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Hampton City Council approves consent agenda and confirms three appointments
Summary
Council unanimously approved a consent agenda that amended the FY2025 budget to accept grant funding, programmed VDOT projects into the six-year plan and approved minutes; it also confirmed three appointments to local boards.
Hampton City Council voted unanimously to approve tonight’s consent agenda and to confirm three appointments to local boards.
The consent agenda, approved in a single motion, amended the fiscal year 2025 council-approved budget to accept and appropriate grant and other funding for programs described in the agenda and to move $500,000 from the capital budget projects committed fund balance to the capital budget projects to support a contribution described in the agenda. The consent package also requested that the Virginia Department of Transportation program four projects in its six-year improvement plan (North King Street, North Campus Parkway, Tidemill Lane and West Queen Street) and approved minutes from three council meetings.
Council then approved the appointment of Leonard Sledge, Hampton’s economic development director, to the Virginia Peninsula Community College board of trustees, and the appointment of Quincy Byrd and Spencer W. Bosch to first terms on the Social Services Local Advisory Board expiring March 31, 2029.
Motion and vote details: The consent agenda was moved and seconded by council members during the meeting; the roll call recorded all members present voting “Aye”: Councilman Bowman; Vice Mayor Brown; Councilwoman Carolyn Campbell; Councilwoman Michelle Taylor Farrabee; Councilwoman Hope Harper; Councilwoman Mugler; and Mayor Gray. The appointments were adopted on the same roll call.
Why it matters: The budget amendments and appropriation authorize staff to accept and spend grant and other funds under the terms described in the agenda item; programming projects into VDOT’s six-year plan is the step that requests state-side action on local road improvement priorities. The appointments place local officials and community members on boards that advise and govern education and social services programs.
What the record shows: The council’s action on the consent agenda and the appointments was taken without separate discussion and on a single unanimous vote. The agenda language described the uses of the grant funding at a high level; the agenda text supplied to council contained more detailed program descriptions and dollar amounts but those specific line-item details were not read aloud during the motion and vote.
