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BIDS RE: COURT HOUSE REFERRED TO COMMITTEE FOR RECOMMENDATION MATTER RE= TOURIST CENTER AND MUSEUM APPROPRIATION - NEW HEALTH CENTER BIDS ON THE COURT HOUSE AND CLERKtS OFFICE WERE PRESENTED BY MR. OAVE GIBSON. AFTER A LENGTHY DISCUSSION, THE MATTER WAS REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE COMPOSED OF MR. LEE~ MR. BOWEN AND MR. SCRIBNER FOR RECOMMENDATION. THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE 20OTH ANNIVERSARY COMMISSION MET WITH THE COUNCIL TO DISCUSS THE NEED FOR A TOURIST INFORMATION CENTER AND MUSEUM. THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL ENDORSE THE NEED OF A TOURIST CENTER AND MUSEUM BY APPOINTING A COMMITTEE SIMILAR TO THE ONE FOR THE COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL TO STUDY THE NEEOS~ LOCATION, AND METHOD OF FINANCING A TOURIST CENTER AND HISTORICAL MUSEUM; AND THAT THE COUNCIL MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE ANNIYERSARY COMMISSION A PORTION OF THE PARKING LOT AT SEVENTH AND MARKET STREETS FOR A TEMPORARY TOURIST CENTER DURING 1962. ON MOTION BY MR, HAGGERTY~ SECONDED BY MR. PONTON~ THE FOREGOING RECOMMENDATION WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED. THE RESOLUTION APPROVING THE COMMITTEE REPORT AND APPROPRIATING ~50~000.00 FOR A NEW HEALTH CENTER~ WHICH WAS OFFERED AT THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL ON JANUARY 2~ 1962, WAS'ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING RECORDED VOTEr MR,, LEE~. MR. MOUNT, MR. PONTON AND MR. SCRIBNER. HORSt NONE. ON MOTION THE MEETING ADJOURNED. AYES= MR. HAGGERTY, C0UNC I l. CH/~IBER - JANUARY 15, 1 962 ORDINANCE OFFERED AND CARRIED-"OVER RE= SEc. 4, ART. III, APP. II - DISTRICT MAP LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE REPORT RE= MATTERS BAR ASSOCIATION THE COUNCIL MET IN REGULAR SESSION ON THIS DATE WITH THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS PRESENT~ MR. HAGGERTY~ MR.. LEE~. MR. MOUNT~ MR,, PONTON AND MR. SCRIBNER. ABSENT'. NONE. THE MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF' JANUARY 2, t96~ AND JANUARY 8, 1962 WERE READ AND APPROVED. A COMMUNICATION WAS PRESENTED FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDING THAT THE REMAINDER OF PARCELS 53-259 AND 53-260 AND ALL OF PARCELS 53-267, ~68 AND 269 BE REZONED B OFFICE SHOP. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE /~ENDING AND ENACTING THE DISTRICT MAP INCORPORATED 1N SECTION 4 OF ARTICLE II! OF APPENDIX I! OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, 1959, BY THE REZONING OF '1~/0 TRACTS OF LAND EACH FRONTING APPROXIMATELY 125 FEET ON 9½ STREET" WAS OFF£REO BY MR. PONTONj SECONDED BY MR. LEE, AND CARRIED OVER TO A PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HELD ON FEBRUARY 5s 1962 AT 7:30 P. M. THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE REPORTED THAT THEY HAD CONSIDERED THE MATTERS BROUGHT BEFORE THE COUNCIL BY THE BAR ASSOCIATION ON'JANUARY 2~ 1962 AND FEEL THAT THESE MATTERS ARE OF SUCH IMPORTANCE FOR THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY THAT HASTE SHOULD NOT BE INVOLVED IN THEIR CONSIDERATION,., THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED THAT SINCE THE PUBLIC HEARING COULD NOT BE HELD AND THE DESIRED CHANGES DRAFTED WITHIN THE TWENTY DAY GENERAL ASSEMBLY LIMIT~ THAT THESE CHANGES NOT SE ACTED UPON AT THIS- TIME, AND THAT THE BAR ASSOCIATION BE INFORMED THAT IF IT FEELS SUCH CHANGES ARE !rill i r~ STILL ADVISABLE THEY SHOULD BE PRESENTED TO CouNcIL NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 15, 1963, ~WHICH WOULD ALLOW TIME FOR PUBLIC CONSIDERATION PRIOR TO THE 1964 SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. ON MOTION BY-MR. LEE~ SECONDED BY MR. MOUNT, THE FOREGOING RECOMMENDATION WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED. THE CITY MANAGER ADVISED THE COUNCIL THAT HE- HAD BEEN INFORMED BY THE STATE HEALTH COMMISSIONER THAT THE FUNDS FOR THE AFFILIATION OF THE JOINT HEALTH DEPARTMENT WITH THE STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT WHICH HAD BEEN INCLUDED IN THE STATE HEALTH ~)EPARTMENT