0:00Uh good evening and welcome to the October 2nd meeting of the Town of Chapel Hill Board of Adjustment.
0:08So the meeting will come to order.
0:11Taz Legou is serving as staff to the board this evening, and the board's attorney is Mr.
0:18LeGu, would you please call the roll?
0:42So with uh with six members, I would like to declare a quorum exists for conduct of tonight's business.
0:51The first item on the agenda is the approval of tonight's agenda.
0:57The agenda was mailed to everyone on Tuesday, September 30th.
1:02Now, before if I ask, before I ask if there are any objections to the amendments to the agenda, I did want to point out that I'm sure many of you who have looked at this agenda have noticed that the variants for 105 Timberland did in fact pass at our last meeting.
1:22So if there's any confusion when you look at the meeting notes from last meeting or the agenda from tonight, that is uh indeed what it has occurred.
1:32So with that statement, does anyone have any other questions or amendments to tonight's uh agenda move to approve the agenda?
1:43We have a motion to approve second, and we have a second.
1:48Um you please call the uh roll Ms.
2:14Um are there any announcements this evening from the board or staff or our council?
2:20Seeing none, we'll proceed to review the minutes from the September 4th meeting of the town uh board of adjustment.
2:27Are there any objections to the minutes as drafted?
2:34Seeing none, do we have uh a motion to accept those?
2:39One quick thing that I noticed in the minutes is in the count for the vote for the variants.
2:48It lists me as an I, and I think it should just say recuse for me.
2:53Yeah, and I can um speak to that.
2:55It it's a quirk in our system.
2:57The the way we record the votes.
3:00Um you are listed as a recusal, but for whatever reason, and I can work this out with the clerk's office if it's of a change is possible, but recusals for whatever reason get counted as as ayes, um, even though that's not the actual way in which the the vote is tallied.
3:17We we can amend those minutes.
3:19We can we can do that if you make the motion.
3:22Yeah, move to approve the minutes with that notation uh made.
3:27Okay, we have um we have a motion to approve the minutes with the notation.
3:33Um can you please call the roll?
3:51So with the housekeeping portions of the agenda behind us, there's uh just one uh piece of old business to address, and and that is the vote on approving the after-the-fact variants at 105 Timberland Court.
4:06Um have all of the members uh present here tonight had a chance to review uh resolution A that we'll be voting on.
4:16Um so what we're gonna do now is we're gonna have a motion to approve this variance, and then we'll have a vote.
4:25And I just want to remind everyone that uh Mr.
4:31Nam will recuse himself from this vote, and all the rest of us will vote.
4:36And um we need to all vote unanimously to pass it, and I'll leave it at that.
4:43So we are not actually voting on the uh variants, we're voting on approving the order.
4:54Yes, we are voting to approve the decision on the variance.
5:01So can I get a motion for that?
5:04I'll move to approve the variance.
5:07May I ask for unanimous consent?
5:19No, no, I heard you, but I just was a little bit unclear on what you're asking me.
5:24When is it appropriate to move for unanimous consent?
5:29Well, I think we can move for unanimous consent now, can we not?
5:33Or do we just take the vote and all vote in the affirmative?
5:36You can all vote in the affirmative.
5:40Or if you want to do it a different way, that is fine too.
5:41I'd like to point of order.
5:43I don't think we've gotten the second yet.
5:45We've not no, we haven't.
5:47I was just trying to adjust address Ms.
5:51So what we'd like to do is we're going to go through and when we get the second and vote individually.
5:57Okay, so we have a motion to approve.
6:02All right, thank you.
6:06Um the motion was to approve the variance.
6:09Well, we did that at our last meeting.
6:12What we're being asked to do now is to prove the order.
6:15The decision on the variance, yes.
6:17Yeah, I think essentially we're saying we're voting to say yes, this is what we did last week.
6:25Or last month, rather.
6:29Um I appreciate the questions.
6:31Does anyone else have any clarification on anything before we vote on this?
6:38Taz, you want to go ahead and call the roll?
6:53So the decision on the variance for 105, Timberlin Court, the after-the-fact dimension variance has been approved unanimously.
7:02Are there any petitions before the board this evening?
7:10Seeing none, we only have one other piece of business tonight, a new piece of business, and that is uh electing officers, uh, a chair and a vice chair.
7:20Um I think I sent an email out to everyone that stated that I would be I've enjoyed doing what I've done the last done the last year.
7:32I'd be more than happy to continue.
7:33However, I'm nominating you for chair.
7:39I'm making a motion to nominate you for chair for the next term.
7:47Um do we have let me ask a question maybe to Taz.
7:51So we have a nomination for me to be nominated for a second term.
7:56Is it appropriate now for us to get nominations for other people?
8:00If so, or do we do that after this vote?
8:03I think it's kind of your prerogative as as a board.
8:07Um there is now a uh properly moved and seconded motion on the floor.
8:14Um so you you could choose to vote on it.
8:18I think that's what we'll do, unless yes.
8:20Sorry, I just have a question um please about the process.
8:24So what would it what exactly was the motion that was made and seconded?
8:28Well, who to nominate Thomas Grastey for the chair of Board of Adjustment?
8:36Um I'm wondering if we just sort of close the floor for nominations first and then vote for chair, or if we I'm wondering how that works exactly.
8:46Well, uh maybe just say, are there any other question I was was asking?
8:52I think that was we were asking the same question.
8:54You asked it a little more uh professionally.
8:58But um I think what we can do is we can go ahead and uh and and vote on this now if we'd like.
9:08Maybe I'll put the motion wrong.
9:12So move to close the floor to nominations.
9:15Is that what we're what we need to do?
9:17Do we need a motion to close the floor for nominations?
9:19That we keep it clean as well.
9:21Okay, well, I'll move to close the floor for nominations for chair.
9:27So nominations for chair have been closed.
9:29Don't you want to make a campaign speech or something like that?
9:32This is we're open to discussion now.
9:34So you can like rip it, you know, give us one.
9:39Uh uh campaign speech.
9:40I'll save that up for the next next time.
9:43Um let's go ahead then.
9:46Um what we have is we've closed the nominations for chair.
9:51We are moving, we have a uh motion on the floor to nominate Thomas Grastey and sit spin second, and we're gonna vote on that now.
10:00So Taz, if you can call the roll.
10:18I suppose I should refuse.
10:21No, you need to vote.
10:22We need the votes to pass this aye.
10:24Thank you very much.
10:26Can't be having a recount here.
10:33So with yeah, this is not my best moment as chair this evening.
10:41So we have uh I guess we I'm gonna be the chair moving forward.
10:46Thank you all very much.
10:52Now we have another election to resolve ourselves with here.
10:57Let's see if we can do this a little bit better.
10:59If I can do this a little bit better the second time.
11:03I'd like to go ahead and uh open up the floor for nominations for uh vice chair.
11:11Um do we have an any nominations for that position?
11:23I'd then like to make a nomination.
11:25Um I would like to nominate Dr.
11:28Wartman to be vice chair for a second term, second.
11:40Uh following our procedure from the last vote.
11:43Uh is there a motion to close I'm or would we have like to have discussion?
11:49Would we like to have another nomination?
11:51I move to close nominations for vice chair.
11:59Lagou, am I eligible?
12:05Um so officers can serve two consecutive terms in in a particular seat.
12:11Um and so having only served one term, um, you would be eligible for another term.
12:17All right, and my place on the board.
12:20Your place on the board is is fine.
12:22All right, thank you.
12:26Do we want to have any more discussion on this?
12:30Are we ready to go ahead and call a uh a roll?
12:52Wortman a nice round of applause for his past service and future service.
12:58Um is there any more outstanding business here before the board this evening?
13:06Well, if that's the case, then without any further objections, uh it's the chair's prerogative that we officially adjourn the meeting, and we'll see everyone next month.
