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MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF VINTON TOWN COUNCIL HELD AT 6:00 P.M.
ON TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2022, IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS OF THE VINTON
MUNICIPAL BUILDING LOCATED AT 311 SOUTH POLLARD STREET, VINTON, VIRGINIA
MEMBERS PRESENT: Bradley E. Grose, Mayor
Sabrina McCarty, Vice Mayor
Keith N. Liles
Laurie J. Mullins
Michael W. Stovall
STAFF PRESENT: Pete Peters, Town Manager
Cody Sexton, Assistant Town Manager
Susan N. Johnson, Executive Assistant/Town Clerk
Jeremy Carroll, Town Attorney
Fabricio Drumond, Police Chief
Nathan McClung, Assistant Planning & Zoning Director
Chasity Barbour, Community Programs & Facilities Director
The Mayor called the meeting to order at 6:00
p.m. The Town Clerk called the roll with Council
Member Liles, Council Member Mullins, Council
Member Stovall, Vice Mayor McCarty and Mayor
Grose present.
Roll call
After a Moment of Silence, Vice Mayor
McCarty led the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S.
Flag.
announcements, Vice Mayor McCarty announced
the following: March 18 – 8:00 p.m. – Jerome
Claytor/Touch of Class; March 19 – 8:00 p.m. –
Mended Fences; March 25 – Neon Licorice – all at
Rosie’s; Wednesdays – 6:30 p.m. -
Bingo; Thursdays – 6:30 p.m. - Trivia; March 18 -
6:30-9:30 p.m. – music by Blue Print – all at Twin
Creeks Brewery; March 31- April 2 – 10:00 a.m. –
6:00 p.m. – Spring Fling – Robbins Nest Primitives
and Antiques. Vice Mayor McCarty also
through to Hollywood on American Idol and is a
graduate of Staunton River High School.
Council Member Liles made a motion to
approve
motion was seconded by Vice Mayor McCarty and
voting: Vote 5-0; Yeas (5) – Liles, Mullins, Stovall,
McCarty, Grose; Nays (0) – None.
Approved minutes of the Regular Council
Meeting of February 15, 2022 and March 1,
2022
Under awards, introductions, presentations
and proclamations, John Hull, Executive Director
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PowerPoint presentation on the 2021 Annual
Update of the Partnership, which will be on file in
the Town Clerk’s Office as part of the permanent
record.
The next item under awards, introductions,
presentations and proclamations,
Chasity Barbour reviewed a PowerPoint
presentation,
Ms. Barbour first commented the Senior Expo will
be held on March 22nd from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
at the Vinton War Memorial. A new event will take
place on May 14th from 1:00-6:00 p.m. at the War
Memorial called the Vinton Palooza, which will
take the place of the Wine Festival. The Ironman
Competition will be back in Town on June 5th, the
Four on the 4th
Southwest Virginia will be held on July 4th and
Bourbon & Bubbly will be held
Vinton War Memorial.
With regard to the Dogwood Festival scheduled for
April 28th - May 1st, the carnival will be on Thursday
and Friday from 6:00-
12:00-10:00 p.m. and Sunday from 12:00-6:00
p.m. There will be a concert on Friday night with a
beverage garden at the Farmer’s Market; regular
festival on Saturday with crowing of the queen at
12 Noon at the Municipal Building and the parade
at 2:30 p.m.
happening in the Town.
The next item on the agenda was the
consideration of public comments concerning an
ordinance repealing in its entirety the Vinton Town
Code, Appendix B - Zoning Ordinance as adopted
by Ordinance 634, enacted December 19, 1995,
with amendments, and adopting by reference the
Zoning Ordinance of the Town of Vinton, Virginia.
The Mayor opened the Public Hearing at 6:37 p.m.
Nathan McClung first commented this is a three-
year effort which has culminated into the final
sessions over the past three years along with two
Opened Public Hearing
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After giving the proper notices, the Planning
Commission held their Public Hearing on May 24th
and voted unanimously to recommend the zoning
ordinance by reference and the repealing of the
current zoning ordinance. The new ordinance will
become effective April 1, 2022. Planning staff is
working on applications for the new
public education campaign for some of the more
complex topics such as signs. Mailers will be sent
out to all of the businesses and non-profits in the
Town to inform them of the changes and staff will
be available for any questions from the public. Mr.
McClung next commented that there are on the 11
made more user-friendly with tables, graphics and
charts.
The Mayor and Council expressed appreciation to
Planning Commission for all of their hard work on
the new ordinance. The Mayor asked what the
cost would have been if we had used a
Mr. McClung responded that minimal it would have
been around $100,000, but to do something as in-
depth as this would be between $200-250,000.
Hearing no other comments, the Mayor closed the
Public Hearing at 6:47 p.m.
Vice Mayor McCarty made a motion to adopt
the Ordinance as presented
seconded by Council Member Mullins and carried
by the following roll call
voting: Vote 5-0; Yeas (5) – Liles, Mullins, Stovall,
McCarty, Grose; Nays (0) – None.
Closed Public Hearing
Adopted Ordinance No. 1041 repealing in its
entirety the Vinton Town Code, Appendix B -
Zoning Ordinance as adopted by Ordinance
634, enacted December 19,
amendments, and adopting by reference the
Zoning Ordinance of the Town of Vinton,
Virginia
The next item on the agenda was a briefing on
Virginia. The Town Attorney commented Shentel
has reached out to the Town and asked for access
to the Town’s public rights-of-way for the purpose
of extending fiber to residents in the Town. The
process by which a munic
franchise to an entity such as Shentel, which is the
same process we have gone through with Cox and
other utilities. The process entails advertising for
a Public Hearing and allowing the opportunity to
third parties to submit bids. At the April 5th
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Hearing, Council will consider adopting an
Ordinance
process in addition to the State law is governed
largely by federal telecommunications laws, which
require a non-discriminatory and non-exclusive
type of franchise. The franchise we will be granting
manners to the Cox franchise and will be for ten
years to allow
changes based on new
regulations.
The next item on the agenda was a briefing on
Virginia Resources Authority (VRA) in the amount
of $710,808 for the Town’s share of the Western
Virginia Water Authority’s Waste Water Treatment
Plant project. Cody Sexton first commented that
Water Authority to transfer and acquire the Vinton
utility system, the Town and City of Salem had
entered into an agreement to par
Water Authority’s upgrade of their digester plant at
the wastewater treatment facility. The Water
Authority’s preference was for the Town to go
ahead with the loan and conclusion of the transfer
of the system, the bond would then go to the Water
Authority. The details of the term of the bond are
listed on the
Letter in the agenda package.
The Mayor commented on the success of the
State of the Town.
Council Member Mullins made a motion to
adjourn the meeting; the motion was seconded by
Council Member Stovall
following vote, with all members voting: Vote 5-0;
Yeas (5) – Liles, Mullins, Stovall, McCarty, Grose;
Nays (0) – None. The meeting was adjourned at
APPROVED:
Bradley E. Grose, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Susan N. Johnson, CMC, Town Clerk