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Home My WebLink About02-18-64�`3834 TOWN -OWNED LOT COR. 4TH & RAND. AVE. APPRAISED AT $6,000. DEED TO CLEAR TITLE TO BE SIGNED BY WYSOR HEIRS W. A. HALL APPOINTED FIRE CHIEF, WITH SALARY INCREASE OF $25.00 PER MONTH; RET. CHIEF TO REC. TO RFC. FULL SAL. 3/31/61, & $6o. MO. THRU JUNE. Minutes of the regular meeting of the Pulaski Town Council held on the 18th day of February, 1964, at 4:00 P. M. in the Municipal office. There were present: Mayor C. V. Jackson, presiding. Councilmen: W. S. Cummings, Billy B. Flint, F. L. Carrico, W. A. Larson, Glen K. Aust, T. J. McCarthy Basent: C. B. Gallimore and Eugene Nuckols Also present: Town Manager: T. B. Noland Visitors: Midge Woodard, Southwest Times reporter The invocation was given by Councilman Flint. On motion made, seconded, and carried on the unanimous vote of all present Town Manager Noland was elected temporary Clerk for this meeting. Minutes of the meeting of February 4 were approved. There was read a letter signed by Mr. F. 0. King, Jr., Mr. Marvin Board and Mr. Foy Aust, the three who had been asked to appraise the town -owned land on Randolph Avenue between Fourth and Fifth Streets, Northwest, and the report of the three appraisers stated that in their unanimous opinion the fair market value of the lot in question is $6,000.00. Town Council received the report with thanks to the three appraisers for, this service to the public following which on motion properly made it was decided to notify the chairman of the Pulaski County Board of Supervisors that the Town of Pulaski will transfer the title to this land to Pulaski County, along with the heirs of Mr. J. Frank Wysor for the sum of $6,000.00 with the deed to be recorded at a time to be designated by the Town Attorney. Council's Fire Committee gave it's report which was in three parts: (1) That Mr. 14illiam A. Hall, now the Assistant Fire Chief, be appointed to serve as Fire Chief, with his responsibilities as Chief to begin on February 16, 1961,, and with the understanding as of April 1, 196b Mr. Hall would receive a salary increase of $25.00 per month with the under- standing that Council would review his salary scale again in consideration of the 1964-65 budget; (2) That retiring Fire 1 1 1 r k. 5 Council mins. contd. February 18, 196h Chief, D. G. Ray be carried with full salary as an advisory to the Fire Department through March 31, and be carried at the rate of $60.00 per month for the months of April, May and June, 1964, this being a revision of Council's stipulation as was FIRE CHIEF RAY made at the February lith meeting of Council with respect to the amount of pay Mr. Ray would receive as advisor to the Fire Department between the time of his retirement and July 1. (3) That the fire committee be recuested to bring in a recommenda- tion as to the appointment of an Assistant Fire Chief within approximately thirty days. On motion made, seconded, and carried unanimously, the report and recommendation of the Fire Committee was to be carried out in toto. Council directed that a proper resolution be drawn which would recognize the service of Mr. D. G. Ray to the Town RESOLUTION of Pulaski and to its Fire Department. COMMENDING FIRE CHIEF The Town Manager reported that it would require RAY ADUPTED approximately $900.00 to extend the sanitary sewer line from Dora Highway southward along the un -opened and un -developed Elm Street right-of-way to its intersection with Jackson Street and to serve the houses in the immediate vicinity of this inter- section. Further, it was reported that two people who are SEWER COMM. TO interested in securing sewer service in this area have already REPORT ON SANITARY S. deposited their Fifty Dollar connection fees with the Town and LINE TO ELM STREET AREA there are indications that a total of four people in the immediate area and who might be served by the line in question interested. Town Council discussed this matter and requested it's Sewer Committee to go into the matter further as to the possible use of this proposed sewer line extension, and make a reportat the next meeting. .3836 Council mins. contd. Feb. 18, 196h COUNCIL TOOK NOTE OF REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE RE: OPERATION OF EVER READY CABS ELEVEN PROP. OWNERS MADE $50.00 Deposit FOR SANITARY SEWER LINE TO SROVE DR. -SUTHER- LAND WDS. SEC. ORIG. STIPULATION OF 27 MUST BE MET COUNCIL FAVORS HOUSE BILL #429 GEN.ASSEMBLY, PERMIT COUNCIL & CO.BDS. OF SUPERVS. TO JOINTLY FORM INDUSTRIAL AUTY. Town Council noted the receipt, through the mail, of a confidential report from the Chief of Police concerning the history of and the apparent present failure to operate of the Ever Ready Cab business which had been operated by Mrs. Harlow, who had been doing business as Ever Ready Cabs, be advised that she she may show cause at the next regular meeting of Town Council why her permit under which she had been operating four taxicabs should not be revoked. Consideration was given to the status of the proposed sanitary sewer line to serve the Grove Drive -Sutherland Woods English Forest Road area of the town and the Town Manager re- ported that as of the end of the previous week only eleven of the area property owners had made advance payment of their connection fees. Council pointed out that it's original stipulation was that a minimum of twenty-seven home owners would be required to make advance payment of the sewer connection fee, and Council directed that a report on the status of these payments be made at the next meeting of Council so that a decision can be made as to whether the Town should go ahead immediately with detailed engineering plans and purchase of materials for this major sewer line construction project. There was a discussion of a part of a recommendation made by the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council to the General Assembly of Virginia, now in session, and the fact that the recommendations embodied in this report had taken the form of House Bill No. 429. It was pointed out that this Bill as proposed would permit, as an example, Pulaski County Board of Supervisors and Town Council to jointly form an industrial development authority under the terms of which industrial development in lands Adjacent to the corporate limits of the Town under broad lines as established in the proposed legis- lative act. Following a full discussion of this proposed legislation and its possible benefits to our area and to the state as a whole, the Town Manager was authorised and directed to write Pulaski's State Senator and Delegate with the request that they support this legislation. Council mins. contd. Feb. 18, 1961 Mayor Jackson announced that under the terms of the Town Code he is appointing Mr. John C. Slack, a retired official of the; local General Chemical Company plant, to fill out the term of JOHN C. SLACK APPOINTED TO Mr. A. Dow Owens on the Town Planning Commission, it being explain�d FILL VAC. ON by Mayor Jackson that Mr. Owens had found it legally necessary PLANNING COMM. CREATED BY that he resign from the Town Planning Commission when he took DOW OWNS' RESIGNATION office as Pulaski County Commonwealths Attorney. Council ex- pressed warm approval of Mayor Jackson's appointment of Mr. Slack to the Commission. Town Manager Noland, who serves also as Secretary of the Town Planning Commission, handed to each councilman copies of pro proposed zoning ordinance for the Town, with the understanding thA the proposed ordinance represents approximately two years work on the part of the Planning Commission but that the ordinance is COPIES OF not yet complete for the reason that the zoning map had not been PROPOSED NEW ZONING ORD. drawn up and that the map is actually a part of the ordinance. GIVEN TO COUNCIL FOR Also, he pointed out that the Planning Commission wishes to not STUDY; ACTION TO BE TAken determine the final wording of the proposed new zoning ordinance ON NEW ORD. LATER until the end of the present General Assembly session, so as to provide the very latest legal background for the ordinance and it was also pointed out that the proposed new ordinance is an I attempt to completely modernize the zoning regulations of the Town to bring them into conformity with the most acceptable zoning practices. It was pointed out also that the submission of ! i this ordinance to Council is informal and for Council's informa- tion only at this time, but that as soon as the Planning Commission has finished it's work with the ordinance formal placing of the proposed ordinance before Town Council; will be accomplished. There being no other business the meeting was adjourned at 5:15 P. M. Approved; t or — — r Attest: r Noland, emporary Gl6rk