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December 8, 1964 On motion of Mr. Eastes, the following ordinance was approved on first reading without dissenting vote: "AN ORDINANCE TO ANEND SECTION 2-35 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, 1961, RELATING TO ANNUAL VACATIONS FOR CITY EMPLOYEES" 64-320 - "I submit the attached ordinance and recommend that it be placed on first reading. This will amend the present City Code to allow the sale of beer on Sunday between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 12 midnight. These hours would conform to those in the City of ChesapeaKe. ~e cities of Norfolk and Virginia Beach allow the sale on Sunday between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 12 midnight." On motion of Mr, Barnes rules were suspended to hear from interested persons. The following people spoke: Rev. Earl Henley Rev. Eugene Sowder Mrs. L. T. Correll Mr. Robert Hecht On motion of Mr. Dillon the following ordinance was approved on first reading, without dissenting vote: "AN ORDINANCE TO A~\~END SECTION 19-10 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, 1961, TO ALLOW THE SALE OF BEER AND WINE ON SUNDAYS BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 1:00 P.M. AND 12:00 MIDh'IGHT" 64-521 "At the previous meeting of the City Council, it was requested that I makea report on the progress of the Westhaven-Waterview Causeway construction. Submitted herewith is a report received from the Department of Public Works concerning the progress of this causeway." {Attachment - "In reply to your memorandum of November 25th concerning the progress of the cause- way between Westhaven and Waterview: As you know the progress on lhe fill portion of the work is dependent, excent for indeterminate amounts from various sources, on the progress of the road excavation on Route 537. The City cannot control the rate of progress on Route 337 but, if the very low cost fill from this source is to be used, must co-ordinate its efforts on the causeway construction with that of the Contractor for Route 557. This we have attempted to do. Expecting the first fill from Route 357 to be delivered in early July 1964, we began demolition of the old bridge with the date in mind. The demolition of the bridge was completed about mid-June. Our first delivery of fill from Route 337 was made on August Slat., 1964. This operation continued, with several short interruptions through October 2nd at which time the excavation of the south side of Route 337 had progressed to a short distance west of Cypress Road. We were then informed that the Contractor intended to suspend excavation operations for the winter months. We have learned, within the past week, that the Contractor has changed his plans and in%ends to open the recently paved section west of Cypress Road to two-way traffic within the next month (weather pemmitting the construction of several street and coF~ercial entrances.) This will make it possible to excavate the north side of the road and send the excavated material to the causeway. Concerning the Council's statement to you that they know of quantities of earth from Route 537 being sent elsewhere than to the causeway job: The City has kept an agreement with certain property owners whereby agreed amounts of fill, or the excavation within certain limits on Route 557, will go to them in payment for land which the property owners have deeded the Ci%y for street widening. In addition, it has been necessary to use some of the excavated material for filling in low areas on and adjacent to Route 537 itself. Another considerable quantity has gone to the north shore of C~ty Park where a serious erosion problem exists. The material sent to City Park was mostly broken concrete with some earth which was unavoidably mixed with it. We estimate the fill portion of the causeway j'ob to be about 60% complete as of this writing. If the excavation of Route 337 proceeds as we have outlined above and if the rate is the same as it was for the first portion excavated We might expect a progress schedule about as follows: Re-start Filling operation Jan. 2nd. 1965 Finish Fill {except for temporary Drain) Feb. 15th 1965 Start Pilings for Permanent Drain Feb. 20th 1965 Finish Permanent Drain April 10th 1965 Fill Temporary Drain-Place Paving Base - Extend Concrete Paving at North and South Ends - Build new Curb and Gutter at N ~ S ends and Build Sidewalk - Install New Water Line Begin April 10, 196~ Finish May 10, 1965 The rate of progress on this schedule is dependent on weather conditions and it is not likely that winter conditions will accelerate the schedule but rather more likely that Zhey will retard it. We have made every ~ffort to see that the City gets all the material, to which it is entitled, from Route 537. 'A system of serially numbered tickets in quadruplicate has been used for material delivered to City projects. We have been informed by State Highway inspectors who are constantly on the job that no excavated material has been sent to unauthorized locations. For your information the total quantiZies delivered from Route 337 through Oct 2nd are as follows: To Westhaven-Waterview To City Park Water Front {Broken Concrete and earth) 4448 C.Y. (Truck Count) 1064 C.Y. (Truck count) Approx. 4458 C.Y. (Est. 1300 C.Y. {Est. To Leonard Karp from Plans) To Low Areas on Rte 537 from Plans)