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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-03-623498 ' Minutes of the regular meeting of the Pulaski Town Council, held on the 3rd day of April, 1962, at 4:00 P. M., in the Municipal office. There were present: Mayor C. V. Jackson, presiding. Councilmen: Bill B. Flint, W. S. Cummings, T. J. McCarthy, Glen K. Aust, F. L. Carrico, Eugene L. Nuckols, Claude B. Gallimore Absent: Councilman John GF. Nash Also present: Town Manager: T. B. Noland Clerk: Gladye R. Dalton Town Attorney: Garnett S. Moore Visitors: Jim Terrell, reporter for Southwest Times Miss Elizabeth Bonham & Mrs. J. F. Spencer, Air Pollution Wm. L. Tate and Attorney John. W. B. Deeds Henry Martin, representing the First Baptist Church The invocation was given by Councilman Flint. Minutes of a called meeting of March l6th were approved, and minutes of the regular meeting of March 20th were approved as corrected. Judge Deeds advised his clients, Meredith and Tate, were planning to build a Gulf Station on property which they have acquired and are now acquiring, which property is located just to the east of where Route 99 (Main Street) intersects with Franklin Avenue, and would like permission from Council to fill and grade the present grass spot which is lower than the street level, and which is a portion of the new unused MEREDITH & TATE GRADE ALL(~niED TO &/street right-of-way, as well as permission to erect signs and SPACE EAST OF WHERE RT.99 INTERSECTS lights. It was brought out that the concrete apron around the WITH FRANKLIN AVE. FOR GULF STATION pumps might encroach a little on what is the right-of-way, but NtTBJECT TO FINAL LEGAL DETAILS not on the part that is utilized, and can be tied into the side- walk. It was their feeling that the street leading to Edgehill Drive be kept open and also asked permission to asphalt two' fifty foot entrances and space out to Franklin Avenue. Councilman Flint moved that the use of the area adjacent to Main Street and East of Franklin Avenue be allowed to Meredith and Tate, Council mina. contd. BAPTIST CHURCH REQUEST TRAFFIC REGULATION FOR SLONING TRAFFIC IN FRONT OF CHURCH As Chairman of the Board of Deacons of the First Baptist 1 ~~ ~_ April 3, 1962, !~ P. M. ~ subject to final details being worked out between Meredith and Tate and the Town of Pulaski. This motion was seconded by Councilman Aust, and carried unanimously. Church, Mr. Henry Martin requested the Council to authorize the ins ation of lights at 3rd and Randolph Avenue and ltth Street and Randolph Avenue, or authorize some other means for slowing down the flow of in front of the Church, which is especially dangerous during Church hou#s. Councilman Flint moved that the matter be referred to the Street Committee for prompt report and action. This motion was seconded by Councilman Nuckols, and carried unanimously. Mrs. Spencer stated the smoke and fall out from open burnings, as well as burning paint can explosions, seemed to be as bad as ever. Town Manager Noland advised that information on incinerators had just been received and these industries would be approached within RE:ATR POLL. the next few days. Miss Bonham stated the noise from steam pop-off INFO RECD was a nuisance and asked that something be done. Town Manager Noland on INCINERA- TCHLS & COMP- was directed to contact the proper authorities of Coleman Furniture LAINTS OF STEAM POP Company to see if something could be worked out to control these noises, OFFS It was the recommendation of the Street Committee that that portion of Bell Avenue where it intersects with the new Peak Creek channel VIEWERS TO be closed as requested by the petitioners, and that the Town reserve the BE APPOINTED IN CLOSING necessary water and sewer easement adjacent to the new channel. Counci] OF BELL man Gallimore moved that the recommendation of the Street Committee AVE. be accepted, and that necessary steps be taken to proceed to apQt-int viewers and for a hearing on the matter. This motion was seconded by Councilman Carrico, and carried unanimously. Chairman Aust reported that the Fire Committee had met on $~~ COMM.RE April 2nd, and made the following recommendations: (1) That Engineer WM.A.HALL APPT. ASST. Wm. A. Hall be appointed Assistant Fire Chief. (2) That due to a FIRE CHIEF & NEW ASST. Possible change in the location of the Fire Department headquarters, CHIEF NOT REQR.TO that the new Assistant Fire Chief not be required to live in the LIVE IN apartment located above the present headquarters, at-this time. (3) That since the new Assistant Fire Chief will assume more responsibilities, he be given an increase in salary at this time. 3~~0 Council rains. contd. Apr. 3, 1962, ~t P . M. Councilman Aust then moved that Fire Engineer Wm. A. WM.A.HALL APPOINTED ASST. FIRE CHIEF LIVING QTRS. FOR ASST. FIRE CHIEF TO BE WORKED OUT BY FIRE CHIEF AND TOWN MGR. Hall be appointed Assistant Fire Chief, which motion was seconded by Councilman Nuckols, and carried unanimously. There followed a discussion regarding the second recommendation that the new Assistant Fire Chief not be required to occupy the apartment above the present headquarters of the Fire Department, after which Councilman Carrico moved that the Fire Chief and Town Manager Noland make some arrangement whereby that either the Chief or the Assistant Fire Chief be on duty at the Fire Department each night. This motion was seconded by Councilman Flint, and carried unanimously. As to the third recommendation, Councilman Flint moved that Wm. A. Hall be given an increase in salary of $lt0.00 per month effective April 1, 1962, and that the sum of $120.00 $~00 PER M0. INCREASE IN SAL. for April, May and June, be appropriated to Account Number FOR WM.A.HALL 6B 100-5 to cover said increase in salary. This motion was seconded by Councilman Nuckols, and carried on the following recorded vote: Bill B. Flint - aye F. L. Carrico - aye W. S. Cummings - aye Eugene L. Nackols - aye T. J. McCarthy - aye Claude B.Gallimore -aye Glen K. Aust - aye John W. Nash - absent Chairman Nuckols reported that his Committee asked that a copy of the proposed "going-out-of-business ordinance" be NO ACTION ON forwarded to the Retail Merchants Council, and that a meeting of ORDINANCE FOR "GOING-OUT-OF- the Ordinance Committee and the Retail Merchants Council be had BUSINESS" before any further action is taken. No action by Council was necessary at this time. Councilman Gallimore, acting upon the recommendation of the Police Committee, and as its Chairman, moved that Acting Chief Charles E. Comer, Jr. be appointed Chief of Police for the CHAS.E.COMER,JR. APPOINTED CHIEF Town of Pulaski. This motion was seconded by Councilman Flint, OF POLICE 1 1 n ~~ and carried on the unanimous vote of those present. Council rains. contd. April 3, 1962, ~ P. M. Town Attorney Moore filed with the Clerk of Council c. i a report of the three viewers with regards to the request of M. G. REPORT OF Bane to reconstruct a wall eliminating a safety hazard to the public VIEWERS OF M. G. BANE from the deterioration of the present building wall of a two-story ENCROACHMENT bbuu lding & PUBLIC HEARII3G1 fronting approximately 72 feet on North Jefferson Avenue, at TO BE HELD 222 North Jefferson Avenue, to be incorporated in the minutes of a public hearing to be held on April 17, 1962, by Council, in this matte. On motion of Councilman McCarthy, seconded by Councilman Aust, and carried unanimously, the following ordinance was adopted; Woodson Cummings - aye Claude Gallimore - aye Bill Flint - aye Eugene Nuckols - aye Fred Carrico - aye John Nash - absent Glen Aust - aye T. J. McCarthy - aye AN ORDINANCE TO VACATE AS AN ALLEY THAT CERTAIN 20-FOOT WIDE STRIP OF LAND BEGINNING IN THE. SOUTHERN BOUNDARY LINE OF SEVENTH STREET AND RUNNING SOUTH BETWEEN PARALLEL LINES 20 FEET ADOPTION OF ORD. APART, A DISTANCE OF 150 FEET, RESERVING, HOWEVER, FOR THE EXISTING EASEMENTS AND THE RIGHT OF ADDITIONAL EASEMENT OVER AND THROUGH SAID STRIP OF LAND, AND CLOSING OF TO PROVIDE FOR PAYMENT OF COSTS. ALLEY BET. 6TH & NTH WHEREAS, Hazel Greer Robertson, Lucille Huff, Sr., H. W. STREETS Huff, Jr., Sarah Huff Tuck, and Walton L. Huff, appeared by petition on the 5th day of December, 1961, before the Council of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia, after posting due notice of the filing of petition as required by law in at least three places in said Town on the 13th day of November, 1961, that being the first day of the November Term of the ~?ulaski County Circuit Court, and five days prior to the appointment of any viewers by said Town, said petition requesting that the Town vacate that certain strip of land 20 feet in width which is shown as an alley on what is commonly designated as the official map of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia, and being 20 feet in width and extending between parallel lines a distance of 150 feet from the southern boundary line of Seventh Street to a line which is an extension of the southern boundary line of property owned by Hazel Greer Robertson; and, WHEREAS, upon the filing of said petition and after all requirements of the law had been followed, the Council did appoint G. C. Hall, Jame R. Glenn and W. M. Board viewers as reauired under Section 15-766 of the Code of Virginia of 1950; and, WHEREAS, on the 28th day of December, 1961, 7.andowners were notified by the said Town of the filing of the petition and of a public hearing thereon to be held on the 16th day of January, 1962, in the Town Offices at Pulaski, Virginia, and by further notice by publication in the Southwest Times, a local newspaper; and, ~~5~2 Council rains. contd. Apr. 3, 1962 ~ P. M. WHEREAS, on the 16th day of January, 1962, said public hearing was held pursuant to the aforesaid notice and there appearing to be no persons objecting to the vacating of said strip of real estate as set out in said petition; however, certain evidence being heard concerning easements now existing over said strip of land and the necessity of opening other alleys running in an east and west direction at the southern terminus of the parcel to be vacated, and upon the filing of the viewers' report stating that in the opinion of the viewers no objection or inconvenience would result from discontinuing the use or by closing the alleys or easement ways; and, WHEREAS, the said Council of the Town of rulaski, Virginia, is of the opinion that vacating of the aforesaid strip of land would not cause a loss to the Town and would be for the benefit of the Town of Pulaski, and that no in- convenience would result thereby, providing that a reservation O of an easement for existing water and sewer lines and other , utilities be retained, and that reservations be retained for R other easements for construction, reconstruction, maintenance and repair of any water or sewer line which the Town might in the D future locate in and upon the aforesaid 20-foot strip of land designated as an alley; I NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the Town N of Pulaski, Virginia, as follows: A That certain 20-foot strip of land shown on the Official Map of the Town of Pulaski as an alley extending in a southern N direction from a point in the southern boundary line of Seventh Street between parallel lines 20 feet apart a distance C of 150 feet to a line, (an extension of the southern boundary line of property now owned by Hazel Greet Robertson) said E alley being more particularly bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the southern boundary line of Seventh Street, which point is 220 feet South 88 deg. 0' East from the Southeastern corner of the intersection of Washington Avenue with Seventh Street; thence South 2 deg. 0' West 150 feet to a point; thence South 88 deg. 0' East 20 feet to a point at the Southwest corner of Lot No. 1 in Block 36 as shown on the Official Map of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia; thence with the common boundary line of Lot No. 1, North 2 deg. 0' East 150 feet to a point in the southern boundary line of Seventh Street; thence with said boundary line North 88 deg. 0' West 20 feet to the point of BEGINNING; be, and the same is hereby, vacated as an alley or easement way in the Town of Pulaski, Virginia, subject, however, to the reservation of any and all existing easements now over, upon and across the said strip of land~for water or sewer line or other public purposes, or for any private easement heretofore retained and now existing thereon; and upon the further reservation of an easement for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance and repair of any water or sewer lines or other utilities which the Town might hereafter locate in, upon and across said 20-foot strip of land designated as an alley, and which is more fully described and shown on said Official Map of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia. 1 1 Council rains. contd. Apr. 3, ~~ BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the Town Manager of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia, shall 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 any and all other steps necessary to properly place on the record the said ordinance. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that G. C. Hall, James R. Glenn, and W. M. Board, the aforesaid viewers, be paid the sum of Twn Dollars ($10.00) each and that the court costs and other expense of the Town involved in the said vacating of the aforesaid alley or easement ways be paid by the petitioners in proportion to their respective interests. Plans for utilization of the Bushong property were discussed LAND,BLDGS. and the matter was referred to the Land, Buildings and Parks & PARKS COMM. NTH T~ Committee and Town Manager Noland to work out plans and report MGR. TO WORK OUT back to Council. PLANS FOR UTILIZING Town Manager Noland explained the need of an appropriation BUSHONG PROP. from the Water Fund to be used for extending water mains along Route 11 nearly to the east corporate limits in accordance with the Town's Court approved annexation plans, and on motion of Councilman McCarthy, seconded by Councilman Nuckols, and carried on the following recorded vote: Billy B. Flint - aye F. L. Carrico - aye W. S. Cummings - aye Eugene L. Nuckols - aye T. J. McCarthy - aye Claude B.Gallimor e -aye Glen K. Aust - aye John W. Nash - absent APPROPRIATION OF $60,000.it was, FOR RO[TTE 11 WATER RESOLVED, that an appropri ation in the sum of $60,000.00 LINECOST be made from Water Funds to Account No. 807t~ to cover the cost of extending water .mains along Route 11 nearly to the east corporate limits. Town Manager Noland advised Council that the Pulaski County Board of Supervisors had arbitrarily established a fee of $1500.00 for the Town and $500.00 for each of the other Fire Departments in $1500.00 CO.CHECK FOR the County, for fire protection for this fiscal year, and had mailed FIRE SERV. RET.C~+ITRACTto the Town a check in the sum of $1500.00 which check had been OF 1951 STILL IN EXISTENCE returned. He further stated that on the basis of a previous agreement X504 Council rains. contd. Apr. 3, 19b2, !t P. M. between the County and Town as shown in Council Minutes of May !t, 1951, which is still in existence, the County had been billed for fire calls in the County through March of this fiscal year, in the sum of $1882.00, with only three months left. After a full discussion of this situation, Councilman Flint suggested that the Town Manager and Mayor Jackson go before the Board of Supervisors and advise them that the Town expects them to live up to their contract which is still in force, and that there will be no reduction of fees for such protection. Whereupon, Councilman Carrico moved that Mr. Flint's suggestion become a motion, which was seconded by Councilman Flint, and carried on the following recorded vote: Bill B. Flint - aye F. L. Carrico - aye W. S. Cummings - aye Eugene L. Nuckols - aye T. J. McCarthy - aye Claude B.Gallimore- aye Glen K. Aust - aye John u1. Nash - absent The meeting adjourned at 6:05 P. M. App roved: Attest: ~~~ ~~ ~ er 1 1