Note: The meeting minutes and transcript indicate the meeting occurred on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, at 6:30 PM. This summary uses the date provided in the instruction (September 25, 2025) as directed, reflecting a discrepancy between the source materials and the assigned date.
The Hampton City Council held a legislative session presided over by Vice Mayor Steven L. Brown, in the absence of Mayor Jimmy Gray (personal matter) and Councilmember Martha M. Mugler (city business). Deputy City Manager Brian DeProfio sat in for the City Manager. The meeting covered a consent agenda, a public hearing on federal housing grant reports, a resolution for easement acquisition for a flood resilience project, deferral of a camping ordinance, and appointments.
Good evening and welcome to our 630 legislative session of the Hampton City Council tonight. I just want to say before we call the role that our mayor will not be with us tonight. He is taking care of a personal matter. Also sitting in tonight for City Manager Bunting is our Deputy City Manager Brian DeProfio. Also Martha Muggler, our councilwoman is also always on business with the manager. So ask the clerk to call the role. Councilman Bowman. Present. Vice Mayor Brown. Here. Councilwoman Campbell, present. Councilwoman Barraby. Present. Councilwoman Harper. Present. Councilwoman Muggler. Mayor Gray. Thank you. Our invocation tonight will be given by Councilwoman Carolyn Campbell, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Graceful Lord, tonight we gather as one to represent the people as we conduct the business of this beautiful city we call home. In this world of chaos, it is comforting and timely that the Tibetan monks shared with our city the message of conflict resolution and peace. Every member of our council has sand from that mandala, each member bringing their own grains of sand to the table, each sharing their history in the picture, but all sharing the same message of conflict resolution and peace for our city. Peace be with us all as we do your will. In your name we pray. Amen. Yes. Thank you, Vice Mayor. As the Vice Mayor said, we will be um recommending the deferral of uh the item which is number seven on the agenda tonight. It's 25-0170 regarding the uh camping and storage on public property. The reason why we're recommending the uh the deferral of this item is because um we have established a stakeholder group to to review the ordinance that was presented at council a few months ago. Their work is continuing. Um they met uh the first time on September 2nd, and they do have a uh their next meeting is uh gonna be occurring on October 7th. So we're recommending that council defer that to a uh a future meeting when uh the after the stakeholder group continue completes their work. Thank you thank you, Brian. Yes, sir. Um just a few comments and comment section tonight. Um on September 27th, the Hampton University of Proton Council Institute will hold his fourth annual prostate uh men's health fair, which is this coming Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. Um the annual event will feature health screenings, uh educational resources, uh community support focused on men's health and early detection. Prostate cancer is very um curable if detected early. And I encourage each uh each each man age 40 and over uh to have their prostate uh checked. If you have uh prostate cancer in your family, you may want to get it done earlier. Uh there are two uh screenings, one is the PSA, which is through your blood, other one is the digital rectal exam. And I want to share uh just to quickly, um, the last time I had my physical exam, um everything looked good, and the doctor says to me, he said, have I done your prostate uh exam? I said, Well, uh, you took my blood. What else you want? Uh and uh my doctor is about six foot eight and real tall. And uh if you remember I'll send you hall uh with that long finger, and he's you know, he he said, relax. I said, wait a minute, man. Oh, uh relax.