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<br /> 4.- To require the owners or tenants of any property in the district to connect with any
<br />such system or systems, and to contract with the owners or tenants for such connections. The
<br />owners or tenants shall have the right of appeal to the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmout
<br />orzth~jBd~e~thereof in vacation, in regards to connection to such services within ten (10)
<br />days from notice by the City to so connect.
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<br /> 5. To levy and collect an annual tax upon any property in such service district subject
<br />to local taxation to pay, either in whole or in part, the expenses and charges for providing
<br />such additional governmental services or facilities in such district and for constructing,
<br />maintaining and operating such facilities and equipment as may be necessary and desirable in
<br />connection therewith, provided that the proceeds from such annual tax shall be so segregated
<br />as to enable the same to be expended in the district from which collected.
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<br /> 6. To authorize the City Manager to employ and fix the compensation of any technical,
<br />clerical, or other persdnnel which may be necessary or desirable from time to time to provide
<br />such additional governmental services in such district or for the construction, operation or
<br />mainteaance of any such facilities and equipment as may be necessary or desirable in connectic
<br />therewith.
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<br /> To negotiate and contract with any person, firm, corporation or political subdivisio~
<br />with regard to the connection of any such equipment or systems with any other equipment, facil
<br />ties or public systems now ~n peratlon or hereinafter established, and with regard to any
<br />other matter necessary and proper for the construction or operation and maintenance of any suc
<br />system within the district.
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<br />2. By amending Article II, Section 2.09 to read as follows:
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<br />Section 2.09. Sale of City rights in water front, streets, utilities, works, etc.
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<br /> (a) The rights of the City of Portsmouth in and to its water front, wharf property,
<br />public landings, wharves, docks, streets, avenues, parks, bridges and other public places, and
<br />· ts gas, water and electric works, shall not be sold, except by a resolution passed by a re-
<br />corded affirmative vote of two-thirds (2/3) of all the members elected to the Council.
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<br /> (b) No franchise, lease, or right of any kind to use any such public property or any
<br />other public property or easement of any descFiption in a manner not permitted to the general
<br />public shall be granted for a longer period than forty (40) years, except for air rights toget
<br />wiihzeaaemmn~s.'for columns of support, which may be granted for a period not exceeding sixty
<br />(60) years.
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<br /> Before selling any such prcperty, and before granting any franchise, privilege, lease,
<br />or right of any kind to use any public property or easement of any description, for a term
<br />in excess of five (5) years, except in the cake of and for a trunk railway, the City shall
<br />first, after due advertisement, receive bids zherefor publicly. Such advertisement shall be
<br />published for at least three (3) days in a newspaper published in, or having a general circula
<br />tion in, the City of Portsmouth. Such bids may be upon such terms and may be received in such
<br />manner as the City Manager may determine, unless the Council shall direct otherwise.
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<br /> Such grantt, and any contract in pursuans~
<br />of the grant, the plant as well as the proper~
<br />hues, and other public places shall thereupon:
<br />payment of a fair valuation therefor, become 1
<br />be entitled to no payment by reason of the fr~
<br />the C'ity may be sold or leased or, unless prot
<br />and operated hy the City. Every such grant s~
<br />ation therein provided for and shall make adec
<br />grant, or otherwise, to secure efficiency of j
<br />tenance of the property in good order throughc
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<br /> thereof, may provide that upon the termination
<br />y, if any, of the grantee in the streets, ave-
<br /> without compensation to the grantee, or upon th
<br />he property-of the City; but the grantee shall
<br />nehise. Any such plant or property acquired by
<br />ibited by general law maintained, controlled,
<br />all specify the mode of determining any valu-
<br />uate provisions ky way of forfeiture of the
<br />ublic service at reasonable rates and the main-
<br />ut the term of the grant.
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<br /> (c) The City may sell or convey any of its property to the
<br />any political subdivision thereof, or to the federal government
<br />without receiving bids~
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<br />Commonwealth of Virginia,
<br />without advertisement and
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<br />3. By amending Article III, Section 3.10 to read as follows:
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<br />Section 3.10. Compensation of the Mayor and Council.
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<br /> The City
<br />Council as compensation
<br />exceed such amounts as prcvided
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<br />4. This Resolution shall take effect fro
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<br />Council shall grant and pay to the Mayor and the other members of the City
<br /> for their services such amounts as*the Council may determine, not
<br /> for by genera1 la~.
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<br /> the date of its adoption."
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<br /> Ayes: Barnes, Beamer, Gray, O~ t, Webb, Whitlow
<br /> Nays: None
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<br /> 81-444 - "Consideration of a resolution authorizing Tidewater Transportation Distrizt
<br />Commission to amend the transit service program for Portsmouth.
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<br /> The Tidewater Transportation Commission recently held a public hearing in Portsmouth at
<br />Council's request concerning several proposed transit service changes which were recommended
<br />by TTDC in..order to keep the City's transit e~penditures in balance with the budget. The
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