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Minutes of the regular meeting of the Pulaski Town
Council, held on the 2nd day of June, 1961, at 4:00 P. M.,
in the Municipal Office.
There were present: Mayor C. V. Jackson, presiding.
Councilmen: W. A. Larson, W. S. Cummings, T. J. McCarthy*,
F. L. Carrico, Billy B. Flint, Eugene L.
Nuckols, C. B. Gallimore
Also present: Town Manager:T. B. Noland
Clerk: Gladys R. Dalton
Town Attorney: Garnett S. Moore
Visitors: Paul Dellinger, Roanoke Times reporter
Midge Woodard, Southwest Times reporter
The invocation was given by Councilman Gallimore;
Minutes of the regular meeting of May 19th were
approved.
As Chairman of the Police Committee, Councilman Gallimore
reported that a study had been made of the records of the local
taxicab operations and it was the feeling of the committee that thele
were too many cabs in operation, there currently being twenty-seven',
in operation, and recommended that as taxi owners failed to renew
TAXICABS TO their application for Certificates, the taxi limitation be reduced'from
BE REDUCED TO
25 AS OPERATORS thirty to twenty-five, to see if this would take care of the public
GO OU T OF BUSI -
NESS needs. In the discussion that followed it was brought out by
Councilman Gallimore that there be no reduction in the taxicabs in
operation as long as there was an active permit in force and a
going bisiness was in operation. However, Councilmen Nuckols and
Carrico felt that to reduce the number of cabs to twenty-five,
Council would be restricting business and eliminating competition.
Mr. Gallimore put the recommendation in the form of a motion,
which motion was seconded by Councilman Larson, and carried, with
Mr. Nuckols voting in the negative.
Councilman Carrico reported that the Sewer Committee
REPORT OPd would make a report on the Alum Spring Road sanitary sewer line
ALUM SPG.
ROAD SEWER extension after July 1 and the adoption of the new budget.
LINE EXT. TO
BE MADE AFTER
JULY 1ST
866
REQ. FOR TELEVI-
SION FRANCHISE
CONTINUDD TO
NEXT MEETING
OF COUNCIL
CHANGING VOTING
PLACE FROM
BUNTS BLDG. TO
FIRE DEPT. BLDG.
Council mins. contd. June 2, 1964 4 P. M. -
The matter of the request of City Cable Company of
Rogersville, Tennessee, to install cable television within the
corporate limits, was continued to the next meeting of
Council at the suggestion of Town Attorney Moore.
On motion of Councilman Nuckols, seconded by
Councilman Cummings, and carried unanimously, the following
resolution was adopted;
WHEREAS, since 1956 the Bunts Building in the
Town of Pulaski has been the location of the one voting
place in the Town election and the regular voting place for
the East Precinct in County, State, and National elections; and
WHEREAS, the Town has recently leased the Bunts
Building and it is not presently available for use as a voting
place; and,
WHEREAS, said Town has used for many years the
Pulaski Fire Department Building as the place for voting for
the West precinct in said Town. The Building is of sufficient
size and has proper facilities for a voting place and can
properly be used as the one voting place for municipal elections'
and,
WHEREAS, the Pulaski County Electoral Board has
ratified the Town's suggestion for changing the voting place
from the Bunts Building to the Pulaski Fire Department
building;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE.IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF
THE TOWN OF PULASKI, VIRGINIA, that the Pulaski Fire Department
building is hereby designated, until further order, as the
ONE VOTING PLACE "Polls" in the Town of Pulaski for holding
municipa eTe673 ons, and be it further ordained that proper
notices be posted and other appropriate publicity be given
forthwith to voters of said Town of the change of voting
place.
Town Attorney Moore advised that the Town had received
by certified mail notice of application of the Colonial Natural
Gas Company to the State Corporation Commission for a formal
TOWN ATTY. DIR.
TO DRAFT APPROVAL hearing before the Commission on June 23, 1964, to serve the
OF COUNCIL TO
STATE CORP.COMM. Counties of Carroll, Grayson, Montgomery, Pulaski, Smyth,
OF COLONIAL NAT.
GAS CO. REQ. FOR Washington and Wythe with natural gas, and requesting appropriate
CERTIFICATE
certificates of public convenience and necessity covering
said territbrtbs: Town Attorney Moore, upon motion by Council-
man McCarthy, seconded by Councilman Nuckols, and carried
unanimously, was directed to draft the proper answer or endorse-
ment conveying the approval of the Pulaski Town Council.
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Council mins. contd.
June 2, 1964
On motion of Councilman Flint, seconded by Councilman
Gallimore, and carried on the following vote:
W.
A. Larson
- aye
Billy B. Flint
- aye
W.
S. Cummings
- aye
Eugene L. Nuckols
- aye
T.
J. McCarthy
- aye
C. B. Gallimore
- aye
F.
L. Carrico
- aye
Glen K. Aust
- absent'
the following
ordinance was
adopted:
AN ORDINANCE TO VACATE THAT CERTAIN
PORTION OF LEE STREET FROM THE TERMINUS
OF LEE STREET AT THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY
LINE OF SECOND STREET, SOUTH, NORTH TO A
POINT EIGHTEEN (18) FEET SOUTH OF THE
SOUTHERN BOUNDARY LINE OF AN EXISTING
12 -FOOT ALLEY, IN THE TOWN OF PULASKI,
VIRGINIA, TO PROVIDE THE CONDITIONS FOR
THE ABANDONMENT AND PAYMENT OF COSTS AND
EXPENSES THEREIN INVOLVED
WHEREAS, the Virginia Maid Hosiery Mills, Incorporated,
appeared by petition on the 21st day of May, 1963, before the
Council of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia, after posting due
notice of the filing of said petition as required by law in at
least three places in said Town on the 6th day of May, 1963, that
being the first day of the May Term of the Circuit Court of Pulaski
ADOPTION OF County, said petition recuesting that the Town vacate and
abandon that portion of Lee Street within the said Town
ORDINANCE; TO beginning at the northern boundary line of First Street, South,
and running 2 deg. Fast 429.73 feet North; and,
CLOSE PORTION
WHEREAS, it further appears that upon the filing of
OF LEE STREET said petition that Council did by resolution adopted on the
21st day of May , 1963, appoint G. C. Hall, I. R. Carper, Curtis
C. Jordan, viewers, and Odell Mayberry, alternate viewer, as
required under Section 15-766 of the Code of Virginia of 1950,
as amended; and,
WHEREAS subsequent thereto, all of the landowners
who would be affected by the vacation of the aforesaid street or
a portion thereof, were given notice of the Public Hearing on the
18th day of June, 1963, in the Town Offices of the Town of
Pulaski, Virginia, said notice being delivered to the landowners
and also published in the Southwest Times, a local newspaper, all
of which will be shown in said record; and,
WHEREAS, upon convening of the Public Hearirg on
June 18, 1963, upon agreement, it was recessed until 4:00 o'clock
P, M. on June 20, 1963; and,
WHEREAS, prior to the public hearing, and on the 12th
day of June, 1963, G. C. Hall, I. R. Carper and Odell Mayberry
met as viewers, were given written instruction, proceeded to go
on the premises and view same, and did on the 12th day of June,
1963, make their formal report to the Council of said Town, all
of which is a part of the record in these proceedings; and,
WHEREAS, on the 20th day of June, 1963, said Public
Hearing was held pursuant to the aforesaid notice and all persons
there appearing, both for and against the said petition, were
given an opportunity to be fully heard, and after due considera-
tion of the evidence, together with the viewer's report, the
Council did set certain tentative conditions upon which they would
consider closing said Lee Street, which conditions were not accept-!
able to petitioners; and,
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Council mins. contd. June 2, 1961
WHEREAS, no further action upon said petition was
had until further request for action was made by petitioner to
said Council, whereupon said Council did set the matter down for
another Public Hearing at 4:00 o'clock P. M. on the 28th day of
May, 196h, in the Town Offices of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia;
and,
WHEREAS, subsequent thereto and upon being requested
so to do, the said G. C. Hall, I. R. Carper and Odell Mayberry,
viewers, did again convene, were instructed, went upon the premises,
and have filed their recommendation showing that no inconvenience
would result to any one due to the closing of a portion of Lee
Street, providing a 30 -foot street is opened up running east
and west between Jefferson Avenue and the east line of the
remaining unclosed portion of Lee Street; and,
WHEREAS, on the 28th day of May, 196h, said Public
Hearing was again held pursuant to proper notice duly given,
and there appearing no person opposed to the vacating of said
street, but several appearing favoring same, and upon the pro -
LEE STREET ceedings hereinbefore had, upon the filing of the viewers'
report stating that in their opinion no inconvenience would
result from the vacating and discontinuance of the use .of
ORDINANCE Lee Street as petitioned, the Council of the Town of Pulaski
is of the opinion that the closing of that portion of Lee Street,
beginning at the northern boundary line of Second Street, south,
CONTINUED and running to a point 18 feet South of the southern right of
way line of a 12 -foot alley running between Lee Street and
Jefferson Avenue, and subject to the conditions of closing
hereinafter enacted, should be granted.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF
THE TOWN OF PULASKI, VIRGINIA, as follows:
That certain portion of Lee Street beginning at the
northern boundary line of First Street, South, at the inter-
section of Lee Street and Second Street, South, and running
2 deg. North, 411.73 feet to a point 18 feet South of the
southern right of way line of an existing 12 -foot alley
running between Lee Street and Jefferson Avenue, be, and•the
same is hereby VACATED AND ABANDONED as a street in the Town of
Pulaski, Virginia, subject, however, to a reservation for
easement for water and sewer lines located upon, under or across the
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aforesaid described portion of Lee Street; and, upon the further
condition that the said Virginia Maid Hosiery Mills, Incorporated,
petitioner, convey to the Town a strip of land 18 feet in width
adjacent to the southern boundary line of an existing 12 -foot
alley, said strip to begin at the eastern boundary line of I.ee
Street and run to the western boundary line of Jefferson Avenue;
and, further that said Virginia Maid Hosiery Mills, Incorporated,
at its own expense, surface the aforesaid 18 -foot strip, together with the
existing 12 -foot alley, into a completed surfaced 30 -foot street,
beginning at the east boundary line of the unclosed portion of Lee
Street and running to Jefferson Avenue; and that petitioners bear the
entire cost of removing or changing any utility line from any of
the aforesaid 30 -foot street area or the closed portion of Lee
Street which becomes necessary by the closing and changes granted
hereby, all of which is to be accomplished in accordance with
the Town's regulations and under its supervision and direction,
and at petitioner's cost.
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the Town Manager of the
Town of Pulaski, Virginia, cause to be recorded in the Deed Books
of the County of Pulaski, Virginia, located in the Clerk's Office
of the said County, a copy of this ordinance, and to take ank.rand
all other steps necessary to properly place on the record the
said ordinance.
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Council mins. contd. June 2, 1964
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED THAT G. C. Hall, I. R.
Carper and Odell Mayberry, the aforesaid viewers, be paid
the sum of Ten Dollars (110.00) each, and that the costs of the viewirs
and all other costs involved in the vacating of the aforesaid porti oh
of Lee Street be paid by the petitioner.
On motion of Councilman Gallimore, seconded by Councilman!
Cummings, and carried unanimously, it was, RESOLVED, that the Trail
TRAIL DUSTERS Dusters again be allowed to use Loving Field for a motorcycle
ALLOWED TO
USE LOVING meet upon the condition they provide the town with proper insurance
FIELD FOR
MEET as in the past.
Councilman Larson asked that the matter of the proposed
1964-65 budget be placed on the agenda for immediate discussions
Whereupon, Councilman Carrico moved that the matter be placed on the!;
COUNCIL TO
APRROVE NEW agenda, which motion was seconded by Councilman Gallimore, and
BUDGET & SET
DATE OF PUBLIC carried. Councilman Larson advised that after a careful study of
HEARING ON SAME
the proposed budget by Council it was the recommendation of the
Finance Committee that the budget be adopted subject to minor changed.
Councilman McCarthy moved to set the budget down for public hearing
on June 30, 1964, at 4:00 P. M., which motion was seconded by
Councilman Gallimore, and carried unanimously.
The meeting adjourned at 4:55 P. M.
Approved:
Attest:
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