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Votes at a glance: Town of Nashville council actions on Dec. 9 meeting
Summary
The council approved organizational items, accepted donations and deeds, authorized bids for sewer projects, accepted a state sewer grant, awarded a water-line construction contract, approved personnel-policy revisions and authorized nuisance abatements. This vote roundup lists motions and outcomes recorded by voice vote during the meeting.
At its Dec. 9 meeting the Town of Nashville council approved a series of motions and resolutions. The following summarizes formal actions recorded in the transcript and the outcome as stated on the record (voice votes unless otherwise noted). All actions below were recorded as motions with a second and passed by voice vote in the transcript unless otherwise specified.
Key actions and outcomes
- Appointment: Re-elected Larry Taylor as mayor pro tem; oath administered and motion carried by voice vote.
- Minutes: Approved minutes from the Nov. 19 council meeting (motion and voice vote).
- Donation received: Accepted a donation of approximately 0.79 acres from Elaine Robertson and Patsy Smith for potential inclusion in a Stony Creek nature-trail concept (motion carried by voice vote).
- Presentation received: Received the East Carolina University destination-marketing presentation for further review; consultants to deliver a fuller report in January (motion carried by voice vote).
- Contract award: Approved Resolution 2025-36 to award the Red Oak Road water-line construction contract to BCS Contractors LLC (recommended base bid $716,531.64; combined base+alternate $1,539,990.64 if alternates chosen) and noted a combined contingency of roughly $413,000 for rock. Funding source: water-and-sewer fund.
- Ordinance adopted: Adopted capital project ordinance 2025-33 to allow project budgets to carry between fiscal years (motion and voice vote).
- Sewer projects: Received engineer reports and authorized letting bids for the Essex Road and Regency Estate sanitary sewer extensions; later approved Resolution 2025-35 to accept a state reserve grant for the Regency project (transcript referenced about $984,446). Staff will submit bids to the state for authority-to-award as required.
- Nashville Junction: Approved acceptance of deed for Lot 1 from Hart LLC under the donation agreement (motion carried by voice vote).
- Development agreement hearing: Opened a public hearing on the Bailey Commerce Park (TTL Development LLC) phase-1 development agreement; no public comments were recorded; council discussed needed clarifications and benchmarks and expects to return with a revised agreement.
- ABC store access: Accepted donation of ~0.275 acres from 3MR Limited Partnership to provide a second street access for the ABC store and approved the town accepting the donated right-of-way.
- Personnel policy: Approved recommended housekeeping revisions to the town personnel policy as presented by human-resources staff.
- MSD parking: Approved use of $5,000 in MSD funds to gravel half of the Church Street lot as an interim solution.
- Nuisance abatement: Adopted ordinances 2025-31 and 2025-32 to authorize town vendor Horn Landscaping to abate junk/nuisance conditions at 702 West Railroad Street and 716 Clark Street and to place liens for abatement costs if unpaid.
- Closed session: Council voted to go into closed session to review minutes and related matters.
Notes on voting and records
Most motions were approved by voice vote with recorded “Aye” responses; the transcript does not provide roll-call tallies for votes. Where resolutions or ordinance numbers were cited in discussion, those references are noted above. For items expected to require further paperwork (grants, contracts, deed closings), staff indicated follow-up reporting and additional formal award steps pending state authority or executed documents.
