{"id":11695,"date":"2015-01-05T22:40:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T03:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=11695"},"modified":"2015-01-05T22:40:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T03:40:16","slug":"breakdown-pittsylvania-county-bos-organizational-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/05\/breakdown-pittsylvania-county-bos-organizational-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"BreakDown: Pittsylvania County BoS Organizational Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Who Will Be The PittsCo BoS Chairman for 2015?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/04\/who-will-be-the-pittsco-bos-chairman-for-2015\/\">We made our predictions for Chairman of the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors yesterday<\/a> and we were comfortable with them until around 2PM today. That&#8217;s when we started figuring out that things weren&#8217;t as they appeared to be. Let&#8217;s do a BreakDown on what happened and what it means&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Brenda Bowman is the new chairman and Elton Barksdale is vice-chairman. Wow. Let&#8217;s get the Big Board out for the BreakDown.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brenda Bowman got unceremoniously booted out of the chairmanship in 2013 because of Coy Harville, James Snead, Tim Barber and Jerry Hagerman. Hagerman flipped his allegiance and cast the deciding votes to both boot Bowman out and eliminate the Economic Development office (which was her husband, Ken Bowman). That vote was pure spite against Brenda Bowman for her alliance with Marshall Ecker&#8217;s Northern faction.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s when the board started coming unraveled with Harville\/Snead\/Barber &amp; Hagerman using their majority powers. They got semi-rational when they elected Jessie Barksdale as chairman for 2014. He turned out to be the best chairman that they county has had in a very long time.<\/li>\n<li>Brenda Bowman had to have two major things happen to let her get her revenge on Harville\/Snead\/Barber. First, she had to get the support of Jerry Hagerman again. We said it yesterday&#8230; &#8220;Jerry Hagerman does what\u2019s best for Jerry Hagerman and his district&#8221; and that turned out to be prophetic as Hagerman was the swing vote. Second, Jessie Barksdale had to be willing to step aside for Bowman&#8217;s return. Barksdale did that with no second thoughts, and that shows his decision was a proverbial middle finger to Harville\/Snead\/Barber.<\/li>\n<li>During the election process, Coy Harville said that he couldn&#8217;t support Bowman &#8220;because she had called them snakes before&#8221;. At that time, I don&#8217;t believe that he didn&#8217;t know the plan that had already been put into motion because he nominated Jessie Barksdale with Tim Barber seconding it.<\/li>\n<li>Jessie Barksdale voted against himself and for Brenda Bowman. That&#8217;s proof that he was highly involved in the plan (like he&#8217;d have to be). Harville\/Snead\/Barber voted for Barksdale but they needed four votes. Jerry Hagerman&#8217;s switchback left the Southern 3 high and dry.<\/li>\n<li>Tim Barber then nominated Barksdale for vice-chair, trying to break up the Bowman\/Blackstock\/Hagerman\/Barksdale alliance but none of them took that bait either. Elton Barksdale was elected vice-chair on the same votes. Barksdale voted against himself for the second time for the second middle finger against Harville\/Snead\/Barber.<\/li>\n<li>As chairman, Brenda Bowman made the committee assignments and Harville\/Snead\/Barber were shut out of any chairmanships on them as well, completing the wipeout.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what this means. Jerry Hagerman is now the most powerful man in the county. Brenda Bowman&#8217;s newly founded coalition will be wiped out if Hagerman switches sides again (like he did last time). Coy Harville, James Snead &amp; Tim Barber are dead in the water in the same way that they did it to Brenda Bowman before. You&#8217;ve got to be nice on the way up because sooner or later, you&#8217;ll be coming down. I expect Bowman&#8217;s coalition to get moving quickly with their first major initiative being restarting an economic development department.<\/p>\n<p>Revenge is sweet and complete for Brenda Bowman. What a wild night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We made our predictions for Chairman of the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors yesterday and we were comfortable with them until around 2PM today. That&#8217;s when we started figuring out that things weren&#8217;t as they appeared to be. Let&#8217;s do a BreakDown on what happened and what it means&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[101,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakdown","category-pittsylvania-county","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-32D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14825,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/01\/endorsement-jessie-barksdale-for-board-of-supervisors-chairman\/","url_meta":{"origin":11695,"position":0},"title":"Endorsement: Jessie Barksdale for Board of Supervisors Chairman","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"January 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a weird way to start 2016, but I feel this endorsement is needed to keep Pittsylvania County on the right track. Only the seven elected members of the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors will vote on this decision, but county residents can make their feelings known to their\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Endorsements&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Endorsements","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/politicscentral\/endorsements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/TQ41EBa.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7714,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/06\/petty-vindictive-jerks\/","url_meta":{"origin":11695,"position":1},"title":"Petty. Vindictive. Jerks.","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"March 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"And the answer is \"Three words used to describe James Snead, Coy Harville and Tim Barber\". Along with Jerry Hagerman, those three idiots fired Pittsylvania County Economic Development Director Ken Bowman for absolutely no legitimate reason at all. Nixing economic development office called a \u2018political trick\u2019 Chatham\/Blairs District Supervisor Brenda\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;BusinessCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"BusinessCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/businesscentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12284,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/30\/reportcard-pittsylvania-county-board-of-supervisors-33015\/","url_meta":{"origin":11695,"position":2},"title":"ReportCard! \u2013 Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors (3\/30\/15)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"March 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The first ReportCard! in this series wasn't very kind to the Halifax County Board of Supervisors. But hey, they deserved it. 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Let's wheel out the Big Chalkboard and stick some magnets on it... It's our version of the Magic Wall! We can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;OpinionCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"OpinionCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/opinioncentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/IyxjqzC.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/IyxjqzC.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/IyxjqzC.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/IyxjqzC.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14837,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/07\/pittsylvania-county-board-of-supervisors-1416\/","url_meta":{"origin":11695,"position":4},"title":"Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors (1\/4\/16)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"January 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"SouthsideCentral will be covering at least the first monthly meeting of the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors, so let's see what happened at the reorganizational meeting on Monday night. There's no wi-fi in the Pittsylvania County General District courtroom when the board meets and cell coverage is pretty spotty, so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;GovernmentCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"GovernmentCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/governmentcentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/baBP1cV.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/baBP1cV.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/baBP1cV.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/baBP1cV.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13168,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/01\/pittsylvania-county-elections-update-1-part-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":11695,"position":5},"title":"Pittsylvania County Elections &#8211; Update #1 &#8211; (Part #1)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"July 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"It's July 1st, so it's time to take our first look at the upcoming November 3rd elections. 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