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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10/11/2016 - Regular October 11, 2016 427 Roanoke County Administration Center 5204 Bernard Drive Roanoke, Virginia 24018 The Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia met this day atthe Roanoke County Administration Center, this being the second Tuesday and the first regularly scheduled meeting of the month of October 2016. Audio and video recordings of this meeting will be held on file for a minimum of five (5) years in the office of the Clerk to the Board of Supervisors. IN RE: OPENING CEREMONIES Before the meeting was called to order, a moment of silence was observed and the Pledge of Allegiance was recited by all present. IN RE: CALL TO ORDER Chairman Peters called the meeting to order at 3:02 p.m. The roll call was taken. MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairman P. Jason Peters,Supervisors George G. Assaid, Al Bedrosian, Martha B. Hooker and Joseph P. McNamara MEMBERS ABSENT: None STAFF PRESENT: Thomas C. Gates, County Administrator; Daniel R. O’Donnell, Assistant County Administrator; Richard Caywood, Assistant County Administrator; Ruth Ellen Kuhnel, County Attorney; Amy Whittaker, Public Information Officer and Deborah C. Jacks, Chief Deputy Clerk to the Board IN RE: REQUESTS TO POSTPONE, ADD TO, OR CHANGE THE ORDER OF AGENDA ITEMS Ruth Ellen Kuhnel, County Attorney asked that New Business Item E.2 be postponed. There were no objections. Thomas C. Gates, County Administrator requested the addition of a Briefing concerning Mountain Valley Pipeline with Richard Caywood, Assistant County Administrator and Howard B. Hall, Chief of Police. There were no objections. October 11, 2016 428 IN RE: PROCLAMATIONS, RESOLUTIONS, RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS 1. Proclamation declaring October 23-30, 2016, as Red Ribbon Week in the County of Roanoke Proclamation was read by the Clerk. IN RE: BRIEFINGS 1. A briefing to update the Board of Supervisors on the Mountain Valley Pipeline (Richard L. Caywood, Assistant County Administrator; Howard B. Hall, Chief of Police Briefing was given. Mr. Caywood outlined the information that he had provided the Board in an email and Chief Hall outlined for the Board with the actions they can and cannot take under these circumstances. Chairman Peters asked Kathy Chandler to go ahead and speak at this time versus under Citizen Comments. Ms. Chandler commented she is the property owner in question from the day before. She spoke with the Board in July and gave them an update to that point from her personal experiences with MVP and she distinguishes herself not as a landowner, but a homeowner. She has her family on Bent Mountain. She lives on a space they call a non-traditional neighborhood with a larger yard than some people. The path of the pipeline is slated in two ways to insult her property. One is a corridor of intended pipeline placement, which slices her property in half and then they also want all of Green Hollow Drive as an access road, so there is a ninety degree cut through her property and will forever see them coming and going on a daily basis should they gain permission for this. So, the insult is more than just going through random land in Western Virginia. Since she has talked to the Board in July, if you will remember, they were out of town and had two events where they came and officers were not able to excuse them from the property because she was not present as the landowner even though Chief Hall and Ms. Kuhnel spent a lot of time and everybody agreed that it was th her and her husband on the phone. She spoke to the Board in July on the 19 and the th very next day, the 20 they arrived again with a crew of surveyors Dale Curry was the Chief in charge that day. She introduced herself and asked where they wanted to go. He advised they intended to come to her property and she advised she had sent a letter (she also had a broken foot) and she did not intend to let them on the property today. He asked if she intended to call the police to which she responded she would if she had to. He advised he would call for her and then he went to the highway and proceed to call the police. That day, two officers came who were very helpful; took names on her behalf, asked them to leave on her behalf and Mr. Curry refused to leave. She said to October 11, 2016 429 the officer, “what do you mean, he refused to leave?” He said, “We are going to work,” and they walked right past her; there were other landowners present on that morning and her two children and the officer asked her if she wanted to go to the magistrate and swear out a warrant. She advised she did not and she added that she had just told them she wants to do this peaceably. They entered her property and she chose to follow them. So, she put her two children and her broken foot into the car, drove ¾ of a mile to the end of the road they want for a permanent access, climbed over a cattle fence, hiked up into her field and watched them struggle with what parcel they were on by GPS, etc. She followed them over hill and dale and Chief Hall and Ms. Kuhnel helped us out of that situation with a great deal of struggle. Then, all of a sudden, they were gone. So, in August we get court papers; it will be settled in court and she and her husband agreed to in September when all of sudden their witness cannot make it. So, they offered more dates. On September 13, 2016, and she tells the Board these vignettes because they need to know that they don’t just come on those days, they th come a lot that she does not call the police all the time. So, on September 13, two surveyors are walking down the road. She asked them what their business was and they advised they were coming to survey caves on the Fraley property at the end of the road. She advised the end of the road is her property and she recently had it resurveyed and she is very clear on exactly where her boundaries are for all parcels involved. She repeated, “caves?” and he said, eh.” So, she followed them. Robin Wall came and talked to her, she was the Crew Chief that day. She said, “Yes, we are going to the Fraley property.” She followed them in her car, she watched where they went. They did not address any Fraley property until they hit the driveway, took a left, ten paces in took a right and you are very quickly on her land. So, she watched them walk well past her new boundary and said that she was giving them the courtesy now of letting you know you are no longer on Fraley property, to which they responded, “oh.” Ms. Chandler stated, “You are not even using GPS, what are you using to find your way.” They had GPS and property maps. They left, pretended to look at Fraley property and the just went straight down the road. On October 4, 2016, they were doing historical work to find a research district, we had an archeologist with us. They hiked on two parcels behind and across an old road to look at somebody’s rock formations and artifacts and we came out, our little team of four, and somebody said, “surveyors,” which she thought was a crazy thing to say, but here comes Dale Curry with a crew of center- line surveyors, who are on Jan Brokaw’s property, which is just a parcel behind them. We asked to see their permission letter to which they have shown her repeatedly a Xerox copy of a little green card that you sign for certified mail. She contacted Jan because she is not the landowner, she has denied permission, but she cannot come because she is at work. So, she just pictures for her and we watched what they did and made sure that the adjoining parcels were not invaded. One of the crew chiefs indicated to one of our team of four, that they intended to survey that day, parcels 61 and 62, which are two of the numbers in their language that mean her and that person challenged them and said, “No, that is Chandler property and you are not to go there October 11, 2016 430 today. They have not given permission.” The response was, “I have driven four hours so I guess I will have to just go home.” On October 5, 2016, a new crew comes of archeologists, again to Jan’s property behind her and their job then is to do archeological finds and we walked in with them and stood and one bank and there is a huge wetland and then her property on the other side. They were not familiar with where her property boundary was and she gave them a heads-up and told them where not to go to cross. They also had a grid of archeological intended sites at 15 meters they drawn this grid of holes that they dig and they look for artifacts and the science says you just go so far and if you find something do something else. Long story short, the grid map that he had included her land. So, again, she watched them work their way through the wetlands. She then stopped, because they are very good a cajoling a landowner into getting distracted and she suddenly said to her partner, “they are not on Jan’s land, they are headed to mine.” So, she got in her car and ran around, quite a trek. Her corridor path alone is ½ mile, over hill and dale down to the other side and heard them exclaim that they have found something, “look at the soil change, bright red color, there must be 30 or 40 of them, maybe 80 to 100.” So when they came out she asked them, “what did you find?” and they said they did not find anything. No soil samples, no pictures, no artifacts. It is hard to believe they did not find anything because they sounded excited. On October 8, 2016, Dale Curry, a land agent, he has been talking to people about easements and came to someone that adjoins her property and the woman was so intimidated that she was in tears and her husband felt threatened enough that he found a weapon, but she was not there. This brings up the issue of people feeling unsafe. On the night of the archeological survey, someone identified a truck that no one was familiar with and she did not drive back that night because she had kids with her, but the next day she went back and found somebody sitting in a car with a shotgun, playing sentry. So, the constant invasion, secret invasion, fibbing about why they are really there and where they are really headed, has people on alert and just by happenstance fended them off of her property a number of times and so yesterday they come to another event where she thought, okay, we are th going to handle this the same way that they helped her on the 20 and it did not happen that way. She explained to the officer that she had a court date, we agreed to that being the next step, to settle in court, but they jumped it and came with more than 32 survey takers of all disciplines and wetlands being one and she has been more than once been assayed for wetlands. Long story short, they got a lot of information that she feels belongs to her as a landowner. They came, they spread and they took. She does not know if they will be back, they are noticed for today (but she has not seen them), tomorrow and perhaps again in the future. What her final ask would be in your efforts to look at the statute and the cases that are pending, which she was one and she does not know where it stands. These people don’t operate the same way that normal, law abiding citizens do. She has so often not been told the truth and deceived and she thinks the Board has had a taste of that. Her neighbors have said, if you cannot help get them off, does somebody really want them there. She cannot imagine why, but she October 11, 2016 431 guessed she is going to ask somehow that the Board design amongst themselves a way to expand advocacy for the landowners, rather than shrink it because believing them to simply have a letter that simply says they are coming, which is the letter she had, however, she had agreed to a court date, doesn’t seem right. To have them come and take what they want anyway with a date pending does not seem right to her. IN RE: NEW BUSINESS 1. Request to approve proposed amendment to the Volunteer Incentive Program (VIP)(Stephen G. Simon, Chief of Fire and Rescue) A-101116-1 Also in attendance with Chief Simon were Chief Guffy and Chief Oakes from the Vinton First Aid Crew and Vinton Fire Department.Chief Simon outlined the request.Supervisor McNamara commented he felt the changes were appropriate. Supervisor Bedrosian asked for clarification that they were not changing any amounts. What we are changing is going back to the way it was reported before with Chief Simon advising in the affirmative. Chairman Peters advised he was concerned with removing a call number because we are good to our volunteers, but there is a sense of accountability. Our call volumes continue to slow down. He added that it takes a lot of money to train people and we may need to revisit further down the road. Supervisor McNamara moved to approve the proposed amendment; Supervisor Hooker seconded the motion. The motion was approved by the following vote: AYES: Supervisor Assaid, Bedrosian, Hooker, McNamara, Peters NAYS: None 2. Resolution adopting a Legislative Program for the 2017 session of the Virginia General Assembly and petitioning the General Assembly to favorably consider the topics and issues addressed herein (Ruth Ellen Kuhnel, County Attorney; Tori Williams, Planner II) This agenda item was postponed. IN RE: FIRST READING OF ORDINANCES 1.Ordinance to accept the conveyance of three (3) parcels of unimproved real estate for Lila Drive, Hollins Magisterial District (David Holladay, Planning Administrator) October 11, 2016 432 Mr. Holladay outlined the request for the ordinance. There was no discussion. Supervisor Bedrosian’s motion to approve first reading and set the second reading and public hearing for October 25, 2016, was seconded by Supervisor Peters and approved by the following vote: AYES: Supervisor Assaid, Bedrosian, Hooker, McNamara, Peters NAYS: None IN RE: SECOND READING OF ORDINANCES 1. Ordinance of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Roanoke, Virginia authorizing Roanoke County support of financing by the Western Virginia Regional Industrial Facility Authority (Thomas Gates, County Administrator; Rebecca Owens, Director of Finance) Mr. Gates outlined the ordinance and advised there were no changes from the first reading. He further added that both Roanoke City and Salem City have approved. No changes from first reading. Both City and Salem have approved. Supervisor Bedrosian stated they are taking property off the market and he thinks it belongs in the free-market system. ORDINANCE 101116-2 OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF ROANOKE, VIRGINIA AUTHORIZING ROANOKE COUNTY SUPPORT OF FINANCING BY THE WESTERN VIRGINIA REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL FACILITY AUTHORITY WHEREAS(the , the Western Virginia Regional Industrial Facility Authority “Authority”) is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia duly created pursuant to the Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act, Chapter 64 of Title 15.2 of the (the “Act”) Code of Virginia of 1950, as amended ; and WHEREAS , the Act authorizes the Authority to borrow money to pay the costs of real estate and facilities for manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, office or other commercial purposes in order to promote economic development in the geographical area served by the Authority, to accept funds from counties, cities and towns and use the same for Authority purposes, to make loans and to enter into contracts of any kind to accomplish the purposes of the Authority; and WHEREAS , in order to further the purposes of the Act, the Authority proposes to undertake the financing of land acquisition and related improvements and facilities, (collectively, the “Project”) including necessary expenses incidental thereto , and to October 11, 2016 433 obtain the funds therefor by the issuance of the Authority Revenue Bond (as hereinafter defined); and WHEREAS(the "County") , the County of Roanoke, Virginia , the City of (together with the County, Roanoke, Virginia and the City of Salem, Virginia collectively the "Participants" and each individually, including the County, a "Participant") agree with the need for the Project and that the Project will facilitate the development of real estate and facilities as described above and promote commerce and the prosperity of the citizens in the geographical area served by the Authority; and WHEREAS , to finance the Project, the Authority has determined to issue pursuant to the terms of a Bond Purchase and Loan Agreement dated as of October 11, (the "Bond Purchase and Loan Agreement") 2016 between the Authority and Union (the “Bank”) Bank & Trust , its Revenue Bond, Series 2016 in the maximum principal (the “Authority Revenue Bond”) amount of $10,000,000 and to use the proceeds thereof to finance costs incurred in connection with the Project and to pay certain costs of issuance of the Authority Revenue Bond; and WHEREAS, such Authority Revenue Bond will be secured by a pledge of the revenues and receipts received by the Authority from payments made by the County pursuant to the Support Agreement and the Lease Agreement (each as defined below) and payments made by the other Participants pursuant to separate agreements between the Authority and the other Participants as further described herein, such payments from the County to constitute a percentage of amounts due under the terms (the of the Authority Revenue Bond and the Bond Purchase and Loan Agreement "Roanoke County Portion of Support") ; and WHEREAS, payments from other Participants in support of payments due in connection with financing of the Project will be due in the percentages set forth in the Bond Purchase and Loan Agreement from the City of Roanoke and the City of Salem, and the obligation of the Authority to pay principal and interest on the Authority Revenue Bond will be limited to payments received from the Participants in accordance with the terms of the Bond Purchase and Loan Agreement; and WHEREAS, all such payments from the Participants (including the Roanoke County Portion of Support) have been assigned from the Authority to the Bank for the payment of debt service on the Authority Revenue Bond pursuant to an Assignment (the Agreement between the Authority and the Bank, dated as of October 11, 2016 “Assignment Agreement”) ; and WHEREAS , the Authority will lease the Leased Property (as defined below) from the County for an approximately 25 year term under the Ground Lease (as defined below) and in turn, lease the Leased Property to the County for approximately 21 years under the Lease Agreement (as defined below), and the Roanoke County Portion of Support will be secured by an assignment of the Authority's rights under such lease agreements to the Bank (except the right to receive indemnification, to receive notices and to give consents and to receive its administrative expenses) under the Assignment Agreement, which is to be acknowledged and consented to by the County; October 11, 2016 434 WHEREAS , there have been presented to this meeting drafts of the following (collectively, the “Documents”) documents in connection with the transactions described above, copies of which shall be filed with the records of the Board of Supervisors: a. a Ground Lease, dated as of October 11, 2016, between the County and the (the “Ground Lease”) Authority conveying to the Authority a leasehold interest (the “Leased Property”) in the selected property, as described therein ; b. a Lease Agreement, dated as of October 11, 2016, between the Authority and (the “Lease Agreement”) the County conveying to the County a leasehold interest in such Leased Property; c. a Support Agreement between the Authority and the County, dated as of (the "Support Agreement") October 11, 2016 setting forth the County's moral obligation toward payment of rent payments under the Lease Agreement in amounts equal to the Roanoke County Portion of Support; d. the Bond Purchase and Loan Agreement; e. the Assignment Agreement, assigning to the Bank certain of the Authority’s rights under the Support Agreement, the Lease Agreement and the Ground (the Lease, which is to be acknowledged and consented to by the County “Assignment Agreement”) ; f. a Specimen Authority Revenue Bond. The first reading of this ordinance was held on September 27, 2016 and the second reading of this ordinance was held on October 11, 2016. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Roanoke, Virginia: 1. The following plan for financing is approved. The Authority shall use the proceeds from the issuance of the Authority Revenue Bond to finance the Project. The Authority shall lease the Leased Property from the County for a lease term of approximately 25 years and lease the Leased Property to the County for a lease term not less than the term of the Authority Revenue Bond at a rent sufficient to pay when due the Roanoke County Portion of Support. The obligation of the Authority to pay principal and interest on the Authority Revenue Bond will be limited to payments received from the Participants in accordance with the terms of the Bond Purchase and Loan Agreement. The obligation of the County to pay the Roanoke County Portion of Support will be subject to the Board of Supervisors of the County making annual appropriations for such purpose. The amount of the Roanoke County Portion of Support designated for support of the principal amount of the Authority Revenue Bond shall not exceed $5,000,000. The Board of Supervisors on behalf of the County will set forth in the Support Agreement its moral obligation toward the payment of the Roanoke County Portion of Support. If the Board of Supervisors exercises its right not to appropriate money for rent payments due under the Lease Agreement in the amount of the Roanoke October 11, 2016 435 County Portion of Support, the bondholder may terminate the Lease Agreement or otherwise exclude the County from possession of the Leased Property. The issuance of the Authority Revenue Bond on the terms set forth in the Bond Purchase and Loan Agreement is hereby approved. 2. The Board of Supervisors hereby approves, acknowledges and consents to, as appropriate, the Documents in substantially the forms submitted to this meeting with such completions, omissions, modifications, insertions and changes as may be approved by the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Board of Supervisors or the County Administrator, whose execution of the Documents to be signed by the County shall be conclusive evidence of such approval, acknowledgement and consent. The final terms and interest rate of the Authority Revenue Bond in a maximum principal amount of $10,000,000 will be approved as authorized by the Authority. 3. Any authorization herein to execute a document shall include authorization to deliver it to the other parties thereto and to record such document where appropriate. 4. The Board of Supervisors finds and determines that the Project is in furtherance of lawful purpose and objectives and will be in the public interest, will benefit the citizens of the County, will increase commerce and will promote the safety, health, welfare, convenience and prosperity of the County and its citizens. 5. The Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, or either of them, and the County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors are each hereby authorized and directed to execute the Documents to be signed by the County as described above and such other instruments, agreements and documents as are necessary to the proper execution and delivery of the Support Agreement, to lease the Leased Property and to create and perfect a complete assignment of the rents and revenues due or to become due in favor of the Bank in accordance with the Support Agreement and the Lease Agreement. The officers, employees and representatives of the County are authorized and directed to work with representatives of the Authority, the Bank, the Authority's financial advisor, the Authority's bond counsel and representatives of the other Participants to take such actions, authorize such services and prepare all documentation (including but not limited to fulfilling Bank title search and other requirements related to the Leased Property) necessary to issue the Authority Revenue Bond in accordance with the Documents and to otherwise carry out the intent of this Ordinance. 6. All other acts of the officers, employees, agents and representatives of the County that are in conformity with the purposes and intent of this Ordinance and in furtherance of the issuance and sale of the Authority Revenue Bond, the leasing of the Leased Property, the execution and delivery of the Documents and the undertaking of the Project are hereby approved, ratified October 11, 2016 436 and confirmed. 7. Nothing in this Ordinance, the Authority Revenue Bond or any documents executed or delivered in relation thereto shall constitute a debt or a pledge of the faith and credit of the County, and the County shall not be obligated to make any payments under or in relation to the Documents except from payments made by or on behalf of the County under the Lease Agreement pursuant to annual appropriation thereof in accordance with applicable law. The Board of Supervisors, while recognizing that it is not empowered to make any binding commitment to make appropriations beyond the current fiscal year, hereby states its intent to make annual appropriations in future fiscal years in amounts sufficient to pay the Roanoke County Portion of Support and hereby recommends that future Boards of Supervisors do likewise during the term of the Authority Revenue Bond. 8. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately. On motion of Supervisor McNamara to adopt the ordinance, seconded by Supervisor Peters and carried by the following recorded vote: AYES: Supervisors Assaid, Hooker, McNamara, Peters NAYS: Supervisor Bedrosian IN RE: CONSENT AGENDA RESOLUTION 101116-3 APPROVING AND CONCURRING IN CERTAIN ITEMS SET FORTH ON THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AGENDA FOR THIS DATE DESIGNATED AS ITEM I- CONSENT AGENDA BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, as follows: That the certain section of the agenda of the Board of Supervisors for October 11, 2016, designated as Item I - Consent Agenda be, and hereby is, approved and concurred in as to each item separately set forth in said section designated Items 1 through 5 inclusive, as follows: 1. Approval of minutes – September 13, 2016 2. Two monetary donations given to the Roanoke County Police Department to be used for the Project Lifesaver Program 3. Confirmation of appointment to the Economic Development Authority (EDA)(appointed by District) 4. Request to approve holiday schedule for calendar years 2017 and 2018 5. Designation of voting delegate to the Virginia Association of Counties (VACo) Conference to be held November 13-15, 2016 October 11, 2016 437 On motion of Supervisor Peters to adopt the resolution, seconded by Supervisor McNamara and carried by the following recorded vote: AYES: Supervisors Assaid, Bedrosian, Hooker, McNamara, Peters NAYS: None A-101116-3.a A-101116-3.b A-101116.3.c A-101116.3.d IN RE: CITIZENS’ COMMENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS There were none. IN RE: REPORTS Supervisor Peters moved to receive and file the following reports. The motion was seconded by Supervisor McNamara carried by the following recorded vote: AYES: Supervisors Assaid, Bedrosian, Hooker, McNamara, Peters NAYS: None 1. Unappropriated, Board Contingency and Capital Reserves Report 2. Outstanding Debt Report 3. Resolution No. 341 (09-16) from the Board of Supervisors of the Western Virginia Water Authority honoring the service of H. Odell "Fuzzy" Minnix for his service as a Director of the Authority IN RE: REPORTS AND INQUIRIES OF BOARD MEMBERS Supervisor Bedrosian stated he would like to talk about something that came up earlier with Mrs. Chandler. To him, it is a sad day when we read about people in the private sector with a private corporation being able to come on someone’s property. We may have a difference of opinion on the whole gas pipeline. He is very open to any energy source, in fact, if there were several people on the mountain that wanted it run through their property because they were going to give you a financial incentive to do that, all the power to you as it is your property. On the flip side, if you don’t want somebody on your property, then you should have every right so that they will not come on your property. They can find a way to go around your property. So, they still may build it, going around your property, but they do not have a right to come October 11, 2016 438 on your property. It is a sad day, when we lose that power and we even have our law enforcement officials that are powerless to do anything and they are here to protect the citizens of Roanoke County. He finds that very scary; that is what they are here for and to protect us. Secondly, this is something that he has had some emails on and people talking about. He is always talking about the issue of United Way giving money to Planned Parenthood. It really bothers him that citizens are being forced to give their taxpayer dollars to Roanoke County. Roanoke County gives it to the United Way and United Way gives it to Planned Parenthood. He does not think that is right; we should say no, we are not going to give United Way money if they are going to continue to give it to a group that a lot of people, probably more than ½ of the people in the Roanoke Valley do not care for because of the issue of abortion. The next thing he hears is that Governor McAuliffe has started pushing through tourism, a new marketing push to bring more of the homosexual travelers to the Commonwealth. He looks at that and says, “What are we doing, why are we segmenting our population into different groups now and promoting one group or another. All of us have our views of life and our faith and no matter what you have, no matter what it is or how you do your things, but government now getting involved in promoting that and the thing that worries him is that we will start doing this and he is curious to see how it is being handled right here in Roanoke with our Virginia Blue Ridge Tourism Center. Are we now going to do the same thing? Our people going to have little decals on the windows of their businesses saying they are homosexual friendly and if they don’t, does that mean they are biased against this or are they discriminating? We are creating friction. Why are we doing this? Let people do business the way they want to do it. If it was a private sector, that is fine, but why are we using government money to give to these different organizations in State tourism and now probably locally so they can do this. Let the private sector do what they want with their own money. He knows that Virginia Blue Ridge Tourism will be asking for money again this year and thinks they have a contract with us, he is not sure. This is wrong. Giving money so they can start promoting a certain group that today wants to be promoted. Supervisor Peters stated as noted on the main page of our website, next Monday is the last day to register to vote. In case anybody was wondering, we do have a Presidential election this year. Secondly, as he discussed with a group earlier today, thanks to our employees. No matter what we decide up here on the Board, it is our employees and our staff that carry it out and again thank you for all you do; not only our County employees, but our school system as well. Everybody faces a tough job ahead of them every day. October 11 , 2016 439 IN RE: ADJOURNMENT Chairman Peters adjourned the meeting at 3:49 p.m. Subs 'tted by: Approved by: Al-- -moi- __.----'-- 7 ----- ►�eborah C. J.: P. Jason Peters Chief Deputy erk to the Board Chairman October 11, 2016 440 PAGE LEFT BLANK INTENTIONALLY