Joint hearing on burn restrictions, business displays
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Colonial Beach Town Council is taking swift action to change perceptions of the town as being unfriendly to business. Council and the planning commission will be holding a joint meeting tomorrow to address concerns for an incoming golf cart business and will look at proposed burning policy.
hearing to allow outdoor display of golf carts
The town has advertised and called two joint public hearings for the Colonial Beach Town Council and Colonial Beach Planning Commission starting at 5 p.m. on April 19 to amend the town code to allow more outdoor display and storage with a conditional use permit.
The second hearing will hear the request for a conditional use permit from Custom Cartz.
At the March Economic Development Committee meeting George Milleson, owner of 614 Colonial Ave., told Committee Chairman Tim Curtin that a businessman was interested in renting the vacant side of his building to
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CB will wait to increase W&S fees
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Numbered street repairs still on schedule
Gary Seeber, Chairman of the Public Works Committee, reported to the Town Council at Thursday’s meeting that extra water and sewer infrastructure projects would have to wait. Particularly, moving water pipes.
Colonial Beach was issued a consent order by the DEQ signed on April 5, 2007 to reduce I and I and others issues related to the entire water and sewer system.
I and I is the amount of inflow and infiltration of rainwater that enters the sewer system, either by storm drains or leaks in the pipes during heavy rain. At present Colonial Beach wastewater treatment plant spends an estimated $450,000 annually treating rainwater due to I and I.
Because of this consent order the town is mandated to finish certain projects first.
Town Manager Val Foulds reported that Colonial Beach has a bond issued from 1993 that will mature in March of
Colonial Beach Town Council gets it done
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Council made quick work of it’s long agenda last Thursday, March 8, holding several public hearings and passing ordinances to amend the school’s budget, dispose of the last four properties on Lawrence Lane, amend article 6 R-1 and R-2 of the Zoning Ordinance, lease the building at 108 Taylor Street on the boardwalk, authorize funding for the Jet Ski races in July and approve the contract between the Chamber of Commerce and the Upstate Watercraft Promotions, as well as pass Tourism Committee by-laws.
School Budget amendment.
While adopting a resolution to amend the 2011-12 school budget increasing it by $282,380 in response to the school being awarded two federal awards for the high school improvement program and the mentoring program, the council seemed to have
Chiarello appointed to fill Buzby’s vacant seat
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Colonial Beach Town Council remains an all male group after appointing James Chiarello to fill Shane Buzby’s seat.
James Chiarello was one of three applicants to apply for the vacant seat Wednesday night. Winning, over Gerald Higgs and Wanda Goforth. Another applicant Linda Brubaker had previously shown interest in the Planning Commission but did not return calls to the Town Clerk in time to be put on the agenda for consideration.
Chiarello first appeared before the council on January 4 when he applied for the vacant seat left by Ronald “Sparky” Ridgely. For this reason many of the Council members decided to forgo asking him any questions since they already knew his views.
The following is a synopsis of his views from Jan. 4 and March 7.
Chiarello lives and works as a handyman in town. By nature he likes to fix things in a creative
Budget Committee focused on the year ahead
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Chairman of the Budget Committee, Mike Ham told members, at last weeks Budget Committee meeting, “In most categories of the budget we are where we should be, with some items coming in over budget.”
Ham hopes to have the 2012-13 fiscal year budget out on time this year. Last year’s budget was delayed by the town’s audit. Ham announced he is also putting together a report of the last five years revenue and expenditures to determine what the town
