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,324 Appointment re: Youth Service Citizens Board Appointment TJPDC Appointment re: Charlottesville Development Group Appointment re: R,S.V.P. Advisory Board Presentation re: Community Diversion Incentive Act~ Presentation re: South Rivanna Reservoir at the 29North and Hydraulic intersection, by the following vote. Ayes: Mr. Buck, Mr, Conover, Ms. Gleason, Dr. Hall. Noes: Mr. Albro. On motion by Ms. Gleason, Council unanimously appointed Mr. Boyd C. Tinsley and Ms. Ruth Wadlington to the Youth Service Citizens Board. On motion by Mr. Conover, Council~unanimously appointed Ms. Jane Biltonen to the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission. On motion by Mr. Alhro, Mr, J.E. Chambers was unanimously appointed to the Charlottesville DeVelopment Group. On .motion by Dr, Hall, Ms. Irene Southall and Mr. Ben Rau were appointed to the Retired Senior Volunteem Program Advisory Board. Mr. Lindsey G. Dottier, Jr., Commonwealth's Attorney for Albemarle County, made a presentation to Council about the Community Diversion Incentive Act, a piece of legislation that funds pilot programs in Virginia localities with the purpose of diverting felons from imprisonment to community treatment services. The program, utilized at the judges' discretion, would target non-violent felons for community services and treatment after diagnosis is made. The state would reimburse the locality $4,000 for each felon diverted; the program would be designed to reduce repeat offenses, rehabilitate the offenders, make restitution~to 'victims and reduce overcrowding at the Joint Security Complex. The application for the grant must be submitted by November 21 and Mr. Dorrier reqeusted that Council join Albemarle County in the grant, appropriating $750 each to pay a grant writer to prepare the application. Council discussed the idea of using a grant writer in the Planning Department rather than making the appropriation to pay an outside writer. Mayor Buck thanked Mr. Dorrier for the presentation.~and promised that he would have an answer from Council within a Week. Mr. Gerry~Fisher, chairman ef the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, and Mr. Bill Norris, Watershed Management Official, presented a report to Council entitled "South Rivanna Reservoir: A Brief HiStory and an Unsolved Problem" and a copy of a resolution from the County Board of Supervisors requesting the City of Charlottesville to join with the County in asking the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authorit% to initiate ~a programfor the periodic inspection and maintenance of runoff control devices required by the Runoff Control Ordinance to protect the water of the Reservoir. Mayor Buck thanked Mr. Fisher and Mr. Norris for the presentation and Council took thematter under consideration. Resolution re: On motion by Mr, Conover, seconded by Ms. Gleason, Council Authorizing Mayor to execute letter of intent unanimously approved the following resolution, Mr. Albro abstaining to acquire land for Ivy Creek Natural Area due to a conflict of interests: