The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - UVA Faculty Still Want More Transparency From BOV; Why Are Homes Not Selling As Fast In Central VA?

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

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guys welcome to the i love seville show my name is jerry miller thank you kindly for joining us on a wednesday afternoon in downtown charlesville just uh enjoyed a tour of some downtown real estate this morning see upside and potential everywhere still in this town we call charltsville and i do believe that the community is starting to rally around a need to clean up downtown Charleston. I've been very comfortable on the hill that offering a hand up to the houseless is important, but doing it in a way that prioritizes the cleanup of the downtown mall. That's a topic that is gaining momentum in this community, not live on LinkedIn. I know. I'm working on. giving you a heads up there, getting messages on that.

A lot I want to cover. Logan Wells, Clayla, welcome to the broadcast. Why are homes not selling as fast in central Virginia? The prices continue to rise. The car, the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors, second quarter report was just released. We talked about it some on Real Talk with Keith Smith. The median sales price in the region,

$485,000 an increase of $25,000 over the same time Q2 in 2024. But you're seeing Holmes stay stagnant on the market longer and just not moving as quickly. Why is that, ladies and gentlemen, can we attribute it to the interest rates? I mean, I'm not sure that's a fair answer because the rate structure was the same last year as it is now. So rates really, the delta, the movement on rates have really not been that significant. So I'm going to ask you, the viewer and listener. And Logan, this is very much up your alley. Why is inventory just not moving as quickly, locally, in Charlottesville, Almarrow,

and across the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors' footprint? Prices continue to climb. Inventory staying stagnant longer. We'll talk about that on the show. I also want to offer more analysis on the $100 million that Charlestville is, considering allocating to renovating Charlottesville public schools. A hundred million dollars is a sizable amount of money. I did compare and contrast it to the Charlottesville yearly budget as one benchmark. Now it's not an apples to apples comparison. The fiscal year budget for Charlottesville

is $265 million, $265,000 to be exact. The $100,000,000,000 to be exact. The $1,000,000,000. million that that council and city hall is considering for renovating public schools is not an apples to apples comparison because it's not just going to be a check of a hundred million dollars allocated to the public school system for renovation that would be absolute financial malpractice this would be done you know in stages and and and overtime still the question that I continue to get from viewers and listeners and certainly received after talking about it on yesterday show is why allocate such a sizable portion to a school system that is seeing enrollment numbers dropping with competition from private school and homeschooling escalating? And why do that

when performance standards academic wise continue to be sliding? Should the money be allocated elsewhere instead of capital improvement to educational improvement, curriculum improvement, or better yet? And I hope teachers hear me say this, paying teachers better so more talent is attracted or that talent that is that has already been attracted stays around for longer we'll have that conversation today on on the i love seville show um i want to discuss on the program and give me a thumbs up i'm getting bombarded that lincoln is not live here june i know i'm bombarded here um i want to talk about virginia ranking six for new businesses to survive that's a headline that's judas contributed i got two pieces of real estate that i want to highlight in in crozay um that

are currently for sale that I see tremendous upside for. The Piedmont Pediatrics building and the Region 10 building, they are next door parcels. They share a parking lot. The asking price is 1,575,000. This is an opportunity for an entrepreneur or an investor to literally own a piece of the heart of downtown Crozay. The address is, ladies and gentlemen, 12.05 Crozay Avenue and 1193 Crozai Avenue. The upside is significant here. Parking on site,

opportunity to do things with these buildings, and we're going to talk about some of that opportunity on today's show. I want to also highlight the opportunity we discussed on yesterday's program. The Guadalajara on Fontaine Avenue is for sale. The Guadalajara closed months ago. In front of the program, Jadio Nalas, that was his restaurant. You can purchase the Guadalajara on Fontaine Avenue. It has an asking price of $1,400,000.

Again, Atlas coffees included in that sale. What is the best use for that Guadalajara right now? If you were thinking about making this purchase, $1,400,000 to buy the Guadalajara on Fontaine Avenue, the Atlas is included. I would think you'd probably allow, keep Atlas in its lease and hope Atlas continues to extend because there's not a lot of use for that building. Probably the best use for that building is, I hate to say this, maybe being, you know,

knocked down and allocated to parking or some kind of extension to the Guadalajara building. But if you were considering a $1,400,000 acquisition, that's the asking price of the Guadalajara on Fontaine and Atlas Coffee Next Door, what would be the ideal tenant that you would have for that location. That's a topic I want to talk about on today's show. If you're not going to get it live at this point, don't worry about it anymore. We'll figure out what the issue is after the show so we can just focus on today's show and then talk LinkedIn tomorrow if you can, J. Dubs. I also want to discuss or remind you the viewer and listener on this show that Scott Smith and Fred Missel, who are running for Almore County, Board of Supervisors in the Samuel Miller

District. It's a contested election in the Samuel Miller District. They are scheduled. for Friday, 10.15 a.m. on Real Talk, a debate. Keith Smith and I will host. It's a great chance for you, the viewer, and listener, to get to know Scott Smith and Fred Missal. Probably the best opportunity presented so far, one hour of long-form content streamed on every social media platform possible for you, the viewer and listener, to get to know the candidates. I heard this mentioned in the tour. I was touring real estate this morning, downtown real estate this morning, and I heard this description mentioned, which fit me, I think, so well, socially liberal and physically conservative.

That's me to a T, socially liberal and physically conservative. I think that's a lot of people now in 2025. We unfortunately are being divided as a country because of social media and because of these radical leaders of our two-party system and asked or demanded to pick one side, either left or right. But most of us, I think, really straddled the line. And we straddled the line of socially liberal and physically conservative. And one of the common denominators that unifies us on this straddled line is our children.

Our children are bipartisan. We are unified on this straddled line because we want our kids, which in a lot of ways are our hearts walking outside of our body, to have better lives than we did as kids or as kids. as parents. And I think that's what's leading the charge here with Charlottesville Public Schools, and Judah, I'm going to weave you in here in 10 seconds looking for your commentary. With Charlottesville public schools with this $100 million spend to renovate buildings within this public school system in the city. It's a bipartisan issue. It's an issue that is thought about and welcomed and considered by all parties. But does bipartisan, does what's best for our kids justify financial

malpractice? That's a tough question to have. But that's the question. That's the debate. That's what city council has to consider. And from my standpoint, $100 million for a school system that is performing poorly from an SOL standpoint, $100 million from a school system that in recent months and years past has performed poorly from a safety standpoint, so much so that school resource officers are back in the hallways and metal detectors are now present at the front of schools and athletic events. Perhaps there's other priorities than natural light. Perhaps there's other priorities than breezeways and building structure and more focus should be placed on the X's and O's of learning. I want to talk about that on today's show.

I want to highlight Sir Speedy of Central Virginia. Conan Owen is the owner of Sir Speedy of Central Virginia. It's locally owned and operated. He's a Darden School graduate, Conan Owen, the owner of Sir Speedy of Central Virginia. If you have a logo and you want to scale the visibility of that logo with signage, with window decals, with stickers, with direct mail, with pamphlets, with folders, with trifolds, the step and repeat banner behind me is from Sir Speedy of Central Virginia. That's who you contact late. Ladies and gentlemen, Conan, Owen, and Sir Speedy of Central Virginia. Studio camera, Judah, will weave you in a lot we want to talk about, including the UVA faculty, wanting more transparency from the Board of Visitors, why homes are not selling in Central Virginia, Virginia ranking six for new business to survive, a lot of topics to cover on the show. What intrigued you today and why? Well, I'm interested in this discussion about the $100 million. obviously there's going to be a lot of different, a lot of different takes on it.

And I think it's a good discussion to have. What's your stance? I mean, it's pretty much the same thing as with the jail. We can't just let our buildings, our infrastructure, in these cases, a jail used to house people who are, you know, Part of our community, whether we want to admit it or not, they're not all, you know, not all the people in jail are our murderers or, you know, people that we don't ever want to release into polite public society again.

In fact, we want them to be a part of our society again. And with the, with students and the schools, you know, we want the best for our kids. and part of the reason why parents are sending a lot of their kids to private schools is because they want the best for their kids. And part of that is not, you know, part of that is making sure that the buildings are updated, that they are, you know, that they're safe for our kids and that they are conducive to, you know, to study. And so, you know, I don't have a problem with spending money on fixing up

fixing up our schools. It's just a matter of, you know, like all things that happen with government, we want to make sure that the money is being well spent and not just in designing a school with a lot of light. And I don't have a problem either with making sure that the school in the future will have plenty of light for the kids. But let's not make that the first, the first problem that we solve?

Eventually, eventually, City Hall and elected officials have to ask themselves this question. If we continue to spend on schools or jails, if we continue to spend on tourism campaigns that yield questionable results, if we continue to spend on Salvation Army shelters, if we continue to spend on affordable housing, and we continue to spend

to spend on bicycle and pedestrian safety, all these things are important. But what they're doing is it's just raising the tax base for all of us. Al Morrow County, there's a good article today in the Seville Weekly by Sean Tubbs. The headline is Al Morrow's new economic development plan to get a vote in mid-August. And currently, Al-Morrow County, this is an item in the article here. Currently, B. Lepistow currently said in the article about 12% of Al-Morrow's local tax revenue comes from business-related taxes. The goal for Alamara County is to get that 12% up to 17%. And B. Lipisto-Curtley says if we can up the tax revenue that comes from businesses, that will reduce the burden on homeowners right now. Weldon Cooper, the Weldon Cooper Center,

they're fantastic. Their data suggests that the population of Alamara County is going to increase to 152,770 by 2050. Okay? Let's Google a basic Al Morrow County population, ladies and gentlemen. The Almoreal County population, as of 2024, write these numbers down if you could. Twenty-24, 117,313, 117,313 as of 2024. So 26 years from that 117,313 as of 2024. So 26 years from that 117,000 number, Weldon Cooper suggests the population is going to be 152,770. So 152-770 minus the 2024 population of 117-13. That's a delta of 35,457-57. Out of curiosity, where are 35,457 people going to live in Almaro County? Just out of curiosity.

Yeah. Does anyone have that answer? I don't think anyone has that answer. Of course not. Another item, we're talking 35,000 additional people, 35,457 additional people in Almorel County by the year 2050, according to Weldon Cooper. The same Weldon Cooper suggests that public school population is

going to decrease over that same period of time. So think about this. You're going to see a $35,000 plus increase in population in Alamara County over the next 26 years, while the population of the school system of Almaro County is going to decrease. That suggests the following. Folks moving to the area are going to prioritize private schools more. The folks currently living in the area are going to prioritize private school more. The folks moving to the area are empty nesters. Empty nesters that can afford out Marl County because they're selling a home elsewhere and then using those net proceeds to buy a home here.

But the data suggests that an increase of 35,000 people while public school enrollment drops, that has to be something that's considered with how you're going to spend taxpayer money? Is that just not good finance? If you're Charlottesville and you have a yearly budget, the city of Charlottesville, and your yearly budget is $265,000, $200,000 with fiscal year 26, which is July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. That's the fiscal year. And your budget's $265 million plus. do you not consider with your limited resources with your budget trends like drop in enrollment

do you not consider with your budget perhaps the money's best spent elsewhere and I want to open up that to discussion for the viewers and listeners William McChesney welcome to the broadcast print radio television again watching the show and we appreciate our friends at print radio and television watching the program you jump in I got comments already coming in from the viewers and listeners so we've got to spend some amount of money anyways right we can't just leave these schools to

to rot and deteriorate does the number of students in the school matter in terms of what happens to the school do you spend less just because there aren't going to be as many students? This comes from southwestern Virginia and Travis Hackworth, his photo on screen. Travis has done a great job contributing to the broadcast of late. I would say, Travis, your ideology, what, socially liberal and physically conservative? Is that you, Travis Hackworth? He says, the better question would be if your data suggests a declining population, would it not be better to combine schools where possible in a new facility versus rehabbing all problems that will just be older problems down the road. How much of that is being considered?

It's a great comment from Travis Hackworth. Do we have another school in the area that could be used that way? Great question. Should the money be spent instead on building a new facility where you can have some kind of combined synergy like that? But then what do you do with the old school? Great question. if you don't need the old schools could you sell the real estate for development for housing affordability because they're owned by the city could you work with the developer

and a private public partnership in some capacity would that cost more to build a completely new facility rather than rehab the old one remodeling costs oftentimes more expensive than new construction because with remodeling you don't know what's behind the wall

once you start taking anyone that's done a home remodeling project at their house. That's just a microcosm, a small microcosm, but a microcosm. You start taking drywall down, or you start moving walls, doing stuff to flooring, moving kitchen islands, cabinetry work, stuff like that. Next thing you know, you see something behind the wall. Next thing, you have to move an outlet. Next thing you have to move, put a beam up. Next thing you know, you don't have the flooring in place, that's correct. You've got a fixed wiring that was improperly done. Right. A lot of times the remodeling,

more expensive per square foot than the new construction itself. Travis Hackworth, old schools here have become affordable housing in Danville for the elderly and limited income and workforce housing in Danville. Could that be a possibility in Charlott? It's a great question. Nice. It's a great question.

Deep Throat, number one in the family, his photo is on screen. Another point of comparison, Deep Throat says, is the database of Virginia School Construction Projects. The latest vintage of project, shows that for a complete new build of elementary schools, the cost per pupil sits around 50,000. That's a great data point from Deep Throat. The latest vintage of projects shows that for a complete new build of elementary schools, the cost per pupil sits around $50,000. With Seville City Schools, 100 million spread over the student population, excluding middle school, which is a separate

project is about 35,000 per student just for renovation. That seems extremely costly. Deep Throat's words. Jim Hingley, I'm going to get to your comment here in a matter of moments. Deep Throat also says where will 35,000 people live in Almorel County? Well, they could live in the 11,000 units of approved and unbuilt housing that the development dashboard shows to start. He also says, I think I think if the lower school enrollment is more, I think the lower school enrollment is more about population growth coming in, older age groups than a move to private schools, although that's a factor too.

The influx of people are empty nesters and wealthy. Empty nesters don't have the kids. And the wealthy may consider the private school. Let's go to Jim Hingley. Love when he watches the program and offers commentary. He says 100 million capital budget for school improvements. Let's see if voters would

agree to a 1% local sales tax increase for school construction renovation. Governor Yon refuses to give Charlottesville a choice. Spamberger might let voters decide. I will say this and Mr. Hingley knows this as well as I do.

If Charlottesville, is that a referendum, Jim? A general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision, if Charlottesville has an opportunity to vote a referendum on a 1% local sales tax increase with the entire 1% allocated to capital improvement for schools, I will tell you this community, the city of Charlottesville, and I will bet you five bottles of top shelf whiskey against your one bottle of top shelf whiskey

that that 1% vote will overwhelmingly pass with voters in Charlottesville because kids are bipartisan thank you Jim yes the referendum he says but Yonkin not allowing that to happen I'm going to ask the question again for the viewers and listeners

this bipartisan issue kids children and I can't think of a more significant bipartisan issue that unifies both sides than children. The only other bipartisan issue that I can think of that may drive more engagement than kids and children, what do you think I'm going to say? Human safety. Being safe in the community.

Gun violence, killing. Violence. Probably the only, the one. item, the one trend, the one storyline, the one talking point that is more unifying than children and bettering the world for kids is violence, because kids are also included in that. If a referendum is a reality, and maybe Spamberger does make it a reality, and the 1% sales tax increase is considered voted upon, it will overwhelmingly pass. overwhelmingly then in that scenario

that's not financial malpractice because you have an incremental source of revenue to fund those capital improvement efforts will there be this talk if a referendum materializes good god you're going to add another

tax to us as small businesses when our customers are not coming in with the same volume to support our locally owned and operated businesses every restaurant owner in the community, every small business owner in the community, every retail owner in the community will reach out to me and say, do you realize that the meals tax, all the taxes when you go eat at a restaurant is like 12.6%?

Yeah. And then the expectation is a 20% tip on top of that. I went out to a business. I'm not going to say which one this morning. And I had the best bacon, egg, and cheese croissant I've had in a very long while. It was early morning. I enjoyed it for breakfast. It was a, I'll give a description.

It was a market that was in Alamaro County. It's not Bel Air or a Tiger Fuel Market, but a locally owned and operated one-unit-owner market that happened to have a deli in the back with a flat top for cooking. And they cooked the eggs the right way. It was not microwaved eggs. It was a fried egg on a cooktop.

It was beautiful. They packed a ton of bacon in it. Crescent was flaky and fresh. American cheese. It was a big croissant served to me, piping hot and tinfoil, which I enjoyed outside on some seating under a covered veranda. The croissant was $6.99. And then I was prompted to tip 20 or 25% at the register. I chose because there was no service, table service in any capacity, not to tip. I paid the $6.91. And I, the person who rang me up bristled. Bristled. Was the expectation for me to tip two bucks on that?

To take it to $8.91 or $9? Was that the expectation? My point is this. If we continue to layer the receipt or the bill with additional taxes, not tied to the tangible return we're getting for our money, the tip, the 12% becomes 13.6%. then the volume of customers will diminish to these small businesses. That will be the narrative for the 1% referendum.

But that referendum will pass. And if you get the 1% referendum for capital improvement project for the schools, then go for it if you're city council and your city hall. Go for it. But in its current state, we the taxpayers are screaming and saying we're feeling overtaxed. Look around Charlottesville. It's white, wealthy, homogenous. It's been significantly gentrified since prior to COVID.

The diversification of Charlottesville is completely, the complexion of Charlottesville is completely different than pre-COVID. Just walk around, folks. The data is also out there. William McChesney. I don't see Charlottesville governance allowing a referendum. Someone tell me of a referendum since revenue sharing in the city of Charlottesville. So William McChesney is asking Jim Hingley a question.

William McChesney, the mayor of McIntyre Road, is asking Mr. Jim Hingley this question. I don't see Charlottesville governance allowing a referendum. Someone tell me of a referendum since revenue sharing in the city of Charlottesville, Mr. Hingley. That's from Bill McChesney. Jason Noble's photo on screen. One of the problems is that both sides have different. viewing views on what is good for kids, and even if we do agree, we disagree on how to get there. I don't think it's a bipartisan issue. Jason Noble pushes back on me. I respect that.

He doesn't think the kids are a bipartisan issue. You buy that? I think it's a little of both. I think you're right. In most cases, if it's a broader question, then yes, both sides will agree, you know, take care of that. the kids. But he also has a point that if you drill down into the specifics, you'll definitely start to see more and more of a divide based on who thinks that based on based on the method being employed. I think you're going to find a lot of a lot of people leaning to the left will be, you know, They'll be fine with another tax, at least on paper, whereas a lot of people that lean to the right will say,

stop taxing me. What's intriguing with the addition of Jen Fleischer to Council and the removal of Brian Pinkston from Council in January, the council dynamic, at least from my standpoint, becomes more tax-friendly, more pro-tax. Pinkston, a Democrat, was at least a more moderate Democrat than what Jen Fleischer is, who is very much, I would say, in favor of taxing city residents to drive housing affordability, bicycle and Walker, pedestrian safety and lanes, housing affordability, and schools.

I'll say that's fair. Comments continue to come in. Viewers and listeners, let us know your thoughts. We'll relay them live on air. Hackworth's idea of maybe considering the $100 million to build something new and to combine. Seems pretty reasonable. And then allocating the old to workforce housing or affordable housing. Is that being considered?

Look at how long this Beaufort project has taken. Yeah. The Beaufort project's been talked about for how long? Has someone had the frank conversation with council about the population diminishing in schools? Why is that not being talked about with the counselors or in any of the reporting or any of the question asking? Intriguing topic. Viewers and listeners, let us know your thoughts. We'll put them in the feed.

Judah, next topic or a topic we have in cover, please let us know. UVA faculty still want more transparency from BOV. Set the stage for us if you could. Well, they are, I think, a little bit, I think by and large, the reaction to Mahoney being made the interim president of UVA is good? I had a conversation

this morning with a former elected official of the Richmond, Virginia variety, and a heavy hitter at the University of Virginia, a person of tremendous influence. And the conversation,

we were in agreement that Paul Mahoney was a fantastic interim selection because he was, and these were the words utilized, vanilla and neutral. Yeah. Vanella and neutral. He's going to appeal to faculty because he's been there for, what, 30-some years.

While he's contributed to Republicans in the past, it hasn't been an outlandish capacity or better described vocal, visible capacity. Yeah, I've heard mention of his political affiliation as well. As you mentioned with the fact that he's not a... He's a behind-the-scenes guy. He's not a nutcase.

He's not a MAGA supporter. He's... I mean, I've heard people... He's vanilla and neutral. Toss out a few different names. as contrasts or likened him but yeah he's vanilla and neutral this man is vanilla in neutral as an interim president he's not going to lightning rod anything yeah he's not going to invite trump to the campus or to grounds and he's most likely going to be in this position for a long this guy's

probably going to be the president of the university, the intrepresent of university into 2026. He's probably going to be the president of the university of Virginia until Spamberger has control of her board. You're looking at a guy that's what, 12, 13, 14 months, maybe longer president. Does he get the opportunity to continue to shed the interim label? Perhaps. I still think the rumor of Jim Ryan, link. and hanging in the shadows for a potential reappointment is something to consider, a la Terry Sullivan. The conversation that came up this morning is another conversation that you and I were having on the show.

The Yonken, that Glenn Yonken has set a precedent for nuclear bombing boards with the firing of Burt Ellis. Yonken set a playbook. of what you can do to fire a board member. Has it ever, Mr. Hensley, has it ever been done before? Do we ever get to the bottom of that question, what Yonkin did with Bert Ellis? Has any sitting governor, active governor,

fired a board member that he or she appointed? I don't think that's ever happened. And when is the last time a sitting active governor fired a board member at all? And the law says, I learned this from an attorney, former Richmond elected official. The law says that the governor, he or she can do this on their own accord without justification outside of they wanted to do it. It's their appointee. It's not even if it's their appointee.

Really? Yeah. It doesn't have to be their appointee for them to fire a board member. they could choose to do it with or without it being their appointee learn that today that should be changed we may be seeing a lot of that soon it's happening everywhere it's not just UVA it's happening everywhere so does that mean whoever we vote is now going to have the ability to nuclear bomb the board at their nilly-willy?

Jim says, Hingley, I don't know about previous B-O-V firings, if any. Neither do I. Yeah. That's a question. Right up John Blair's alley. Jason Noble makes a joke about Paul Mahoney.

He's donated to Republicans. What? He's probably a fascist then. I can tell that Jason Noble, even through a comment on Facebook, that he did that tongue-in-cheek. Mr. Noble, I appreciate your sarcasm. He says in regards to school numbers,

I think they only look at the numbers they want to look at everything else they're blissfully ignorant of. That's my point. Why have we not, in Natalie Oshren's analysis or commentary to local media, why has she not said, we know that school population enrollment is diminishing? And we need to consider that

enrollment decrease when considering how we're spending taxpayer dollars. Instead, the commentary from Natalie Olshran is this. We want to do what's best for kids. The natural light in some of these schools is terrible, and natural light is important for educational performance. Natalie O'Sherin is to Charlottesville, what Michael Pruitt is to Almarl County. Oshran has the same political verticality approach or goals that Pruitt has. Pruitt's been on the board, what?

A couple of years, and he's already making a run for Congress. In his first turn, his first elected a position ever, halfway through, and he's already thinking Congress? When does Oshren say, I'm making a run for state? Do you want to make a bet that Natalie Oshran, what she does in her second, when her first term is over? Does she run for a second

term on council, Natalie Osharing? Or does she run for state delegate? Do you think it's a second term on council? I think there's a good chance. She'll start looking upwards. Me too. We already have one bet. You think she's going to be the mayor.

I think it's going to be Michael Payne. Your bet of Natalie Orshan for mayor is a really, really good bet. She's a woman. We haven't had a female mayor in a long time. She has verticality goals in politics, climbing the totem pole, and having mayor on the resume is a nice check mark. You have a really good bet that you made there with Natalie Oshar. I'm taking Michael Payne because it's his second term. Wasn't mayor in his first term. He behind the scenes has been a pretty good counselor. I don't agree with his politics.

but he's a really smart guy. He's not in the headlines for any of the wrong reasons, not doing stupid stuff. Faculty want more transparency from the board. There was a time when faculty asked for transparency from the UVA Board of Visitors, the Board of Visitors would say, and not so many words, F you, no.

There was that time. They're in a different position today. It's a completely different position. The power has swayed, especially with social media and technology and communications and digital communications, allowing large factions of people to organize and strategize. We've seen it with livable Charlottesville. I am the opposite of livable Charlestful in so many ways. But what I can't discount is the fact that.

that Stephen Johnson and Matthew Gilliken have a organized newsletter that goes out on the same day each month with a ton of content. They have a fantastic social media presence. They do meet and greet at Brazos tacos. They're all over blue sky. They're all over Reddit. They're on Facebook. They have such great organization. And that organization has created influence and power and lobbying ability. The same playbook is used by the faculty. Last week in a Thursday

night meeting for the United Campus Workers of Virginia. Is that who it was? The United Campus workers, we don't have to go down the rabbit hole. They met on a Zoom call. All the campus workers in the Commonwealth, not all of them, but a lot of them met on a Zoom call on Thursday night.

And in this call, on a microphone in front of a camera with people watching in a public meeting they're openly talking about breaking the law saying we're going to potentially do more militant approaches like strikes where all the faculty are involved to get what we want

control over the next president and future board appointments. You have a UVA librarian that has such balls and brash that she on a microphone in front of a camera is in a collection of people on a Zoom is talking about being militant with protest and strikes at UVA

with having buy-in from all faculty where they can't ignore us and they can't do anything legally to us because it's all of us and they need us to run the school. That is ballsy and brash. transparency from the board what a wild time to live uh so part of this is in uh is in regards to the search for the interim president there was uh there was a uh there was feedback um collected from listening sessions

and an online nomination form uh there were 599 nominations with 143 individuals nominated. However, the Board of Visitors did not explain whether they even looked at the information or how they used the information to come to the decision for Mahoney. And I think a lot of the UVA faculty are concerned that whether that information

is being used wisely or how they came to that decision and as you said the Board of Visitors probably doesn't care though they are in a different position than they were just a year ago William says this

Buford and Walker Junior High Schools were completed for occupancy in 1966 after construction of Charlottesville High school in the 1970s, the school board decided to pair Beaufort and Walker in the mid-1980s. Ninth graders were moved to Charlottesville High School. Seventh and eighth graders were put into Beaufort Middle School. Fifth and sixth graders composed Walker Elementary School.

There was great gnashing of teeth and resistance to this move, but I think it has served the city students well. This pairing was conceived due to a strong feeling that there was a big difference in the education students north of West Maine and students south of West Main, we're getting. Great commentary from William McChesney. North of West Maine, you're affluent. South of West Maine, financial margin. He says the city stools are still going to convert Walker to larger administrative facilities and put an additional building to house preschoolers. He's correct. And they wanted to bypass this project

at Walker if they got the Federal Executive Institute. Can you imagine the world we would be in where Council would be considering $100 million in school renovations and then also the money needed for the Federal Executive Institute? Imagine that world if the Federal Executive Institute went Charlottesville's way. Next headline. Let's do the Business 6 in Virginia headline. And you give us the who, what, when we're a while.

on that one. This is from Fox, and there is a ranking of states and how well businesses survive. In this, in this ranking, Virginia came in sixth. surprisingly good. Virginia ranks sixth in the nation for five-year small business survival with 56.5% of startups staying open longer than five years. That's pretty good. What do you attribute that to? I would say that, you know, I honestly don't know. I attribute it to the following. if you don't know. Do you have any, I don't want to cut you off. Do you attribute it to anything?

No, nothing specific. Six in the nation to start up surviving longer than five years. That is a direct attribution from my standpoint to the following. The universities and colleges in the Commonwealth where talent is matriculating out of into these startups, UVA, Virginia Tech, JMU, VCU, Richmond, Washington and Lee, William and Mary, Hampton, Sydney. You've got fantastic schools here. Fantastic schools. That's one attribution point. Second attribution point, while we complain about the escalated nature of housing costs in the Commonwealth,

it is nothing compared to Manhattan, New York, Connecticut, Boston, Los Angeles. My brother-in-law and sister-in-law just bought a house in Connecticut. first house they got in Connecticut 900 grand first house young couple house needs a lot of work beautiful house two acres lovely house how you could build a family with process of 12 18 months of searching for a home losing offer after offer got a fantastic house extremely happy for them excited for them to build their family there it's a beautiful house you're talking 900 grand entry point. And my sister-in-law has a 45-minute commute to her employer in Stanford for where they bought the house. Beautiful house. My brother lives in Los Angeles.

This guy is a seasoned and savvy and successful advertising executive. Work for a number of businesses, including publicly traded, now working for a company that is probably thinking IPO in the near future. Guy makes bank, heavy money, serious money. Lives in Culver City, Los Angeles. Beautiful house, new construction, pool in the backyard. Two million-plus home. Got eight to ten hobos living in tents outside his house on the road,

and the city of Los Angeles does nothing about it. Play in the backyard, kids, not the front. It's expensive to live in Virginia. Charlottesville is the second most expensive market in the Commonwealth. Still Virginia, and the grand scheme of things, somewhat affordable with its housing. Those are two attribution points there. Another attribution point, the seasons, people want to move here.

You have four different weather patterns. You have quality of life. You have proximity to big city. You have feel for country. With this internet service provider and this remote hybrid work, your ability to work elsewhere, quality of life is important. Six in the nation for startups surviving longer than five years. Commonwealth of Virginia. That's pretty damn good.

Really good. These are things that Yonkin should be touting. Yonkin's tenure in office is going to be remembered, unfortunately, for the debacle at UVA. unfortunately it's going to be remembered for DEI collateral damage the collateral damage tied to John Reed and it's not going to be remembered for the success he's had as a governor with leading the commonwealth from a business visionary standpoint

what are we going to grade Yonkin now that his time is up how do you grade him How do I grade him? Oh, man. You don't think much of the guy. I don't think much of him. I mean, I think he's done a decent job for the most part, but I feel like he's made some serious missteps.

I personally don't like the hypocrisy of executive orders. Each side gets mad and points fingers when the other side does it, and then they get someone in office and they do the exact same thing. So I'm really down on him for that. But then, yeah, there's the issue with the schools, with UVA and the protesters, sending state troopers in, and there's the issue with firing his own... Bert Ellis, never been done that we can think of. And then trying to replace him with some.

someone even more right-winged, radical? I was just going to say, what's the word, more polarizing and failing in it. Not only that, but the seven other people that he appointed at other schools, all getting knocked down. I can't imagine that they were, I can't imagine, I hope it wasn't just that, that the Democrats wanted to screw him over. Because that itself sets a very bad precedent. But if his choices were subpar and the Democrats called him on it,

I mean, either way, it's not a good look. Not a good look. And now he's got, you know, what, a few months left? August, September, October, November, December, less than five months left. What are we going to hear? what are we going to hear from the governor's office in the next five months? I don't know. There you go.

Next headline. What do you got? Let's see. Crozay's Region 10 and Piedmont Pediatrics. I'm going to spend about 90 seconds on this. The address is in, this is in downtown Crozay. It's 1205 Croze Avenue and 1193 Croze Avenue. The asking price is $1,5,5707.

$75,000. It's two office buildings with a shared parking lot. It's in the heart of downtown Crozé. You got restaurant potential, retail potential, medical office potential, mixed-use concept potential. You got the Blue Ridge as your backdrop. Two electric meters allowing for multiple tenants. an adjacent with a shared parking agreement amongst both buildings two office properties at a million 575 in downtown Crozet. Do they need work? Yes. Are there current footprints the future? No. Can you utilize the current footprints as you figure out

what the future is for these two offices? Yes. Can you generate revenue as you navigate the red tape and difficulty of Almore County planning and development, yes. The reality is for 1,575,000 asking, you can dictate and shape the future of downtown Crozet. And I'm extremely bullish on downtown Croze's future. Let me know if interested two office properties at 1,575,000 and downtown Croze. DMs and texts are open. I want to save the Guadalajara story for tomorrow. What is the best use for Guadalajara Fontaine? Think about that tonight.

The best use for Guadalajara Fontaine. A million four for the Guadalajara on Fontaine and for the Atlas coffee next to it. I have some ideas. We have confirmation on August 19th that Letty Klotz is going to join us on the show. Judah, line that interview up on our behalf. Lettie Klotz is a UVA performance.

professor, an American scientist, and author who studies and writes about design and problem solving. What is the Letty Klaught's book, Judah? I got it right. It's called Subtract, exactly right. The Untapped Science of Less. And we talked about this last week as it applies to the 40-hour work week. Some folks are willing to die on the hill that it's 40 hours of work a week and nothing

more. Other folks are evolving that the 40-hour work week is now 60. We'll talk about that with Professor Letty Klotz on the I Love Sebo Show on August 19th, and we remind you the viewer and listener that on Friday at 1015, Scott Smith and Friend Missile, Almore County contested election, Board of Supervisors, Samuel Miller District are in our studio. And then we also remind you with the viewer and listener that office space, if you need it, reach out to me. We have an abundance of it at our disposal that you, the viewer, and listener, may choose to rent from $3.50 a month to thousands of dollars a month. Bells and whistles to Spartan. Reach out to me. Charlottesville Sanitary Supply, 61 years in business, Judah Wickhauer, John Vermillion and Andrew Vermillion, who you support for your sanitary needs.

The Vermilions are five generations in Almoreal County. Their business, Charlestful Sanitary Supply, is three generations strong. they have a mechanic on site to repair your vacuums or your pool cleaners, ladies and gentlemen. They know all you need to know when it comes to sanitary, and they're honest and communicative. High Street and online at Charlottesville Sanitary Supply.com. Judah Wood Coward, Jerry Miller, the I Love Seville Show on a Wednesday.

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