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Request~ re: JAUNT -.- Appropriation for $15,000 Resolution re: Authorizing the City Atty. to appeal the FERC Decision in Docket No. RP75-106 (Natural Gas Rate Case) 209 The Mayor thanked_ Mr. Lambertt-and granted a two week extension on the report. Mr. Rick Seaman, Charlottesville's representative to the JAUNT Board, addressed the Council and stated that there are some items of which the Council should be aware relating to the operations of JAUNT. He stated the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors will consider authorizing the County Executive to sign the labor warranty provision which has been holding up final approval of JAUNT's Section 18 funding request. He stated this means that ~aile JAUNT can be hopeful of receiving Section 18 funds within the next 60 days an unfunded operating deficit must still be covered for January, February and March, 1980. He stated the JAUNT Board has instructed him to submit a request for an appropriation of $15,000 to cover the Charlottesville share of JAUNT's operating defiCit for the first three months of this year. This request is in the same amount and subject to the same restrictions as those funds appropriated for the period October through December, 1979. He stated that JAUNT proposes that CTS and JAUNT consider the feasibility of submitting a joint proposal for the provision of public transit service in the Roune 29 North corridor. He suggested that JAUNT'and CTS cooperate on a coordinated approach wh~re CTS would serve the area from University Hall to Rio Road and the JAUNT would serve the rural area from Rio Road to the Greene County line. On motion by Mr~.~Buck, seconded by Mrs. O'Brien the following resolution was offered and carried over to the next meeting for consideration. BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Charlottes- ville, Virginia, that the sum of $15,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the unappropriated balance of the General Fund to expenditure account 01-92390 for the continued operation of transit services within the City of Charlottesville by Jefferson Area United Transportation, Inc. (JAUNT) from January 1, 1980 through March 31, 1980. Such appropriation shall be upon the same terms and conditions as were established by an appropriation resolution adopted by this Council on November 19, 1979: Mr. Buck stated that before the second reading he would like a report from the staff as to whether the City can sign the warranty or if the County is going to sign, because if neither is going to sign the warranty we will not be able to take advantage of Section 18 funds, because this loan can not be repaid in Section 18 funds are not forthcoming. On motion by Mrs'. O'Brien, seconded by Mr. Gatewood the following resolution was unanimously adopted. WHEREAS, since 1975 the City has been an active participant in a rate proceeding of Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation, FERC Docket No. RP75-106 Consolidated Taxes), before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in which the City has challenged the computation of the federal income tax component of Co~umB~±a's cost of service and resulting rates for natural gas purchased by the City; ~and WHEREAS, on July 2, 1979 the FERC issued Opinion No. 47 in which, by a 3 to 2 vote, it reversed its own earlier announced decision and the previous decision of its presiding administrative law judge that had adopted the City's position in Docket No. RP75-106; and