shadwell.

So those have all started up and we'll keep you guys updated as we learn more about those.

The Zion Crossroads Small Area Plan continues.

TJPDC staff has been working with Fluvanna to incorporate some recommendations that have been developed

into their comp plan update and the process that they're doing for the comp plan.

And then Kittleson, the consultant on the project has largely completed the development of the transportation recommendations and our staff continues to work with VDOT and the jurisdictions to develop public engagement opportunities to make sure that we are doing our due diligence and making sure the public can comment.

Two other updates that I did not include in there and just wanted to share.

Two months ago, we did have staff do a site visit over at one of our transit partners, John's office.

We are planning to do a site visit over at Cat's office tomorrow.

We're pretty excited about that.

We're going to tour the facility.

We're going to learn a little bit more about their operations, give a chance for their team and our team to form relationships.

and then learn more about their capital projects.

And then another opportunity that I'm excited about and I'm hopeful some of my staff is, is that we are kicking off tomorrow a professional development book that we're all reading together.

And then once we finish this book, we're gonna look at other opportunities for ways that we can develop professionally as a team related to the contents that we work on here.

So that is all for my executive director report.

Great.

Is there any questions for Christine at this time?

It's a soft launch.

I will be honest with you.

This one is not a content one.

It's the power of positive thinking in a work setting.

The Happiness Advantage.

And so this one is really for us to develop what our process looks like, kind of learn how to do this as a team.

And then we'll begin to make recommendations of articles, chapters, books that relate more to the actual topics that we do here.

Excellent.

Yes, yes, yes.

Okay, any other questions for Christine at this time?

Hearing and seeing none, let's move on to just a couple things that I want to mention.

I'm not,

Yes, I'm here.

Sure.

For the members of the executive director selection committee, which the commission appointed at your meeting last month, that group will be meeting a week from tomorrow on Friday,

December 10th to conduct interviews of candidates.

We will be sending out a notice of that tomorrow or first part of the week.

All right, so everybody who is on the commission so that you're aware of where we're at in the process.

Again, the objective moving forward is we should, obviously October is the game plan and we are on target to achieve that.

Beyond that, I don't think there's anything else in terms of the ED search that we need to talk about, David.

Am I correct?

No, not at this point.

Perfect.

All right, then.

Thank you.

Well, the good news is that the General Assembly is not in session.

So we always look forward to that.

They can do the least amount of damage when they're not in session.

But they did have a promised quick session the first part of August to allocate about three quarters of the ARPA funding.

So there's some pretty big pots of money out there that I think once they hit the various state agencies, they'll start hearing more at the local level and I think certainly at the regional level as well about what some of those ARPA funding opportunities are.

Got it.

Great.

So let's go ahead and move into roundtable.

We're going to do this by jurisdiction.

Is there anybody from Louisa?

I saw I heard Tommy at some point.

Tommy, Tommy Barlow, are you still on this call?

Yeah, he's here.

The mute button.

We'll move on for a second.

Great.

That's the Fluvanna report.

Oh, Fluvanna is doing even better.

Well, Nelson County is doing great.

We have fiber internet to everyone for free.

Just kidding.

That's not true.

But yeah.

You're on your way there, though.

We're close.

We're close.

Tony, tell us about Fluvanna.

That's okay.

You know, I mean, you know, really the excitement right now is in the school board meetings.

A lot of it is around the whole, you know, challenges with people talking about critical race theory and, you know, mask mandates and so on.

But our schools have opened up.

That's great.

And, you know, so far they're staying open.

We're

Having challenges as many counties are having with their bus drivers.

We don't have enough bus drivers out there.

And so that's a challenge.

I was talking to a friend of mine today in Charlottesville and he said that he had to drive his kids into school here because they are literally like almost 80% short on bus drivers.

And yeah, no, it's bad.

The bus driver situation is bad.

And, you know, the whole school situation is a challenge that I think all counties are facing in terms of what's going to happen.

But, you know, on sort of the Board of Supervisors side, I mean, you know, things are progressing.

We've got a couple of larger developments.

We're starting to see a little bit of anti-development sentiment growing in the county.

which is, you know, it's kind of understandable, but the reality is the development growth is not so much due to new projects as much as projects that were already in place.

And that now with, you know, the housing boom happening that these projects are now starting to fill out.

So I think people are starting to say, well, what's transitioning, what's happening to our County?

So that seems to be the real,

I don't want to say challenge, but I want to say the real debate that's starting to happen because, of course, every county tries to plan for how to manage its growth, how to manage it appropriately, how to be competitive, and at the same time, make decisions based on its comprehensive plans.

And so these are going to be some interesting debates that we face coming up.

So those are some of the things that are starting to happen in Savannah.

I guess the good news is that we're growing, the bad news is that we're growing.

It's so difficult.

For those who don't know, I am away on vacation, but gladly serving the Thomas Jefferson Planning Commission.

In my full capacity in this virtual time period, I can attest that oysters are excellent, as well as all the seafood options that Charleston has to give you.

So moving on from Fluvanna, I don't think I think Keith Smith is out.

I'll be brief.

As was mentioned, like a lot of other localities, we're having a huge problem with the shortage of school bus drivers as the school year is getting underway.

We have increased pay and benefits and have a sign-on bonus to try to get more drivers, but it's definitely still a challenge.

The progress continues to move forward on the comprehensive plan update, in particular the future land use map, which is the first step to updating our zoning throughout the city.

It's gotten a lot of engagement and hopefully, you know, we'll still continue to move forward.

And final update is just Charlottesville allocated from the stimulus bill, $300,000 to an eviction prevention program in anticipation of the impacts of both the eviction moratoriums ending as well as the enhanced unemployment benefits ending this month.

Gotcha, great.

Whoever they are.

I think that's a different group, and LAJC trades off stuff with them, but this contract with LAJC, I think.

All right.

Now I was just going to compliment.

I've had some interactions with CVLAS and some of the other legal aid as it turned in as a landlord about eviction prevention.

And I've got to say compliments to especially CVLAS on their interaction and coordination between landlords and the tenants and preventing evictions.

They've done an excellent job.

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So we're moving right along.

I think it's a little better than hopefully moving forward.

Thank you.

Gotcha.

Thank you so much.

All right, let's move over to Greene.

Ms. Wilkinson.

I can hear you barely enough.

So just keep talking.

Nobody can hear me.

Why?

Yes.

Yeah.

Never mind.

All right, we'll do a couple of things.

FIBER, SEVAC, we're working with the VATI grant.

They presented to a board the last meeting, so we're very excited about the possibility of that project.

We're also working with RSA, trying to withdraw from that.

That's how water authority, for those who don't know, has been an ongoing struggle for us to withdraw.

We have legal action in place.

We've reached out to the state

We've drawn several resolutions up with the localities, and they still will not let us out of the water authority at this point in time.

But we're going to continue that fight on, and we will be out of that authority at some point in time, hopefully within this calendar year is the goal.

But we're waiting to see what happens there.

We have an SUP process for Airbnbs in the R01 zoning district.

That has been in operation, I guess, or in place for about two to three years.

Lately, there's been a group of individuals that are in strong opposition to that.

And so the plant commission is looking at revising that type of process.

And it may come back to the board as a recommendation to remove airbnbs from the R1.

We haven't seen that as of yet.

So that may be a possibility for us.

One of the things our schools are open, our school board meetings have been as interesting as others.

And one thing that most of you may have heard about recently was that the comp board, I guess, gave, or as a process, they gave in bonuses to some of the members of certain departments.

And so that leads to the rest of those constitutional officers wondering what's going to happen to them.

and some of you may have heard that, you may not have heard that, I'm not sure yet.

And the last thing, the big red building at 2933, the intersection down there, I think the last day was yesterday, although the sign says to come on in still, there's some mixed emotion with a lot of people concerned that big red building, that's obviously been destroyed or taken down, if you will, for the expansion of the 2933 intersection,

They're quite honestly, it's badly needed.

And that's what's going on in Greene County.

Excellent.

I know you guys are probably gonna be stuck in that water authority situation for a little bit longer.

It's just a guess.

Just a little bit longer.

Hopefully not too much though.

Fair enough.

All right.

Let's moving on from here.

Jesse, I'm sorry to interrupt.

It looks like Andrea just unmuted again.

Andrea, can we hear you?

I don't know what happened.

Said the host muted me.

Anyway, I was just going to say there's the intersection of two nice little planning projects that

The TJPDC has worked on in Greene.

One is the 29 Carter study and the other is the Rutgersville Advisory Committee, which is a follow on from the Rutgersville Small Area Plan.

Those two things are having their Zoom webinar together next Thursday.

So I thought that was kind of neat.

Awesome.

Awesome.

All right, Mr. Galloway, Albemarle.

Yeah, so last evening board meeting we, the board did pass the intent to approve the formation of a regional cigarette tax board.

So we took the first step to officially get that underway.

We heard from our climate action plan team.

We got our 2018 greenhouse gas emission inventory report.

So that is out if anybody is interested in reading or checking into that.

But that's some of the first reports of our climate action plan as we work.

On that item, meeting in July, we did pass a firearm ordinance, restricting firearms on county property, buildings, community centers, parks.

And last evening as well we passed in our Rio 29 area.

We have our form-based code, which is an optional overlay that speaks to the vision and the redevelopment of the entire Rio 29 small area plan.

And that came last night.

That happens to be in my district.

So very excited to have that form-based code in play and hope folks will start bringing projects and applications forward to see how that area can redevelop.

Great.

Thank you so much, Ned.

I compliment real quick, I spoke with some of your recycling and glass guy named Mr. Harris, Monte Harris or whatever.

We're having some really good conversations on how we can coordinate the recycling of glass and other products and some partnership between Nelson County and Albemarle.

All right, moving on.

There you go.

Mr. O'Brien did such a good job.

Perfect.

Well, Mr. Barlow, thank you so much.

Did y'all ever get internet to Mr. Babyok's house?

We did.

You're good.

Tommy, just kidding on you.

We talked about him.

Is that what you said?

You can say that.

He'll like to hear that, I'm sure.

All right.

So moving on, Nelson County.

Dylan is not with us today, so it's just me.

Thank you guys so much for bearing another virtual meeting.

Nelson County doesn't have too much excitement.

We do have some situations presenting themselves in our school system.

I don't know if anybody's kept up in the paper.

Interaction between law enforcement and a student has led to some national press, which so hopefully justice will be swift.

Keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

We have some protests happening this weekend and this has been

We, big ambitions with our comp plan, getting that done.

We say that every month, but we're finally making some headway on that.

Internet is full speed ahead.

We got another few hundred people hooked up on some fiber internet.

All of our neighbors are looking to be getting fiber, so we're excited to have set the example for everyone.

And beyond that, we're starting to see a shift in the economy in regards to housing.

Of course, there's still a huge demand, but new construction as a result of the major lack of supply of lumber and raw materials has led to a huge drop in construction permits.

basically almost tenfold over what we were this year last time.

So I imagine we're going to start seeing some impacts on that.

Beyond all of that, we're thriving.

Of course, knowing we had some Dominion interactions over easements in the pipeline, but nothing too substantial.

Other than that, I have nothing else.

I'm pulling up the agenda.

Our next meeting is October 7th.

I believe, Christine, correct me if I'm wrong, but it is unlikely that we will be in person still as of yet, maybe hypothetically in the future.

However, we will be making our decision for hopefully an executive director at that meeting.

And

We have some other items.

We're going to be voting on our projected budget approval.

One thing I want everybody to keep in mind, wages have changed dramatically for the talent of staff that we have.

So, you know, we're probably gonna have to be looking at making some wage adjustments in the future and getting some new qualified dollar numbers for certain technicians and whatnot.

So just keep that in mind.

and the final solid waste plan, we're gonna be voting on that as well.

Great.

Perfect.

So at that time, looks like we're only eight minutes past our time to adjourn.

We got one from Andrea.

I need a second.

Second by Mr. Rory.

Let's do this by acclamation.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposition?

I hear no opposition.

Therefore, this is by unanimous consent.

Thank you guys so much.

Appreciate the hours that you're putting in.

Hopefully,

Obviously with the state of COVID, things will be a little bit different, but I've got to say with the case numbers changing in Nelson County, it's not looking too good.

So we'll continue to keep those in our, those people in our prayers and we'll keep you apprised as to the interviews and those dates and make sure we include the commission on the advertisement.

So thank you all so much.

Have a great evening.

Christine, Sandy, thank you.

See you all later.