And the light is green, so will the council come to order and will the clerk please call the roll?

Anderson, essentially Oliver's absent for present.

Igor Smith is absent.

Mattingley here.

Sutfin?

Here.

Watson.

Present.

Okay, we have a quorum.

Um, so we'll go ahead, we'll start this evening with the consent agenda.

Um we have three items on the consent agenda, and we'll be approving all three of these items.

The first is um the town council minutes for October 7th and October 14th.

Um, the second is resolution 10 C25, and this is a resolution to authorize the addition of fire lieutenant and firefighter, fire inspector positions in the approved pay plan and transfer funds for these new positions.

The third and final item is resolution 10 D twenty five, a resolution approving the Blacksburg Transit System 2025 substance abuse policy.

What is council's pleasure on the consent agenda?

I move approval of the consent agenda.

Second.

We have a motion, a second, any discussion.

And will the clerk please call the roll.

Andrew, um, sorry, Ford.

Aye.

Mattingley.

Aye.

Sutfin?

I Watson.

Aye.

Anderson.

Aye.

We'll now move on to the public hearing section of the meeting.

We have one public hearing on the agenda, and that is the uh town corporate boundary adjustment agreement with Montgomery County.

We will start this evening with the staff presentation.

We'll have our staff presentation.

Yes.

Hello.

Um here we are.

Uh, we've done a corporate boundary survey of the entire town limits this year.

And all of you where we're at.

Um, so some background.

The reason for doing this is it had been over 50 years since the last time the entirety of town limits had been surveyed.

Um, and that last time was at the 1973 annexation, which largely made town limits resemble what it looks like today for the most part.

It was a very drastic change.

This is hard to see.

Um, but over time, the that 1973 boundary, it brought in Virginia campus, the Tom's Creek Basin, and then some.

Um and since since then there had been a few piecemeal boundary line adjustments and agreements done on a case-by-case basis for their own various specific purposes and reasons.

And it was determined by town administration that it was it was time the time was due for a fresh survey using updated technology and adequate land record research to verify and eliminate any doubts of what the corporate limits actually is.

So this project began in June of last year.

We put out a request for proposals.

And in the following months, we reviewed applicants and conducted interviews, finally uh reaching to a project kickoff with the selected consultants in November of 2024.

And right from the get-go, they hit the ground running doing uh land record research at the courthouse and consolidating all n there was uh knowledge transfer from town staff as well.

And then field crews began their field surveys uh in ja early, early this year in January.

Umce then we received preliminary preliminary draft deliverables that included GIS data, um the actual plaques and exhibits for review, and since then we've reached the point of we we have all those products and all those deliverable deliverables from the consultant, and now we're at the some of the final stretch of conducting these public hearings.

Um just a note to clarify the corporate line is not synonymous with individual property parcels.

They are two different things.

Sometimes they run alongside each other and align, but not always, and they don't have to.

Case by case, there are different scenarios for how things come to be, but this is not changing anyone's actual property or their property boundary.

And at the end of the day, the the goal of this project is to have confident mapping with spatial data for all known landmarks and coordinates, and yeah, no doubt.

Going into our exhibits, this will be very difficult to see.

This original paper size is 36 by 48.

Um, but it summarizes the entirety of town limits and the result of the survey.

It calls out individual monuments and monuments that were found, monuments that were set, and this includes not just the 1973 annexation, but uh incorporates every other uh of those individual piecemeal changes that had happened since then.