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3?8 May 24, 1994 Motion by Mr. Pitts, and seconded by Mr. Epperson, to authorize the City Manager to exceed the 25% limit on change orders to existing contracts, and was adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Clemons, Eppereon, Griffin, Hawks, King, Pitts, Webb Nays: None 94-184 Letter from the City Manager recommending adoption of an ordinance to appropriate $20,000 from the Capital Improvements Fund to complete design work for the new Churchland Fire Station. "Funds are included in the 1993-98 Capital Improvement Plan for the new Churchland Fire Station. In order to complete the design work, the Director of Public Works recommends an appropriation in the amount of $20,000 for this project. I concur with the Director of Public Works and, with your approval of this item, the balance in the Capital Improvements Funds is $11,493,116." Motion by Mr. Clemons, and seconded by Mr. Griffin, to adopt the following ordinance, and was adopted by the following vote: "AN ORDINANCE TO APPROPRIATE $40,000.00 FROM THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FUND'FOR SIDEWALK AND CURB CONSTRUCTION." Ayes: Clemons, Epperson, Griffin, Hawks, King, Pitts, Webb Nays: None 94-185 - Letter from the City Manager recommending adoption of an ordinance to amend Chapter 30 of the Code of the City of Portsmouth Virginia, 1988, by amending Section 30-151 thereof, pertaining to the Portsmouth Fire and Police Retirement System. "On April 20, 1994, the Virginia General Assembly adopted House Bill 9310. This bill allows a Constitutional Officer to participate in local retirement systems, which the Constitutional Officer had been a member of prior to his/her election to a Constitutional Office. The bill becomes effective on July 1, 1994~ Prior to his election as a Constitutional Officer, the Sheriff of the City of Portsmouth had been a member of the Portsmouth Police Department, and a member of the City's Fire and Police Retirement System. Sheriff Waters accumulated more than half (13 years, 9 months), of the total service credits necessary to become eligible for full normal retirement benefits, which is a requirement of the State law. This law would allow Sheriff Waters to withdraw the eligible contributions which have been made since his election to Constitutional Office from the Virginia Retirement System and have same deposited into the City's Fire and Police Retirement System. As you know, Sheriff Waters desires to consolidate his retirement benefits from the Virginia Retirement System into the Portsmouth Fire and Police Retirement System.