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PETITION PRESENTED RE'. DOGS COMM. REFERRED TO STREET COMM. & PLANNING COMM. RE: CLOSING STREETS WITHIN AND ADdACENT TO HOUSING PROJECT REPORT - SPECIAL COMMITTEE ICE CREAM VENDING TRUCKS COST PER 1,000 GALLONS IN 1961 .18~ INFORMATION ON PROPOSED NEW PROJECT NEW DAM - 42 FEET HIGH OF CONCRETE CONSTRUCT!ON. GROSS STORAGE - 7,760,000,000 GALLONS DALLY AMOUNT AVAILABLE FOR CITY USE, AFTER ALLOWING FOR SILT ACCUMULATION DURING FIRST 30 YEARS, EVAPORATION AND DISCHARGE DOWN STREAM, APPROXIMATELY 70 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY FROM THIS SOURCE ONLY. NEW DAM WITH ADDIT ON OF ~FLASH" GATES TO 46 FEET IN HEIGHT - GROSS STORAGE WOULD BE 2~370,000~000 GALLONS AND AFTER ALL ALLOWANCES APPROXIMATELY 75 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY FROM THIS SOURCE ONLY. NEw DAM TO ULTIMATE HEIGHT WOULD HAVE A SURFACE AREA OF ABOUT 500 ACRES.To HEIGHT OF 42 FEET WOULD HAVE SURFACE AREA OF ABOUT 390 ACRES. WATER WOULD BACK UP STREAM APPROXIMATELY 8½ MILES. LAKE COULD~ WITH PERMISSION OF THE GOVERNING BODY, BE USED FOR CERTAIN RECREATION PURPOSES. NEW RAPID SAND FILTER PLANT WOULD FILTER 2 TO 3 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY BUT WOULD BE DESIGNED SO THAT IT CAN BE ENLARGED AS THE NEED ARISES. TRANSMISSION LINE FROM FILTER PLANT NEAR DAN ON SOUTH FORK WOULD BE DESIGNED TO CARRY NEED FROM THIS SOURCE TO 1990 OR AFTER. STORAGE TANK WOULD HOL~ ~ MILLtON GALLONS. IN FUTURE YEARS IT WiLL PROBABLY BE ADVISABLE TO INSTALL ONE OR TWO STORAGE TANKS IN OR NEAR THE CITY. COMPARATIVE COSTS OF EACH SOUR£E CONSIDERED MOORMAN fs RI VER MECHUM'$ RIVER 3. JAMES RIVER RI VANNA RIVER 5. SOUTH FORK RI VANNA RIVER ON MOTION THE MEETING ADJOURNED. ~,5, 338,600? O0 ~3, 803, 500. O0 ~4,003,200. O0 $4,260, 200. O0 $3, 863,600. O0 COUNCIL CHAMBER - MAY 7, t962 THE COUNCIL MET IN REGULAR SESSION ON THIS DATE WITH THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS PRESENT: MR. HAGGERTY, MR. MOUNT~ MR. PONTON AND MR. SCRIBNER. ABSENT: MR. LEE. THE MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF APRIL 16, 1962, APRIL 20, 1962 AND APRIL 25~ !962 WERE READ AND APPROVED. MR. LLOYD'T, SMITH ADDRESSED THE COUNCIL AND PRESENTED A PETIT ON REQUESTING THE COUNCIL TO AMEND SECTION 3-34 OF CHAPTER 3 SO THAT IT WOULD NOT AFFECT LAWFULLY LICENSED AND VACCINATED DOGS. MISS Jo WRIGHT ALSO ADDRESSED THE COUNCIL IN SUPPORT OF THE PETITION. THE MAYOR ACCEPTED THE PETITION AND THANKED MR, SMITH FOR HIS INTEREST, A COMMUN I CAT I ON FROM THE REDEVELOPMENT AND Hous I NG AUTHOR I TY REQUEST I NG THAT THE STREETS WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECT BE CLOSED WAS REFERRED TO THE STREET 'COMMITTEE AND PLANNING COMMISSION FOR RECOMMENDATION, AN INTERIM REPORT FROM THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO STUDY THE MATTER OF ICE CREAM VENDING TRUCKS WAS PRESENTED RECOMMENDING THAT THE TRUCKS BE PERMITTED TO CONTINUE IN SERVICE IF OPERATED AS FOLLOWS: ~o BELLS ONLY TO BE USED AND OPERATED ONLY GOING FROM STOP TO STOP. AMBER FLASHING LIGHTS TO BE USED WHILE TRUCK IS STOPPED; AND TRUCK OPERATORS CONTINUE TO EMPHASIZE SAFETY TO EACH PURCHASER. MR. JAMES H. MICHAEL~ JR. AND MR, TRAVERS, REPRESENTING MR. SOFTER ORGANIZATION:~ ADDRESSED THE COUNCIL AND EXPLAINED THE SAFETY PROGRAM WHICH THEIR ORGANIZATION SPONSORS, THE COUNCIL REQUESTED THE OPERATORS TO COMPLY WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE AND EACH AGREED TO DO SO~ AND IT WAS REQUESTED BY MR. MOUNT THAT THE AGREEMENT BY THE OPERATORS TO OPERATE, AS SET FORTH ABOVE) BE MADE A MATTER OF RECORD.