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MATTER RE: HARRIS STREET EXTENSION APPROP. HASSEY PROPERTY - SECOND ST. LICENSE TAX ORDINANCE CARRIED OVER. MATTER RE: DRAINAGE ACROSS LOTS # 13 & 14 ON BLENHEIM AVE. REQUEST WAIVER LICENSE TAX PROCEEDS OF BROOM SALE APPROVED. COUNTY WATER CONNECTIONS HUNDRED THIRTY FEET (1301). THE COST OF THIS CULVERT AS ESTIMATED BY THE CITY TO BE APPROXIMATELY FOUR THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS ($4,400.00)• THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED THAT AS SOON AS THE ALLIED SUPPLY COMPANY HAD EXECUTED DEED TO RIGHT OF WAY AND RELEASE OF EASEMENTS, AND HAD EXTENDED THE CULVERT AS REQUIRED, THAT THE CITY MANAGER BE AUTHORIZED TO EXTEND HARRIS STREET TO CONNECT WITH 14CINTIRE ROAD JUST NORTH OF SCHENK'S BRANCH AT A COST OF APPROXIMATELY EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($18,000.00). ON MOTION BY MR. FORBES, SECONDED BY MR. TEBELL, THE FOREGOING RECOMMENDATION WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED, THE RESOLUTION APPROPRIATING $149000.00 FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE P. K. MASSEY PROPERTY ON SECOND STREET, S.W, WHICH WAS OFFERED AT THE LAST REGULAR MEETING, WAS ADOPTED BY THE. FOLLOWING RECORDED VOTE: AYES: MR. DAVIS, MR. FORBES, MR. HILL, MR. TEBELL AND MR. WEINBERG. NOES: NONE. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE FOR IMPOSING AND COLLECTING LICENSES AND TAXES FOR THE EXERCISE OF.CERTAIN PRIVILEGES WITHIN THE CITY OF CHARLOTTES- VILLE FOR TWELVE MONTHS, C014MENCING THE FIRST DAY OF MAY, 19539 AND ENDING THE THIRTIETH DAY OF APRIL, 1954"9 WAS OFFERED BY MR. TEBELL, SECONDED BY MR. DAVIS, AND UPON BEING READ WAS CARRIED OVER FOR CONSIDERATION. ON MOTION THE MEETING ADJOURNED* -sem�.__- --- CLERK PRESIDENT COUNCIL CHAMBER - MARCH 16, 1953 THE COUNCIL MET IN REGULAR SESSION ON THIS DATE WITH THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS PRESENT: MR. DAVIS, MR. FORBES, MR. TEBELL AND MR. WEINBERG. ABSENT: MR. HILL. THE MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF MARCH 2, 1953 AND MARCH 99 1953 WERE READ AND APPROVED. MR. L. L. LANG ADDRESSED THE COUNCIL WITH RESPECT TO DRAINAGE OF SURFACE WATER ACROSS LOTS NUMBERS 13 AND 14 ON BLENHEIM AVENUE. AFTER DUE DISCUSSION IT WAS THE SENSE OF THE COUNCIL THAT NO ACTION BE TAKEN ON THIS MATTER UNTIL THE SITE WAS LOOKED AT BY THE COUNCIL MEMBERS. MR. LINDSAY MOUNT, OF THE .JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, ADDRESSED THE COUNCIL AND REQUESTED WAIVER OF LICENSE TAX ON PROCEEDS DERIVED FROM THE SALE OF BROOMS DURING THE ANNUAL BROOM SALE OF THAT ORGANIZATION. A MOTION BY MR. TEBELL, SECONDED BY MR. FORBES, THAT THE ANNUAL BROOM SALE SPONSORED BY THE .JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BE CLASSIFIED AS OF A NONPROFIT NATURE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 86(D) OF THE LICENSE TAX ORDINANCE WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED. ON MOTION THE FOLLOWING COUNTY WATER CONNECTIONS WERE APPROVED: .JAMES E. MORRIS T. R. STEGER HARRY A. MERENESS J. E. BARNETT NASSAU STREET STRIBLING AVENUE BELLAIR GROVE ROAD. A COMMUNICATION FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSIONER UNDER DATE OF `'LARCH 13, 1953 RECOMMENDING THE CLOSING OF THAT PORTION OF ROY STREET WHICH LIES BETWEEN THE INTERSECTIONS OF ROY STREET WITH FARISH STREET AND WITH CHERRY AVENUE WAS PRESENTED AND CONSIDERED. UPON MOTION BY MR. FORBES, SECONDED BY MR. DAVIS, IT WAS UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED'AND 15 HEREBY ORDERED, PURSUANT TO POWER CONTAINED IN SECTION 13 • • •