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COUNTY WATER APPLICATIONS APPROPRIATION: INSTALLATION & PURCHASE PARKING METERS APPROPRIATION: WATER, GAS AND SERER LINES REPORT: ELECTION COMMITTEE ALTERNATE # 1 ALTERNATE N2 ENFORCED. AFTER SOME DISCUSSION IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE MERCHANTS WOULD BE CONTACTED TO SEE IF THEY WERE IN FAVOR OF CONTINUING THIS PROGRAM. ON MOTION BY MR. TEBELL, SECONDED BY MR. WEINBERG, THE FOLLOWING COUNTY WATER APPLICATIONS WERE APPROVED: MR. CURTIS L. REYNOLDS BEL AIR MR. ROBERT H. KEENE BEL AIR THE RESOLUTION APPROPRIATING $21,000.00 FOR THE PURCHASE AND INSTeLLATION OF PARKING METERS, WHICH WAS OFFERED AT THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, HELD ON NOVEMBER 2, 1953, WAS ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING RECORDED VOTE: AYES: MR. DAVIS, MR. FORBES, MR. HILL, MR. TEBELL AND MR. WEINBERG, NOES: NONE. THE RESOLUTION APPROPRIATING $59219.58 FOR WATER, GAS AND SEWER LINES, WHICH WAS OFFERED AT THE MEETING OF THE CGGOUNCIL, HELD ON NOVEMBER 2, 1953, WAS ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING RECORDED VOTE: AYES: MR. DAVIS, MR. FORBES, MIR. HILL, MIR. TEBELL AND MR. WEINBERG. NOES: NONE. THE FOLLOWING REPORT WAS PRESENTED BY THE ELECTION COMMITTEE: NOVEMBER 9, 1953 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN: YOUR COMMITTEE TO STUDY AND RECOMMEND ON THE MATTER OF ELECTIONS WHICH WAS BROUGHT TO YOUR ATTENTION BY THE ELECTORAL BOARD ON JULY 20, 1953, WISHES TO REPORT AS FOLLOWS.t THE REGISTRAR, MR. ROTHWELL, HAS ADVISED US THAT THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY THE FOLLOWING NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS IN EACH OF THE CITY*S FOUR WARDS: FIRST WARD 2662 SECOND WARD 1647 THIRD WARD 1298 FOURTH WARD 2791 WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OY THE CITY ATTORNEY THAT THE STATE CODE PROVIDES THAT THERE MUST NOT BE MORE THAN 1501 VOTERS IN ANY ONE PRECINCT AND THAT VOTERS MUST BE INTERPRETED TO MEAN "REGISTERED VOTERS" AND NOT ACTUAL VOTERS. IN VIEW OF THE FOREGOING IT IS OBVIOUS THAT SOME CHANGES ►BUST BE MADE IN OUR PRESENT ELECTION PRECINCTS AND YOUR COMMITTEE SUGGESTS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ALTERNATES: #1. THE FIRST, SECOND AND FOURTH WARDS COULD BE DIVIDED INTO TWO VOTING PRECINCTS EACH. THE FIRST WARD COULD BE DIVIDED BY THE C & 0 RAILROAD WITH THE VOTERS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE RAILROAD VOTING AT CLARK SCHOOL, AND THE VOTERS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE RAILROAD VOTING AT THE SAME PLACE THEY NOW VOTE (THE OLD ARMORY). THE DIVISION OF THE SECOND AND FOURTH WARDS HOWEVER, PRESENTS A MORE DIFFICULT PROBLEM IN THE FORM OF SATISFACTORY, PERMANENT VOTING PLACES. THE SECOND WARD SHOULD PROBABLY BE DIVIDED BY AN EAST'" WEST LINE SOUTH OF RUGBY AVENUE WITH THE VOTING PLACE SOUTH OF THIS LINE AT THE LANE HIGH SCHOOL. A VOTING PLACE NORTH OF THIS LINE MIGHT BE ESTABLISHED IN THE COUNTY'S MC114TIRE SCHOOL BUILDING, MR. PAUL CALE ADVISED THAT THIS MIGHT BE WORKED OUT PROVIDED, OF COURSE, THE ALBEMARLE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD AGREED TO THE BUILDING BEING USED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THIS, HOWEVER, IS THE ONLY BUILDING IN THIS AREA SUITABLE FOR SUCH AN OCCASION, THE FOURTH WARD COULD BE DIVIDED BY THE EAST -WEST C & 0 RAILROAD TRACK. THE VOTERS TO THE NORTH WOULD STILL USE VENABLE SCHOOL. ON THE SOUTH SIDE A VOTING PLACE MIGHT BE PLACED AT THE ALUMNI HALL ON EMMETT STREET. MR. MAC LUCK, ALUMNI SECRETARY, HAS ADVISED US THAT THIS MIGHT BE WORKED OUT, HOWEVER, HIS BOARD WOULD HAVE TO PASS ON THE MATTER. AS WE VIEW THE SITUATION THIS IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE, PERMANENT VOTING PLACE IN THIS AREA. IF THIS SOLUTION IS USED IT WILL TAKE CARE OF THE PRESENT PROBLEM, HOWEVER, ANY MATERIAL, FUTURE GROWTH WILL AGAIN PRESENT THE SAME PROBLEM. #2. A SPECIAL ACT APPLICABLE TO THE ITY COULD BE ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WHICH WOULD EXCLUDE US FROM THE PROVISION LIMITING THE NUMBER OF VOTERS IN EACH PRECINCT TO 1501, AND ALSO LIMITING THE NUMBER OF ELECTION OFFICIALS WHICH CAN BE APPOINTED TO WORK AT EACH PRECINCT. A SUCH ACT WOULD ENABLE US TO KEEP THE SAME VOTING PLACES WE NOW HAVE AWD WOULD ENABLE US TO OPERATE TWO OR MORE VOTING DESKS IN EACH OF THE LARGER WARDS, AND THE NUMBER OF OFFICIALS NEEDED WOULD -- - --- -_ -••z nc Tuc Fl cCTn*Al !;nAWn_