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MATTER RE: PAGE STREET PROPERTY - HOUSING SITUATION. MATTER RE: MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES BOARD REQUEST RE: REZONING ON NASSAU ST. DENIED REQUEST RE: VA. ANGUS ASSOC. REFERRED TO ST. COMM. MATTER RE: SANITARY SEWER EASEMENT - DISTRICT HOME ORDINANCE CARRIED OVER: BOND ~SSUE - SCHOOLS MATTER RE: PROPERTY FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE COUNCIL CHAMBER - FEBRUARY 3, 1969 THE COUNCIL MET iN REGULAR SESSION ON THIS DATE WITH THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS PRESENT: MR. DAVlS~ MR. RINEHART, MR. VAN YAHRES~ MR. VOGT AND MR. WRIGHT. ABSENT: NONE. REV. STANLEY HIERS~ PASTOR OF THE CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE CHURCH, GAVE THE INVOCATION. THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF JANUARY 21, 1969 WERE READ AND APPROVED. THE THIRTEEN FAMILIES LIVING IN THE BENTON PATTERSON PROPERTY ON PAGE STREET WERE PRESENT AT THE MEETING AND WESLEY g. HARRIS~ ONE OF THE SPOKESMEN FOR THE GROUP, STATED THEY WERE PRESENT TO MAKE KNOWN THEIR FEELING OF THE HOUSING SITUATION FOR BLACK CITIZENS OF THIS COMMUNITY. MR. jOHN LOWE~ ATTORNEY REPRESENTING THE GROUP ADDRESSED THE COUNCIL AND STATED THAT THERE IS NO LOW COST HOUSING AVAILABLE EVEN FOR THE PEOPLE WHO CAN AFFORD IT. MR. LOWE PRESENTED A STATEMENT CONTAINING FOUR PROPOSALS TO HELP OVERCOME THE PRESENT HOUSING CRISIS. MR. VAN YAHRES SUGGESTED THAT COUNCIL APPOINT SOMEONE FROM THE CITY ADMINISTRATION TO WORK WITH MR. LOWE AND THE GROUP IN TRYING TO SOLVE THE IMMEDIATE HOUSING PROBLEM. MR. VOGT REQUESTED THE CITY MANAGER TO APPOINT A MEMBER OF HIS STAFF TO WORK WITH THIS EMERGENCY. MR. DAVID PARRISH AND MR. GEORGE GILLIAM ADDRESSED THE COUNCIL AND REQUESTED THE COUNCIL TO ENDORSE THE CONCEPT OF A COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY AND APPOINT~ IN CQNdUNCTION WITH ALBEMARLE COUNTY~ A MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES BOARD° DR. R. Wo GARNETT AND DR. DAVID HAWKINS~ CHAIRMAN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY AT THE UNIVERSITY ALSO ADDRESSED THE COUNCIL IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST AND STATED THAT THE UNIVERSITY IS VERY INTERESTED IN THE PROGRAM, AND WOULD LEND ALL POSSIBLE SUPPORT TO ITS IMPLEMENTATION. A MOTION BY MR. VAN YAHRES~ SECONDED BY MR. RINEHART, THAT THE COUNCIL ENDORSE THE REQUEST AND THAT THE MAYOR APPOINT A REPRESENTATIVE TO MEET WITH A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE B~ARD OF SUPERVISORS TO RECOMMEND APPOINTMENTS TO THIS BOARD~ WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED. THE MAYOR APPOINTED MR. RINEHART AS THE COUNClLtS REPRESENTATIVE. THE REQUEST FOR REZONING ON NASSAU STREET FROM e-2 RESIDENTIAL TO B-3 BUSINESS WAS AGAIN CONSIDERED. A MOTION BY MR. RINEHART~ SECONDED BY MR. VAN YAHRES~ THAT THE REQUEST BE DENIED WAS ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: AYES: MR. DAVIS~ MR. RINEHART, MR. VAN YAHRES, MR. VOGT. NOES: MR. WRIGHT. A REQUEST FROM THE VIRGINIA ANGUS ASSOCIATION TO ACCEPT THE DEDICATED DRIVEWAY INTO THE CITY STREET SYSTEM WAS REFERRED TO THE STREET COMMITTEE FOR RECOMMENDATION. THE CITY MANAGER ADVISED THE 'COUNCIL THAT AN ADDITION IS BEING BUILT TO THE DISTRICT HOME AND THAT UP TO THIS TIME THE HOME DOES NOT HAVE SANITARY SEWERAGE~ BUT THE CITY OF WAYNESBORO HAS AGREED TO EXTEND THE SEWER LINE BUT MUST HAVE A TWENTY FOOT RIGHT OF WAY WHICH THE BOARD IS WITHOUT AUTHORITY TO GRANT. ON MOTION BY MR. DAVtS~ SECONDED BY MR. WRIGHT~ THE MAYOR WAS AUTHORIZED TO EXECUTE> ON BEHALF OF THE CITY) AN EASEMENT FOR THIS LINE. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE IN THE SLIM OF SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS (~7,000~000.00) FOR THE PURPOSE OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS IN SAID CITY", WAS OFFERED BY MR. VAN YAHRES~ SECONDED BY MR. RINEHART, AND CARRIED OVER TO THE NEXT MEETING FOR CONSIDERATION. THE CiTY MANAGER REMINDED THE COUNCIL THAT THE TWO HIGH SCHOOLS ARE ESTIMATED TO COST APPROXIMATELY ~SpOOO)OOO.OOp BUT RECOMMENDED THAT THE BOND iSSUE BE FOR SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS~ AND THE OTHER ONE MILLION BE TAKEN FROM THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FUND. THE CITY MANAGER ADVISED THE COUNCIL THAT THE SHOFFNER PROPERTY SOUTH OF ~-64 HAS BEEN SELECTED AS THE SiTE FOR THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN THIS AREA> AND THE CITY AND COUNTY HAVE AGREED TO PURCHASE THE SITE AT .A COST OF ~243~575.O0. ON MOTION BY MR. WRIGHT, SECONDED BY MR. VAN YAHRES~ THE CITY MANAGER WAS AUTHORIZED TO EXECUTE~ ON BEHALF OF THE