VIRGINIA: AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE COUNTY OF AMELIA BOARD OF  SUPERVISORS HELD AT THE AMELIA COUNTY ADMINSTRATION CONFERENCE ROOM ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY: 17,2021.  PARTICIPANTS:  DAVID M. FELTS ROGER A. SCOTT SHAUN WEYANT H.. JOSEPH EASTER, IV FRANKLIN D. HARRIS  District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 District 5  Board of Supervisors  A. TAYLOR HARVIE, III, County Administrator HOLLY STEELE, Director of Community Development JEFF GORE, County Attorney, via Webex  Chairman Easter called the. January 20, 2021 Regular Meeting oft the Amelia County Board of Supervisors to order at 7:00 P.M. and determined there was a quorum with all five members participating. Supervisor Easter offered the invocation and everyone participated in the Pledge  of Allegiance. CONSENT AGENDA  After discussion, the February agenda was: not approved. The following minutes approved on a motion by Supervisor Felts:  January 13, 2021 Workshop January 20, 2021 Regular Meeting January 21, 2021 Continued Meeting January 22, 2021 Continued Meeting January 28, 2021 Continued Meeting  November 23, 2020. Joint Public Hearing with Planning Commission The January financial reports were approved on ai motion by Supervisor Harris.  PUBLIC COMMENTS  Allison Crews asked the Board to consider purchasing 911 address markers for all count  residents.  1    STAFF/COMMITTEE/ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS  Rebecca Worley of VDOT, reported on activities Dr.I Lori Harper reported on Amelia School Board activities.  Board members gave reports on committee meetings they had attended. Supervisor Felts  reported the following meetings: Jan. 25 Planning commission meeting discussion on smaller lots in industrial park;  Feb. 80 CIP committee meeting went very well new process was well received on ranking projects. Feb. 9 Compensation study kickoffmeeting good information very interested in Feb. 13-16 Emergency services throughout ice storm serval meeting with county staff, social services and emergency management on opening shelters in fire stations due to road conditions overnight shelter at Col fire station food supplied by School system cots and blankets from stock at emergency management outlined stations for immediate needs, warming, charging phone and medical equip and water this was communicated Feb. 17 Piedmont Jail Authority persons for Amelia average 60 for Nov, Dec and Jan with average of1500 days. This is in the normal range for Amelia we' re about 80% budgeted funds no positive COVID-19 case ini inmates or staffinternal audit is good for 3 years Amelia has 5 inmates that require a lot ofmedication, $2,300 a month. We were the lowest county the highest county was about $9,800 for highest 5 inmates. Supervisor Scott reported his attendance ofthe Broadband update, budget meetings, Steps, CLEO, GIS meeting, EDA meeting and the Animal Shelter meeting. Supervisor Weyant said although he has been concentrating on his family during a Supervisor Easter reported he attended an HR Committee, BakerTilley meeting, VACo  how plan was received by Dept heads  over social media  tragedy, he attended the Virginia Heartland meeting. meeting, the EDA and all budget meetings. Supervisor Harris was not audible. regarding their efforts. 19 vaccinations.  Tonya Edmonds from Southside Center for Violence Prevention spoke to the Board David Martin oft the Health Department spoke regarding efforts being made for COVID-  2    David Seay and Rod Compton spoke regrading Real Estate assessment ratio. Forrest Cohn ofNikola spoke regarding leasing county property for solar projects.  PLANNING AND ZONING  An amendment to allow abattoirs as a use by special exception permit was approved on a An amendment to allow subdivision as by-right use in B-1 and B-2 districts was  motion by Supervisor Scott.  approved on ai motion by Supervisor Weyant.  OLD/NEW BUSINESS  Douglas W. Dawson was reappointed to the Building Code Appeals Board on a motion Eldon Dieffenbach was appointed to fulfil a term on the Economic Development Authority due to the resignation of Wesley Morris on ai motion by Supervisor Scott. Holly Steele gave an updated on thel BakerTilly Compensation Study.  by Supervisor Felts.  After aj public hearing and on ai motion by Supervisor Felts, the Board approved the Ona ai motion by Supervisor Felts the Board approved an update to the Rule of the Board The Board requested that the Economic Development Authority adjust their by-laws to  disposal of. .016 acres at no cost to the county.  to address remote meeting participation and electronic meetings. require all members be residents of Amelia County.  COUNTY ADMINISTRATORS REPORT  The host fee check from Waste Management for. January 2021 was $265, 537.84.  CRC: submitted the January Items ofInterest. Comcast notified the county of changes to X-finity TV.  Virginia Cooperative Extension Agency submitted the annual report for 2020. Daryl Gough gave updates on public works projects and studies  3    BOARD MEMBERS COMMENTSREPORIS District 1-the Honorable David M. Felts.Jr.  Supervisor Felts said Want to thank everyone who work tirelessly over the weekend. From clearly road to getting power back on. Fire department, squad, sheriffs office and dispatcher, county staff, social services, emergency management. Southside electric, dominion power, tds, This was a very well managed county wide incident. All decisions were made with safety in mind for all who were out working, with a common goal ofhelping citizens. There was some negative and positive chatter on social media. The positive is that Amelia took care of Amelia, I  southern states.  would expect nothing less.  District 2-The Honorable Roger A. Scott  Supervisor Scott said he believed the RiverStreet Broadband Project was going well but was concerned the marketing campaign wasi nonexistent. He said he was pleased with the Animal Shelter project and was impressed with the work being done by Brian Wootten. He said he was pleased that the county had received 41 responses to the Hindle Building project RFP.  District 3-The Honorable Shaun Wevant  Supervisor Weyant reported the Fire department and dispatch had been extremely busy during the storm. He thanked all emergency members who helped during the recent tragedy with his  family.  District 4-The Honorable H. Joseph Easter, IV  Supervisor Easter also wanted to thank all the emergency service members for their help with the  storm.  District 4-The Honorable Franklin D. Harris  Supervisor Harris said he understood what al big task it was for power companies to restore power during widespread outages. He said he was also concerned with the lack ofcommunity  information from RiverStreet. CLOSED MEETING  On ai motion by Supervisor Scott, the Board unanimously agreed to enter into closed session Pursuant to Code of Virginia $2.2-3711.A3 Discussion or consideration oft the acquisition ofr real property for aj public purpose, or oft the disposition ofpublicly held real property, where discussion in an open meeting would adversely affect the bargaining position or negotiating strategy oft the public body. Upon returning to open session the Board certified to the  following:  4    NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the County of Amelia Board of Supervisors hereby certifies that to the best of each member's knowledge, (1) only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act were heard, discussed or considered in the closed meeting to which this certification applies, and (2) only such public business matters, as were identified in the motion by which the closed meeting was convened, were heard, discussed or considered in the  meeting to which this certification applies.  The motion carried by ai roll call vote of 4-0 recorded as follows:  VOTE:  AYES:  NAYS:  NONE  District 1-Supervisor Felts District 2-Supervisor Scott District 3-Supervisor Weyant District 4-Supervisor Easter District 5 Supervisor Harris  MOTION TO ADJOURN/CONIINUE MEETING  There being no other business, the February 20, 2021 Regular meeting was adjourned on a  motion by Supervisor Scott.  ATTEST:  Minutes Approved: March 17,2021  tatle IVC Chairman  Bhhlewc  A. Taylor Harvie, III Amelia County Administrator  H.. MAR  Amelia County Board of Supervisors  5