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AND GOOD EVENING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AND WELCOME TO THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR JULY THE 18TH.
MR. CHAIRMAN, YOU HAVE A QUORUM.
UM, THIS EVENING, UH, FOR THE INVOCATION, THIS REVEREND SON KIM FROM THE, UH, ST.
LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.
AND, UH, REVEREND KIM, THANK YOU FOR COMING UP.
CAN YOU, BEFORE YOU START THE INVOCATION, CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR CHURCH? THANK YOU, SIR.
UH, SAINT LUKES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IS LOCATED ON 300 ELA TAYLOR ROAD IN YORKTOWN, AND IT IS A ONE OF KIND CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION, AND WE ARE STRIVING TO LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL OUR HEARTS AND MINDS, SOUL AND, UH, STRENGTH, AND AS WELL AS OUR NEIGHBORS, TOO.
AND, UH, SAINT LUKE IS WELL KNOWN AS, UH, UM, FOOD, FOOD PANTRY FOR THE COUNTY, YO COUNTY, AS WELL AS A PERCUSSION AREA.
AND, UH, WE SERVE, UH, UH, WONDERFUL COMBINATION OF FOOD TO THE, UH, PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED EVERY WEDNESDAY.
AND THEN, UH, WE ARE ALSO KNOWN AS, UH, UM, EASTER EGG.
AND WE, UH, MAKE SEVERAL THOUSAND EASTER EGG TO SELL, TO RAISE FUND, TO HELP OUT, UH, VARIOUS PLACES, UH, TO PUTTING US JUSTICE.
AND, UH, AND OUR CONGREGATION IS VERY MINDFUL OF, UH, NURTURING AND RAISING UP CHILDREN AND YOUTH, UH, TO BE GREAT CITIZENS, UH, IN THE STATES, AS WELL AS IN GOD'S KINGDOM.
SO I'M VERY PROUD OF, UH, TO BE A PART OF SAINT LUKE, TO SERVE THEM, UH, AND SERVE WITH THEM AS A PASTOR.
WELL, WE'RE VERY HONORED TO HAVE YOU HERE.
HOLY, ETERNAL GOD, YOU ARE THE CREATOR OF A SOURCE OF ALL THINGS.
YOU ALSO, THE REDEEMER AND SUSTAINER FOR ALL PEOPLE WHO COME CLOSER TO YOU AND LOVE YOU, AND DESIRE TO BE YOUR PEOPLE.
BLESS ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE PRESENT IN THIS PLACE THIS HOUR, AND BLESS ALL THE WORK THAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO TOGETHER TO BRING YOUR GOODNESS TO THE PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY.
UTILIZE THEM AS YOUR INSTRUMENT TO BRING YOUR JUSTICE AND PEACE TO ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THIS COUNTY.
BLESS ALL PEOPLE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD WHO ARE SEEKING YOUR FACE IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.
FATHER, BLESS ALL PEOPLE AND UTILIZE THEM AS YOUR INSTRUMENT TO, UH, MAKE YOUR NAME, BE KNOWN IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.
AS WE PRAY EACH DAY, THAT YOUR KINGDOM COME AND YOU WILL BE DONE HERE ON EARTH AS WELL AS IN HEAVEN.
REVEREND KIM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND BEST OF LUCK TO YOUR, UH, CHURCH.
IF YOU ALL WILL, PLEASE RISE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE LIE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TWO TO REPUBLIC FOR ALLEGIATE ONE NATION UNDER INDIVIDUAL WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE.
TO START OFF THE MEETING TODAY, UH, WE'LL HAVE TWO PRESENTATIONS DURING THE, THIS PORTION OF THE MEETING.
[1* YMCA Presentation. Receive update from Adam Klutts, President and CEO, YMCA of the Virginia Peninsulas.]
ONE WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE Y M C A AND ADAM KLUTZ, WHO IS THE PRESIDENT, CEO OF THE Y M C A.ADAM, I SAW YOU HERE SOMEWHERE.
UM, IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE WITH YOU TONIGHT ON BEHALF OF THE YMCA'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS, UM, I'M EXCITED TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON, UM, THE VICTORY Y M A AS WELL AS OUR WILKINSON Y M C AND WILLIAMSBURG, UH, WITH ME.
I WON'T INTRODUCE THEM ALL, BUT WE HAVE SOME OF OUR LONGTIME VOLUNTEERS AND STAFF MEMBERS HERE SUPPORTING THIS THAT ARE,
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UM, SORRY, UH, SUPPORTING US, UH, TONIGHT.UM, I DO ALSO WANNA MENTION TOM TINGLE, WHO IS OUR ARCHITECT, UM, AND DONE A LOT OF WORK WITH OUR YMCAS.
UM, SO BELIEVE IT OR NOT, UM, THE VICTORY Y M C A IS 20 YEARS OLD THIS SEPTEMBER.
UH, SO FOR 20 YEARS, UM, OUR Y M C A HAS BEEN SERVING, UH, YORK COUNTY AND OUR WILLIAMSBURG, Y M C A IS 15 YEARS OLD.
UM, I FOUND, UH, THIS, I, UH, WAS, I WAS PREPARING AND I FOUND A CASE STATEMENT, UH, YELLOW PAPER AND ALL BACK TO THE YEAR 2000, UH, TWO INTERESTING POINTS IN THIS CASE STATEMENT.
UM, IT SAYS, THANKS TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE YORK COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND STAFF, WE WERE ABLE TO SECURE 6.4 ACRES TO BUILD A NEW Y M C A.
AND, UH, WHAT I'M GONNA SHOW YOU TONIGHT, THE NUMBERS ARE A LITTLE DIFFERENT, UM, BUT, UH, THAT Y M C A VICTORY COST US 6.2 MILLION ALL IN, UH, 20 YEARS AGO.
UM, SO, UH, THANK YOU GUYS FOR LETTING US TALK ABOUT OUR FUTURE.
UM, SO AT THE Y WE DO REALLY FOUR THINGS.
UM, AND THIS IS WHAT THE PARTNERSHIP HAS ABLE US TO, UH, ALLOWED US TO DO OVER THE YEARS.
SO IF YOU GO TO THE VICTORY Y OR THE WILKINSON Y TODAY, THERE'S HUNDREDS OF KIDS IN DAY CAMP THAT WOULDN'T HAVE A PLACE TO GO IF THEY WEREN'T AT THE Y M C A DURING THE DAY.
OUR AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS AND BEFORE, UH, CARE PROGRAMS HELP GET, UH, GIVE KIDS A SAFE PLACE TO GO.
AND WE HAVE EARLY LEARNING PROGRAMS AT OUR WILKINSON, Y M C A, UM, WE PREPARE TEENS FOR LIFE.
UM, IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR WORLD, AS YOU GUYS SEE, UH, GETTING TO OUR YOUTH AND GIVING THEM A SAFE ENVIRONMENT HAS BEEN, IS, UH, MORE CRITICAL THAN THAN EVER.
UM, AND WE DO THAT THROUGH OUR TEEN LEADERS PROGRAM.
OUR YOUTH AND GOVERNMENT PROGRAM AND COUNSELORS AND TRAINING PROGRAM ARE NAME A FEW OF THOSE.
UM, AT THE Y WE PREVENT DROWNING.
UH, IF YOU SAW THE NEWS THE LAST COUPLE DAYS, THERE WAS A HEARTBREAKING SITUATION WITH AN EIGHT YEAR OLD THAT DROWNED IN WILLIAMSBURG AT THE GREEN SPRINGS.
UM, THAT BREAKS MY HEART, IS THE Y M C A CEO, BECAUSE WE PREVENT THAT.
WE GET UP EVERY DAY TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
AND AT THE Y WE HAVE LIFEGUARD TRAINING, WE HAVE SECOND GRADE LEARN TO SWIM AND SWIM LESSONS.
UM, THOUSANDS OF KIDS GO THROUGH OUR PROGRAMS TO ENSURE THAT THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN, UH, TO THEM.
AND THEN WE HELP PEOPLE GROW HEALTHIER AND SPIRIT, MIND AND BODY.
SO HOW DO WE MAKE OUR COMMUNITY HEALTHIER THROUGH ALL AGES FROM INFANTS, ALL THE WAY TO OUR SENIOR CITIZENS THROUGH OUR PROGRAMMING? UM, AND BECAUSE OF THIS PARTNERSHIP, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT, UM, OVER THE YEARS.
UM, UH, NOT TO, UH, TALK ABOUT THIS TOO MUCH TODAY, BUT JUST A REMINDER, THIS WAS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
UM, UH, THE VICTORY Y M C A WAS A PARTNERSHIP, UM, UH, THAT STARTED AND HAD 10 YEARS OF FUNDING.
THE WILKINSON FUNDING IS STILL IN PROGRESS, UH, AND OUR Y M C A WOULD NOT BE HERE.
NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE, UM, TWO GREAT YMCAS, UH, WE ALSO HAVE A FIRST TEE PROGRAM IN OUR COMMUNITY, UM, WHERE WE TEACH KIDS GOLF, UH, VALUES TO THE GAME OF GOLF.
UM, AND SO WHEN I LOOK BACK, UM, HERE'S, HERE'S WHAT HAS OCCURRED AT OUR YMCAS OVER THOSE 15 AND 20 YEARS.
UM, ON AVERAGE, UH, WE HAVE OVER 5,000 MEMBERS OF THE WILKINSON Y M C A, AND WE HAVE OVER 14, ALMOST 15,000 MEMBERS OF THE VICTORY Y M C A EVERY YEAR, 85,000, UH, VISITS TO THE WILKINSON Y M C A AND 200 SE OVER 270,000, UH, DID THE MATH.
THAT'S OVER 5 MILLION VISITS TO THE VICTORY Y M C A DURING THIS PARTNERSHIP.
SO IT SHOWS YOU THE IMPACT WE'RE HAVING ON THE COMMUNITY AND THE LIVES THAT WE'RE, UM, AFFECTING.
UM, AT THE Y WE'RE VISIONING THE FUTURE.
SO I TALKED ABOUT THE HISTORY AND HOW WE'VE PARTNERED TOGETHER AND THE IMPACT THAT WE'VE HAD, BUT IT'S TIME TO LOOK AT THE FUTURE.
AND SO WE DID A REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT STUDY, UM, AND WE REALLY LOOKED AT OUR FACILITIES, AND OUT OF ALL OUR FACILITIES, VICTORY CAME UP TOP OF THE LIST AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO RE, UH, INVEST IN, IN THE FUTURE.
AND WILKINSON WAS, UH, NUMBER TWO OR NUMBER THREE ON THAT LIST.
AND SO, UM, WHAT IT TOLD US WAS, WE NEED TO INVEST FOR THE FUTURE.
WE NEED TO MODERNIZE OUR FACILITIES TO KEEP THEM RELEVANT SO WE RELEVANT SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO HAVE THE IMPACT THAT WE'RE HAVING.
UM, AND REALLY WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NEED, UM, UH, WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT, BUT PROVIDING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS TO THRIVE, UM, IS MORE CRITICAL THAN EVER.
UM, FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS, THE VICTORY FAMILY, Y M C A HAS BEEN THE CENTRAL HUB FOR YOUTH TO CONNECT, GROW, AND EXCEL IN A SAFE SPACE.
OUR VISION TO PROTECT OUR KIDS IN THE FUTURE IS TO LOOK AT THE FACILITY A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY AND PUT ALL OF OUR CHILDCARE SPACES AT THE BACK OF THE BUILDING, UM, SO THAT WAY WE WOULD BE ABLE TO HANDLE ANY EMERGENCIES THAT WOULD COME UP AND HAVE DIRECT ACCESS TO THE FIELD SPACE.
UM, FOR THE PROGRAMMING, UH, THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, THEY FILL UP AS SOON AS WE OPEN THE REGISTRATION, UM, CHILDCARE PROGRAMS SPECIFICALLY, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH ROOM TO, TO MEET THE NEED.
WE ACTUALLY ARE PARTNERING WITH LOCAL CHURCHES TO RUN PROGRAMS OUTSIDE OF OUR, OUR Y M C A, UH, WALLS, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN SERVE THE COMMUNITY
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NEED, UM, AND THEN THE MODERNIZATION OF OUR WELLNESS CENTER, UM, TO REALLY CONTINUE TO MEET THE HEALTH NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY INTO THE FUTURE.UM, SO THE NEED IS, THE NEED IS GREAT.
SO WHAT WE WANTED TO DO IS JUST KIND OF GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF A PICTURE OF, UM, WHAT WE'RE PLANNING TO DO IN THE FUTURE.
AND SO THIS IS THE RENDERING OF WHAT THE VICTORY Y M C A ENTRANCE WOULD LOOK LIKE.
AND IF YOU CAN SEE, IF YOU KNOW THE CURRENT Y ON THE RIGHT SIDE, UM, THAT'S CURRENTLY WHERE OUR THERAPY PARTNER IS, WE WOULD RELOCATE THEM TO THE BACK OF THE BUILDING AND BE ABLE TO REALLY OPEN UP, UM, THE WELLNESS SPACE THERE.
UM, IT'S INTERESTING WHEN I SHOW YOU THIS PICTURE, WE'RE ONLY LOOKING TO ADD 2300 SQUARE FEET, UM, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE, WE WANNA BE, UH, CONSCIOUS OF THE LAND, UH, THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE.
UM, BUT WITH SOME REWORKING OF THE INTERIOR SPACES, REMOVING SOME WALLS, RELOCATING SOME SERVICES, WE ACTUALLY GAINED 6,000, UH, SQUARE FEET OF USABLE FEES, UH, USABLE SPACE WHILE PRESERVING OUR GREEN SPACE, UM, AND LETTING KIDS STILL, UM, GO OUTSIDE AND, AND, AND PLAY IN THE SPACES THAT WE NEED FOR SUMMER CAMP.
THE, THE WILKINSON Y OUR FUTURE PLANS THERE TO REALLY JUST DOUBLE THE WELLNESS FLOOR.
UH, THE CURRENT FLOOR, UH, FLOOR IS ABOUT 4,000 SQUARE FEET.
AND IF YOU GO TO THAT Y YOUR ELBOW TO ELBOW WITH PEOPLE, UM, AND WE REALLY WANT TO JUST MAKE THAT SPACE, UM, UH, BIGGER.
SO, UH, THIS IS KIND OF, UM, UH, A PICTURE OF WHAT OUR NEW RENDERING, UH, WOULD LOOK LIKE.
WHEN YOU ENTER THE Y YOU CAN SEE THE COMMUNITY SPACES, YOU CAN SEE THE OPEN SPACES FOR PEOPLE TO CONNECT.
UM, AND THE, THE SIGN THAT YOU SEE THERE IS A, IS A NEW VERSION OF WHAT'S BEEN HANGING THERE FOR 20 YEARS.
IT'S THE YMC AND NEW YORK COUNTY PARTNERSHIP SIGN.
UM, THIS IS A BRIEF LOOK AT THE FACILITY.
UM, RIGHT NOW, UH, OUR FACILITY IS KIND OF, UH, MIXED.
THERE'S CHILDCARE UP FRONT AND THE BACK GROUP EXERCISE IN THE FRONT AND ON THE SIDE.
AND SO THIS IS REALLY JUST LOOKING IN THE CURRENT SPACE.
UM, PHASE ONE WOULD BE BRINGING ALL GROUP EXERCISE UP FRONT, UM, DOUBLING THE SIZE OF OUR GROUP EXERCISE SPACE FOR SENIORS AND FOR OUR ADULT WELLNESS PROGRAMS. UM, AND THEN PUTTING ALL OF OUR CHILDCARE IN THE BACK, AND AGAIN, EXPANDING THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE MORE KIDS THROUGH OUR PROGRAMS. AND THEN THE FINAL PART OF THIS PHASE IS WE WOULD EXPAND THE FRONT.
WE'D RELOCATE OUR, UM, UH, THERAPY PARTNER, AND WE'D, UH, ADD ANOTHER 2000 SQUARE FEET TO THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING, UH, BY MOVING THEM TO JUST GIVE MORE EXERCISE ROOM, UH, TO REALLY HELP THE Y UH, CONTINUE TO MEET OUR MISSION.
UH, AND THIS IS A VIEW OF THE WILKINSON Y M C A.
UM, AND THIS WOULD BE LOOKING THE NEW SPACE, LOOKING INTO THE OLD SPACE, UM, UH, DOUBLING, DOUBLING THAT SPACE.
UH, AND YOU CAN SEE THIS ONE PHASE ONE WOULD BE TO JUST DOUBLE THE WELLNESS FLOOR.
UM, WE'RE IN PARTNERSHIP CONVERSATIONS WITH, UM, HOSPITAL PARTNERS ABOUT HOW WE CAN CONTINUE TO SERVE AND EXPAND THAT WHY, UH, UH, TO SERVE OUR, OUR SENIOR POPULATION AS WELL.
UM, SO, UH, YOU KNOW, YORK COUNTY AND THE Y M C A, WE'VE PARTNERED FOR OVER 20 YEARS.
UM, UH, AND WE'VE SERVED THE COMMUNITY.
I THINK WE'VE HAD A GREAT RETURN ON THAT INVESTMENT WITH THE LIVES THAT WE'VE CHANGED, UH, TOGETHER.
UM, BUT IT'S TIME TO THINK ABOUT WHAT DOES THE NEXT 20 YEARS LOOK LIKE.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR YMC HAS CONTINUED TO BE RELEVANT, TO CONTINUE TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY AND CONTINUE TO MEET OUR MISSION.
UM, WE CAN'T DO THAT, UH, WITHOUT PARTNERSHIPS AND SUPPORT AND HELP.
UM, LIKE THESE TWO YS WOULD NOT BE HERE IF, UM, THE LEADERS 20 YEARS AGO DIDN'T COME TOGETHER AND MAKE THAT HAPPEN FOR US.
SO, UH, WE REALLY, UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
UM, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, UM, THE VICTORY, Y M C A NEW BUILDING ALL IN WAS 6.2 MILLION.
OUR CURRENT NUMBERS ARE ROUGHLY EIGHT AND A HALF FOR THE RENOVATION.
SO THAT TELLS YOU HOW INFLATION IS A REAL THING.
THE, THE WILKINSON PROJECT WOULD BE ABOUT TWO AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS.
UM, YOU KNOW, UH, THESE ARE ROUGH ESTIMATES AT THIS POINT.
THESE NUMBERS CHANGE, UM, YOU KNOW, DAILY.
AND SO, UM, WITH THAT, UM, JUST WANTED TO SEE IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR FUTURE PLANS.
UH, WE ARE, UH, UH, ALSO INTERESTED IN PARTNERING WITH THE COUNTY AND POTENTIALLY BECOMING A, UM, UH, UH, SHELTER IF NEEDED.
UH, BY EQUIPPING THIS RENOVATION WITH A GENERATOR, UH, WE'D BE ABLE TO BE AN AUXILIARY, UM, UH, SHELTER.
SO YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO ALWAYS USE THE HIGH SCHOOL, UH, AN EVENT THAT YOU DIDN'T NEED TO CLOSE DOWN THE WHOLE HIGH SCHOOL.
AND WE'VE GOT SOME IDEAS OF WHAT THAT COULD LOOK AND REALLY KIND OF PARTNER AND, AND CONTINUE TO BE AN ASSET TO THE COMMUNITY, UH, AND SERVE YORK COUNTY, UH, ALL INTO THE FUTURE.
BEFORE I ASK, UH, THE BOARD ABOUT ANY QUESTIONS, I JUST WANNA, FOR FULL DISCLOSURE, JUST POINT OUT THAT, UH, CHAD GREEN SUPERVISOR CHAD GREEN, WAS A MEMBER OF THE Y M C A BOARD.
I SERVED AS A MEMBER OF THE Y M C A BOARD AND STEPHEN ROHN HERE AS THE CURRENT, UH, MEMBER, CURRENT MEMBER OF THE Y M C A BOARD.
AND, UH, THE OPERATIONS DOWN THERE, IT'S AMAZING HOW YOU'VE TAKEN A SMALL, I WOULD SAY, RELATIVELY SMALL SPACE, AND I'M TALKING SPECIFICALLY AT THE VICTORY Y M C A AND, UM, HAVE JUST MAXIMIZED EVERY OPPORTUNITY YOU CAN FOR THE FAMILIES TO USE THAT.
AND IF, UH, MANAGING AND HAVING
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14,000 MEMBERS, ALMOST 15,000 MEMBERS OF ONE Y M C A IN YOUR COUNTY IS, UH, PRETTY IMPRESSIVE.UM, CAN YOU ELABORATE ANY ON THE, ON THE PROGRAMS? THERE'S TWO PROGRAMS THAT'S NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART.
I'D LIKE YOU TO TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT MORE IS THE LEARN TO SWIM PROGRAM, WHICH IS PRETTY POPULAR ON THE, ON THE PENINSULA, AND THEN OTHER, OTHER AREAS.
AND THEN THE OTHER ONES, THE FIRST T PROGRAM.
CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THOSE? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
SO, UM, THE Y M C A, UH, WAS THE FIRST ORGANIZATION IN THE COMMUNITY TO RUN A SECOND GRADE LEARN TO SWIM PROGRAM.
AND WE HAVE VERY DIFFERENT, WE HAVE MULTIPLE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THAT SAFETY AROUND WATER, UM, IS A WAY THAT WE CAN DO IT WITH, UH, SUMMER CAMP.
WHEN YOU TAKE A Y M C A DAY CAMP PROGRAM, AUTOMATICALLY, YOU PARTICIPATE IN SECOND GRADE LEARN OR THE SAFETY AROUND WATER PROGRAM.
AND SO EVERY KID THAT COMES TO OUR Y M C DURING THE DAY CAMP GETS SWIM LESSONS AS PART OF THEIR CURRICULUM.
UM, THE SECOND GRADE LEARN TO SWIM PROGRAM, ALTHOUGH WE'RE NOT DOING IT IN NEW YORK COUNTY YET, WE WOULD LOVE TO, UM, WE PARTNER WITH MULTIPLE SCHOOL SYSTEMS. UM, RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN NEWPORT NEWS, WE'RE IN, UH, SMITHFIELD.
UM, WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THE LUTER PROJECT.
AS AN EXAMPLE, WE, UM, MISSED TWO YEARS BECAUSE OF COVID.
SO LAST YEAR WE TAUGHT SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH GRADERS THE PROGRAM TO MAKE SURE WE DIDN'T MISS ANYBODY.
BUT THAT'S A DIRECT PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WHERE WE GO IN, THEY BUS THE KIDS TO THE Y M C A, WE PROVIDE THE SWIM LESSONS THROUGH OUR ENDOWMENT PROGRAM.
SO IT'S REALLY NO COST TO THE SCHOOL SYSTEMS OTHER THAN THE TRANSPORTATION.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE OUR SWIM LESSONS, YOU KNOW, GENERAL SWIM LESSONS WHERE WE PUT THOUSANDS OF KIDS.
I WILL TELL YOU IN OUR AGREEMENT, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS, UH, KNOW THE YORK COUNTY, UM, RESIDENTS GET, UM, FIRST, UH, REGISTRATION AND THEY FILL UP BEFORE ANYBODY ELSE CAN SIGN UP.
AND SO, UM, THE NEED FOR SWIM LESSONS IS GREAT.
UM, UH, THE FIRST T PROGRAM IS ANOTHER, UH, EXTREMELY VALUABLE PROGRAM THAT, UM, TEACHES KIDS, UH, VALUES THROUGH THE GAME OF GOLF.
IT ALIGNS VERY NICELY WITH THE Y M C A, UM, UH, MISSION.
AND WE'RE HOUSED OUT OF KILN CREEK.
UM, WE RUN PROGRAMS ALL THROUGH, UM, UH, THE PENINSULAS, BUT OUR MAIN PROGRAM IS AT KILN CREEK.
UM, AND WE HAVE A COACH, UH, AT THE STAGE TODAY.
UH, SO, UH, TOM IS ONE OF OUR COACHES AND, UM, SHEPHERD'S ONE OF OUR COACHES.
UH, AND IT'S JUST A GREAT PROGRAM THAT REALLY, REALLY SERVES OUR COMMUNITY WELL.
UM, AND, UH, WE'RE LOOKING TO REBOUND FOR THE, FROM THE PANDEMIC.
I'LL TELL YOU THAT ALL THOSE PROGRAMS ARE ON THE UPTICK VICTORY.
THIS WILL BE OUR BUSIEST YEAR EVER AT THE VICTORY Y M C A.
SO IT'S SAFE TO SAY THAT WE'VE, UH, BEEN ABLE TO MOVE THROUGH COVID, UM, AND SUCCESSFULLY RETURN.
UM, AND NOW WE'VE GOT A PLAN FOR THE FUTURE.
CHAD, YOU GOT QUESTIONS REAL, REAL QUICK.
AND, UH, WE TALKED ABOUT LEARNING TO SWIM WITH THE YORK COUNTY SCHOOL DIVISION.
WHERE DO WE STAND? AND THIS IS A PROJECT THAT WE HAD TALKED ABOUT WHEN I WAS ON THE BOARD YEARS AGO.
UH, WHERE DO WE STAND WITH GETTING THAT FULLY IMPLEMENTED WITH THE YORK COUNTY SCHOOL DIVISION? SURE.
WE HAD A PILOT PROGRAM AT, UM, THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, UM, AND THEN, UH, COVID HIT MM-HMM.
AND SO, UM, HONESTLY, WE STOPPED THOSE PROGRAMS ACROSS THE BOARD UNTIL, CAUSE THE SCHOOLS WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET BACK AND, AND ALL THAT STUFF.
SO, UM, WE WOULD LOVE TO JUMP RIGHT BACK ONTO THAT AND MAYBE BY THIS FALL, HAVE A PILOT PROGRAM.
LONG AS THERE'S A PARTNERSHIP AND RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, WE CAN MAKE IT WORK.
UH, BUT WE WERE, HAD OUR FIRST SCHOOL SET TO GO, AND THEN IT'S UNFORTUNATELY THE PANDEMIC PUT, PUT SOME BRAKES ON THAT.
I WILL, I WILL LIGHT A FIRE UNDER OUR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER TOMORROW ABOUT GETTING THIS, UH, PARTNERSHIP.
SINCE, UH, BECOMING A MEMBER OF THE Y M C ADVISORY BOARD, I'VE HAD A LOT OF VISIBILITY TO THE PROGRAMS THAT YOUR, YOUR FACILITIES PROVIDE.
CAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW EXISTED BEFORE.
AND LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AND FAMILIES ACROSS YORK COUNTY DEPEND ON THOSE ON, ON A DAILY, WEEKLY BASIS.
SO A LOT OF GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING THERE.
UM, THE MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS YOU MENTIONED EARLIER, I'M ASSUMING THAT THEY ARE TRENDING UPWARDS, OR ARE THEY FLAT? WHAT, WHAT ARE THOSE MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS? THEY'RE TRENDING UPWARD.
WE'RE, UM, UH, BACK TO OUR NUMBERS THAT WE, UH, AT THE END OF LAST YEAR, WE ACHIEVED THE NUMBERS THAT WE WERE AT BEFORE THE PANDEMIC.
AND THIS YEAR, OUR NUMBERS ARE, ARE HIGHER THAN THEY'VE EVER BEEN BEFORE.
UM, WE'RE FEELING THE TRAFFIC, IF I WENT TO, UH, THE VICTORY Y ON JULY 3RD, THINKING THAT IT WAS THE DAY BEFORE THE HOLIDAY, AND IT WOULDN'T BE THAT BUSY, AND IT WAS BETWEEN SUMMER CAMP AND OUR WATER EXERCISE PROGRAMS AND OUR WELLNESS AND PEOPLE, UH, HAVING THE DAY OFF OF WORK, UM, IT LOOKED LIKE A LITTLE CITY WITHIN A CITY.
SO IT'S, THE TRAFFIC IS, IS UP THERE.
LIKE I STATED, I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE NUMBERS ARE GONNA BE, BUT I THINK IT'S, IT'S, WE'RE ON TRACK TO BE OUR BUSIEST TRAFFIC YEAR EVER AT THAT Y M C A.
UM, AND, AND WILKINSON IS THE SAME WAY.
IT'S, UH, PICKING UP AS WELL, OUR STUDY SHOWED THAT VICTORY IS OUR PRIORITY.
UM, AND SO WE'RE FOCUSED ON V VICTORY, BUT WE DO HAVE IDEAS FOR WILKINSON, LIKE I SHARED TODAY AS WELL, WHICH IS OUR SECOND Y IN YOUR COUNTY.
SO MENTIONED, UM, ABOUT THE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SCHOOL, WITH THE, WITH LEARN TO SWIM PROGRAM.
WHAT OTHER PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE SCHOOLS AND Y M C A CAN WE REALIZE? UM, I THINK AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMMING IS A BIG OPPORTUNITY.
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SOME ALREADY, BUT, YOU KNOW, THE Y M C A, UM, CAN, UH, PARTNER WHEN AT, WE CALL IT OUTTA SCHOOL AT OUT RISK TIME.SO WHAT ARE THESE KIDS DOING WHEN THEY'RE NOT AT SCHOOL? AND HOW DO WE PROVIDE SUPPORT WITH OUR SCHOOL TEACHERS? AND THAT'S THE BASIC PROGRAM, BUT WE DO HAVE EXAMPLES WHERE WE'RE ACTUALLY WORKING WITH TUTORING, PROVIDING MENTORSHIPS TO HELP THE KIDS THAT NEED THE EXTRA HELP.
UM, UH, WE ARE ABOUT TO LAUNCH A POWER SCHOLARS PROGRAM, WHICH IS DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY TO HELP KIDS IN THE SUMMER MAKE SURE THAT WE ATTACK THE LEARNING LOSS.
SO WE KNOW THAT KIDS, UM, UH, FROM CERTAIN HOUSEHOLDS WILL, UM, UH, ACTUALLY SLIDE BACK IN THE SUMMER AND IT TAKES 'EM A MONTH OR TWO TO GET CAUGHT UP, AND THEY NEVER CATCH UP WITH THEIR PEERS.
SO WE'VE GOT A PROGRAM THAT WE'RE ABOUT TO ROLL OUT THAT SPECIFICALLY FOCUSES ON CLOSING THAT GAP.
AND SO THERE'S OTHER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS THAT WE CAN FILL THE VOID AS WELL.
I, UM, ADAM, IT'S JUST THAT THE Y M C A, A LOT OF FOLKS, I, I JUST REMEMBER WHEN IT STARTED, AND THE QUESTION WAS FOR THE COUNTY, WHEN YOU KEPT DOING THE, THE PRESENTATION WAS GIVEN, UH, FOR WHETHER IT'S GONNA BE A Y M C A OR WE WERE JUST GONNA SELL THE LAND AND PUT A, A PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND THEY'RE, THE QUESTIONS, WELL, DO YOU THINK WE REALLY NEED IT? AND, UM, AND I JUST REMEMBER TALKING ABOUT, I WASN'T ON THE BOARD THEN.
I WAS JUST, UH, ONE OF THE CITIZENS AND, AND IT WAS, UM, IT WAS AMAZING TO ME THAT THE, THE, THE HESITANCY OF, UH, WHICH WAY SHOULD WE GO, UH, WITH THIS? AND THEN THE, OF COURSE, THE BOARD SUPERVISORS AT THE TIME SELECTED THE Y LET'S PUT THE Y M C A ON THE SIX ACRES.
AND, UH, AND, UH, I REMEMBER TALKING TO MICHAEL BENNETT, I THINK IT WAS MICHAEL BENNETT OR MAYBE THE, HIS PREDECESSOR, UH, WAS, HOW MANY MEMBERS DO YOU HOPE TO HAVE IN YOUR Y HERE TO VICTORY, WHICH IS DOWN BY THE TAB LIBRARY.
AND HIS COMMENT WAS, UH, WELL, WE'RE HOPING TO GET 800.
AND I LOOKED AT HIM IN AMAZEMENT, AND I SAID, DUDE, YOU, YOU JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WHAT YOU GOT HERE.
AND, UH, AND THEN WHEN IT GOT UP TO AROUND 18,000 AT ONE TIME, I, I WAS, I SAID, WELL, HOW YOU DOING WITH THE 800 NOW? AND THEN THEY GOT PEOPLE ALL OVER THE PLACE, AND PEOPLE LOVED IT.
UH, THE PROBLEM WAS THAT, YOU KNOW, IT NEEDED THE STUDY OF THE ROOM, HOW TO MAKE THINGS WORK, AND THEN PHYSICAL, THE, UM, THE, THE HOSPITALS KIND OF GOT INVOLVED WITH IT TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, PHYSICAL THERAPY AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
AND WE ENDED UP WITH ANOTHER Y UP HERE, WHICH IS GREAT.
I THINK THERE'S PROBABLY EVENTUALLY GONNA BE ENOUGH TIME, ENOUGH ROOM FOR, OR DEMAND FOR ANOTHER Y UH, SOMEWHERE HERE CLOSE BY.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS, IF I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY, UM, THERE ARE CITIES, WHOLE CITIES THAT ACTUALLY, UH, IN THEIR SCHOOL SYSTEM, DEMAND SAID, YOU'RE GOING, YOU'RE SECOND GRADE, YOU'RE GOING TO LEARN TO SWIM.
UM, YOU KNOW, FOLKS, UM, I THINK SOMETIMES ARE A LITTLE HESITANT.
THEY THINK THE Y IS JUST ALL, ALL PHYSICAL FITNESS AND STUFF LIKE THAT, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF TIE IN TO, UM, WHAT YOU DO IN THE COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, UM, NEW HORIZONS PROGRAM WHERE WE'RE HELPING, YOU KNOW, HELPING KIDS AND, AND THEN THE PART, LIKE IN FIRST TEE, WHERE WE'RE TEACHING CHILDREN NOT ONLY HOW TO PLAY GOLF, BUT HOW TO, THE SKILLS TO LIVE IN LIFE, HOW TO COMMUNICATE, HOW TO PLAN, SET GOALS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO THE WHY IS, UM, IS, IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR COMMUNITY, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE TIME TO COME DOWN HERE AND GIVE US AN UPDATE.
AND JUST ONE FINAL COMMENT, JUST SO EVERYBODY, UH, KNOWS THAT THE Y M C A, WE DON'T TURN ANYBODY AWAY FOR THE INABILITY TO PAY.
SO WE, WE RAISE FINANCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS, AND THAT WHEN YOU'RE IN OUR PROGRAM, THERE COULD BE A CHILD THAT'S PAYING FULL FARE AND A CHILD THAT CAN'T PAY AT ALL, AND YOU DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
THAT'S HOW WE IMPROVE THE COMMUNITY.
[2* Williamsburg Area Transit Authority. Receive update from Matthew Scalia, Executive Director. ]
OKAY.THE NEXT ONE WILL HAVE, UH, SEE, UH, MATTHEW SCALIA WILL AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE WILLIAMSBURG AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY, BETTER KNOWN AS WAA.
AND, UH, WE'LL ASK, UH, MATTHEW, WHERE ARE YOU? YOU'RE HERE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, TO THE BOARD, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
UH, THANK YOU ON AS SAID, MASSLY.
I'M THE NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE ROSEBURG AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY.
BEEN ON THE JOB ALL OF THREE MONTHS NOW.
UH, RECENTLY RETIRED FROM THE ARMY.
LAST DUTY STATION WAS AT FORT EUSTIS.
AND, UH, JUST, UH, I, I THINK IMPORTANT TO SHARE, CHOSE FORT EUS TO RETIRE IN THIS REGION.
WE, AND WE FALL IN LOVE WITH IT.
UH, THIS WAS OUR, UH, LOCATION OF CHOICE TO GROW ROOTS, UH, AFTER MOVING AROUND SO MUCH.
UH, AND IN LOOKING, UH, FOR FUTURE EMPLOYMENT IN THE SECOND CAREER, I WANTED SOMETHING, UH, CONNECTED TO THE COMMUNITY.
AND, UH, WORKING WITH WADADA IS EX IS EXACTLY JUST THAT.
IT'S SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY.
I THINK THAT'S THE ATTITUDE THAT ALL THE, UH, TEAM MEMBERS OF WADADA HAVE.
THEY, THEY RECOGNIZE THEIR ROLE WITH THE COMMUNITY,
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AND, AND YOU JUST NEED TO RIDE THE BUS.AND, AND YOU'LL SEE THE RELATIONSHIPS THEY HAVE WITH ALL THEIR, UH, FREQUENT RIDER.
IT'S, IT'S A LOT OF FUN TO SEE.
BUT I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, UH, UPDATE YOU ON A COUPLE MAJOR CAPITAL PROJECTS WE HAVE IN THE WORKS.
SO, UH, I WANT TO PROVIDE YOU AN UPDATE ON OUR, UH, RENOVATIONS FOR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE FACILITY, UH, ON POCAHONTAS TRAIL, AND THEN CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW TRANSFER CENTER.
WE'LL CALL NORTHERN TRANSFER CENTER HOER LANE.
TECHNICALLY, IT'S ON A OLD MOTOWN ROAD, BUT I'LL, I'LL SHOW A MAP OF THAT FOR YOU.
THE REASON I HAVE HOER LANE IS CUZ THAT'S WHERE WE'LL, UH, THE, THE ACCESS WILL BE.
SO FIRST, THE, UH, OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE FACILITY.
UH, OUR CURRENT STRUCTURE, UH, WAS AN OLD PENSKE TRUCK RENTAL MAINTENANCE FACILITY BUILT IN 2005.
WE, WE PURCHASED COLONIAL WILL AND DUR FOUNDATION, TOOK IT OVER, WE'RE RUNNING THEIR, UH, BUS MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS FROM THERE.
AND WE, WE, UH, MOVED IN THERE ABOUT 13 YEARS AGO OR SO, AND, AND FINALLY PURCHASED IT FROM, UH, THE FOUNDATION IN 2020.
UH, IT HOUSES OUR OPERATIONS, UH, TO INCLUDE DISPATCH SAFETY AND TRAINING, AND ALL OUR, UH, ADMINISTRATIVE, ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF, THE DRIVER'S LOUNGE AND MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS.
IT'S WHERE THE ALL THE OPERATORS COME PUNCH IN AND PUNCH OUT EVERY DAY.
UH, HOWEVER, DOES LACK, UH, SOME SERIOUS THINGS, PROPER ADMINISTRATIVE SPACE, UH, PROPER WASH BAY CAPABILITY MAINTENANCE, UH, FACILITIES ARE, ARE LACKING, CERTAINLY LACKING IN, UH, POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH, AND IT IS NOT ADA COMPLIANT.
SO, LOOKING FORWARD, THIS IS WHAT, UH, WE HAVE, UH, FOR THE FUTURE STRUCTURE.
IT'S NOT, UH, 8,000 SQUARE FEET EXPANSION.
IT WILL TOTAL 800 SQUARE FEET FOR OUR OPERATIONS.
THAT INCLUDES IMPROVED OPERATOR AREA, UH, PRIVATE DISPATCH AREA, SO THEY'RE NOT INTERRUPTED BY PEOPLE COMING IN AND OUT AS THEY'RE CURRENTLY LOCATED.
UH, ADDITIONAL, UH, OFFICE SPACE.
AND, UH, FINALLY, CONFERENCE ROOM SPACE.
WE REALLY HAVE A CONFERENCE ROOM SLASH KITCHEN SLASH ACCESS TO THE BATHROOM SPACE FOR OUR ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF RIGHT NOW.
UH, ON THE MAINTENANCE SIDE, UH, WE'LL EXPAND BY TWO, UH, BY TWO MAINTENANCE BAYS AND, UH, A NEW WASH BAY, UH, SEPARATE BUS AND PRIVATE PARKING.
AND, UH, WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO, UH, CHARGING STATIONS, ANTICIPATING ELECTRIC BUSES IN THE, UH, NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE.
UH, HERE'S THE, UH, SKETCHES OF WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE.
UH, I'LL FOCUS ON THE CENTER ONE THERE.
UH, WHAT YOU SEE THAT'S FROM THE SOUTHEAST VIEW ON THE LEFT SIDE.
THE TWO STORY PART IS, UH, UH, THE UPSTAIRS WILL BE THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES, AND THE DOWNSTAIRS WILL BE THE, THE OPERATIONS.
UH, SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO FIT DISPATCH TRAINING SPACE TOGETHER.
SUPERVISORS WILL FINALLY HAVE THEIR OWN SPACE, UH, AND, AND A PROPER BREAK ROOM FOR OUR OPERATORS.
UH, ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, YOU'LL SEE MAINTENANCE BAYS AND THE, UH, AND THE, UH, WASH BAYS.
UH, UH, SO IT'S, AGAIN, MAJOR RENOVATION OF THE CURRENT STRUCTURE, REALLY EXPANDING IT OUT AS FAR AS BUDGET GOES.
UH, I THINK AS WE WE'RE ABOUT, UH, 90% DESIGN COMPLETE ON THIS.
WE DO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITIES TO FIND SOME, UH, SOME BA UH, SOME SAVINGS HERE.
WE ARE WORKING, UH, WITH THE DESIGN TEAMS AND, AND BRINGING, UH, FORWARD TO OUR BOARD, UH, SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AS FAR AS TIMELINESS CONCERNED.
UH, ANTICIPATE THE DESIGN COMPLETES SEPTEMBER, AND WE HOPE TO HAVE SHOVELING THE DIRT, UH, AROUND THE END OF THE YEAR, BEGINNING OF NEXT YEAR.
UH, SEPTEMBER 25, UH, AS A COMPLETION DATE, I, I ADMIT, IS A BIT, UH, OPTIMISTIC.
WE KNOW HOW, UH, PROJECTS LIKE THIS SOMETIMES, UH, GET DELAYED.
SO, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE PREPARING MORE REALISTICALLY FOR SUMMER OF 26, BUT THIS IS NOT TOTALLY UNREALISTIC.
ALL RIGHT, NEXT IS THE NORTHERN TRANSFER CENTER, AGAIN, HORNER LANE, UH, HERE IN YORK COUNTY.
SO THIS IS A WHOLE NEW STRUCTURE, AND IT IS, IT IS LONG TIME INCOMING.
CURRENTLY FOR A TRANSFER STATION, WE, WE HAVE A TRANSFER STATION AT THE, UH, TRANSPORTATION CENTER IN WILLIAMSBURG.
UH, AND IT'S WHERE SIX LINES MEET RIDERS GET OFF ONE BUS, THEY HOP ON THEIR NEXT LINE.
THE ONLY PLACE WE HAVE FOR OUR FOUR NORTHERN LINES ARE IN BETWEEN THE WALMART AND LOWE'S.
NO AMENITIES FOR, FOR THE RIDERS, NO AMENITIES FOR OUR OPERATORS.
UH, AND IT'S, IT'S BOUNCED AROUND A NUMBER OF TIMES.
SO THIS IS SOMETHING WE REALLY NEED TO PROVIDE FOR OUR, UH, FOR OUR, UH, RIDERS.
SO WE PURCHASED THE LANDS AND THE TRIANGLE OF MOTOWN, OLD MOTOWN
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AND HORNER, UH, LANE, UH, IN, UH, OCTOBER OF 21.IT IS JUST BEHIND THE WILKINSON, Y M C A, UH, MORE ON THAT.
UH, AND AGAIN, THE PURPOSE IS TO PROVIDE A BETTER EXPERIENCE FOR OUR RIDERS AND, UH, BETTER SUPPORT TO OUR OPERATORS.
WE'LL HAVE A STOREFRONT AND CUSTOMER SERVICE AS WE HAVE AT THE, UH, UH, TRANSFER CENTER IN WILLIAMSBURG.
UH, WE'LL HAVE PUBLIC RESTROOMS, PRIVATE RESTROOMS FOR OUR OPERATORS, SUPERVISOR SPACE, UH, AND SPACE FOR SIX BUSES.
AND AGAIN, THINKING FORWARD, WE'LL HAVE SPACE FOR CHARGING, UH, FOR ELECTRIC BUSES.
YEAH, THERE'S THE, UH, LOCATION.
YOU CAN SEE, UH, ZEROING IN THERE, JUST BELOW THE Y M C A.
IT IS, THERE'S, IT IS JUST CURRENTLY WOODED, WOODED, LAND, NOTHING CURRENTLY THERE.
SO THE KEY CONCEPTS FOR THIS, WE WANTED TO ENSURE WE HAD SEPARATE, UH, BUS AND, AND PRIVATE VEHICLE SPACE THAT WERE NOT INTERSECTING THOSE TWO.
UH, WE WANNA ENSURE WE HAVE LIMITED, UH, CR PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS, UH, IN FRONT OF THE BUS, UH, AGAIN, THE ELECTRIC CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE, TYING INTO THE, UH, THE, UH, SIDEWALKS FOR BOTH JAMES CITY AND YORK COUNTIES.
UH, AND THEN POTENTIAL ACCESS TO THE WILKINSON Y M C A.
UH, THE FEATURES INCLUDE THE FOUR BUS BAYS, UH, AND TWO ADDITIONAL BAYS WHEN WE, UH, GROW OUR OPERATIONS, UH, AS STAFF, RESTROOMS, CUSTOMER SERVICE, UH, AND THOSE ITEMS I HAD MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY.
THERE IS ALSO A SMALL AMOUNT OF LEASEABLE SPACE.
WE ENVISION, PERHAPS A COFFEE SHOP, SOMETHING ELSE TO PROVIDE FOR OUR, UH, FOR OUR RIDERS.
YOU SEE THE Y M C A, UH, JUST ABOVE US.
UH, OLD MOTOWN ROAD TO THE RIGHT HAND SIDE AND HORNER LANE, UH, ON THE BOTTOM AND OLD MOTOWN TO THE LEFT, YOU'LL SEE THE, UH, THE LONG STRUCTURE ON THE, UH, ON THE TOP SIDE HERE IS WHERE WE'LL HAVE OUR FOUR BAYS SEE.
IT PROVIDES PROTECTION FROM THE ELEMENTS FOR OUR OP, UH, FOR OUR RIDERS.
UH, AND THEN THEY CAN ALSO ACCESS THE BUILDING HERE.
UH, WE'LL, WE'LL HAVE A WAITING AREA FOR THERE, UH, FOR THEM, AGAIN, TO GET OUT OF THE ELEMENTS AS WE, OUR OPERATIONS GROW TO ADDITIONAL SPACES IF NECESSARY.
UH, AND THEN HERE ARE THE ELECTRIC CHARGING STATIONS.
THIS ACCESS HERE IS STRICTLY FOR THE BUSES AND THEN LIMITED PARKING SPACES HERE FOR, FOR PRIVATE VEHICLES.
UH, THERE, THERE WILL BE A WALL ALONG HERE TO HELP PROTECT LIGHTS AND NOISE FROM THE RESIDENCE ALONG OLD MOTOWN ROAD.
AND WE ARE, UH, ALSO INCLUDING A, A FENCE AROUND THE PROPERTY.
UH, FUNDING IS NOT AS GOOD A STORY, UH, THIS TIME AROUND, ALTHOUGH WE DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME AS IT'S, IT'S, UH, IT'S A BIT, UH, UH, IT'S LESS MATURE IN THE PROCESS.
UH, YOU SEE, WE ONLY HAVE, UH, ABOUT 34% FUNDED.
HOWEVER, UH, IN COORDINATION WITH, UH, D R PT AND, UH, THE HR T P, UH, WE ARE PURSUING ADDITIONAL GRANTS TO THE CARBON REDUCTION PROGRAM AND FDA BUSES AND BUS FACILITY PROGRAM.
WE'RE OPTIMISTIC THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THE NECESSARY FUNDS, UH, TIMELINE.
SIMILARLY, UH, COMPLETE DESIGN, UH, LATE JANUARY, UH, OUT FOR BID, MID-FEBRUARY, UH, AND DECEMBER, 2025.
BUT AGAIN, I THINK, UH, WE ARE PREPARED, UH, SUMMER OF 26, UH, FOR COMPLETION.
UH, UH, SHOULD THERE BE DELAYS? I SO GENTLEMEN, THAT, UH, CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION.
I'M, UH, WILLING TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE OF THAT OR ANYTHING WATER RELATED.
OKAY, STEVEN? YEAH, A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
YOU, YOU MENTIONED, UM, ELECTRIC BUSES A COUPLE TIMES.
ANY PROJECTIONS ON WHEN YOU ACTUALLY SEE SOME OF THOSE ON THE ROAD? SO, NO, NO FIRM PROJECTIONS YET.
WE ARE, UH, NEEDING TO DEVELOP A STRATEGIC BUS REPLACEMENT PLAN.
UH, AND, AND WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR NEIGHBORS AS WELL.
H R T HAS RUN SOME ELECTRIC BUSES DOWN IN VIRGINIA BEACH WITH, WITH MIXED, UH, SUCCESS.
I DON'T NEED TO SPEAK FOR THEM, BUT JUST SOME CONVERSATIONS.
THEY LEARNED A LOT, RIGHT? LOTS OF ELECTRIC BUSES UP IN THE ALEXANDRIA AREA.
SO IT OBVIOUSLY NEEDS TO BE A VERY, UH, DELIBERATE PROCESS FOR, UH, THE INFRASTRUCTURE BEING OUR GREATEST CONCERN, UH, THAT WILL BE COMING IN OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.
UH, CURRENT TIMELINE TO OBTAIN A BUS IS, IS 18 MONTHS, BUT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE FIRST.
IF I, I WOULD SAY REALISTICALLY, UH, PROBABLY FOUR YEARS.
GIVEN YOUR PROXIMITY TO THE Y M C A UP THERE, I WAS LOOKING AT THE OVERHEAD VIEW RENDITION.
YOU GOT THE FENCE AROUND THE PROPERTY, BUT
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DID IT ALSO SEE AN ACCESS FROM THE PROPERTY? YES.ACTUALLY, YES, I, I SAID I'D COME BACK TO IT, DIDN'T I? SO WE, WE ARE, UH, UH, DISCUSSING WITH THE O Y SAY POTENTIAL FOR, UH, IF THEY WERE TO EXTEND A SIDEWALK DOWN, AND WE, WE'D HAVE ACCESS THERE.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE OPTIMISTIC THAT THAT TOO WILL WORK.
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, UH, I ATTENDED THE VIRGINIA TRANSIT ASSOCIATION BUS EXPO UP IN, UH, RICHMOND.
AND ONE OF THE BIG THINGS THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THEN WAS THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT FULLY AUTOMATED BUS ROUTES.
THERE WERE SEVERAL COMPANIES, UH, THAT HAD FULLY AUTOMATED BUS ROUTES.
IN FACT, ONE OF THEM APPROACHED ME AND SAID, HEY, WE COULD SET ONE OF THEM UP HERE IN YORKTOWN.
AND I SAID, THE PEOPLE OF YORKTOWN ARE NOT READY FOR A FULLY AUTOMATIC AUTOMATED BUS ROUTE, BUT, UH, WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THAT? ARE YOU SEEING A MOVEMENT TO THAT? AND THEY HAD NAMED SOME CITIES SUCH AS LAS VEGAS, UH, THAT WERE USING FULLY AUTOMATED BUSES.
UH, THEY MENTIONED, UH, SOME OF THE AIRPORTS, UH, OUT THERE THAT HAD FULLY AUTOMATED, UH, BUSES.
IT WAS DEPENDENT A LOT ON, UH, PUTTING SOME INFRASTRUCTURE, SOME WIRES IN THE ROAD WHEN YOU DID THAT AS SOME 5G, UH, UH, KIND OF NEAT.
BUT ARE YOU SEEING ANY PUSH TOWARDS THAT? UH, NOT IN, AND HAVEN'T BEEN AROUND LONG.
HAVEN'T ATTENDED MANY CONFERENCES.
I DID ATTEND THE, UH, VIRGINIA, UH, TRANSIT ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE, JUST, UH, UH, LAST MONTH OR LATE MAY.
AND I DIDN'T, I DON'T RECALL ANY DISCUSSION OF THAT.
SO NOT, NOT IN ANY OF THE SERVICE.
BUT, UH, I'LL, I WILL LOOK FOR THAT.
UH, ATTENDING, UH, BIG EXPO DOWN IN ORLANDO IN THE, UH, UH, IN OCTOBER.
THAT'S A, THAT'S A NATIONAL, UH, UH, CONFERENCE.
ONE OF, ONE OF THE ISSUES THEY WERE HAVING IS WITH GETTING QUALIFIED BUS DRIVERS.
ARE WE, HOW ABOUT, SO, SO THAT IS OUR GREATEST CHALLENGE.
UH, TO, TO DISCUSS, YOU KNOW, AS, UH, UH, WE ARE ABOUT HOW WE'RE TRYING TO RECOVER, UH, FROM THE PANDEMIC AND GET TO WHERE WE WERE, WE'RE ONE OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS' CHALLENGES AS WELL.
UH, SO WE'RE NOT ABLE TO PROVIDE THE SAME FREQUENCY WE HAD, UH, BEFORE BECAUSE OF A LACK, LACK OF DRIVERS, MODEST GAINS.
UH, WE HAVE A HEALTHY NUMBER OF APPLICANTS FOR JOBS.
I MEAN, I CAN NAME JUST A FOUR IN THE PAST WEEK.
UH, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE THEY, WE DON'T HIRE THEM ALL, BUT THAT IS PROHIBITING US FROM, UH, REALLY GETTING TO THE LEVEL WE KNOW WHERE WE KNOW WE NEED TO BE.
SO, MR. SCALIA, WHAT I DIDN'T TO CATCH WAS, WHAT IS YOUR RIDERSHIP RIGHT NOW? SO, SO RIDERSHIP, UH, IS AGAIN, CREEPING UP TO, NEAR, NEAR, UH, UH, PO OR PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS.
WE ARE JUST SHY OF A MILLION, UH, FOR THE, FOR THE FY.
SO I KNOW ONE OF THE BIG CHALLENGES FOR BUSES, UH, AND, AND BEING ON THE H UH, THE TPO, UM, YOU KNOW WHAT, I GET TO SEE AND HEAR THE REPORTS, IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A ISSUE OF DENSITY.
IT SEEMS THAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GET TOO RURAL, TOO MUCH OF A RURAL AREA, YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIDERSHIP.
SO IT DOESN'T WARRANT THE BUS, THE BUS TRAFFIC.
NOW, WILLIAMSBURG, THE WATER PARK, THEY'VE GOT THAT, THAT, THAT'S GOING UP.
AND THEN OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, NEWPORT NEWS AND HAMPTON, THEY HAVE THEIRS.
AND THEN SAME WAY, THE H R T OVER ON THE OTHER SIDE, UH, SOUTH SIDE OF, OF, UH, HAMPTON ROADS.
SO, UM, DO YOU SEE ANY NEED FOR, UM, BUS TRAFFIC DOWN ROUTE 17 HERE IN YORK COUNTY? SO THERE IS A DEMONSTRATION ROUTE THAT, THAT WE WERE HOPING TO, UH, IMPLEMENT DOWN ROUTE 17.
AND, AND WE DID RECEIVE SOME FUNDING.
UNFORTUNATELY, BECA AGAIN, BECAUSE OF LACK OF DRIVERS BEING THE PRIMARY, UH, CONDITION WE'RE LACKING, WE'VE BEEN, BEEN UNABLE TO DO SO.
UH, I DO THINK, UH, WE, WE WILL CONTINUE TO PURSUE THAT DEMONSTRATION ROUTE.
UH, IN FACT, JUST COORDINATION WITH HR TPO, LOOKING AT, UH, GETTING THOSE TWO GRANTS WE HAD FOR IT SH SHIFT, SHIFT THEM TO THE OTHER FISCAL YEARS.
SO WE CAN, WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO BEGIN THAT DEMONSTRATION.
TO YOUR BROADER QUESTION OF, UH, RIDERSHIP VERSUS COVERAGE, UH, WE ARE FOCUSING ON INCREASING RIDERSHIP.
THAT MEANS INCREASING FREQUENCY OF OURS, EXISTING ROOTS BEFORE WE TRY TO EXPAND OUT, UH, TO COVERAGE.
UH, AND, AND I, I THINK WE'RE ON THE RIGHT PATH TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR, UH, YOUR PRESENTATION.
IT'S, UH, IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO HEAR FROM, UH, FROM, UH, YOU GUYS.
SO WE KNOW IT'S GOING UP THERE, MOST OF OUR COUNTIES ON THE SOUTHERN END OF THE COUNTY.
AND, UH, BUT IT'S GOOD TO HEAR THAT, UH, YOUR GUYS ARE GROWING UP THERE.
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WE'RE GONNA MOVE INTO THE CITIZEN COMMENT PERIOD.AND I HAVE, I ASSUME I'VE GOT SOMEBODY SIGNED UP.
SO MAKE SURE WE GOT ALL THESE.
THESE ARE JUST IN SEQUENCE, RIGHT? IS WHAT THEIR NUMBERS ARE.
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OKAY.SO I'VE GOT EIGHT FOLKS SIGNED UP.
UH, IF YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED UP AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, THE, UH, RIGHT OUTSIDE THE DOOR IS THE, UH, UH, THE CARDS.
AND I WILL, UH, UM, CALL THE SPEAKERS IN ORDER IN WHICH THEY RECEIVED.
UH, UH, REMEMBER THAT WHEN YOU COME FORWARD, UH, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME CLEARLY, UH, NAME AND ADDRESS, AND YOU'LL BE GIVEN THREE MINUTES.
UM, I THINK OUR LIGHT SEQUENCE IS STILL WORKING.
YELLOW MEANS YOU GOT ABOUT 20 SECONDS, AND I DON'T KNOW IF A YELLOW'S BEEPING IS ALWAYS A DISTRACTION.
AND THEN RED, YOUR THREE MINUTES ARE UP.
FIRST SPEAKER TONIGHT WILL BE MR. DOUG ROY AND MR. CHAIRMAN, SUPERVISORS.
I'M DOUG HOLROYD, 1 0 3, MARINA POINT WILLIAMSBURG.
I'M SURE SOME OF YOU, OR MOST OF YOU HAVE SEEN THE RECENT ARTICLES IN DAILY GAZETTE AND ON W K T R REGARDING SPRINGFIELD ROAD.
RESIDENTS IN THAT AREA ARE STILL CONCERNED WITH THE OVERALL TRAFFIC FLOW.
FOLLOWING FEBRUARY'S PRESENTATION TO THIS BOARD, UM, COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR AGREED TO SUBMIT A REQUEST TO AGE CONSULTING, UH, TO EVALUATE THE FEASIBILITY OF PROVIDING A TEMPORARY ACCESS ROAD THROUGH HAWK'S NEST.
I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BOTH REVIEW IT, UH, AND, AND COMMENT ON IT.
IT IS BOTH ACCURATE AND THOROUGH.
UH, IT CLEARLY POINTS OUT THE PERMITTING REQUIREMENTS ARE THE MAJOR ISSUE IN TERMS OF THE TIMELINE FOR, UH, EXECUTING A TEMPORARY ROAD, AND IT PUSHES IT TO GREATER THAN THREE YEARS, WHICH I THINK WE ALL AGREE IS BEYOND THE TIMELINE OF THE TRANQUILITY, UH, CONSTRUCTION PERIOD.
UM, SO I HAVE TO RELUCTANTLY AGREE WITH THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S CONCLUSION.
IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO GO FORWARD WITH THAT.
THE REPORT CONCLUDES THAT AN ALTERNATE PATH WAS OR IS AVAILABLE.
UM, SO THAT JUST BRINGS US BACK TO WHEN WE HAVE LARGE DEVELOPMENTS AND WE DO HAVE IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY.
WE NEED TO BE THINKING, WE NEED TO BE TAKING THE TIME TO ENSURE THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT ALL VIABLE ALTERNATIVE ALTERNATIVES.
WE, WE MISSED IT ON THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT, GIVEN THAT OUTCOME, THAT OUTCOME, THE, UH, THE RESIDENTS FACE UP TO FIVE YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION TRAFFIC ALONG SPRINGFIELD ROAD.
UH, AND THERE'S NOT MUCH OF AN ALTERNATIVE, UH, IN, IN, UH, TO ADDRESS THAT.
UH, THAT BRINGS ME BACK TO A RECOMMENDATION I HAD MADE IN FEBRUARY AND, UH, DURING MY PRESENTATION TO THIS BOARD, I HAD, UH, SUGGESTED THAT IT WOULD BE A VERY MAGNANIMOUS, UH, GESTURE BY THE BOARD TO PROVIDE A PROPERTY TAX REBATE TO THE RESIDENTS OF SPRINGFIELD ROAD FOR THE PAST YEAR.
I THINK THE, UH, TROUBLE IN THE, UH, CHALLENGE THAT THEY'RE GOING THROUGH WOULD, UH, WOULD, WOULD, UH, MAKE SENSE THAT WE WOULD REACH OUT TO THEM AND TRY AND OFFER SOME SORT OF A SOLUTION.
UM, IN THE ABSENCE OF, UH, DISTRICT ONE SUPERVISOR TONIGHT, I'LL, I'LL ASK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN TO, UH, CONSIDER TAKING THAT ACTION FORWARD.
GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
MY NAME IS ELIZABETH WILKINS, 2 28 CHURCH STREET, AND I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF YORK CITIZENS FOR A CODE OF ETHICS.
THERE SEEMS TO BE AN ONGOING LACK OF TRUST IN OUR COUNTY GOVERNMENT TO DO THE RIGHT THING FOR THE GOOD OF ALL YORK'S RESIDENTS.
AND WE FEEL THAT ADOPTING BASIC ETHICAL GUIDELINES FOR YOURSELVES AS A BOARD IS ESSENTIAL AND LONG OVERDUE.
I WOULD FIRST POINT TO THE SPRINGFIELD ROAD DEBACLE, THE LONG TERM RESIDENCE THERE HAVE ENDURED ALMOST TWO YEARS OF HEAVY CONSTRUCTION TRAFFIC ON THEIR PREVIOUSLY QUIET ROAD, AND ARE LIKELY LOOKING AT SEVERAL MORE YEARS BEFORE THE BUILD.
OUT OF ABOUT 200 HOMES IN THE SO-CALLED TRAN TRANQUILITY DEVELOPMENT IS COMPLETE.
THE IRONY OF THE NAME IS NOT LOST ON ANYONE.
AND IF YOU'VE DRIVEN THAT ROAD ON A RECENT WEEKDAY, YOU'LL KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
THESE RESIDENTS DON'T DESERVE THE TREATMENT THEY'VE RECEIVED BY THE COUNTY IN APPROVING THE PROJECT WITH INAPPROPRIATE CONSTRUCTION ACCESS.
UM, SHOWING NO REGARD FOR THE FAMILIES WHO'VE LIVED THERE FOR GENERATIONS PROMISES BY THE COUNTY TO SOMEHOW REMEDIATE THE PROBLEM ARE STILL JUST PROMISES.
SPECIAL INTERESTS ALWAYS SEEM TO COME FIRST.
THE SECOND URGENT CASE IN POINT IS THE PLAN TO BRING PRINCESS LINE CRUISE SHIPS TO YORKTOWN.
YOU MAY DISMISS THE OPPOSITION AS BEING ABOUT A FEW RESIDENTS NOT WANTING TO HAVE OUR PRETTY VIEW SPOILED OR WANTING TO KEEP YORKTOWN TO OURSELVES.
BUT IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT THIS IS NOT MIAMI OR BALTIMORE OR NORFOLK.
THIS IS A TOWN OF FEW FEWER THAN 300
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PEOPLE WITH A HALF MILE HISTORIC WATERFRONT.MORE IMPORTANTLY, THIS IS TRULY HALLOWED GROUND, THE BIRTHPLACE OF OUR NATION.
AND I WOULD ARGUE THAT IT BELONGS TO ALL AMERICANS.
I'M SURE YOU WOULD DESCRIBE YOURSELVES AS PATRIOTIC.
AND YET HERE YOU SEEM WILLING TO SELL HISTORIC YORKTOWN TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.
TRUE TOURISM CAN BE A GOOD THING FOR LOCAL ECONOMIES, BUT THERE IS A SCALE AT WHICH RETURNS ARE DIMINISHED RELATIVE TO COSTS.
AND THE MASSIVE PRINCESS CRUISE SHIPS SURELY CROSSED THAT LINE.
FURTHERMORE, THE RESIDENTS OF YORK HAVE SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PROCESS BEHIND THE PRINCESS DEAL, WHICH WAS MADE WITHOUT PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE OR INPUT, NOR EVEN A CHANCE TO ASK YOU ANY QUESTIONS.
AGAIN, SPECIAL INTERESTS ALWAYS SEEM TO COME FIRST, AND THIS HAS TO CHANGE.
SO, HOW WOULD A CODE OF ETHICS BENEFIT YORK COUNTY SUCH CODES PROMOTE A CULTURE OF TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY AND OBLIGATE EACH ELECTED OFFICIAL TO PUT THE PUBLIC GOOD ABOVE PERSONAL OR PRIVATE INTERESTS.
AS YOU KNOW, YORK COUNTY IS THE LONE HOLDOUT AMONG NEIGHBORING LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.
ALL OF THE SURROUNDING MUNICIPALITIES HAVE ADOPTED CODES OF ETHICS.
IT'S HIGH TIME FOR YORK TO DO THE SAME.
NEXT SPEAKER IS STEVEN KENNEDY.
UH, STEVEN KENNEDY, UH, 1 0 4 PENN DRIVE.
UH, TOPIC TONIGHT IS YOUR COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE PUBLIC, AND A MEMO FROM MR. MORGAN DATED JUNE 22ND.
SOME UNDESIRABLE LANGUAGE AND RHETORIC CONTINUES TO CREEP INTO YOUR COMMUNICATIONS ON THE WHOLE FOIA DISCUSSION, THE WORD WEAPONIZED WAS BEING THROWN AROUND AS IF ONE REQUEST FOR FOIA WAS GOOD OR THE OTHER ONE WAS BAD.
THEN WE STARTED TO USE WORDS LIKE DEMONIZE ON THE TOPIC OF SURPLUSES.
JUNE 22ND IS THE MEMO TO YOU FROM MR. MORGAN.
FOR THE SAKE OF TIME, CARE SHOULD TAKEN NOT TO DEMONIZE BUDGET SURPLUSES AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENTS SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED AND REWARDED FOR GENERATING SURPLUSES TO CREATE AN INCENTIVE FOR STAFF TO TREAT THE PUBLIC'S MONEY AS IF IT WERE THEIR OWN.
I READ IT THREE TIMES, GENTLEMEN.
THREE TIMES WE'RE INCENTIVIZING PUBLIC STEWARDS.
AND IF I ASK ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON WITH MY MONEY, I'M A DEMON BAD POLICY.
THEY SAY THE OPTICS ARE BAD, WHOMEVER THEY IS IN ELECTION YEAR, THERE'S LOTS OF THEYS OUT THERE.
SEE, WHEN YOU THROW THIS OUT AT THE PUBLIC SQUARE, YOU'RE THROWING OUT THE CONCEPT OF REWARD WITH NO RISK.
I'D LOVE TO START A HEDGE FUND WHERE THERE'S NO DOWNSIDE AND TREATING MONEY AS IF IT'S YOUR OWN AS INACCURATE.
THINK, UH, THINKING YOU'RE SIMPLY A PASS THROUGH ORGANIZATION.
BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE WRONG IN THE REAL WORLD OF CAPITAL ALLOCATION OR IN DEFICIT YEARS IN THIS SIDE OF THE S, THERE'S NO NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES ON THIS SIDE OF THE S BAD THINGS HAPPEN.
SO WHAT I REALLY WANNA KNOW IS, IS HE ADVOCATING FOR MAYBE RECEIVING A COMMISSION OR AN OVERRIDE OR MAYBE A STOCKING STUFFER AT CHRISTMAS? WHEN YOU'RE RIGHT, RUNNING THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF SURPLUS AS GENTLEMEN, ESPECIALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF A CRUSHING RECESSION, IS BAD POLICY.
PLEASE DON'T TELL US WE'RE DEMONS FOR ASKING WHAT YOU'RE DOING WITH OUR MONEY.
WE ARE SO FORWARD REMOVED FROM THE SYSTEM OF TAXATION SANCTIONED BY OUR FOUNDERS, AND MAYBE BEEN TAUGHT AT THE ANTONIN SCALIA LAW SCHOOL.
IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, TODAY, OUR LOCAL SYSTEM OF TAXATION AND THE MAGNITUDE OF REVENUE, 250 MILLION HAS TRANSCENDED RAISING THE FUNDS REQUIRED TO SUPPORT THE NECESSARY MINIMAL FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT.
MINIMAL FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT IS THE EMPHASIS.
SPEAKING OF SURPLUS, AS I TOOK MY CHAD GREEN PEN OUT, WE'RE GONNA CHALLENGE YOU AGAIN TO SUPPORT CONSERVATION.
I WROTE TWO CHECKS, THANK MRS. KENNEDY, $3,000 EACH TO THE HISTORIC VIRGINIA LAND CONSERVANCY, CONSERVE YORK COUNTY FOUNDATION.
WE ARE ALSO GONNA SPONSOR A DEBATE.
YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ABOUT THAT SHORTLY.
WE INTEND TO, WE ALSO HAVE, UH, TWO MEDIA OUTLETS THAT HAVE AGREED IN PRINCIPLE TO CO MODERATE THAT DEBATE.
THANK YOU NIGHT, AND YOU'LL SEE US SOON.
NEXT, UM, ALYSSA, IS IT ADAMS? I BELIEVE ONE 11 SMITH STREET.
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FOR THE OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO SPEAK THIS EVENING.UM, THAT IS A TERM THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS USE USES TO DESCRIBE MAKING DESIRABLE DESTINATIONS FOR A VISIT.
AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT I THINK IT MEANS.
MY QUESTION, AND ALL I HAVE ARE QUESTIONS, IS WHAT KIND OF PLACE WILL YORKTOWN BECOME WITH THE ADVENT OF LARGE CRUISE SHIPS THAT ARE 16 STORY TALL, TWO AND A HALF LENGTHS OF A FOOTBALL FIELD, AND THE TOWER OVER THE COLEMAN BRIDGE AS IT PASSES THROUGH TO THE PROPOSED PIER AT THE WATERMAN'S MUSEUM.
IMAGINE A NEW YORK CITY BLOCK FLOATING DOWN THE YORK RIVER DESCENDING ON OUR SMALL WATERFRONT BEACH THAT RUNS A HALF A MILE FROM COMP DEGRA STREET TO WATERMAN'S MUSEUM.
IT WOULD BE AN AMAZING, SPECTACULAR SITE.
BUT AFTER THE SIXTH VISIT, THE 10TH VISIT, THE 20TH VISIT, THE 30TH VISIT, OR THE 60TH VISIT, IT MAY NOT SEEM SO SPECTACULAR.
IT MAY NOT SEEM SO AMAZING WHEN YOU CAN'T FIND A PLACE TO PARK, A PLACE TO EAT, A PLACE TO ENJOY THE BEACH, A PLACE TO ENJOY THE HISTORIC SITES.
YORKTOWN DOES NOT COMPARE AND SIZE TO THE LARGE INDUSTRIAL PORT AND MAJOR CITIES.
AND 2000, 3000 PERSON SHIPS WOULD CREATE MANY NEGATIVE ISSUES ON OUR SMALL INFRASTRUCTURE.
THE ISSUE OF POLLUTION, NOT ONLY FROM THE SHIP, BUT FROM THE TENDERS AND THE TOUR BUSES, PARTICULAR MATTER FROM CRUISE LINES, HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO CAUSE ASTHMA AND CHILDREN AT BUSY PORTS.
DO WE WANT TO EXPOSE OUR VISITORS TO THAT? AND WHAT ABOUT THE ISSUE OF HIGHWAY 17 AND THE COLEMAN BRIDGE OPENING AND CLOSING ON A FREQUENT BASIS? HOW WOULD THAT AFFECT COMMUTERS? HOW WOULD THAT AFFECT BUSINESSES ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE? WHAT MONEY WOULD BE LOST IN TERMS OF DELAYED DELIVERIES AND NOT BEING ABLE TO GET TO WORK ON TIME? AND WHAT ABOUT THE ISSUE OF MONEY? HOW MANY CRUISE SHIPS WOULD HAVE TO VISIT YORKTOWN ON A REGULAR BASIS TO PAY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND MAINTENANCE ON OUR ROADS? EXTRA AND EXTRA SECURITY? I'M, I'M JUST MAKING GUESSES HERE.
I'M JUST THROWING OUT THESE NUMBERS.
I'M, THEY'RE JUST EDUCATED GUESSES.
I'M GUESSING THAT BETWEEN PORT FEES, BUS TOURS, SMALL PURCHASES, LIKE A T-SHIRT, THAT MAYBE IT WOULD BE $200,000, MAYBE $250,000 TOTAL PER VISIT, IF THAT INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED MIGHT COST BETWEEN 15 TO $40 MILLION.
AND THEN HOW MUCH TO MAINTAIN PER YEAR.
AGAIN, THESE ARE JUST NUMBERS THAT I AM EXTRAPOLATING ON MY OWN.
AS AN EXAMPLE, IT WOULD TAKE 60 SHIP VISITS AT $250,000 PER VISIT TO EQUAL 15 MILLION.
3000 PERSON CRUISE SHIPS ARE BIG.
I'M JUST, IT JUST, I DON'T KNOW.
UM, PRINCESS IS OWNED BY CARNIVAL, WHICH IS A COMPANY THAT MAKES BILLIONS.
THEY WERE WORTH 12 BILLION IN 2022.
THEY PUBLICLY TRADE ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
DOES PRINCESS CARE ABOUT YORKTOWN? I THINK PRINCESS CARES ABOUT THEIR SHAREHOLDERS.
DOES YORK COUNTY WANT TO SELL AT YORKTOWN FOR THE PRICE OF A T-SHIRT FROM COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG? THANK YOU.
I'M LARRY RAHEL, UH, ONE 14 CHURCH STREET, IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT HERE, UH, TO YOUR CALL.
I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME TO ADDRESS YOU THIS EVENING WITH SOME THOUGHTS AND CONCERNS ON THE CRUISE LINES.
UH, I AM A RETIRED NAVAL OFFICER.
UH, I'VE SERVED ON EVERYTHING FROM DESTROYERS TO AIRCRAFT CARRIERS.
UH, AND, UH, EVEN THOUGH I WAS AN AVIATOR, I MAY NOT BE AN EXPERT, BUT I KNOW A FAIR AMOUNT ABOUT WATERFRONT OPERATIONS AND THE IMPACTS.
UH, AND I'M CONCERNED, WHY WOULD WE BE DOING THIS? HOW WOULD BE DOING THIS? UM, AND, YOU KNOW, NOT GETTING THESE QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
I'VE LOOKED AT THE ONLINE, THE INFORMATION THAT'S AVAILABLE.
I SEE THE COUNTY'S CHECKLIST OF WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING'S GOING OKAY.
AND THEY'RE DEALING WITH, UH, FEMA, THEY'RE DEALING WITH THE COAST GUARD.
THEY'RE DEALING WITH NORFOLK ON WHAT THE PROCEDURES ARE.
NOWHERE DO I SEE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT IF OR WHY.
SO, LIKE MANY OF THESE OTHER FOLKS, I'M CONCERNED WHY THIS PROCESS IS SO FAR ALONG.
UM, THERE'S OTHER CRUISE LINES THAT COME IN HERE THAT ARE SMALL, 160 PASSENGERS APPROPRIATE TO THE HISTORICAL SETTING.
UM, WHAT YOU JUST HEARD, WHY WOULD SOMEONE GO AND PUT MILLIONS INTO A PIER IF THEY DO NOT PLAN TO USE THAT PIER ON A REGULAR BASIS, EVENTUALLY COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE TO THE SETTING OF YORKTOWN.
IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY, GENTLEMEN.
AND, AND THOSE OF US IN THE VILLAGE ARE GETTING A LITTLE BIT TIRED OF POTENTIALLY ON OUR BACKS, GETTING MONEY
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FOR THE COUNTY, FOR WILLIAMSBURG, FOR JAMESTOWN.UM, MY BIGGEST CONCERN AT THIS POINT IS INTERACTION WITH YOU ALL.
WE'VE ASKED SOME ADMINISTRATIVE FOLKS IN THE COUNTY TO MEET WITH US.
THEY HAD ALL KINDS OF REASONS.
THEY DIDN'T WANNA MEET WITH US.
HONESTLY, SOME OF YOU WE'VE ASKED, AND THE ANSWER WAS, WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM THE SHIPS, UH, YOU KNOW, FROM THE SHIP LINES.
BUT WHAT WOULD BE PREFERABLE IS IF YOU WOULD MEET WITH US, YOUR CONSTITUENCY, TO UNDERSTAND OUR CONCERNS, SHARE WHAT YOU KNOW, I SUSPECT, I JUST GOTTA BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, MORE THAN WE DO.
SHARE WITH US WHAT YOU KNOW HERE ARE CONCERNS SO THAT WHEN YOU DO TALK THE SHIP LINES, YOU HAVE IN YOUR MINDS WHAT OUR CONCERNS ARE.
AND YOU CAN EXPRESS THOSE TO, TO THE PEOPLE IN THE MEETINGS.
WE DON'T FEEL LIKE WE'RE GETTING REPRESENTED.
WE'RE JUST CONCERNED ABOUT THE IMPACTS OF IT.
YOU DON'T TAKE YOUR MORNING WALKS DOWN THERE WITH YOUR DOGS, YOUR GRANDKIDS.
YOU'RE NOT DOWN THERE HAVING FAMILY GATHERINGS, LIKE A LOT OF THE FOLKS THAT COME TO THE BEACH HERE.
AND WE'RE JUST FEELING LIKE THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT OF INTEREST IN WHAT MATTERS TO US.
SO MY REQUEST IS, IF, IF WE CONTACT YOU AGAIN AND ASK FOR SOME OF YOUR TIME TO GET TOGETHER, THAT YOU PLEASE MEET WITH US, TALK WITH US, HEAR WHAT WE HAVE TO SAY, WRITE DOWN WHAT OUR CONCERNS ARE SO THEY CAN BE TAKEN FORWARD.
THAT LIST OF ACTIONS THAT ARE ONGOING.
THERE'S NOWHERE THAT SAYS MEET WITH VILLAGERS AND HEAR WHAT THEY SAY.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GONNA DO THINGS BECAUSE IT'S ALREADY GONNA HAPPEN.
SO I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND JUST REQUEST THAT YOU WOULD MEET WITH US.
I LIVE AT 2 0 7 NELSON STREET HERE IN THE VILLAGE.
UM, AGAIN, I'M, I'M HERE TO TALK AGAIN ABOUT THE ENORMOUS CRUISE SHIPS, UM, THAT ARE SLATED TO COME TO HISTORIC YORKTOWN.
I REALLY DON'T KNOW HOW WE GOT FROM JANUARY FINDING OUT ABOUT IT TO HERE.
WE'VE BEEN GIVEN NO INFORMATION THERE'S BEEN ZERO TRANSPARENCY WE'VE ASKED FOR, JUST ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS AND CRUISE SHIPS ARE ALREADY COMING.
HOW DID WE GET TO THAT POINT? WITHOUT ANY CITIZENS INPUT AND, AND ZERO TRANSPARENCY REALLY.
UM, UM, I'M ALL, AGAIN, I'M ALL FOR BUSINESS.
UM, AND TOURISM, THIS CRUISE SHIP MENTIONED EARLIER THAT COMES HERE.
THEY GET OFF, THEY GET ON A BUS AND THEY GO TO WILLIAMSBURG.
NOW, MAYBE THERE'S DOCK FEES AND THAT TYPE OF THING, BUT WHY DON'T WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT? WHY DON'T WE HAVE THEM GO TO THE NATIONAL PARK AND GO TO THE GREAT, UM, UH, REVOLUTIONARY WAR MUSEUM AND THE WATER MUSEUM INSTEAD? WE'RE GONNA, I DON'T KNOW.
IT FEELS LIKE THE WATERMEN'S ARE SELLING THEIR SOUL OF THAT MUSEUM.
UH, I'M REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
UM, I, I'VE, I, I DIDN'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING PREPARED.
I'M JUST REALLY UPSET AND I JUST WANTED TO BE HERE AND, AND JUST TELL MY CONCERNS AGAIN.
WE ASKED THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, WE'VE ASKED THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR, WE'VE ASKED PEOPLE IN THE COUNTY TO PLEASE ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS.
NO ONE, IT'S LIKE YOU'RE LOCK AND STEP AND YOU WILL NOT ANSWER ANY OF OUR QUESTIONS AND OUR CONCERNS.
AND WHEN YOU HAVE NO INFORMATION OR MISINFORMATION, THAT'S WHERE EVERYTHING GETS ALL HAYWIRE.
AND IF YOU COULD JUST CALM US DOWN BY ANSWERING QUESTIONS, THAT WOULD BE REALLY, REALLY GREAT.
UM, UM, I JUST WISH YOU'D LISTEN AND HEAR US AND ANSWER QUESTIONS.
AND I'LL BE BACK AGAIN UNTIL WE GET ANSWERS.
AND THANK YOU, MR. THANK YOU, DAVID.
I'M DAVID BELTIC, 7 0 2 MAIN STREET, THE HORNSBY HOUSE INN.
UH, I'M HERE TO, UH, LET YOU KNOW THAT I'M REALLY AGAINST THIS CRUISE SHIP IDEA.
IT'S A BAD IDEA ALL THE WAY AROUND.
I DON'T NEED A LOT OF QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
ON THE FACE OF IT IS A BAD IDEA.
UM, HAVING 2000 PEOPLE GET OFF AT THE PIER, DOWN THE HILL, UH, FOR THIS TRIAL BALLOON THING IS ALSO A BAD IDEA.
UM, IT'S, IT'S 40 TO 60 BUSES LINING UP TO TAKE ALL THESE PEOPLE TO WILLIAMSBURG.
UH, THE LOGISTICS, NONE OF IT MAKES SENSE IN MY MIND.
UM, AND THEN THEY RETURN THAT EVENING.
UM, THE SCALE OF IT IS NOT FOR OUR VILLAGE.
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AND AGAIN.UM, IF THIS GOES WELL THIS NEXT SUMMER, I UNDERSTAND YOU WANT TO CONSIDER BUILDING UP HERE FOR A LARGE CRUISE SHIP TO COME THROUGH THE BRIDGE AND PARK AT THE WATERMAN'S MUSEUM.
UH, THIS IS MAYBERRY, NOT MIAMI.
SO TAKE THAT IN MIND AND PLEASE, UH, TRY TO STOP THIS IN ITS TRAPS.
THAT'S ALL I HAVE THAT SIGNED UP.
ANYONE ELSE CARE TO SPEAK TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS? PLEASE, UH, RAISE YOUR HAND COME FORWARD.
PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
YES, BARB, BARBARA LUCK, 1 39 SMITH STREET.
I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE WITH YOUR APPARENT BELIEF THAT MORE IS BETTER AND BIGGER IS BETTER.
THE VILLAGE OF YORKTOWN IS SMALL AND FINITE THANKS TO THE PROTECTIVE BAND OF NPS PROPERTY THAT MAKES IT SO YOUR EFFORTS TO ENTICE AND ACCOMMODATE LARGER AND LARGER CROWDS HERE MAY BE WELL INTENTIONED, BUT THEY'RE MISGUIDED BY TRYING TO PLEASE EVERYBODY.
YOU'RE PLEASING, NOBODY YOU CITE INSUFFICIENT RESTROOMS FOR BEACH BEACHGOERS AS PARTIAL RATIONALE FOR ENLARGING THE DOCK MASTER'S OFFICE.
BUT PERHAPS THE PRESENT LIMITED NUMBER OF RESTROOMS PUTS A, A PASSIVE CAP ON THE NUMBER OF BEACHGOERS, WHICH WOULD IMPROVE VISITOR EXPERIENCE FOR THE FINITE NUMBER WHO CONTINUE TO COME.
AND WHOM WE WELCOME THOUSANDS OF PRINCESS CRUISE PASSENGERS PERIODICALLY.
DISEMBARKING HERE CAN ONLY CONTRIBUTE TO OVERCROWDING DISRUPTION AND INFRASTRUCTURAL CHANGES THAT WILL NEGATIVELY ALTER THE CHARACTER OF THIS TINY TOWN FOR FOREVER.
IN THREE MINUTES, I CAN ONLY FOCUS ON THE SHIP'S INAPPROPRIATE SCALE AND UNWIELDY NUMBERS, BUT I CAN AT LEAST ALLUDE TO SOME OF THE MORE SOBERING PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH PRINCESS, INCLUDING A HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL IRRESPONSIBILITY, AIR AND WATER POLLUTION GENERATED BY A VIRTUALLY UNREGULATED SHIPPING INDUSTRY, ECONOMIC STATUS, OR EVEN DOWNTURN AT PORTS OF CALL AND POTENTIAL IRREPARABLE DAMAGE TO THE 18TH CENTURY SHIPWRECKS LYING OFFSHORE THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN FULLY STUDIED, AND IN SOME CASES NOT EVEN LOCATED.
IN CONCLUSION, I REFER TO NATIONAL NIGHTLY NEWS COVERAGE AND POSIT THAT TAXPAYER MONEY SHOULD NOT BE POURED INTO HOSTING BEHEMOTH CRUISE SHIPS, BUT RATHER INTO INCREASING THE COUNTY'S CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCY.
UH, QUESTION FOR YOU, UH, WERE YOU THE ONE THAT WROTE THE LETTER TO THE BOARD SUPERVISOR WITH THE, UH, ALL THE QUESTIONS? NO, I WASN'T.
IS THERE? THAT WAS, IS WHOEVER WROTE THAT? ARE YOU, YOU'RE HERE.
CAN YOU COME UP PLEASE? AND YOU, MA'AM? THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
I NEED TALK TO THE LADY HERE FOR REAL QUICK.
THE REASON I'M, I'M ASK YOU THE QUESTION.
I NORMALLY, DURING THIS PERIOD, WE DON'T TALK, WE DON'T, EXCUSE ME, WE DON'T EXCHANGE, UH, INFORMATION.
BUT YOUR, UH, PAPER, UH, WAS WELL WRITTEN AND APPRECIATED THE COMMENTS.
THE PROBLEM WE'VE GOT IS THAT IT, YOU SAID IT WAS HYPERLINKED.
I COULD RECEIVE, AND SEVERAL OF THE BOARD MEMBERS WERE, THEY'RE NOT HYPERLINKED.
SO IF YOU COULD SOMEHOW GO BACK AND TAKE A LOOK AT THAT PAPER YOU WROTE AND SEND IT TO US, BECAUSE I, I MEAN, I, I LOVE WHAT YOU WROTE.
GOTTA IT JUST, I DON'T HAVE TIME TO GO THROUGH EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT WITHOUT IT SOME HELP GETTING THROUGH THIS STUFF.
SO IF YOU CAN GO BACK AND RESEND IT TO THE BOARD, I APPRECIATE OH, YEAH, I'D BE HAPPY TO DO THAT.
ANYBODY ELSE CARE TO SPEAK TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS? OKAY.
WITH THAT, I WILL CLOSE THE, UH, THE SESSION AND, UH, HANG ON JUST A SECOND HERE.
LET ME GET IT ORGANIZED AGAIN.
[COUNTY ATTORNEY REPORTS AND REQUESTS]
ATTORNEY REPORTS AND REQUESTS.DOES ANYBODY GOT ANYTHING FOR HIM? OKAY.
UM, AND JUST FOR THOSE THAT, UH, TALKING ABOUT THE CRUISE SHIP AND EVERYTHING, UH, I IMAGINE SEVERAL OF THE BOARD MEMBERS ARE GOING TO COMMENT TONIGHT, AT LEAST I WILL TONIGHT, UH, ON THE, UH, ON THAT SUBJECT DURING MATTERS, UH, COMMENTS FROM THE BOARD, WHICH PROBABLY WILL HAPPEN FAIRLY SHORTLY IF, DEPENDING ON THE TIME.
UM, NOW WE'RE KIND OF LATE ALREADY.
SO ANYWAY, JUST WATCH THE SHOW AND YOU CAN, YOU CAN SEE IT.
[COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR REPORTS AND REQUESTS]
BELLAMY.SO, UH, I HAVE TWO OR THREE THINGS FOR YOU HERE.
NUMBER ONE, UH, IN SPEAKING WITH CHIEF CHESKY, WE'D LIKE TO REMIND THE PUBLIC THAT, UH, WE ARE IN HURRICANE SEASON.
SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY
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HAS A PLAN FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILY.THEY CAN GO TO THE COUNTY'S EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WEBSITE AND LOOK AT THOSE, UH, SUGGESTIONS ABOUT THINGS THAT YOU MIGHT DO IN PREPARATION FOR THE HURRICANE SEASON.
AND THEN ON THE PROPERTY INFORMATION PAGE, YOU CAN GO LOOK AT THAT AND SEE WHAT YOUR EVACUATION ZONE IS.
SO THOSE ARE SOME SUGGESTIONS THAT THE CHIEF CAME UP AND WOULD WANTED ME TO COMMUNICATE TO YOU AS WELL.
UM, NEXT ITEM THAT I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU IS ON THE 26TH OF JULY, THE COUNTY IS GONNA HOST A JOB FAIR AT THE YORKTOWN LIBRARY FROM TWO TO 7:00 PM AND, UH, THERE'LL BE SEVEN LOTS OF PROMINENT STAFF THERE, UH, TO DO INTERVIEWS AND START THE HIRING PROCESS FOR ANYBODY THAT MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN COMING TO WORK FOR THE COUNTY.
AND TO MY KNOWLEDGE, WE HAVE NOT DONE THIS IN THE PAST, SO THIS IS SOMETHING NEW FOR US.
WE'RE GONNA GIVE IT A TRY AND SEE HOW IT WORKS OUT.
I HAVE SOME THANK YOUS TONIGHT THAT I'D LIKE TO GIVE.
NUMBER ONE, YOU MAY OR MAY NOT BE AWARE, BUT TODAY WE HAD AN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DRILL THAT WAS RUN BY CHIEF KACHINA STAFF AND THEY DID A WONDERFUL JOB.
UH, THOSE EXERCISES ARE REALLY IMPORTANT AND THEY'RE PRACTICING OF WHAT WOULD NEED TO BE DONE IN THE EVENT OF A REAL EMERGENCY.
SO WE APPRECIATE ALL THEIR EFFORT THERE.
THE SECOND THANK YOU GOES OUT TO STAFF FOR THE 4TH OF JULY.
THAT'S A TOUGH, TOUGH DAY FOR THEM.
UH, MANY OF THEM START AT SIX O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, AND THEY'RE THERE LONG AFTER THE FIREWORKS ARE OVER.
SO IT IS A VERY DIFFICULT DAY AND I'D LIKE TO THANK, UH, MR. FULLER AND CHRISTIE OLSON AND THE STAFF THAT THEY BRING TO BEAR ON THAT PROCESS.
THEY'VE DONE A GREAT JOB AND, UH, I APPRECIATE ALL THE EFFORT THAT THEY PUT INTO IT CUZ IT REALLY IS A BIG DEAL.
AND THE LAST THING I HAVE, I WANNA SHARE WITH YOU TONIGHT IS, UH, TONIGHT IS, UH, PAULA HIRSCH'S LAST MEETING.
SHE'LL BE RETIRING, UH, AT THE FIRST OF NEXT MONTH.
AND I WANTED TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO THANK HER FOR ALL SHE'S DONE FOR THE COUNTY.
MY MICROPHONE WILL BE FOREVER IN THE WRONG POSITION.
PAULA, CAN I, CAN I DO THIS ONE LAST TIME WHILE YOU'RE HERE?
PAULA, WE'RE GONNA MISS YOU, OBVIOUSLY.
UM, IS ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR? OKAY.
UM, WE DON'T HAVE PUBLIC, WE'RE NOT, EXCUSE ME, THERE'S NO PUBLIC HEARING TONIGHT.
SO I'M GONNA GO RIGHT TO THIS POINT.
WE'LL BE, UH, MATTERS PRESENTED
[MATTERS PRESENTED BY THE BOARD]
BY THE BOARD, AND, UH, CHAD, I'LL LET YOU GO FIRST.UH, FIRST THING I'D LIKE TO SAY, USUALLY, UH, OUR LIBRARY DIRECTOR, UH, MR. SMITH, MR. KEVIN SMITH'S HERE, AND I WANTED TO BRING HIS ATTENTION TO, I READ A REALLY INTERESTING ARTICLE IN THE DAILY PRESS, TALKING ABOUT VIRGINIA BEACH, UH, CHECKING OUT AT THEIR LIBRARIES, PADDLE BOARDS, KAYAKS, UH, OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT.
UH, AND THEY DO IT THROUGH A GRANT, THROUGH THE, UH, STATE.
SO, UH, KEVIN, IF YOU'RE, UH, WATCHING THIS AT HOME, WHICH I'M SURE YOU ARE, UH, BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T BE HERE TONIGHT, THAT, UH, PLEASE LOOK INTO THAT AND GET BACK TO THE BOARD.
UH, WITH THAT, UH, THE NEXT THING IS LET'S TALK CRUISE SHIPS FOR A MINUTE.
I KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT THE PLANS FOR PRINCESS CRUISES COMING IN HERE.
THERE'S AN INFORMATION MEETING COMING UP ON AUGUST 14TH, 15TH AT THE WATERMAN'S MUSEUM.
I PLAN TO ASK MANY OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I'VE BEEN FORWARDED, UH, BY THIS GROUP, UH, WHO SPOKE, UH, TODAY AND HAD A MEETING LAST WEEK.
AND I WOULD'VE BEEN AT THE MEETING LAST WEEK HOW THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAD MOVED INTO THEIR NEW OFFICES.
AND I HAD A PRIOR COMMITMENT TO THAT.
SO DON'T THINK THAT ANY OF YOUR CONCERNS OR YOUR EMAILS FALL ON DEAF EARS.
WE'RE WATCHING, WE'RE LISTENING.
UH, A LOT OF THESE QUESTIONS DON'T HAVE ANSWERS YET.
AND HOPEFULLY ON AUGUST 14TH, 15TH AT THE WATERMAN'S MUSEUM, UH, A LOT OF THESE ANSWERS WILL BE GIVEN.
AND, UH, A LOT OF THIS CAN BE, UH, TALKED ABOUT.
SO I ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY, AND WE WILL PUT THAT OUT, THE INFORMATION OUT WHEN THESE MEETINGS WILL BE.
AND MR. BELLAMY, IF YOU COULD MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE FIND OUT THE EXACT DATES AND TIMES, UH, THAT IT'S PUT OUT ON THE COUNTY WEBSITE AND, UH, PUT OUT THROUGH, UH, ALL THE CHANNELS AND LET'S REALLY FIND OUT THE FACTS OF WHAT THE CRUISE LINE, UH, WILL DO OR WON'T DO FOR YOUR COUNTY, STEVEN.
UM, A LITTLE BIT OF FOLLOW UP TO, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT HURRICANE SEASON.
THERE'S ANOTHER SEASON WE'RE IN THE MESSED UP HERE, WHICH IS MOSQUITO SEASON.
UM, WE ALL LIVE IN YOUR OLD COUNTY.
WE ALL, WE ALL DEAL WITH THAT.
AND THE COUNTY HAS A WEALTH INFORMATION ON THEIR WEBPAGE AND THEN MOSQUITO
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PAGE PORTAL, HOW TO DEAL WITH IT, WHO TO CALL FOR HELP, SITE VISITS AND ALL THAT STUFF.SO IF YOU GOT THAT PROBLEM WITH THOSE PESTS LIKE I DO, FEEL FREE TO READ THE INFORMATION, MAKE A PHONE CALL, GET SOME KIND ASSISTANCE, GET SOME SCHEDULE, GET SOME WORK SCHEDULED AROUND YOUR PROPERTY, GET SOME FREE SERVICES THERE.
THEY'RE PESTS, THEY'RE BOTHERSOME AND THEY CAN CARRY DISEASE.
SO LET'S, UH, IT'S AS YOU NEED IT, PLEASE, PLEASE AVAIL YOURSELF TO THOSE, UM, RESOURCES.
UM, YEAH, SO CRUISE SHIPS, I GET A LOT OF FEEDBACK ON THAT TOO.
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE ALSO EXCITED ABOUT IT.
UH, A LOT EXCITED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL.
WE DO HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS WITH PRINCESS AS WELL.
UM, AND A LOT OF THOSE MATHEMATICAL QUESTIONS, A LOT OF THOSE LOGISTIC QUESTIONS.
UM, BIG QUESTION I GOT IS, HOW DOES YORK COUNTY COMPARE TO OTHER PORTS OF SIMILAR SIZES THAT, THAT THEY PUT INTO, SUCH AS UP IN THE, IN THE LAST AREA, THERE'S A LOT OF SMALL TOWNS THERE THAT, THAT THEY PUT INTO.
SO HOW DO WE COMPARE THERE? HOW DO, HOW ARE THOSE, HOW DO THOSE TIMES ACCOMMODATE IT AND SO FORTH.
SO LIKE MR. GREEN SAID, THERE'S A LOT ON THE TABLE THAT NEEDS NEED TO GET ANSWERED.
WE ARE IN CONVERSATION WITH, UH, ES TO GET SOME OF HIS ANSWERS.
LIKE I SAID, THERE WILL BE A FOLLOW UP, A BIG COMMUNITY PRESENTATION TO GET SOME OF THOSE ANSWERED.
AND I THINK THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE A GREAT TIME THAT ONCE WE HAVE THAT, THAT THAT KICKOFF IS THEN STOP BUILDING A PORTAL ON OUR WEBSITE THAT STARTS CAPTURING THE INFORMATION AS, AS, AS WE GET IT IN JUST START BUILDING UPON.
AND THAT YOU CAN ALREADY SAY THAT YOU'RE ALREADY THINKING ABOUT THAT.
YES, OLSON AND I HAD THAT CONVERSATION YESTERDAY AND SHE IS ALREADY ON IT.
GREAT MINDS THINKING TOGETHER.
SO, SO, AND THAT WILL HELP WITH THE, WITH THE PROMOTION OF INFORMATION.
SO CERTAINLY MORE TO COME, A LOT MORE TO LEARN AND, AND WE'LL, AND YOU'LL BE SEEING IT GETTING OUT THERE.
UM, YOU'RE IN THE NEAR FUTURE SOUNDS LIKE, SO THANK YOU.
I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT THE CREW.
I HAD ANOTHER THING I WANNA TALK ABOUT TOO, BUT IT'S A CRUISE LINE SINCE EVERYBODY SHOWED UP.
AND, AND I, I WANT TO LET FOLKS UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT HOW I'D GO ABOUT THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS AND, UH, AND WE'RE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO ANYTHING ON THE CRUISE LINE YET.
UM, THE FIRST OF ALL, THE, THE ONLY MEETING THAT HAS OCCURRED, AND FOR ME IN REFERENCE TO THAT WAS WHEN A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CRUISE LINE, UH, ASKED TO MEET WITH THE SUPERVISORS ONE ON ONE OR TWO ON ONE BECAUSE OF THE LAW ABOUT HAVING MORE THAN THREE OF US TOGETHER, UM, TO GIVE US A PRESENTATION.
UH, THAT WAS THE FIRST I HAD HEARD OF THIS, OF THIS PROJECT.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS INTERESTING, UH, AND I'VE BEEN, I'M GONNA KIND OF TRY TO ADDRESS JUST A FEW RUMORS HERE.
FIRST, I HEARD THAT, UH, ONE RUMOR WAS THAT THE BOARD SUPERVISORS WENT OUT AND CAMPAIGNED TO GET THIS, GET THIS, UH, THIS CRUISE SHIP HERE.
IF IT DID, IT WASN'T, IT DIDN'T INVOLVE ME AND I DOUBT IT INVOLVED ANY SUPERVISOR BECAUSE DIDN'T INVOLVE ME BECAUSE IT WAS, IT WAS, THIS WAS OUT OF NOWHERE.
I DIDN'T THINK, UH, THAT CRUISE SHIPS WOULD EVEN BE INTERESTED IN, IN, OTHER THAN THE SMALLER ONES WE SEE COME IN HERE.
SO, UM, THAT WAS, THERE WAS NO EFFORT BY THIS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS THAT I, OR ANY OF THE STAFF THAT I'M AWARE OF TO EVEN DO THIS.
UM, WE DO LIKE TO BRING IN TALL SHIPS BECAUSE THEY'RE UNIQUE AND, AND IT'S KIND OF REALLY FITS IN.
AIRONE WAS HERE AND WE'VE HAD SEVERAL OTHERS OVER TIME, UM, AND HIS DRUG IN SOME, UH, PRETTY INTERESTING PEOPLE LIKE TO GOVERNOR THE COM, UH, THE, ONE OF THE, UH, THE COMMISSIONERS OF FRANCE AND, AND THE AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE.
AND, AND WE DO THAT FROM TIME TO TIME.
UM, THE, THE OTHER PART IS ABOUT MEETINGS.
UM, I KNOW VERY LITTLE, VERY LITTLE ABOUT, ABOUT THIS.
I, I MEAN, I, OTHER THAN WHAT IT WAS GENERALLY PRESENTED AND THEY WENT FROM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE BOAT WOULD SHOW UP IN THE RIVER AND OR THE SHIP, WHATEVER YOU WANNA CALL IT, WOULD SHOW UP IN THE RIVER.
OFFLOAD, UH, ABOUT HALF, IT'S, UH, HALF OF, UH, 3000 PEOPLE.
OKAY? EACH SAID IT'S PRETTY STANDARD, ABOUT 40% OR SO.
AND THEN THEY WOULD STAY FOR A DAY AND SOME OF 'EM MAY NOT EVEN SPEND OVERNIGHT AND THEN THEY WOULD LEAVE.
OKAY? SO THE IMMEDIATELY QUESTIONS COME TO MIND IS, YOU KNOW, WHERE ARE THE FOLKS GONNA GO? CAN WE HANDLE IT? STUFF LIKE THAT.
AND THERE WERE NO REALLY GOOD ANSWERS BECAUSE NO ONE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS.
I MEAN, THERE WAS JUST, NO ONE WAS READY TO PRESENT ANY INFORMATION.
UM, AND THEN WE SAW THE END GAME WAS, WAS A DOCK.
OKAY? UH, I THINK THE DOCK WAS ABOUT $4 MILLION IF I RECALL THE PRICE.
BUT, UH, IT WAS GONNA BE HOOKED UP TO PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THEN IT WOULD BE NOT BUILT BY THE COUNTY, BUT IT WOULD BE GIFTED TO THE COUNTY BY THE CRUISE SHIP, THE CRUISE LINE.
UM, AND THEN FOLKS, THAT'S ABOUT ALL I KNOW, OKAY? NOW, I HAD RECEIVED SOME INFORMATION, UH, FROM THE CITIZEN.
UM, I THINK MAYBE THEY HAD GOTTEN THE WIND OF SOMETHING AT ABOUT, UH, UH, A, UM, A, UH, ON THE EAST COAST, MAYBE MAINE TO.
AND SO THEY GAVE ME, IT WAS A NICE THING TO LOOK AT, TO GO INVESTIGATE.
AND, UH, AND SO I DID, UH, I LOOKED AT IT AND, UH, UH, I MEAN, IT
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JUST TALKED ABOUT A SMALL COMMUNITY.IT WAS SMALLER THAN YORK COUNTY ACTUALLY, UH, OR YORKTOWN.
AND I, I, I DID, I LOOKED AT THAT.
UM, I THOUGHT ABOUT CALLING UP THERE, UH, BUT UM, YOU KNOW, I COULDN'T GET IN TOUCH WITH ANYBODY, SO I DUNNO IF THEY HAD A, THEY EVEN HAD A, A GOVERNMENT OFFICE.
UM, AND SO AT THIS POINT, FOLKS, YOU THINK WE GOT A LOT OF INFORMATION, WE DON'T.
AND, UH, THEN I GOT AN INVITATION BY THE GROUP, SOMEBODY HERE IN THE GROUP, UH, FOR ME TO COME DOWN AND LISTEN TO THE ISSUES.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT I HAVE NOTHING TO PRESENT.
UM, I COULD, I GET, I, THE, THE LETTER THAT WE GOT WITH ALL THE DETAIL WAS WONDERFUL.
I LOVED IT BECAUSE IT JUST RAISED A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT I HAD NOT SEEN OR EVEN THOUGHT OF.
I'VE NEVER BEEN ON A CRUISE SHIP.
AND, UH, AND, UH, SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF PROBLEMS THEY PRESENT.
SO IT WAS, IT WAS, I THINK IT WAS WONDERFUL.
I JUST NEED SOME HELP WITH THE HYPERLINKS SO I CAN DO MORE INVESTIGATION.
UM, AND SO THE WAY THIS GOES IS I WILL NOT TELL YOU MY POSITION, ALRIGHT? I LEARNED THIS 22 YEARS AGO.
VERY QUICKLY WHEN I GOT ON THE BOARD WAS THAT IF YOU STATE A POSITION AND YOU GO, OKAY, THAT'S MY POSITION, AND YOU DON'T HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION FROM, FROM THE SUBJECT AND YOU SHOW UP IN A BOARD MEETING TO VOTE, YOU MAY BE VOTING AS AGAINST SOMETHING YOU REALLY LIKE, OKAY.
AND, UH, SO WHAT I'M GONNA DO IS I WILL GET THE INFORMATION, I'M GOING TO MEET WITH THE, UM, I GUESS HE'S THE CEO OF THE, UH, OF THE CRUISE LINE.
HE LIVED HERE IN, IN, UH, SEA SEAFORD.
HE NOW RUNS CREW PRINCESS CREW ON CRUISE.
UM, AND, UM, I'M GONNA MEET WITH HIM ON THE SHIP CUZ IT'LL BE MY FIRST CRUISE SHIP TO GO LOOK AT.
AND I'M GONNA ASK, I'M JUST GONNA SEE WHAT THEY'RE GONNA PRESENT TO ME.
I'M GONNA GET MORE INFORMATION, UM, AND THEN I'LL GET, I'LL GET SOME PERSPECTIVE ON IT.
AND AT THIS POINT THEN WHAT I, WE, THERE'S GOING TO BE A PUBLIC MEETING THAT'S GONNA BE PRESENTED BY THE BUSINESS ITSELF.
AND I, I KNOW EVERY ONE OF YOU WILL BE HERE AND I'M GOING TO HEAR THE SAME INFORMATION.
UH, AND THEN AFTER THAT, I WILL BE MORE THAN GLAD TO SIT DOWN WITH YOU AND HEAR YOUR PERSPECTIVE BASED UPON THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE ALL RECEIVED.
BECAUSE AT THIS POINT, I HAVE NO INFORMATION OTHER THAN YOUR CONCERNS HERE.
UH, THE ONE COMMENT I WILL MAKE DID, I DID SIGN A LETTER TO SEND IT TO THE STATE.
UM, THEY GOT TOMMY NORMAN, OR I CAN'T REMEMBER ONE OF THE SENATORS, AND WE ASKED FOR A PLACE MARKER OF ABOUT 15 MILLION, OKAY? AND WHAT THAT IS, IS A PLACE MARKER IN THE STATE BUDGET.
UH, SO IF THIS THING DOES COME TO FRUITION AND WE DECIDE TO DO WHATEVER WE NEED TO DO FOR INFRASTRUCTURE THAT THE STATE WOULD PITCH IN, AND, UH, BECAUSE IT'S OBVIOUSLY A MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL ISSUE AND YOU GET, YOU GOTTA GET WAY OUT IN FRONT OF THESE, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT'S GONNA END UP THAT WAY, BUT IT'S JUST THAT YOU PUT A MARKER DOWN AND YOU GET, YOU GET THINGS GOING, UM, AND THEN YOU CAN DECIDE.
SO AT THIS POINT, I'VE JUST TOLD YOU EVERYTHING I KNOW, OKAY? AND, UH, I CAN'T TELL YOU ANYTHING MORE.
I WANT THAT INFORMATION SO I CAN GO DO THE RESEARCH TO HELP ME GET LOT SMARTER ON THIS KIND OF ISSUES.
UM, AND I WILL MENTION THAT THE CRUISE LINES, SAY THEY GO TO PORTS IN THE CARIBBEAN THAT ARE WAY LESS DEVELOPED.
I MEAN, IT MAY JUST BE A VILLAGE OR SOMETHING.
A COUPLE VILLAGES ARE WAY LESS DEVELOPED THAN WHAT WE HAVE HERE.
AND THESE SHIPS ARE KIND OF SELF-CONTAINED AND THEY DO ALL THEIR ANCHORAGE AND ALL THAT.
SO I JUST WANT TO, I'M JUST BEING AS STRAIGHT UP WITH YOU AS I CAN.
OKAY? THAT'S ALL I KNOW AT THIS POINT.
AND SO AFTER THAT MEETING, I'LL BE GLAD TO COME UP HERE.
UM, AND UH, AND I, I'VE MET WITH VI THE VILLAGE, THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THE VILLAGE HERE.
I DON'T WANNA SAY THE VILLAGE PEOPLE, BUT THE FOLKS THAT LIVE HERE, AND I'VE MET WITH 'EM ON CERTAIN ISSUES AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT WHAT WE NEED, WHAT NEEDS TO GET DONE.
UH, SOME IS SOME HAVE GONE YOUR WAY, SOME NOT.
SO ANYWAY, THAT'S STRAIGHT UP AND DOWN ON THAT.
OKAY? SO I CAN'T TELL YOU ANYMORE.
NOW I'M GONNA GO TO SUBJECT THAT'S REALLY REAL QUICK, IS NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART.
THE PAPER, THE DAILY PRESS WROTE THIS ARTICLE ABOUT, UH, DROWNINGS A TOP KILLER OF YOUNG KIDS.
AND I, I, IT WAS WHEN I WAS ON THE BOARD, UH, BOARD, UH, THE, THE Y M C A BOARD, I WAS TRYING VERY HARD TO GET THAT PROGRAM GOING.
AND WE ALMOST GOT TO THE POINT WHERE WE COULD USE, I THINK IT WAS TAB MIDDLE SCHOOL OR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAS GOING TO BE THE EFFORT.
UH, IT'S, IT IS, THERE ARE EXAMPLES AND JUST, JUST THE HEARTBREAKING, UM, THAT DROWNING IS A SILENT KILLER.
IT HAPPENS REAL QUICK AND I JUST CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO GO OUT AND FIND YOUR CHILD, UH, DROWN FLOATING OR NOT FLOATING, OR JUST THE BOTTOM OF A POOL.
I GOT TWO GRANDCHILDREN THAT LIVE WITH ME.
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11, AND I JUST, IT JUST UGH, JUST SCARES ME TO DEATH.AND, UH, NEITHER ONE OF 'EM CAN SWIM AND I'M DOWN.
I GOT 'EM IN THE POOL ALL THE TIME.
AND I FIND THAT ONE OF THE THINGS AND THAT THE, THE LIFEGUARDS ARE TELLING ME THIS, THAT THE INSTRUCTORS, THAT THE CONS, THE IN THE WATER IS WHAT YOU'VE GOTTA DO TO LEARN TO SWIM.
YOU JUST DON'T PICK IT UP LIKE THAT.
YOU BUILD CONFIDENCE AND THE ABILITY, UM, UH, TO SWIM.
AND THERE ARE A LOT OF FOLKS IN OUR COUNTY THAT DO NOT HAVE SWIM POOLS IN THE COMMUNITY.
FORTUNATELY I'VE GOT ONE IN MIND, BUT THERE'S A, A LOT OF NEIGHBORHOODS, THEY BUILD THE POOLS, THEY'RE THERE, BUT THEY'RE NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
THE Y M C A HAS THIS PROGRAM, BUT IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE, ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET INTO THE PROGRAM.
SO, UM, YOU JUST, THE PARENTS JUST GONNA HAVE TO PUSH AS HARD AS WE CAN.
AND I WOULD LIKE THIS BOARD SOMEHOW.
I DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAN DO IT, BUT IT'S, I'M MAKING AN ADMISSION IN MY LIFE HERE TO SOMEHOW GET US SO IT COULD BE MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL THE CHILDREN AND THE COUNTY TO LEARN HOW TO SWIM BECAUSE IT JUST IS A HORRIBLE THING TO LOSE A CHILD ON SOMETHING THAT'S SO SIMPLE TO BE, TO PREVENT.
UM, ANYWAY, THAT'S MY ROCK, MY PET ROCK AND I'M, I'M STICKING WITH IT.
ALRIGHT, WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT.
AND WE WILL NOW GO ON TO THE REST OF THE MEETING.
NOW WHAT WE'VE GOT IS A CONSENT AGENDA.
LET ME GET ALL THIS STUFF LINED UP.
YOU WANNA TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK? YEAH, LET'S TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK.
GO IN RECESS FOR FIVE MINUTES.
OKAY, IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE BACK ON.
OKAY, SO, UM, NEXT THING ON THE AGENDA IS GOING TO BE, LEMME GET DOWN ONE MORE.
[CONSENT CALENDAR ]
TO BE THE CONSENT AGENDA.AND LET'S SEE, WE HAVE A, ON THE CONSENT AGENDA GOES DOWN TO ITEM 15 AND WE'VE GOT APPROVAL OF MINUTES.
REQUEST FOR REFUND OF REAL PROPERTY, UH, TAXES FOR DISABLED VETERANS, REQUEST FOR REFUND OF PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES, T H P L L C, REIMBURSEMENT OF BOND PRO, UH, PRO, UH, PROCEEDS FOR EXPENDITURES MADE OR TO BE MADE IN CONNECTION WITH THE COUNTY PROJECTS.
AND THAT'S BASICALLY IS WHERE WE JUST, UH, REIMBURSE OURSELVES.
AND THEN THERE'S REIMBURSEMENT FOR BOND PROCEEDS FOR EXPENDITURES MADE OR TO BE MADE IN CONNECTION WITH SCHOOL CAPITAL PROJECTS.
AS WE KNOW THAT SCHOOL PROJECTS CAN'T, UH, THEY CAN CARRY A DEBT.
THAT'S ACCOMMODATION OF RETIRED EMPLOYEE.
MOLLY DE VAIN ACCOMMODATION OF RETIRED EMPLOYEE, ANN THOMAS, WHO'S THE COMMISSIONER OF THE REVENUE.
THAT'S THE ANNUAL TERM CONTRACTS, THE PUMP AND HAUL SERVICE.
UM, AND UH, THAT'S PART OF LIKE THE HURRICANE SEASON.
UH, THING WE DID, UH, JUST A REAL NOTE REAL QUICK ON A NOTE FOR THESE ONE AROUND IN 2003 WHILE EVERYBODY WAS PAYING ABOUT $35 A YARD, NO, EXCUSE ME, WE WERE PAYING $35 A YARD AND OTHER COMMUNITIES WERE PAYING AROUND A HUNDRED DOLLARS A YARD BECAUSE WE'D WORKED IT OUT IN ADVANCE.
UH, NUMBER 11 IS THE ANNUAL TERM CONTRACTS, PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL FUNDED PROJECTS.
THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT WE USE TO, UH, FIX STUFF.
12 IS, UH, AGREEMENT FOR DISASTER DEBRIS REMOVAL.
THAT MAY HAVE BEEN AT, OKAY, NUMBER 13 IS THE 2024 A R P A LAW ENFORCEMENT EQUIPMENT GRANT FUNDING.
UH, AND THEN 14 DESIGN PERMITTING OF NEW QUARTER PARK KAYAK LAUNCH.
IS THERE ANY ITEM THAT ANYONE WOULD WANNA PULL OR DISCUSS? I'D LIKE TO MOVE IT.
PARDON? DID I HEAR SOMEBODY SAY SOMETHING? YOU'RE FINE.
OKAY, I'LL CALL ON YOU WHEN I NEED YOU.
I'LL CALL ON YOU WHEN I NEED YOU.
OKAY, SO IT'S MOTION'S BEEN MOVED ON.
THE CONSENT AGENDA, THE MOTION MADE BY MR. GREEN IS TO APPROVE THE CONSENT CALENDAR AS SUBMITTED.
OKAY, WE WANT THE NEW BUSINESS NOW.
[15 Contract for Chilled Ponds. Consider adoption of proposed Resolution R23-99 to execute an agreement with Chilled Ponds at Yorktown, a Virginia Limited Liability Company.]
CONTRACT FOR CHILL POND GONNA BRIEF US ON THAT.UH, MR. PULLER, PLEASE STEP FORWARD.
UH, CURRENTLY, UH, WE'VE HAD A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ICE BLACKS SINCE IT WAS IN, IN THE COUNTY.
AND RECENTLY A NEW OWNER BOUGHT THAT CALLED CHILL PONDS, THAT THEY OPERATE A SIMILAR FACILITY IN THE CITY OF CHESAPEAKE AND THEY'RE ALSO THE OWNERS OF THE HAMPTON ROADS ADMIRALS HOCKEY TEAM.
SO WE'VE UH, GONNA CONTINUE OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM TO DO INSTRUCTIONAL CLASSES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT THEY'VE OFFERED US WITH THIS CONTRACT TO GO
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INTO, UH, AN AGREEMENT WITH THEM WHERE WE CAN OFFER FREE ICE TIME FOR THE CITIZENS TWICE A WEEK FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF DURING THE, DURING THE WEEK.AND THEN ALSO A ONCE A MONTH LEARN TO HOCKEY PROGRAM.
SO BASICALLY GIVES US A, A OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CITIZENS TO USE THE ICE PLEX SKATE, ESPECIALLY DURING THE SUMMER, GET OUTTA THE HEAT, UH, BUT USE THAT FACILITY.
SO WE THINK IT'S A REALLY GOOD IDEA.
IT'S IN A LOT BETTER, UH, AGREEMENT WITH THEM AS FAR AS THE COST FOR ICE TIME.
IT'S A LOT MORE FAVORABLE FOR US THAN IF WE WERE TO JUST TRY TO BUY IT, RUN IT OUTRIGHT.
IT GIVES, GIVES OUR CITIZENS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT SKATING FREE OF CHARGE.
ANY QUESTIONS FREE IS ALWAYS GOOD.
I GOT, UH, I GOT SOME FEEDBACK FROM FOLKS ASKING ABOUT SPECIFICALLY LIKE THAT, SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THIS IS COMING UP.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH USES WE GOT WITH THE, WITH THE PREVIOUS AGREEMENT? HOW MANY PEOPLE? THE ONLY THING WE DID WAS INSTRUCTIONAL CLASSES.
SO WE WOULD RUN, UH, INSTRUCTIONAL CLASSES, LEARN TO SKATE ONCE OR TWICE A SESSION DURING THE SEASON.
UH, VERY, VERY SMALL, UH, NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WERE PARTICIPATING IN THAT.
UM, THE, THE ONE THING THIS OWNER IS DOING, HE'S DOING MAJOR RENOVATIONS ON THE FACILITY TO BRING IT UP TO, TO NEW AND USED OR A NEW FACILITY.
UH, MUCH MORE APPEALING FACILITY, BIGGER SKATE SHOP, BIGGER RESTAURANT AREA.
AND HE REALLY INVESTING A LOT OF MONEY IN THE FACILITY, SO IT'LL BE A LOT NICER.
WELL, DO YOU KNOW IF HE'LL BE USING IT FOR PRACTICE FOR HIS TEAM AS ANOTHER PRACTICE FACILITY OR IS IT STRICTLY HE, HE'S PROBABLY, HE'S GONNA USE IT FOR TOURNAMENTS.
UH, I HAD A TALK WITH HIM THE OTHER DAY.
UH, THEY, THEY RUN A LOT OF BIG TOURNAMENTS OVER ON THE SOUTH SIDE IN CHESAPEAKE AND THEY'RE GONNA ADD THIS TO THE, THIS SHEET OF ICE, TO THAT MIX OF TOURNAMENTS.
SO THEY ARE GONNA RUN TOURNAMENTS THERE.
UH, YOU'D LIKE TO ADD OBVIOUSLY A SECOND SHEET OF ICE THAT MAKES IT A LOT EASIER TO DO.
UH, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT WAYS THAT, THAT, THAT MAY BE A POSSIBILITY DOWN THE ROAD.
UH, BUT TOURNAMENTS WILL BE ONE OF THE BIG KEY COMPONENTS.
THEY MAY COME OVER HERE AND PRACTICE, UH, YOU KNOW, EVERY NOW AND THEN.
JUST JUST TO SHOW THAT THE, UH, THE, THE PENN RESIDENCE THAT THEY, THEY HAVE PRACTICE HERE CUZ THEY DO DO PRACTICE IN THE CHESAPEAKE FACILITY.
WELL, TOURNAMENTS THAT'S INTERESTING.
FOR, TO MAKE SURE, MAKE SURE EVERYBODY HEARD THIS.
UM, JOE PAWN NOW IS OWNED BY, UM, THE, THE INDIVIDUAL WHO OWNS THE NORFOLK ADMIRALS, UH, HOCKEY TEAM.
UM, AND IT'S GONNA BE, UH, REGULAR WEEKLY OPEN SKATING SESSIONS, UM, TWO TIMES PER WEEK FOR, UH, FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF MM-HMM.
AND, UH, COUNTY'S PAYING 55,000 FOR THIS, FOR THIS CONTRACT.
SO THIS IS KIND OF A GOOD DEAL FOR, UH, CITIZENS, UH, IN YOUR COUNTY.
YEAH, IT'S A WAY THAT WE CAN PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CITIZENS FOR THIS TYPE OF FACILITY, WHICH OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T HAVE.
SO IT'S A GREAT, GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR US RIGHT.
UH, SINCE THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC, UM, HEARING ACTION, UH, WE HAVE RESOLUTION.
LET'S SEE THE RESOLUTION R 2399.
I WOULD MOVE RESOLUTION R 2399.
THE MOTION MADE BY MR. GREEN IS TO ADOPT PROPOSED RESOLUTION R 23 DASH 99 TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH CHILL PONDS AT YORKTOWN.
[16 Engineering Services for Whites Faulkner Sanitary Sewer Project. Consider adoption of proposed Resolution R23-101 to execute engineering services for the preliminary and final design phases and bidding phase with Brown and Caldwell, for Whites Faulkner Sanitary Sewer project. ]
GOING TO THE NEXT NEW BUSINESS ITEMS AND ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR WHITE FAULKNER, UM, SANITARY SEWER PROJECT.AND WHO'S GOT THAT ONE? HELLO? HELLO? HELLO.
YEAH, SO THIS IS THE NEXT PHASE OF WHAT WE CALL THE WHITE FAULKNER SEWER PROJECT.
UM, IT'S KIND OF HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THERE'S NO SANITARY SEWER, BASICALLY FROM DOT RV TO A LITTLE BIT PAST TRACTOR SUPPLY.
SO THIS PROJECT, UM, THAT'S JUST NORTH OF A MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE DESIGN WORK TO PULL SANITARY SEWER THAT STRETCH TO RESIDENCES, ABOUT A HUNDRED RESIDENCES AND ABOUT 40 BUSINESSES, UM, GETTING, YOU KNOW, DRYER PUMPS OFF OF SERVICE.
WE'VE NEVER DONE A BLEND OF RESIDENTIAL AND BUSINESSES LIKE THIS.
IT TOOK US ABOUT EIGHT YEARS TO DO THE QUEENS LAKE SUBDIVISION.
UM, IT FALLS IN LINE WITH THE, YOU KNOW, THE R S D CONSENT WATER EPA, THE SWIFT PROGRAMS, SUSTAINABLE WATER INITIATIVE FOR TOMORROW, PROTECTING THE HEADWATERS OF THE POSA RIVER AND YORK RIVER AND THE CHESAPEAKE BACK.
UM, THE PLAN IS TO DO THIS PROJECT IN SECTIONS AND PIECES.
UM, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO THROUGH THE DESIGN.
YOU KNOW, PART OF IT, UM, STAFF HAS WORKED A LOT HARDER THAN I HAVE ON THIS LOT SMARTER PEOPLE THAN ME, BUT THEY HAVE ACTUALLY FIGURED OUT A WAY.
I THINK WE CAN GET ALL OF THAT STRETCHED TO A GRAVITY SEWER,
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UM, BEHIND DO RV, WHICH WOULD BE A LOT CHEAPER, UM, IN THE LONG RUN THAN MAINTAINING VACUUM STATIONS.SO HOPEFULLY ALL THAT'LL WORK OUT.
NOW THERE ARE STILL A LOT OF UNKNOWNS, YOU KNOW, GOT A HIGH PRESSURE GAS LINE BY THE RAILROAD TRACK, DARK FIBER.
UM, WE HAVE TOURED A LOT OF THE RESIDENCES AND THE BUSINESS OWNERS THAT ARE EXCITED TO HAVE SEWER.
SO HOPEFULLY IT'LL WORK OUT TO BE A GOOD PROJECT.
UM, IT IS IN THE C I P AND IT'S UM, AN INTERNAL SERVICES FUND.
SO THE MONEY DOESN'T COME OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND.
IT'S PAID FOR BY CONNECTION FEES, BI-MONTHLY BILLING.
AND UM, THIS IS ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE THREE BIG TARGET AREAS LEFT IN THE COUNTY THAT DOESN'T HAVE SANITARY SEWER.
MR. SHEPARD, I, I'D ALSO ADD, UH, THAT THIS IS PROTECTION FOR THE NEWPORT NEWS WATERSHED.
SO THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PROJECT FOR US.
IS THIS UNDER THE CONSIDERED UNDER THE CONSENT DECREE? MM-HMM.
IT'S ENCOURAGED TO TAKE IT OFF BECAUSE WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO IS PROTECT WATER.
HOPEFULLY ONE DAY YOU'LL GET T DML POINTS FOR STUFF LIKE THIS, BUT THEY TEND TO MOVE THE GOALPOSTS WITH THOSE.
IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM STAFF? I MEAN, EXCUSE ME, FROM THE SUPERVISORS, JUST REAL QUICK, YOU, THE NUMBER OF HOMES AND RESIDENCES THAT WE COULD SERVICE THERE PERCENTAGE THAT ARE GOING TO TAKE US UP ON IT? DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA? UM, SO IT LOOKS LIKE RIGHT AROUND A HUNDRED RESIDENCES AND 40 BUSINESSES.
THE THING I WILL WARN YOU ABOUT SEWER PROJECTS AND MY EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC, PUBLIC WORKS IS, UH, ONCE YOU BUILD THE SEWER, THEY WILL COME WHICH DEVELOPMENT? NO, WE SAW THAT IN DANDY
SO, SO THERE'S ALWAYS THE, YOU KNOW, POTENTIAL DOWN THE ROAD FOR DIVISIONS AND SUBDIVISIONS AND LOTS TO BE DEVELOPED CUZ THE SEWER'S THERE, BUT, BUT THE EXISTING HOMES AND, AND BUSINESSES.
BUT WHAT PERCENTAGE DO YOU THINK WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF US RUNNING THAT ACTIVITY? UM, THAT'S OUTLINED IN THE ORDINANCE.
SO IF WE GET IT CLOSE, THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO CONNECT.
AND THEN THE, THE RATES WILL VARY.
UH, FOR HOMEOWNERS IT'S ONE PRICE, BUT FOR THE BUSINESSES IT'S GONNA DEPEND ON THE SIZE OF THE WATER METER.
WHAT'S HOOK, WHAT'S HOOKUP FEES NOW FOR RESIDENCE? IT'S 3,700.
UH, FOR A BUSINESS THAT'S GONNA DEPEND ON THE SIZE OF THE WATER METER SERVING THE BUSINESS, WHETHER IT'S A TWO, ONE AND A HALF.
OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I CAN'T REMEMBER.
IN THE PAST WE'VE HAD, UH, ONCE WE DID THIS, WE'VE HAD THIS ON THE BOOKS FOR FOREVER, I MEAN FOREVER, DECADES.
AND UH, AND THEN WE'D COME IN, PUT THE SEWER IN, AND THEN, UH, RESIDENTS GO, I'M NOT HOOKING UP, I'M NOT HOOKING UP, I'M NOT HOOKING UP.
AND THEN THERE'S, IN THE LAW IT SAYS YOU GOT A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME TO AGREE TO DO THIS OR IT GETS UP TO AROUND 10 GRAND.
NOW WE LIKE DOUBLE THIS THING.
AND, UM, SO I'M JUST CAUTIONING FOLKS RIGHT NOW THAT WHEN THIS THING COMES IN, THERE IS NO OPTION.
NOW IF YOU GOT A, AGAIN, IF YOU GOT AN EMPTY LOT SOMEWHERE, UH, THERE'S A, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU PAY, YOU PAY A TAP FEE ON THAT.
UM, IF YOU DEVELOP IT, YOU'LL HAVE TO PAY THE TAP WHEN IT'S DEVELOPED.
I DON'T, IT'S DEVELOPED IT SO YOU, YOU DON'T PUT IT IN IN ADVANCE.
ALL RIGHT, WELL THAT MAKES SENSE BECAUSE THEN IT MIGHT, YOU SOMETIMES YOU CONSOLIDATE THE, THE LOTS AND YOU WOULDN'T NECESSARILY NEED TO HAVE ANOTHER TAP IN THERE AND HOPEFULLY YOU WON'T WEAR ANY, ANY ISSUES WITH THE EASEMENTS WHERE WE, WE NEED TO ACQUIRE SOME EASEMENT.
SO THIS PROJECT, SO WHEN DOES THIS PROJECT START? UM, THE DESIGN? WELL, THIS WOULD KICK OFF THE DESIGN PHASE.
SO THIS IS THE DESIGN TO GET US TO THE BID.
AND THEN WE'VE BEEN WORKING, UH, ON AN AREA BEHIND DOT RV FOR, UH, A PUMP STATION WHICH WOULD BE GRAVITY FED.
CAUSE THE REASON, REASON, IF WE DO THIS AGAIN, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THE PUBLIC IS AWARE THAT WE ALLOW FOR A PAYMENT IN ADVANCE.
IN OTHER WORDS, INSTEAD OF HAVING TO, YOU KNOW, DROP OUT THE, THE, THE 3000, $4,000 IN THE FEES TO HAVE IT, BECAUSE THAT'S JUST THE, THAT'S JUST THE TAP FEE THAT YOU STILL GOTTA RUN PIPE TO YOUR HOUSE AND CORRECT THAT'S ON THE RESIDENCE TO DO THAT.
AND THEN THEY GOTTA CLOSE UP A, YOU GOTTA CLOSE UP A SEWER TANK IF YOU'VE GOT WHAT YOU'RE LIVING, MOST OF THESE WILL BE ON SOME SORT OF SEPTIC SYSTEM.
SO WE, UH, WE ALLOW IN THE COUNTY THAT YOU CAN PAY OVER TIME IN ADVANCE SO THAT WHEN THIS OCCURS, AND IN FACT IF YOU PAY FOR YOUR TAP FEE IN ADVANCE AND WE RAISE THE PRICE AND IT'S THAT YOU'RE STICKING WITH THE ONE THAT YOU PAID FOR.
SO, UM, I JUST, WE, I REMEMBER GETTING THAT PUT ON OUR, IN OUR CODE.
SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT WE CAN, WE CAN SEND LETTERS BACK OUT.
ANYTHING ELSE? ALRIGHT, THIS IS GOING TO BE 16 RESOLUTION R 23
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DASH 1 0 1.SO MOVES THE MOTION MADE BY MR. ROSE TO ADOPT PROPOSED RESOLUTION R 23 DASH 1 0 1 TO EXECUTE ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR THE PRELIMINARY AND FINAL DESIGN PHASE AND BIDDING PHASE FOR WHITE FAULKNER SANITARY SEWER PROJECT.
[17 Virginia 9-1-1 Services Board PSAP Consolidation Grants Funds. Consider adoption of proposed Resolution R23-103 to accept and appropriate grant funding of $1,000,000 in the County Grant Fund from the Virginia 9-1-1 Services Board for the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Consolidation Project with James City County.]
LAST, UH, NEW BUSINESS ITEMS. ITEM 17 IS ACCEPTANCE APPROPRIATION OF, UH, VIRGINIA 9 1 1 SERVICES BOARD, P S A P CONSOLIDATION GRANT FUND.AND MY UNDERSTANDING THIS IS, UM, ALL TIED IN TO THE JAMES CITY COUNTY CONNECTION SERVICE AND MR. HILL.
SO BACK IN FEBRUARY THE 22ND, WHEN JAMES CITY CAME TO US, UH, THERE WAS MUCH DISCUSSION AND WE'VE DONE PRESENTATIONS BOTH TO THIS BOARD IN JAMES CITY AND CONSOLIDATION WAS PUT FORWARD.
IN FACT, IT BECAME EFFECTIVE ON MONDAY AT UH, 12:00 AM SO THIS ALLOWED US TO GO IN AND SOLICIT THE VIRGINIA E 9 1 1 SERVICES BOARD FOR MILLION DOLLARS TO HELP WITH THE COST OF THE CONSOLIDATION.
THIS CAN PAY FOR TECHNOLOGY, BRICKS, MORTAR PERSONNEL, COST, AND SO ON.
SO IT'S HELP MEANT TO OFFSET THE COST OF IT.
I THINK WE'RE PRETTY MUCH IN LINE WITH THAT ONE.
AND, UH, THIS WILL BE RESOLUTION R 23 DASH 1 0 3 AND I'LL MOVE R 23.
THE MOTION MADE BY MR. ROHN IS TO ADOPT PROPOSED RESOLUTION.
R 23 DASH 1 0 3 TO ACCEPT AND APPROPRIATE GRANT FUNDING AND THE COUNTY GRANT FUND FOR THE PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT.
CONSOLIDATION PROJ PROJECT IN JAMES CITY COUNTY WITH JAMES CITY COUNTY.
AND SO WE'RE GONNA ADJOURN THE MEETING TO THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD SUPERVISORS.
THAT'LL BE HELD AT SIX O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING ON TUESDAY, AUGUST THE FIRST, 2023 IN THE EAST ROOM OF YOUR CALL.