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36-4 <br /> <br />Executive session <br /> <br />Special session <br /> <br />Consideration re: <br />City employees' <br />holiday schedule <br /> <br />Public hearing re: <br />Small cities grant <br />for Fifeville <br /> <br /> On motion by Mr. Conover, seconded by Dr. Hall, Council <br />unanimously agreed to meet in executive session to discuss <br />matters exempted by Section 2.1-344(a)(6)(Legal) of the Virginia <br />Freedom of Information Act. <br /> On motion the meeting a~journed,t <br /> <br /> Clerk President <br /> <br /> TAKE NOTICE <br /> <br /> A special meeting of Council will be held on Monday the <br />24th inst. at 7:30 p.m, o'clock. <br />BASEMENT CONFERENCE ROOM <br /> <br />1. Public hearing for small cities grant <br />2. Consideration of Christmas holiday schedule <br /> <br /> BY ORDER OF <br /> <br />Kathleen Roletter (.signed) Francis L. Buck (signed) <br /> <br /> BASEMENT CONFERENCE ROOM-MONDAY, NOV. 24, 1980 <br /> Council met in special session on this date with the following <br /> members present: Mr. Albro, Mr. Buck, Mr. Conover, Ms. Gleason, <br /> Dr. Hall. Absent: None. <br /> <br /> Mr. Cole Hendrix, City Manager, recommended to Council that <br />City employees be given the day after Christmas, Friday, December <br />26, as a holiday in exchange for Lee-Jackson Day, a normal holiday <br />in January. On motion by Mr. Conover, seconded by Dr. Hall, <br />Council unanimously approved the recommendation. Ms. Gleason and <br />Mr. Albro were absent during the vote, <br /> <br /> Mr. Satyendra Huja, Director of Planning and Community <br />Development, addressed Council about a p~oposed $1.54 million HUD <br />small cities grant. The funds, if received, will be used for <br />traffic, drainage, sidewalk and landscaping improvements; housing <br />rehabilitation and a house bank program; land for housing; low- <br />interest loans for low and moderate income homeowners and propective <br />home buyers; and for economic development. Mr. Huja stated that <br />the City staff has worked closely with the Fifeville Neighborhood <br />Association and neighborhood residents in designing the grant <br />requests. <br /> <br /> Ms, Ethel Henderson, President~0f the Fifeville Neighborhood <br />Association, confirmed Mr. Hu]a's remarks about the improvements <br />needed in the neighborhood and asked for Council's approval of <br />the grant application. <br /> <br /> Mr. Eugene Williams of Dogwood Housing Ltd. endorsed the grant <br />application and remarked that there is a critical need for decent <br />housing in this neighborhood. Dogwood Housing Ltd. currently <br />owns 10 parcels and 23 units in the area and would like to use <br />unemployed tenants in the neighborhood in housing rehabilitation <br />to increase neighborhood pride and teach a marketab'le skill to <br />those workers. Mr. Williams stated that the grant would help <br />reduce crime in the area, boost neighborhood morale and pride, <br /> <br /> <br />