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STAFF REPORT RE: DELINQUENT TAXES APPROPRIATION RE: $3,000 GIRLS' ATTEN- TION HOME RESOLUTION RE: GRANTING PERMISSION FOR ENCROACHMENT ON RIVES STREET THE COST OF THE TRANSIT SYSTEM AND TO REDUCE SERVICE; 1) PROVIDE A NEW ROUTE STRUCTURE, 2) CHANGE FROM 30 MINUTE COMMUTER PEAK HOUR FREQUENCY TO ONE HOUR FREQUENCY AND 3) CURTAIL THE HOURS OF EVENING SERVICE BY ONE HOUR TO 6:30 PM, MR. 0.'CONNELL STATED THAT THE EXISTING SERVICE LE~EL,_IS PRODUCING LESS RIDERSHIP THAN HAD BEEN PROJECTED. HE INDICATED THAT IF THE EXISTING SERVICE LEVEL CONTINUES THROUGH THE END OF THE CURRENT EISCAL YEAR, THE RESULTING DEFICIT WOULD REQUIRE AN ADDI- TIONAL $37,000 IN CITY FUNDS, OVER AND ABOVE THE AMOUNT PRESENTLY BUOGETED AS THE CITY'S SHARE FOR OBERATING THE CHARLOTTESVILLE TRANSIT SYSTEM. HE STATED THAT IF THE SERVICE LEVEL IF REDUCED BY APRIL l, NO ADDITIONAL CITY FUNDS WOULD BE REQUIRED THIS BUDGET YEAR. MAYOR BUCK ASKED FOR A REPORT INCORPORATING A BROAD SPEC- TRUM OF CHOICES, SHOWING NUMBERS AND THE EFFECTS OF RIDERSHIP. COUNCIL AGREED TO HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED REDUCTIONS IN THE TRANSIT SERVICE AT ITS NEXT REGULAR MEETING ON FEBRUARY 1, 1982. DON CASTOR, RESIDENT OF THE CITY ADDRESSED COUNCIL, INDICATING HE WAS AN AVID BUS RIDER, BUT STOPPEO BECAUSE THE BUSES ARE NOT DEPENDABLE. HE ALSO INDICATED THAT HE TAKES APPROXIMATELY 45 MINUTES TO TRAVEL ACROSS THE CITY BY BUS AND 10 MINUTES BY CAR. MR. CASTOR STATED THAT IS A DETERMINING POINT IN MAKING A DECISION AS TO WHETHER TO RIDE THE BUS. MRS. KATE CASTOR, RESIDENT OF THE CITY, STATED SHE THOROUGHLY ENJOYS RIDING THE BUS, INDICATING THAT THE MAJOR PROBLEM IS THE BUSES ARE NOT ON TIME. SHE ALSO SPOKE IN FAVOR OF CONTINUING THE SUNDAY SERVICE, PARTICULARLY FOR THE ELDERLY WHO WANT TO GO TO CHURCH AND HAVE NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION. MRS. CASTOR ALSO STATED THAT PROHIBITING PARKING DOWNTOWN WILL ENCOURAGE BUS RIDERSHIP. MAYOR BUCK REFERRED THE DELINQUENT TAX ROLLS TO A COM- MITTEE COMPRISED OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, ONE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBER, THE COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE AND THE D~RECTOR OF FINANCE. MAYOR BUCK INSTRUCTED THIS COMMITTEE TO MEET AND REPORT BACK TO COUNCIL. THE APPROPRIATION OF $3,000 FOR REMODELING THE KITCHEN OF THE GIRLS; ATTENTION HOME WHICH WAS OFFERED AT THE MEETING OF JANUARY 4TH, WAS ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE. AYES; MR. ALBRO, MR. BUCK, MR. CONOVER~ MS. GLEASON, DR. HALL. NOES: NONE. ON MOTION BY MR. ALBRO, SECONDED BY MS. GLEASON, THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED BY COUNCIL: WHEREAS, OVER 50 YEARS AGO A CERTAIN STORE BUILDING KNOWN AS 512 RIVES STREET LOCATED ON TAX PARCEL 86, TAX MAP 56, FRONTING ON RIVES STREET IN THE CITY ~AS INADVERTENTLY CON- STRUCTED PARTIALLY IN SAID STREET; AND WHEREAS, THE OWNERS OF SAID PARCEL, JOYCE T. LIVELY AND