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Aucrust 8, 1995 95-376 - Letter from the Acting City Manager recommending adoption of a resolution endorsing a Clean Sites Grant Program application to the Department of Housing and Community DeVelopment for the PortCentre Commerce Park. "The 1994 General Assembly allocated $500,000 to assist cities in preparing sites for new development activities as part of ~ Clean Sites Gra~t Program. This limited amount of funding is ~vailable to eligible.communities on a competitive basis with a $~00,000 cap per locality. D!! PortCentre Commerce Park has been identified' by the e~rtment o~ Economi~ Development as an area that will meet the gr~t criteria. Specific use of the grant will be to offset sit~ improvement costs in order to remove existing development I recommend that you adopt a resolution authorizing the for this grant." Motion by Mr. Clemons, and seconded by Mr. Robinett, to the following resolution, and was adopted by the following "A RESOLUTION ENDORSING THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH'S ICATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY FOR FUNDS TO OFFSET SITE PREPARATION COSTS AT COMMERCE PARK. and the cfi wil ars und (50 WHEREAS, the General Assembly, through the Clean Sites has allocated funds to assist cities in preparmng and industrial sites for new development activities; WHEREAS, PortCentre Commerce Park has been identified by of Portsmouth as meeting the General Assembly's aria; and WHEREAS, with the award of a Clean Sites grant, the City be able to greatly enhance site preparation in the subject and WHEREAS, the City acknowledges that any grant awarded to it the Clean Sites Grant Program requires a fifty percent local match. ~OW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of )rtsmouth, Virginia, hereby endorses the application for this grant and has appropriated or pledges to appropriate the City's fifty percent (50%) local match of any grant awarded by the Department of Housing and Community Development pursuant to ~n~s/ appllcat~on. AyeS: Clemons, Griffin, Hawks, Martin, Pitts, Robinett, Webb Nays! None 95-3~? - Letter from the Acting City Manager recommending adop$~on of a resolution to provide for the acquisition of certain property owned by Upton Farms, Inc., formerly Upton Produce Company Incorporated under eminent domain proceedings pursuant to the Charter of the City of Portsmouth, said property bein~ necessary for construction of a booster pumping station in the City of Suffolk, Virginia.