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REAL ESTATE ASSESSMENTS - $63,000,000.00 TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY $13~000~OOO.00 ¢4o.o8 CORPORATION COMMISSION ASSESSMENTS $ 6~500,000. O0 mo. os TOTAL REVENUE. FROM TAXES 50,400.00 59,300.00 10,400.00 12~200.00 5~200. OO 5,800.O0 $66'~000.00 ~77~300.00 0 8~900.00 0 1,800. O0 0 600. O0 ~' '$11,300. O0 - APPROP- APPROP- RIATION PLATOON ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES: 1967-68 1966-67 INCREASE DECREASE CITYtS PORTION OF OTHER EDUCATIONAL COSTS $66~000.00 $77,300.00 0 $11~300.00 AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED "ANNUAL TAX LEVY IMPOSING TAXES ON PROPERTY AND MACHINERY AND TOOLS FOR THE PAYMENT OF INTEREST AND RETIREMENT ON THE CITY DEBT~ FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT AND CITY SCHOOLS~ AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES" WAS OFFERED BY MR. MOUNT~ SECONDED BY MR. VOGT~ AND CARRIED OVER TO THE NEXT MEETING FOR CONSIDERATION. ON MOTION THE MEETING ADJOURNED. OMITTED FROM MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF APRIL 3, 1967: ..__. ON MOTION BY MR. MOUNT~ SECONDED BY MR. JOHNSON,, THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS DEFEATED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: AYES: MR. MOUNT AND MR. RENNOLDS. NOES: MR. HAGGERTY~ MR. JOHNSON AND MR. VOGT. WHEREAS THE DIRECTOR~ DEPARTMENT OF WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS HAS ADVISED THE COUNCIL THAT THE CITY'S dAIL~ WHICH WAS CONSTRUCTED IN THE LATE 1930's DOES NOT MEET THE MINIMUM STANDARDS AS NOW SET BY THE BOARD OF WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS7 AND WHEREAS THE DIRECTOR~ DIVISION OF CORRECTIONS HAS ADVISED THE CITY MANAGER THAT THE PRESENT dAIL COULD NOT BE RENOVATED SO AS TO BE ACCEPTABLE TO HIS DEPARTMENT~ AND ~-IEREAS LOCAL FUNDS ARE NOT NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE CONSTRUCTI'ON OF A NEW JAIL.: HOWEVER~ FUNDS HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED FOR CONSTRUCTI~ON AND COMPLETION OF A SUCH PROJECT DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 1968-69, AND THE HONbRABLE GEORGE M. COLES~, JUDGE OF THE CORPORATION COURT., WAS SO NOTIFIED SEVERAL HONTHS AGO.~ NOW, THEREFORE~ BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE THAT THIS COUNCIL FEELS THAT THE PRESENT CITY dAIL COULD BE RENOVATED TO ELIMINATE MOST OF THE CRITICISM WHICH WuHR~C-ff~ HAS BEEN OFFERED BY THE STATE ~NSPECTOR IN HI-S REPORTS AND THEREBY SAVE THE TAXPAYERS OF THIS CITY SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS~ AND FEELS '~HAT THE CITY JAIL PROVIDES A SAFE~ WARM AND SANITARY PLACE IN WHICH TO HOUSE PRISONERS FROM THE ClTY~ AND FEELS VERY STRONGLY THAT SINCE MANY OF THE PRISONERS WHICH ARE HOUSED IN THE JAIL ARE STATE PRISONERS AND-~ WHICH THE CITY ON OCCASIONS IS REQUIRED TO HOLD FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME~ THE STATE SI~OULD SHARE IN THE COST OF A NEW dAIL IF ONE IS NEEDED~ AND FEELS THAT THE CRITERIA SET FOR LOCAL JAILS SHOULD NOT EXCEED THAT WHICH EXISTS IN STATE INSTITUTIONS~ AND THAT THE BOARD SHOULD NOT ORDER ANY LOCAL dAIL CLOSED WITHOUT FIRST VISITING THE JAIL AND CONSIDERING ALL OF THE FACTORS INVOLVED. HOWEVER~ SINCE THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS EMPOWERED THE BOARD OF WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS UNDER SECTION 53-134 TO ORDER ANY LOCAL dAIL CLOSED THE COUNCIL HAS NO ALTERNATIVE AND HEREBY NOTIFIES THE BOARD THAT THE COUNCIL WILL CONSTRUCT A NEW JAIL FOR THE USE OF THIS CITY AND PLANS TO COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION OF SUCH BUILDING DURING THE 1968-69 FISCAL YEAR WHICH IS THE EARLIEST DATE FUNDS WILL BE AVAILABLE AND PLANS CAN BE PREPARED AND A SITE OBTAINED FOR THIS PURPOSE~ AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE BOARD BE AND THEY ARE HEREBY REQUESTED TO