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At a regular meeting of the City Council held September 12th, 1933, at S:OO P.M~ there were present: Vernon A. B~ooks, Leslie T.Fox, W. R. J. Alden Oast, Archibald Ogg. City Manager. Hutchins, Arthur Mayo, Moore, Minutes of regular meeting held August 22nd and special meeting of A~st 29th were read and approved. Motion of Mr. Moore that we take from the table the resolution endorsing Hon. E. T Humph~ies for State Highway Commissioner from ~uffolk District, was adopted. On motion of Mr. Moore, the following resolution was adopted: ,WHEREA~, announcement has been made that a vacancy will seen exiet on the State Highway Commission of Virginia, oc- casioned by the resignation of Honorable I. Walke Truxton of Norfolk, Virginia, therefore be it RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Portsmouth hereby endorses and recommends, in event a vacancy exists, Honorable E. T. Humphries, Member of the House of Delegates from Norfolk County and the Ci~y of South Norfolk and res- pectfully requests Honorable John Garland Pollard, Governor of Virginia, to appoint Mr. Humphries to the position and sets forth the followimg reasons for this requeat. 1. Mr. Numph~ies is a merchan~ and the largest farm operator in Norfolk County and probably one of the largest in the Tidewater section. He has been am outstanding success in his own business operations which is ~mple proof of his ability and good Judgment. He is the ranking member of ~he Road' s Committee of the House of Delegates and has taken a very active part in State ~read affairs and is thoroughly conversant with the needs and operations of the Highway De- par~ment. 2. Mr. Humphries represents a County which spent sev- eral million dollars for road building before the State had a Highway Department and his ideas are progressive but not wasteful. 3- Norfolk County and its immediate environs contains nea~ly YO per cent of the population of the Suffolk District of the Highway -Department and an even larger percantage the taxable values of that area. For these a~d other reasons, this Council feels that Mr. Humphries is the legisal successor of Major Truxton. RESOLVED further, that a copy of the above resolution be sent to Honorable John Garland Pollard, Governor of Virginia. and By the following vote: Ayes: Fox, Mayo, Moore, 0asr, Ogg - 5. Nays: B~eks, Nutahias - 2. The following ce~m~m_~_~icatiome from the City Manager were read: 1st - ,The plans and specifications for the repaving ef 0ouuty Street from the City Limits to Sixth Avenue, which is to be done by the State Highway Department with Federal funds, are about to be forwarded to the Highway Department. These plans have been gone over tentatively with the Highway Department and we u~derstand are satisfactory to them. They are very amxieus to get ~his work started at am early date. This project is ferred to and know~ by the State Highway Depar2ment as Project N.R.M. 1036. It is necessary to file with the State Highway Dspa~tment an agree- ment setting forth that the City will maintain the project, after it is constructed, in a satisfactory manner, ami will make ample pro~ision each year for such maintenance. A copy of the proposed agreement is submitted herewith. I respectfully request that I be authorized to sign the agreement for the City of Portsmouth." Motion of M~. Fox that we concu~ in the City Managerls request was adopted. 2nd - ,The widening and rep~avlng of 0ommty street i~om the City Limits to Sixth Avenue has been approved~y the State Highway Department ~s a project ~o be done from funds made available u~der the National Recovery Act. This prosect is kaowm by the State Highway Department as N.R.M. 103g. The requirements are that the City furnish the necessary rights of way. In order that this roadway can be m~de thirty feet and a right of way fe~ty feet supplied~ it is necessary that we acquire additional rights of way which will cost not in excess of $2,000.00. These rights of way can be secured ~n the basis of the p~esent sessed valuation of the property and in one instance, the necessary right of way will be do- nated. AS the State Highway Department proposes to widen the r~adway fou~- teen feet, makinga thirty foot ~oadway from the City limits to Sixth Avenue, end to put in necessary gutters amd drainage at a comt of approximately $65,000.00, I recommend that the City acquire the necessary rights of wayfor this work; therefore red, est au appropriation $2,000.00 for this purpose."