Hampton council approves consent agenda, five-year billboard lease; appoints Pompey to EDA

At its Sept. 10 meeting, the Hampton City Council approved a consent agenda that included contract amendments, budget adjustments and other routine items, voted to lease two city-owned billboard sites to Adams Outdoor Advertising Limited Partnership under a five-year agreement, and appointed Robert Pompey to the Economic Development Authority.

The consent agenda, presented by staff as routine and noncontroversial, included the city's participation in proposed settlements of several opioid-related claims; authorization to use construction management contracting for a sanitary sewer force-main replacement; amendments to the FY25–26 contract with the Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board; an amendment to the 2025 council-approved budget to accept and appropriate approximately $300,000 in additional state funds to the city’s general fund school operating budget; and an amendment to the 2026 council-approved budget to accept and appropriate approximately $5,000,000 in additional federal and state funds to the school operating budget. The consent agenda also included approval of minutes from four council meetings. A motion to…