Good evening. Welcome to the December 5, 2023 meeting of the Ashton town council. Appreciate you being here. Want to start off with a moment of silence and you know there's a lot of good folks in the town and we can't keep track of all the time or mention every citizen when they pass, but everyone then there's opportunity to mention someone for the specifics of them, but also as that represents other folks who have done the same thing. So what I'm saying is citizen and a business on a Tom Chikosky passed away recently if you're familiar with Peppin Shelley's pizza that that was his business, his and his families and they donated pizzas constantly. They gave cash donations. Did a whole lot active with the community I think both he and his wife may have been presidents of the Market Action Partnership at one time. I know they both were involved in that. So I just want to express our condolences to the family at his passing. And just want to highlight a citizen and a business owner who cared about his community and it showed. So please join me in a moment of silence. Thank you. Mr. Vice Mayor, would you lead us in the pledge? As you're able, please stand and join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands for nation under God, individual, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I will take a look at our agenda for this evening. We have our consent agenda, which includes minutes for our November 8, 23, town council meeting. We have our invoices in that referral for rezoning 23-1031 on its 2023-14 Patriot Lent. We have our budget meeting timeline for 2025 as we head that way on creating a budget. Ashland pedestrian crossings agreement implementation authorization. That's item E and following that consider engagement agreement for legal services with San San Anderson. G proclamation and honor of the honorable RE trip Chalkley and every county commonwealth attorney. So we'll also read that proclamation after the consent agenda is our first presentation. Presentation A, presentation B, the fiscal year 2023-2023, annual comprehensive finance report. And that from representatives from PB mayors. Well our citizen input time at which time will have Sherry Burton. Ashland's, I'll say poet laureate. I would like to share a couple of her poems with us about this town that she loves. And any citizen who'd like to speak to council on another matter tonight would be invited up at citizen input time. After citizen input time, we have two action items, Maple Street, sidewalk construction. Mr. Jennings will bring that to us. And then on 95 landscape improvements, Mr. Goodman. And we have one discussion item, the 2024 legislative agenda for the town. Mr. Goodman again on that. And we'll have our reports, council member reports, mayors report, Mayors report, Public Works report, Finance, Police and Town Managers report. All right. Mr. Mayor? Yes. Sorry, didn't make it to you all before the meeting, but the Planning Department has requested to pull the referral of rezoning 23-0131 Patriot CLEN. Some new information came in from the applicant that changes that application pretty substantially, so we're gonna pull that one for this the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . certainly the consent agenda. Mr. Mayor, I would like to remove item 2E, Ashland pedestrian crossing agreement implementation. Okay. There's a lot of public interest in this matter, and I think it would benefit from an explanation from the town manager, just be sure we all know. So, I want to move that to a discussion item. That work. However you want to put it, Mr. Mayor? Okay. Well, let's move that down and we'll make that the new A and make the legislative agenda a B. So we'll do the other first and we'll take our town managers comment there about item C and consider that as a motion for removal of item C from the consent agenda as well. Is there a consensus for those changes to our agenda? Yes. Thank you very much. We'll move forward at this time and ask concerning the consent agenda whether there's a motion to approve the consent agenda as amended. I motion that we pay the bills and approve the consent agenda as amended. I motion that we pay the bills and approve the consent agenda as presented with those changes. I second. Good deal. Miss Barnhart. I. Vice Mayor Hodges. I. Dr. McGraw. I. Miss Abbott. I. Mayor Trebert. I. All right. Thank you very much. And that brings us to our presentation. And we're us to our presentation. And we're very happy to have our guest of honor here tonight, Tripp Chalkley. And I know that's a nickname, but I've all I've ever heard for years and years. I was called. I think as soon as I was born. I'm really, it's been Mr. Pronance, the rest of about 73 years. I'll talk you as soon as I was born. I'm really, it's been a mispronounce. The rest of about 73 years, I'll talk about the growth. Thank you. Well, we've got a proclamation. We'd like to read on your behalf. And we're thankful to have your wife, Stephanie, son, Reese, and your sister in brother-in-law here with us well tonight. And we'll read this. And then we'd like to come down, present it to you and all of council and take a photo. And I think our chief Aaron Holt would also like to come up at that time and have a few words to say. All right, is that work? Yep. All right, let me read this proclamation now. Whereas our E. Tripp, Chalkley, the third began serving Hanover County on January 1, 1980 as an assistant Commonwealth's attorney, and served in that capacity until December 31, 1983. And whereas, RE Tripp Chalkley III was elected the Commonwealth's Attorney for Hanover County on November 6, 2007, assuming office on January 1, 2008, where he has over 47 years of combined legal experience with nearly 20 of those years serving the citizens of Hanover County. And whereas RE Tripp, Chalkley III, I'm gonna say that a few more times, with unwavering dedication, expanded the office workforce from 16 to 24 employees, fortifying the foundation of successful prosecution in Hanover County. Whereas RE Tripp, chocolate, the third created and successfully implemented, several office policies. But use the question as a means to discuss other things that the town does. So we had a speeding complaint come up and we talked about the residential traffic calming program. And so that's a way for us to get that word out to all these different neighborhoods that are in the room. 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