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09-15-1986 Called MeetingPage $5 CALLED MEETING OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HELD THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER IN THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX PRESENT: Richard L. Turner, Chairman C. Fred Bailey Henry H. Bradby Joel C. Bradshaw, Jr, Thomas L. Ross, Vice Chairman Also attending; H. Woodrow Crook, Jr., County Attorney W. B. Gwen, County Administrator Juanita L. Byrum, Assistant County Administrator Betty Scott, Secretary The Chairman called the meeting to order at 7:05 P.M. and stated the meeting had been advertised five days in advance anal that he and Supervisor Ross had called the meeting for the purpose of discussing the speedway and other related matters to the speedway. The invocation was delivered by Supervisor Ross. /~ Chairman Turner called on Ron Pack, Chairman of the Hampton Roads Sports Authority and the County's representative to the Sports Authority, Mr. Pack stated the reason for being here was he was given specific in- structons at-the last meeting to go back to the Sports Authority of Hampton Roads and convince. them of the demands our County had of the Sports Authority. Mr. Pack continued stating the Board asked him to go back and request that 25% of the revenue the .Sports Authority would receive after 15 years would be payable to Isle of Wight County and by a vote of 5-0 the Sports Authority of Hampton Roads rejected said request. The Board had also asked that the specific paragraph. of the lease memorandum which required the exemption of the sports facility for amusement tax be deleted. By a vote of 5-0 the Sports Authority agreed to remove that complete paragraph with the sales tax exemption for the facility, excluded from the memorandum of lease. Mr. Pack continued. stating he would like to point out that by resolution the Authority went on record as being opposed to an amusement tax; and one other thing about the. 25% of revenues they also said outside of the resolution that they would be inclinded to distribute the proceeds of the money 15 years from now based on the pro-rata guarantee of each municipality. County Attorney Crook queried Mr. Pack as to whether he had a copy of the resolution opposing the admission taxc Mr. Pack replied, I do not have one as of today, it .was drafted and written by hand by Art Collins, of the Southeastern Virginia Planning Commission, who does our minutes for us. As soon as it is typed I will have it available for you Mr. Pack promised. Chairman Turner and Mr. Crook also questioned Mr. Pack as to whether the 1 September 15, 1986 ~ Page 86 resolution said the amusement tax was to be opposed in the General Assembly or just says oppose it period. Mr. Pack replied I understand that it will be opposed, it does not say that we will go to the General Assembly and lobby against it or anything like that - just says that we will be opposed to the amusement tax on this facility. Supervisor Bailey asked Mr, Pack if he had a complete memorandum of agreement with Mr. Sawyer and the Authority to which Mr, Pack replied there are no: signed memorandums of agreement between the Authority and Mr. Sawyer at this time; the memo that we prepared for. you last time has been rewritten and it is based solely on what,our lawyer-has written for us, it has been reviewed by the Sawyers' attorney and they have not responded to it. It has not been provided to any of the jurisdictions, we are waiting for the Sawyers attorney to review it. Basically what it does is that it puts a lot of verbiage in there that is required by the bond indenture, the deeds of trust and certain by-laws pertaining to tax free, Mr. Pack continued stating there has been some discussion about what this will mean to our community and no one has addressed that fact real thorough.. The County Manager, Charles McGinnes, Cabarrus County, North Carolina.- the county in which the Charlotte Motor Speedway is located - was contacted to ascertain what the facility meant to his county in which he replied we have our basic real estate tax, sales tax and he named some other things. Mr, Pack asked him what it meant in dollars and Mr. McGinnes replied the sales tax is probably over $50,000 a year and he sent an analysis of his sales tax for 1984. Mr. Pack pointed out the October retail sales from the race was $17,000 in additional sales tax to Cabarrus County and the May race the estimated retail sales from the race produced $28,211 in taxes directly to the county. Mr. McGinnes was queried if this was from motels, hotels and restaurants to which he replied that~s just spent in our community, we don't have any motels they are all in cities. Mr. Pack asked Mr. McGinnes if it cost a lot of money from the county's till to see the race is overseen properly to control traffic, pick up the trash and everything and he reported the trash collection is handled by the promoter and at the gates they usually do a deal with the local high school whereby children. come through and pick up all the aluminum cans and in return. pick up all the other trash too and that money is used as a fund raiser for the high school. band uni- forms:, the promoter as a rule takes care of the front gate too. The fire coverage and rescue coverage and police coverage are. paid by the promoter. September 15, 1986 Page 87 The traffic control is policed by the off-duty sheriff people and. the State Police, which is no cost to the county. The actual race itself produces very little cost for the county. Mr. Pack noted using our standard real estate rates and standard business license rates and sales, if the facility is built for $20,000,-000 it will produce $104,000 in real estate taxes; in addition Mr. Sawyer has indicated there will probably be $500,000 in business equipment and machinery which would be taxed at 86~ a hundred which will produce $4,300 a year in revenue, the estimated inside fence sales for one year for concessions, peddlers and vendors would be $3,000,000 which will produce directly back to the County $30,000 - indirectly back to the school system another .$30,000. There were 21 vendors at the Richmond race last weekend; those vendors if they applied for vendors licenses in Isle of Wight County for the. entire season would pay $500 each which would produce $10,500 in revenue to the County. If alcohol or beer is sold at the facility it would pay a $100 a year for licenses required by the ABC Board which comes to the County. Mr. Sawyer has indicated there will be 20 full time employees moving into our community. Each man and woman (we estimate at least one automobile) and the personal property rate in tax is $4.50 per hundred on 20 acres at $6,000 each for a rate of $5,400, Out of those 20 people that move to our community it is estimated five (5) will build a new house, the other 15 will rent or buy .someone's existing home, (not including money real estate people will make selling the houses) but to buy new houses at a value of $100,000 a year at $100,000 a piece would produce $2,60.0 per year annually thereafter. Currently we have 300 motel rooms planned or built or .under construction in our County and at an average rate of $50.00 per night for 20 nights a year they would generate $300.00 per day in sales which would produce $6,000 a year additional sales tax. Mr. Pack continued stating that over the course of a year we expect 300,000 people to come to these races and-our attitude is if we can't get our merchants to sell those 300,000 people $10.00 worth of food from 7-11, grocery store or whatever that our merchants should be re- primanded; $10.00 a person is a very small amount, Those 300,000 people would generate an additional three to four million. dollars in retail sales in our County for an additional sales of $60,000. The Town of Smithfield and the Town of Windsor have a business license tax based on a percentage of gross sales - based on these three to four million dollars retail sales this will produce $3,600 in additional taxes to the Town of Windsor and the 1 t September 15, 1986 Page 88 Town of Smithfield in our County-currently. That brings the total to not $104,000 but to $256,500 stated Mr. Pack. Mr. Pack stated we have not given any consideration at all to the 300 part-time employees that will be employed by this facility, we would think that those 300 employees will live in Isle of Wight County and. those people would be using our economy - they would buy their groceries, they would buy our cars, they would lease our houses, they would spend that money here and we cannot calculate what that means in terms of economy benefit to the community. Mr. Pack continued stat- ing we have not given any consideration to the tax which is on travel trailer. campgrounds, which is $3.00 per site, and this facility has a proposed 1,000 sites which is an additional $3,000 a year-in taxes. Also, we have not given any consideration to future taxes, such as a County business license - if this passes it could-be as much as $12,000 based on the current sales for this facility. In summary Mr. Pack stated (quoting from someone else) Isle of Wight County is a county of emense riches, we have great resources here, why can't we afford to be choosy about what happens in our county; we are one of the last counties-.around. in this area that has emense- land - why can't we say who comes here and who doesn't come here? Why can't we be choosy? l think what we are asking here tonight is to be choosy. Brad .Face, of the $ampton Roads Sports Authority, stated Virginia Beach just passed its resolution in support of the bonds 8 to 3, Mr. Face continued stating he thinks there will be winners if the county goes along with its vote - there won't be any losers. Supervisor Ross expressed concern as to whether any vote taken tonight if the Board would have an opportunity to examine the document and .take issue if necessary to which Chairman Turner replied yes. Supervisor Bradshaw stated he felt the Board should hear the County Attorney's opinion at this time, County Attorney Crook stated he would be glad to respond to anything specific and said Mr. Bradshaw was talking to him about the possiblity of removing th.e stipulation which was paragraph (f) of the resolution which was that the Authority. agree that 25% of the percentage rent after the bonds have been .fully. retired be paid to the county of Isle of Wight when received by the Authority; I think it is his opinion that should be deleted from the resolution that was adopted. Mr. Crook further stated the proper way of doing that would be to have a motion to delete it. September 15, 1986 Page 89 Supervisor. Ross pointed out the County has two sizable industries in this County, being Union Camp Corporation and the packing companies, and they pay a large sum of taxes. to this County and they are vulnerable to taxes being imposed upon them by the governing body of this County and he thinks they will tell you in no uncertain terms that past Boards, as well as this Board and it is not to be unexpected from future Boards, realize they are an asset to this County, that they have made a tremendous contribution to this County through the taxes they pay or whatever that source of tax revenue might be to the County and the County and the govern- ing body has treated them fairly in the past there's no need to expect any different treatment in the future; he feels this should be taken into con- sideration when the imposition of certain restrictions on our ability to tax is asked for on this facility we are talking about tonight. Supervisor Ross continued stating not suggesting that I am opposed to it, as a matter of fact, I'm in favor of it coming here, but we would just like to get the record straight that Isle of Wight has a history of being fair with its corporate citizens and certainly we don't intend to be any different for any other citizen coming into the County. Supervisor Bradby stated he feels the facility will be a plus for the county and has had many very favorable comments. Supervisor Bradshaw moved the motion that 25% of the 12% gross sales after. the bond retirement, approved. at .the September 4 , 1986 Board of Super- visors meeting, be deleted from the resolution. County. Attorney Crook stated that was paragraph (f) of the resolution. Chairman Turner stated in an earlier discussion Supervisor Bailey dis- cussed the possibility of including in the motion the reasons we are going in that direction and asked Mr. Bailey if he would like to amend the .motion. Supervisor Bailey replied he would suggest to leave paragraph (e), amuse- ment tax,. like we adopted it which. basically says the same thing.. County Administrator Owen expressed concern relative to including in the resolution language .about the contract being approved and County Attorney Crook replied that is already included in paragraph B. The motion passed by unanimous vote of the Board, County Administrator Owen questioned if there was in the resolution a provision for satisfactory assurances of two,(2) NASCAR races for the term of the debt. County Attorney Crook replied yes, that's paragraph D. // n September l5, 1986 Page. 90 At 7:35 P.M. Supervisor Bradby-moved the meeting be adjourned which passed unanimously,. ,, ,~ r j, ~ I I. P. ~ .... ... I ~~~,~' ~ ~..-- ~'~.~iyt,, Richard I Turner, hairman f C_` f.~fJ W. B. Owen, erk REGULAR MEETING OF THE ISLE OF WxGHT C0IINTY BCI,ARD OF SUPERVISORS HELD THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER IN THE YEAR NIPIETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX PRESENT: Thomas L. Ross, Vice Chairman C. Fred Bailey Henry H. Bradby Joel C, Bradshaw, Jr. Also attending: H, Woodrow Crook, Jr,, County Attorney W. B. C7wen, County Administrator Terry D. Lewis,. Planning Director Juanita L, Byrum, Assistant County Administratar Betty Scott, Secretary Vice Chairman Ross called the meeting to order at 7:06 P,M, and de- livered the invocation. ~/ Planning Director, Terry. D. Lewis,-presented the following Conditional Use Permit application for the Board's consideration: The application of the David. Darden Estate, c/o .7ennie Ghol_ston, for a Conditional Use Permit to locate a ' mobile home for. her nephews, on 2.72 acres of l~~.nd loc- ated off Route 600, in Newport Magisterial Dsitrict, Mrs, Ghols on. appeared and stated her nephews were burned out and they did not have a place to live and she would like the Board's favorable con- sideration. No one appeared in opposition. Planning Director Lewis stated the ~J applicants axe seeking a permit to place. and occupy a third mobile home on the lot; two existing homes are under current conditional use permits, Mr, Lewis continued saying the Board of Zoning .Appeals has granted a variance for placement of the third mobile home on the lot provided the conditional use permit i_s approved by the Board of Supervisors. The Planning Commission voted to recommend approval recognizing the need for the nephews to have replacement housing, said Mr. Lewis. Supervisor Bailey moved the Board approve the application of the David Darden Estate, c/o Jennie Gholston, for a Conditional Use Permit to locate a mobile home for her nephews on 2,72 acres. of land. located off Route 60Q,