{"id":14167,"date":"2015-10-08T18:59:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T22:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=14167"},"modified":"2015-10-12T22:23:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T02:23:53","slug":"danville-city-council-live-10815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/08\/danville-city-council-live-10815\/","title":{"rendered":"Danville City Council – LIVE! (10\/8\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"

SouthsideCentral was LIVE! at Danville City Hall for Tuesday’s Danville City Council meeting. This article is now as complete as it’s going to get, so enjoy the recap!
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We’ve got a good attendance today, well at least relatively good from what it’s been before. Let’s take a look at the right side of the gallery.<\/p>\n

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We’re moving Sheila Baynes into our “Regular Attendees Club”, and she joins Dolores Reynolds and Harold Garrison. HELLO!<\/p><\/div>\n

Yes, that kid has a stocking cap on. I’m guessing those three are there for a school project. Gus Dyer is here, and he tells me he’s going to have a surprise in his speech to Council. Oh boy. Let’s see who’s here on the left side.<\/p>\n

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We’ve got Glenn Scearce, Dianne McMahon, Lynette Lawson and this year’s Leadership Southside class, Stan Jones, Melissa Newton and Bill Sgrinia (and others). HELLO!<\/p><\/div>\n

We’re underway. Sherman Saunders does the prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. The public comment session is next, and Sherman Saunders reminds everybody about the five minute time limit. Gus Dyer goes first and makes a claim that he’s owed $55,000 in rebates that were due to him under the old program that partially reimbursed developers for creating new subdivisions. He tries to get an answer on the spot from council and Saunders, but that’s not going to happen. Saunders asks Acting City Manager Ken Larking to find out more on this issue.<\/p>\n

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Gus Dyer makes his speech.<\/p><\/div>\n

Yes.I said Acting City Manager. Although there’s been no official word on that, retiring City Manager Joe King hasn’t been around for a month. King’s still technically City Manager until the end of November.<\/p>\n

Moving along, Tommy Goddard steps up and claims that the police department isn’t reporting shootings that are happening in Danville. On Friday, I factchecked this with Danville Police Chief Philip Broadfoot. He told me that all police reports that are taken are automatically loaded into the Police to Citizen part of the city’s website<\/a>. The police department issues media releases on incident that are public safety concerns or incidents where rumors have the potential to spiral out of control. Anybody can access the P2C website and see where police reports and incidents have happened.<\/p>\n

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We give Tommy Goddard bonus style points for the Virginia Flaggers t-shirt.<\/p><\/div>\n

Glenn Scearce is up next and he’s off-base again. I’m not going to barbecue Glenn this time, because he’s started to reach out for the facts on what’s going on with the city. I give him credit for that. He’s still off-base with his comments that the police has too many high-ranking officers and not enough patrol officers, but we talked about that on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Scearce is close to becoming one of the “Regular Attendees Club”.<\/p><\/div>\n

The consent agenda is this year’s capital improvement projects and a lot of small grants for the police department. It passes with no issues. City board and commission appointments also fly through and so does the regular business. The regular business was funding the annual Community Development & Block Grant program from grant money, putting money aside for legal expenses, completing the agreement to buy the electricity generated from the Schoolfield dam and doing a moral obligation for Sky Valley Foods’ expansion project loan. There’s no Job Bust loss risk on that Sky Valley Foods loan, since they’re doing great and the IDA is backing the loan.<\/p>\n

We move to the around the horn session. Nothing from any of the city staff. James Buckner & John Gilstrap have nothing. Larry Campbell & Gary Miller talk about lessons learned from the Virginia Municipal League meeting. Alonzo Jones reminds everyone about breast cancer awareness month. That’s a silent moment because he lost his sister to breast cancer earlier this year. Fred Shanks needles Sherman Saunders about the Dallas Cowboys and gets everybody laughing. Saunders returns fire in his talk.<\/p>\n

We’re done here, so let’s move to the work session.<\/p>\n

We’ve got five things to talk about in the work session…<\/p>\n

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  1. The Parks & Recreation fee schedule<\/li>\n
  2. The 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan overview<\/li>\n
  3. The annual VDOT revenue sharing grant<\/li>\n
  4. Food trucks operating in the city<\/li>\n
  5. Reimbursing developers for building infrastructure<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    This is part of the presentation on the Year 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan.<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Here’s tonight work session gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Parks & Recreation director Bill Sgrinia tries to explain things to City Council.<\/p><\/div>\n

    We’re underway in the work session.<\/p>\n

    I’m getting really mad as we start with Parks & Recreation fees. It seems that the support of elimination of the library fee isn’t unanimous. Gary Miller is strongly against eliminating the fee. Buddy Rawley joins the opposition. John Gilstrap points out that non-residents of Danville aren’t charged for parks and walking trails usage.<\/p>\n

    The opposition is that city residents pay for the library through taxes. Yes, that’s true. But it’s the spirit of cooperation with the county that’s the bigger concept. Fred Shanks points out the similarities between museums that have reciprocal agreements. Pittsylvania County doesn’t charge Danville residents. Buddy Rawley says that he believes that non-residents have all library use except checking out books. That’s false. I’d like to thank Lee Vogler for being a sense of reason in all of tonight’s discussion.<\/p>\n

    This discussion broadens out to the difference between all city resident and non-residents.<\/p>\n

    The non-resident library fee will be eliminated by a probable 7-2 vote. Who in the hell knows what will happen with other Parks and Recreation fees?<\/p>\n

    Lee Vogler has left the meeting and John Gilstrap has to leave. As Gilstrap leaves, he points out that Pittsylvania County doesn’t charge different rates for non-county residents.<\/p>\n

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    Deputy City Manager<\/del> Acting City Manager Interim City Manager<\/del> Ken Larking makes his presentation.<\/p><\/div>\n

    We go through a presentation about the long range transportation plan and move along to a discussion about relaxing city rules on food trucks. James Buckner started this discussion after seeing other cities having great success with them. Amanda Paez has done an excellent job researching other cities’ rules on this.<\/p>\n

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    We heart Amanda Paez.<\/p><\/div>\n

    Corrie Teague does an economic development project update and it’s time for a closed session, so we’re done. We’ve got more material that we could put here, but the article is already around 1100 words long. That’s enough for now.<\/p>\n

    This is the most comprehensive coverage of tonight’s Danville City Council meeting. Thanks for following along here on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    SouthsideCentral was LIVE! at Danville City Hall for Tuesday’s Danville City Council meeting. This article is now as complete as it’s going to get, so enjoy the recap!<\/p>\n

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