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k October 24, 1967 67-307 - "I submit the2attached ordinance and reco~nend it be placed on first reading. This appropriates $2,300.00 for the Coast Gumrd Llghtsb£p Museum. These funds are needed by the museum to purchase various items requested in their original budget for the fiscal year 1967-1968. At a conference with the board members, they had requested $S,554 additional appropriation, but we hake been able to work out other items ~equested by the Board and they will need only the $2,500 during this fiscal year." On motion of Mr. King, the following ordinance was placed on first reading without dissenting vote: "AN ORDIN;~NCE TO ~PROPRIATE $2,300.00 FROM THE. G~NEP~L FUND FOR THE PURCHASE OF MATERI;~LS ~/ ~ SUPPLIES FOR TME PORTSMOLrrH COAST GUARD ~JSEUM." 67-5a8 - t'I submit thezattached resolution and recommen~ its adoption. This is a Declaration of Policy, by the C~ty Council, of what it proposes to do to further develop the Workable Program for community improvement, in the city. This resolution along with various statis-tical data, pertaining to our Code Enforcement Program, must be submitted to the Department of HDuging and Urban Development in order that the City of Portsmouth can be recertified to part~cipate tn the various Federal programs." On motion of Mr. Knight, the following resolution was adopted, with the following change: Paragraph 2, third line to read 'United States of America' rather than 'Uncle Sam'. "WMEREAS, on October 3, 1967, when the special Annexation Court handed do~m its final decision, mutually agreed upon h~the two cities involved, concluding an ordeal which began on December $, 196~, Portsmouth faced a 90-day period of preparation for extending municipal services to 12,000 new citizens over ten additional square miles of land area; and WHEREAS, during October, 1967, application must he made to the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for recertification of the Portsmouth Workable Program for Community Improvement, a seemingly unrelated but actually integral-act bearing upon the future of this old urban core conmunity; and hSMERE~S, partial reunification of a Nineteenth Century "URB" with its new layer of Twentieth Cent~rry "SUBURBS" dilutes destructive metropolitan core effects of rampant obsolescence and social deterioration; and accepZing Federal Urban aid is no longer debatable, so great is the need of all cities; and Portsmouth's firm resolve as expressed in past ~orkable Program Declarations to strive for the broadest possible community growth and renewal is moving fomcard and hereby reaffirmed. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, as recommended by the Planning Commission on October 10, 1967, that the City of Portsmouth hereby proposes the following seven tangible steps in furttier developing its Workable Program for Community Improvement: 1. That the action~proposals 6utlined in this application form by the City Manager will be pursued diligently. 2. That Portsmouth will pursue the National "Model Cities" program in hopes of producing "A Demonstration of Militarily Impacted Renewal Area Leadership" wherein the United States of America can experimentally assist firsthand in correcting urban problem conditions resulting from his presence. 5. That direct citizen participation in the ~ff~irs of our municipal government o~ the part of newly annexed residents may actually precede their official transfer into the City of Portsmouth and will be actively sought as a policy of this municipality. 4. That continued support of the Southeastern Virginia Reg%onal Planning Commission will accompany efforts 6n the part of our representatives to that agency and the Elizabeth River Tunnel~Commission on behalf of a metropolitan core mass transit study~ 5. That the special citywide campaign to rid Portsmouth of vacant-abandoned-dilapidated structures not securely boarded against entrance hy unauthorized persons is hereby adopted as a continuing program and the codes Enforcement Administrator is authorized and directed to pmrsae elimination of these threats to community deterioration. 6. That every possible effort will be made to adopt by the end of this fiscal year a new comprehensive plan for the enlarged municipality, to extend neighborhood analys~s across the Elizabeth River to encompass the newly annexed area, and to adopt a six year capital budget and public improvements program for the new City of Portsmouth. 7. That under the Workable Program Coordination Com~liEtee, research will be accelerated to determine some feasible method for enforcing prov~sions of the Minimum Housing Code which stipulate that a vacant dw. elling unit may not be rented unless and until it complies with all standards set fort~ in the codes." 67-509 - "At a recent meeting of the City Council you referred to me a petition from the Olive Branch P.T.A. with reference to curbs and gutters in the Olive B~anch-Simonsdale section of the. City of Portsmouth. At the~present time a compreSensive drainage survey is underway by R. Kenneth Weeks Engineers. When the survey is completed it will enable the Public Works Department tO let contracts for the instal lA~ion of an adequate storm drainage system, prior to the installation of any concrete gurbs and gutters. It is not recommended that any curbs and gutters be installed until a proper drainage system is installed. The Public Works Department has been instructed to do what it can, of a temporary nature, to relieve this condi~on until such time as a proper drainage system can he installed." Motion of Mr. Johnson to receive as information and that a letter be fom~arded to the Olive Branch PTA, advising them of this action, was adopted, w~thout dissenting vote.