Stanley leads RSW Jail Authority through routine business meeting

From left, RSW Authority Chair Doug Stanley, Shenandoah County’s Conrad Hensley, Dan Murray and Sheriff Arnold hidden behind Authority legal counsel.. Photo by Roger Bianchini. Video by Mark Williams, Royal Examiner.

On Thursday, September 26, just two days after being booked along with 12 of 13 other municipal officials on three misdemeanor counts of misfeasance and nonfeasance in the conduct of their public offices, Warren County Administrator Doug Stanley returned to the Rappahannock-Shenandoah-Warren County Regional Jail.

However this visit was for the more pleasant task of chairing the RSW Jail Authority Board of Directors meeting. Stanley has held the authority chairmanship for several years. The board is comprised of the three involved counties’ chief administrative officials, a county board representative, the three sheriffs and various jail officials.

Warren County Board of Supervisors Chairman Dan Murray, also indicted on those three misdemeanor charges related to an alleged lapse of due diligent oversight of former Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority Executive Director Jennifer McDonald over the last four months of 2018, also represents the County on the RSW Authority Board along with Sheriff Michael Arnold.

No mention of the Warren County officials’ legal situation – all charged were released on personal recognizance bonds without ever being booked into the jail – was made during the meeting. However prior to the meeting’s start Murray did audibly converse with Shenandoah County Board member Conrad Hensley, seated to his right, about his desire to sell his house upon his pending retirement from local politics. New Jersey native Murray is not running for reelection in the wake of personal and family health issues.

RSW Jail Superintendent Russ Gilkison directed the meeting through several staff reports on jail operations, financing and staff issues.

And for those disappointed in not hearing all of Davenport & Associates’ Ted Cole’s somewhat detailed summary of the pending VRS municipal bond reissue at the October 1 county supervisors meeting, Cole made a similar uninterrupted presentation on the RSW Jail bond reissue.

Ted Cole, white shirt, explains in detail the potential advantages of a municipal bond reissue for the RSW construction bond if current interest rates hold.

See that “scintillating” piece of financial analysis and the rest of the RSW Authority Board discussion of jail operations in this linked Royal Examiner videos: – Get the popcorn, dad! I can’t wait to hear ALL of Mr. Cole’s analysis of the ins and outs of the flow of interest rates toward historic lows and if that can hold through the next month and save all of us, well, all of you taxpayers $7 million in interest payments over the next 20 years or so: