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2026-05-28 - Town Council Meeting

Summary

Built from the approved minutes (approved June 23, 2026) and the auto-generated caption transcript of the 5:31:59 recording; figures marked from the video are as spoken and may be misheard. In the captions the yard waste fees and enforcement item passes by voice vote with no opposition audible, while the minutes record 3-1; the minutes are followed here. Gray was absent; all votes below are 4-0 unless noted. The minutes give the date as a Thursday in one place and a Tuesday in another.

  • Agenda: the January 1, 2027 grass collection ordinance was pulled from item RA1 and a second closed session item was removed; the rest of the agenda was approved 4-0.
  • Consent agenda (4-0): the Perry Road land exchange amendment, the Town Hall renovation contract, the North Hughes and South Mason sidewalk contract, April 28 minutes, a Salem Street Townhomes text correction and the Camp Branch Lane rezoning.
  • Town Manager's report: about 18,500 electric meters replaced and 13,000 remaining; Ask Apex resolving over 90 percent of calls with an average wait of 50 seconds; four budget public hearings held and a fifth set for June 9.
  • Audit presentation for the year ended June 30, 2025, and a new Environmental Advisory Board chair appointed.
  • Even-year elections resolution adopted after a Wake County Board of Elections presentation.
  • Public forum: 21 speakers on the tax increase, license plate readers, yard waste, affordable housing, public records, consent agenda spending and downtown construction.
  • Public hearings: Alterra Heights annexation and a Pristine Water Drive transportation plan change adopted; Holland Road rezoning denied; the Environmental Advisory Board amendment approved 3-1; May 2026 development ordinance amendments partly approved.
  • Yard waste fees and enforcement approved 3-1; closed session ended with an eminent domain resolution for a traffic signal project. Adjourned 11:20 p.m.

Announcements and Town Manager's report

  • Mayor Pro Tem Mahaffey reported on the budget town hall and the June 9 hearing; Zegerman on the Multimodal Transportation Advisory Board meeting schedule; Mu on the May 29 Behavioral Health Workshop; Reese on the Wake Tech Launch Expo; Mayor Gilbert on a school lacrosse team's state championship game.
  • Town Manager Vosburg reported on Electric Meter Replacement Program: 18,500 replaced, 13,000 remaining.

Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Audit

  • Presentation by Finance Director Griffin and the auditors. Questions on an electric fund correction and the debt service ratio (7.5 percent now, about 9 percent after planned issuance against a 12 percent policy limit).

Environmental Advisory Board Chair Appointment

  • Valle appointed chair through December 31, 2026, 4-0, after the prior chair resigned.

Even-Year Municipal Elections

Public forum

Public hearings

Yard Waste Collection Reduction

  • Chapter 12 ordinance (bi-weekly collection, limbs, contractor waste, enforcement) effective July 1, 2026 approved 3-1, Reese dissenting; grass collection amendment deferred.

Closed session

Added from the video

  • Audit: unmodified opinions, issued late; no material weaknesses, with two findings (purchasing-card policy compliance and a garnishment statute compliance item); a $321,000 restatement for a new accounting standard and a $108,379 electric fund correction; $66.89 million in property tax collected at 99.77%. See Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Audit and Purchasing Card Policy Oversight.
  • Even-year elections: the Board of Elections said Apex has 14 precincts; see Even-Year Municipal Elections.
  • License plate readers: public comment cited sharing with 994 agencies; no Council vote. See Public Safety and License Plate Readers.
  • Budget: one speaker put planned staff raises (market adjustment plus merit) at about $3.6 million as an alternative to a tax increase. See Budget Tax Rate Increase.
  • Development amendments: new transitional business and heavy industrial districts; detention facilities allowed only in heavy industrial with a 10-acre minimum and 1,620-foot separation from schools, daycares and similar uses; the food truck court ordinance was withdrawn. See Heavy Industrial Zoning District and Food Truck Court Rules.

Sources

Video

Watch the meeting on YouTube

Transcript

Not yet transcribed.