I am gonna call to order the rescheduled regular town council meeting
for monday, february 2nd order. And we're gonna start off
with our pledge of allegiance, being led by vice mayor by
I pledge allegiance, allegiance to the flag of the united states of america,
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under
god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
silence before three, but we didn't. So clap for a moment of silence before
we start
mr. Pressley. We'll do our roll call. Mayor cockrell. Here. Vice mayor
mayoral. Here. Councilwoman de demon payne. Here. Councilman ingram? Here.
councilman rappaport? Here. Councilman ock. Here. Councilman woods here.
thank you everybody for being, uh, flexible and joining us in this
space for our, uh, uh, rescheduled meeting.
the weather. It was quite fine last week. Uh, the first
item for council's, uh, purview is approval of
minutes. Do I hear a motion? Madam mayor, I move that. Council approved
the minutes of december 8th, 2025. Regular meeting
work session. January 5th, 2026, work session.
and january 12th, 2026. Work session
as presented. Second. Second. Okay. There's a motion to second. Any discussion?
okay. Roll call. Councilman wood? Yes. Vice mayor ov? Yes. Councilman
sea lock? Yes. Councilman rappaport? Yes. Councilman ingram? Yes.
councilwoman d demon payne? Yes. Okay. Item number five is
an opportunity for any addition or deletion of items from the agenda
and or any revision to the order of business. I believe there is a motion
tonight. Um, with some changes. Madam mayor, I move that. Council
remove items. Number six, recognitions awards, reports and presentations.
and number 12, closed meeting from the agenda. Is there a
second? Second, sir. Any discussion? It will require
a unanimous vote for council's information correct. And the rec,
uh, recognition awards and reports and presentations we're gonna bring back at
the february meeting so those people won't not get recognized. Just not tonight.
roll call. Councilman wood. Yes. Vice mayor ? Yes. Councilman
loc? Yes. Councilman rappaport? Yes. Councilman ingram? Yes. Councilman d
demon paint? Yes. Pass this. So,
uh, we will, item number six is now, um, not part
of our agenda. Item number seven, these are our public hearings and we
actually have six public hearings tonight. Um, we now come to the
public hearing portion of the agenda. Public hearings are an opportunity for council to
learn of information of which they may not have been previously aware. If
you would like to speak, please wait until you are recognized and come forward to my defendant
to state your name and address and indicate if you're a resident of the town front. Royal,
if the comments you would like to make have already been made, you may simply state that you agree with
the previous speaker. There is a three minute time limit for speakers. After
three minutes, mike then will cut off. Please remember, you are to address
your comments to the mayor and council and to refrain from words or statements which are
amatory to specific individuals or to other disruptive conduct,
including obscenity and vulgarity. Bless you. So our first,
uh, public hearing is a special use permit requested request submitted
by a few cell floors for an artistic mural at 2 0 2
east seven, uh, second street. And ms. Presley, um,
would you read the summary? Counsel's requested
to consider approval of a special use permit application submitted by fusel
flores, property owner c-j-m-w-o for an
artistic mural exceeding 60 square feet in size on the
east side of the building, located at 2 0 2 east second street, identified by
tax map 2 0 8 8 dash one dash four dash 33.
the property is zoned c dash two downtown business district. The
proposed mural would replace an existing one in the same location. The special
use permit is required because the symbology contained within an artistic mural
constitutes a sign and is proposed size exceed 60
square feet. The planning commission recommended approval of the special use permit to
the town council at their november 19th, 2025. Meeting letters
were sent to the adjacent property owners informing them of tonight's public hearing.
thank you. Ms. Ley, normally we open up our public hearings and offer
staff if, was there anything that you needed to present or wanted to present
or if there's, um, that's a no. Right? Lauren? I don't
have anything additional. Alright. Right. Um, or if the applicant wishes
to say anything. I don't. You don't have to. Do you, do you have anything you want? I would
happy to be here if there's any questions. Okay. But I don't need to say anything. Okay.
all right. Thank you. So at this time I'm gonna open up the public hearing and ask ms. Presley, has anyone
signed up to speak? We have one. I believe it's diane. I did sign up, so I can't,
I mean, I can, I just was gonna give a brief sure. Overview. It's
up to you. If you'll just come to this, um, come here to our,
yeah. Okay. And state your name and just address
them whether or not you're, uh, in the town or county. Yes. So my name is katie bonnet
and I live at 1 1 2 douglas drive in middletown. I, um,
don't live in front royal, but I own the business. Ell forest in front royal.
and there is a photo of the mural we wanna do. Um, it's a mural across
the side. It's gonna be replacing the existing mural. We wanna update it. It needs
to be updated. Um, it's gonna say every bloom tells a story which
has meaning to us as forests, because that's what we do with flowers, is we try to tell
peoples stories with flowers, but it also has a greater meaning to the community of just
how everyone we meet has a story to tell and we should meet
people with curiosity and with that thought that we're complex just
like we are. So I wanted to put that positive message in the community and also
the mural just needed to be updated. So we're excited to do it if we get approval.
thank you. Is there any council members that have a question?
no, we're good. No. No. Okay. Thank you. Is
there anybody else who wishes to speak at this public hearing?
okay. So at this time I'm actually gonna close the public hearing and open up
to counsel. I move that counsel approve a special use permit submitted by a
few south florida property owner c-j-m-w-o family for an artistic
mural exceeding 60 square feet in size on the east side of the
building, located at 2 0 2 east second street, identified by tax map two zero
a eight dash one dash four dash three three as presented. Second.
any admission? Second. Any discussion? It's my only opportunity to re-express
my disdain for this part of the town, um,
code or signage that I think needs to be revisited.
I will, again, express what I've expressed to people with murals in the past.
if you own your building and you wish to paint it, you should be able to do
that with your property owner's rights. And any time somebody is looking to improve
a building in the town of burn royal, I think that should be welcomed and it should not be a financial burden
or a hurdle to have to jump through to do so.
any other discussion? The only thing that I, I would add, mayor, is that,
uh, I think it's well done. It fits the, uh, beautification
of the nature of our community and, um,
I, I appreciate the artwork. Alright.
no other discussion. Will we do roll call? Councilman wood? Yes. Vice mayor
fel? Yes. Councilman ock? Yes. Councilman rappaport? Yes. Council ingram?
yes. Council iman d demon? Yes. Motion passes.
so our second public hearing tonight is to receive public permit on request
from zuckerman meadows incorporated to vacate a portion of an unimproved
street located between east fifth street and happy creek.
um, ms. Par, I'll read the summary for you. Counsel's request
to receive public comment on a request from zach meadows incorporated to conditionally
vacate. But were certain public rights away of a 14,188
square foot portion of the unimproved street located between east fifth street and heavy
creek northeast of east fifth street known as area a. The
street was originally platted by the front royal and riverton improvement company.
therefore, staff is also recommending a title exam
exam right b completed by the applicant, certified
letters were sent to the adjacent property owners. So that's the summary
staff. Is there anything you wish to share with counsel
at this time? Um, so we've been in communication with the, um,
property owner, buddy, property owners. Um, I will make note
that item, uh, agenda items b, c, and d all relate
to the same general area and reasoning behind this. It's
just three separate pieces. Uh, we've been working with them,
we've, and our gi is to go back all the way from when,
uh, front row riverton improvement company acquired the property
and to find plats to actually show it. The only thing that we're finding is
the map in our office. That's one reason why we've also recommended title
exam to just ensure, um, that this was from rural riverton
improvement company street that was just never flatted by survey,
but just designated in description. Do you have any questions? I'd have to
have 'em. I believe the applicants and their representatives are also here today.
that was gonna be my next thing is, um, first off, does
counsel have any questions for staff? I do about this. Okay. So
mr. Petty, when the applicant made the application, uh,
or were they made aware of how we're doing a compensation
for the vacation of the hour? Yeah, so we've been in communication with that and, um,
I, I met last week with their legal representation just to walk through those numbers
and we sent the updated ones that are follow our new policy
for the assessed value, but also with the understanding that tonight
is just to discuss if counsel's open to vacating it,
and then we can discuss those costs compensation later. But
we've been in communication about that and I've shared the spreadsheets with you.
has staff also reviewed, uh, the alley or alleys
the land to be vacated for any, um, conditions that
may say that we don't want to do it? So, uh,
staff would recommend, obviously there is three proposed motions. Um,
one would require a title exam and the viewers to obviously to understand better
if there was any impact on the public. And then also in
the comments and in the survey, they have met their surveyor, met
with our public work staff on site to identify any existing utilities
and make sure we're carving out any necessary, uh, utility
easements as part of it as well. So they staff's been working with the applicant and
their surveyor to define those rationale, but as
of right now, I think the viewers would help. I will say if you look at
the surveys, if you look at the aerials, the property, and I think their description,
they've been utilizing this property, uh, for many years.
it's, it's gone as if it's been part of the property. And I do believe
even some of the assessments have even
described it as the alley as part of the actual property, um,
for at least I believe two of them. So it's gone
on for many years as if they own it, but by legal means, and as
I think they discovered, they don't,
your opinion, mr. Petty, that we need to send viewers out?
I believe so. Just, uh, just to ensure. Yes.
alright. Mr. Councilman, do you have any other questions?
no. You good? You good? Thank you. All right. Go ahead councilman. I'm alright. You
answered it. Okay. Yeah. Yes. Did I understand correctly that the applicant has been
potentially paying their taxes to the county as if, if they owned this land
for at least two prior? It may be
longer than that. It was so that, uh, their representatives and
surveyors and that's discussed. But if you look at the, uh, legal description
of the property on the tax assessment, it's
for at least one, maybe two, I think it's pretty close to the actual area,
which would be actual property and the alley
or street, unimproved street that they would be looking to purchase. Well,
I think they've been occupying this what, 19 56, 7,
something like that. Actual buildings. I think it might, some might predate
that, that would be a question for the, I think the applicant might know that. Does counsel
have any other questions for staff? Anybody have any questions for staff?
so, uh, it is up to you. We always give the applicants an opportunity to,
to share if they want to. And then that also, if council had any questions
for, um, staff, did you have requests staff or for them, for
staff? So my final question is, because typically we've been unanimous
in appointing committee of viewers, but has it already, I didn't see
notes in this from like public works, the electric department.
um, is that something that wouldn't be reviewed by staff? I mean, I know it seems
like it's, I think they were in with the
previous application, but they commented and I think every, if I recall,
and I can pull 'em up, but they were all comfortable with just the utility easements were important.
right. Um, and then just ensuring that it was part
of the front row riverton improvement company, right. Of light. Oh, the utilities in the
alley. Now there's a storms that were in there. Yes. We,
we looked for water. I don't believe there's water that was just on fifth street,
on the actual street, and we would not be vacating any of the actual streets
that are there. It's just the abutting properties. Mr. Sonna, I believe,
uh, just as a reminder, the task of the viewers is to determine inconvenience
to the public. The town's interest with respect to utilities
is more to the issue of whether or not the town wants to vacate at all.
I just wanted to ensure that we had that information prior to making a decision
on which motion we thought was the best to move forward with tonight, that we had
town input. That's all. No further questions.
you don't have an interest in sharing anything. It really truly is no
pressure or the other thing is, what we've done in the past is we
allow, um, we open the public hearing, we hear from the public, and then we have
the opportunity to ask the applicant questions afterwards. So would you prefer
the latter of those? Yeah, that's, I mean, I'll be, I wasn't, my name is
daniel pond. I'm, I'm, uh, at 35 north royal avenue in front royal
virginia. I'm an attorney in town. I represent zuckerman metals. We, we, all I was gonna
say is that we are here to answer any questions you have. Mr. Zuckerman is here on behalf of
zuckerman metals. Mr. Brogan's here as a, uh, the, uh, surveyor that, that's,
that's done the, the surveys for this and, um, and that, you know, he can speak
to it if he, you know, that they've utilized the land pay taxes on the land for probably
most of the, most of their existence there in that property. It was just,
we discovered that, that they might not, it might not be the boundaries that they, that they've always thought.
so that's why we're here, here today. But there's, so they've been, they've been paying
taxes on that land, if anyone, um, on, like I said, I think, uh, on
one of them there's three lots. The next three thing, uh, two of 'em, I believe that
they're, that they had then one, I don't, I don't think that there has that, that
was not included in the, in the, uh, um, the county assessment. Um,
but I'm not, and I'm not sure which, which one is this one is, but it's the
east fifth and happy creek. This is probably the one that that's separate.
that, that was, that they have, that's, that's, you know, is like the triangle. Is
that the triangle piece? Mm-hmm . Yeah, that's the one that, but there is, I think there, there was built,
there might be a, a structure on there that's been utilized forever as well.
thank you. Okay. Thank you. No problem. Like I said, any of us will be happy to answer any questions
you'll have. Okay. At this time I'm gonna open the public hearing.
is there anyone who's signed up to speak? Mr. Pond?
okay. Is there anybody else who would like to speak
at this public hearing? Okay, I'm gonna close the
public hearing and open it up to counsel.
I move that counsel adopt an ordinance as presented, approving the conditional vacation and
sale request from the applicant. Second. Second. Hey, there's
a motion. And second, any discussion I'll add to that discussion since I made the
motion that this is not typically what I have been in favor of during
my time on council. Um, because I do think that there is value
in appointing a committee of viewers, um, to get the
public's input and to offer more knowledge from what
we can understand or are capable of, um, not being in those
positions. However, hearing that the applicant has been paying taxes for how
many years is unknown, I feel like they should found
the land and we should be done with this.
any other discussion? I would echo the fact that it seems like, uh, we're
all, uh, put put to rest any
easements or right of ways that concern the town
for any utilities now or in the future. So I'm good with it as
well. Anybody else? Just go ahead.
go ahead, councilman. Go ahead. Just real quick. Um,
as vice mayoral said about, uh, viewers that we won
often performance situations like this, um, my two echo,
the, the sentiment of them paying if they've been paying taxes on it, that's,
you know, to me that's, that's, that's raises my raise. My ear broke. I didn't
even know about that until you guys said that, but, uh, the fact that I, I know, I know
where the area is and I'm familiar with, it's not too far from my house, and I
don't know of anybody else ever using that area. I've never heard of anybody playing
ball or any kids playing ball there or anything, you know, having picnics
or anything like that. So given the location of where it is, it is, it's
pretty isolated, you know, right near our railroad track, all, all places. So
I, uh, I think it's pretty straightforward myself to be honest. Councilman
rappaport? Yes. Um, I, I'm willing to go, go,
uh, with, with the motion, however, I, I would've opted,
uh, uh, to ask, basically
to approve it conditionally, uh,
with the title examination. Uh, I think the title
examination is important.
doesn't that have to be satisfied for them to close
despite appointing viewers? Absolutely. Um, no. Um, it,
it's a quick claim deed.
okay. There's a motion on the table and we've had discussion. Um, we're
ready for roll call. Great. And I mean, I, I can make that,
I can make that motion. I, I was, I was pausing steve.
anybody was gonna, I'll, I'll just, I'll, I'll just make the substitute motion to
put it out there. That's all. Okay. Madam mayor, I move that
counsel adopt ordinance as presented, approving the conditional
vacation and sale request from that applicant
conditionally, uh, that
the applicant provide a title examination to
the town manager.
there's a motion on the floor. Is there a second?
okay. The substitute motion dies about a second. And so we're back to the
original motion, correct. Ms. Presley? Yes. We're getting better at this.
we're all, um,
for the original motion. Councilman wood? Yes. Vice mayor
fel? Yes. Councilman zilo? Yes. Councilman rappaport? Yes. Councilman
ingram? Yes. Councilwoman d demon paint? Yes. Okay.
so our, um, next public hearing tonight is to receive public
comment on request from zuckerman metals for braid to vacate a portion of
an unimproved street located between east fifth street and bot 17. A
counsel's requested to receive public comment on request from zuckerman metals
incorporated to conditionally vacate bot ordinance served public rights way on a 14,443
square foot portion of the unimproved street located between east fifth street and
lot 17 a south end of east fifth street, known as area
b. The street was originally platted by the front ron riverton improvement company.
therefore, staff is also recommending a title exam. I just want y'all
to know, it does not say examination, and it does not say examine. That's why I tripped over
it. It says, examine be completed by the applicant.
certified letters were sent to the adjacent property owners. So that's the summary
staff. Uh, is there anything you wanna add? I don't, I don't have
anything else to add. Nothing different than what you had. Anything different you all wanted to
add? Nope. All right. Okay. I'm gonna open the public hearing. Ms. Presley,
has anybody signed up to speak? No. Okay. Is there anybody who wishes to speak at this public hearing?
okay, I'm gonna close the public hearing. I'm gonna open it up to counsel. I move that counsel adopt
an ordinance as presented, approving the conditional vacation and seal request from
the applicant. Second. Second. Okay. There's a motion. And second, any discussion?
I, I, I want to make a comment in general about
this, about tonight because a couple people have alluded to it, and I just wanna
make sure that people understand this. Counsel has generally
in the past, before vacating allie's appointed a committee of viewers
not. Um, and so I think this situation is
a little bit different than some of the other mm-hmm . Um, alley
vacations that we've been involved with in that people were already using it
and assumed it was theirs. And sometimes it seems like in my time on council,
there have been times where they went back in history and looked at things and
didn't realize, uh, how things were divided up and cut up and things like that.
so I just wanna make that statement because if in the future the council
does appoint, um, a committee of viewers, it, it would be based
on different facts. So, um, we'll just add
to that, that I will consistently always move to appoint viewers if they have
not paid taxes for decades on the property. . Alright.
um, if there's no other discussion by council, then we
will take a vote. Councilman wood? Yes. Vice mayor vivo? Yes. Councilman sea lock? Yes.
councilman rappaport? Yes. Councilman ingram? Yes. Councilwoman de
demon ka? Yes. So I am, uh, 70 as a public hearing
to receive public comment on a request from two 18 east fourth street
llc to vacate a portion of an unimproved. Right.
hold on, let me just make sure. Right. Did I click on the wrong line? No
one did not. 1, 2, 3. It's the same one. Sorry. I was looking for
z meadow's name. That's how I was, uh, counsel's requested to receive public comment on
a request from two 18 east fourth street. Llc is requesting to conditionally
vacate by ordinance certain public rights away of a 12,914 square
foot portion of the unimproved street located between east fourth street and
lot 16. The street was originally flooded by the front row and riverton improvement
company. Therefore, staff is also recommending a title examine
the completed by the applicant. Certified letters were sent to the adjacent property owners.
I'm gonna assume staff has nothing else they wanna add. I'm gonna assume
the applicant is good with whatever, or is there extra information
this time? We just, um, may we just want to add that
this, um, mr. Zuck or zuckerman metals had transferred this property to another entity,
um, and that, that that title, that deed did have this, this
land as part of the, as part of the, the survey and, and the, and
the, um, description had this land in there. So we're going back and trying to fix it
for them. All right. I'm gonna open up to public hearing.
ms. Ty, has anybody said speak? No. Anybody wishes?
okay. I'm place the hearing counsel, I move that counsel
adopt an ordinance as presented approving the conditional vacation and sale request from
the applicant. Second. Okay. There's a motion. Second. Any discussion?
I, I just wanna add for the public who will watch
this, read about it, the press I do appreciate and value staff's
input and I was not neglecting that in my original motion for the first
one, I feel like this is a unique set of circumstances that counsel
has to use discretion with. Um, so I do appreciate staff's
input and I do value that. Any other
discussions? Payroll call councilman wood?
yes. Vice mayor vial? Yes. Councilman loc? Yes. Councilman rappaport?
yes. Councilman ingram? Yes. Councilwoman d demon payne? Yes.
okay. Motion should have to, our
fifth public hearing of the night is to receive public comment
on a request from james. He to vacate a portion
avenue avenue and lot five counsel's request
to receive public comment on a request from jane sland to conditionally vacate. But ordinance
certain public rights to weigh a 6,235 square foot portion
of the unimproved randolph avenue between washington avenue and lot
five certified letters were sent to the adjacent property owners,
um, and staff, is there anything you want to add,
uh, before this public hearing? So as you can see from
the survey, um, and if you've seen there's an aerial
map in there, um, the town has recently installed a
cul-de-sac in that uh, area. It's not shown on the gis
when you look at it's still older. Um, we have requested
that, uh, the ordinance be updated to reflect this, but
if you look at staff comments as well, we requested our standard 20 foot
drainage in utility easement on the northern edge of the property.
and on the right or on the eastern edge of the property, it's currently
at six foot. We've requested that that be moved to a 10
foot right of place. So this would accommodate our current standards for utility
easements. Um, that's been discussed with mr. Lin. Obviously
this is, again, we're not discussing costs, we're talking just the vacation of it.
um, that would satisfy staff. And um,
again, you know, obviously we do always request the viewers, but obviously
we've sought these easements. We've noted those in
the, the ordinance currently states, uh,
referencing the survey. But since the survey hasn't been updated to this point,
in lieu of that, we would just, uh, describe those two easements in
language versus we didn't want them to expend more money in creating a
survey if it were denied. So rather than them getting a new survey and moving
lines and stuff, we just said 20 foot easement on the northern boundary
and a 10 foot easement on the eastern boundary. Um, and that will be
written into the ordinance itself. Um, those are the only comments
that, you know, staff had at this point is to accommodate that.
and if you have any further questions, I know mr. Helen is here as well.
well, I'm gonna start off first. Does counsel have any questions for staff? Same
question as before. As the applicant been informed the cost of this
and is in agreement to pay it. Correct? He has been
shared the cost. Uh, mr. Heflin has questioned whether or not he
would be required to pay for the land that is underneath of the
easements. That would be his question. So he's giving the town a 20
foot easement. Would he be required to pay for the square footage within the
easement? Um, right now he has what the total cost would be.
um, I I assume that would be part of a, a, a
future discussion arise at that time, but he may be
able to answer that in the past. And he is the only abutting as,
uh, mr. Shauna, he's the only, the other abutting owner is norfolk
southern railroad. I don't think we want to know what their land
about getting a hold of her. And usually in the past, if, if,
uh, if an, if land was vacated, the negotiation
piece of it happened after that. So we'll just.
alright. Any other questions for staff? The
statement in the note, the recommended 20 foot drainage mm-hmm
. Util easement. The wording is, does not
appear. So does
it or doesn't it, it doesn't appear on the survey that they reviewed. If you
look at the survey, it currently says 10 foot, so they're asking for 20. And
that's what we've shared with mr. Heflin. And again, it would be in
the, rather than referencing the plat, it would just reference a 20
foot wide in the ordinance in your packet, it would say a 20 foot wide
easement. And then we would amend that to just, rather than saying, look at the plat,
we would actually write, put that in writing.
any other questions for staff? I'll
just have one more comment. I apologize. Um, if approved and this
were to be recorded and, and the sale goes through an updated
survey would be required, we wouldn't be able to use this and we would have an updated
survey completed. And we've spoken with mr. Heflin and mr. Merchant
did this and he would get that done for in consolidation. Correct.
is there anything that, that, does the applicant have anything that, that there's no requirement
for that. It's just, I would like to give people the opportunity. Are you good? Yes, ma'am. Mr.
mr. Petty expressed what you wanted to know. Okay. Um, I'm
gonna open up public hearing. Ms. Ty, has anybody signed up to speak? No.
alright. Anybody wishes to speak? No close public hearing
and open it up to counsel. Madam mayor, I move that council adopt an
ordinance as presented, approving the conditional vacation until
request from the applicant. Second. Uh, so
sorry. Uh, madam mayor. So the ordinance is gonna have to be tweaked
a little as mr. Petty outlined.
okay. Well, so it's, it's as pre these motions that were allowed,
that were presented for us to use did and include that language.
are you suggesting that we do a substitute mission that includes language as presented with
the following amendment and it would be
the language that mr. Petty recommended? Do you want me to read it?
yeah, if you could, somebody can write it down. So
car it is now on proper time. Okay. Um, we
would strike as shown on the affirmation plat of survey and replace that
with 20 foot wide drainage, e and easement running along
the northern boundary of the property at a 10 foot wide drainage
and utility easement running along the eastern boundary of the property.
all as shown on a survey to be attached as an exhibit to
the deed at the sale price negotiated that that wasn't anything
that anybody could write down. So, so the motions
already there, like I'm not, I mean not, I was trying recording,
but you know, ms. Presley and mr. S so the motion already happened and there was a second.
so should we take a vote on that first or go ahead and do the substitute motion.
substitute or amended motion, please. Please. All right. Well,
um, I mean, who does, bruce gotta read all that. Is that
the ? Just let him read it. Um,
and then I'm gonna take it back. Bruce. I would used to say like, I move the council, adopt an
ordinance as presented, including then blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
no, you're right. Wasn't I'm trying to make, I'm sorry. We didn't have it in the packet
or probably would've amendment just
me to it though. I was going, I'll try it.
josh, would you prefer to read the sub? Do you wanna do the sub mayor
presented the following? Bruce read? Yeah. Bruce
reads it can be a amen.
all
better to catch it now than didn't have to somebody,
somebody seconded it.
okay, madam mayor, I have a substitute motion.
I may I move
that counsel, adopt an ordinance as presented
running along the northern boundary of the property
and a 10 foot wide drainage utility easement running
along the eastern boundary of the property, all as shown on
a survey. Is there a second accurate?
is that good enough? And the second councilman wood seconded it.
any discussion?
all right, since there's no discussion, ms. Pressley, can we do a roll call? Who is the second on
the first councilman wood? Oh, on the first one of was amber? Yeah.
councilman wood on the substitute motion?
yes. Vice mayor al? Yes. Councilman loc? Yes. Councilman
rapor? Yes. Councilman ingram? Yes. Councilwoman de demon payne? Yes.
a motion passes. And so, um, our last public hearing
for this evening is an ordinance amendment to chapter
12 and chapter 70, pertaining to electricity fees and
procedures. Council has requested to consider ordinance amendments to chapter
12 fees and chapter 70 electricity pertaining to an increase in
specific fees and reflect current practices and procedures. Portions
of the front rule town code have been updated since the early, um,
have not been updated since the early two thousands. And rising costs of
materials, equipment and labor required the necessary revisions as presented.
um, staff, is there anything staff wishes to share?
we present this at the, nothing's changed from the work session. I don't know if mr.
spell has any other comments, but I have a question
and it's more of a clarification for social media.
so is the town going to double the electricity rates?
thank you . So chris, please make sure that you put that out there. I'm
not really sure how that render up started, but I don't know if they, I don't know if they read this
somehow and saw something different, but I did not think that that's what it meant,
but never hurts to clarify that in an open meeting. So
any other questions for staff? Um, I have a question. Okay. Um, and I'm
sorry, I didn't notice that the word session, but on page 68 of our
packet, or it says, um, that
you get past all the red and, um, they're talking about
the connection charges will be based on the estimated time and materials,
blah, blah, blah. And shall be kept paid to the town prior to the commencement of work. And
then after you complete the work, the town will reconcile the
estimated payment with the actual common materials extended. So
I, I believe this is mostly for commercial or industrial
users or, or developers. My question is,
so if I paid for work in advance or,
or and, um, at an estimated rate and then you come
back to me and I have no warning, that would be problematic.
so I wanna know, like do we have a cap on that? What kind of communication happens
in between? I mean, what happens if you, if if the the rate
really blossoms between the time it was estimated and actual?
I mean, there's no, there's nothing,
no time, I guess is what you're asking. Well, time or time warning
and, and amount. So like when you're doing a construction job, you know, you,
if it's gonna go like over 10% or something, you know, it's a, if
good the services change, we would reach out and let 'em know, hey, this
is just, say the transformer cost went up, we'd reach out and let 'em know the price
before we purchased the a transformer to give 'em the opportunity. That would
probably be one of their biggest costs would be a transformer. So
if we went out, you know, just say the project started in august, but it didn't
get rolling until january. Well that six months, the
price of the transformer could go up. So we would reach back out to 'em, let 'em know, hey,
the price of the transformer went up $10,000, is this project still
a go? That would be our best suggestion that we would
get. And I can speak to that from working in it during my
day job professionally, when I have to reach out to the town for connection of services for
a new residential bill. Um, there have been times where I've reached out to the
electric department and I'm like, we don't like the quote on your materials. We'll buy
our own materials or whatever, and then we go and try to do that and then you can't
do it better or cheaper. So we reached back out to them, they're like, okay, just let us know if you want us to do it.
and that communication is like instantaneously, um,
for meter boxes. Anything I've had to do with the electricity services department,
communication wise, they stay in constant contact throughout the project for
any type of connection to any of the services within the town. And residential
is a flat fee. So that's not, this will be
commercial. Oh, this one's always a commercial. Well, hopefully
they have the money to make the improvement. Well, I mean,
I just, I just saw that, you know, that you reconcile it, but it didn't seem like
there was any, you know, any, any commitment
necessarily in the language that said, you know,
we have to contact them if it's gonna go over 10% or we have to contact
them if, um, you know, uh,
at some point during the, you know, give 'em advance notice.
so anyway, I mean, I don't know what's feasible. I don't know enough about it, but I
I I do know enough about getting slammed in the end with
a bigger bill than you anticipated. So, you know,
well, I'll look at it as a way of a little bit of incentive. You know, it's an incentive in
a way because, um, to get your, you know, get your project going,
not just set off for several years and then all of a sudden, you know, you feel like you're
getting a black eye because, well, especially transport. Like I, I
know I've seen it firsthand that prices, well, we've seen in our own council over, we approved,
uh, you know, purchase them this past year, how, how dramatically have gone up. But I've seen it
just outside of this town how hell they are and lead
times on 'em alone. You know, that's another problem. You, it's not even mentioned in here, but you
know, people have to understand that then if they're going to do, you know,
have a connection there like that, if that magnitude, they have to understand the whole circumstance. Like, look,
this is moving target, you know, if you want it now, it's now. But you know, I I
I, I agree with it. I'm saying, you know, three months from now it may, it may spike up 10%
and we would definitely reach out at that point. And that's all I was attesting to
is the communication has been impeccable even on the residential side. Um,
mayor corporal, to your point, apparently people on social media are talking about this as
increasing our rate. I do just wanna say, when we were given this presentation at a work session,
I believe it was stated that because of the lack of updates
on this, we were actually subsidizing the costs of the town
we were eating it. So for those people who think it's doubling their electricity rates,
when we talk about tax increases, this is actually something that helps
negate that by not subsidizing something that the average tax payer
should not have on their back energy services feess for private
sectors. All right. If there's no other questions
for staff, I'm gonna open up the public hearing. Is there anybody who signed up to speak ms.
ley? No. Is there anybody who wishes to speak at this point? And I'll
get, um, all right, so I'm gonna close the public hearing and open
up the council. Madam mayor, I move that council without ordinance
to chapter 12 fees in chapter 70, electricity pertaining
to fees and procedures as presented.
there's a motion. And second, any discussion?
thank you to the staff. The, the only thing that I'll say is, uh,
and I, I'm not gonna make a big issue out of it, was I looked
at number four
page part of 70
dash 50, which is what we were talking about, the electrical connections and
charges. Um, it was under
four c where it was talking about grid impact, uh, assessments.
um, uh,
I think it was the under power delivery plan from energy
provider and impact, uh, shall include backup generator plans.
uh, if anyone can listen to the news, uh, that has been
a big subject matter, uh, around the state.
uh, and it's not only about the
electricity, it's also about the environment, um,
how we can prep, we, we can, uh, protect the environment.
um, so it's important that it's in there. Um,
and, but um, I just wanted to bring that to
the attention of the family as we go forward.
any other discussion? Hey, ms. Presley.
oh, wait, no, I'm so sorry. Yeah, no, we made the
motion. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. Councilman
wood? Yes. Vice mayor augh? Yes. Councilman ock? Yes. Councilman rappaport?
yes. Councilman ingram? Yes. Councilwoman de demon payne? Yes.
alright, thank you. That's the end of our public hearings, but no one else. Quite a bit.
no. Asked from what I thought there. Um, so at this time we have our public
comments that are not related to public hearing and send me reading this
long directions. Let me just ask first ms. Trustee or anybody signed up to speak? We have
one. Okay. Well, here we go. We now come to the public comments portion of
the agenda. It is the duty of the mayor to conduct this meeting in an orderly manner.
persons addressing the mayor and council are asking that their remarks to those relevant to
the business of the town of front royal, no persons in attendance shall be allowed to voice remarks.
exceptance recognized by the mayor or the clerk of council. Upon recognition
by the mayor, the clerk counsel the speaker shall state their name, address, and
indicate if they're a resident of the town of front, will direct their comments to the mayor. And counsel
shall not address the subject matter of the public hearing being held during the same meeting.
stay within the allotted three minute time limit. After that time is expired, microphone will
be cut off. Refrain from words or statements which are defamatory to
specific individuals or display other disruptive conduct including
xfinity and vulgarity groups or individuals in the audience, creating an
atmosphere detrimental to or disturbing. The orderly conduct of the meeting will be worn to
refrain from such conduct. And the additional disturbance after the warning will not be
tolerated in the area. No other choice. But to ask the representative of the front
row police department, which is our chief here tonight, to review the individual group. We clear the
room says that the council can conduct the business of the town. Ms. Presley, who
signed up to speak, sorry, somebody wants to mark bauer. Sorry. I'm sorry.
good evening. My name is mark bauer. I live at ten seven glenview drive here
in front royal. Uh, I bought estates, been a resident for 28 years.
I'm also a member of the executive council at, uh, american 18, post 53
here in town. First and foremost, I want to thank the council for our
posters that you put up in town. Um, it's
well received. We just wish we could do more, which I've already spoke to mr. Perry. We're
gonna have a, uh, a conversation with some more of the executive committee, but I
do have some thoughts I'd like to share. Uh,
prior to this evening, I took the liberty of going through
several local, uh, towns
to see what they have as far as their posters are concerned. I hate to say
it, but front royal is the smallest around, uh, the bulk of 'em seemed
to be 20 by 40, 30 by 40. And I understand there's a time limit
that's no big. I understand that big time because there's a lot of veterans would like to be
recognized. That being said, you
can go to berryville, you can go to middletown, wherever, and as you're
driving, you can actually read the posters.
I hate to say it, but we can't. You'd have to stop and walk to really get an
idea of what's going on. So my concern is this,
excuse me, I would like to see more posters after the two
year period. We can make you one heck of a list of people who would
like to be involved, myself included. I'm sure mr. Would like to get on that.
that being said, I'd like to see 'em larger and hopefully
we can work out something, uh, with the ex with the committee and
mr. Perry and get this done in a timely fashion. But
again, thank you for putting it up. I just wish we'd had more opportunity to, I
saw the notice and within two weeks before I put my name in, it was full.
I said, well, dang, I try this again. It was actually about seven or eight days
when they were full. So tell on the notice being out. Yeah, well,
and, and on behalf of the executive committee, we
would have no issue helping fund these things. Uh,
for all $75 a piece, most that I had looked into
are 200 to 250. I had one $300. Uh,
but the families, families will do it in a heartbeat. That's not a problem
to recognize. You all don't realize there's less than 1% of the people who
volunteer to serve the military. So it's, it's
humbling. It's, uh, it's gratifying and I'd just like to see us
to do a, a better job and exploit it in a, in
a bigger fashion, especially the size of the poster. That's it. Thank
you. Thank you. Thank mark. Are there,
is there anyone else who wished us to speak tonight during the public comments portion?
okay, we're gonna move on to the, uh, the town manager.
uh, thank madam mayor counsel. Um, just had a few comments tonight and
a big one for me was, um, obviously we just gather
snowstorm turned to ice and I just really wanted to thank
our, uh, team here at the town. You know, our public works, energy
services, pd folks on social media, and then all of our
staff's families who allowed their, uh, loved ones to be out here helping us get it
done. You know, we mobilized last saturday at 6:00 pm to start hitting
it. And while public works was getting ready for the snow energy services
was out changing transformers to make sure people, um, uh, in town had,
uh, power as they headed into the storm. Um,
you know, we were working to fix things obviously too. You know,
it was a unique storm. As soon as it stopped, everything just froze up
and, you know, I don't think we were the only ones alone in that. So we've already talked
to folks like warren county public schools, um, the, uh,
builders association to see, um, we're gonna come up with an operation plan afterwards
to make sure we're doing everything we can at the next storm to be
prepared. Um, and we're all just praying that the groundhog was wrong today
and that we spring is coming. Um, 'cause now our
staff's been out almost every day doing water main breaks. So now we're, we're seeing
that. So we just wanted to commend all the team here at the town
who really stepped up to make it through that. And just one last notice
is that town offices will be closed monday, february 16th
for president's day. Thank you.
alright. Um, at this time we have the report council members. Is there anybody
who wishes to speak? First, I will
say is I went out, uh, on saturday night
when, when the judge started, and I stopped and talked to the people
on virginia avenue to thank them for what they were doing out there in the court. It was
bitter out there when they were climb. I, not climbing, but going up in the bucket.
and, uh, I think they really did a timely, they did a timely magnet.
the people had to power back in what, like, two, three hours? Probably, I think.
yeah, it was two hours. But, uh, and the guys that were
plowing the snow, I know we've contracted with some people. Uh, so the
contracts did a great job. Um, I mean, they headed down
like almost the asphalt for a little bit, and then the ice hit and, uh, everything
went, you know, where. But, um, but again, thank and the police department,
I saw them out moving around and doing things, and I need to thank them for
being out in the cold. And, you know, I don't think y'all had that
many wrecks did you? Chief? But, um, you know, they were
out moving and it's great to see 'em out there doing it even in the cold and getting out and helping people.
uh, but again, thanks to to the road crews, thanks to the
electric department and thanks to the police department for the job. They're done for us.
anybody else? Any other council members? Yeah, I'll judge.
thank you. Uh, this is pretty short for me.
I have a, I just wanted, I wanted to, uh,
uh, add on to, uh, uh, councilman,
uh, as well as the town manager.
uh, you know, I appreciate what public's work works
did during the storm. Uh, the electrical department,
police department kept it, kept the lights on,
uh, the electric. Um, uh, one thing
that um, uh, really stood out to me was,
you know, you drove around town and our public works department
was doing the best that they could, but you couldn't, you can't keep up with
something when the snow is coming down and then
the temperature drops to zero and everything freezes over
and you gotta do something with the snow. You gotta get it off the roads.
so there's not the sidewalks, uh, you
know, most of them are all covered up still in town.
and I wanted to point out, uh, that, you know, um,
people are driving on the streets, you know, be careful,
keep an eye out for people because people are walking in the street. Not everybody has
a vehicle. And, um, uh,
particularly on, I noticed it on south street,
uh, you know, pull over into the left lane if you can give
'em as much room as possible. Um, so, um,
pretty much, uh, mayor, that's pretty much all I have. Uh, I just
wanted to point this few things out and I appreciate all the staff
what they did. Thanks. Is there anybody else that has anything they want
to report, need to report? I'll keep it brief. I've, I've done a lot in the last month,
um, that I had to give it the last one, but I was not disappointed to have canceled
that meeting because unlike councilman rappaport and , I did not go
out driving around in it like they advised us not to do, stay
off the streets, guys. Mm-hmm . Um, you know, obviously I echo the
same sentiment that public works. The guys in the
electric department, all of them, they were working hard. I've defended our staff
for anybody who's had something to say about it, because I mean, we've just been up against,
you know, unprecedented. I read yesterday was the coldest day in six years
for our locality. So all that brings me to
the only point I wanted to make at our regular meeting last week, which
became magnified through this last week, was
most people received an emergency alert on their cell phone, whether they lived in the town of fort
royal or not. And it notified you that, uh, shenandoah valley electric
and rappahannock electric might have to do forced power outages
to protect the grid due to the temperatures and conditions
that we were facing. And on december 1st, 2025,
we had a work session where we got progress updates regarding the zoning text amendments to the town
code, defining data centers and adding data centers with performance standards
by sup. And at that meeting, I said something extreme and I said,
let's ban data centers. Put it out there. I don't know a single person that
I've, I have maybe one or two who say they want 'em. Nonetheless,
I just thought about my grandmother who I couldn't get to having a forced power outage.
and I thought to myself, we don't have the power for our residents, but
we have the power and infrastructure for data centers. It doesn't make sense. Can't make it make sense to
me. So despite the facebook warrior saying that we've all conspired
behind these meetings to bring in the data centers, and we're all
getting some kind of kickback, I just wanna go on record to remind people to watch
the december 1st meeting where I proposed to ban. And it was not the favor appetite,
which I respect, but it just brings me to this. It was like an
amper alert that went off on every phone in my household that said, due to
this severe temperature drop, um,
you may experience a forced power outage. And, um,
it just makes me think about common sense. And, um,
nonetheless, I'm gonna reiterate it for the 15th time. I don't
think the data center belong in the town of front royal.
any other council members? Yes, madam mayor. Um, just
to hitch on what everyone else said, certainly want to, uh, um,
give our public works or police and electric departments, uh,
kudos for doing a great job. Uh, like the vice mayor, um,
I feel like when everybody comments, well, they didn't
do this, they didn't do that, I don't think some in public understand
how large and difficult of an event we've
just gone through. Um, especially, you know, with eight
or eight plus inches of snow and three inches of ice. It, it
certainly, um, was a challenge. Continues to be a challenge as
we try to clean up intersections. But, um,
and, and somebody mentioned, well, they couldn't get to a store downtown,
and I'm thinking probably the store owner wasn't there either. , .
so I, again, I don't, I don't engage to nonsense. If
somebody comes to me and they have an idea and they have a solution, I'll listen. But,
um, our, our employees work hard and yeah, you know,
we got zero degrees. I know the other morning, the other morning
our trash guys were picking up trash in six
degree weather, and I'm gonna go on record again.
I know we're doing a survey about it, but this is ridiculous
when we have people out there cold doing it when a truck can
pick that trash up without having a man out there or a woman, a human
being, having to deal with that. So I hope that we'll get
the results back from that study, perhaps in the future who can start
buying some of these trucks that eliminate a somewhat thankless job,
uh, when it's a hundred degrees or six degrees. So,
um, the other thing that I wanted to say is,
uh, have conversations with people over sidewalks
and what's the town gonna do about the sidewalks? Well, the
sidewalks are so bad. Uh, uh, mr. Perry even talked about our crew
out trying to open up the path along 55, the paid
path that runs from, I believe jamestown
to westminster. Mm-hmm . And the difficult, we
had actually using a, a bobcat and a front end loader and such.
um, we do need to be careful as councilman, uh, rappaport
said about people walking in the streets, but I think that it's
unrealistic to expect the public, um, to go
out here and open up these sidewalks when there's piles
of ice higher than me over six feet tall. I
don't think that it, it, it is something, you know, it's one of the things to get, you know,
uh, three or four inches out there. You can shovel it off, but when you pile
it up and we have to pile it to, to scrape it, even though we pile
snow off of main street, um, the complaints
about the sidewalk is unfortunate. I think the weather conditions make
it so that it, it, it's very unusual and hard to do it.
and, um, you know, that, that's all I'm gonna say about that.
thank you. Yep, go ahead. Well, I was gonna piggyback
for a second. Uh, our nation's capital had the same thing where, where the,
uh, snow was piled up on the sidewalks we're not alone in the community.
the other thing is that if you've lived here for a few decades, even
though in, maybe in recent years, the weather has not been like that, but this is how the weather
was. The weather used it. We have snowy winters, you know, we
january to february at least, um, if not into march
and april. So anybody that moved here and didn't think you were gonna have snow bear
with again. Um, but I wanted to reiterate the thank you
as well. Um, and also just suggest maybe
because I, um, you know, everybody receives the price tag on their
electric bill, but apparently they don't know who they're paying it to. But, so maybe
we, if if the thing goes out on svec or rec,
maybe we need to go ahead and say, if you live in the town of front royal, you're
probably paying electric to the town of front royal and not rec or
svec. Um, it was not applicable. Um, I don't know how they
figured out the range of who they were giving notices to, but people were
very confused. Um, so maybe we just need to do a follow up,
you know, when we see something like that, that that confuses people about who they pay
electric to. Um, and, um, it's, oh,
even a better ideas during the storm stay off social media.
'cause it's just really negative
only board games. It's probably something else to do.
um, but, um, some people just want
to complain. I mean, the, the thing is when it snows, you know, things happen in
life that are inconvenient and let's just, you know, wait 24
to 48 hours and take a breath and roll with it, you know,
figure out how to get through life with some inconvenience sometimes.
um, and, uh, that's enough of
the preaching. But, um, the only thing I think I attended was liaison meeting,
um, this month. I was trying to think back, but this, uh, january
went very fast and, um, when we
were outta commission a lot, but the liaison meeting of course, was good. So I appreciate my
colleagues, um, navigating, you know, continued relations with the county.
I think, um, I think we're getting, you know, just some good spots. Um,
so we'll see. Thank you. Anybody else?
okay. The mayor's report I was gonna forego, but, oh, I
did, I did forget to say the, well, let me think. Shall I give him
a second turn? No, go ahead brad. Wait the next
month.
well, I'm getting ready to do it anyway, so I'll bring that up. You've threw my name in there.
I'll, I'll make sure. Um,
as amber said, I, I feel like it's just been a busy month, even though really we're
reporting all the way back from december 12th. So I, I don't have any,
I'm not even bringing up december, but I'll start in january.
um, so I attended a community book fair, um, that all the elementary schools
put together for a local student, um, who
was having rejection, lung, lung transplant, rejection. And
then, um, I, uh, attended a
meeting with the smithsonian town of brown smithsonian. We met with, um, some
people there. And then on the 15th, um, I had a meeting
with little league, um, about the state tournament that's coming up.
and then that night, councilman rappaport and I, um, we did attend
the liaison meeting and I would agree with you, that was a good assessment. I thought it
was actually one of the best liaison meetings I've attended. Um, so
lots of conversation, discussion, which was great. Um,
uh, I also attended the front row fire department awards center.
um, and that's always amazing just to see they,
the, the years of volunteer service when they
are sharing. Um, and I know one of the things they talked about
is the bingo, and I believe they were able to pay
off a fire truck like several years earlier and now are
using the, the, the bingo proceeds to put towards purchasing
the next one. And these are like, well, nixon might have been purchased,
well, 29, well, whatever they were talking about at that time, but it was like million.
like, it wasn't like a, these aren't like, uh, small purchases. These
are, are very expensive, um, purchases. And then,
um, so I also attended,
um, the recovery court meeting, um, and then the citizens
academy, which is just going wonderful. I'm just
gonna say that again. It's a great group of people. Lots of questions. I
feel like they're learning and we are learning from them things that they're
about or asking questions about. Um, I, right before
the snow hit, I attended that a chamber of commerce start gazer
gala. Um, and that was another wonderful event
that, um, warren county, the front one warren county chamber
of commerce put that on. And there were awards for a variety of things,
but just to see how many like businesses and
entrepreneurs and there was a spark club award and, um,
it just to see all the people in our community that are working to make this a better place to live and
raise their families. And so I think that was, that was a, a, a great,
um, event. And then of course the snow hit and then
it was had not be going that week, obviously. Um,
and, uh, let's see. Was there something, and then, yeah,
and that was it. I wanna comment on a couple things that our friend
said. One is, um, actually the town of front row
did respond to people asking about, um,
panicking that their power was gonna go off, you know? Um,
and so the timeframe did respond and say that this is not, that it's
not us, don't worry about it. But I, but I do respect what you're saying there,
and probably only because I knew that, but the majority of people may
not know that. So that, that is, that's a valuable thing to say. Um,
about the weather event over the last week, a couple things. One is
my husband and I were talking about this, not pretty old. I'm 59. We were both saying,
I feel like this might be the longest I've ever seen
a winter weather event. Wait, let, what are you trying to say? You're 59. I'm seven. Well,
you might, maybe you're gonna, maybe you're gonna counteract me again. You're gonna contradict me
again. . Um, but the, I've never seen
a weather event and then seven days of bre cold temperatures,
there may be a weather event even in 96 when we had three feet of snow,
you know, by the third or fourth day the temperatures were up and something was melting. Of course,
then we had floods. But, uh, which I wouldn't mind a flood right now
to treat me . We could use a little water. Um, but anyway,
I'm just saying like, it is just a very unique situation and I'm sad
when people don't see it that way. And as far as for people saying,
why can't people get out there and do this? I when sunday, when it
was coming down, we went out three different times because my husband had to work
monday. So we went out three different times, clear at our driveway on monday after he went
to work, I spent four hours just trying to dig out a path so he could come home.
then I spent three hours the next day digging out my car, and the next
day, another two hours, the male lady would actually deliver my mail. And that
day I had to pick ax. And that's the truth. Like, my was like,
don't hurt yourself. Well, I've seen that. Um, but that stuff was brutal.
so anybody that thinks that we can just go out there and, um,
you know, clean off every sidewalk, I I don't even know where the snow would go.
so I am extremely grateful for our, uh, town
crews. And honestly, I just wanna say too, while maybe social media
had some, there were a lot of people out there that were defending the work that, that
our town staff did. Um, and I was personally
getting texts and messages sent to me saying
the town did a great job. And I, I did share that. Like I shared that
with, with some supervisors too, just to say, look, I don't, you know, please
make sure so did an amazing job. I hope we might be
done for a little while with snow, but tomorrow, yeah, that's what they say. But
I hope not. Um, snow is one thing. It's the ice, it was the ice that killed
us. But anyway, thank you to everyone that kept everything going
from, um, our electrical services to our public works, to our
pd, um, and those of you that made it into town hall to keep
to answer all the phone calls, right? So I'm grateful for everyone.
item number 10 is our consent agenda. Um, and
I will entertain a motion for the consent agenda. I move
that we adopt the consent agenda
items as presented.
, you had what? Motion and a secondary discussion.
okay. Um, roll call. Councilman wood? Yes. Vice
mayor fel? Yes. Councilman ? Yes. Councilman ur? Yes. Councilman
king? Yes. Council? Yes. My brain
was trying to comprehend that we're going into another council meeting so that the, um,
next item would be business items. And there are none. So actually we're gonna
adjourn this regular meeting.