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Whigham council agrees to transfer multiple city parcels to Downtown Development Authority
Summary
Acting on City Attorney guidance, the council agreed that several excess city parcels — including the old police department and museum lots — be transferred to the Whigham DDA by quitclaim deed; a DDA board member abstained from discussion and voting.
During new-business discussion on Aug. 12, Mayor Trey Gainous reported the City Attorney advised that the city could convey excess parcels to the Whigham DDA via quitclaim deed so the DDA could manage and use them.
Gainous described the process as “the best way to ‘give’ the properties to the DDA for them to handle and use would be by issuing a quit claim deed, as long as the City deems the properties as excess properties that the City no longer needs.” Mayor Pro Tem Jim Sellers stated he would abstain from discussing or voting on the properties because he is a current DDA board member.
Councilmembers Jimmie Laing, Robert Porter, Andrew Walden and Joel Singletary indicated agreement to quitclaim the following parcels: the old Police Department (W4,A33), the museum (W4,A6), the utilities office (W4,A7), and additional parcels listed as W6,04; W4,A34; W4,22; W4,21; W4,20; and W6,2,01. The transcript records council agreement but does not show a formal motion or recorded roll-call vote on the transfers.
Next steps: according to the meeting minutes, the City Attorney will prepare quitclaim deeds and staff will verify that the parcels are formally declared excess before conveyance. The council did not set a public hearing at this meeting for the transfers; follow-up legal review and deed preparation were noted as pending tasks.
