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<br />- ( <br /> <br />". r-... <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />AUGUST 12, 1980 <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />Having viewed on-site the various proposed curb-and-gutter-and/or-sidewalk projects <br /> <br />for which shared-cost petitions have been filed, Council authorized the City administration <br /> <br />to proceed with the processing of the selected petitions and the adding thereto a <br /> <br />project consisting of 300 feet of widening and curb-and-gutter along the east side of <br /> <br />Liberty Street. <br /> <br />By direction of Council, there is herein made a part of these minutes (by addemdum <br /> <br />insert) City Manager Edmonds' report entitled, "Status Report, Findings and Recommendations <br /> <br />Concerning the Ridgeway Hydroelectric Project", with which findings and recommendations <br /> <br />Council concurred, the recommendations being (1) that a proposed bond referendum for <br /> <br />this project (at one time tentatively contemplated for the fall of 1980) be postponed <br /> <br />until the fall of 1982 and (2) that Council authorize R. W. Beck & Associates to proceed <br /> <br />with Phase III-A of the proposed project, this phase involving the preparation of a <br /> <br />license application (estimated to cost $340,000.00) to be filed with the Federal <br /> <br />Energy Regulatory Commission as one of the procedures necessary to obtaining a permit <br /> <br />or license from this agency to construct the proposed Ridgeway project. <br /> <br />Upon recommendation of Northcutt E1y, legal counsel for the Virginia Municipal Electric <br /> <br />Association, supported by the City administration, Council authorized the City and <br /> <br />its Electric Department to become a party to intervention proceedings before the <br /> <br />Southeast Power Administration in an effort to obtain hydropower allocation from the <br /> <br />Federal Government's Kerr-Philpott hydro-electric generating stations, with the City's <br /> <br />cost-share of such proceedings estimated to be $1,500.00 and for which funds are <br /> <br />available. <br /> <br />To clarify the City's current code regulations pertaining to designated or reserved <br /> <br />parking spaces for the handicapped, Council tentatively accepted and placed on first <br />