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REQUEST GRANTED LICENSE TAX WAIVED AMVETS REQUEST FOR FULL TIME JANITOR NEW ARMORY CITY MGR. - OVERALL AUTHORITY COMMUNICATION: VA. TEL. & TEL. CO. RESOLUTION RE: VA. TEL. & TEL. BOND APPROVED COUNCIL CHAMBER - FEBRUARY 20, 1950 THE COUNCIL MET IN REGULAR SESSION ON THIS DATE WITH THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS PRESENT: MR. ADAMS, MR. BARR, MR. HADEN, MR. HAMM AND PAR. TESELL• THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF FEBRUARY 6, 1950 WERE READ, CORRECT - ED AND APPROVED. MR. WALTER SMITH OF THE LOCAL POST OF AP'AVETS ADDRESSED THE COUNCIL AND STATED THAT THIS ORGANIZATION HAD RECENTLY ACQUIRED CLUB QUARTERS AND WAS DESIROUS OF SELLING BEER TO ITS MEMBERS. HE STATED THAT THE SELLING OF BEER TO MEMBERS OF THE AMVETS WAS TO BE A NON-PROFIT VENTURES AND REQUESTED THAT THE LICENSE TAX APPLYING IN THIS INSTANCE BE 141A 1 VED. A MOTION BY MR. BARR, SECONDED BY MR. ADAMS, THAT THE FOREGOING BE CLASSIFIED AS OF A NON-PROFIT NATURE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 124 (C) OF THE LICENSE TAX ORDINANCE, WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED. • LIEUTENANT C. F. COVERLEY OF THE LOCAL NATIONAL GUARD UNIT, ADDRESS- ED THE COUNCIL AND REQUESTED THE EMPLOYMENT OF A FULL TIME JANITOR AT THE NEW ARMORY. HE ALSO REQUESTED THAT STEPS BE TAKEN TO FURNISH MUCH NEEDED REPAIRS TO THE BUILDING AS WELL AS THE APPOINTMENT OF AN ACTIVE OVERALL AUTHORITY TO SUPERVISE THE OPERATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE PROPERTY. A MOTION BY MR. BARR, SECONDED BY MR. ADAMS, THAT FULL AUTHORITY OF THE OPERATION AND ACTIVITIES OF THE NEW ARMORY BE VESTED IN THE CITY MANAGER, WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED. ON MOTION THE MATTER OF THE C & A BUS COMPANY WAS CARRIED OVER TO A SPECIAL MEETING TO BE HELD NOONDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH AT 3:00 O'CLOCK P. M. THE FOLLOWING COMMUNICATION FROM THE VIRGINIA TELEPHONE AND TELE- GRAPH COMPANY TOGETHER WITH BOND THEREIN MENTIONED WAS PRESENTED: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA FEBRUARY 20, 1950 TO THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND COUNCILMEN OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE VIRGINIA. GENTLEMEN: THE VIRGINIA TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY HEREBY ACCEPTS THE TELEPHONE FRANCHISE GRANTED BY ORDINANCE ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE GRANTING A TELEPHONE FRANCHISE TO THE V I R=,1 1 A TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, TO USE THE STREETS AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES • OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, FOR ITS POLES, WIRES, CONDUITS, CABLES AND F I XTURES, FOR A PERIOD OF TWENTY-FIVE (25) YEARS." WHICH ORDINANCE WAS PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE PAAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF SAID CITY ON THE 16TH DAY OF MARCH, 1948, AND SURETY BOND REQUIRED BY SAID ORDINANCE HAVING BEEN APPROVED AT A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL HELD ON FEBRUARY 209 1950. THE VIRGINIA TELEPHONE "S TELEGRAPH COMPANY HEREBY AGREES FOR ITSELF, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, TO BE BOUND BY THE PROVISIONS THEREIN CONTAINED. YOURS TRULY, VIRGINIA TELEPHONE &: TELEGRAPH COMPANY BY: DUANE T SWANSON LS 1 GNE VICE-PRESIDENT ON MOTION BY MR. HAMM, SECONDED BY MR. HADEN, THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED: BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE THAT THE BOND IN THE SUM OF w1 ,000.00 • THIS DAY PRESENTED BY THE VIRGINIA TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY WITH THE AMERICAN SURETY COMPANY AS SURETY BE AND