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TUESDAY JULY 27, 1982 ~ Council took under advisement, for further consideration and/or action at its August 24th meeting, a revised and updated Housing Assistance Plan, as recommended by Wiley & Wilson, Consulting Engineers, from this firm's housing study and report dated February, 1982. At the request of Mu1titrade Group, Inc., and with Councilman West abstaining from dis- cussion thereof and action thereon, all other members of Council authorized the granting of a ten-foot easement to Multitrade Group, Inc., along or on Tract No. 11 within the City's Industrial Park to allow this firm to construct a steam line from its proposed steam generation plant to serve industries within the Industrial Park. ..... Mr. Richard L. Gipple, Vice-Chairman of the City's Social Services Administrative Board, appeared before Council on behalf of the Board and informed Council that, as a result of recent actions taken by the State Welfare Board, funding in 1982-83 by the Commonwealth of Virginia for the local Social Services Department will be reduced (from that initially estimated) to the extent that the City's net cost to operate this department for 1982-83, if Council concurs, will be 23% of the total welfare budget instead of, as budgeted, 21\%; o~ if Council does not concur, salaries of departmental employees can not be increased (approximately 8%) as planned and budgeted or staff personnel must be reduced, notwith- standing increasing burdens being placed on local welfare departments through changing regulations and/or adverse economic conditions. Councilman West, as a member and recently- elected Vice-Chairman of the State Community College Board, noting that State funding is being reduced for other activities, including the community colleges, expressed his concern over the City's assumption of an increased local cost of operating the Social Services Department, as requested; however, he agreed, as did Vice-Mayor Oakes, and with other mem- bers of Council in concurrence, for the City to assume the additional cost for 1982-83 only, with the expectation that thereafter the City's proportionate cost share will be no more than its present 21%.