Planning District Commission Meeting   11/2/2023

Mister Smith.

Supervisor Herron.

Miss Wilkinson.

Here.

And we do not have any one of them aware of participating electronically tonight.

So we do have a request

So we do have a request to add items to do business.

If you look, if you have an amendment in front of you, number five, letter G in English.

A greeting panel has reached out just yesterday about a letter of support for FEMA building Brazilian infrastructure in communities, specifically the country grants.

They applied for the slack here and did not receive it.

So they are reapplying good here in advance to write a letter in support of that.

So is there any objection to adding that item to the agenda?

Awesome.

And we'll go over that and get to that point.

Very great.

We'll move to item number two, matters for the public.

Any public here that want to give a comment?

Any public online?

Come on, Shannon.

Connect.

It hasn't been a public comment in years.

All right.

We'll give it a chance.

So we will move to item number three.

This should have been limited on the agenda as an action item.

The fiscal year 23 financial audit, the audit committee did when it be prior.

O'Brien, Mr. Foley from Robinson and Farmer Cox Associates, who is here, and I view everything in presentation.

Good evening.

Thanks for having me here this evening.

My name is David Foley.

I'm a partner with Robinson Farmer Cox Associates and we performed the audit for the commission's fiscal year ended June 30th, 2023.

And we have issued a draft of that report and I'm here to present the results of that to you all.

As Mr. Galloway noted, I did meet with the audit committee prior to this meeting and we went through the

The audit in detail, so just kind of give the brief overview and the highlights.

So for the financial audit that we do for the commission, there's really three main pieces to that audit.

One is we look at the commission's financial statements, audit the commission's financial statements to make sure that they are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

And then the other two pieces of the audit we do in accordance with government auditing standards, one of which is in addition to auditing the numbers themselves, we review the internal controls that the commission has over its financial reporting.

And then we'll also perform some tests of those controls to see if they're operating as they were designed to.

And then the third main piece of the audit is the federal compliance piece.

And so as part of the audit for the major federal grant programs, OMB issues a compliance supplement that lists all the various compliance requirements that the commission has to comply with when it's carrying out and expanding its federal grant programs.

So as part of the audit, we'll go through those compliance requirements and test those to make sure that the commission is complying with those federal grant requirements.

So included in the commission's audited financial report, there are three different reports from us that communicate the results of the audit.

The first is on numbered page one of the financial report.

And this is our independent auditors report.

And in this report is where we state we did perform an audit over the on the commission's financial statements.

It's also where we issue our opinion on the financial statement, which we have issued a unmodified opinion on the commission's financial statements, which an unmodified opinion means that the commission's

Financial statements have been prepared in accordance with general accepted accounting principles.

And then the other two reports from us are in the very back of the report.

Starting on page number, page 58.

The first report back here is our report over the Commission's internal controls over financial reporting.

This report was claimed as well.

We noted no significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the Commission's internal controls over financial reporting.

We feel that the Commission does have strong internal controls in place.

An example of this is the fact that when we did our audit, we noted we had no

Adjustments that were noted that needed to be made to the financial statements, which means that the commission's financial statements were already adjusted and done in accordance with general accepted accounting principles.

And I think that speaks to the strength of the internal controls of the financial reporting and the finance team for the commission, because it's very common that when you go through an audit, you do find adjustments and things that need to be tweaked or made.

So,

The fact that there were none, again, I think speaks to, speaks to those controls.

And then the third and final report from us is on page 60, which is our report over the Commission's compliance with its major federal grant programs.

This report was clean as well.

We know there's no significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the Commission's compliance with its major federal programs.

also there were no items of non-compliance as part of the audit so overall it was a very clean audit again for the commission this year.

I'll move it.

Christine and

During the meeting of the Finance Committee, there were some minor notes that we found that would be named, so those will be incorporated in after the event.

And the Finance Committee did vote to recommend approval to the full commission.

We will include the whole study of one of the financial items.

The same with the same for the economists.

Great.

Thank you, David.

We will need to take action on this, or if someone would like a motion to move

We have a motion made and seconded.

Any further discussion?

And all in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions?

Thank you very much.

All right, that'll take us to number four, consent agenda.

There's only one item there, the minutes of the October 5th meeting.

Are there any corrections or anything that need to be made?

Two minutes.

Okay, there are none.

Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda?

So moved.

Seconded.

All right, motion's been made and seconded.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions?

That will bring us to number five, new business, letter A.

It is September and quarter one financial reports.

Yeah, quarter three is involved, six, so help me give you that for us.

As of the end of September, DBC had 8.71 months of average operating expenses on hand.

Our unrestricted cash on hand is 1.98 months.

In September we saw a sizable net gain of $32,238.

The approved revenue report shows the total average month funds available are $181,000, which is sample revenue in order to cover our expenses.

September's operating expenses were $123,000.

As far as quarterly reporting for net food assets, our net food assets have increased from this time September of 2020.

with September of 2023 from just over $948,000 up to $1.17 million.

Funds in the capital reserve have also increased year over year from September from $411,000 to $501,000.

That gain in this fiscal year to date is at $113,260, which is the strongest birth quarter that the PDC would see in recent history.

25% of this year complete July through September.

If we take out the lobby and the home pass-through money, so we're only looking at non-pass-through funds, we've received 27% of our revenue and we've expended 25% exactly of our operational budget expenditures.

If we included the pass-through in there, our significant behind in those pass-throughs related to the volume of programs.

I think that's all I have unless you guys have

So we need a motion to do that?

Yes.

and so moved pursuant to the staff recommendation.

Second.

All right.

The motion is debated and seconded.

Any further discussion?

All right.

All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions?

We'll move to item B under number five, Virginia Department of Health, direct a partner initiative with the Starkey Well Assistance Program for ACQAP.

and Isabella Albemarle.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Alrighty.

Hello, everybody.

I see a few new faces.

So I'll just reintroduce myself.

I'm Isabella O'Brien.

I'm an environmental planner with PTJPDC.

A planner one that's been here for about two years now coming up on my anniversary, but I'm excited to share about a new potential opportunity for the TJPDC known as the septic and well assistance program, directive partner initiative agreement, or for short SWAP D2PI.

So just as an overview, SWAP D2PI is a cooperative agreement between the Virginia Department of Health and local partners to provide financial assistance for pre-approved and identified projects for low-income homeowners for septic and well system repairs and replacements, well repairs and replacements, and septic connection to public sewer system projects.

and VDH contacted the TJPDC to discuss entering into a directed partner initiative agreement to complete five septic and well projects in Albemarle, Fluvanna and Charlottesville.

So before we look more into the specifics of the agreement, it's important to first understand Virginia's septic and well landscape and the reasoning for the program being put into place.

So even properly installed and maintained septic systems can pollute groundwater, and as systems age, the risk of failure only increases.

This can lead to sewage backups into homes and groundwater contamination, which can cause serious illnesses.

Additionally, many Virginians rely on untested drinking water, which further exacerbates the risk of waterborne diseases.

The high cost of septic and well repair and replacement projects can prevent many homeowners from fixing failing systems, leading to further public health risks.

Homeowners who can't afford repairs are also less likely to notify VDH of problems, which can make it difficult for VDH to track and address septic and well failures.

The Virginia Septic and Well Assistance Program was designed to address these challenges by providing financial assistance to homeowners who need to repair or replace their septic systems and wells at no expense to the homeowner.

So background into specifically the SWAP D2PI.

So this was developed as an offshoot of the original septic and well assistance program that began in 2021 when VDH received funding from ARPA,

for septic and well assistance projects.

They developed the program for homeowners to apply directly to VDH and then another program for local partners to accept funding to administer the program locally.

A surge of individual applications to VDH reflected a large degree of need across the state.

And according to VDH, many homeowners never notify the Department of Failing Septic Systems given previous limitations to public funding.

So the state completed many of their individual applications, but some of the projects were stalled due to just really high demand and the limited number of local septic and well contractors in the state's procurement system, EVA.

And so they've reached out to local partners like PDCs across the state where projects are still outlying and remaining.

to complete those few projects through local procurement processes.

And local partners receive 10 to 15% of the construction costs to support the administration of the partnership and is reimbursed based on deliverables.

And the SWOT partnership network continues to expand.

So there were three executed agreements in that first original program with Middle Peninsula, Northern Neck, and Acomac PDC.

And

The VDH has continued to reach out to local partners to complete those programs.

So we have two that have already entered into the agreement and they're reaching out to three more to enter into those agreements.

So it's providing us with a network of other PDCs to learn and carry out the process alongside of.

and a little bit more into what our role will be if the PDC does enter into this agreement.

So the main roles and responsibilities are to serve as liaisons, to homeowners, to enter into contracts with local contractors, and work with health departments throughout the projects to ensure compliance with the agreement, provide quarterly financial and deliverable reports,

and local health departments and VDH staff will support ensuring compliance through permitting and inspections.

The draft sub-recipient agreement is shared in the packet if interested in a more in-depth review of the General Program Administration and VDH has committed to the Department of Treasury that the ARPA program funds will be obligated by the end of 2024.

And so a little bit more about the role of the other side of the partnership with GDH and local health departments.

So they will provide the project packages for us to go out for project procurement because it's these five predefined projects.

Local health departments will issue the design and construction permits as projects move forward, and then they'll carry out the final inspection of completed projects.

And tying this into watershed implementation plan, you can see in this chart here, this is based on 2019 data.

Virginia is making progress towards their 2025 water quality pollution reduction goals, but the state is still behind its target in the septic sector.

Pollution from wastewater has been a major contributor to water quality impairments, but large investments in sewage treatment plant upgrades have brought

The state closer to meeting those overall pollution reduction goals, as you can see in the bottom.

But Virginia is still not slated to meet all of its 2025 goals with the current practices in place.

So planning district commissions across the state are working to support greater implementation of best management practices to reduce water pollution as part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan.

and the shift away from PDCs focusing on education and outreach is in line with a directive from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.

The septic and well assistance program will be a valuable opportunity for the TJPDC to learn from other PDCs implementing BMP programs such as septic pump out and repair programs and from the Virginia Department of Health about septic connection and project implementation.

Participation in SWAP

will help our PDC to meet 2023 goals for BNP implementation through the watershed implementation thing.

And a little bit more about septic's water quality impact.

Even, again, properly installed septic systems can pollute groundwater and surface water with excess nutrients and pathogens.

And as septic system age, they're even more likely to release harmful bacteria such as E. coli and nitrogen into the environment

And this can contaminate drinking water wells and pollute waterways posing a serious risk to public health.

And in our region, 66% of impaired waterways are impaired due to E. coli based on DEQ's 2020 impaired waters data.

Of these, 17% are known to be associated with sewage discharges.

However, the true percentage of E. coli pollution caused by septic systems is likely to be higher as many of the sources are not yet identified.

So this data demonstrates a need to address septic system pollution in our region.

By investing in septic system repairs and replacements, we can protect our water resources as well as public health.

And just tying this back into the Chesapeake Bay Program, so this is a screenshot from

The Chesapeake Bay program's quick reference guide to best management practices that describes the septic practices that are able to be inputted into DEQ's BNP warehouse, which helps to model reduction of pollution loads going to the Chesapeake Bay.

So one of our projects would be a septic connection to public sewer project, which could be inputted into the BNP warehouse, helping us meet our goals for 2024.

and the SWAP D2PI program will support preparation for future similar funding opportunities and for BMP verification within the Chesapeake Bay program.

That's the bulk of what I have.

Yeah, so they've already been identified and they're slated to receive the funding because this was part of that original swap program where local individuals, homeowners could reach out to VDH, apply.

They would go out and do a site inspection.

They've already been approved for this.

They just haven't had the capacity to be able to do the implementation.

A lot of the septic and well contractors are more local.

They're not statewide agencies.

And so those aren't available in Virginia State Procurement, EVA.

And so they've been working with local partners

Yeah, I think it's fantastic.

And before families who are able to benefit, it's really going to directly change their lives.

And I'd be able to offer as the executive director to the DDT-EI agreement that we need a public call between the National Institute and the DDT Department.

We have a motion and I heard two seconds.

I think we need to replace that.

Please defer to Mr. Andrews and second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Abstentions?

One side note I'd like to add, since we have never at a PDC been on the implementation side, we've been going out and making sure contractors are completing work through a process.

All right, A and C. Wow, that's quite a voice crack.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Good evening.

Good evening, everyone.

Hello, if you don't know me, my name is Curtis Scarpignato.

I am a regional planner here at the TJPDC, and I'm just going to be giving you all a very quick update on a request for local assistance we received.

So the town of Mineral reached out to the TJPDC to ask for our help in updating the town's comprehensive plan.

The TJPDC has historically assisted the town in this process, including most recently in 2018.

So it made sense for the town to reach out to us, and we have the staff capacity and the expertise to assist anyway.

So we drafted up a scope of work, which is included in the packet Christine sent out to you all.

And we presented that to the town's planning commission last week,

where the Planning Commission recommended that the Town Council moves forward with the TJPDC in seeking our assistance for updating its comprehensive plan.

And the Town Council will consider our proposal on November 13th at its next meeting.

And assuming that the Council approves, we will move forward under contract with the Town in this process.

So we have scoped in this assistance lasting through the end of June of 2024, which is the end of our fiscal year.

And I believe Christine, correct me if I'm wrong, we're seeking, oops, just closed something there.

Okay.

I believe we're seeking a motion to authorize you to

pursue the contract.

Correct.

In front of you, you have hard cottons, because once you're planning a commission, it would be the scope of work they did in the past and additional public hearings.

So we came with the scope of work and a memorandum of understanding to reflect that.

And so what we're looking for you all is to immediately authorize the executive director to enter into an agreement with the town of Mineral and to take all action necessary to negotiate, contract, and administer the project.

Second.

Moved and seconded.

Any further discussion?

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Accentulence?

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, welcome.

I guess we'll bring this to letter D under number five, the new item that was added.

Yeah.

Second, Ray County reached out just after the commission packet was sent to you all, requesting you to consider a letter of support that I would sign.

I do have a draft letter in front of you in part of the property.

and basically due to the geologic makeup in Greene along with Liberty Mountains, it's not possible to utilize wells by drinking water due to some drought conditions that have occurred and limited drinking water.

They want to put in an application to FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructure Communities, the BRIC grant.

They did apply for this last year as well and were not successful.

They re-scoped it a little bit.

They would like to resubmit the grant application

In order to mitigate future droughts and secure a state of drinking water for residents.

It does meet the requirements of the hazard mitigation plan that was approved by the DEM and FEMA.

Are there any questions?

Alright, so we need a motion to approve the letter of support.

All right, the motion is with a second.

Any further discussion?

All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

No abstentions?

Good.

That will be approved.

Yes, Mr. Chairman, last month I gave you a regroup presentation about the initiative of the DNC to request additional base state funding for all planning districts in Virginia for inclusion in the upcoming biennial budget.

Each of your local governing bodies, your chief administrative official has received a packet of information in the past several weeks

A letter that was sent to the governor making that request, giving some talking points and then also a sample letter.

I appreciate, I believe, that everyone either already has or has something in the works in terms of communicating the letter of support to the governor and highlighting the value that you see in the planning district commission here and how additional state funding for adding capacity could be beneficial.

But at that time it also said that we would bring back to the commission a letter of resolution

O'Brien, and David Blount.

I'll put it into a resolution form, and that is what is before you this evening.

I move to adopt a resolution to support a division of state funding for the language.

Any further discussion?

All in favor, say aye.

Thank you for that.

Let me hear a quick read-on.

Good to hear, sir.

Good work.

Moving through.

This was not an effective record, but Sarah Pennington asked me to remind you all that you said you would be willing to be highlighted in the e-newsletter, but I'll highlight a different commission

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to send to you after this meeting a three question survey to write answers.

And the questions are going to be how long have you served on the CDC commission?

What is something the CDC is working on that you're in place or that you're in support of?

And what is your field of work or career?

If you want to answer different questions and you don't want to answer those three, just provide a brief narrative.

We'll set them in a file and every month we'll pull out a different one and feature a different commission each month.

So if you guys are willing to fill that out when you receive it, then monthly we won't be chasing you guys down to get answers to those.

The next one is Southeast President Regional Commission.

We talked about this last month.

We have a half of a contract signed.

We've signed it on our end.

It's on the federal co-chair and that's defined on their end.

However, it does have an effective October 1 date.

So once it is signed, we are able to utilize those funds.

With the administrative funds, both Ruth and I were able to attend the Virginia Institute of Economic Development's two-day training on the fundamentals of economic development for local and regional entities.

And so again, the purpose of the administrative funding is to build the PDC's capacity to be able to support economic development

with our local governments.

And so the majority of it in this first year is related to professional development and training for our staff.

It'll also pay for conferences such as BACO, housing transportation conferences, anything that has an economic development component to it.

It is an eligible expense under this grant.

So I just wanted to update you guys that we're beginning to use that.

In my written report is the monthly body details, and I'm going to go through those.

They'll be up there for you.

For transportation updates, today, for the St.

Streets and Roads for All grant, we are officially under contract with feds, states, and our, Kimley Gorn, and added four consultants to complete this multi-jurisdictional project.

I did an email CAOs and deputies today, letting them know that we now have a date for an official kickoff, that we're going to do it as a safety summit, and that safety summit will include participants

from elected officials, local government leadership staff, planning or community development departments, anybody that your team needs needs to be there.

And that'll really be to go over the entire planning process that's going to occur, but also to start thinking about one of the requirements of the plan, which is to have a local commitment through the governing board to either eliminate or significantly reduce fatalities and fatal accidents.

And so there'll be

A target that you guys will see before your boards that you'll need to approve that will be a part of the plan that all six local jurisdictions made an commitment to reduce those accidents.

So that'll be a part of that kickoff.

Also, for Smartsville, our staff has been following this very, very closely with all the discussions in the Commonwealth Transportation Board and the recommendations from Office of Intermental Planning and Investment staff.

We do have a plan to meet with our CTV member on Monday, just to have another meeting, great opportunity to talk to them about our local processes.

And then Red Manor River Basin Commission, which Bella just left, the 80 rule conference, was on September 28th.

It was very successful.

It was talking about PFAs.

Yeah, I like when I say that backwards.

PFAS.

PFAS, thank you.

Yeah, PFAS.

And we're really pleased that other people that registered, 90% of them came.

And we've gotten really good compliments on the event.

So thank you to Dela and she's here.

I think that's all I have for this one.

Questions for Christine?

Another question I was listening to, and we are in some program, and I want to answer some of that.

Plastics and Plastic Industry reports, which are behalf of Raga, at least in commission.

And the industry is that it has, well, there's just 8,000 chemicals that are in plastics, and the industry will be placing the purchase of it.

They didn't have to identify those chemicals.

And so that's a lot of what you're seeing out there is just use of it.

And it was an interesting conversation about the challenges

You know, even things such as you take plastics and look at what is the cost of recycling those versus having other packaging materials and having to go out there.

This is my shocked face.

Excuse me?

So this is my shocked face.

Other questions, here it comes.

The safety summon, yes, January 10th.

But you will all be receiving a safety date.

And then you mentioned meeting with the CTB member on Monday.

That's just to receive updates or to communicate?

We try to do like a quarterly type of meeting.

Oh, Monday.

Thank you, Christine.

Other business, we're there already.

So our roundtable is the next item.

And now I want to tell you a little bit about what we had today.

We had a lot going on in our governance plan.

We saw a little bit more improvement in the areas so that we can continue to move into the world of innovation.

Kevin currently has three years of TVA in the world of innovation area.

And it looks like we're

Stokes, and the planning commission, Congress, Flannery, and Bush, to basically eliminate their own residential activities.

I'm going to pretend that we'll scan the HD, but the long way that is, we'd have to cluster some provisions that can be put in, and I think we're going to eliminate those and just go with minor site revisions.

A lot of citizens in the area have been talking about it in terms of maintaining a little character, but we don't want to share how that's going to play out in terms of meaningality.

So that was one of the more interesting things that we had going on yesterday that we had.

Our home company was on GSD.

For those of you who don't know, our home is the main water and sewer system for the lakes that serves about 45 or 100

We are actually, the making is actually the largest of 13,000 sewer customers in the country.

We have around 8,000 floor-op opportunities and we are by far the longest customer when it comes to sewer.

They have a lot of problems with the sewer with discharges in itself.

What was interesting part about the import was that we're getting some sort of actual access sabotage

and Bob Hentz, who does real Bob Hentz into, you know, it's set up to exist, but it's, you know, you can do that with a file point and cover it and throwing that down into each person's book and stuff.

I mean, they have some agent infrastructure issues as well, too, but it's taken the top two by fours, all kinds of stuff.

And, you know, what they call fat solids, I guess, block and stuff.

So it was an interesting report, and that's a great report.

I'm just grateful.

If you don't know how it works, it'll only be about $150 per household if not more.

But one of those top things where you're dealing with a partner and a community that's important, it's a privately held business, you're dealing with a state regulated utility, there's just a lot of challenges around how people feel about it.

Yeah.

And I mentioned this as well too, but one of the arguments, especially when you're having these sewer

Phillips, Bill Rose, Wesley Varge, Deidre Cady, our first set of departments.

So now that's large for us.

But it's kind of a nukeless estimate.

It's sort of going to be, you know, all the land's clear.

People are freaking out about that.

We have these water issues.

Some people are already sampled.

But it wasn't related.

And then on top of that, they brought the big blue water pressure dam right there by the top of that.

Oh, my God.

They're totally in the seat in Cape and County, which there's some truth to that.

It's not the best place in the world, but that's not something that gets supervised by society.

That's really the second planning stage that happens.

So, you know, that added to people's feelings were on the envelope at that point in time.

As I said, you're putting us in a very uncomfortable

So that you know, essentially having to act as water engineers because we can't trust you, you know, and so we're going to have to make decisions about your ability in terms of your capacities, which is something that we should not be doing, right?

I mean, that is not something that we should do, you know, when there is that little pity in the community with a partner like that, it creates that really bad situation.

Without having to travel in it there either.

Yeah, I'll chime in because in my district, in Nellie's Florida, the Nelson County Service Authority provides sewer and water to the mountain source.

But so in Creedy Valley, the developers down there felt that it was a better idea for them to contract the bottle.

So they provide the sewer and water

in the Stone Creek development.

And one of the things that a lot of people they've been bringing up and is always online like, which is that, you know, any future development in an iceboard area and actually, you know, control of the water there at all is, you know, not enhanced people of the county.

And so it's a really problematic scenario and a competency

You know, with an intention of the service authority, you know, developing, expanding, well, or, you know, it's up to whenever the property owners in terms of, you know, how they want to be served by law and things like that.

If, like, what I want to do is be able to, you know, settle for the service authority.

So, that's one of the arguments there.

And, you know, the idea we did ask them in terms of, you know, what in relation to the kinds of problems that we're having, how has that come together?

And they said, by far, we're having more problems than anybody else.

And, you know, to their credit, everybody wants to try to monetize their systems with a lot of scattered devices, which are information devices that tell a lot of the levels of changes, you know, their quality of their problems and their parameters.

Thomas, the guy who's been lifted and sent to learn out.

He's very committed to finding those students.

So when I am not a trip over and running under the bus, I'm just relaying how they came to see me and are uptown.

Like so, it's wild.

The county has a breeze in Iowa.

and David Holm.

Very odd.

I asked him, you know, how are everything compared to, you know, this is everywhere else, but I don't know what the truth is.

I'm starting to read her names rather than bars.

Pat, go ahead.

We are now, Green County has not paired water

So other than that, I was going to say absolutely nothing at all because Dan was going to say, oh, of course he's not here, so that's it.

We've had a relatively quiet week other than the fact that we had Governor Young came to visit our school yesterday and she had accolades on our superintendent who keeps us in the news for all the right reasons and so he does a good job and I think the governor was impressed and

St. Louisa, and the beautiful Whittieries and stuff like that.

We've also had a long request to have that first ground writing.

They did, but I was very slick in case anything happened.

I can't remember.

They did it on the island back in the day.

And I'll admit, you've been very quiet.

It wasn't Amazon Project Tricicle.

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That is where I'm able talking about.

Overall, he's all in Virginia and attendance being one of his top priorities.

Not typical literacy, just getting kids back on track.

So it was a good event and there was about one of the accolades and part of that is the attendance team and actually the coordinator for the attendance team, Louisa,

The model is being reviewed and watched by the D.O.

New York Dam to spread it out across the country.

So that's kind of where my head's been.

It's a team of five and I think we are making a difference in the dent and we do have the lowest, the lowest means of attendance.

Our numbers are per dam, which is a good thing.

and what goes from that area to that area.

Superintendent established it last year.

We're able to do it in Charlottesville.

No one has it across the state.

Attendance rates are about 30%.

We have a team, five of us, and we've got communication in connection with the families.

And our main focus is we get the data each week, we run the numbers, we put it into spreadsheets.

Anytime a child hits five or more instances, we are reaching out to that family.

We're seeing what needs they need, how we can help.

You know, we will find that United Community Security, what issues, we can help provide those issues, transportation issues.

In some of our rural communities, the buses don't come directly to the home without long driveways.

And so some, I know you're in charge of walking and transportation, right?

Yeah.

So some of those are deterring families from coming.

I don't know how you do this,

On both the family and the student side.

Just from the pandemic, it's still there.

So we call, we communicate.

We also have a recovery program for attendance.

So each one of our schools has an after school program.

It's an extended learning program, and for every one day that they attend, they give the thing back in their attendance.

So they can actually work their way back if they join the recovery program.

Our secondary school that runs from 315 to 545, we provide bus transportation, we provide for youth.

And in our elementary schools, it's about 315 to about 430.

And so we work with the families on a mental mental recovery

We'll also run to Saturday schools.

We have some Saturday schools, not all of our elementary schools do it, but a few of our middle schools, considering when we're doing a two, three-hour Saturday, come in, we're just gonna win the meal.

And that goes back towards the rest of your days.

It's a big undertaking.

It really is, but we are hitting the court and I think we're really hitting these issues.

It's a brainchild of ours, of ours who ran for the convention.

I think we all got the ESSER grants after the pandemic.

Yeah, and I think that all in Virginia is also getting its recovery program.

Yeah, but happy if anyone ever wants to reach out, I can send you some more information on it.

We can send the, I get the request from county, but all over the state every day, send the information out.

Mr. Gooden.

Nelson, you know, things tend to be quiet before an election.

So, you know, a lot of things that we might be linked to probably don't break through a lot.

Last night we did have the second public meeting with VDOT sponsor at our 151 corridor city.

We haven't had one for about eight years and the increase in traffic along 151 began the increase in accidents has alarmed many of the people in Nelson County, especially in the district.

And so

Looking at seven specific unciviled intersections along 151, we have made recommendations for each of them and trying to get them to have fewer accidents.

One of the more interesting things about it is that

for commercial venues along 151 because we have so many of them and because many of them started doing, got their entrance approved before it became a little bit stricter and a little safer.

We have quite a few problems in that

We learned last night that it's possible to zone an overlay district which would allow the county to set standards higher than VDOTs in terms of making term lanes along certain places, which is something that raised my eyebrows to folks like myself in planning and zoning.

We figured out how to solve a problem that has become pretty significant.

We're also

I think we're going to be looking at a resolution from the board to decrease the speed movement along the 50-minute line.

We're at a great stretch of it.

There are places where it's still 55.

And implementing other things like some program-wide locations and other things.

They automate lots of really positive recommendations, and it's nice to see that they're thinking in the same

that they're responding to the concerns of the public that we had put forth for them on the first day of doing this.

So it's happening at a time when you get things in the comp plan that's at the direction you'll be able to get things in place.

So thank you.

Very good.

Well, so for the city,

So planning commission, and we are neck deep in zoning, and we sort of peroxed them.

And Phil d'Oronzio wrote that process for the planning commission.

It was October, where I'm not sure the number of work sessions.

It just seemed internal.

But we did spend some time trying to button up as best we can for recommending it to city council.

That sort of included the addition at the 11th hour, at 1155 really, the 11th hour of two additional zoning districts that were put over by sort of the insistence of two of the more stutter members of the City Council and Planning Commission to consider having to stay at this table.

and having to do with how we do a core transition to some of the sort of traditional but sort of the riskier in terms of displacement areas and then in terms of developing a zone that was as we are contemplating upzoning the entire city on how to in some of these places that are traditionally

sort of the world-class additional largely minority BIPOC communities not get beat up by displacement and trying to break on the back.

So those are fairly not fully developed ideas for the investment to get them to the city council so that we could then start doing some intense work on how to actually make them work.

To your point, I will let you know that you're not a traffic engineer.

There are apparently hundreds of them in the city of Charlottesville.

We do have one.

Okay.

We're willing to make all sorts of recommendations.

Other things that sort of are notable from that side is that the planning commission did recommend, I think, the biggest building in the history of Charlottesville, perhaps.

No, sir.

Richards, which is a student housing proposal that has actually incorporated a lot of the premises of the contemplated new equipment.

That is going to be 500 and some odd units, 1,500 students, student housing, right next to the university in some places, going on size 12 stores,

They actually do pay some attention to what we're planning to do on the zoning side of things and try to accommodate that.

That is getting a certain amount of raised higher risk attachments to the city people.

And we did make a recommendation on that in zoning.

It did go to city council to start their contemplation, which is somewhere between anxiety and time inducing for those who have some planning missions.

But we're

O'Brien.

Um in dealing with this much of our determination and confidence to keep people are representing the concept intact.

Um yeah, gray zoning is the the biggest thing and mention play a commission pass the final draft multi council when we've

Frustrate, Dan Grisham, but we've, you know, and it will still be, you know, some changes to come, but, you know, pretty confident there's, you know, it'll go over the finish line and there will be a very, very substantial change in terms of the zoning around the entire city of Charlottesville, both for residential and mixed-use curriculum corridors.

A very fundamental difference in presidential districts that may be single-family have now allowed up to eight units by right areas changing to at least in the current 10, 12 story by rate.

There's been a density of restrictions.

So, you know, various substantial and there's anxiety on all sides of the world.

Look out with something very substantial to be done and always still

December, in December, for the council to be able to pass something.

Other than that, probably the biggest thing was the mortgage treatment park situation in Charlottesville.

Anyone following this, a manager looked at the curfew at the park and were to finish an investigation of a police misconduct that had been made really close to the park.

When the time was lifted, there were maybe two, three people who were

there overnight, that eventually went up to 35 tents in the park and more individuals on top of that, which more than anything, those folks would shoot around downtown, all other areas became more visible in the central location.

And in that period, the city manager restored the curfew.

There was a lot of anxiety that the city was just going to reinstate it and evict everyone they were arresting when you didn't leave.

But the city spent a couple of weeks having staff and Plachemas City staff go in there every day, assess, you know, the individuals there, their situation, moved up, Plachemas, our cold weather police shelters, opening date, ensure they have the beds for everybody, self-filtrating, being effective with housing.

So, restored with zero arrests and everybody who wanted to was able to access and implement shelter.

There were still some individuals who didn't want to access that option and

The city's put together a work group today about mid-term, long-term actions of what else to do on homelessness.

The project from your circle will be huge and it's underway.

There's some funding gaps there and we can bring it done, but that would be huge.

As well as the city evaluating, are there other opportunities to build more permanent supportive housing and crossings?

If anyone's familiar with that development in Charlottesville or as well as potential year-round permanent shelter as well as part of the

I think 12 is the maximum although that would be 12 after a height bonus in an order which would be two additional stories that's only if you have a certain amount of affordable units at 50% of area income below

So we probably wouldn't see much for youth development, so the largest by right would be ten stories without a height bonus, which would be primarily around areas off the downtown wall as well as some other areas as in the current draft.

So yeah, one of the big discussion points now is where anywhere you want to maintain a special use permit basically to get up to eight or ten stories

Or do you purely want that to just be bottom right?

Or do you want certain areas where you've got five stories, and one sheet per book to ten?

Right, that collides to a lot in the middle of the night.

The meaning of it is there's RA, RB, RC, general residential districts, so neighborhoods, and then basically the RC, the most intensive one would be basically anything by right.

There could be an affordable housing bonus if you go above that, but that would really only be accessed by nonprofit housing providers, so the market would be building that.

And that's not going to be where it is to be.

And then for mixed use districts, there is an intensity limit in the current draft.

So whether it be

Pritchett, CXNX345 districts.

So anyway, if you didn't have any history, you'll know that this is one in terms of your number of residential units.

So I mean, it is a very, very, very dramatic change in terms of what is proposed to the council.

So I know the planning commission feels the anxiety is paying over to do, there's going to be substantial change in the award.

on-demand transit service in the panic ops and 29 north areas and connecting them with the wheelchair accessible transportation on the support department in 12 months.

We'll see where things go from there.

We're hoping, I guess, that the problem is going to be over-elobulation, figure out a good

So that was Monday's big lunch.

And we spent a lot of time discussing the transit, not to mention that most of the people here aren't familiar with it because we discussed it here as well.

We have a lot of big items with a lot of public hearings right now.

It seems like our after meetings have been

You know, not even that goes to have been our evenings, we've been getting out with tour aids.

So we don't have a very controversial hearings coming from us right now.

And I would say that the paying attention to the Commonwealth Transportation Board and the SmartScale conversation is

And discussing their final determination on the people's fold.

What they're going to do, they've made some changes along the way that are, I think, pretty good, relevant to localities of our size and relative to economic development.

So we'll see what they finally go with.

I think some in our community wanted us to stand up and

Oppose or disagree with the changes, where the board language is more about understanding what the changes are going to mean, not really agree or disagree, but if they're going to change it, they're going to change it.

So let's understand the rules so that we know how to submit applications under the new setup.

So that's where we're going to be going.

Is the change going to be made at moral locality, at moral size, and you get one additional applicant?

Originally, they had four previously.

The first recommendation in front of WICI staff was to go down to two.

Then they created this middle tier for organizations in their side that brings them up to four.

And then they added two additional types of applications that the PDC could

McPherson, and some of the other stuff.

If you want to know more, our planning and transportation director can certainly speak to it in very brief detail.

But it does make that high priority fund more competitive with all areas in the state where it used to have a formula amount to each district.

There no longer will be that formula amount to the district.

That's a big change.

That's all been quiet.

Otherwise, we're already going to start cleaning in the budget time.

We can pray for that by the end of the year.

I will say that we're, comprehensive planning has been quiet.

But from our consent agenda, they'll be providing us

Drassen, and the photograph of the girls.

We did get our second economic outlook report.

We have some folks we worked with out of Virginia Tech, and they provided a wonderful report on my sphere.

And so we got a new one, and it looks at

You know, prognosticating what's going to be happening in the coming fiscal year, the coming year.

It gives a lot of good area data around the economic, what could be competitiveness and things like that.

So now we've got our first new game coming.

So that's something that is out there that folks could read if they were interested in some of the information that they found.

It's heavy load.

I mean, it's a lot of work.

I mean, it's a good reward.

All right.

Well, then we are there.

The next meeting is December 7th.

One of the things, but that's well done.

And is there anyone who would like to make a motion to adjourn?

Second.

All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Thank you, everyone.