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Resolution re: Transferring revenues to Capital Improve- ments Fund Resolution re: Approving location & financing of David C. Wilson Neuropsychiatric Hospital acquisition 36i. natural gas supplied by the City to its customers; and WHEREAS this Council deems City intervention in the aforesaid rate proceeding to be in the public interest, now, therefore, be it RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, that the City Council hereby ratifies and approves the petition to intervene filed on behalf of the Cities of Charlottesville and Richmond, Virginia, on October 24, 1980, in FERC Docket Nos. RP80-145 and 80~146 and authorizes the City Attorney and the law firm of Miller, Balis and O'Neil, P.C., to take such actions as they may deem necessary to protect the interests of the City in such proceedings. On motion by Mr. Conover, seconded by Dr. Hall, Council unanimously adopted the following resolution: BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, that $179,367.00 of the sum received in the general fund as a return of surplus monies appropriated to the City public school system for the 1979-80 fiscal year is hereby transferred to the unappropriated balance of the Capital Improvements Fund to be held mn reserve for appropriation to future capital 'projects. Council considered a resolution approving the location and financing of the David C. Wilson Neuropsychiatric Hospital acquisition by National Psychiatric Institutes, Inc. Mr. Robert Stroud of McGuire, Woods & Battle, representing NPI, explained the project to Council. NPI wishes to acquire the hospital to expand the hospital and improve the services offered, using industrial development bonds for the purpose. Mr. George Chopivsky, Jr., a member of NPI, described the proposed construction and the group's objectives: to ease the current shortage of space for therapeutic programs, to expand t~e child and adolescent services, to begin a psychogerentology program and to increase cooperation and communication between the hospital and other mental health providers in the community. Mr. Chopivsky presented letters of endorsement for the project from community agencies, local hospitals, local community counseling centers and private practitioners. He also described the economic benefits to the community as being approximately 35 new jobs, an .annual increase in taxes of $66,000 locally, the use of local labor and materials in the construction and the intangible benefits of having an expanded hospital attracting patients from all over the state. NPI is a privately-owned corporation, currently the owner of a psychiatric hospital in Philadelphia and with assets~.~of approximately $8 million. The Industrial DeVelopment Bond Authority on October 14 adopted an inducement resolution recommending the project. On m~tion by Mr. Albro, seconded by Dr. Hall, Council unanimously adopted the! following resolution: WHEREAS the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, (the COuncil) has created the Industrial Development Bond Authority of Charlottesville, Virginia (the Authority), pursuant to the Virginia Industrial Development and Revenue Bond Act to fulfill the purposes of such Act; and _ WHEREAS the ordinance adopted by Councit on July 19, 1976, creating the Authority (the Ordinance) provides that ~he Authority shall not f. · znance amy facility until the location and financing of such facility have been approved by Council; and WHEREAS Section 5 of the Ordinance sets forth certain standards to be considered by the Authority and the Council in determining the nature and location of facilities to be financed by the Authority; and