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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11-01-66~_)~ ~e ) Minutes of the regular meeting of the Pulaski Town Council, held November 1, 1966, at 4:00 P. M., in the Municipal Office. There were present: Mayor C. V. Jackson, presiding. Councilmen: T. J. McCarthy, Glen K. Aust, Raymond F. Rateliff, W. S. Cummings, C. B. Gallimore, S. G. .Frye, Rudolph Farmer Absent: H. H. Eggert Also present: Town Attorney: Garnett S. Moore Town Engineer: E. W. Holyfield Clerk: Gladys R. Dalton Visitors: Jane Graham, Southwest Times reporter Forest W. Haley The invocation was given by Councilman Rateliff. Minutes of the regular meeting of October 18th were approved, as corrected. Mayor Jackson advised it was the time and place as had been advertised in the local newspaper for a;public hearing on the application of Robert Lee Gallimore for permission to place a house trailer on Case ROBT LEE GALL~IMORE Knife Road, and asked if there was anyone present who wished to oppose TRAILER APPL . APPROVED. this application. It appeared there was no opposition to Mr. Gallimorets application and it was also brought out by Engineer Holyfield that Mr. Gallimore had been contacted and h® now desires to connect to the Townts water system, but sewer is not available to his lot. On motion of Councilman Aust, seconded by Councilman Rateliff, and carried, it was, RESOLVED, that the application be approved. As had been advertised in the local newspaper, Council held its public hearing on the application of Emma Poindexter to place a house EMMA POIN []EX- TER TRAILER trailer on Highland Terrace. Mayor Jackson asked if there was anyone APPL. APPROVED. present who wished to oppose the application and there appeared to be no opposition. Upon the recommendation of Engineer Holyfield, Councilman Farmer, moved that the application be approved. Councilman McCarthy seconded the motion, which carried. A public hearing was held, as had been advertised in the local newspaper, on the application of Tyree and Carolyn Thompson to TYRES & place a house trailer on Highland Terrace. As there was no opposition CAROLYN THOMP50N to this application and upon the recommendation of Engineer Holyfield, TRAILER APPL. Councilman Aust moved that the application be approved, which motion APPROVED. was seconded by Councilman Frye and carried. `~ J~~~ Council mins. contd. 11/1/66 Mayor Jackson then advised that it was the time, date and place, as had been advertised in the local newspaper, for Council to hold its public hearing on a proposal to rezone from residential to industrial classification a portion of land belonging to Forest W. Haley on the west side of Maple Street and South of 2nd Street, SW, and property belonging to the Jefferson Mills. Mayor Jackson advised that Mr. Haley had presented his request to the Town FOREST W. HALEY PROP. Planning Commission and that the Planning Commission had held a public RE-ZONED TO INDUST. hearing on this request, and had recommended to the Council that the land as stated aforesaid be re-zoned from residential to industrial classification. As there was no opposition to this proposal, Councilman Cummings moved that the recommendation of the Town Planning Commission be accepted, and directed the Town Attorney to prepare an ordinance amending the Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Map to show the new classification. This motion was seconded by Councilman Ratcliff, and carried on the following vote: Raymond F. Ratcliff - aye S. G. Frye - aye W. S. Cummings - aye Rudolph Farmer -aye T. J. McCarthy - aye C. B. Gallimore - aye Glen K. Aust - aye H. H. Eggert - absent Town Engineer Holyfield advised the Council that the Sadler Hosiery Mills on Commerce Street had approached the Town with regards to plans for an addition on the rear of their present mill, approximately 38 x 68 feet in size. Mr.Holyfield displayed a map to Council of the proposed addition and the area, and brought out that water from the Town Shops shed above the back of this Mill property, followed the natural course of the land and flowed into an open ditch to a storm drain on the Sadler Mill property. As this SEWER COMM. proposed addition would cover a portion of this ditch, the Sadler Hosiery TO STUDY PROPOSAL OF Mills approached the Town with the proposition that the Town lay an 18" SADLER MILL FOR PIPE pipe line 143 feet to the manhole and that the Sadler Hosiery Mills would LINE. pay for the pipe if the Town would pay for the labor of laying the pipe. This request was discussed by Council and on motion of Councilman Frye, seconded by Councilman Gallimore, and carried, it was, RESOLVED, that the matter be referred to the Sewer Committee for study and investigation, and report back to Council. Councilman Frye reported that it was the recommendation of the Finance Committee that the Town continue for the remainder of the fiscal TOWN TO year, to rent the Eskridge lot on First Street, East, back of the Municipal RENT ESK- RIDGE LOT Building, for public parking, at the rate of X50.00 per month, and that if FOR REMAIN- DER OF YR. the property owners of these lots had no objection, recommended that the Council mina. contd. 11/1/66 ,~~~~, fence along First Street be removed. Mr. Frye put the recommendation of the Finance Committee into the form of a motion, and moved that the recommendation be accepted. This motion was seconded by Councilman Farmer, and carried. Councilman Farmer advised that at tis regular meeting of October 4th Council resolved that the Street Committee and Ordinance Committee work together on a curb and gutter policy, and it was his feeling that this was not a matter for the ordinance committee to take up but this SEWER & ST. should be the Sewer Committee and Street Committee, and asked that the COMM. TO STUDY CURB Ordinance Committee be relieved of this responsibility for this study. & GUTTER POLICY. On motion of Councilman Frye, seconded by Councilman Gallimore, and carried, it was, RESOLVF.~, that the study on curb and gutter policy be referred to the Sewer Committee and Street Committee. Councilman Ratcliff reported that the Sewer Committee had met with Gilbert Barker and Foy Aust of the New River Land Company, with regards to the installation of a sanitary sewer line to the Barker property in Draper Mountain Estates from Bunts Street. Mr. Ratcliff presented a proposed agreement between the Town of Pulaski and Gilbert Barker wherein the Town agrees to construct an eight (8) inch diameter sanitary sewer line, using Terra Cotta 0-ring joint pipe, from a point BARKER. & in Bunts Street, in a southerly direction through property of the New DRAPE? MT. EST. River Land Company, to a point near the northwest corner of the Barker SE'~ER ETI~E` REF. BACK~TO`%BEWER. lot, with a manhole to be built at the south end of said line for future COMM. extensions; that Mr. Barker agrees to pay to the Town of Pulaski, prior to the commencement of construction, the s~- of X1,000.00 for this line, and furnish to the Town written legal easements through the lands of other property owners through which the sewer line is to run, without cost to the Town. Councilman Ratcliff presented to Council another proposed agreement between the Town of Pulaski and the New River Land Company, Incorporated, with regards to a sanitary sewer line in Draper Mountain Estates, from the proposed manhole mentioned in the first agree- meet (near the northwest corner of Gilbert Barker's lot), wherein the Town would agree to construct an eight (8) inch diameter sanitary sewer line from the manhole mentioned to a point in Campbell Drive, in exchange for the New River Land Company clearing a right-of way approximately '~~3~j'f) Council rains. contd. 11/1/66 12 feet wide from a point in Campbell Drive to the north ledge of the wooded area of Draper Mountain Estates near Bunts Street, with. the Land Company paying X0.93, or the full price, of the pipe which is to be laid by the Town. These two agreements, as presented, were discussed at length, and on motion of Councilman Farmer, seconded by Councilman NjcCarthy, and carried, it was, RESOLVED, that this matter be referred back to the Sewer Committee, and authorized the Town Attorney to then put these agreements in proper farm to be presented to Council. Mayor Jackson advised that he had appeared before the Pulaski County Board of Supervisors and made a definite and formal request to them that the Town share in the Sales Tax on a total population basis SALES TAX PROP. DEFEATED for the entire one percent rather than on one-half of the one percent BY BOARD OF SUPR. on a school age population basis, but this proposal was defeated by three members voting against same. Mayor Jackson advised that he also approached the Board of Supervisors with regards to the proposed program which would involve an area within the County and beyond the Town Corporate Limits, but for which the County must give their approval, and that three members MAYOR ASKS BOARD OF SUPR. of the Board opposed this program, stating it would mean reducing APP. ON PLANNING PROJ. & LAND- federal funds to the county. Mayor Jackson stated it was understood SCAPING > COST . another meeting would soon be held and that approval may later be given for the planning project. Mayor Jackson also reported that he approached the Board of Supervisors relative to their sharing in the cost of landscaping of the Health Center, the new Agriculture Building, new Library Building and the new Courthouse, as it was felt some alloca- tion could be obtained for these projects, but it was felt the County should share in the cost. No action was taken by the County Board of Supervisors at that time. Mayor Jackson appointed Councilman Frye, Aust, McCarthy and CEMETERY COMM. APPOINTED. Eggert as a special Cemetery Committee to handle Cemetery matters. Mayor Jackson appointed Councilman Farmer to the Beautification COUNCILMAN FARMER ON Committee to take the place of Mr. Fred Carrico, who is no longer on the BEAUTIFICATION COMM. Council. Council mina. contd. 11/1/66 ,~~ `~~ ~~ Town Attorney Moor® reported that Mr. Hurt had advised there NO REP. ON was no report from the Highway Department in Richmond relative to the RIGHT-OF-LIAY right-of-way acquisition matter, and that he would forward a letter to ACQ. the Attorney General's Office regarding this. Mr. Moore reported on The Virginia Advisory Legislative Council committee meeting at the County Courthouse the day before, and advised the Committee is making a study of surface mining, other than MR. MOORE strip coal mining, to determine how these areas may be restored and REP. ON VA . ADVISORY what legislation can be enacted or needed. LEG. MEET]:NG. NO REP. ON There was no report on City Status other than it was reported CITY STATUS. ~.~ Vass had advised he was getting ready to work on this study. In a letter from Dr. Foye Gibson, of the Methodist Asbury Acres Home in Maryville, Tennessee, which was read by Mayor Jackson, it was SEWER COMM. noted that the Methodist Conference Executive Committee would meet in TO STUDY SERV. TO Bristol on November 28th, and Dr. Gibson would need to know by this date SITE OF PA'.C)P. METH. HOME. what the Town of Pulaski could do regarding making available a site for the proposed Home for the Aged to be located east of Bristol. It was suggested that the Sewer Committee make a study of this and report back to the Council at its next meeting what the Town can do about furnishing water and sewer services to the proposed site. Mayor Jackson commended the children and public as well as the Pulaski Town and County Law Enforcement officers for a quiet and well- behaved Halloween celebration. Mayor Jackson reported that Mr. Wingate of Salem had been employed to make an appraisal of the old ball park property on Route 99, MR. WINGrTE TO APPRAISE and a report should be forthcoming by the end of the week. Mr. Jackson BALL PARK PROP. also reported that the General Chemical Company had indicated that their property which adjoins the Towns property on Route 99 might be leased to the Town on a yearly basis for recreational purposes.. On motion of Councilman McCarthy, seconded by Councilman Cummings, it was, RESOLVED, that Council go into executive session. The meeting adjourned at 6:00 P. M. Approved: ~~/';/-'~G/ Cl~/ yor Attest ~~~?~- ~/ Clerk of e Council