The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - School Board Rejects Bryant Motion To Kill SROs; Teacher's Union President Rips CVille School Board

Episode Date: April 17, 2026

The I Love CVille Show headlines: School Board Rejects Zy Bryant Motion To Kill SROs Teacher’s Union President Rips CVille School Board Sheetz Targeting Former Red Lobster Spot In AlbCo The Real Reason Landlords Booted Common House Real Estate Assemblage OPP: Common House + Grounds Gun Violence Has Been Rampant Locally Lately Kymora Johnson Ditches Portal, Returning To UVA Subscribe To JerryRatcliffe.com For $8 Per Month 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.

Good Friday after you, 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 for Charlottesville, Central Virginia, the Commonwealth, the country, and the world. We talk all topics, whether you like them or not on this show. We encourage you, the viewer, and listener, to shape the discussion and offer your show topic ideas. Pass them on to us. Oftentimes, those ideas will be woven into the show, especially if the suggestions come from people we try. trust viewers and listeners who have proved their merit to us, the show hosts with their comments in previous programs. A lot I want to talk about on the show today, including the real reason why the owners of the real estate that housed common house, the private club in downtown Charlottesville,

decided to basically force the business out of its real estate. We'll talk about that on the show. A shocking turnover of events that is driving a lot of market. dynamics. My phone has been rigging off the hook lately. And I'm talking the last 24 hours since the common house announcement of its shocking closing with its members, or at least jilted members, asking me for office space for their respective business. Good news if you're in the real estate game, which yours truly is in. Bad news if you're paying members of common house that are now asking questions, where I'm going to run my business, where am I going to meet with clients,

what happens to my initiation fee, what happens to my April dues payment, and how about the families that have booked Common House for rehearsal dinners, for events, for planned parties, deposits that are held in escrow by Common House? What happens to that money, viewers and listeners? We'll talk about that on the show, and I'm going to give you the nitty-gritty of what really happen. Now that I've had a lot of time to dig into it, we talked about it on yesterday's show. We'll dig even deeper, ladies and gentlemen, on today's program. I'm going to play six minutes of video highlights. Someone call them highlights. Someone call them low lights from last night's

city school board meeting. Ziona Bryant is a newly minted school board member. Ziona Bryant is clearly in a very short period of time become the alpha of the Charlottesville City School Board. Diana Bryant, I'll give her credit. She's savvy. She's intelligent. She's sophisticated. She knows how to play the game. And she is just starting to flex her muscle on the city school board.

She really tried last night as she made a motion, Ziona Bryant, to rescind the vote that backed or approved the school resource officers activists called them armed gunmen, armed policemen, excuse me, I should say, in city schools. This motion needed two-thirds approval or five of seven people. I'm going to give you the video clip of what happened last night. No other media outlet, legacy, new, traditional is covering this content except for yours truly the I Love Seville Show. Then we will give you a video clip, boys and girls, Shannon Gilliken, her public comments, she made two distinct public comments, two different

times she spoke before the school board last night. The second time she spoke was after Ziana Bryant's motion was made. Wait to you hear what Union President, Ziana Bryant, had to say, Union President, Shannon Gilligan had to say to the Charlottesville School Board. We'll play that clip for you on the program today. We're also going to talk about the spate of gun violence locally. I mean, it's been prolific. Am I to believe, are we to believe, viewers and listeners, that there's some kind of gang violence, some kind of turf war, some kind of rebuttal, some kind of beef going on locally? Because over the last, what, week period of time, we've had a fair amount of gun violence in Charles Fondarmour County. Have we not? And I want to

use that as an opportunity to salute and highlight and give props to specifically the Charlottesville Police Department. There was a horribly unfortunate incident this past weekend on the downtown mall. And it was a sexual assault, not only a sexual assault, but a sexual assault at knife point. And with the lead of the Charlottesville Police Department and the policing and the investigative skill set of the Charlottesville Police Department, there's an 18-year-old Hispanic man that has been arrested. And this investigation included efforts from community members. I would imagine that is video surveillance footage from the cameras that have been positioned around them all

that led to the arrest of an 18-year-old that raped a woman at knife point on the down. town mall. So as I'm talking about gun violence in Almore County in Charlottesville City, I would not be doing my job or being fair without first highlighting and saluting the police department locally here in Charlottesville for quickly solving problems. Look, part of policing is preventing without question. But certainly policing is enforcing. and figuring out who did what and where. And it's no question that police in Charlottesville is solving problems and arresting people for violent crimes, and that should be commended.

I want to talk also on the show about Camara Johnson. She has exited the transfer portal. She's returning to Charlottesville where she will play. For Aaron Roussel, the newlymanton women's basketball coach, Sam Lewis is also officially a UVA basketball player. So that means Ryan Odom has four, five key guys, if you count Elijah Gertrude. He has Chance Mallory, Elijah Gertrude, Sam Lewis, De Ritter and Grunlow coming back. Hell of a core for Ryan Odom, who won 30 games.

And Aaron Roussel, the newly minted women's coach, has got Camorne Johnson returning, one of the most talented guards of all of college basketball. Huge score for Aaron Roussel. A lot we're going to cover on the broadcast. will give some attention to Stanley Martin Holmes, Judah. Stanley Martin Holmes is dedicated to building homes that cater to each person's unique needs and lifestyles. High quality, single-family homes, townhomes, and condominiums, designed and constructed with innovative techniques that ensure exceptional efficiency and aesthetic appeal.

Design features and technology to enhance your living experience in your home, not just for today but for years to come. Stanley Martin Holmes, Honest Holmes, constructive, constructed in communicative fashion, honest fashion, innovative fashion, all over Charlottesville, Almore County, Green County, and Central Virginia. Studio camera Judah Wickower, I watched the school board meeting last night. It was long. No doubt.

I watched, and I'll give some opening analysis to what I saw. There is no question that this school board, the alpha on the dais, is Ziana Bryant. And Ziana Bryant has been on this dais for all of three and a half months. And she's dictating the pace and tempo. Ziana Bryant is not the chairwoman.

Ziana Bryant is not the vice chairwoman. Yet Ziana Bryant, in some circumstances, is leading the school board meeting, dictating the pace and tempo, and doing the work of what should be Lisa Torres, the chairwoman, and her job. They're afraid of what she can do.

100%. They are afraid of Zion and Bryant. It's no question about it. They're afraid she's going to cry chicken. What's that? They're afraid she's going to cry chicken. Basically they're afraid that Ziona Bryant is going to use her activism skill set and gaslight colleagues on the school board.

That's basically what they're afraid of. So they sit uncomfortably in silence on the dais, their body language, tells a thousand words. They may not say it into the microphone, but the body language tells a thousand words. And last night, the SRO school resource officer talking point, storyline, topic, again was forefront.

And Ziana Bryant made a motion last night to rescind the vote that greenlit school resource officers in Charlottesville Public Schools. Zion A Bryant understands parliamentary procedure and Ziana Bryant understands Roberts' rules, I think maybe more than the other school board members themselves.

And when she made this motion to rescind the vote that greenlit SROs and the recent past in city schools, you saw cringe from her fellow school board members, their body language, while you felt the palpable and tangible energy of those that were in the auditorium on the edge of their seat waiting to see what would happen. I'm going to play on this show about five and a half minutes of video highlights or video lowlights, depending on how you see this storyline, from last night's work session at the school board meeting.

Government matters. Local government in particular. And you're going to see this here. I'm going to set the stage for the first clip. Here you will see Zion Bryant, the most notorious activists in Charlottesville City history, responsible for removing the statues from Lee Park, Market Street Park, emancipation part.

the denou ma of A-11 and A-12 the darkest days in Charlottesville history now Ziana Bryant post-UVA graduation is responsible for tens of millions of dollars

hundreds of millions of dollars over her four-year term of city taxpayer allocation to city public schools. The first clip, Ziana Bryant, pushing a motion to rescind the vote of SROs in city

schools. It's about five minutes long. You need to watch this from start to finish. In particular, Lisa Torres' hesitation at the end. Three, I'm going to watch it with you guys. Two. One, play the clip

Judah Wickhauer. Due to the conversations we've had tonight, the overwhelming student feedback about concerns about the presence of armed police in our schools and the lack of clarity around the correlation behind the call to return SROs with the data and lack thereof in some cases that we've been presented tonight i would like to make a motion to rescind the march 27 2025 vote to return sRO's to school so we're not we're not going to continue to discuss this has any further comments,

I'd like to move forward to vote. Okay, so there's a motion. So I just wanted for clarification, you're moving to take action to rescind the prior action taken on March 27th, yes, so, 2025, which was to implement the school resource officer model. Yes, Madam Chair, and so a yes vote would result

in basically them saying they do not want SROs to return. I just wanna clarify that so that everyone's clear on what a yes or a no means. Thank you. Thank you. So we have a motion and we have a second by Ms. Richardson. So is there any, I'm going to open this up for discussion from other board members. Made my comment.

I will say that I think it's appropriate. Everyone is here today. Like I said last time, Ms. Cooper was not present. This is a new board. We think let's re-vote. So since the motion is to rescind, I just want to be clear that saying, saying I or yes means you would like to rescind, meaning we will not have SROs moving forward.

A no would mean we would keep the current decision that was made on March 27, 2025. Yes, ma'am, that is correct. Yes, ma'am. So Madam Clerk, we have. Okay, you understand. Can I? Absolutely, I just wanted to make sure she understood that.

Go ahead, you do that. No, yes, she does, okay. So Ms. Burns. We've heard a lot of feedback from the community since the last board meeting, taken several meetings, phone calls, community engagement. And I just, I think the call to action was to rethink and re-vote. And I think the group asked for a vote in May. So I just want to, like, I don't want that to be an issue.

Like, I've heard from that coalition directly. So I share your concerns about that, but I also spoke with the leaders of that coalition and all of those organizations. And they all agreed that if we feel comfortable with moving forward with a re-vote, that they would be admissible to that. Okay. Just one clarity. Thank you. Appreciate that. Chair, to be clear, we are, and then is Bryant, we are voting to rescind our previous vote to authorize MRU.

and this is again was not an action item on our agenda today it was not okay just the reminder one like last vote was not an action on our agenda well to be clear sorry to quick miss richardson there was an action item on it wasn't to vote was a discussion March 27 2020 yeah it was a discussion and it was mr. Meyer I mean it was really messy so I mean it was not an action item to vote you were right mr. Richardson okay all right So we are, if any other, we're going to go ahead and vote on this. So Madam Clerk, I would like you to do that by a roll call, please.

Yes, Madam Chair. Will you confirm, I'm sorry, no means the motion. Thanks. I just want to confirm. It's confusing. So an I or a yes is to rescind it, meaning that we want to. So the motion that was made in March of 2025 was to implement the school resource officer model. So to rescind that would would then reverse that. So a yes would be no SROs in the

everybody clear. So Ms. Bryant yes. Ms. Burns no Ms. Cooper yes yes miss Dooley no Mr. Mr. Meyer no miss Richardson yes yes Ms. Torres. I'm going to abstain. The motion fails. And then for clarification purposes to rescind without prior notice would require a two-thirds vote. So it would have required five in favor to overturn that. Okay.

That right there is local governance right there. All elections matter. Local elections matter the most without question. You saw a school board that is afraid of Zion Bryant right there. You saw Zion Bryant flexing her muscle and basically assuming the role of the chairperson, despite being the rookie in the dais. The rookie on the dais is Ziona Bryant. You saw Lisa, you saw the chairwoman and Miss Torres, Lisa Torres, the board chair. uncertain of Robert's rules,

uncertain of parliamentary procedure, uncertain of collateral damage. Obstaining in that scenario is spineless. Spineless abstaining there. They needed five votes to rescind. Five of seven, regardless if Torres was going to vote yes or no, with Dooley,

with Burns, and with the lone white male Chris Meyer voting no, they had no shot at five. So abstaining is the weakest of the week. Because it was already clear cut with Meyer, Dooley, and Burns saying, we're not going to rescind that this had no chance of passing. You had a motion to rescind a vote,

a hugely important vote. One of the most significant votes possible in Charlottesville public schools, except for budget allocation right now. You can't think of more community-engaged storyline with Charlottesville Public Schools than police officers, SROs, and schools, except for maybe unionization of personnel, which has already happened, and budget allocation and how the money is going to be spent. I would even say SROs are more significant in driving the new cycle than budgetary allocation. I'm going to play you a second clip, which is about 30 seconds.

The second clip is Shannon Gilliken, the president of the teacher union, the teacher's union in Charlottesville Public Schools. She's a kindergarten teacher. This is the second time she spoke yesterday. First time she spoke before the motion, Ziana Bryant made. Second time, which is the clip we're going to play, the second time, is Shannon Gilliken, the president of the teacher unions, response to the rescinded, failed vote. She's angry. She's emotional.

She is, she is terse. The president of the teacher union and the clip we're about to play. Do you have that footage ready to go? I do. Here's Shannon Gilligan, president of Charlottesville City Schools

Teacher Union, speaking to the school board during a public comment section. The second time spoke yesterday after Ziana Bryant's motion failed and was rejected. Three, two, one. I would like to say thank you to Ms. Richardson

and Ms. Cooper and Ms. Bryant for your amazing questions. Thank you for actually analyzing data for making our staff not answer questions because they didn't have the answers. We've been asking these questions for two years. Why don't we have the answers?

As my colleague said earlier, the amount of data I have to produce on five-year-olds that y'all can't produce, on a division is unbelievable. Second thing I would like to say is that apparently to rescind a vote when no notice is given, you have to have a two-thirds vote. Well, no notice was given because you refuse to put it on an agenda. And so how are people supposed to get something on an agenda to have prior notice,

to have a vote that requires a simple majority when you won't do it? If you cannot use your power for good, and if you keep abstaining and abdicating your power, you don't belong on the school board. Use it or leave, please. We saw brave people use their power tonight to ask hard questions to hold staff accountable. And then we saw other people shrug. I am unbelievably disappointed in some of you. I am unsurprised by some of you. And I'm really grateful for Ms. Richardson, Ms. Cooper, and Ms. Bryant,

and the way you represented our community, the way you listen to our community, the way you show up for our community. I have nothing but gratitude for the three of you. That's all I have to say. Okay, so that's Shannon Gilliken, public school, teacher union, president, and the face of unions in probably central Virginia.

There's no more forward-facing individual as it applies to unions regardless of profession in central Virginia than Shannon Gilligan. Facts. And I respect what Shannon Gilligan had to say. I hope when she sees and hears this, I respect what she had to say there because the March vote of last year

where an actual vote happened to put school resource officers back into classrooms and hallways and public schools in the city, that line item on an agenda that's released before the meeting happened, there was no line item that said we are going to vote on SROs this day.

Even the school board members in the meeting last year said this was messy. School board member Richardson used the word messy. school board member Bryant used the word messy, school board chair Torres used the word messy. There was also a school board member that was missing in that March vote, which was school board member Cooper. And all of this was leverage for Zion Bryant, who gets Robert's rules, parliamentary procedure, understands how to play the game, is not afraid to throw around the race card when needed.

Would Cooper's vote have been able to overturn the decision? I'd have to go look at the count. Fair. But she certainly wasn't there. And I believe it would not have been enough to approve it. And to Gilliken's point, Shannon's point, last night you needed two-thirds, which was five, to rescind a vote from last year, five of seven people. And last year, you just needed a simple majority, four of seven.

Yeah. So it's more challenging to motion and rescind a vote, five votes needed out of seven, than it is to approve something, four votes of seven. Which I think in most cases is wise. 100%. But it's a point that should have been made. Yeah. 100% that point should have been made by Shannon, by Ms. Gilligan, by Mrs. Gilligan,

by the teacher union president. So I thought she did a good job. She catches a lot of grief for me. I thought she did a good job right there. I think if your school board member, Chris Meyer, the only male on the board, you are... The guy on the far right. Yeah, sitting next to Zion, O'Brien, always since... I watch that thing from start to finish.

He constantly said in that meeting, he said it twice, why do you always ask me to speak first to the point where the school chairwoman, school board chairperson Torres, said, because I'm looking in your direction. And then another time he said, I don't want to speak first. I want to hear what Zionabrien has to say. so that I can respond to her. And then when he was asked to speak first another time, he said, I have no comment.

School board chair, Meyer, your job sucks right now. You clearly dislike what you're doing now that Zion Abrien is on the board. You clearly have been alienated and outcasted on this board. School board member Meyer, Chris Meyer. You are an outcast, you've been alienated. You will be painted to be the village. Tanisha Hudson spoke during the public comment, a significant activist locally. She threw, she ripped Chris Meyer.

Talked about his body language, basically called Chris Meyer a racist. Told him multiple times to get off the board. Told Chris Meyer, get off the board, called him basically a racist. Tenisha Hudson did. Nakaya Walker spoke before, I'm not playing the clip because I'm not going to give Nikaya Walker. a video clip on this program, at least not what she did last night. Hexent to even mention her name, considering I mentioned Mayor Nakaya Walker's name on Wednesday,

as it applied to school resource officers. She offered three minutes, it went well beyond the three minutes. You're only a lot of three minutes of commentary that was screaming. She screamed at the school board members. Called them every name under the book, screamed at them. Nikaya Walker. School board chair Torres

kept referencing Nakaya Walker as Mayor Walker. She's not the mayor anymore, school board chair Torres. You were affording her respect, and I respect that you did that school board chair Torres, but when that respect is not returned to you, school board

chair Torres, then you need to take control of the meeting. I got a I'm most disappointed on that meeting last night with Lisa Torres, and I hope she hears my commentary, the school board chair. She did not run a meeting according to Robert's rules. She did not have a feel for parliamentary procedure. She consistently allowed Diana Bryant to interrupt her to dictate the pace and tempo of the school board meeting. That's not what a chairperson is supposed to do. She allowed people in

the public comments portion to speak longer than their three minutes without cutting them off for fear of retribution from Tanisha Hudson and Nikiah Walker. School board chair Torres, abstained on the vote, the weakest of the weak. Obstating on something like that is sad, weak, pathetic. I hope she hears that. You are on a position elected into office, as Shannon Gilligan said, to vote yes or no, regardless of popularity. And last night, it seemed like you were actually praying on the dais

before casting your vote. There was like 30 seconds of dead air before she voted because she was so fearful of the response. board chair, Torres, you need to look at yourself in the mayor and you have a lot of growing up to do. Straightforwardly. I'm not sure the chairperson is the best spot for you on this school board. Not if last night is an indication of what we're going to expect for a local government moving forward. And if you're a parent in Charlottesville City Schools, I prepare you for what is going to be an unpredictable ride for your school board.

Because Diana Bryan and Chris Meyer do not like each other. and Emily Dooley and Ziona Bryant pretty much don't like each other. And it's pretty darn clear that Amanda Burns and Ziona Bryant don't like each other. And school board member Cooper is

torn because school board member Cooper is like, do I stick with school board member Brian and school board member Richardson fellow black women? And if I don't, what happens if I don't vote with them? How's the community?

you going to see me. That's what her body language suggested last night. It's a sad state of affairs. This is an absolute train wreck. What's happening here? The problem is the fear of the fear of the activists. 100%. And you've said it before.

It's a minority of voices that scream the loudest and sometimes gum up the works. Other times just put the fear into, like we're seeing here, an entire school board. Carol, go ahead, I apologize. And everyone's afraid to do anything.

And I think, I mean, obviously we agree with the fact that the vote failing is a good thing, because we shouldn't have revotes every time you get a new board member on, you know, whether it's a, 100%. Whether it's a school board or a city councilors or, or, whatever. Even more straightforwardly, I know who the police chief is. I know him fairly well. Mike Cottius is not going to allow a school resource officer to go into Charlottesville public schools and prioritize the enforcement or the policing of black and brown kids over white kids. He's not going to allow that to happen.

Despite what Nikiah Walker said. Yeah. Nikiah Walker straight up ripped Chief Kachis. That Kyle Walker straight up ripped a police officer that was in attendance. I'm still waiting for proof. And again, if somebody can provide it, I would love to see it. Proof that, uh, that, uh, that A, uh, there's no pipeline to prison. When it comes to school resource officers in schools.

Promise that he would arrest children. Of course that didn't happen. And B, that he is followed through on that promise. Of course that didn't happen. I know of course it didn't happen. But I have to, I have to entertain. One of the most liberal cities in the world, Charles. One of the most liberal cities in Charlottesville,

excuse me, one of the most liberal cities in the country, Charlottesville, would never hire a white man to be the police chief if in his entrance interviews said, I'm going to arrest black and brown kids and prioritize their incarceration. No Charlottesville city counselor

would ever hire a person that says that in their interviews. What Nakaya Walker did yesterday, Wednesday was race-baiting and I called a spade a spade. And what Zion Bryant is doing on school board is, is threatening, is alluding, is, is pushing without actually saying it. Yeah. The narrative. Nikiah Walker flat out, straight up, says it. Zana Bryant plays the game.

She's way more new. Dude, Ziona Bryant, you watch this show? I get it. You watch the show. I am giving you effing props right here. You, Zayana Bryant, if you were not pursuing activism and school board and elected official, would have made a tremendous dealmaker, negotiator, businesswoman, capitalists, and you would have made 600x the money you are making right now. There is no doubt in my mind you would be earning a quarter of a million dollars in compensation right now with the skill set that you have.

Now you chose to go down this road and what your future most likely will be as you pursue this road is look at Nakaya Walker who, you know, is burned a lot of bridges locally. Employment bridges locally. That's what's going to happen with Zai Brian, if she's not playing the game, very nuanced and threading this needle carefully because it's a really, really, really small town. People are like, you speak real frank, Jerry. you're very straightforward on this show absolutely and you know what i speak from the heart and i'm honest and i know there's a boatload of quiet people in this community that feel the way i i do and when i speak from the heart honestly authentically i also know that there's a boatload of people in the business world the real estate world finance world and the deal-making world that are feeling

the exact same thing and then commend me for saying what they said which then generate incremental revenue and business opportunity for us. It's called hedging, authentically hedging. What Nakaya Walker is doing is appealing to 200 or 250 activists, and maybe the large majority of the 200 to 250 activists are not driving economic development, deal flow, vitality economy-wise. They're in the new cycle, and they may be household names. but they are not,

they're middle income, lower income. And that's just facts on facts on facts right there. You got a parliamentary procedure nightmare here with this school board. And I would not be surprised if school board member Chris Meyer retires or quits his, quits being on the school board. Chris Meyer's got nothing to gain by this. When this is all said and done, Chris Meyer is going to be labeled a racist. Mark it down. Mark it down.

Now, I have a number of topics I want to get to on the program today. The next headline that we need to cover is it Common House? Is that what's on the rundown? Let's see. What's next is Sheets. Okay, so I'm going to give you 60 seconds of development news. Sheets is pursuing the Red Lobster site on Rio Road. Home Depot took what was a... Can I say SHIT show and keep it PG-13?

Yeah. I mean, are you asking my permission or are you asking my... Can I use the word and keep it PG-3? All right. Home Depot took a small area plan where Fashion Square Mall was and turned it from an SHIT show to economic vitality. And part of taking Fashion Square Mall and turning it into economic vitality for Home Depot, part of that equation was a $750,000 tax incentive package from Almore County in August of 2024.

And Almore County's board of supervisors said, we'll give you a tax break of 750K. And some of us were like, dude, who gives Home Depot a Fortune 50, a Fortune 50 country, a Fortune 50 company, a $750,000 tax break? These dudes can afford this. What the hell are you doing? I mean. And the reality is this is what Home Depot did. Home Depot took a ghost town of a small area, Fashion Square Mall, and turned it into economic vitality, specifically well-heeled customers by the thousands in and out of Home Depot every week by the tens of thousands,

spending their money, and then coming out of Home Depot with their eyes peeled of what was around there that they could spend. And after Home Depot did this, and after Home Depot improved the transportation around Fashion Square Mall, because that's what Home Depot did, the Red Lobster became more appealing to Sheets. And now Sheets has got plans in the mix for a convenience store where the Red Lobster used to be. Now, you know what the downside of that is? A Sheets and that kind of traffic next to the Home Depot and that kind of traffic on one of the already miserable roads of traffic in Almar County. The upside is incremental tax revenue.

The Red Lobster building was empty. All the county was collecting was real estate tax. dollars and not real estate sales tax, meals tax. And with sheets, you're going to collect sales tax, cigarette tax, meals tax. So that's the upside for Al Bar. The next headline I want to cover is Common House here as we're tight on time. Common House, ladies and gentlemen, we discussed this and broke it down last week, shut down unexpectedly in shocking fashion. They're closed now, Common House. are hundreds of members. I've heard that number as many as 800 that are asking, what about our initiation fee? What about our April dues? What the hell is going on here? Common House was our

place where we co-work, we met clients, we did all kinds of stuff that was part of our life, and now they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. My phones rang 11 different times, 11 different parties for folks that are at common houses members looking for office space. If you need office space and you're a common house member, there's no one that has more office space at his disposal of the executive office variety than me. 24 doors we own, another 80 or some that we can help you get in and out of, ladies and gentlemen, no one has more. Contact me, DM me, text me, email me.

I'll help you find a space that'll be cheaper than your common house membership, perhaps. More private for certain. The landlords of Common House were the former co-founders of Common House. This is confusing. The people that founded Common House was a group of men. They bought real estate, then they built a social club. Then as their Charlottesville location had success, they took outside investor money to scale Common House to Chattanooga, Richmond, and New Orleans. Then they started missing, missing KPIs, key performance indicators, and that's when investors basically pushed them out of the business that they founded.

Now, the owners of Common House, the real estate, no longer owns. the business that is common house. And the business that is common house got behind on their rent. And the owners of the real estate basically said enough of this already, you're out. This has been a trend line behind on rent.

Finally, they said enough. Here's what's interesting. Is the common house real estate, the building, is for sale. It's currently on the market for sale and has been that way for some time. Jenny Stoner and Johnny Pritzlough have the listing. Jenny Sonor and Johnny Pritzloff right now who have this commercial listing are now having to sell a piece of real estate that does not have a viable tenant in it.

The piece of real estate is valued in large part by the rent role. Now, you can make an argument there was no rent role. They were behind on rent. But you can make the other argument a potential buyer would consider renegotiating the lease and at least get some kind of corrupt. for a piece of real estate that's set up for a private club that's going to cost a ton of money to purchase and even more money to retrofit and outfit and remodel into something different. This makes challenging, this makes selling this piece of real estate even more challenging. So that's the nitty gritty here of what happened at Common House. Now, two other storylines before I get off here, Camora Johnson is returning to Charlottesville.

She's the darling of women's basketball. She has exited the transfer portal. both Sam Lewis of Ryan Odom's team and Camaro Johnson of the women's team are returning. Great news for basketball here in Charlottesville. And the last question, which we will talk about on the show on Monday, there's been a spate of gun violets in Almore County and the city of Charlottesville that is tremendously concerning. Certainly reeks of a turf war or some kind of gang violence to me.

Retributions, a beef, a battle. Now, I can't say that without giving props to Chief Kachis in the police department in Charlottesville for arresting, the alleged knife-wielding rapists from last weekend on the downtown mall. Amen. Good work, Charlottesville Police Department. This part of the show and the show in totality, thanks to the good folks at Charlestville Sanitary Supply and Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company.

Charlestful Sanitary Supply and Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company are doing special things. Judah Wickhauer, you're Struly, Jerry Miller. Thank you for joining us.