SUMMERFIELD town council
Aug. 10 / MEETING HIGHLIGHTS as reported by CHRIS BURRITT Mayor BJ Barnes called the monthly meeting held at Revolution Academy on Oak Ridge Road in Summerfield to order, with Mayor Pro Tem Tim Sessoms and council members Lynne Williams DeVaney, Teresa W. Perryman, John O’Day and Reece Walker present.
Stop, Drop and Roll 5K fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 2.
Sessoms offered the invocation, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance which was led by DeVaney.
Sheriff’s Office. The District 1 sheriff’s office said it responded to 119 calls for service in Summerfield in July; 33 were related to burglar alarms, 12 were reports of suspicious activity and three others related to accidents resulting in personal injury.
PUBLIC SAFETY Summerfield Fire District. Assistant Chief Jenna Daniels said the district responded to 107 calls in July; of these, 68 were medical-related and 27 were fire-related. Firefighters installed 34 child safety seats. Daniels encouraged people to register to participate in the department’s
DeVaney, who works at Summerfield Elementary School, thanked the department for providing breakfast to the school’s staff Aug. 10, their first day back to prepare for the new academic year.
PUBLIC COMMENTS Janelle Robinson asked voters to support her run for Summerfield Town Council in the Nov. 2 election. A former school teacher, Robinson runs a busi-
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WHAT they voted on, and HOW they voted: Mayor Pro Tem Tim Sessoms and council members Lynne W. DeVaney, Teresa W. Perryman, John O’Day and Reece Walker voted on the following items during the Aug. 10 council meeting. Mayor BJ Barnes was present, but in Summerfield the mayor votes only to break a tie.
5 0: Accept developer David Couch’s request to withdraw his application for a text amendment to the town’s unified development ordinance
5 0: Instruct town staff to continue investigating how much municipalities elsewhere in North Carolina charge developers for processing rezoning applications 5 0: Instruct town staff to work with a county assistance program to arrange for Summerfield Community Center to be used for preparing tax returns for people with low and moderate income 4 1: Name (Perryman opposed) three trailheads in Summerfield as recommended by the town’s Trails and Open Space Committee
5 0: Appoint Mia Malesovas to the town’s Historical Committee and Jane Doggett to the Founders’ Day Committee 4 1: Revise (Perryman opposed) the town’s ordinance governing committees to allow the town’s parks and recreation director to serve as a voting member of the Founders’ Day Committee ness and serves as a volunteer Summerfield firefighter and EMT. Her three children attend local schools.
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Danny Nelson repeated his opposition to planned development in Summerfield and a proposal by developer David Couch to extend water and sewer services from Greensboro for his proposed residential and commercial expansion of Summerfield Farms. Dwayne Crawford repeated Save our Summerfield Committee’s request dating back to 2017 for the council to amend the town’s comprehensive plan. He asked for “equal treatment” for the committee’s
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request as the council anticipates hearing a request from Couch seeking changes to development regulations related to his proposed development. Jolinda Babcock said she was upset and offended by a telephone call from Sessoms asking for her motives to serve on the Founders’ Day Committee, and announced she was withdrawing her application to serve on the committee. Babcock is an organizer of Stand Up For Summerfield, a group that opposes high density development in town. During a meeting of the group in June, she called for the ouster of council members
