Sunbury council approves three-year refuse contract, park engineering and a joint recreation agreement; tables commercial PCD amendment

The Sunbury City Council on March 5 approved a three-year residential refuse contract with Local Waste Services Inc., authorized a city administrator intergovernmental agreement related to a joint recreation district and approved engineering services for GR Smith Park improvements. The council also voted to table a Planned Commercial District amendment for a commercial site at Sunbury Meadows Drive and West Granville Street.

Those items were acted on with unanimous roll-call votes during the meeting. Council members recorded seven affirmative votes on each final action recorded in the public minutes and transcript.

Votes at a glance: the council - Approved Ordinance 2025.11, awarding the citys residential refuse collection contract to Local Waste Services Inc. for a three-year term beginning April 1, 2025, and declared an emergency (motion and suspension of rules carried; final roll call 7-0). - Un-tabled and adopted Resolution 2025.O4, authorizing the city administrator to enter into an intergovernmental agreement in relation to a joint recreation district (roll call 7-0). - Adopted Resolution 2025.O5, approving engineering services with Verdantus LLC for GR Smith Park improvements (roll call 7-0). - Tabled Ordinance 2025.10, an amendment to the Planned Commercial District application for the site at Sunbury Meadows Drive and West Granville Street (motion to table carried 7-0).

The refuse contract vote included procedural motions to suspend the rules and to declare an emergency before final passage; those motions were passed by roll call prior to final adoption. The transcript records the motion to suspend rules and the emergency declaration as part of the same agenda item; the final ordinance language in the meeting materials identifies Local Waste Services Inc. as the awarded vendor and a three-year contract term beginning April 1, 2025. The transcript and roll call show unanimous votes for the suspension, emergency and final adoption.

The un-tabling and adoption of Resolution 2025.O4 authorized the city administrator to sign an intergovernmental agreement relating to a joint recreation district; the resolution text was read on the floor before the roll-call vote. Resolution 2025.O5 authorizes the city to contract with Verdantus LLC for engineering services tied to improvements at GR Smith Park; the resolution was presented and approved on the consent of the council with no recorded amendments.

Ordinance 2025.10, an application from NPA Commercial Property LLC (and related local entities) to amend the development plan and certain development standards for a Planned Commercial District at the corner of Sunbury Meadows Drive and West Granville Street, was tabled by a unanimous council vote. The item was postponed because a primary participant (identified in the transcript as out of town) is expected to be present at the council's next meeting.

No dollar amount for the refuse contract award or the Verdantus engineering contract was stated on the public record in the transcript; the resolutions and ordinance numbers were read aloud and recorded. The transcript records the roll-call votes by name and indicates seven ayes on each adopted item.

Council meeting materials filed with this meeting contain the full text of the ordinance and resolutions; the transcript captures the motions, seconds, roll calls, and the read titles of the measures but does not include full contract or agreement language in the spoken record.

The meeting adjourned after routine reports and the votes.