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January 26~ 1982 82-39 "Consideration of a motion authorizing the Commissioner the £it? Treasurer to refund personal property taxes paid in error. This motion authorizes refunds to the following persons: (1) Gelco Corpo. $188.00 -Should have paid to the City (2) Mrs. Delia M. Hayes 514.00 Car is 1973 model not (3) Bush Realty $818.80 - Construct]on equipment housed not Portsmouth. of Revenue to abate and of Chesapeake. 1975. in Chesapeake (4) Nickers~n Fleet Mgmt. Corp.- $135.20 - Car was in Dinwiddie County, N.C. and taxes were paid in N.C. ' (5) Curtis L. Edwards, Jr. 2115.60 Personal property taxes paid VA and Portsmouth. Car is located in Leesburg. (6) Celestine Ellison $31.92 Car is 1978 modeI instead of 1979. in Leesburg, Motion of Mr.'Gray and seconded by Mr. Beamer, that refunds be authorized persons, as requested, and was adopted by unanimous vote. Council request that the City Manager and the City Attorney to concerning refunds on overpaid taxes whereby the citizen furnished also if an administrative procedure could be established setting an taxes to be handled by the Commissioner of Revenue and a report be to the above furnish further advice incorrect information; appropriate limit on furnished to Council. 82-40 "Consideration of a motion to transfer $164,717 from the Emergency Budget Contin- gency for the purchase of provisions for the City Jail. Due to a substantial increase in the number of prisoners being housed in the local jail, it has become necessary to supplement the appropriation for jail provisions (food purchases) from the current $185,000 to $3S0,000, an increase of approximately $165,000. Additional loca funding of $24,750 is required and included in this transfer. The balance of the transfer will be reimbursed by the State. The City Manager recommends adoption." Motion of Mr. Beamer and seconded by Mr. Gray, that authorization be granted to transfer $164,717 from the Emergency Budget Contingency, as requested, and was adopted by unanimous 82-41 - "Consideration of a motion to award a bid for the addition to the Boys Group Home to the lowest responsible bidder in the amount of $19,566. This motion authorizes the City Manager to award a bid to the lowest responsible bidder for the additions to the Boys Group Home. City Council, on June 23,1981, appropriated $98,000 for the purchase and rehabilitation of the Group Home. Of this $98,000, $68,000 was used to purchase the home leaving $30,000 for the renovations. The City Manager recommends adoption." Motion of Mr. Beamer and seconded by Mrs. Webb, that the bid be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder in the amount of S19,S66, and was adopted by 6-1 [Whitlow-nay) vote. 82-42 "Consideration of a motion to receive as information the City Manager's Quarterly Financial Report for the period ended December 31, 1981. · This quarterly financial report is submitted in accordance with the City Code', Section 11~.45 (a) (5) ." Motion of Mrs. Webb and seconded by Mr. Gray, the report to be received as information, and was adopted by unanimous vote. 82-43 On motion of Mr. Beamer and seconded by Mr. Gray, the following resolution was adopted, and by the following vote: "A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE SUPPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONVALESCENT AND NURSING FACILITY BY THE STOP ORGANIZATION IN THE SOUTH-SIDE REDEVELOPMENT AREA AND REQUESTING THAT THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH RECONSIDER THE APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF NEED. WHEREAS, the Southeastern Tidewater Opportunity Project (STOP), a Community Action Agency acquired the thirty-two (32) bed William T. Hall Convalescent and Nursing Home ~n 1975 to save the facility from closure by the State and thus preventing the displacement of elderly residen and WHEREAS, the STOP Organization applied in 1978 to the Community Services Administration for a special Inter-Agency Grant sponsored by the City of Portsmouth to plan a one hundred twenty (120) bed replacement facility later reducing the plan to a sixty (60) bed facility; ar WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth was awarded Two Hundred Seventy-four Thousand, Eight Hundred Twenty ($274,820) Dollars for a jointly funded project between the Community Services Administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development of which One Hundred Seventy-four Thousand, Eight Hundred Twenty ($174,820) was earmarked for planning, architec- tural and consultant services for the nursing home to be constructed in the Southside Redevel(