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· 42~. June 28th, 1960. 1957 - 611.59 1946 - 251.42 1956 - 354.58 1945 - 247.66 1955 ~ ' 324.54 ' 1944'- ~g66.36 1954 ~ 232.72 '1943 -'- 841.04 1953 - 198.70 1942 -- 90.78 1952 - 410.22 1941 - 65.78 1951 - 244.46 - 1940 - 85.76 1959 - 234.76 1939 - 85.76 1949 - 640.00 Total $8,624j56 Motion of Mr. Weiseman, to concu~in the recommendation of the City Manager and City Attorney was adopted, without dissenting vote. 60-199 - "I recommend that I be authorized to proceed with the installation of new street lights in the downtown bus.ness district. The initial imstallation would ba on High Street from Water Street to Chestnut Street, which would require sixty lights~ on. Washington Street from Queen toCounty Street nine lights; on Court Street from ~een Street to County Street nine lights, for a total of seventy eight lights. _ ~ I also .recommend~that 20,000 lumen mercury vapor lamps with a six foot arm be used for this installation. _ The Virginia Electric and Power Company advises me that if the autho- rization is placed Row it will take approximately three months ~e complete." Motion of Mr. Smith te concur in the recommendation of the City Manager was adopted without dissenting vote. 60-200 - "I submit the attached agreement with the Portsmouth Coca Cola Bottling Works shall be the only so£t drinks offered for sale in the coucession stands by vendors in the Municipal Stadium There is no cost to the. City for the installation of this score board." On motion of Mr. Weiseman, the recommendation o£ the City Nanager was adopted, without dissenting vote. 60-aG1 - "The sawdust problem created by the Lumber Cempany on Bahlgren Avenue referred to me at the last meeting has been investigated. The dust house w~s investigated by the Buildiug Inspec- tor and was found to comply with the Building Code. There-we~e:~arge pite~ oi sawdust arokud the yard due to the fact that the concern that was disposing of the sawdust ~eased to use the sameLandthe Lamber Company had not been abl~ to make arrangements for the disposal of the sawdust. The Lumber Company has now obtained a truck to haul the sawdust away and has advised me that they expect to keep the sawdust pile to a minimum in the dust house in the future, and will not s~ore it on the ~gr0und," :-. ~Motion o£ Mr. B reedlove that ~he reporI be received for information and that copies be sent the complainants, was adopted~ without dissenting vote. UNFINISHED BUSINESS - 60-172 - The following ordinance, placed on first reading at last regular meet- ing, was taken up and ~ead: "AN ORDINANCE TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS NECESSARY FG~ OPERATION OF THE CITY GOVERN- MENT FORAND DURING THE FISCAL YEA~ BEGINNING.JULY 1, 1960, AND ENDING JUNE 30th, 1961." Mo~ion of Mr. Smith that the ordinance be adopted. Mr. Walker made the following statement: "I will vote against this ordinance and the proposed budget and hereby read into the record my measons for so doing. My prime o~jection, and one which alone would support my position, if there were no others, is that%it is not an honest budget. The' appropriations have been cut to unrealistic proportions in order to balance the expected revenue while past experience is ignored, especially experience in spending for the past five months, which proves that management exerczses little power to hold expmnditures within appropri~ ated amounts, and that~the last~budget (a smx months one) which appropriated generally larger sums than ere found in the one before us, will show a deficit balance unless offset by including some fuud of major proportions such as the tunmel fund residue. This proposed budget.has a built-in def$cit of approximately $250,000.00 and a stand-Dy life-boat of $569.547,00~ tunnel money, of which $150,000.00 has already b~en earmarked for pay ~ncreas es. Secondly, it contains thousands of dollars of appropriations for non-essential, non-governmental spending which crep~ into the past budgets in lush war-time years and which are long overdue for the surgeon's knife, Two such examples are Dues - $3,125.00 and Traveling - $al,840.00,which is .above and beyond our already massmve gar- age fund of $246,040.00. Other objections are that it c~ntai~s an guestimated amount for pay increases which was accepted by Council without b~nefit o~ knowledge as to how it was calculated or as to how %t was to be ,applied, - that this pay increase was injected into the last day of the budget conferences by two members cam- paigning for re-election who knew that there were no .~unds available except tunnel funds, thgt such a move was a delayed action tax:imcrease and therefore is considered.to be-nothing'shortof political expedienCy, m- that the Council can not, in good conscience, use funds for this purpose which a few w~eks earlmer~.they refused to ear7 ~ mark for school construction, a~ that the two actions serveto burden present and future real estate owners wlt~ additio ual bonded indebtedness and heavy interest payments in lieu of using funds already avamlable and properl~ expendable for school construction, In stmmmry, the use of the'remaining tunnel fuuds for the proposed pay in- creases completes the squandering cfa large inheritance - $783,$62o~4 to pay for a previous pay raise and othe~