City Council Meeting   12/11/2024

Amen.

So, can you help us with Fleming?

I appreciate that.

Now walk in that blessing.

What happens in Tacoma?

Stay in Tacoma.

Your name's out on the plaque on that.

Yeah.

I appreciate that.

This is your time.

we funded the money we've shifted here and there and whether it was community contributions or whatever soapbox I was on for the week I hope that I hope I was able to be helpful and I'm gonna stop talking I love you all and I thank you and if you came here tonight to support me I appreciate you the mayor said for me to name everybody here so

Yeah, I don't know if I'm... You're a fraternity brotherish?

I know it though.

Y'all don't know what to do.

And that's when she and I really, really bonded at those trips.

That was both of them.

Come eat with me.

You're all leaving.

None of them wanted to do it.

Good night.

So he's still doing the thing.

Oh my God, I was about to say he's about to give it a speech.

I know you're talking about.

All right.

Otherwise, all items will be voted on with one motion.

Second.

Any discussion?

at 20 foot right away, be put in place.

Roll call please, Pam.

Hi.

We'll go right into our regular items starting off with Larry.

Any questions?

So thank you guys for doing the work to keep us financially safe and sound.

Thank you, Larry.

All right, guys, we'll come right by, pick it up, go in the back of the truck, go on about our day.

By bundle, do you mean it needs a string around it or just a stack?

And then let you get by your meeting.

Because once it gets wet, it just is a mess.

Don't put it in the toter.

This is great for me because right now I'm renovating my house and I have cardboard boxes out lower to place.

I'll get you ordered tomorrow.

Recycling Value

So is this just to offset to keep the totter operation flowing better or is this a road that we can go down regardless of the totter situation?

So we're excited to try it out and hopefully it works.

Yep.

I think residents are really going to appreciate

over emphasize that because I 100% can see people taking their old extra trash cans and filling them with cardboard and then it's gonna slow the whole route down especially on our side of town if you ever noticed that on the bulk day people just use their old trash cans and put stuff in them that defeats the purpose here so with the literature or if we do a little maybe we can get to our seat and Jeff to do a little quick video saying don't do this do this right you know a little tiktok or something

Not everything goes in a bin.

Somebody else having the conversation later.

They just hit the button in the truck as they go by, and then Julie sees it on her end of the Rubicon system, and then she's out and about driving the city doing that for the solid waste collection side, as well as any other service need that would be needed while she's out and about.

And just in time for Boxing Day.

Thank you all very much.

Come on.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

and I will try to answer any questions.

Any questions for Adam?

Second.

Roll call, please, Pam.

It's subject to water rate changes.

Exactly.

at tax map number 108A29 within Rockingham County, also known as Granted Forms to include all details from the resolution as presented by staff.

Any more discussion?

Council Member Fleming.

Aye. 70.

So I will try to answer any questions you all have.

Do we have any questions?

I'm imagining that narrowing the streets a bit should be okay in this townhouse and mixed, actually it's a mixed density development because presumably most of them have their own parking spaces so they wouldn't need to be on street parking, am I right?

I mean there's sort of a subconscious component to it that when you're on a narrow street you drive slower.

Exactly.

So it wasn't a concern of ours to deviate from that standard for lessening of the slope in this particular case.

I guess I'm confused why you even need to do that at all.

Exactly, yes ma'am.

Yeah, yeah.

Thanks.

I didn't even understand the whole concept, like why is that important?

As an Electoral Page 4, the street vertical curves design requirements will be designed to meet the VDOT standard.

Thank you.

Madam Mayor, I move that we approve the request from P-R-R-L-L-C to preliminarily subdivide 12-11, 12-25, 12-45 and 12-61 Port Republic Road and for variances from the subdivision ordinance for Weston Park as presented by staff.

Roll call please Pam.

Vice Mayor Dent.

Aye.

Council Member Fleming.

Aye.

Mayor Reed.

7E.

And again, Vice Mayor Dent was absent for this meeting.

Any questions for Adam?

So access to both through parcel one, but then parcel two allows the utility easements on the front and on the side.

And we say yes, it is.

Any other questions?

Council.

Any other discussion?

Roll call, please, ma'am.

Again, Vice Mayor Deanna was absent.

Any questions?

No.

Clinton Pike with variances from the subdivision ordinance fire station number five.

I thank you Madam Mayor.

And I can try and answer any questions you might have.

Any questions?

I saw Larry run out of here.

He ran out of here.

I saw the 8.5 million, but I was going to let you live, so I'm going to be nice since this is my last meeting.

When I hear issuing a bond, we don't have to raise taxes to do that though, right?

This just gives us an insurance policy.

All right, Councilor.

I'll second that.

Roll call, please, Pam.

Council Member Fleming.

How are you?

I get myself haircut today.

We don't worry about that.

But I thank y'all for y'all's time.

Thank you.

So thank y'all.

Councilman Jones?

I don't want to know any more city secrets.

So that was it.

engagement event in the Northeast neighborhood all about trying to garner support and interest and get more information so that we can create a small area plan and that's about it but we got a lot of new big vehicles in the city

So, what was about it?

City Manager?

All right, so we have some boards and commissions to appoint and then we have a closed session.

Yeah, is it Christmas Eve?

Madam Mayor, I move to cancel the December 24, 2024 meeting in honor of Christmas Eve.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

So we got community service board,

So we have two positions of two applicants.

Which person for which?

Yeah, how do we decide that?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

We only have one.

I'll second that.

Two.

I'll second that.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

If it dies, I'm gonna like a second, just let it die.

Alright, there's no second.

So, excellent fit and looking forward to meeting him in person and working with him.

I would say the same thing about Gilcombe.

I was just under there when I look at Aaron Lovewick's board experience and the investment in Harrisonburg and

I would do Aaron Gilda and Kevin.

That's who does that Virginia Clean Energy Summit that I've said is one of the most impactful conferences I go to.

and then for the folks who are rolling off, Brian might identify folks who can match those same skills as well for those replacement positions.

So, I don't think that we've had an opportunity to see what an Aaron Love we could, I mean, we haven't been, in my opinion, blessed with the opportunity to have such an entrepreneurial serve in this capacity, in my opinion.

If you can do that to them.

Who's a good candidate and who is not a good candidate for the board?

So I think Dany had a good description of that, that since Maria, one of our chief energy and environmental experts is rolling off to replace that skill set is important.

But then I think about what Chris said, do we need or do we have presently on the board someone who's watching out for economics?

So we have that.

It's just hard to... It's a matter of who gets the second.

So I'm thinking of Brian saying he's comfortable with all three of these folks.

For me, it's a kill.

Nick.

Council Member Robinson.

You can.

You should probably articulate a reason.

I'm going to have to say nay.

Council Member Fleming.

Aye.

Mayor Reed.

Madam Mayor, I move to appoint Gil Coleman to the Aresburg Electric Commission.

Second.

Roll call, please.

Vice Mayor Dent.

Since the other one is defeated, I'll say aye.

Council Member Robinson.

Aye.

Mayor Reed.

All right, we're going into closed session.

Move to the Harrisonburg City Council going to closed session is authorized by the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, Virginia Code Section 2.2-3711A under subsection 3 for discussion of the disposition of publicly held real estate.

We are going into closed session.