| The
Wise County Board of Supervisors met in an Organizational
meeting on Thursday, January 4, 2001 at 4:00 p.m. in the
Board of Supervisors Meeting Room located in the Wise County
courthouse. The
following were present:
Honorable
Robert R. Adkins-Chairman
Honorable
Virginia Meador - Vice-Chair
Honorable
Douglas Mullins
Honorable
Edgar Mullins
Honorable
Betty Cornett
Honorable
Douglas Stallard
Honorable
Jeffrey Salyers
Honorable
Donnie Dowell- members of said Board and
Shannon
C. Scott-Acting County Administrator
Karen
Mullins - County Attorney
Annette
Underwood-Executive Secretary
PRAYER
Rev.
Ben Murphy, Pastor First Church of God in Wise, led the
Board in prayer.
PLEDGE
ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
IN
RE: TEMPORARY
CHAIRMAN
A
motion was made by Doug Stallard, seconded by Doug Mullins,
to appoint Shannon Scott as temporary chairman.
The motion was unanimously approved.
IN
RE: ELECTION
OF CHAIRPERSON
A
motion was made by Betty Cornett to elect Doug Stallard
as chairman. Jeff
Salyers seconded the motion.
Virginia
Meador nominated Bob Adkins for chairman.
Doug Mullins seconded the nomination.
Donnie
Dowell made a motion that nominations cease.
The
following votes were taken on the main motion to elect Doug
Stallard as chairman:
Aye-
Edgar Mullins Nay-Doug
Mullins
Betty Cornett Virginia
Meador
Bob Adkins
Donnie Dowell
Jeffrey Salyers
Doug Stallard
IN
RE: ELECTION
VICE-CHAIRPERSON
A
motion was made by Bob Adkins to elect Virginia Meador as
Vice-Chairperson.
Doug Mullins seconded the motion.
Jeffrey
Salyers nominated Betty Cornett as Vice-Chairperson.
Doug Stallard seconded the nomination.
Donnie
Dowell made a motion that nominations cease.
The
following votes were taken on the motion to elect Virginia
Meador as Vice-Chairperson:
Aye-Bob
Adkins Nay-Doug Stallard
Abstain- Virginia Meador
Doug Mullins Edgar
Mullins
Donnie
Dowell
Jeffrey Salyers
Betty Cornett
Motion
failed.
A
vote was taken on the nomination to elect Betty Cornett
as Vice-Chairperson.
The motion was unanimously approved.
IN
RE: TERM OF
OFFICE
Chairman
Stallard advised that the term of office for the chairman
and vice-chairman will be for a term of one year.
IN
RE: ROBERT'S
RULES OF ORDER/RULES OF PROCEDURE
A
motion was made by Donnie Dowell, seconded by Virginia Meador,
to adopt the Robert's Rules of
Order and the Rules of procedure as adopted on January
3, 1980. The
motion was unanimously approved.
IN
RE: TIME/DATE
OF BOARD MEETINGS
Donnie
Dowell made a motion to hold the Board of Supervisors Workshop
Meeting the first Thursday of each month at 6:00 p.m. and
the regular Board meeting at 6:00 p.m. on the second Thursday
of each month. The
motion was unanimously approved.
IN
RE: TIE BREAKER
A
motion was made by Donnie Dowell that all tie votes die.
Betty Cornett seconded the motion.
The motion was unanimously approved.
There
being no further business, the Organizational Meeting closed
at 4:10 p.m.
Chairman
Stallard advised that the Board would take a five minute
break before going into the Workshop Meeting.
ATTEST:
WISE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
___________________________ ____________________________
Clerk
Chairman
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The
Wise County Board of Supervisors met in a Workshop Meeting
on Thursday, January 4, 2001, at 4:20 p.m. in the Wise County
courthouse, Wise, VA.
The following were present:
Honorable
Douglas Stallard-Chairman
Honorable
Betty Cornett - Vice-Chair
Honorable
Doug Mullins
Honorable
Virginia Meador
Honorable
Edgar Mullins
Honorable
Robert Adkins
Honorable
Jeffrey Salyers
Honorable
Donnie Dowell- members of said Board and
Shannon
C. Scott -Acting County Administrator
Karen
Mullins-County Attorney
Annette
Underwood-Executive Secretary
IN
RE: APPROVAL
OF AGENDA
It
was the consensus of the Board to add to the agenda the
need to change the meeting date for the regular Board Meeting
in February that would allow Board members to go to Richmond.
IN
RE: ROADS &
HIGHWAYS
The
Coal & Gas Road payments were reviewed.
Board
members presented several requests for action by VDOT.
IN
RE: LANDFILL
USE FEE AMENDMENT
A
public hearing is scheduled at 6:05 p.m. on January 11,
2001, to receive citizens' input on a proposed amendment
to the Landfill Use Fee Ordinance.
IN
RE: RESOLUTION
-ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM
The
Board reviewed the resolution regarding the "Electronic
Classroom".
IN
RE: DIGITAL
E-911 CREATION
Clerk
of the Circuit Court Jack Kennedy reviewed the proposal
as submitted by Anderson & Associates, Inc. for the
Digital E911 Creation for Wise County that will tremendously
impact the efficiency of the E911 System.
The cost of the project shall be $18,263.00 of which
LENOWISCO has agreed to pay $6,000.
Anderson & Associates would bill the County
$1,021.92 each month starting January 2001 and continuing
through December 2001. Mr. Kennedy suggested that these funds be taken from the E911
budget.
After
further discussion, Mr. Kennedy asked the Board to consider
approving this proposal at its next regular meeting.
IN
RE: RESOLUTION
-ESG SCHOOL
MEMORIAL
Don
Carroll ask the Board to consider for adoption the resolution
of endorsement to assist the citizens in the ESG community
in obtaining funds to establish an East Stone Gap School
Memorial. VDOT has donated the land for this project and
hopefully, this project can be funded through a VDOT grant
application.
IN
RE: OTHER ITEMS
DISCUSSED
- PSA
Water Projects (Danny Buchanan will address next week)
- Audit
Review
- Rezoning/Pat
Webb (Set Public Hearing)
- Special
Use Permit/Joseph Kudirka, Jr.
(Set Public Hearing next week)
- Rezoning/Richard
Hodge (Set Public Hearing next week)
- Third
Quarter Appropriations
- Appointments
- Payment
of Accounts
- E-911
Payments
- Blackwood
Landfill Enterprise Payments
- Enterprise
Fund Payments
- Board
Comments
- Closed
Session/Acquisition of Property/County Administrator's
Position/ Purchase of Landfill Equipment
Jeff
Salyers left the meeting at this time.
IN
RE: ELECTRIC
RATE CAP LEGISLATION
A
memo was received from VML stating that effective July 1,
1999, the General Assembly adopted the Electric Utility
Restructuring Act which provides for deregulating electric
generation such that some retail customers may choose their
electric supplier January 1, 2002. All customers will have "Customer Choice" beginning January
1, 2004.
The
General Assembly established rate caps to provide some protection
to customers from large increases in electric rates during
the transition to a competitive market.
Effective January 1, 2001, rates are essentially
capped at current rates until July 1, 2007.
As written, the rate cap appears to only apply to
residential, commercial and industrial customers.
Governmental retail customers are not similarly protected.
It is believed that the General Assembly did not
intend to exclude the governmental customers from the cap
when the legislation was adopted.
Such exclusion was never discussed when the Restructuring
Act was considered and adopted.
AEP, however, strongly disagree with applying the
rate cap provision to governmental customers.
Local
governments' contract with AEP ends June 30, 2002 and it
is highly unlikely that a competitive market will be in
place by that date.
Unless the Restructuring Act is clarified to include
governmental customers under the rate caps, local governments
in AEP's service territory may be forced to pay substantially
higher rates.
VML
asks that the Board write a letter to its delegates and
senators by January 12, 2001 regarding proposed legislation
to clarify the Electric Restructuring Act to ensure that
the rate cap provision applies to all customers including
local governments.
IN
RE: BUILDING
CODE ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
Attorney
Mullins presented an amendment to the Building Code Ordinance
regarding reconnection of any electric service that has
been disconnected fewer than 30 days.
She reviewed the amended language with comments and
suggestions from the Board.
After further discussion, Attorney Mullins noted
that she would make the changes as suggested by Board members
for further review at its next meeting.
IN
RE: ORDINANCE-911
HOUSE NUMBERING
The
Board directed Attorney Mullins to prepare a draft ordinance
on the 911 house numbering for review by the Board.
IN
RE: APPALACHIA
RESCUE SQUAD LEASE AGREEMENT
Attorney
Mullins advised the Board that she had spoken with officials
of First Star Bank to inform them that her interpretation
of the agreement between the financing agency and Wise County
was that Wise County would be responsible to them only for
funds which the County held for the Appalachia Rescue Squad.
Since no more funds would be available until July
1, 2001, no payment could be made until then. A response will be forthcoming to Attorney Mullins.
BREAK
The
Board took a break at 5:50 p.m.
The
Board reconvened its meeting at 6:05 p.m.
IN
RE: PUBLIC
HEARING/CONDITIONAL SEWER PERMIT ORDINANCE
A
public hearing was duly advertised for this date to receive
citizens comments regarding a proposed Conditional Sewer
Permit Ordinance for Wise County.
Chairman
Stallard asked for comments from the floor.
There
being no comments regarding this proposed ordinance, the
public hearing was closed.
IN
RE: PUBLIC
EXPRESSION
Gary
Tucker, a resident of the Big Stone Gap area, came before
the Board with suggestions on paying for the landfill expansion
without having to charge a $30.00 fee for garbage taken
across the scales at the landfill.
He expressed his concern that illegal dumps would
become a problem as well as garbage being buried causing
damage to our water supply.
He asked the Board to consider another route.
There
being no further public comments, the public expression
period ended.
ADJOURN
There
being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 6:15
p.m.
ATTEST:
WISE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
________________________ _______________________________
Clerk Chairman
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