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Residents tell council of backyard flooding; Community Brain Injury Services urges continued funding
Summary
Two written public comments were read into the record: one from a homeowner reporting repeated flooding allegedly linked to a city drainage project, and a letter from Community Brain Injury Services asking the city to maintain funding for services that support vulnerable residents during COVID‑19.
The clerk read two written public comments submitted by the deadline during the CIP and budget public hearings. Edith Newkirk complained that a city‑dug ditch and a blocked underground pipe caused repeated backyard flooding at her property, raising her flood insurance from $290 to $3,600 per year; she asked the city to investigate and accept liability where appropriate.
Hugh Bassett submitted comment urging the city to use the CIP funds for neighborhood projects across Hampton, noting the CIP total and requesting the Rose Street extension be included. Later, the clerk read a separate letter from Jason Young, executive director of Community Brain Injury Services, that urged the council to maintain funding for CBIS’s Dunby House and detailed CBIS’s COVID‑19 response: transitioning to remote service delivery, completing 264 COVID safety assessments in three weeks, conducting more than 1,000 client contacts and fulfilling emergency client assistance requests.
Young told council that CBIS serves vulnerable clients whose needs may grow during the pandemic and asked the city to sustain support so services can continue and physical locations can reopen when safe.
