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Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission
Planning District Commission Meeting 6/6/2024
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Planning District Commission Meeting
6/6/2024
Attachments
0 Agenda 6.6.2024.pdf
3a i 1 HOME Annual Action Plan draft 240429.pdf
3a i 2 HOME Presentation 230606 TJPDC.pdf
3a iii HOME Draft Resolution AAP 2024.pdf
4a TJPDC Draft Minutes 2024-0502.pdf
4b TJPDC Closed Session Certification 5.2.2024 - signed.pdf
4c i Financial Dashboard Apr FY24.pdf
4c ii FY24 Apr Consolidated P&L.pdf
4c iii FY24 Apr Balance Sheet.pdf
4c iv Accrued Revenue Apr FY24.pdf
5a Round 6 Smart Scale Resolution Memo.pdf
5b Round 6 Smart Scale Resolution.pdf
7a ED Report June 2024.pdf
Full Meeting Packet - 6.6.2024.pdf
SPEAKER_03
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Stepping and Kewporn.
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They may be OK.
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So I call the order of the time service and planning district commission for Thursday, June 6, 20.47 PM meeting.
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And Ruth, you can do the roll call.
SPEAKER_05
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Supervisor Galloway?
SPEAKER_03
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Here.
SPEAKER_05
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Supervisor Pruitt?
SPEAKER_03
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Here.
SPEAKER_05
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Supervisor O'Brien?
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Mr. Smith?
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Supervisor Goolsby?
SPEAKER_02
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Here.
SPEAKER_05
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Mr. Higgins?
SPEAKER_02
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Present.
SPEAKER_05
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Supervisor Barlow?
SPEAKER_02
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Yeah.
SPEAKER_05
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Supervisor Woodward?
SPEAKER_10
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Here.
SPEAKER_05
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Supervisor Reed?
SPEAKER_10
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Here.
SPEAKER_05
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Supervisor Rutherford?
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Commissioner D'Oronzio?
SPEAKER_03
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Here.
SPEAKER_05
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Councilor Payne?
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Here.
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She didn't have a quorum.
SPEAKER_03
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And we do not have any voting members participating in the electronics, so we'll move past that.
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And we do have an introduction this evening.
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And is our political union on that, or are we supposed
SPEAKER_05
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I will take it.
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So our new Regional Planner 2, Sarah Simba, is with us tonight.
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We mentioned that she was hired at the last commission meeting, but she was able to join us today because last time was the first Saturday, and this is not a good time to participate in this.
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But she is working on transportation projects and specifically the Safe Streets and Roads for All.
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So you will see her at public events and in person meetings.
SPEAKER_08
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Awesome.
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Let's see, number two, management of the public.
SPEAKER_03
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Have you not seen anybody online or in the room?
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Is anybody here wishing to get public comments?
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We can close public comments, seeing and hearing them.
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Nothing provided by email or online.
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So that will take us right to our presentations.
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okay i think it's working yes all right let's
SPEAKER_00
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Good evening, commissioners.
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My name is Lori Jean Toulon.
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For those of you who don't know me yet, I am the Regional Housing and Community Development Grants Manager.
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And so I'm here to talk to you tonight about the annual action plan, primarily for us, it's regarding home.
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Thank you.
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The city of Charlottesville receives, they're an entitlement locality that receives CDBG funds.
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And so that's why it has the combination there.
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So HOME, if you are not familiar with it, is a HUD funded formula grant program.
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We comprise a consortium, all of the regions, all the localities in the TJPD region are part of it.
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And we receive yearly funds and we have for quite a while.
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We're heading into what they call program year 2024, which starts on July 1st this year.
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The total funding that we are receiving is $651,000, which has decreased by $134,000 since last year.
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So we're kind of imagining that we're seeing pre-COVID numbers at the moment.
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So this is then broken out.
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10% comes to TDPDC staffing for administration of the funding.
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15% is broken out into something called CHODO, which is kind of special projects that are looking to expand affordable housing.
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And that rotates location by location over the course of six years.
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And the remainder is broken out evenly amongst the six localities.
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So it may be a little bit tight to see up there.
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But each locality will be receiving about $83,000.
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The Chodo will go to Louisa this year, and that's another $88,000 basically.
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And then TJPDC receives $65,000 to administer.
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This year's plan is year two of our five-year consolidated plan, so that is something that you can see online.
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That one wasn't in your packet, but the year-long plan is in your packet.
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We did a ton of consultation to prepare that five-year plan and got a lot of guidance and focus points that I'll talk about briefly just so that you know that that's kind of the container for this year's plan.
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During the consolidated plan process, we found that the most common housing problems are cost burden, meaning people are paying 30 to 50% of their income every month on housing.
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So a lot of people, I don't have the exact number in front of me.
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I can get that too if you need it.
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It's also in the annual plan.
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There's a lack of affordable rentals.
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We found a lot of folks finding that the housing that seems affordable often is substandard.
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And then a lot of accessibility concerns, both for aging folks as well as folks with disabilities.
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The populations, oh and just so you know, this is part of what we consider then when we make our plan as far as how we're going to choose which things we're doing.
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So you'll find that in a lot of the counties there's a big focus on aging and disabled populations, a big focus on improving affordable housing, so a lot of rehabilitation is happening.
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and, of course, trying to help people with cost burden.
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And you'll see that in the coming years, we're trying to develop a fair amount of affordable rental units, which takes quite a bit of money.
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So it's a limited number that we can do with this chunk.
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So the populations we found that were disproportionately affected by the housing crisis and just over time in our region, those below 50 percent of AMI, of course, renters more than householders, homeowners,
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Households with children, populations with special needs, as I mentioned before, Black and African American households in particular were disproportionately affected and formerly incarcerated individuals and their families.
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In years so far, we've definitely seen a focus on special needs populations.
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We've got a really good ratio of who we're serving when it comes to race and making sure we're trying to balance that out.
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But a lot of it is really just about who comes to us and it's kind of been happening naturally.
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There's not necessarily a preference given, but just I think it's being kept in mind as services are provided.
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As I said, Louisa is receiving the CHODO rotation this year, so they got about twice as much money this year as everybody else.
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A fair amount of that is going to the folks in Louisa probably are pretty familiar with what's happening with the housing foundation and their development of the the units near their building.
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And then
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This is just kind of an overview of the three main goals of the five-year plan.
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So expanding the affordable housing stock, so that's producing units, preserving the existing supplies, so rehabilitating units, and then ensuring that housing is accessible by providing additional payment assistance for down payments or rentals.
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Not a lot of rental assistance happening yet, but in Charlottesville, in the city of Charlottesville, there is a plan to do that.
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This is this year's planned activity.
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So you can see the chart there.
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I won't read it to you, but it's just kind of, this is what everybody has committed to achieve for this year.
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It's pretty ambitious part of it.
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I know it looks like small numbers, but when you think about how much housing costs, it makes sense.
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So it is quite ambitious.
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So, but we're hopeful and we work closely with the nonprofits who are doing this work as we develop this plan.
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So final slide, the timeline for this.
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You guys are my last stop, so if you resolve to approve this tonight, then we will be submitting it to HUD pretty soon.
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We did not get any public comment from the 30-day public comment period, but I know our partners at the City of Charlottesville, a lot of staff gave additional notes, so we'll be merging those in.
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I think it's just like little tweaks here and there before we submit it.
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Any questions?
SPEAKER_08
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Questions?
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Ernie, just some clarity, can you go back to the last slide, please?
SPEAKER_00
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Yes.
SPEAKER_07
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The last column, DPA slash.
SPEAKER_00
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Oh, I apologize.
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I did not explain that.
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So that's down payment assistance or rental assistance.
Mike Pruitt
Member, Planning District Commission
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Thank you.
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Any questions?
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Are any of those rental assistance, the down payment assistance rental assistance things?
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I know outside of Charlottesville, all of them have to be down payment assistance, right?
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Yes.
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So is that going directly into the
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Not that I know of yet.
SPEAKER_00
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My understanding is it's most likely going to go to a nonprofit who will then distribute it.
SPEAKER_09
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I don't have any results on that.
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I'll share that test.
SPEAKER_00
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Thank you.
SPEAKER_09
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Yes.
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So, you know, Cissra is just the housing authority that is straight up city financing.
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Brown, and then the down payment assistance actually some of it did end up going to be coupled with the normal programs at the housing authority.
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How was he keeping, we'll see if we can decide.
Mike Pruitt
Member, Planning District Commission
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I ask because you know as much as I care about what's going on in Charlottesville, I'm asking selfishly to kind of figure out that could have been like cancer.
SPEAKER_09
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We're going to switch to the origins of it and I'm patient zero for that and we can copy that.
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That is straight up city funding in one block from the city college.
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I don't see $945 this year or something like that.
SPEAKER_02
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Yeah, at least initially it wasn't also basically surplus money that the housing authority itself had.
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Yeah.
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But yeah, it's just city funding.
SPEAKER_09
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It's just city funding to expand vouchers.
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And that it was done to close the gap between the housing authority's authority to manage vouchers against the delta of when they actually had to manage my federal side and you decided to have this all sustained in there with the ability to fund vouchers, the ability to manage vouchers and fund those in vouchers.
Mike Pruitt
Member, Planning District Commission
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I appreciate that.
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I guess my question is, I don't want to go too long on it.
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I want to make sure I'm correctly understanding the strings that come with home, that it sounds like a program like CISRAP could be funded through home funding.
SPEAKER_00
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Technically.
Mike Pruitt
Member, Planning District Commission
00:11:06
I was just pointing them out as an example and thinking that they used to have $8 a year going to it.
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It sounds like they're not, but it sounds like they could.
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Technically.
SPEAKER_00
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Or a comfortably designed program.
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Yes.
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So in 2001, the agreement that was signed amongst the consortium, each locality, each of the counties,
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chose a nonprofit subrecipient to kind of represent them moving forward.
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So at the moment, and I don't know, I guess that could be changed, but at the moment, so since 2001, AHIP has been the sole subrecipient for Albemarle County.
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The city of Charlottesville is the only one who every year selects their own variety of subrecipients based on their current standards.
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So that's why Albemarle only has homeowner rehabs because that's what AHIP does.
SPEAKER_09
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There is a problematic problem with funding vouchers at home, which is once you've funded a voucher for someone's rentals, next year, you've got to fund somebody's rentals, fund somebody's voucher for rent.
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They're essentially committed to keep your budget to it or throw the people out.
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And this funding variable.
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This final was so variable that we actually made all our decisions before we had numbers.
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And we had to go back and start that way.
Mike Pruitt
Member, Planning District Commission
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And I also asked a little bit about the history behind the CDA gel alternating pattern.
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I get why we wouldn't arrive at that, but I'm curious how long you've been doing it and what
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There were major political considerations that went into that.
SPEAKER_05
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It has been alternating for the history of our own society.
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And the other political considerations that went into that.
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One thing that would happen if you were to slip the money for the charity repeatedly is that you didn't have enough funds to do a project.
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So if it's helpful,
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To do that rotation for that reason, but it's also slow.
SPEAKER_00
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If you look at these numbers, if you do four rehabs in a year, you've spent all your money.
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If you're working on one apartment unit, you've spent way more than the money that you have for that year.
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What we've seen in Greene County, Skyline Cap is the subrecipient there,
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They have pretty consistently over the past few years, just as soon as they get the money, they've been buying mostly mobile units and have been turning those into rentals.
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So each locality has kind of decided what fits best in their local world.
Mike Pruitt
Member, Planning District Commission
00:14:15
in the best sense, but I know in Albemarle we've been having a conversation about the way we structure our own housing fund allocations, and it's very much a matter of this is the program that's before us, so we give it money, right?
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And I would worry that maybe a rotating scheme makes sort of a, well, we're the locality that has money this year, I'll put it towards something, even though it's not the best project I've had in the last 40 years, even though it's maybe not the best
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And I was just curious if maybe it all grew back then by the company based system, right?
SPEAKER_00
00:14:53
I do believe that when the Chodo was at Albemarle a few years ago, I think there was a RFP process.
Christine Jacobs
Executive Director
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I can also speak to, and forgive me, there's a little bit of a delay on my end.
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This is Christine online, but to your point, Supervisor Pruitt, there have been instances in the past where when the Chodo jurisdiction comes up, they don't necessarily have either a shovel-ready project or something that is pressing.
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And so they have skipped their rotation and then the next year it comes back to them by default before going to the next jurisdiction.
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So there are opportunities to bypass your gear if it is not something that you have a project in mind.
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So it's while we do in every jurisdiction rotation, there have been a lot of situations in the past where there are exceptions to that, depending on the need.
SPEAKER_09
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To piggyback on that, you can also get into a little bit of difficulty if you've gotten the money and haven't spent it properly.
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At a certain point, time becomes attentive and then concerned and then perturbed and then they start talking about
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Seizing funds from your bank account.
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If I'm sitting, we got ahead of that curve, but there were funds that had not been spent and they probably actually ended up shelling out some money at the end of last year just to make sure that we had done that right.
SPEAKER_00
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The one thing I'll add to that is that once this funding has been allocated to us, we do have two years within which to commit it, which just means selecting the project and then basically reporting it to HUD and kind of making it official.
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And then once it has been committed, you have four years to complete the project.
SPEAKER_03
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Any questions?
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The planned activities, do they know?
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Because if a planned activity is happening, for the most basic reason, they knew they were the shadow recipients.
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So they're in order to reflect that extra money.
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So it's not a planned activity in the midst of non-shadow problems.
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It's likely more or less a plus for the shadows.
SPEAKER_00
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Yeah, I mean, they know the rotations, so they're planning years in advance often.
SPEAKER_08
00:17:16
Thank you.
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Great, thank you.
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All right, so we will open the public hearing.
SPEAKER_03
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Is there anybody here who wishes to speak or online?
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We will close the public hearing and move to the resolution.
SPEAKER_05
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So I recommend a motion to adopt the 2024-2025 closing CDBG in Washington.
SPEAKER_03
00:18:00
So moved.
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I will second.
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Motion was made by Mr. O'Brien, seconded by Mr. Gjorgjievski.
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All in favor, please say aye.
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Aye.
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Opposed?
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Abstentions?
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Great.
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Thank you.
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That will take us to the consent agenda.
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And there we have the minutes of the May 2nd meeting and the May 2nd closed session.
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Any issues or edits or corrections that need to be made to either of those sets?
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Great.
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We'll do that separate from the financial reports.
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Is there a motion to approve the minutes of the May 2nd, 24th meeting and closed session?
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So moved.
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McSueper-Rose approved of that one.
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Let's keep going.
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Do you want to second?
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The motion has been made and seconded.
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All in favor, please say aye.
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Aye.
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Opposed?
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Abstentions?
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And that will take us to the April financial reports.
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What are your names there?
SPEAKER_05
00:19:10
Do you want to comment on this one?
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April was a strong financial month for the TDPD.
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Our net income was $32,269.
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There's a total net income for fiscal year 24 of $378,588 today.
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We have a rolling 12-month average operating expenses of $135,267.
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The actual operating expenses for April were a bit below that at $120,284.
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And the improved revenue report shows that
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There's an average total available funds for the remaining two months of the school year, 24 of $261,934, which is plenty to cover our expenses for the rest of the school year.
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Any questions?
SPEAKER_03
00:20:01
All right.
00:20:07
Is there a motion to accept the April financial reports?
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Second.
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Second.
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Thank you.
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All in favor of the motion, you may have probably seconded it.
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All in favor, please say aye.
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Aye.
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Opposed?
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Abstentions?
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Thank you.
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Awesome.
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That will take us to number five in new business.
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And Christine, your name's on this.
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Are you handling this one?
00:20:36
Yes.
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This is the spread scale resolution of support.
Christine Jacobs
Executive Director
00:20:39
Yes, this one is fairly administrative.
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The PDC is asked to have a resolution endorsing applications for SmartScale.
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The Charlottesville Albemarle MPO, the governing board for that is the MPO, so they make a vote on those applications.
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The TJPDC serves as the governing board for the rural applications.
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And so included in your packet was a memo detailing descriptions of each of those projects that are being submitted in the rural jurisdictions by the localities.
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And so just asking the PDC for support to endorse those applications.
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There are a total of one in Albemarle County that's outside of the MPO, two in Greene County, three in Louisa, and two in Nelson.
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So those are all detailed in your packet, just asking for a resolution of support.
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That's all.
SPEAKER_08
00:21:40
Any questions here?
00:21:42
All right.
SPEAKER_03
00:21:46
Is there a motion to approve the resolution endorsing the submission of Swartzville applications requesting transportation funding by all the colleges?
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Second.
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The motion has been made and seconded.
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All in favor, please say aye.
00:22:05
Aye.
00:22:06
Opposed?
00:22:07
Abstentions?
00:22:12
Great.
00:22:14
And this will take us to item six, old business, the election of the TJPDC officers.
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The nominating committee recommended slate was presented at the last month's meeting.
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That recommendation was Supervisor Ryan Leguiano to be chair, Councilor Payne from Charlottesville to be vice chair, Mr. Smith from Fluvanna to continue as treasurer, and Jacobs to continue as secretary.
00:22:44
And there's, I guess if you're dead, then we'll have to do a special analysis.
00:22:51
But otherwise, is there, if we could just do this as a slate, is there a motion to elect
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Porter, let's see, motion to approve the nominating committee's recommended slate for officers for fiscal year 25.
SPEAKER_10
00:23:12
We can do it individually then.
SPEAKER_03
00:23:27
All right, is there a second?
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Second.
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Very good.
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All in favor, please say aye.
00:23:58
Aye.
00:23:59
Opposed?
00:24:00
Abstentions?
00:24:03
You should have voted against yourself.
00:24:05
That's what they call us.
00:24:08
I've seen people vote against themselves.
00:24:11
Great.
00:24:16
Fantastic.
00:24:16
So that will... Do we have time?
00:24:22
No, I'm sorry.
00:24:29
when the new team will come on board.
00:24:32
So thank you all for stepping up to fill those positions.
00:24:36
And great, that will turn and take us to number seven in the executive director's reports.
00:24:41
And Christine, you gonna go ahead and walk us through that one?
Christine Jacobs
Executive Director
00:24:44
Yes.
00:24:46
The first thing in the ED report is a staffing update.
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We do have a paid intern coming on board or is now on board actually since the writing of this report for a 10-week paid internship.
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He'll be supporting both the MPO's work as well as the multi-jurisdictional move safely Blue Ridge, safe action report that we're doing.
00:25:08
We also have another planner too, starting June 17th.
00:25:13
Mr.
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Keener, I'm hoping he'll be able to meet with you guys in the next commission meeting in August.
00:25:18
He'll also be supporting both transportation programs as well as general planning initiatives.
00:25:23
Included in the ED report is all of the stats on the VATI project.
00:25:28
I will note that in May, I was able to present at the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative celebration of the first connections for REC in Greene County.
00:25:40
That was a really nice event to be able to celebrate the progress that's happened in that project.
00:25:46
Updates and transportation.
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We are full force into Safe Streets and Roads for All, the Move Safely Blue Ridge project.
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We have in-person meetings scheduled in all six jurisdictions.
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Those are detailed in the ED report locations and times, as well as a survey, as well as a virtual meeting, a regional virtual meeting.
00:26:09
And then TJPDC staff have been participating in a minimum of two, sometimes up to six pop-up events in each jurisdiction to try to get community feedback and engagement in that project.
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We're putting a lot of time and energy into making sure that we're listening to the community and where they see safety concerns for all users of roadways.
00:26:31
Additionally, other updates are environmental.
00:26:38
The hazard mitigation plan, you know, we have a five year mitigation plan with annual meetings of the working group that was held in May.
00:26:48
It was a really good opportunity for us to talk with the state.
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The state is redoing their hazard mitigation plan and trying to do a better job of integrating
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local plans into the state plan.
00:27:00
And so they had state reps in our meeting listening to all the local folks.
00:27:05
And that was a really good opportunity for us to be feeding up to them the priorities in the region.
00:27:12
And then other local planning support that we've been doing, I think I shared with you all last time, the Town of Mineral asked to support their comprehensive plan,
00:27:25
Plan was recommended by the Planning Commission and will be before the council June 10th.
00:27:33
And then the Town of Mineral also reach out to us to help support their required lead service line inventory.
00:27:41
That's something that we can do the administrative side of that, helping them with their reporting and their invoicing and things like that.
00:27:47
So we're gonna support that.
00:27:50
Other than that, happy to answer any other questions, but those are some highlights in the last 30 days or so.
SPEAKER_08
00:27:57
Any questions?
SPEAKER_03
00:28:02
Awesome.
00:28:03
Thank you, Christine.
00:28:06
All right, we'll move now to Texas through our closed session.
00:28:12
And would you mind reading that note along there?
00:28:16
Hi, sir.
Mike Pruitt
Member, Planning District Commission
00:28:17
I would like to move that the commission be deemed to a closed session pursuant to the exemption found in Section 2002, TAC 3711A1, the Code of Virginia to discuss matters of employee performance of the executive and director motion, seconded.
00:28:30
Ah, I see.
00:28:32
You just gave me a thing.
00:28:32
I read the motion seconded.
SPEAKER_03
00:28:35
Is that you, Mr. Mann?
00:28:42
I heard the voice going back there.
00:28:44
Move, Mr. Graham.
00:28:49
OK, the motion was made by Supervisor Pruitt, seconded by Council Payne.
00:28:54
If you could call it roll, please.
SPEAKER_05
00:28:57
Supervisor Galloway?
00:28:58
Yes.
00:28:58
Supervisor Pruitt?
00:28:59
Yes.
00:29:00
Supervisor O'Brien?
00:29:01
Yes.
00:29:03
Commissioner Smith is absent.
00:29:05
Supervisor Goolsby?
00:29:06
Yes.
00:29:07
Mr. Higgins?
SPEAKER_10
00:29:08
Yes.
SPEAKER_05
00:29:08
Supervisor Barlow?
00:29:09
Yes.
00:29:10
Supervisor Woodward?
00:29:11
Yes.
00:29:12
Supervisor Reed?
00:29:13
Yes.
00:29:14
Supervisor Rutherford is absent.
00:29:16
Commissioner Doran?
00:29:17
Yes.
00:29:17
Councilor Payne?
SPEAKER_03
00:29:18
Yes.
00:29:21
All right, thank you.
00:29:22
And we'll just be a moment while we turn off the recording.
00:29:28
And apparently there's two things to turn on.
00:29:34
Just as a reminder.
SPEAKER_10
00:29:36
All right, go ahead with the motion, please.
SPEAKER_03
00:29:40
I, Mike Pruitt, move that the commission exit closed session.
00:29:45
Second.
00:29:46
All right, if you would please stop for a moment.
SPEAKER_05
00:29:51
Supervisor Galloway?
SPEAKER_03
00:29:52
Yes.
SPEAKER_05
00:29:53
Supervisor Pruitt?
SPEAKER_03
00:29:54
Aye.
SPEAKER_05
00:29:54
Supervisor O'Brien?
00:29:56
Aye.
00:29:57
Mr. Smith is absent.
00:29:58
Supervisor Goolsby?
SPEAKER_10
00:29:59
Yes.
SPEAKER_05
00:30:00
Mr. Higgins?
SPEAKER_10
00:30:01
Yes.
SPEAKER_05
00:30:02
Supervisor Barlow?
SPEAKER_10
00:30:03
Yes.
SPEAKER_05
00:30:04
Supervisor Woodward?
00:30:05
Yes.
00:30:05
Supervisor Reed?
00:30:06
Yes.
00:30:07
Supervisor McPherson is absent.
00:30:09
Commissioner Doranzio?
00:30:10
Yes.
00:30:11
And Councilor Payne?
Mike Pruitt
Member, Planning District Commission
00:30:12
Yes.
00:30:16
Aye.
00:30:17
Aye.
00:30:17
Aye.
00:30:18
Aye.
00:30:18
Aye.
00:30:18
Aye.
00:30:18
Aye.
00:30:19
Aye.
00:30:19
Aye.
00:30:20
Public Business matters to all the executives that would be required to take the career and make that happen.
SPEAKER_10
00:30:30
But I didn't.
SPEAKER_08
00:30:30
Did I make you call the roll, please?
SPEAKER_05
00:30:36
Supervisor Galloway?
00:30:37
Yes.
00:30:37
Supervisor Pruitt?
00:30:39
Aye.
00:30:39
Supervisor O'Brien?
00:30:41
Aye.
00:30:41
Mr. Smith?
00:30:43
Supervisor Goolsby?
SPEAKER_08
00:30:44
Yes.
SPEAKER_05
00:30:44
Mr. Higgins?
SPEAKER_10
00:30:46
Aye.
SPEAKER_05
00:30:46
Supervisor Barlow?
00:30:47
No.
00:30:48
Supervisor Woodward?
00:30:49
Yes.
00:30:50
Supervisor Reed, Supervisor Rutherford, Commissioner D'Oronzio, Councillor Payne.
SPEAKER_03
00:30:57
Yes.
00:30:59
Great.
00:30:59
Thank you.
00:31:00
There are no other actions to be made in the coming out of the closed session.
00:31:07
So that gives us new business in the round table.
00:31:10
And I'm just going to start on the left.
00:31:13
Supervisor Brown started at Fluvanna.
SPEAKER_10
00:31:18
Not a lot of excitement, but we've had another solar work session.
00:31:26
We had an initial solar work session with basically somebody from the industry presenting, talking about a side interview and some of what we might want to do with regard to that.
00:31:39
We had citizens say that we had a type of committee come up and ask for people's high speed and build out
00:31:49
O'Brien, so that I, she gets what we have in that meeting.
00:31:55
You know, it's a place where people might expect other citizens to just get something that's going to happen in their backyard.
00:32:02
So that's the way that meeting sort of went.
00:32:04
And there was a lot of disinformation, Mr. Kennedy, in that meeting.
00:32:07
I thought it was a disservice to the public and to the board and the leadership and staff as we all heard it.
00:32:14
So our principal, our third meeting, Mr. Kennedy,
00:32:17
I think we had a presentation from the Farm Bureau, it was a packed extension, and that sort of a suicide.
00:32:29
It was a very attractive meeting, very supportive meeting, highlighted the strengths and weaknesses, some of the challenges.
00:32:37
I think both the public and the staff came out of that with, not staff, but the public staff and supervisors
00:32:46
all came out of it a little bit smarter.
00:32:48
We're going to go on the solar committee.
00:32:51
We've had a lot of questions made to just putting solar into industrial design and development.
00:32:58
So the discussion is whether we should do that or not do that.
00:33:01
The committee recommends that we don't do that when we create solar history, when we tie that being close to high-power transmission lines.
00:33:10
But after having our presentations being made and how we want to do that, we kind of discovered that maybe that wasn't the best way to do it.
00:33:17
You know, common was made that it would have been nice to have had all this information before we had this information.
00:33:25
We also had this journey in which we thought it was a terrible process.
00:33:30
So that was a really, really great part of yesterday's activity and I think that's the most exciting thing for us today.
00:33:40
We did have some fanulism that happened to the public that happened in New Orleans in the late, that was related to what appeared to be value there.
00:33:51
So that's the survey, and it's being investigated, of course, every time.
00:33:57
Simply that's not the quote, unquote, board of business, that's what they're about.
SPEAKER_03
00:34:06
Thank you.
00:34:06
Mr. Higgins, pre-camp?
00:34:08
Very briefly, we got some good news this spring.
00:34:11
In Greene County, we're still going to have everybody else fanned over and arranged with the federal government to supply us with more than $800,000 in funding for our main county park and groupings and training for our sheriff's office.
00:34:30
On the state front, State Senator Bryce Reeves, and that'll get to Nick Pretis,
00:34:35
Mabel can persuade the General Assembly to forward $3 million to create a bounty for improvements in water and sewer infrastructure.
00:34:45
We are most appreciative of those electric emissions.
00:34:49
Very good.
00:34:50
Mr. Goolsby?
SPEAKER_08
00:34:52
Well, Tom, I hope we have adopted our physical budget and that's very valuable.
00:35:00
We got a couple different new businesses that are trying to come into the county.
00:35:08
We signed a letter in a tent for a, it's actually a marijuana manufacturing company that does the PLCs and stuff like that.
00:35:20
So I haven't heard any more of that yet, but we've been signing a letter in a tent for them to consume to get their license for it,
00:35:30
You'll find it will be a good revenue for the county and the general.
00:35:34
Of course, you get the squawk in the marijuana community.
00:35:38
It's medical.
00:35:40
You know, you get it walking off the street and stuff like that.
00:35:44
I think it will actually be a good revenue for the county and the general because they say they can employ it with other people.
00:35:52
It's like that.
00:35:54
You know, the debate now going on is a big rivalry in the late teens.
00:35:59
We can see how that's going to develop now.
00:36:01
That's the bigger thing right now is we're going to stop in the mechanic mechanic.
00:36:06
Traffic, traffic.
SPEAKER_03
00:36:07
Yeah, traffic.
00:36:07
No, it's the noise.
00:36:09
It's the huge rooms like that.
SPEAKER_08
00:36:11
But other than that, the counties don't want to shift.
00:36:15
We might, you know, hopefully they don't want anything to improve when the business lies.
00:36:21
You know, that's how you decrease the taxes and the damage, but getting rid of them don't involve their response.
00:36:29
Swartzendruber, Tonya Swartzendruber, David Blount, Ruth Emerick, David Blount, Ruth Emerick, Tonya Swartzendruber, David Blount, Ruth Emerick, David Blount,
SPEAKER_04
00:36:59
Katz, and 40% and 2% in the medical and medical discussion, and it was R.E.T.
00:37:16
at a very short time.
00:37:19
Anyway, it's been a very long mistake.
00:37:23
It was out of the very
00:37:27
So I'm following the bill with the Senate, which is thanks to election, you know, when you get there, it's okay.
SPEAKER_06
00:37:44
The first thing I'd like to explain to you is, very surely, we're not counting these.
SPEAKER_08
00:37:51
That would be the sort of thing.
SPEAKER_06
00:37:55
I just wanted to make a comment about, we had the smart scale on here tonight.
00:38:06
One of the projects that was approved in Louisa, I guess two years ago, was around about down next to Lady Anna at a terrible intersection.
00:38:17
The traffic on 522 and 208 intersection, we call it down at Dickinson store.
00:38:25
had literally got it to be a problem.
00:38:28
And the project isn't even finished until May or January 25th, so it's coming January, but the company was able to open the roundabout part the week before the lawyer day, and the comments from people have been unbelievable to people, but they've been lost on having been distracted.
00:38:49
There was a stop sign, three-way intersection, the way it came to the back of the two.
00:38:55
and I mean, I'm talking about mild backups of vehicles during the summer with a little bit of a soon, already using everything else.
00:39:05
So this stuff works.
00:39:07
A lot of people laugh.
00:39:09
I've been one of them in the past about roundabouts, what to do to work.
00:39:14
And I noticed that Albemarle Charlottesville has in this year's that we proved tonight, the diverging diamond that I think
00:39:24
St. Peterton, which we all laughed about that.
00:39:28
It's on crossroads, first one in the area, but they work.
00:39:33
So that's all.
SPEAKER_03
00:39:35
I often say it permanently, citizens in my district, I've put a roundabout at every intersection of my good just to slow people down.
00:39:42
If you don't like it, you need to roll my eyes out.
SPEAKER_10
00:39:44
I think there's only getting one for talent.
SPEAKER_06
00:40:12
and the R-Cuts on 29th, I think it was Madison folks, but I noticed in the package tonight, there's some R-Cuts and I think they may be green on 29th.
00:40:25
17 in Bronco County in North Carolina, it's become filled with these things.
00:40:32
It takes out the left turns from side roads onto main roads.
00:40:38
In that case down there, it's on Route 17.
00:40:41
and they go either side of the intersection for a long time or whatever and put U-turners in the median and stuff.
00:40:51
So, and those work too.
00:40:53
They're weird, but they work and they keep those two crashes and intersections from happening, so.
00:40:59
Yeah, the famous New Jersey Jugglers.
SPEAKER_09
00:41:02
Oh, is that right?
00:41:04
The Chester fans have been using a lot.
00:41:06
They have a lot of their equipment, as much traffic as they got.
SPEAKER_03
00:41:09
They seem to work.
00:41:10
I mean, that's a little bit.
00:41:11
And we are going to be going and judging.
SPEAKER_07
00:41:16
Super browser 8, Nelson Camp.
00:41:17
Well, since you mentioned traffic, the results of our 151 corridor and speed study, it looks like it really has warranted any
00:41:41
and the one that was mentioned in today's presentation at the gambling 151 is to roundabouts if they should you know when they're completed should do as you mentioned slow down the traffic on 151 and maybe move some of the pass through the tractor trailer traffic back to 29 where it belongs.
00:42:10
If you report that, solar is the other thing.
00:42:14
Our climate commission is next week going to see the first official presentation from Sapiana Solar for a nine megawatt solar farm in South Park, Nelson.
00:42:28
That's going to be really interesting.
00:42:29
I get to talk about it twice because I'm on the climate commission too, as well as the board, so.
00:42:38
The model of, I mean,
00:42:39
As much as I love solar energy, the model of building large-scale solar farms to feed AI projects in the rest of the county that already don't have the energy that they need to do all the ones there.
00:43:15
And we have a proposal in Montebello for a new agriculture and forest district, which I'm on that committee.
00:43:26
I'm really excited about that, which will be the third one that I've been paying attention to since I've been on the board where the citizens have taken it upon themselves to make really clear statements about what they'd like to see in their neighborhoods in terms of future development or not.
00:43:43
So that's a real positive thing because even though it's not a binding tool, it's one that very clearly fulfills what we've just approved on a comprehensive plan and also gives the citizens an opportunity to keep really active in that process.
SPEAKER_10
00:44:14
Goolsby, Michael Goolsby, Michael Goolsby, Michael Goolsby,
SPEAKER_09
00:44:37
Well, to begin with, I counterpoint to Louisa County, and I'm local state firm, and I believe that Councilor Payne and I do definitely coordinate our outfits today.
00:44:51
And we'll get back with the forethought.
00:44:54
It is June, so things get a little sleepy.
00:44:59
In the planning commission world, we are still working
00:45:04
These are not yet our new code.
00:45:08
We have to come to grips with many of them.
00:45:12
We are sort of watching the transition as older things out of the older rules and newer rules and trying, folks are trying to figure out how to apply that.
00:45:24
It is a sort of we don't know, we don't know.
00:45:27
And you can have one thing pop up which is don't bone any error.
00:45:33
Whitley from the original reviving events which we quickly showed, approved each other's in council, which I may expect at zero in the minutes and zero seconds.
00:45:46
And before agreeing on that, we have a, we do have a draft land bank ordinance, which is, you know, what the council later this summer.
00:45:57
And planning commission, it looks like,
00:46:01
As the code has been designed to broaden by rights and by administrative action to various options of development.
00:46:18
The Planning Commission seems to be continuing to be, it also says it's managed as part of what you think is going to be so dependent.
00:46:28
It seems like that's been pushed
00:46:31
forward as, you know, another place where folks can sort of express their opinions on these things.
00:46:40
And that's sort of an interesting experience for me personally.
00:46:44
I mean, you know, considering my future in the sartorial elements, do you really want me to make my aesthetics decisions about what building should look like entering Charlottesville, but apparently that's part of my job.
00:46:55
So, so be it.
00:46:58
There may be other things,
SPEAKER_02
00:47:00
We had an update on transportation projects recently VDOT has been angry with the city for a while to reach the point where VDOT was threatening to spend money to Charlottesville because we were so behind on projects but we got an update and staff are
00:47:28
O'Brien, John O'Brien, John O'Brien, John O'Brien, John O'Brien,
00:47:53
But it was a very good, good update and real progress is being made.
00:47:57
So I think there's going to be a major improvement in how the city is able to actually implement transportation projects.
00:48:05
We took a field trip along with supervisor Dan Keel from Albemarle County to Champaign-Rivanna to tour their transit system, which is using hydrogen fuel for some of their buses.
00:48:16
It's very interesting, they have an eight acre solar array that powers the electrolysis onsite at their transit agency to make hydrogen fuel.
00:48:24
And it's worked for them.
00:48:26
They fuel 12 buses with it.
00:48:27
They haven't had any problems with maintenance or liability for the vehicle.
00:48:31
So I came in skeptical about this.
00:48:34
This is a real technology, but it was interesting.
00:48:36
And I think both the city and county are going to be part of the city.
00:48:44
Seriously exploring hydrogen as part of the future of CAT.
00:48:50
We had been discussing both battery electric buses and hydrogen buses as ways to zero emissions in the bus system.
00:48:58
In Illinois, it's a college town and population and geographically, it's fairly comparable to if you combine an early Ring of Albemarle, Charlottesville, and your Yale together.
00:49:16
And I think the other big thing is just the land bank is chugging along, I guess, to try to facilitate to make it easier to acquire land to build affordable housing in the region.
SPEAKER_03
00:49:28
And I expect at some point, hopefully in the summer, city council will be presented to vote on that.
00:49:34
But I think those are the, yeah, those are the major things.
Mike Pruitt
Member, Planning District Commission
00:49:42
We are also, I would say, in this eight-year season of our schedule.
00:49:47
There's not been that much huge stuff.
00:49:50
At our most recent meeting, we had a, I alluded to it earlier, but we were voting on a specific disbursement of our housing investment fund, which we don't need to get into the details of because I don't think that I was doing very well.
00:50:14
We really want to transition our housing investment fund into law.
00:50:48
We spent a significant portion of our meeting prior to that, kind of bogged into a lot of our own creations.
00:50:56
Talked about the appropriate trail use for the Raggy Mountain Reservoir and Natural Area, which I don't think will be that much interest to the rest of this commission, although it's an interesting thing to our constituents.
00:51:15
Because, boy, how do you read all around the lobby?
00:51:19
I would say something that has not been on our agenda, but something that I've been digging into, we have a cell tower ordinance
00:52:04
Williams, other things that you don't want to put a cell tower here in high schools, right?
00:52:12
That's one of the avoidance areas.
00:52:14
It is designated historic districts.
00:52:20
All of the Scottsville Magisterial District is nationally designated historic districts, which then may be boxed off with staff to say, hey,
00:52:41
What is the process by which things got made in the National Historic District and how is it accounted for when they look at that?
00:52:52
A lot of different things and I think it kind of drew attention to, we decided to put something on the Desert Historic District.
00:53:00
It's not always immediately clear what all that entails and how we might be
SPEAKER_03
00:53:19
And just because roundabouts were the theme on Rio Road, where Hillsdale meets Rio Road, there's two lights right next to each other.
00:53:29
It's one of the most dangerous intersections in the whole Commonwealth.
00:53:34
So our smart scale application was actually
00:53:39
It was proposed out of our Rhino Road corridor study to put a dual roundabout to handle both those lights.
00:53:45
And it would look, if you're looking from above, it would be the shape of a penis.
00:53:50
So it would be kind of the first one of those.
00:53:52
And the other roundabout, which isn't through a smart skill application, but it would be under VDOT safety improvement program,
00:54:05
is at Hillsdale and Greenbrier down there by areas where there was supposed to be a light put in there and a light wasn't put in.
00:54:14
But they're going to do what's called a modular amount, is the proposal.
00:54:19
There's only a handful of these in the state.
00:54:22
But basically, it's built out a little bit more with raised kind of elastic on them.
00:54:30
So the issue there is you have to go a good two car lengths past the stop sign to be able to see.
00:54:36
We've got people going through this big yellow striped area to pass other people, and it's just a bad mess.
00:54:42
So this runabout could really go to an alleviate.
00:54:46
I appreciate we got, because they actually went out and asked, they said, why don't you just go out there sometime and sit there for a few hours, watch this thing happen.
00:54:55
And they did.
00:54:56
And so they tried a lot of things at that intersection.
00:55:00
So hopefully it was modular around about my work.
00:55:03
Our board had a retreat last week.
00:55:06
We spent a half a day basically to revisit our operating guidelines, which drives how we work with each other, how we work with staff, et cetera.
00:55:15
So that was always good, especially when we have new members.
00:55:18
And our current chairs, their andrews, have not been through a retreat with us yet either.
00:55:23
So that was good.
00:55:26
Well, time well spent.
00:55:29
And then the only other thing I throw out there is yesterday we got a first look at what would be our first new school building that we've done in a long time in the southern feeder pattern.
00:55:41
It practically touches the property as Mountain View Elementary School.
00:55:46
And what this is going to allow to do is it's a big overcrowded area.
00:55:50
will be in Albemarle the first time that we have a lower and upper elementary school.
00:55:55
So once that school building was built, Mountain View would become a 3K2, and then the new building would become a 3 to 5.
00:56:04
We don't have any breakouts like that, so this would be the first time in the year.
SPEAKER_10
00:56:09
If I may, a question about the courtesy champagne or whatnot going on.
00:56:14
Is there any talk about using that model for every school business?
SPEAKER_02
00:56:21
Not a specific discussion, but it's possible.
00:56:26
And Champaign-Urbana, unlike us, their bus system runs all the school buses, the university bus system as well.
00:56:35
But I think with their school buses, they still use diesel electric hybrids for their school buses.
00:56:43
But if you have the hydrogen facility on site, all you need to do is purchase a vehicle
SPEAKER_10
00:57:01
TJPDC was out there yesterday presenting on the housing study that they're asking Counters to promote it, and I know we also had Kim Platt on the terms of implementing these housing foundations as well too.
00:57:21
They've got a lot of great work in our county, and I know they work very closely with TJPDC as well.
00:57:26
So just wanted to make sure.
00:57:28
We recognize that TJPDC is putting a lot of work
SPEAKER_08
00:57:33
Great.
00:57:34
Any other questions or comments?
00:57:38
I'm wondering why Green County is doing a marijuana one.
00:57:43
And Louisa County got it first.
SPEAKER_03
00:57:46
That's easy.
00:57:47
It's greener there.
00:57:49
I'm trying to do the same thing with the lettuce.
SPEAKER_08
00:57:51
We haven't heard anything back one day.
00:57:54
Those of them signed the letter.
00:57:55
We can't put them with a file for their business.
00:58:00
It may be a no-go, but it depends on them to be able to apply for the buildings.
SPEAKER_03
00:58:10
Well, just a reminder that there is no July meeting, so I wish you all a bad summer.
00:58:15
We'll see you all back here in August.
00:58:16
If someone would like to make a motion to enter.
00:58:21
Motion made in second.
00:58:24
All in favor say aye.
00:58:26
Aye.
00:58:27
Motion carries.
00:58:30
Thank you.
00:58:30
Have a good evening.