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18 and by the following vote: June 25th. 1957. Motion of Mr~ Hinton to concur in the recommendation of the City Manager was adopte~ Ayes: Bartlett,'Hi~ton, Kirby, Scott' Nays: Baker, Smith, Weiseman Motion of Mr. Baker to place the following ordinance on first meading was adopted: ?'AN ORDINANCE TO REPEAL SECTION 3D-139.3 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTS- MOUTH, VIRGINIA~ 1~51~ DESIGNATING ~ AVE~ AS A ONE-WAY STREET" Motion of Mr. Kirby that the City Manager be requested to remove the one-way streen signs on Ninth Ave., was adopted. The following reports from the City Manager 5vere read: 57-218 - "I am submitting a contract between the City of Portsmouth and the Centri- line Corporation ior'lining certain water mains within the City and recommend that the proper city officials be authorized and directed to execute the same for and on behalf of the City and thai the City Clerk be directed to attest the same and affix the City Seal thereto. This is considered a part of the Capital Im4~rovement. Funds are available in the Bond Fund Account for this project. It was so considerDd at the time that we prepared the City Budget. "' Motion of lCr. Kirby~that the proper city officials be authorized to sign the con - tract, was adopted. 57-219 - "I submit an agreement between the United States Department of Interior and the ~ity of Portsmouth for maintaining a gauging station on Blackwater River. This is in connection with a recommendation from X.D. Murden, Superintendent of the Water Department, concerning the matter. It is ~r. Murden's opinion that it will be to the best interests of the City df Portsmouth if we enter into such an agreement. I concur in the recoam~endation of the Superintendent of the Water Department." Motion of Mr. Kirby to concur in the recommendation of the City Manager was adopted. 57-220 - "l'am reporting that some progress has been made on clearing weeds from vacan~ lots within the City. The City has completed most of its ~all lots and most of those located in residential sections. We have not been able to cut the weeds on the large acreages. I hav~ had D~tective Reid, who is now serving in the capacity of Tax~ in- spector to make s survey of the City and furnish me a list of the vacant lots or tracts within ghe City on which weeds are growing. He has supplied me with 739 parcels of land and we are now in the process o5 preparing notices to serve on individual owners of property to comply with the ordinance; however, you can readily understand that it will require much work to trace down the ownership of the lots and to give pr oper notic to the owners -to cDmply ;and should we have to carry a large percentage of the cases into Court, it will take some nime beiore the Cou~t will be able to consider all of the cases in addition to the cases now before the Court. We shall continue to proceed the best we can under the circumstances." On motion filed. 57-221 -'"'I have inspected the proposed parking lot at the corner oi County and Ef - fingham Sts., which was referred to me at a previous meeting of Council. I have not had sufficient time to make a complete study ~f this- property. Before I can make a complete report, it will be necessary that I determine the amount of rental the property owners w~ld require of the property and wkether or not they would expDct the City to remove the buildings and other structures from the lots and if with the other off-street parking lots that the City has purchased, it will be necessary for additional parking spac~ a~ this time. I trust to be able to make a more complete report in the not too far dis - tsaut~: future." On motio~ filed. 57-222 - "The matter concerning the parking meters on Washington Street, referred to me st a previous Council meeting, is the one on which the City Council had already taken action and authorized the meter~kto be installeJ. Dne to the excessiv-e work load on the. department that installs the parking mer~rs be- cause of the traffic changes, we have been unable to install all of the meters authorized by a former action of the Council; however, we do expec~ to complete the ~nstatlation of the meters at an early date." Motion of Mr. Baker to suspend the rules to hear from G.L. Cox was adopted. Mr. Cox spoke requesting that parking meters not be installed in the 300 block of Washington St. until after the parking lots have been established and the effect, on the parking situation deter- mined. Motion of Mr. Weiseman to defer the installation of parking mezers in the 300 block of Washington St. until the effect of the off-street parking lots has been determined, was adopted. 57-223 - "On September 8, 1955, I madethe following report: 'Having been advised by Charles L. Levy, Director of the Public Housing Administration that his office is preparing to dispose of Project VA 44-244 Carver H6mes, which consists of 544 temporary family dwelling units and since it has been determined that the Beazley Foundation, Inc. has acquired a portion of the land contained in the Carver Homes site and the Council has adopted a resolution concerning the removal by the purchasers, the structures from the remainder of the site, I recommend that the Council authorize ahd direct the City Manager to look inno the possibility of acquiring the remainder of that portion o£ the site not purchased by the Beazley Foundation~ Inc., or so much thereof as is seeded for'recreation and street and park purposes, there now being streets located over and across a number of the parcels of the land of the site. This letter was concurre~ in by,City Co~ncil at their regular meeting held September