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Tazewell supervisors approve several legal, financing and spending actions after closed session
Summary
After an executive closed session March 20, the Tazewell County Board of Supervisors approved several legal, financing and spending measures, including an increased opioid-abatement match for Project Fairview and authorization to retain outside counsel for landfill claims.
After an executive closed session March 20, the Tazewell County Board of Supervisors approved several motions authorizing legal representation, financing and changes to planned spending.
The board voted to increase its opioid-abatement match for Project Fairview housing from $540,000 to $900,000, a board member said. The motion passed by voice vote.
The board also voted to “concur with the recommendation of the National Opioid Litigation Council” regarding pharmacy benefit managers, which a county speaker characterized as dismissing two specific PBM cases that the county had previously asked counsel to implead. That motion passed by voice vote.
The board authorized the county to retain Christian & Barton LLP to advise on claims between Tazewell County and Republic Waste Management Services and SanTech LLC, as discussed in executive session. A county speaker stressed the authorization was to obtain legal guidance about whether landfill damage and delay costs should be borne by the contractor or an insurance carrier; the action does not automatically institute litigation.
Board members also authorized the chairman and county administrator to execute obligations supporting a $1,000,000 line of credit from Legacy Bank to the Industrial Development Authority of Tazewell County.
Outside the closed-session motions, the board approved submitting a congressional earmark application through Representative H. Morgan Griffith’s office for a leachate tank at the county landfill, estimated in discussion at roughly $1.5 million to $2.0 million. The board authorized budgeting initial funds for engineering and to proceed with the application; the motion passed.
Other items approved by motion during the meeting included directing how annual casino commission funds will be spent (the board voted to allocate all of the county’s casino commission revenue for public safety this year) and several discretionary donations and small scholarship commitments from individual supervisors.
Each of the above motions was approved by the board during the March 20 recess meeting; in many cases the record shows voice votes or unrecorded roll-call 'ayes' rather than a detailed roll-call tally in the transcript.
