High Point council sets hearings, confirms liaisons and continues landfill right‑of‑way hearing

The High Point City Council on Jan. 27 adopted an amended meeting agenda, set a public hearing date on one street‑abandonment matter, continued a separate landfill right‑of‑way hearing to March 2 and approved several liaison and board appointments.

Mayor Cyril Jefferson said the council would remove three demolition public‑hearing items from the agenda (502 Academy Street; 1211 South Downing Street; 514 West Ward Avenue) and moved to adopt the agenda as amended; the motion was seconded by Councilman Holmes and approved by voice vote.

On general business, Councilmember Moore moved and Councilmember Peters seconded a resolution of intent to set a public hearing for March 23 on street‑abandonment case 26‑02, which concerns abandonment of roughly 180 feet of the Heron Point right‑of‑way; the motion passed by voice vote. Mayor Jefferson opened a separate public hearing on street‑abandonment case 26‑01 (a request by Waste Industries High Point Landfill LLC, identified in the record as GFL Environmental Incorporated, to abandon a roughly 2,570‑foot unnamed right‑of‑way east of Cash App Road) and moved to continue that item to the March 2 council meeting; the motion was seconded by Councilmember Johnson and carried by voice vote.

The council also approved revisions to boards and commissions liaisons, confirming Councilmember Chris Williams as liaison to the Guilford County Continuum of Care Board, High Point Community Against Violence, the High Point Theater Advisory Board and the Guilford County Homelessness Task Force; confirming Mayor Cyril Jefferson as liaison to HP Young Professionals; and confirming Councilmember Vicki McKeever as liaison to the library/museum board of trustees. The council appointed the city manager or designee as the city’s representative on the board of directors of Business High Point Incorporated after a motion by Mayor Pro Tem Peters and a second from Councilmember Johnson.

All of the formal motions reported in the meeting record were carried by voice vote. The council adjourned at the end of the session; the next regular meeting date announced was March 2.