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Jesse Rutherford is a musician from Los Angeles who is best known for his band, The Neighbourhood. His new solo record, Wanted ? is out now. We chat about haunted hotels, eating fries with a fork, walking around Silverlake, Margaret Gou, the age "twenty nine," Sweater Weather was the first song they ever wrote, the last time he smoked pot, The Neighbourhood gets more streams than Charli, when artists change the album after its released, Katy Perry in Australia, his hardcore band and what they order at Chipotle, In N Out fries, and his favorite hobby is just talking like us. twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com instagram.com/jesserutherford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, Scott sits down with musician and fashion designer Jesse Jo Stark! Throughout the conversation, they dive into various facets of her artistry and personal life. First, Scott asks Jesse about her childhood in the Chrome Hearts fashion family, and what it was like growing up around musicians like Cher and Steve Jones. From there, they talk about Jesse's decision to pursue music professionally, her collaborations with artists like Post Malone and Jesse Rutherford, and her 2022 debut album. The two also discuss aspects of Jesse's personal life, such as her relationship with fellow musician Yungblud. The episode ends with some of Jesse's top 5's, including her top 5 horror films and top 5 artists that should be bigger. Tune in for an insightful discussion with a rapidly rising star! Get up to 48% off your first subscription or 20% off one time purchases with code LIPPS at checkoutwww.magicmind.com/lipps#sponsored #Ad
This week on Name 3 Songs… ⚡ ️ Fangirl Nonsense: Swifities swarm Jack Antonoff's wedding after Taylor Swift is paparazzied on Long Beach Island. Keke Palmer and Usher team up for “Boyfriend” music video shading Keke's ex Darius Dalton who previously slut shamed Keke for what she wore to an Usher performance. ⚡ Jesse Rutherford from The Neighbourhood released a solo album that includes degrading lyrics about his relationships with Billie Eilish. ⚡Kpop girl group and hit sensation Fifty Fifty files charges against their agency ATTRAKT over financial issues and files to suspend their contract with the agency. This comes after ATTRAKT filed charges with creative group The Givers who produced their hit song “Cupid” and worked closely in managing the girl group during their debut. All of these legal matters have prevented Fifty Fifty from participating in promotions in the peak of their viral success. This harkens back to boy band history of the 90s and Lou Pearlman's financial mismanagement of the Backstreet Boys. ⚡This week, rumors that Justin Bieber is leaving Scooter Braun as his manager circulated the internet. While those statements were quickly dismissed, Demi Lovato and Ariana Grande have been confirmed to leave Scooter's SB Projects and seek other management. We discuss why each of these artists may have different reasons for leaving their longtime manager and why Scooter's priorities may be shifting with his new position as CEO of HYBE America. We also discuss why everyone on the internet hates Scooter Braun and where Taylor Swift's own feud stems from. Enjoy this episode? Join our Patreon community or leave us a tip on PayPal! Want to talk more? Find us: @name3songs | @sara_feigin | @jenna_million Check out all the sources for this episode at name3songs.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jesse Rutherford of The Nelson County Board of Supervisors joined me live on The I Love CVille Show! The I Love CVille Show airs live Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. Watch and listen to The I Love CVille Show on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, iTunes, Apple Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Fountain, Amazon Music, Audible and iLoveCVille.com.
Si & Veronica are ready for family dinner for episode 267! Kaity and Zach are doing something abnormal in Bachelor Nation… by going back to their normal jobs. Kaity is back to her 12-hour nursing shifts and LA isn't on the horizon for them as a couple. But, they did join other old school and new school Bachelor favorites for some marathon “Almost Famous” pod recordings with Ashley I. and Ben Higgens. The whole gang (including Clare Crawley, her husband Ryan, Rachel Recchia, Gabby Windey, Chris Harrison, and Lauren Zima) grabbed dinner together and boy do we wish we could've been a fly on the wall. There aren't a ton more details about Golden Bachelor yet, but Martha Stewart said it isn't completely off the table, but she would have to get a sneak peek at her bachelor(s) first. On a recent podcast, Kaitlyn Bristowe talked about how she was discouraged from sharing her bisexuality by the Bachelor psychologist and was warned that it would be used against her. In other reality TV news, Love Is Blind season 3 couple Colleen and Matt are moving in together after two years of marriage. (Bachelor/reality TV talk ends at time marker 24m:16s) Ariana Madix is making her press rounds with her hitting the big time with a guest spot on Call Her Daddy. Billie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford have reportedly broken up. Robert De Niro and his baby mama were seen at Cannes. Taylor Lautner sort of knows that he is the favorite ex of Taylor Swift… but wishes John Mayer the best as Speak Now (Taylor's Version) is coming out soon. Vee went “Yikes!” to a paparazzi/photographer fueled car chase of Harry and Meghan after an event in NYC. Some folks think they did it for publicity, but why would you want to recreate how your mother, Princess Diana, died? Join us for what is always a good time and leave us a rating and review for a shoutout! Follow us @thefuturebachelor on Instagram! Thanks to you all who have subscribed! -- For fun, great music updated weekly, follow FUTURE BACHELOR on Spotify! ***SLAPPER OF THE WEEK*** "When Love Sucks" Jason Derulo ft. Dido -- Follow us on Instagram!
Britney Spears, Billie Eilish, Jesse Rutherford, Vin Diesel, Ben Affleck , Jennifer Lopez, Priscilla Presley and Riley Keough kick off the LA Spinz podcast this week. Peter Reynolds brings us... LEARN MORE The post Britney Spears, Billie Eilish, Jesse Rutherford & More appeared first on LA Spinz.
Welcome back to another episode of Poppin' Off (About Pop Culture)! In this episode, we're getting into The Vanderpump Rules season finale, our Kesha experience, the new Jonas Brothers album, Billie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford's breakup, and Keith Urban confirming our suspicions about Phoebe Bridgers and Bo Burnham. It's all going down, so get ready to pop off with us! Follow us on Instagram: Poppin' Off About Pop Culture (@poppinoffaboutpopculture) Maggie's socials: Twitter: kale queen (@literallymaggie) Instagram: ✨maggie✨ (@literallymaggie_) Stephen's socials: Twitter: stephen gaedcke (@sgaedcke99) Instagram: Stephen Gaedcke (@sgaedcke99) Don't forget to follow/subscribe so you know when a new episode drops! Also, rate us 5 stars and leave us some comments. We want to hear from you!
TIME STAMPS FOR TODAYS CLASS: 03:50 Nick Cannon's HUGE Mother's Day mistake 07:30 Billie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford officially BREAK UP 17:00 What Taylor Swift ex should be SCARED for "Speak Now" TV 25:30 Tory Lanez maximum and minimum prison sentence- Megan's final thoughts 43:00 Britney Spears sons are EVIL 58:00 Miley Cyrus thinks she was judged too harshly for "Bangerz Era"
TIME STAMPS FOR TODAYS CLASS: 03:50 Nick Cannon's HUGE Mother's Day mistake 07:30 Billie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford officially BREAK UP 17:00 What Taylor Swift ex should be SCARED for "Speak Now" TV 25:30 Tory Lanez maximum and minimum prison sentence- Megan's final thoughts 43:00 Britney Spears sons are EVIL 58:00 Miley Cyrus thinks she was judged too harshly for "Bangerz Era"
Billie Eilish And Jesse Rutherford Are OVER And Fans Are Overjoyed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Billie Eilish And Jesse Rutherford Are OVER And Fans Are Overjoyed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Taylor Lautner reacts to the news that Taylor Swift is releasing the re-recording of ‘Speak Now', BLACKPINK's Jennie and BTS' V were reportedly spotted out together, and Billie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford have split. The first weekend in June is set to be a party at OUTLOUD at WeHo Pride with major performances set. Labrinth talks about his new album 'Ends & Begins', his experience performing with Billie Eilish and Zendaya at Coachella during an exclusive interview with Billboard News! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Billie Eilish And Jesse Rutherford Are OVER And Fans Are Overjoyed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jesse Rutherford of The Nelson County Board of Supervisors joined Keith Smith and Jerry Miller on “Real Talk With Keith Smith” powered by YES Realty Partners and Yonna Smith! “Real Talk” airs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10:15 am – 11 am on The I Love CVille Network! “Real Talk With Keith Smith” is presented by Ally Property Management, American Pest, Charlottesville Settlement Company, LLC, Choice Home Inspections, Closure Title & Settlement Co., Fincham & Associates, Inc., Free Enterprise Forum, Intrastate Service Co, Keller Williams Alliance, Pearl Certification, Ross Mortgage Corporation, Stanley Martin Homes and YES Realty Partners.
Welcome to part 3 of this overview of how to generate different synastry techniques featuring Billie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford. This week we explore the Davidson chart. As described on www.astro.com: "The Davison chart calculates the midpoint in time between the two birth dates and times and the midpoint in space between the latitudes and longitudes of the two birthplaces. The end result is a complete birth chart describing the merger of two individuals." Do you think this is an accurate merger of this Pisces rising pair both yearning to become one? LINKS Part 1 https://youtu.be/ziDvA5I4krI Part 2 https://youtu.be/ub_bP6wZewI Davidson Chart https://www.astro.com/astrology/tma_article150106_e.htm#:~:text=The%20Davison%20chart%20calculates%20the,the%20merger%20of%20two%20individuals. Billie Eilish Double Stellium Saturn Transit https://www.stelliumastrology.com/celebrity-astrology/billie-eilish-astrology-birth-chart/ Episode 003 | Free Birth Chart Astrology Software https://youtu.be/BgFDT7hXHwU Billie Eilish https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Eilish,_Billie Jesse Rutherford https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Rutherford,_Jesse EPISODE OVERVIEW 02:27 My Venus Rx Moment 02:36 We always have a choice 04:03 The types of Choice 04:53 The Davidson Chart 05:39 How the Davidson Chart is calculated 06:59 The Astrology 08:42 Special Delivery 09:27 Looking at the Transits 1 0:56 When money is no object and time is of the essence 15:24 The relationship "brand" 16:11 Moon–Uranus–Neptune (not always in that order) 18:09 Pluto in Aquarius 2023-2044 21:53 Relationships are the vehicle of change 22:49 Sharing MC & IC signs 26:28 Moon–Uranus in Capricorn 27:00 Free relationship horoscopes 27:19 Prize Draw 2023
Last week I talked about Billie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford's relationship astrology and showed you how to generate a synastry chart on www.astro.com. This week I show you how to generate a bi-wheel and composite chart, exploring a few different ways to look at relationships through the lens of astrology. Have you looked at your composite chart with a partner/family member/friend and what did it have to say about your combined presence in the world? Do you agree? LINKS Watch this episode https://youtu.be/FMD9WCsYF4I #055 Aspect Patterns: T-Square https://youtu.be/FLdhoH-3ohw #057 Aspect Patterns: The Kite https://youtu.be/x1x4yxJ2kso Billie Eilish Double Stellium Saturn Transit https://www.stelliumastrology.com/celebrity-astrology/billie-eilish-astrology-birth-chart/ Episode 003 | Free Birth Chart Astrology Software https://youtu.be/BgFDT7hXHwU Billie Eilish https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Eilish,_Billie Jesse Rutherford https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Rutherford,_Jesse
Billie Eilish has a captivating essence which has fascinated millions of people since her discovery as an artist at the age of 15. Of course Billie finds other people captivating, and is SMITTEN with her new boyfriend Jesse Rutherford of The Neighbourhood. Is it bad I didn't know who he was until she announced their courtship? I look at how Jesse's chart overlays Billie's in this brief episode on Synastry, which is part of a trifecta of episodes on different ways to look at relationships with Astrology. Are you a Billie Eilish fan? Had you heard of Jesse Rutherford before it was publicised that she was in a relationship with him? What are your synastry aspects with your significant other? LINKS Watch this episode https://youtu.be/ziDvA5I4krI Billie Eilish Double Stellium Saturn Transit https://www.stelliumastrology.com/celebrity-astrology/billie-eilish-astrology-birth-chart/ Episode 003 | Free Birth Chart Astrology Software https://youtu.be/BgFDT7hXHwU Billie Eilish https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Eilish,_Billie Jesse Rutherford https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Rutherford,_Jesse
Will Smith calls Oscar's a 'horrific night' in first TV interview since slap (Page Six) (29:36) Billie Eilish calls boyfriend Jesse Rutherford 'hottest f-king f-ker alive' (Page Six) (38:16) Hailey Bieber Has an Ovarian Cyst 'the Size of an Apple' (PEOPLE) (42:40) Howard Stern calls out Oprah Winfrey for 'showing off' lavish lifestyle (NY Post) (50:13) Jackie forgot to share the 5th story lol The Toast with Jackie (@JackieOshry) and Claudia Oshry (@girlwithnojob) NLOG Tickets Merch The Toast Patreon Girl With No Job by Claudia Oshry
Time for the Glossys, guuuuuys! Billie Eilish admitted in an interview with Vanity Fair that she can't believe she's dating her new boyfriend, Jesse Rutherford. Harry Styles has reportedly rekindled with his ex-girlfriend, Kendall Jenner. Iggy Azalea didn't walk for three walks after what was supposed to be 'mundane' surgery. Aaaand Jennifer Lopez goes in about her first breakup with Ben Affleck!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rita Ora is setting the record straight in a new interview on whether she had beef with Rihanna, Megan Thee Stallion opened up about the pressure of her sophomore album ‘Traumazine' during an interview for the history-making cover of Forbes‘ 30 Under 30 issue, Billie Eilish talks about her new relationship with The Neighbourhood's Jesse Rutherford and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With Liam Hemsworth getting another shot at Leading Man Status thanks to The Witcher recasting, Fionnuala takes a trip down memory lane with Entertainment.ie Movies Editor Brian Lloyd to revisit his last stab - Independence Day: ResurgenceTIMESTAMPSBillie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford, Love Is Blind season three, Buying Beverly Hills, I'm A Celeb, Selena: My Mind And Me, Back To The Beach with Lauren Conrad: : 1:12Independence Day: Resurgence with Brian Lloyd 43:49Top Of The Flops: 1:26:05LINKSDarkest Hue Instagram accountRead Brian's review hereFollow Flop Culture on InstagramFollow Flop Culture on TikTokEditing: Adam ShanahanArtwork: Brian Lambert Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's time for the Glossys, guuuuuuys! 76-year-old Cher has confirmed her relationship with 36-year-old music producer, Alexander Edwards. Gigi Hadid has announced she's quitting Twitter. Billie Eilish made her red-carpet debut with her boyfriend, Jesse Rutherford. Aaaand, Mel B didn't attend Geri's 50th birthday party with the rest of her bandmates.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Singers Billie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford made their relationship red carpet official on Saturday night. The pair donned Gucci pyjamas and wrapped themselves in a Gucci blanket at LACMA's 11th annual Art + Film Gala in Los Angeles County Museum. (Gucci is the event sponsor.) Backstreet Boys paused their show at London's O2 Arena on Sunday to pay tribute to Aaron Carter, who was found dead Saturday in his California home. He was 34. Jin of BTS could begin serving in the South Korean military as early as next month. The singer, who turns 30 on Dec. 4, has cancelled his request to postpone enlistment, according to a report published Friday by the Yonhap News Agency. Original Articles by John R. Kennedy: Billie Eilish Hits Red Carpet With Jesse Rutherford BTS Member Jin Set To Begin Military Service Backstreet Boys Pay Tribute To Aaron Carter
This week, Anna and Margot talk about Midnights, Harry Styles running from something with his neverending tour, and how Jesse Rutherford is a youth vampire. TW: mentions of grooming. Margot's TikTok: @holygemini Oh No! Links: linktr.ee/iamthecampion
Jesse Rutherford of The Nelson County Board of Supervisors and Keith Smith of YES Realty Partners joined me live on The I Love CVille Show! The I Love CVille Show airs live before a worldwide audience Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. Watch and listen to The I Love CVille Show on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, iTunes, Apple Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Fountain and iLoveCVille.com.
Shocking new details have emerged about the fatal shooting of Migos rapper Takeoff -- as new video footage shows the final moments of his life. Capitol Police have come under fire for seemingly failing to monitor security cameras at Nancy Pelosi's home at the time of Paul Pelosi's violent attack. Kanye "Ye" West haters have started 'make me a billionaire instead' GoFundMe campaigns. Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson are addressing rumors that the two have secretly rekindled their romance. Plus, Billie Eilish is poking fun at people who criticized the age gap between her and Jesse Rutherford. Hosts: Jason Beckerman & Jaime Cerniglia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome back to another episode of Poppin' Off (About Pop Culture)! This week we have some major relationship drama and updates! First is Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudekis' former nanny spilling allllll the tea about their breakup and how Harry Styles got involved, Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez putting their feud to rest, Billie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford dating and Billy Ray Cyrus and his new (much younger) fiancé. Plus, BTS are fulfilling their military duties in South Korea and we get into our toasts and roasts. It's all going down, so get ready to pop off with us!
Subscribe to our YouTube > http://bit.ly/CITOYOUTUBE. Tell Me Lies & The Patient thoughts (3:49-8:27). DWTS update (8:28-14:01). Fran's Demi Lovato concert review (14:02-21:09). RHOBH Reunion Pt. 2 recap (22:16-35:23). Billie Eilish dating Jesse Rutherford (35:26-42:58). Taylor Swift's new album (43:00-49:12). MERCH! > http://bit.ly/citomerch. Follow us on Instagram @chicksintheoffice and on Twitter @chicksintheoff + subscribe to our Snapchat show > http://bit.ly/thegroupchat.
Today Featuring: Kyle Rittenhouse, Elon Musk, Snoop Dogg and more... Today's Sponsor: The Chess Store, INChttp://thisistheconversationproject.com/thechessstoreToday's Rundown:Kyle Rittenhouse Launches YouTube Channel About Gunshttps://t.co/fv1hENbHtVAndrew Cuomo's next act is a podcast, with Scaramucci as his first guesthttps://t.co/PotuXCZxlUKanye Faces $250 Million Lawsuit From George Floyd Familyhttps://t.co/vtsWUI0hvaTrump to be questioned in E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuithttps://t.co/WjqScbFqifElon Musk's $100 Burnt Hair Perfume, the 'Essence of Repugnant Desire,' Has Sold Outhttps://t.co/vESCcTJeXyFDA panel recommends pulling Makena, citing ineffectiveness of controversial preterm birth drughttps://t.co/K7bwVLnP6uWendy Williams leaves rehab, says she's 'better than ever'https://t.co/btrSL3LPD4Billie Eilish, 20, makes out with The Neighbourhood’s Jesse Rutherford, 31https://t.co/dvkTdFSImQ Website: http://thisistheconversationproject.comFacebook: http://facebook.com/thisistheconversationprojectTwitter: http://twitter.com/th_conversationTikTok: http://tiktok.com/@theconversationprojectYouTube: http://thisistheconversationproject.com/youtubePodcast: http://thisistheconversationproject.com/podcasts#yournewssidepiece #coffeechat #morningnewsOctober 19 Birthdays Include:Kamala Harris (58)Snoop Dogg (51)John Krasinski (43)Plus, Today We Celebrate: Chicken and Waffles Day https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-chicken-and-waffles-day-october-20/
Register for the Rochas x Renegade yoga event here: https://centennialbeauty.com/rochas-girl-blooming-edition-event-registration-centennial-beauty/ In this week's episode, we dive into the TikTok cease-and-desist saga between former Real Housewives of New York star, Bethenny Frankel, and pop culture commentary creator, Meredith Lynch. After Meredith shared publicly available information on Bethenny's filed trademarks, theorising that Bethenny was possibly using her recent TikTok content reviewing a variety of consumer products as a long-lead marketing strategy for a new endeavour, Bethenny's team sent Meredith a cease-and-desist. We explore the ensuing discussion amongst users about the role of celebrities on TikTok now that the app has democratised fame and influence for "regular people". Timestamps: 3:07 Winter House recap 15:52 Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez photographed together 20:59 Billie Eilish rumoured to be dating Jesse Rutherford 11 years her senior 23:54 Jack Wright faces backlash for recreating scene from Netflix Jeffrey Dahmer series 28:11 Twitch streamer Amouranth alleges financial, emotional & verbal abuse by secret husband 33:00 Bethenny Frankel, Meredith Lynch & Why Celebrities Don't Belong On TikTok 33:12 Who is Bethenny Frankel? 34:32 Who is Meredith Lynch? 35:16 Meredith posts TikTok about Bethenny's "It's A Scam" trademark 37:08 Bethenny sends Meredith cease-and-desist 39:14 Bethenny responds on TikTok 44:20 Exploring the role of celebrities on TikTok now that the app has democratised fame and influence 50:50 Why does Bethenny care if a smaller creator shares public information about her business? 58:04 Can celebrities ever really show up authentically on TikTok? 1:07 Celebrities doing TikTok well Our publication: https://centennialbeauty.com/ Follow us: https://www.instagram.com/centennialbeauty/?hl=en Join our closed FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3178046912258044 Resources: https://centennialbeauty.com/is-billie-eilish-dating-jesse-rutherford/ https://centennialbeauty.com/jack-wright-backlash-jeffrey-dahmer-tiktok/ https://pagesix.com/2022/10/12/heather-mcdonald-bethenny-frankel-is-the-biggest-hypocrite/ https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/bethenny-frankel-meredith-lynch-tiktok/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRgn4fwA/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRgnsqdj/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRgncNGv/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRgnuUEc/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRgnQT3A/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRgngdKu/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRgnvgJU/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRgn7DCs/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRgnqvMW/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRgn3ELc/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRgn7W2B/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRgnnomA/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRgnaY8F/
It's time for the Glossy's! Billie Eilish is rumoured to be dating 31-year-old lead singer of the band, 'The Neighbourhood', Jesse Rutherford. Drew Barrymore hasn't been in an intimate relationship since 2016 when she split with her husband. Hugh Sheridan revealed him and Rafael de la Fuente have been in a secret 9-year marriage. Plus, Whoopi Goldberg has said that she'd love Lizzo to be a part of Sister Act 3.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jesse Rutherford of The Nelson County Board of Supervisors joined me live on The I Love CVille Show! The I Love CVille Show headlines (Thursday, April 21) UVA Health: 0 Adults With Covid Chili's To Be Seoul Korean Restaurant Jesse Rutherford Interview Public Transportation In Central VA Nelson County Sports Complex Short Term Vs Long Term Rentals 5th District Congressional Race Political Temperature In Virginia Viewer/Listener Comments The I Love CVille Show airs live before a worldwide audience Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network.
Jesse Rutherford of The Nelson County Board of Supervisors joined me live on The I Love CVille Show! The I Love CVille Show airs live before a worldwide audience Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network.
Round and round and round we go on this 333rd installment of Charlottesville Community Engagement. Where will we stop? In about 16 minutes if you’re listening to the podcast. If you’re reading it, that would depend on your pace, I suppose. Either way, this is February 17, 2022 and we are indeed one third of the way to a thousand editions of this program. I’m your host, Sean Tubbs, and I hope to be here for all three of the years it may take to get there. On today’s program:An update on former City Manager Tarron Richardson’s lawsuit against Charlottesville City CouncilThe Thomas Jefferson Planning District is working on two major housing initiativesA round-up of what’s happening in TJPDC communitiesLouisa Supervisors gets an update on water supply plan for Zion CrossroadsA closed-door group gets an early look at the University of Virginia’s master plan First Patreon-fueled shout-out goes to the Charlottesville Area Tree StewardsIn today’s first subscriber-supported Public Service Announcement, the Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards continues to offer classes this winter and spring to increase your awareness of our wooden neighbors and to prepare for the future. The next event is February 22 at 7 p.m. when tree steward Emily Ferguson will help you look beyond the monotonous winter forest by focusing on the finer details that will help you differentiate between species of trees. Learn more at charlottesvilleareatreestewards.org. (register for the February 22 session) And in the second shout-out, there’s still a long-time supporter who wants you to know: "Today is a great day to spread good cheer: reach out to an old friend, compliment a stranger, or pause for a moment of gratitude to savor a delight."Visit infocville.com and click on the Support the Info button to find out how you can support the show and get a shout-out!Richardson lawsuit update Both sides in a federal lawsuit filed by a former city manager against Charlottesville City Council have filed extensions requesting more time to file the next round of legal responses. Dr. Tarron Richardson sued Charlottesville City Council and several individuals by name in the Western District of Virginia last November alleging that the city had denied his first amendment rights by not allowing an op-ed to be published in the Daily Progress months after his resignation in September 2020. In addition to Council, former City Attorney John Blair, current City Attorney Lisa Robertson, former City Councilor Heather Hill, and former Mayor Nikuyah Walker are all named in the suit. Before resigning, Richardson had signed a release and waiver governing his $205,000 in severance that included a mutual non-disparagement clause. On January 26, an attorney for Lisa Robertson filed a motion asking for the suit against her to be thrown out. (read the motion)“The complaint does not state a claim against Robertson, as she did not personally deprive Plaintiff of his First Amendment rights,” reads that motion. “Plaintiff waived his claims against the City, as well as its employees and officials by signing the release.”The motion also states Robertson has qualified immunity and cannot be sued as a private individual. It goes on to refute Richardson’s claim that his publication of the op-ed was stopped by Robertson. Instead, the motion states the then interim city attorney warned Richardson’s counsel twice in February 2021 that the city could pursue action if he broke the non-disparagement clause. On February 8, Richardson’s attorneys filed a motion requesting more time to respond to Robertson’s request to be dismissed, a request granted by Judge Norman K. Moon on February 11. Charlottesville has hired Richard Milnor to represent the city and he filed a motion on January 20 requesting more time to respond to the initial complaint. On February 11, Milnor asked to have until February 28 to respond. Judge Norman K. Moon granted that extension. Yesterday, the suit turned 90 days old which triggered a notice to Richardson’s attorney that summons have not yet been served to Heather Hill, Nikuyah Walker, John Blair, or Robertson. Only the city of Charlottesville has received a summons. Land Use, Environment and Planning Committee to meet tomorrowA regularly-scheduled closed door meeting of planners from Albemarle, Charlottesville, and the University of Virginia is scheduled for tomorrow, and materials are now available from the last meeting.The Land Use, Environmental and Planning Committee (LUEPC) was created after November 2019 when the public Planning and Coordination Council which consisted of elected officials was disbanded. The group also consists of officials from the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority. In January, they got two briefings from the University of Virginia’s Office of the Architect. One was an update on the UVA Grounds Framework Plan, which is a master plan for UVA. The public Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization got the same presentation a week later. (view the presentation)See also: UVA announces three sites for affordable housing projects, December 14, 2021MPO Policy Board briefed on the UVA Master Plan, February 1, 2022The second presentation was a four-slide review of the three sites the University of Virginia has selected as locations for up to 1,500 affordable housing units that would be build in partnership with a private developer. These are at the North Fork Discovery Park, Wertland Street, and the Piedmont site on Fontaine Avenue. Of those three, a rezoning application has been filed with Albemarle County for the North Fork site. (download)Third shout-out goes to Code for CharlottesvilleCode for Charlottesville is seeking volunteers with tech, data, design, and research skills to work on community service projects. Founded in September 2019, Code for Charlottesville has worked on projects such as an expungement project with the Legal Aid Justice Center, a map of Charlottesville streetlights, and the Charlottesville Housing Hub. Visit codeforcville.org to learn about those projects.TJDPC Roundtable: Fluvanna and Nelson both updating Comprehensive Plans this yearTo conclude the show today, let’s return to the February 10 meeting of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission. Let’s start with a couple of staff reports. The TJPDC will work with a nonprofit partner to help prevent evictions through a pilot program with funding from the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. (DHCD)“It’s $250,000 for Charlottesville and Albemarle County,” said executive director Christine Jacobs. “That grant actually will have a subrecipient and that will be Piedmont Housing Alliance and that will allow them to hire an eviction prevention case manager as well as a landlord outreach manager which was what we requested in the grant application.”Last year, the city of Charlottesville used $300,000 from American Rescue Plan Act funding to pay Legal Aid Justice Center to also work in the area of eviction prevention. Jacobs said the TJPDC used that funding as a local match to secure the DHCD grant.The TJPDC is also administering a $2 million grant from Virginia Housing to actually construct units. Jacobs said requests for proposals have been received and there three entities have been selected to proceed.“We will then have those three priority applicants submit their formal applications with all of their documentation and then a review panel will look at the feasibility of the project,” Jacobs said.Jacobs said the TJPDC Commissioners will be shown a recommendation at their meeting in April. Last year, the TJPDC completed a regional housing plan which has chapters for each of the six jurisdictions. Keith Smith represents Fluvanna County on the TJPDC Board. (plan website)“We’re starting our comp plan process and it looks like we’re going to be leaning pretty heavily on the work that the Regional Housing Partnership has done,” Smith said. Greene County Supervisor Dale Herring said his locality continues its separation from the Rapidan Service Authority. That entity did not want to proceed with Greene’s vision to create a new reservoir for an urban water supply. “For those who don’t know, we’ll stay with it until we actually own our own water authority,” Herring said. Greene County has recently created its own emergency medical services department and has offered to pay for full time firefighters. However, there may be an issue. “We had one fire department that has asked originally for four staff members,” Herring said. “They came back and asked for seven.” Herring said the county continues to hope to supplement fire service with volunteers, but numbers are dwindling. The TJPDC meetings are also an opportunity for urban communities to brief rural ones on trends that may affect them in the future. City Councilor Michael Payne shared information about the fundamentals informing the creation of the budget for next fiscal year.“We got our assessment increases and the average assessments were up eleven percent,” Payne said. “We’re beginning budget discussions and to afford everything currently in our budget, on top of that 11 percent increase will require a ten cent real estate tax increase.” The major driver is the renovations to Buford Middle School as a major plank in school reconfiguration, as well as an $10 million commitment to affordable housing projects. “So we are going to have to have some difficult, honest, and realistic conversations over the coming weeks about how to get our budget working,” Payne said. Another difficult conversation will be had when the public process related to the upgrade of the zoning code begins later this year. Planning Commission Chair Lyle-Solla Yates is a new member of the TJPDC and he said Rhodeside & Harwell and internal city staff are working on a review. “They’re doing an analysis of what we’ve got versus what our Comprehensive Plan says we need,” Solla-Yates said. “It’s going to be a big project and it’s going to be difficult. We should have something I’m recalling, an initial assessment in mid-April and once we have that we will go into public process and people will share their thoughts and feelings on zoning which is always a good thing.”Nelson County faces a lot of changes and challenges, according to Jesse Rutherford. He’s chair of both the Nelson Board of Supervisors as well as the TJPDC. A Comprehensive Plan review is soon to get underway. “And trying to figure out it is we can thrive as a community, which leads into the bigger thing which is even more important than the Comprehensive Plan - zoning,” Rutherford said. “How do you define things in rezoning? I think affordable housing has to be radically looked at and radically approached as opposed to pandered by the respective demographics in power. At the end of the day its about making sure that everybody and every income bracket has a place to live.” Rutherford said Nelson has many more people who are opting to work from home, and the county’s pledge for universal broadband by 2024 could accelerate a trend. “And we’re starting to see a change in the conversation of what does the future of a rural county look like,” Rutherford said. “Obviously preserving rural is such an interesting thing. Is it preserving trees? Is it water? For some people it’s culture.” That housing plan also has information for Nelson County. The TJPDC next meets on March 3. Louisa Board briefed on new intake for Zion Crossroads water supplyStaying regional to conclude this installment. The Louisa County Board of Supervisors got an update this Monday on the efforts of the James River Water Authority to secure a final permit to proceed with a plan to build a waterline between the James and Zion Crossroads for an urban water supply. One site for an intake is seriously contested by the Monacan Indian Nation because it on a major historical site called Rassawek. Archeological work has been conducted on a nearby site. “[GAI Consultants] who are the Authority’s current archeology consultant is very close to finalizing a phase one archeology report on alternative 1C and they are doing that in conjunction with Gray & Pape who are the Monacan’s selected archeologist so that’s a good team effort and that report is finished,” said Louisa County Administrator Christian Goodwin. If the Monacans agree, the JRWA will apply for a permit for that location from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as well as the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. “The attorney for the Monacan Indian Nation attended last week’s JRWA meeting and voiced the Monacan’s intent to continue supporting the project if the conditions are met, and those conditions being that we worked with their archeologist Gray & Pape and that no evidence of burials were found and that appears to be the route we are proceeding upon right now,” Goodwin said. The JRWA is next scheduled to meet on March 9. Support the program!Special announcement of a continuing promo with Ting! Are you interested in fast internet? Visit this site and enter your address to see if you can get service through Ting. 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After today, there are four more Saturdays left in the year 2021. After December 31, there will be only 78 more years in the 21st Century. This perspective brought to you by Charlottesville Community Engagement, a regularly-produced look at happening in and around Charlottesville. I’m Sean Tubbs, the host and producer. Charlottesville Community Engagement is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.On today’s show:The Albemarle County Planning Commission gets a look at Comprehensive Plan underwayThe Central Virginia Regional Housing Partnership takes a look at affordable housing challenges in rural areasArea airports will get money from the recent federal infrastructure funding bill Daily Progress-owner Lee Enterprises invokes protections against Alden Global Capital’s takeover attempt Let’s begin with a Patreon-fueled shout-out. Colder temperatures are creeping in, and now is the perfect time to think about keeping your family warm through the holidays. Make sure you are getting the most out of your home with help from your local energy nonprofit, LEAP. LEAP wants you and yours to keep comfortable all year round, and offers FREE home weatherization to income- and age-qualifying residents. If you’re age 60 or older, or have an annual household income of less than $74,950, you may qualify for a free energy assessment and home energy improvements such as insulation and air sealing. Sign up today to lower your energy bills, increase comfort, and reduce energy waste at home!Lee responseThe parent company of the Daily Progress appears to want to reject a takeover by the Alden Capital Group. Lee Enterprises issued a press release on Wednesday with the headline Board Takes Action in Response to Alden’s Unsolicited Proposal to Acquire Lee. Specifically, the Iowa-based company’s Board of Directors have initiated a limited-duration shareholder rights plan that issues existing shareholders additional rights in the case of a hostile takeover. “In adopting the Rights Plan, the Board noted Alden’s track record of rapidly acquiring substantial control or ‘negative control’ positions in other public companies and its seemingly inconsistent disclosures,” reads the press release.Alden Capital Group asserts they own six percent of the Lee’s shares. Shareholder rights plans are also known as “poison pills” and have been used since the 1980’s to ward off corporate takeovers. Read more about this topic in an article on Editor and Publisher. (learn more on Wikipedia)Airport investmentThe recently adopted Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provides $15 billion for airports across the nation. Virginia airports will receive nearly $400 million of that amount, according to a press release from Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner. The Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport will receive $15.44 million and Freeman Field in Louisa County will get $790,000. The airport in Orange County will also receive $790,000. Elsewhere in Virginia, Dulles International will get $120.4 million, Richmond International will get $35.6 million, and Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional will get $14.97 million. Lynchburg will get nearly $6.5 million and Culpeper Regional $1.48 million. I’ll have more information about how Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport will use their funding in an upcoming edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. Albemarle PC comp plan updateThe review of the Albemarle County Comprehensive Plan is underway, with a lot of behind-the-scenes work by staff before a public kickoff begins in January. The Albemarle Planning Commission got a update on the process at their meeting on November 16. Here’s Tori Kannellopolous, a senior planner with the county, with a reminder of the plan’s purpose. “The Comprehensive Plan, or comp plan, establishes Albemarle County’s long-range vision that guides growth, development, and change for the next 20 years,” Kannellopolous said. “It assists county staff, appointed committees and boards, and the Board of Supervisor when developing public policies related to private land use activities and use of resources in Albemarle.”For the past forty years, the major theme of the county’s comp plan has been growth management. Roughly five percent of land in Albemarle is designated for urban development including more dense residential areas and commercial activities. The rest is considered rural. This time around, Supervisors have directed staff to update the zoning ordinance while reviewing the overall Comprehensive Plan. The process formally got underway when Supervisors adopted a resolution on November 3. (Albemarle Supervisors Kickoff Comprehensive Review) One of the intents of this review is to streamline much of the content of the plan, which is currently 406 pages. That number doesn’t include the various appendices. (read the current plan)“For example, the existing implementation chapter includes 70 priorities,” Kannellopolous said. “There is not a clear prioritization of these items and the order in which they should be completed. The chapter includes 80 indicators of progress that are intended to be tracked annually but tracking this data is unsustainable and the sheer number of indicators make it unclear for community members to understand what success looks like.”This review also provides an opportunity to integrate the various strategies of more recent plans, such as Housing Albemarle, Project Enable, and the Climate Action Plan. In all, there will be four phases, with the first being a review of the growth management policy. “This includes reviewing, evaluating, and updating the growth management policy as needed using the lenses of equity, climate action, and capacity projections,” Kannellopolous said. “A capacity analysis for housing and economic development in the county is currently underway and this is to understand if we have the capacity in our development areas for the projected growth of our community.” Phase two will identify topics that will be updated in the comprehensive plan, likely related to transportation and economic development. The county will create its first multimodal systems plan as well. Phase three will review the actions the county will take in the form of written strategies. Phase four will be the finalization of the new plan. “We will focus our efforts on identifying and eliminating plan inconsistencies across content and we will engage the community and decision-makers on overall plan priorities once all of the content is considered as a whole,” Kannellopolous said. State code assigns the job of preparing and recommending the Comprehensive Plan to each locality’s Planning Commission. Supervisors have approved a process that includes a working group of stakeholders to guide the process. Rachel Falkenstein is a planning manager in Albemarle. “The working group is approximately an eight to twelve person group of community members whose role would be to advise county staff on plan recommendations, community engagement approaches, and to support staff’s community outreach efforts by sharing information with their networks, their neighborhoods, or their communities,” Falkenstein said. The group members have not yet been selected. “We are going back to the Board of Supervisors with information sharing about the selection process at an upcoming Board meeting in December,” Falkenstein said. Broad community engagement will come in the form of workshops on the plan. The Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors will play a role in decisions about changes to Albemarle policies. Planning Commission Chair Julian Bivins noted that the Commission’s input will come later in a process that has already begun. He said he wants the Commission to meet with Supervisors. “So that we can hear each other and discuss these discussions before we get to an endpoint,” Bivins said. The review of the zoning code will happen concurrently and is currently underway. Charles Rapp is the county’s Planning Director. “We have a first phase right now and it’s called modernization,” Rapp said. “Two of those have been brought to you through a resolution of intent that deal with bonus densities and wavers and special exceptions.” The Supervisors will hold a public hearing on special exceptions at their meeting on December 1. (staff report)Rapp said another change will be to streamline the list of land use categories. “I believe our current chart is something like 16 pages long right now with very specific uses and we want to try to tailor that back to something more reasonable,” Rapp said. “We also want to take a look at our setbacks. Our setbacks are quite complicated to figure out with multiple different ways within each zoning classification and we want to try and improve that and make it a little more clear for people applying our zoning ordinance.” If you’re interested in learning more about how Albemarle’s Community Development Department works, take at the department’s work program in the consent agenda for the December 1 meeting. You’re reading Charlottesville Community Engagement. Let’s have another Patreon-fueled shout-out: Charlottesville 350 is the local chapter of a national organization that seeks to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Charlottesville 350 uses online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions to oppose new coal, oil and gas projects, and build 100% clean energy solutions that work for all. To learn more about their most active campaigns, including a petition drive to the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank, visit their Facebook page at facebook.com/cville350Rural housing challengesMuch of the conversation about the cost of housing has centered on building units in urbanized areas. But what role can non-urbanized areas play? The Central Virginia Regional Housing Partnership led a panel discussion on November 16 to discuss the challenges. One of the biggest is money. (watch the event)“When you talk about funding for affordable housing, you think of urban,” said Colleen Fisher, the executive director of the Council for Affordable and Rural Housing. In fact, the main federal agency most people associate with the topic is called the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Fisher reminded the audience that the U.S. Department of Agriculture also offers federal support through their Rural Housing Service, but the program isn’t funded at high levels. One step localities can take is an assessment of what’s currently in the rural area.“We need ample resources to preserve our dedicated affordable housing stock in rural Virginia,” said Jonathan Knopf, the senior research associate for Housing Forward Virginia. “We have a lot of low-income housing tax credit properties that were the first and generation LIHTC properties. And a lot of that stuff is reaching the end of their affordability terms and so we need resources for housing providers to come in and lock in the affordability of that assisted multifamily stock.” Those credits are issued by the Virginia Housing Development Authority. Knopf said one challenge for rural areas is competition for those credits from urban areas. “It’s tough to break from this either-or resource conversation and I think we need to move to a both-and framework for housing resources across the Commonwealth so our rural rent relief programs don’t get left behind,” Knopf said. Taking inventoryGreene County has 146 LIHTC units at four properties. Louisa has 115 units in three developments. Nelson has 159 units in three properties. Albemarle has 1,089 units, most of which are in the urban area around Charlottesville except 34 units reserved for seniors in Scottsville. There are currently no LIHTC properties in Fluvanna. . Jesse Rutherford is a member of the Nelson County Board of Supervisors. He says the cost of housing used to be affordable in rural communities, but what he calls overregulation in land use and building codes in the past few decades is a problem.“You can’t add regulation and expect it to get cheaper,” Rutherford said. “In the last 15, 20, 25 years we’ve seen the collapse of affordable housing in the rural area. I think there’s definitely some low-hanging fruit as it relates to zoning form or some certain by-right density. As we know in the urban context, same as the rural, you can’t use the word affordable without density following it.” Rutherford wants zoning ordinances to be altered to reduce setbacks, which he said renders land unusable for more housing units. Knopf said the cost of labor and building materials is drastically increasing the cost of housing and some form of subsidization is required. He said a balance of tools can be used to produce more units and preserve existing ones. “We don’t need rocket science or fancy things to solve so many of these issues,” Knopf said. “In many cases it’s just dedicating the right funding and fixing our existing policies and regulations especially zoning and a lot of things Jesse talked about to make things work. And try to get the economic side and the supply-chain side and the labor market side at least moving in the right direction to correct some of the paths we’ve been on in the past couple of decades.” Fisher said members of her organization report construction costs keep rising.“Just because we’re in a rural area doesn’t mean that things are cheaper and some people have that opinion because you’re building in a rural community that it’s going to cost you less,” Fisher said. “That’s not necessarily true.” One factor is labor. Keith Smith is the chair of the Central Virginia Regional Housing Partnership. He cited one statistic from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reviewed by the National Association of Home Builders. (via HousingWire) “According to national data, we are anywhere between 300,000 to 400,000 thousand construction workers short per month,” Smith said. “We’re going to recover from the material costs. I’ve been building developments for three and a half decades. This goes up and down. It’s going to take many, many decades to work through the labor force.”To review the rest of the event, you can watch the whole thing on the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission’s YouTube page. Leave a comment either there or here to weigh in. Special announcement of a continuing promo with Ting! Are you interested in fast internet? Visit this site and enter your address to see if you can get service through Ting. If you decide to proceed to make the switch, you’ll get:Free installationSecond month of Ting service for freeA $75 gift card to the Downtown MallAdditionally, Ting will match your Substack subscription to support Town Crier Productions, the company that produces this newsletter and other community offerings. So, your $5 a month subscription yields $5 for TCP. Your $50 a year subscription yields $50 for TCP! The same goes for a $200 a year subscription! All goes to cover the costs of getting this newsletter out as often as possible. 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Happy Not-Really-Pie Day! November 10 is the 314th day of the year, which is an association that many have not yet made. There have been 241 days since the most recent March 14, which many so associate with a mathematical constant, and there are 124 days until the next 3/14. What does it all mean? Are these correlations, causations, or just random bits of trivia? And who gets to decide? None of this is relevant to the calculus of Charlottesville Community Engagement, but all of it is at least worth puzzling out.On today’s show:Charlottesville Planning Commission recommends rezoning for 170 units in Fry’s Spring neighborhood, conditioned on a deal between the city and Southern Development to build a sidewalkBrian Wheeler is leaving as Charlottesville’s Communications Director Fire marshals determine a deadly house fire in July was accidental Highlights from November’s meeting of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission In today’s first Patreon-fueled shout-out, Code for Charlottesville is seeking volunteers with tech, data, design, and research skills to work on community service projects. Founded in September 2019, Code for Charlottesville has worked on projects with the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Charlottesville Fire Department, and the Charlottesville Office of Human Rights. Visit codeforcville.org to learn about those projects. The city now has another high-level vacancy. Several media outlets are reporting that Brian Wheeler will leave his position as Communications Director later this month on November 19. Wheeler said the city has no further comment on his departure. There is currently no city manager, but Deputy City Managers Ashley Marshall and Sam Sanders are still in office and will remain so after Interim City Manager Marc Woolley begins work on December 1. In recent months, both the city’s parks director and public works director have left. The assistant economic development director is also leaving the city to take a job in the private sector. In a follow-up, Wheeler said offers are being made this week for parks, public works, and human resources. Charlottesville is not alone in job turnover. The Deputy Clerk of Virginia Beach has resigned, citing “toxic energy” within city government. That’s according to a report on WVEC. Consumer prices in the United States rose 0.9 percent in October. That brings the increase over the past year to 6.2 percent. That’s the largest yearly increase since November 1990. “The monthly all items seasonally adjusted increase was broad-based, with increases in the indexes for energy, shelter, food, used cars and trucks, and new vehicles among the larger contributors,” reads the press release that accompanied today’s numbers. The cost of energy rose 4.8 percent, with gasoline increasing 6.1 percent. Energy costs are up 30 percent over the past 12 months, and food costs are up 5.3 percent. Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin has launched a website with information related to his transition to become the 74th chief executive of Virginia. If you’re interested in a position in the next government, this is where you would go to apply. The website is also where to go for information about the inauguration. The Charlottesville Fire Department has found that a fire this summer in July at a home in the 1000 block of Cherry Avenue was accidental. The fire on July 21 killed two people and critically injured a third. Fire marshals found that flames started in an unoccupied bedroom and the presence of home oxygen cylinders contributed to the fire’s intensity. “Every family should have a home escape plan with a specific meeting place outside,” reads the press release. “Practicing your family's plan will ensure that everyone evacuates your home and reunites at the designated meeting place during a fire emergency.”The two fatalities are the first in Charlottesville since a fire in the summer of 2010. The Thomas Jefferson Planning District will mark its 50th anniversary next year. The public entity’s creation stemmed out of reform in Virginia. David Blount is the deputy director of the TJPDC and he explained the passage of the Regional Cooperation Act in 1968. (state code)“[Planning District Commissions] and the framework for them is laid out in state code,” Blount said. “It’s encouraging and facilitating not only that local government cooperation, but also providing that link between the state and localities for addressing issues on a regional basis.” TJPDC formed later than other similar bodies. The body last met on November 4. Executive Director Christine Jacobs said the agency has been awarded $2 million in funding from the Virginia Housing Development Authority to distribute to groups who can build affordable housing units. “We have cast a very wide net to make sure we are reaching out to potential public, nonprofit, private developers to submit proofs of concept so that we can see what types of projects are eligible under this funding,” Jacobs said. Applications are due on November 29 and the application can be found on the TJPDC website.The TJPDC continues to oversee the creation of a “regional transit vision” with a meeting scheduled for November 18. “We want to make sure we get as much as the public’s voice in that regional transit vision plan as possible,” Jacobs saidTo add your voice, there are two surveys you can fill out before participating in that November 18 meeting. (surveys are here)November RoundtableTJPDC meetings offer the opportunity for members to share what it happening in their localities. Yesterday I reported on Albemarle’s $13.2 million unaudited surplus from fiscal year 2021. Except, Albemarle doesn’t call it that. Here’s Supervisor Donna Price. “We don’t really see it as a surplus, but we do see it as a positive variance and that’s really a difference there because when that pandemic first hit we cut back on our spending substantially,” Price said (cut bite).The chair of the TJPDC Board of Commissioners is Jesse Rutherford, recently re-elected to another term on the Nelson County Board of Supervisors. He appreciated Price’s distinction. “You taught me something that I’m going to bring with me to my tax accountant,” Rutherford said. “Positive variance. I’m already texting my account and we’re getting rid of the word net income.” City Planning Commissioner Rory Stolzenberg noted that the seven member advisory body recommended approval of the city’s Comprehensive Plan update on October 12. He also provided an update on the redevelopment of public housing. “The very first buildings, the phase one of South First Street building in the empty ballfields, the first two buildings are just about complete structurally,” Stolzenberg said. “They have roofs and walls and are topped out. So they just need to be finished and that means building 3 can start.”The Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority will hold a work session on November 11 on the draft annual plan that must be submitted to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (presentation) (draft plan) (register for 5 p.m. meeting)2021 began with Chip Boyles as the executive director of the TJPDC, a position he left to become City Manager. He resigned on October 12, citing professional and personal abuse in the wake of the firing of Police Chief RaShall Brackney. City Councilor Michael Payne reported the news. “I won’t sugarcoat it,” Payne said. “It’s probably the biggest challenge we face. Just the turnover there. We’re in a maybe unique situation where this internal stuff has a major impact on our ability to execute a lot of the things we want to begin, Comprehensive Plan, housing, climate action planning. It makes it difficult for our ability to do long-range planning as well.” Rutherford offered the services of the planning district.“Of course if there’s anything that we can do as an organization to assist in whatever way, we’re here for you,” Rutherford said. “What happens to Charlottesville does have a regional effect.” Time for a second Patreon-powered shout-out! The Plant Northern Piedmont Natives Campaign, an initiative that wants you to grow native plants in yards, farms, public spaces and gardens in the northern Piedmont. The leaves have started to fall as autumn set in, and as they do, this is a good time to begin planning for the spring. Native plants provide habitat, food sources for wildlife, ecosystem resiliency in the face of climate change, and clean water. Start at the Plant Northern Piedmont Natives Facebook page and tell them Lonnie Murray sent you!Sidewalk progressA rezoning of 12 wooded acres in Charlottesville’s Fry’s Spring neighborhood moved one step closer to approval last night. The seven-member Planning Commission recommended approval of a project that goes by the name 240 Stribling that would see 170 units. On September 14, the developer asked for a deferral of a decision following a public hearing. City Planner Matt Alfele has this recap.“During the public hearing, the Planning Commission heard from 16 members of the public,” Alfele said. “Most speakers raised concern about the safety of Stribling Avenue and how additional dwelling units on the subject property would be detrimental to public safety.” At that meeting, Southern Development’s vice president and the city’s Economic Development director discussed the details of an agreement in which Southern Development had agreed to pay up to $2 million for sidewalk improvements. City Engineer Jack Dawson said that figure was too low to cover the cost, and in October, he told Council his estimate would top out at $2.85 million. (Council Balks At $850k Cost For Stribling Sidewalks) “As I stated to Council, it’s not a complete estimate, it’s just an improved upon estimate but it is likely to be higher than that would be my guess,” Dawson said last night. The city’s Capital Improvement Plan budget is at capacity with expectations of spending millions a year on affordable housing projects as well as tens of millions over the next five years for reconfiguration of the city’s elementary and middle schools. Southern Development has agreed to increase their upfront funding to $2.9 million. “Though we feel that this work can be completed for significantly less, we do think it is important enough that we want to make sure our amount jibes with the city engineer’s estimate,” said Charlie Armstrong, vice president at Southern Development. “We want to get those sidewalks built,” he added. “We want to provide the funding so that it could be put into the [capital improvement program].”Armstrong said Southern Development is ready to move on the sidewalk project and his team has worked on a survey of the corridor. So has the city engineer. “There are some differences but I think we have a pretty good idea of a basic what would be needed,” Armstrong said. “There’s a lot of details in the detailed engineering that will come later.”Southern Development will be paid back by getting the incremental difference between the current value of the land and what it will be like after the units are built.“Our development obviously significantly increases the value of the real estate at 240 Stribling so the taxes go up,” Armstrong said. “And we’re not talking about just a little bit. They go up a lot. In twenty years, this produces, conservatively, eight and a half million dollars of new tax revenue. And that’s after paying for the sidewalks.” Armstrong said 25 units would be designated as affordable with rents or sale prices held below market for households with incomes below 60 percent of the area median income. Next up will be a vote by the City Council. The Planning Commission will have a work session on the next Capital Improvement Program budget on November 23. Special announcement of a continuing promo with Ting! Are you interested in fast internet? Visit this site and enter your address to see if you can get service through Ting. If you decide to proceed to make the switch, you’ll get:Free installationSecond month of Ting service for freeA $75 gift card to the Downtown MallAdditionally, Ting will match your Substack subscription to support Town Crier Productions, the company that produces this newsletter and other community offerings. So, your $5 a month subscription yields $5 for TCP. Your $50 a year subscription yields $50 for TCP? The same goes for a $200 a year subscription! All goes to cover the costs of getting this newsletter out as often as possible. Learn more here! This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe
In today’s first Patreon-fueled shout-out, are you interested in picking up some new fibrous friends? On Saturday, the Jefferson Madison Regional Library invites you to Gordon Avenue for a front porch plant swap. Bring a healthy plant or a cutting on October 23 between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. and exchange it for another in an event that also includes a selection of plant-related library resources, including plant care cards with QR codes to help your new friend develop deep roots. That’s the Front Porch Plant Swap at the Gordon Avenue branch of the library. Visit jmrl.org to learn more. On today’s show:A company that wants to take a shot at a male contraceptive gets a shot of fundingBoosters are authorized for the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson VaccineRegional updates from the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission including information about broadband expansion Ground is broken for the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia It’s been a few days since a newsletter, so let’s catch up first on today’s COVID numbers. The September surge is now in the past with new case numbers continuing to decline in Virginia. The seven-day average is currently 1,688 new cases a day. Compare that to 3,486 a day as registered on September 22. The seven day percent positivity has declined to 6.5 percent. In the Blue Ridge Health District there are another 50 new cases reported today. The percent positivity is 5.5 percent. Though numbers are currently on a downward trend, that may not remain the case. “We’re all hopeful that we’re on the back side of this Delta wave right now,” said Dr. Costi Sifri, director of hospital epidemiology at the University of Virginia. “I think we also do recognize that we’re heading into colder drier times right now and that we’re going into to respiratory virus season, the so-called cold and flu season, and cold, flu, and maybe COVID season.”Dr. Sifri said people need to continue to keep their guard up against community spread by continuing to wear masks, to wash hands, and all of the preventative measures that have been recommended over the course of the pandemic. This week, the Centers for Disease Control cleared the way for booster shots of the Modern and the Johnson and Johnson vaccines. The Moderna third dose is for people over the age of 65 and those with underlying health conditions.“For Moderna it’s similar to the Pfizer dose, it would be a third dose,” Dr. Sifri said. “For both the Pfizer and the Moderna, the booster eligibility is six months after the completion of your primary series, that initial two dose series. There is a difference in the dose for the booster dose for the Moderna vaccine. It’s a half dose compared to what was used for the primary series.”The Johnson and Johnson booster is a second dose that Dr. Sifri said will be available for anyone over the age of 18, regardless of underlying health conditions. “I can tell you here at UVA and I’m sure at the Blue Ridge Health District as well and local pharmacies, we are gearing up to provide those vaccines through local resources,” Dr. Sifri said. A Charlottesville-based company that wants to bring a male contraceptive to market recently announced the securing of $10.7 million in new capital financing. Contraline will use the funding to begin a human trial of ADAM™ , a hydrogel implant. “The ADAM hydrogel is injected into the vas deferens through a quick and minimally invasive outpatient procedure, where it’s designed to block the flow of sperm,” reads a press release making the announcement. The trial will take place in Melbourne, Australia and has been sanctioned by the Human Research Ethics Committee there. The press releases states this is the first human trial for a male contraceptive in a couple of decades. (Hat tip to the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council!)Ground has been broken for construction of the new School of Data Science at the University of Virginia. According to UVA Today, officials marked the occasion with a ceremony Thursday. The new building is within the 14 acre Emmet / Ivy corridor, which will also include a hotel and conference center as well as other uses that have not yet been announced. The school is being funded in part through a $120 million gift to UVA from the Quantitative Foundation and Merrill and Jaffrey Woodriff. Charlottesville 350 is the local chapter of a national organization that seeks to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Charlottesville 350 uses online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions to oppose new coal, oil and gas projects, and build 100% clean energy solutions that work for all. To learn more about their most active campaigns, including a petition drive to the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank, visit their Facebook page at facebook.com/cville350This week, Governor Ralph Northam’s press office sent out a message announcing that Virginia’s government and the private sector have teamed up on over $2 billion in investments in broadband. The goal is to have the state on track to have universal broadband access by 2024. The work is coordinated through the Virginia Telecommunications Initiative, or VATI. The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission has made one of 57 applications from across Virginia for $943 million in available funding in the latest round of VATI funding, Those applications will leverage $1.15 billion in private funding. The program is run by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. “These applications are all posted online so other services providers are able to see those applications to see what the projected service areas to be covered are and if they believe that they already have service or provide the opportunity for service in a particular area, then they can indicate they want to challenge the application or that portion of the application,” said David Blount, deputy director and legislative liaison at the TJPDC. Challenges are due October 24. The TJPDC’s application is part of the Regional Internet Service Expansion project, or RISE. The private aspect is Firefly Fiber Broadband, Dominion, and several electric cooperatives. The public aspect includes thirteen counties as far south as Campbell County south of Lynchburg. (read the application)TJPDC’s request is for $85.9 million for a $307.8 million project. Localities have put up $35.3 million in local matching funds. “The application proposes putting 4,300 miles of fiber either in the air or underground passing over 40,000 total locations,” Blount said. Blount said TJPDC’s role would be to administer the project. He made his comments at the October 4, 2021 meeting of the TJPDC’s Board of Commissioners. At the same meeting, Dale Herring of the Greene Board of Supervisors reported that short-term rentals are no longer allowed in that county’s residential districts. “Unfortunately or fortunately depending on which side of the fence you are on, that was voted down after about three years,” Herring said. “It turned out that a lot of investors were beginning to buy properties in R-1 zoning and that definitely created an issue for the homeowners in those areas.” The TJPDC meetings always include a roundtable where representatives from the different localities are able to give updates on what’s happening. Tommy Barlow is on the Louisa County Board of Supervisors. “It looks like to me that every meeting we are dealing with mid-year appropriations that weren’t expected such as Sheriff’s Department raises to keep up with other counties,” Barlow said. “We just lost our deputy county administrator so we’re looking to hire another one.”Employment was also on the mind of Albemarle Supervisor Donna Price, who said a thorough review of compensation will soon get underway. “We are facing loss of some critical people primarily because of compensation packages from other governmental entities that are extremely difficult for us to match,” Price said. “I would just as one Supervisor speaking anticipate that we’re going to have to put some more money into our labor expenses in the county in order to avoid losing some of our better people.” Tony O’Brien is on the Fluvanna Board of Supervisors. He agreed that the cost of paying people to do government work is increasing.“Because Louisa raised their pay rate for the Sheriff’s office, Fluvanna had to follow in turn, too,” O’Brien said. “Obviously Sheriff’s compensation and deputy’s compensation is an issue for many many counties as recruitment is increasingly difficult.” O’Brien suggested a regional compensation study be conducted. As part of her report, TJPDC Executive Director Christine Jacobs reminded the board that City Council has extended its local COVID emergency due to a high number of cases. “How that affects us here is that we will continue to hold our public bodies, partnerships, and commissions virtually to ensure that we are keeping it as safe as possible for people,” Jacobs said. The chair of the TJPDC is Jesse Rutherford of Nelson County. Rutherford said Nelson is considering a recreation center and a business park, among other things. He also had this news. “I’m excited to announce Lovingston is getting its brewery here soon after our vote on Tuesday,” Rutherford said. According to the Lynchburg News Advance, supervisors voted unanimously on October 12 for a special use permit for the Outback Brew House to operate at the site of a former church on U.S. 29. Rutherford told the News Advance that this may begin to alleviate pressure on Route 151, which has seen multiple alcohol related businesses spring up over the years. Outback Brew House will be a microbrewery. Special announcement! Today’s the third day of a new promo with Ting! Are you interested in fast internet? Visit this site and enter your address to see if you can get service through Ting. If you decide to proceed to make the switch, you’ll get:Free installationSecond month of Ting service for freeA $75 gift card to the Downtown Mall This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe
Jesse Rutherford of The Nelson County Board Of Supervisors and James Andrews, Candidate for The Albermarle County Board Of Supervisors, joined Keith Smith and me on “Real Talk: An Insider's Guide To Real Estate In Central Virginia” powered by The YES Team Realtors! “Real Talk” airs every Tuesday and Friday from 10:15 am – 11 am on The I Love CVille Network! “Real Talk” is presented by Charlottesville Settlement Company, LLC, Pearl Certification, Intrastate Inc., Scott Morris – Home Loans, Dairy Market and Shenandoah Joe.
In today’s Patreon-fueled shout-out from an anonymous supporter: It may seem like we just had an election, but 2021 is once again a city, county, and state election year. Party primaries are coming soon on June 8, 2021. The deadline to register to vote, or update an existing registration is Monday, May 17, 2021.On today’s show:Charlottesville hires a deputy manager for racial equity, diversion, and inclusionArea counties consider a cigarette tax Charlottesville Police seeks help in addressing a string of shootings this weekendThe Environmental Resilience Institute at the University of Virginia begins the Climate Ambition Summit tomorrowAlbemarle launches a grant program aimed at agribusiness Charlottesville has hired its first-ever Deputy City Manager for Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Ashley Reynolds Marshall is currently the chief executive office of the YWCA of Central Virginia in Lynchburg. Marshall is a Roanoke native with degrees from Hollins University, William of Mary School of Law and Virginia Tech, where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in public administration and policy. The new position will oversee the Human Services and Social Service Departments as well as the Police Civilian Review Board and the Office of Human Rights. Marshall begins work on May 10, 2021. The city is also seeking a new city attorney, neighborhood services development director, social services director, and a deputy city manager for operations. Ashley Reynolds Marshall (Credit: City of Charlottesville)The Charlottesville Police Department issued a press release this afternoon asking for community support in the wake of a series of shootings this month. The release lists four incidents where officers reported to shots fired. One man was shot Sunday evening in the 100 block of Hammond Street, a cul-de-sac in the Fry’s Spring neighborhood. “In addition to the major events over the weekend, CPD responded to 3 additional shots fired calls, 3 stolen vehicles, 29 disorders, and numerous mental health related calls,” the release continued. The cases are under investigation. Last Thursday, the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission got an update on the possibility of a regional cigarette tax. The TJPDC is leading efforts to create a body that would collect and distribute the revenues to participating localities. The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors had received an update at their budget work session on March 22. Lori Allshouse is the director of budget and performance management for Albemarle County. “During the 2020 General Assembly, they authorized the county to impose a cigarette tax of up to 40 cents per pack for counties,” Allshouse said. “Up until this time, only Virginia cities, Virginia towns, and Arlington and Fairfax counties have been able to impose a cigarette tax,” Allshouse said. If Albemarle proceeds with going through the various steps to levy the tax, any revenues would go to the general fund. Those steps include adoption of an ordinance following a public hearing. The tax has also been reviewed by the county’s Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI)“As part of that process we began our consideration of this proposed tax by seeking first to understand who could be most affected by this tax and how could those impacts be experienced and mitigated,” Allshouse said. The Board will hold a work session on the equity impact assessment in August. Research on this topic found the cigarette tax would impact the poor and black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Jason Inofuentes is a project and policy associate in OEI who cited a University of Pittsburgh study on the effects of taxation and smoking rates.“Where you see the highest decrease in smoking is in the highest incomes,” Inofuentes said. “There is overall some amount of decrease. There isn’t however any noticeable decrease in low-income communities.” Credit: Albemarle County If implemented, the goal is to have all localities in the area impose the tax so no one locality has a competitive advantage. David Blount is the legislative liaison for the TJPDC and he addressed the Board of Commissioner on Thursday. “I think from here we see that following this meeting within the next week or so that we would send out some materials to every jurisdiction in our region, which would be the city and the five counties as well as the four towns in our region, but also casting the net a little bit wider to some of the counties that adjoin our member counties,” Blount said. Blount is asking localities to consider resolutions to express interest in participating and to authorize their staff to participate in the discussion.“Certainly not asking anybody at this point to commit to anything, commit to participating, or commit to anything beyond just an interest,” Blount said. “I think by the time we get to summer time with June and July rolling around, we really want to be looking at what does this regional board look like? What are its functions? What is the make-up of the board? What is the legal makeup? Those types of things.” Greene County Supervisor Dale Herring representatives said his locality was interested. “I think what the TJPDC is doing is the direction we need to go on,” Herring said. Fluvanna’s representatives also said they were interested. Albemarle Supervisor Donna Price told the TJPDC that her county wants to pursue the regional approach. “We don’t anticipate that the revenue that is generated is going to be significant enough to result in a reduction of our property tax,” Price said. No referendum would be required if localities agree. More information as it becomes available. Credit: Albemarle County Regional budget updatesAt the end of the TJPDC meeting, Commissioners from all six localities had the chance to give updates. Jesse Rutherford is on the Nelson County Board of Supervisors.“Real quick, just want to say we’re looking at lowering our machine and tools tax as well as lowering our personal property tax rates,” Rutherford said. The public hearing for the Nelson County’s $41.7 million budget is scheduled for May 4 with adoption expected on May 11. (budget website)Tommy Barlow is on the Louisa County Board of Supervisors.“We’re still struggling along with our budget trying to figure out what to do with that and get it resolved,” Barlow said.Louisa’s proposed budget does not appear to be available on the county’s budget website. Adoption is expected on April 19. Albemarle has completed their cycle of five budget work sessions and adoption is scheduled for May 5.“We were able to cancel the last work session that we were going to have on the budget,” Price said. “We’re looking at getting about $10 million in the first tranche of funds from the federal government in May and the same amount next year. We know that at some point the federal government can’t continue to be providing these funds but they really have been a lifesaver for us this year.” Fluvanna County will have its public hearing on its budget on April 14 with adoption scheduled for April 21. Their proposed budget is based on a property tax rate of $0.884 per $100 of assessed value, down from the current rate of $0.925. Tony O’Brien is a member of the Board of Supervisors. “In our budget we’ve included taking out a loan of about $25 million to work on a new administration building and update some of our fire and rescue vehicles as well as the sheriff and busses as well too,” O’Brien said. Herring gave an update on Greene County’s budget.“Our tax rate will stay the same,” Herring said. “Our assessments did go up. We would have probably looked at lowering our [tax rate] this year if it wasn’t for our debt associated with our [Rapidan Service Authority] water authority.”For more details on that issue, read Terry Beigie’s story on the on-going issue. The Greene County Board of Supervisors convened this afternoon to vote on a resolution requesting that Orange and Madison counties allow Greene to leave the Rapidan Service Authority. The RSA objects with a plan to impound White Run to create a new reservoir and did not allow Greene to use a facility fee that had been charged to cover the cost of the project. Schematic image for White Run Reservoir projectThe application window opened today on a new grant program Albemarle County is offering to a specific industry affected by COVID-19. The Albemarle Agribusiness Resiliency Grant Program is aimed at farms and agricultural operations who have bit hit by the downturn. Awards of up to $10,000 are available for direct-market agribusinesses such as orchards, wineries, cideries and more. “One of our region’s greatest assets is the wealth of local farms, food businesses, and the resilience of our food system,” reads the pre-application. “COVID-19 has caused this system to be challenged in ways unimaginable.”The window closes on April 21. Finally today, local governments in the area as well as the University of Virginia have set ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 45 percent by 2030 and to be carbon neutral by 2050. Tomorrow, the Environmental Resilience Institute at UVA begins a series of virtual events designed to help connect many of the pieces together. Karen McGlathery is the director of ERI.“We decided to call it the Climate Ambition Summit because we have ambitious goals that we need to reach by 2050 if we’re going to have any chance of bending the curve with regard to climate change and climate warming,” McGlathery said. At 1:30 p.m. UVA Provost Liz Magill will interview Environmental Sciences Professor Scott Doney on what’s been learned in the last five years since the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “Frontiers of Climate Science is essentially what we’re calling it,” McGlathery said. “Essentially what’s happened in the last five years in terms of climate research that can really help us develop realistic strategies to address climate change both in terms of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere but also taking it out of the atmosphere.” The next event on Friday at 2 p.m. explores Climate Risk and the Opportunity for Private Capital. A Climate Justice panel will be held on April 13 at 2 p.m. “So we’ll be thinking about [how] every climate change issue is an environmental justice issue so both on the local scale but also on the broader regional and national scale,” McGlathery said. The final event in the four-part series is another interview between a top UVA official and an expert in the field.“The final event we have in the series is a conversation between President Jim Ryan and Dr. Arun Majumdar from Stanford University who was the head of the transition team for President Biden for the Department of Energy,” McGlathery said. “They’re going to be having a conversation about how we can as a society meet these ambitious net-zero carbon goals in the future.”The events are open to the public and will be recorded, very much in keeping with how our lives have been lived in the past year. McGlathery said there are lessons to be learned from the pandemic.“What the pandemic has taught us is that it’s possible to come together to address a broad societal issues that’s urgent and that seems almost insurmountable in the beginning, but the success of coming out with a vaccine in such a small time period shows that it’s possible to have a global strategy, to have an actual strategy,” McGlathery said. Visit the ERI website to learn more. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe
Jesse Rutherford of the Nelson County Board of Supervisors and Gavin Sherwood, Associate Broker at YES Realty Partners, joined Keith Smith and me on “Real Talk: An Insider's Guide To Real Estate In Central Virginia” powered by The YES Team Realtors! “Real Talk” airs every Tuesday and Friday from 10:15 am – 11 am on The I Love CVille Network! “Real Talk” is presented by Charlottesville Settlement Company, LLC, Pearl Certification, Intrastate Inc., MarieBette Café & Bakery, Scott Morris – Home Loans and Dairy Market.
Today's Patreon-fueled shout-out is for the Plant Northern Piedmont Natives Campaign, an initiative that wants you to grow native plants in yards, farms, public spaces and gardens in the northern Piedmont. Native plants provide habitat, food sources for wildlife, ecosystem resiliency in the face of climate change, and clean water. Start at the Plant Northern Piedmont Natives Facebook page and tell them Lonnie Murray sent you! On today’s program:Lots of transportation news from the Thomas Jefferson Planning District CommissionCharlottesville City Council takes a first crack at next year’s fiscal budgetBrief update on the pandemicLet’s get a quick update on the pandemic. All metrics continue to trend downward, except for the number of fatalities. The Virginia Department of Health has been slowly catching up with death certificates from the post holiday surge, and 9,849 people are recorded as dying from COVID. And while the number of new cases each day has declined, they are still high. Today there were another 1,246 cases reported. Source: Virginia Department of HealthToday there is a long line once again at the former K-Mart where the Blue Ridge Health District is administering COVID vaccinations presumably the hundreds of people who got first doses on February 17. According to the VDH dashboard, 18 percent of Virginians have received at least one dose. Governor Ralph Northam acknowledged that milestone yesterday.“We’ve achieved the aggressive goal we set back in January,” Northam said. “Back then as you remember, just a few weeks ago our goal was to get to 25,000 shots a day and we accomplished that. We set a long-term goal that to get everyone vaccinated by this summer would be 50,000.” The seven-day average is currently 50,877 shots a dayThis week the Centers for Disease Control issued new guidance that allows people who have had all of their shots to be able to gather indoors with others who are also protected. (read the guidance) Still, the pandemic remains with us. On Monday, the Virginia Department of Health announced the South African variant has been found in their central region. “The B.1.351 variant, which first emerged in South Africa in late 2020, is associated with increased person-to-person transmission of COVID-19,” reads the press release. “At this time, there is no evidence that infections with this variant cause more severe disease.”I’ll have more from this press conference in a future program. For many of us, the pandemic has meant working from home. When this time ends, many of us may be looking for a different way to get to and from our workplace. On March 4, the person who runs a service that seeks to get people out of their cars told members of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission about her work. Sara Pennington explained Rideshare.“We are a program that was established actually in 1980 at Jaunt through the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation to provide carpool and vanpool matching services and support,” Pennington said. “The program later moved to the TJPDC and then in 2009 we expanded our coverage to include the Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission so we kind of work in conjunction with our folks across the mountain.” (download FY22 proposed work program)RideShare also offers a guaranteed ride home program to give people who may have to get home at a different time the occasional option when there are sudden changes of plan. “That is a great comfort and always what we hear as the first deterrent that keeps folks from taking that alternative transportation,” Pennington said. RideShare also assists with helping companies with teleworking logistics, and is currently conducting a survey to gauge interest in coworking. Pennington said Rideshare has continued to operate during this last year. “Even though things this year have been weird with the pandemic there are still some folks who are going into work and who may still need those commute services, so none of that has stopped,” Pennington said. “But we have pivoted a lot of our direction and our resources and information sharing into the field of telework.” The TJPDC is currently working on several transportation studies, including a small area plan for Zion Crossroads and a look at the U.S. 29 corridor north of Airport Road in Albemarle County to U.S. 33 in Greene County. Jessica Hersh-Ballering is a transportation planner. “The overall purpose of this corridor study is to develop broad transportation recommendations that complement the existing land use designations in the study area,” Hersh-Ballering said. There are several new developments either under construction or in the planning stages in both Albemarle and Greene.The TJPDC is also supporting efforts to expand non-motorized infrastructure. Sandy Shackelford is the director of Planning and Transportation.“One of those is the expansion of the Virginia Capital Trail from Richmond through our region, through the Charlottesville area and even west into Staunton,” Shackelford said. Shackelford said the current task is to identify an alignment for such a trail. “It could be right now kind of looking at maybe some of these are on-street connections with a goal in the future to maybe have a set-aside shared-use path kind of facility, but that’s what they’re starting to work towards nowShackelford said her staff also supports the Regional Transit Partnership, which is at the beginning stages of creating a regional vision for public transportation. At the end of the TDJPC meeting, Commissioners had the chance to give updates on what’s happening in their community. City Councilor Michael Payne said new city City Manager Chip Boyles is settling in.“The major thing for us in Charlottesville especially over the next year is really rebuilding our organization and getting it to a better place,” Payne said. “Chip has entered on with a daunting task but perhaps not surprisingly to some of the people here, the work has already started. I’m optimistic that we’re moving into a much more stable place.” Payne also mentioned that the city is considering a one-cent sales tax to help cover the costs of reconfiguring the schools. That would take approval by voters in a referendum after passage of enabling legislation by the General Assembly. “And all that revenue would go strictly to school facilities,” Payne said. “What we’ve heard from our representatives is that it will be much more likely to happen and happen quicker if we have a groundswell of many localities saying this would be a useful power for us to have.” The Louisa County recently banned the practice of people asking others for money within medians. Bob Babyok is the board’s chair. “On Monday, 1 March, we also approved the panhandling prohibition so no more panhandling in Louisa,” Babyok said. Jesse Rutherford of the Nelson Board of Supervisors told the TJPDC that there’s a lot of activity happening in that county.“Here in Nelson we have a lot of opportunity coming as it relates to revitalization of Lovingston and hopefully we’re going to get some good efforts moving forward on some housing development,” Rutherford said. Nelson County currently has a population of about 15,000 according to the most recent estimates from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. Rutherford also raised an important issue worth considering as the pandemic recedes.“You know we haven’t had foreclosures in almost a year,” Rutherford said. “Since March there has been a prohibition on any foreclosure that is related to a loan that is insured by the federal government which sets a dangerous precedent potentially this summer when that foreclosure ban is raised.” Certainly an issue to know more about. The moratorium in Virginia is currently scheduled to end on June 30.Charlottesville City Council began their review of City Manager Chip Boyles’ recommended fiscal budget for fiscal year 2022. (review the budget)“We’ll provide a recommended balanced budget of $190,689,839,” Boyles said. “Included in this recommended budget are several identified Council priorities of affordable housing, racial equity, safety and security, workforce development, as well as investment in our employees.” The budget will be adopted in about five weeks after a series of work sessions, and after that, work will begin on updating the city’s strategic plan as a first concrete step towards creation of a budget for fiscal year 2023. Senior Budget Management Analyst Krisy Hammill detailed some of the Council priorities.“For racial equity, we are fully funding the deputy city manager of race, equity, diversity, and inclusion, the Home to Hope program, the food equity initiative, the Office of Human Rights, in addition to the city’s minority business activities,” Hammill said. A request to fully fund the Police Civilian Review Board at $350,000 has been granted. Other requests, however, were not included in the budget. There is no pay raise for employees, for instance. An open issue is whether to fulfil the school system’s full budget request, which does include a pay raise. Hammill offered various scenarios. Watch the video to learn more. Upcoming budget meetings! This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe
Jesse Rutherford of the Nelson County Board of Supervisors, Ben Reeves, Realtor with the McKone Group of Keller Williams Alliance, and Chris Ali, Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, joined Keith Smith and me on “Real Talk: An Insider's Guide To Real Estate In Central Virginia” powered by The YES Team Realtors! “Real Talk” airs every Tuesday and Friday from 10:15 am – 11 am on The I Love CVille Network! “Real Talk” is presented by Charlottesville Settlement Company, LLC, Pearl Certification, Intrastate Inc., MarieBette Café & Bakery, Scott Morris – Home Loans and Dairy Market.
Today's Patreon-fueled shout-out is for the Plant Northern Piedmont Natives Campaign, an initiative that wants you to grow native plants in yards, farms, public spaces and gardens in the northern Piedmont. Native plants provide habitat, food sources for wildlife, ecosystem resiliency in the face of climate change, and clean water. Start at the Plant Northern Piedmont Natives Facebook page and tell them Lonnie Murray sent you! In today’s newsletter:Charlottesville seeks cooperation to keep gatherings in city parks below 25 peopleVirginia will soon move into a new phase of its rent and mortgage relief programThe Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia wins another award*The seven-day average for positive PCR tests in Virginia has climbed to 9.5 percent, up from 8.8 percent yesterday, and 7.3 percent a week ago. There are another 2,877 cases reported today. The Blue Ridge Health District posted another 80 cases, with 40 cases from Albemarle, 18 cases from Charlottesville, six from Fluvanna, five from Greene, five from Louisa and six from Nelson. There have been no new COVID-19 fatalities reported in the health district since November 26. The statewide fatality count is 4,160 today. Source: Virginia Department of Health* The city of Charlottesville will begin to more closely monitor gatherings at city parks, including the recently opened skate facility in McIntire Park. That’s according to a press release sent out this morning. “Last weekend, more than 75 individuals were observed in the Skate Park at one time,” reads the release. “The nature of such activity makes social distancing difficult and many participants were observed without face coverings. Increased supervision and enforcement of the City’s COVID-19 ordinance would lead to City employees being placed at an even greater risk during a critical stage in the pandemic.”Violation of the gathering rules is either a Class 3 or Class 4 misdemeanor and comes with a $500 fine. City Council is expected to vote Monday on an extension and update of the local declaration of a public health emergency. *A local regional government agency will soon wind down its administration of a statewide rental and mortgage relief program. Christine Jacobs is the Housing Coordinator for the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission. She briefed representatives from area localities about the statewide program. “As of last week, $23.9 million in emergency assistance has been deployed in less than 5 months and over 8,800 households across the Commonwealth have received emergency support,” Jacobs said. Jacobs said the TJPDC’s contract with the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development will end on December 31. After that, the state agency will contract with one private company that will take applications from landlords seeking relief, and a second will process applications from homeowners and tenants. Jacobs said the TJPDC stopped taking applications on Monday. “Starting December 1, which was Tuesday of this week, all new applications are processed through that state level point of intake,” Jacobs said. She said a final report on how much funding TJPDC has been able to distribute will be available in the middle of the month. “Mid-month also is when they will begin to advertise a public launch of RRMP 2.0,” Jacobs said. “Right now it is more of a soft launch because the regional agencies are still under contract and are able to process applications.”Locally, the TJPDC has distributed $1.372 million in funding and has another $274,000 request pending with the DHCD. *The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission is prepared to move ahead with regional administration of additional taxes on cigarettes should area localities decide to impose them. Counties can begin to levy such taxes as of July 1, 2021. David Blount is the legislative liaison for the TJPDC. “Counties are starting to look at discussing their budgets for fiscal year 22 which begins next July,” Blount said. “They are looking at the cigarette tax as an option for implementing in that next budget.”The TJPDC hosted an information session this week on the tax and how it may be collected. There is a Northern Virginia Cigarette Tax Board that covers 19 localities, and that arrangement is an option for this region. Blount also briefed the Commission on the upcoming General Assembly session, which is scheduled to convene on January 13.“There is some question at this point as to if the session is going to be its typical 46 days which is what the short sessions are as opposed to the long session of 60 days, or if its only going to be 30 days,” Blount said.The Virginia Constitution restricts sessions in odd number years to 30 days unless a two-thirds vote in both the House of Delegates and the Senate agree to extend it. (Article IV)“Here a couple of weeks ago the GOP Republican leadership indicated they would not be willing to go along with extending the session this year,” Blount said. “That remains to be seen where we land. We’ll get to Richmond on January 13.”Blount said the General Assembly met for two months in special session this fall, and will meet again for a redistricting special session in the spring. The House of Delegates will meet remotely, and the Senate will meet on site. “We do expect fewer bills this year because of some limitations that the House and Senate have put on themselves,” Blount said. *In other TJPDC related news, executive director Chip Boyles said the agency is seeking a grant from the Virginia Department of Transportation to pay for a transportation study of U.S. 29 between Airport Road in Albemarle County and Ruckersville in Greene County.“There’s a lot of growth happening in both Albemarle and Greene in that section,” Boyles said. In recent years, U.S. 29 in the Hollymead area has been widened to six lanes. VDOT will begin construction of a reconfiguration of the junction of U.S. 29 and U.S. 33 next winter. But what about the miles in between? “We think it’s really, really important for this corridor of statewide significance to begin to be looked at to fill that gap,” Boyles said. At the end of the meeting, Commissioners from throughout the region had the ability to check in. Jesse Rutherford of the Nelson Board of Supervisors said his county is working with the Central Virginia Electric Cooperative on an ambitious goal. “We’re about to cut a deal with the co-op, Albemarle are you listening? Please, I hope you are, that one hundred percent of the residents of Nelson County will have access to fiber internet by 2024,” Rutherford said. At the conclusion of the meeting. TJPDC Chair Dale Martin had these words.“To all the Commissioners present, it’s been a very tough year, it’s been a tough year for everyone involved,” Martin said. “I know that you’ve been struggling personally, struggling with your citizens and localities, trying to do what’s best for your community, and also struggling to attend these meetings. This is a very unusual time in our history and I think that each of you are doing a tremendous job as well.” The TJPDC will next meet on February 4, 2021. *The University of Virginia Memorial to Enslaved Laborers has been awarded the honor of Project of the Year by the Architect’s Newspaper. The memorial was completed earlier this year and was designed by Höweler + Yoon Architecture in collaboration with Mabel O. Wilson and Gregg Bleam Landscape Architect. According to an article on UVA Today, the diameter of the memorial is the same as the Rotunda, and contains the names of those people who are known to have been enslaved as well as placeholders for those whose identities and stories are waiting to be told. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe
Luke Wild & Jesse talk about his new Sunburn EP, overthinking, influence & harnessing passion!
Jesse Rutherford of The Nelson County Board of Supervisors joined me live on The I Love CVille Show! The I Love CVille Show headlines (Tuesday, October 27) 1. Orange County to spend $2 million on free hotspots for citizens. https://dailyprogress.com/news/state-and-regional/orange-county-to-spend-2-million-to-deploy-free-hotspots-for-citizens/article_b78226d9-962f-562a-a1ca-fe4b367612b1.html#tracking-source=home-the-latest 2. The James Bond movie franchise is for sale. https://variety.com/2020/film/news/james-bond-no-time-to-die-netflix-apple-1234814809/ 3. Is Dunkin Donuts about to be sold to a privately held company? https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/26/dunkin-stock-soars-18percent-after-chain-confirms-sale-talks-with-inspire-brands.html 4. College Gameday will be live at The Masters on November 14! https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30202116/augusta-national-golf-club-host-college-gameday-masters 5. #15 UNC (-6.5) at UVA, 8 pm, ACC Network. 61.5 over/under. https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401234628 6. Virginia Tech (-3.5) at Louisville, 4 pm, ACC Network. Over/under not released yet. https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401234627 7. Updated ACC standings https://www.espn.com/college-football/standings/_/group/1 8. Show updated NFC East Standings https://www.espn.com/nfl/standings The I Love CVille Show airs live before a worldwide audience Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. The I Love CVille Show is powered by four generation strong Intrastate Inc., trusted limo company Camryn Limousine, the talented Dr. Scott Wagner of Scott Wagner Chiropractic and Sports Medicine, custom home builder John Kerber of Dominion Custom Homes and entrepreneur Patricia Boden Zeller's Animal Connection – All Natural Store for Healthy Pets.
We had the pleasure of interviewing NOT A TOY over Zoom video! NOT A TOY can't be classified as simply a band. Rather, they are a collective of four creatives — Branson Hoog [lead vocals], Jeremy Marmor [guitar], Benji Spoliansky [drums], and TJ Wessel [violin, keys]. "NOT A TOY is not just a band; it's a lifestyle of art and creation," says Hoog. "We're not the first to combine different genres of music, but we're also blending other artforms — from streetwear to art shows. We're a snapshot of this generation's tattooed youth and bedroom beatmakers. We're just creating, and there are no rules to creation."Bio:Forget what you think you know.Not a Toy is NOT a band. It is a collective of four creatives, Branson Hoog [lead vocals], Jeremy Marmor [guitar], Benji Spoliansky [drums], and TJ Wessel [violin, keys]. Not a Toy does NOT fit into a genre. Rather, the quartet crafts whatever it wants and goes where the music takes them.Not a Toy does NOT just make music. These four creatives also make their own clothes, artwork, and videos.Not a Toy is NOT playing around. No, they have big and bold ambitions on their 2020 Fearless Records debut EP.This is NOT A TOY.“Not a Toy is not just a band; it’s a lifestyle of art and creation,” affirms Branson. “We’re not the first to combine different genres of music, but we’re also actually blending other artforms—from streetwear to art shows. We’re a snapshot of this generation’s tattooed youth and bedroom beatmakers. We’re just creating, and there are no rules to creation.”The members of this collective initially met in high school and cut their teeth in various projects together before launching Not a Toy in 2020. Operating out of a shared house in Denver, the group’s synergy results from the sum of its parts. Classically trained and on the violin from a young age, TJ additionally plays a slew of other instruments, adding a variety of textures and production to the sound. Jeremy not only rips on guitar but he also “makes trap beats so quickly it’s ridiculous.” Benji holds down the groove as the drummer and acts as an “overarching producer.” Meanwhile, Branson pens the majority of the lyrics and plays guitar and piano. Based on a background in graphic design and painting, he “brings the art to the project.” If Kanye West and Pharrell joined forces to produce a rock group co-fronted by Jesse Rutherford and Lana Del Rey, it might sound something like Not a Toy.“We complement each other like Yin and yang,” adds Benji. “The four of us are so passionate about writing music. We all add different ingredients.”They introduce this signature style on their first single “J Cash.” Acoustic guitar, kick, and snare conjure a dusty twang from the onset before the momentum swings towards electric distortion and an 808 boom.“We were in this dingy basement, and we just found out we were getting signed to Fearless,” recalls Branson. “So, the lyrics are super true, but they’re also projecting where we’re going. It’s a bit of a cocky song. We felt like we had ‘made it,’ even though we were still in the basement,” he laughs.“We really tried to keep everything as minimal as possible with most of this one,” states TJ. “It starts off with that acoustic southern grit, but then it really sits back, and this piano comes in that feels equal parts hip-hop and western saloon.”On the other end of the spectrum, the follow-up single “Quit Quitting” simmers with a dreamy California vibe. Over ethereal synths and D.I.Y. beatcraft, Branson probes, “Do you really want to know what the future has in store?”“It’s the insecure side of the changes going on in our lives right now,” Branson continues. “The whole song is asking questions. The answer is, it’s all about the journey and the grind from where we started.”In the end, this is NOT what anyone expected, but might be precisely what they need…“We’d love for the music to resonate,” Branson leaves off. “We’re dissecting all corners of human emotion. Dive into yourself. Whatever the song provokes, walk away with that. Hopefully, you want to follow the art.”We want to hear from you! Please email Tera@BringinitBackwards.com.www.BringinitBackwards.com#podcast #interview #bringinbackpod #foryou #foryoupage #stayhome #togetherathome #zoom #aspn #americansongwriter #americansongwriterpodcastnetworkListen & Subscribe to BiBFollow our podcast on Instagram and Twitter!
Today’s Patreon-fueled shout-out: "Early voting is underway for all registered voters. Vote in-person or request a ballot by mail. Register to vote by October 13. Visit elections.virginia.gov/registration/voter-forms"There will be more money available for rent and mortgage relief in our area. The regional organization that provides support to local governments in our area has received a third round of $450,000 from the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to go to people in need. Christine Jacobs is the housing coordinator for the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission. “The way that it works is as they front us the first tranche of money, and then we report to them with a remittance report, “Jacobs said. “Based on our usage, we continue to qualify for funds based on that demand.” Jacobs said as of September 24, the Rental and Mortgage Relief program has written $535,000 in checks to individual households in the district. “We’ve served 308 and households to date,” Jacobs said. “But a couple of those are folks that are returning for a second or third month of support.” Jacobs said the DHCD has increased the amount of rent relief they will pay to 100 percent of arrears. In all, about a $1 million in funding will be distributed in the first two rounds of the program, which includes surrounding counties. The program was announced in July. Jesse Rutherford is on the Nelson County Board of Supervisors. “It’s amazing how quickly $1 million just went poof!” Rutherford said. The TJPDC is working with Nelson County on a grant to revitalize the unincorporated town of Lovingston as well as a plan to bring more broadband internet to the county through fiber. “In today’s times, it’s kind of nice to have some good or exciting news,” Rutherford said. “You don’t really get it too often. So Lovingston is one thing to look forward to, and fiber.”The TJPDC’s Board of Directors met last night. The representative from the Greene Board of Supervisors gave an update on the water supply plan battle between that county and the governmental entity it shares with Madison and Orange counties. “We are currently in litigation with the Rapidan Service Authority, our water authority,” said Dale Herring. “Basically we have asked them to allow us to withdraw and they have said no. And they have barred the Greene County representatives from voting or speaking on topics and they are making decisions related to the water rates and water projects in Greene county.” Herring said Greene plans to move forward with impoundment of White Run to create a new reservoir for an urban water supply. Terry Beigie of the Greene County Record has a story yesterday about a second lawsuit the county is filing against the Rapidan Service Authority. *There are another 966 new cases of COVID-19 in Virginia as reported this morning, and another 49 cases in the Thomas Jefferson Health District. That’s another 16 cases in Albemarle and another 24 cases from Charlottesville. The statewide seven-day average for positive tests is at 4.5 percent for the third straight day. Calculations for the Thomas Jefferson Health District were not available at production time. There are now 250 active cases at the University of Virginia according to the official COVID-19 tracker, with 235 of those students. In all, 33 cases were reported yesterday with 28 of them students. The number of quarantine rooms in use increased to 30 percent and the number of isolation rooms in use remained steady at five percent. *The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics took another gaze into Sabato’s Crystal Ball yesterday, before news broke that the president of the United States and the First Lady tested positive for COVID-19. Prior to that the biggest election news of the week had to do with Tuesday’s debate. “It was the worst, most awful presidential television debate in American history and you’re talking to an old guy here and watched everyone live and in real time including the four Kennedy-Nixon debates in 1960,” said Larry Sabato. “I remember it well because I had to beg my parents to stay up.” Sabato also called the debate the worst advertisement for American democracy. To watch the rest of the event, visit the Center for Politics’ YouTube channel. *This October is the first-ever Pedestrian Safety Month recognized by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. According to the agency’s website, the reduction of available light at dusk is a major reason to raise awareness. “From September to February, over 30% of pedestrian fatalities occur between 6 p.m. and 8:59 p.m.,” reads the website which offers tips for both motorists and pedestrians. The Virginia Department of Transportation has a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan which aims to decrease the amount of people struck by vehicles each year. In 2018, pedestrians 12 percent of all traffic deaths in Virginia. One of the goals of the action plan is to identify road improvements as part of the Highway Safety Improvement Program. This week, the city of Charlottesville began a pilot project on Belmont Bridge to increase the amount of space for pedestrians and cyclists. *Live Arts will have another studio visit on Facebook Live as part of their Forging Ahead season. Darryl Smith will speak with painter Sarah Boyts Yoder about her work. According to the materials, her work reflects “a visual lexicon of symbols that she has generated over time, her colorful, abstracted works articulate how space extends and collapses all around us in liminal celebrations of cacophonous graffiti.” This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe
Jesse Rutherford of The Nelson County Board of Supervisors joined me live on The I Love CVille Show! The I Love CVille Show headlines (Tuesday, Sept. 8) 1. https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/education/local-first-year-teachers-set-for-tuesdays-all-online-start-of-school/article_d25c62a8-4631-512e-8185-13c069807aaf.html#tracking-source=home-top-story 2. Show the photo from the Greenbrier Elementary School facebook page of kids learning outside. 3. https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2020/09/a-quintessential-example-of-trying-to-operate-business-as-usual-ras-call-upon-the-university-to-address-urgent-safety-concerns-and-provide-necessary-resources-amid-pandemic 4. https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2020/09/monday-morning-collab-outage-leaves-students-unable-to-access-coursework-classes 5. https://www.cbs19news.com/story/42600874/charlottesville-business-sees-increase-with-uva-students-returning-to-grounds 6. Show photo from Rebecca Downey on The Downtown Mall. 7. https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/under-new-management-fashion-square-sees-stores-close-and-faces-possible-sale/article_3f10e26b-e4f8-5c17-a2fe-07e0d891cabc.html#tracking-source=home-trending 8. https://www.c-ville.com/Charlottesville_follows_Beverly_Hills_on_Forbes_millionaires_list/ 9. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Weschler 10. https://www.crozetgazette.com/2020/09/04/maupin-brothers-closes-after-92-years-in-free-union/ 11. https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-new-york-real-estate-11597939146?mod=e2fb 12. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/04/metro/northeastern-dismisses-11-first-year-students-partying/?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true&s=04&fbclid=IwAR0xhm4vGqGqNpK9eTEJ012Z67VSRy4CxZkVjtbly1ZEZgx3A7IgeVy3QIQ 13. Close the show with the video of the kids laughing and drinking orange soda. The I Love CVille Show airs live before a worldwide audience Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. The I Love CVille Show is powered by four generation strong Intrastate Inc., trusted limo company Camryn Limousine, the talented Dr. Scott Wagner of Scott Wagner Chiropractic and Sports Medicine, custom home builder John Kerber of Dominion Custom Homes and entrepreneur Patricia Boden Zeller's Animal Connection – All Natural Store for Healthy Pets.
Today’s Patreon-fueled shout-out is for Abundant Life Ministries, “working hard to create a better future for the Charlottesville community.”*There are another 1,111 cases of COVID-19 reported this morning by the Virginia Department of Health and another 10 deaths. The seven-day average for positive tests has increased to 7.8 percent. There are another 35 cases in the Thomas Jefferson Health District with 26 of those listed as being from Charlottesville, seven from Albemarle and two from Louisa. Another Albemarle resident has died for a total of 57 in the district to date. The positive rate for the district has increased to 7.3 percent. Last night, the Charlottesville School Board was briefed on local conditions by Dr. Beth Baptist, the director of city schools. She has access to VDH health metrics that are not available to the public. She reported that the city of Charlottesville on August 31 had a much higher seven-day positive rate than surrounding counties.“For the overall health district we are at 7.1 percent,” Baptist said. “Charlottesville is 9.7 [percent]. When we get to ten, that’s when it becomes a red indicator and so we’re very close to that. Last week it was 3.6 [percent].” City schools open virtually on Tuesday, the same day that the University of Virginia will open to in-person instruction. This morning the University of Virginia COVID Tracker has recorded another 20 cases reported, all of them students. That brings the official total to 194 total cases, with 155 of them students. Students are expected to move into residence halls this week. Meanwhile, James Madison University students are moving out of dorms there as that school has opted to go virtual for at least the month of September. The image below is a screenshot taken this morning before the tracker was edited.* Governor Ralph Northam has asked the Virginia Supreme Court to extend the moratorium on evictions in the Commonwealth. A temporary halt on eviction notices expires at midnight on Labor Day. The Governor wrote Chief Justice Donald Lemons to point out that the General Assembly is still in session with a bill pending to address the issue, and new federal directives on a nationwide eviction moratorium is still being assessed. That action came this week in the form of a Centers for Disease Control directive. “While my administration works with our federal counterparts to understand the implementation of the CDC order, and while we continue to work with the General Assembly on protections that will enable more landlords and tenants to utilize the rent relief funding, I write to seek additional time from this Court,” reads the letter. Northam specifically wants the moratorium to last through the end of September. (Northam’s letter)*The General Assembly remains in special session this week, and members of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission got a brief update last night. David Blount is the legislative liaison for the TJPDC. “They have a over $200 billion budget gap to fill for the rest of the fiscal year 2021 and fiscal year 2022,” Blount said. “I think they’re going to cover that largely by using the money that was frozen from this past regular session and they went and reduced that to largely fill the gap.” Blount said he did not anticipate the state will tap into a reserve fund at this time. Both the House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate meet at noon. (General Assembly schedule)TJPDC Directors had the opportunity to update their counterparts from across the region. Albemarle Supervisor Donna Price relayed the news about the decision to remove Confederate markers in Court Square on September 12.“We expect that we will have several applications in [from] groups or organizations that are interested in receiving those items and we’ve been very pleased with the community engagement we’ve had in keeping our constituents informed of the process,” Price said. Price said the Albemarle Board plans to continue to keep meeting virtually as cold and flu season approaches and with no concrete plans for a vaccine. Fluvanna County is using its CARES money for economic development and expanding Internet coverage along Route 6 and U.S. Route 15. Supervisor Tony O’Brien said the county is also hopeful for more businesses to locate in the community, especially now that public water is coming to Fluvanna’s portion of Zion Crossroads. “We continue to see some positive growth on the economic development site,” O’Brien said. “We should have some announcements coming out in the near future but we’re getting a lot of momentum there and we’re sharpening up our economic development package.”Nelson County is also investing in broadband with a recent $1.25 million investment to expand access to the Internet, and another package is underdevelopment. “We’re looking at doing that again and trying to get to another 500 plus households within the next 12 months,” said Jesse Rutherford of the Nelson County Board of Supervisors. Dale Herring of the Greene County Board of Supervisors updated the TJPDC on the impasse over Greene’s proposed water supply plan. In July, the Rapidan Service Authority voted to stop collecting facility fees intended to pay for the impoundment of White Run for a new reservoir. The RSA consists of officials from Madison and Orange counties as well as Greene.“We voted to pull out,” Herring said. “They voted to not allow us to pull out. The resolution that the board has approved stated that if we were not allowed to pull out of the authority, we would seek legal action. At this point in time we are trying to determine what needs to be done. The bottom line is they have the authority to say there’s not enough water to approve our project, and they also have the ability to say they will not expand the water access.”Herring said the RSA has offered another solution but it not acceptable to the Board of Supervisors. The Greene County Board next meets Tuesday. *Tonight, Live Arts will hold the first in a series of Friday events the theater company plans to use to stay engaged with its patrons. Darryl Smith is the Box Office Manager at Live Arts.“This season, Live Arts is embracing First Fridays in our lovely community here,” Smith said. “Every first Friday of the Month, I will go out into the community of artists and performers and do a little of snippet, an interview about their art and the inspiration about their art.” Tonight, Smith will speak with writer Jocelyn Nicole Johnson who will read from some of her work, including a story in the form of a list called “Buying a House Ahead of the Apocalypse.”“I’m going to read a super, super short reading,” Johnson said. “I actually wrote this last summer before the pandemic and before quarantine. I was thinking about even last summer about how to plan for a future that seems particularly fragile or even tilting towards catastrophe.” Tonight’s interview is free to the public and will be streamed on Facebook Live, but you don’t need an account to access it. “This will be a way to give people a taste of what a Virtual Studio Visit will be like,” said Katie Rogers, marketing coordinator for Live Arts. The company is switching to a Season Pass model for programming that offers weekly content including radio plays and more. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe
Beef & Jesse talk about his song “Thin Ice” & the journey that happened to releasing it. Also, LA traffic & teenage memories. listen to “Thin Ice” here: https://linktr.ee/viabeef & follow @viabeef on social media!
Today’s shout-out goes to the Parent-Teacher Organization of the Charlottesville City Schools, and their request for donations to the Reopening Fund: Ready to Teach, Ready to Learn. Visit their website for more information and to make a contribution. *Incoming students at the University of Virginia are invited to view the annual convocation virtually on Sunday with remarks from President Jim Ryan and others. The event is traditionally held on the Lawn. According to a story on UVA Today, first year and transferring students will not sign the honor code at the convocation, but will “pledge their honor” in some other way to be announced later. The convocation can be seen on YouTube at 6 p.m. Almost 4,000 new undergraduates and hundreds of transfer students will begin study at UVA this fall, whether it be online or virtual. The plan is still to begin in-person instruction on September 8, the day after Labor Day. *The Virginia Department of Health is reporting another 978 cases of COVID-19 this morning, for a cumulative total of 110,860 to date. There are another nine deaths for a cumulative total of 2,436. There are another 29 new cases in the Thomas Jefferson Health District with 13 from Albemarle, five from Charlottesville, three from Greene, three from Fluvanna, two from Louisa and three from Nelson. The seven day positive test average in the district is at 6.1 percent, down from 6.4 percent on Wednesday. *The same localities in the Thomas Jefferson Health District are also in the Thomas Jefferson Planning District, and the Board of Commissioners that oversees the latter met last night. They got more information on the Rental and Mortgage Relief Program being administered by the TJPDC. So far, the agency has received $450,000 in funding from the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development to disburse to those who qualify. When administrative and staff funding is subtracted, that leaves $382,461.75. TJPDC housing coordinator Christine Jacobs gave an update on how that money has been used so far. “Of the $382,461, we’ve gone through about 45 percent of our funds, which is good progress, about two weeks ago we were significantly below that so we are being an increase in the number of people who are being approved,” Jacobs said. Here is a link to the report. As of August 19, there have been 497 applicants with 91 percent seeking rent assistance and nine percent are for mortgage relief. Jacobs said most of that is going to to households who need it the most. AMI stands for area median income. “And so we are seeing 61 percent of the households are below 30 percent AMI and that we’ve seen receive rental and mortgage relief to date,” Jacobs said. “The relief goes anywhere from $100 to $10,000 per household. That $10,000 seems high but it could be that they were four months in arrears, it could be that they had a loss of income that made them eligible.”The TJPDC Board approved the funding agreement as well as a grievance policy. On Monday, Charlottesville Council had been told that there were long delays in getting through to the community helpline, but a spokeswoman for the city said they are caught up on calls seeking assistance with the program. The TJPDC also approved a framework for a regional initiative to expand broadband in the rural area. Chip Boyles is the executive director of the TJPDC.“We would be acting as a facilitator bringing together the public sector and the private sector folks as well as businesses and citizens and the education sector,” Boyles said. Jesse Rutherford is the chair of the TJPDC and a member of the Nelson County Board of Supervisors. “Broadband is the biggest topic we have in our region,” Rutherford said. “I’m sure everyone can concur with that, with schools going virtual and parents working from home and what not. I do think it is appropriate we look at this from a regional perspective. Essentially we are all connected and when crises like this happen we realize how much more important this new method of transportation is.” One outcome could be the creation of a regional broadband authority. Albemarle County has such a group and that body’s board of directors will have an annual meeting on Wednesday. *We are now approaching the half-year mark for this pandemic, and with continued community spread, many in our area are seeking to better understand how the community might change after such a prolonged time of uncertainty. The Center for Nonprofit Excellence has been conducting a series of interviews with nonprofit leaders on the Hope and Resilience, and the latest installment has been posted. Mary Coleman is the executive director of the City of Promise. “We have to believe that things can get better so that we can put one foot in front of the other and keep going,” Coleman said. “You know, the sun rises every single morning and every morning is an opportunity for us to realize our dreams but it takes hard work and it takes hope, we have to believe in ourselves.”That interview was produced by Town Crier Productions. Previous installments are with:Ella Jordan of the United WayFrank Dukes of the Institute for Engagement and NegotiationMarta Keene of JABACynthia Hurst of the Foothills Child Advocacy Center*And that brings us to the end of a sixth week of this community service. I rely on contributions from the audience, and for basic support of the research I do, please consider becoming a supporter on Patreon. Your support keeps this daily newsletter free, and helps me look for other opportunities to bring information to the public. Take a look! This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe
Kid Bloom & Jesse talk about their new track “In One Ear” featured on Kid Bloom’s Bloodsugar EP. Brandon Fried also makes a very special appearance. Hear the track here: https://umusic.digital/kidbloomep/
The Neighbourhood has a conversation focused around their song “Cherry Flavoured” & more. Hear the track here: https://thenbhd.lnk.to/CherryFlavouredAW
An intro to Patients. Jesse explains what Therapy Records is & gives a preview into what this show is about.
Jesse Rutherford Of The Nelson County Board of Supervisors, Keith Smith of The YES Team Realtors, and Fireworks Coordinator Bob Schotta joined me live on The I Love CVille Show! The I Love CVille Show headlines (Monday, July 6) 1. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AwOlkCqJrizRsF8h9VdXMbCNNQxwaQecDHa9vY8iXrs/edit?fbclid=IwAR2udTyxRlhKz6EphBzoUV0CzxgKLQ6wbEo87mZpLS6cJIMtX02i5l2ehOQ 2. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/duke-dominion-energy-cancel-atlantic-coast-pipeline/index.html 3. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uber-acquire-postmates-2-65-billion/ 4. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29415651/redskins-trio-minority-owners-launching-search-sell-stakes 5. https://jerryratcliffe.com/video-uva-players-return-to-grounds/ The I Love CVille Show airs live before a worldwide audience Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network.
Ray Caddell, CEO Of Ray Caddell & Co. Real Estate, Keith Smith Of The YES Team Realtors and Jesse Rutherford of the Nelson County Board of Supervisors joined me live on The I Love CVille Show! Save Charlottesville's Fireworks: https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-charlottesville039s-fireworks The I Love CVille Show headlines (Monday, June 29) 1. https://www.dailyprogress.com/sports/oklahoma-city-thunder-sign-former-virginia-standout-devon-hall-for-remainder-of-season/article_37ff3ea1-b04a-5691-bad8-48c96b89c9c0.html 2. https://www.dailyprogress.com/sports/former-virginia-star-justin-anderson-reportedly-signs-with-brooklyn-nets/article_794a1d2b-89d3-5627-bba0-1ac885e42dae.html 3. https://www.nbc29.com/2020/06/28/eviction-freeze-virginia-expires-june/ 4. https://www.nbc29.com/2020/06/28/charlottesville-police-headquarters-robert-e-lee-statue-vandalized-overnight/ 5. https://www.cbs19news.com/story/42300204/night-of-prayer-and-worship-takes-over-downtown-mall The I Love CVille Show airs live before a worldwide audience Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network.
Jesse Rutherford of the Nelson County Board of Supervisors joined me live on The I Love CVille Show! Save Charlottesville's Fireworks: https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-charlottesville039s-fireworks The I Love CVille Show headlines (Friday, June 26) 1. Charlottesville Police will charge four with vandalism over spray paint https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/cpd-wants-to-charge-four-with-vandalism-over-spraypaint-protest/article_09e6ff52-657c-5ea2-bec7-bf6054b414aa.html 2. Chief Brackney sound from yesterday's press conference 3. Texas bars must shutdown by noon today https://abc7chicago.com/coronavirus-covid-19-covid-greg-abbott/6270873/ 4. Real Estate Update: Urband flooding to suburban https://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/families-fleeing-city-are-pushing-home-prices-amid-tight-supply-n1232062 5. Update On Charlottesville Fireworks https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-charlottesville039s-fireworks 6. Florida alcohol sales https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news4jax.com/news/local/2020/06/26/florida-immediately-suspends-alcohol-sales-at-bars/%3foutputType=amp The I Love CVille Show airs live before a worldwide audience Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network.
Singer, songwriter, solo artist and frontman of the band The Neighbourhood, Jesse Rutherford joins me in the studio to talk about his coming of age. Jesse shares his experiences from his rebellious journey of self-expression to his struggles with mental health, and having his wildest dreams come true all before reaching adulthood.
Luke Wild is an artist with an extremely impressive background in music production. Before starting his solo project he had a very successful career working with producers like Danny Wolf, Hanzo, and Jesse Rutherford. This year he changed it up and started focusing entirely on his solo career. We talk about his early days, the switch of going from producer to artist, and now his latest release ‘Fever Brain’ which by the time you’re listening to this will be out! If you like this episode, subscribe and tell a friend! It helps a ton. I’m @andrew_ftw and he’s @lukecwild
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Author and Founder of Fraxtory.com, a publishing platform for deconstructed fiction, Jesse Rutherford talks about one of our finest lifeline's post-heartbreak——creativity.6 minutes in, she joins Chelsea and opens up about:+ the power of self-sufficiency + satisfaction not coming from roles, titles, or achievements but within yourself+ disillusionment with our lives as well as our creative process+ if you have a creative process, you always have something to look forward to+ you can never plumb the depths of creativity, spirituality, athleticism + choosing your best idea aka the most important idea at the time+ parenting helps with prioritizing our creative process+ not wanting your children to run your mind+ the Calvinist work ethic + physical and financial exhaustion+ perfectionism surrounding parenting+ there isn't one formula for success+ time, effort, and work should never be underestimated + what works is getting in the zone+ the powerlessness within co-parenting+ it's not fair to ask one person to do what an entire village would do before+ rather than dating, make friends—Mentioned within this episode:Aimee Bender, Author & Professor of Creative Writing at USChttp://www.flammableskirt.com/entrance/Maslow's hierarchy of needs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needsMichael Crafford, teacher at Sweetwater Union High SchoolModern Romance by Aziz Ansarihttps://www.amazon.com/Modern-Romance-Aziz-Ansari/dp/0143109251The Last Lecture by Randy Pauschhttps://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401323251/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time by Arianna Huffington https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Revolution-Transforming-Your-Night/dp/110190402XOne True Thing by Anna Quindlen https://www.amazon.com/One-True-Thing-Anna-Quindlen/dp/0812976185“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” by Joan DidionWhere Should We Begin? a podcast by Esther Perel https://www.estherperel.com/podcast—To connect with Jesse, visit:Fraxtory: www.fraxtory.comInstagram: www.instagram.com/editorinthewild—Sign up for Chelsea’s newsletter at: bit.ly/tyhbletterFind Chelsea’s website at: www.breakupward.comWork with Chelsea at: www.breakupward.com/shopConnect and send in your questions and/or letters on Instagram.com/thankyouheartbreak or by email Chelsea@breakupward.com
This week, we sat down with Goody Grace at Auxoro HQ in Brooklyn before Goody's show at Baby's All Right later that night. Before I had even started Auxoro, a friend played me 'Two Shots' by Goody Grace in the car a few years ago. I've been an avid listener ever since and I'm glad we had the chance to have this conversation. Goody Grace hails from the Western Canadian province of Manitoba and moved to LA as a teenager. He embodies a unique ensemble, often wearing black, tucking t-shirts into jeans, and stays true to his style. In this episode, Goody speaks on his creative process, traveling with friend and fellow artist Gnash to play shows throughout the West Coast, his bond with Jesse Rutherford, The Shape of Water, and covering Johnny Cash. We hope you enjoy this conversation and don't forget to check out Goody Grace on Spotify, Apple Music, and any other streaming platform you may use. Thank you for listening. Mixed and mastered by Matt Grossfeld Music produced by David Grossfeld Main Site: https://www.auxoro.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/auxoro/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/auxoromag/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Auxoromag Episode Art: Julien Burgueño (@julianbpp)
Hi everyone! This week, we are Kim-less :( He'll be back soon. We decided to talk about our morning routines, or lack thereof, and it's just a lot of tangents tbh. Thanks for listening! Things to peep - Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated (documentary - YouTube), Peter McKinnon (YouTube), & by Jesse Rutherford (album), Before I Wake by Kamaiyah (album), The Thrill of it All by Sam Smith (album), and Space Between by Majid Jordan (album). Contact Us - Email: stayingintonightpodcast@gmail.com @SIT_Show on Twitter http://www.stayingintonight.com -- Find Cailee: @illg0ddess (Twitter/Instagram) http://youtube.com/caileedelacruz Find Kim: @kimfromregina (Twitter/Instagram) http://www.kimtnguyen.com Find Jon: @athirdtime (Twitter/Instagram) @jon.tk.chan (Instagram) https://athirdtime.com/ -- Artwork by Evan Bonk http://evanbonk.ca Intro music courtesy of The Passion HiFi http://thepassionhifi.com
This week on Sight & Sound Music, Jaye kicks things off talking about the latest drama with Taylor Swift and streaming services. Also, Eminem dropped a new single featuring Beyonce while Jaye dives deep to break down its relevance and meaning.During the release rundown portion of the show (42:35), Jaye gives his first impressions regarding releases from Jesse Rutherford, Quicksand, Yung Lean, and Of Mice & Men.Feel free to join the Sight & Sound Facebook group. Come chat music, movies, and TV with us:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1972409419661246/SUPPORT SIGHT & SOUND BY PICKING UP ONE OF OUR SHIRTS AT:http://sightsoundpod.comSubscribe to the Sight & Sound YouTube channel for more podcasts and videos:http://www.youtube.com/c/sightsoundpodiTunes feed:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sight-sound/id1163615076?mt=2Find us on social media, @sightsoundpod on Twitter and InstagramLike us on Facebook, just search Sight & SoundShoot us an email - sightandsoundpod@gmail.comJaye WilliamsTwitter - @jayewilliamsInstagram - @jayewilliamsRyan SnellingTwitter - @whatupsnellInstagram - @whatupsnell
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