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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10-03-67%~5[~~~ Minutes of the regular meeting of the Pulaski Town Council, held October 3, 1967, at 4:00 P. M., in the Municipal Office. There were present: Mayor C. V. Jackson, presiding. Councilmen: H. H. Eggert, S. G. Frye, Glen K. Aunt, W. S. Cummings, C. B. Gallimore, Raymond F. Ratcliff, Rudolph Farmer, Absent: T. J. McCarthy Also present: Town Manager: Evan Norton Clerk: Gladys R. Dalton Town Attorney: Garnett S. Moore Visitors: Jane Graham, Southwest Times reporter Tom Cassell, WPUV Radio Station Paul Dellinger, Roanoke Times reporter Obell D. Ratcliff John W. Nash James F. Mc Millar Mrs. Polly Gatewood Mitchell The invocation was given by Councilman Aust. Minutes of the meeting of September 26th were approved as recorded. Represbnting Quarto, Incorporated, Mr. John Nash petitioned the Council for curb and gutter along Burgin Street in front of the property of Quarto, Inc., a distance of approximately X20 feet. Mr. STREET Nash stated the street at that point is approximately 30 feet wide, COMM. TO STUDY REQ. and that Quarto, Incorporated would give the Town an additional ten OF QUARTO FOR CURB foot right-of-way, the cost of the curb and gutter and right-of-way & GUTTER BURGIS ST. to be worked out with the Town. Councilman Aust moved that the matter be turned over to the Street Committee for study and report to Council, which motion was seconded by Councilman Gallimore, and carried. Mrs. Polly Gatewood Mitchell, a property owner in Pulaski, b:ut who now resides in West Virginia, appeared before Council to obtain information about the $10.00 water deposit regulation which was recently approved by the Council. Mrs. Mitchell had recently written POI,'L~ GATE- W to the Town expressing her views on the unfairness of this charge OPES $lq. WATER atad re-stated her views at that time. She was advised that the DEPI06IT FEF~ Ordinance Committee was not in a position to make a report at that meeting, but would do so in the very near future, and she would be so advised. ~'~~1U Council minx contd. 10-3-67 Mr. Obe11 Ratcliff advised that he came to the Council meeting to speak against the re-connection fee and the $10.00 water deposit fee which is contained in an ordinance recently adopted OBELL RATCLIFF by the Council, stating that he felt it worked a hardship in OPPOSES $lO.DEPOSIT many instances and that some relief should be granted. He FOR WATER SERVICES further stated that he also came to the meeting to hear the discussion on the proposed Housing Project, and stated he would like to wait to hear that discussion. A request by Ruben Hash, Thaxton Road, for water services to his residence, which would involve installing a 6" water line RUBEN HASH REQ.FOR approximately 330 feet, to cost $1320.00 was presented to Council WATER SERV. THAXTON RD. by Town Manager Norton with the recommendation that it would not DENIED be feasible to install this line at this time to serve only one house. Councilman Frye moved the petition be denied at the present time because it is not feasible, which motion was seconded by Councilman Cummings, and carried. Town Manager Norton presented to Council the applica- tion of Donald Lee Taylor for permission to place a house trailer on PUBLIC HEAR. TO BE HELD Valley Road. On motion of Councilman Aust, seconded by Council- ON TRgILER APPLIC,OF man Ratcliff, and carried, it was, RESOLVED, that the usual DONALD L. TAYLOR procedure of holding a public hearing be carried out in this instance. Town Manager Norton also presented. the application of Mr. and Mrs. Barrie M. Brown for permission to place a house trailer PUBLIC HEAR. on a lot on Case Knife Road, the lot belonging to J. A. Hogan. TO BE HELD ON TRAINER Motion was made by Councilman Aust, seconded by Councilman Eggert, APPLIC. BARRIE BROWN and carried, that the usual procedure be followed in this matter. Councilmen Gallimore and Farmer voted against this because the lot did not belong to the applicants and the trailer would be placed on rented property. Councilman Farmer advised that the Ordinance Committee $lO.WATER did not have time during the short week between Council meetings DEPOSIT OR.D. NOT to meet and discuss the $10.00 Water deposit matter, and asked that COMPLETE it be carried over until the next meeting. 1 1 1 -~ ~~_'~_ Council minx contd. 10-3-67 Chairman Cummings reported that the Water Committee did not feel it feasible to install a water line to the James F. McMillan property on Smith Lane, at a cost of approximately $1l~00.; WATER LINE that until the area is developed, it was the recommendation of the TO MCMILLAN PROP. SMITH Committee to deny this request, and so moved, which motion was LANE DENIED NOT FEASIBLE seconded by Councilman Eggert, and carried. Mr. Ratcliff advised he had no report from the Sewer Committee. Town Manager Norton reported that contact had been Meade COMM. TO with Fred Jackson, but that no agreement had been reached with Mr. REVIEW APPLICATION" Jackson as of the date of the meetings; that Mr. Jackson felt he OF FRL~D JACKSON FOR SEWER should be given two frHe connections; Mr. Norton suggested that the Committee review the matter. Mr. Eggert reported that as soon as the Appalachian Power Company moved their pole and guy wire at the intersection of Oakhurst Avenue and Peppers Ferry Road, a report could be made apco. TO MOVE to Council; and further stated that it was felt that when this pole GUY WIRE COR.PEPPERS and guy wire was moved and the towntook steps to improve this FR.RD. & OAKHURST FOR situation on the fight of way belonging to the Town, it would tak® IMPROVEMENT OF VISIBILITY care of the situation, and so moved, which motion was seconded by OF CORNER Councilman Farmer, and carried. Councilman Eggert reported that the Street Committee had viewed the situation with regard to the petition for curb and gutter on the north side of 6th Street between Jefferson and CURB & GUTTER Randolph Avenue, and the Committee felt these property owners were N. SIDE OF SIXTH ST. TO in great need of this curb and gutter and recommended that it be BE INSTALLED put in. However, it was noted that one property owner, of the old Landis property on the corner of Jefferson Avenue and 6th Street, had not signed the petition. Mr. Eggert moved that curb and gutter be installed on the north side of 6th Street from Randolph Avenue to Jefferson Avenue, and that the proper legal proceedings be ;, instituted to assess the cost to the property owners. This motion li was seconded by Councilman Frye. During the discussion Councilman Ratcliff stated he felt the property owners should be advised of this action. Councilman Farmer stated he owned property at the X12 Council rains. contd. 10-3-67 south corner of this street, and he felt this procedure should not be carried out, because he felt it might work a hardship on some of the property owners, and if a property owns did not want curb and gutter, then he should not be forced to go along with it. The motion carried with Mr. Farmer voting in the negative. Councilman Eggert stated the Street Committee felt that Mr. Everheart was entitled to a loading zone in front of EVERHEART his business on east Main Street; that their investigation dis- CLEANERS GRANTED closed that other cleaning establishments had been granted load- LOADING ZONE ing zones, and moved that he be granted a loading zone, which motion was seconded by Councilman Aust, and carried. Councilman Frye reported that it was the recommenda- tion of the Finance Committee that certain bonds of the Town which have CERTAIN BONDS matured and certain other funds which are only drawing from three . TO BE RE- INVESTED - and three-fourths percent to four and one-half percent interest, MAXIMtTM RATE OF INTEREST should be re-invested at the maximum rate of interest, which it was believed to be five percent at the two mayor local banks. This motion was seconded by Councilman Eggert, and carried. Because the Citizen's Advisory Committee had re- quested the Council to adopt a resolution approving the partici- pation by local housing owners in the Federal Rent Supplement Program, under the provisions of Section 221(d)(3) of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, the Council had requested Town ATTY. REPORTS Attorney Moore to take a look at this request and advise Council. & CQTNCIL APPROVES Mr. Moore advised he could find no legal issues involved, and RESOLUTION RE:FED RENT from the information available to him, he could find no require- SUPPL. PROG. meat that the town do anything; that it appeared to be a rental program that does exactly what is says it will do. He stated the only requirement he could find was that the Town have a Workable FURTHER Program, which the Town already has. He further reported that he DISCUSSION found that money under this FHA plan can be made available to non- profit or limited dividend corporation or to individuals in some cases, and to build under the program the builder must be eligible under the FHARules and Regulations. Town Manager Norton advised that it was only necessary that Council give its consent, and there -~ ~~~ 1 1 SMITH & INGRAM EXPLAIN HC{JSING PROGRAM Council minx. contd. 10-3-67 would be no obligation to the Town by giving its consent. Obell D. Ratcliff, reported that the Federal Rent Supplement Program had been endorsed by the Realtors at a Convention recently in California, and they felt they stood to gain by this program, and that the program had been endorsed by its president. William Smith, Chairman of the Citizen's Advisory Gommittee, and Robert J. Ingram, a member of the Committee, appeared before Council and explained that the approval by Council is needed for their Committee to seek to encourage the construction of the housing projects by developers; that the Secretary of the Housing and Urban Development is authorized to enter into contracts to make rent supplement payments to certain qualified housing owners on behalf of qualified low-income families who are elderly, handicapped, displaced, victims of natural disaster, or occupants of substandard housing, and under Section 221(d)(3) cannot be made available to housing owners in certain localities unless the governing body of the locality has by resolution given approval for such participation in the Program. They reported the two main sections of this act that should be pursued were rent supplement and below market interest rate, with both programs to be sponsored by private non- profit organizations or individuals; they pointed out the three percent below market interest rate is especially designed to create an incentive for private developers. On motion of Councilman Eggert, seconded by Councilman 1 PROGRAiM GETS -APPROVAL OF COUNCIL RESOIlUTION ADOP~D {i Frye, because he felt there were too many people commuting to Pulaski, earning money in Pulaski but spending it elsewhere and that while he did not favor federal programs, he did favor this one, and moved that the resolution be adopted. Councilman Aust stated he felt it to be a good program; Councilman Ratcliff stated he was prepared to ask Council to withhold action at this meeting, but after hearing more about it, he was no longer opposed to it. Councilman Farmer stated si nce he had been contacted by many whom he was representing as a Councilman, who opposed the program, he would have to vote against it. The motion carried on the following recorded vote: ~'~~1~ Council rains. contd. 10/3/67 Raymond Ratcliff -aye H. H. Eggert - aye W. S. Cummings - aye Rudolph Farmer -opposed Glen K. Aust - aye C. B. Gallimore - aye S. G. Frye - aye T. J. McCarthy -absent RESOLUTION APPROVING PARTICIPATION BY LOCAL HOUSING OWNERS IN THE FEDERAL RENT SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM WHEREAS, under the provisions of Section 221(d)(3) of the Housing and Urban Developm®nt Act of 1965, the Secretary of the Housing and Urban Development is autho authorized to enter into contracts to make rent supple- ment payments to certain qualified housing owners on behalf of qualified low-income families who are elderly, handicapped, displaced, victims of natural disaster, or occupants of substandard housing; and H~TSING WHEREAS the provisions of said Section 221(d)(3) cannot be made available to housing owners i n certain RESOLUTION localities unless the governing body of the locality has by resolution given approval for such participation in the Federal Rent Supplement/4'rogram. (10/.17/67 add:BELOW MARKET INTEREST RATE ) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Town Council of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia, as follows: Approval is hereby grated for participation in the Federal Rent Supplement/Program sby qualified housing owners of .property located in Pulaski, Virgi nia.#(10/17/67 add: BELOW MARKET INTEREST RATE) Adopted this 3rd day of October, 1967. TOWN OF PULASKI, VIRGINIA By /s/ C. V. Jackson, Mayor ATTEST: /s/ Gladys R. Dalton, C].erk Council discussed briefly the need of a new salt spreader, as had been reported by Town Manager Norton in his administrative report. On motion of Councilman Aust, seconded COUNCIL APPROVES by Councilman Farmer, and caried on the following vote, it was PURCHASE OF NEW SALT RESOLVED, that a new spreader with special controls to b e used SPREADER TO COST on any truck, costing approximately $2,156.00, be purchased with $2,156. an appropriation from the Equipment and Stores Fund: Raymond Ratcliff -aye H. H. Eggert - aye W. S. Cummings - aye Rudolph Farmer -aye Glen K. Aust - aye C. B. Gallimore - aye S. G. Frye - aye T. J. McCarthy -absent Town Manager Norton advised that additional informa- ADDL.INFO. BEING SENT tion had recently been submitted to HUD on the New Municipal TO HUD FOR MIIN. BLDG. Building application. ~ ~1~ Council minx. contd. 10/3/67 Town Manager Norton reported on a trip to Hickory, North Carolina, made in September to discuss with Hickory officials off-street parking developments that had been accomplished in that city. The trip was made by Mayor Jaekson, Mr. Lyle Smith, Mr. John Powers and Manager Norton. Hickory City Manager C. L. Barnhardt described developments, which included three lots that were in use: one that was on land owned by the city and two on REPORT ON leased land. Mr. Barnhardt described in detail the operation PARKING AUTHORITY of these lots, which depend upon meter receipts, fines and parking IN HICKORY N. C. space rentals for operating revenue. The leased properties are leased atan annual rate of 6~ of the land value. The two leased lots are suitable for second-story parking decks which may be constructed in the future. Hickory has a parking authority which presently acts only as a committee, but which may exercise its full powers in the future by selling bonds for the construction of the decks and taking over full operation of the lots. A great deal of information was obtained that should be very helpful in Pulaski in developing its own program. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 5:55 P. M. _r ~ ~~ s s Mayor ATTEST: ler 1