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-I F,.'-�- 'I -, - j 9,0 MR. WISE OF THE VIRGINIA GAS TRANSMISSION CORPORATION APPEARED BEFORE THE COUNCIL AND PRESENTED AN AGREEMENT TO SERVICE THE CITY • WITH NATURAL GAS, PENDING APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSAL BY THE FEDERAL VA. GAS TRANSMISSION POWER COMMISSION. MR. WISE STATED THAT HIS COMPANY PLANS TO FILE CORP. REPRESENTATIVE APPLICATION WITH THE FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION ON OR BEFORE AUGUST 1, PRESENTS AGREEMENT TO SERVICE THE CITY 1949 FOR AUTHORITY TO SERVE THIS COMMUNITY. ON MOTION BY MR. ADAMS, WITH NATURAL GAS SECONDED BY MR. HA`jM, THE FOLLOW I NG RESOLUT 1 ON WAS UNAN I MOUSLY ADOPTED: BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE THAT THE MAYOR BE AND HE IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE VIRGINIA GAS TRANSMISSION CORPORATION FOR THE PURCHASE OF NATURAL GAS, AND RESOLUTION RES BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE CLERK BE AND HE IS AGREEMENT WITH VA. GAS TRANSMISSION CORP. FOR HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO ATTEST THE SAME AND TO AFFIX THE SEAL PURCHASE OF NATURAL CAS OF THE CITY THERETO. ON MOTION THE REPORT PERTAINING TO CARROLTON TERRACE AND 13TH STREET, REPORT RES EXTENDED, WAS CARRIED OVER FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION. CARROLTON TERRACE 87 13TH ST. CARRIED OVER. THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO MAKE A STUDY OF RENT CONTROL SUBMITTED O THE FOLLOWING MAJORITY REPORTS L1 MAY 27, 1949 W THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN: IT APPEARS THAT A MOTION WAS ADOPTED AT YOUR MEETING OF APRIL 13, 1949 AUTHORIZINGTHE E MAYOR TO APPOINT A COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE NEED OF RENT CONTROL IN THIS AREA. IT ALSO APPEARS THAT THE MAYOR REPORTED AT YOUR MEETING OF MAY 2, 1949 THAT HE HAD APPOINTED A COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE NECESSITY OF RENT CONTROL IN CHARLOTTESVILLE AND THAT THE COMMITTEE SO APPOINTED CONSISTED OF MESSRS. ADAMS, BARR, BICKLEY, HARRIS AND KINCAID, THE FIRST TWO NAMED BEING MEMBERS OF YOUR BODY. ON MAY 39 1949 MR. MAUPIN PENCE, CLERK OF THE COUNCIL, RENT CONTROL COMMITTEE NOTIFIED THE PERSONS NAMED OF THEIR APPOINTMENT* IT SHOULD BE MAJORITY REPORT SAID THAT MR. ADAMS, OF THE COMMITTEE, SERVED AS ITS TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN AND PRESIDED AT THE OPENING OF ITS FIRST MEETING ON MAY 9. AT THAT TIME THE COMMITTEE ELECTED MR. K1NCAID AS ITS PERMANENT CHAIRMAN* A PLAN OF PROCEDURE WAS WORKED OUT AT THE FIRST MEETING WHICH INVOLVED THE NECESSITY OF A SERIES OF MEET 1 NGS. TO THESE THE COMMITTEE INVITED VARIOUS INFORMED PERSONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF INFORMING THE COMMITTEE WITH RESPECT TO THE NEED OF RETAINING • RENT CONTROL IN CHARLOTTESVILLE. IN WORKING OUT ITS PLANS THE COMMITTEE WAS GUIDED BY A STATEMENT FROM MR. LYTTELTON WADDELL, CITY ATTORNEY, SUBMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE COMMITTEE. AMONG OTHER THINGS HIS STATE- MENT INCLUDED THE FOLLOWINGS YOUR COMMITTEE SHOULD DETERMINE IN THE FIRST 1 N" STANCE, FROM THE KNOWLEDGE OF ITS OWN MEMBERS AND SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE AS IT MAY DESIRE TO ASSEMBLE, WHETHER THERE IS A PRIMA FACIE CASE FOR DECONTROL. IF THE COMMITTEE FEELS THAT THERE IS NO SUBSTANTIAL DOUBT THAT CONTROL SHOULD BE CONTINUED, IT SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MAKE ITS RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE COUNCIL AT ONCE. IF THE COMMITTEE THINKS THERE IS A SUB- STANTIAL POSSIBILITY THAT IT SHOULD RECOMMEND DECONTROL, I SHOULD SUGGEST THAT ITS RECOMMENDA- TIONS TO THE COUNCIL BE THAT A PUBLIC HEARING BE HELD AT A JOINT MEETING OF THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMITTEE ANS THAT ITS FINAL RECOMMENDATION TO THE COUNCIL BE MADE AFTER THAT HEARING. THE COMMITTEE IS, IN PRINCIPLE, OPPOSED TO RENT CONTROL AND WOULD, IF IT WERE PRACTICABLE TO DO SO, BE DISPOSED TO RECOM- MEND ITS DISCONTINUANCE, AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE. HOWEVER, WE ARE CONFRONTED WITH A SITUATION. RENT CONTROL EXISTS IN THIS CITY AND WE THEREFORE TOOK THE VIEW THAT IT SHOULD CONTINUE TO EXIST UNLESS THE COMMITTEE, AS A RESULT OF ITS INQUIRIES, SHOULD COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HOUSING CONDITIONS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE WOULD BE WORSENED RATHER THAN IMPROVED BY ITS DISCONTINUANCE.