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:1,'42 Staff Report (County) -Water- shed Management Official to stay where they are and function for a much longer period of time. The question he posed to Council in terms of whether we ought to apply for the grant, is that he feels once these services are established the funds are going to r~un out and after that the City will be asked to pick it up in terms of local share and if the Council ia not willing to face that issue it is his feeling w-e should not apply for the grant. Mr. Albro stated that he felt there was something to be said about this program, however he was very skeptical about it at this time. He stated we are informed that there is not one at this moment who needs to go into an institution from the High. Rise and we know there are twenty-five to twenty- seven people who are going to come within this program at a cost of approximately $100,000 and that seems rather expensive. He stated that he. feels that as happens to so many other federal programs, the City will be picking up the tab somewhere down the road and he is not prepared at this time to say he would like to pick up the tab or to'hire the kind of staff it is going to take for this ever expanding program. Mrs. O'Brien stated that she thinks when an opportunity comes along to provide some dignity and help to someone who has given a great deal through their life for others, the time comes when they are not quite able to function by themselves, they are not quite ready to be institutionalized and she thinks it borders on being inhumane to say we won't follow up on that and she would like to do whatever we can to keep people from being put in nursing homes as long as possible because of the degree of dignity they often have to give up when they arrive in nursing homes simply because they feel they've lost their home, and the High Rise is home to these people. They are then in a whole new world which is not quite as comfortable as being in their home. When the time comes that there are no more federal funds then that is the time we have to answer the question to whether it should be local money or not, but those are our local tax dollars that have gone to Washington which are going to be sent somewhere and it seems foolish to say with the increasing aging population in the City no we don't want our tax dollars back. A motion by Mr. Buck, seconded by Mrs. O'Brien that the Housing Authority be directed to proceed with the application for thiS grant, was defeated by the following recorded vote. Ayes: Mr. Buck and Mrs. O'Brien. Noes: Mr. Albro and Mr. Brunton, Absent: Mr. Gatewood.- A communication was presented from Mr. Guy B. Agnor, Jr., County Executive, concerning a proposed Watershed Management Official. The City Manager stated that there are three alternatives, one ~eing to do nothing, the other two to place the official in the Rivanna organization or to place the official in the County Engineer's Office. Mr. Agnor recommended that he be placed in the County