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regarding additional police officers for the annexedarea. He has also presented a list of Virginia cities which shows that the City o f Portsmouth has perhaps the smallest number of police officers per one thousand population of auy of the cities. I have discussed this matter with Chief ~an and ws have decided that eight additional officers will meet this situation adequately and I should like autho- rization to employ these men. ~his will involve an additional expense of approximately ~10~000~ for salaries and equipment for ~hese men for the period~July ist to Decemoer 3ist, i948.~ Motion of Mr. Howard to concur in the Manager's recommendation and to place an appropriation of $10,000.00 on its first ream_rig, was adopted. 4th - ~Regarding the following resolution as presented by the Portsmouth School Board to the City Council o n ~ay llth: ~T~t the School Board requests from the City Council adequate funds to raise the maximum salary scales ~00.; this amount shall be in three at, ual increments of ~100. each.' It is esti~ated that to oomplywith this request during the rest of 1948 will require an appropriation o f $4,980.00 and to comply with this request through the calendar year of 1949 will require ~0,100o00o I recommend that the City Council make an appropriation~ ~B8;080.00 to ca~ry out this increase to the teachers for the period through December $1st, 1949. I feel that this money will be available from the Admission Tax which, according_to our present check, ~ll run over the estimated budget for t~s revenue~~ Motion of l~r. B~ciay that we place on its first reading au ~pro. priation of $4,960.00 for the balance of 1948, the appropriation fo~ 19~9 to be referred ~ the 1949 budget, was adopted. 5th - "According t o a letter submitted zo you individually last week; I again bring to your attention the school Board~s~request that you appropriate $48,606;96 covering work'done and proposed to b e done in connectionw ith the Woodrow Wilson ~gh school fire damage and other improvements. I shall appreciate yot~r taking action on this matter in order that we may pay the contractors for the work that has been done.~ Motion of Mr. Welshman thatwe place on its first reading an ap - propriation of $36,771.96 and that $11,835.00 for work to be done, b e referred to the City Manager/before additional expenae ia incurred, was adopted. and that the School Bee_vd confer with the City Manager 6th ~ "I.should like ~o advise the City ounc~l that the ~ty ~ Engineer,s report shows that we nave mn excess Of one hundred twenty miles of secondary stree~ which'will qualify under the new State ~ghway law.for ~niah the City of Portsmouth will re- ceive $300°00 per mile per y~ar for maintenance of these streets. ~is pa~uuent is in addition to the payment r~eceived at pres- ent for maintenance of streets in the primary system.~' On motio~c~dered filed. 7th "! have a petition containing fifteen names of citizens residing on Glasgow Street, asking that this street be limited to one-way travel of automo~ biles and that they be permitted to travel from east tow est. Chief Duma recommends this change. I suggest that~ we be authorized to advertise this cont~- plated change and have a public hea~ing on same at the r~lar Council meeting on July l~th~ at whioh ti~e tbs Council can make a decislon.~ was adopted. Motion of Mr. Sturtevant to concu~ in the ~anager~s suggestion, 8th - "I present the City Engineer's estimate of certain d~ain- age work involving sewers, manholes, catch basins, head walls and pavement reolacement in Tyr let Ward, which he states is in the nature of emergency work and should be do~e promptly to t~ke care of the drainage in this section. The estimated cost of this work is $23,000.00-and should be charged to Capital ~nprovements in the munexed area. ~e rebommend this appropriation." ~2 Motion of ~r. D~uke to place an appropriation of ~ 3,000.00 on its first reading, was adopted. 9th - ~ne I~r~ger preseflted the following from the City ~gineer: "Replying to your letter of Ma~ch 19th, the vicinity of the Westhaven S~nool as requested by Mr. Houghton. are-herewith submitting estimate of cost. I~B lin. ft. curb and gutter~ Griff~_d St. Rodman to Louisa (both sides) 188 sq. yds. cone. walk @ Griffin St. Nottaway to Louisa (N. side) ~0 lin. ft. 18~ c~lvert pipe @ 4.00 B catch b~sins @ 80.00 rSgarding improvements in For your information we $ 2,463.00 404°25 120.00 160[00 ~ 3,147.25