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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 21, 1972 It was agreed that there should be investigation of the feasibility of giving up the Food Stamp operation and substituting in its place the "commodity foods" program, since the latter, though less popular than the Food Stamp program, might afford economies to the City not inherent in the Food Stamp program. Also, the State representatives outlined probable changes which will take place on January 1, 1974, which changes would involve money payments being paid by the Social Security Administration rather than as presently done, with details not yet known. Mayor West thanked the State representatives and staff members present for participating, and all expressed the view that the discussion had been fruitful. After giving consideration to a report of Vice Mayor Boaz, Chairman of the special committee recently appointed, Council agreed to accept the committee recommendations, as embodied in its report, as follows: My committee has considered several needed projects which would affect traffic and parking in the City but one stands out as the most urgently needed. People in the Lavinder Street-Bridge Street area have petitioned that an embankment along Bridge Street opposite its intersection with Lavinder Street be graded down to provide sight distance around a curve in Bridge Street, and area for a sidewalk. These people walk from their homes to Price's Minute Market to shop for groceries and where they have to cross Bridge Street going home their ability to see approaching cars coming from Memorial Boulevard, headed toward downtown, is limited by this embankment to approximately 100 fee t. We studied this situation on the ground and found it to be extremely dangerous to people walking to this store. It is just as dangerous to automobile drivers leaving the parking lot of this store. Sight distance is equally limited for drivers traveling toward town on Bridge Street and turning left into Lavinder Street unless they pull around the curve before turning, which then requires a short turn. M~ W. O. Caudell owns all of the property that needs to be graded. We have contacted her and she says she will be glad to give the City permission to grade out this property from Price's Minute Market to the steps going up the bank to her home. We recommend and urge that this project be done as soon as is possible in order to correct this situation. The project would consist of grading off this embankment leaving a sidewalk space six feet wide from Price's Minute Market to Mrs. Caudell's steps and putting gravel on this sidewalk area. Also, the bank left would be sown with grass.