Business as Usual in September Meeting

The Charlotte County Board of Supervisors had it listed on the Agenda for the September Meeting that Financial Advisor Ted Cole, from Davenport & Company, the financial advisors for such major endeavors in Charlotte County as the new Courthouse project, and now, the new elementary school project, to come to the September meeting and speak. However, during the course of the initial conversations between the Board and Mr. Cole, County Administrator R.B. Clark discovered some very technical wording issues that would have changed, if the conversation had been allowed to continue on its current course, the entire meaning of one specific portion of the report. It would have been, therefore, misleading. Because of this discovery Mr. Clarke made it clear that he did not want the report to be used or referred to any further under the current circumstances due to the fact that the report was incorrect. What would have essentially been misleading to the public was now to be ignored and set aside as wrong. In fact, once the flaw was found, he asked the media not to refer to it for the same reasons. The Board wasn’t going to use it in their calculations; he asked the same of the media.

BMC Rock requested a revision to a conditional use permit that was filed in 2005 that would reduce the 200 foot buffer zone that had been required by the Virginia Department of Mine, Minerals & Energy Regulations. The buffer zone has been reduced by 175’, from 200’ originally to the currently required 25’. Martin O’Brien of Southside Realty Investments LLC (BMC ROCK QUARRY) maintains that the current setbacks are to provide site entrances and are well maintained. Opposition to the reduced buffer zone has to do specifically with traffic volume on Route 47.

Nancy Carwile presented the Board with Charlotte County’s Contribution to the Executive Mansion’s “Celebrating Virginia’s Localities.” Honoring the designer of the Charlotte County Courthouse, the Ornament is a very pretty, vintage looking image of the historical             government building, paying homage to our founding father’s efforts in our county. The reverse side carries his “autograph.” It is a very fitting holiday ornament to grace the tree in the Executive Mansion.