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there were
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<br /> At a regular meeting of the City Ootuucil held J-mly 9th, 1935, at 8:00 P.~.,
<br />present:
<br /> Vernon Ac Brooks, Leslie T. Pox, W.Eo Hutchins, J~ Alden Oast, J.R. Stewart,
<br /> City Nanager.
<br />
<br /> Minutes of regular meeting held June 25th were read and approved.
<br /> The following communication from the City N~uager was read:
<br /> let - "In the matter of two communications referred to me on June 25th, viz:
<br />
<br /> l. Application from T.N~ Hankins for a permit to
<br /> operate a for-hire car, and
<br /> 2. Petition from Ers. LoB. Griffin to provide a
<br /> pension for her husband.
<br /> I have attached hereto for your information, copies of letters which were
<br />written to each of the parties."
<br />
<br />Attached letters:
<br />
<br />~r. T.~. Hankins,
<br />1914 North Street,
<br />Portsmouth, Va.
<br />
<br />"Portsmouth,
<br />
<br />Va., ~july ~2nd, 1935-
<br />
<br />Dear Sir:
<br />
<br />Your communication of june 25th, to the .City Council, was refer~ed to
<br />Please be advised that the City License Tax provided as follows:
<br /> INumber of taxi-cabs and for-hire cars authorized in the
<br /> City of Portsmouth:
<br /> The number of taxi-c~bs (defined in ordinance of Narch
<br /> 22nd, 192~) shall be four. The number of for-hire care
<br /> (mentioned in the ordinance of Nay 22nd, 1928) shall be
<br /> seve~
<br /> taxicabs and for-hire c~rs is now filled,
<br />
<br />Inasmuch as the full quota of
<br />to apprdve another permit.
<br />
<br />in a position
<br />
<br />Yours truly,
<br />
<br />me.
<br />
<br />I am not
<br />
<br />E.B. Hawks,
<br />C{ty Eanager.
<br />
<br />Nfs. L.Bo Griffin,
<br />52? County Street,
<br />Portsmouth, Va.
<br />
<br />"Portsmouth, Va., July 2nd, 1935,
<br />
<br />Dear Madam:
<br /> Your letter of June 12th, addressed to the City Council, in which you petitioned
<br />the Council for a pension for ye,mr husband, upon the ground~ that he had served the City as
<br />night watchman at the City stables fo~ ten years bsfore he became ~ncapacitated, was referred
<br />tO me.
<br /> In reply I will say-that thee is no ordinance providing fQr a pension in such in-
<br />silences and there is no ~opropriation to which any such allowance could be applied.
<br /> The only pensions allowed beyond those to Firemen and Policemen, which are provid-
<br />ed for by law, were to two or three employees of the Street Department, who had served contin-
<br />uously for ~oproximately thirty years, through a generation of continuous service to the City.
<br /> Should the ~ity adopt a policy of pensioning its employees, who have served for
<br />ten years, the~pension roll would soon mount to a sum impossible.
<br /> I sincerely regret that the oircumstsnces do not Justify me in submitting to the
<br />Co,moil a favorsfole recommendation.
<br /> Respecti~ully yours,
<br />
<br />E. B. Hawks,
<br />City Manager."
<br />
<br />Motion of Mr. Stewar~ to concur in the action of ~he Oily Msm~ger, was adopted.
<br />
<br /> 2nd - "i am pleased ~o report that the sum of $i,!77.!~ was received from the
<br />sale ~f iron tracks taken from ~i~h ~t., ~ud the money has been deposited to the General Ac-
<br />oount."
<br /> Notion of ~r. Oast that this money together with ~he $95,99Q.00 received from
<br />the Virginia Electric & Power Company, be placed in a special fund, was lost, and by the fol-
<br />lowing vote:
<br />
<br />A~ves: Cast, Fox - 2.
<br />Nays: Brooks, Hutehins, Stewart - 3.
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<br /> 3rd During the past six months, the amount of money expended within the City,
<br />by F.E.R.A., amounted to $19~,128.77, while the amount for' which the City received credit, as
<br />having expended, was $7,568,91, of which $3,500.00 was in cash.
<br /> Owing to a lack of material, the work accomplished during that ~eriod was
<br />not of a nature requiring e~y skilled labor outside of ~.E.R.A. forces, nor was there much in
<br />the wsJ of equi~men~ required. However, there are, among the projects now under way and pond-
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