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24,6 Appropriation re: $82,000- Building Maintenance & Repair Appropriation re: $340,803 - Capital Fund Resolution re: Unemployment Compensation involve as many as 38 steps and requires about 60 days for processing. He recommended that if the City Council is interested in participating in this program that the Housing Authority be requested to draw up a .detailed plan of action to include alternative financing and specific target neighborhoods. This matter was referred to the Housing Authority Board for review and recommendation. The resolution appropriating $82,000 for building maintenance and repairs, was was offered at the meeting of the Council on April 18, 1977 was adopted by the following recorded vote. Ayes: Mr. Barbour, Mr. Fife, Mr. Gatewood and ~Xirs. O'Brien. Noes: None. Absent: Mr. Brunton. The resolution appropriating $340,803 for Capital Projects which was offered at the meeting of the Council on April 18, 1977 was adopted by the following recorded vote. Ayes: Mr. Barbour, Mr. Fife, Mr. Gatewood and Mrs. O'Brien. Noes: None Absent: Mr. Brunton. The City Attorney advised the Council that last fall Congress adopted amendmenta to the Unemployment Compensation Act which in effect required the state and local government employees be made eligible for unemployment compensation and most instances such employees have not been covered under the unemployment system in the past. The requirement becomes effective on January 1, 1978 and the states are now in the process of amending their unemployment laws. He stated that nationally the fiscal impact of this law is enormous and as a result the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers is planning to initiate litigation in the Federal Courts to challenge this congressional mandate on constitutional grounds. He stated the annual cost of Charlottes- ville of complying with the mandate is difficult to estimate because there are two formulas for calculating the payment the City would be required to make, however, it is believed that the minimum annual cost for providing the unemployment coverage to both general city and school employees would be at least $100,000 per year. He stated that if Charlottesville wishes to join in this litigation the maximum contribution would b~e $2,500. On motion by Mr. Barbour, seconded by Mr. Fife the following resolution was unanimously adopted. BE IT RESOLVED,by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, that the City Attorney be authorized to take all actions deemed by him necessary and proper for the City of Charlottesville to participate as a party to the litigation challenging the constitutionality of the 1976 amendments to the federal Unemployment Compensation Tax Act, P.L. 94-566 and related acts making such tax and requirements applicable to state and local governmental employees, including the payment of the City's pro-rata share of the expenses of such litigation to the Trust Fund of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers.