The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - CVille Public Schools v CVille Teacher Union; Teacher Union Misses Deadline; 10.5% Raise At Risk

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

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Welcome to the I Love Seville Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us on a Monday afternoon in downtown Charlottesville. It's an absolute pleasure to connect with you guys through our flagship show. A lot we're going to cover on the broadcast today, including a Royal Rumble on the horizon for tonight. The Charlottesville Teacher Union, the Charlottesville School Board, and Charlottesville Public Schools are smack dab in the middle of a wrestling rink. and on one side you have Ray Mysterio and the Luchadores,

you have Dwayne the Rock Johnson, and in the opposite corner, you have John Sina, The Undertaker, and Hacksaw Jim Duggan. But instead of spandex, two-by-fours,

and rubber mask, ladies and gentlemen, it's going to be Dr. Royale Gurley and his bow tie and pinstripe suit, Ziana Bryant and her aggressive school board mentality, and Shannon Gilligan and her activists in her corner, chopping at the bit to fight for a 10.5% raise for support staff. This story is one, ladies and gentlemen,

that will captivate your attention. And we will highlight for you, the viewer and listener, on what is going on in a wrestling rink and a royal rumble of tremendous proportions. And once again, the old axiom, when elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers. It's certainly embodied today as support staff in Charlottesville Public Schools are the folks that are suffering in this particular circumstance. Walker Elementary tonight, 5 o'clock, there's going to be a protest and activist movement. the Charlottesville Teacher Union is leading in a nutshell.

And we're going to unpack this story at every single angle on the program today. But in a nutshell, the Charlottesville Teacher Union, led by its president, Shannon Gilliken, missed a key deadline. And that missed key deadline may cost Charlottesville teaching support staff a 10.5% raise. Ladies and gentlemen, maybe some of you are asking 10.5% raise. wow, who's getting those? Not just 10.5. It's 10 and a half for the next three years, I believe.

Which tells me something about what they're probably getting paid right now. Well, they're being paid peanuts. They're paying absolute dog due is what they're paid right now. And if you watch and listen to this program, and Judah's going to unpack it with this here, that's the voice you hear off screen. If you watch and listen to this show, we are all support, all in favor of teachers, teacher aides,

public school support staff getting paid a fair wage, a livable wage. If you watch and listen to this show, you know we believe teachers are heroes and they are dramatically and vastly underpaid. The shenanigans, the fighting, the violence, the headwinds, the difficulty, the challenges that Charlottesville teachers, public school system here in the city in particular have to go through. few people professionally have to have to manage these kind of difficulties. They are vastly underpaid. Still, the teacher union, which is led by folks that, frankly, are not professional negotiators and do not seem to have much business sense, missed a key budgetary and negotiating deadline.

And as a result, the school board and the Charlottesville public school system basically, you know, disparaged the teacher union and said, because you couldn't keep up with a calendar, this 10.5% raise that we had negotiated and agreed upon is no more. And we're going to chop that raise down to about 3%. That topic on today's show. Also on the program, we're going to talk fired police chief, Rashall Brackney, hired as police chief in Jackson, Mississippi. I broke that news over the weekend. I was tipped by two individuals. I will use neither of their names. They asked for anonymity.

They passed on the information to me on Friday evening. Two different individuals. Interestingly, they both live in the same neighborhood. I don't think they know each other, nor do I think they know they live in the same neighborhood, but they do. I got a tip on Friday about the bracketing news and the fact that she was hired in Jackson, Mississippi,

and I posted it on the I Love Seville Network. I highlighted her history in Charlottesville, including the fact that she was fired by former city manager Chip Boyles. One of the reasons Brackney was fired in Charlottesville is because she had lost the support of her police department. She had a vacancy rate of 25% plus within the department, and the men and women who are quitting the department were just not, we're not just the old guard inherited by the, police chief prior, Al Thomas, or the chief prior to that, Tim Longo. The men and women that were quitting were actually men and women that Brackney hired herself. It showed how much friction and discombobulation kind of existed within the department under her leadership. I highlighted some of those elements in my commentary on the I Love Seville Network. I also highlighted in my commentary

in the I Love Seville Network over the weekend that Brackney filed a $10 million dollar lawsuit against the city of Charlottesville, claiming alleging she was fired because of race, because she was a woman. The city of Charlottesville basically ignored her lawsuit despite the fact that Brackney hired an attorney from the late Johnny Cochran's law firm, and they pop in circumstanced a press release or a press event in front of the free speech wall, his three-piece suit, his fine Italian leather loafers, talking in a way for anyone that was an earshot to listen. City of Charlottesville basically ignored Brackney

and the Johnny Cochran lawyer from the Cochran law firm and the lawsuit eventually went away. And I've caught some heat from that from folks in this community, including former Mayor Nakaya Walker. That's some commentary about yours truly on the program. Always fodder for content on the I Love Seville show former mayor Nikaya Walker and she continues to provide us ammunition on the I Love Seville show with her commentary on social media we'll talk about that on on the program today we will

also discuss Stefan Freeman and Hunter Smith by now you may know we talked about this for pretty much the entire show on Friday Stefan Freeman is the restaurateur whose house of carts is collapsed Ace Biscuit and Barbecue, the locks have now been changed. Not just an eviction notice, but the locks have been changed. I also have received a couple dozen direct messages, text messages, emails from folks that are associated with the Stefan Freeman collapsed House of Cards. It is Hunter Smith, unfortunately, 2.0 all over again. Vendors who have not been paid, employees who are missing many rounds of paychecks, locks change, landlords behind on rent. We're told the locks have been changed on the downtown mall.

And we're now left as taxpayers and as Charlottesvillians, you know, navigating the collateral damage. And I'm going to ask you the viewer and listener to this question now that we've kind of navigated or assessed the collateral damage, digest the collateral damage, who is in fact worse for the city of Charlottesville? Who was, who is worse for the city of Charlottesville? Hunter, Smith or Stefan Freeman. That topic on today's show. And I also want to highlight a real estate mogul, a real estate tycoon. This individual's name is Richard Spurzum. He's the owner of neighborhood properties. Neighborhood properties, a titan in the real estate category in Central Virginia.

Neighborhood properties, ladies and gentlemen, and its principal, Richard Spursum, one of the five largest private real estate owners in Charlottesville and Almore County. based on tax assessment. That pulling directly from Richard's website, Neighborhoodrops.com. You could find it online again at Neighborhood props, P-R-O-P-S.com on the about page. Spursam's firm is a heavy hitter.

I work in the real estate category. We help broker some deals. We help raise some capital. We own 24 doors ourselves. I've known of Richard Spurzum for nearly the 26 years I've been in this community. He's a University of Virginia graduate, bought his first property in 1980. He left some commentary on the I Love Seville Network as it applies to the homeless shelter on a holiday drive.

Richard Spursum says the city is entering a boondoggle of significant proportions with the 27,000 square foot holiday drive, homeless shelter remodeling project. And the city, he believes, doesn't even know what kind of boondoggle they are entering. A financial quicksand, a financial black hole, that story on today's program. I do want to highlight one of the partners of our show, Stanley Martin Holmes, Judah Wickhauer, proud to call Stanley Martin Holmes, a partner of the program. Stanley Martin Holmes is dedicated to building homes that cater to each person's unique needs and lifestyle. Stanley Martin Holmes, high-quality, single-family homes. townhomes, condominiums,

design and constructed with innovative techniques that ensure exceptional efficiency and aesthetic appeal. Stanley Martin Holmes, neighborhoods and houses in this community of note, of notworthiness, and of

significance. Stanley Martin Holmes. Judah Wickhauer's studio camera please, and then a two-shot as we welcome a trusted voice in this community, the jack-of-all trades, the jack-of-all-wits, a household name and Judah B. Wickhauer. A missed deadline with the Charlottesville Teacher Union

may cost support staff within Charlottesville Public Schools a 10.5% raise for years to come. And now this teacher union, who is led by President Shannon Gilligan, a kindergarten teacher, yes, the partner, the wife, of Matthew Gilliken, who I believe is now monikered the most notorious activists in the region since Ziana Bryant is now a politically elected official on the Charlottesville School Board.

Here's the crazy thing is this Royal Rumble has the former most notorious activists in Charlottesville history, Ziana Bryant on the school board, now going toe to toe with the current most notorious activists in Charlottesville, Matthew Gilligan and his wife, Shannon Gilliken. I will let you, if you could please, sir, set the stage for the viewers and listeners on how a missed deadline with the teacher union could cost low-wage employees within Charlottesville public schools, the bottom of the total pool financially or compensation-wise, basically any kind of opportunity to snoburned niff or flirt with a living wage and this very expensive community to live within. Well, I don't know if the deadline is correct.

If you find the CEA response. No acronyms. Okay, let's see. Charlottesville Education Association. The Charlottesville Education Association versus the Charlottesville City school board. And the, so to start the whole thing off,

you want me to explain or do you want me to just get ready to it? Okay. For the viewers and listeners' sake. The Charlottesville School Board has released a letter, not just released, sent it out to everyone. On Friday night. Including teachers and students and parents. It does not paint a good picture.

of the Charlottesville Education Association. It talks about the fact that they missed an opportunity to send back a ratified deal. And because they missed the deadline, the school board will be giving the support staff a raise of 3% instead of 10.5%. The 10.5% was supposed to go through each of the next three years, apparently to, what I can guess, is to get them to a... Sniffing a living wage locally. Yeah, getting close to that. The CEA released their response fairly, I don't know, it was two days ago.

So it was, they did a pretty quick turnaround because I'm sure they had to run this by their lawyers. They did? Friday night, the school board and Charlottesville Public Schools through the teacher union under the bus. a widely distributed message to teachers and parents. I've been told the students got it as well. This message from the public school system and the Charlottesville School Board, co-signed by both, basically associated the Charlottesville Teacher Union with leadership malpractice. The letter from the school board and the public school system said the teacher union missed a deadline.

And because of that missed deadline, a 10.5% rate. that both the teacher union, the school board, and the public school system, all three of them agreed to. This missed deadline resulted in the deal in ploding, and the school system and the school board saying, no, we're not going to give the support staff, the teacher aides, the janitorial staff, the maintenance crew. You're talking the cafeteria workers.

You're talking the bottom of the totem pole financially. I'm not talking humans, bottom of the totem pole. I'm talking compensation bottom of the totem pole. The school system and the school board said, that's it. You missed the deadline. You guys are going to get the 3%. You're not going to get the 10.5. And the reason you're not going to get the 10 and a half compounded over the next three years

is because the Shannon Gilliken led teacher union missed this deadline. If you got beef, eat a pork chop, and take it up with them. Yeah. And they made it sound good. They made it sound like it wasn't just, hey, we're not giving this. they made it into a kind of we had a deal you were going to give something we were going to give something

and without the ratified deal we can't go ahead because why would you if one side you know if you're not sure the other side is going to is going to come through with their end of the deal there's no deal however the CEA paints a different picture

in their response and essentially saying that there was no deadline We've continually asked for dates from the school board. We have not received any. In fact, they note that last year, the same thing happened. They were allowed to ratify their deal or whatever, and that went through. That was approved.

After the ratification was turned in on March 11th, the board approved it on March 26. So the CEA is saying we are very confused why the school is saying that there is a deadline this year and they're going ahead with, you know, with their decision without, you know, without any kind of, you know, chance to respond. There's so much to unpack with this story. And a boiling point may be upon us tonight at 5 o'clock at Walker Elementary School in a joint meeting with Charlottesville School Board members. members and Charlottesville City Councilors, a call to action from the teacher union for taxpayers, parents, students, and teacher union members to show up at this 5 o'clock joint meeting this evening at Walker Elementary to protest what the teacher union is calling union busting. And anti-union rhetoric.

Anti-union rhetoric and an effort from school board and the public school system to try to splinter the teacher union for the sake of saving money at the, you know, at the feet or on the backs of the lowly paid in the public school system. This is a crazy effing story. I'm going to unpack this further. Here's another dynamic. The teacher union and the activists that support the teacher union visibly and publicly endorsed Zion, as a school board candidate and pushed her to victory lane. Ziana Bryant, the most notorious activist in Charlottesville history, is now on the short of Charlottesville School Board,

in part because of the teacher union. Now we are talking like 40 days on the job. It's February 9th. She started on the 1st of January. 40 days on the job, those same people who pushed Ziana of brian into victory lane are claiming ladies and gentlemen that zayana brian is negotiating in bad faith and is a union buster and using anti-union rhetoric it sounds absolutely crazy okay i want to take this a step further i want viewers and listeners to use common sense here the charltsville school board members

the people you know and i'm going to call up the charlesville school board members the charlesville school board member website so I can rattle off names of school board members. The Emily Dooley's of the world, Judah. The Zion abrients of the world,

Judah. Okay. Do you think the Zionabrients, the Emily Dooleys, you get the school board members elected official list if you could? Yeah, we've got, let's see, Charlottesville City School board, Lisa Torres, Chair, Amanda Burns, Vice Chair,

Ziona Bryant, Shymora Cooper, Emily Dooley, Chris Meyer, and Nicole Richardson. This is arguably one of the most progressive, union-friendly school boards out there. You one would think. Ziona Bryant literally got elected in large part due to the teacher union. if anyone believes and you're reading the tea leaves correctly that Emily Dooley, Lisa Larson Torres, Ziona Bryant, and the other names mentioned by Judah Wickhauer are anti-union or union busters or are utilizing union tactics or union anti-union rhetoric to splinter a union. You're not reading the tea leaves correctly.

I also want viewers and listeners to hop in their Dolores. and punch into the flux capacitor the year 2025. Sometime last year, Doc Brown, Marty McFly are hopping into DeLorean, and they want to take a trip into the past when, if you remember the Charlottesville Teacher Union in 2025, when the Federal Executive Institute was given by the Trump administration to Charlottesville. else for public schools. And then, in the bottom of the ninth inning, it was snatched away from the teacher union, snatched away from the public schools, and then given to the University of Virginia. That's when the teacher union led by Shannon Gilligan told anyone and everyone who would listen,

if UVA doesn't give us back the Federal Executive Institute, their teachers that are at the Curry School of Education, their students, will not be well. welcome into our public school classroom to teach our students ever again. And we sat here on the I Love Seville show and we said, wait a second, Shannon Gilligan, you are the president of the teacher union and you are literally telling anyone who will listen that the Curry School of Education students that are pursuing their masters at one of the top education schools in the country cannot go into classrooms at Charlottesville Public Schools and offer free pro bono expertise and classrooms that are challenged do not have the resources

and often have not the best student teacher ratios? You are allowing, at the time, Shannon Gilligan and the teacher union, your judgment to be clouded because you were bitter that the Trump administration basically did a nana-nana boo-boo with the Federal Executive Institute dangling in front of you as if you were a machined rabbit or a robotic carrot and you were a greyhound chasing the rabbit or the carrot around a dog track in South Florida for a $35,000 first place purse. You never caught the machine rabbit.

You never caught the robotic carrot. And as a result, you were bitter and angry and you said, UVA, you got. give us back this property, shame on you, or your students won't be able to teach in our classrooms. And then parents in Charlottesville Public School System said, what? We want the 23-year-olds from the University of Virginia who are pursuing degrees at the most esteemed, or one of the most esteemed educational institutions in America to come into our classrooms and teach our kids because the student-teacher ratio in these schools sucks. And the real, and the real,

Resources in these schools suck as well. Please don't say no to free labor, Shannon and Teacher Union. And then when they realized the popular vote was against him, the teacher union went quiet and took a couple steps back. And that threat we all realized was empty. Now, not even a year later, we're realizing the teacher union missed a filing deadline. Potentially. And now, not even a year later, we're realizing the teacher union is scrambling right. right now to try to use public pressure at a joint meeting with council and the school board

tonight at five o'clock to try to get public pressure to change the minds of elected officials. It's a wild story and yet an indication of the whack-a-dudeness or some kind of crazy loony-tunes gas that emits from the earth clouds people's judgment and makes them think unclearly on the regular in this 10.2 square mile city. One other element I want you, the viewer and listener, to consider. I am all four, and you've got lower thirds, you should be rotating on screen here. There's three of them, Judah. I am all four viewers and listeners.

Teachers being paid. Teachers are underpaid. Support staff are underpaid. Aides are underpaid. janitors are underpaid. The cafeteria ladies are underpaid. Bus drivers underpaid. Any people that are working in this school system are underpaid. The HUD median family household income for the Charlottesville metro area is $125,900, the last released number. And that metric is undoubtedly going to go upward when the next HUD number is released in a couple of months. They are underpaid. They all deserve more money.

But ladies and gentlemen, viewers and listeners of all shapes and sizes, viewers and listeners of all ideologies, viewers and listeners of all levels of wealth, a 10.5% raise, three consecutive years of 10.5% raises for support staff. On top of additional perks that were outlined in this letter from the Charlottesville Education Association, including days off for mental recovery. Literally have mental recovery days. there. I don't have a mental recovery day as a business owner. I need a boatload of mental recovery days. I don't got any of those. A boatload of holidays, a boatload of paid time off, right? Who do you

think is going to foot the bill for a 10.5% raise year over year over year compounded? Taxpayers. Last week on the show, I highlighted the headwinds that Charlestful City is facing, that no one is talking about, but the I Love Seville show. Assessments tied to real estate are flat. Real estate in the city of Charlottesville specifically is not appreciating like it appreciated during COVID. Of course it's not. That was a bonanza. But real estate in the city of Charlestville is not appreciating like it was prior to COVID. Flat assessments means less tax collection. Meals taxes, down. Sales taxes, down. Logics. taxes to be determined. The month of January into February, any kind of tax collection in January and February,

which are generally down months, are very much going to be down in 2026 because of this generational, historical ice storm that we received. Furthermore, how deep did Charlottesville City go into its coffers with snow and ice remediation, cleanup, maintenance, and management? I can guarantee you on Charlottesville's bingo card, it did not have a once-in-a-historical snowstorm that it had to manage in 2026. Furthermore, you have 10.5% raises three straight years for sports staff in the city and other union-led endeavors in Charlottesville that are causing the city to go deeper in their pockets to allocate capital, dry powder that they otherwise did not. Throw in the six point two million for the homeless shelter, another five to ten million to remodel it,

and more on that homeless shelter in a matter of moments with Richard Spursum, a real estate titan offering his take on what the city is about to embark upon. You see why the city has dramatic headwinds in front of it with its budget and with tax collection, and you see why the city is already hinting to you, the taxpayer, that the real estate tax rate and the tax rate on personal property is going to escalate because they need incremental revenue sources at a time where their budget is clearly being hit from a number of different sides and angles. Viewers and listeners, put your thoughts in the feed, and I will relay your commentary live on air due to Wickhauer. It's your time to shine.

I time to shine. I mean, this is turning into a he said, she said, and I don't think we're really going to have an answer about who was ultimately in the wrong here. As I mentioned, the Charlottesville Education Association is alleging that they thought they had time. They asked for dates. They did not receive dates. And they were going on what happened last year where there was approval well into March. And so they are confirmed. that the same timeline events of events is not possible this year and grave concerns about

about the bargaining unit being harmed by this escalated timeline but we would need to talk to someone who obviously has inside information to to confirm or deny the I suppose you could call them accusations of both the Charlottesville City Schools and the Charlottesville Education Association. If support staff with Charlottesville Public Schools, the aides, the cafeteria workers, the janitors, the support staff, if they miss out on this 10.5% raise, I would very much encourage the Charlottesville Education Association to call a meeting and to question. legitimately the leadership that's in play with the teacher union. Specifically, a move to vote out the leadership that's in position right now. Because missing deadlines is the most basic of basic when it comes to running a union.

It's like the third-party law firm that was hired by the city, missing a filing deadline with the new zoning ordinance. And that missed filing deadline with the news earning ordinance with the high power third-party law firm almost cost the city years of effort and sweat equity and taxpayer money with the new zoning ordinance. We lamb-baseded the third-party law firm for missing that filing deadline, and rightfully so, because it's basic business. and if we lamb base the third party law firm for missing a filing deadline with the new zoning ordinance lawsuit, we must hold of equivalent accountability the Charlottesville Teacher Union for missing a deadline tied to a 10.5% raise for the folks on a total poll financially that are at the bottom that are struggling to survive and pay their bills.

Comments are coming in faster than I can keep up. We have counselors, school board members. members watching the show right now, print, radio and television watching the show right now. And I'll tell you, the Almore County school board members and the Almore County supervisors that are watching the program somewhere behind the scenes, they're doing their Mr. Burns impersonation right now. Their fingers tapping like this and going, excellent, because they realize the negative attention is not on Almaro County, its school board, and its supervisors, a 250, you million new school and northern Almaro County that maybe taxpayers will have to pay and the

Allison Spillman absurdity of using the KKK comparison with students at Western Almaro High School. It's another school system and another school board that's in the new cycle front and center and not Al Marl's. That's why they're Mr. Burnsing excellent in the background right now. Conan Owen is watching the program. Sir Speedy of Central Virginia. Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Spidea Central Virginia is who you contact for any signage needs. They've done the vinyl lettering on our storefront window. The banner directly behind me. Our real estate portfolio, 24 doors, the tenants that move into our portfolio of offices,

use Sir Speedy Central Virginia for their signage needs. Direct mail, merchandise, uniforms, trifolds, stickers, lanyards, you name it. Sir Speedy Central Virginia, Darden Educators. Conan Owen of Sir Speedy of Central Virginia. He says missing a key deadline seems to be a basic requirement for any aspect of city government. I concur. I concur. Vanessa Park Hills watching the program, the Queen of Earlysville, her photo on screen. When our local government puts policies in place similar to those in the state of California,

we can expect the local economy to follow suit. That state is in a serious fight. financial position, flirting with requesting some kind of bailout. Why don't our leaders see where California is and where California is heading and try to keep that from happening to Charlottesville, Almore County, and Central Virginia? I mention this live on air period. Thank you for watching. Send it. Let's go to direct message. Deep Throat, number one on the family, his photo on screen. Deep Throat says this. I mean, the bottom line for me, on the Charlottesville Public Schools versus the Charlestville Education Association dispute is this.

Does anyone who's watching or listening to Jerry's show actually think Diana Bryant and Emily Dooley and the Charleston School Board are union busters? They are bog standard progressives, generally quite sympathetic to unions. I find it hard to believe the Charlottesville Public School Board is going to act aggressively toward the union without justification. On the other hand, is Shannon Gilliken and the rest of the Charlottesville Educational Association leadership generally of marginal competence, or are they hot-headed and weak on details? Absolutely, we know the answer to that, deep throat says. So without very convincing evidence to the contrary, I conclude this is just a Charlottesville City Schools school board saying, hey, the teacher union screwed up. That's what it looks like to me.

And the wild thing is in Progressive Charlottesville in the year 2026, in Progressive Charlestville, in the year 2026, if you offer any commentary like I've offered right now of political elected officials and a school system, doing things by the letter of the law on following deadlines, and offering commentary that appears to be in any, capacity against a teacher union, whether meritable or not, the sympathetic teacher union will always be seen as the Rudy Rudiger or the underdog. The reality is, is the underdog, the Rudy from Notre Dame, missed a filing deadline. Comments coming in faster than I can keep up with. And the wild story here is the precarious position of a Zionabriant. A Zionab Bryant who goes from Charlottesville Public Schools, Education, Matriculation, a Zion Bryant who was pushed in part into office, propelled in part into office on the school board by the teacher union.

Now on the other side of the fence of the teacher union, holding the teacher union accountable. And this is why I say when it comes to, elected officials in the city of Charlottesville, half the community will hate your guts, 25% will support you, and the remaining 25% will not even know your name. And you will do the work for peanuts, absolute peanuts. Anything else you want to add to this before we take some other comments, Judah Whitkauer? No, it's crazy. I think we're just going to have to wait for more information to come out. Tonight at 5 o'clock Walker Elementary, boy, oh boy, you know we're going to be talking about that on the I Love Seville show tomorrow. There's going to be fireworks in the air.

Grab your popcorn, ladies and gentlemen. It is going to be one of the fieriest joint school board city council sessions since when? Integration? I don't know. When is the last time we've had a fiery school board city council session, joint session, like what's going to happen tonight at 5 o'clock? I sincerely mean it. I doubt one of where accusations will be flying back and forth like this. Yeah. Is the last one of this kind of fire and grabbing your popcorn integration? Unbelievable. We got Danville's finest Travis Hackworth watching the program. He goes, look, I'm a complete outsider. And from surface level, from following your show, the purpose of the teacher union is to look out for the interests of local staff and educators and to help

negotiate when the situation calls for it. Part of the job is to be on top of things and that includes meeting deadlines. There is no such thing as no deadline in a school system who budgets based on local government contributions and state allocations. The entire system is predicated on deadlines. It seems at least from a surface level view that someone seriously dropped the ball and or potentially did not try to gain some leverage by facilitating public outcry. Barbara Becker Tilly Barbara Becker Tilly watching the program She goes, not only does it take the heat off

of Almore County Public Schools and the Almore County School Board and its superintendent, but it certainly takes the heat off of the University of Virginia. And you know, I was going to lead with the Daily Progress today. The Daily Progress has two articles on its website that appear to be hit pieces against Scott Beardsley.

One of the articles on the Daily Progress website, this is an insane headline An insane headline on the Daily Progress website. UVA faculty accused Scott Beardsley of bribing students for their support. The Daily Progress, and it's David Velasquez, legitimately have found a professor from the UVA professor union. These damn unions. A UVA professor from the union of UVA professors talked to, the record with a Daily Progress Reporter saying that student council last week when it supported

President Scott Beardsley was bribed by Beardsley and it was quid pro quo and that's why the student council supported the embattled President Scott Beardsley. Yeah. Yeah that's what they're saying. But the counter to that is that Beardsley is I don't know, it's hard to tell, but has made several offers to the students' union, mostly to fund different programs. Obviously, none of the students are receiving any money. This is not that type of bribe, if it is a bribe.

And ultimately, does it matter? I mean, from my perspective, do any of these people have any say in whether or not Beardsley stays, as president? I don't think so. So it sounds like they're just mad at each other for not, you know, for not providing a united front. The UVA Faculty Union says student council was bribed, and they point to this. This is insane. They point to the fact that student council negotiated funding toward traditions such as the annual Christmas time lighting of the lawn in a program that provides textbook reimbursements to students.

Student Council negotiated this revenue from Beardsley to support traditions and relief when it comes to textbook reimbursement. And then the teacher union at UVA is spitting that as that's why student council offered their support of Beardsley the embattled president. Yeah, because the discussion over

what Beardsley would provide to the student's union happened just before their resolution to support him, which, to be fair, does sound a little bit questionable, but again, ultimately, does it matter? and are, I don't know, it's a mess.

And then there's the other article about Beardsley, talking about how he is not as qualified as some people seem to think. The second article in The Daily Progress that you could find online at daily progress. Is written by a professor from the University of Maryland. The headline of this article is, is UVA President Scott Beardsley is less qualified than you think. It's written by Julie Park. She picks apart Scott Beardsley's severe or his resume as if it was Thanksgiving turkey, literally leaving Beardsley in its bone state with no white or dark meat left on the bone,

his resume, questions his PhD from Penn, highlights that it's an executive fast-track PhD, questions his publications. If you're an academic, it's up to you to publish research and says the extent of his publications, the research that has his byline

is all tied to a publication with his former employer McKinsley and is far from legitimate, authentic, or of academic standard that meets the expectations of a president at the University of Virginia. And certainly not peer-reviewed. It's like, it's like we literally have a teacher union at Charlestful Public Schools that is literally grasping at straws because of a missed deadline. Then we have a teacher union at the University of Virginia that is like, literally grasping at straws because student council supports the president. And now we have a

progressive teacher from Maryland, the University of Maryland, that legitimately is picking apart his resume and his CV because she doesn't like that he's the president. This is the 2026 we live in, ladies and gentlemen. And I'm going to take it a step forward further. Brackney. Brackney, lower third on screen. Over the weekend, I was and given some information by two individuals who I'm not going to utilize their name. These two individuals passed on to us that Dr. Roshal Brackney was hired as the police chief in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the same Rishal Brackney that was fired as police chief in Charlestville, Virginia. Yeah. And I'm going to relay to you, Chip Boyles, former Charlestful City Manager,

liking the I Love Seville Network as we speak. Chip Boyles, I had a lot of respect for you, sir. I'm sure you're in a better place right now, although I thought you would have made a fantastic city manager. Chip Boyles, we should get you back on the show. Literally giving props to the I Love Seville Network right now. This is what I wrote 24 hours ago. I'm going to read it verbatim. Are you ready? Fired Charlottesville, Virginia, Chief of Police, Dr. Rashall Brackney, was hired as Jackson, Mississippi's police chief on Friday. Brackney was the first black woman to service Charlestville's chief of police when she was hired in June of 2018.

However, her time as Seville's top cop ended with dishonored days, culminating with a pink slip from form. former Charlottesville city manager Chip Boyles in September 2021. Chip Boyles just liked the show. In June 2022, Brackney filed a 10 million lawsuit against the city of Charlottesville, its city councilors, several city staff members, and the head of the police union. Brackney claimed for firing was motivated by racial and gender discrimination. Our case was dismissed less than eight months later with Charlottesville, basically ignoring her claims.

That's what I wrote. Everything that I wrote in that post. Every single thing I wrote in that post was fact-based. She was fired. Her last days on the job were dishonored. That's what led to her firing. She had a $10 million lawsuit

against the city. It's city counselors, city staff, the head of the police union. Charlottesville City, for the most part, ignored. That $10 million lawsuit. Did it even acknowledge it with a mention to the media? Eight months later, the lawsuit was dismissed. Everything I wrote was fact.

Everything. Nakaya Walker, former Charlottesville mayor, responds to my commentary. She can't help herself, Nakaya Walker. She can't help herself. Nakia Walker, the former Charlottesville mayor, responds to my commentary by calling me a racist. Someone who proclaims to love Seville as a racist. And then writes a bunch of mumbo-jumbo about it.

Highlights that in her post that we have influence in power. Highlights that we have notoriety and a boatload of people backing us in our corner, but calls us a racist. How in 2026, when you are the water cooler, of content and conversation, that's what our platforms become. Whether people want to admit this or not, we

published the bracketing news after receiving tips from two very reliable people. Not like it was actually a surprise. We've talked before about the fact that she was one of four finalists for the job in Jackson, Mississippi. So, no,

no, no. When we talked about her being a finalist for a job, it was at a different city. It was not Jackson, Mississippi. Was that... It was somewhere else that she was a finals from her job and she did not get it. When the police chief who was fired from Charlottesville, because of a vacancy rate with her police department that exceeded 25%,

more than one in four positions in Charlottesville's police department was vacant because rank and file police officers refused to work for her. Right. If you remember when Chief Kachis took over for Rishal Brackney as police chief, we had murders and crime all over Charlottesville. Does everyone remember what it was like when Mike Kachis took the job? There was crime, gunfights, murders. There was the OK Corral in the shadows of the Omni Hotel, a gunfight next to the Omni Hotel. There was a murder inside Lucky Blues, the restaurant in the downtown mall. Do you guys remember this?

There was a murder in Fifeville for a very beloved former Charlottesville High School Basketball Standout, who was part of the nonprofit that was responsible for diffusing crime and violence. Kachis took over a Charlottesville that was riddled with violence. which was the wake of very near the time of of of of directly correlated with the police department that had 25% vacancy rate he's since rehabilitated the image of the police department and filled those vacancies everything i said was fact but in 2026 you can speak factually and still have the former mayor hurl the worst kind of insults you. In 2026, you can miss a filing deadline where your least paid staff are on the

cusp of getting a missing a 10.5% raise. And still, you could have the community have your back because you're sympathetic. In 2026, you can go to the local media, the Daily Progress, an angry, bitter professor, and say student council was bribed by the president. resident and they will publish that article. In 2026, the local newspaper will find a extremely left-leaning anti-corporate, anti-business professor in college park Maryland and give her an opportunity to publish commentary in a newspaper five or six hours away. Think about it.

It's wild the world we live in now. No doubt. And why I think this format works on the I Love Sebel show is we cut through the BS and the crap and just tell you how we see it. I am not a journalist. This is my commentary. I am not answering to an editor or a publisher. We're unaffiliated, unafraid, unabashed, and we always will be. The Brackney News is news because she got a new job.

And asking the question, are you surprised she got a new job? job after how the job in Charlottesville ended is a fair question. Some of the details are interesting. She has been, since her firing, she's been working as a teacher. She's a distinguished visiting professor of practice at George Mason University in Fairfax County. She's got two courses this semester. She also hosts a weekly podcast called Black Arm of the Law.

She also is working on a book, The Brusing of America, when black, white, and blue collide. And this is, I think, one of the oddest parts of this whole story. The station, a Jackson television station, WLBT, reported on the hiring and noted that of the four finalists, records reveal all four of the candidates have been parties to state or federal lawsuits related to their current or previous positions. Do you know what that's an indication of? That they're hard up for someone to take the position? There it is. The four candidates for Chief Police in Jackson, Mississippi, all have what, Judah?

Say it again? All have been parties to state or federal lawsuits related to their current or previous positions. The crime rate, the murder rate, the level of poverty, the level of desperation in Jackson, Mississippi is at all time high in our country. you consider the the level of of violence in jackson mississippi the crime the uncertainty the fragility in jackson mississippi and you will find a hard time finding another jurisdiction in the united states of america that is comparable

that's a sociology and anthropologist question probably could just look at some basic metrics online crime rates no doubt when your four candidates for your police chief all have serious red flags on their professional CV it shows you how narrow or short the list is for people wanting to be the top cop in that city

no doubt and everything I just said is fact. And still the former mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, hurls nasty insults our way. I don't know if she could do anything else. What does that mean? She's no longer in a position of power. And we all know her view on Charlottesville and its inhabitants. She even wrote a poem about it once.

comparing Charlestville to rape and male fluids on sheets next to the rape that drove New York Times coverage and you know what Nakia Walker, I wish you nothing but the best.

No doubt. Nothing but the best for you, Nakai Walker. Carol Thorpe watching the program. Brackney was up for and rejected as a potential police chief in Dallas, Texas. She's right. That's the one we were talking about. Thank you, Carol Thorpe.

You follow the news as closely as we do. We appreciate that. Joanne Mackie is watching in Keswick. And she says, what you're doing right now is exactly why I love your show, Jerry. Joanne Mackie, exactly why I love your show, what you're doing right now. Thank you, Joanne Mackie.

And she says, nasty and personal insults are always from those cannot discuss. The former mayor is a very unhappy person. No doubt. Certainly appears that way, Joanne. 100%. All right. Next headline, as we're one hour and three minutes into this show,

I want to highlight a real estate tycoon. His name is Richard Spursum. He owns neighborhood properties. You can find them online at neighborhood props, P-R-O-P-S.com. I would encourage you to click the about page on neighborhood props.com. It shows you about a paragraph and a half, the history of Richard T. Spursum. This guy is a known commodity in real estate circles locally.

I've known this name for nearly the 26 years that I've lived in this community. And certainly as I've gotten deeper into real estate, into deal flow, this name pops up often in my comings and going. He in 1980, Richard Spursum, made his first real estate investment as a 19-year-old second-year echo scholar at the University of Virginia. He partnered with Blake Caravati, the future Charlottesville mayor, in purchasing a home in Belmont for $15,300 on Douglas Avenue. They put $2,800 cash down. The rest was seller finance. This house on Douglas Avenue. Avenue. They renovated the house into two apartments. A few months later, he, Richard Spursum, did the deal himself solo in a seller finance capacity. He calls it rinse and repeat, which is almost a cliche in real estate investing circles. You have the burr, the buy, what is it, buy, remodel, refinance, repeat, the burr strategy, buy, remodel, refinance, repeat. That's how people build wealth. You buy something that's dumpy. You remodel it

because you have some kind of market advantage. For example, we have a fantastically talented Hispanic crew that works for our 24 properties that does remodeling. We keep them busy. They're able to do stuff for us that, frankly speaking, if someone was going to get, you know, done for their house or their investment property, it'd probably be two and a half to three times the cost. It's because we keep them busy. We pay on time immediately when the job is over. I literally hand him a check when the last nail is driven or the last paid brush is stroked that day. Spursum, according to his about page, and I guarantee you he has vertically integrated efficiencies that I do not have. Guaranteed. He says on his about page that he is one of the five

largest private real estate owners in Charleston, Almaro, based on tax assessments, and that his firm neighborhood properties continues to buy and renovate properties. You go to his portfolio page, and goodness gracious, you have so many listings here on his portfolio page. And these are just the ones that are active for rent. 61 that are active for rent right now.

I can't even imagine the total that he has. That's 61 active for rent on neighborhood properties. He leaves this message on the I Love Seville Network about the homeless shelter, the 27,000 square foot building on Holiday Drive that the city purchased for $6.2 million to build 200 bets for the homeless. Now that's $6.2 million and 200 bets for the homeless, the city is telling us as taxpayers, we're going to need an additional $5 million minimum. The 200 beds is 85 to 115 and not 200. And we won't bring this to market for 24 to 36. months at the earliest.

Richard Spursum says to me on the I Love Seville Network, in the end, the city will figure out, but the city will never admit it, that it is cheaper to build a new homeless shelter from scratch than to try to retrofit an office building. They could have simply bought the vacant land next door to this building, but the city just did this as window dressing because they had to be seen as doing something quickly to address the homeless problem. But like UVA's affordable housing initiative that was announced a great fanfare six years ago, it will be a long time, if ever, before people are actually sleeping in either affordable apartments or shelter beds.

This is a dude that has been in this game that we call real estate for 46 effing years, basically saying the city is in a financial boondoggle and the people that are going to be counted upon to pull the city out of this money pit, this quill. quick sand of despair is us as taxpayers. He's saying retrofitting and office building is an absolute idiot move. That's what he's saying. You're saying it would have been cheaper to just build?

Build it from scratch. It's what he's saying. Unbelievable. Next topic on the show, I want you, the viewer, and listener to help us answer this question. We're going to talk about it this week on the I Love Seville show as my email and my DMs continue to get peppered with vendors and staffers and waiters and kitchen and back of the house employees tied to Stefan Freeman.

During this show alone, I've gotten three direct messages from three different people. I want to have this question on the show this week. Who has been more damaging for the city of Charlottesville? Stefan Freeman or Hunter Smith. Hunter Smith or Stefan Freeman. Who has been more damning or damaging for the city of Charlottesville? That topic this week on the I Love Seville Show. Very curious of your take on this viewers and listeners.

Very curious of your take on this Judah Wickhauer. Now, Judah, I'd like to highlight Charlottesville Sanitary Supply in business for 62 years, Charlottesville Sanitary Supply, online at Charlestrotsfeytory.com, where they offer free delivery. usually the same day. All the stuff that you can find on the big box stores, Charlottesville Sanitary Supply has for often a better price

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Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company online at Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company.com. I want the three most, important minutes of news, Judah. Can we one shot me? And I'll stop watch, lower third on screen, and tell me when you're ready to rock and roll. All right. These are the three most important minutes of news on Monday, February 9th in Charlottesville, Almarl, and across Central Virginia and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Ladies and gentlemen, the Charlottesville Public School System, and the Charlottesville Education Association are in a royal rumble of epic proportions.

And this Bruhaha centers on a mis-deadline. Here's what's at risk. A 10.5% raise for rank-and-file employees within the public school system. The Charlottesville School Board and the Charlottesville Superintendent's office have said the teacher union missed a key deadline, and as a result, rank and file employees will not get a 10.5% raise. They will get a 3% raise instead. Now the teacher union is desperate to recover the agreed upon 10.5% bump.

Tonight, at 5 o'clock at Walker Elementary, the teacher union is begging taxpayers, parents, students, and teacher union members alike to show up before a school board, city council, joint meeting, to try and tar and feather bully, intimidate school board members, city councilors, and the superintendent into giving them the 10.5% bump that they negotiated. This misfiling deadline, this missed deadline could cost rank and file. the type of compensation they need to get to just basic living wage standards. The next headline I want to bring to your attention is fired police chief for Shaw Brackney,

now hired as the chief of police in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the same chief of police that was fired in the city of Charlottesville by Chip Boyles, the former city manager. She lost Brackney the confidence in support of the police department in Seaville, more than 25% of the department, ladies and gentlemen, quit. 25% plus of the department was vacant. Now she's hired in Jackson, Mississippi,

where, frankly, it's one of the most dangerous cities in America. The poverty, the crime, the murder rate, the violence, off the charts. Brackney, we tip our cap to you and your new job in Jackson, Mississippi. I want to highlight also on the three most important. minutes of news. Neighborhood properties owner Richard Spursum who discusses the 27,000 square foot homeless shelter on a holiday drive with the I-Left Seville Network. He says that this was a boondoggle, a tremendous mistake by City of Charlottesville, spending $6.2 million on this holiday drive property. He says when the final bill comes in and this 27,000 square foot remodeling project is

finish, the city is going to realize it should have just built something from scratch than retrofitting in an office building. And he says it's us as taxpayers that are going to foot the bill and feel the true pain of this deserate move from Charlottesville. That's Richard Spursom's words of neighborhood properties. And the final topic that we're going to be talking about all week long on the Charlottesville show is a comparison of Hunter Smith and Stefan Freeman. And we're going to ask the question, who is worse for the city of Charlottesville, on our Smith or Stefan Freeman. That's the three most important minutes of news. I'm Jerry Miller on Monday, February 9th from our studio in downtown Charlottesville.