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April 9' 1968 Motion of Mr. Eastes to receive as informat~nand place in file of applications for Justice of the Peace, was adopted, without dissenting vote. 68-136 - The following letter from Jerome P. Cart, II, President, Health, Welfare and Recreation Planning Council, was read: "Thisis to advise you that at its meeting on March 25, 1968 our Executive Committee endorsed Portsmouth's participation in ~e Food Stamp program and urged early action to initiate it. For some time we have been concerned with the low income of many citizens in the community and its effects on their health and welfare. We have been concerned also with the financial limits of the Aid to Families with Dependent Childre6 program which result in a substaniial number of these families not having 100% of what is determin~d to be their basic living needs according to state standarde. ~t~ile improved assistance standards and provisions might be preferred to assist citizens in having an adequate standard of living~ it does appear desirable and appropriate to utilize the existing Food Stamp program to accomplish this end. In view of the limited resources of local governments, this program appears to offer communities an attractive and expeditious means of improving the welfare of many needy citizens and increasing local business at a modest local cost~" Motion of Mr. Knight that this be referred totiBe budget study conference, with similar coPmunications, was adopted, without dissenting vote. 68-157 - On motion of MrroEastes, the following resolution waa adp!ted, w&t~ pme abstaining vote, that of Mr, Knight: "A RESOLUTION URGING THE ELIZABETH RIVER TUNNEL COmmISSION TO PE~IT CERTAIN COLLEGE STUDEb~S FREE PASSAGE THROUGH ITS T~IELS.'~ WHEREAS, the provision of higher educa%ion toyoung people of the United Scares is a necessity vitat to the continued growth and welfare of Society, and ~EREAS, the cost of such education should be minimal to the students concerned in order that as many of the qualifiedones as possible can take maximum advantage of educational opportunities, and WHEREAS, young people of the Portsmouth, Chesapeake-Nansemond area attending colleges located in the Norfolk-Virginia Beach area, unlike students from that area, are unduly penalized by the necessity of having to pay tunnel tolls each day in journeying to and from the said colleges, and ~qHEREAS, this is an extra financial burden which should be lifted and which can by law be waived b~the EliZabeth River Tunnel Commission if it so desires, and WHEREAS, the General Assembly of Virginia in the 1968 session just ended made it abuntantly clear by resolution that it was most desirable that such tolls be waived for said students. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, urges the Elizabeth River Tunnel Coramission to act expeditiously to permit college students attending colleges located in the Norfolk-Virginia Beach ar~a traveling between their homes and colleges a free passage ~h~ iZst~n~els." 68-1S8 - Th~ following letter from Major T. Benton, Chairman, Hampton Roads Area Committee on Area-Wide Cooperation, was read: "You will recall at the last meeting of the Hampton Roads Area Committee the Chairman was authorized to appoint a sub-committee composed of one person from each of the sub-divisions to re-evaluate the Area-wide Committee and its by-laws. The Committee has met and has prepared its report, copy of which I am enclosing to each of you. The report may~now be submitted to each of your Councils and Boards prior to submission to the Area Committee at its next meeting." Motion of Mr. Barnes to concur in the recommendation of the special committee was adopted, ~ithout dissenting vote. 0nmotion adjourned. APPROVED - President City Clerk