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From YouTube: Board of Commissioners' Regular Meeting (Feb. 16, 2021)
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Regular Meeting of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners' for Feb. 16, 2021.
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She
also
spearheaded
the
protection
of
land
that
now
comprises
the
nature
park.
The
town
of
weaverville
is
a
far
better
place
for
having
had
bet
as
our
leader.
So
I'd
like
to
just
ask
for
a
moment
of
silence
to
remember
the
life
and
service
of
mayor
betts
of
mayor
beth,
stroud,
a
great
member
of
our
community.
Please
join
us
in
a
moment
of
silence.
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Is
there
any
item
on
the
agenda,
the
outcome
of
which
would
have
a
direct,
substantial
and
readily
identifiable
financial
impact
for
any
board?
Member?
Does
any
board
member
have
a
financial
interest
in
any
public
contract
coming
before
the
board?
Today,
there
being
none
all
board.
Members
have
a
duty
and
obligation
to
vote
on
any
matters
voted
by
the
board.
At
this
meeting
we
now
come
to
the
consent
agenda.
Are
there
any
questions
about
any
items
on
the
consent
agenda.
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Holm
plant
noise
because
the
inca
commerce,
campus
property
abuts,
the
anca
hills
neighborhood,
so
this
noise
has
been
increasing
over
the
past
six
years.
So
I
ask
for
your
help.
In
putting
into
the
county
noise
ordinance
language
mandating
commercial
entities,
keep
their
noise
and
sound
pollution
to
a
decibel
standard
below
the
world
health
organization's
guidelines
for
community
noise,
which
says
the
decibel
level
should
be
below
50..
I've
recorded
noise
from
my
front
porch
at
triple
that
level.
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The
noise
produced
by
the
jacob
home
plant
affects
our
community
of
quality
of
life
and
the
values
of
our
property.
In
november
2020,
the
current
plan
manager
sent
a
letter
saying
the
new
noise
mitigation
effort
would
go
into
place
early
december,
but
last
week
she
said
by
email.
She
had
intended
that
it
would
go
into
place
early
february,
meaning
this
month,
but
the
weather
prevented
her
well
recently,
the
noise
is
lessened
somewhat.
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It
is
still
noticeable,
as
is
the
beeping
alarm
sound
that
runs
without
abatement.
Some
days
the
last
manager
said
that
warning
alarm
was
that
beeping
was
a
warning
alarm
that
staffers
couldn't
hear
inside
the
building
and
never
thought
to
do
anything
about
it.
Well,
I've
complained
to
you,
commissioners
and
asked
for
action
on
this
issue
in
the
f
past
several
years
with
you
and
the
plant
managers
nothing's
been
done
yet,
citing
the
county
noise
ordinance
exception
for
commercial
entities
and
though
the
current
plant
manager
says
she's
mitigating
the
noise.
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So
again,
I
ask
that
the
bunker
count
but
buncombe
county
noise
ordinance
exception
number
four,
excluding
the
commercial
and
industrial
enterprises
on
this
noise
code
be
changed
and
when
changed
that
the
noise
rules
be
enforced.
So
I'm
available
for
consultation
on
this
at
any
time
to
help
put
this
change
in
place.
Please
let
me
know
how
to
get
this
agenda
on
your
agenda
to
address.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you
very
much
for
taking
time
to
address
the
board.
We
appreciate
hearing
from
you
all
right.
We
don't
typically
respond
to
public
comments.
This
is
just
for
our
time
to
listen.
Let
the
public
speak.
So
we
appreciate
you
taking
time
to
share
your
perspective
on
that
issue
with
us
tonight
all
right.
Next
up
we
have
a
couple
of
presentations,
one
from
our
different
community
boards
and
public
sector
partners.
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B
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As
you
know,
most
water
and
wastewater
utilities
are
are
done
with
municipalities.
This
is
a
special
districts
or
a
different
animal
than
most
between
1962
and
1989
msd
built
100
miles
of
large
interceptors.
This
is
the
trunk
lines,
the
big
lines
and
put
in
a
treatment
plant
for
25
million
gallons
a
day.
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G
This
is
the
picture
of
our
treatment
plant.
That's
located
in
woodfin
along
the
french
broad
river.
This
is
again
a
40
million
gallon
a
day
rated
at
40
million
gallon
a
day.
It
averages
about
20
million
gallon
a
day,
so
there's
capacity
there,
but
there's
old
processes
that
we're
upgrading
as
we
go
along
here,
we're
a
very
unique
utility.
In
that
we
have
a
hydroelectric
facility.
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You
can
see
the
plant.
There
is
the
white
whitish
area
and
then
you'll
see
a
dam
and
the
flume
and
the
red
arrow
points
to
our
hydroelectric
facility,
which
generates
2,
80
kilowatts,
and
this
doesn't
have
enough
power
to
provide
for
the
whole
plant,
but
it
does
reduce
the
amount
of
power
costs
we
need
and
the
power
that
we
need
into
the
tune
of
about
400
to
500
000
worth
of
electricity
each
year.
G
Just
to
give
you
a
slice
of
our
finances,
everybody
wants
to
know
where
the
money
goes.
This
is
the
expenditure
side
of
things.
I
think
things
to
note
are
the
big
maroon
construction
project
and
the
orange
the
debt
service.
That's
all
construction
related
and
then
the
ground
there
is
operation
and
maintenance,
which
is
a
little
less
than
third.
G
Most
utilities
have
have
the
flip
of
that
they
typically
have
about
half
to
two-thirds,
is
their
operational
cost
and
they'll
spend
about
a
third
on
capital,
we're
very
aggressive
on
capital
expenditures?
Why?
Because
these
all
these
lines
that
we've
taken
over
are
old
and
we're
in
the
midst
of
a
growth
spurt,
so
we're
providing
for
the
future
as
well.
So
that's
why
we're
spending
so
much
on
capital.
G
Let
me
go
back
here
now:
okay,
one
of
the
slides
fell
out
there.
What
I'd
like
to
say
on
the
revenue
slide
that
must
have
dropped
out
the
that
six
60
percent
of
revenue
is
residential,
commercial
and
about
5.
Is
industrial
only
5,
but
we
have
about
30
percent
bond
money,
and
why
do
we
do
that?
Well,
because
of
that
construction?
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We
don't
want
to
put
the
burden
for
all
when
we
upsize
these
lines.
We
replace
lines
we
upsize
them
for
the
future.
We
don't
want
to
put
the
burden
on
all
the
existing
customers
for
the
future
customers,
so
we
use
a
healthy
dose
of
bond
money
to
spread
out
that
burden
to
go
go
throughout
time.
So
I
want
to
make
that
that
point
wasn't
slide
there.
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Okay,
some
projects
here
that
we
have
going
plant
head
works
project
that
we
just
finished
is
that
10
million
dollar
project
involved,
doing
some
fine
screenings
and
and
employment
bar
screens
and
vortex
grit
units
and
some
equalization
pump
storage,
all
that
at
the
headworks
of
the
plant
that
has
been
completed,
and
this
just
shows
the
effectiveness
of
it.
It
basically
doubled
the
removal
of
our
solids
at
the
front
end
of
the
plant,
which
really
helps
the
rest
of
the
treatment
process.
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The
reason
we
have
to
use
that
because
we
have
very
little
space
with
which
to
work
at
our
plant
site,
because
we
have
french,
broad
river
on
one
side
and
we've
got
a
cliff
on
the
other,
a
rock
out
cliff
on
the
other,
and
we
have
to
replace
these
process
replace
existing
processes
with
these
new
processes
and,
as
you
can
see
here,
basically
is
like
surgery.
We
have
to
take
out
a
previous
process
put
this
process
in
meanwhile
keeping
the
plant
running
the
entire
time,
so
it
gets
to
be
a
bit
of
an
ordeal.
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G
Our
next
big
project
coming
up
is
our
carrier
bridge
pump
station.
This
serves
all
the
areas
south
asheville
western
buncombe
county
and
northern
henderson
county.
This
was
a
station,
was
originally
constructed
in
the
60s,
we're
going
to
upgrade
it
for
the
50-year
horizon,
and
it's
about
a
30
million
dollar
project
and
we're
in
the
midst
of
design.
G
This
gives
a
little
closer
view
of
exactly
where
we
are
there's
amboy
ridge
going
a
bridge
going
across
there.
Our
existing
pump
station
site
is
is
over
there
to
the
left,
and
the
new
proposed
site
is
right.
Next
to
it,
that's
the
french
broad
river.
There
new
station
will
be
probably
about
70
to
75
feet
deep
and
this
because
we
have
to
catch
all
the
interceptor
lines
and
this
pumps,
everything
from
the
south
and
it's
going
to
have
to
pump
it
across
the
river.
A
All
right,
thank
you,
so
much
tom.
We
appreciate
you
taking
time
to
come.
Give
us
some
updates
we're
trying
to
check
in
with
our
boards
and
public
partners.
More
often-
and
this
is
this
is
great
to
hear-
I
know
some
of
our
board
members
are
get
the
detailed
information
all
the
time
since
they
serve
on
the
board.
B
I
would
like
to
comment
and
say
that
you
know
my
time
on
the
board
and
I
have
to
commend
tom
and
his
staff
with
msd
with
a
good
job.
They
do
I'm
sure
robert
agrees
with
them
nate
because
they
run
a
good
ship
down
there
and
I've
been
impressed
and
enjoying
being
on
the
board
working
with
all
of
you
tom.
It's
been
a
good
experience.
A
I
The
year
started
really
great.
We
started
off
with
the
gala
gymnastics
in
january
and
the
gala
gymnastics
event
is
in
its
ninth
year
of
existence
and
it
started
with
72
gymnasts
at
unc
asheville,
and
you
can
see
it
is
evolved
to
1443.
That
was
a
a
record
number
of
gymnasts.
We
have
two
floors
in
the
harris,
cherokee
center
asheville
and
then
also
it's
a
four-day
event
on
the
second
week
in
january.
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I
We
were
very
fortunate
with
our
partnership
with
buncombe
county
schools
to
have
over
five
thousand
school
children
attend
the
thursday
and
friday
11
a.m.
Games
we
had
over
700
children.
We
were
a
little
bit
chilly
this
past
year,
so
we
were
had
a
little
bit
drop,
but
we
had
over
700
children
attend
the
downtown
dribble.
I
Where
we
give
out
a
basketball
t-shirt,
we
have
entertainment
and
then
they
are
able
to
attend
the
saturday
game
of
the
tournament.
So
that's
a
very
exciting
time.
We
also
involve
a
lot
of
our
school
groups
to
come
in
and
do
national
anthems
and
also
provide
our
color
guards.
So
those
are
you
know
we
tried
to
make
that
not
only
a
college
basketball
tournament
but
an
entire
community
event.
I
I
I
You
know
we
have
a
great
lacrosse
community
here
soccer
community
here,
our
spartan
race,
you
know
continue,
you
know,
cycling
events
and
you
know
the
list
is
on
there.
Our
grapple
wrestling
tournament
and
again
the
gala
gymnastics
event
this
january.
So
we
saw
a
drastic
loss
of
events
this
year
because
of
coveted
19..
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The
bottom
line
was
we
had
a
plan
and
no
no
other
community
had
a
plan.
No
everyone
said
come
to
our
city
come
to
our
community,
but
we
had
a
plan
that
was
developed
through
buncombe,
county
health
and
human
services
and
the
great
staff
and
and
tim's
help,
and
then
also
with
the
north
carolina
department
of
health
and
human
services.
I
I
Three
of
the
games
had
over
500
000
viewers
and
one
the
championship
game
had
454
000
viewers.
At
the
time
we
had
two
top
20
ap
teams
in
unc
and
texas.
I
think
texas
has
risen
up
a
little
higher
right
now,
and
some
of
the
other
teams
have
done
a
little
bit
better.
So
it's
been
a
great.
It
was
a
great
event.
I
I
Was
a
camping
world
came
in
at
the
last
minute
as
a
sponsor
and
camping
world
donated
for
every
three-pointer
money
to
the
different
communities
to
assist
with
hunger
initiatives
so
like
in
our
community,
we've
been
someone
like
eblin
and
but
they
went
into
each
one
of
the
communities
in
this
event,
because
of
the
number
of
three-pointers
that
were
that
were
made
was
over
489
thousand
dollars.
So
that
was
a
great
opportunity
that
we
didn't
even
know
about.
I
It
was
a
whole
new
world.
You
can
see
that
you
know
we
knew
that
we
could
not
control,
but
we
tried
to
mitigate
the
risk.
You
can
see
some
of
the
things
that
we
did,
although
the
players
were
tested
with
pcr
testing
and
you
can
see
the
social
distancing
in
the
meeting
rooms
and
all
the
different
you
know
this
is
this
is
what
thanksgiving
dinner
looked
like
for
the
ones
of
us
who
were
in
the
bubble
so
special
thanks
to
ingles.
It
was
actually
very
delicious.
I
I
There
were
600
room
nights
generated
for
the
support
staff
for
a
total
of
1507
hotel
room
nights,
leading
from
right
from
the
tuesday
before
thanksgiving
up
through
the
monday.
After
thanksgiving
the
average
daily
rate
of
the
hotels
was
185
dollars,
and
so
you
can
see
that
also
they
spent
over
237
thousand
dollars
on
food
and
beverage,
and
the
average
team
spent
almost
thirty
thousand
dollars
on
food
and
beverage.
I
I
think
the
other
impact
that
that
I,
that
was
the
most
emotional
part
for
me
was
I
was
thanking
one
of
our
workers
at
the
harris
cherokee
center
asheville
and
she
said
no
thank
you.
She
said
because
of
this
event,
I'm
working
right
now
and
I
was
furloughed
and
I
was
abe.
I
am
now
able,
with
the
amount
of
work
I've
had
to
pay
for
my
christmas
for
my
child,
and
that
was
a
very
humbling
moment
for
me.
I
Usually,
when
we
report
to
you,
we
report
to
you
our
economic
impact,
we
now
call
that
our
event
value
calculation,
so
our
sports
event
value
calculation,
which
we
added
our
grapple
in
from
the
year
before,
but
it
was
10.6
million
dollars.
How
does
that
compare
when
I
would
have?
If
I
had
given
a
report?
Last
year,
the
economic
or
the
event
impact
would
have
been
over
23
million
dollars.
I
I
I
Of
course,
the
mass
gatherings
limitations
that
we
all
face,
the
question
of
whether
you
test
or
not,
and
then
the
cost
of
testing
I
do
want
to
go
back
to
the
maui
invitational
and
make
sure
that
everyone
does
know
that
all
of
our
testing
was
sourced
with
the
north
carolina
company
mayco,
but
none
of
the
testing
itself
negatively
impacted
any
residents
of
buncombe
county.
We
wanted
to
make
sure
that
there
was
nothing
that
impacted
negatively
impacted
our
community.
I
I
We
feel
that
the
the
future
is
bright
and
turning
around,
as
you
know,
we
will
host
in
two
weeks
the
southern
conference
basketball
tournament.
We
look
forward
to
returning
the
grapple
wrestling
tournament
and
we
feel
like
that.
That
is
a
niche
market
for
us
with
wrestling
in
western
north
carolina
tennis,
we've
been
in
discussions
continue
to
be
in
discussions
with
u.s
tennis
association,
hopefully
to
bring
a
another
fed
cup,
which
is
now
called
the
billie,
jean
king
cup,
or
a
davis
cup
to
asheville
or
another
event.
I
I
Also.
It
was
announced
yesterday
that
the
asheville
bunker
regional
sports
commission
by
the
sport
was
chosen.
The
2001
all-star
destination
partner
of
the
year
by
sports
events,
travel
magazine
and
then
also
that
the
2020
camping
world
maui
invitational
was
the
best
live
or
virtual
sports
event
for
2020,
and
we
could
not
have
done
either
one
of
those
without
all
of
the
staff
of
buncombe
county
and
everyone
who
has
worked
with
us.
So
we
and
your
support
financially
and
just
your
support
in
general.
I
A
J
Thank
you
so
much
y'all,
I'm
telling
you
this
is
the
best
and
most
fun
board
to
serve
on,
especially
as
a
sports
freak
demp.
Congratulations
to
you
and
madison
and
andrew
on
these
awards.
It
is
so
exciting.
I
have
to
tell
y'all
I
squealed
like
a
little
girl
last
night,
when
I
saw
that
you
all
had
one.
It
is
made
me
very
proud
to
be
a
part
of
the
organization
and
much
credit
to
your
leadership
and
the
team
that
you
have
around
you.
A
All
right,
thank
you,
so
much
temp,
it's
great
to
hear
all
the
great
work
and
keep
it
up
and
we're
looking
forward
to
getting
beyond
these
issues
too
that
have
that
have
affected
all
of
us,
including
your
important
work,
all
right.
Commissioners.
Well,
miss
pender.
Do
you
have
any
items
under
the
county,
manager's
report.
K
K
K
On
thursday
february
the
5th
the
task
force
met
to
finalize
the
report
and
to
create
a
list
of
any
african-americans
who
could
be
honored
on
the
new
site
if
the
monument
was
removed.
That
report
would
be
routed
to
the
commissioners,
but
enough
this
month
and
at
this
point
the
task
force
has
completed
its
initial
charge.
K
Since
the
vote
on
december
7th,
we
have
worked
with
city
staff
on
gathering
more
information
on
developing
an
implementation
plan.
This
work
has,
in
this
work,
has
included
developing
a
bid
request
to
solicit
proposals
for
the
removal
and
the
destruction
of
the
vance
monument.
The
bid
was
released
on
january
8
and
it
closed
on
january
28th.
K
K
K
The
second
item
I
want
to
bring
you
up
to
speed
on
is
the
community
reparations
and
where
we
are
with
that
county
staff
has
worked
to
develop
a
draft
racial
equity
plan
that
ties
to
the
direction
that
was
given
in
the
resolution
that
was
adopted
last
august,
her
equity
inclusion
team,
the
team
leaves
presented
to
you
an
update
on
last
december.
The
7th
and
we've
been
have
several
planning
and
brainstorming
meetings
with
the
city
of
asheville
staff.
K
We
hope
to
bring
a
recommendation
back
to
the
board
either
in
the
last
meeting
of
march
or
the
early
first
meeting
in
april,
and
and
that
would
give
you
a
plan
of
how
we
can
progress
with
implementation
and
the
structure
of
the
committee
and
any
potential
charge
or
con
are
consistent
with
the
resolution
that
you
give
us
so
we're
looking
to
bring
that
back
either
the
end
of
march
or
first
part
of
april.
On
that
any
questions.
A
A
L
M
The
first
revision
you
see
is
to
align
this
policy
with
other
policies
in
the
procurement
manual.
So
currently,
the
gift
card
policy
language
indicates
that
procurement
cards
buncombe
county
credit
cards
cannot
be
used
to
purchase
gift
cards
in
practice
and
according
to
the
procurement
card
policy,
we
can
actually
purchase
gift
cards
with
credit
cards
under
the
strict
control
of
the
finance
department.
Right
now
there
are
currently
one
employee
and
one
credit
card
that
have
been
authorized
to
purchase
credit
cards
for
county
use.
M
So
on
the
slide
that
ron
showed
one
of
the
original
goals
of
this
policy
is
to
limit
the
use
of
gift
cards
to
things
that
are
reasonably
benefiting.
The
public
we've
mainly
focused
that
use
and
provision
of
human
services
and
in
2018,
when
this
policy
was
adopted,
it
made
sense
that
most
human
services
operated
under
the
umbrella
of
the
health
and
human
services
department,
so
the
red
language
that
you
see
struck
through
explicitly
calls
out
health
and
human
services
in
the
current
version
of
the
policy.
M
Since
that
time,
however,
there
has
been
some
restructuring
so
that
human
services
fall
sometimes
outside
of
the
hhs
department,
an
example.
There
is
our
justice
services
group,
which
includes
family
justice,
center
jail,
diversion
and
several
other
programs,
and
so
the
green
replacement
language
that
you
see
there
is
basically
to
make
sure
that
the
policy
can
meet
its
intent,
regardless
of
where
those
programs
are
actually
sitting
in
the
organizational
structure
of
the
county.
So
we
think
these
are
two
very
simple
changes.
As
ron
mentioned,
you
all
approve
this
policy
in
2018.
M
A
I
mean
the
change
the
changes
sound
reasonable
to
me
is
there
you
know.
Obviously
this
was
an
issue
that
got
a
lot
of
attention
a
few
years
ago
right
and
so
the
commission
wanted
to
come
in
and
help
do
everything
we
could
to
tighten
this
up
and
make
sure
there
was
no
potential
for
misuse
of
gift
cards
that
do
have
a
legitimate.
You
know
and
an
efficient
role
to
play
in
helping
with
different
public
services
is
just
going
forward
right.
A
It
will
approve,
I
think,
we'll
probably
prove
this
tonight,
but
you
know
in
the
future.
This
won't
be
on
people's
radar
screens
and
the
way
it
has
been
in
the
past.
So
is
there
a
mechanism
whereby
we
can
kind
of
continue
to
assure
that
that
this
is
transparent
and
people
can
kind
of
see
this
so
that
some
of
the
issues
that
we
had
in
the
past,
you
know
don't
that,
there's
that
there's
not
the
potential
for
them
to
arise
again
as
this
kind
of
fades
from
public
attention
like
how?
A
M
A
M
A
broader
policy
perspective,
I
also
sit
on
the
policy
review
committee
for
the
county
and
we
are
making
a
major
effort
to
be
more
transparent
in
our
systems
and
controls.
We're
going
through
a
mass
rewrite
of
many
policies
and
we're
working
on
rebuilding
our
public-facing
website
to
make
these
accessible
directly
by
the
public.
So
that'll
be
a
piece
of
that.
A
So
just
for,
for
example,
is
there
a
way
that
we
could
make
who
that
designated
designated
person
is
transparent?
I
don't
know
where's
the
appropriate
place
to
sort
of
regularly
disclose
that
maybe
it's
in
a
budget
document
or
some
other
type
of
regular
report,
but
just
so
people
know
like
this.
Is
the
person
who
sort
of
trusted
to
be
overseeing
this
and
to
make
sure
all
use
of
the
procured
cards
are
going
to
fully
legitimate
accounting
purposes?.
M
So
we
do
have
a
very
strict
tracking
process
for
the
p-cards.
Now
I
think
I
would
have
to
defer
to
some
others
on
how
appropriate
is
to
put
that
name
out
there.
For
that
purpose.
I
think
we
would
want
to
be
very
careful
about
how
we're
publishing
it,
but
it
is
something
that
we
control
and
do
track
internally
and
have
that
information
that
can
be
made
available.
A
L
K
That
person,
so
whoever
sits
in
that
role,
would
be
that
one
person,
so
we
have
not
designated
it
and
you
can
come
on
up
don,
is
standing
up
like
we've
designated
and
that
person
happens
to
be
mr
ron
who's,
the
procurement
officer.
He
does
he
oversees
all
purchasing
for
the
county.
So
if
there's
any
expense
going
out
for
a
gift
card,
it
has
to
go
through
ron,
so
he's
that
designated
person.
So
anyone
sitting
in
that
role,
if
ron
were
to
leave
us
that
would
that
person
would
be
the
one
responsible
at
this
time.
K
N
N
We
would
not
want
to
provide
any
information
on
who
the
gift
cards
are
going
to,
because
those
are
sensitive
areas.
You
know
that,
but
it's
definitely
something
we
could
do.
I
don't
know
how
often
you
would
want
that
information,
so
we
can
definitely
look
into
that
and
and
come
back
to
you
and
find
out,
what's
appropriate.
A
I
would
like
to
ask
for
that.
You
know
I
mean
again.
I
think
this
is
fully
legitimate.
I
think
this
is
a
good
plan,
but
I
mean
I
think,
as
we
learned
like
this
is
of
its
nature.
It
is
something
that
is
susceptible
to
misuse
right,
because
we're
talking
about
these,
these
gift
cards
have
a
almost
a
dollar
for
dollar,
face
value.
Well,.
N
B
N
A
Don
do
you
envision
that
it
would
be
it
would
most
likely
be.
The
procurement
officer
would
be
the
position
I
mean,
so
I
guess
I
guess
one
question
would
be:
why
not
simply,
rather
than
say
it's
a
person
to
be
designated
by
the
chief
financial
officer.
Why
not?
Why
do
we
not
just
sort
of
designate
that,
as
it
is
the
procurement
officer
that
way
going
forward,
you
know
everyone
is
very
clear
about.
This.
A
N
And
we
had
discussion
about
that.
What
this
does
it
gives
us
the
ability,
if
we
ever
want
to
expand
it
to
where
I
need
somebody
in
hhs
to
be
that
designated
person,
because
they're
having
so
many
gift
card
requests
that
ron
can't
keep
up
with
it,
because
he
does
have
many
other
things
that
he
needs
to
do.
A
N
A
A
All
right
we've
got
a
motion
and
a
second
to
prove
this.
With
the
understanding
the
staff
are
going
to
kind
of
work
on
a
protocol
for
disclosure
of
the
administration.
I've
been
going
on
going
forward
phases
and
come
back
to
us
with
some
more
details
on
how
that'll
that'll
work
all
in
favor,
please
say:
aye
aye
any
opposed
all
right.
Thank
you,
gentlemen,
appreciate
it
appreciate
it
all
right.
Next
up
is
a
discussion
of
a
budget
amendment
for
safety
and
justice
challenge,
grant
renewal
and
jennifer
barnett.
Our
budget
director
will
explain
this
item.
O
E
Great
good
afternoon,
commissioners,
I'm
here
with
some
exciting
news,
so
I
have
with
myself
hannah
ledgerson
and
we're
gonna.
Give
you
guys
an
update.
You
might
have
seen
some
media
last
week
that
our
department
was
awarded
another
1.75
million
dollars,
and
this
is
also
a
perfect
time
to
give
update
about
the
work
we've
been
doing
over
the
past
two
and
a
half
years.
So
real
quickly.
E
It
took
a
while
to
really
understand
the
scope
and
breadth
of
what
we
were
trying
to
undertake.
So
we
went
through
some
infrastructure
development.
We
had
to
plan
hire
staff
and
were
able
to
effectively
implement
september
2019
most
of
our
strategies,
and
now
we
were
invited
to
apply
again.
Not
all
counties
were
our
jurisdictions
were
invited
to
reapply.
We
were
provided
with
that.
E
Currently
we
have
several
positions
that
scope
out
some
of
the
work
in
the
safety
and
justice
challenge.
We
have
several
county
funded
positions,
including
our
pre-trial
screeners,
who
do
risk
assessments
in
the
jail.
We
have
a
grant
manager,
that's
responsible
for
managing
the
breadth
of
the
grant,
as
well
as
a
management
analyst.
E
Who
does
the
data
one
thing
about
the
foundation
they
want
to
measure
how
well
we're
doing,
and
so
requiring
data
and
being
able
to
mine
data
from
the
courts
from
the
police
department
from
the
county
does
take
a
full-time
position
and
then
about
some
of
our
work.
We
want
to
improve
efficiencies.
We
have
a
public
defender.
E
E
A
lot
of
that
led
to,
unfortunately
covet
happened,
but
we
were
able
to
implement
a
lot
of
the
structures
that
we
were
talking
about
and
we
were
able
to
reduce
the
jail
population.
I
think
we,
the
lowest
it
was,
was
42
percent.
During
june
and
july
we
did
notice
our
disparities
increase
and
that's
really
about
the
disproportionality
of
the
makeup
of
the
jail.
E
E
I
think
that
was
a
big
thing
to
understand
like
what
is
our
impact
of
public
safety
and
also
a
recidivism
we
looked
at,
and
this
is
an
internal
analysis
looking
at
crime
reports
from
publicly
reported
data,
but
looking
at
also
recidivism
rates
and
14
percent
of
those
released
on
their
own
recognizes
did
not
return
in
two
months
compared
to
the
17
during
the
time
of
covet
some
other
outcomes
that
are
more
narrative
and
qualitative
in
nature.
We
implemented
a
racial
equity
tool
or
developed
it
and
we're
moving
towards
implementation
of
that.
E
The
j-rack's
work
in
our
racial
equity
work
groups
work
on
racial
equity
led
to
the
declaration
of
racism
as
a
public
safety
crisis
that
became
before
you
supporting
hhs
as
well.
When
the
county
declared
racism,
a
public
health
and
a
public
safety
crisis,
we've
been
doing
a
lot
of
education
and
training
and
racial
equity
with
our
justice
partners,
we've
hosted
several
community
engagement
events
going
out
during
the
time
of
pre-covet
really
being
intentional
in
our
outreach,
surveying
focus
groups,
listen
sessions
and
we
hosted
a
virtual
town
hall
that
had
over
4
200
views
and
then.
P
P
The
jrec
then
held
work
sessions
to
discuss
which
strategies
they
were
committed
to
supporting
and
advancing
moving
forward
and
the
community
engagement
work
group
gathered
additional
community
input
through
phone
calls
and
an
online
survey.
Finally,
county
staff
can
conferred
with
vera
our
technical
assistance
providers
and
the
macarthur
foundation
to
confirm
the
alignment
of
the
strategies
that
were
really
rising
to
the
top
priorities.
Further
for
our
partners,
as
well
as
in
alignment
with
the
sjc
goals.
P
One
new
position
that
you'll
see
included
in
this
budget
is
hiring
bringing
on
a
racial
equity
consultant
to
help
to
guide
the
racial
equity
implementation,
both
from
the
racial
equity
work
group's
action
plan.
The
priorities
that
were
named
by
the
j-rack
and
elevated
to
the
commissioner's
declaration
on
racism
as
the
public
health
crisis
as
well.
P
To
move
this
work
forward,
13
positions
are
included
in
the
renewal
budget,
10
that
are
county
positions
and
three
that
are
contracted
along
with
designated
funding
for
the
community
engagement,
racial
equity
work
groups,
as
well
as
the
community
safety
initiative,
and
you
see
the
positions
detailed
there.
The
pre-trial
screener
positions
are
funded
through
the
grant
for
the
coming
year
through
january
of
2022,
with
the
intention
of
developing
sustainability
plans
and
and
moving
some
of
that
work
up
to
the
magistrate
level,
and
I
will
pass
it
back
to
tiffany
at
this
point.
E
Thank
you
hannah,
so.
Lastly,
what
we're
asking
before
you
is
to
accept
the
grant,
approve
the
related
budget
amendment
and
then
approve
one
new
position,
which
is
the
racial
equity,
grant
funded
position
and
extend
the
nine
existing
grant
funded
position.
As
long
as
there
are
grant
funding
available.
E
F
Q
H
Q
H
J
E
A
A
A
All
in
favor,
please
say:
aye,
aye
and
last
I'll,
make
a
motion
to
approve
the
one
new
and
extend
nine
grant
funded
positions.
As
long
as
the
grant
funding
is
available,
all
in
favor,
please
say
aye
aye
any
opposed
all
right.
Thank
you
so
much.
This
is
fantastic
work
and
we
really
appreciate
the
updates
and
great
news.
A
A
A
Well,
that
was
really
close.
I
think
that
jennifer,
bubenick
and
brenton
faircloth
got
one
more
than
randy
flack
lamar.
Did
you
reach
the
same
conclusion?
Okay,
all
right.
Jennifer
bubanick
received
five
votes.
Brenton
faircloth
received
five
votes
and
randy
flack
received
four
votes,
so
we
appreciate
all
of
them.
Applying
and
and
all
right
next
up
is
the
board
of
equalization
and
review.
A
A
A
So
what
I'd
like
to
do
first
is
to
appoint
one
person
from
the
asheville
city
school
district
and
the
two
applicants
are
kelsey
wood
and
timothy
collins.
So
let's
just
I'll
go
down
and
identify
which
person
we
would
prefer
for
the
city
school
district
position.
I'm
going
to
start
I'm
going
to
vote
for
timothy
collins.
J
A
A
A
I
don't
know
if
there's
if
there'd
like
to
be
any
discussion
on
this
before
we
enter
into
this,
I
think
there's
a
lot
of
great
candidates
here
who
could
do
a
great
job,
I'm
personally
leaning
towards
supporting
cindy
visnik
weeks,
who
has
planning
experience
as
well
as
is
a
active
in
the
construction
industry
and
has
extensive
experience
in
building
and
development
and
affordable
housing
so
anyway,
I
just
would
share
that.
Do
any
other
commissioners
have
any
comments
before
we
kind
of
dive
into
voting
on
this
there's
other
very
good
candidates
as
well.
C
I
just
kind
of
echo
that
and
say
as
the
as
the
former
at-large
member
on
that
that
board.
I
think
I
think
it
really
moves
us
to
appoint
someone
with
broader
industry
experience,
planning,
experience
and
and
really
kind
of
we're
making
other
appointments,
focus
on
geography
and
districts
and
that
sort
of
thing
for.
C
A
Weeks,
okay,
very
good,
cindy
week's
got
the
most
votes.
You
know
there's
been
some
discussion,
ms
pender,
while
we
were
doing
the
interviews
for
these
planning
planning.
Commission
seats.
Of
course
we're
going
to
be
doing
a
comprehensive
plan
with
community
involvement,
and
we
understand
there's
going
to
be
a
community
kind
of
steering
committee
on
that,
and
I
know
all
the
details
of
that.
A
How
that's
going
to
be
kind
of
created
haven't
been
worked
out
yet,
but
I
think
just
one
thing
a
number
of
commissioners
were
interested
in
is
that
some
of
the
candidates
who
got
a
lot
of
support
for
planning
board
but
didn't
actually
get
appointed.
I
think
a
lot
of
I
heard
a
lot
of
comments
that
some
of
these
folks
could
be.
You
know,
potentially
outstanding
members.
F
A
Consider
for
that
so
we'd
like
to
maybe
just
sort
of
encourage
all
to
think
about
that
and
what
the
process
is
to
to
do
that,
because
a
lot
of
these
folks
are
very
interested
in
this
kind
of
planning
and
land
use
issues
with
great
experience
all
right.
Commissioners
that
completes
our
boards
and
commission.
F
R
That
we
were
going
to
do
an
appointment
for
the
local
emergency
planning
committee,
it's
a
board
that
we
talked
about
a
couple
meetings
ago
and
it
is
in
consent
agenda
to
form
that
actual
committee,
and
it
has
to
be
an
elected
official
that
is
going
to
be
appointed
by
this
board.
Okay,
thanks
for
the
reminder.
K
S
This
is
a
committee
that
focuses
on
hazardous
materials
planning
and
we
have
sporadically
had
an
active
committee
over
the
past
15
or
so
years,
but
in
looking
back
through
the
the
records,
we
never
found
a
resolution
where
it
was
officially
created.
So
that
was
the
reason
for
it
being
on
the
consent
agenda.
It
does
require
an
elected
official
as
one
of
the
mandated
slots
and
right
now
we
are
planning
on
having
bi-monthly
meetings
the
next
one
being
I
think,
it's
march,
the
second
and
the
meetings
are
currently
being
held.