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364 THURSDAY SEPTEHBER 25. 1958 connnittee report was submitted and the opinion rendered, Council instructed the City Manager to arrange a joint meeting of Council with the Board of Supervisors for the purpose of working out mutually satisfactory details for the installation of the parking meters. After receiving from City Manager Hirst a report on the present conditions of Smith lake and the "Poorhouse Farm" property, Council voted (two to one- Mayor Shultz voting against the motion) that the City ~~nager be instructed to have the timber on the "Poorhouse Farm" tract "cruised" and appraised and that said timber be advertised for sale; that the City Manager be and is directed to complete the draining of Smith Lake and have the dam cut so that the normal flow of streams now feeding the lake will now through unimpeded; and that the proposed sale of both the Smith lake property and the "Poorhouse Farm" property be held in abeyance, pending the receipt and study of the complete planning report being prepared for the City by City & Town Planning Associates, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Mayor Shultz requested that this matter--action on the Smith lake and "Poorhouse Farm" properties--be placed on Council's next meeting's agenda. Upon recommendation of City Manager Hirst, Council voted to continue the City's water meter testing and repairing program in keeping with the appropriation allowed in the current year's budget. City Manager Hirst informed Council that information, in addition to that previously brought to Council's attention, will soon be presented concerning certain phases of the proposed sewerage system improvements program, particularly that which could serve the new Druid Hills school at an estimated cost of $45,088.00.