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DATE OF NEXT MEETING CHANGED FOR ~100,000.00. ON MOTION BY MR. MOUNT, SECONDED BY MR. RINEHART, UNANIMOUS CONSENT WAS GIVEN TO CONSIDERATION OF CHANGING THE DATE FOR THE NEXT MEETING. ON MOTION BY MR. RINEHART, SECONDED BY MR. MOUNT, THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING WAS POSTPONED UNTIL OCTOBER 5~ 1967, AND THE PUBLIC HEARING DUE TO BE HELD AT THE NEXT MEETING WAS POSTPONED UNTIL OCTOBER 23, 1967 AT 7:30 P. M. AT THE COURT HOUSE. ON MOTION THE MEETING ADJOURNED. PREs I DENT COUNCIL CHAMBER - OCTOBER 5, 1967 MATTER RE: TANDEM PARKING RESOLUTION RE: SCHOOL BOARD - TRANSPORTATION PUPILS tO MCGUFFEY AND GREENBRIER THE COUNCIL MET IN REGULAR SESSION ON THIS DATE WITH THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS PRESENT: MR.' HAGGERTY) MR. MOUNT~ MR. RENNOLDS AND MR. RINEHART. ABSENT: MR. VOGT. THE MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF SEPTEMBER 25~ 1967 AND SEPTEMBER 29, 1967 WERE READ AND APPROVED. MR. ROBERT M. CARVER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DOWNTOWN CHARLOTTESVILLE, INC. ADDRESSED THE COUNCIL AND PRESENTED A PLAN FOR TANDEM PARKING IN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT AND REMOVAL OF SEVERAL PARKING METERS ON THE SIDE STREETS. THIS MATTER WAS REFERRED TO THE STREET COMMITTEE FOR STUDY AND REPORT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION OF THE SCHOOL BOARD WAS PRESENTED: WHEREAS~ THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE IN RECOGNITION OF THE SPECIAL NEEDS OF CERTAIN PUPILS OF'THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM WHO ARE EMOTIONALLY OR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN HAVE PRovIDED A SPECIAL CURRICULUM AND PROGRAM DESIGNED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THESE PUPILS AT MCGUFFEY, SCHOOL~ AND WHEREAS, CERTAIN OF THESE HANDICAPPED CHILDREN HAVE IN PAST YEARS BEEN DETER- MINED TO BE HANDICAPPED TO A DEGREE TO WHICH THEY COUL~ NOT USE NORMAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN BEING TAKEN TO THEIR RESPECTIVE SCHOOLS, SO THAT IN THESE FORMER YEARS TRANSPORTATION FOR THESE SPECIALLY HANDICAPPED PUPILS HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY THE CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CHILDREN, ENTIRELY AT THE EXPENSE OF THAT ASSOCIATION, AND WHEREAS, IN THE SPRING OF 1967 THE CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CHILDREN APPEARED IN A PUBLIC MEETING BEFORE THE SCHOOL BOARD TO STATE THAT THAT ORGANIZATION WOULD NO LONGER BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THIS TRANSPORTATION FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1967-68~ AND ASKED THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION FOR THIS GROUP OF SPECIALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ATTENDING MCGUFFEY SCHOOL~ AND WHEREAS, THE SCHOOL BOARD ~ONSIDERED THAT TRANSPORTATION FOR THESE PARTI- CULAR CHILDREN WHO ARE UNABLE TO USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION BECAUSE OF THEIR HANDICAP IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE SPECIAL CURRICULUM FOR THESE PUPILS, WHICH PUPILS HAVE BEEN DETERMINED bY PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING AND EVALUATION BY SPECIALLY QUALIFIED SCHOOL PERSONNEL TO BE 53 IN NUMBER, CONSTITUTING APPROXIMATELY OF 'THE ENROLLMENT OF THE McGUFFEY SCHOOL~ AND~ WHEREAS, THE SCHOOL BOARD HAS DETERMINED THAT TRANSPORTATION CAN BE PRO- VIDED FOR THESE PURILS BY TAXICABS FURNISHED BY THE YELLOW CAB AND TRANSIT COMPANY, WHICH FORM OF TRANSPORTATION THE SCHOOL BOARD CONSIDERS SAFEST AND BEST FOR THESE PARTICULAR 53 CHILDREN, AND FOR OTHERS WHO MAY LATER BE DETERMINED TO BE SIMILARLY SITUATED~ UNTIL SUCH TINE AS THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SCHOOLS PERMIT A RETURN TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL CONCEPT FOR THE CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM, WHEN THE QUESTION OF THIS TRANSPORTATION CAN BE RECONSIDERED~ AND~