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is MATTER RE: NEED FOR SIDEWALK ON JEFF. PK. • AVE. FROM MONROE LANE TO W. MAIN ST. REFERRED TO STREET COMM. MATTER RE: ANNUAL PROGRAM OF SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION MATTER RE: STORM WATER ON 11TH ST., N. W. COMMUNICATION RE: NEEDS FOR NEW CITY HALL COMMITTEE TO BE APPOINTED BY MAYOR. RESOLUTION APPROP. GAS INS. FUND CARRIED OVER HOUSING AUTHORITY MEMBER APPOINTED. WELFARE REPORT PRESENTED CERTIFICATE RE: ELECTION OF COUNCILMAN THE CITY MANAGER ADVISED THE COUNCIL THAT A SIDEWALK WAS BADLY NEEDED ON .JEFFERSON PARK AVENUE FROM MONROE LANE TO W. MAIN STREET, AND THAT THE DONALD L. SELVAGE COMPANY WOULD PROBABLY ACCEPT THIS PROJECT ON THE SAME BASIS AS THE PRESENT CONTRACT AND RECOMMENDED THAT THIS SIDEWALK BE INSTALLED. AFTER SOME DISCUSSION, THIS MATTER WAS REFERRED TO THE STREET COMMITTEE FOR STUDY AND REPORT. ON MOTION BY MR. HILL, SECONDED BY MR. MICHIE, THE CITY MANAGER WAS INSTRUCTED TO SUBMIT TO THE COUNCIL PLANS FOR AN ANNUAL PROGRAM OF SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION FOR MAJOR STREETS BEGINNING WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SIDEWALK ON THE NORTH SIDE OF GRADY AVENUE THIS YEAR. A COMMUNICATION WAS PRESENTED FROM BEULAH V. COSBY COMPLAINING ABOUT STORM WATER ON 11TH STREET, N.W., AND REQUESTING THAT A STORM WATER PIPE 8E INSTALLED AT THIS LOCATION. ON MOTION BY MR. DAM S, SECONDED BY MR. HILL, THIS MATTER WAS REFERRED TO THE STREET COMMITTEE FOR DISPOSITION. A COMMUNICATION WAS PRESENTED FROM .JUDGE R. WATSON SADLER POINTING OUT THE NEEDS FOR A NEW CITY HALL, AND REQUESTING THAT THE MAYOR APPOINT A COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE AND STUDY THE NEEDS IN THIS RESPECT. A MOTION BY MR. FORGES, SECONDED BY MR. DAMS THAT THE MAYOR APPOINT A COMMITTEE AS REQUESTED BY .JUDGE SADLER, WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED. THE MAYOR STATED THAT HE WOULD ANNOUNCE HIS APPOINTMENTS TO THIS COMMITTEE AT A LATER DATE. ON MOTION BY MR. FORGES, SECONDED BY MR. MICHIE, THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS OFFERED AND CARRIED OVER TO THE NEXT MEETING FOR CONSIDERATION: BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OFCHARIOTTESVILIE THAT $4,500.00 BE ANO THE SAME IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED FOR 1954 INCREMENT TO THE GAS INSURANCE FUND. THE MAYOR ANNOUNCED THE REAPPOINTMENT OF MR.E. R. SLAUGHTER TO THE HOUSING AUTHORITY FOR A FOUR YEAR TERM EFFECTIVE .JULY 1, 1956. THE WELFARE REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF MAY, 1956 was PRESENTED, AND ORDERED FILED WITH THE MINUTES OF THIS MEETING. THE FOLLOWING CERTIFICATE WAS PRESENTED AND ORDERED FiLEO WITH THE MINUTES OF THIS MEETING: VIRGINIA:- IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE CORPORATION COURT OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, JUNE 14TH, 1956 TO: J. SIDNEY RUSH, JR., CLERK OF THECOUNCIL OF THECITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE PURSUANT TO THE DETERMINATION OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF ELECTION OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, AS SHOWN BY A CERTIFIED COPY OF THE ABSTRACT OF VOTES HEREWITH ENCLOSED, DULY CANVASSED, CERTIFIED, SIGNED AND ATTESTED ACCORDING TO LAW AND DEPOSITED IN MY SAID OFFICE, I, THE UNDERSIGNED CLERK OF THE CORPORATION COURT OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA, DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT, AT THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION HELD IN SAID CITY ON THE 12TH DAY OF tIUNE, 1956, MESSRS. A. CLAYTON COLEMAN, R. MARSHALL DAMS AND SOL B. WEINBERG RECEIVED THE THREE HIGHEST NUMBER OF VOTES CAST FOR THE OFFICE OF COUNCILMAN OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA, AND WERE, THEREFORE, DECLARED ELECTED TO SAID OFFICE FOR THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS, COMMENCING ON THE FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1956. n ~ vc~~ ......~~ ..