The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - CVille, AlbCo & Central VA Predictions (36 Months); BioTech/Data Science To Spike Population 8K-10K

Episode Date: March 20, 2026

The I Love CVille Show headlines: CVille, AlbCo & Central VA Predictions (Next 36 Months) BioTech/Data Science To Spike Population 8K-10K People Starting Pay $125K Per Year For New Population (Pop.) Current Pop. Will Be Pushed To Greene, Fluvanna, W-Boro New Pop. Will Buy Homes & Enroll Private Schools AlbCo & CVille Public School Enrollment Will Tumble AlbCo & CVille Frontline Workforce Will Be Decimated Homes Values Up, Small Biz & Financing Headwinds Read Viewer & Listener Comments Live On-Air 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, Rumble and iLoveCVille.com.

Welcome to the I Love Sevo Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller. It's Friday afternoon in downtown in Charlestville. Pleasure to connect with you guys through the water cooler of content and conversation in Charlottesville across Central Virginia, the Commonwealth, the country, and the world. We encourage you, the viewer, and listener

to shape the discussion, ask questions. Put your comments in the feed, and we will relay them live on air. Send us talking points or content matter, and we will vet your ideas first. And if they pass our vetting protocols, they will be woven into the show. This morning, we had a roundtable on the I Love Seville Network.

On the show, Real Talk with Keith Smith, that stars a gentleman that's been in real estate and business since 1987 here in Central Virginia. Keith Smith has been a member of the business and real estate community for nearly 40 years. His show, Real Talk with Keith Smith, has aired on this network, the I Love Seaville Network, for seven years going on eight. We did a program, an episode of Real Talk with Keith Smith this morning that featured Ned Galloway, who's the chairman of the Amar County Board of Supervisors. The show also featured Jesse Rutherford, a Nelson County Board of Supervisor,

Antonio Bryan of Fluvanna County Board of Supervisor. 90 minutes of local shop talk on politics, governance, taxes, business, and their intersections. It was fascinating. I read and follow the news. I speak, face time, and text with stakeholders, politicians, financiers, landlords, and movers and shakers on a daily basis. My job is to solve problems and figure out solutions for influential, connected, and wealthy people. That's how our firm makes our living and how we've done it for the last 18 years. There were talking points and conversations on this morning show that I had never heard before

and some of the elements of what we covered I found fascinating and it was genuinely learning in real time. I'm going to pass some of those talking points, the conversations and content matter that I found provocative or that I had never heard before onto you, the viewer and listener. I encourage you to grab your ice coffee, your lunch, and to sit back and listen to the program. Today's show will not interfere with Virginia basketball tip off Wright State at 150 p.m. I want to highlight Charlottesville Sanitary Supply and Charlottesville Swimming. pool company, a partner of the show. Charlottesville Sanitary Supply has been in business for 62 years. They have an online store at Charlottesfelsanitary Supply.com where you, the viewer and listener, can buy anything cleaning related, sanitary related, vacuum related, swimming pool

related, hardwood floor related, anything for your house. And it will be delivered to your doorstep, usually the same day at no shipping charge at a price point. that beats the big box brands. It's a no-brainer. We have to support a 62-year-old business and stop shopping at these Amazon and Target and Walmarts that are crippling our community. Their swimming pool company, Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company, is who you contact if you consider building a swimming pool. If you need servicing for your swimming pool in ground or above ground, pool robot, water testing, pool cover, pool shade, it's the Vermilions who you contact folks. We're using them for our house and our swimming pool.

Judah Wickhauer, I'm going to weave you in here on a two shot in a matter of moments. First, we'll go to the studio camera. You were amazing behind the scenes on the round table today that featured five unique guests. I'm going to monologue first, including some of the elements of things I did not know. To start the program, I need to correct myself. I've been using this metric. AstraZeneca, 600 people, new employees tied. to their global headquarters, which is about 24 to 36 months out. It's being built at Rivana

Station, Rivana Futures, riding the Almaro County Green County line. The metric I've been using is an average salary for AstraZeneca of $125,000 for the 600 workers. I was incorrect. The starting salary, starting salary for the 600 workers is 125,000. It's not the average salary. The starting salary is 125,000 and up. In 24 to 36 months, 600 incremental citizens, folks, not within Central Virginia currently, but moving, relocating to Central Virginia,

will be coming here with 100, $125,000 starting salary, some of those jobs will eclipse the $1 million marker and higher. So correction, $125,000 is the starting salary for the 600 workers. Furthermore, Keith Smith on the show today said he's already working with buyers that are tied to AstraZeneca. These are the early stage buyers. These are the C-suite or right below C-suite that are now purchasing homes in Al-Morrow County, Western Al-Morrow, the Ivy Corridor in particular. They are extremely deep-pocketed, he said, ready-to-pay cash, he said, and currently cannot find inventory to purchase. He's working with them right now.

Furthermore, the population metric I've been using on the I Love Seville Show is a 6 to 8,000 person increase in population over the next 24 to 36 months for Charlottesville, in particular, Almoreau County, Charlottesville City, and Green County. That metric needs to be adjusted. I've been saying 6 to 8,000 people. I heard that number from the team that was signing the checks to fund the Biotechnology Institute on Fontaine Avenue. That number has now been adjusted to 8,000 to 10,000 people population increase over the next 24 to 36 months. That's a second metric that I will be updating moving forward. It's fluid. It's happening in real time.

So in the next 24 to 36 months, two to three years, you're going to see a population update. in central Virginia, specifically targeting Al Morrow County, Green County, and some Charlottesville City, but I think Charlottesville City's got some, frankly, some economic headwinds it's facing. I'll get to that on the show. Eight to 10,000 people in Al Morrow and Green specifically

tied to biotechnology, the starting salary for biotechnology, with AstraZeneca as the Brought. is 125 grand. The economic impact of biotechnology and data science is, is, is, is, is, is, something this show has done a very good job of covering. We consistently bring this up because the people we talk to are talking, uh, with us saying, you need to let your audience know what's happening.

Folks aren't realizing it. Legacy media is not covering it. You're the water cooler. Get it out there. This, the fluid. of this dynamic and storyline is more significant than was initially given credit for. And as a result, the dynamic is going to ripple and monumentally impact Charlottesville, Alamorrow, and Central Virginia, the surrounding counties, Waynesboro, Augusta, and Ruckingham.

We have a biotechnology beltway that's being constructed currently. Rockingham County, Merck, 3 billion infused there. An existing facility is going to be invigorated even more. Rockingham County Merck is going to connect AstraZeneca, Almorel County, and then that's going to go through from Almorel County, the Green County, Almorel Line to Fontaine, the Paul Manning and Diane Manning, biotechnology research park on Fontaine,

right down the road from Dirtynellys. and then that's going to link to Eli Lilly and Guchland. So this beltway from Guchland, Eli Lilly to Fontaine Avenue, Charlottesville City, Paul Manning, Biotech Institute, to AstraZeneca,

Rivenna Futures, Rivana Station, to Rockingham County, Merck, is $10 to $12 million, folks, of, of, actually, it's probably closer to $16 million of financial investment. The most significant one is what Eli Lilly is doing in Goochland.

Roughly $16 billion, we'll call it, of capital, just to biotechnology alone. I want to try to dissect and crystal ball predict. Our predictions have been extremely on point. In fact, off the top of my head, the only prediction I think we've made, I've made personally on the I Love Seville show that has not materialized or come to fruition is my prediction. that Michael Payne would be the mayor of Charlottesville. In fact, when Michael Payne tried to be the mayor of Charlottesville in January, no one nominated him.

He nominated himself, and it was crickets on the dais. None of his counselors even acknowledged his nomination. That's the only one I've missed, crystal ball-wise, is thinking Michael Payne had the equity on counsel to be named the next mayor in his second term, that did not materialize. All other predictions have proven correct. So what we'll do on today's program

is to analyze the dynamics or the cause and effect of what we've learned today. I think it's going to dramatically impact Green County. I think it's going to dramatically impact Fluvana County, dramatically impact Almaro County, dramatically impact Louisa County,

and dramatically impact Wainsborough County, and dramatically impact Wainsbury. borough. I think Charlottesville City has got even more economic headwinds. A couple of other wrinkles that are going to add to this buffet of storylines. Gasoline as I was coming into town today, $3.89.89, Judah? I've seen that as well. In four weeks, it's gone from $2.79 a gallon to $3.89 a Allen. As I was listening to CNBC this morning, Carl Kintanilla, David, and Jim Kramer, we're now talking about the Fed rate cuts, maybe a thing of the past. Inflation is back in the storyline, and there's now some crystal balling at the macro national level that Jerome

Powell and the Fed may actually raise rates again to combat. oil-fueled inflation. The talk specifically this morning was how this would impact the farmers. Their inability to farm land because of escalating oil. Fertilizer is a fertilizer byproduct. Oil is fertilizer. Oil is how you make fertilizer. So there's some talk that the land won't be

farmed to the significance or the robustness of expectation, and that will lead to a commodities shortage, commodities corn, commodities beef, for example, which could fuel grocery inflation. Adding to this storyline was Wednesday's Board of Supervisors' meeting, where we have a little bit more clarity now. And Sean Thompson's got good reporting on this. Almaro County supervisors, Ned Galloway and Sally Duncan and Michael Pruitt, those three voted for a one-cent real estate tax rate increase on Wednesday, along with a 29-set increase to the personal property tax rate. That did not pass, but it did not pass by the most narrow of margins.

Three to three. Fred Missal, Ann Malick, and B. Pistow Curtley were unwilling to cast a vote in favor of a one cent real estate tax rate increase. Fred Missal, Ann Malick, and B. Lepistow Curtley were unwilling to cast a vote for a 29 cent real estate property tax rate increase. Then Michael Pruitt tells the supervisors and anyone watching and listening in person or online or that has tracked the papered record, which you can find online through the minutes and through the, what's it called when you have a dialogue? I'm drawing a blank here from like our show.

YouTube has the dialogue of what we covered written. No, a transcript. A transcript. You track that transcript and you see Michael Pruitt, who is essentially a socialist, as is Sally Duncan, saying you won't accept 29 cents on the personal property tax rate as an increase to fund affordable housing. then I'm going to just keep going down until you get to a number that you're willing to accept, and they got to 15 cents. And that's what's advertised now.

With Fred Missal jumping over the feds, there is so much effing pressure on Fred Missile. Fred Missile has now joined Galloway, Duncan, and Pruitt, and said yes to 15 cents. It's advertised. It's not approved. It's currently advertised. It's not approved. Fred Missal, you watch and listen to this show, sir. if you are not cautious with how you vote Fred Missal, you, sir, will gentrify Al Morrow County in your first term here, the Samuel Miller District Representative,

because it's clear, and this was one of my crystal ball predictions during the 2025 election cycle, that Galloway, Pruitt, and Duncan would form a voting menagerieie, and that voting menagerie would love to vote in the direction of tax in the name of housing affordability. There's a lot to unpack on the show, including how this impacts schools.

It's clear enrollment is falling in Alamara County, and it's clear to me that enrollment will increase in green and in Fluvana as the middle class of Alamorah, even the upper middle class of Alamorough, is pinched and gentrified into surrounding green and fluvena. Increasing enrollment there, while the wealthy and Al Morrow decide to create a homogenous white and wealthy playground that drives private school enrollment to the tune of

falling public school enrollment. A lot we're going to cover on this broadcast, including the decimation of frontline workers. Perfect examples of the decimation of frontline workers and how it's impacting the F&B category is the escalating labor that we're seeing with restaurants that's causing headwinds and really impacting the survival rate of restaurants. Have you noticed of late there's been a hell of a lot of turnover? Iconic South Street Brewery closes on April 6.

Adrepa's Steakhouse and Fifth Street Station has announced its closing. I told you a month ago that there were eight restaurants iconic ones are ones that you know that will close in the very near future. Two of them, South Street Brewery and Larepa Steakhouse, just announced that they were done. Six more to go. Not my news to break. Get ready. We'll talk about that on the program. We'll highlight Jerry Rackleff. Then I'm going to weave you in, Judah, for some commentary. You start off with some scatter

shooting on what's on your mind. First, Jerry Rackleff at Jerry Rackleff.com. The best UVA content possible. Subscribe to the content. It's $8 a month for anything and everything UVA-related. I'm a subscriber of jerry rackliff.com. I read two fresh pieces of content every day on jerry rackliff.com tied to UVA men's basketball, UVA football, the transfer portal, the Olympic sports. It's content that is not available anywhere else. He's covered Virginia athletics for more than 50 years and has connections that no one else has. It's the best $8 a month that you will spend if you're a UVA sports fan. Judah Wickhauer's studio camera and two shot,

I commend you for the job you did on the 90-minute roundtable this morning. It was basically like a Thomas Jefferson District Planning meeting with supervisors from three different jurisdictions with Keith Smith as the chairman, and you and I just sitting on the sidelines taking it all in. First, we'll start with scatter-shooting with Judah Wickauer. anywhere my talkative, charismatic, and locacious friend, you want to go? Well, first of all, I'd just like to give my appreciation for the counselors.

Jesse. The supervisors. Supervisors. Jesse Rutherford and Ned Galloway and Tony O'Brien. We cover a lot of things that goes across these guys' desks. We don't always agree with their decisions. We don't always agree with their voting records. But I do appreciate them.

They are doing something for very little. And they're doing it because they love their counties, their districts. And they're doing the best they can. They're all making decisions that are not always easy to make. And they're doing it for their friends and their fans. families, you know, this isn't big government where these people are getting, you know, $100,000 million kickbacks. And so I just want to say thank you to all of the supervisors and counselors out there.

You're doing a tough job. And as Jerry loves to say, half the people are going to hate you no matter what you do. So thank you. Repos closes. Yeah, that's a shame. Although I'm happy to learn that their food truck will not be closing. The food truck model from an F&B standpoint looks like the path of lease resistance for a lot of businesses. Six more restaurants will be announcing their closing that I know of this year.

As leases head to expiration and non-renewals, I've been reached by those. individual owners about their respective leases and what to do and what they're going to do. Not my news to break. We said there was going to be eight a month ago. South Street and the Rapus were on that list. Now we have six more of note that we know of that are closing. The Rapus, South Street out, along with the Stefan Friedman Empire. Galloway, $125,000, the starting salary for AstraZeneca,

average like I've been saying, but the starting, correction for those 600. My friend, we live in a fluid and dynamic and wild time. No doubt. What struck you from the Admiral talk first? I don't know if I was following it as well as you were because I was dealing with cameras and all kinds of other things on the back end. what stuck out for me, I don't know, I think this was Fluvana. The first thing that comes to mind is just Tony's explanation for the choice with the Tenaska

plant. And again, I appreciate hearing a little more about the behind the scenes because it oftentimes changes, for me at least, how I've used something. And when he put it in perspective, how much acreage would be needed to be filled with solar panels to match what the Tanaska plant was capable of. That was, for me, pretty eye-opening. The other element that we have not covered so far is the University of Virginia. then as it's announced that it's offering admission to its largest class ever.

Yeah. For school year 2030. The largest admission ever for the University of Virginia, most amount of admissions offered in Virginia history. The total number offers to first years a historic high of 10,287. this news broke a few days ago, 10,287, the total number of offers to first year students a historic high. An element to this story that was, you know, I don't think covered as closely as it should is it's considerably more out-of-state students, 5,970 offered versus in-state students, 4,317. So if we just took 60, I'm going to use back-of-state students, I'm going to use back,

of the napkin numbers for the sake of a talk show, 10,287 admissions, 5,970 out of state, 4,317 in-state. I'm going to call it 40% in-state, 60% out-of-state for back-of-the-napkin talk-show purposes. 60% of the student body offered that is out-of-state, these are the wealthiest of students because they can afford the out-of-state tuition. So do you see the intersection of what's happening? The confluence. 24 to 36 months, a population increase of 8 to 10,000 people. 24 to 36 months, the population increase of 8 to 10,000 people will use the AstraZeneca benchmark,

$125,000 starting salary. We'll use the 60% of out-of-state students coming in to the area. we will highlight the already throttled nature of housing inventory few homes on the market already expensive we will highlight the already projected falling enrollment of public schools

we will highlight the four cent real estate tax rate increase that was done last year and the fact that three supervisors on Wednesday were willing to raise the real estate tax rate one set this year we will highlight that those same three real estate, those three same supervisors were willing to raise the personal

property tax rate 29 cents. Yeah. And they got a consensus on 15 cents. We will highlight the, um, the expensive nature of debt service with macro headlines saying, uh, a rate increase may happen in 2026 now due to inflationary pressure from escalated oil. oil. And from a war. A war. Wars always cause inflation. And conversation for your charcutory and cocktail party this weekend, the next 24 to 36 month period of time in Almorough County could be one of the most significant windows of change in Almaro history without exaggeration. I need to reiterate what I just said. The next next 24 to 36 months could be one of the most significant periods of time of change in Almaro history.

Everyone's got to ask where the folks are going to go. I see the middle class being pushed to green, Fluvana, orange, and across the mountain. I would expect school enrollment to uptick there with private school enrollment upticking in Al Morrow and in Charlottesville. I asked about the revenue sharing agreement with Al Morrow in the city of Charlottesville. That was enlightening. Ned Galloway, very straightforward on that. That revenue sharing agreement, $22 million, Alboros allocating to the city. Yeah. And it's interesting to find out that, you know, we talk about a lot of different subjects on here,

and we're not always experts, but we love the feedback that we get from a lot of our viewers. And I was, it was interesting to hear from Ned that this is not, this is not something that you can just say, oh, you know, it was silly for Almaral County to agree to this, especially considering hindsight 2020. The reason for them agreeing to it disappeared not long after they agreed to it. But the fact of the matter is this isn't just something that you can say, we made a mistake, we're going to stop this. So imagine you're giving money to someone and you and that person both have.

have to agree that it's going to stop. Almaro, why would the person getting the money agree to stop that? Oh, Charlottesville, Charlottesville has got all the leverage. Yeah. Another thing that came up, the money that's allocated from Almore County to Charlottesville, Neil Williamson, the revenue sharing does not recognize land use taxation. Almaro pays based on assessment, not tax relief. Another elected official who asked for anonymity said,

just for your information, that revenue is shared with the city, and we don't collect, Almore does not collect taxes on it either. That revenue sharing agreement is not going anywhere anytime soon. Right. Because Charlottesville City has got, I mean, the only way Al Morrow gets out of the revenue sharing agreement is a massive lump sum payment up front to help a city, Charlottesville, that's facing some economic challenges currently. It seems obvious.

to me that Al-Morrow is without question the economic engine for Central Virginia. And it seems very obvious to me that Al-Morrow is allocating its efforts and its resources to driving economic vitality away from Charlottesville City. Wisely. I mean, is it wise to have Charlottesville in a headwind situation? I mean, not wise for Charlottesville. Is it wise for Almar? I mean, doesn't Almaro need a strong Charlottesville? I guess. I mean, people visit the city, don't they? They don't want it to be, you know? That's fair.

But it seems pretty obvious that it's right there are in the future in stations that it's going to be driving the charge there. North Point, right, that's going to be driving a charge there. Down Fontaine, that's going to be driving a charge. It seems extremely obvious what they're doing down Ivy Road. The University of Virginia owns the University of Virginia owns the foods of all nations and Ivy Square Shopping Center plus the Mo's original barbecue dirt and location. It would seem to me eventually that the University of Virginia, which already has assembled Ivy Square Shopping Center with Moes, that that whole stretch is going to be.

going to be university resources, university buildings, going further away from the city. I mean, there's three individuals, three entities that own the university shopping center. I've said so many times on the show, the university shopping center is some of the most valuable and underutilized commercial real estate or real estate altogether in the city landlock. I think Ix Park is number one. I think X Park is one, Kijin and Kootenar. I think the city yard is completely underutilized.

From my standpoint, the city should be doing some kind of joint venture. Maybe they work this into the negotiation with the revenue sharing agreement in some capacity. Al Morrow can say, look, this is, if I was involved with Al Morrow leadership or direction in some capacity, I would be going to the city and saying you're using the acreage right in the Star Hill neighborhood and a historically marginalized community to store your, dump trucks and your work equipment and your heavy machinery. How big is the city yard? The city yard Charlottesville. How big? The city yard located at 325 4th Street Northwest is a public works complex covering approximately 9.4 acres. It serves as a central hub for city operations featuring a 44,000

square foot fleet building and warehouse at a 65,000 square foot vehicle wash facility, acting as a major equipment and material storage site, 9.4 acres. If I was Albemarle and I wanted to get out of the revenue sharing agreement, it's $22 million, $22 million this year, it's every year, that Almaro's is not collecting taxes on. I think somebody, I think I saw somewhere that since its inception Alba Marl's given the city something like $310 million. The 22 million allocation is roughly 10% of the city's budget this year from Almaro. As one viewer and listener said, economic development for Chris Engle and the city of Charlottesville is the revenue sharing agreement, the revenue sharing agreement, and the revenue sharing agreement. Al Morrow, if it wanted a way to negotiate its way out of the revenue sharing agreement, it could say, look, take the 9.4 acres that you're using for the city yard, somehow turn that into housing affordability or multifamily development.

You guys are landlocked and you don't have anywhere else to go. you can put a boatload of doors and rooftops and houses on 9.4 acres, and it's right off, right in the store, Star Hill neighborhood in the heart of town. Yeah. We will then lease you 9.4 acres in the urban ring because we have it. We'll charge you a dollar an acre, whatever, a nominal rate, a dollar a month, a dollar an acre, something well below market. We'll give you a long-term contract so you can store your work equipment, your heavy machine,

machinery will also give you a lump sum payment. Up front lump sum. You have economic difficulties right now. You just, you're everyone's collective bargaining against you. Every city employee. You're having to raise the real estate tax rate two cents as a result of that. Take this lump sum payment, Buku upfront money and then let us out of this revenue sharing agreement that is, that is long term that is in perpetuity. And see what Charlesville says. We'll give you 9.4 acres in the urban ring in Al Morrow.

Take the 9.4 acres you already have in development into multifamily. That will drive incremental tax revenue for you, new taxes for you, partner with Corin, Capshaw, and Riverbend Development, and Alan Taylor do it, do some kind of joint venture. They're already doing a lot of the work anyway. You get incremental taxes on that. You can sell this to the community and your taxpayers

by saying that you're doing this for housing affordability. And on top of that, you can get a bag of money. Maybe you call it $22 million they're paying this year times three, three years, $66 million. And then Al Morrow says, I'd rather pay $66 million now and give them 9.4 acres below market for their new city yard in Al Morrow County than paying $22 million.

plus every year forever. Yeah. Just an idea. But if Charlottesville's not reading the writing on the wall, that the economic vitality and the economic development and Almaro, who is leading the charge here, is taking the momentum away from Charlottesville. Like this is massively significant for Greene County. That's a reason the partner of the show, Stanley Martin Holmes,

let's give Stanley Martin Holmes some love. They're a partner of our talk show. They build honest homes, quality homes, condominiums, town homes, single family detached homes, Stanley Martin homes, they do it in communicative capacities, honest capacities, high quality homes, designing

constructed with innovative technologies and techniques to ensure exceptional efficiency and aesthetic appeal. They're doing thousands of units in Green County. Charlottesville, if city council of Juan Wade and Juan Diego and Sam

Sanders are not thinking about this, that let me get some something straight. Al Morrow County bought how many acres? Let's see, how many acres did Al Morrow County buy at Rivena Station? 462 acres from Wendell Wood for $58 million. This is what I would be doing if I'm saying Sanders or Juan Diego wait. Let me get something straight. Al Morrow County spent $58 million to buy 462 acres that were afterthought land, very different. difficult topography. And that $58 million in 462 acres are on the Almaro Green County line, barely in Almorel County.

And former supervisor Donna Price goes on Jerry Miller's talk show and says, this will be the most significant driver of the Almaro economy in history except for the creation of the University of Virginia. And then Sam Sanders and Juan Diego Wade and counsel should be. thinking, hold up. Paul Manning gave $125 million to build a biotechnology school all the way down Fontaine Avenue. Wait, hold up, hold up. The University of Virginia has been anchored by nearly $180 million donated by Jeffrey Woodruff for data science in squash down Ivy Road, and UVA is clearly developing down the western portion of Al Morrow. What's going on here?

Al Morrow and UVA seem to be working in cahoots together to drive economic vitality and development further and further away from our 10.2 square mile city. In our 10.2 square mile city, we don't have any more land to build. All the homeless for central Virginia, all of them, are flock to Charlottesville to the city. We got that issue we're dealing with. We were the first to green light and approve unionization and collective bargaining for our employees.

We're having to pay for that. What's going on here? It's the death of a thousand cuts for the city. You see, viewers and listeners? Philip Reese sends this comment. There are legislative options available that could enable Almorel to get out of the revenue sharing agreement. Amy Lawford hasn't done anything on that since she was elected in 2023.

Comments continue to come in. Conan Owen is watching the program. Are these counselors really doing their best when they make bad decisions that were hurt the community? Doing your best involves finding creative solutions, not following a party line mentality of just spend more and tax more. I mean, I almost said this to on the show today. the 15 cent personal property tax rate increase,

the four cents on the real estate tax rate last year, in some ways, that is a tail win in a positive for the business investor, the real estate investor, and someone that's got dry powder or is well capitalized. Because the business investor or the real estate investor are those that have access to capital or have the capital themselves

are just going to watch opportunities present because people are just going to be able to afford here and then they're just going to scoop up three rental properties here, commercial development there, shopping center over here, a small business on Berkmore over there, a three-bedroom two-bath condo at the villas.

condo at the villas in the last 10 years we got a rental over there 1,000 a month 10 years ago knocking on the door of 2,800 a month now. That's insane. For a three-bedroom, two-bath, 1,200 square feet. You've been in it. Yeah. 2,800 square feet. Another interesting thing that came up.

Nelson County, they do their assessments every four years. Alamaro County is every year. Flavanna County is every two years. We're talking home assessments. Nelson County, to do home assessments in Nelson, every four years, cost the county $400,000. Nelson County is now going to try to lobby the supervisors are to partner with like an Albemarle or a neighboring jurisdiction

to see if they can use the same assessor infrastructure or personnel where they can make assessments more regularly occurring because the four-year gap for assessments is causing a lot of pain for Nelson Countyans. No doubt. Because 48 months later, they're going to be, they're hit with a 25,000, 25% increase. Yeah.

30%. That's how people lose their homes. Right. You think it's bad for Almaro County. At least it's yearly where it's incremental. Right. Amherst County, this came up on the talk show. yesterday, Amherst County does its home assessments every six years.

Imagine getting a tax bill where your escrow and your mortgage payment are in your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, taxes and home insurance is this for six straight years. And then a envelope comes in your mailbox and it says, your home has increased in value by 50%, 40%, 40%, and then, and then, and then a envelope comes in your mailbox. this is going to be your new monthly payment for your mortgage because your escrow's popped this much. Would you like to sell us one of your children? That's how people lose their homes. And don't get me started on public schools. There's no one that is a more significant proponent or champion of paying teachers

and paying cafeteria workers and teachers' aides and bus drivers and support staff than me. No one. there is an obvious headwin with falling enrollment in Alamoire County public schools. Obvious. Noah Kaufman watching the program. He sends me a tweet. He's the president of the Western Almaro TPSA chapter. He says this.

Jerry, after Almore County Public Schools passed a policy banning all guest speakers, the young Democrat club hosted one anyways. Yeah, that's what I heard. Dr. Superintendent Matthew Haas responded with this. I don't believe the teachers or students should be faulted for this proceeding. Noah says, so the young Democrats can still have speakers, but TPSA, our chapter cannot. Okay, I got it. That was part of what I, what we were.

were discussing yesterday with hypocrisy and rules for thee and not for me. I didn't specifically mention that instance because I had heard about the speaker for the young Democrats who had bad-mouthed Trump and pretty much all Republicans. But at the time it was just hearsay, and I didn't want to include it. not having any direct evidence of what I'd heard happened. But yes, that is part of the hypocrisy of our area and the fact that the Alba Morrow County School Board made a rule and then allowed it to be broken the very next day.

Matthew Haas wrote this letter to the school board. I'll read it verbatim, which has been sent to me. Good evening school board members. I want to make you aware of a situation that occurred within approximately 14 hours of the Almore County School Board's approval of revisions of policy IGDA, specifically student organizations. On Friday, March 13th, a student club at Almoreal High School, the Young Democrats, hosted a previously scheduled guest speaker and Almoreal High School graduate during the school day. The event had been planned in advance of the board's decision, the board's action the evening prior. ahead of the event, the teacher sponsor appropriately raised the question of whether the speaker should still attend, given the board's pending policy decision.

The teacher checked with the assistant principal overseeing extracurricular activities on Friday morning. However, at that time, no former communication regarding the policy change had been distributed, and the assistant principal had not yet received updated guidance, so he told the teacher he had not heard anything. Matthew Haas, I do not see a scenario beyond calling each secondary school staff member, not only the administrators and speaking with them in person that would have prevented this on such a short notice. A division-wide communication outlining the policy change was sent later that afternoon. After the event had already occurred and still within 18 hours of the board's approval of the policy, given the timing, I don't believe the teacher or students should be faulted for proceeding. As you know, while policy changes are technically effective,

upon board approval. I would not expect staff to act on them until they receive clear and direct communication and order the policy is published to the board. Make it make sense. I appreciate Noah Coffin for sending that over to us. We'll give some attention to 919 Druid Avenue in Belmont. 919 Druid Avenue is for sale. 919 Druid Avenue has an open house scheduled for Saturday tomorrow from 2 to 4 p.m. Four bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, 2,197 square feet. Basement apartment, income producing, waiting to happen. 919, Druid Avenue, a walk to anything and everything,

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right now. Deep throat says, if Noah would like some money to sue Almore County Public Schools, send him my way. The only way to end this nonsense is lawsuits. Deep throat, willing to fund Noah Cawfin, if he wants to bring a lawsuit against Elmore County Public Schools for basically, on one, this is what happened.

There's a school board meeting led by Allison Spillman, who decided not to show up. on the most significant school board meeting of her tenure, one where she would have been verbally berated by many in the audience. She didn't show up, but she led the charge. They said, you can't have religion or politics, guest speakers during school hours.

You can't have any guest speakers during school hours. No guest speakers during school hours, thank you. 45 minutes before or 45 minutes after. That's so other, well, not so. but some people allege that's in order to prevent other students who have after-school activities

from attending those types of well particular Turning Point USA meetings. And the very next day the young Democrats hold an event where there's a guest speaker. Not only that but the guest speaker bad mouths

the Republican students. Half of the country. Yeah. And I guess we're not worried about hate speech when it's hateful towards people that you don't like. Make it make sense. Right? Make it make sense.

That literally just happened. I just found out about it. It sounds like you were already locked in tune with this. I found that out from Noel Kaufen six minutes ago via text. I'd heard about it from one of our wonderful, viewers, Hank. Handsome Hank Martin. Hank Martin.

And I had I'd messaged him about it, which is why I didn't mention anything about that particular episode on yesterday's show because he hadn't responded. And as I said, as far as I knew, it was hearsay. I wanted a little more

evidence than just, oh, I heard that this happened. Well, there you go. No cough. All right, that's the talk show. That's a Friday. That's 57 minutes of master class for you. He's Judah Wickauer.

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