By Brian Trompeter
The Vienna Town Council on July 8 unanimously approved a raft of municipal contracts ranging from police software and pavement work to environmental services and vehicle tires.
The contracts included:
• Up to $102,425 to Tyler Technologies in a sole-source agreement to maintain software for the Vienna Police Department’s computer-aided-dispatch, law-enforcement records management and mobile-data systems.
• $1.5 million to Sagres Construction Corp. (primary vendor) and A&M Concrete Corp. (secondary vendor) to provide on-call roadway maintenance in fiscal 2025. Among the companies’ tasks will include working on curb-and-gutter, sidewalk, trails, storm and sanitary sewers, water lines, paving, pavement milling, silt removal, retaining walls, under drains, seeding, sodding and storm-drainage channels.
• $200,000 to Resurface Inc. to perform recurring pavement-marking work on an as-needed basis.
• $200,000 to WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure Inc. for on-call environmental professional services.
The Council also agreed to ride these contracts negotiated by other jurisdictions:
• Using a Rockville contract, Vienna will buy $140,000 worth of utility-marking work from Pinpoint Underground.
• Riding a Fairfax County contract, the town will purchase $75,000 worth of tires from Service Tire Truck Center.
Property Consolidation Gets Vienna Town Council’s Approval: The owners of a property at 103 St. Andrews Drive, N.E., will be able to consolidate that parcel with an adjoining land-locked on to the rear and build a larger home at the site, following the Vienna Town Council’s approval July 8.
Combining the parcels, which together total 0.54 acres, will remove a nonconforming lot, and result in no public-infrastructure impact, said Vienna Planning and Zoning Director David Levy.
One result that did get the Council’s attention was the proposal’s projected tree-canopy reduction from 62 percent to 20.6 percent. The lower figure comports with current town standards, but new ones that will take effect July 29 call for 25-percent tree coverage.
One of the applicants, Mir Zohori, said he would look into the possibility of increasing the site’s tree canopy, but Town Attorney Steven Briglia said the Council could not compel the applicants to do so as part of the motion for approval.
“This is not a re-subdivision,” Briglia said. “They are redeveloping their property . . . You can’t require them to do it.”
“They were told one set of rules and they followed it,” agreed Mayor Linda Colbert. “I think we should go with that.”
The Council approved a final plat for the property consolidation on a 4-1 vote, with member Roy Baldwin voting nay. (Members Jessica Ramakis and Sandra Allen were absent.)
Council OKs New Contract for Vienna Town Manager: The Vienna Town Council in a July 8 consent-agenda item approved a new two-year contract for Town Manager Mercury Payton, whose annual base salary now will be $243,707.
Payton, who succeeded the late John Schoeberlein as town manager in 2011, last had his contract renewed in 2022. The Council approved the new contract, which will be in effect through June 30, 2026, following a satisfactory performance evaluation last December.
Vienna Town Attorney’s Firm to Receive Increased Funds for Legal Services: The legal-services contract and rates for Vienna Town Attorney Steven Briglia’s law firm have seen only minor adjustments in recent years, but the Vienna Town Council changed that situation July 8.
The Council voted unanimously to increase the payment to the town attorney’s law firm of Briglia and Hundley, PC, by 8.2 percent for a total of up to $395,000 in fiscal 2025.
That amount is broken down into legal services ($225,000), prosecution services ($100,000) and supplemental legal services ($70,000).
The firm provides multiple legal services to the town, including including general-counsel work, litigation monitoring, General District Court prosecution services and other as-needed legal functions.
