Tuesday night is your turn to speak up if you want to some an item included or taken out of the town budget and Capital Improvement Plan for the next fiscal year. Unfortunately, most times there are no speakers.
The public hearings about the budget and CIP as well as an update of the town’s Hazard Mitigation Plan will be held at the start of the Tuesday, March 16, meeting that begins at 7 p.m. in town hall and is televised live on Channel 10.
The commissioners are then expected to approve the update to the noise ordinance and text amendments to allow residences on the second floor of retail shops in neighborhood business zones. They will probably also approve the purchase of a bucket truck for the electric department for $125,656.
They are also expected to appoint Jackie Revill to the Cemetery Advisory Board and Edwin Gary to the Urban Forestry Advisory Board. The appointments leave two unfilled advisory board seats, a position on the Historic Preservation Commission which must be filled by a resident of the town’s historic district on and around North Main Street and a seat on the Board of Adjustment which must be filled by someone living outside the town limits.
The commissioners will also consider and may approve a contract with Triangle Paving and Grading for $856,057.69 to realign Chalks Road to meet the entrance to the Bowling Green subdivision on Jones Dairy Road. The work will be done at the same time another contractor is building wider, stronger bridges over Austin Creek and Smith Creek on that road.
Other agenda items involve the location and duration for PODs in the historic district and changes to the zoning ordinances which will allow nonconforming residences in town to be rebuilt after being damaged by more than 50 percent of their value.
At the close of the meeting, the commissioners will meet with attorney Eric Vernon to discuss land acquisition, land which they may have to obtain by foreclosure in order to build the Chalks Road project.