7b TOWN OF HERTFORD A RESOLUTION ORDERING THE CLOSING OF PUNCH ALLEY BETWEEN FRONT STREET AND THE RIVER Resolution No. FY25-9 WHEREAS, on the 12th day of February, 2024, the Town of Hertford Town Council directed the Town Clerk to publish the Resolution Declaring Intent to Close Punch Alley between Front Street and the River in the Perquimans Weekly for four successive weeks and to post notice of the closing prominently in at least two places along the alley advising that a public hearing would be conducted in the Horace Reid Community Center, 305 WGrubb Street, Hertford, NC on April 8, 2024; and WHEREAS, the Town of Hertford Town Council further directed the Town Clerk to notify by certified mail, all persons owning property adjoining the alley proposed to be closed by enclosing a copy of said resolution; and WHEREAS, the Clerk has advised the Town Council that she sent a copy of the resolution to the adjoining property owners by certified mail return receipt requested and has received the return receipts from the post office indicating delivery and that a copy of the resolution was posted in two locations along the alley and that a copy of the resolution was published in the Perquimans Weekly on February 24, 2024, March 2, 2024, March 9, 2024 and March 16, 2024; and WHEREAS, after full and complete consideration of the matter and after having granted full and complete opportunity for all interested persons to appear and register any objections that they might have with respect to the closing of said street, it now appears to the satisfaction of the Town Council that the closing of said alley is not contrary to the public interest and that no individual owning property adjoining the alley or in the subdivision in which it is located would thereby be deprived of reasonable means of ingress and egress to their property; and WHEREAS, it appears to the satisfaction of the Town Council that the closing of said alley will be in the public interest; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Town of Hertford Town Council, meeting in regular session, that Punch Alley between Front Street and the River as more particularly described in Exhibit. A attached, is hereby ordered closed and all right, title and interest in the right-of-way shall be conclusively presumed to be vested in those persons owning property adjoining the alley and the title of each adjoining landowner, for the width of the abutting land owned by them, shall extend to the centerline of the alley in accordance with the provisions of NCGS $160A-299(c) The Town Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to file in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Perquimans County a certified copy of this resolution. Upon motion duly made by and duly seconded by the above resolution was duly adopted by the Town Council at a regular meeting held on the day of 2025 and passed unanimously with a vote of four(4) in favor and none opposed. This day of 2025 R. Ashley Hodges, Mayor ATTEST: Gina Durante, Town Clerk