Planning District Commission Meeting   12/2/2021

I call this meeting a Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission this December 2 meeting to order.

This meeting of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission is being held pursuant to Code of Virginia section 2.2-3708.2 which allows a 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 forum in a single location and the purpose of the meeting is to provide for the discharge of its lawful purposes, duties, and responsibilities.

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 that the meeting was held by electronic communication means and the type of electronic communication means by which the meeting was held.

Great, thank you so much, Sandy.

We do, and also, sorry to interrupt.

Sandy, I need you a co-host, just if you can help me keep an eye on the waiting room.

I don't want to leave anybody in there without seeing them.

Sure, I'd be happy to.

Mr. Smith?

Ms. Wilkinson?

Here.

Supervisor Barlow?

Ms. Bishop?

Here.

Here.

Great.

We have a quorum.

Now we can get on with Madison and the public.

Do we have any public members here today?

You have two minutes to speak.

Anybody wish to speak?

You raise your hand or unmute yourself.

I think the only public we got is Sean today.

We have not.

All right.

Well, I will go ahead and open Madison to public.

Hearing none, I close matters from the public.

Moving into presentations, we are excited to have a new planner with us today.

Yes, so I would love to introduce Isabella O'Brien.

She is coming on board as a planner one with the TJPDC.

She is a Fluvanna County high school graduate, a UVA graduate.

Her background is in environmental science.

She will be working with us both in our environmental and transportation program.

We are really excited to have her.

I'd love to welcome her and give her a chance to say a couple words.

I also want to make sure in full disclosure, we do let you all know that it is Supervisor O'Brien's daughter.

And so we are really excited that she is on board, but I do also want to share that

She is on board because of her own merits and because of her interview and because of her resume.

So Isabella, do you want to say anything to the commission?

Yes.

Hi, everybody.

I'm Isabella O'Brien.

Christine said a lot of the things that I did want to tell you, but I am a Fluvanna County native born and raised.

I studied environmental science at the University of Virginia.

And since graduating, I've been taking courses online and project management and GIS.

For a little more background on me, my experiences so far have included internships with the Rivanna Conservation Alliance, the UVA Center for Politics, and the Berkeley Group where I helped develop the great infrastructure plan for Lexington, Virginia.

At the TJPDC, my main focus will be on the environmental and transportation side of things.

So in the near future, you can expect to see me as I support the update of the regional hazard mitigation plan, the solid waste management plan, the watershed implementation plan, regional transit partnership, and smart scale applications.

I'm really looking forward to working with all of you.

Excellent.

Well, welcome aboard, Isabella.

We're excited to have you part of our team.

And if you ever need anything, please feel free.

And if you need something from the board, Christine, we're here to support you and your professional advancement in planning.

Yes.

All right.

Moving on into the legislative update.

All right.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I do.

I mean, work on pulling it up.

I apologize.

I should have got that ready while she was talking.

Yes, wonderful.

All right, thank you very much.

Just wanted to give you all a quick legislative update in advance of the General Assembly convening in just over a month.

You can go to the next slide, please.

General Assembly will convene January 12th.

It's the second Wednesday.

This is scheduled to be what's called the long session, which is 60 days with adjournments scheduled for March 12th.

You know, last year was so weird because they had a 30-day session and then went into a special session.

And over the course of the past several years, there have been a number of special sessions.

So, you know, we'll see if they can get everything done in one 60-day session this year.

It'd be great.

Certainly some changes coming as we had talked about briefly at your November meeting with regard to the makeup of the General Assembly and a shift in power with the election of the top three statewide offices, all flipping from Democrat to Republican, pending a couple of recounts that are going on for very close races in the House of Delegates, one of which began today.

It looks like that there will be a 52 to 48 majority for the Republicans in the House of Delegates, which will flip the margin back to the Republicans after the Democrats were in charge for two years.

And then the Senate, of course, was not up for election and that body remains 21 to 19 Democrats.

So with the change in power in the legislature, certainly there will be some reorganization, a lot of reorganization with new leadership in the House.

There will be totally new committee chairs and makeup and membership of the various committees.

Because of the closeness of the representation by each party, there will be closeness or almost parity in numbers.

A lot of your committees are

O'Brien.

I don't know what might be different.

As far as rules, that's up to the majority party in the House.

Last year, as I said, was a weird year with it being an all virtual session.

Virtual comments were allowed, written comments were allowed in committee meetings.

In lieu of having people there, there were limitations on the number of bills that could be introduced.

So far, we have not heard of any bill introduction limits for the House members.

The Senate members are going to be limited to introducing 25 bills.

And yes, you do have some that in the past

have introduced quite a few more than that.

So those folks like myself who are down there trying to keep track of all the bills, we kind of like bill limits because then there's not as many to keep track of.

Next slide please.

Of course, in any given General Assembly, the state budget is always a focus.

Just from a process standpoint, the governor here in, I guess, a little under two weeks from today, on December 16th, will be introducing amendments to the current fiscal year 22 budget.

and then also proposing the fiscal year 23 and fiscal year 24 biennial state budget prior to him leaving office in January.

It's just kind of the way it works in Virginia with an outgoing governor having an opportunity to introduce a budget and then leaving it up to the new executive and legislature to finish crafting that budget.

You've probably heard, and I believe I had some in the most recent legislative newsletter,

that there are expected to be significant additional state revenues both in the current fiscal year and the amendments to that budget as well as in the next biennial budget.

The legislature is very fond of saying the governor proposes and the General Assembly disposes.

The Governor's budget as it's introduced is his recommended budget.

The General Assembly will get its say through a process that will result in the House proposing its amendments to the Governor's introduced budget, the Senate doing likewise, and then near the end of the session, hopefully coming to a compromise on a final state budget.

for both again the current fiscal year and the next two fiscal years.

I am anticipating that given the split in majority parties between the House and Senate that we will have two budgets that look significantly different coming out of that mid-session release of the House and Senate budgets.

But certainly more to come on that and we will be monitoring that on the legislative front as we move through the first part of the session.

And then the other thing that's out there is that in addition to the state's general fund budget, which gets all of the attention, there is a capital component of the budget and there's also still $1.1 billion in federal ARPA funding that remains to be appropriated by the General Assembly and they will deal with that this coming session as well.

You'll recall they had a special session back in the summer to appropriate, I believe it was about $3.1 billion of $4.2 billion that had come to the state.

So as I said, a lot of money in play for the legislature to work with this session.

Next slide, please.

So just wanted to break down, I had mentioned the significant new revenues that are expected.

A couple of weeks ago, and again, which I reported on in the legislative update last week, both the House and Senate Money Committees had budget retreats.

And this gives you a little flavor for the specifics of what they were saying, or what they were projecting would be the revenues to come in.

again for the remainder of the current fiscal year and then projected out for fiscal year 23 and 24.

And these percentages and these dollar figures are estimates for increases based on the current base budget, again, which is that fiscal year 22 budget.

So you can see percentage growth 5%, the remainder of this year, 3% to 4% the next two years, and then the significant several billions of dollars each fiscal year

that should those projections bear out would be available for appropriation.

Next slide, please.

I think I have one more budget slide.

Yes, so given the projected amount of money that's going to be available, there certainly will be significant and sufficient funds rather to meet a lot of requests that have been made by the state agencies.

You can see the numbers there that they had put in.

There's a certain number of bills in the drawers, the legislature calls them some past funding commitments that need to be continued as well as some high priority items that every year seem to come before the money committees and may or not be able to be funded

You know, either partly or in their entirety.

And I've listed some of the budget pressures I think that the General Assembly will be dealing with in the area of environment, capital expenditures, always a lot in the health and human services and, you know, in recent years, behavioral health.

Certainly there will be consideration of additional compensation increases for state employees, law enforcement, employees of higher education, as well as state supported local employees.

And then always K-12 education is a big budget driver.

However, the numbers that have come out from the Department of Education

For the next biennium in terms of updating the state cost for the standards of quality, I think due largely to much lower enrollments that we've seen over the past year and a half in our public schools, those demands for additional state dollars are coming in much smaller than they have in the past.

And then the Money Committee staffs finally did present a number of risks that they wanted the lawmakers to be aware of and be cognizant of as they move through the budgeting process in January and February.

And that's just having to do with uncertainty about the economy, what happens with COVID, what happens with inflation and other forces related to supply chain and labor force that tend to drive spending and economic activity.

Next slide, please.

Just very quickly, just a few items I wanted to point out with regard to legislation outside of the budget process.

And I think this is really just kind of waiting to see what we will see rolling out from the executive branch in terms of initiatives that were talked about in the campaign or things that have come about due to

You know, having a majority to work with in the House of Delegates and also what issues the Executive Branch and the majority in the House of Delegates may look to do to roll back some of the legislation that has been passed the past couple of years.

So, you know, those are going to be taking shape here in the coming weeks and leading into the start of the session.

From the local government standpoint, it seems like that the local government liaisons that I run around with in Richmond, we usually spend a lot of time playing defense.

There are usually a lot of bills that come in from legislators that either want to take away or reduce local government authority, things that want to

who pushed new mandates down to local governments.

But I do think we will see some offense out of local governments this year.

I've heard from some folks who are going to be trying to stress additional local authorities for localities.

related to internet businesses.

And then just something that came out, I guess, in the meeting that the Albemarle board was having with its legislative delegation earlier this week, something to, I guess, restore a change that was made a couple of years ago that shifted state recordation taxes that for many years had been sent back to local governments.

Those were shipped off to support transit in Hampton Roads, and it sounds like that some of the Republicans in the House have been working to try to put forward a proposal for this session that would put us back to where we were, which would be a very good thing.

We have a position in support of that in the regional legislative program.

And then of course we also have in any given year I work specifically with some of the local governments in the region on local initiatives that they have asked their legislators to put forward for them primarily among those sales tax authority for localities.

to be able to enact through referendum an additional one cent sales tax to go for school facilities that the city of Charlottesville is interested in.

I'm expecting to see legislation not only from our local delegation but from some others in different parts of the state both for adding specific localities but also to expand that authority

to all localities in the state.

Expanding the use of speed cameras.

We had new legislation a couple of years ago that allowed for speed determination devices to be used in construction zones and school zones.

And there's some interest in Albemarle County and some other places that I'm aware of.

and possibly having that expanded to take into consideration additional areas or additional roads.

In the case of Albemarle, we're talking about certain rural roads.

Jail per diem funding is an initiative that we have seen the past several years coming from Louisa County.

The state pays such a low per diem to local governments for housing both state and local prisoners.

So, there's gonna be another attempt to try to get that funding up.

And then also some other legislation dealing with a bill that would not have allowed overtime compensation to be awarded in certain situations at the local level.

Finally,

Just a couple of things, not really legislative, I just wanted to update you real quickly on what was going on with both the Virginia Telecommunication Initiative and also the Cigarette Tax Board.

I put these slides together a couple days ago so you can see rebuttals to challenges that the TJPDC application

Drew, determinations were to be announced tomorrow.

We did receive late today the DHCD determinations on those challenges.

You know, we as well as SEVAC and Firefly are still taking an in-depth look at those, but

I think the result of those was good overall and that there will probably be minimal changes in the application scope that will need to be made for final consideration by DHCP for announcing the grant awards sometime hopefully this month.

So we're kind of under a tight timeline to get responses back to the state by next Wednesday.

But from there, hopefully the

Grant announcements will be made.

The awards will be decided and announcements made sometime before the end of the calendar year.

And then finally Blue Ridge Cigarette Tax Board.

Things are really starting to move along quickly given the January 1st startup date for new taxes.

We had eight members of the board.

We have one member that is going through the process to withdraw from the board as a result of not having implemented the tax.

We do have an additional member that we're expecting to come on perhaps as early as next week.

and then some discussion about another one that I've heard of that might be interested in joining as well.

Most recently we made the request to each of the localities that are members of the board for some startup funding so that we can again compensate for staff time as well as hires and equipping folks who will be working with the program in the new year.

And the Blue Ridge Cigarette Tax Board had its first meeting in late October

and we'll be having its second meeting coming up next Thursday.

So I believe that is all of my slides, Christine, except for the next one, which may say questions.

Well.

Do you want me to pull it back up?

No, no, no, there's nothing on there.

Just real quick and then we'll get to you, Mr. Payne.

I don't remember if you said this.

No, I did not say anything about redistricting.

The court has appointed two special masters to draw new lines for the House and Senate and congressional district lines, and I believe they have a 30-day timeline to get their work done.

So when and if we hear back from them, then that will, those maps will then run through the general assembly process.

Okay.

Yeah.

Keep us apprised on that.

We'll be curious.

Yes.

Thank you.

I'm curious.

I know you mentioned the sales tax increase.

I was reading in the Richmond Times Dispatch today that

A legislative committee had released some initial recommendations about funding for school buildings and including allowing that sales tax referendum statewide as well as grants and loans.

Yeah, I would say that as a TBD, a lot of politics in this one, not only between the two parties, but also between House and Senate.

The Senate has been willing in the past to move forward with this particular initiative for different localities.

I think they would

You'll probably be interested in doing it statewide.

The hang up even the past, even last year, when there was a bill that came over from the Senate, got hung up in the House Finance Committee.

Not sure what the posture is going to be, the incoming leadership in the House of Delegates.

I know that there are some other folks I'm working with on this issue that

have been having conversations with Republican legislators as potential patrons.

So, you know, it might be that this one kind of fits in, you know, as part of a package that, you know, or let me not say a package, but rather discussions about, you know, what forms of tax relief or tax relief proposals that we see.

And then of course, coming off, you know, some additional authorities that counties were granted just two years ago, you know, to generate revenue, how

How that fits in as well.

I was pleased to see the school board chairman was at the meeting yesterday and was able to get up at the end of the meeting during the public comment session, give the thumbs up to the work of the commission and the recommendation that they had.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Anybody else have any questions for Mr. Blount?

David, I got some great news for you.

I was told today that

Senator Peek is going to introduce a bill to give counties more flexibility

for pay increases, determining pay increases for supervisors.

You know, I've been working on this for three years and it revolves around making it similar to the authority that cities have so that they don't have to do it on election year dates only.

I think that's the core of it.

I don't have all the details.

Okay, well, I appreciate that, Bob.

And I know that we've had some discussions about that.

You know, and maybe, you know, the bill that got hung up last, I guess, two years ago, really pertained to city councils, and it would have really kind of expanded the authority that they would have to increase salaries.

on their own without having to stay within certain statutory bands, I guess, of pay.

I'm sure that you will get involved, especially with our

All the counties will be involved one way or another.

Some are happy with the system they have.

So obviously we'll make a change, but VACO obviously would probably get involved.

Yes.

And I will make sure and reach out to his legislative director about that as well.

Cause I know it's been some time since we've talked about that.

Thank you.

Great.

Any other questions for Mr. Blount at this time?

Hearing and seeing none, moving on.

We currently have the consent agenda just to make things quick and efficient as relates to the minutes of our November 4th meeting.

Do we have a motion to approve those as presented?

Make a motion.

Move.

Bob has moved.

Second for Mr.

Herring.

I'd be happy to.

Supervisor O'Brien?

Aye.

Ms. Wilkinson?

Aye.

Supervisor Barlow?

Yes.

Ms. Bishop?

Aye.

Aye.

Great.

The record shows that that was unanimous.

Moving on into the financial reports.

I just wanted to do a quick share that we had a good October month.

We had a net gain of $9,237.

That puts our total net gain at just over $30,000 for the year.

I wanted to remind you all I brought up in last meeting, but at the beginning of my interim role, I asked to put the financials on the consent agenda and discuss them each month to make sure that I was getting the guidance and the support.

But now I feel that we can go back to the quarterly reports.

Beginning in February, we will pull the financials into the new business section and do a little bit of a deeper dive at the quarter level.

What does that schedule look like?

April?

So start April and then July?

Okay.

Okay.

Great.

Yeah.

Is that it?

Great.

Thank you guys so much.

Everybody else okay with that?

Moving on to a quarterly report.

Excellent.

I think that's a great idea.

And if anything dramatic happens, let us know somewhere in between, of course.

All right.

Let's go ahead and approve this as well.

A motion for Mr.

Herring.

I need a second.

Second from Andrea.

Any discussion?

Yeah, can I clarify?

I believe that was Mr. Smith that made the motion.

The motion.

All right.

Got it.

Thank you.

Mr. Stolzenberg?

Aye.

Supervisor O'Brien?

Aye.

Ms. Wilkinson?

Aye.

Supervisor Barlow?

Yes.

Ms. Bishop?

Aye.

Aye.

Excellent.

Thank you guys so much.

Moving on to resolutions.

We have a very exciting resolution today.

And the guy just happens to be sitting in here.

He came in whistling.

And I said, I bet you that's Bob.

I wasn't wrong.

Mr.

Sure.

No worries.

Resolution of appreciation, Robert Bob Babyok.

Whereas Bob Babyok faithfully has served the Thomas Jefferson Plan District Commission since 2018 in the capacity of commissioner.

and whereas Mr. Babyok has been a tireless advocate for the work and services of the TJPDC during his time on the commission as a board of supervisor, member and chairman in Louisa County and whereas Mr. Babyok has served as co-chair on several Louisa County committees including the finance personnel and economic development committees and

Whereas Mr. Babyok also completed a 16-month course for certification as Virginia County Supervisor through the Virginia Association of Counties, FACO, and whereas Mr. Babyok had represented the County of Louisa and the varied interests of its citizens, businesses, and public officials alike during his time on the commission, and whereas the work of the Thomas Jefferson Plan District Commission during Mr. Babyok's tenure has resulted in a multitude of programs,

plans and services that benefit the people of this region.

including, but not limited to, improved mobility through transportation plans and projects, improved accessibility to safe, decent housing for residents, economic fatality and entrepreneurship, and a commitment to environmental stewardship.

Excellent.

We have a motion.

I need a second.

Second.

Second from Mr. O'Brien.

Let's go on ahead.

Any discussion?

Supervisor Price?

Aye.

Supervisor O'Brien?

Aye.

Oh, thank you.

Supervisor Barlow.

Yes.

Absolutely.

But he doesn't have to.

Aye.

Hi.

Excellent.

Thank you, sir, Bob.

Go put this in frame.

It's nice.

That's worth it right there.

You can't read my handwriting, though.

So thank you, guys.

Give them a virtual round of applause.

Thank you, Bob, for being diligent and hopping in the public sphere.

Good job.

Good and faithful servants.

All right.

Moving on.

Bob, do you got anything to say?

Well, again, I'm very grateful, honored and humbled by this.

I didn't expect it.

Didn't know it was even a thing.

I'm surprised you were able to

Get enough people or enough evidence to look up to find out and dream up all these things that I'm attributed to.

But it was a wonderful experience.

I'm a lot better for it.

I learned a lot and I'm looking for the next chapter.

My term ends on 31 December.

That's another reason to celebrate New Year's Eve.

And somebody said, well, sometimes, you know, it could be called a has been, but it's better than, uh, it's not as good as it never was.

So there you go.

So I'm hanging in there.

I'm going at it.

Absolutely.

Thank you so much, Bob.

This is very brief.

Just included in your packet is the tentative commission schedule for calendar year 2022, which maps out tentative items for review, presentation, and approval during each month.

Great.

Does anybody have any questions or comments?

Nope.

It's just for your information.

And then the other thing I wanted to remind everybody is that there is no meeting in the month of January.

I'll give you all the month off.

All right.

Great.

Moving on to, uh, Andrea had something.

Andrea, you needed to bring up something.

For next year, we might want to consider our capital reserve policy.

We really set up that policy when we were in imminent danger of being kicked out of our premises.

And that danger seems to have subsided.

So we could consider whether we want to make any changes to it or not, but just think about it for a couple of minutes.

Got it.

Perfect.

Absolutely reasonable going into the new year.

Okay.

Okay.

Great.

All right.

Again, I'll be brief because a lot of these are repeated month to month, but we're still advertising for one more transportation planner position.

We're grateful to have Bella.

We're excited to add to our team, but we're still advertising that, which is not a unique position that is trying to be filled right now, even in our region, but also within the state.

So it's a pretty competitive applicant pool we're finding.

Due to our substantial net gain in FY21, but also our year to date

Netgain, all TJPDC staff except for myself received a one-time bonus for end of year due to their continued efforts to the contributions of the agency's success during a very understaffed and transitional fiscal year.

As we continue to look at our compensation and our salary bands, we did want to do what we could in the short term to make sure that we are compensating our staff

For the hard work.

So just want to share that with you all.

As far as housing, the Regional Housing Partnership had its second virtual housing speaker series.

We're having great success with getting participation in that.

Do you remember how many?

I forgot to write down.

I think it was about 60.

We were just shy of 70, folks.

Excellent.

Right.

There were people that went back afterwards.

And I actually think I did look at that number.

That was 30.

Yeah, you guys missed it.

That was great.

Right, Ernie?

Wasn't that your favorite part?

The second update for housing is Mr. Smith and Mr. Galloway both presented at the Virginia Governor's Housing Conference.

We had three staff members attend.

I would love to ask for you all in your roundtable if you're willing to say some words about that presentation.

I'd appreciate that.

And then the 2 million Virginia housing grant that we received, the request for concepts were due this past the 29th.

So we have received all of the proposals that we will.

We received proposals totaling 6 million for the 1.8 that we have to allocate.

And so our next role will be to really dig into those applications and look at the priorities.

And then the final thing for the housing is that the Regional Housing Partnership has kicked off its strategic planning process.

And that's a really exciting process to begin to steer the direction of that partnership into the next three to five years.

Again, Supervisor Galloway or Mr. Smith, if either of you want to speak to that again in your round table, I'd appreciate it.

And then for transportation, we're continuing to move forward on both of our

DRPT grants, the Regional Transit Vision Plan, and the Albemarle Expansion Study.

We are also continuing to develop our smart skill projects and have convened the stakeholder group for one of the projects, the Rivanna River Bike Ped Bridge.

And then we're also continuing to work with Kittleson on the Zion Crossroad Plan.

And there is a meeting, I believe, scheduled next week to help transition new supervisors and staff.

And then they will be meeting with stakeholders to plan for the public engagement, I believe, which is occurring January.

Sandy, can you shake your head yes or no?

Is that correct?

Yes.

All right.

Make sure I had that timeline right.

But tentatively, yes.

Thank you.

Tentatively.

Other than that, staff here is working really hard and really impressively considering the number of different initiatives that we have right now that are either new or are growing exponentially.

So yeah, looking forward to a holiday break for everyone and then coming back into the new year, just working as hard as we are.

That's exciting.

That's all I have.

Awesome.

Thank you so much, Christine, Jeremy and Harv.

Let's see, moving on.

Wow, we're fast today guys, but we're going to slow it down now because it's round table.

Let's go ahead and get started on the round table.

Charlottesville, you're up.

Alright so the big news of the month is that we passed our comprehensive plan.

So that is a long time in the making since January 2017 and council voted to pass it on its first reading unanimously so that's great news.

From here we'll be going

Strong into our full-scale zoning rewrite and redo of our zoning map.

And so that process is expected to take all of the next year and probably into the year after that.

So glad to have this big first step out of the way, but there's a lot of work left to do.

We're also beginning our budget season with our capital improvement program first public hearing in two weeks on December 14th.

I think that's all I got.

Michael?

Yeah, as was mentioned,

comprehensive plan and land use map or past, which is major moving into the zoning rewrite, which is very significant.

And, you know, we'll also, once we get done with the zoning rewrite process, you know, have some impacts on the regional housing market.

Beginning the budget process, the biggest priorities for us are figuring out how to fund both our school reconfiguration project and our affordable housing strategy, our CIP,

And general fund for that matter are very much maxed out.

And so that's a big challenge we got to tackle, which is made harder by

Staff and Leadership Instability on our end.

In the upcoming council meetings before the end of the year, there's going to be some discussions about final dispositions of our Confederate statues, which will be major, as well as a discussion about collective bargaining for our city employees.

Much like many things, there's some more uncertainty there given additional instability in city manager and HR leadership in the city.

And our biggest priority, this General Assembly session is definitely gonna be advocating around schools funding, particularly that sales tax and any support we can get from the General Assembly on school infrastructure.

And finally, once again, the biggest challenge we face is leadership and staff instability, which continues.

We're looking at potentially some outside firms who can help provide both immediate stability

and take an outside look as the organization as a whole to set the stage for hopefully making some changes and decisions that can

Eunuch, some bigger long-term impacts on this issue.

I think it is definitely the number one issue we face as a city and as sort of a silent tax on every single thing we do and definitely has regional impacts as well because we are definitely in a position where we cannot do much mid and long-term planning and it is a major challenge as a city that we

We're going to have to confront and figure out.

It's difficult.

It'll take time.

Got it.

Thinking about y'all rooting for you.

All right.

Thank you.

We had a board meeting last night.

Three major things on the economic side in terms of compensation with our staff.

We first put a $3,000 bonus for all our law enforcement and fire and rescue.

That was really important that we do that.

to give an immediate boost into those areas.

We're a little behind some of our neighboring communities and what we pay in those fields, so we needed to do that.

Then we approved a 6% across the board for everyone in the county, which was important for our workforce stabilization, as I think probably every community is now dealing with

In the era of the great resignation, people leaving jobs for any number of reasons.

And the third, but I think is probably the most important of the three, is we approve funding for a comprehensive compensation review to look across every position in the county because

The reality is that while every job is important there are different criticalities based upon the type of job that's being performed and you lose some perspective I think when you simply give across the board a percentage cost of living increase every year that doesn't take into effect the supply and demand aspect of different types of positions and you know law enforcement, teachers for example are to really

challenging areas of employment right now and you have to adjust things and different positions have different value and so there has to be sort of a cap in some areas and I often use my military background.

We like to see people move up to positions of higher authority and responsibility to be able to receive the greater compensation increases but that's just one

One person, one supervisor's opinion.

But those three together collectively are really important for our workforce stabilization.

We were also very fortunate financially that when the pandemic first hit in March of 2019, we really cut back on our expenses in the county to the greatest extent possible.

And then two separate things have happened to help our financial situation.

The first is the money that came through the CARES and ARPA funding, which was not ever expected.

I guess we all hoped there would be some financial assistance from the federal government, but not perhaps to the extent that it was.

And then the second part is the economy in Albemarle County has rebounded substantially quicker

Then we contemplated.

As probably with your communities, we get about 75% of our revenue during the last quarter of the year.

And we did a review that looked back over the last few years and we averaged about a four, four and a half percent annual increase pre-pandemic.

But this past year, it's 7%, which was huge.

Of course, it followed a substantial reduction last year.

But the economy has rebounded.

Our revenue collection has been very stable.

And so that allowed us to have what we call a positive variance as opposed to a surplus.

I find the difference is a surplus is when you've calculated all your anticipated revenues.

We've calculated your necessary expenses and you have a surplus of funds after paying those expenses.

And that's not really what we've had over the last couple of years because we cut our expenses dramatically, allowed a number of our positions to be vacant, which is another reason we need to work on compensation.

And then we had higher than expected revenues as the economic recovery took place, but then also that federal funding.

So those were really big issues for us.

We worked on a couple of other things as well last night.

One is looking at blighted properties.

What are the actions we're going to take there?

And we ultimately all agreed to continue mostly with what we've been doing with perhaps a little more enforcement rather than adopt the full code from Virginia on blighted properties because we were concerned about the unintended consequences.

If we adopted the full code for dealing with blighted properties that it might force us into a situation where we're dealing with people who simply cannot afford to take some action as opposed to those who have decided they will not take action to improve their properties.

And I think we're much more focused on those who have chosen not to do something rather than some sort of a punitive appearance of action against those who financially simply cannot do it.

And then the last thing I think that off the top of my head would be we're working on our stream initiative in the rural areas to protect water quality out there.

This is phase two of our stream health initiative.

Phase one was dealing with the urban rain.

Oh yes, the housing conference, right.

Well, I will quickly just build on what Supervisor Price mentioned.

with the revenue change this year that the 6% market raise, that's a mid-year that we're putting into place right off.

And that once we get right-sized, I hope we won't be able to lag behind again on salary, but also mid-year as it's allowing us to hire several couple dozen positions that were frozen or behind.

And that's gonna be in the areas of human resources, department of social services,

our finance and budget, our police department.

So sorely needed positions will be filled that will deliver the services that are needed and desired.

and expected an Albemarle.

So that's all good news.

Let's see, I won't steal all of Keith Smith's thunder as the chair of our regional housing partnership, the Virginia Housing Conference, the Governor's Virginia Housing Conference, which was all, Keith made two presentations there and we also had Anthony Harrow

of the Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for Homeless do a presentation.

So our area was well represented at this conference and all sessions were well attended and enthusiastic questions at the end.

The fact that we have a regional housing partnership

There were a lot of questions of how did that come to be?

How did you put it together?

You know, a lot of logistical formation type questions and then networking and such.

So that was a well attended piece.

The strategic plan, I would like to just note for everybody that was mentioned for the housing partnership.

Stay tuned on that.

This is a big deal.

We went through the strategic planning

What's the strategy session or planning session with the consultant and the people they're going to be reaching out to for input beyond just the members of the regional housing partnership.

It's a phenomenal amount of content that I believe will be gained from those folks.

So if you're interested in affordable housing, I expect you're going to be incredibly interested in what's going to be gleaned from the strategic plan.

And then obviously if you're interested in the housing partnership, how that strategic plan will

to target our activities in the coming fiscal year.

The one thing, the two things that I would like to note at VACO this year, one, a supervisor from Rockingham County stood up and mentioned to the whole crowd about how the state is, you know, crowing about a surplus that they have, but mentioned to them that they should probably pay their bills that they haven't paid before they start talking about a surplus.

Meaning there are plenty of unfunded, underfunded or short funded mandates that the state has passed down to localities are not shored up over the years.

So that surplus should probably go to make sure that those funds are covered first, and then let's see what's remaining afterwards, which I thought was an excellent point.

So I share that with the other localities.

That's probably wise words to share from our fellow supervisor in Rockingham to pass along to our local legislators.

And then I would make a request, maybe, I don't know if this is of David or if this could be put on for updates throughout the legislative piece or throughout the year,

At VACO, I attended a session on economic development.

And the one thing that the state is focusing on or their highest priority will be site preparedness around the Commonwealth.

And I think this is obviously, I think that's incredibly important for our county, but for our region as well.

And it sounds like that was a Northam priority coming out of his administration and has been said, it's going to be a priority for the new governor coming in.

So I would love if we can focus or somehow track any updates that the new administration and the new general assembly are doing specific to economic development.

on this particular topic.

Each of us as counties obviously go out or cities go out and try to attract businesses and do our part for our own locality, but I think we could all benefit as a region.

If Nelson County gets a strong economic development project for Louisa, it's going to benefit the other counties around us.

So this is one that, you know, just as we've done with the housing partnership and other collective regional

I think this is one where we could have good impact and attract really strong employers to perhaps come to our counties.

All of us maybe put our heads together on how to not just know about our location, our locality sites that are ready, but everybody's and work together to make that happen.

I think that could have a very positive impact for us.

So with that, I'll leave it.

I'll leave it there.

Thank you.

I can name one right now.

Top of Afton Mountain.

There's like five counties of us all have an interest up there, including you all.

Excellent.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Moving on over, Chair.

Yes, sir.

Chair, could I offer something on that?

And I think

Supervisor Galloway makes an excellent point.

The Virginia Economic Development Partnership has made a request to the governor for inclusion in the budget of $150 million for site readiness, with the idea that they would be trying to assist not just mega sites, but some mid-sized sites as well.

So I know in my role is with the

Virginia Association of Planning District Commissions.

We were contacted and asked to support that initiative, which the VAPDC agreed to do.

So I think that I have some duly noted authority to be able to speak for that initiative.

Excellent.

Thank you, sir, Mr. Blount.

Yeah, similar to Albemarle County, we are also doing a compensation study and also provided bonuses and raises related to that, but recognize that we definitely need to look at our overall compensation as the surrounding counties do that.

So we hope to have those results back in a few months here and we'll act accordingly on that.

Likewise, right now we are in the process of redistricting.

We had a public hearing last night with 65 members of the public speaking their mind in terms of whether we should have five districts, six districts, or seven districts.

Most seem to be in favor of five.

The overall consensus is that

Less change is better right now given all the uncertainties with redistricting at the state level.

So we did bring that up in our legislative session with the state senators and legislators, and they didn't seem to have a lot of good advice for us.

So we're sort of shooting in the dark as many other counties are in terms of redistricting from that standpoint.

Other than that, there's not

Terribly much exciting going on in Fluvanna as we wind down the year.

I will give a shout out to our supervisor, Donald Weaver, who is retiring at the end of this session.

He has served the county for 32 years.

I think 28 of those as a supervisor, which is quite an accomplishment and certainly deserves a lot of credit for all the work he's done for the county over the many years and for the region.

He's been very active in the jail board for many years and

Mendham for all of his hard work.

So I'll leave it at that.

I know that Keith has a few things to say and we'll go from there.

Thank you, Tony.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Before I get into talking a little bit more, expanding on the Regional Housing Partnership and what we did at the Virginia Governor's Housing Conference, I just want to give a quick shout out to Bob.

Thanks, Bob, for what you've done.

Please stay engaged.

I want to see that pretty face at some meetings coming up, particularly I'm super proud about the work that the commission is doing on the Fluvanna Louisa science small area plan.

You're suited best to be involved in that.

So hopefully at the public meetings, we see that pretty smiling face there, but please, please stay engaged, my friend.

You've got a lot of good things to say.

I'll second that.

When people can hear you, I should say, you have a lot of good things to say.

So I couldn't pass up the deck there, Bob.

So on the Regional Housing Partnership, in particular Virginia Governing Housing Conference, you know, it was an absolute honor to sit next to Ned and talk about stuff that we're super passionate about.

Couldn't do it without two staff members, Ian Baxter and Christine Jacobs.

Ned and I had the easy job.

We just needed to sit there, look pretty and talk.

So, you know, and that's what we did.

As Ned shared, you know, usually the success of a presentation like that is how many people after it talk to you and ask questions.

And Ned and I were answering questions longer than our actual presentation was.

So that means we hit a pretty good note here.

One of the things that Ned missed and hope I'm not speaking out of turn here, Ned, but one of the conversations Ned and I and Christine and Ian have been having is taking this presentation on the road into all your jurisdictions in front of other stakeholders so they can get an understanding

of what the Regional Housing Partnership means to that individual locality or that individual stakeholder, be it private, public, or UVA for that matter.

So we're figuring out a way to do that roadshow a little bit on that end of it, but it was something special.

Ned and I did a little bit of speaking.

I felt like that was one of the best presentations we've ever given.

And I want to thank him for sitting next to me and our chemistry is such we were answering each other's thoughts before we actually thought them.

So that was great stuff.

As far as the streets you play on, I can't overstate what both Christine and Ned has said of the level of this.

You know, this organization, this regional housing partnership is at that point that it's ready to grow.

It's ready to do some really big stuff.

So please participate.

Please get involved in it.

Our consultant Spark Mill is a rock star of a consulting firm.

And, you know, when this is done, hopefully,

My personal goal is by the time my championship is up by the end of June that we will have this regional, have the Street Japan in place.

So moving forward, it's ready to go.

I think that is all that I have.

No, just to say, and Christine can maybe give a comment at some point, but she really fielded a lot of questions as well.

Well, I think one of the things I took away from the interesting thing was when you talk to folks that are in the field, the practitioners, you know, they didn't really think what we are doing could have been done, right?

And there was a lot of, how do you do this?

How do you put these relationships or relationships together?

So that's why I'm pretty excited about doing the Roadshow with Ned.

He hasn't actually said, you said yes, right, Ned, if I remember correctly.

Well, I artfully did that, sir.

I artfully did that.

So anyway, thank you guys for everything.

This is excitement and an absolute pleasure to be able to represent this body at that level.

So thank you very much.

Great.

Thank you so much Keith and Ned for representing us in that Governor's Conference.

It's an excellent thing when we can send everybody out and educate them and we learn a little bit more and they learn a little bit more.

And as we do that even more, we get better results in the future.

So thank you guys so much for representing us and your respective districts.

Moving on into Louisa.

Tommy, you're muted.

I would start off by reiterating what Keith said.

Bob, Louisa is certainly going to miss you.

And you need to do exactly what he said.

Stay engaged.

You know a lot about this stuff.

So maybe you can even be a citizen member on Thomas Jefferson Planning District.

There you go.

As far as what's going on in Louisa, we're having the same issues that each county is talking about.

We're through with our comp plan, but the budgets and that kind of thing, we have the same issues everybody else got.

We thought we were just going to kind of slide on out to the end of the year and everything be peaceful.

And I kind of threw a wrench into that.

The Planning Commission is coming up on their December 9th meeting.

We took one simple little line and added it to prohibitive signs.

I don't know whether other counties have this problem or not, but we've been seeing a lot of signs that are displaying vulgar, obscene, indecent, and profound language.

So we've decided to add a line or at least go through the public process of adding a line to our prohibitive signs that addresses that.

Well, now everybody's screaming the first amendment rights and you can't restrict what we put on signs or what we say, but I'm not so sure that that's the case, but it has certainly opened up

Bucket of worms.

And we will be dealing with that shortly.

So I suspect we will go 2021 with a bang.

And it'll probably go right on into 2022.

But right now that seems to be the most hot button topic we have going on.

I've heard just some, I've actually seen an article of another county, not in Virginia.

I think it was Kentucky that may have done something similar and specifically vulgar comments.

And it was interesting.

I think there's case law precedent and you talk to your respective attorney and you get a better answer.

You.

can't prohibit that being said on government property.

However, you could on like public view shed in some ways.

I'd like to find out what that case law is.

Cause that's what we're trying to do.

You know, it's for any signs, not, there are some political signs out there that have things on it that we don't think that our older citizens or more specifically,

Kids riding by on a school bus need to be seen.

So put it out there and see what happens.

And if it's state law or federal law says we can't do that, then that will be my answer to my constituents.

Yep.

Got it.

All right, Mr. Babyok.

Well, I want to add a little thing to, uh, what Mr. Barlow just said, because he actually created a firestorm that, uh, had a lively, uh, performance today at our county building.

Cause the gentleman walked in with a six foot sign, um,

with high profanity and placed it in the window of our planning department.

staying there for about 10 minutes and saying there's going to be more coming to both the planning committee meeting and our board meeting.

So we're, and he did say, he wouldn't give his name, but he said he wasn't a resident of Louisa, but he's coming there because of this issue to rally the forces.

So we might have some excitement in next week.

The staff is looking at all the potential redistricting options and I wasn't aware that they try to consider all the school board member and also county committee assignments and not trying to, with any drastic change in the redistricting,

and eliminate those individuals from their position.

So it's a little bit more of a, uh, because we had a very large increase in population in the census.

So it is going to be an issue for us to how to resolve it internally.

Uh, the other one that Mr. Barlow didn't, uh, mention was our, uh, other one that we're going to have a lot of grief on is, uh, we try to put through some traffic restrictions on trucks.

especially large trucks, logging trucks and so on and so forth that are continually harassing citizens on our small rural roads and causing some dangerous situations.

That got basically postponed as far as the decision, but we've been notified from both the Loggers Association and other large trucking firms that they're gonna come fully armed

And part of the issue is, with GPS, when you close down one area, they can just find another one that may not be any better.

So it's an issue that I don't know how many other counties are going to be facing in the future, but we were trying to tackle it now.

and the last one is the, we had Chipotle is coming to Zion Crossroads.

Hot dog.

And they're gonna... Economic development.

Yeah, they purchased a lot right in front of Wendy's and it's a two compartment lot.

One will be Chipotle, we don't know what the other is.

There is a possibility for a distillery

Abir, I think it would be similar to the one in Gordonville, Ice House, if it actually happens.

But that's our latest and greatest on the economic.

Thank you.

Great.

Thank you, Bob.

Who are we missing?

Green.

A green, sorry.

Before I pass this on to Dale, I did notice in lately, we had two meetings where the people who came in to speak were not what you might expect.

The cigarette tax got no complaints at the Board of Supervisors at all.

But there was a recent

Planning Commission meeting where the possibility of rural enterprise centers by special use permit throughout the agricultural districts in the county was brought up.

And that got a lot of people to come in and say they did not like the idea.

So what got the people to come to the meeting was not the thing that was

Annoying them personally.

And that was interesting and surprising.

So that's all I have for Greene.

Thank you.

First off, Bob, it's been a pleasure working with you, sir.

I wish you all the best and I hope to see you around.

And thank you for everything that you've done in your capacity as a supervisor and a commissioner.

It's been an honor to work with you on this commission.

Thank you, sir.

I really appreciate your efforts.

It's been somewhat quiet, but we've still been a little busy.

We recently completed a fire study.

The fire study evaluated our Sheriff's Department, EMS, and fire departments.

It came back with recommendations.

One, of course, we knew was training.

The possibility of a fire chief trying to improve our volunteerism and working through a lot of issues.

So that was a, I always joke around, David always seems to come at the meetings that tend to be the most controversial.

That meeting had a lot of information to be presented concerning the fire study.

Our water authority, repair and service authority, things are looking more and more positive for Greene County.

We are going into mediation and so hopefully by the end of the year

Probably unlikely, but shortly thereafter, we may be our own water authority and in control of our own destiny.

That's our goal.

It'd be nice if that would happen.

We have some big issues with our fire hydrants, and they seem to be being addressed.

There's a concern that the water pressure or the hydrants themselves will not work correctly.

That can raise the insurance of homeowners across the locality, as well as delay the process of fighting a fire truck goes.

Goes to their hydrant, they think maybe operational, it's not operational.

The next thing you know, you've wasted 10 minutes and housed at that point can be down to the ground.

So working on that.

Redistricting, we're going to look at that at our next meeting.

Same issue as most localities trying to decide right now what the possibilities may be.

I don't know what the options.

I've seen some of the options.

We have not discussed this in the public format yet.

It could be adding another district.

It could be doing away with the at-large.

It could be a lot of different options there.

Same thing that most localities are being faced with.

And that'll be discussed at our next board meeting.

We did provide bonuses to our county staff.

So all county staff members did receive a bonus.

Basically, it's the same bonus that was received by the

Econ board employees.

So that was provided to our staff.

So we appreciate their hard work.

With Andrea's time at the Royal Enterprise Center, we're going to be faced with that coming up in the upcoming year.

And one of the controversial topics right now, believe it or not, is

We have a, they call it a glamping site, but basically it comes down, it's like the safari tents up in a rural area.

A gentleman wants to come in and put up several tent sites and cater to those who want to go camping, but not really go camping, if you will.

It's kind of like you walk in, you've got heat, you've got AC, you've got a tent all set up, you've got a pool.

And I think the surrounding neighbors get

Wind of this before the actual plans came out.

And so there's been petitions, I think 500 residents have been in opposition to this.

We've seen no glamping signs, just like you see campaign signs appear across the county.

And so I'm not sure if there's an understanding of the fact that this is a site that promotes tourism.

Thanks to my one time told me that we didn't want our locality to become like Fitchy Forge or Asheville.

I said no.

And Mr. Rutherford, I mentioned York County as an example of what we should look at to do as far as tourism.

Don't smile or laugh.

But I'm not sure how that's going to hash out.

It's a lot to look at.

You have to take consideration to people's viewpoint on that.

So the Rural Enterprise Center, as Andrew mentioned, is going to be an option to be discussed as well.

So those are the issues that we're looking at.

One of the things that I'm going to bring up in our next meeting, we are finding out

That our residents as well as businesses are seeing an increase in their personal property tax or potential increase in personal property tax due to the fact of a shortage of vehicles.

So a used car that may have had a less value five years ago is now worth more.

So businesses are going to be not careful paying more taxes on a vehicle they cannot draw

money off of us.

Somebody asked me a question, well, how does that relate to real estate?

As your real estate, you can go and get your equity out of that property, but you really can't get that sort of equity out of a vehicle that's 10, 15 years old.

So that's an issue I'm going to bring up at our next meeting.

It's a strange, I'm sure it's been a tough, tough year for everybody that I go through car lots and car lots that were packed are now empty.

We did have a situation with that EMS.

We were low on staffing due to an outbreak.

We got through that, so we're in good shape there.

And I think Bob and Chipotle, we have a Starbucks in Greene County in there, guys.

So come on down to Greene and get your Starbucks while you're there.

So some people are excited about that.

Some may not be.

I know I spend quite a bit of money there.

So that's all I've got to say, sir.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr.

All right, moving on to what we've got left.

Yeah, so next week, actually, we are interviewing a couple consultants to do our comp plan overhaul and potentially our zoning and subdivision ordinance updates after that.

So we should have somebody secured and be kicking that off in January.

Very much looking forward to that.

Dale, yes, tourism, lodging, recreation, all of that very hot topics for a lot of people right now.

So the market's just been very crazy.

evolving every day.

So just following that, looking forward to seeing what recommendations come out while we're updating everything.

So I just wanted to thank Sandy and Christine again for drafting that RFP for our comp plan update.

It was very helpful for us.

Definitely appreciate that.

Thank you so much, Dylan.

All right.

I guess it's my turn.

Nelson's had a very exciting past meeting.

I don't know if you all have heard about our latest internet move, as you all aspire to be as fast as we are with our internet.

We recently have provided another 1.3 million in ARPA funding to Central Virginia Electric Co-op to get 99.98% of Nelson County high speed internet by December of 2022.

So 12 months from now, 99.98%

There's this poor 50 people who live on top of Montebello.

It's just a tough time there anyway.

Don't move there if you're looking for high speed internet originally, but it's a very exciting thing.

One on the economic development side and for us in Nelson, we're just seeing things just change how commerce operates.

We are seeing so many high tech industry people.

I can name them my constituency.

Software Developers, and even some, not necessarily a cookie cutter job, but like receptionists.

We're starting to see virtual assistants moving into Nelson for the reason that it has a quality of life that they want and high speed internet.

And what that has caused, it's kind of intriguing.

And Mr. Reed and I got an email today coming from CAR

So Keith, you might have to explain a little bit to us.

Seeing the median house value go up, I think it was 50% in one year sales value.

That is astronomical relative to where Nelson has been historically.

Now, it makes for some very unique issues in housing availability, but I tell you,

In new construction right now, and I can personally speak to that because it's my industry, it can't fulfill some of these low income demographics because I can tell you this, you know, I sell single wides and double wides and I used to, my cheapest single wide, I could sell turnkey for $85,000 right before COVID.

That same single wide now is up to $140,000.

So $50,000 change in even the most affordable mechanism I can think of.

When you own your land in a good building lot, when it increases over 40%, you're just seeing some massive changes in how we operate.

Now there's been some good changes with this.

Now kids are able to accomplish their homework and have access to the information.

Just seeing this new culture kind of develop is just unique and it's happening fast.

It will be intriguing to see what the next 12 months has and how culture develops even more.

You know, I've heard comments that people are starting to participate more in some community activities by their ability to work from home and their child to be educated from home.

You know, it's also created some unique barriers as well as we've seen a massive reduction in not massive reduction.

Well, I would consider it massive in our school population.

By having internet everywhere, more people are able to have access to home education tools and for mothers or fathers who may be working from home.

It's a very unique thing and watching it develop over the last, I would easily say, in the last two and a half years is just, it's going to change it.

A lot of things are going to change as the Silk Road makes it to your house.

Beyond that, we're obviously going to be talking about some capital plans, hopefully in the future.

Mr. Reed is leading the charge, right Mr. Reed?

At our next meeting.

So hopefully there's some projects that we're going to look at.

I'm of course going to be making a very big stunt for Livingston.

So be ready, Mr. Reed.

Livingston is going to be a big highlight of mine.

I'm bringing signs.

Go, Livingston.

Beyond that, that's all I can think of.

The internet thing is a huge deal.

And we're very excited to see what that turns out to be.

Year to date median sales price for single-family detached in Nelson County is $434,750.

Same year to date last year, $340,000.

Yeah, and the year before that, I think it was 200.

Yeah, and I wasn't that fast, Mr. Chairman.

And obviously we're going through reassessments currently.

There are people who like to post up everywhere I go to talk about it.

We've had folks whose assessments have gone up 100%, 50%.

I would say the average is probably between 20 to 40%.

So, you know, this is, cops are cops.

I know that for a fact, cause that's my business, but at the same time as how is it that we can mitigate for working workforce folks.

and how this impacts their ability to have a home.

It's a unique scenario, unique challenges ahead.

But yeah, once you get your county plans with internet everywhere, it makes for a whole different story.

So a good story, but with its own unique challenges.

With that, I have nothing else to bring up other than the comp plan and everything else that Dylan's talking about.

We're excited to get that accomplished.

And another note, everybody's talking about doing studies, salary studies.

I think that's that's universal.

So is Nelson County.

You know, it's something that we need to do here at the playing district to make sure that everybody's being competitive.

We're all going to be in that same thing.

Other than that, I have nothing else.

Reminder that there is no commission meeting next month.

And some items in the future, some new members, 22 amended budget, some register stuff and talking about evaluations.

So we'll be ready for that in, I guess, in the February meeting.

So without, is there any other business that this membership would like to take up?

I don't hear anything.

I need a motion to adjourn.

Make it.

So moved.

From Bob, need a second?

Second.

Second from Mr.

Herring with support.

Counselor Payne?

Yes.

Mr. Stolzenberg?

Aye.

Supervisor O'Brien.

Ms. Wilkinson.

Aye.

Ms. Bishop.

Aye.

Before I say I, I'm going to wish everyone happy holidays.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Look forward to great times and the future and a better 2022.

And pray it's not another 2020 for sure.

And a great success for all of our constituencies.

So have a great one.

And I.

Motion passed.

Everyone have a great one.

Happy holidays, all.