10. Uncontested Appointments to Boards, Commissions and Committees:
(a) Alexandria-Gyumri Sister City Committee 2 Citizen Members (b) Alexandria Archaeological Commission 1 Member From the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce (c) Alexandria Budget and Fiscal Affairs Advisory Committee 1 Citizen Member Designated by Councilman Ludwig P. Gaines 1 Citizen Member Designated by Councilman Paul C. Smedberg (d) Alexandria Building Code Board of Appeals 1 Citizen Member (e) Alexandria Commission on HIV/AIDS 1 Designee of the Sheriff 1 Member From and Representing the Alexandria Chapter of the American Red Cross 1 Student Who Currently Attends T. C. Williams High School 1 Citizen-at-Large (f) Alexandria Convention and Visitors Association Board of Governors 1 Hotel Owner/Manager Representative The Alexandria Hotel Association President (g) District Home Board 1 Alternate REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CITY MANAGER CONSENT CALENDAR (continued) (h) Alexandria Environmental Policy Commission 1 Student Attending High School in the City (i) Historic Alexandria Resources Commission 2 Representatives From Planning District III (j) Alexandria Social Services Advisory Board 1 Parent Member (k) Alexandria Waterfront Committee 1 Representative From the Alexandria Park and Recreation Commission (l) Alexandria Youth Policy Commission 1 Member of a City Board, Commission or Other Organization Having An Interest in Youth Issues 1 Citizen 18 Years of Age or Younger 11. Consideration of Submission of Grant Application to the Virginia Department of Fire Programs to Purchase a Rooftop Simulator for Fire Operations Training. 12. Consideration of Submission of Grant Application to the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services for the City's Domestic Violence Intervention Project. 13. Receipt of the Proposed Renewal Grant Application for the Law Enforcement Block Grant Program for FY 2004 and Setting it for Public Hearing on Saturday, October 18. 14. Consideration of the Following Emergency Management Grant Requests:
18. Alexandria Affordable Housing Advisory Committee 1 Homeowner in the City City Council appointed David Englin as the homeowner in the City representative to the Alexandria Affordable Housing Advisory Committee. Council Action: CONTESTED APPOINTMENTS (continued) 19. Alexandria Commission on Information Technology 2 Citizens-at-Large City Council appointed Tracy Rookard and Samaria Sherman as the two citizens-at-large representatives to the Alexandria Commission on Information Technology. Council Action: 20. Alexandria Consumer Affairs Commission 1 Citizen Member City Council appointed Adam Pearlman as the citizen member to the Alexandria Consumer Affairs Commission. Council Action: 21. Alexandria Potomac Yard Design Advisory Committee 2 Representatives of Residential Neighborhoods City Council appointed Susanne Carnell and reappointed Maria Wasowski as the two representatives of residential neighborhoods to the Alexandria Potomac Yard Design Advisory Committee. Council Action: 22. Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority Board of Commissioners 1 Citizen Member City Council reappointed Carlyle Ring, Jr., as the citizen member to the Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority Board of Commissioners. Council Action: 23. Alexandria Youth Policy Commission 1 Member of a City Board, Commission or Other Organization Having An Interest in Youth Issues City Council appointed Kimberly Moore as the member of a City board, commission or other organization having an interest in youth issues to the Alexandria Youth Policy Commission. Council Action: REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CITY MANAGER (continued) 24. Receipt of the Alexandria Industrial Authority Annual Report for July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003. City Council received the Alexandria Industrial Development Authority Annual Report for the period July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003. Council Action:_________________________________________________________ REPORTS OF BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES None ORAL PRESENTATIONS BY MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL (a) Councilwoman Woodson said the Council of Governments Finance Committee heard a presentation by Kerry Donley on the Washington Area Housing Trust Fund and put in a plug for support from the COG member jurisdictions to fund the organization. ORAL PRESENTATIONS BY MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL (continued) (b) Councilwoman Woodson said that as the Chair of the Council of Governments Development Committee, they are working on a forecast of the demographics, where it is going with transportation planning and where it is going with planning. She asked the City Manager to arrange with COG to have a work session and bring the COG staff to the City to talk about the activity centers, what the forecasting models mean, and have the Planning staff available to share with the citizens. (c) Vice Mayor Pepper said the region has a sister regional arrangement, which is done through the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, and their sister region is Stuttgart. She said members from the Northern Virginia region visited Germany and Germany also visited this area. She said she represented the City at a luncheon when the visitors from Stuttgart visited Alexandria, and she was presented with a book on Stuttgard, which she presented to the Mayor. (d) Vice Mayor Pepper congratulated the City Manager on having the farewell party for Hurricane Isabel. It was a great idea with a nice crowd, and it was highly advertised and it gave the message that the City is open for business. (e) Vice Mayor Pepper said all members of Council received an e-mail from a firm that is interested in flood walls, which can come up and down, and she asked to have those studied by whatever group is following-up on the flood control issues. (f) Councilman Krupicka applauded the environmental staff on the backyard compost bin sale, that was done in conjunction with Arlington County. (g) Councilman Krupicka said that two weeks ago, he worked with one of the trash crews for half a day, and the crews do a fantastic job. He said two of the workers had a desire to live in the City and couldn't afford it, and he encouraged Council to think of ways to further provide opportunities for employees who work hard for the City to also live in the City. He also said he was surprised that so few people in the City recycle. (h) Councilman Krupicka went over a memo he and Councilman Smedberg prepared on enforcement of special use permits, and the other is developable land opportunities and the impacts of the special use permit projects. He asked staff to come back with a report on how Council can address the issues and include an impact statement with development projects, so it gets a snapshot of the pros and cons of development projects. Mayor Euille suggested this be done in concert with the Planning Commission, and the Council should have a joint work session with the Planning Commission. Councilman Smedberg said it would be a document that the community, the residents and the business community could look at and give them a short summary to put it into perspective. It is something that not only development but redevelopment issues will be more important for the community at large, and this also applies to those redevelopment issues. (i) Councilman Macdonald said there was a meeting on what it can do to improve air quality and the impact of the Mirant Power Plant both regionally and local. (j) Councilman Macdonald said Alexandria Seaport Day was last weekend and the Alexandria Seaport Foundation had kids building boats on Waterfront Park, and it was interesting to see kids of all groups building boats. (k) Councilman Macdonald thanked Mr. Culpepper who has been working on the taxicab issue. He thanked the City for working hard with the different tenants and workers associations, taxicab drivers and the industry. ORAL PRESENTATIONS BY MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL (continued) (l) Councilman Macdonald said there is a house on the corner of Royal and Duke Street that's been condemned for a long time, and there is a period after which it needs to take action. He said the house is at risk and he hoped they could take action when appropriate. He said he would send a letter to the City Attorney and City Manager asking for additional information. Mayor Euille said there have been inquires from neighbors on this property, and he said staff is working on it. He asked staff to give the Council a more current update on where it stands with that property. (m) Councilman Gaines said the Alexandria Tenant and Workers Support Committee recently received national recognition, as it was one of 17 recipients of the 2003 Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World. The award came with a $100,000 cash prize and $15,000 per year over the next two years to support their activities. He said it would be appropriate to recognize them in the future at a Council meeting. (n) Councilman Gaines said that last Thursday, there was a Campagna Kids After School Lights On program at MacArthur School, which he and other Councilmembers attended. (o) Councilman Gaines said he mentioned possibly expanding the membership and scope of the responsibilities of the Local Emergency Preparedness Committee. He said he and Councilman Krupicka have met and will have a report and recommendation for Council to consider in the future. (p) Mayor Euille said he attended a banquet in Washington that was sponsored by the Washington Women's Foundation, and two organizations were honored. One was the Tenant and Workers Support Committee for their day care/child providers initiative, and the other was Computer Corp, for their work in providing computer training for poor and disadvantaged citizens. (q) Councilman Smedberg said beginning this Thursday, he will have an intern from T.C. Williams High School working with him. Council Action:_________________________________________________________ REPORT FROM CITY MANAGER City Manager Sunderland reported on: (a) the four-month project going on at Union Station, which will be done before Christmas; (b) the City had an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution in connection with the Folk Life Festival, and 275,000 people saw the exhibit; (c) November 1 through the end of December will be free parking at meters and in the parking garage at City Hall after 5:00 p.m., and all day Saturday and Sunday; (d) he introduced Bruce Johnson, the new director of Office of Management and Budget; and (e) it will have an annual report the end of the month, and the quarterly newsletter will go out the first or second week of November. Transportation and Environmental Services staff gave a report on the Transportation Management Program. Council Action:_________________________________________________________ ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS 28. Introduction and First Reading. Consideration. Passage on First and Second Reading of an Ordinance to Adopt Supplement 71 to the City Code. [ROLL-CALL VOTE] City Council introduced and passed the Ordinance on First and Second Readings. (ORD. NO. 4315) Council Action:_________________________________________________________ ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS (continued) 29. Introduction and First Reading. Consideration. Passage on First and Second Reading of an Ordinance to Adopt Supplement 33 to the City of Alexandria Zoning Ordinance. [ROLL-CALL VOTE] City Council introduced and passed the Ordinance on First and Second Readings. (ORD. NO. 4316) Council Action:_________________________________________________________ OTHER 30. Consideration of City Council Schedule. City Council adopted the schedule of Council's regular City Council meetings for October 2003 through June 2003, with the following additions and changes: note the change on the calendar that the Saturday, December 13 public hearing is moved to Tuesday, December 16; change the Wednesday, March 17 work session on the budget to Tuesday, March 16 and the Wednesday, March 31 meeting to Tuesday, March 30; and added a work session with the Alexandria Convention and Visitors Association Board during the Council's legislative meeting on October 28. Councilwoman Woodson noted that she would not be present for the Monday, December 8 meeting. Council Action:_________________________________________________________
EXECUTIVE SESSION
31. Consideration of convening an executive session closed to the public for discussion of the acquisition of real property for a public purpose, pursuant to Section 2.2-3711(A)(3) of the Code of Virginia, and for the discussion of pending litigation, pursuant to Section 2.2-3711(A)(7) of the Code of Virginia. At 9:30 p.m., City Council convened in executive session, pursuant to Section 2.2-3711(A)(3) of the Code of Virginia for the discussion of the acquisition of real property for a public purpose, and under Section 2.2-3711(A)(7) of the Code of Virginia for discussion of pending litigation. At 10:10 p.m., City Council reconvened the meeting. City Council moved to authorize the City Attorney to settle the litigation that was the subject of the closed executive session along the lines discussed in the session. City Council adopted the resolution pertaining to the Executive Session. RES. NO. 2083 Council Action:_________________________________________________________ The meeting adjourned at 10:11 p.m.