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<br />November ll~ 1975
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<br />with
<br />
<br />At a regular meeting of the City Council held on November il, 1975, there
<br />Richard J. Davis, Jack P. Barnes, E. Saunders Early, Jr., Archie Elliott,
<br />Edward L. Oast, Jr., Robert W. Wentz, Jr., R. T. Williams, City Manager,
<br />Myers, Jr., Assistant City Manager, Gordon B. Tayloe, Jr., City Attorney.
<br />
<br />The Rev. Francis J. Dalton, Pastor, Community United Methodist Church,
<br />prayer, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
<br />
<br />Mayor Davis welcomed all visitors in attendance.
<br />
<br /> were present: I
<br />Jr. ,James W. HoIley,
<br />H. M.
<br />
<br />opened the meeting
<br />
<br />and seconded by Mr.
<br />
<br />Elliott, minutes of the regular meeting of
<br />was adopted by unanimous vote.
<br />
<br /> Advisory Council, Port Norfolk Elementary
<br />
<br />that our city has
<br />
<br /> Motion of Mr. Wentz,
<br />October 28, 1975, to be approved as rec6ived, 74-483[a)
<br /> Pamela Clark, Student and Vice President of Student
<br />School, presented the following ~e$~age:
<br />
<br /> "The students of Port Norfolk School are very proud
<br />twenty finalists for the All-America C,ities Award.
<br />
<br />been chosen o~ecof
<br />
<br />busy~on a project that
<br />
<br /> When our Student Advisory Council heard this exciting news we got
<br />we hope will please you.
<br /> Our Advisory Council has designed and made Bicentennial corsages for our All-America Ci-
<br />ties Team who will represent us in Chicago. We hope you will enjoy wearing them as much as
<br />we enjoyed making them.
<br /> Also as part of this project, our students wrote poems, songs, stories, and drew pictures
<br />about Portsmouth and we put them together into a ~crapbook.
<br /> One of the songs in the scrapbook was written by Charlene Morris and th~ students in
<br /> Bartlett's 6th Grade and Mayor Davis with your permission, we would like to sing it for
<br />
<br />Mr s ·
<br />you.
<br />
<br /> When you g0~to Chicago, Mayor Davis, we hope you'll bring home th~a-~ward making Ports-
<br />mouth the All-American City."
<br />
<br /> A group of students of Port Norfolk Elementary School rendered a_seleetion commemorating
<br />the city for the AlI:-America Cities competition. The students also furnished boutonnieres
<br />for all the members of the All-America' CitiesSteering Committee.
<br />
<br /> Mayor Davis thanked the students for an outstanding presentation, boutonnieres and color-
<br />ful scrapbook.
<br />
<br /> Mayor Davis read the following letter:from ~a~vm W. Wallace, Pres~mt, Port Norfolk
<br />CivicLLeague:
<br />
<br /> "The Port Norfolk Civic League is delighted with the tribute paid our City by being
<br />selected as one of the twenty finalist for the All-America Cities:'~ward.
<br />
<br /> We commend the leadership of our city government for their encouragement of citizen
<br />participation and their responsiveness to citizen action.
<br /> Please extend our congratulations to the Steering Committee which prepared our applicatio]
<br /> for the All-America CitiesAward and accept our best wishes for continued success in Chicago."
<br />
<br /> The Mayor thanked the Port Norfolk Civic League ~,~emremn~e~-~an~c{~m~wms~es.
<br />
<br />UNFINISHED BUSINESS -
<br />
<br /> 75-459
<br />October ~8, 1975, was taken up and read:
<br />
<br />- The following ordinance approved on first reading at the regular meeting of
<br />
<br />"AN ORDINANCE TO APPROPRIATE $245,000 FROM THE CAPITAL
<br />CONSTRUCTION OF THE PORT NORFOLK FIRE STATIO .
<br />
<br />IMPROVEMENT FUND FOR
<br />
<br />Wentz and seconded by Mr. Early, the ordinance was adopted, and by the
<br />
<br /> On motion of Mr.
<br />following vote:
<br />
<br />Ayes: Barnes, Early, Elliott, Holley, 0ast, Wentz, Davis
<br />Nays: None
<br />
<br />Wentz and seconded by Mr. Holley~ the contract berawarded to G. L.
<br />bidder, in the amount of $185:144, was adopted by unanimous vote.
<br />
<br />Cline
<br />
<br /> Motion of Mr.
<br />& Sons, being low
<br />
<br /> 75-460 The
<br />October ~8, 1975,
<br />
<br />following ordinance approved on first reading at the regular meeting of
<br />was taken up and read:
<br />
<br />"AN ORDINANCE TO APPROPRIATE $100,000 FROM THE GENERAL REVENUE SHARING TRUST
<br />FUND IN THE CATEGORY OF PUBLIC SAFETY
<br />
<br />CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS."
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<br />III,
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