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July 28th, 1931. At a regular meeting of the 0ity ~ouncil'ne_al ' July 28th, 1931 at 8 ~nere were present: Vernon A. Brooks, W. R. Hutchins, E. ~o Naupin~ Jr.~ Arthur Mayo, J. Alden 0asr, Archibald 0gg~ J. R. Stewart - ?. Also the 0ity ~anager. Vice President J. R. Stewart in the ~hair. ~nutes of regular meeting held J~iy !4th, were read and ~ ~ app~ove~. The followin~ communications from the Gity Man~.ger were read: 1st - Annotuucing the appointment o~ the following Substitute Policemen, effective July 21st~ 1931: James A. Ec0oy, Hugh E. Bryant ~illis T. Johnson, Harry S. ~e~olds. On motion the same v~s ordered filed. ' ~ 2nd - 'I respectfstly report to you the comoletion of the contract with the Virginia Electric & Power Gompany for reoaving work on abandoned Park View car line. The Gity has received final payment from the-Power Go~oany~amounting to $18,!97.92, all bills having been paid.' On motion, the same was ordered filed. 3rd - 'I beg to make the following reoort in oo~uection with the pay of the Equalization Board, w~ich matter was referred to me-at you~ last meeting: it was my understanding when ~he 8~,500. aooropriation was ms~ie by the 0ouncil that this amount would cover the job oomoleted. ~en the Ohairman wee asked the F~ae~tion~I understood hi~ re~ly to be that tY,SQ0, was aufficient to como!ere the ca memoer of the E~uallzation M~.va ~ ~-' ~^ ' ~ ~ ~ ~ job. ~ ~ ~. _ ~ ~ ............. ~ ~uuu. '~'ne Iigure lot c~erical work was ,~y an es~mmame aha ~here wee conszderaoly more clerical ¥~rk t hen ant~cioated, but in spite of this feet the lack was taken care of without additional appropriation and the amount of 85~000. was paid to the assessors. · I am attaching excerpts from the ~ounoil records relative to the ap- propriation of the 8Y,500. for the Eoualization Boa~vd.~ .... The Gity Eanage~ made a verbal ~e~h~- the request be not granted. On motion of Nrc Brooks, the 0ity ~anager~s ~t was conc~red in. following commsmication from the 8ity Attorney was read: The 'At your meeting held on June 23rd, 1931, you referred to me a letter from Robert F. ~c~u~an, asking that taxes assessed against B. F. ~a~ker be relieved. I find ~hat B. F. Pe~vker was assessed in 1930 for taxes on house ~_ N~unt Vernon Avenue omitted ~or the years 1~27, 1928 192~ and 1930 amounting to One Hundred Dollars and S~venty-Six gents ($100.~6). ' ' ' . This was one of the houses which were reoorted by the ~lerk 'tothe assessors as having been omitted and the aesessment was.made by ~he Gommission~r of Revenue on the strength of the list furnished him° I~Zi~d that an error was made in pre- paring the ~ist as the house in question belongs to Louis Richards and was properly as- sessed to him. The lots numbers twenty-eight (28) and twenty-nine (29) in Block ,A~ of B. F. Parker are vacant and the taxes should be relieved.~ On motion of Er. Ogg, the Gity Attorney, s recommendation was concurred in. The daily repo~t of the Aecos~uting Department for July 2~th was received and ordered filed. The following resolution of Ere Brooks laid on table at the last meeting was taken up and read: 'That an appropriation of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ~(825~000~00) or so much of same as may be necessary be made from the ~ater.Fund to build two bridges over Lake Gahoon, and to pay Nansemond 0ounty Seventy five Htusdred Dollazs for upkeep and main- tenance of said bridges, as per agreement dated July 14th, 1931' On motion of Er. Brooks, same was adopted and by the following vete: Ayes - Brooks, Hutchins, Naupin, Ease, Oast~ 0gg~ Stewart Nays - None. F. To B~iggs, 0omaunication from Superintendent of the School~ annotuucing the death of member of the School Board from Earshall ~ard. Eotion of Nr. ~ayo that we go into election to fill the vacancy, was adopted. Er. kayo nominated U~. T. A. 'Willett. There being no other nom~sations, Er. Willett was elected by the following ~ · vo~e. For Er. W~!iett- Broo_s, Hu~ch~ns, ~auoin, ~ayo, 0asr, 0gg, Stewart - Against Er, Willett - None. The following letter from the Standard Oil Oompany was read: