The Hampton City Council met on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, at 6:30 PM in Council Chambers, with all seven members present. The meeting included a consent agenda, proclamations, one public hearing, public comment, and appointments. The meeting adjourned at 7:04 PM.
Three residents spoke during the public comment period:
Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Hampton City Council meeting. Clerk to call the roll, please. Councilman Bowman. Present. Vice Mayor Brown. Here. Councilwoman Campbell. Present. Councilwoman Fairby. Present. Councilwoman Harper. Present. Councilwoman Mudgler. Present. And Mayor Gray. Present. The next item is to the pleasure of allegiance and the invocation. And the invocation will be led by Vice Mayor Brown. So please stand and join us for the uh invocation and pleasure believe. Let's bow here some prayer. Father, we give you praise. We thank you, Lord, for this day. You said this is the you made we are commanded to rejoice in it and to be glad. We pray tonight, God, as we deliberate in this chamber. We pray for civility. We pray tonight, God, that you would look over our citizens of Hampshire, each and every one of them. Uh as we approach the holiday season, I pray, God, for peace. I pray for uh unity. I pray for uh strength among those who are weak among us, those who are homeless, those who need healing in their bodies. I pray God that you would answer their prayers. Also pray for those who are referred to responders, those who are in harm's way, those who've served in military service, and you're giving the ultimate sacrifice of their lives. As we approach tomorrow, uh September the eleventh, what a horrible day for the world and for the nation. But I pray for those families who are still grieving many, many years after that tragic event in New York and around the world. I pray now as we do our business tonight, God give us wisdom, give us the courage to make decisions that not only affect the few but all of us. And so we give you a name the praise, we give you the glory, and we give you honor. All of God's people say it together, amen. The uh Day of Care in 2025 is sponsored by the United Way of Virginia Peninsula, and this year it takes place on September twelfth. And this event brings together hundreds of volunteers from across the peninsula to create a positive impact for nonprofits and human services providers. At the city count at the City Council and the city manager's office in Hampton, we have been collecting healthy snacks to share with the young people from the Boys and Girls Club and the Food Bank. And tonight we are pleased to present them to Shaw Delaware, president and CEO of the United Way of the Virginia Peninsula, and so I ask I'll be able to come up front. I'm asking my council members to come down and present the gifts. Uh and we have quite a few more in the back, so I don't know how we arranged to get those to you, but uh we want to thank all of our employees for making the donations. Thank you all very much for your support this year. Yes. All right, everybody's here. I want to ask the clerk to read the protocol for the consent agenda. The consent agendas can consist of routine, non-controversial items requiring council approval. These items are typically adopted with one motion and without discussion. Tonight, your consent agenda approves the city's participation in the proposed settlements of several opioid related claims, authorizes the use of construction management contracting for the construction of sanitary sewer forcing replacement, approves the Hampton Uber News Community Services Board FY2526 contract amendments. Amends the 2025 Council approved budget to accept and appropriate approximately $300,000 in additional state funds to the general fund school operating budget.