If the Littleton town board decided to put out any warning signs in the board room it would probably say, “Salesman beware, we checked your statements.”
When a representative of Advertising Solutions came before the board on April 3 he said that he had an agreement with the Roanoke Valley Chamber of Commerce to advertise in a promotional book being produced. He then asked the board to consider advertising in the book.
At that meeting the board agreed to table the decision until this past Monday. When the board met at 6 p.m. on Monday it was revealed that after looking into the comments made by the Solutions representative they found out that the Chamber was not going to advertise in the book. In addition they could not find any other local municipality that was going to advertise in the book.
That is all it took to say no to spending a minimum of $300 on an ad in the book.
At the same meeting Monday night the board decided that it would promote the town by participating in the First Annual Valley Fest. The festival will take place on May 19 on Roanoke Avenue in Roanoke Rapids.
The event is designed to bring together church groups and organizations from throughout the Valley to promote themselves and sell goods in a fund raising effort. Commissioners Betty Willis and Clara Debnam agreed to work together to come up with a display for the event.
In the final action of the meeting the board agreed to meet on Monday, April 30 at 8 a.m. in the morning to vote on the rezoning of the land adjacent to Mordecai’s.
In requesting the meeting Commissioner Willis told the board that she did not want it on her that the town lost the possibility for a new business in town by not voting in time.
After a brief discussion over the time and place for a meeting Mayor Mason Hawfield and the board members present approved the meeting.
Willis was referring to a comment made by Charles Bennett of Warrenton at the April 3 town meeting. Bennett has proposed a shopping and office development at the site, but a rezoning request was tabled because of a boundary dispute with adjacent land owners. Bennett said if the rezoning was not approved by the May town commission meeting he was going to withdraw the offer to purchase the land.
The land is presently zoned residential agriculture. The Bennett’s would like the property rezoned to commercial. The board noted, once again, that if they approve the rezoning it does not resolve the survey dispute. The board has no authority to resolve the dispute, it will only be approving or disapproving the rezoning.