Good evening and welcome to the uh Hampton City Council uh legislative session.

Uh, Madam Clerk, will you call the role, please?

Councilman Bowman.

Present.

Vice Mayor Brown.

Here.

Councilwoman Campbell, present.

Councilwoman Fairby.

Present.

Councilwoman Harper, present.

Councilwoman Muggler, present.

Mayor Gray.

Present.

And the invitation this evening will be given by Councilwoman Hope Harper, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

Would you please stand and join us for both of us?

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day, which we have never seen.

Coming to you is acknowledgement of your power.

We ask special blessings amongst our faith community public service and first responders.

Continue to bless our citizens, and may our work strengthen our community and bring hope to all who call this place home.

In your name we pray, Amen.

Okay, uh this afternoon at uh uh afternoon work session, uh we had several presentations, and uh one of the presentations was from Hampton University.

Uh Hampton University President Darrell Williams presented the uh economic impact uh report uh on for the university and you know sharing the economic impact the university has, not only in the city of Hampton, but the region with you know the number of employees who work there, uh the number of uh staff members who work there, some many live in the city and serve on some of our boards and commissions, the number of students uh in attendance and student uh uh enrollment has risen uh from previous years, and then just generally speaking, the different events that the university has in our city, such as you know, football and homecoming and those kinds of events, the Hampton uh jazz and music festival that brings people to our community.

So huge economic impact in our community.

And so, but uh this evening I have some young men who came by uh to uh uh say hello to me and uh say hello to you too.

Uh they uh members of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at Hampton University, and uh I would like to ask them to please stand and be recognized.

We uh thank you, gentlemen.

We uh we are doing more many exciting things to uh engage the students in our community uh from Hampton University into our community from internships uh to uh a number of other things.

We had a great uh back to school kickoff when many of the students came and joined us over at uh at uh Mill Point Park for an afternoon of music and fun.

And so uh you know, we just we love the university being in our community.

We are a university town, and we love all the great students who are here and who add uh value to our community.

We hope that you will get an education, uh, go back home, say hello to your parents, and then come on back to live and work in Hampton, Virginia.

So thank you for being

here.

Also

want to acknowledge our delegate from the 86th district of uh House of Delegates, uh Delegate Virgil Thornton.

And uh I do have some proclamations to read uh this evening uh when I get to that point on the agenda, but I want to acknowledge that uh one proclamation was done previously uh yeah before the meeting, it was uh uh acknowledging domestic violence awareness month in in Hampton.

And I do have some proclamations to read uh this evening uh when I get to that point on the agenda, but I want to acknowledge that uh one proclamation was done previously uh before the meeting, it was uh uh acknowledging domestic violence awareness month in in Hampton and on October 3rd, Vice Mayor Brown attended the Day of Unity at Y East Thomas Community Center, where he read and presented a proclamation for the domestic violence awareness month, and that event was hosted by Transitions Family Violence Services, which provides services to uh uh women and families of uh who've been victims of uh domestic violence in our community, so they do a lot of good work, so we're pleased to acknowledge them uh this month as during as we acknowledge uh domestic violence month.

So, with that, I'd like to ask the uh clerk to read a protocol for the consent agenda.

The

consent agenda consists of routine non-controversial

items of priority council,

these audits are typically adopted as one of

those in the

discussion.

Tonight, your consent agenda vacates a portion of an unimproved right-of-way designated as Barrick Street to create a single parcel of land.

It amends the FY 2027 City Council approved budget to appropriate approximately 2.3 million dollars of state carryover funds to the general fund school operating fund to offset the impact of FY27 state revenue adjustments, approximately 7,000 from the general funds fund balance, which was derived from the Bluebird Gap Farm Vending Fee Revenue to the Parks Recreation and Leisure Services operating budget, approximately $7,000 from the Capital Projects Fund restricted fund balance to the Capital Fund Capital Projects Fund for the Transportation Initiative Project, it approves the refund of certain erroneously assessed business taxes, it updates the city manager chain of command succession and approves the minutes of three city council meetings, the legislative session of September 9th and the special and ceremonial meetings of September 23rd.

Need a motion and a second,

Mr.

Mayor, move approval of tonight's consent agenda

second.

Councilman Bowman.

Yes,

Vice Mayor Brown,

aye,

Councilwoman Campbell, aye, Councilwoman Faraby.

Aye, Councilwoman Harper, aye.

Councilwoman Mugler, aye.

Mayor Gray.

Aye.

And uh did introduce um delegate Virgil Thornton, uh, who's it's not unusual for him to visit you know city council meetings and follow our proceedings on any given evening, uh, but this evening is here for a special uh presentation, so I like to ask Virgil uh Delegate Thornton to please come up to the podium.