Planning District Commission Meeting   3/7/2024

And Ruth, would you mind doing a roll call?

Supervisor Galloway?

Present.

Supervisor Pruitt?

Present.

Mr. Smith?

Here.

Mr. Higgins?

Present.

Supervisor Barlow, Supervisor Woodward, Supervisor Reed, Supervisor Rutherford, Commissioner D'Oronzio, Councilor Payne.

Can you please repeat your location and your reason for participating electronically?

and just wasn't able to make it to Charlottesville.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

There's someone else.

Oh, Sean's trying to get it.

Good evening.

Otherwise, I'll move along.

Any questions?

It's here for our draft of the 25th Rural Transportation Work Program.

But with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions you have.

They reviewed it on their phone in April 2024.

I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Ruth, do you have anything on that?

And then we'll move on to the implementation.

What questions do you all have?

Are we supposed to bring our comments to the next meeting?

Or you can bring them into eating, but I would love if you just can help me.

So the further you skew from the center line, the worse you are?

And then the national index is in the lower right, that black.

And infrastructure is defined as what?

Yeah, it's not just Black Lives Matter.

That is a major factor in your gap.

If you all are curious about this, I'd be happy to share the

We can send out that in advance if you would like to see it later.

So I'm just trying to understand.

So just the economic development staff?

No, with the staff it included others as well.

Tourism, business development community, there's a whole range of staples that are

Yeah, they need to show up in our...

I would say that when the stakeholders were talking about this, they were thinking more like deep aground infrastructure.

Risk to the economy.

Yeah.

There's no opportunity.

I'm sure there's no opportunity.

Is there qualitative snapshots on this?

We're excited to share it with you.

Thank you.

Any other questions or comments?

Thank you.

And that will take us to 3D, the Regional Transit Government Study Presentation and final report, which Shannon starts with you, Mac.

So I'm asking for a motion to direct TJPD staff to continue supporting the initiative to form a regional transit authority.

I have, I don't think any of us have any idea how to square that circle at all.

Yeah.

The existing legislation allows us to start with Charlottesville and Albemarle, and then they can opt in as they decide that it would be worthwhile for them.

Charlottesville and Albemarle want to be the independent person.

It's galling, but it means you really don't have to practically use fuel packs to drive this, for example, which seems to be the least agonizing, particularly for the world, the non-intercontinental model of the City of Charlottesville piece.

Virtually all the funding mechanisms that are listed are things that we already have really not covered yet.

Yeah, I mean, there's nowhere to go.

Yeah.

Yeah, the charter legislation is running in a stepchild.

So to think that we are on par with what the city has on that urban ring is not that accurate.

But there's still a huge abroad.

I'm all in favor of continuing and wanting to see this come to be, and I think as people learn more, especially in the rural areas, because I think it's going to be what we need to have happen to help activate transit in our rural areas, that the needs analysis in particular will identify where to buy it under the interest would be from some of our rural counties.

The lodging tax, okay, once again, real money comes from basically the two jurisdictions that have real money for that and the idea that we're going to collect and everything is just, that's a 10-year-old battle that we're all in here too.

So this would be Albemarle County and city of Charlottesville staff.

But ultimately, the city and the county have to begin the authority.

The intermediate is the work.

Just at the end to get some of these things in place in order to then get the feedback.

Those sat have already started touching mountains.

But then those two bodies then it just jumps out to all the governing bodies?

And so we're starting with this initial committee work group, whatever it's called, just to get some of the meat of the work done so that we can bring others in.

But is it jumping from the work group to all the governing bodies to pass a resolution to adopt?

I'm just trying to understand it.

It's not weird.

You have to go before city council and a couple of board groups.

So they'll get a pass.

and then the motion that I put in the executive directors was a recommended motion to accept the regional transit governance study final report and endorse the final recommendations of the study, which is slightly different than the original.

And whoever we have in the room needs to be voting the decisions.

Well, they're on the RTD, they're on the MDI.

That's part of what needs to be talked about in that relationship.

Then staff is looking for a motion.

It's a different motion than what Christine has.

Staff recommends a motion to accept the regional training for governance study final report and endorse it as a final recommendation.

All right, we'll do a roll call vote on this one.

Supervisor Pruitt?

Yes.

Supervisor Snider?

Yes.

Mr. Smith?

Mr. Higgins?

Yes.

Supervisor Barlow?

Yes.

Supervisor Woodward?

Yes.

DeBryden Reed, Richard Gjorgjiev, Thank you.

Last time I was here talking about the mobility management program and y'all said I needed to market so I have the flyer which is over there and I just spent the last couple days with consultants surveying people within the jurisdictions, older adults and so we have a survey that we're asking people to take and you can fill it out even if you're not an older adult if you know older adults who have needs you can answer for them

Yes.

We will move to number four.

Christine, any items that you want to highlight or if it's overdue?

However, with the caution that I shared with you guys last month, that with staff transitions that are occurring, there might be a need to use some of that money to contract out work into the legacies.

Comments?

Is there a second?

Very good and that will bring us to number five business A is fiscal year 21 re-issued audit memo and draft fiscal year 21 re-issue their product.

So this is an administrative process to reclassify that $170,000 from federal to state, reissue it in the audit, reissue it in the CFO report so that our records match the statistics.

I'm happy to take any questions on that.

And that's a state fund, not a federal.

All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

And Ruth, that's your name attached to it.

So we are recommending a motion to appoint those three to the PGA women's cooperation board.

So that I needed to make sure that I said that.

I'll come with the motion.

All right, questions?

It's quite not our work.

Supervisor Harlan?

I think the full group can do it and I don't really see the need for it to come in.

Sorry, I don't know what that is.

That's I think that's pretty good.

At the ballot park, I'm only in my second evening on this commission.

So I'm kind of leading the way of not having rigidity.

So you yield to them.

And is there a detriment, or like you may say, oh no, it's actually Thursday.

And then you will give a,

does not meet expectations, meets expectations, or exceeds expectations.

So you'll actually have 12 things you're ranking versus in the past, there were probably 40 items you were ranking on.

That's even more of a means that I think is necessary.

As long as there's a way to not answer something that no business is answering without skewing the tool.

So we have a budget fiscal year 24, amended operating.

But otherwise the budget is projected revenue of $28.6 million and projected expenditures of $28.3 million with a healthy anticipated net gain of $300,000 with the caveat that I shared earlier.

Christine?

And that's all I have.

Questions on the monthly report?

I'll look to my right, the Atlanta County Supervisor, Ryan.

You know, this is a conversation a lot of counties are

So I thought that was an interesting thing to share.

Not literally.

Do you have one?

And you can only add them if they're not.

We chose the kilowatt one.

And another, it's honestly the biggest thing that comes to mind, specifically in the last few weeks.

Oh, they did?

I guess I won't dive into those right now.

Yeah.

It's probably better that we actually get the analysis of the data and stuff.

Supervisor Barlow, we'll move to Louisa County.

You know, nobody's got to have one at a time, so we're talking it down a little bit, but some of the old ladies, like I said, they just get crowded down, all over the village, and it's really fast, and I may not have one for the future.

The old sounds, they're comfortable.

and we can be a winning master.

That's what I can't do, and so don't worry.

Wake up, man.

Mr. Woodward?

Can you hear me okay now?

Yes, sir.

But yeah, Louisa's doing real well.

We're accepting it.

That's right.

They've got all the things to do, so they would pass it up to them.

And so anyway, thank y'all.

And to be clear, I think it's appropriate for guys to set some percentage in terms of what

It's great, it's revenue, but we just got too much feedback.

Take a step back and check it out.

Yeah.

So, things are

Uncomfortably quiet.

S.A., it's on the horizon.

Thank you.

Mr. Higgins, I was going to count.

The presentation was

O'Brien, Thomas, just a quick update on your cabinet.

I'm trying to get the money from South West Virginia.

When we talk about it for a while, it looks like we can't get in that conversation about it without talking about it sometimes.

Well, you cannot do it without some mere assumption.

Well, exactly.

We don't, to get at home without a non-profit or a habitat model or a man trust or something, that incentive package is purely specifically targeted towards the realm.

So it's really hard to take money, you know, taxpayers to subsidize, you know, somebody else.

And we're capitalizing on $150,000 and we're going to, we bought two homes at $215,000, we'll sell them at $215,000, put a little bit of work in the HVAC system and so forth and so on.

We raised that money from multiple different sources.

None of that money came from Hobartica.

In other words, you working on a thing was like three different houses and to help build those up and then you could be able to help people and then you work and get what's up.

It's doable, but you have to pull through multiple different sources.

I think that's the big struggle we have is how do you provide housing and not have

I'll get over a bunch of old bosses.

So hopefully more to come about taking the people that are actually working in the space and by June, seeing what they come up with in terms of priorities and how the partnership could be helpful to the jurisdictions and trying to tackle it.

So ultimately, whether it's New York County tax pay for it, or federal, state and federal tax plans, I just, I don't know where you get the money to back their local house.

No one else seems to have this problem.

And I think that captures the notion of your taxpayers, if they say affordable housing is important and they're supporting electives to work on that as an issue, then it's okay for that community to then subsidize the health.

We've been talking about this for a long time.

A thing that would be super helpful, because I think the two jurisdictions, the regional housing partnership, and it's not about who we're going to show on, it's Louisa and Pullman account.

You know, this is from the board.

As much as you'd like to say, hey, $400,000 is cheap, you know, for the average person who is starting off making $60,000 or maybe their stock is making $50,000.

It's affordable for somebody making $12,000 a month.

So it would be a problem.

Yeah, that was 150 people there.

Thank you everyone.