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March 77~ 1954 84-96 Letter from the City Manager concerning transfer of funds from the Grants Contingency Account in the amount of $3,000 to construct a Senior Citizens Walking Fitness Course, deferred from the meeting of March 13, 1984. "On March 13, 1984, City Council deferred the recommendation for a grant to construct a Senior Citizens Walking Fitness Trail in City Park and r~quested a report concerning the use of similar fitness trails in other~e~ of the City. A report from James C. Greiner, Director of Parks and Recreation has been forwarded to you for review. As previously indicated the Olive Branch Forum and Parks and Recreation Advisory Com~ mission have endorse this project and recommends your approval. Based on these endorsements and the Director of Parks and Recreation's support I recommend approval of the fitness course. Motion of Mrs. Webb and seconded by Mr. Gray, that authorization be $3,000 from the Grants Contingency Account, as requested, to construct a Walking Fitness Course, and was adopted by unanimous vote. granted to transfer Seniox~Citizens~ - REPORTS FROM THE CITY MANAGER - 84-105 - Letter from the City Manager recommending adoption of an ordinance to appropriat $15,000 for payment to transport excavated material to the seawall for construction of the Riverfront Park. "The Priority Action Program includes construction of the ~iv~m'~letPark at the end of High Street as part of the downt6w~improvements. The construction of this park will require approximately 9,000 to 10,000 cubic yards of fill to bring the area up to tha l~vel of the seawall. Williams Corporation of Virginia, the contractor for the West Norfolk Road project, has agreed to transport mm~F~em'~ excavated from that construction site to the seawall et a cost of $1 per cubic yard, which is a cost-savings of approximately $4 to $5 per cubic yard(S10,000). The remaining $5,000 would be for grading and additional fill if required. An appropriation of $15,000 is requested from the $250,000 authorized in the Capital Improvement Program in FY 83-84 for the Priority Action Program. The City Engineer recommends appropriation of these monies to cover the cost of transporting the fill. I concur and recommend the appropriation of the requested funds." On motion of Mrs. Webb and seconded by Mr. Gray, the following ordinance was a~rpved on first reading, and by unanimous vote: "AN ORDINANCE TO APPROPRIATE $~5,000 FROM THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND FOR RP~ANSPOR.TATION OF FILL FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF RIVERFRONT~¢PARK.'' 84-~i0'6 -"Letter from the City Manager recommending adoption of an ordinance to amend Section 23-66(a) of the City Code pertaining to reckless driving. ':"~t~:has~recently been brought to onr attention that the General Assembly of Virginia has amended the State Code pertaining to reckless driving in order to eliminate a loophole that had existed regarding persons who drive vehicles at a speed 20 or more miles per hour in excess of the posted speed limit. Chapter 23 of the City Code pertaining to motor vehicles and traffic parallels the State provisions and, therefore, an amendment to ~23-66(a) is in order. .... In order to assure that the City Code conforms to the applicable State Code provisions, I recommend adoption of the attached ordinance." On motion of Mr. Gray and seconded by Mr. Beamer, the following ordinance was adopted on first and final reading, and by the following vote: "AN ORDINANCE TO ~MEND SECTION 23-66(a) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, 1973, PERTAINING TO RECKLESS DRIVING." Ayes: Barnes, Beamer, Gray, Holley, Webb, Whitlow, Johansen Nays: None 84-107 - Letter from the City Manager recommending adoption viewers for the closing of a portion of Raven Street. of a resoluti.on appointing "Al Dumire and Charles Satterfield, Jr., have made an application to have a portion of Raven Street between Greenwood Drive and Barclay Avenue vacated and closed. As required by law the applicants have given the appropriate notice of application. The requests attached resolution, if approved by City Council, their recommendation. appoints the necessary viewers and I recommend adoption of the resolution."