Lynchburg City Council to meet with School Board to review facilities master plan
Plus: Public hearings in Cumberland, Nelson, and Prince Edward counties
This is an experimental newsletter that I have still maintained during a time of a lot of upheaval in my family as my parents moved from one place to another. That has meant a lot of driving and then recovery from driving. Sometimes that means fewer time I want to sit in front of a keyboard writing.
All of this shuffling about has also meant my eyes have not been nearly as sharp. For instance, I neglected to include last week’s Campbell County Board of Supervisors meeting. You can watch that via DropBox. According to the agenda, they got an update on the renovation of Brookville High School.
I graduated from Brookville High School in 1991 and that connection is a major reason why I continue to work toward making this newsletter a real institution. I’d very much like to write up that segment, but there’s a lot to get to in any given day.
This one goes out quite late on the day when these meetings happen. I am way out of my routine and the latest journey back to the Fifth District of Virginia took a lot out of me. So this one is also relatively quickly written and does not feature a table of contents. Next week!
Cumberland Supervisors to hold public hearing on polling place change
The five member Board of Supervisors in Cumberland County will meet tonight. The website states that this is their regularly monthly meeting, but all that happens when you click the agenda is a link to a public notice.
The Cumberland County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing at its meeting on August 8, 2023, beginning at 7:00 p.m., in the Circuit Courtroom, 17 Courthouse Circle, Cumberland, Virginia, to amend and reenact Section 30-72 of the Cumberland County Code to change the location of the polling place for Election District 2 from Cumberland Volunteer Fire Department, at 30 Old Buckingham Road, Cumberland, Virginia, to Payne Memorial Methodist Church, at 50 Stoney Point Road, Cumberland, Virginia.
A copy of the text of the ordinance and a description and map of the proposed new voting place is available for inspection and may be reviewed during normal business hours (Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) in the Cumberland Registrar’s Office, 1487 Anderson Highway, Cumberland, Virginia.
At the public hearing, all persons desiring to express their views concerning the proposed change of the polling place will be heard.
Is that it?
Lynchburg City Council meeting with School Board
The seven member Lynchburg City Council will meet with the Lynchburg School Board tonight at the Lynchburg Regional Business Alliance at 300 Lucado Place. (meeting files)
The purpose of the meeting is to review the LCS Failities Master Plan. For more information and some more background, take a look at Bryson Gordon’s August 3, 2023 article in the Lynchburg News & Advance. The presentation is available here.
Prince Edward Supervisors to hold public hearing on flag sizes
The eight-member Board of Supervisors in Prince Edward County meets at 7 p.m. (meeting packet)
There will be a public hearing on a proposal to permanently amend the zoning ordinance to allow for flags up to 120 square feet and to add definitions for various flag placement purposes. An emergency ordinance on June 13 to allow flags of this size. Now this public hearing is to codify that size until the next time the code is amended.
“The Planning Commission held a public hearing on July 18, 2023, where several citizens spoke in both support and opposition of the proposed new language,” reads the staff report from Community Development Director Robert Love.
There’s more in the meeting packet to review. What jumps out at you?
Nelson County looks to upgrade water/sewer facilities for Lovingston
The five member Board of Supervisors in Nelson County meets at 2 p.m. in the General District Courtroom at the Courthouse in Lovingston. They also have an evening session which begins at 7 p.m. (meeting packet)
The afternoon session begins with a recognition of James Morris. He’s a county employee who is retiring after 33 years of service. (page 58)
There are two presentations. One is from the Virginia Department of Transportation. The other is an update from the Nelson Heritage Center.
There are three items under new and unfinished business.
There’s a funding request of $12,367 from the Rockfish Senior Group. There had been funding in FY21 but none in FY22 or FY 23. The FY24 budget includes the amount. The official request is handwritten. (page 59)
There’s a funding request of $5,500 from the Lovingston Village Association to hire the Spill Teem to work on a branding and marketing proposal. That is not a misspelling of team. (page 63)
There’s a resolution to authorize Preliminary Engineering Reports for a water impoundment and treatment plant at Dillard Creek to serve Lovingston and the upgrade of the Lovingston wastewater treatment plant. (page 68)
There are three public hearings in the evening session.
The first is an amendment to the county code for the Safety Program to update references to which entities are covered by the Line of Duty act. (page 72)
The second is an amendment to the Articles of Incorporation for the Nelson County Service Authority. (page 86)
The third is for consideration of a special use permit to allow an Outdoor Entertainment Venue on land zoned for agricultural use at 877 Glenthorpe Loop in Nellysford. The Planning Commission recommended approval on a 4-1 vote. (page 103)