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Board of Supervisors Set Tax Rate and Adopt Budget 5/15/2017
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Board of Supervisors Set Tax Rate and Adopt Budget
5/15/2017
Attachments
Agenda.pdf
Minutes.pdf
Actions.pdf
1. Call to Order.
2. Closed Meeting.
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0:00
3. Certify Closed Meeting.
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2:00 p.m.
Public Hearing:
4. To Receive Comments on Proposed Calendar Year 2017 Tax Rates for Real Property and Adoption of Calendar Year 2017 Tax Rate Resolution.
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2:42
Action Items:
5. Approval of Calendar Year 2017 Tax Rates and Adoption of the FY 18 Operating and Capital Budget
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17:26
Attach.A 2017 Tax Rate Resolution.pdf
Attach.B FY18 Budget Resolution.pdf
Passed 6-0-0
adopted
Approval of Calendar Year 2017 Tax Rates and Adoption of the FY 18 Operating and Capital Budget
Attach.A 2017 Tax Rate Resolution.pdf
Attach.B FY18 Budget Resolution.pdf
Passed 5-1-0
adopted
6. Approval of the Resolution of Appropriations for the Albemarle County Operating and Capital Budgets for FY 18
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36:26
Attachment A.pdf
Attachment B.pdf
Passed 5-1-0
adopted
7. From the Board: Committee Reports and Matters Not Listed on the Agenda.
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45:16
From the Board: Committee Reports and Matters Not Listed on the Agenda.
8. From the County Executive: Report on Matters Not Listed on the Agenda.
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46:14
9. Closed Meeting. (if needed)
10. Adjourn to May 26, 2017, 1:00 p.m., Lane Auditorium.
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46:24
2. Closed Meeting.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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We have a motion to go into closed session.
SPEAKER_08
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Indeed we do.
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I move that the board go into a closed meeting pursuant to section 2.2-3711A of the Code of Virginia under subsection 1 to interview, discuss, and consider prospective candidates for the citizen position on the proposed Albemarle County Wireless Service Authority.
SPEAKER_06
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Second?
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Mr. Randolph?
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Aye.
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Mr. Sheffield?
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Yes.
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Mr. Dill?
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Yes.
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Ms. Mallek?
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Yes.
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Ms. McKeel?
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Yes.
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Ms. Palmer?
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Yes.
SPEAKER_00
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And we are pressing between now and two o'clock we could always do the from the board and stuff
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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I need to go back and do a couple of things in the audience and since we advertised two we probably just should stick to two to be honest with you.
3. Certify Closed Meeting.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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You ready?
SPEAKER_08
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I move that the board certified by a recorded vote that to the best of each board member's knowledge only public business matters lawfully exempted from the open meeting requirements of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and identified in the motion authorizing the closed meeting were heard, discussed, or considered in the closed meeting.
SPEAKER_15
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Second.
SPEAKER_06
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Mr. Randolph?
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Aye.
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Mr. Sheffield?
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Yes.
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Mr. Dill?
SPEAKER_08
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Yes.
SPEAKER_06
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Ms. Mallek?
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Yes.
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Ms. McKeel?
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Yes.
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Ms. Palmer?
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Yes.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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And I am going to recess us at this point till two o'clock.
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We're coming right back to the Lane Auditorium and we'll see you then.
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Thank you Claudette for coming back.
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All right.
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I think we're live right now, so that sounds good.
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All right.
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I will call the board back to order.
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And I think we are set.
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We came out of closed session, so we're all right on that.
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Just checking myself.
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So let me introduce then the folks that we have here.
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Welcome to everybody for our last, I believe, public hearing on the tax rate.
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And we would like to thank Officer Joshua Wright from the Albemarle County Police Department for being here with us today.
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And then directly right on around on my right, Greg Kamptner is our county attorney.
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and then of course we have the supervisors and Mr. Doug Walker is our interim county executive and I'll let you all introduce yourselves in just a minute because of the public hearing.
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Behind Doug, Travis Morris is our deputy clerk and Claudette Borgensen is our clerk.
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If you have anything that you would like to share with us today, if you'll just give it to the clerks, they'll be glad to pass it down and share it with us here at the dais.
4. To Receive Comments on Proposed Calendar Year 2017 Tax Rates for Real Property and Adoption of Calendar Year 2017 Tax Rate Resolution.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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And with that, I think I will turn it over.
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We are, of course, here for public hearing, but I think, Laurie, you all are going to start us off.
SPEAKER_16
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Yes, ma'am.
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I'm Lori Allshouse, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and I'm here this afternoon with a few slides, one for the tax rate public hearing and then some slides related to the other topics we have today around the budget and the tax rate.
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I'd like to introduce Laura Van Zandt who's sitting to my right.
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She's a senior budget analyst in the OMB office and is an expert and very close to all the numbers and putting together the resolution and the budget documents for you.
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So if you have specific questions, she'll be here later in the afternoon for that.
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So I'd like to start, if you're ready to start the public hearing for the tax rate, I do have one slide related to it.
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This is just some information about the real estate tax rate.
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It's built on a rate of 0.839 per 100 of assessed value.
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The total assessed value of real property, excluding additional assessments due to new construction, exceeds last year's total assessed value of real property by 2.87%.
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The lower tax rate or the tax rate that would levy the same amount of real estate taxes last year would be 0.809 per 100 of assessed value.
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The effective rate increase or difference between the proposed rate and the lower tax rate is 3.0 cents or 3.71%.
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And individual property taxes may increase at a percentage greater than or less than these percentages.
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Thank you.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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All right.
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Doug, did you all have anything else you wanted to do before we go into the public hearing?
SPEAKER_11
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Not for the public hearing on the tax rate, Madam Chairman.
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Okay.
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Unless there's context, that would be important, just acknowledging that a little awkward with the timing, this now being our second public hearing on the tax rate for those who are here and maybe listening.
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to the live streaming, the technical defect and the posting of our advertisement has required us to affect this delay and then a second public hearing on the tax rate.
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So we did not go through what we've already gone through as far as a more extensive presentation wanting to be more efficient.
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But if there's an interest in that we can, but we had not planned to do that today.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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Okay, and that works for everybody I think.
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All right.
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So with that, we will open the public hearing.
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And Norman, I think you have the list.
SPEAKER_12
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Right.
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We have a few people signed up here for the public hearing.
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So you can come up to the mic, adjust it so that we can hear you well.
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And you have three minutes to speak.
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The green light will come on when we start, then yellow light after 2 and 1 half minutes.
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And at three minutes, the red light will go off, and it's time to wrap it up.
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So why don't we get started?
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The first person on the list, Mary Jean Foss.
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Please state your name to the public and the district you are from.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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And you can adjust the mic so that... Should I tip it down?
SPEAKER_12
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Yeah, that's good.
SPEAKER_13
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Good afternoon.
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My name is Mary Jean Foss.
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I am in the Rio district.
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And as a taxpayer in the county for 48 years and an Albemarle County science teacher, mostly at Western Albemarle High School for 33 years, I know some of you.
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My husband also taught earth science and chemistry at Albemarle High School, and our two daughters attended Albemarle County Schools and are successful adults.
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When I retired, I had four major surgeries and found my independence temporarily limited, but a friend invited me to the Senior Center, which is what I'm speaking of, or in favor of today.
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Instead of becoming inactive, I attended activities and programs and made many friends and found purpose.
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I have been a center member for ten years and have served on the council as the council president and on the senior center board for six years.
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I volunteer on several committees and as a group leader.
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I fully enjoy my time there.
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as well as there are multiple opportunities to help others to continue learning and to be active and to socialize.
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The county's largest projected demographic shift continues to be the increase in the senior population.
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The Senior Center has had a successful 50 plus years serving that population.
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In 1990, we moved to the new building on Pepsi Place, but now, 27 years later, we find that our building lacks sufficient room for indoor recreation, meetings, banquets, classrooms, etc.
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These are all defined as needs to be filled by Albemarle's own studies.
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Occasionally,
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Programs have to be held in the few open places in the building, such as the basement or the kitchen to make room for a special event.
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Parking is also critical.
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Oh my goodness.
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All right, I'm going to have to cut out.
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I had all kinds of good things, but I'll just say that our center is recognized nationally as one of the best in the nation, and it's an asset to Albemarle County.
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Your support on this project is a visible sign that the city and the county are working together and I thank you with shared needs.
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I thank you for your time and especially for your investment in the new Senior Center building.
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And we won't come back for more money.
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It's only for the project.
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Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_12
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Thank you.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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Thank you very much.
SPEAKER_12
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I think you may have taught one of the several dill children that went through Western Albemarle High School somewhere back there.
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Yep, thank you.
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Okay, next on the list is Bruce Garretson, I believe.
SPEAKER_10
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Thank you.
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My name is Bruce Garrison.
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I'm from the Royal Hill District and I'm here to support the Senior Center.
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I'm asking for money.
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I work in the cafe at the Senior Center.
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and our cafe is beautiful cafe, but it's very, very small for the amount of people that we have coming in there.
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And there are many a times where I'm sitting there and I have to give up the seat that I'm sitting in to accommodate for the people that we have coming in there for meetings, for Ali classes, and just come in to be at the center.
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I use John.
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John delivers me from my house
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to the front door of the senior center, which is very handy for me, being a disabled individual.
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I'm hoping that you will allow the cat buses to be adjusted so that they can drop people off the front door of the new senior center, because some people have a hard time walking long distances, believe me.
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I lost place where I was, that's all right.
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The center is a place that gives socialization and joy to many people.
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There are many people in there that I can see come in there and just from being inside the center, it brings a smile to their face and it gets them out of their, wherever they are, whether they're being in an assisted living, a nursing home, and it gives them some place to go and something to do.
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There's so much the Senior Center offers for the aging population and we definitely need funding for the new center
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because we're all going to get older and we're all going to need to please the ghost sometime.
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I'd like to thank you all for your time and trouble and have a great day and thank you for supporting us.
SPEAKER_12
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Thank you very much.
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Don Richardson's name has been crossed off unless he changed his mind.
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Okay and then Jay James is next on the list.
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Hello, you might want to lift up the microphone there a little bit.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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Adjust to your height, that's right.
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I'm sorry about that, it's my fault.
SPEAKER_12
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No, no, no, everybody moves it.
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We need to do it every time.
SPEAKER_09
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I realize it's a formal proceeding, but I completely support what you were saying and I appreciate it.
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You guys didn't start the time yet, did you?
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Well, listen, thank you for the opportunity.
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Good afternoon to all of you, as always.
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It's not a token thing for me to say.
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In my profession, I get to appreciate your civic service, so I want to thank you for that initially and just for hearing me out.
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I'm here on a very unique request that we understand it may be tough to fulfill, but I'll place it before you anyway, so I'm here representing a nonprofit called
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Bridge Ministry Substance Abuse Rehabilitative Program for Men.
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It's a residential program.
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It's 18 months in duration.
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Here today, just with this opportunity and this final public hearing, we were recently granted by the city of Charlottesville an allocation as a newly funded organization of $34,800 to work towards support services for the individuals that we see who could be homeless, coming out of incarceration, suffering from opioid addiction.
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Some of the other things that we're seeing are methamphetamines are just as potent as opioids.
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And I know that we're hearing about that a lot in the news cycle.
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Governor McAuliffe recently sent out a statement that said 1,100 people died in Virginia just last year because of opioid overdose and addiction and heroin and narcotics.
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But we're also seeing devastation in rural communities that we accept individuals from in methamphetamines as well.
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And then of course there's cocaine and all those things.
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Long story short for all of you is the cost to us to support an individual, a gentleman that comes to our program, we can accommodate 50 but we incur a cost of about $24,000 annually due to insurance and treatment.
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and we're requesting special allocation if possible from the board maybe out of public safety funding or some type of funding that you may have available and I understand this is a tax rate public hearing and you don't have a lot of funds that are available but we do believe that this is a critical service that is important to restoring the lives of individuals in our community who are suffering from drug and alcohol addiction.
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We've been here 25 years.
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We've recently undergone a lot of restructuring
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and therefore we've started to get into this process.
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We're going to be working more with the Center for Nonprofit Excellence as a new nonprofit.
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So there's some things that we're learning along the way.
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But I greatly appreciate just every time I get this opportunity, it's just an opportunity to share.
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So we would respectfully request that you would consider us to support one of our students.
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That would be $24,000 if at all possible or whatever you might be able to do.
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Other than that, we just appreciate the opportunity to share because we work very closely with the county.
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We've been in the circuit court before.
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Judge Higgins' individuals are court ordered into our program.
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Chief Lance and Robert Tracy recently visited our program last month.
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So we are dedicated to serving Albemarle, and I'm very appreciative of the opportunity.
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So thank you all very much.
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I appreciate it.
SPEAKER_12
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Thank you.
SPEAKER_08
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Thank you, sir.
SPEAKER_12
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That's all the people that are on the list.
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Is there anybody else who would like to speak at this time for the public hearing?
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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Anybody that wants to speak to the... You want to come on up?
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Do you have some hands?
SPEAKER_12
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Yep, come on up.
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You can come up together or individually.
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You could, each of you, give your name and, in general, where you live, not the exact address, necessarily.
SPEAKER_14
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Hi, I'm Kirstina Lilly, and we all attend Monticello High School.
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Bailey Sickler and Ayaz Adatia.
SPEAKER_12
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Thank you.
SPEAKER_14
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Albemarle County is a wonderful and inviting place to live which is in part due to the beautiful natural environment and open spaces in our community.
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The continued existence of these pristine natural spaces can largely be attributed to the work of the Board of Supervisors to protect the natural environment through initiatives such as the acquisition of conservation easements program.
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As engaged citizens, we are concerned that the growth of the county may be threatening some of our precious natural resources.
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We recognize that growth and development are necessary for the county to support economic prosperity for its residents, but we would also like to see a little more done to protect some of our cherished natural areas that make Albemarle County such a beautiful place, specifically through the expansion of the ACE program.
SPEAKER_01
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An important perspective on this issue of land preservation is that of a property owner.
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Through an interview with Ms. Tyler, a local landowner of more than 300 acres, we realized that landowners are willing to put in extra effort to make an investment for their land.
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as long as they feel they are supported by the government.
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For instance, Ms. Tyler explained that she has participated in several programs supported by the USDA to put measures in place to protect water quality and native species on our land.
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We see the ACE program as a way for our local government to support landowners with the ultimate goal of resource preservation.
SPEAKER_05
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Expanding the ACE program will help our county invest in the future of natural resources while simultaneously helping local landowners.
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Securing more easements over time would be a huge step to ensure the protection of air and water quality and the preservation of the open space that makes Albemarle County the perfect mix of both the urban and rural landscapes.
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Knowing that the ACE program receives more applications than it can afford to fund, we would like to see more money allocated to the ACE program so that it can continue to promote sustainable land management practices while supporting the local landowners.
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Thank you for your time and consideration.
SPEAKER_12
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Thank you all very much.
SPEAKER_15
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Thank you for your project and for coming down today.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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Yeah, the CAP program, the projects are really great.
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Good to hear from the students.
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Is there anybody else that would like to speak at this time?
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Alright, with that I'll close the public hearing.
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Board.
5. Approval of Calendar Year 2017 Tax Rates and Adoption of the FY 18 Operating and Capital Budget
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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I guess we have an action item before us, so I would entertain some discussions, questions, a motion.
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It's your pleasure, so comments.
SPEAKER_15
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Well, I'll start.
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That is that
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I know there's concern about always wondering what the future will bring and whether we can are making the right decision today for all of us have that but I'm remembering back for seven years of the last ten where we were so overcome by that fear of what was going to happen that we didn't do anything
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and I think we can't avoid doing something now.
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We have the ability to do some small improvements.
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I mean there are lots of zeros but compared to the total number of things we need to invest in, it's still a small start and I hope that we will do that.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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Thank you.
SPEAKER_08
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I was going to defer to Liz, go ahead.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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I'm sorry I was looking to the right.
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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I actually don't have a lot to say other than I would agree with Ann Mallek that for several years during the recession we
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really, in my opinion, starved local government.
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And we have an obligation to our schools, to our environment, and to our police department, and our fire and rescue department, and all the other huge issues that we have, including our solid waste.
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And it's time to try to get some of these things done.
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and I'm happy that we do not have to raise the tax rate this time.
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I'm very happy about that.
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When I first ran for the Board of Supervisors in 2013, people asked me if I was going to raise their tax rate and I said yes I am because we need to have a tax rate increase.
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We've gone too long without one.
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and we have decreased the income because of the drop in property tax.
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We need to make up for that.
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We owe it to our citizens and so we did that for a couple of years and now we're able to get a little better situation with the economy.
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So that we're able not to raise the tax rate, although we do recognize that it's always difficult for people to pay their taxes.
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We do recognize that there are people out there that have a difficult time doing, raising, you know, paying their taxes.
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It's not to make that any less
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important it is to really take care of our future and our children and our environment and I'm happy to when it's time to make that motion to adopt the resolution to set the stacks right.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:20:18
Brad, did you have anything to say?
SPEAKER_08
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I do have a comment.
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I had several major concerns arose from me after I read the budget when originally presented by Interim County Executive Doug Walker.
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The first was the 19.02 new hires initially contained in the budget, which are now 22.02 new hires, which is occurring now during the 95th month of the third longest economic expansion in U.S. history.
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The question I posed to my constituents were, were all of these new hires essential and meeting critical
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County staffing and operational needs.
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Were these new employees at risk within possibly months or within at a maximum a year or two of their hiring of becoming the first victims of the county's potential necessity as occurred in fiscal year 08 to cut budget costs through labor downsizing when and after an economic contraction hits?
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I've looked at this very closely and I do support all of those new hires except one part-time employee who will be working in the Crozet library.
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I feel in that case we are capable as a county to find a volunteer or two volunteers to perform that job but that's hardly the basis to oppose a budget.
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The second question and concern I raised was the political consequences of the county running an additional fiscal surplus in 2017, now estimated to be some 1.8 million.
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that when tied to the fiscal year surplus of almost 8 million reinforces a perception of some members of the public that the county is overtaxing its residents.
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So I was looking to try to keep the fiscal year 18 budget as controlled as possible for the taxpayers that we all represent.
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Finally, the biggest concern, as the board well knows from me, is the low amount of funds dedicated to the CIP in this fiscal year 18 budget during this time of economic growth, especially when two major unfunded potential large ticket capital improvements lie ahead of the board, a possible new county office building and a possible new high school.
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and that issue has not been resolved to my satisfaction, so I regret that I will not be able to support the fiscal year 2018 budget.
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Thank you.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:23:08
All right.
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Any other comments?
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I do appreciate, Rick, your remarks about the new employees and the necessity for those new employees.
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To just piggyback a little bit on that, I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Walker, but per capita, we are about where we were in 2008 with our employees.
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Is that correct?
SPEAKER_11
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That's correct and in line with our benchmarks.
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Exactly.
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Overall.
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That's right.
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Not on a department by department basis necessarily.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
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But you're certainly right, Rick, in that we went through many, many years where we just slashed our capital improvement program.
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I can remember years when it was just down to bare maintenance only.
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And I think our citizens are reacting somewhat to that now as they're
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asking for improvements and services and certainly connections, pathways, trails, it goes on and on and on.
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But I'm very comfortable at this point with this tax rate and where we are right now.
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I think we're positioning the county for a good year.
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I think we have a lot of exciting work to do ahead of us.
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and so I plan to support it.
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So with that, maybe there might be a motion?
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Okay.
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Someone has a motion to...
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:24:38
I would, the motion was up there a minute ago and now it's wrong.
00:24:42
You want me to read it for you?
00:24:43
I think I may have it here.
00:24:46
Let's see.
00:24:47
There we go.
00:24:47
Okay.
00:24:48
All right.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:24:48
I move that we... And it's attachment A.
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:24:51
oh it's attachment A okay that's what it says here okay I move that we adopt the resolution to set the calendar year 2017 tax rates attachment A and do I need to read it's that calendar year fiscal year 18
00:25:06
Oh, I'm sorry.
00:25:07
Yes, it should have said that.
00:25:08
It's calendar year 17.
SPEAKER_08
00:25:10
Calendar year 17, but the fiscal year 18 budget.
00:25:13
You'll see the budget in just a minute.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:25:14
And then we'll move on to the budget.
00:25:16
Oh, we're doing that.
SPEAKER_08
00:25:17
Sorry.
SPEAKER_16
00:25:18
And I placed, just for the audience and those listening at home, a copy of your attachment on the screen.
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:25:26
OK.
00:25:28
So we need a second.
00:25:29
So we have a motion.
SPEAKER_04
00:25:30
Second.
00:25:34
Randolph?
SPEAKER_08
00:25:35
Aye.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:25:36
yes yes yes yes yes so that motion passes and with that then of course we have a series that we need to go through here so Laurie do you want to take over for the the next part of the discussion
SPEAKER_16
00:25:55
Yes, and before I do, I just wanted to share with you the folks in the communications group wanted to make sure that we also mentioned again to you that the tax due date on June 15th, which is a one-time change this year.
00:26:08
There's many ways we're communicating that.
00:26:10
It's going to be noted on the tax bill.
00:26:12
The finance staff, frontline staff are aware of the change.
00:26:16
Their telephone greeting will be updated.
00:26:18
A display ad will be in the paper, press releases.
00:26:22
It'll be on our website, social media, and email.
00:26:25
Mortgage companies will be notified.
00:26:27
An announcement with this new date will be displayed in public spaces and at the county government department front desks at both buildings.
00:26:34
I just wanted to mention that again because there is a change and when taxes are due, it's June 15th this year.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:26:40
And that's just for this year.
SPEAKER_16
00:26:41
That's correct.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:26:42
Right.
00:26:42
It's a one-time change.
SPEAKER_16
00:26:44
All right.
00:26:45
Now I'm going to move on to the next topic.
00:26:47
There's three things today.
00:26:48
That was the first one on the tax rate.
00:26:51
The second is the adoption of the 18 capital and operating budgets.
00:26:55
So I wanted to share with you some changes that were made during all the work sessions and public hearings to date.
00:27:03
There were a lot of changes that were made from the county executive's recommended budget to the board's proposed budget.
00:27:08
And there are also a few more changes we are putting in front of you today for your consideration.
00:27:14
So this particular chart is one that we shared with you in your executive summary and it identifies all the changes since the county executive's recommended budget.
00:27:24
Those items that are highlighted in yellow are ones we wanted to share with you and make sure that you're aware that these are some additional changes that occurred since the last time we were together.
00:27:35
So there probably aren't any questions about the, I won't go through the whole list unless you have questions, but you can see that this chart includes a lot of the changes that were made along the way during the work sessions.
00:27:46
There was changes with savings that we had gotten and we added an appraiser position, a neighborhood planner position, we fully funded JABA.
00:27:54
added some funding for John, added to the neighborhood planner position utilizing some of the support costs for the neighborhood improvement program.
00:28:04
We also moved the EDA back into the budget as you know that we were fiscal agent on that piece.
00:28:10
There was some additional capital money for the time and attendance project and there were some savings in debt service on the interest rates that we placed into the capital fund balance.
00:28:21
In these items in yellow, I'm just going to talk about them on the next slide, and we can go back if you'd like to see the numbers in any greater detail.
00:28:29
So the first thing I wanted to mention to you, while we were working through the work sessions, there was also a staff group including school division, health care, or the human resources department, the finance department,
00:28:40
County Executives Department in the Office of Management and Budget.
00:28:43
We were looking very carefully at our health insurance program.
00:28:46
You might recall we made some changes in a lot of elements of the healthcare program as well as we changed our provider.
00:28:54
And our consultant worked very closely with us and at this point we believe we could reduce the increase in our healthcare.
00:29:01
but the increase in our healthcare from 7% to 6% and share those savings with all parties.
00:29:08
So this would share it with the school's division and with the general government and employees as well.
00:29:15
Thank you, Doug.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:29:16
So that's the adjustment that we're seeing listed here.
00:29:20
Yeah, there's two places.
SPEAKER_16
00:29:21
Well, you'll see it in multiple places, but just for the general gist of it, the general government, ECC, jail, and Blue Ridge budgets overall will be, the savings will be about $50,000.
00:29:34
Now, not each one of those entities receive those savings and are gonna do something else with it.
00:29:40
These are shared budgets for ECC, jail, and Blue Ridge,
00:29:44
the county's savings were brought back into the county's budget and the general government as well.
00:29:49
So we have placed those savings in the reserve for contingencies which brings your reserve for contingencies about back where it was in the county executive's recommended budget.
00:29:58
The school division also had some updates and this is the time that they update to balance their budget.
00:30:04
They incorporated their health insurance savings about $176,000.
00:30:08
They had another state funding decrease as they learned more and more about the state budget of $46,000 and they made some other adjustments in their school fund and their special revenue funds.
00:30:22
Thank you, Laura.
00:30:23
So there's some other adjustments.
00:30:24
So you can see these adjustments on this prior chart, but I just wanted to point them out.
00:30:28
Mr. Zimmerman is here in the audience as well as Mr. Tisdad if there's any questions on the changes in the school's budget.
00:30:38
Are there any questions or concerns about these changes?
00:30:41
Again, the ones in white are the ones that have been made all along, and then the ones in yellow are the ones that have changed since we saw you last.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:30:49
These are the new ones.
00:30:52
Any questions?
00:31:01
I don't hear any other questions or any comments, Lori.
SPEAKER_16
00:31:04
Okay, and the only other thing I wanted to mention, I know we've talked a lot about the capital budget.
00:31:09
You're approving the operating budget and the capital budget.
00:31:13
You approve the CIP as a plan, but you actually place money into the capital budget, which is the first year of your plan.
00:31:20
We just wanted to share with you that $7 million in fiscal year 16 general fund year end positive variance
00:31:27
was appropriated on April 5, 2007 into your capital program.
00:31:32
So those funds from fiscal year 16, which were the positive year-end variants, the majority of those were placed into the CIP as cash equity.
00:31:42
We share in the board's concern that we want to get more cash and more pay-go cash into the CIP program, and that was done on April 5.
00:31:49
And that was part of this budget.
00:31:50
We planned to do it, and then the board took action on that.
00:31:53
there's also 1.2 million in one-time general fund revenue in fiscal year 18 that we placed into the CIP budget this year into the capital budget and there's ongoing 700,000 in ongoing general fund revenue that's been added back to the CIP beginning in fiscal year 18 so we share all of your concern about trying to make sure we get more cash into our CIP and just wanted to point that those are the three places that we did add some funding for your PAYGO, your cash equity
00:32:24
And then finally, you know, we always love a pie chart here and there.
00:32:27
This is the only one.
00:32:28
This is your total county budget.
00:32:31
We wanted to show it as a displayed revenue and expenditure pie chart.
00:32:35
The changes, actually, overall, all the net changes added about $500,000 overall to your whole operating and capital budget for the year.
00:32:48
And with that, if there aren't any questions, we would ask you to adopt the 18 budget resolution.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:32:56
Any comments, questions, concerns?
00:33:00
Anyone want to bring up anything new or for discussion?
SPEAKER_12
00:33:09
I would just like to address Mr. James since you specifically asked that this is not a time where we can in the process so we don't want to look like we forgot or ignored you but at this point in the budget we can't start all over again so I think you probably understand that but we can talk further in the future.
00:33:30
Thank you.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:33:31
I think it would be very helpful
00:33:35
Since we've heard now from Mr. James twice about the Bridge Ministry, I would love to receive just some information from all of us while it's fresh on our mind to just look at the information so that when moving forward the next time we have a discussion about
00:33:54
We're all recognizing the opioid and drug problems that we're having in this area.
SPEAKER_08
00:34:13
He's on public record now that he's paying you, Mr. Chairman.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:34:16
Just some information that we could look at while it's fresh in our mind would be great.
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:34:21
An actual budget request would be, you know, it's a small amount of money, but an actual budget request would be helpful.
SPEAKER_15
00:34:27
And included in that, if there are extra details in response to questions the ABRT had in their evaluation, then that would be also helpful to make a new decision out of contingency.
SPEAKER_08
00:34:38
That'd be great.
00:34:39
That's on page 25 of the report.
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:34:42
Along that same line, I just want to mention this, not to discuss it now, but at some point we do know that the city has decided to put some money in for a mental health court.
00:34:55
We were talking about the drug court for Bridge, and so we will probably be getting a request for next year for that too, which is great.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:35:05
Well that would be wonderful too.
00:35:06
Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_12
00:35:08
Thank you.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:35:09
All right, so I guess we're at the point now where we can entertain a motion.
SPEAKER_07
00:35:17
Just to be clear that the motion would be the resolution that's amended that was handed out.
00:35:24
No?
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:35:25
The resolution of appropriations?
SPEAKER_16
00:35:28
We're on the budget adoption which is the one that is the executive summary went with the tax rate.
00:35:34
We have another appropriations that will be in front of you next so we're moving through several different documents.
00:35:39
This is a total county budget and it actually is attachment B to your budget and tax executive summary, tax rate and budget.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:35:48
Oh, it's on the back of attachment A.
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:35:51
Thank you.
00:35:52
So we need a motion to approve the FY 18 tax, we already did tax.
00:36:00
No, the budget resolution.
00:36:02
The budget resolution attachment B.
SPEAKER_16
00:36:05
That's correct, thank you.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:36:06
Thank you for helping us with getting through these resolutions and motions correctly.
00:36:13
Second.
SPEAKER_08
00:36:16
Mr. Randolph?
00:36:17
Nay.
SPEAKER_04
00:36:18
Sheffield yes yes yes yes yes yes
6. Approval of the Resolution of Appropriations for the Albemarle County Operating and Capital Budgets for FY 18
SPEAKER_16
00:36:26
Okay, so we're going to move on now to the approval of the resolution of appropriations.
00:36:31
This is different.
00:36:32
Usually we get the budget adoption at one meeting and then we do the appropriations at your next meeting.
00:36:38
The appropriations is the legal authority to spend money.
00:36:42
We're doing this as early as possible to support the schools.
00:36:45
They have to go into a lot of contracts and a lot of things that start before July 1, so we wanted to do both the budget adoption and the appropriations in the same day.
00:36:54
We did have to do a slight amendment to this one and this is the one that Greg is referencing to you that's on your dais and it has a yellow highlight to the right side that says Amendment A on it.
00:37:05
So that's the, this is the piece that we're going to talk about next.
00:37:10
Yeah, this resolution of appropriations basically has three main areas I'd like to bring to your attention.
00:37:17
On paragraph six on page eight, it has county executive authority.
00:37:21
Again, as I mentioned, this is the legal authority to spend money.
00:37:26
There's authority that was granted by board last year to the county executive to make minor changes in the appropriations.
00:37:35
Basically, if you want to read about it on page six,
00:37:40
project management costs, moving that, moving some of our training funds to different places and different budget and up to about $50,000 per fund.
00:37:51
So these are minor amendments.
00:37:53
This is administrative types of appropriations that we would believe that the county executive should continue to have authority for just based on what it was that you provided to them last year.
00:38:04
In addition, we are also recommending authority also be granted to the county executive to carry forward outstanding grants received and approved in 18 to fiscal year 19.
00:38:15
We have enabling authority by the state to do this.
00:38:19
We are hopefully hoping to do this for capital in the future because anything that has multiple fiscal years has a lot of administrative adjustments we have to make as we go from one fiscal year to the other.
00:38:29
So since we already have the enabling authority for grants,
00:38:32
We would like to have the county executive have authority for any grants received in 18 that go across the fiscal year.
00:38:39
As you know, for example, the federal fiscal year is different than ours, so sometimes grants will come in in October and then our year ends in June and then we've got to move those last couple months across the fiscal year.
00:38:50
So we're asking for additional authority for the county executive to do the grants carry forward.
00:38:56
Again, it's only for two years.
00:38:57
If a grant lasts longer than that, we'd come back.
SPEAKER_15
00:39:00
And there's a notice too on the consent agenda every time this happens, as I remember, so it's completely out in the open.
SPEAKER_16
00:39:06
Yes, that's correct.
00:39:08
So any changes that the county executive makes per your authority to the county executive with appropriations is brought to you every quarter as part of your fiscal reports.
00:39:18
and the other part of this is the fiscal year 18 appropriations and this is the one that I mentioned.
00:39:23
There's a minor change in it in the attachment that's at the dais and this is a minor adjustment that the school division requested to move 1338 from one of their categories to two different categories.
00:39:36
They receive appropriations into different categories of funding and it was just a slight adjustment that the school requested after the deadline to get the materials to you in your packet.
00:39:47
And then finally, this resolution of appropriations also includes your capital borrowing resolution.
00:39:53
So if you think you're going to be borrowing funding for capital projects in the future, this is the time where we put that forth as a borrowing resolution.
00:40:00
So those are basically the three parts of what we're asking you to approve at this time.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:40:06
So those are all, and I believe what I'm hearing though, Lori, is they're all contained in the annual resolution of appropriations attachment A that's amended.
00:40:14
That's correct.
00:40:14
So the attachment A amended.
00:40:16
Thank you, Diane, that is correct.
SPEAKER_08
00:40:18
But just for clarification for the public that's listening right now, in approving this with the capital resolution in there, it in no way binds the board by the fact that we've approved the resolution.
00:40:33
It does not commit us to having to borrow only if we decide as a board to borrow.
00:40:39
So just make sure that everyone is listening, is comfortable to understand that
00:40:44
This is not an indication that the board has made a commitment to borrow anything in fiscal year 18 It allows us legally to have that discussion and not run afoul in terms of any hurdles that need to be covered in the process.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:41:00
That's correct.
SPEAKER_08
00:41:00
Thank you.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:41:01
All right.
00:41:03
If there are no other questions or comments?
00:41:06
I think Liz looks like she's ready.
00:41:08
If I've got the right one, I'm hoping.
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:41:13
But unless I have to read that, I thought this was the approval of the resolution of appropriations for the Albemarle County capital budgets for FY18 with the changes.
00:41:26
Is that?
00:41:26
Attachment A.
00:41:27
With the attachment A and changes.
SPEAKER_15
00:41:30
Amended.
00:41:31
Yeah.
00:41:31
OK.
SPEAKER_04
00:41:34
Nay.
00:41:36
Sheffield?
00:41:37
Yes.
00:41:38
Mr. Dill?
00:41:38
Yes.
00:41:39
Ms. Mallek?
00:41:39
Yes.
00:41:40
Ms. McKeel?
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:41:41
Yes.
00:41:42
Ms. Palmer?
00:41:42
Yes.
SPEAKER_16
00:41:46
Thank you.
00:41:47
I know we worked you through several documents today.
00:41:49
Appreciate your attention through this.
00:41:51
And I do want to thank again the staff of the Office of Management and Budget and others and the school division staff and others that have worked with us through this process.
00:41:59
Great teamwork.
00:41:59
Thank you.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:42:00
Well, we would certainly like to thank staff.
00:42:02
We know it takes a lot of work to get this done and many, many hours and appreciate your working with all of the departments, schools, everybody to the teamwork for one document is really
00:42:16
Very significant, so thank you.
00:42:20
I know you start in the fall.
SPEAKER_11
00:42:23
It is a team sport and it does require a lot of players playing their positions and that would extend to of course the board and the staff in general the school board and school staff particularly with the significance of the
00:42:38
of the role and responsibilities that we share together.
00:42:41
So it is quite an annual kind of exercise.
00:42:46
It's also, in my professional opinion, one of the most important things that we do in affecting the resources that are then available to deliver the services to this community.
00:42:59
And I know you understand that.
00:43:00
It's a good time to say it again.
00:43:02
We appreciate, obviously, all that we enjoy with the collaboration that it really requires to do a good job.
00:43:08
and making sure that we're being open and transparent and thorough and thoughtful about how we engage in the process including taking a few extra weeks when we notice a defect in the posting of our advertisement to get it right.
00:43:23
We will do that also.
00:43:24
So a little bit awkward perhaps in the timing but also a part of how it is that we feel strongly about the integrity with which we do this process and we look forward to that being the case always.
SPEAKER_15
00:43:35
Thank you, Doug.
SPEAKER_12
00:43:36
Well said.
SPEAKER_15
00:43:37
Thank you.
00:43:37
All right.
00:43:38
The worst case scenario is surprise.
00:43:41
So the fact that you planned so well, and we talked so much, and it ends up being less of a surprise for everybody in the end.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:43:47
Thank you.
00:43:48
I agree.
00:43:49
So with that, Greg, you look like you wanted to say something.
00:43:52
Did you?
00:43:53
I just want to make sure that, as our attorney, you're not.
SPEAKER_07
00:43:56
A vote on the resolution that's attachment B. Oh, we.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:44:01
Is the next item.
00:44:02
You're right.
00:44:03
A.
00:44:03
We voted on A.
00:44:06
So we need to, so Lori is pulling it up I guess.
SPEAKER_16
00:44:13
It's A and B.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:44:14
So we just said A.
00:44:16
So I should have done.
00:44:17
We probably should have said A and B is what I'm hearing.
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:44:19
So I move to approve the resolution of appropriations for Albemarle County operating capital budget for FY 18 which includes attachments A and B.
SPEAKER_16
00:44:32
Yes, B is the capital of borrowing.
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:44:35
Excuse me for my... An attachment A as amended, and I'll second that.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:44:41
That's what happens when we put it on the back of the page.
00:44:45
Sorry.
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:44:46
Here it is.
00:44:46
If I had read the entire thing, I would...
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:44:50
Okay, so there was a second.
00:44:51
Yes.
SPEAKER_04
00:44:53
Mr. Randolph?
SPEAKER_12
00:44:54
Nay.
SPEAKER_04
00:44:55
Mr. Sheffield?
00:44:55
Yes.
00:44:56
Mr. Dill?
SPEAKER_12
00:44:57
Yes.
SPEAKER_04
00:44:58
Mallek?
00:44:59
Yes.
00:45:00
McKeel?
00:45:00
Yes.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:45:01
Mr. Palmer?
SPEAKER_04
00:45:02
Yes.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:45:04
All right.
00:45:05
Now, Greg, you look like you're smiling, so we're clear.
00:45:10
What's the next one?
00:45:11
That's right.
00:45:12
I think that is it.
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:45:15
That's right.
7. From the Board: Committee Reports and Matters Not Listed on the Agenda.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:45:16
All right.
00:45:17
So I'm going to move on then from the board.
00:45:19
Does anybody have any committee reports, matters not listed on the agenda they want to bring up?
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:45:25
I have one.
00:45:26
I would like to make sure that before we close today that we appoint someone to our SWAC committee that we've discussed we weren't able to appoint last time.
00:45:37
So how would you like to do that, Madam Chair?
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:45:41
I guess I'm going to ask Greg to just make a motion.
00:45:47
Can we just make a motion?
Liz Palmer
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:45:48
I move that we appoint Andrea Bostrom to our Solid Waste Advisory Committee, our SWAC committee.
SPEAKER_12
00:45:56
Second.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:45:59
Randolph, yes yes yes yes yes yes all right good so she is appointed anybody else have anything
8. From the County Executive: Report on Matters Not Listed on the Agenda.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:46:14
I'm seeing no, all right, from the county executive, matter's not listed on the agenda.
00:46:20
Not at this time, Madam Chair.
00:46:21
Doug's shaking his head no as well.
10. Adjourn to May 26, 2017, 1:00 p.m., Lane Auditorium.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:46:24
And we do not need a closed meeting right now, so I'll entertain a motion to adjourn to May 26th, one o'clock in the afternoon in the Lane Auditorium.
SPEAKER_08
00:46:32
So moved.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:46:33
Second.
SPEAKER_04
00:46:35
Mr. Randolph.
00:46:36
Aye.
00:46:36
Mr. Sheffield.
00:46:37
Yes.
00:46:38
Mr. Dill.
00:46:39
Yes.
00:46:39
Mr. Malek.
00:46:40
Yes.
00:46:40
Mr. McKeel.
00:46:41
Yes.
00:46:42
Mr. Palmer.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:46:42
Yes.
00:46:44
All right.
00:46:46
Excellent.
SPEAKER_04
00:46:47
Thank you, folks.
SPEAKER_15
00:46:50
Very good.
Diantha McKeel
Supervisor, Board of Supervisors
00:46:50
Thank you.
SPEAKER_15
00:46:51
Thank you, students.