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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06-02-64IL 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. L_ 1 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, 3868 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 1 1 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. T R f9 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: 71 er ayor