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Appropriation re: $5,000 - Library Letter of Intent and Appropriation of $40,000 for Girls' Attention Home to the By Pass and enter the gravity sanitary sewer line that goes under the By Pass toward North Avenue. The cost of the project is estimated to be $40,000 and the capacity that could be pumped was reco~nended at no more than 200,000 gallons per day. The capacity would be enough to serve approXimately 600 single family units. The City Manager stated that then there would be a need to devise an allocation plan for this capacity. He stated it could be based on one of the following plans: 1. Public Need. 2. Legal Strenght. 3. Percentage of connections requested, and 4. First Come First Serve. The Mayor questioned the length of validity of a building permit and if they were renewable? It was generally agreed that an allocation plan would be devised and presented to Council on a first come first serve basis and including a provision for non-renewable building permits. On motion by Mr. Barbour, seconded by Mr. Gatewood the following resolution was offered and carried over to the next meeting for consideration. BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville that $40,000 be and the same is hereby appropriated from the Capital Fund to implement the suggested plan for pumping sewage from the Moores Creek Basin to the Meadow Creek Basin. The resolution appropriating $5,000 for consultants fees for the Library which was offered at the meeting of the Council on December 13, 1976, was adopted by the following recorded vote. Ayes: Mr. Barbour, Mr. Brunton, Mr. Fife, Mr. Gatewood and Mrs. O'Brien. Noes: None. Mrs. Iris Shaw, Chairman of the Community Attention Home Advisory Board, addressed the Council and stated that the Advisory Board thinks the time has come for the City to show the same concern for girls as it does for boys by establishing a residential care facility for girls comparable to the one presently being operated for boys. She stated that money has been budgeted for this program by the Department of Corrections, but will expire in July of 1977. She stated that the Department of Corrections will reimburse the City of Charlottesville two-thirds of all personnel costs, one hundred per cent of operating costs, and fifty per cent of home purchase-renovation costs. She stated that the estimated 'cost of the house purchase and renovation is $80,000 and requested the Council to appropriate one-half of this amount as the City's share. She also requested that the City Council send a letter to the Virginia Department of Correction stating that Charlottesville intends to operate a residential care facility for girls pursuant to Section 16.1-201 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, and that the City Manager be author±zed to seek option on property for a Girls