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Planning District Commission Meeting   4/2/2026

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  • 0 Agenda 4.2.2026.pdf
  • 4a BR Cigarette Tax Board.April 2026.TJPDC - Handout.pdf
  • 4b Draft Final - FY27 CA-MPO UPWP 03.20.26.pdf
  • 4b TJPD Commission - FY27 UPWP - Handout.pdf
  • 5a TJPDC Draft Minutes 2026-3-26.pdf
  • 5b Closed Session form for minutes 3.5.2026.pdf
  • 5c i Financial Dashboard February FY26.pdf
  • 5c ii FY26 February Profit and Loss.pdf
  • 5c iii FY26 February Balance Sheet.pdf
  • 5c iv Accrued Revenue February FY26.pdf
  • 5d i FY27 Rural Work Program Final.pdf
  • 5d Rural Transporation Funding Resolution FY27.pdf
  • 5e FY26 Amended Budget Resolution.pdf
  • 6b i 1 TJPDC FY27 Operating Budget & Work Program MEMO.pdf
  • 6b i 2 TJPDC FY27 Draft Operating Budget Presentation.pdf
  • 6b ii 1 FY27 Operating Budget - Totals - 4.2.2026 - Revised.pdf
  • 6b ii 1 FY27 Operating Budget - Totals - 4.2.2026.pdf
  • 6b ii 2 FY27 Operating Budget - Total Revenues - 4.2.2026 - Revised.pdf
  • 6b ii 2 FY27 Operating Budget - Total Revenues - 4.2.2026.pdf
  • 6b ii 3 FY27 Operating Budget - Local Contributions - 4.2.2026.pdf
  • 8a ED Report April 2026.pdf
  • Full Commission Meeting Packet - 4.2.2026.pdf
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
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      We should be live and we are recording.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:00:09
      Alright guys, I'm going to kick this off with all honor at the 702, or 1902 for us Marines and Sailors and all the service folks.
    • 00:00:27
      OK, we have an electronic reading news.
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      Apparently, Ruth, the new Ruth here is going to help us with that and read it.
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:00:35
      We do not need that since we are in person.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:00:38
      We only got one thing.
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:00:40
      We need to, yes, we need to take that call.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:00:43
      We got to call.
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:00:44
      Yeah, we got to use the old call.
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      And then admit.
    • SPEAKER_07
    • 00:00:48
      All right, let's do a roll call, Ruth.
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      Part of Ruth tonight.
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      Supermagic crew here.
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      and Supervisor O'Brien, Chair Smith, Supervisor Goolsby, Mr. Higgins, Supervisor Barlow, Supervisor Woodward, Supervisor Reed, Supervisor Lefkowitz, Supervisor Fleisher, Vice Chair Payne, and we have Supervisor Galloway.
    • 00:01:18
      So there needs to be a motion.
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      You allow Mr. Gallaway to participate.
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      Will he participate where he is participating from and the reason for his participation?
    • SPEAKER_09
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      I'm sure I'm willing to approve that.
    • 00:01:38
      Thank you.
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      Do you want to second?
    • 00:01:40
      I second.
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      All in favor?
    • 00:01:42
      Aye.
    • Ned GallawayTreasurer, Planning District Commission
    • 00:01:44
      And he needs a double swallow.
    • 00:01:47
      Hey, good evening, everyone.
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      I'm in Nashville, Tennessee on travel.
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      So I'm a little further, couldn't make it back to the meeting and back here.
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      No excuse.
    • SPEAKER_09
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      Thanks for the invite.
    • 00:02:01
      We're good now, Sara, right?
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      Just to follow up with Ernie.
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      All right, so we're now on to Madison Public.
    • 00:02:09
      We have comments on what we're going to do in two minutes.
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      Looks like we don't have any comments in the room.
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      Do we have anybody on?
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:02:18
      If you are online and would like to make a comment, please go ahead and unmute yourself now.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:02:29
      All right.
    • 00:02:32
      So hearing none, I'm going to move on.
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      So number three is, for me, appointment of non-native division for offices.
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      So I'm coming off the commission after 15 years, July 1st.
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      And we need to go through the process of appointing new officers and chairs to pick it up on the first of July.
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      And we've done this in a bunch of different ways in advance.
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      We've mentioned the nominating committees.
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      And we've had folks that just threw their hat in the rain.
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      So I just wanted to put this on the table.
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      And if you want to jump in, Christine, can you comment?
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      Sure.
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      On the table on how everybody would like to see Lucas.
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      Any thoughts?
    • SPEAKER_05
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      We've been a nominating committee for eight years in a row.
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      I have no problem serving to test the pleasure of this year again.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:03:45
      Any objections to Jesse running that convention?
    • 00:03:50
      So that's a way for you not to become chair.
    • 00:03:56
      That's fine.
    • 00:03:56
      Well played.
    • 00:03:57
      Yes.
    • 00:03:57
      Everybody okay with just one of those?
    • 00:04:00
      Sounds like that's how it's done.
    • 00:04:03
      Good.
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      I don't think that's a passion item, right?
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:04:07
      If you just nominate the committee, then we will take care of gathering that committee.
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      They will bring back their slate in the May meeting.
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      And then in June, you guys will vote on this.
    • SPEAKER_05
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      How many did I do last time?
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      Three of us?
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      There was three of us.
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      All right.
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      You want to pick volunteers now?
    • SPEAKER_09
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      Well, we don't have a full division here.
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      I think I would prefer to have a lot of people pick the three people and see how that seems to move on.
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      So we're going to let Jesse pick the three.
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      Everybody good with that?
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      All right, so we got presentation, the Blue Ridge Cigarette Tax.
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      And that is you, David.
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      It's David.
    • 00:05:04
      This is David.
    • SPEAKER_07
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      So while Christine is pulling up on very short presentation, I'll just say it's kind of hard to believe that the Cigarette Tax Board has been in existence now for about four and a half years.
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      And it all started with
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      some of the localities within the region and outside of the region coming to us and saying, hey, this looks like something that could be done more effectively and efficiently as a regional approach.
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      The board started out with seven jurisdictions involved and quickly added an eight.
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      And I take it back, we had six, quickly added a seventh, and we had four more joint incentives for total collective economy.
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      So starting on the first slide, I kind of started the presentation
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      Second slide, maybe?
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      Again, 2021, there's a listing there of the current member localities.
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      Board was established in the fall of 2021.
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      The first local cigarette taxes by the jurisdictions were likely to be giving in January of 2022.
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      There is an administrative services agreement between the VRCTB and TJPDC to serve as the administrator for the board.
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      who work very regularly on a monthly basis with about 20 distributors.
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      They send us reports of their sale of cigarettes to various retail establishments as well as collecting revenue from those retailers and then committing that back to TJPDC.
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      We're tracking the stamps that they're using, we're tracking the reports they're sending in on their sales as well as the revenue.
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      and then processing all that and then sending out allotments on a monthly basis through the number of jurisdictions.
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      The allotment is, all of the jurisdictions are at
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      $0.40, with the exception of Charlottesville, which had already been levying the tax.
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      They were grandfathered in at $0.55.
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      If you take the money that's submitted based on their tax rates, the distributors can then knock off a 2% dealer discount, preferably the state law.
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      The Albemarle small piece for administrative expenses, the localities give the rest.
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      Slide, please.
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      So just to give you an idea of some of the latest figures with regard to revenue of the number of cigarettes that are being sold throughout the footprint of the board, January's 2026 revenue over a quarter of a million dollars across the 11 jurisdictions.
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      There you can see the total revenue for the first six months of the current fiscal year, July through December of 25.
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      We also have a July through January number of paths sold, 4.3 million.
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      We easily exceed $8 million every year.
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      I think we have since been in existence.
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      And administrative costs just through the first seven months of the fiscal year, only $56,000.
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      So we've actually been bringing that number down, becoming more efficient.
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      In fact, that number, when I was looking at preparing this presentation, actually about $10,000 less than it was through the same period last year.
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      We're trying to do everything we can on an ongoing basis to be as efficient as possible.
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      Overall in the program, revenues are continuing to increase even though the number of packets sold is either setting or slightly declining.
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      I should be back to a couple of things we have had within the last one current fiscal year.
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      Augusta County has increased its rate up to the maximum 40 cents of pack per counties.
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      And we've been adding new jurisdictions.
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      So in this current fiscal year, we actually added the county of Rapid County.
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      So more jurisdictions, higher tax rates going to give you more revenue, but not necessarily want cigarettes being sold.
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      And then there's just a little bit more, you know, what our, what our expenses are averaging about a month.
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      Those expenses that are allocated
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      and deducted from the allocation for each of the number of jurisdictions based on the number of PACS that are sold in their jurisdiction in the given month.
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      Gretchen does a great job for us on a lot of the behind the scenes work with Katie Tack of the revenues coming in and the reports coming in.
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      She creates these wonderful charts.
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      There's this representation of the PACS sold July through January.
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      across the previous fiscal years.
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      And you can see, you know, overall, you can see that decline, you know, it's not perfect.
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      You know, some months, you know, kind of bump up where, you know, maybe they hadn't been as high in the previous year, but overall trending downward as far as the facts sold.
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      Next slide, please.
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      Translating that over to a different chart so you can see where those packs are being sold.
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      And remember, without tracking packs sold to customers in stores, we're tracking what the distributors are selling to the stores.
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      So you can see on the right, the red and the orange, that's Augusta on the bottom, Albemarle on top, almost half of the packs that are sold across the 11 jurisdictions.
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      You throw in the gray, which is Rockingham County,
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      and then the other kind of a reddish color on the left, that's Orange County.
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      You can see that's about three quarters of the total max sold across the region.
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      Next slide, please.
    • 00:10:47
      Go back to the bar graph.
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      This has to do with the allocations, the revenues that are being realized by the local jurisdictions.
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      And again, probably more, having easier to see here, that upward movement in terms of
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      revenues that are coming in and being sent back to the localities based on the number of tax sold in the distribution.
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      And then the next slide is translating that into a pie chart.
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      You see not quite as big of a share of the revenues allotted by Albemarle and Augusta.
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      I think that's reflected with the fact that
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      Augusta had been at a lower tax rate and is just now moved to the maximum of 40 cents.
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      You see Charlottesville down in the bottom has a little bit bigger piece at a time when it comes to revenue, and that's due to their 55 cent tax, which is higher than the other jurisdictions.
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      Next slide, please.
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      So as I mentioned earlier, Rappahannock County is under the recent addition to the board, coming on board probably
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      and I will give it to you all last fall.
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      It just started in October.
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      The current chair is Kathy Schaffrin, who's the Greene County Administrator.
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      The board meets on a quarterly basis.
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      Its next meeting will be later on this month.
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      And one of the main action items from the board will be consideration of a budget meeting this year, 2017, which will be a little bit over $3.4 million.
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      Next bullet there, you can see that there was a recommendation coming out of the last TJPDC audit for fiscal year 26 that the BRCTB move to having its own financial books and its own audit.
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      Previously, the BRCTB's books had been kept within the TJPDC's and the audit that was conducted by RFC was done as part of the liberal TJPDC audit.
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      So the board agreed with that.
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      We're moving forward with implementing that.
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      That will be in effect starting for fiscal year 27 in July.
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      And as a result of those changes, there were some changes that were made, the board approved to the administrative services agreement.
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      But we believe that by moving that over to be our CTD, we're actually going to be able to combine some functions internally and hopefully make us even more efficient in our operations and also give us some more options in order to
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      Better facilitate, I think, the payment of revenue, the remittance of revenues by the distributors.
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      And then the last bullet there, just noted, every year, again, working with those 20 distributors, we require that they register with the board.
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      If you're a new distributor, it's a $200 initial registration fee.
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      If you're a renewal, it's $50.
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      We go through that.
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      It's starting in December, kind of bleeding over into the beginning of January every year.
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      But we, again, successfully were able to process all of those applications for registration from the distributors against you.
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      Next slide.
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      A little bit about the compliance work.
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      We were talking over here before the meeting started about the Wawa in Greene County opening today.
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      So they will be added to the list of retailers that are compliance agent and field visits.
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      We've got about 250 retailers that we are aware of.
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      that are selling cigarettes within the 11 jurisdiction footprint.
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      The goal of compliance in the work of our compliance agent is really to be out there and educating retailers, making them aware, for instance, in cases where you have new jurisdictions that are part of the board, that there is a cigarette tax and we need to be working through us and the distributors to facilitate compliance with the ordinance.
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      But our agent is very good about getting retailers to compliance if they are not in compliance.
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      So, you know, rather than, you know, being heavy and seizing cigarettes, which we have not had to do, he works with them very carefully to get them to compliance.
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      He's telling me, we had a short meeting yesterday that he ran across the store, ran across the store over in Rockingham County and
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      about half of their cigarettes, very small amount, very small mom and pop type operation were out of compliance.
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      Very cooperative retailer, you know, he's going to give them a chance to make things right.
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      He'll head back over there probably in the next several weeks just to make sure they've done what they said they were going to do.
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      So again, distributors,
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      They remit reports and revenues to us on a monthly basis.
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      If they don't do that in a timely manner, there is a process that we have internally that the board has signed off on to deal with that.
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      We have a deadline of the 10th of the month to make those reports and, you know, either give us the money or put the money in the mail for the previous month.
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      If you're late one month, you get a warning.
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      If you're late a second month in a row, you get a 10% penalty assessed.
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      And if you're late again, third month in a row, then you're put on probation.
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      In the past four, five months, we have had our very first incident where we've issued a late penalty and actually we distributed on probation.
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      At least for the succeeding month, subsequent month,
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      They got everything in on time.
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      So, but I think hopefully this time they've gotten message.
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      It's been a distributor that we've done a lot of gambling for for the years.
    • SPEAKER_02
    • 00:16:35
      That may be it for the next slide.
    • SPEAKER_07
    • 00:16:37
      Yeah.
    • 00:16:37
      So that's what I wanted to bring to you tonight.
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      There's a website.
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      We refer people to that.
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      We refer the distributors to that.
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      It's got the forms that they would need to get in operation with a blueberry cigarette tax board, list all the rates, the number of jurisdictions, and some other good sources.
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      Do I have an answer to any questions you may have?
    • SPEAKER_10
    • 00:17:07
      So, we've only got four of these.
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      That's four we can award for pretty soon.
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      And I was just wondering where their centers of gravity are and they are surprising to me.
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      And I can see with that a possible, in us we're curtailed on who we can be, that there's a very large locality that might be part of us eventually as the nearest center of gravity.
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      I'm thinking that the rich may be filling in, which otherwise would not have a signal.
    • SPEAKER_07
    • 00:17:44
      There's no reason for moving.
    • SPEAKER_10
    • 00:17:46
      And we're the nearest one.
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      I'm immediately thinking, OK, well, what's
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      Is that something that eventually cigarette taxifying the entire hospital?
    • SPEAKER_07
    • 00:18:04
      Two potential impacts internally of course with my time, Gretchen's time, Laura's time, where we have to leave internally.
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      There's also the issue of compliance agents which was purposely hired as a part-time position from the very beginning.
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      As we had those four additional jurisdictions come along, I'm thinking it would be a close look at both what would the impact be to us here at TJPDC, as well as to his time, his ability to drive, what he's right now, close to a 4,000 square mile region.
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      We're at Tipping Point, and I think we've been, I'm going to say, fortunate that some of the additions have been a small town, the therapy retailer, just not a county.
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      Roth and Hill founding was another story, more retailers there.
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      But I think if we were to get another jurisdiction, let's say a Louisa County, where you probably have pretty good sized land mass, you've probably got Louisa and Zion Crossroads in general, as well as some other places where they have retailers, we would really have to take a look in terms of what our capacity would be.
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      And then, would it be adding more time to appliance agent, would it be having second compliance agent, and then what
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      You know, this sort of capacity we might need internally.
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      And, you know, it's a decision of the board to whether or not they want to add a jurisdiction.
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      So, you know, they would also have to decide if they were going to increase the capacity of, yes, sorry, the tax form, of what, you know, how they were going to pay for that issue, which would probably be, you know, allotted amongst the jurisdiction, because if I had a yes, based on the tax that was so early for students.
    • 00:19:48
      Well, we've had some inquiries from time to time from some other jurisdictions.
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      When the board first started, Augusta was one of the original members.
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      I think that had something to do with having localities on both sides of the mountain to lead to the Blue Ridge name.
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      So having now had a bottom dam in the account of Mount Crawford, and then a couple on this side of the mountain.
    • 00:20:11
      Well, it's true to the name, but I know we've had
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      We had an inquiry about a year ago or so.
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      There's no requirement that the jurisdictions within a particular cigarette tax board all be contiguous.
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      Again, we don't have parents.
    • SPEAKER_10
    • 00:20:37
      We do not know the issue.
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      Which feels like a shoe that points back and forth.
    • SPEAKER_07
    • 00:20:41
      Yeah, I mean, I think when we were
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      I think we were very fortunate that when we were starting this up and having the City of Charlottesville, which had been implemented in the past, number one, it was great in terms of advising the board and advising us here on the staff level, you know, as far as how to do this, but then also agreeing to join the board, being that regional partner, even though I don't think this was a heavy strain on them from the administrative standpoint.
    • SPEAKER_10
    • 00:21:06
      I'm just wondering,
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      if EJPDC's role vis-a-vis the Blue Ridge Tax Board continues to make sense moving forward, right?
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      Like, maybe I'm embarrassed I don't have the answer to this.
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      So they contract administrative services through us, it's not, right?
    • 00:21:31
      I mean, especially if we become increasingly disconnected from the book, right?
    • 00:21:35
      Like if our footprint's no longer resemble each other,
    • 00:21:43
      Williams, cigarette taxes.
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      Does it make sense for their administrative staff to be piped through the TJP?
    • 00:21:55
      I don't know.
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      I mean, these are decisions for the Bush attack, but it also falls to us as also the financial studio, this organization.
    • SPEAKER_07
    • 00:22:07
      Yeah, as you said, there would be a decision to fast forward.
    • 00:22:12
      I think it would work pretty hard at, you know, it isn't right now, where you're talking about a large county that's far away, large, very large, you know, that's just something you can fit.
    • 00:22:27
      But as I said at the beginning,
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      You know, this came about because, again, the number of jurisdictions of TJPDC and others came from us, asked us to look at doing this.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:22:47
      Thank you all.
    • 00:22:55
      All right, up next is Beth Martin, one of the seventh graders we have planned.
    • 00:23:02
      I'm going to mispronounce your name, so I'm going to let you- Gorjan.
    • 00:23:06
      Gorjan, thank you.
    • 00:23:09
      Not everybody names Smith, just saying.
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      But Gorjan, if you could pick it up, I'd appreciate it.
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:23:15
      If you want to share your own screen, I've allowed you to do that.
    • SPEAKER_01
    • 00:23:20
      Awesome, thank you.
    • 00:23:22
      Good evening Mr.
    • 00:23:24
      Chair and TJPDC commissioners.
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      My name is Gorjan Gjorgjievski.
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      I serve as a transportation planner at the TJPDC.
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      Tonight I will present to you the Charlottesville Albemarle MPO fiscal year 2027 Unified Planning Work Program, or UPWP, on behalf of the TJPDC's Transportation Director, Taylor Jenkins.
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      This presentation is informational and does not require any action.
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      and just want to mention this document covers the period from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 and outlines the MPS transportation planning activities and priorities.
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      Charlottesville, Albemarle, MPO is a federally mandated metropolitan planning organization for planning district 10.
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      The UPWP is an annually required process that serves as both the MPO's work plan and budget planning document
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      It identifies transportation planning activities that will be carried out over the fiscal year and is developed in coordination with local state and federal partners.
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      MPAs are federally required in urbanized areas, 50,000 residents or more.
    • 00:24:37
      I just want to mention the Campbell boundaries are the urbanized area of Albemarle County and the city of Charlottesville.
    • 00:24:45
      The federal law requires that the Metropolitan Planning Process address 10 key factors which guide transportation decision-making.
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      They include factors like safety, inequity, and so on.
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      For this NPO, we added additional factors to this framework document from the FY24 Long-Range Transportation Plan.
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      and that served to further align planning efforts with regional priorities.
    • 00:25:16
      Those are marked in blue on the presentation.
    • 00:25:21
      The funding sources for the MPO.
    • 00:25:23
      So the MPO planning activities are funded primarily through two federal sources.
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      The Federal Highway Administration administered through VDOT and then the Federal Transit Administration administered through DRPT.
    • 00:25:38
      Additionally, state planning funds are provided through VDOT, the estate planning and research program.
    • 00:25:45
      As you can see on the pie, the MPA is primarily funded by federal sources with about 80% from FTA and from WPA.
    • 00:25:56
      This slide shows the breakdown of funding by source for the FY 27 work program.
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      The values identified in red are subject to change upon receipt of FY 27 FTA allocations.
    • 00:26:10
      The budget identifies funding for all CAMPA activities, including staff time and direct expenses.
    • 00:26:16
      Those include like equipment purchases, professional development, travel and mileage.
    • 00:26:21
      The budget within the MPO's control is represented by the yellow row in the table above about $525,000 VDOT SPR funds are within VDOT's control and represent the allocation that they received to support the MPO's work activities each year.
    • 00:26:43
      Here the funding is shown by a task category within the UPWP.
    • 00:26:48
      Similar to the previous slide, the FDA funding values are estimated based on last year's allocation and adjustments will be made once final numbers are available.
    • 00:26:58
      There are three tasks, program administration, long-range transportation planning, short-range transportation planning, and technical assistance.
    • 00:27:09
      The allocation between long-range and short-range planning is typically driven by work activities.
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      In years when the NPO is completing a long-range transportation plan, task two would have a higher split.
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      In years where staff are completing more short-range activities such as smart scale application and local technical assistance, that task is allocated higher.
    • 00:27:37
      This past year included several major accomplishments, including the completion of the comprehensive safety action plan known as Move Safely Blue Ridge.
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      We established the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Transit Authority and developed new safety performance targets.
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      Additionally, staff were actively coordinating and preparing smart scale application and updating the regional travel demand model.
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      Staff also developed and submitted several grant applications, including the Citrus Enrolls for All Supplemental Planning Grant, FTA Section 5310 funding for the PATH program, and the Rideshare grant.
    • 00:28:21
      Other efforts included participation in the VDOT STARS and Project Pipeline studies, as well as submitting a built grant application for the Ravenna River Bicycle and Pedestrian Bridge.
    • 00:28:34
      Looking ahead, several core activities will continue in FY 27.
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      These include MPO administration, smart scale coordination, participation in VDOT studies, and annual safety target setting.
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      Staff will also continue to work on the transportation demand management study, pursue additional grant opportunities, and host a joint meeting between CARTA and the MPO Policy Board.
    • 00:29:04
      For this document, the new emphasis that Steph added is the incorporation of best practices and benchmarking.
    • 00:29:12
      The purpose is that this effort will evaluate peer NPS identified improvements in policy development, performance measures, public engagement, and project prioritization.
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      That will serve the purpose to ultimately strengthen internal processes and planning frameworks.
    • 00:29:32
      Another new initiative involves enhancing data visualization for the long-range transportation plan and transportation improvement program known as the TIP.
    • 00:29:42
      This includes developing GIS layers and interactive tools to better communicate project information, support planning process efforts, and improve public engagement and partner coordination.
    • 00:29:58
      The NPR will also evaluate feasibility of establishing a bicycle and pedestrian counting program.
    • 00:30:05
      This effort will help support planning, safety analysis, and grant application by identifying key locations, equipment needs, and potential pilot strategies.
    • 00:30:18
      The next steps would be
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      that the UPWP is available for public review on the TJPDC's and MPO website.
    • 00:30:28
      Notice was also published in the Daily Progress.
    • 00:30:31
      So the MPO Policy Board is scheduled to take action on this document at its April 22nd, 2026 meeting.
    • 00:30:41
      This concludes the presentation for tonight.
    • 00:30:44
      I would be happy to take any questions.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:30:51
      Anybody?
    • 00:30:58
      Guys, thank you very much for your help, for your presentation, sir.
    • 00:31:02
      Thank you.
    • 00:31:05
      All right, consent agenda.
    • 00:31:09
      If everybody's okay with this, I'd like to combine them all into one vote from a simple solution to pull something up.
    • 00:31:16
      Sharing will be approved, the Senate agenda has been approved.
    • 00:31:22
      All in favor say aye.
    • 00:31:26
      Aye.
    • 00:31:27
      All right, fun stuff.
    • SPEAKER_03
    • 00:31:32
      Is Ned sitting on a fire state?
    • SPEAKER_05
    • 00:31:52
      A very nice breezy balcony.
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:31:59
      Okay, so please bring to you all the FY 27 draft operating budget.
    • 00:32:15
      Just as a reminder, we have a three part budget process.
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      So the budget first comes to you all in September, October.
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      Quite a bit in advance so that we can set the per capita rates and the population basis by which we then go to the local governments to apply for your budget process for our local funding.
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      So we did that back in October.
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      It then comes back to you again in May in draft form in June in its final version.
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      And that is the final operating budget.
    • 00:32:40
      That's the managing budget, the one that we use throughout the year.
    • 00:32:43
      We maintain a working budget throughout the year as we receive additional grants or we have new opportunities that come up.
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      And then it comes back to you all again in February and March as an amended budget with any new additions or deletions for you to then approve that final budget in March, February, March is the one that we are audited against.
    • 00:33:02
      So the one before you today is the draft operational budget for this upcoming beginning July 1, FY 27 is in draft tonight.
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      It'll come back before you in next month's meeting for final adoption and we'll consider aging for approval.
    • 00:33:17
      Draft operating budget is balanced.
    • 00:33:19
      It has projected revenues and expenditures of just over 19 million.
    • 00:33:23
      We see that's quite a bit different than we've been seeing in the last several years because as Bobby
    • 00:33:27
      The broadband project begins to taper down and a lot of that pass-through revenue is no longer here.
    • 00:33:31
      It's bringing our budget back down to what it would have been without that additional federal and state funding.
    • 00:33:36
      Additionally, this budget does not include any of the tax revenue passed through that David was speaking about now that they are going into their own books.
    • 00:33:43
      The only part that comes through the TJPDC's financial records is the administrative fees that we receive.
    • 00:33:50
      Lots of graphs and put them in your packet so that you have access to them in advance because lots of little numbers, but I did want to break it all down for you guys.
    • 00:33:57
      So our total revenues at 19 million, if you look at all revenues for all projects, that puts us at about 45% federal funding, 47% state, six and a half percent local, and 1.1 local per capita.
    • 00:34:11
      But if you pull that broadband funding out of there, because it's a little bit of an outlier,
    • 00:34:16
      We're actually much closer to 62% federal funding still through all of the different federal agencies that we work with.
    • 00:34:22
      13% state, it bumps that local up to 19 and a half and local per capita then is about 5.3% of the budget without body.
    • 00:34:31
      If I break that all out by sources, I put in pie charts of all of the different funding sources so you can see where all of the programs are allocated funding based on source.
    • 00:34:40
      So in our federal revenues, again, our federal revenues are 8 point, just under 8.7 million.
    • 00:34:45
      But if you pull out that 6.3 million in body, so it doesn't skew the pie chart, we're looking at about 2.4 million in federal revenue that is not associated with the broadband program.
    • 00:34:56
      And then it's broken out for you by program.
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      So you can see that.
    • 00:35:01
      Many of our programs have a mixed federal stack.
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      So we might get a branch that has a federal portion, a state portion, and a local portion that is to operate that program.
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      So you'll see if you see something on here in the federal, it might also be in the state for the state portion or the state match.
    • 00:35:16
      And then it might also be in the local for the required local match for that program.
    • 00:35:22
      Our state revenues are at about 9 million, just under 9.1 million.
    • 00:35:28
      Again, if you pull out the state DHCD body funding, that's over 8.5 million.
    • 00:35:34
      We get up 505,000 from the state in order to operate all of our programs.
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      On the left-hand side, $114,000 of that is a DHCD contribution for general operating expenses.
    • 00:35:45
      All, uh, plenty of different commissions in the Commonwealth get some state funding to operate.
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      And then along the right-hand side, all the way down, the majority share of our state funding is for the ride share.
    • 00:35:56
      And then, uh, the original housing study, we did get a state grant to be able to support that work and the other programs in smaller amounts.
    • 00:36:07
      Look at our local revenues.
    • 00:36:08
      This is local funding we received from various sources.
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      Some of those are jurisdictions.
    • 00:36:13
      Some of them can be private foundations, grants that we've received, things that, but not state or federal.
    • 00:36:20
      If we pull out the broadband portion, that's 498,000.
    • 00:36:24
      We're looking at about 748 that comes from all local sources.
    • 00:36:27
      It does include in here the BRCTV admin as one of the largest and legislative services from contributions from the local governments.
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      And then the rest of those are all the smaller little pieces.
    • 00:36:40
      The majority of our grants, they might be 80% federal, 10% state, 10% local, or 60, 35, 5.
    • 00:36:49
      Every agreement has a different split.
    • 00:36:53
      This is where you guys in your local funding that we apply to you all.
    • 00:36:57
      This is where your local funding is going to match those brains.
    • 00:37:05
      The next one is the per capita revenue.
    • 00:37:07
      This was determined back in the fall.
    • 00:37:09
      This is the assessment that we use to apply to the local jurisdictions.
    • 00:37:12
      So you can see the dollar amount that each local jurisdiction pays us for general operating.
    • 00:37:17
      It's important to note in here there is an additional 9,899.
    • 00:37:21
      That is not something that was assessed this year.
    • 00:37:24
      That was instead because the NPO, Metropolitan Planning Organization, had rollover funding.
    • 00:37:31
      From an FY25 that'll go into FY27's budget, I also rolled over local per capita from FY25 to cover that local match so that it didn't come out of FY27's local match.
    • 00:37:44
      So it's funding that we have that's deferred.
    • 00:37:46
      We already have it.
    • 00:37:47
      I just want to make sure you guys know we were going to be using that this fiscal year.
    • 00:37:53
      So budget expenditures, this is what I think is so interesting about our budget of the 19.2, 87% is actually passed through revenue, something that we receive and we pass on either to a sub-recipient, contractor, housing non-profits that do the work.
    • 00:38:09
      So that's just over 16.7 million.
    • 00:38:12
      Here are all of the different programs that have passed their funding associated with them listed on screen.
    • 00:38:22
      The operating expenses are 12.77% of the budget.
    • 00:38:26
      So we operate on just under $2.5 million.
    • 00:38:30
      77% of that is personnel related expenses.
    • 00:38:35
      And then I broke out some details for you in your packet in the presentation and on the screen.
    • 00:38:40
      I also included a very detailed memo in the packet if you want to get any further detail on any of the different sources, programs.
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      and I'm happy to provide to anybody who requests it a breakdown spreadsheet per program, per funding source.
    • 00:38:55
      I have all of the back information if you want it.
    • 00:38:58
      For salaries, it's about 80% of our personnel expenses.
    • 00:39:02
      If you all recall from last year after the class comp study, we had a recommendation and you all approving what was option 3B at the time, that was a one year implementation of the class comp recommendations.
    • 00:39:14
      When we went from April to May, I came to you all and said I would like to take a pretty conservative approach because of the uncertainty in the federal funding.
    • 00:39:23
      So we took that one year implementation and we actually spread it across two years.
    • 00:39:26
      In the first year, the increases were given a 75% in base salary, 25% in bonus.
    • 00:39:33
      In the second year, which is FY 27, that would go to 100% base salary.
    • 00:39:38
      We also then
    • 00:39:40
      Going back and doing all the research, I have included in the draft budget a recommendation of a cost of living adjustment as well of 2.8% so that it ages that data one more year because we approved a one year implementation, but we spread it across two.
    • 00:39:54
      So I want to make sure folks also get that second year cost of living increase if that is something that you all support.
    • 00:40:02
      We do anticipate next year having the same staffing level, 16 full time, two part time.
    • 00:40:08
      I would anticipate that at least through the first half of the year, but as we see some programs begin to taper down, one-time grants that we received that we may have some contraction as well.
    • 00:40:19
      So related to the broadband program, related to one-time housing funds, it may require us to relook at our staffing.
    • 00:40:26
      Right now we have sufficient funding to keep and maintain this level of staffing throughout the fiscal year, but that will always be something we're looking at as grants begin to go away.
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      and then fringe is about 20% of our personnel expenses.
    • 00:40:41
      So at the bottom is all the different fringe expenses we have, our health insurance, we may flood up 7% from last year to this upcoming year.
    • 00:40:52
      Just some background just to keep, this is something I keep my eyes on very, very closely on a month over month basis is our indirect cost rate is how much indirect do we have for each billable hour
    • 00:41:04
      and making sure that we are keeping our eye on that both because that is what grantors prefer is lower indirect costs, but also it's just being good stewards of the public funds and making sure that we are not floating ourselves administratively, that we are operating as lean as we can.
    • 00:41:19
      So for FY 27, the indirect cost rate is 50%.
    • 00:41:22
      The way that our cost allocation for indirect costs works is we have VDOT is our cognizant agent.
    • 00:41:29
      So because we received such a large amount of funding,
    • 00:41:32
      Every organization has a different fund as an agent.
    • 00:41:36
      Many of them are federal agencies, ours happens to be a state agency.
    • 00:41:41
      What ends up happening is our actual indirect costs in a given year, at the end of the year, based on our audit, set our indirect costs for two years after that.
    • 00:41:50
      So we are actually, this 50% indirect cost means that in FY25, our indirect costs actually are administrative costs for 50%.
    • 00:42:00
      And then what I also like to be looking at is that 10-year, five-year, and three-year average, looking at how are we trending with that indirect rate, because the goal is always to either be holding it steady or making it go down.
    • 00:42:12
      We do not like to see it go up.
    • 00:42:13
      However, with the caveat that we just did a lot of tenant improvements, and those are all administrative expenses, we may see some increase in that indirect cost rate as we start to pay that all through our rent.
    • 00:42:28
      Having to take questions?
    • 00:42:30
      Lots of detail in your packet.
    • 00:42:33
      Very different budget than we've seen in the last couple of years.
    • 00:42:35
      It's pretty fun doing this 20, 30, 50, and now we're back down under 20 million.
    • 00:42:42
      Very interesting.
    • Ned GallawayTreasurer, Planning District Commission
    • 00:42:44
      Good question, Christine.
    • 00:42:47
      Mr.
    • 00:42:47
      Chair, I have one if it's all right.
    • 00:42:49
      Yep.
    • 00:42:50
      Christine, I know that when we were talking about the one,
    • 00:42:53
      The salaries after the comp study that some of the percent increases, even with the spread or the strategy you took.
    • 00:43:01
      When I did a check in a year ago, Albemarle did not seem to have any concerns or express any.
    • 00:43:07
      Did you hear or get any feedback from jurisdictions based on any changes since the salaries were going up there?
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:43:16
      No, as a matter of fact we got some compliments that those increases in salaries didn't immediately turn into increases in requests from local governments from per capita.
    • 00:43:26
      So if you remember all of our local funds and per capita funds where we did that deep dive analysis into how long has it been since we've recalibrated.
    • 00:43:34
      So we are using that data to inform what we asked our local governments for
    • 00:43:39
      I was only willing to recommend that one year or two year implementation if we can sustain that without coming back to the local governments and asking for a very large increase.
    • 00:43:49
      I do think we are at the point where in the fifth year of a five year approved increase in the per capita rate.
    • 00:43:55
      So I think going into FY28, we will do another
    • 00:43:59
      Deep dive into the data and say, do we want to change how we do the local assessments, but we'll bring that all to you all to make that decision in the FY28 budget process, which will start in September and October.
    • Ned GallawayTreasurer, Planning District Commission
    • 00:44:12
      Great.
    • 00:44:12
      Thank you.
    • 00:44:13
      I think that with you doing the strategy that you did, I always, you know, it's one thing when we make comments or take votes on that when you propose it, but then you live it.
    • 00:44:22
      And it just seems like it was a good decision.
    • 00:44:25
      So well done on that.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:44:29
      Any other questions?
    • 00:44:33
      I have one maybe for the room.
    • 00:44:38
      Would I read this right as the HUD AMI deferred to May 1st would be considered April 1st?
    • 00:44:45
      Does it normally get released on May 1st of April?
    • 00:44:54
      No, don't take it right now.
    • 00:44:56
      That's all right.
    • 00:44:56
      A little smarter than it looks, right?
    • 00:44:59
      It's the process here first.
    • 00:45:01
      It's down May 1st, yeah.
    • 00:45:06
      I was in a non-profit, I wouldn't bring it back then.
    • 00:45:09
      Okay.
    • 00:45:12
      So we've got the presentation and we've got the total revenue for the contribution.
    • 00:45:16
      We've covered that all over YouTube.
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:45:19
      Yes, I have covered everything that I have to present to you all.
    • 00:45:22
      I already know anytime you say the budget is done and it's ready within 24 hours that somebody sends you something that you can change, but cut everything off in order to get this into your packet.
    • 00:45:32
      I already know of a handful of amendments that I'll put in between
    • 00:45:36
      April and May for you all to consider for adoption.
    • 00:45:39
      And then the moment you approve that, it's usually within a couple of days that we get something new or something different, which is one of the benefits to a three-part process.
    • 00:45:47
      Although I did look the other day, you know how everybody always says, I feel like we're always in budgeting season of your 10 commission meetings in a year or six of them, cover budget.
    • 00:45:57
      So it is, we are doing it a lot because of this three-part process.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:46:03
      So there's no whole business if you want to move on.
    • 00:46:06
      There is no business.
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:46:09
      Right.
    • 00:46:09
      So my executive director's report, just a couple of very high level.
    • 00:46:12
      As always, I write out my executive director's report so that you have access to it.
    • 00:46:17
      I did want to give you an update on the tenant improvements, the renovations that we're doing.
    • 00:46:23
      We are
    • 00:46:24
      Getting closer every day to being done.
    • 00:46:27
      One of the delays, one of the minor delays, some of the delays have not been on our end, but one of the minor ones is since the scope of work was paid for through the owner, we did not have to worry about procurement because we were not the ones that were signing with the contractor.
    • 00:46:47
      But in having
    • 00:46:49
      change orders, anything that was in excess of the original contract that PDC pays for directly.
    • 00:46:56
      And those contingencies exceeded that 10,000 threshold.
    • 00:46:59
      So we had to do a 10-day public notice that we were procuring for this additional scope of work.
    • 00:47:04
      So that kind of put a halt on things until we could follow the law, basically.
    • 00:47:09
      Now that we have done that, things are moving a lot better now.
    • 00:47:12
      We've had a lot of communication with the contractor.
    • 00:47:15
      They did some demo on the from bathrooms today.
    • 00:47:18
      We've got flooring being finished tomorrow.
    • 00:47:21
      We've got vanities going in next Monday, and they're templating the countertops.
    • 00:47:26
      And as soon as they get those major last pieces of construction done, it then comes down to the punch list.
    • 00:47:31
      I've asked for a final not to exceed date.
    • 00:47:34
      Because this feels like it's going on longer than we would all like it to be.
    • 00:47:37
      And I was told today there is a hundred percent chance that we'll be back in our space fully ready to go by April 24th.
    • 00:47:44
      But we may consider moving in prior to that and just closing portions of the office as they complete the work.
    • 00:47:50
      Because I know staff are very interested to be able to get back together and do a lot of our work collaborating versus overstating.
    • 00:47:56
      That's my major update.
    • 00:47:57
      Everyone else is working.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:48:01
      Contractors tend to lies.
    • 00:48:03
      You know what?
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:48:04
      I asked him, I said, what's the date?
    • 00:48:07
      And then in my head, I added 10 days, but he gave me three different days.
    • 00:48:12
      He said, I told my crew the 17th.
    • 00:48:14
      I'm telling you the 20th, but it'll probably be the 24th.
    • 00:48:16
      Okay.
    • 00:48:18
      I'll tell them what I know.
    • 00:48:19
      Plus a month, because this is going to be end of February.
    • 00:48:24
      We are in the beginning of April.
    • 00:48:28
      But it looks nice, right?
    • 00:48:29
      It's getting there.
    • 00:48:30
      It's so exciting.
    • 00:48:31
      It's very fresh and bright and clean feeling.
    • SPEAKER_10
    • 00:48:37
      And we get a big old shag rub.
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:48:40
      There will be some sound re-handling coming from the walls.
    • 00:48:50
      It's been a week, but it will take a little while.
    • 00:48:53
      Ideally, this room would need a whole, you know, the drop ceiling that all of them, but it's quite costly.
    • 00:49:00
      And I think we want you all to consider is, is that something you want to invest in the space that we don't own?
    • 00:49:07
      But certainly happy to vote in one vote if you guys want to do something different.
    • 00:49:11
      I'd like to try some lower cost dampening of that echo.
    • 00:49:15
      Do you remember the rub that was in there?
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:49:22
      I don't.
    • 00:49:23
      I have photos.
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:49:24
      30 plus our old roach.
    • 00:49:30
      Ripped, stained.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:49:33
      So any questions?
    • 00:49:38
      All right.
    • 00:49:40
      All right.
    • 00:49:42
      I got a lot of good speaking.
    • SPEAKER_05
    • 00:49:52
      Mr.
    • 00:49:52
      Chair, I move that we enter closed session.
    • 00:49:57
      I move that the Commission meet the means to close session pursuant to the exemption found in Section 2.2-3711A1 of the Code of Continuance to discuss management of employee performance of the Executive Director.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:50:12
      The second.
    • 00:50:14
      Is there anyone here on set?
    • 00:50:15
      Seconded.
    • 00:50:16
      Seconded.
    • 00:50:16
      Thank you, grown fellow, Christopher O'Rourke,
    • SPEAKER_07
    • 00:50:19
      We're going to do, we're getting to it.
    • 00:50:23
      Vice Chair Payne?
    • 00:50:24
      Yes.
    • 00:50:25
      Councilor Fleischer?
    • 00:50:26
      Yes.
    • 00:50:27
      Supervisor Galloway?
    • Ned GallawayTreasurer, Planning District Commission
    • 00:50:30
      I'll abstain because I'm going to jump out.
    • 00:50:32
      I didn't know if this was going to be working virtually or not to be in the closed session.
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:50:38
      I can put you in, would like to be, or you can jump off.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:50:42
      We can put you in if you want, Ned.
    • 00:50:43
      It's up to you.
    • Ned GallawayTreasurer, Planning District Commission
    • 00:50:44
      All right.
    • 00:50:44
      Yes.
    • SPEAKER_07
    • 00:50:48
      Supervisor Pruitt?
    • 00:50:49
      Aye.
    • 00:50:49
      Supervisor Ryan?
    • 00:50:51
      Aye.
    • 00:50:51
      Chair Smith?
    • 00:50:52
      Aye.
    • 00:50:52
      Supervisor Goolsby?
    • 00:50:53
      Aye.
    • 00:50:54
      Mr. Higgins?
    • 00:50:55
      Aye.
    • 00:50:56
      Supervisor Woodward?
    • 00:50:57
      Yes.
    • 00:50:57
      Supervisor Barlow?
    • 00:50:58
      Yes.
    • 00:50:59
      Supervisor Reed?
    • 00:51:00
      Yes.
    • 00:51:00
      Supervisor Roth?
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 00:51:05
      Aye.
    • 00:51:05
      At this time, I'm going to stop the recording and I am going to move all online participants except for Chair Galloway into a waiting room.
    • 00:51:19
      Okay, I have reduced the recording.
    • SPEAKER_05
    • 00:51:28
      Mr.
    • 00:51:29
      Chair, I move we exit closed session.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:51:36
      I need a second.
    • SPEAKER_07
    • 00:51:38
      Second.
    • 00:51:39
      All right, Vice Chair Kane.
    • 00:51:44
      Yes.
    • 00:51:45
      Councillor Fletcher.
    • 00:51:47
      Yes.
    • 00:51:47
      Supervisor Galloway.
    • 00:51:49
      Yes.
    • 00:51:50
      Supervisor Pruitt.
    • 00:51:52
      Aye.
    • 00:51:52
      Supervisor O'Brien.
    • 00:51:53
      Aye.
    • 00:51:53
      Chair Smith.
    • 00:51:54
      Aye.
    • 00:51:55
      Supervisor Goolsby.
    • 00:51:56
      Aye.
    • 00:51:56
      Mr. Higgins.
    • 00:51:57
      Aye.
    • 00:51:57
      Supervisor Woodward.
    • 00:51:58
      Yes.
    • 00:51:59
      Supervisor Barlow.
    • 00:52:00
      Yes.
    • 00:52:00
      Supervisor Reed.
    • 00:52:02
      Yes.
    • 00:52:02
      Supervisor Robbins.
    • SPEAKER_05
    • 00:52:04
      It says aye.
    • 00:52:06
      Aye.
    • 00:52:11
      Aye.
    • 00:52:13
      Aye.
    • 00:52:13
      Mr.
    • 00:52:14
      Chair.
    • 00:52:16
      Aye.
    • 00:52:16
      Move that the Commission certify that's the best of each member's knowledge, only public business matter, lawfully accepted for the open meeting of the province of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, and identified in the motion authorizing a closed session were heard, discussed, or considered in the closed session.
    • SPEAKER_07
    • 00:52:37
      All right, one more time.
    • 00:52:39
      Vice Chair Payne?
    • 00:52:41
      Yes.
    • 00:52:41
      Councilman Fleisher?
    • 00:52:42
      Yes.
    • 00:52:43
      Supervisor Galloway?
    • 00:52:44
      Yes.
    • 00:52:45
      Supervisor Pruitt?
    • 00:52:46
      Aye.
    • 00:52:47
      Supervisor O'Brien?
    • 00:52:48
      Aye.
    • 00:52:48
      Chair Smith?
    • 00:52:50
      Aye.
    • 00:52:50
      Supervisor Goolsby?
    • 00:52:51
      Aye.
    • 00:52:51
      Mr. Higgins?
    • 00:52:52
      Aye.
    • 00:52:52
      Supervisor Woodward?
    • 00:52:53
      Yes.
    • 00:52:54
      Supervisor Barlow?
    • 00:52:55
      Yes.
    • 00:52:55
      Supervisor Reed?
    • 00:52:56
      Yes.
    • 00:52:56
      Supervisor Rothfield?
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:53:02
      Aye.
    • 00:53:03
      Anyone?
    • 00:53:03
      Thank you, everybody.
    • 00:53:06
      Christine, we'll wrap up the lunch then.
    • 00:53:10
      All right.
    • 00:53:12
      Next up, our roundtable discussion.
    • 00:53:16
      We'll start with the Hanson fellow up at the end there.
    • 00:53:20
      Jesse, what?
    • SPEAKER_05
    • 00:53:25
      We were working on zoning and the map now.
    • 00:53:30
      I really suggest everybody do those things combined in terms of where we are zoning in the library draw.
    • 00:53:36
      It's going to be very exciting.
    • 00:53:38
      Various districts have a big special use permit.
    • 00:53:41
      It's giving me emails.
    • 00:53:43
      I just want to say in recent, the last six months, I would say 50% of my constituents are now sending me emails written by AI, which has made for very interesting discussions in gas stations and feedering.
    • 00:53:57
      When I say I like that point, they said what?
    • 00:54:00
      But, it is a tool, I suggest everybody use it, but maybe make sure that generally all the prompts where you're at.
    • 00:54:12
      When it comes to our budget, we're getting darn close.
    • 00:54:16
      We set the rate, or set the average tax rate of 58 cents for real estate.
    • 00:54:21
      We must stay the same.
    • 00:54:23
      Sixteen.
    • 00:54:25
      Five.
    • 00:54:26
      Twenty-eight.
    • 00:54:27
      Yeah.
    • 00:54:27
      Yeah, we're not, we know.
    • 00:54:30
      And what else did we do?
    • 00:54:34
      There you were at the last meeting.
    • 00:54:37
      A lot of stuff going on with the service floor, you definitely have to go to that.
    • 00:54:43
      I'll talk about the admissions pass, you mean?
    • 00:54:46
      That's right.
    • 00:54:47
      Now, before we do that, I had the regional housing partnership.
    • 00:54:50
      It was a great meeting.
    • 00:54:51
      I would like to say it would be really nice that Nelson County could use whatever data that it can.
    • 00:54:58
      While we go into our zoning and graphics plan and if we can get some level of presentation of that data and explanation would be great.
    • 00:55:06
      That would be helpful for us.
    • 00:55:08
      I've made that note that the RHP as well.
    • SPEAKER_08
    • 00:55:18
      Ernie, you want to kick in on a real second?
    • 00:55:20
      Yeah, we're revisiting the admissions tax, which we did, I think, three years ago.
    • 00:55:25
      We're going to be doing it again in the effort to get community buy-in.
    • 00:55:31
      We've got a committee that's got three supervisors on it, representatives from Green Oak Ridge and other citizen groups in the department.
    • 00:55:46
      It looks like it will get a little more serious consideration in this program since our budget is not as fuzzy in terms of school funding as it has ever been, but it just keeps getting worse.
    • 00:55:58
      But we need some recurring revenue from some place, and that might be a really good option for us to see all those.
    • 00:56:05
      We don't have admission status now, but it's a fast and one of the tickets, and you can
    • SPEAKER_05
    • 00:56:21
      They've changed a lot since last time we've been here.
    • 00:56:24
      I'm pretty sure that was a little bit.
    • SPEAKER_08
    • 00:56:26
      Yeah, and non-profits usually do that.
    • SPEAKER_05
    • 00:56:28
      Yeah.
    • SPEAKER_08
    • 00:56:29
      So there's a lot more flexibility these days.
    • 00:56:33
      But since a lot of our revenue is still pretty true, ticket sales one way or another, it's a real thing that can substitute for the entire environment.
    • 00:56:45
      They can scheme even cheaper.
    • 00:56:48
      That's the step.
    • 00:56:50
      If you fail a lot, you fail a lot.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:56:53
      Is that it, Ernie?
    • 00:56:58
      Oh, I think so.
    • 00:57:03
      Yeah.
    • SPEAKER_06
    • 00:57:04
      Oh, you said me very flat.
    • SPEAKER_03
    • 00:57:05
      Tell me.
    • 00:57:06
      We just been having fun with our buddies.
    • 00:57:10
      All that.
    • 00:57:11
      They were kind of boring some time, and they decided a lot of things I could go for.
    • 00:57:18
      And Louisa.
    • 00:57:21
      I don't really add women.
    • SPEAKER_08
    • 00:57:32
      I will say this, because you might have to say something.
    • 00:57:39
      I've watched the majority of the females
    • 00:57:49
      I'm very interested and very thankful that so far Louisa hasn't been able to do something like that.
    • SPEAKER_05
    • 00:57:55
      Anyway, seven hours.
    • 00:57:58
      Eric Arnold reevaluated me in 72.
    • 00:58:00
      Yeah, that was pretty smooth.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 00:58:03
      Seven.
    • 00:58:05
      Seven.
    • 00:58:05
      That was powerful.
    • 00:58:07
      That's powerful.
    • 00:58:10
      I watched that whole thing.
    • 00:58:11
      They actually really did a great job tonight.
    • 00:58:13
      Oh, they did.
    • 00:58:14
      They did a great job.
    • 00:58:16
      One of them beat me.
    • 00:58:19
      Yeah.
    • 00:58:20
      Any data set up updates?
    • SPEAKER_03
    • 00:58:24
      I don't know where they're going on the graph.
    • 00:58:29
      It's constant strain on the level 5.2.
    • 00:58:32
      And it's just one program in all of them.
    • 00:58:38
      And if you go up there, they're also coming through from the north.
    • 00:58:43
      They're coming through from the west.
    • 00:58:47
      I don't know what you think about that.
    • SPEAKER_06
    • 00:58:50
      How many years have everyone actually felt the need to be built right now that are on schedule?
    • SPEAKER_10
    • 00:58:55
      Just to whirl off this?
    • 00:58:59
      We have multiple street buildings, which you might call Davis and Midland.
    • 00:59:08
      And can you have any in operation?
    • 00:59:10
      No.
    • SPEAKER_06
    • 00:59:12
      One should be pretty close.
    • SPEAKER_10
    • 00:59:18
      There's almost a billion dollars floating a billion in something I've been highly challenged on my people that there's that week now that we potentially do a little bit involved in the settlement that it might be interesting to try and ask for permission to be popular in
    • 00:59:45
      I know that would benefit y'all a lot if we could potentially increase your machinery and tools over to your personal problems.
    • 00:59:58
      We'd have a really good power when I was just doing special tasks with all of that.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 01:00:07
      But that doesn't mean we can't even use that, which is strong science country.
    • SPEAKER_03
    • 01:00:14
      I don't know if that's what it is.
    • 01:00:21
      That's what it is.
    • 01:00:28
      That's what it is.
    • 01:00:31
      That's what it is.
    • 01:00:33
      That's what it is.
    • 01:00:35
      That's what it is.
    • SPEAKER_08
    • 01:00:40
      That's what it is.
    • 01:00:42
      I don't think I heard you say that, right?
    • 01:00:46
      Well, I hope so.
    • SPEAKER_03
    • 01:00:49
      But then, when you find out that you're right and what it means is that that's how it comes about, you know.
    • 01:01:02
      But if you do that, then you've got to run along in the name of the whole problem.
    • 01:01:07
      If you've got the right, all of a sudden, they help you all with that.
    • 01:01:13
      So all we've got in the bracelet is the agreement in ID31.
    • 01:01:20
      Whereas if you lower the rank, then you stand on that.
    • 01:01:26
      So you can't leave that, but right now, we're going to go ahead and expand on that.
    • 01:01:33
      That's the problem.
    • 01:01:35
      And if you leave the bracelet, that's not good enough.
    • 01:01:40
      James, Greene County.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 01:02:03
      Very briefly, right now Greene County has an oasis called Placidity in Central Virginia.
    • 01:02:10
      We have no drama over at the Moscow plant, the Valley Lake transmission line, to discharge at 280,000 gallons of wastewater a day from the Patterson Center.
    • 01:02:23
      So we're simply going to enjoy the quietude and feasible nature of life in the county and Oahu.
    • 01:02:32
      Oahu is home.
    • 01:02:34
      And Keith, on a tangential note,
    • 01:02:36
      Next year, with regard to the director's evaluation, to encourage greater participation from a commission member, perhaps we could have an incentive program, if you submit the evaluation.
    • 01:02:51
      We have a $20 gift certificate to Lowe's, or only Vance, or whatever that is.
    • 01:03:07
      Thank you very much.
    • SPEAKER_11
    • 01:03:30
      Well done.
    • 01:03:33
      Everybody's probably doing the same thing with their budgets.
    • 01:03:36
      We advertise a 3% because of the real estate element.
    • 01:03:42
      The biggest thing on that was because the state mandates through the school board were $16 million shortfalls.
    • 01:03:50
      So that's one of our community strategies.
    • 01:03:56
      Most of the state is saying the drink industry is rich right now.
    • 01:04:01
      More property value than we do commercial and we don't have revenue.
    • 01:04:05
      So we have a $6 million shortfall from the state candidates to the school.
    • 01:04:11
      So we're trying to balance that out and keep the batch claims.
    • 01:04:18
      I'm taking a verdict on that one.
    • 01:04:22
      We had the law on just on Monday was the first day for any law law.
    • 01:04:27
      And when the water and drought projects
    • 01:04:31
      they have the draw water lines, they've already taken hold, they've already moved the ground, and they have new water treatment plant too, so that opened a 60 million dollar project, and it's taken hold and started off.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 01:04:49
      Is that service going to happen with your brother this year?
    • SPEAKER_11
    • 01:04:53
      And we pretty much budget a lot of them in, and I think the good thing about it is,
    • 01:05:02
      Once we, now that we get started, this has been a 20-year project, kept kicking in and kicking in and out, and now that we've actually started, I think we're going to probably get a lot more grant money through the state.
    • 01:05:18
      We've already gotten some grants now that once it was already proven or started, now the state's already started kicking some grants back.
    • 01:05:32
      Williams, you know, Bill Grant, we've done many of those.
    • 01:05:36
      We have to finish up that project, but we have to.
    • 01:05:41
      From where it really advanced as the original $80 million project, advanced down to $60s, so a lot of it got scaled down, you know, the size of it by a nine-foot reservoir down to a six, and it started right down to something like that.
    • 01:06:00
      all that kind of coming together of net, but that's where we have a whole lot of housing developments that are hitting the pipeline with food and the net, but that's what's, in general, that's what the state mandate money on that, so we got so many, all these housing developments and having housing covered up,
    • 01:06:30
      We need to start advertising our commercial revenue from that food, but that's where we're at.
    • 01:06:40
      We've been balancing that budget and what we're going to do with the cash, advertise, maybe sell a little bit on the funneling, but then we need to split that.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 01:06:53
      Jesse, I think I heard from James that he's not going to be on the committee because he might have been sat in the rank of chair.
    • 01:06:59
      I think that's what I heard.
    • 01:07:02
      My hearing aids are not quite working.
    • 01:07:05
      Well, that would be a very fortuitous outcome.
    • 01:07:08
      I have to look that word up.
    • 01:07:12
      Thank you.
    • 01:07:15
      Michael, you're up next.
    • SPEAKER_02
    • 01:07:19
      Well, probably the biggest thing is that we're closing in on adopting our budget.
    • 01:07:23
      We had our hopefully final Thursday budget work session this evening and then looking to adopt it next week.
    • 01:07:32
      It includes $10 million a year for affordable housing.
    • 01:07:36
      Other than that, public transportation and education are the biggest drivers of increases along with union contracts for city staff.
    • 01:07:47
      Other than that, maybe the next biggest thing is the
    • 01:07:50
      Work session we had around, we'll leave it year-round on the homeless shelter.
    • 01:07:55
      We had all our homeless services providers come together with city council to discuss their preliminary plans in terms of expected cost for renovation, staffing levels.
    • 01:08:06
      Gallaway was there, up on our side.
    • 01:08:09
      You guys may help make it your regional conversation because it is a regional problem.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 01:08:15
      Other than that, we asked to come to that.
    • 01:08:19
      Jen, is there anything you'd like to share?
    • 01:08:21
      Yes, that's all right.
    • 01:08:23
      Nice to meet you, Jen.
    • 01:08:24
      Nice to meet you.
    • 01:08:25
      Yeah, sorry.
    • 01:08:26
      Nice to meet you.
    • 01:08:29
      So Jen, have we left everybody in this room?
    • 01:08:33
      Let's probably be really happy to be able to hear that.
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 01:08:36
      Yeah, I did a health department call.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 01:08:39
      Okay.
    • Christine JacobsExecutive Director
    • 01:08:39
      And we did the Zoom.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 01:08:41
      My apologies.
    • 01:08:42
      I'm sure my person.
    • 01:08:43
      Okay, well, we've got a little bit of time.
    • 01:08:46
      That's Jesse, they'll talk to him.
    • 01:08:49
      Ask him about the internet, he'll tell you.
    • 01:08:51
      Tommy, Mandy, where are you over there on the side?
    • 01:08:59
      You know Michael?
    • SPEAKER_11
    • 01:09:00
      Tony was from Badland?
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 01:09:03
      You skipped James.
    • 01:09:06
      Sorry?
    • 01:09:06
      You skipped James.
    • 01:09:07
      Is he going to be chair?
    • 01:09:09
      He's going to be in his next room.
    • 01:09:11
      Open up your mouth please.
    • 01:09:13
      Mike with Albemarle, Ned with Albemarle.
    • 01:09:19
      Of course you from that period.
    • 01:09:26
      Not me, I'm not.
    • 01:09:32
      I have nothing to speak about.
    • SPEAKER_02
    • 01:09:34
      I'm sorry.
    • 01:09:35
      I'm just saying.
    • SPEAKER_10
    • 01:09:36
      OK, here's to Karen's prerogatives.
    • 01:09:40
      Mike, the rest of y'all, I think our time is for us to get spent on the budget right now.
    • 01:09:47
      Since we last chatted with you, I think previously I told you what the Fannie Griffin budget looked like.
    • 01:09:53
      You know, we're going to be borrowing from the future.
    • 01:09:57
      You know, we wrote the master's and did it into our reserve half
    • 01:10:05
      and we will have the time during the revenues from the passwords that I have.
    • 01:10:11
      The board thought long and hard.
    • 01:10:15
      We have a lot of community study folders who continually refresh through several moves for increased funding for ADA.
    • 01:10:23
      I also say it's like, oh, the community is asking, also individuals who are a very big system that I'm happy with for an increased funding for ADA, which is a housing investment
    • 01:10:36
      Williams, the support department of housing and construction, Norma Maybarden, Emile Housing Alliance, or out of that curriculum, but no showing anyone.
    • 01:10:49
      There, we are getting closer each year than normal, and to make the final jump to get within the form, there were two, three, three votes for a tax fee.
    • 01:11:04
      on the illustrating of the equivalent for personal property between $0.29 on personal property.
    • 01:11:11
      Most of those fail 3-3.
    • 01:11:12
      It's a fact.
    • 01:11:13
      It's a ties or fails, very hard, weirdly, even board.
    • 01:11:20
      There was a counter motion for $0.15 on personal property, which doesn't get us to $0.15.
    • 01:11:25
      But it is still, just as I'm talking about,
    • 01:11:28
      and does give us about halfway throughout the difference, you know, there's about 7.5.
    • 01:11:36
      There's some discussion ongoing on one, whether or not we're going to have the titles with increase on personal value and two, whether or not there's other locations that we also speaking of native, you know, is helpful that while we're talking about
    • 01:12:02
      We have since, over the last year, we've implemented the new regulations and procedures for our competitive fundraising process.
    • 01:12:11
      That would be annual.
    • 01:12:13
      Previously, it's kind of been senior staff discretion, which projects to prioritize, and that would be the one that's processed how much is to spend on what.
    • 01:12:21
      We had our first round from our first Adronova on that, and before the board, there were some scrotical applicants with that.
    • 01:12:30
      There were some board members
    • 01:12:31
      I'm one of the members who wanted to power the OSOT and math.
    • 01:12:36
      It let us all have deep dive into how it's actually working as a process.
    • 01:12:40
      We're so into funding, so we used to do the process, and you're supposed to be hands off, but as a person, you're too, so you're just like, well, is it working?
    • 01:12:50
      Another bunch of stories, that's also the same.
    • 01:12:52
      They think we have a new legal process for how new agency fundings work.
    • 01:12:59
      There's some way we're out and on one week after those BBC funding allocations have already been made.
    • 01:13:07
      Anyway, I've been coming by myself.
    • Ned GallawayTreasurer, Planning District Commission
    • 01:13:13
      I think that covers it all.
    • 01:13:16
      I mean, it's all budget just like everyone else.
    • 01:13:18
      Nothing really to add.
    • 01:13:21
      Well, I guess I do have one thing to add.
    • 01:13:23
      We always talk about, all of us, we always tell our constituents how we vote on the budget as a reflection of our priorities.
    • 01:13:30
      And it's interesting with our board right now,
    • 01:13:34
      You know, politically, we all sit under one umbrella.
    • 01:13:38
      We have a lot of shared values, but how you budget to your commitments of those values is interesting.
    • 01:13:45
      And that's what, those are the differences I think we see on display right now with our board.
    • 01:13:50
      So we'll see.
    • SPEAKER_11
    • 01:13:51
      It'll be curious, I'll be curious to see where it lands.
    • SPEAKER_10
    • 01:14:03
      I believe we still have two meetings to go yet before we do that, whatever the last April board meeting is.
    • 01:14:33
      That's right.
    • 01:14:42
      Good one?
    • SPEAKER_03
    • 01:14:43
      Yeah.
    • Ned GallawayTreasurer, Planning District Commission
    • 01:14:44
      You good Ned?
    • 01:14:47
      I didn't, I didn't hear that.
    • 01:14:49
      Was that another question?
    • 01:14:51
      No, no.
    • 01:14:51
      Are you good?
    • 01:14:52
      I'm good.
    • 01:14:52
      Yeah, yeah.
    • 01:14:53
      I'm all done.
    • 01:14:53
      Thank you.
    • 01:14:54
      What Brian thought?
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 01:14:56
      No, no, no.
    • 01:14:57
      I'm not talking.
    • SPEAKER_06
    • 01:14:58
      Yeah, nothing very exciting to have had.
    • 01:15:02
      and kind of why I would, I think, sorry, we're going to increase the PM2.5 levels across the entire state.
    • 01:15:09
      Thank you for sending that.
    • 01:15:15
      Now it was a, it was a, you know, a long process.
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      We started this back in September or something, a long time ago.
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      Lots of meetings, lots of conversations, and a lot of dealing.
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      And there were some very active groups that were promoting that UNESCO was a very bad thing.
    • 01:15:41
      And so that continued throughout the entire process.
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      But interestingly, at the final meeting, we probably had about 45, 50 people sleep.
    • 01:15:56
      We did have a total of really common periods between
    • 01:16:01
      Public Hearing Comments, and Between Public Comments.
    • 01:16:04
      And so that kind of stretched out.
    • 01:16:07
      Some of those people were speaking on both sides.
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      But I would say that we end up with about 60 people in here, 60% against 40% for some of the admiral European community on the four side now.
    • 01:16:24
      I mean, I said that a lot of other members were nasty employees, but that kind of speaks to the audience.
    • 01:16:34
      the high school there.
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      And there were maybe about 250 people, 200 people, but we've had much bigger community meetings.
    • 01:16:41
      And we literally thought we were going to be there until about five.
    • 01:16:45
      So getting out of 130 was OK from that standpoint.
    • 01:16:49
      The vote was 4-1.
    • 01:16:53
      Mr. Parachow, who consistently was against the project, voted no, which was not a surprise.
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      But we may be able to survive if we got to a 4-1 vote.
    • 01:17:03
      So that was a reflection of, you know, as I said before, the deep thought that everybody put in and trying to weigh all the aspects of this particular program.
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      As was said by many people, it is a generational change for Fluvanna County.
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      The potential tax impact if we were to take the full revenues, once $14 million could result in
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      almost a 31 cent tax increase, which is about 42% of our taxes.
    • 01:17:34
      Obviously we don't do that, but that is the impact of this particular project.
    • 01:17:38
      $250 million in SCC funded kind of tax revenues that you get from the state level, but then we also negotiated another $20 million in
    • 01:18:00
      restricted covenants, we had a good neighbor fund, to talk about that in a minute, we had a long field firehouse that went to about six and a half million dollars, we had a fund for a roundabout, which was also good, David Crawford, or no, let's say Crawford, restricted covenants, we also had access to discharged water, which it's kind of hard to measure what that's worth, but in terms of bringing water into central Albemarle,
    • 01:18:31
      And then one special condition or one restricted comment that I was hoping to get past and hopefully we may be able to pick this up as a group and especially with
    • 01:18:59
      who have been appointed by the governor to head of energy.
    • 01:19:03
      But one interesting program that I was hoping the county would take on board, and ask it had also, when you put a fund for $2 million to fund rooftop solar, the board felt that they didn't want to put that money on the taxpayer, so we didn't do that, we took that $2 million
    • 01:19:33
      That was a one-to-one program, you know, so I mean we've been four million dollars of solar energy and I felt it was an important program to put in place but also important statement because our comprehensive plan calls for, you know, heat calls for renewable, non-centralized energy.
    • 01:20:05
      And so yet, when it came down to it, when we actually had an ability to create a program to put it in decentralized renewable energy, we turned that down.
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      It should be noted that Fluvanna County has one of the most restrictive industrial scale solar
    • 01:20:22
      O'Brien.
    • 01:20:24
      So at the end of the day, the community was then
    • 01:20:52
      You know, brought the valley link thing.
    • 01:20:54
      So we had that meeting last night.
    • 01:20:56
      We're going to be joining folks from Louisa as a leadership to fight against it.
    • 01:21:01
      That was a five mil vote with a resolution against the valley league proposition.
    • 01:21:07
      Some folks had it as perhaps being a little bit out of the line with the tenacity thing, but there were really kind of two different aspects to it.
    • 01:21:16
      And there was, I think, some really good questions asked by the community and by the board members yesterday.
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      to Valley Lake, and again, to commend the residents of Fludanna County for bringing forth their concerns, their ideas, and also some of the great ideas that were brought forward.
    • 01:21:34
      So how would we approach that?
    • 01:21:37
      But that's been a lot of exciting on the budget side.
    • 01:21:39
      We have a new commissioner revenue.
    • 01:21:41
      The commissioner already changed the way vehicles were being assessed from the previous commissioner.
    • 01:21:47
      They can,
    • 01:21:51
      And so the net effect of that change was that there was about a $1.5 million decrease in revenues to the overall budget because it went from looking at vehicles as being high versus medium.
    • 01:22:08
      So that had an obvious impact on the budget.
    • 01:22:11
      But we had a pretty easy budget to go with because the schools really amassed a lot of money.
    • 01:22:17
      We advertised a 0.77 setting rate.
    • 01:22:21
      I have a feeling that we'll end up at around 76 and a half, which is pretty much an equal budget from what we were.
    • 01:22:30
      It's a flat budget because you take into account the decrease in the personal property, the closer you pay, and then you look into what we increased, whether it be that we may even be, just a little bit, maybe the first time since I've been on board, we've actually reduced taxes across the board.
    • 01:22:55
      Smiths, and a lot of good stuff happening to help to get Enroll and get some of that set.
    • 01:23:07
      Power plants, you know, they've got to go through the state permitting process.
    • 01:23:14
      I think they have like 20, there would be rain.
    • 01:23:18
      I mentioned the Green Neighbor Fund would be unfair for me not to mention it.
    • 01:23:22
      There was some criticism of my
    • 01:23:24
      having a coppery on, they were a benefit from the Good Neighbor Fund.
    • 01:23:29
      Obviously the rule is three implies on this, but nevertheless, I recused myself from receiving money from that.
    • 01:23:37
      However, that's not good enough and there are some folks out there that are seeking to have these run out of office for them.
    • 01:23:43
      So that's going to be a little bit of fun too.
    • 01:23:45
      I'm not likely that that will go.
    • SPEAKER_09
    • 01:23:48
      It may be a small favor.
    • 01:23:51
      It may be a small favor.
    • 01:23:52
      All right.
    • 01:23:54
      All right, guys, we're going to try to get everybody out.
    • 01:23:57
      10 minutes, almost 10 minutes early.
    • 01:24:00
      May 7th, you might have to be out of the country, so you can probably share on that.
    • 01:24:04
      I'd appreciate it.
    • 01:24:06
      Other than that, everybody have a great Easter, and we'll see everyone.
    • 01:24:10
      I'll see you guys back in June.
    • 01:24:14
      Take care, guys.
    • 01:24:14
      Have a good Friday.
    • 01:24:19
      There we go.
    • 01:24:22
      Well, I think that was fun