Former Chapel Hill Town Council member Lee Storrow was given a 60-day suspended sentence following his guilty plea to driving while impaired.

Judge Jay Bryan issued the sentencing on Tuesday morning, ordering Storrow to turn over his driver’s license, perform 24 hours of community service and pay a fine and court costs.

Bryan issued a Level 5 sentence, the least severe among DWI charges in North Carolina.

Storrow said in court that he had completed more than 30 hours of an alcohol-support program at UNC, and that he intended to continue participating in the program.

Storrow was pulled over, early in the morning of August 26, when his 2012 Toyota Prius was clocked going 63 in a 35 mile per hour zone near Municipal Drive on Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, according to Chapel Hill Police.

Storrow willfully submitted a sample of his breath for chemical analysis, according to records. The test showed Storrow’s blood-alcohol content was a .16, twice the legal limit to drive in North Carolina.

Storrow entered a guilty plea to the DWI charge in early September. As part of the agreement for Storrow’s guilty plea, the state agreed to drop the speeding charge, which prosecutors say is standard procedure in a case like this.

Storrow served on the Town Council from 2011 through this year. Several local elected officials were in attendance at the court hearing to support Storrow.

Bryan thanked Storrow for his service during the sentencing and said that he hopes Storrow will consider serving the community, once again, in some capacity.

“The last thing I would say Mr. Storrow is that I hope you will continue, when you’re ready, to serve in whatever capacity you find to be stimulating and worthwhile,” Bryan said, “because I think you have that experience to be able to continue to do that.”

Storrow was one of three incumbents who lost re-election bids in Chapel Hill in November.

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