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SESSION FOR MONDAY, JULY 13TH,[Town Council Work Session on July 13, 2026.]
THE ORDER.AND, UM, AND MS. WILSON, GIVE A CALL.
AND I JUST WANNA APOLOGIZE AGAIN TO EVERYONE THAT THERE REALLY HAD THE POTENTIAL TO HAVE PUT EVERYTHING IN JULY ON ONE WORK SESSION, WHICH DOESN'T HAPPEN VERY OFTEN, BUT WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE SQUEEZED THESE TWO ITEMS. MM-HMM
AND SO NOTE TO SELF FOR MYSELF, IF I'M STILL HERE NEXT JULY, THAT WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT LIKE IF JULY, YOU KNOW, IF THE, IF, IF, IF WE CAN PUT ALL THE ITEMS TOGETHER ON ONE WORK SESSION THAT WE COULD, UM, IT DOESN'T ALWAYS HAPPEN LIKE THAT.
AND SOMETIMES WE DON'T KNOW UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE WHEN THINGS ARE LIKE, OH NO, NO, WE DON'T NEED THIS ANYWAY.
SO WE REALLY ONLY HAVE A TWO, UM, A TWO ITEM, UM, AGENDA FOR, UM, TONIGHT AND UM, YEAH.
'CAUSE OUR CLOSED MEETING IS EVEN GONNA BE SHORTER THAN WHAT WE THINK BECAUSE, UM, YEAH, I'LL EXPLAIN THAT BECAUSE UH, MR. SON'S NOT HERE.
SO, AND TWO OF THE ITEMS, UM, WE, IT WOULD, IT WOULD'VE INVOLVED HIM.
I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THE THIRD ITEM THOUGH DOES.
SO WE WILL HAVE AT LEAST ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT, ALRIGHT, SO FIRST UP IS A SPECIAL EXCEPTION APPLICATION.
UM, UH, I WAS GONNA READ THE NUMBER, BUT THEN IT GOES BACK SOMETHING TO TEN TWO ONE SIX OH WINCHESTER ROAD.
UM, AND MS. CAPISH IS GONNA BE DOING IT.
NO, WELL, WAS SPIRIT IS THE FIRST ONE GIVES THE ADDRESS AND THE SECOND ONE GIVES THE, UH, TAX MAP NUMBER.
THAT'S WHY THE TWO NUMBERS WEREN'T THE SAME.
THIS IS KIND OF AN ODD SITUATION WE HAVE HERE.
SO BACK IN 1997, UM, THIS PARCEL HERE WAS ANNEXED INTO TOWN.
UM, AND IT WAS PART OF THIS LARGER PARCEL THAT WAS, UH, IN THE COUNTY, BUT ONLY A PORTION OF IT WAS BROUGHT INTO TOWN.
SO OUR UH, SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE REQUIRES AT LEAST TWO ACRES IN SIZE, LOT SIZE.
IF THE PARCEL IS, UM, ACCESSED BY A PRIVATE ROAD, WHICH THIS ONE IS, THIS GOES DOWN TO OUR COMPENSATION.
UM, SO ALL THIS IS ASKING FOR TONIGHT IS IF YOU PRINT A SPECIAL EXCEPTION, THEN I CAN SIGN OFF ON THEIR SUBDIVISION.
THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO LEGALLY SEPARATE IT OUT FROM THE COUNTY'S OR THE PARCEL THAT'S IN THE COUNTY.
SO, UM, THEY'VE BEEN PAYING TAXES ON IT AS THIS LOT SINCE IT'S BEEN ANNEXED IN, BUT IT'S JUST NEVER BEEN FORMALLY SEPARATED OUT.
AND THE DE AND THAT'S WHAT
AND THAT HIS NAME RAMEY? NO, RAMEY.
AND IT WAS IN HIS APPLICATION.
UH, HIS GOT AN ADULT CHILD THAT LIVES HERE.
THIS WE, THAT WAS BEFORE US YEAR.
I MEAN, I WAS GONNA SAY, THERE WAS SOMETHING IN TERM VACATION A COUPLE YEARS AGO FROM, I'M SORRY.
ASKED FOR A VACATION OF THE TOWNS PORTION TO JUST GET HIM THE ACREAGE SO THAT HE COULD SUBDIVIDE IT AND IT JUST NEVER WENT ANYWHERE.
SO NOW HE'S JUST ASKING FOR A SPECIAL EXCEPTION.
SO WE CAN JUST GO AHEAD AND SUBDIVIDE THIS OFF SO HIS ADULT SON CAN STAY THERE AND THEN HE CAN WORK WITH THE COUNTY ON THE REST OF THIS PROPERTY.
I DON'T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
YEAH, I WAS, I I'M JUST TRYING, I I DON'T KNOW BECAUSE YOU'RE THINKING, YOU'RE THINKING OF THAT.
UM, THEY DID, I BELIEVE THERE WAS SOMETHING OFF SIDE KESLER ROAD.
I THOUGHT THERE WAS SOMETHING DOWN THERE WHERE YOU WENT DOWN AND OVER TO THE RIGHT.
THAT WAS FULTON LANE, BUT NO, OBVIOUSLY.
NO, I'M THINKING SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
BUT THERE'S THIS GAS STATION HERE.
SO RIGHT WHEN YOU TURN IN THERE, THERE'S A LITTLE DRIVEWAY.
AND HE DID LIKE AN AN ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT OR SOMETHING? NO, IT'S A, IT WAS A CARETAKER, SUPPORT CARETAKER.
SO, UM, HE'S GOT AN ADULT DISABLED SON THAT LIVES THERE.
UM, THAT'S FULL-TIME RESIDENCE AND HE JUST WANTS TO SEPARATE IT OFF AND CLEAN UP THE TITLE.
I WOULD SAY COULD, CAN THAT
DOES, DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT IT? AND, AND WHEN YOU SAID SOMETHING THAT ANNEX, THAT'S WHAT CONFUSED ME.
WE'RE NOT, I ONLY SAY THAT 'CAUSE THE COUNTY HAS LIKE BEEN SUPPOSEDLY MADE LIKE THIS STATEMENT THAT NOT THEY WEREN'T GONNA D
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THAT ADJUSTMENTS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT.BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENTS ALREADY BEEN DONE, IS DONE IN 97.
THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE PACKET.
YEAH, JUST WHEN THAT BOUNDARY LINE WAS ADJUSTED, IT DID NOT LEGALLY SUBDIVIDE THIS LOCK.
AND IT DIDN'T TAKE IN THE WHOLE PARCEL FOR SOME REASON IT JUST BROUGHT IN JUST THE SLIVER INSTEAD OF
STAFF DOESN'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH IT.
SO ANYBODY ELSE? ANY QUESTIONS? NOTHING TO DO WITH LIKE THE ADDRESS.
MAYBE LIKE WHERE THE, THE ADDRESS KNOW THAT THIS LEMME UNDERSTAND EXISTED PRIOR TO THE BOUNDARY LINE ADJUSTMENT.
THIS WHEN YOU PULLED THE DEEDS, IT WAS A COOLEY PROPERTY AND IT WAS 1974 THAT SOMETHING COOLEY DIED.
UM, BUT THEY HAD GRANTED THIS ACCESS ROAD TO THE TOWN FOR THIS PUMP STATION HERE.
SO IT WAS JUST KIND OF, I DON'T KNOW.
I THOUGHT MAYBE IF IT HAD AN ADDRESS OR SOMETHING, MAYBE SOMEBODY JUST WASN'T PAYING ANY ATTENTION.
LIKE, OKAY, THAT ADDRESS IS THAT AND YEAH, IT DIDN'T JUST ANNEX WHAT THEY SAW POINT ODD.
ODD THAT THERE WAS AN ANNEXATION AND YOU DIDN'T JUST BRING IN THE ENTIRE PARCEL.
LIKE IT'S WEIRD TO JUST SPLIT THESE PARCELS AND JUST DO PARTIAL OR PIECES OF 'EM.
SO EVERYBODY'S GOOD WITH THIS? WE CAN, WE CAN DO THIS ON THE 27TH.
IT DOESN'T INVOLVE A PUBLIC HEARING.
IT'S AN EASY THING AND IF NOBODY HAS ANY OBJECTIONS TO IT, WE COULD DO ON THE CONSENT AGENDA.
UM, NEXT UP IS THE RETRO BUT
NOW I'M LIKE A
YEAH, IT'S LIKE A TONGUE TWISTER, ISN'T IT? YEAH.
UM, SO COUNSEL'S REQUESTED TO AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT AND THE INSTALLATION SERVICES FOR THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT, UM, TO RETROFIT THE EXISTING SWITCHGEAR CONTROL PANELS, UH, REPLACING OBSOLETE EQUIPMENT WITH MODERN SUPPORTABLE TECHNOLOGY WHILE MAINTAINING COMPATIBILITY WITH EXISTING CONTROL CABINETS.
UM, ALL THREE EXISTING CONTROL PANELS PURCHASED WERE PURCHASED IN 1994, HAVE OVER 45,000 HOURS OF OPERATION ON EACH.
THIS PROCUREMENT IS CONDUCTED AS A SOLE SOURCE PURCHASE ACCORDING TO THE VIRGINIA PUBLIC PROCUREMENT ACT GUIDELINES.
WE RECEIVED A QUOTE FROM BEN SHAW APPLIED MOTOR CONTROLS IN THE AMOUNT OF $264,798 TO RETROFIT TO A RETROFIT SOLUTION, WHICH IS CUSTOM ENGINEERING SOLUTION THAT IS NOT COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE FROM OTHER MANUFACTURERS.
WELL, UM, SOLE SOURCE LETTER FROM THE MANUFACTURER AND A JUSTIFICATION FORM ARE ATTACHED AND, UH, THE FUNDS ARE IN THE FISCAL YEAR 27 BUDGET, WHICH WE'VE BEEN PAYING FOR, FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS, I THINK.
OH, I WAS JUST GONNA ASK, UH, WE ARE, WE WE'RE USING THE SCADA SCADA MM-HMM
AND SO THIS, THIS, IT RUNS OFF THE SCADA IT RUNS AUTO SCADA SYSTEM.
THAT'S WHY IT'S MONITORED ALL THROUGH THE SCADA SYSTEM.
AND THESE ARE DOWN AT THE LARAY AVENUE WITH MORE WATER STATION.
SO WE GOT 32 YEARS OUT OF THEM.
WHICH WAS WHEN THAT STATION, I CONFIRMED IT WHEN THE STATION WAS BUILT.
AND I WOULD LIKE, LIKE TO THINK THESE WILL LAST THAT LONG TOO, BUT I DON'T THINK MAKE THINGS LIKE THE, I WAS JUST GETTING READY TO SAY THAT THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING WHEN I SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, DO THEY MAKE THEM THAT? BUT, BUT, UM, SOMETHING IS NEEDED AND IF IT'S OBSOLETE, IT'S NOT LIKE YOU COULD LIKE, GET PARTS TO FIX SOMETHING.
THAT'S USUALLY HOW THAT WORKS.
AND WE ARE, UH, THEY'VE BEEN BUDGETING FOR THIS FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS AND EVERYTHING GOES WELL.
IT'LL BE COMING IN, IT'S PROPOSED UNDER BUDGET AND THEY'LL HOPEFULLY EVERYTHING GOES SMOOTHLY THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE SAVING MONEY FROM THIS CUSTOM BILL.
ANYBODY HAVE ANY ISSUES WITH THAT GOING ON WITH CONSENT? OKAY.
SO, UM, NEXT WE'RE MOVING INTO CLOSE.
I TOLD YOU LIKE THE SHORTEST MEETING EVER NUMBER.
BUT, UM, WHAT I WAS GONNA ASK IS AS COUNSEL, UM, READS THE MOTION TO GO TO CLOSE TO NOT INCLUDE ONE AND TWO BECAUSE WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
SO IT WOULD ONLY BE NUMBER THREE.
HONOR, I MOVE THAT TOWN COUNCIL CONVENE A CLOSED MEETING PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 2.2 DASH 37 11
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AND 2.2 DASH 37 12 OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES.ONE, DISCUSSION OR CONSIDERATION OF THE ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY FOR A PUBLIC PURPOSE OR OF THE DISPOSITION OF PUBLIC HELD REAL PROPERTY WHERE DISCUSSION IN AN OPEN MEETING WOULD ADVERSELY AFFECT THE BARGAINING POSITION OR NEGOTIATING STRATEGY OF THE PUBLIC BODY.
MORE SPECIFICALLY, ACQUISITION PURSUANT TO THE TOWN CHARTER, UH, 18 AND VIRGINIA CODE 15.2 DASH 2109 SECOND.
THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND ROLL CALL.