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Home My WebLink About9/6/2022 - Regular1 MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF VINTON TOWN COUNCIL HELD AT 6:00 P.M. ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 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 Mark Popovich, Town Attorney Fabricio Drumond, Police Chief Tim Lawless, Deputy Police Chief Andrew Keen, Finance Director Donna Collins, Human Resources/Risk Management 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, Member Stovall, Vice Mayor McCarty Grose present. Roll call After a Moment of Silence, Sam Cundiff led the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. Flag. announcements, Vice Mayor McCarty announced the following: September 10 – 7:00 p.m. - Mingle at the Market with Mended Fences – Farmers’ Market; September 11 – 1:00-5:00 p.m. – Cruise IN – Farmers’ Market; September 9 – 8:00 p.m. – Travis Reigh; September 16 – 8:00 p.m. – Willow Hill and September 17 – 8:00 p.m. – T-Fox & DJ Ryan – all at Rosie’s; September 23 – 7:30 p.m. – VT v. Wake Forest Hockey and September 24 – VT v. CNU – both at Lancer Lot.; September 11 – 9:30 a.m. – Prayer Circle – 18) Wednesday and trivia on Thursday and there will be a mobile vaccine clinic at the Vinton Library parking lot and anyone can call the Vinton Chamber for more information. Vendors are needed for the Fall Festival is scheduled for October 8 and anyone can contact the Vinton Chamber for more information. Council Member Stovall made a motion to approve the motion was seconded by Council Member Liles and 2 voting: Vote 5-0; Yeas (5) – Liles, Mullins, Stovall, McCarty, Grose; Nays (0) – None. of August 16, 2022 Under awards, introductions, presentations and proclamations, the next item on the agenda was the Scott Hurt to Lieutenant and Sergeant Mike Caldwell to Lieutenant. After comments from Chief Drumond, the reading of his certificate and the placement of his badge and collar bars by his family, Sergeant Hurt made comments. Following his comments, the Town Clerk administered the Oath of Office. After comments from Chief Drumond, the reading of his certificate and the and badge by his daughter, Sergeant Caldwell made comments. Following his comments, the Town Clerk administered the Oath of Office. Captain Tim Lawless next made closing comments followed by comments from the Mayor and Members of Council. The next item on the agenda was the recognition of Sam Cundiff. comments on Mr. Cundiff’s service on the Vinton-Roanoke County Veterans Monument (High Ground). Council Members next commented Cundiff over the years followed by comments from his family members. the Town for his service to the community. The next item on the agenda was to consider adoption of a Resolution in support of a joint grant Botetourt County. Cody Sexton first commented that transportation planning staff from Roanoke County concerning the possibility of entering into a regional funded, a safety study will be done on all of the major roads in the three localities. The identify opportunities for ways that we could mitigate safety hazards on these major roads and provide a Top-10 list of projects for each locality that we could then apply for funding Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). We will not have access to the funding through the IIJA if we do create a plan through this grant. 3 Mr. Sexton next commented that Roanoke County will be considering this item next week and Botetourt County took action two weeks ago. The Resolution will formally support the joint grant application and localities budget. Council Member Liles commented that he thought this type of study was similar to what is done through Organization (TPO) and that the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) did a lot of that for us. Mr. Sexton comments that Roanoke County federally certified and it is proposed to let them do the study. VDOT does manage funding at the State level, but these would be federal funds. In further c this is a grant program that will development of the safe streets plans and if we pay the Timmons Group $100,000, the program would responsible for the ot population. After comments from the Mayor, the Town Manager commented that there will probably be some overlap have already been talking about. By hiring a contractor, there will be review of some of the information we already have and it will provide some opportunities for us to get funding and fix problems that we know are an issue. This is a new funding source and is the next phase of the CARES Act and ARPA and through other grants. Mr. Sexton next commented that one of the requirements in the proposed Scope of Work since Smart Scale involves lots of pre-work before you can ever get to the application is that any deliverable be Smart Scale ready so that if for some reason halfway through the federal funding does not materialize, we Smart Scale. We have looked for ways to design t requirements but we can we use this to apply for any other sources of funding. 4 Council Member Mullins made a motion to adopt the Resolution as presented; the motion was seconded by Vice Mayor McCarty and carried by the following roll call vote, with all members voting: Vote 5-0; Yeas (5) – Liles, Mullins, Stovall, McCarty, Grose; Nays (0) – None. Adopted Resolution No. 2515 in support of a joint grant application for the Federal Safe Streets 4 All program in cooperation with Roanoke County and Botetourt County The Town Manager commented that the traffic signals have been received, but we are waiting on the cabinets. Milling started today, which will take about a week and then paving will begin. A Notice to Proceed has been issued effective today for the Walnut Avenue Bike & Ped Improvements from the 5th street bridge to the Town limits at the low water bridge. Materials for the Town-wide striping have been ordered and the pre-construction meeting for the Garthright Bridge was held today and we will be issuing a Notice to Proceed soon and expect it to get underway this month. The Town Manager reminded everyone of the Transportation Workshop and Tour on September 16, 2022. We will meet in 12:30 pm with lunch provided presentation from two guest speakers with the City of Roanoke and then will leave and take a tour of some projects in the City. T discussion that we will have initially with Council and then we will have some public input opportunities in the future. Vice Mayor McCarty announced that the restaurant shout-out was Macado’s. recent Mingle at the Market. The next item on the agenda was a request to convene in Closed Meeting, Pursuant to § 2.2-3711 (A) (1) of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, for assignmen employee and § 2.2-3711 (A) (3) of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, for discussion concerning the acquisition of real property for a public purpose, adversely affect the b Downtown area. was seconded by Vice Mayor McCarty and carried by the following vote, with all members voting: Vote 5-0; Yeas (5) – 5 Grose; Nays (0) – None. Council went into Closed Session at 7:14 p.m. At 8:05 p.m., the regular meeting reconvened and the Certification that the Closed Meeting was held in approved on motion by Council Member Liles; seconded by Vice Mayor McCarty and carried by the following roll call vote, with all members voting: Vote 5-0; Yeas (5) – Grose; Nays (0) – None. Certification of Closed Meeting Council Member Liles made a motion to adjourn the meeting; the motion was seconded by Vice Mayor McCarty and carried by the following vote, with all members voting: Vote 5-0; Yeas (5) – Liles, Mullins, Stovall, McCarty, Grose; Nays (0) – None. APPROVED: Bradley E. Grose, Mayor ATTEST: _________________________________ Susan N. Johnson, CMC, Town Clerk