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Virginia Beach council approves consent agenda, appropriates grants for EMS and human services and funds June primary
Summary
Virginia Beach City Council approved a multi-item consent agenda that included property-authority ordinances, grant appropriations totaling $1,581,945 for emergency medical services and human services, and a $509,235 transfer to pay for the June primary election.
The Virginia Beach City Council approved a consent agenda that authorized multiple ordinances and resolutions, accepted and appropriated grant funding for emergency medical services and human services programs, and transferred funds to support the June primary.
Vice Mayor Wilson read the consent agenda items aloud during the formal session and the council approved the package without individual roll-call debate. Items included authority to acquire property and easements for the Seventeenth Street Improvement Phase 1 project; authorization for the city manager to execute an up-to-18-month lease extension with the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art for city-owned property at 2200 Parks Avenue; and an ordinance to dissolve the 2040 Vision to Action Community Coalition Commission.
The council also approved temporary encroachment permits for private docks and piers at multiple properties and an ordinance accepting and appropriating $1,581,945 in outside funds to the FY2024-25 operating budgets for emergency medical services and human services. The transcript lists the total for these appropriations as $1,581,945 with allocations that include $904,535 for emergency medical services and several human-services grants and match funds; the city also approved a transfer of $509,235 from the general fund contingency to the FY2024-25 voter registration operating budget to fund the June primary.
One item on the consent list authorized the development authority's issuance of an education facilities revenue bond for Virginia Wesleyan University; the transcript contains a numeric figure for the bond authorization that appears to be garbled and is noted in the clarifying details below.
The council voted to confirm the appointments read by the clerk later in the meeting, approving candidates to the Bayfront Advisory Commission, Human Rights Commission, Minority Business Council and Open Space Advisory Committee by an 11-0 vote.
The consent vote moves multiple capital and operating items forward without separate hearings; staff will process easement acquisitions, execute the museum lease, accept and allocate the grant funds into the operating budgets, and complete procurement or permitting steps for encroachments and pier construction as authorized by the ordinances.
