Good afternoon and welcome to PDC. We're going to hand it over to Mr. Tom Martin for
time for planning or a minute for planning or whatever your preference today, Tom.
I think I'm supposed to still keep it to a minute.
Okay.
So we'll get going. Good afternoon, members of council. A couple of things you guys might be interested in is
we've received a conditional use permit application for property on 802 Court Street.
that property is going to be one they are proposing to convert it into four
residential units. We've received a site plan proposing construction of a 3,180
square foot car wash and parking improvements at 2735 Wards Road that's
just below going south of the Wawa that's under construction. We had a
subdivision plat for three lots at 5206 Tariana Road. Another subdivision plat
proposing the creation of 60 lots for single-family homes at 5153 Boonesboro
Road. The building permit for the Wawa at 101 Marigold Court which is
Rose Hill has been issued. And then some neat things that we don't normally get
to talk to you about is these are some condemned structures that are no
longer condemned, one of which was due to a fire at 212
Winhurst Drive. All of those repairs have been completed and
that structure is no longer condemned. Also 1107 Polk Street
that building had been condemned since 2025.
All the renovations have been completed.
1714 Monroe Street, another condemned structure that those
repairs have been done also no longer condemned and then a permit for 3102
Memorial Avenue that was a fire earlier in April of this year I believe it might
have been arson but they have pulled permits to renovate that building so a
lot of good things going on thank you Tom yeah you know to Court Street which
was zone b1 what is it zone now for the four residentials it's but it's
zone to be worn, which is a limited business office.
I'm looking for a CUP.
By CUP, if approved by council, they
could do the residential.
Yes, sir.
Any other questions from Mr. Martin?
All right.
Thank you so much.
We are going to kick it over to Greg as we go,
I'm assuming, Gainel.
Yes, thank you.
We have major project updates next for both public works
and water resources.
I think Clay Simmons is going to walk us through some,
and Gaynell through others and I will turn it over to them so as they sort out which
projects belong to which.
Hello, Lee Newlin is on vacation so that's why I'm here in his stead to report on the
transportation projects.
The first one is Bedford Avenue, the total cost is $24 million.
We do need some additional funding from VDOT, hopefully some smart scale funding in the
amount of $8.8 million.
We hope to start in spring of 27 and finish in winter of 29 or 30 where we've
got a preliminary bridge report that is submitted to VDOT for review and once
they approve that we'll be able to move on that will actually get the project
back on time and back on budget once VDOT approves that and then we'll move
on with the rest of the project. Basically this project is going to be
replacing the bridge it's rated poor and we are going to add a sidewalk in that
particular area.
Breezewood drive improvements there are a total of ten
point three million dollars by the way there is a map because I think Ms.
Redeemer you liked the map so there's a map right there in front of you sorry I
should have told you that of the project location so you know where
they are.
We've got additional funding of 486,000 through revenue sharing
We anticipate construction to start in summer of 27 and finish in winter of
2029. We're in 60% design. We had a public hearing June 25th at Heritage
Baptist Church and it was fairly well attended. It was workshop type event and
there was about 20 people there along with our consulting engineer getting
input from the public. This project will entail improving the pavement,
adding sidewalks, increasing the lane width a little bit,
and improving some of the drainage.
And the project is currently on time and on budget.
Fifth Street project is a $7.3 million project.
It is fully funded.
We are in the throes of construction right now.
We anticipate finishing late this year
or early next year in winter.
We're working on underground utilities at this time.
It is on time and on budget, but we are hoping that they can add some additional crews and speed it up a little bit and get it done a little early.
And so we're hoping on that. This project will finish the Fifth Street corridor, all the improvements along this corridor.
We're replacing utilities as needed, removing the concrete pavement and providing new asphalt, improving drainage, and also improving ADA access with improved sidewalks.
This is a downtown renewal project. You'll hear a little bit more probably from Scott
Parkins on this. We actually provide construction administration for this and
we our part in this is to fund the actual streetscapes and I'll let Scott
get into this. Our part of it on the public work side is about 6.1 million
and that is just for street great scape improvements and those types of
things. And I believe there's a ribbon cutting coming up here in July 21st so
We're excited about that, and Main Street will be done.
John Lynch Bridge, $7.2 million project.
We started construction in winter.
We anticipated it to be done in 2020 July of this 2026.
The railings are underway now, and the project
is going to be a little late.
And there's a couple of things, reasons for that.
The railings are behind because they're actually
having to drill the holes onsite
to make sure that they fit properly and that has slowed progress down tremendously.
We also have some things on back order like ADA compliant plates for the bridge joints
as well as inlet coverings so that it's safe for pedestrians. Those are back ordered.
We still anticipate being done into August beginning of September for that project.
221, 501, 221 Intersection, $93 million project.
You all are all very familiar with this project and we're really happy.
We got the grant recently, the $24.9 million, that was huge for us.
So that was a huge win for us.
Now the project appears to be fully funded, so that's good news.
and we have a public hearing scheduled August 20th at Heritage Baptist Church
to move that project forward. The project is on time and on budget. We do have a
pop-up scheduled for the work session today to recognize some of the public
work staff who worked really hard on that grant. So I just wanted to let you
guys know as we're going through this that that is planned for four o'clock
for the full work session. The Hollins Mill Road Bridge, a $19.1
million dollar project. It is rated poor. This hopefully will be fully funded
with additional revenue sharing. We should start in fall of 2029. This should
actually address the low water bridge that is a part of the trail so that
that will improve that. That low water bridge is often not, you cannot use it
because it's covered in water. So we plan to improve that. People will tend
to cross the road there, little kids with bikes, crossing Hones Mill Road, so that's
going to be a part of this improvement.
So we will make a better access to the trail from there.
The preliminary bridge report is being prepared now and then that will go to VDOT for approval
and it is on time and on budget.
And I will turn it over to Clay for his and I'll just keep clicking.
If we could actually do a quick pause, I don't know if anybody else has questions.
I always have questions.
So I'll pause here. Does anyone have questions for gain now? Okay. All right
I'm gonna run through just a couple really quick. Okay, and thank you so much for the updates here. This is awesome
Oh, and I don't remember what that question was. We'll skip to this one. Okay
so
with
Breezewood drive improvements, I'm just curious how we prioritize
sidewalks and if that has to do with the revenue-sharing arrangement or why.
Just because when I drive Breezewood Drive I don't typically see pedestrian
traffic and maybe I'm missing it and I love sidewalks. I'd love to connect more
of our sidewalks and I know Tom loves sidewalks. I love sidewalks but I'm not
sure just from a fiscal standpoint if Breezewood Drive would be where I
would typically prioritize it. So I'm just curious how that plays out when
it comes to revenue-sharing the decisions that are made with that element.
What happened with that is this was actually a three-phase project, and this last phase
got eliminated.
So we had intended to go all the way to the end of the project, which would have been
at the apartments.
And we have been getting complaints about not being able to walk.
There are walkable places there, Aldi sheets.
So there are places that you can walk.
we have been getting complaints. Okay. This pavement is in poor condition, so we
were going to have to do something. The drainage is in poor condition. We had to
do something, so we prioritized this in the CIP as a complete transportation
project and not just repaid it. Okay, that's helpful as far as thought
process. I really appreciate that, and I'm a fan of multimodal. I was a bike
commuter for years in the city which is a lot friendlier to bikes now and then
with Hollins Mill Bridge lighting is their opportunity for and I don't know
how that would play into this project per se but the lighting has been a real
struggle at least for me I know Kurt likes to complain about his old eyes I
think I'm gonna have a new prescript here when I go in so lighting along in
there what can be done to just increase visibility as well as kind of that
multi-modal element with pedestrians. Yeah I think what what we'll do is I will
pass this on to Lee Newlin and we can definitely consider that as a part of
the project. We are just in preliminary design so this is the time to make
suggestions like that so as we move through design that we can look at what
we can do to improve the lighting through there. Okay that would be
I think there is power down there because the park is lit a little bit, but the road is kind of dark, especially under the bridge.
Yeah. Okay. I would definitely pass that along. Yeah, just with the trees, it gets really shadowy.
And there have been people walking, and it's really hard to see people walking at dusk and at night.
Okay. I think that's all I had other than the congratulations on 501-221.
one. But I'm sorry. It was the last of the bridge on House
Monroe. When was that last done? Oh gosh, I couldn't really tell
you quite honestly. Obviously now since I've been deputy director
assistant director. So that's about all I can tell you. But it
is in poor condition. So we definitely need to do something
with it. We're just taking that opportunity to improve the
access. Yeah. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Okay. Good afternoon. Thank you for
having me here today. I'm talking about Miller Park pool for a second. The project
consists of the removal and replacement of the pool along with some minor
interior innovations to the existing pool house. Total cost of the project is
$10.5 million, it's fully funded.
Anticipate start construction start
is going to be summer of this year.
Anticipated construction finish will be summer of next year.
And we are just now wrapping up design.
The project is out for bid, so we're
in sort of that transitional phase.
With the project, we expect to have bids back next week.
and currently the project is on time and on budget.
There we go.
Talking about the, moving on to the public library
renovation, total cost is $12.2 million.
Construction is fully funded.
The FF&E was approved in the FY 27 budget.
Construction started March of 2026.
The anticipated construction finish is summer of 2027.
We are under construction currently, well underway with the notice proceed being issued March of
2026. Currently the project is on time and it's on budget.
Those are my two, I believe.
Any questions?
Yes, sir. That got released. We'd be happy to get it back to you. We put out
about a public notice for that, showing the latest concept design, be happy to send that
to you again.
Thank you.
If I went to, like, Splash Valley or something, and...
County the other day and just see what they had. I'm trying to make a comparison of what they had
which is a county project versus what we're doing here in Lynchburg. So I'll just I'll look at that
when I get another copy of it. Sure. Thanks. Appreciate it. Thanks so much and we'll hand it
over to Mr. Tim Mitchell.
It's my pleasure to give you an update along with Scott Parkins of
the major capital projects for water resources. A quick update on the Blackwater CSO tunnel.
tunnel. We just finished the drill and blast operations, so we're all the way to the end
of the tunnel now with the excavation that wrapped up on Saturday. And now the next step
with the tunnel excavation would be the shaft going vertically to a long point of
honor trail up near Hollins Mill Road for the drop shaft for the sewage and storm
wanted to drop into the tunnel. So that will be ongoing here soon. There's a lot of activity
at that end of the tunnel as well. The project is on schedule and on budget. So we are moving
ahead very well with a big project with no issues really. I mean it's a pretty amazing
project that we've gone this far with really relatively few issues.
led service line inventory. This is the city-wide project that y'all are pretty
well aware of because of all the discussions we've had related to it but
we are currently trying to identify all the unknown service lines in the city
about 18,000 privately owned and about another 2,400 publicly owned lines that
we do not know the material of. We are out working throughout the city to
excavate small test pits to identify the material. We're also plugging that
information into, it's called machine learning, it's a computer program basically
that will help us to reduce the number of test pits we have to do once we get
enough data. So we'll use that to help identify the service lines and the
the Virginia Department of Health has approved that process. As far as the cost of it, we're
in the $10 million phase now. We recently were awarded the $15 million that we've discussed
with you previously. We anticipate the total project cost over the next 10 years of being
around $30 to $35 million. So we still have a ways to go. We'll see how that progresses
as we identify the number of lead service lines and lines that need to be replaced.
Dreaming Creek Anderson? Yes.
How is this impacting citizens in Lynchburg?
What is your feedback and what kind of participation are you getting in the
identifying of things? Is it what you anticipated or?
Pretty much. We've had some citizens that express concerns about
even the General Assembly gave us authorization
to excavate a small test pit on their property.
We've had some concerns, not a lot, but a handful.
And we're trying to address those individually.
If the customers are really opposed to it, we will move on
and try to address that later and figure out another way
to identify the service line material.
So overall, relatively good feedback.
And again, when we find a lead service line or a galvanized line that needs to be replaced,
the funding will cover the cost of replacing those on the private side as well as the public
side.
So that will be part of our plan.
Once we identify them all, then next October we have to submit a replacement plan of how
we're going to proceed through the city replacing all the service lines.
Is there a map on the GIS system that allows you to see where the pipes have been identified?
Yes.
Is that out there?
Okay.
I just didn't look, but it didn't.
Yeah.
And basically you can pull up any address in the city.
A lot of them are still unknown, but the ones that have been identified, there's a
circle that has two halves of it.
One half is color-coded indicating the material type on the private side and one half is
color-coded indicating the material type on the city side.
And the big picture, can you do it just by individual address or can you see the whole you can see the whole
When you're zoomed out and see the whole thing you just see a bunch of little dots
It's hard to tell but you can zoom in specifically and see individual addresses as well
Dreaming Creek Interceptor this is the the project that we're working on jointly with Campbell County
Utilities and Service Authority because of the additional capacity that they need in
the age of the interceptor.
They're actually funding about 56% of the cost of this project, so it's a $9.2 million
project and it's currently under design and we'll be working to acquire the easements
that we need over the next year.
We anticipate construction start sometime in the winter of 2028 with about an 18-month
construction period with completion around fall of 2029 yes
you probably heard
me do my dreaming about Dreaming Creek bike path to follow along same lines as
the center stuff there is there any way we can design this project in order to
make it efficient and less expensive if in the future a future council decides
to turn that into a bike path of some type?
We can, as we're developing the easements for it, potentially we could, usually the easements
identify the specific use of the easement.
We could potentially add a trail or bike path or whatever, I don't know how, some property
owners would be favorable to that, others maybe not so much, but we could certainly
explore that as an option so that the easements would be at least in place to proceed forward
with it.
If somebody wanted to do it, it would be not another brand new redoing the wheel.
Right.
And we'll have to look a little bit at the alignment of the sewer line, too, to see
if it makes sense to have a path over the top of it.
We would have to be able to have access, so it should be accessible.
So it certainly was something we could work with.
They put the accesses off to the side of the bike path, but the only real obstruction is
Dreamy Creek Road.
That one would be probably the most expensive part of a project like that.
But how are you all dealing with that for the interceptor pipe?
So the road crossings would be, I think we're deciding that to be warrings, as
you said.
So we wouldn't be.
You don't tear up the road at all.
Don't tear up the road.
They'll be tunneled underneath the roadway.
So we would probably need a similar path,
like what goes over there, Holland's Mill,
which I think they built in the 80s, if I remember right,
because I used to bike that all the time.
But that would probably be the way
to get past that obstacle on Dreaming Creek
if somebody ever wanted to do it.
We can certainly bring up the suggestion to the design team.
and Campbell County is involved in this as well so I don't know if I don't know
that there'd be any additional costs maybe a little with the easement
acquisition and I would imagine that would fall to the city since that would
be a city benefit but but we can bring it up to the design team and report back
next time we do a capital project. I'd like to know what the additional cost
is and in any way we can anticipate potentials that we could save a little
a little bit now to save a whole lot later.
Okay.
Make a little bit now to save a whole lot later.
All right, sounds good.
I'm gonna turn it over to Scott
to talk about the Abert water filtration plant, please.
Okay, thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council.
So the Abert is one of the two city water treatment plants
that serves primarily the western half of the city.
The plant was constructed in 1974, 75 timeframe,
So it's got about a 50 year life on it right now and we did a preliminary engineering report
and have come up with some areas that need to be upgraded on it.
Some of the items that have been identified of concern such as the pumps,
we're looking at doing operational funding to basically remove the pumps,
get them refurbished.
But there are several capital concerns that we do have that are going to be scheduled
in the next five to eight years, looks like 2033,
with the raw water pump station at Abert
and the plant itself.
So currently we're looking at about five
significant projects over the next eight years here,
the first of which is the raw water pump station
influence screens off the James River, which is used
when we have to pump from the James River
due to peddler water levels being low
or if there's an emergency situation
on the raw water line that requires us to use the James River.
So we deem that as our highest priority project.
The other projects include chemical feed system improvements,
concrete and structural repairs and masonry repairs to the building itself,
electrical and control improvements at the water plant,
and then lastly a generator and electrical improvements at the pump station.
Combined it's about $27 million estimated cost and again this will be split up over about eight years of the capital program.
Currently we are in design for the raw water pump station influence screen and the chemical feed systems.
Both of those are on schedule right now and we'll be moving into construction probably in the next year or so on the first project.
We already talked a little bit about the Main Street East Renewal Project, which I'm very
happy to say we are in the final stages of.
It looks like that we're going to be doing the striping this week on the road.
We've got final pavement down.
All the concrete work is done, utility work is done, so we should be reopening the
road either Friday or Monday.
I'm going to be conservative and say it'll probably be Monday.
But it's a big milestone.
I know everybody has been waiting for this day and we have as well.
It looks like that we are going to be about $500,000 underneath the contractor's guaranteed
maximum price.
So we're going to be saving a little bit of money with the city here.
I'm saying that the work is 99.5% complete.
We do have some plantings that need to go back in the last phase of the work that
And obviously this is not the time of year to do planning, so they'll be coming back
in September or October to just do a little bit of wrap up work there.
Richland Hills sewer, we are well into that project as well.
Currently they are working continuously on the sewer and the water connections, water
replacements and connections.
We have a spend deadline in November and looks like our anticipated construction
finish is going to be in October at this point.
So I think we should be able to meet the spend deadline for the ARPA funds that are on the project
So I'm calling this on time and we are on budget with this one as well
The next phase of our sewer extension program is going to be reaching out into the Maple Hills area
So we've got currently a combined water and sewer
So we'll be doing sewer extensions and we'll also be hitting the water replacements that are needed in this area as well with one
It's actually going to probably be a series of projects starting with
construction in spring of 2027. We're about 50% complete on the design phase
of that project right now. So this will be hitting the areas such as Maple
Hills, Drive, Wayne, Bryant, Westburg over in that area of the city.
One of
our two ongoing water line replacement projects is over in the Daniels Hill
area. We just started construction with that with Council and Dobbins back in May, so we're
very early on in the construction, not even 25% complete yet, but I think we've already
got at least one of the roads. The water line is complete on one of the roads, and they're
working on services there on Norwood Drive. So we're looking at an anticipated finish
of around October 2027 for that. Everything seems to be going very well on that project
project right now. We do have a second phase of the Daniels Hill Improvement Projects.
We're calling the north segment. That project is in design phase right now. It is currently
at about 90% design. What my anticipation is, is that that project will follow after
we complete the south section, so there won't be overlapping of the two projects.
The second ongoing water line replacement project is over on Fillmore, Buchanan,
and Pierce Streets. That one started in January of 2026. Anticipated completion is in July of
2027. We've got about 25% of the work complete. I think it's probably actually a little bit more
than that now. That was probably last month. One thing that we did hit over the last couple
weeks on that project, it does include three blocks of work on 11th Street and our bugaboo
has been the trolley track system, the old trolley track system that's underneath some
of the city streets.
We were not aware of it under these in the design, and when we hit it, it became an
issue of going back to the designer, looking what we could do to alter any design to get
it out so that we don't have to go under the trolley tracks.
But unfortunately, that street is very clogged up with existing utilities.
We are looking at a change order of about 300,000 for the removal of the trolley tracks for three blocks.
And the concrete base that they're on as well.
Yes, yeah.
The next project is the next phase of the downtown renewal, which is going to be, we're calling it Phase 5,
the fifth project, and it's going to be taking place on Court Street between Fifth and Ninth Street.
We are currently about 50% complete on the design.
We're looking at wrapping it up by the end of this year on the design side of things
for a spring 2027 construction schedule.
This project will be a little bit different than the other downtown projects
where we saw extensive street removal and rebuilding.
This project is really targeting utilities mostly.
We are doing a little bit of repair on the streets and the sidewalks
but it's not gonna be nearly as comprehensive
as what you've seen on the other downtown phases.
So it's primarily gonna be funded
through the water resources side of things.
There'll be a little bit of public works
general fund money on it, but mostly water resources.
And I think that covers everything.
So, questions?
Now, Main Street.
So the completion is this month, you said?
Yes, we should be wrapping it up this week, actually.
That's amazing. So happy. Thank you for that. Appreciate it. Thank you very much.
What did y'all switch from the black polyline to the blue polyline?
Water lines. On the water lines? Yes. I noticed that.
Okay. So in years past we've used
copper for water service lines and ductile iron
for the main lines. We're still requiring ductile iron, which is the black
for the main lines, but we do allow PVC or HPE for service lines.
We changed a couple of years ago to allow a cheaper option from Copper.
And so that's what you're seeing a lot of the plastic and the blue is the service lines
going to the meters.
Okay.
I was just curious.
Yeah.
All right.
So I can run it any time I want.
That's right.
Okay.
All right.
Any further questions?
All right.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
All right. Moving on to information item number three. We get Tom back. Hey, welcome back, Mr. Martin.
Oddfellows Road Bridge naming request. And I'm actually going to hand this over to Kurt to run because this is a constituent request in Ward three.
So I'll hand it over to Mr. Demer and Mr. Martin.
Just very briefly, as Councillor Simmer just mentioned, there has been a request to name
the Odd Fellows Road Bridge over 460 in memory of Earl Lee Brooks Sr.
Mr. Brooks passed away in July 2010.
I learned a lot about him this week, an interesting gentleman, and I believe one of his sons
is with us this evening, but he was known as the Earl of Lynchburg.
He raced in what is now the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series from 1962 to 1979, raced in hundreds of races.
Excuse me.
No
hurry.
You want me to jump in and pinch that for you?
Sure.
I do appreciate Tom doing this.
I passed out a informational material to everybody here today.
just this did come to me from from Dave Falwell initially and it's nice to see a
family member here as well. There's definitely community interest in this
and I've been approached by quite a few folks in Ward 3 that I represent. Being a
big NASCAR fan I was kind of excited about this as well for that reason but
the mayor corrected me this is not a renaming this is a naming there is no
on the current name if I'm correct about that.
The bridge is part of the Virginia Department transportation
system.
If council desires, we would need to have council
pass a resolution requesting the Commonwealth Transportation
Board.
Thank you so much.
It's
heck getting old, isn't it?
So the council would need to pass a resolution
requesting that the Commonwealth Transportation Board
name the bridge in memory of Mr. Brooks.
As part of that resolution,
Council would also need to agree to pay the cost
of preparing and installing the signs.
That's approximately $1,000,
probably a little less than that
and those signs would be installed by VDOT.
So what we're looking for from PDC is direction.
If you'd like for us to prepare that resolution, we would have it on your next work session agenda.
Well, that would be real helpful. Thank you.
They've also gone out and gotten petition signatures from local citizens.
A significant number. You'll see that in your packet as well.
If you have any questions, I
look forward to meeting you after this is over with, hopefully.
I hope you'll hang around and if y'all have any questions now it's a great time
you got all the folks here that are interested that might be able to answer
some of them it seems like a worthy request in my estimation so that's why
I'm happy to get behind it and support you in this endeavor.
Apparently his
garage was pretty much right underneath that bridge at one point. That's very
interesting that's what earlier today Mr. Patrick Ford to do some information
prepared by Ted Delaney up at the museum system okay awesome I didn't see that
yet so yeah that was one of the things okay that was Ted's always on top of the
history I love it I believe also one of his race suits is in the museum so is
that right display currently or not but I think it was for
for a while as part of a sportsman's exhibit, I believe,
but of that information in some of the research that Ted did.
Thank you.
Well, I believe you're looking for a motion for a recommendation
to bring it for a work session?
Or, I mean, Kurt's able to agenda-wise, so I'm not sure.
Right, so I think we'll have this on the next work
session agenda, and then we'll go from there.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
And I apologize for my voice.
Not at all.
Thank you so much.
As a guy with a bad voice, I'm very empathetic about that.
All right, moving on to general business, we have two items today.
Both will come forward for a public hearing, so we're not going to...
Oh, no?
Well, good news on item five.
Okay.
In that there's recent court filing that identified both the administrator
and the sole heir for the peace property on Florida Avenue.
So I sent an email out this morning, subsequent to that email,
So we actually got confirmation that the administrator has agreed to accept the offer for the right
of way and we're preparing the documentation now to have that signed and we should need
to go down this path at all.
So we've removed the item from this agenda and then also from the agenda later this
evening.
So great news.
Great news.
Connected to the dots now.
That was what we were trying to do.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Okay.
All right.
So agenda item number four, and my understanding is this is coming for public hearing, and
so we're not going to make a motion on it today, but awesome, thank you.
So Liberty University has approached us.
They would like to take fiber optic up to their new dorm that they're renovating now.
They're taking it from their property on University Boulevard, and there's a map
over there that it's so small.
that's why I printed you one it's difficult to read but the vertical road
is Candler's Mountain Road the road to the left is University Boulevard headed
to the University and this other road is actually in access to the shopping
center that is owned by LU Holdings so they're fiber optic from their property
they want to bore under Candler's Mountain Road about 108 feet and then
And up to their property, which is the new dorm for them to have fiber optic.
It shouldn't hurt traffic in any way or impede traffic in any way.
And so we are asking, we are going to be coming and having a public hearing to have a license agreement with them for
them to provide fiber optic to that dorm.
And that's the just of this request today.
And it will come again in August.
Any questions from Ms. Hardy?
Thank you, ma'am.
Thank you, thank you.
Okay, roll call.
Yeah, roll call.
Dr. Wader?
Okay, I had a great fun at home office.
Someone called about some situation on Table Street,
some high rush stand that's on the abandoned property.
It's been abandoned for years.
I'll give you the address afterwards.
I just have to send us through an email yet, so quickly.
But they've just said it's been vacant for several years.
Press have passed away.
No answer in the community.
I think in Baltimore somewhere and it says she's called the office several times about the property being like overgrown and the kind of thing
But I'll give you the address later. It's on Taylor 15th and Taylor Street, and I was referenced to early Brooks
I wasn't aware of him. So thank you for the information. I wasn't aware
The mic when I look into maybe a historical marker as well. I'm gonna take the lady can check into that
We don't have this white anymore who was who was amazing in and get a historical marker
because I was a rock community, but it just,
but Ted can't tell you if it was,
it was a candidate for something of that nature.
Okay.
I'm going to throw a marker,
but I'll be talking to Ted Delaney
in front of his team and they can look into that.
That's all I have.
Thank you.
I remember when that movie, Grease Lightning,
came out back in the, what is it, early 80s,
I watched it and moved in.
Him and no Richard Prow, who played Wendell Scott.
Right.
They were partners.
And no, Grease just played my dad.
My dad was very close and a good friend, very good friend.
Did your dad run moonshine with Windows?
No, my dad did not run with Windows.
That's before the party was raised.
My dad was my friend.
You don't have to answer these questions.
Just so you know.
We had fun.
He was dead, son of his moonshine, so I got to keep the claim up, but they were very close.
And yes, that movie was actually written in the living room of our home.
The movie company came in with big, real to real recorders, and Wendell and my dad
sat on their cell phone and told stories of things that happened to him.
Of course when he got to Hollywood or where they kind of changed the things around the head to probably
That's good. It's good to meet you. Thank you. It's good to meet you all and
Thank you for the support. I just really love it. It tickles me to death
We lived our whole life was right there where the bridge was the shop was there the house was there
The whole family, the grandmothers, the grandfather and everything lived there, and the whole deal.
And the race shop, you know, he'd run the races out of there, and he also, he supported Lynchburg
very big on this race car, on the back of it, I don't know if you have any pictures
or whatever, but it was, see the historical James River in Lynchburg, Virginia, everything
on the call, you know, and it was, he would present the Chamber of Commerce gave him litigia
and he would hand out that litigia in different places down through the, we raced everywhere
were from Daytona to Oxford, Maine to Riverside, California.
It was just everyone.
And he would spread it out.
He was very proud of his city.
When he was elected into the Sports Hall of Fame in Lynchburg,
that was so meaningful to him.
And he just broke down.
That was the greatest news he had ever gotten, I believe.
Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank y'all. Mr. Mayor, do you have any? Thank you. Do you have any further items? Okay. Mr. Deemer.
I just, if you started getting calls on street lights again, that's the danger of becoming the light guy. And that's okay. I'm not complaining.
But is there been any efficiencies or just the ability to get those into a pipeline and
then track when they're done?
Has anything happened or is there still using the same system pretty much?
Yeah, and that's an APCO system and at this point I don't think they have any new technology
beyond what they had last time we were here.
I know we are pushing them very hard on both reporting, being able to provide us with reports
of what's out and what's not and what's been reported, and then getting everything done
quickly that we report to them.
Okay.
I don't know if this is possible, but maybe what we do is we more prominently link
back to the app code system on our side of things, that if there's any way to...
To bump it up in visibility a little bit, give it a logo, or AI will make it all in 10 seconds
for you. You know, something about, this is the fastest, bestest way to do it, and I think
the closure thing is still the part I would love to get solved, that we can see when the
job was done without the citizen going back out and calling back up their city
councilman and the city councilman says well that's good and everything okay but
it's the ones that that seemed to languish for several months got it
brought razor to the attention that it was and now since we don't have
anything new maybe we can just make it a little more prominent on the city
side of things promoted a little bit. That would be really helpful.
That's it.
I've got one item and I'll bring it up in roll call with the work session as
well just because that's when the constituent will probably watch but if
if Ted Delaney would be up for doing maybe a presentation on one the
cemetery again and any development that has happened there but also there
are some historical sites in Lynchburg that are listed with the state and also
nationally but aren't necessarily recognized on the city website. And so my
understanding from Kent is that when it comes to the city recognizing a site
there's usually some kind of land use tie to that and so I just like to
understand that in a fuller dialogue as far as you know we've got some great
history in our city how can we highlight that more what does
council need to do in order to support that and promote that.
So that ties into your discussion with the marker and our discussion today with the bridge.
If he could come and we could have that dialogue.
I'd love to have that.
Awesome.
Okay.
Well, we've got 13 minutes.
Yes.
So we've got a moment here.
Our next meeting.
I'm sorry.
I should have pulled it up.
When's our next meeting?
September 8, I believe.
Okay.
We're going to go with it.
Our next meeting will be September 8.
at 3 p.m. here in the training room meeting adjourned