The Virginian-Pilot
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              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Sunday, October 15, 1995               TAG: 9510180555
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER       PAGE: 19   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Long  :  128 lines

CITY COUNCIL ACTIONS - CHESAPEAKE

An ordinance to appropriate $18,875,282 of federal, state, and local categorical grant funds for Chesapeake Public School purposes. Approved 7-0. Allen and Newman absent. Request by Robert Shiro for rezoning reclassification for property at 669 Cedar Road from Neighborhood Business District to General Commercial. Acknowledgment, 7-0. Action will be taken at a later date. Allen and Newman absent. Request by Anzell Automotive Inc. for rezoning reclassification for property at 220 S. Battlefield Blvd. from General Business District to General Commercial. Acknowledgment, 7-0. Action will be taken at a later date. Allen and Newman absent. Refund of assessed taxes to East Coast Building supply Corp. of $60,135.06; Builders Square Inc. of $13,343.03; Construction Supply and Equipment Co. of $3,577.20; Concrete Placement Systems of $4,430.87; and Advance Pay Systems of $10,508.20. Approved 7-0. Allen and Newman absent. Request by the Police Department for appropriation of $1,400 to help eliminate auto theft, grant funds awarded by the Virginia Department of State Police. Approved 7-0. Allen and Newman absent. Request by the Police Department for appropriation of seized asset funds of $332.93 and overtime reimbursement funds of $367.56 allocated by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Approved 7-0. Allen and Newman absent. Request by the Department of Public Works for appropriation of $4,189 for various capital budget road and bridge projects. Approved 7-0. Allen and Newman absent. An ordinance authorizing the execution of a memorandum of agreement with the city of Virginia Beach to establish the Cooperative Regional Southern Watershed Area Management Program. Approved 7-0. Allen and Newman absent. A resolution approving a recommendation by the Chesapeake Groundwater Committee for satisfaction of a well damage claim at 377 Hertz Road. Approved 7-0. Allen and Newman absent. A resolution to approve a recommendation by the Chesapeake Groundwater Committee for satisfaction of a well damage claim at 1236 and 1244 Jolliff Road. Approved 7-0. Allen and Newman absent. Request by the Department of Public Utilities for appropriation of $1,502.10 for settlement of groundwater claims. Approved 7-0. Allen and Newman absent. Request by the Department of Public Utilities for appropriation of $1,773,410 of Capital Budget Project No. BREF-46-91, Phase IV, 1988 Bond Referendum/Hillwell Road Sanitary Sewer Project. Approved 6-0. Butt out of chamber; Allen and Newman absent. A resolution of intent to reimburse expenditures for construction of sanitary sewer facilities along Hillwell Road. Approved 6-0. Butt out of chamber; Allen and Newman absent. Request by the Department of Public Works for appropriation of $1,764,103 for project administration/inspection and environmental services pertaining to 1994 Road Bond Referendum Projects. Removed by city manager's request. It will be considered at a later date. Resolution of intent to reimburse expenditures for project management, inspection and environmental services costs with proceeds of bonds. Removed by city manager's request. It will be considered at a later date. Request by Chesapeake Redevelopment and Housing Authority for authority to execute a Section 108 funding approval agreement in the amount of $6,830,000 with the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Campostella Square Improvement Project. Approved 7-0. Allen and Newman absent. Request by the Department of Public Works for location approval of Cedar Road Project/1994 Road Bond Referendum. Continued 7-0 to Nov. 14. Allen and Newman absent. An ordinance reducing the tax on motor vehicles and transportation property owned or used by motor carriers to a rate of $3.12 per $100 valuation, effective Jan. 1, 1996. Continued 7-0 until Nov. 14. Allen and Newman absent. A resolution authorizing the city attorney to institute condemnation proceedings against certain property owned by heirs of James Deans and Modena Deans, Sherman Burnham, George E. Creekmur, Loretta D. Creekmur, Ida Deans Smith, Hazel Benton, Avis Benton Williams, Florine Benton Buffalo, Mavis Benton, Jackie Benton, Lucille Elliott Carrington, Delilah Benton Hall, Wallace Leary, Mary L. Bouldin, Harry B. Leary, Wallace J. Leary, Freddie Parker, May Parker, Virgie B. Mason, Muriel B. Peterson, Ivory Burnham, and parties unknown, to be used for a right-of-way for road improvements in the Deep Creek section. Approved 7-0. Allen and Newman absent. A resolution authorizing the city attorney to institute condemnation proceedings against property owned by the heirs of Isabella Creekmur, Susan A. Creekmur, Melinda A. Bell, Edward Creekmur, Cary R. Creekmur, Josiah Creekmur, Myles Creekmur, John Creekmur, and their heirs, and John E. Creekmur, Robert Creekmur Sr., Joseph Creekmur, Jeannine C. Smith, Maryland C. Anderson, Mary C. Jackson and parties unknown, to be used for a right of way and drainage easement for road improvements in the Deep Creek section. Approved 7-0. Allen and Newman absent. A resolution authorizing the city attorney to institute condemnation proceedings against certain property owned by Mary Dozier Evans to be used for a right of way and drainage easement for road improvements in the Deep Creek section. Approved 7-0. Allen and Newman absent. A resolution authorizing the city attorney to institute condemnation proceedings against certain property owned by A.D. Mitchell to be used for a right of way and drainage easement for road improvement in the Deep Creek section. Approved, 7-0. Duda and Nance absent. A resolution authorizing the city attorney to institute condemnation proceedings against certain property owned by heirs of James Deans and Modena Deans, Sherman Burnham, George E. Creekmur, Loretta D. Creekmur, Ida Deans Smith, Hazel Benton, Avis Benton Williams, Florine Benton Buffalo, Mavis Benton, Jackie Benton, Lucille Elliott Carrington, Delilah Benton Hall, Wallace Leary, Mary L. Bouldin, Harry B. Leary, Wallace J. Leary, Freddie Parker, May Parker, Virgie B. Mason, Muriel B. Peterson, Ivory Burnham, and parties unknown, to be used for a right-of-way for road improvements in the Deep Creek section. Approved 7-0. Allen and Newman absent.

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