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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. | |
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.)
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council consider the attached petitions.
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.
Donation of Conservation Easement Along Cole Spring Branch. (R-2)
Council Goal 4: Maintain and Improve Community Facilities and Services.
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council adopt the attached resolution, which would accept a donation of a conservation easement over an 8.36 acre tract of land identified in Orange County Land Records as Tax Map #7.35.C.1B.
Budget Ordinance Amendments to Correct and Adjust Various Funds. (O-1) (O-2) (O-3)
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council enact the proposed budget ordinance amendments.
Town of Chapel Hill Living Wage Policy Report. (R-3)
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council adopt the attached resolution to establish a living wage policy for all standard 37.5- and 40-hour per week full time employees of the Town with a wage rate that shall be defined as a rate of not less than seven and one-half percent (7.5%) above the Federal Poverty Guidelines, as defined by the Bureau of Census, for a family of four. We recommend that this adjustment be calculated on an annual basis and incorporated into the Town’s pay plan as part of the annual budget process.
Nominations to Various Boards and Committees. (R-4)
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council adopt the attached resolution to nominate applicants to various boards and committees.
These items are reports or information for the Council.
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council endorse the attached schedule or offer guidance to the staff for possible adjustments.
The Peoples Channel 2008-09 Annual Report.
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council receive The Peoples Channel 2008-09 Annual Report.
RECOMMENDATIONS: The SEE Committee recommends that the Council take no action on the resolution.
Status Report on 140 West Project. (Rosemary/Church Street Parking Lot)
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council receive the report.
Follow Up to November 23, 2009 Annexation Report.
RECOMMENDATIONS: On November 23, 2009, staff recommended that no future action be taken with regard to annexations in 2010. We continue to believe that no future annexations be pursued at this time.
Response to Petition on Pay-As-You-Throw.
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council receive the Pay-As-You-Throw staff report.
Annual Report on the Odor Elimination Program at the Mason Farm Wastewater Treatment Plant.
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council receive the report and give feedback on the odor elimination program at the Waste Water Treatment Plant.
Consideration of Proceeding with the Library Expansion Project. (R-5)
PRESENTER: Bruce Heflin, Assistant Town Manager
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council adopt the resolution to authorize the Town Manager to proceed with the project schedule based on a construction start date of approximately July 2010 as detailed in this report and that the Council direct the Town Manager to present a recommended budget that treats the anticipated operating and transitional costs as new initiatives and additions to the base budget.
Energy Strategy for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program. (R-6)
PRESENTER: John Richardson, Sustainability Officer
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council adopt the attached resolution to approve the activities proposed for the Town’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy, and to allow the Town Manager or his designee to fulfill all the requirements necessary to apply for and receive all eligible funding under the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program.
Development Review Assessment Update. (O-4) (O-5) (R-7)
PRESENTER: Roger L. Stancil, Town Manager
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council adopt the attached budget ordinances for development review technology, and adopt the attached resolution for a review of development standards and procedures including authorization of up to $15,000 for technical assistance for the review.
Appointment to the Stormwater Management Utility Advisory Board.
RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Council make an appointment to the Stormwater Management Utility Advisory Board.