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the services of the State Auditor's r' of_~ce for the purpose of making a complete study, report and r~commendat~on on a system of-a c,ountzng that will adequately provide for the needs of the City ~t an expense not to exceed $1,000,00 amd this amount to be included in the budget for the fiscal year 19S1.~ ager was adopted. Notica of ~r, Duke to concur in the recom~endati~ of the City 8th - "i am submitting a request for re~iremen~ f~om Harry L. Par- ker, Janitor in the f'Iunicipal Building, who has been an employee o~ the Czty of Portsmouth for the past thirty years. ~nis employee is receiving the s~no f $170.00 per month and due to illness has been ~aaable to perform his duties for the past year, having been ab- sent from work at laast two-thirds of the time. I ~m attaching hereto a certificate from Dr. L.H, Deany, Director of Public Health and Dr. George H. Cart, both of which indicate that ,the ~oplicant is not physically able to perform his ~aties and they recormmend that he be retired and that the City Nanager be authorized to t~ansfer necessary f~uds to the Pension Fund.~ Notion of f{r. Grimes to concur in the Nar~ger~s reconm~endation,was adopted. 0th - "0n February lSth, 1950, you tentatively approved several Federal Aid Highway routes through the City of Portsmouth. Since ,the abe ye date, I have received a map from~e De- partment of Highways in Richmond, Virginia, designated as u~ban area map of the Cityof Portsmouth, Virginia, dated December 18~ 19~9 on whLch is shown the presently approve{ ~ban extension for Federal Aid expenditures and also a n~mber of Federal Aid Secondary Highway ex- tensions that did not appear on the previous I therefore reco~muend that the C~ncii approve the new ex- tensions a s submitted on~ said map, a copy Of ~aich is on file in the City Engine er~s office. ~Otion of Mr. houghton to approve the new extensions was adopted. 7th - ~I have B~en advised that in the past, t~ke City Audito~ has from time to time transferred funds from one account to anothar, in order to meet obligations due the City. I am not aware ~ the Auditor has had blanket authority from the Co~cilo However, I ~ of the opinion that no transfers ~hould be made from. one fund to another without authority of the City Council. In order to meet the request of the School Board for the sum of $1.~0,000.00, it is necessarythat the sum of $60,000.00 be trane= ferred temporarily fr°m the Utmlity Tax Fund to the General F~uud. I recommend that the City Auditom be authorized to make this transfer. ~ Notion of Nr. Bilisoly to conc~ in the recommendation was adopted, 8th ~ ~I take pleasure in reporting that i have been advised by ~r. A. E~ Parker, City Collector,~that all delinquent taxes have been properly prepared and contracts dravaa for submission toseveral attorneys for the collection of the same and that the taxes will be turned over to the said attorneys v~lthin the ~xt five days, wi~h instruc- tions that theyproceed immediately to endeavor to collect all the delinquent taxes due the City as provided in a Resolution of the Council dated Augast 9th, On motion filed. 9th - "For the past six m~nths, the Director of Public Safety, the Chief of Police and myself have made a survey of the question of directing the pedestrian traffic at the several schools located withint he city l~its of the City of Portsmouth~ Va~ ~e have done considerable research and have fo~udd that a number of the larger cities in the United States have secured the services of a number of in- terested ladies, usually the parents of children a trending the s~nools, who have agreed to direct~the school children traffic at the schools d~ing school hours. From our investigati~ we have found that this method of directing school children traffic has proved satisfactory in other place~ The Director of Public Safety and the Chief of Police have conferred with a number of P.T~A. groups and other women's organizations and with individuals and they feel that there are enough Iadies int~resSed to enable the city to employ a suffi- cient number of police women t o perform the duties atthe schools during school hours to adc quately direct the school children traffic. It will require fifteen police women daily during school ho~s and since they will be required to spend a minim~ of three hours per day on duty, we have agreed that the sum of $50.00 per month would be a reasonable compensation for t heir Services. This would require an additional appropriation for khe year 19~0 in the s~ of $~,S$0.00 or an annual, amount in the We are of the opinion that by relievi~ th~ regular police officers from this type of work that it wo~d enable them to do a much better job in policing the C~ty, aha at the ~ame ~.e the cmty would be collecting a sufficient ~mount for fines for trafemc VlOlao n a c n t f t d - ~zo s o o-apensa e or he a ditmonal cost of the police women. i therefore recommend that the City ~nager be authorized bo ~ut.into effect the foregoing recommendation of the~Director of Public Safety and the Chi~ o£ ~olmce on a trial basis and I recommend that an appropriation in the sum of $B,S$0'00 for the p~pose of defraying the ex_oense of the project, be authorized." Notion of ~. Weiseraan that an .aPPropriation of $~,S80.00 for this purpose, be placed on its first reading, was adopted.