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108 TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1989 facility must be constructed on the site still obtains, otherwise the City has the right to purchase the property for $282,000.00 but must exercise that right within thirty days following the title exchange. As a result of Councilman Cole's recent inquiry, City Manager Brown presented a status report, as prepared by Mrs. Judy D. Robertson, the City's Personnel Operations Supervisor, on the City's Employee Suggestion Program, noting that, since the beginning of the program in 1987, a.total of five suggestions have been submitted by City employees, with one of these five suggestions having been made by Mrs. Robertson and having been approved, for which she was rewarded the maximum of $25.00. The report described the purpose of the program, types.of suggestions deemed eligible or ineligible for consideration, employee eligibility requirements, the method of processing suggestions, and the amounts of monetary awards for approved suggestions (being a maximum of $25.00 for accepted suggestions with intangible benefits and a maximum of $75.00 for accepted suggestions with tangible benefits. City Manger Brown informed Council that it appears that financial participation by owners of properties within the proposed Streetscape Project along Fayette Street is not forthcoming to the extent of the required $23,000.00 and, consequently, that project may have to be cancelled; however, Council withheld cancellation pending consultation by Vice~1ayor Willjams with the project committee and/or property owners and his report of findings thereon. Pursuant to the requirements of subsections A. 1 and A. 3 of Section 2ol-344 of the CODE OF VIRGINIA (1950, and as amended), and upon motion~ duly seconded and unanimously carried by a recorded vote, Council convened into an Executive Session for the purposes of considering (1) nominees for membership on the