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25'6 For the list presented the Council chose the following projects in priority order: High School Play Field, $200,000; Storage Building, $40,500; Conversion of the Greenbrier School ~eating system to dual fuel capacity, $30,000; Tonsler Park Recreation Building, $50,000; Paving, $509,500; Bridge repairs, $130,000; completion of the Downtown Mall, $630,000; Community Sidewalks, $ ; and Azalea Park Staff report and consider appropriation re: Community Developer Program Development, $200,000. Mr. Bill Mitchell, Administrative Assistant to the City Manager, addressed the Council and presented a brief report on the background of the Community Developer Program. He stated that the City Community Developer Program is operating principally in the 'Westhaven Community of the City will lose its funding from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Community Development Revenue Sharing Program on June 30, 1977. Since HUD indicates that it is unwilling to fund is program because it is primarily a socially oriented program. He stated that the program is staffed with one person and has its offices at the Old Jefferson School Building on/Eifth Street, N.W. He stated that the total budget request is $17,138.19, including contractural services and commodity cost for the Social Services Coordinator. He stated that the City has $17,200 in unappropriated and unencumbered federal anti-recession funds and recommended that the amount needed to fund the Community Developer Program for the 1978 fiscal year be appropriated from the unapproprated and unen~umbered balance of the Federal Anti-Recession Funds. On motion by Mr. Barbour, seconded by Mr. Brunton the foregoing recommendation was unanimously approved. On motion'by Mr. Barbour, seconded by Mr. Brunton the following resolution was offered and carried over to the next meeting for Appropriation re: Airport Projects - $14,625 cons ideration. BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville that there is hereby appropriated from the Grants Fund to expenditure account 11-4204 the sum of $17,138.19 or as much thereof as may be necessary for the employment of the Community Developer and related expenses for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1977 and ending June 30, 1978; provided that such appropriation shall be contingent upon the receipt of revenue in a like amount by the Grants Fund from federal "anti-.recession" funds allocated to the City under Title II of the Public Works Employment Act of 1976; and provided further that the expenditure of such sum shall in all cases conform to applicable laws and regulations governing such funds; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the budget presented to the City Council for the operation of the Community Developer program is hereby approved, and a copy thereof be kept on file with the papers of the Council meeting at which this resolution is adopted. The resolution appropriating $14,625 for Capital Projects at the Airport, which was offered at the meeting of the Council on June 6, 1977, was adopted by the following recorded vote. Ayes: Mr. Barbour, Mr. Brunton, Mr. Gatewood and Mrs. O'Brien. Noes: None. Absent: Mr. Fife.