ITEM #1: CALL TO ORDER @ 7:05 P.M. ….…… By Mayor Tom Southern

(1) DETERMINATION OF QUORUM ………………… All Present

Public Session was opened at 7:06 p.m. with one speaker:

Mayor: "Thank you, Arlyn. I appreciate your work. Arlyn represents us with the Forsyth County Aging Committee and is doing a great job. Since she brought that up….this is something that’s dear to me. I have served in a lot of ________ for the seniors and currently am your representative to the Senior Tarheel Legislature in the state. I’m the Forsyth County delegate to the Senior Tarheel Legislature. Along with Arlyn, we appreciate input from you – things that come to your attention that you can share with us."

THIS PUBLIC HEARING IS FOR CHARLES M. SHEETS, LINDA SHEETS, AND VICKI SHEETS MCCOLLUM. FOR SERVICES, PERSONAL

IN AN NB-S ZONING DISTRICT FROM RS-9.

Each speaker will be allotted three (3) minutes to state their opinion.

Mayor: "We have with us, David Reed, from the City-County Planning Department. He works with Walkertown. He will do a presentation concerning this zoning matter."

David Reed: "The zoning case before you is zoning docket WA-004. It’s a request to go from RS-9, which is Residential, Single Family Zoning, to NB-S, which is Neighborhood Business-Special Use Zoning. And Neighborhood Business is a zoning district that’s designed to have a low-intensity development suitable to work in neighborhoods if council sees fit and the S on the zoning means it’s Special Use zoning, which requires that a site plan be approved along with the zoning and that there can be no changes from that site plan without coming back to this council. The case went to its first Public Hearing before the City-County Planning Board last month, in June, and the City-County Planning Board voted 4-to-4 on the case. One of the members was absent so there was a tie-vote so this is sent up to you without a recommendation for approval or denial and I’ll just go over some of the points that were made during the case; why some of them may have voted for and some against. The site is located in the watershed, however, very little land is being disturbed; therefore, it does not need any watershed permit – it’s exempt from the watershed _____. The petitioners worked with the staff on the site plan and, I believe, arranged all the parking in the rear of the structure to try and maintain the appearance of a single-family residence from the street. That they did in cooperation at the request of staff. The comprehensive plan, the Legacy plan, which Walkertown adopted, encourages the services be allowed in neighborhoods and near residences as long as it fits with the neighborhood and the NB district is designed to fit in neighborhoods. The NB district also has a half-mile spacing requirement that, if it were approved for NB, the house next door could not come in and get another business and not down the street. That was an important factor in staff’s consideration because we’ve talked in other cases, that because of the planning process coming to Walkertown this fall, some zonings might be premature before we go through the planning process. Staff is of the opinion that a neighborhood business is appropriate in a neighborhood if the council sees fit and if this area plans to stay residential, you can still have one neighborhood business in it. If it’s planned to be converted, this will go along with the conversion as well. So it’s really a zoning that could fit here regardless of how you plan this strip of road in your future planning. There were some people in opposition at the Planning Board public hearing and they made some comments to the board. They had turned in a petition that was forwarded on to ya’ll. They just mentioned that the people who are asking for it don’t live in the area and there are some businesses nearby and it’s a busy road – they’re concerned about increasing traffic. So that was some of what the Planning Board considered. That discussion along with the staff report when they ended with their vote, 4 to 4. So with that, I’ll turn it back to Mayor for the public hearing."

Mr. Linville: "Mayor, I need to note that I did not include those petitions in your packet because there were about 10 pages and 10 copies of that is 1,000 sheets of paper – or 100 sheets but anyway. There were 67 names on those petitions."

Mr. Warner: "You’ll have those available to us?"

Mayor: "In the public hearing, we’ll allow 15 minutes for those who are in favor of this zoning change. We’ll allow 15 minutes for those in opposition. A number of people have signed up and our sign-up sheet doesn’t tell me whether you favor or oppose the proposed zoning so I’m just going to call the speakers, and we’ll keep time and let you know how much time each side has. But keep in mind that we have 9 people signed up and keep in mind that we do have a time limit because we have two more public hearings following this one. And we also have a presentation concerning some street work so we have a lot on the agenda and I encourage you to keep in mind that others want to speak."

Mr. Garland: "One other thing, I suggest the possibility of going ahead and allowing the proponents’ side since they go first, to reserve maybe three minutes for rebuttal, if they wanted to, so that it would be the proponent, the opponent and then a rebuttal if they wanted to."

Mayor: "Okay. I’ll call the name…..it might be better if we take it proponents and opponents…….."

Mr. Garland: "………..Proponents first, then opponents………."

Mayor: "Okay. Those who favor this, if you have signed up to speak, raise your hand. Okay. We’ve got three. First speaker come forward………"

Public Hearing was opened at 7:11 p.m.

Mr. Warner: "I do have one question, I believe you said on the NB-S Business there. According to the information that I have you could have the beauty salon or the barber shop or a dry-cleaners. Is that right?"

Mr. Thomas: "Yes sir. That is allowed. Obviously, though, if you had a barber shop in a beauty salon, there’s probably not that much difference as a practical matter that it would be most difficult to have a cleaners because first of all, the layout, the site plan, the parking and that type of thing is not conducive to that type of business. Normally, with that type of business, you have a drive-through, you might have to have a circular drive, or something of that nature. In looking at the site plan, I would say, that as a practical matter, that particular use would probably be eliminated, And you also have the right to say, ‘You can’t have that.’ You could impose upon the petitioner…you could say, ‘Well, a barber shop’s okay. Beauty salon’s okay. But no dry cleaners!.’"

Mr. Warner: "But without a restriction, zoned just NB-S, at some future date, ten years, twenty years from now, they would still be permitted to have drycleaners there, even if they did away with the beauty shop. Is that right?"

Mr. Thomas: "That would be correct."

Mayor: "Anybody else in favor? If not, we’ll move to those who are in opposition."

Ms. Duggins: "Could I ask for clarification from Mr. Reed? Mr. Reed, could you explain about the façade of the front of the building and can it be changed without coming back for a new zoning?"

Mr. Reed: "If it’s approved, the site plan as you have in front of you there, they cannot alter that. They would have to retain the home as shown on there."

Ms. Duggins: "Thank you……as a residential look."

Mr. Warner: "The site plan, that’s just a location of the buildings and the house and so forth there, is that right? It has nothing to do with the use of the property as long as it is NS zoning, is that right?"

Mr. Reed: "Right. The site plan would show how the site is developed physically and then the use is controlled by the use requested; in this case, Services-Personal is the category that allows beauty salons. So what they’re requesting, this be allowed Personal Service use and developed according to that site plan, both things."

FROM THE AUDIENCE: MR. HARRY BOLES: "MR. MAYOR. I TIMED MR. GUERRY AT THREE MINUTES OFF THE TIME --------"

MAYOR: "NO. I’M DEDUCTING THAT. TRYING TO. TRYING TO DO THE BEST I CAN. DON’T HAVE AN OFFICIAL TIMEKEEPER BUT I’M KEEPING UP WITH IT."

Mayor: "You’ve got about 8 minutes, by my calculation, left."

Mayor: "Thelma Lemons?"

Harry Boles: "Mayor and council, in light of the importance of this hearing, I would ask that you consider giving us another five minutes with the number of people who have been speaking."

Mayor: "Council, do you have any objection……………..?

Ms. Duggins: "………….As busy of a schedule, as we have to………………….."

Mayor: …………..Proponents, do you have any objection? Without objection, that’s allowed."

__________________ public hearing and that’s the only commercial (??) zoning in this general area. Sheets’ property, Lot 16, in a restrictive residential subdivision, by restrictive covenants, is highlighted here in brown, in the middle of __________ area. The other commercial zoning is over here at the intersection of Darrow Road and Highway 66. Notice everything else, members of the council, on this map, that’s in white, is residential or you have got Institutional Use down by the park, Morris Chapel Church and Love’s Church. So what you’re asking, right here in the middle of all of this non-commercial property, one lot the folks want to be re-zoned. The area highlighted in pink was the old Hammack farm, goes back about 100 years. The Hammack family lived in Walkertown for a long time. In 1951 Avalee Hammack and her son, J.T. Hammack, came up with a plan to develop the farm. Their first plan started in 1951 ______________ and includes these two gentlemen’s properties who stood here and said they favored this and they’ve got restrictive covenants on their property and not supposed to use them for business either. I checked out every deed in this subdivision, members of the council today, and every deed in this subdivision has restrictive covenants for residential purposes only. In 1951, there were 30-something lots they were selling, and they sold quickly to people like Ralph Landreth. He bought his lot in 1951; he built his house and he still lives there today and he counted on those restricted covenants to protect him. Mr. Warner, your brother bought a lot in 1951 – bought three – he and his wife built their house. His widow still lives there, she signed the petition. Ralph Landreth signed a petition. So it’s pretty clear why these people signed the petition – because all these properties are supposed to be residential; they’re not supposed to be commercial. It’s pretty clear. In 1958, the area in blue, which is another part of the old Hammack farm – that was called Hammack Section 1; by the way, I live on Lots 27, 28 – my wife is sitting back, we both signed the petition. We both have restrictive covenants in our deed forbidding the property to be used for any other use other than residential. I checked today; every deed in this section has got restricted covenants. In 1962, the area in green, the Hammack Section II, was developed. I checked today; I have the deeds if the Town Council would like for them to be entered into the record. Every deed has restrictive covenants. So what you’ve got here is that in the middle of all of this residential zoning, except for this __________________________, there is not one commercial __________________________, and this established commercial zoning over here has got one lot that’s got restrictive covenants that between 80 and 90 people have relied for 50-plus years on it being residential use and they want to rezone it. This is a simple issue; whose interest should be paramount to the Town Council? All of those people who bought 80 or 90 properties and relied for 50 years on their property to be restricted; every deed has got a chain of title (??) with private restrictive covenants, restricting it to residential property; should their interests be paramount over the interest of one person? A couple of other points: We’ve got sewer going round out there; we need a land use plan or an area plan that guides us in our development. I respectfully submit to the council that if we let commercial zoning go beyond the intersection of Martin and 66, or we let it go beyond Chapel Street, where the mayor used to live, if we don’t protect those few areas, the quality of life for these people are going to be substantially affected. There’s only one land-use plan, or planning document you have to go by – it’s the one council appointed Dot Duggins to. I voted to appoint her seven years ago. I’ve got it in my hand and there’s no other plan that applies to this community. And if you look at it, it says that it’s a guide developed to guide us into the 21^st century and to protect communities, established communities. And all through it, it talks about protecting quality of life. All the way through it – quality of life – certainly, there are words like economic development and so forth in there. It says that the Legacy Development Guide focuses on the ‘physical growth and development of our community but also addresses quality of life issues and community safety’. And you go all the way through here ………………

Mayor: "………….Just a couple more minutes……………."

Mr. Boles: "………….You go all the way through the Legacy Plan and you find these little gems all the way through that support expressly with an express goal or policy to protect just such a situation like this. Fifty years of reliance on buying lots, building houses, raising families, having family values, having community values, having a sense of community among these people – you talk to Thelma Lemons, for example, or Ms. Cox, too. You went out and got these signatures on these petitions and Thelma, would you come up here for just a moment? I’d like to ask you a few questions, if you don’t mind.

With respect to this Lot 16, that’s the subject of this rezoning petition, did your mother used to own this property?"

Ms. Lemons: "She did."

Mr. Boles: "And when did she die?"

Mr. Boles: "And she bought property in 1953?"

Ms. Lemons: "Correct."

Mr. Boles: "When she bought it, it had a restrictive covenant that said, ‘Buildings can only be used for residential purposes’. You have a copy of the deed? Okay. Under ‘Restrictions’ in here it says, ‘All buildings can only be used for residential purposes, with express provision or exception with respect to schools and churches.’ Did you sell the property at some point, like 1984?

Ms. Lemons: "Yes."

Mr. Boles: "And in 1984, did that deed have restrictions………………."

Ms. Lemons: "………………..It did…………."

Mr. Boles: "………………..That restricted it for residential purposes."

Ms. Lemons: "Yes."

Mr. Boles: "And where did you live in 1984, when you signed that deed?"

Ms. Lemons: "On Avalee Street."

Mr. Boles: "And why did you put that restrictive covenant in there?"

Mr. Boles: "Why?"

Mr. Boles: "And do you intend to enforce this restrictive covenant against Lot 16, the subject of this rezoning petition tonight?"

Mr. Boles: "Okay. All those people who are in favor of what I said I would like to ask them to stand up."

Mayor: "Time’s expired. They may stand up and that’ll end it…………………"

Mr. Boles: "……………..I’d like to ask some more…………"

Mayor: "……………..We’ve been very generous with the time and thank you……………."

Mr. Boles: "……………..Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor."

From the audience……….

"I have one question for Mr. Boles, would you let your son or daughter live where I live right now?"

Mayor: "Thank you all. You all may be seated now."

Mr. Larrimore: "I’d like to ask Mr. Garland something. I’m from the country! I notice there’s 13 people on here that don’t even live close to this. Should you have a dog in the fight if you’re going to have a petition or does it matter?"

Mr. Garland: "No. The petition is……..there’s no statutory or UDO regulations for the petitions so they can be whoever."

Mr. Larrimore: "……I wanted that cleared up."

Ms. Duggins: "There’s one thing I’d like to clear up, too. Serving on the Legacy Steering Committee. I thoroughly enjoyed that, met a lot of good people. That’s where I met David and Mr. Boles brought up a point about my being on the steering committee. Yes, I did work diligently with a lot of other people on this Legacy document and one of the most important things that Mr. Boles left out, that is in this document, is walkable communities, which is indicative of what Patrick Hennigan’s shopping center will be having. All of us on this committee advocated to have offices, living homes, apartments, and shopping -- all in the same area because we recognize that there are a lot of people who, as they got elderly, would need to be able to walk to the doctor; to be able to drive their vehicles if they have, maybe, a wheelchair, whatever, to get to that doctor’s office or to the drugstore or to do their grocery shopping. Just wanted to make that comment."

Mr. Warner: "But there’s no sidewalk there or anything for the people to walk, going like to the shopping center……"

Ms. Duggins: "………Not on that one but I would hope that we would not get to the point in this town that we can’t support our home-grown entrepreneurs who start; this lady has a beauty shop that’s right on the same street just a few yards right down the street so there will be no increased traffic. It’ll be the same traffic that’s going there right now and has been for years. I hope we don’t get to the point……."

Mr. Warner: "………One other point there; as I read this here. The occupant does not plan to live at that property, just operate the business, is that correct? Did I understand that properly?"

Mayor: "Let me direct your attention, council, we’ve heard those for, we’ve heard those against; lot of documentation from both sides that you have seen. So I present it to you for your consideration, having heard those for and those against."

Mr. Warner: "Mr. Mayor? I appreciate very much all of those who have spoke for and against and I have taken under consideration every point that was made by all but with the present availability of, what I call, commercial sites in Walkertown, I have to move that we deny this petition. Thank you."

Public Hearing was closed at 8:01 p.m.

Mayor: "Hearing no second, is there another motion?"

Mr. Warner: "Mr. Mayor, one thing that made my decision is we do have already available what I call commercial property. You’re penetrating a neighborhood there that I don’t think needs to be penetrated yet. Now we may grow to the time when that would be appropriate but I feel like we’re penetrating here to open up possibly a strip mall of 1.7-tenths of a mile from the upper underpass down to 158 and I think we ought to be very careful as we consider this to not do that. Thank you.

THIS PUBLIC HEARING IS FOR SHEETZ, INC.

FOR A CONVENIENCE STORE

IN AN HB-S (TWO PHASE) ZONING DISTRICT.

Each speaker will be allotted three (3) minutes to state their opinion.

Mayor: "This is for a convenience store in the shopping center."

Mayor: "Seats in the front if anyone wants to move up!"

(NOTE: WHEN MR. REED DOES NOT SPEAK DIRECTLY INTO THE MICROPHONE, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO HEAR WHAT HE IS SAYING)

David Reed: "I guess you’ve said that a lot in your career! (Laughter!) 9; This is a Final Development Plan and it’s part of a two-phase rezoning. Walkertown has not addressed a two-phase zoning to-date and actually the first phase of this was approved back when it was in the county’s jurisdiction, by the county commissioners. A two-phase zoning is very similar to a Special Use zoning and the main difference is that the zoning itself is approved in the first phase, which establishes allowed in the zoning district and can place some preliminary conditions on the case. The second phase is when a site plan is brought forward and in a larger site like this, there can be multiple second phases. We can call just each one of them a second phase planner or the term is the final development plan. Tonight we actually have two final development plans for the same rezoning docket and we’ve assigned the Walkertown zoning docket #WA-005 and the first of the two is for Sheetz and the property is on the corner of Old Hollow Road and Reidsville Road, the corner outparcel in this _________Special-Use Two-Phase zoning. And we have, just in the past couple of weeks, gotten some new equipment in our office which allows to reduce site plans and from now on, we’ll be able to bring out an overhead ___________ _____.

You can see all of access to the stores through the shopping center, which was required by NCDOT and when the site plan first came in, staff requested the developers to show the interconnection of pedestrian connections to the rest of the shopping center and they re-drew their plan showing their sidewalk connections coming into the site in logical places. Petitioners also agreed to a condition to coordinate the landscape plantings and the building facades with the rest of the shopping center so it’ll give it more of a cohesive look on the overall shopping center rather than just to have individual businesses. Developers were agreeable to all of those conditions and therefore staff recommends that this is consistent with the original zoning approval and we would recommend, and the Planning Board recommends to you, approval. It was actually on the Consent Agenda at the Planning Board. There was no registered opposition and therefore they approved it on their Consent Agenda unanimously."

Public Hearing was opened at 8:06 p.m.

There were no speakers and the Public Hearing was closed at 8:07 p.m.

Mayor: "There’s a couple of fellows here tonight with Sheetz and this is going to be their first North Carolina store – it’s a very good store. I’ve been in a couple of their stores north of here and you can’t be one anywhere else til you build this one."

Mr. Garland: "When we passed the zoning on the first property, I think that was Sheets as well, wasn’t it? I think we passed the zoning from RS-9 to Neighborhood Business-S but I don’t think we then went and had a second step or included in that first step the approval of a site plan with its conditions. So before we move on, I think that would be a good thing to go ahead and have a formal motion for the site plans.

Mr. Warner: "Let me clarify one thing. I think I’ve heard somewhere that on this particular zoning, there cannot be another zoning within one-half mile. Is that correct or not?"

Mr. Garland: "That’s correct. You can’t have another business………….."

Mr. Larrimore: "…………And this is more or less for the driveway permit………….."

Mr. Garland: "…………What you’re doing by this ___________________________________"

CANNOT HEAR BECAUSE TOO MUCH TALKING IS IN BACKGROUND

Mr. Warner: "Let me ask you, as far as that restriction, but this zoning does not prohibit other zonings within that half-mile. Someone else can petition for General Purpose zoning, can they not?"

Mr. Garland: "I don’t believe that’s right."

Mr. Reed: "Yeah, you can’t have another NB zoning……….."

Mr. Warner: "………..You can’t have another NB but someone could have a General Purpose right next door."

CANNOT HEAR BECAUSE TOO MUCH TALKING IS IN BACKGROUND

"….some other zoning….."

"….right next door……."

".…NB would be out of a house…."

"…that would protect you against this…"

Mr. Garland: "….NB is the only real district – maybe PB as well – that would be appropriate for a residential area. NB is actually supposed to be in residential areas because it’s supposed to be a neighborhood business."

Mr. Tingen: "So actually this could serve as insurance policy against a whole group of houses changing into business."

Mr. Garland: "Again, that’s ultimately what you’re planning to do is decide whether or not that’s the way that area goes."

Mr. Warner: "I think what bothers me is that we zoned that 311/66 intersection – that was residential. To me that says it can happen."

Public Hearing was closed at 8:10 p.m.

THIS PUBLIC HEARING IS FOR CATIE FOOD SYSTEMS, INC.

FOR A RESTAURANT WITH DRIVE THROUGH SERVICE

IN AN HB-S (TWO PHASE) ZONING DISTRICT

Each speaker will be allotted three (3) minutes to state their opinion.

FINAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Katie Food Systems Inc. for a restaurant with drive-through service in a HB-S (two-phase) zoning district.

Mr. Reed: "This is your second final development plan. The first one was located on the corner – this one is further down, another outparcel that was defined in the first phase and we also have a site plan. As you can imagine, these are reviewed at the same time, the same request was made to make the _____ connections, the rest of the shopping center, which they’ve done on the site plan and also agreed to the conditions to do landscaping and building design consistent with the overall shopping center. And with those conditions, and all the other conditions applied, the Planning Staff would recommend approval of the final development plans.

FINAL DISCUSSION BEFORE VOTE:

Mr. Garland: "Excuse me. Did we have a public hearing here?"

Ms. Duggins: "No, we didn’t."

Mayor: "No, we didn’t but I didn’t have anybody signed up. Although no one signed up, I’ll declare the public hearing on this matter to be open."

Public Hearing was opened and closed at 8:11 p.m. with no speakers.

The motion was made again.

Mayor: "And this is for a Wendy’s Restaurant. People are excited for this."

Mayor: "John Davenport is with us. We’ve talked a lot about the traffic on Old Hollow Road – Highway 66. John Davenport is a traffic engineer and he’s done a study for the town and he’s with us tonight to do a presentation concerning some ways of trying to help with the traffic problems.

Another announcement that I want to make is this coming Friday at 10:00, we’re going to have a Progress Celebration – we think we’re making a little progress in Walkertown, the first phase of the sewer is beginning to hook up users and it’s now available in certain areas and will be available as the contractor finishes. At 10:00 near Hardee’s in the field up there, we’re going to have a little celebration and help me get some people there. We’ve got some dignitaries who are coming; we’ve got some elected officials who will be with us who helped us with receiving the $2million grant that helped us get started. We’ve got some business people that’ll be there but we need citizens to come. Then following that, at our Town Hall, which was formerly the Gant Oil Company office building; we’re going to place a memorial at the flag poles in memory of Ms. Gant. It was through her generosity that this building was made available to the town for a town hall. We want you to come there also and see our beautiful garden that we have and just see what we have to be thankful for because of the generosity of the Gant family."

A 5-minute recess was called at 8:14 p.m. before the next presentation.

HIGHWAY 66 CORRIDOR STUDY – PRESENTED BY JOHN DAVENPORT ENGINEERING

Most of Mr. Davenport’s presentation can be heard in its entirety on the tape labeled 07-23-03, Tape #2 of 2, in Lynn’s office at Town Hall.

Mr. Warner: "As I understand what we’re doing here with this, is improve our position, is that right? This will be DOT responsibility as far as funding?

Mayor: "Right. It gives them the go ahead to pursue the funding from the ‘Moving Ahead’ program that we’re interested in. My understanding is that each division will receive some of that funding and I think from what they’ve indicated that we would be given high priority in Division 9.

Mr. Davenport: "Our division is going to get about $40-million."

Mayor: "I think so."

Mr. Warner: "Do you know of any other municipality that’s gone through a study as we have?"

Mr. Davenport: "Kernersville has spent quite a bit of money on their study and they’ve gotten quite a bit of improvements out of DOT over the past few years."

Mayor: "They’ve spent a lot of money to get a lot."

Ms. Duggins: "John, this is an excellent report and I thank you….very informative."

Mr. Larrimore: "Yep. In-depth."

RESOLUTION #03-029

TO APPROVE COLLECTION OF YEAR 2003 TAXES BY FORSYTH COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR IN ACCORDANCE WITH G.S. 105-321

This is an annual resolution charging the Tax Collector to collect Walkertown taxes.

TO APPROVE COLLECTION OF PRIOR YEARS TAXES BY FORSYTH COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR IN ACCORDANCE WITH G.S. 105-373, G.S. 105- 321 AND G.S. 105-330.3

Financial Statements for JUNE, 2003

Mr. Larrimore: "Looks like we’re going along in pretty good shape – for the shape we’re in. We’re just like everyone else. Some money we had in the bank didn’t draw much interest and anybody can relate to that that’s got a dollar or two in the bank."

Mr. Tingen: "Finally got the water fund down to zero, didn’t we?"

Mr. Warner: "As I look at the balance, I agree with Mr. Larrimore, looks like we got a pretty good fund balance for our size but let’s be reminded that $325,000 of that General Fund amount is earmarked for the sewer, to be the school contribution. Then that leads into another question, on the sewer fund pages, it shows CCUC over $2million, 11-thousand, the question is this, are we using Rural Center money or what kind of money are we using? We’re not paying any 8% now are we, on any money? What is the procedure there when they bill? Do they first ____ to the Rural Center or does it come through our office, or what?"

Mr. Linville: "Those bills come through our office and we pay them whatever funds are available, is that right, Lynn?"

Lynn: "As Terry Cornett gives me an invoice, I send to the Rural Center and then they send money to us."

Mr. Warner: "So then there’s no interest incurred?"

Lynn: "What I do is just "sweep" it out of our account into their account."

Mr. Warner: "I notice here we got it under one - the Rural Center, we got $417,456 and then over on the next page we got CCUC with the $2million 11thousand. Point being that we’re not having to pay any interest on anything at this time. We will eventually …. I assume we’ll use that $325,000, too, when we get the $2million grant out of the way. Is that right?"

Mayor: "Yes. We’re getting down in the final stages of the money."

Mr. Warner: "….Because they’re talking about 90% completion……."

Mayor: "And money’s about 90% gone, too, I suspect."

Mr. Warner: "I see that on Article 44, the ½ cent sales tax, we have year-to-date $9,404.00 and town manager gave me a report on that. I was questioning that the hold harmless funds that we had budgeted somewhere around $34,000 on intangible tax distribution and inventory tax reimbursement. So the hold harmless report shows that we would receive enough money from this Article 44 tax that we would not get any hold harmless money but is there some, has to be some yet to come in if we’re just at $9,000."

Mr. Linville: "I don’t know."

Mr. Warner: "When the report shows like $31,000 – can you check into that and see where we stand on that, please?"

Mr. Linville: "….Sure…"

Mr. Larrimore: "We got this one sheet in here on people that want to be annexed and we got about three times this many and the tax pay of this is $2,321, 400. Course that’s not all money, it’s houses and land and whatnot. Right now, looks like we got an outburst of people wanting to get into Walkertown. So this is just one page, right? So we got another couple of pages of this? So we’re looking at quite a bit of people wanting to come in – wanting their own trash can for a change."

Mr. Larrimore: "Since I’ve already talked about that, I make a motion that we do that.

MOTION: TO APPROVE RESOLUTION #03-031

Mayor: "We have residents here tonight that all live down in Winchester, and we’re trying to get everybody in your neighborhood into town and Kings Court and some of the places. One of the things we discovered……….I’ve got a letter here from a young fellow working on a Merit badge in a scout troop and he was instructed to write a letter to an elected official and he has written me a letter. Let me share this with you because it ties in with what we’re doing.

"….According to a recent article in the Winston-Salem newspaper stated that Walkertown was paying for trash pick-up for people not in the city limits of Walkertown. This was due to the situation of how the boundaries of Walkertown city limits were drawn. How are you and the Town Council going to approach this subject? And what do you intend to do about further annexation to solve this problem?" That’s your homework, council, we’ve got to answer this young man’s letter."

Mr. Warner: "In our meeting on June 24^th, I had requested a sewer update and also some annexation report information. Due to the time, I would like to move that forward to the August 26^th meeting and that would give more time – we’ve got so much on the table tonight. Is that alright? Is that alright with you, Mr. Linville?"

Mayor: "We still need to have this Executive Session."

Ms. Duggins: "I move that we go into Executive Session."

Mr. Linville: "Two things. We’ve got to have someone make the motion to go into, don’t matter who…………"

Ms. Duggins: "……I just did……."

Mr. Linville: "I’ve got this council workshop under the Executive Session portion that we need to come back into open session to have. It’s not a closed session item."

07-25-03 10:00 a.m. First Flush / Open House

08-05-03 2:00 p.m. Planning Board Meeting

08-12-03 2:00 p.m. Town Council Meeting @ Library

08-26-03 7:00 p.m. Town Council Meeting @ Library

09-09-03 2:00 p.m. Town Council Meeting @ Library

09-23-03 7:00 p.m. Town Council Meeting @ Library