Board of County Supervisors Meeting - Work Session (Audio Only) - Oct 17, 2023

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What is the meeting’s opening procedure and public comment format?

Phyllis J. Randall 0:05

Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I feel like I should have a mic, sorry. Good afternoon. It is two PM on Tuesday, October seventeenth. Uh for those who wish, please join me in a moment of silence.

Phyllis J. Randall 0:26

Thank you. If we could all rise for the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance. I can't pledge allegiance to the United States of America and to the republic for which

Patty Coons 0:37

Phyllis J. Randall 0:38

stands. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and judge this for all. Thank you. A little bit of different format. We got a work session around a table. I can see I can kind of see supervisor over

Unknown 0:54

there.

Phyllis J. Randall 0:54

Um And we're gonna begin today. We don't have any uh minutes to approve or anything else, but we do have public comment time at the beginning of our meeting. We have four people sign up for public comment time and there'll be no uh other commenting by the public later on, so if you wanna make a comment, do it now. Just for those who don't know, just sign up, let us know. Um the four speakers and the podium is the podium's over there. Ms. Madden is gonna use a timer on her phone. We are back to old school. And uh our four speakers are Carl Greeton. Charlie Grimes, Patricia Kuntz, and uh Lillia Bartram.

Unknown 1:49

I'm Carl Grant of the Gainesville District, and we are against the Digital Gateway Bank Focus Plan. The reason for this synopsis is due to the $400 million income over 20 years and the $16.7 billion expense for Dominion Power Towers. For this reading, I'm here to talk about fungible money in Prince William County related to affordable housing. Since 28 February 23, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors have resolutions to Spend $4,864,635 on the ASCO Holiday Lights and Emergency Operations Center renovation, purchase of one spokemobile, construction of a segment of the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail, a judicial center HBAC project, purchase of a piece of equipment for the community accessible vibarium, which is animal observation, and municipal utility.

Unknown 2:40

Princeton County funds have been reallocated from the remaining balance of the American Rescue Plan tax. Why do we not see any money allocated to the school system or affordable housing, which was directly affected by COVID and mental issues? Does the Board of Supervisors opt to the school board or affording housing initiative? If we need affordable housing, why is there a proposal to eliminate up to 70 homes for the twenty-eight bypass improvement process? On page fifteen of your presentation, you mentioned the housing trust fund. This is the very last statement of the entire presentation today. That is an interesting blip, yet why is it more information not given to the public regarding this? Perhaps this would cover the cost of allowing everyone in the county to have affordable housing.

Unknown 3:25

Why are there no programs to have the housing pay to homeowners that can afford their housing? Even though most Prince Louis County citizens are against the digital gateway, there should be proffers set up from other data centers. That have been approved. In Fairfax County, the Amazon Housing Equity Fund has invested $118 million into affordable housing. In total costs, over $1 billion in loans and grants have been committed to affordable housing initiatives in the Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. areas through their housing equity fund. We have heard that grants are given for residents. It is unfortunate the These grants probably come from the government. The issue is where does that money come from?

Unknown 4:07

It appears that this is not just one more tax increase for regular citizens to make affordable housing possible for those that do not have the opportunity to buy houses. As we see from our Democrat government, the home interest rate is skyrocketed due to Biden's. Previously, you could have said that owners with more expensive houses would get the answer, oh. They can afford it. That is not the situation now. Joe's inflation rates and cost for everything. Funds should be available to all homeowners, not just lower income. On page 15 you say additional planned mixed residential housing types.