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<br />February 12th, 1952.
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<br />"AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 24 OF T?~ CODE OF THE CITer OF PORTSMOUTH,
<br />1951, BY ADDING THERETO SECTION 24-57-1, RELATING TO INTRODUCING FLUORINE
<br />INTO THE ciTY's WATER SYSTEM"
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<br /> ~ Ayes: D~ke, Bilisoly, Houghton, Howard, Smith, Sturtevant
<br /> Nays: Grimes, %~arren, Wilson
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<br /> The following reports from the City Manager were read:
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<br /> 1st - "I submit the attached letter from Mr. E~ Thompson of Bowles, ~drewa &Towne,
<br />Actuaries and Insurance Consultantw, Pension and other Employee Benefit Plans and I recommend that the firm be
<br />employe~ as consultants to the Council committee working on our retirement system."
<br /> "it was good having the opportunity to meet with you and the others in your office las
<br />night. Trane services our firm will render iu connection with your pension study are covered ~y Mr. Towne's letter
<br />of December 27th, 1950.
<br /> Introducing ~ocial Security into the picture will call for additional calculations,
<br />but will net result in ~y appreciable insreese in the fee of $2,000. previously quotsd. As stated before~ your
<br />group last ~i~ght, we c~u quote you a firm price of not over $2, 500. to handle the job as set forth in Mr. Towne'
<br />letter. T~nis includes the Social Security addition. You might see if any of the personnel date required is in
<br />your IBM cards. If it is, your work, as well as ours, could be facilitated by using these cards. If it is not,
<br />and can be put on cards as easily as typed, it would simplify our work to have the data in this for~. Please ge'
<br />in touch ~_th us if you ~sh any more information. Mac Simpson joins me in sending best regards to you,Mr.~rohnson
<br />and the members of the Committee."
<br /> Motion of ~r. Howard to concur in the recommendation of the City Manager and that ~u
<br /> appropriation of $2,500.00 be placed on its firs~ reading, was adopted.
<br /> 2nd - "I submit herewith the attached resolution ~d recommend its adoption:
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<br /> , WHEREAS, the General Assembly of Virginia has adopted au act to provide for
<br /> coverage of officers and e~ployees of this State, andof local governmenta and
<br /> its political subdivisions, under the .old-age and survivors insurance provision
<br /> of Title Ii of the Federal'Social Security Acts, and i~ order ~o comply with the
<br /> requirements of the Social Security Acts, it is necessary for the City of Ports-
<br /> mouth to refrain from paying gratuities or other emoluments to employees of the
<br /> City School Board ~no may be retired since the passage of said act.
<br /> NOW, T~HE~OEE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Vir -
<br /> ginia, that the City of Portsmouth will not hereafter pay to eny school teacher
<br /> or other employee of the School Boards of the City of Portsmouth who mmy be re -
<br /> tired after the passage of the aforesaid ~ct of the General Assembly of VirgLnia,
<br /> ~uy gratuity or other emolument."
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<br /> On motion of ~4r. Bilisoly, the resolution was adopted s~ud by the followLug vote:
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<br /> Ayes: BLlisoly, Duke, Grimes, Howard, Houghton, S~ith,
<br /> Sturtevaut, Warren, Wilson
<br /> Nays: None
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<br /> 3rd - "I su~nit the attached let%er from Dr. R.M. Cox, President of the Board of Di
<br /> rectors of the Beazley Foundation Dental Clinic."
<br />
<br />Portsmouth, Virginia,
<br />was adopted:
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<br /> On motion filed.
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<br /> 4th - "I submit an amendment to Section 16-~2 of the Charter~ a~d Code of the City of
<br />1951, and reco~end that it be placed on its first reading."
<br />
<br /> Motion of Mr. Bilisely that the following ordinance be placed on its first re~di-ug,
<br />
<br />"AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND RE-ORDAIN SECTION 16-57 OF THE CITY
<br />CODE, RELATiNG TO ROUTES OF THE CO~MUNITY BUS LINE"
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<br /> 5th - "i attach hereto a letter dated February 6th, 1952, from F~. J. Gordon Bern~_ett,
<br />Auditor of Public Accounts of~the Commonwealth of Virginia, to which is attached au opinion of the Attorney Gen-
<br />eral of the State oD Virgin~ concerning the salaries ~-ud expenses and receipts of the Circuit and Hustings
<br />Courts of the City of Portsmouth. This is for your consideration. I recommend that the City proceed according tc
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<br />instructions from the Attorney General by revising the Budget for the fiscal
<br />Lug estimated receipts in the sum of $39,000.00.
<br /> Appropriation~to the office of the Clerk of
<br /> the Hustings Court
<br /> Appropriation to the office of the Clerk of
<br /> the Circuit Court
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<br />year ending June 30~ 1952, by add-
<br />
<br />$ 22,890.00
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<br />12. 516.00
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<br />$ 35,&06.00."
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<br /> Attached -
<br /> ,F~closed is a copy of an opinion which I have just received from the Attorney Gau-
<br />eral and which vitally affects the flna~uc~al operations of the offices of the ler~s of the Courts of your City.
<br />The opinion and the answers to the questions which I propounded to the Attorney~ General are sufficiently clear t~
<br />el~m~inate the necessity for a de, ailed description of the effect of the opinion upon the financial operations o~
<br />the Courts.
<br /> The purposes of this letter are to furnish you ~th a copy of this opi~on and to
<br />~dvise you that our audit of the Clerk's offices for the calendar year 1951 will be made in two parts, in ac -
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