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Hampton Council Appropriates Additional SmartScale Funds for West Queen Street Improvements
Summary
Council unanimously approved consent‑agenda budget amendments to appropriate roughly $578,000 (SmartScale/VDOT) for West Queen Street Quarter improvements and to program multiple VDOT state-of-good-repair projects into the six‑year improvement plan, along with other routine consent items.
Hampton City Council unanimously approved consent‑agenda items that amended the FY2026 city budget to appropriate additional VDOT SmartScale funds for capital projects, including the West Queen Street Quarter improvements.
The clerk summarized consent items that included an appropriation of approximately $31,000 from the capital projects fund balance for unspecified transportation initiatives and the acceptance and appropriation of approximately $578,000 in additional SmartScale funding from VDOT for the West Queen Street Quarter project. Council also approved the programming of seven state‑of‑good‑repair projects into VDOT’s six‑year improvement plan and the appropriation of roughly $3.2 million of VDOT funds to the capital projects fund for those projects. The consent agenda also authorized the city manager or her designee to execute any necessary agreements.
Other consent items approved without discussion included an encroachment agreement between the city and members of the Thomas family to allow encroachments within four city easements and a city right of way, and approval of minutes from two council meetings.
A council member moved to approve the consent agenda, a second was received, and the clerk called the roll. All voting council members recorded “Aye.”
