Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

by Supervisor Metz and the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thank you. I invite us to take this moment to recognize that September 1st starts the beginning of Suicide Prevention Month. Let us take this opportunity to remember that every person has value, that struggles are often invisible, but a simple act of connection can make a meaningful difference. As we begin our work tonight, May we approach one another with compassion, listen without judgment, and remain mindful of the impact our words and decisions can have on the people we serve and on one another. May we have the courage to speak openly about mental health, to notice when someone may be struggling, and to create an environment where asking for help is seen as a sign of strength, not weakness. Let us carry forward a commitment to connection, hope, and the belief that no one should have to face a difficult moment alone. Thank you.

Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

All right, thanks everybody for coming out tonight, picking up with the agenda. Any amendments to the agenda? All right, you know we'll move on to public comment. I'm going to be limited to 3 minutes per person in order to afford everyone opportunity to speak. We provide a full name and district when submitting your public comment that it can be properly included in the public record for stuff we have Caleb Kirk.

There we go all right from Oklahoma actually from here, but I'm visiting pastor Davis asked me to take his place. He really wanted to be here, but he just got a stint put in. He was released at four, and he tried to come, but he was prevented from coming, whether for good or bad. So thank you for being here. I'll tell you, there's a lot of times our public servants get a lot of flack. You hear a lot of complaints. There's a lot of jokes made about you. But I want to say thank you. I want to say thank you, and not just because of what you do, but because God commands us to say thank you. In 1 Timothy chapter 2, it says, I exhort therefore that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings, and for all that are in authority. that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who will have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men. the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time, whereunto I am ordained a preacher and an apostle. I speak the truth in Christ and lie not, a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity. I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting. I thank God for you men and ladies in our government, that endure all the stuff you endure from people. And it seems oftentimes many are not even thankful for what you do. And some may have good intentions and some may have bad, but it's irrelevant to the command that God gives us to be thankful and to pray not only in thanks for you, but I pray also that God does work on your heart. If you've not put your faith in Jesus as your Savior, God's arms are open. He wants to save you. Jesus died on the cross for your sins, not just for mine or someone else's. Paul understood this, being not just a religious leader, but a political leader of his time. And zealous in what he did, and he did some bad things, and he thanked God. for the faithful saying that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. He believed he was the chief of sinners, and Jesus saved him. I pray for your heart, I pray for your protection, and I thank God for your service to our country. God bless.

All right, that was the only name that had signed up. Is there anybody in the audience who would like to make public comment tonight? All right. Oh, come on up. Can I ask you to hold off to get to the Mike so it goes into the record. I read that.

That's what Barbara gay. I wonder. So you are my flyers that I'm trying to support. I mean to get my nonprofit girls don't out here. Young ladies and women. And the men. These are the kids. It away that I have prepared to have a like over 400 that I put together With my money, I try to support King George, Westmoreland, Sonia Beach, and Haven, and Warsaw. With clothes, I didn't want to bring those. But I wanted to show you all this so that I am serious about and devoted to doing this. But I need King George's support. I want to thank you all for sharing and listening to me.

Thank you ma'am. Anyone else? Anyone have any correspondence? Seeing none, Mr. Dines, do I have anybody online? Nope, all right, we'll close public comment at this time. Moving on to reports of the board, Mr. Metz.

Yeah, thank you. Today, Mr. Smolnick and I had the opportunity to meet a lot of the students coming up through a CTE program at the school through Ms. Strauss and Ms. Leonard's classroom today. We did mock interviews. I would say, let's see, I had about 12 or 15 students. I think you had about an equal number there. And we both had to bail before their third block today. It was great to see the schools training our students about how to interview, how to go after real world opportunities. And each of them gave us a mock business or application that they were applying for. And it varied. I mean, it was across, it was, it was a very diverse group of students that we got to interview today. I had a couple that were looking at retail sales, some sports opportunities. I think there were a couple of college interview applications that mixed in there as well. Anyway, it's just part of that CTE program at the school and really nice to see very professional, students coming up through that program there. Separately, over the last two weeks, I had an opportunity to talk with several residents. I'll put this out in the public. You may have received a letter from Verizon. It appears that they are proposing to end-of-life copper plain old telephone service, trying to push people towards cell phone service. brought this to Mister small. I think several of us have actually gotten feedback from from residents. I went and visited a few places where, you know, one had no cell phone service. The other had one bar and it doesn't look like moving to sell is gonna, um, suffice for for those folks in our community. So, um, still working out, you know how we can interact on that proposal going forward with the state. So stay tuned. I

Yeah, I think that's it going. All right, thank you. All right.

There can you hear me.

But keep my short. I want to bring up a couple things I want to thank everyone for work. And those that do not know about that AWS withdrew their application for the groundwater well. And I thank Senator Stewart for his great letter and all those out in the community that spoke up. I actually got a personal phone call from DEQ and a letter officially with the withdrawal. And they said there was over 30 people that had spoken or sent in emails and was going to trigger a public hearing. community spoken, people heard. So I want to thank everybody in the community and say that we were still sticking up for the citizens of King George because that's been very important for all of us, especially myself, since way back in the way back in 2023 and even before. So bring that to your attention. Next thing, we went to our meeting of GWRC, Mr. Solins and I, and they had a presentation from the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative on energy concerns. It was very detailed and in-depth. I also attended the Eastern Virginia Groundwater Committee online. It was the first time they had an online meeting. And we went really deep into the SJ25, which is talking about the water east of the 95 in the groundwater. And one of the points I wanted to bring up, there was a lot of points from it, but they were talking about other areas for possibly doing recharge, like they do the SWIFT program in Hampton Roads. And so, as always, I always say, what about King George? They were talking about Fairfax and Prince William, but I was like, well, hey, what about us? Because there is a little sliver up there of the atomic aquifer that does go up there. And last but not least, my King George fun fact today is something we should all be very proud of. So I don't know if a lot of you last weekend might have had a lot of low military flyovers over King George. Well, the stealth bomber pilot B-2 stealth fire mission commander was one of our own, and his name was Major Stuart Shippey. He was one of my cross-country runners. Great kid, and he was class president of the class of 2008. So I know his mom, and I think he's watching tonight. So I just want to say thank you for honoring King George, serving, flying over us, and saying hey, and just for what you do for our country. So thank you, Stuart. Appreciate it. And that's the end of my report.

All right, thank you.

Just thank you everyone for coming out. We have a shortage in tonight, but just thank you for coming out supporting community. Thank you for paying attention. I bring that up. I also want to thank Mr. Stewart for his work in serving us and this is it's news to all of you what's going on with the water but it's something that people haven't been paying attention to because we don't pay attention to stuff like this but he's been fighting for about water issues and things in this state for years and it's just no one has been wanting to listen you know no one wants to pay attention you know and he was one of my educators in that when i was running he was you know we were talking about you know amazon at the time and and things that were important and he him and along with some other people really just brought some light into some subjects for me and what we're really fighting for here. And that's why we've made some decisions in the past. Because we could see what was coming down the pipe a little bit. We're just privy to that. But just thank you for sticking in there. And I just encourage people to keep paying attention. As people, it's really easy for us to believe the bad is the good. It's just we're programmed that way. You know, if you hear you know, this pastor fell over here and he did this. And without even knowing that you go, oh my goodness, I can't believe he did. You just, it's easy for us to believe the bad. But if someone's doing something good, for some reason it gets harder for us to buy into that. It must, something must have happened. You know, we make excuses for it. And it's just the way the human nature is. And so even when this, the permit was put in and requested, it was just easy for people to jump right to the negative and Facebook and all that stuff. And, you know, people made some comments about me doing and I didn't respond and that's okay you're going to say because I knew at the end at the end of the day at the end of the tunnel that some was going to be done and I appreciate you and that's the main thing I want to say I appreciate you thank you very much.

All right thank you thanks everybody for coming out tonight I'll echo what my colleagues have said on the different things so far I will add that we had a great meeting last week with the it was an off-site meeting at AP Hill meeting with the school board and with Dr. Boyd talking about budget items for next year and a handful of other stuff. Thanks to Ms. Morgan for making that journey out there and joining us. And again, sorry for getting us lost on the way out. They changed the in and out route this year, so it was a little bit more complicated than it was before. And then GPS doesn't work real well on the base if you don't know specifically where you're going. But anyway, it was a great time. I want to read a proclamation. This is the proclamation of Disability Voting Rights Week and it's September 14th through the 18th. Whereas the right to vote is a fundamental right and an essential component of civic participation and representative government, more than 70 million people are living with disabilities in the United States and 40 million Americans with disabilities are eligible to vote representing one of the largest groups of voters. 2,818 people with disabilities are valued members of the King George County community whose voices, perspectives, and participation strengthen our community and our democratic process. Voters with disability have the right to participate fully and equally in elections, including access to voter registration, polling locations, voting systems, and other elections information and services. Disability Voting Rights Week provides an opportunity to promote awareness of voting rights, accessible elections, voter registration, and civic engagement among individuals with disabilities, their families, advocates, and the broader community. King George County recognizes the importance of removing barriers to civic participation and supporting an election process in which every eligible voter has the opportunity to exercise their right to vote independently, privately, and with dignity. The Disability Resource Center of Rappahannock area, in partnership with RevUp Virginia, which stands for Register, Educate, Vote, Use Your Power is a statewide effort to build the voting power of disabled Virginians. Therefore, it's proclaimed that the King George County Board of Supervisors hereby recognizes September 14th through 18th, 2026 as Disability Voting Rights Week. So I wanted to read that to you and also I want to give a shout out to Ms. Lori Gump and the folks over at the Registrar's Office for running such a tight program and making sure we have fair and legal elections and making accommodations for folks that you know, don't feel comfortable or for whatever reason can't, you know, come inside to do, you know, cast a vote in a traditional manner. So she does a great job. She's got a wonderful staff. And anytime you get a chance to go over there and say hi, do so because you'll be greeted with a smile. They're wonderful people. That being said, we'll move on to the consent agenda. Can I get a motion on that?

I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented.

Second. But you're probably second any discussion roll call vote. It's meant to act throughout all right, it's been there. I think it was a terrible time motion carries and constitutional officers. We have this reading about the doing this.

Regina Puckett, Commissioner of the Revenue. Good evening, Mr. Chairman, members of the board. This is a follow-up to the land use ordinance. I want to thank Mr. Stewart for putting together the proposed ordinance, but I have a few suggestions to the updated ordinance. The due date for land use has always been November 1st of each year, so I'd like to keep it. Keep that the due date to... fence confusion with the citizens that are already in the program and have been for years. The state is based on the way the state code reads at least 60 days preceding the tax year for which the taxation is sought. I would also like to make the revalidation every six years because currently we have the record set up to where the fee is due every six years based on the state code 58.13234. This will make the transition easier to keep the fees on schedule. Also, I would like to remove the section about the mailing and the regular tax mailings. This would involve the printer that the Treasury uses for mailing tax bills to manage a good portion of the land use mailing. It is something that must be completed by my office from my office. Otherwise, mistakes may occur. I've noticed that a change has been made to the fee from $10.10 per acre to a change of a flat and $10. And this question will this be effective for the revalidation or for the new applications as well. I do not mind the change but I would like whatever the changes to be for both of them the revalidation and the new applications less than the confusion for everyone. In addition, Essex County has a new application fee of $25 plus 25 cent per acre. So I'm wondering if now is the time for us to up the fee to maybe $20 for the revalidation and the new application.

All right, thank you ma'am. Any questions? All right, thank you. There any of the constitutional officers that would like to have a comment tonight. All right thing and moving on. The board of Supervisors agenda of the hearings we have none tonight presentations we have none tonight action items were starting off with items you're not 0 to set you across the land development is in by Mister Matthew small like thank you Mister chairman one one quick thing on the presented ordinance amendment by miss pocket.

So that was presented to you just as some information. Is this something the board would like us to move ahead on with a public hearing.

I would say yes, yes, yes, please okay, we'll.

Which which version.

I'm good with the changes that were provided. Right at this evening this evening sure okay.

Do you want to incorporate all the changes or some of them just to make sure we put the right thing in front of you?

Yes, sir. Thank you for asking. So, you know, I'm all right with the $20 understanding that it's going to be every six years. So even though it's more every 6 years. However, right now and I allowed her to leave the podium, but without having the mailings you said you're not. Residents just have to remember that hey this is it's been 6 years and you know that's a bit challenging. You're still going to do the mailings correct.

We will still mail from my office. The way I read it is that you wanted it to go with the regular tax bills. And so the treasurer and their printer folks would have to manage that. And I would like the mailings to still come from my office, just because some people want it mailed to a different address.

OK. Because you're already tracking them. Right. If I understand it correctly that people still going to mailing issues what also it leaves from and I'm fine with this pocket retaining that ownership of that thank you.

Well, you know we're going to be 6 years or we got.

Thank you.

Just for the record we've got to get to the table.

We'll get on we'll look at the advertising schedule, what the mission it on next available agenda. I think it's back to me, sir. All right. So Sedgwick Crossing. These are the two roads, Alberta Court, Sedgwick Court, that were just identified during the last ice storm. This was a discussion item at last month's meeting. Provided to you is a resolution or dash 19 dash 2, 0, 2, 6, along with the sketch and they in 4.3. This is required this resolution to this is the final step for the county to bring them into the state system. And if there's any questions I'd be happy to answer them otherwise look for a motion to adopt the attached resolution as presented.

I'm going to mend it. I make a motion. A commotion that we pass resolution are dash 19 dash 26. That could. But you probably think of the discussion.

All right all in favor say aye.

Thank you. Next item Mister chairman is a discussion on the rental leases for Virginia cooperative extension in the SS. So we know that both these offices lease space from the landlord here right along Route 3. These are due, they're coming due again December 1, end of November. So we've gone ahead, I've sat down with the particular property owner, provided me and then it's all been sent to you all for a proposed lease for the next five years. For a comparison, we went ahead and said, is there any additional space out there? And that's what the memorandum in your board packet captures. There's a couple units in Bayberry that Mr. Franklin visited. We looked at that, and the pros and cons of each of those are listed in your board packet. Now, the rates for the current space are not set in stone. So that's what he proposed. The Bayberry is a cheaper rate, but there are some trade-offs with it. Not being located centrally, you have the cost of a move, ADA accessibility, versus what we have right now. The new owner is proposing a five-year lease, the owner for where we currently reside. Just looking, I want to give the board a couple different options. Here we are September 1st. We have a couple months. But I want to make sure that a service is uninterrupted be we get the best deal for the county. There's looking for some direction from the board where your thoughts on these 2 locations and what direction would you like me to to work as far as the Bay bear location or the current location.

Like here from Mister Franklin you visited the Baybury offices. Give me your beyond that you guys are packed in where you're at now you need more space on this one and we get your feel about it.

Yeah, so the idea of additional square footage is delightful. We desperately need it. I mean, we make do with office space, but when it comes to visiting rooms for children, meeting rooms to accommodate multiple meetings at a single time, we can't do that in our current space. items in the memorandum are my concerns with the bayberry unit at least the way it's laid out now there are it's almost like a split foyer you enter the lobby and then you can the main meeting the main office space there's an upstairs and a downstairs that's ada compliance issues you know we deal with a lot of individuals who have mobility issues and just mobility restrictions. So we need to comply and provide a means to accommodate them and their needs. Also, just the general location, where we are currently, we are essentially 15, 20 minutes from everywhere in the county. We're also central to county admin, the sheriff's office, who we do a lot of coordinated investigations with, and the courts. So we're right next door. We're often on notice unexpectedly by a judge and called into the court. And so we can literally just drive right down the road. That would change significantly being in Bayberry. We've been spoken to a couple people who we have at least one employee who lives down there. And she said, well, good luck with all the base traffic in the morning. So we would have 20 more cars on the road. So with and then just in terms of your discussion, so the space-wise, it's a the Bayberry office space is a great space. It's great. It would need modifications to meet our needs for our customers. The location is a challenge, would be a challenge, especially for those who live in Pass Potansie, you know, they're driving all the way across the county to get to us now versus being central. And then for planning purposes, we report to VDSS and VIDA, which oversees all of our IT needs. We need, they say, a minimum of six months. I've spoken to two directors who moved in the last year. It took them over a year to coordinate all of the telecommunications and networking stuff with Vita. Because it is not a very efficient agency and they often have to then coordinate with Verizon and other providers. And we're stuck with their timeline. So in order to make a shift, we would need we could not make a November deadline. been moved at the drop of a hat. So we would need time to coordinate that as well.

What are your preferences and why?

My immediate preference is to stay where we are.

I'm willing to put in the work and explore options and costs. The next year would provide us. So if you were to provide us a year lease versus a five-year lease, it would give us a year of planning. And I think in a few months, we could get the cost for what build-out would be required. It would buy us some time. OK. Yeah.

The reason I ask is that the numbers here look very favorable but if it doesn't work it doesn't work and I thought you were all my impression coming into it that you were all in and I'm like wait a minute that sounds like he's not really all in. I want to be clear I I would love to be all in it. The question.

And this is to for Mister small like I know there is there a possibility of finding other based and maybe we could purchase they could expand the cost of releasing.

I mean we we we could we we we can explore those options, yes, ma'am what you know what's out there on the market to fit their needs. Nothing comes to mind right now, but we we can we can definitely explore as a as a possibility man that I understand what it means, especially for meeting rooms.

And child is correct. So it seems like the space is kind of limited. Overall. So that's why I'm bringing it up because I know it's been talked about before but it could be something that we're looking at and especially get a year lease that gives us time to look.

And I did. Meet with. Mister bear. The one who showed me the Bay very office space and we discussed other potential options and none came to mind.

All right. Other questions?

Yeah. Thank you for taking that on, right? This is sort of in addition to the running the department as well. I think it was a good opportunity. You know, I'm glad you're able to look at that space, the $10 a square foot. It looks like maybe it's a little bit below, you know, kind of the market rate for office space, probably reflective of some of the issues you pointed out with the way it's structured. upstairs downstairs stairs stairs in general and ADA always raises questions I definitely wouldn't go any further than five years out but I will say anytime we look at a building it's usually a three-year minimum by the time we and get everything aligned in a CIP and so And I don't think this ended up on the CIP for next year to start engineering services. So I would think this five-year horizon might be about right. I would take the market rate and maybe go back and talk to our current landlord and see if there's any negotiating space on that 1868 a square foot. We have been a long-time tenant with this landlord, and hopefully there's some goodwill there. Like you said, right, that space, in some ways, while you're small, it is centrally located. I can respect the benefits of that location versus the others. So I think that was all. Thank you for taking that on to go look for other opportunities at this point. We're happy to do it.

All right. Thank you, sir. Sure. Right out of 0, 9, 0, 14, George County court could wouldn't website.

We have we have the city here also Virginia part of extension.

And we're not going to talk along and we're a team and if they can come up now. So we won't waste your time because we're a team. But we're a small but we're mighty. And so we're Virginia corporate extension, you know that we're part of Virginia Tech and Virginia State University. And everything that Jonathan said, right on this everything that we agree, we want to have more space and we had more space, we can do a lot of things. This is our ag agent, she can have a whole big community garden. This is a 4-H agent. You can have kids running here and there and doing all kinds of things. But like Jonathan said, that's a high traffic area. It's at the, almost into Maryland, right? And so it takes us out of the county seat around all the, where we can one stop, stop. He mentioned a lot of things at the courthouse and I did with the courthouse too because I do parenting classes. and co-parenting classes but we also work with the op shop because we have to refer families love thy neighbor health department food line I have shopping classes in their food line and so those things are accessible and one of the first thing like Jonathan said is that ADA we have a lot of our clients are older, older adults. And they're also we have young parents who have babies and strollers would have to get upstairs and downstairs and all of that. I have a lot of notes here, but I'm not gonna bore you with those notes. I'm just gonna get to the parts that Jonathan didn't say about us. We love green space. And our office is small, but we can go into the parking lot and we can go behind with social services. And we do that gardening. We do a 4-H classes and things like that. So we really do take advantage of that space. We also are very hands-on. So we need to be able to do things that we can really help our clients to learn like 4-H and I do one-on-one. So that space is really advantage. I'm just going to share just a little about my program and then I'm going to shut up and then I'm going to let them say something about their program. I am family consumer science. And if you remember long time ago, when you were in school, you took home economics, right? That's family consumer science and you baked and things like that. So we need a kitchen. We need folks to learn how to cook. And we also need able to be in proximity to social services and the health department. And so sometimes if we have to relocate, then our clients may not follow us. That's an argument. Some of them have transportation issues. So that's all I want to share.

I will I will also keep it short for time, but I echo what Peggy said and that is that that space is incredibly important a lot of my programs we operate in the indoor space, but then we open those doors and we flood back outside. to get those kids active and moving and fresh air and they can outdoor voices. We do large-scale programs like the 4-H County Fair that we work through all year. We teach, in the past, we've done Parade Performance Fin Club, which works with the Fall Festival. So lots of very large-scale programs that require big spaces to build things like large props and teach kids problem-solving skills and get them outdoors, as well as indoor skills like running a meeting. having that space for them to feel like they really are running a meeting in that professional space, but then be able to set the gavel aside and go outside and be kids.

That is what I will say about 4-H. With agriculture not to resources, we prefer to be outside for all of our programming, but indoor spaces are important too. I'm currently chair of the livestock show and sale committee that services the surrounding area. And we've actually outgrown that space a little bit because we have so many committee members coming and we actually host our meetings at the church across the street right now. But the long term, we would love more space. But for right now, I think with the current option that's been presented, I don't think it is the best for us, largely because of the ADA. But also I think brand recognition is really important for us. There's already plenty of people in the county that aren't super familiar with us, but when we're able to say, oh, yes, we are right in the middle of town, we're near Happy Dance Coffee Shop, we're not far from the courthouse, people are like, oh, yes, I know where you are. We'll come right by. They pick up soul sample boxes from us a lot. That's one of the main kind of stop-in services that at least my program offers. I wouldn't want to interrupt the I think growth we've had recently in terms of being able to be accessible and in front of our clients. That's all I'll say. Thank you all for listening to us.

Thank you. All right. Item 0904, Kingsborough County Code of Ordinances proposed update.

Can I ask one question of the board? So we heard the two different options. What I've got before you is a five-year. I heard Mr. Metz some comments. Do you want me to work with the property owner for maybe a one, a three, and a five year? Or what's the direction from the board? What would you like to see?

Me personally, I would try to drive for a three for the property. I mean, the Bayberry property is not going to work out, right? And I mean, I'd drive for a three year. There are some things we have in the works and there's some things that we plan on doing and taking care of him and taking care of a lot of the rentals that we have in the community is one of those things. It's going to save us a bunch of money. They'll basically pay off the payments. I would push for three. Even if you made us sign a five-year lease, give us an option at the three-year point. For two more one-year options? Yeah.

Sounds good. I understand.

Three and two one-year options would be ideal.

I'll call the landlord and we'll get rolling on. Thank you very much.

I'm just asking how much you want for those.

All right about that. I am 0, 9, 0, 4, Kelly come on up and join us.

All right, thank you for a good evening everyone. Mister Vaughn and I are here tonight to give you an update on where we are at the staff level. identifying ordinance sections that shall or may need updated. Comdev staff have been keeping a running list of recommended amendments over the last couple years, at least since I've been here. We're working on compiling our list into a master red line list that we hope to get to you within the next couple of weeks. Last week on August 25th, county attorney staff provided a red line version of mandatory and optional amendments that were adopted by the General Assembly in 2024, 2025, and 2026. That's what was included in your packet. We are currently reviewing these amendments and cross-referencing them with other sections of the ordinance that might be affected by them. It's a big task to look through to see what other sections might be affected by mandatory changes. In summary, there are approximately 50 ordinance sections that need to be amended because of code changes adopted by the GA and approximately 50 additional sections that are recommended to be amended by staff. Mister Randall, our environmental programs manager has also been working on updates to his various code sections that cover wetlands, Chesapeake Bay areas and responsibilities of the wetlands board. And the staff's goal right now is to have a compiled draft ready for you all to begin looking at, hopefully by their first meeting in October. That's all I have unless you have questions working on it.

I had a question because I have a couple. With this, can we also look at the battery energy storage solar data centers in the tech zone? Like changing because I know we wrote those ordinances three years ago and a lot of changes have happened in that time.

I'm going to have to get some more clarification on the tech zone. It's not an overlay district or anything that's included in the zoning ordinance.

Well, I probably have the wrong term. But I mean, I've been very outspoken that I never liked how big it opened up the area to inviting large developments like that. It needs to be tightened a little bit, because I felt certain areas were being targeted in businesses. I'm being very honest with my comment.

mention one thing we had a young man from king george county by the name of evan fairfax his parents they all live right here and he served as an intern this summer this was one of the projects he worked on obviously under supervision one of my partners but he was a very capable competent young man and he did this for the benefit of the county didn't cost you anything

well i just want you all to know that and and evan did great work he did for sure that's great yes ma'am so will there be a public hearing at some point on there will be okay at least one at least one yeah um so because i think it's important whenever these changes are made that this is that Amy puts this out there to our citizens so they can see the changes and hopefully peruse them relatively quickly like you guys provided us. And then one of the questions that I had is that it looked like for getting a site plan approvals and such, the timeframes were shortened considerably, almost in half, at least by a third. And also that eventually you know, they're going to be approved.

If they get it right, yes.

I mean, it's, you know, it's more challenging now to really just stop this based on the changes. So, I mean, not that we're trying to stop it, but, you know, it's just more challenging. It's easier for people submitting site plans. I'll put it that way. And those are driven by state changes. Right.

Yeah, there were a lot of review time changes, and a lot of changes that made the counties able to administratively approve things.

You have to respond, and if you don't respond, then it's automatically approved in a short period of time. So, you know, I mean, whenever this comes out, you know, it's interpreted as, it changes the work schedule for our county staff, put it that way, okay. the prioritization of what they're working on considerably. That's all I have.

Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. That was a lot. I would just ask when we get it out for everyone to review, it's a lot of changes. And like we got a scan for this presentation tonight. Make sure when we get it out for everybody to review that at least the PDF is searchable so that those of us can zip to maybe areas that are of interest Ross, which I think Acrobat should be able to OCR it and put it up there in readable format. No, it is a lot, and I appreciate the help. Pat, please pass on our appreciation. Yeah, it's not, but it's not just county staff too, right? It also puts some requirements, like site plan approval isn't just the county. It's also VDOT's a good example, right? This holds them to they can't you know go for 5 reviews and then double whole bunch of new comments on you has to be related to the changes that were made. I'm good stuff some bad stuff. Yeah, thanks just to see as we go through review of this what comes out.

If you updated.

Thank you. All right and we're up to the county administrator's report.

Thank you, Sir. So before you tonight, the Board asked me for a summary of the roads that were identified. You guys got two of them in the system tonight with your recently adopted resolution. So what's before you tonight is my running list. This was presented to the Board, I believe it was back in, I think it was April of this year. And then for the public's knowledge out there, the bold italicized text is really the last status of where each project's at so i'll just go through them very briefly here the the bus loops um the the middle school we've got a um there was abandonment resolution uh it's going to be on the september 15 meeting and then anticipated approval date of october 6. this is to abandon the old middle school bus loop and the the school administration bus loop off of saint anthony's road so those will be forthcoming hopefully done here in the next uh 30 35 days Steelston Elementary, that bus loop needed to be brought into the system. That was already done on June 2nd. No further action needed, as was the King George Elementary bus loop. So we're all set on those. Kitchen Drive, this is one we've been talking about. And we had VDOT go out and do an inspection. The amount that was sent to you all was a $50,000 estimate. So this is a unique road where you come into the subdivision. You turn left, that section had houses on it. So it was part of the state system. I think it was the right-hand side. No homes were built initially. And that's the section now that has homes and needs to be brought into the state system. That's at a cost of $50,000, and that's local money. So the board will need to decide where to – you know prioritize this on the list and whether or not to allocate funds to get this into the next paving system VDOT and this this figure is based on VDOT doing the work themselves so Sedgwick court Alberta court we did that tonight so those two are done we've got lynx drive this needs to be brought into the system county's waiting for an inspection report and cost estimate from VDOT And then Melody Lane, this is very similar to Sedgwick Court in Alberta. I requested waivers for the administration fees to get them into the system. I'm just waiting for confirmation. We reached out to Mr. Beale just to confirm that these have been waived and then everything's already been taken care of. It was just a paper issue. between VDOT. So Melody Lane is once we get those fee waivers, we should be good to go. And then the last two on the list are Grover Drive and Francis Folsom. I'm still waiting for an inspection report and a cost estimate from VDOT.

Mr. Chair, I actually have a specific on that one. I know there is a developer pursuing the piece of property where Grover would go. And so my concern is bring those up to standard. If there's a developer there, has some interesting ideas of where he wants an access road and so I would like to have a little more information bringing that into the system especially if there's a developer wanting to alter you know okay and I know that because of the service authority they've replied to the service that's right there have been some discussions

So we can, you know, we're waiting, and the balls in VDOT's court, we're waiting to get those cost estimates. But I think it is prudent to evaluate that one a little bit further if there is a potential development. So we will definitely, whenever I receive the information from VDOT, I will get it to all the board members. But that's a good point, Ms. Bender.

Because we would, that would be our bill. So if there's a developer there, we need to figure that out. But thank you, Matt.

Any other questions?

What do you need from us tonight?

The board just asked me for an update on where all the roads stood. We've got two more coming up here. So two of the roads are waiting for VDOT, and then should the board want to do anything with Kitchen Drive, that's up for discussion from the board.

That was the $50,000 that you quoted?

Yes, sir.

Okay. That's a $50,000 to get it up to where VDOT would take care of it.

That is correct.

My recommendation is to When we do vote on it, let's act on it and do something. I mean, we had this other thing with VDOT, which the previous board sat on for a few years, and the cost to the county more than doubled. And it ended up being even more than VDOT was putting into it. So this may be a different, you know, I may be comparing apples and oranges here, but I feel like if we sit on it, it's just going to get more expensive.

And this is one I've been pushing now for about almost a year. So yeah, I'd like to see it get taken care of when we do make that decision. Would you want it? I'm against it now. Yeah, I'm kidding. Makes sense.

One clarifying, because people get confused, is it not going to look like the road out on 3 and 301? So I would just like so we could specify what material will be put on the road. So some folks here, when they think our road is going to be brought up to VDOT standards, they think my road is going to look like 3 or 301.

They're very much aware it's not. Just for the public's knowledge. It's just in their community. And they want the road taken care of like everyone else in the community and the road snowplowed and all the other stuff that everyone else is getting. So they're aware of that.

Is this $50,000 like we're looking out of our CIP budget or is this $50,000 of the rural roads program?

So I'm looking at the information sent from Mr. Beal. That's meant for kitchen drives 50,000. This assumes that VDOT's doing the work and the road is added to the SSYP as a rural addition with local funds. Let me just continue. I'll get to your question, but I think it is very important to note they would just apply surface treatment to the existing asphalt in order to get it to the system. So thank you for bringing that up. And it's not going to be what you, it's the batch plant mix that's going down on Route 3 right now. So the local funds, where this would come from, If we can take action on it tonight, unless the board wants to, but this is just an informational item tonight. If it's the direction of the board, we will have this teed up for discussion at the September 15 and on the October 6 for action with a specific where that funding would come from.

Let me get to really my real question. I just looked at Kitchen Drive. It looks like it's maybe After those into a dozen houses. Reference the one we just approved right there HOA contributed to bringing that wrote up the spec for that standard. Is there any of the dozen houses that are here is that we matching something that the residents are putting up to bring that into the system or they asking us to bring all just County dollars to my understanding that all County dollars.

My understanding.

If there is no. There's no really a show a there anymore in that community.

The road services agreement.

All right. I think we want we do want this broke back right.

We will have on the next agenda with a little bit more information as far as funding sources of good really awesome. You to other things. Mister chairman. At the retreat we talked about a steering committee for the planning commission. You've all been circulated a draft order. This is this is going to be a working document. One thing that we did ask you to think about when you're speaking with your constituents is that the timing of a comp plan. Instead of a one-year, I would recommend a two-year term just to ensure that all their work is done during a year into the comprehensive plan and then having to reappoint new steering committee members. That's just a recommendation that I have, you know, best practice for the duration of that. So you've got that charter. The deadline or the goal by EPR is by the end of September to have that committee appointed in order to keep the comp plan on track. And I know miss fish has been sending you you have access to all the islands middle right individuals who have requested to to be on the steering committee so you've got that information through miss fish and trauma on the SharePoint link. So that that's just a recommendation that we have I know miss bender had some comments on the on the draft charter. There's anything else that you all have let us know. We'll bring that hopefully as a information item at the September 15th. We're adoption at the first meeting in October.

I'm not asking for names, but how are you all coming along pretty good with picking your folks? I know we've got the two that I'm interested to reach out to.

Good.

All right, cool. So maybe the next meeting we can make those get it in place.

OK.

Wonderful. Great. So that'd be great. OK. And I want to bring to everybody's attention at the bottom, the information items. I got a couple of vacancies on there. Some others have a couple of vacancies in various places, too. So I didn't realize that until I saw this tonight. Take a peek, see if you've got anybody that you can reach out to. I think you said you had two more items.

Just the one big thing. We talked about at the last meeting promoting our brick and mortar businesses. So we're putting out there, I've got Mr. Henderson from my office visiting. He hasn't had all the brick and mortar, but I know he's keeping a tally of when and who he spoke to at these businesses. And on the county's website, the three different items, the Tasty Tuesday, this is the setup shop, just like the food trucks. We have Hometown Harvest, and these are all interest forms, right on the county's main webpage. Hometown Harvest, to highlight the county's local restaurants, bringing the community together. So there's an interest form there. And again, this does not commit a business to do it. We are polling, is it worth, do we have enough businesses to want to do something like a Thanksgiving feast? And then really the, I guess the easiest one, but October 1 through October 11, a fall flavors week. This is, we're looking for local restaurants, cafes, bakeries, breweries, wineries, and other businesses to feature a fall item, seasonal menu, or a special offer. And then this is where people would go around, visit the restaurants and tag their receipts for chances to win various prizes to help promote our businesses. But we need these businesses to sign up to say, yes, I'm interested. This will be what we're promoting for this time frame. That's October 1 through October 11 is the target date. to promote small businesses in a fall manner. So anybody listening out there, please go online. It's right on the main page, and then there's the interest form. Those will be submitted directly to the Economic Development Office. That's all I had, Mr. Chairman.

All right. Thank you. Well, at this time, we'll open the floor up for secondary public comment to address meeting items only. Comments will be limited to three minutes in person in order to afford everyone an opportunity to speak. Please provide your full name and district when submitting your public comment so that it can be properly recorded and included in the public record. Is there anybody at this time who would like to make public comment. One of the spirit.

Mister chairman chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I'm Bob Baird fellow district. 1, 5, 3, 1, 6, Kings highway. It will make a couple comments real quickly. In recent weeks I've been thinking about a number of things for a presentation I need to make It all comes down in life to balance. I am greatly heartened by the balance I see between our elected officials, our administrators, our volunteers in the community who give so much to create the community we have here. We have a great community, both administration, government, volunteerism, and our faith-based people. The other thing I want to comment about is it's hard to see or age and there's a service is here being for their needs their desires are extremely important to members of our community and for society and need to understand that that all part of the educational process for young people and for being here within the community that need help. It is a great addition to our overall education system that we feed through our school system. We need to make sure that we're working to serve the needs of everybody. And we need to make sure we take the needs of everybody into account as we plan moving forward and plan for additional space, locations within the county. I appreciate all your efforts. Thank you so much. Thank you, sir.

Is there anybody else who would like to make a comment?

Nathan Hoy, Shiloh District. I just wanted to bring up the intersection from Pine Hill onto Round Hill Road and the visibility there. I feel like I'm taking a gamble every time. I brought it up like a month ago. I haven't heard anything about it. And then I just... Wanted to thank you guys for pursuing the land use agreement stuff. I believe Mr. Stroud has been championing that. That makes a direct impact on my life, and I think it's pretty cool.

Thank you.

Anyone else? All right, seeing none, I will close public comments.

Well, this is your I just want to respond to this or just mention I did contact with their bill and that they would have to be look at it so I don't know what their schedule is I just wanted to make sure.

And do we have a. More follow-up comment before we quickly get out of here because I'm not going to have an opportunity before next week. 5 seconds, use them wisely.

5 seconds. So we heard it briefly there in the middle. I have not seen it advertised widely, but the 4-H fair is on September 12th, 9 a.m. at the Citizen Center. Is that right? Yeah, so that's my little plug there. Okay, thank you. Hard to get the word out here in King George, just trying to do everything we can. So thank you.

The time she said was 9 to 6, correct?

All right, good.

Go ahead.

I like to make a motion we would join journal or supervisors of Tuesday, September 1520 26 at 5.30 PM in the multi purpose boardroom of the sheriff's office located. Well 4, 4, 5, the center Boulevard King George Virginia.

Thank you and good second discussion on favor say aye aye opposed to a motion carries work. Thank you.