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TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL
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Notice to people with impaired hearing |
Interpreter services and/or special equipment are available with five days prior notice. Please contact the Communications and Public Affairs Department at 968-2743 for services. | |
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Notice to citizens who wish to speak |
Citizens may petition the Council regarding matters germane to Town policies or business but not appearing on the agenda at petition time. The Council strongly discourages petitions regarding a matter that recently has been, or soon will be before the Council as a public hearing item. Petition time is not intended to substitute for public hearings. As a courtesy to others, a citizen speaking on an agenda item or making a petition is normally limited to three minutes. Persons who are organizing a group presentation and who wish to speak beyond the three minute limit are requested to make prior arrangements through the Mayor’s Office by calling 968-2714. If you wish to address the Council this evening, please go to the front right corner of the Council Chamber and sign up with the Town Clerk. The Council may change the order in which agenda items are presented. | |
| Concept Plans | Presentations for Concept Plans will be limited to 15 minutes. | |
| Attorneys | If you are representing a person with an interest in a quasi-judicial proceeding on this agenda and believe you may wish to cross-examine a witness, please identify yourself as such to the Town Clerk. For the sake of maintaining an accurate public record all speakers must be prepared to speak into an amplified microphone and must provide their name to the Town Clerk. | |
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Agenda items for review |
Agenda items are generally available on the Town’s web site, www.townofchapelhill.org, by 12 noon on Friday before a Council meeting. Citizens may request copies of agenda items in the Communications and Public Affairs Office at 968-2743 or may view them at the Reference Desk in the Chapel Hill Public Library (100 Library Drive). | |
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Cablecast of Council Meetings |
Council meetings are cablecast live on Chapel Hill TV18, the cable government access channel, and via streaming video at www.townofchapelhill.org (see link to "Council Meeting Video"). Generally, the meetings also are rebroadcast throughout the week. | |
Additional materials were presented during the meeting.
Amended resolutions or ordinances are not currently available on-line, please contact Communications and Public Affairs for amendments.
Petitions will not be acted upon at the time they are presented. It shall take a unanimous vote of the Council members present for a petition to be acted upon immediately upon its presentation. After receiving a petition, the Council shall, by simple motion, dispose of it as follows: consideration at a future regular meeting of the Council; or referral to another board or committee for study and report; or referral to the Town Manager for investigation and report; or receive for information. (Receiving does not imply approval, agreement, or consent.)
Petition regarding Bicycle Safety.
Received & Referred
Council Member Harrison attended the Regional Land Conservation Conference.
Items of a routine nature will be placed on the Consent Agenda to be voted on in a block. Any item may be removed from the Consent Agenda by request of the Mayor or any Council Member.
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council adopt the various resolutions and ordinances.
R-1 Adopted
Council Goal 2: Champion Downtown
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council adopt a resolution that would revise the existing “Administrative Procedures and Policy” regarding approval and installation of banners and flags.
R-2 Adopted
Grant Project Ordinance for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant. (O-1)
Council Goal 4: Maintain and Improve Community Facilities and Services
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council enact an ordinance to establish an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Project Ordinance for the development of a mandatory Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy.
O-1 Enacted
Nominations to various boards and committees. (R-3)
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council adopt a resolution to nominate applicants to various boards and committees.
R-3 Adopted
Amendment to the 2009 Council Calendar. (R-4)
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council adopt a resolution amending the Council’s Calendar to reflect the Assembly of Governments meeting on November 30, 2009.
R-4 Adopted
These items are reports or information for the Council.
Completion of the Culbreth Park Rehabilitation Program.
Council Goal 3: Continue to Focus on Land Use, Transit and Development
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council receive the attached report from the Community Home Trust.
Received
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council receive the report.
Received
Proposed Lease of Wallace Parking Plaza for Kidzu Children's Museum. (R-5)
Council Goal 2: Champion Downtown
PRESENTER: Ralph D. Karpinos, Town Attorney
RECOMMENDATIONS: If the Town Council finds that this proposed lease to establish a children’s museum on the Wallace Parking Plaza roof benefits the revitalization of the downtown area, the recommendation is to approve this lease.
R-5 Adopted
RECOMMENDATIONS: No recommendation.
Special Meeting on 12/9 for candidates presentations.
Special Meeting on 12/14 for consideration of appointment.
Appointment to the Stormwater Management Utility Advisory Board.
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council consider making appointments to the Stormwater Management Utility Advisory Board.
Appointments made.
Appointments to the Sustainability Committee.
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council consider making appointments to the Sustainability Committee.
Appointments made.