Planning District Commission Meeting   9/7/2023

All right, good evening, everyone.

I am going to call the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission to order for Thursday, September 7, 2023, 7 PM meeting.

Supervisor O'Brien?

Mr. Smith?

Ms. Wilkinson?

Here.

Supervisor Barlow?

Thank you, so you have a form established and we do not need to vote on anybody on it.

Move to item C and this is a welcome back

I'm back, sir.

There are some here, though, that may not have served with you prior.

For next week or so, I'm going to share with the money commission.

I know the next one is an ethnic party.

I started with the Charlottesville panel convention in 2018.

Working with the continent, got it done, working through the zoning.

Did anybody get that done?

It works.

It's going to happen.

It's going to happen this year.

Very momentous and challenging time about that so far.

And we can go around the table real quick.

Jim Andrews, Almore County, St. Louis, Houston.

And, of course, Dad Galloway, Almore County, Ronald.

And we served together.

And I just missed you.

Ernie Reed, I'm the central district supervisor.

Sure.

Um, so like,

Christine said, I'm JB Sell, I'm a Yardcore member, and I'm serving as the VISTA here at TJPDC.

I'm gonna be working on building capacity and creating and refining some affordable housing tools for the region, and working on distributing the communications strategy for the Regional Housing Partnership.

So I'm excited to get started.

Okay, we're gonna take us to matters from the public.

And any public members from the public?

I think I lost that.

Any members of the public want to speak tonight?

Any members online that want to speak?

He doesn't even interact anymore.

Email.

Presentation at Program Year 2022 CDBG Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report.

We finally have a cool day for something peculiar.

This is the draft, Laura Jean.

So I'll just speak really briefly tonight.

So this is the report on the past year as the city of Charlottesville is the only recipient of CDBG funds.

I'll just talk a little bit about about home because this is our portion as the administrator of the home consortium is mostly focused on home.

So we spent about $600,000 of home funds this year.

A little bit is going to then be carrying over that we'll be spending in the coming program years.

So this kind of just breaks down where it was spent.

So there was one rental unit.

It was actually purchased.

Oh good, yeah.

So one rental unit was purchased in Greene County.

30 homeowner rehabilitations were done throughout our region.

And for down payment assistance, there were four households who received down payment assistance, so that was $94,000.

And then if we jump to the next one, it just has the numbers.

So 35 households were served with this funding this past year.

And then the next slide just shows the match contributed.

The city of Charlottesville contributes most of it over and above what is needed, which is wonderful, or what is required for a match at least.

And so we carry over into the next year anything extra.

So we have a large backup of match funding, which is good.

And then one thing that we also did this year, if we jump forward one more slide, is adopted new rehabilitation standards as the home consortium.

So it just clarifies the inspection procedures, make sure that we're following all the uniform standards, as well as making sure that construction contracts are going to be viable to help hold us to that and enforce the inspection requirements.

So as far as the caper timeline, which is the last slide,

We already completed the public comment period.

City Council approved it this past Tuesday on their second reading.

And our goal is to submit it to HUD for approval in the next week or so before it's due at the end of the month.

So that's a quick summary.

Any questions?

feedback?

Wonderful.

That will take us to item D, the public hearing on the 2020-21 CDE paper.

We're going to open public hearing.

Is there anyone here to speak to this public hearing or this item in public hearing?

By line, we will now close the public hearing.

And then I remind you of my opening events.

And that will take us to, we have some presentations this evening.

As some of you may know, Ian Factor, Regional Housing Planner, who is working also in the area of the environment, has moved on to another opportunity.

He, in his eighth interview, had a lot of wonderful things to say about his experience here at PDP and working with all of the people that he met within our local governments and your own staff.

We're excited for his new professional challenge, but that means we will also be working to build a planner position here.

We're going to take a look at the meets and we're going to kind of assess internally if there are some

Williams.

Um responsibilities that can be shared amongst others.

That members will be listed as they have.

That's all I do that.

So, that's it.

We've been coming to you all every six months to give you an update on cigarette tax forward, which has been up and running for, I don't know, two years, actually, since then.

Just a quick refresher.

Cigarette tax for status in October, just a few years ago, six counties, City of Charlottesville, Town of Madison,

and his jurisdictions, all letting serial attacks affect January of 2022.

We currently are working with more than two dozen distributors.

Sometimes it feels like on a daily basis, on a daily, monthly basis.

There's today monthly reports.

TJPDC is the administrator of the board about their tax-sold stance that they've purchased, revenues that they've collected,

And then that is all processed primarily by Gretchen Thomas, our industry assistant.

She has the mind share in the work and tracking all the information, reconciling the amounts of money that needs to go out to the jurisdictions that are members, working with Laura to finance to make that happen.

And then every month we have a work of governance getting a check for the sales that have been made in the jurisdiction.

Myers, the distributors pick 2% discount for their administrative fees, and then $19,000 for the CVRHP class.

Next slide.

Let me try to give you an update on, say, how the packs of cigarettes sold, as well as revenue that's been generated.

Most recent reports that we have are from July, and we've seen over $270,000 for this amount

I collected during July.

It's one of the highest amounts of data that we've had over the past 18 or so.

And then there's a closing focus on the fiscal year.

Let's see, there's a six-year figure.

That would have been $38 million.

Since then, when I get back in that loop, the initial estimates that we made, working with several staff in the jurisdictions two and a half years ago,

I think we've been projecting about $2.7 million for you.

So you can see that we're pretty close to that if you multiply that by $1.3 million.

Total tax sold during the previous six months period, four and a half million.

And again, our administrative policy, TJPDC, again, looking at the initial estimates, have been running well above what we thought.

So we're just over $3,000 in that six month period

Overall, in the next few slides, we have been seeing some slight decline.

We have seen from year to year, and we really think we've passed six months of having the first time being able to compare January to June to January to June.

So we did see some decline, both in the overall number of packs sold, as well as the revenue, which is slightly over six months, and as I said, expenses traveled way over the past few weeks.

Next slide.

So I'm going to have a couple of slides here.

First on PACSOL, we're going to just kind of give you an overall view, and then we're going to break it down for each of the member jurisdictions during the next slide.

But here you can see just that January to June period.

Again, the orange is the January of 2022, and the red is about January of 2023.

So you can see that overall, those numbers are down.

Next slide please.

This chart depicts the total number of packs sold by jurisdiction.

If you start at 12 o'clock and go around clockwise, you can see Albemarle and Goswara and all around, they're in the same order listed on the side.

By far Albemarle is divided by which of its population and number of retail outlets.

Usually there's a number of city impacts solely, but Augusta is the top seller.

They also have a number, a larger number of retail establishments and usually they're selling those packs of image jurisdictions.

Image jurisdictions have been brilliantly diversified.

Again, anecdotally, if you have a Wawa or a Sheets, you know pretty well.

And we can even see that in Wayne County during a period of time that machines was going to go to that time.

Next slide, please.

So moving on to the allocation, and this would be the next two localities, again, during January of 2022.

through June 2022, and then we'll do the same six months in 2023.

Again, you can see there are some months where it's a little higher in 2023.

Again, overall, the strength that's been involved in the peer packs, it's going to be a fewer dollars for black and Indian distributors to do that.

You know, February seemed to be a down month.

I don't know if any of you may be familiar with that particular event.

We are in the cold now.

Yeah, I can maybe answer them.

I'm on board to show up.

January was pretty strong, but the people got back to their old marriage.

Yeah, good.

And then the next slide will show you the allocations by jurisdiction.

Again, in the same order, Albemarle County produced a chunk of the total amount collected.

You'll notice Augusta is less.

That is because they have just a $0.15 per pack tax rate.

whereas all of the other counties have a 40 cent rate.

City of Charlottesville increasingly the previous amount of taxes at 55 cents per pound.

Can I add something on that same, explaining it, but have we ever put a chart in of the jurisdictions that are in or of what their local tax on cigarettes is?

I don't know that we've included that chart in.

Everybody, I'll just tell you, all the jurisdictions are at 40 cents per pack.

Greene is 40.

So we have in Team David, you can see you have Albemarle, Greene, and Savannah at 40 cents, and Charlottesville at 55.

And the other four jurisdictions are outside of Ireland are putting them.

They are in our cigarette.

They're in the cigarette.

But they're outside of the TJPDC.

But I was kind of curious about what they're

Locality tax rates are cigarette tax rates.

It's small.

I tried to scratch around and find this out myself, and I wasn't able to.

Greene doesn't even post theirs on, but we can count to those things.

So anyway, there.

They aren't listed.

The Blue Mix Cigarette Tax Board doesn't page on the TFDC website.

It's on the TJPDC website.

Is that what you just told me?

If you go to the TJPDC homepage and under the scroll back halfway down, there's different areas, programs and services, it's listed there very commonly.

Yeah, and it covers all the different, not just our region, not just TJPDC, but all of them.

Yeah, it's the whole experience.

Okay, thank you.

That way, if I want to look at it.

Yeah, that's the best place to go.

Yeah, thank you.

Mm-hmm.

Next slide, please.

So just a couple of things I wanted to bring you up to date with regard to the board.

I think since we presented to you last time, the board has met twice, in April and July.

They approved a budget that was then recommended to the commission, including the commission's budget, fiscal year 24, about $2.5 million.

You may recall that when we talked about the board six months ago, there was a discussion among members of the commission about the reserve fund.

So when the board was established or was getting up and running, we asked for some upfront funding from each of the participating jurisdictions, one of which was a reserve of $140,000.

As we moved through the initial months of the board, it became clear that we

We're not going to need that reserve, or at least that large of a reserve, not anytime in the future.

And I think some of you all must recognize that and ask what's their motto.

So we sent that back to the cigarette tax board and they subsequently agreed to set a reserve amount at $40,000.

And I believe here soon, we are going to be making the distribution back to local jurisdictions, agreeing approximately maybe

100 and some thousand, as soon as we get that final number up.

And it will be distributed back based on the practical ratio at the start of the filter.

After that is done, we will then distribute any excess reserve amount to the jurisdictions based on the practical ratio for that particular fund.

So if we do that in September, I guess by the time we do October's reports, it may be that you would see your staff see

There's going to be a severance payment coming in from the cigarette tax board for that reserve now.

We'll certainly have a memo explaining the rationale and everything to back that up.

Is that where we get the vehicle?

The startup costs were like $207,000, including the $140,000 reserve that was in allowance, $30,000 to $35,000 for the vehicle.

In addition to the business.

In addition, yeah.

Yeah.

That was very good.

And then finally, I'm sorry, let me get back to you.

Policy on remote use and elections.

This is policy that covers when distributors submit payment for a retailer that's, he says, in one county, but it's actually located in another jurisdiction.

So we have to make the numbers work and rectify that.

Gretchen does a great job of doing that.

And the Board has also approved for the Tax Board funds to be invested with the Virginia Investment Pool.

Let me just raise one rise.

I don't understand if there needs to be an opportunity to address some of that.

All right.

Final slide, I believe, is coming up next.

Just a couple of things on compliance.

Again, we started with Otis, who I think you met right after we started about a year ago, going out, meeting with all the retailers, educating them, informing them about the tax rates and the ordinances in their jurisdictions and working with them to get them to be compliant with the ordinances.

So far, Otis has visited over 220 retailers over the past year

I think we've got about 30 or 40 more to go.

Most of them are in compliance, or have been found to be in compliance, or have been good to work towards with the lines.

We tried to help them out.

A little bit back in June was another one that went out, just with some friendly reminders, as we called it, about various compliance provisions that they needed to adhere to, various reporting requirements that they needed to adhere to.

They've been well over a year, probably a good time for them to

And to hear a reminder from us, also give credit to Hunter Root.

She set up a web-based locator that is also on the website where a distributor or anybody can go on, they can punch it in the dress, and they can take you right to the exact location and be able to see which jurisdiction that dress is physically located there.

And that's been where we've had some of the problems, particularly if this happens in other areas of taxation where

You have a Charlottesville address that's located physically in Albemarle, Canada.

So we're hoping that over time, that will become an even more useful tool for distributors to help figure things out themselves in terms of where new clients that I don't have are located in some of the details in the tax revenue.

Next slide, please.

All right, and then just coming up, and I know I've gone way too long,

For the meeting in October, we're going to have some additional compliance process and procedures for them.

The beginning of this memo that we put out in June stated that we expected all the leaders to be in full compliance by the end of 2023.

The overwhelming majority are going to be away.

We're going to move, I think, in 2024 out of the year from a registration to a more of a

We have not done that here before, but I think that will give us a little bit of work teeth maybe or a stronger case to be able to take any action that may be necessary if you have a distributor who is not going to be in compliance.

So now you should be able to take them with you in regards to their license to be able to submit a specific injury.

And then at some point, hopefully this fall, for the regional boards of Virginia, three of which have gotten up and running the past few years, hoping that we're going to get those boards together and just kind of break some bread and share with our colleagues what works, what doesn't work, and how can we improve.

And we should probably have been doing that before that.

I think that was all that I had.

Again, sorry for going on.

I'm going to try to take any questions.

You guys got one, so we got one.

What are we using the mic for?

You can ask Charlottesville, and Albemarle, and Louisa, or Greene, and Fluvanna if they're using general fund.

Ours was, I think, we had some set aside for things that were focused on health initiatives and education.

David, when the partnership began, Nelson County's supervisor devoted to not become part of it.

There is an opportunity and provisions in the bylaws that allow additional jurisdictions to become their mission board.

So they can let you know that you just have to petition the board, and then you have to go to the crew, and you come again, and then there is

process in place for then having skin in the game, just as all the original members did.

Because this year the budget season is almost over.

And we're already thinking about the journey of the budget in this year.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Thank you, David.

All right.

The next item that we see is the Virginia telecommunication condition of updates.

Good evening, commissioners, Chair Galloway.

My name is Lorien.

I am the Boddie project assistant, and I'm working closely with the Boddie program director, Lori Allshouse.

Tonight, I will give you a brief overview of the project, some highlights that happened in the past few months, and

One of the most important things of the projects, the field visits that we conduct each month.

The VATI 2022 grant supports our partner Firefly and the regional internet service expansion called RISE.

This is a three-year project with the purpose of working together to provide high-speed fiber optic broadband to rural areas in these 13 counties.

Next slide, please.

Looking at the project by the numbers, this is a $288 million project.

79 million come from the state through the Department of Housing and Community Development.

209 million come from the 13 counties as local match and four utility partners as private match.

The goal of the project is to

provide 36,000 businesses and residential homes with access to high-speed broadband within three years.

Now, these 36,000 businesses and residential homes is also classified as passings in one of the project's milestones.

Next slide, please.

Right now, we'll show some highlights of the project that happened in the past few months.

Go back to us.

So on August 31st, we had our fifth quarterly stakeholders meeting.

We heard some valuable construction updates from Firefly and the utility partners for work that they are currently doing in certain areas and for completed work.

Next slide, please.

A little bit about the financial management piece.

So we have reviewed, verified, and submitted the six remittance requests to DHCD and several of the counties.

We're continuing to receive and processing a set of reimbursement requests to Firefly.

And with that being said, as of August 28, almost $14 million have been processed through TJPDC's book.

Ten and a half million from the Department of Housing and Community Development, three million from the counties, and 311,000 for administrating the grant.

This is the project's progress that we submitted in August of this year, but it contains July data.

So these are all the milestones that we have to complete by the end of this project.

I'm not gonna recite these numbers, but I would ask you to pay special attention to the names of the milestones because I would like to explain those in some of the upcoming slides of the presentation.

Next slide, please.

This is probably one of the most fun parts of the projects.

We conduct site visits each month.

Next slide, please.

Starting with Greene County,

March 24th, we attended a site visit in Greene County on Hideaway Trail.

It is a very rural remote area in Greene County.

And we observed some underground fiber installation.

As you can see from the first and second picture, those holes were dug by hand by workers in the area.

And there was probably around 15 holes like that.

The reason behind that was they had hard time getting the equipment

The next site visit was conducted at the border between Nelson and Amherst County on April 25th.

We observed some fiber splicing operation.

It's a very delicate and very time consuming process, but the end result is very rewarding because this operation

will provide fiber internet to Amherst and Nelson County.

Now, in May, we conducted two site visits.

The first site visit was conducted on May 18th.

We had the opportunity to attend Firefly's presentation at their headquarters.

The presentation was done by their construction management partner.

They specifically talked about field data collection, fiber design, which is the primary two factors of the project before the construction work begins.

After that, we had the opportunity to tour their supply area, and we learned more about processes that Firefly takes to manage their supply chain.

Next slide, please.

On May 31st, we joined DHCD on their biennial visit in Louisa County.

We observed aerial fiber installation, a splicing operation, and we also saw one of the communications hub.

We said, now, if you paid attention to the milestone, it said one communication hub set.

The picture in this slide is referencing to that.

In Fluvanna County, June 23rd, very rainy day, but we had the opportunity to observe completed work.

Now, these pedestals that you see, they're all for underground fiber.

What happens there is they're housing the service drops that go from the box to each house in the area.

So one big strain of fiber is going to be placed at the box, but then it will split into multiple connections to the houses so residents can get access to them.

Next slide, please.

Greene County, July 5th, we had the opportunity to observe a drop of a communication cut on a concrete pad.

And that was done at the Central Virginia Electric Cooperative Standardsville substation.

Next slide please.

This is the last site visit that we conducted last month, August 20th.

From the first picture, you can see that what that means is Firefly is doing two crossings across Route 29.

So it takes a lot of effort to do these crossings.

and they probably had around 20 flaggers that day to block all the access of the roads and everything was done by VDOT standards and with the help of law enforcement officers.

Next slide, please.

Now for construction updates or any updates that Firefly provides, you can always visit their website.

It's fireflyva.com slash RISE and you have to click

The View All Partners, when you click that, all the counties and all the utility partners are going to show up for you.

And you can click on the county seal to access information for your county.

Questions?

This relates to the conversation between David Brown and too much UNL.

The situation with rice feeding in the area has been discovered.

Yeah, I shared with some folks today.

We just received diverse progress reports from the rice feed and then suddenly made a request to be able to ask them for additional information because they were reporting environment.

But we're also not showing any percentage

If the price feed fails, you should make it those milestones for drivers.

The question you've been asking may be how quickly and see that the car line will either receive additional funding.

So it's one of those things, for example, in the counties, the area that's been covering maybe about Rice, peanut butter, C-BEC.

So if Rice would be entailed because there's milestones, you should be able to decide if you're coming to the C-BEC requirement.

What is the estimate time for the requirement of return?

Yeah, the way the MOU is practiced, there's a lot of expression to be seen in certain actions along the way.

Well, I guess my question is, if the price of the other state of Alabama

Brightspeed, Brightspeed, they don't fulfill their obligations.

And our residents do not have internet access.

They go to the end of the contract.

The value grant goes until 2025.

Is there a possibility that money wouldn't be affected by the power plant?

I think that would probably have to be subject to the ability to read and timeframe the status between these media and fireflies.

If they decide to redirect the funding and they decide to do a firefly, then I think their goal is to see, you know, universal coverage.

One of my questions.

All right, item four, the consent agenda, two sets of minutes, minutes of June 23.

Any changes, corrections to that second?

Any changes, corrections to the June 22 special meeting, second minutes?

All right, if there are

There's somebody in the beginning to give a motion to approve those two settlements.

So moved.

All right.

All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions?

No.

Thank you.

For what you all have said at the end of the last fiscal year, just update the contract and bring it back to you.

Very good.

All right.

If there's a motion to approve the executive director of the contract, September 23, 2020.

So if you call on February to say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions?

All right.

That is approved.

Thank you.

We'll go to number five, new business, 5A, May, June, and July financial reports.

I'll do it this time, yep.

And then possibly we're talking about we're either coming quarterly or biannually, but not necessarily you need to get everything up to intermittent updates.

Or if you'd like to, so I spoke to a lot of other people.

We pulled up through it.

So I can start with we ended the previous fiscal year in June in a very strong financial position.

Our end of fiscal year net gain was $129,600.

So our goal is to be $50,000 or above.

So we exceeded our goal for that.

May had an end game of 17,600 won.

We had an expected net loss.

We almost always have a negative in June because of staff taking holidays.

We do our manager bonuses and we did very extensive deep dive cleanup of all previous financials.

So looking at legacy receivables, things that have been on the books for a very long time, all of that was cleaned.

I think all of that is done.

So we're in a really good position there.

July, we had one of our strongest months to date with a night gain of 30,661.

As a reminder, this fiscal year, our indirect cost rate is significantly higher.

If you recall, it's on a two-year line.

So our 2022 financials sets are 2024.

indirect cost rate.

And so we're receiving much more indirect costs than we're used to, which is why we might see higher net means than we're used to.

I can't promise that across the whole year, but that's at least where we are now.

In the packet are the three months' profit and loss statements, as well as the balance sheets, comparative year-to-year balance sheets,

We also have updated and started the new approved revenue report that reports on every grant program spent down across time so that we can ensure that we have ample resources to pay our operating expenses through the end of the year.

And we're in a really good position to be able to do that coming into this next fiscal year.

I think Edward says remaining fiscal year 2023.

I think that the president is going to change that.

So I have one other question which I think you could explain previously but the results for last fiscal year are a lot less than the budget because the federal funding source amount

was way less.

That's the bottom pass-through.

Okay.

Since it's across that three-year timeline, they do their best projections of how much pass-through will come through and then we have to adjust that as we go.

And you'll see in the FY 25 budget who that shows up.

Okay.

Thank you.

This building recently had a change of owner.

And so that was preceding that in the instance that the new owner decided not to keep us as tenants.

We did sign a five-year lease for two years into that five-year lease.

But in the next year or so, we will be back in conversations with the owner to see if they intend to renew the lease and if not, to begin the plans to look for a new space.

So that'll take us to part B by graph 76.

I've heard the motion.

Do we have a second?

Second.

All right.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions?

Sandy provided a memo that is in your packet as well as a map and a draft resolution.

In 2015, the PDC did a study of the entirety of bike route 76 and made some recommendations.

In 2021, the TJPDC commission approved a resolution to support a rerouting of a portion of it within Levana County into the area of Palmyra for some safety improvements for that stretch.

There was, since staff transitioned at VDOT, that project didn't move forward.

They now have someone else on that project who was recommending some enhanced safety considerations that are detailed within the memo to give ample room for the bikes.

In some places there were guardrails and not enough, you know, area for it to be safe.

And so I know that the town is also doing some improvements, related to street skating and

having a, you know, like, pull-off area, which will be significant, and all that kind of stuff.

No, I just actually, we can talk about that at the end.

I don't want to pause for putting all the resolutions at the end.

Then I want to ask you guys if I can move the resolution for when I get them and not have a resolution section.

Yes.

Yeah, we have a consent agenda.

Usually, I will put things on a consent agenda that we haven't discussed at some point.

Great.

also in your packet was an introduction letter as well as some overview materials the southeast presence some of you might be familiar with the Appalachian Regional Commission

This Southeastern Regional Commission was established in 2008 under the Farm Bill.

It lay dormant for some time.

They did not have a federal co-chair.

As of December 2021, there's now a federal co-chair.

There's been appropriation of $2 million made in their moving forward with getting this to be an active commission.

The TJPDC is eligible as a local development district is what they call it.

There are, I believe, 52 development districts within the state.

And so we've been invited to apply for the funding to administer this.

It is a non-competitive grant.

It's a cooperation agreement.

If we agree to do what it is that we're charged with, they have a formula for the funding.

And so I'll give you just a little bit of detail on that.

The intention of getting there is really to work on economic development primarily, but through a lot of different angles, whether that be affordable housing, workforce development.

This amount of money, if you were applying for it, it's not a large amount because we are not a highly distressed area.

And so if you look at all of the other states, it's a seven state region, comparatively, our region is not as distressed as any of the other places.

And so our funding

right now will be limited to approximately 23,000.

And what they're asking us to do with that 23,000 is to build the PDC's capacity to be able to support local governments with economic development.

And so that means professional development, that means trainings and travel.

It's helping the staff here at the PDC learn how to better support local governments with their initiatives.

And so the application is due

tomorrow for that.

We intend to apply part of it for professional development, part of it for staff time, and that's so that we can engage in things like the EEP, the EPA, the chambers of commerce.

So for our staff to build an economic development arm, because really our only foray into economic development has been the comprehensive economic development strategy, the SEDS plan.

And so I think it's a really great opportunity.

I will say they

are building this as they get it rolling and so a lot of the questions that we have, they're saying this first year is a learning opportunity.

We're all going to go into it together to learn and then assess it after the first year and see what kind of improvements can be made.

It does identify all six of our jurisdictions.

They have three different categories of either distressed, transitioning, or attainment.

We have in our PDC, Louisa and Nelson are considered transitioning.

All of the others are attainment.

There is one census block in Charlottesville that is considered distressed.

And the reason for that naming is so that then grant programs that they put forth, depending on the level of distress, is the level of match.

So very distressed areas are required to have much lower matches when they apply for implementation funding versus non-distressed areas would have to put more local funds into grants.

Part of this funding is to help us better learn the different grant programs that are available so that we can help educate our local governments on grant programs that our region historically does not take advantage of.

One of them particularly true, the SBRC is called, I don't know what it stands for, but S-E-I-D.

Appreciate it.

So how can it take any questions?

If I don't know the answers, I will go get them for you, but this has been a very quick moving process.

They gave us an alert that we would be doing a webinar on Monday.

I think they wanted a notice of intent to apply by Friday and then application due two weeks later.

So we were lucky to get it for you before applying.

It was on her website.

Yeah, there's some formulas, something that I believe that initially they were reliable in some of the calculations, analysis, especially with the ARC

I think we're trying to mirror some of that and making those determinations.

Well, there are certain descriptions of distressed counties.

Those counties that are the most severely and persistently economically distressed underdeveloped, they also have high rates of poverty, unemployment, or out migration.

Transitional counties, those counties that are economically distressed and underdeveloped or have recently suffered high rates of poverty, unemployment, or out migration.

Attainment Counties just says those counties in the region are not designated.

Those districts are transitional and then isolated areas of distress.

Those areas located in the counties designated as Attainment Counties that have a high rates of poverty under play out here.

Then there's a whole methodology.

Well, there's not a whole methodology.

There's always one figure.

Down in the resolutions section, there will be a resolution authorizing you to apply and then administer.

Any other questions or comments here?

We'll go later.

Deeb, by Deeb, by the 2024 unsolicited proposal.

Yes, Mr. Chairman.

May recall, April last year, there was some public-private education and instructor guidelines.

They're authorized by the food in Virginia.

to, I guess, position the TJPDC in situations where it may be advantageous or efficient to have a one-of-a-kind partnership to carry out a project.

After adopting those guidelines, since their time, we've received two unsolicited proposals.

The guidelines allow for the unsolicited as well as solicited proposals.

We've received two unsolicited proposals.

from Firefly to carry out a new project in this mansion on the greater beyond TJPDC region.

Firefly has submitted another unspecific proposal as we look at the process we were applying for by 2014 grants.

The guidelines are out.

There's a timeline in place.

and they are looking to build off of the project that TJPDC is currently working on with them to build in some of the most very uncertain areas and some of the good ones that have been published.

Greene County, Madison County, Cumberland County in particular have some areas that they will see be part of the project.

They are looking into some further areas with these plans being one that will also be still in power again.

that we all see from our development.

Ultimately, it's harder than the cross-corrosion funding, et cetera.

What's included in your packet was the unsolicited proposal from firing line.

Stan has looked at that, determined that it meets the guideline, which would be submitted as an unsolicited proposal.

And I said that's brought to you tonight to consider through the resolution, I guess, later on.

And should you choose to adopt a resolution,

and that would signal that you are accepting their unsolicited proposal for public notice and for consideration.

That would trigger, and this is the process that we followed the last few times, that would trigger a process of hosting the proposal for a period of 15 days.

It would be an opportunity then for other RTPs, ISPs to also submit a proposal.

At the end of that,

Public comment or that 15-day period.

If you're out there, there's those pages that come in.

If any came in, you can add lines to those.

At your October meeting, there's a guideline that you can pull with public hearings.

And then, if you take an action to accept an unassociated proposal for a prior file in the meeting, you can continue to put those in.

That would, really, that would enable TJPDC to be the re-applicant for a five to 24 grant for additional program funding.

So the application period opens this month.

There's a October, middle of October, I believe, date by which we would like to provide a notice of intent to apply to BACD.

And then the applications are fine, this isn't signed up.

So if we're increasing fine lines through this process, then we draw a line here when it's not going to do anything.

But whatever that's going on, it's not going to do what I wanted it to do, it's right where it's going to be.

But the five-part proposal, again, similar to the format that we've seen before, and then there is a map

In fact, it makes it up to the district to be areas we might have to re-direct to use to get it to counties to make these solutions work.

I mean, I'm not sure, you know, the project in 1922, there was a ton of ARCA money.

You know, there is some ARCA money lying at the state level available for appropriation, but at this point, I'm anticipating that buying 24 would be that $50 million of state general funds that would be available.

Great.

All right.

OK. Just a quick review on the next slide of the process that we went through.

In May, we kicked off this process.

We are determining the mission and the vision

We then had a work session with you all as a board in June.

We had a staff retreat in July and then bringing the draft to you today.

It's included in your packet as well as a brief presentation on what's in the draft.

And then we will share this with other stakeholders, mayors and chairs, other partners.

and then bring it back to you all in October for you all to vote on.

If you have not had an opportunity, because I know this month's packet was very, very long, if you have not had a chance to look through that strategic plan, I welcome you to do it at a different time and give me feedback later if there are things that you want me to consider for incorporating revisions for coming back in October.

I recognize that it's a lot to get through.

So within the strategic plan, the table of contents shows everything that was included in there.

Within the executive, I'm going to go through each section very briefly.

Within the executive director's message, the first thing we're stating is that we're attempting to exemplify the core values that have been recommended.

One of the major parts of the staff retreat was looking at the existing core values that have existed previously.

And then doing a really deep dive into how has the PDC changed?

What are things that are relevant now?

What is it that we actually want to make sure that we are, all of our actions are meeting those core values?

And so you'll see some recommended changes to those core values from previous years.

It also, the executive director message has a reflection of some of the successes of the last three years that the PDC has had.

as well as new accomplishments for the PDC, first time things that have been done that have not previously been done and then also a looking forward within that message.

Then there's a background section within the strategic plan and that's where I pulled out all of the background on planning district commissions, how they were established, when the TJPDC itself was established, that the charge of PDCs are to create a strategic plan in cooperation with their local governments

and it identifies the TJPDC commission membership as well as a map of the member jurisdictions.

There's then an introduction to the strategic plan of the purpose and how it was developed going through the timeline and the process.

As you guys previously reaffirmed, the mission did not change except for one hyphen included in a word, but the mission remains as it was previously.

The vision as well remains as you guys previously reaffirmed.

This is the core values.

I'll share with you what the previous core values were and you'll see an awful lot of overlap, if not the words being used within the definitions if new words were identified.

So previously they were professionalism, integrity, mutual respect, accountability, and transparency.

And through a series of activities that we did as an staff,

We're recommending that the core values be slightly adjusted to be professionalism, accountability, collaboration, adaptability, and equity.

And adaptability particularly came about as we have been through the pandemic and all the federal funding that had come about and how local governments priorities change and making sure that the PDC were able to adapt to

The priorities within our local governments are not necessarily bound by something printed into our strategic plan but to be nimble and change with the region.

And then we also included the recommended core value of equity and making sure that we are clearly stating that we respect the different values and needs of all six of our local governments and putting in equitable attention to both urban and rural as well as local and regional.

initiatives, and then also providing care treatment access and opportunity for a number of governments but also our stakeholders in our community.

And adopting that is one of our priorities.

The outreach process is detailed within the strategic plan, but basically it sets out that our member governments identify their priority issues, define actions, and make recommendations for team and APD staff and help support them.

RTJPDC staff then receives that input, drafts recommendations, programs, projects, and services to address those needs and implements plans, and the role of the commissioners is to define the priority policy or program areas to approve the strategic plan and to allocate the resources to do the work.

As you all are familiar with, as I shared in June, the outreach process included survey distribution,

O'Brien, survey respondents, description and content, and the board work session.

So this section of the strategic plan details the process to receive input.

As you all defined in the June meeting, the six core program areas, community transportation and transit, housing, legislative services, environmental planning, broadband, the regional local planning,

I put the page numbers 12 through 15.

Each of these program areas are then detailed on all of the different projects and initiatives that we have within each of these program areas in the strategic plan.

And then the next section was new.

This was not in previous versions of the strategic plan that I could find, but identifying some of the priority actions that the SAP intends to undertake within the next five years

And so certainly our primary focus is to serve as a key convener on critical regional topics that has been throughout all strategic plans that I reviewed.

The second one is to build and maintain relationships with our local state and federal agency staff and funders, regularly attending board and council meetings, regularly attending check-ins with staff leadership that we initiated within the last year or so.

and then regularly attending scheduled check-ins with all of our state and federal funded programs and continuing to build relationships with our state and federal agencies.

Third priority action is to enhance our communication with our member jurisdiction.

That's something that you all previously noted in the work session is making sure that we are clearly communicating back to our member governments.

The work that we're doing, we do issue monthly newsletter,

providing quarterly reports on all of our programs and projects and then also issuing the written director's report in the mission packet.

Fourth priority action would be to conduct the policy audit review several times in the last maybe two years.

We've relied on a policy that maybe hasn't been updated since 2018 or 2012 and I think it's time for us to do an inventory of all of them

Put eyes on all of them, get them re-adopted and updated at the permission level.

So we'll be doing that audit within the next two years.

And then also updating our employee handbook.

There are some sections of our handbook where state code has changed that we need to amend.

And then also some practices we have that have not been qualified as policy in the handbook for 2020.

And then fifth priority action would be to improve the adoption of best practices, policies, and procedures.

to ensure efficient and effective operations, particularly in the areas of financial management and human resources.

And so with the hiring of our wonderful Laura Greene in the back, it has been really lovely to go through and modernize the systems that we're using and make sure that we are using best practices in all areas and to not only better administer our human resources, but to better equip our staff with access to their own benefits.

So, enhancing communication on all of that.

And then last two priority actions, number six is to maintain a vibrant company culture.

Let's make sure we're working internally on a company culture here, developing a staff retention strategy to make sure that we are doing the best we can to retain staff that we already have, but also attract new staff when that opportunity comes up.

Regularly planning and conducting team building and staff retreats and staff meetings.

And then also in this area, providing opportunities for staff professional development to make sure that in as many ways possible, we are budgeting for and encouraging staff to take advantage of opportunities to not only further their own resumes, but as it relates to the work, the work of the PDC by taking advantage of those.

Opportunities.

And then the final one is solidify office plans prior to September 2025, please.

And there'll be more to come on that one.

I added a section in the strategic plan just with acknowledgements of the existing TJPDC commissioners as well as existing staff so that that's documented in each review plan.

And then there is a conclusion and the appendix of all of the questions that were in the survey as well as

The Red Balance of the Survey.

Happy to take any feedback, suggestions.

Like I said, I don't expect all of it to come now.

And you said as a review if there are questions, comments, Lucina, you can write it.

Yes, please.

All right.

Five F, ready?

OK.

As you all recall, we have a three-step budgeting process.

In September, October, we do a projected operating budget that sets the per capita rate and it sets the local contribution requests that we're going to make to our local governments so that we can begin the application process to our state member jurisdictions and have it in place for their budget.

It'll then come back before you all in April and May with any revisions

of things that have changed between now and then.

New grants we've secured, contracts we've signed, so many amendments.

And then, again, at the end of the fiscal year, we amend the budget to a closer project, and the final amended budget is the one that's used for auditing purposes.

The balance of budget presented to you tonight is $52,953,771 in both revenues and expenses.

That is $51 million of that nearly is pass-through funding for our body programs, Home, Walmart, other grants and contracts.

And then about $46 million of that $51 million is specific to the body project.

So you can see the scale of that one.

The operating budget is at $1,895,806.

It does have a 66 cents per capita

Rake that was approved by the commission in September of 2022.

The next page in the budget is our anticipated revenues.

I like ones that we either have not secured a contract but are highly probable.

You'll see to include the SBRC is on there.

If the SBRC

becomes something that we do annually.

That budget amount would increase in 2025.

Right now, I only have the tail end of the federal fiscal year, so that would only be the July to September amount.

And then the very last spreadsheet, which we're not going to put up on the screen just because it is so tiny, you won't be able to see it, but that sets all of the local requests that we're going to make by program in the per capita.

So I encourage you to look at that and how it relates to your jurisdiction.

Again, this is just in draft form for this meeting.

I'm not just still with them.

There we go.

I see no question in the comments.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Is that fair?

There is one for staff that recommends a motion to approve the resolution to adopt 2022 home CD thinking consolidating the annual performance of the valuation report.

Can you, what was the number on the screen there while you're running the place?

Chair Esposito.

Is there a second?

Second.

Who is the first on there?

And I'm sorry, Mr. President.

O'Brien.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

The abstentions?

And the next one is a resolution of support to reroute the U.S. bike route 76 for the U.S. 15 and the historic Al-Qaeda.

Second.

I seconded it.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

What sessions?

Next, we're going to the Legion.

is to approve authorization to apply and administer the sound needs president regional commission will develop a district capacity building grant.

All right, I heard a second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions?

And then the final resolution is a resolution to accept

The resolution accepting an unsolicited proposal for extending broadband access in several counties.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions?

Thank you.

The first administrative item on the executive director's report is if you have not already subscribed, we do put out a completely free newsletter.

We encourage you guys to join.

There's a link, a live link within the version that I sent you.

We highlight both our staff and our programs and relevant items.

We have now circulated through all of our staff and I'm recommending to you all to engage your interest or your willingness if we could highlight a commissioner each month for the 12 months so that we can begin to introduce you all also for our newsletter.

Just wanted to hear from you all if that's something that you're willing or interested in allowing us to put in for our newsletter.

Are you going to interview us?

We'll likely send you a series of brief questions.

Any objection?

If you get the side eye out, you get it.

Great, thank you.

There's a detail update on body in there that we provide every month.

There's also details on home and home art funding and how since the last time that we met in June,

While some of those funds have been committed, particularly of interest for mental illness and housing foundation, it's been constructed with 25 rental units using both home and Walmart funding.

And then also, Skyline Path in green will be purchased with two different units with home funds in order to provide additional affordable rental housing for the group.

So transportation updates, the safe streets and roads for all the U.S. Department of Transportation brand that we received, we are now under contract with USDOT.

We also have signed our agreement with Virginia Department of Transportation to review the craft safety analysis.

And then we are a day away from being under contract with our selected consultant, England Thorne.

That was tied up in the legal review, but we now have all terms and conditions ready to go.

So we anticipate getting a notice when proceeding for that early next week, if not by the end of tomorrow.

For smart scale, our staff has been paying very close attention to the discussions that the Commonwealth Transportation Board has been having.

They are undergoing a pretty deep dive review of the smart scale program.

They do it every couple of years to deal with setting the intended outcomes and impacts.

There are many things that are codified and there are many things that are at the CTD's discretion that relate to SmartScale.

The Office of Intermobile Planning and Investment, there's another good afternoon, OIB.

OIB has done an assessment and is making recommendations to the CTD on potential changes to the SmartScale for this next upcoming round of applications that will be submitted in 2024.

We have been in very close contact with staff in each of your jurisdictions and we stand ready to present to any of your elected bodies if you so choose.

Over just recently at Albemarle's request that they are for discussing those and what some potential impacts might be for our region.

One of, as an example, one impact is their thinking of tapping the number of applications that jurisdictions can submit.

Right now it's four.

They're thinking of tapping that at two.

Each jurisdiction of the TJPDC depending on, you know, if they're going to get to submit two applications.

So there are several things like that that would have a pretty large impact.

If you want any more information on that or if any of your staff want more information on that, Sandy Shackelford is our key group and would be happy to schedule some time for those available.

Shell Club World Planning, Metropolitan Planning Organization, the MPO has been working on the long-range identification plans.

And so they are currently doing an engagement with the community on that.

Our rural transportation, they recently had a presentation on best practices for public engagement.

And then TJPDC staff is supporting several TAP, Transportation Alternative Program, several TAP applications on behalf of Nelson.

As far as transit, we were awarded the mobility management grants.

I believe that had already happened in June, but I wasn't certain.

So we definitely have that grant.

We, through the procurement process, have selected Java to partner with.

They're going to help us staff the call center, which is a perfect little bit since mobility management is intended to support persons with disabilities and seniors, particularly.

We are working right now to design our data collection and reporting.

We're building this program from the ground up, and so we want to make sure we spend enough time in the beginning administration portion, getting it set up properly so that we're not backpedaling to fix things.

Since it is federal funding, we can't begin until October 1 anyway, so it's been a really good opportunity for us to work closely with Java to build the program.

We are also out seeking other additional funding for this program because the amount of grant funding that we got is enough to start with this.

It is not enough to scale up over time.

So we're keeping our eyes on community foundations and other grant opportunities to further bolster that program.

Environments, the largest one that I'll share, the Red Manor River Basin Commission has an eight annual conference on September 28th from 9 to 1230.

They are going to be, the topic is PFAS, which is very timely.

And there'll be presentations from RSWA, EPA, and the Department of Health, and DEQ.

So I encourage you guys to look at it.

It's free, and registered, and it's open to the public.

Yes.

Right now, localities are allowed to submit up to four applications.

One of the recommended reasons for running out of weight gain is that it is capped at two instead of four, and there's several different reasons for that.

For one, the amount of funding that has gone into the grant program has significantly increased over time, and VDOT's staff capacity has not.

And so the amount of staff

That it's taking to review and support each of these applications has increasingly become a problem for VDOT.

A second reason is that they're receiving a lot of applications that aren't ready and so they're trying to create a way to eliminate incomplete or not quite ready applications from going into the pipeline and having

Local Governments, MPOs, Pending District Commissions would be much more concerning than what they apply for.

But there are also a whole swath of other changes that they're considering and recommending.

Another one that's really relevant for the MPO and for the PPDC is we are only eligible to apply under the priority projects, which need to be regional projects on corridors of statewide significance.

Right now, we are able to submit smaller projects, like PED projects.

They are thinking of changing the types of projects that are eligible for the High Priority Program, so that would impact what types of projects PDPC and POE would support.

So there's a lot and Sandy has a wonderful memo detailed and abbreviated.

She has a presentation.

So if you want any further detail, she would be happy to go through this with you.

It's been hours and hours of distilling information from the CTV and they're in the middle of their process.

Simmons, to the CDP work set in July.

You can go in and review them.

The NPO has had two different presentations at this point.

So you could always go back and watch the recording of that to see Sandy's presentation.

And then that was the third time I sat through it last night.

And it's still, still significant.

So, and then

They'll have it on click number 20 is when the network session is.

It's part of the CVV if you want to listen in there.

That's where they'll be considering economic development.

Things are going to get weighted, scores are going to change.

There's a lot of talk coming from that.

Cool.

Any other questions there?

I don't want to be on the MPO, so I'm set to read three times.

It's not enough.

I mean, the reason for the presentation to our board

These are all the numbers to start today, put the changes over so that when they do make them, because this is not a fighting thing, this is you need to recalibrate how you apply for this stuff.

Mr. Chairman, I'd like you to add in just a quick introduction to CPD, you know, the way you were able to do, you know, in an existing authority.

I think it was possible that there could be legislation proposed in front of you for seconds.

If there are things that they would like to do, they would not have to go with yours.

Speaking of that summary of what she's put together, it was distributed to our board.

It might be distributed to everybody, but some things are very helpful.

OK, so we'll go to, I think, Christine, number eight.

The next, we're up to the redundant label discussion by jurisdiction.

Councilman Andrew, let's start.

Sure.

Probably our biggest news is filing.

Charlottesville has hired a number of city managers, Sam Sanders, who was our deputy city manager for operations,

and we're very excited to have them in that award.

They did an amazing job in the deputy role and we're extremely excited to have them there.

We have an alternative fuel study underway for our bus system and really the choice would come down to the timeline and scale of how we may transition our bus fleet to battery electric buses and the timeline of that versus

That's kind of hitting the bridge, it's all getting there or not.

And zoning rewrites still underway.

Our planning commission might be next month or so.

And probably the earliest timeline, by the end of December, Charlottesville will be focused on the change to our zoning code.

And then today there is the federal rate insurance bill.

So two kilograms of fentanyl powder received along with some other things.

So I know it feels like a never ending losing battle in terms of the impact that in our regional communities, but hopefully that will have some impact on the distribution of fentanyl in our market.

A pretty huge moral investigation.

About 2 kilogrammes of powdered fentanyl in addition to several thousand already pressed pills.

That's rather comprehensive.

The Creative Kingdom report just told us what we think the rezoning might do for us, which as I expected, high interest rates, bad for developers, make the numbers bad.

That was my interpretation, but I appreciate having a professional confirm that.

Meaning that the result will still be significant, but it will have the impact that we expected earlier on in the process.

This change will be slower.

Not sharp enough to avoid it yet.

The biggest issue I've had today, resulting in very much my focus as well as

We're moving the leadership transition to the city convention.

Those are the big things.

There's a big topic about Airbnb.

We're not going to break Airbnb.

We're not going to break it.

We're going to ban it in most of the cities that was recently drafted by zoning.

And that's not going to be good.

But currently, we're not making any changes on Airbnb.

It's not great.

supervisory, I don't have to do anything serious as to what we're going to be out on at the final stage, because that's not my enforcement, that's the chemical that we're going to do too.

But the bigger things along the Nelson are the comprehensive planning, we had our, I guess our

and other public presentations last week.

The moment about that was that last year our board of supervisors at the resolution pursuing a technical assistance grant for UDA in Nellisburg and there was a group of

Oh, again, but it was the first time that we had ever gotten dozens as opposed to zero comments on a Mexican planning grant.

So we pulled our application, decided to wait until after, and then

There's also a 151 corridor staying on and of course a lot of people in my district as well very concerned about traffic so that will that may not be completed in time for our

We did the subsequent thing we wanted to do to try to achieve anything.

The other interesting thing is that we have a, we're creating a master plan for a piece of property, a working property, which surrounds Melton County and middle school, south of Livingston.

There's a creek there called Villa Creek, which enabled the potential for expanding our service authority

Seward Martin, in the Pasadena area.

So right now, Livingston doesn't really allow too much more development at Dowell because of the combination of the geography of Livingston being, you know, Steve and

We have an RFP for an engineering study on that and thinking that that idea of ground management is increased to the supply, it's sort of suited in order to clubs and colleges.

So that's going forward.

The grad school master plan will probably include a field that's being shared by arts and American schools and swimming pool and gospel recreation areas.

So we're looking forward to that.

As most of you may know, that green down his thumb were an authority to file another prep dance service order.

It took us about three to four years to get out of it.

Citizens received their first bill this past week, so they were not happy citizens.

I don't think they understand that the initial bill was an estimate because we didn't have to see good data for RSA transition.

So it basically comes down to this.

It's very difficult to have a starter point in the point of order usage.

So there's a lot of estimation going on there.

And so there's a lot of other set of people about that.

But the good news is we're up and running.

We've got some bugs going out.

Now we're going to go lower definitely in three, four years.

Ehrlichka Project, David Board.

That should have been done by now.

We were all done quite a bit, but we should be moving forward in the revenue rate at this point.

Obviously, we've been proud to have great ground when we have grown up actually.

That's before we did pass the ordinance to review and look at speed enforcement cameras in bus zones, schools, offices,

So we're going to do that.

We've also got an organization for science.

For example, right now we've got volunteer fire departments and et cetera.

They've been after the valley for years to allow us to allow them because science works against that.

I'll admit it goes with that.

We have a couple of controversial topics on the agenda for Tuesday night.

One is the PUD is the national area.

I don't think people quite understand what about right development actually means.

We have a choice whether it's PUD or about right.

We must impact on our current infrastructure, provide more resources for our work, connections, and provide more green space, but our ability to come to the scene to think about a right project is a better selection because it's part of a right project won't be a fanatic.

More than they seem to understand about a right project, we have to provide infrastructure.

Whether you actually have the infrastructure or not, that's about right.

Maybe we've got to provide it in order to keep it out of the walls of the industry.

Landry came for us again.

That was another interesting topic.

They came for us to get a set number of units from the greater geographic area.

And we had a lot of sessions in the area.

The public was in opposition to that.

It was deferred.

There was a big rise in the bias and significance against the county concerning the land approval.

We won that.

It was just mixed with prejudice by the Indian judge, which upheld the decision by the board.

and by the planning department.

So I really want to see that come back to us again as far as systems of support is in the way that they may come back to us again in the near future.

And as we expand, there are a few ground areas to be cutting soon.

Again, there's the anti-tourism, anti-growth with no understanding of what growth on a comprehensive planning means in our community.

and social media is driving a lot of that.

The campaign is online.

The campaign has actually two districts that have one district that has voted on the ballot element or school board or a virtual ballot.

You may have a right-handed candidate in one of those positions.

There's a non-contested position in the next district.

At the other large, we have two candidates running.

So if people want to vent, talk,

and Curtis Suss, by not participating in the work as an engagement.

That's where we are.

I think they're going swimming.

Yeah, I think they're going swimming.

They don't go up poorly.

It's just that it depends on who you push.

Which push are you pushing me?

Do I have that?

How many people total has it been?

30.

Yeah, yeah, but it's one of the things.

If you go back to the first thing before, you had probably 80 to 100, what did that show up, speed.

So yeah, that was my thing.

But yeah, some individuals have the impression that it goes 20 breaks and it comes faster.

Seagrass, and Stan Ederby, and Charles Egerstedt.

How big was the PE movement?

I just kind of proportioned down to look at that area.

It's in Dallas, Dallas, but I think it's like a, I think it's, I think it's, I don't know.

I had to look at it, I don't know if it was how many were proposed.

How many were proposed in the events?

It's about 100, all right, and it's about 500 and meeting.

So I'll interview the next type of housing,

Williams, Dennis Fays, Simon Lewis.

They also wanted to have a low resolution court, the CTB, to have an additional exit onto 33 Business.

The court decided on a 3-2 vote to not approve that, which means that Main Street status bill would get back up and try to get part of the schools, get back up and try to get part of the sheriff's office, and originally

So it was no same issue.

But I think the members felt like that would be a sure way to deal with the EU game.

Like that.

That's good to know.

At large, we should be doing well for this entire panel.

I think the local districts, it seems like we're having people work on testing on our rental.

So it seems like that's a trend.

I'm sure it's in rural counties.

I think people do not run in random counts.

I think social units, of course.

It's not a man.

Well, that is a man.

It is, but...

The two incumbents have opponents, but one person who is having

Gallaway, has built the new person in welcome.

So the opening scene has no color, but it doesn't become the same opinion.

So, we also did, we did close mechanics, starting on the nominal license, so be careful.

We're going to close mechanics there, and it's not a long list, but we'll see, we'll expand it for a minute.

The big thing we talked about I think once before was the remaining station features land acquisition, George Green, I'm 21 years old, that's proceeding.

on my face, the villages, I've not revealed anything, and I'm not saying we have authorized the state of Maryland along with this patient that I was appointed.

I wasn't actually independently excellent because of the possibility that we would be selling it, or parts of it kind of relative to the infinity of the money.

I think a lot of us would have chosen to do an actual trial investigation in five years and then into a lot of time and things to sort out before I figure it out, but there are a lot of perspectives.

Spade, and others on campus.

We also authorized on the 18th, 25th, and 20th of August.

And those are our conditions, funding some things that, some things that should have been done probably last year and some things that were done next year.

Otherwise, I guess I'll just say we've been working on our own comprehensive planning and then we'll see what we can do with it.

We talked about activity centers and the development areas.

We talked about criteria for expanding the development area, very controversial topic.

We talked about our crossroads community, the most many rural areas where the community

I wonder if these would have any more development or service.

And then the two minor changes that have been discussed, because most of the 6,400 kids are from Baltimore County, but they have a lot.

And that's probably one of the things that Chad Hall and Nancy Mills already have some.

O'Brien, and so there's my right activity there so we're going to study what could be done.

Well, the last thing I guess is in the discussion of our development piece, I realized that in comparison to many of the other accounts, we had twice as many pieces as just about anybody else, and they found a way to do it.

It wasn't twice as many as everybody else, but they found a way to basically

The regional housing partnership hosted

That's the work session around Albemarle County and Florida building incentives.

The first part of the conversation was around the rental units.

And then the second part of the conversation was around home ownership.

And then there was a session in between that is recorded.

So if there's something or a topic you'd be interested in, there's about 20 people around the table presented by developers, stakeholders,

members of the Regional Housing Partnership.

And it was a pretty robust discussion, especially for the rental side of it.

So we want to hear developers speak to what they see as incentives that could help achieve a portable housing piece.

That's quite a bit of what was discussed there.

Same for the Homeownership piece.

That's on the TJPDC Regional Housing Partnership site.

So you can watch that.

And that will turn into

A session with the Albemarle County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors in the fall where a smaller group from that body will come work session with those two bodies and then needing us to finally getting our developer incentive stuff together so that our housing policy can no longer be a goal, basically, until that topic is handled.

So that's a big deal that would happen early this summer.

And the other big one is the CDVs on the Smarts table.

that kind of, I would say cost guard.

It was definitely surprised.

I mean, NPO got the first presentation out of that.

So, you know, the CDB's on what they're doing, and I definitely would go in there and get up to speed on that transportation and smart scale is important to your account.

I'm scared to say that.

The one thing that I would, it sounds like, especially on the surface, that bike head is going to get basically removed

But for funding and the bigger picture things, but I think really what it is is that people have been throwing bike ed at every project because they scored higher.

So you have bike ed facilities that aren't necessarily high impact.

And they're trying to make sure that the dollars go to high impact frames and not just having high scoring elements thrown into an application to help get whatever is the priority there.

So you're still interested in big, high,

McClelland.

So the transportation secretary back in Baco in November made a comment about unused bike lanes and projects and so it was interesting that I keep saying this in meetings that I traced back and remembered him saying that and now the CBB is reducing and reweighting things that are moving away from bike and pen and

So it'll be fast and savory land.

Economic development is the thing we're going to be talking about tonight at the September meeting.

So that's an important one, how that gets reweighted and all.

That's only two things.

And we did have the MPO came and gave a presentation to the county board last night.

And Sandy's cut it down because she's been doing it, I believe, multiple.

She'll come again after the September meeting.

So if it's something that you feel like that

I would recommend that you contact Christine and she will send out your presentation to your board if you felt that important.

Well, I mean, we had a very exciting meeting yesterday highlighted by Penguin Pete after his presentation, but we adopted the permit walk rate for solar scale utility type of projects.

That was one of the things that we accomplished.

That wasn't the case, it was promoted by the HOA.

And the zoning tax amendment was just to increase the density from 2.9 to 5.

Davis, you have to apply for a special needs program to do that.

So it was a tricky type of thing.

I was kind of, I won't use the word spots on it, but it affected a number of people when the zoning change happened in 1992.

And so we were trying to address that county-wide and also solve the problem for those people that were affected.

They are still affected.

Continued projects happening in the science brush roads area, some that I can't talk about, and some that I can say that we broke the ground for the warehouse space around Route 15, so that's exciting.

Wawa'i is breaking the ground soon.

some businesses, which will be good.

We don't have a meals tax yet, so I can say at least a few cents that way.

Well, we don't have a meals tax because we tried to pass it a number of years back and it didn't pass.

It's never going to be where you think it's going to go next year.

And then the kind of the bigger sort of partnership used with other counties, J.J. Riverwater Authority presentation, signing them.

final cost embers.

So what we started off as a $10 million project, we moved into a $48 million project.

or less than two and a half miles, maybe four miles.

And it also is nice to have a dovetail with the announcement that Louisa made with everyone there.

They asked for a special use permit and so they received a rather large profit rather than managing water.

So we did lose a lot of those proper money costs.

So that's a relief to the taxpayers from that standpoint.

But that's about it.

I still have two and a half years to go so.

All right, so we are there.

The next meeting is October 5th, 2023, and you can see on the agenda what's coming our way, but don't forget that that strategic plan draft is in there.

If you have questions, comments, feedback, email, Christine will work with that.

Anything else, Chris, you can call on, just in the meantime.

All right, very good.

Well then, I will entertain a motion to adjourn.

All right, all in favor?

Aye.

Opposed?