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January 15, 2002
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<br /> At a Called Meeting of the City Council on Tuesday, January 15, 2002, there
<br />were present:
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<br />Mayor James W. Holley III, Vice Mayor Bernard D. Griffin, Sr., Cameron C. Pitts,
<br />P. Ward Robinett, Jr., J. Thomas Benn III, William E. Moody, Jr., Charles B. Whitehurst,
<br />Sr., City Manager Daniel M. Stuck, City Attorney G. Timothy Oksman.
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<br />02 - 16- The following call for the meeting was read:
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<br /> "Please attend a Called Meeting of the City Council to be held in the City
<br />Manager's Conference Room, 801 Crawford Street, 6th floor, 5:00 p.m., Tuesday,
<br />January 15, 2002, for the purpose of a Joint Meeting with Tidewater Community College
<br />Board.
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<br />By order of the Mayor."
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<br />The following Tidewater Community College Board Members were present:
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<br />Dr. Deborah DiCroce. Gale Lee, Christopher Boynton, Franklin Edmondson, Harrietta
<br />Eley, Benjamin Hacker, Dorcas Helfant, John Kavanaugh, Vernon Randall, Shewling
<br />Wong and Sidney Oman.
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<br />Mayor Holley called the meeting to order and welcomed all in attendance.
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<br />02 -17 - Adoption of a resolution concerning development of a new Tidewater
<br />Community College Campus at Victory Crossing.
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<br /> Motion by Mr. Pitts, and seconded by Mr. Whitehurst, to adopt the following
<br />resolution, and was adopted by the following vote:
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<br />"A RESOLUTION CONCERNING DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW TIDEWATER
<br />COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAMPUS AT VICTORY CROSSING.
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<br /> WHEREAS, the Portsmouth Campus of Tidewater Community College was
<br />established in 1968 as the founding campus of Tidewater Community College; and
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<br /> WHEREAS, the beginnings of the Portsmouth Campus date back to a four-year,
<br />private liberal arts college known as Frederick College, when Frederick W. Beazley, a
<br />local philanthropist who strongly supported education and the City of Portsmouth,
<br />donated the buildings and infrastructure of this college, including 750 acres of land in
<br />the City of Suffolk and a check for $1,000,000, to the Commonwealth of Virginia to
<br />launch a comprehensive community college in the Tidewater area of Virginia; and
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<br /> WHEREAS, the facilities of the Portsmouth Campus are inadequate, reflecting
<br />the history of the Suffolk site itself as a munitions depot during World Wars I and II; and
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<br /> WHEREAS, the people of Portsmouth deserve a state-of-the-art, comprehensive
<br />community college campus that is strategically positioned to meet their education and
<br />training needs; and
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<br /> WHEREAS, the Portsmouth Campus of Tidewater Community College served
<br />over 8,000 students in academic year 2000-01; and
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<br /> WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth has undertaken an approximately five
<br />hundred-acre revitalization effort known as Victory Crossing, which will include an
<br />eighty-acre retail project, an eighteen-hole championship golf course, associated
<br />high-quality residential development, and a two-hundred acre business park; and
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<br /> WHEREAS, Victory Crossing is located at the City's center, with easy access to
<br />the Interstate highway system and within close reach of both the western portion of
<br />Hampton Roads and the Peninsula, and these are the geographical areas, in addition to
<br />the City itself, which is the primary source of the student population of the Portsmouth
<br />campus; and
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