HomeMy WebLinkAbout4/18/2017 - RegularMINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF VINTON TOWN COUNCIL HELD AT 7:00 PAI
ON TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2017, IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS OF THE VINT
MUNICIPAL BUILDING LOCATED AT 311 SOUTH POLLARD STREET, VINTO
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MEMBERS PRESENT. Bradley E. Grose, Mayor
Matthew S. Hare, Vice Mayor
Keith N. Liles
Sabrina McCarty
Janet Scheid
STAFF PRESENT: Pete Peters, Assistant Town Manager/Director of Economic
Development
Susan N. Johnson, Executive Assistant/Town Clerk
Susan Waddell, Town Attorney
Anne Cantrell, Treasurer/Finance Director
Anita McMillan, Planning & Zoning Director
Tom Foster, Police Chief
Fabricio Drumond, Deputy Police Chief
Joey Hiner, Public Works Director
Donna Collins, Human Resources Director
The Mayor called the regular meeting to order at
7:00 p.m. The Town Clerk called the roll with Council
Member Liles, Council Member McCarty, Council
Member Scheid, Vice Mayor Hare and Mayor Grose
Aresent. Roll call
After a Moment of Silence, Council Member Liles
led the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. Flag.
Under upcoming community events, Council
Member McCarty announced the following events:
April 22-Lions Club Draw Down-Lancerlot; April 27-
April 30-Vinton Dogwood Festival; May 6-9.00 a.m, to
12 Noon -Glade Creek Greenway Clean -Up -meet at
the end of Etna Avenue, adjacent to the greenway;
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Edge Sports Complex to celebrate 20th Anni' ary
of the Greenways; May 13-Troop 235 Car Show -
Thrasher Memorial and "The Nerd" is playing at the
Star City Playhouse -May 12-28. She also reminded
everyone of the upcoming Party in the Park and
Mingle at the Market concerts series at the Farmers'
Market,
Council Member Scheid made a motion to approve
the Consent Agenda as presented; the motion was
seconded by Vice Mayor Hare and carried by the
following vote, with all members voting: Vote 5-0; Yeas
(5) - Liles, McCarty, Scheid, Hare, Grose; Nays (0) -
None.
Approved minutes of the regular
Council meeting of March 21, 2017
and the regular Council meeting of
April 4, 2017
The next item on the agenda was the request for'
funding presentation by the Dogwood Festival
Committee. Joey Nicely furnished Council a breakdown
of the income and expenses for the 2016 Dogwood
Festival. He then commented that this will be the 62nd
year of the Festival and this request is for funding for
the 2018 Festival. Roanoke County will not be
providing any funding next year and the Committee
may be requesting additional funds from the Town to
make up the deficit. The in -kind services that the Town
provides amounts to approximately $10,000,
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expenses for the Festival, the need for additionai'l
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the Festival. In response to a question regarding the
bands that march in the parade, Mr. Nicely commented
that they have to pay the bands to participate up to as
much as $1,000. Because of the cost, they have had to
limit the number.
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High School who were in the audience as well as Phil
North.
The next item on the agenda was the recognition of
promotions and Officer of the Month for March 2017,
Chief Foster first read his Memo naming Officer Dustin
Bray as Officer of the Month for March.
Chief Foster, Deputy Chief Drumond and Lieutenant
Austin participated in the ceremony to recognize the
promotions of Scoff Hurt, Christopher Froeschl and
Michael Caldwell to the rank of Sergeant in the
Department. Chief Foster made comments as each of
the three Officers was recognized along with their
families who assisted in pinning on their new badges,
The next item on the agenda was a report from the
Vinton Volunteer First Aid Crew for March 2017. Chief
Guffey commented the volunteer truck was marked up
492 hours out of a possible 468 for 105 %; a unit was in
service 100% of the volunteer time; a medic truck was
marked up 78% and a BLS Unit was marked up 22%;
they responded to 95 out of 119 calls for 80% and
handled 92 of those calls for 77%. The fractile
response time was 9.06 with 1,975 man hours for the
month of March.
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With regard to transports to the hospital, there were 131
Chief Guffey reminded Council and staff that they will
be providing of Mission Barbeque for all of the
departments that are participating in or assisting with
the parade.
Chief Guffey also commented on the requirements and
benefits of being a Volunteer with the First Aid Crew.
Under citizens' comments and petitions, Doug
Forbes gave an update on the Vinton History Museum
and announced that the Museum will be opened on
Saturday of the Dogwood Festival. He also
announced that there will be an open house at the
Roland E. Cook School during the Dogwood Festival.
Mr. Forbes next commented on fundraising activities
of the Museum and that they have enough funds to
now replace all 31 windows in the building. The next
major project will be to replace the electrical system,
The water system has already been replaced.
The Museum is open from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday and for special
events.
The next item on the agenda was to consider
approval of the renewal of the Lease between the Town
and The Advancement Foundation for property located
at 227 South Pollard Street (upper level of the Health
Department Building) for a one-year term commencing
on April 21, 2017. Annette Patterson, President of The
Advancement Foundation, first commented that this is
the second year the Business Incubation Center has
been opened. During the first year, they hosted the
second annual Gauntlet Business Competition and
everyone who was a part of that competition was
required to open their business in Vinton. There were
25 businesses and 35 entrepreneurs that went through
the program and $106,000 was awarded in cash and
prizes.
This year, they expanded the Program to all of
Roanoke and Botetourt Counties and were able to
attract 84 entrepreneurs. The goal this year is to
award over $200,000 in cash and prizes and there are
over 200 advisors from the business community.
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Ms. Patterson next commented that they have fielded
over 800 contacts. The total value is $406,000 over the
last two years of this project just in small business
development. Because they are a non-profit, they were
successful in securing two grants, the community
business launch grant and the building collaborate
communities grant from DHCD, both for $70,000 and
those grant funds were put back into the program and
to the awards.
As mentioned at the last Council meeting, they are
the AmeriCorps Vista and AmeriCorps State
intermediary and have designated four positions to
run this program through the business incubation
center. The Town has become a leader in
entrepreneurial development across the region in
bringing these people to our community and they
have hosted all of their meetings at the Vinton War
Memorial. They have also been able to use the
conference rooms in the business incubation center to
host the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace Program and
are the intermediary for Virginia Individual Deposit
which has recruited 42 individuals through the first
round and 25 during the second round.
On Thursday, May I 11h from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. they
will be hosting the Gauntlet Awards Ceremony at the
War Memorial,
Approved the renewal of the Lease
between the Town and The
Council Member Liles made a motion to approve the
Advancement Foundation for
renewal of the Lease; the motion was seconded by
property located at 227 South
Council Member McCarty and carried by the following
Pollard Street (upper level of the
roll call vote, with all members voting: Vote 5-0; Yeas
Health Department Building) for a
(5) — Liles, McCarty, Scheid, Hare, Grose; Nays (0) —
one-year term commencing on
None.
April 21, 2017
The next item on the agenda was to consider
adoption of a Resolution approving the 2017-2018
operating budget of the Roanoke Valley Resource
Authority. Dan Miles, Chief Executive Officer, first
commented on the increase from the FY2016-2017
budget of $8,3 million to $13 million, which is a $4.7
million increase or 56.5% total. The increase is based
on Salem's der to the Authority on July 1, 2016 as
the Authority's fourth member community. On
November 1, 2016, the Authority assumed ownership
and operational control of the Salem Transfer Station
and all of the solid waste materials that were being
transported to and disposed through that Facility. This
Facility was projected to increase the tonnages by a
little over 50% and they have seen to date about a 60%
increase. With that increase is a correlating increase in
revenues.
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