11-28-2017 PH Notice - Pittsylvania County - 2017 Equipment
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Supervisors (the “Board”) of the County of
Pittsylvania, Virginia (the “County”), will hold a public hearing on its plans to undertake an
equipment financing to expand and improve the County’s emergency communications system.
Such expansion and improvements will benefit the residents of the County and will be used by
employees of the County and the Tunstall Volunteer Fire and Rescue, Inc. (the “Department”).
The County plans to undertake a lease/purchase equipment financing in an estimated
maximum amount of $2,000,000 to pay (a) the costs of new cell towers to be located within the
geographic boundaries of the County on a parcel owned by the Department with a street address
of 740 Tunstall High Road, Dry Fork, Virginia 24549, and a parcel owned by the County with a
street address of 980 Old Mayfield Road, Danville, Virginia 24541, (b) the costs of related
equipment and (c) the costs and expenses related to undertaking the lease financing.
The Department is a not-for-profit, nonstock Virginia corporation that operates a fire and
rescue station located at 740 Tunstall High Road, Dry Fork, Virginia 24549. Its mailing address
is P.O. Box 575, Danville, Virginia 24543.
The financing will not constitute a debt or pledge of the faith and credit of the
Commonwealth of Virginia or any political subdivision thereof, including the County. Neither
the Commonwealth of Virginia nor any political subdivision thereof, including the County, shall
be obligated to repay the principal or interest components due under the lease/purchase financing
arrangement, except from the monies appropriated by the Board from time to time for such
purpose.
The public hearing shall be held by the Board, on behalf of itself and the Department, at
7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 28, 2017, in the Pittsylvania Court General District Courtroom,
Edwin R. Shields Courthouse Addition, 11 Bank Street, Chatham, Virginia 24531. Interested
persons may appear at such time and place and present their views.
CLERK, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS,
COUNTY OF PITTSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA
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