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Resolution re: Appointment of Viewers - Walker Street On motion by Mr. Gilliam, seconded by Mr. Fife the following resolution was unanimously adopted. A RESOLUT%ON appointing viewers to consider a request for the vacation of that portion of Walker Street running in an easterly direction for approximately 120 feet from the eastern right-of-way of Altamont Street to the western line of an 18 foot alley. WHEREAS, this Council has received a~petition requesting vacation of that portion of Walker Street running in an easterly direction for approximately 120 feet from the eastern right-of-way of Altamont Street to the western line'of an 18 foot alley; and WHEREAS, it appears to Council that the notices required by ~15.1-364 of the Code of Virginia (1950), as amended, have been duly posted; NOW., THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City' of Charlottesville that James P. Borden, Mason S. Byrd' and H. P. Winn, Jr. be and the same are hereby appointed as viewers to view such street and report in writing to Council what inconvenience, if any, would result from the vacation thereof. ~ Bids re: Juvenile Court remodeling project The City Manager presented Bids for the Juvenile Court 'remodeling project. He stated that the lowest bid was from Gelletly Company in the amount of $93,992 and recommended that th±s bid be accepted. On motion by Mrs. Rinehart, seconded by Mr. Gilliam the foregoing recommendation Approving functional classification and federal aid realignment of City Streets was unanimously adopted. Mr. Guy Agnor, Director of Public Works, addressed the Council and stated'that the Federal Aid Highways Act of 1973 requires that the State Transportation Agencies realign the Federal Aid Highway System in accordance with the type of service that the road ways provide.~ He sta~ed that the Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation has assigned a functional classification to the streets within the City that are now or will be included in the Federal Aid System by 1985. He presented maps prepared by the Department of Highways and Transportation and members of the City Staff, classifying each street in the system according to i~s fuctional use and recommended approval of these maps. A communication was presented from the Planning Commission recommending the City Council in giving its concurance to these two maps note to the Federal Government that in light of the-current area wide transportation restudy that the City would reserve the right to modify the funcational classification map to bring them into conformance with the new thoroughfare plan. On motion by Mr. Gilliam, seconded by Mr. Fife the following resolution was unanimously adopted.