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<br />3~ <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />NOVEMBER 25. 1958 <br /> <br />as to the requested annexation. <br /> <br />City Manager Hirst reported that at Council's next meeting, with Council's <br /> <br />concurrence, he and City Attorney Taylor will present a draft of a proposed <br /> <br />gas utility franchise for Council's consideration, in anticipation of the <br /> <br />expiration on July 30, 1959 of the present franchise with Southwestern <br /> <br />Virginia Gas Company, successor to Atlantic Gas Company. <br /> <br />No action was taken qy Council on a report submitted qy City Manager Hirst <br /> <br />wherein Council was advised that it may become necessary for the City to <br /> <br />institute legal action to enforce compliance with City regulations requiring <br /> <br />property owners--whose property is not already connected to available sewer <br /> <br />~Di <br />'\,\<3,,:0 <br />i:l:'l:: <br />J"-' <br />liB <br />,~ <br /> <br />lines--to install sanitary plumbing facilities and to connect to such <br /> <br />available sewer lines. <br /> <br />After receiving a Planning Commission report advising that the Commission <br /> <br />"does not presently foresee how either the Poorhouse Farm or the Smith lake <br /> <br />property can be put to any future municipal-use advantage" and that, the Commission <br /> <br />noting that the Smith lake property was originally purchased as a recreation <br /> <br />facility, the Commission "feels that any money derived from the sale of it <br /> <br />(Smith Lake property) could be very wisely used in capital improvements on <br /> <br />present recreational facilities", Council instructed City Manager Hirst to proceed <br /> <br />with the offering these properties for sale at public auction. <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />City Manager Hirs"treparted that, from correspondence between Mr. Jackson C. Dodge <br /> <br />and the State's Adjutant General made available, the City would be required to <br /> <br />contribute a minimum of five acres of land suitably located, $20,000.00 for certain <br /> <br />refinements in construction, that the City assume responsibility of bringing all <br /> <br />utilities to within five feet of the proposed Armory building, as well as meet <br /> <br />certain other conditions, should a new two-unit Armory be constructed in <br />