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LAND
TRUST
BASICS
Are you interested in protecting your
unspoiled land for the future?
Do you desire to keep it natural and undeveloped?
Thinking about the possibility of a Land Trust or Conservancy group
overseeing your beautiful property?
Please know not all "Land Trusts" or Conservancy groups are the same
nor do they all have altruistic environmental concerns nor
preservationist yearnings at heart.
If you are not sure what a land trust is, please click here for a basic
description:
Land Trust Basics
If you are considering a Land Trust, please look
into it closely.
Look into who is on their board of directors, their planning committee,
their long range motives and how they receive pay for their roles in
the Land Trust and
what each of these people actually does for a living.
Any conflicts of interests here?
Sadly, for some..a Land Trust is just another personal
income base and your property is just
another stock option.
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Floyd County In View supports the
PRESERVATION and ENCOURAGES APPRECIATION of our diminishing natural
resources, beautiful countryside and common sense values.
Va. legislation
passed and failed
The outcome of key legislation in the 2010 General Assembly: |
BILLS ENACTED -
Increases the speed limit to
70 miles per hour on interstates,
divided highways and some high-
occupancy vehicle lanes.
Allow concealed guns in bars as
long as the carrier does not drink
alcohol.
Allow those without a
concealed handgun permit to lock
guns in car or boat glove boxes.
Prohibit Virginians from being
required to purchase health
insurance coverage or pay any
fines for not obtaining coverage
that maybe enacted by the federal
government.
Give the state more of a role in
the establishment of charter, virtual and laboratory schools.
Allow those who kill on-duty
auxiliary police officers or fire
marshals to be eligible for the
death penalty.
Require all car title lenders be
licensed, and limit how much they
could lend and charge borrowers.
Establish an abortion-rights
"Trust Women/Respect Choice"
license plate, with some of the
proceeds directed to Planned
Parenthood.
Suspend rate increases for
Appalachian Power Co. customers
while regulators evaluate the
company's rate increase request.
Allow anyone who lives in a
neighborhood governed by a
homeowners association to display the American flag, but allows the
associations to create restrictions on the size and
placement of the flag.
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BILLS
ENACTED - continued
Charge
$10 for every felony or
misdemeanor conviction, with the money going to the state's two
Internet Crimes Against Children task forces.
Direct royalties from possible
future drilling for oil and gas off the Virginia coast to
transportation and other services.
Allow the Virginia Board of
Education to grant local divisions waivers to the state requirement
that public schools open after
Labor Day.
Grants state recognition for the
Patawomeck Indians, the Nottoway 1ndian tribe and the
Cheroenhaka
(Nottoway) Indian tribe of
Southampton County.
Allow wine and liquor tastings
at government-run ABC stores.
Allow concealed handgun
permits to be renewed by mail.
Require anyone under 18 to wear a seat belt in a vehicle.
Require student-athletes who
suffer concussions to be held out of games or practice.
Require the work of paJ1els
investigating possible ethics
violations of legislators be made public and allow them to continue
even if a lawmaker resigns.
Require the state Department
of Corrections to develop a policy to assist victims of crime with
meeting with their offenders.
Allow police officers to
question those suspected of
driving under the influence as to where they consumed their last
alcoholic beverage.
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BILLS FAILED
Repeal Virginia's ban on buying
more than one handgun per month.
Ban job discrimination against
gay state employees.
Exempt from federal law any
firearm manufactured or sold in
Virginia.
Shielding from public record
information on concealed handgun permit holders.
Direct the Virginia State Police
to come up with a plan to issue
lifetime concealed handgun
permits ihstead of requiring
renewal every five years.
Allow murder accomplices to be
charged with capital murder.
Require many Virginia
employee health care plans to
cover a specialized treatment for
autistic children.
Require private sellers at gun
shows to perform background
checks on buyers.
Ban coal companies that
perform mountaintop removal
mining from dumping the rock
and rubble they blast off the tops
of mountains into nearby streams.
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BILLS FAILED-continued
Require
online stores to start
collecting and paying Virginia sales
taxes.
Ban the forced implantation
of tracking devices in people as a condition of employment or by
insurers.
Ban talking on a hand-held
cellphone while driving and make talking on a cellphone while driving
with a provisional. license a primary
offense.
Make not wearing a seat belt a
primaryoffense.
Prohibit homeowners associations from banning
clotheslines.
Allow no-excuse absentee voting.
Create a bipartisan commission
to redraw the state's legislative and congressional boundaries.
Require licensure and inspection of abortion clinics
.
Repeal a ban on radar detectors being used in vehicles.
Lower the punishment for
possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana from a criminal offense to
a civil one,punishable by a $500
fine and broaden the medical use of marijuana.
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LEGISLATION
SCORECARD
By
The Associated Press
The
outcome
of
key
legislation
in
the
2011
General
Assembly:
BILLS
PASSED
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.
Require
clinics
that
pro-
vide
more
than
five
first-
term
abortions
per
month
to
be
regulated
as
hospitals.
.
Gov. Bob McDonnell's
$4
billion
transportation-
financing
proposal,
which
includes using nearly
$3
billion
in
debt
to
begin
highway
projects.
.
Expand
protective
orders
for
those
in
dating
relation
ships and anyone who feels
threatened.
.
Extend
the amount of
time
child
sex
assault
vic-
tims
have
to
file
civil
law
suits
from
two
years
to
20
years.
.
Expand
the
right
of
liquor
manufacturers
to
advertise
on
Virginia
billboards.
.
Allow
inmates
to
help
maintain Virginia's rest
stops.
.
Require
some
employer
health
care
plans
to
cover
a treatment for autistic
children.
.
Require
elementary
and
middle
schools
to
offer
at
least
150
minutes
per
week
of
physical
education.
.Allow
car
title
lenders
to
make loans to vehicle own
ers in other states.
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Ban
synthetic marijuanaand
bath
salts
used
to
get
high.
.
Ban computer-based
sweepstakes games that
offer points for Inter
net,
phone
time
or
other
items
purchased
that
can
be
played
on
games
in
an
attempt
to
win
money.
.
Require anyone
who
assaults
an
emergency
room
worker
to
spend
at
least
two
days
in
jail.
.
Name
the
striped
bass
as
Virginia's
official
saltwater
fish.
.
Allow
the
use
of
BB
guns,
paintball
guns
and
other
air-propelled
weapons
at
homes
by
preventing
locali-
ties
from
banning
their
use
on
private
property.
.
Ban
the
sale
of
fertilizer
containing phosphorus,
a
major
Chesapeake
Bay
pollutant,
for
use
on
estab
lished
lawns.
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BILLS
FAILED
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Privatize
liquor
retailing
to
generate
money
for
high
way
improvements.
.
Prohibit
discrimination
based on
sexual orientation
in state hiring.
.
Ask
Congress
for
a
con-
stitutional amendment
allowing
two-thirds
of
state
legislatures
to
void
federal
laws
they
oppose.
.
Exempt
goods
made
and
sold
within
Virginia
from
federal
laws
and
regulation.
.
Prohibit
state
agencies,
including
colleges and uni-
versities, from enacting
gun laws more
stringent
than those
passed by
the
legislature.
.
Expand
the
death
penalty
to
include
those
who
par
ticipate
in
a
rape
and
mur-
der
but
don't
do
the
actual
killing.
.
Establish an alterna-
tive
currency
for
Virginia
should the
Federal Reserve
collapse.
.
Eliminate the require
ment
to
get
a
permit
to
carry
a
concealed handgun.
.
Allow
concealed
handgun
permits
issued
in
any
state
to
be
good
in
Virginia.
.
Require background
checks
from
all
buyers
at
gun
shows.
.
Allow
darker
window
tint
on
vehicles.
.
Anti-immigrant mea-
sures,
including
bills
that
would prohibit undocu-
mented students from
enrolling
in
public
colleges,
bar
illegal
immigrants
from
receiving
public assistance,
keep track of the number of
schoolchildren who take
English as a Second Lan-
guage and require law
enforcement officers
to
check
immigration
status.
. Eliminate Virginia's
unique
requirement that
sixth-grade
girls
receive a
vaccination
against
a
sexually
transmitted virus that can
cause cervical
cancer.
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.
Allow parimutuel-style
betting
on
past
horse
races
with
some
of
the
proceeds
going
to
transportation.
.
Require new, two-year
state
budgets
to
be
written
in
odd-numbered
years,
not
in
even-numbered
years
as
they
are
now.
.
Protect prayers made
in
public
forums
such
as
classrooms
and
school
ath
letic
events.
.
Allow
drivers
to
be
pulled
over
and
ticketed
for
talking
on
cellphones or texting.
.
Require drug screening for
those receiving some welfare
benefits.
.
Allow
claims
of
sovereign
immunity
to
be
heard
by
the
state
Supreme
Court
before
a
trial.
.
Reduce
prison
sentenc
es
for
inmates
with
good
behavior.
.
Require
a
prescription
for
cold
medicines
often
used
in
the manufacture of metham-
phetamines.
.
Impose
a
5-cent
tax
on
paper
bags
and
disposable
plastic
bags.
.
Cap
the
amount
of
inter
est
on
payday
and
car
title
loans
at
36
percent.
.
Shift
the
management
of
menhaden
from
the
Virginia
General
Assembly
to
a
state
regulatory
agency.
.
Create
a
tax-break
pro-
gram
that
would
award
up
to
$25
million
in
annual
credits
to
companies
that
donate
to
foundations
that
provide
private-school
scholarships
to needy students.
.
Require
those
who
elude
police
to
forfeit
their
vehicle.
.
Require
the
Virginia
State
Crime
Commission
to
study
using physical castration for
violent
sex
offenders.
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POINTS OF VIEW -
EDITORIALS - COMMENTARIES - OPINIONS:
Shareholder
seeks
sale of Bank of Floyd
By Wanda Combs
Published: June 10, 2011
by Wanda Combs
Editor - Floyd Press
This article was published in the Floyd Press(floydpress.com)
Early Tuesday morning Cardinal
Bankshares/Bank of Floyd Chairman, President and CEO Leon Moore sent an
email to all employees. Responding to news that the largest shareholder
of Cardinal Bankshares Corp., the holding company for Bank of Floyd,
was seeking to force a sale of the Bank, Moore wrote that the Bank's
board fully believes that the Bank of Floyd and Cardinal Bankshares can
move forward as an independent community bank.
In a letter written to Moore Monday and filed with a Schedule 13D with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Douglas E. Schaller of
Schaller Equity Partners in North Carolina wrote that he was
disappointed to hear of the resignation of Henry Logue as President and
CEO of the Bank.
Logue, who had joined the Bank last fall, had been expected to
transition into leadership of the Bank upon Moore's retirement. Moore,
who has over 50 years of experience in banking, has been with Bank of
Floyd since 1988.
Schaller wrote this week he believed shareowners would best be served
by a sale of the Bank to a larger institution. He referred to new
regulations that have made it increasingly difficult and costly to
operate a small community bank and that place an onerous burden and
distraction on management's time and resources.
He added that because of the Bank's small size, without economies of
scale, it will not generate enough revenue to cover the added
regulatory expenses plus the day-to-day operating cost of the bank and
deliver an adequate investment return for shareowners.
Moore and Dr. Howard Conduff of the Board of Directors of Cardinal
Bankshares/Bank of Floyd told the (Floyd)Press Tuesday that other
factors must be considered any time there is an opportunity for a sale
and they didn't believe Schaller had the Bank's best interest at heart.
We have to consider the employees, the community and most importantly
the shareholders," remarked Conduff.
Moore explained that any proposal has to come before the Board of
Directors and then voted on by the shareholders. Sixty-six and
two-thirds percent would be needed to approve a sale.
Schaller has 132,124 shares, representing an 8.7 percent stake, of the
Bank's 1,535,000.
Bank stock was most recently $18.50 per share.
"Bank of Floyd and Cardinal Bankshares is still strong and viable and
still has interest in the community we serve," Moore said.
"It has a strong interest with a strong capital base", Conduff added.
Conduff, whose family involvement in Bank leadership goes back to the
formation of the Bank of Floyd, also represents the largest family of
shareholders. Several other families with ties to the county also have
large shares, and other shareholders have local roots.
"Local shareholders like a community bank," Moore commented, and when
local banks are merged, there's always a vacuum left in the community.
Local shareholders are well aware of it.
"When local banks are not run by local people you've lost control or
autonomy over the local situation," Conduff said.
Bank of Floyd is one of the top five employers in the county.
Moore pointed out that the Bank contributes much revenue to the county
in addition to salaries, donations, and services. Along with the main
office, the Bank now has six branches, located in Cave Spring, Salem,
Christiansburg, Fairlawn, Hillsville, and Willis.
Bank of Floyd formed the holding company Cardinal Bankshares Corp. in
July 1996, Moore explained, for the potential opportunity to access
different products and services such as brokerage services, investment
houses, insurance, and others - that a conventional bank charter will
not permit.
Moore added, Bank of Floyd has been here since 1951, and its roots go
back much further than that.
(It has) local board members, local employees, and we want to serve
this community that much longer for the right reasons.
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Local Libraries are
"Hot-spots"
for Wireless Access
All three branches of the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library System now
offer free wireless Internet access for the public.
The Blacksburg Library, Christiansburg Library, and Jessie Peterman
Memorial Library in Floyd all are wireless hot-spots.
In the mid-1990's, Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library System
collaborated with the Blacksburg Electronic Village, and was one of the
first public libraries in the country to offer free Internet access for
the public.
At that time, when becoming a "wired" community was the goal, the
library did a considerable amount of teaching to introduce the Internet
to the public. Today, ten years later, the Internet is an integral part
of our culture, and wireless technology is the standard.
The Meadowbrook Public Library in Shawsville will also be a wireless
hot-spot when it opens. The Public Library @ CRC offers wireless access
through the Corporate Research Center.
Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library System continues to offer Internet
access and other computer access using the library's public computers.
We have simply added wireless access for those who wish to bring their
own wireless devices and computers into the comfort of the library.
Library computers have Microsoft Word, Excel, Publisher, Access,
FrontPage, PowerPoint, and MapPoint available.
Also, games and stories for children and reference tools such as the
Encarta Thesaurus, Dictionary, Almanac, and Quotations are available
for the public to use on each computer. The library computers are
networked to a printer in each building.
The library's catalog and databases are available from inside the
library using either a library computer or a patron's wireless
computer. The library's catalog and databases are available at
www.mfrl.org from any computer connected to the Internet anywhere. A
library card number must be typed in to gain access to the databases
from outside the library.
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bill for gas. If you share the ride, you share the expenses
Sharing a ride regularly with just one other person and you'll spend
half of what you used to. Even once a week will help. You'll not only
save on gas, you'll also put fewer miles on your car, limit wear and
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Light Pollution
"Light pollution" a
topic which many floydians have been considering of importance,
especially in recent years, is one that I've found to be of particular
interest.
One of the many natural abundances we enjoy in Floyd county are the
dark night skies.
Before I saw an episode of PBS about amateur astronomy, I never knew
what on earth light pollution might be. To those who make a hobby of
star gazing, the darker the night sky, the better and clearer are the
images viewed in the telescope.
Many interesting observations, of merit to the scientific community,
have been made by amateur astronomers. Citizen contributions have
helped make progress in the field of the 'extra terrestrial' studies,
and more on this topic can be found on www.pbs.org, on a particular
special called 'seeing in the dark'.
Personally, I have not yet wandered into a hobby involving a telescope,
however, as many would agree with me on this, I enjoy a view of the
stars in a dark rural sky the same as I would enjoy many of nature's
bounties.
Myself, living in the city of Lynchburg currently, where the stadium
and the city lights contribute to a pinkish haze over our horizon at
night, I have grown to appreciate the deep darkness of the nights I
spend in Floyd.
I enjoy what feels like taking a step back into time, looking out into
a mysterious abyss of pure, ancestral darkness, awakens my spirit.
For these reasons, I would like to share with the Floyd community, and
encourage Floydians to share with their neighbors, lighting
alternatives (lighting that utilizes not only movement sensors but also
a stream that points down and sideways) which can serve their purpose
as well as preventing light pollution.
Dark Sky
and for some more information on light pollution (through the years and
on a bigger scale) you can visit http://www.elights.com/starrysky.html.
happy
star
gazing
!
- Noelle T.
States May Reject New Driver's License Rules
WASHINGTON —
States are threatening to challenge in court and even disobey new
orders from Congress to start issuing more uniform driver's licenses
and verify the citizenship or legal status of people getting them.
There is concern among some states that
they'll get stuck with a large tab to pay for implementing the new
rules and that getting a driver's license will become a bigger headache
for law-abiding residents.
"Governors are looking at all their options.
If more than half of the governors agree we're not going down without a
fight on this, Congress will have to consider changing this unfunded
federal mandate," said Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, vice chairman of
the National Governors Association A Huckabee aide said the
options include court action.
States fear the new rules may force applicants
to make more than one trip to motor vehicle departments, once to
provide documents such as birth certificates that states must verify
and a second time to pick up the license, state officials said.
"What passed is something that will be an
enormous amount of work and it's questionable what it's going to
yield," said Democrat Matt Dunlap, Maine's secretary of state.
"Is it going to yield national security or is it going to be hassle for
people already complying with the law?"
The immigration requirements were attached to
an $82 billion spending package for military operations and
construction in Iraq and Afghanistan that the House
passed last week. The Senate is expected to vote this week and send the
bill to President Bush.
"We'd like to work with people to implement
the needed reform and will be very disappointed if these groups thwart
these important rules," said Jeff Lungren, spokesman for Wisconsin
Republican Rep. James Sensenbrenner, who wrote the new
requirements.
Sensenbrenner said last week that waiting a
little longer in line is "a small price to pay" to prevent future
terrorism.
All but one of the 19 hijackers in the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks had some form of U.S. identification, some of it
fraudulent, the Sept. 11 commissionfound. The commission
recommended the federal government set standards for birth certificates
and other identification documents, including driver's licenses.
Some states already have been increasing their
license requirements, but their work may not be enough.
Maine's motor vehicle department is upgrading
its computer system. But the upgrade doesn't include computer coding to
comply with at least one of the new rules: ensure driver's licenses
issued to temporary legal residents expire when the resident's
authorized time in the U.S. is up.
"That adds to the cost and throws everything
into the woods," Dunlap said.
Virginia's motor vehicle department estimated
it would have to spend $237 million to comply with the bill passed by
the House if it maintains its current level of customer service. Some
changes to the final legislation could alter the estimate, a
spokeswoman said.
The bill allows the Homeland Security
secretary to offer grants to help states to comply, but doesn't provide
money.
States will have three years after the
president signs the bill to obey the rules. If they don't, their
residents won't be able to board planes or enter federally protected
buildings.
States also question how they will verify
birth certificates, whose appearance vary widely by state and county.
Dunlap said his state has only a portion of birth certificates online.
Thirty-six states and the District of Columbia
verify Social Security numbers online with the federal government or by
another method, said Mark Lassiter, spokesman.
In fiscal 2004, which ended Sept. 30, Social
Security handled 18 million verification requests, rejecting 2 million
numbers, Lassiter said. But the system isn't foolproof.
California found many numbers were rejected
for women who failed to change their name with when they married, said
Bill Branch, motor vehicle department spokesman.
Another concern for states is preventing
identity theft if licenses carry more information, said Michael
Balboni, a Republican New York state senator. Balboni and Dunlap
represented the National Conference of State Legislatures on a now
defunct panel Congress created in December to design new driver's
license rules. The conference opposes the new rules.
"What's so ironic about this bill is everybody
agrees with the concept, one person, one driver's license," Balboni
said. "How you get there is really the tough issue."
The bill is HR 1268
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On the Net:
National Governors Association:
National Conference of State Legislatures:
Rep. James Sensenbrenner:
www.nga.org
www.ncsl.org
www.house.gov/sensenbrenner/
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