January Regular Board Meeting Packet and Financials

The Board Packet for the regular January Board Meeting is up along with the Financial Reports.  If you have any questions on the agenda, please let me know.  One particular item of interest to me is on the "In-Place" Executive Committee meeting for the purchase of an email message archiver.  Per County Administrator Ferrill, this archiver will save (or archive) any email sent by or received by someone with a tazewell.com address, including County Board Members.  These documents will be retained until permission is received under the Local Records Act for destruction.  It sounds like (and I hope to confirm) that this will allow quicker "searchability" to locate emails whether needed internally or for a particular public interest (e.g., a FOIA request seeking specific documents).   

I also recently received information from the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission's Eastern Bypass Coalition.  As you may recall, I was appointed to that body last year to monitor and report back on various developments on the proposed eastern "ring road."  As part of our packet, we received a draft 2016 Objective sheet (available here).  This is a working document, so if there are any objectives or concerns you want me to share with the Coalition, please let me know.  The Coalition meets quarterly, so there is time to discuss this document before our next meeting.