The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - CVille City Mgr Wants Real Estate Tax Rate Spike; CVille Proposed Budget is $279M For Fiscal Yr 2027

Episode Date: March 3, 2026

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Good Tuesday afternoon, guys. I'm Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us on the I Love Seville Show. This is the water cooler of content and conversation in Charlottesville across Central Virginia and the Commonwealth. Folks, a lot to cover on the program today, including a backyard brouhaha of significant proportions at last night's Louisiana Board of Supervisors' Meeting. We have the video, courtesy of the Central Virginian, big props, big courtesy, and big love to the Central Virginian for capturing this. this video, we'll re-air it for you on the water cooler of content and conversation today. A taxpayer in Louisiana County is extremely angry about data centers, and I'll tell you what, data centers, they may drive tax revenue, but a lot of people are unhappy with data centers springing up and popping up in Central Virginia.

This video puts into perspective the fever pitch of multi-100 billion-dollar-plus corporations penetrating Central Virginia with their data centers. And frankly, it has all of us asking, are these electric bills that we're receiving in the mail escalating and spiking and popping because of data centers also showing their ugly heads all over the Commonwealth of Virginia? We'll talk on today's program, Sam Sanders. Speaking of spiking rates, he wants two cents more of your money, viewers and listeners, as it applies to the real estate that you own.

And folks, if you're renting or leasing, if you're a tenant in the city of Charlottesville, this is going to impact you. Because landlords, all they do is trickle that tax exposure, that tax expense down to you, the tenants, with yearly increases. Two cents more with the real estate tax rate, Sam Sanders. He says, look, government in Charlottesville,

city council in particular, has asked me to focus on nine very important things. And those nine very important things, they're called strategic outcomes. They come with an expense. And the expense in Charlottesville, Virginia is to the tune of $279 million. That's the budget. Little old Charlottesville, Virginia ain't so little old, little and old anymore. $279 million to run this fair and fine city. And government is asking more of your resources, More of your hard-earned nickels and dimes. We'll put down into perspective on the program today.

We'll talk about the Zama Corporation in Orange County, Virginia closing 100 jobs, 100 plus jobs, lost in orange. And it's not like jobs are plentiful there. That story for you on the I Love Seville show. And how about the husband and wife behind Stefan Friedman shuddered, Sushi joint. Omacase Obscura. Now offering knife sharpening services, along with promoting their catering skill set

in a private setting at your home. This is the collateral damage of financial malpractice with what previously was the most prolific restaurant tour in the city of Charlottesville, Stefan Friedman, who has seen seven storefronts and eight businesses now close permanently. A husband and wife team utilizing social media to crowdsource job opportunity tied to knife sharpening

and serving you sushi, the best sushi, in your house. That story on the I Love Seville Show. We'll also talk school resource officers in Charlottesville City schools. They continue to receive negative feed. from Charlottesvillians and locals, and I just don't get it. I just don't get it. I don't get it for a lot of reasons. I don't buy this prison, this this this pipeline to prison theory with school resource officers. That's often the the argument used against putting police officers in school, the pipeline to prison for some of our socioeconomic marginalized students. If we put police officers in schools. That's not true. If you don't do anything wrong, if you don't break the law, if you don't commit crime, there's no pipeline to prison. And often when you do get in

trouble with the law, there's some leeway under Commonwealth's attorneys Joe Plantania and Jim Hingley, depending on the law you're breaking. Pipeline to prison, I don't buy it. And this Woodbrook elementary school student, this fifth grader, this male teacher who's 29 years old by now, you've seen the story, despicable, disgusting child pornography for a teacher. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, 10, 11 and 12 year olds. Amaral County public schools in the spotlight again. Superintendent Dr. Matthew Haas says, we vetted this man. He went through every vetting process before he got this job. Parents are left shook.

I know my wife and I are. A lot to cover on the broadcast today. We remind you the viewer and listener that Katie Mullins and Bed Mullins and Chris Coiner, the team behind 919 Druid Avenue, will be on the show tomorrow. Ben is the owner of Blenheim Builders. Chris Coiner is the owner of Decem Design Build, and Katie Mullins is the realtor and the owner of Blenham Realty Group. They have a listing, $919, Druid Avenue, $699,000 offering in Belmont.

That is fantastic. It's got a basement income producing revenue stream. This $699,000 offering will be $800,000 plus in a few years, and it's on the market for sale now. Katie Mullins, Ben Mullins, Chris Coyner on the program tomorrow. All things, real estate on tomorrow's program, all things local economy on tomorrow. program. My phone is blowing up right now. I'm going to put this on vibrate. Do not miss the 1230 edition with Katie, Ben, and Chris tomorrow. Judah Wickcar is behind the camera. On our television, in our studio, we have CNBC streaming constantly, Judah. Studio camera two shot. The VIX,

the volatility index is spiking. Trump on camera talking about how he's angry with Spain, threatens to cut off trade with Spain, threats to impose tariffs of Spain. Trump indicates he's not happy with the United Kingdom. Oil is popping. Oil is escalating. Trump explains that Israel had no influence with him whatsoever

on why he invaded Iran. I'm left here as a parent of two boys, as an American, a Virginian, and Almorel County, asking these questions. I understand why our country has now declared war on Iran. We're talking a nasty country that kills its own people to the tune of 30,000 to 35,000 deaths. We're talking a country that is hoarding nuclear weapons. and the terrifying proposition of a country and a dictatorship and a regime that has nothing to lose having the nastiest, most dangerous weapons at their disposal.

I also wondered these questions, Judah. Do we not have enough issues in our own home? What's the collateral damage of attacking Iran? What are they going to do to us? A country that has nothing to lose. What's the influence Israel had over Donald Trump? I know there's also a question about exactly how much munitions Iran has, and the fact that with all of the fighting that Israel has been through,

with the U.S. helping both Israel and the Ukraine, that Iran may have enough rockets and missiles to out-shoot Israel and the United States, which would obviously be bad for anyone within range of Iran. Yeah. What's this going to do to the economy? What's this going to do to the people on the margin where a 30 cent increase in gas

and a couple of days per gallon has an impact? What happens if that 30 cents per gallon gets higher? It's more expensive, more costly. This all coincides with Sam Sanders, the city manager, asking for a two-cent real estate tax rate increase and a proposed budget. This all coincides. as Charlottesville real estate across the board has seen an assessment uptick of 4.27% on residential property and 2.14% on commercial property.

This happens as Alamara County real estate has uptick on average across Almaral County assessment-wise to the tune of 6.5%. This is the definition of a death, of a budgetary death by a thousand cuts for American households. Virginia households, Almar County households, Central Virginia household, Charlottesville City households. Yeah. There are, what's interesting to me is that there are nine priorities for the budget. And listed among those, I mean, you know, obviously affordable housing, public safety, transportation, those are all good things.

I guess I'm for organizational excellence. Nine strategic outcomes. Sam Sanders is saying, we need more money, Charlotte. And we're going to do that by raising your real estate tax rate. Now it's up to the city council to approve the city manager proposed budget. We know that's going to happen to fund nine strategic outcomes in Charlestville. Public Safety, organizational excellence, transportation, climate action, partnerships, education, economic prosperity, recreation, art and culture. Sam Sanders tells council last night there's two ways to get to a balanced budget.

And ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to hear me out. There's two ways, two ways, two ways to get to a balance budget. Judah, you know what those are? Yeah. Increasing revenue and or decreasing expenses. Spend more or spend less. Spend more or spend less.

Cut things out of the budget or find out a way to get more money. That money's not coming from meals tax collection. Restaurant sales sales are down. It's not coming from sales tax collection. Sales tax are down. Charlottesville's business economy, struggling. I don't care what the economic development office at Charlottesville City Hall says about the vacancy rate around town. When you replaced income-producing storefronts like restaurants and

small businesses on the downtown mall and you replace them with the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority or Operation Hope, a nonprofit that helps assimilate criminals back into society, that's smoke and mirroring the vacancy rate. Sam Sanders tells counsel on the record, I thought nine strategic outcomes or nine strategic goals was a weird relationship. Too many, too many, too many to pursue. But counsel said, Sam Sanders, you can do it anyway. I had a conversation at Tiger Fuel, their Preston Avenue location this morning. We drop off our oldest son at school for the second grade. after drop off the Tiger Fuel on Preston Avenue

has some of the most affordable gas in Charlottesville City I also like the people that work there I'm also the Sutton's will love to hear this I hope Gordon and Taylor Sutton hear this I'm a Tiger Fuel rewards member I love to earn points at Tiger Fuel because I like to get those delicious Keswick sandwiches you know the salty Virginia hands

on that French bread baguette. It's so good. My wife loves the Edomom. She enjoys eating the Edom sandwich from Niagara Fuel. You get points and you can get a free sandwich. Everybody wins. I particularly like this location because of the price of gasoline. I particularly like this location because there's a cashier, a team member, an associate

named Brenda. She is vivacious. She is fivacious. full energy. I would say, Brenda, I'm not going to try to age you here. I would say is in her 50s, maybe early 60s. Every single morning I see her. She is in the bubbly mood, just oozing positive energy, the type of people I want to be around, the type of person I try to be. I try to be bubbly, outgoing, complimentary. Try to make folks days better. She embodies that. I like to see her and talk to her in the morning. I gave her a fist bump today. I said, Brenda, I said Brenda this morning.

I said, goodness gracious, we've got a war going on in the Middle East. What's that going to do? What's that going to do to gas here? She calls me honey. I think she calls everybody, honey. He's got in a southern draw, little, she goes, honey, I don't know, but I know for me I'm just going to tighten my budget, do more with less. I'm going to tighten my budget because we all need that gasoline. Who's rubbing two nickels together to make a quarter? How's the impact of tariffs and threatening trade relationships across the globe, Spain, United Kingdom? What's that going to have on our household budget? What's escalating gas going to have on our budget?

What's escalating assessments going to have on our budget? What's rising tax rates going to have on our budget? 100 people just lost their jobs in Orange County, that lower third on screen. Have you followed this? Have you seen it? Are you reading? Are you learning? This show covers it for you.

Zama Corporation. ZAMMA. News hasn't been reported anywhere else. Why is that? 100 plus people in Orange, County, Virginia. 100 plus people in Orange County, Virginia without a job. You've been to Orange County, Virginia? I know viewers and listeners, some of you have. There's not a lot of job opportunity already there. 100 plus people losing their job. You talk about data centers. We're about to show you a six-minute

video, a Louisiana County taxpayer, fuming, irate, angry, furious, pissed off. with Louisiana County's Board of Supervisors and Data Centers, global conglomerates, fortune, what's Amazon, Forbes 10, Forbes 50, Amazon's market cap, $2.2 trillion. Data Center, Louisiana County, $11, $12 million data center, $13 million data center. What's the collateral damage of data centers? What's it tied to our water, the resources it needs? What's it tied to those Dominion utility bills?

How many of you have opened up your Dominion utility bill? Judah, this studio that we're in, the storefront on Market Street in downtown Charlestville, that's a hop-skip and a jump away from Mike Cottius' Police Department from Jim Hingley and Joe Plantania's courtrooms right off the downtown mall in the corner of Fourth and Market Street. I opened up our Dominion Electric bill for this studio right here. This studio is what? 750 square feet? storefront 750 square feet

750 square feet the electric bill for February now open just got it what do you think it was 160 2x that 345 for 700 square feet

how much of electric bills are being siphoned from data centers How much of data center rollout drives electric bill increase for us? Wait till you see this video, a backyard brouhaha of significant proportions, a Louisiana County taxpayer screaming at Louisiana County Board of Supervisors.

I ain't your daddy. You ain't my daddy. Oh, whoop your ass. I'm the dog you don't want to fight. I'll take you outside right now. That video coming up in a matter of minutes, Cursey of the Central Virginia. rub two nickels hope it's a quarter assessments go up taxes go up global tariffs 100 people losing

their job in orange county philip dow watching the program mayor of scotsville philip dow's photo on screen that tax hike in the city of charlothville is going to hurt me after taking on an additional house in the city Vanessa park hills watching the program the queen of earlysville the more community residents ask government to do the more government will demand in taxes the government will demand in taxes the government, Vanessa Parkhill says, is not a charity. The government, Vanessa Parkhill says, should not be determining what we do with our money. Vanessa Parkhill is the queen of Earlysville, and she also adds, the government does not generate revenue by creating goods or offering services. The only source of revenue for government is taxation. Sam Sanders tells counsel,

he tells counsel on the dais. This is Sam Sanders covering his tale. I told you guys, nine strategic outcomes was too many to pursue. Charlottesville City Council tells Sam Sanders, do it anyway. Sam Sanders proposes a budget that's nearly $300 million to run Charlottesville City with a two-cent real estate tax rate increase when assessments have uptick 4.7% for residential houses. There's already money tied to the assessment upticks. Council's going to rubber stamp this.

Am I reading that wrong? No, I don't think so. Hank Martin watching the program. Handsome Hank's photo on screen. Jerry, your show is the only water cooler willing to say the quiet part out loud. The Charlottesville-Alboral area is not Aspen,

nor is it Loudoun County. Pretending otherwise is economic malpractice. Our area is not only the most expensive in Virginia. Indeed, it's been said to retain that title for the entire East Coast. as well. Loudon operates on $180,000 median family household incomes, massive tech payrolls, data centers, federal contractors, and one of the deepest commercial tax bases in the nation. In Charlottesville, well, roughly $70,000 median income. I'll correct that. The median family household

income in the Charlottesville metro area, according to HUD, was 125,900. Still to handsome Hank Martin's point that's very different than the 180,000 in Loudoun County. Hank Martin continues. Poverty in Charlottesville is near 23%. One in four households in Charlottesville are on the poverty line. We have a university anchored economy with financially suppressed service workforce, a housing market pushing half a million dollar starter homes. He continues. I encourage you to read the post, the comment, and the show thread on Facebook.com forward slash Jerry Miller now, my personal Facebook page. Like and share the show. Like and share the show. We work hard for you.

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I was listening to this podcast as a paying subscriber of Jerry Rackett. And I literally was saying to myself, I didn't know that. I didn't know that's what Craig Littlepage did to get Tony Bennett to come here. That really good. There's like eight or ten different things that I follow this team as closely as anyone out there. I bleed orange and blue. So much incredible coverage from Jerry Ratcliffe.com behind that paywall. You know why you're seeing such anger and Janus Boyce Trevillian.

We're going to get to your comments in a matter of moments. We got print, radio, and television watching the program. I got a text message today from Congressman John McGuire. Congressman John McGuire is set in text over to us. There was a letter mailed to John McGuire's office. A very kind lady, he said, watched the interview he did on the I Love Seville show, featuring him. And this kind lady who was uncertain about John McGuire said, she got to know him in the 35 to 40 minutes he spent with us on this talk show

and saw Congressman McGuire in a different light. You're talking about rubbing two nickels together to try to make a quarter? Put the graphic on screen from the sushi artist, the husband and wife team. The husband and wife team behind Judah. Omikaze Obscura. This was the sushi joint and vitae spirits. Stefan Freeman, the fallen restaurateur, seven businesses,

no, seven storefronts, eight businesses. Collapse, shuttered, closed. You call it financial malpractice. Some call it overreach. Some forgive them. Some infuriated by him. His photo, keep that on screen. Here's an announcement picture from a very, very, very, very, very, very, very kind man.

We're in a UVA ball cap. He's humbly looking down. He's wearing an apron. He's wearing a white undershirt. He's got glasses on that are on the brim of his nose. And in humble fashion, he is asking Charlottesville and Almorel County to help him find a way to pay his bills through knife sharpening services,

and by catering meals in your home, are offering private cooking lessons. A gentleman who shared a business with his wife under the umbrella of Stefan Freeman on the downtown mall. For so many in food and beverage to have a shingle on the downtown mall, a sign, a menu, a business, and the most significant eight blocks in an entire region we call Central Virginia to then find out that rents were not being paid, bills were not being paid, and your business as you know it that you bled, sweat, and cried for has been ripped from you.

And now past the point of middle age, you were posting on social media. please hire for knife sharpening services, private cooking classes, or in-home chefing. That's 2026 in a microcosm of rubbing two nickels together to make a quarter. And that's why you can understand. That's why you can appreciate. That's why you will see anger on display last night in Louisiana County. Do you have that video? Six minutes I'm going to play.

and about halfway through this video, you will see a Louisiana County taxpayer and the Louisiana County Board of Supervisors go toe to toe in a backyard brouhaha that you would see a steel cage match with Hacksaw Jim Duggan, The Undertaker, The Rock, John Sina, Ray Mysterio and the Luchadores,

Sting, DDP, Diamond Dallas Page, you have that sound, ready to go? I've got the video ready. This is courtesy of the Central Virginia. Courtesy of the Central Virginia. Fantastic media outlet.

Wait till you get to about halfway through where these folks are screaming, who you calling Daddy? Boy, I'll take you outside and I'll beat you like the dog that you are. And three, two, and one. If Mr. Williams is a builder, then he notes that the 2,700 megawatt.

facility on Route 33 had to have 2.7 gigawatts coming from somewhere. Where is the data? You guys didn't look at the data for the second largest proposed data center in all of Virginia. It had to come from somewhere and if it's being drawn locally, where's the energy being brought in to replace that? You guys want to come in overhead with toxic power lines that are legacy and the called legacy for a reason. They're from the 1950s. India hired Hitachi last year to run HBDC cable 530 miles, 950 kilometers. India. We're at war right now and you guys want to go overhead with a product to deliver power that Iran and any low-level pyromaniac could take out. There's so many just, I mean, I don't even know how you guys can sit here with the

Dominion behind me. I mean, are you being paid off? Why are you even allowing this? I mean, let's keep it real. You can shake your head all your arm, but he's a builder. He knows what loads are. He works with electricians all the time. There's no way you all can sit here and put a data center on Route 33 and not know where 2,700 megawatts is coming from. I'm not buying it. You all should be audited. Yeah, laugh it up, bro. It's your laws, right? Masonic Lodge you got? Where's that at? I'm a dog, man. I'm here to fight for everybody behind me. And this is ridiculous.

These guys haven't proposed an HVDC underground proposal. And according to Mr. Rob Richardson, who everybody has to talk to, he said, I'll take the time, I need, thank you. Yeah, okay. Rob Richardson says there is no HPDC plan. So you guys need to go back, do some real home,

and come up with the HPDC plan and you're going to be landlocked for two counties. Thank you. Thank you. Respectful to others. We want this is to come and comment to us. We like you in here, but you need to do so in a manner that is respectful, constructive, and productive. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Well, it's respectful of sending out letters before a week.

You're out of order. So are you. I mean, come on, man. This is crazy. Amen. I can make you leave. I can't make you leave. So I'm not going to address some of the comments that you made, but I will like that

what Mr. McCodder said. You want to come here and be angry, come and be angry. I'm not anger. You can't even provide real data. I'm going to throw you out of here. Okay, send me out. Let's get it going. We're in recess.

That gentleman will be removed. There you go. We're all to get rid of it. Oh, you can make a comment to me, but I can't talk to you. You're not my daddy. Because I'll have to bitch your ass. Say what? What do you don't do?

You're gonna whip who's ass? Who's ass? Who's ass? You better wait to get on the end? You better ask somebody who I am, dick dog. Fucking clown. You're out of recess. You all not have an example of kind of not to ask.

example how not to ask. I don't care if you're angry, happy, you have a right to be all of those things. If you don't have a way, you don't have a way to make false accusations against the jury, we certainly don't have a right to interrupt this meeting and shout from the credible. I won't allow that to happen from anybody. I don't, I don't, I understand he's angry. I'm angry about the same thing. Maybe if he'd listen, he would understand the positions on both sides. Thank you. I generally don't interrupt public session. I think it's important to get a couple things straight. The Louisiana County Board Supervisors has not been asked to find an appropriate way for a power line to come through the county. The Louisiana County Board Supervisors has not done anything to make this come through the county. This is a transmission. This is still passing through.

It's not stopping them. And if you feel like we're complicit in this, you can believe what you want, that's your judge's wrong. So you can be angry at us and that's okay. We can take it. This is a really good job. Tays a lot. And no matter how you vote, somebody's always upset.

So we're doing the best we can to help the citizens in the community. And you can believe that or you can choose not to believe. It's whichever one you want to do. But there's seven of us up here and we work together. We don't always agree. But 99% of the time we come out with the best intentions for the community. And that's our goal. So you can believe, you cannot believe it.

But that was unacceptable. So please do not repeat it. Tell us what's on your heart. Tell us what's on your mind. And be respectful when you do. That's all we ask. Thank you. I do want to apologize. I did swear in public.

I'll tell you I never swear, but I don't go in public. So I give you all that apology. I shouldn't have done that. I think we're at a, we're at a fever pitch. That's courtesy of the Central Virginian first. I want to give props to the Central Virginian for publishing that. They do a good job. Follow them on social media.

You had a Louisiana County Board of Supervisors, chairman threaten a taxpayer in that six-minute video by saying he would whoop his ass. Kind of. How's that not what happened? He's a chairman

of an elected board on a dais and has the pomp circumstance, influence, and power that comes with being on a dais in front of a county seal in front of taxpayers at a preset, pre-scheduled, predetermined meeting,

an elected official saying, I should whoop your ass, a man who in the public speaking portion of the meeting, obviously frustrated, certainly made some on-the-take allegations of the supervisors, finished his comments in the allotted time, walked back to his seat with a significant other, a loved one of some capacity and seem to have cooled off to have a chairman say, I'll whoop your ass.

That's not quite how it happened, but... It's exactly how it happened. Oh, okay. Which part would you disagree with? You didn't mention the part where the guy is yelling from his seat. How many times does that happen in Charlottesville City Council? Couldn't tell you. How many people has Juan Diego weigh?

Wade kicked out of Council Chambers for doing that. Probably not. Exactly. It's a microcosm of rubbing two nickels together to make a quarter. It's a microcosm of the thousand cuts death. It's a microcosm of Louisiana counties, Charlottesvillians, Almaro counties, Orange Countyans, 100 plus people in Orange County now jobless.

It's a microcosm of turning. on CNBC like we have in our studio and seeing Trump for the second consecutive day, command the attention of Americans from the White House, talking about a war on the other side of the world. I'm all for a safe world. I'm all for democracy. I understand America is the superpower, the world's superpower. I understand we have responsibilities as being Americans, as the country, United States,

of maintaining freedoms and maintaining safe. outside of our borders. I get it. I understand it. We have the resources. Part of being successful people in a successful country is this notion of being third. God, family, others. I'm left asking myself again today, again today, don't we have enough SHIT going on right now in our own country to go halfway across the world, all the way across the world, excuse me, and risk American lives. I understand the concept of 30 to 35,000 Iranians dead. I understand the concept of nuclear weapons and the danger they pose. I wonder the influence Israel has over our country and Trump. Now a threatening Spain in the United Kingdom by

the president, tariffs, trade war. We saw what that did with China and Canada. I understand the concept of leverage to get countries to do what he wants. I woke up this morning in Charlottesville. I woke up this morning. No, I woke up this morning in Ivy, Virginia, and Almorel County. And I got in the Family Ford Explorer and we drove to Charlottesville where we work. And my heart was heavy because of this Woodbrook Elementary fifth grade teacher, child pedophile pornography story. Disgusting. It's been heavy on me because I got a second grader and a third grader and a third. year old. Lonnie Murray watching the program. I respect Lonnie Murray tremendously. Lonnie Murray's a proud Whitehall resident. He says, externalities are the enemy of a truly free market. When consumers end up

footing the bill for the hitting cost of data centers and their power bill from a virtual monopoly like dominion, then it undermines the real costs and enforcement. decisions that might otherwise be made. If everyone had to pay $5 every time they made a stupid AI cat meme, then they might think differently about whether that use is really worth it. No doubt. Neil Williamson's watching the program, the president of the Free Enterprise Forum. For what it's worth, law enforcement is always present at Almore County Board of Supervisors and Charlottesville City Council meetings. Hansom Hank Martin, when you need on armed guards at county board of supervisor meetings in DMV and social security offices,

then you are not doing things the right way. Handsome Hank Martin's been making the program better. Thank you, handsome Hank. Janice Boyce Trevillian is watching the program. Her photo on screen. The Louisiana County disagreement is about the line Dominion wants to run through to Call Pepper to support the Call Pepper Data Centers, Joshua falls to Yates transmission line.

And she highlights that Trump should be angry at the United Kingdom in Spain. They are allies that get so much from the United States. They'd be gone right now if it wasn't for the U.S. troops. And she says, Judah, that board member was the one who threatened first. Not the other way around. I agree. The guy didn't threaten anything. I just think we're mishearing things.

I think as he's walking out and he says, you're not my daddy. The guy is probably a poorly reasoned response, but he responds with, I think he was responding with, I would have whooped your butt if I was, essentially saying, I'd have taught you some manners. I don't think he was saying, let's take this outside and punch it out. Tom Powell watching the program, the founder of Toy Lift, Gunner Cook, Stanley Martin Holmes. Scunner Cook, you're just an all-around great guy. Let's give Stanley Martin Holmes some love, a partner of the program. Stanley Martin builds a quality, quality, condominium, townhome, and single-family detached house. And Stanley Martin Holmes does it

in honest, communicative capacities. Design and constructed with innovative techniques that ensure exceptional efficiency and aesthetic appeal. Stanley Martin Holmes, Gunner Cook and Jimmy Evers, two of the best. William McChesney, welcome to the program. Brandon Herup, welcome to the program. Claire Turner, Turney, welcome to the program. Print radio, every media outlet locally is watching the show. Holly Foster and Henrico. Philip Andrew Hamilton. Betsy Nugent. God, the fundamentals of her tennis swing, Betsy Nugent. Unbelievable. So talented. 50 minutes into this talk show,

Water cooler content and conversation, Judah. My heart is still heavy this morning, this afternoon. And it's heavy for a lot of reasons. Uncertainty does not breed clarity of thought. The uncertainty I face today is the uncertainty

that I hear in this office from our clients. We're a consultancy, this firm. We are paid hourly or in retainer capacity to help businesses, whether startups, small caps, midcaps, we have clients on our roster that are doing $56 million, $50, $60 million a year, $50 to $60 million a year in top-line revenue. To clients that come to me with a business,

business plan looking for funding in a space to work. And these clients, they sit in that desk or in our office and they offer the good, the bad, and the ugly of what's going on in their outfits and operation. And so much of late has been more mediocre to ugly. And on Friday, I fueled my tank, and it was $2.79. And I passed the same station today, and it was $3.9. And I know that everyone, everyone, everyone pumps the same gas into their car. And I know that just about everyone around this region has seen those assessments go up. I know that a lot of people in this region may have some floating debt they're dealing with.

And those interest rates, you think they're coming down anytime soon? what are we missing today, Judah, with a boatload of people watching? Objections to SROs. How does anyone have an objection to a school resource officer? I think in this case, the objections are largely about money, which I certainly understand, though from... That was debunked. Yep.

These are positions that are already accounted for. Yep. There are vacancies in the... the police department and those vacancies are being used to fill the SRO rolls. So the, uh, this is not incremental spend. So the, so the schools will not be asking for more money to pay for SROs. The city will not be seeking more money to pay for SROs. The money is already accounted for with the Charlottesville Police Department. You had a 29-year-old pedophile male teaching fifth graders at Woodbrook Elementary.

and people are bitching and moaning about having police in schools. Make it make sense. Tom Powell, the founder of Toy Lift watching the program, seems to me that we have forgotten what our parents taught us. If you can't say anything respectful, then don't say anything at all. I remember growing up. If it wasn't yes, sir, or no sir, or yes, ma'am or no man, or if it wasn't following the letter of the law,

and the letter of the law was my parents' law, my grandparents' law. When we were kids growing up, it was the belt. For the shoe. If you really, really, or the wooden spoon. If you really stepped out of line,

my Cuban grandfather, it was the belt with the buckle. Johnny Ornales watched you in the program. None of that now. None of that now. Charlottesville Sanitary Supply and Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company, the Vermillion Family,

are five generations strong in Almaro County. Goodness, their business is three generations strong, and they have everything sanitary cleaning, vacuum, and swimming pool related online at Charlottesville Sanitary Supply.com. They offer product on their website that you can order now online that will be delivered on your doorstep, often the same day, at price points less than the big box brands. Why would we not support a 62-year-old business with upstanding gentlemen like the Vermilions? And their swimming pool company, Charlottesville swimming pool company, anything swimming related, they are the consultant or the concierge of. Water testing, pool cleaning robots, swimming pool covers, constructing the pools above ground or in ground, maintaining them. Good people.

The Tuesday edition of the I Love Seville Show, 56 minutes straight of content where we work extremely hard for you. We pour our heart and soul into this. He's Judah Wickhauer. my name is Jerry Miller. Thank you kindly for joining us.