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COPY OF RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FEBRUARY 28, 1922

WHEREAS at a meeting of the Rector and Board of Visitors of
the University of Virginia held on November 29th, 1921,
a resolution was adopted authorizing the lease to the City
of Charlottesville of a tract of land owned by the University
and situated on Observatory Mountain, containing approximately
3 1/2 acres, for the purpose of erecting a filtration plant
for the City of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia;
and

WHEREAS said resolution appropriated to the City of Charlottesville
for the purpose of assisting in constructing said filtration
plant, the sum of $15,000.00 or so much if any, thereof
as might be appropriated by the Legislature for the purpose
of improving the water system at the University; and

WHEREAS the Legislature did not make such appropriation for
the purpose of improving the water system at the University,
and

WHEREAS It is deemed important and necessary that the water
supply at the University shall be augmented and purified and
with a view to attaining that end the City of Charlottesville
has submitted to the Rector and Visitors of the University
the following proposition:-

FIRST: That a tract of land now owned by the University of
Virginia, situated on Observatory Mountain, containing approximately
3 1/2 acres, and a right of way for pipe line from
said tract to the Lynchburg Road, through the lands owned by
the University, which right of way contains approximately
1 1/2 acres, all of which is accurately described on a plat
prepared by Lee H. Williamson, C.P.E., dated January 1922,
together with the rights of ingress and egress to and from
said land over the lands of the University under the supervision
of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, be
leased to the City of Charlottesville without charge for a
term of ninety-nine years with the privilege of renewal of
said lease by said City at the expiration thereof.

SECOND: In view of the fact that that portion of the present
six-inch pipe line now belonging to the University which runs

from the old reservoir to the site of the proposed filtration
plant will become unnecessary upon the completion of
said filtration plant, and will be abandoned, and the
City of Charlottesville can use the pipe in this line to
advantage, that the University give said pipe, consisting
of about fifteen thousand feet of six-inch cast iron pipe,
to the City of Charlottesville without charge, with the
rights of ingress and egress to the University property for
the purpose of taking up and removing said pipe, in consideration
of which the City of Charlottesville agrees to place
a six-inch pipe line from the present water main in Observatory
Road, past the site of the new gymnasium into Ivy
Road; and also a six inch pipe line out Rugby Road from
University Avenue to the city limits

THIRD: That the City of Charlottesville agrees to furnish
the University without charge 175,000 gallons of water per
day for the term of the lease contemplated hereby, for the
use of the public buildings and of the officials, professors
and employees of the University residing on University
property. A meter shall be placed upon the water main leading
to the University at the point where said main intersects
with the City main leading from filter plant, which meter
shall be read at monthly intervals, and all water in excess
of said 175,000 gallons per day used as aforesaid shall be
paid for by the University at the minimum rate then charged
by the City of Charlottesville for water, at a rate to be
agreed on, which rate, however, shall not exceed five cents
per 1000 gallons.

FOURTH: The University to pay to the City of Charlottesville
one-seventh of the cost of operating and maintaining the contemplated
filtration plant, and the booster pump and station,
said one-seventh, however, not to exceed the sum of $900.00.

and WHEREAS the above proposition is considered advantageous
to the University, and it is the sense of the Rector and
Visitors of the University of Virginia that the same should
be accepted,

BE IT RESOLVED That the Rector is hereby authorized and
directed on behalf of the University of Virginia to enter into
a contract with the City fo Charlottesville, which contract
shall have been first approved by the attorney for the
University, carrying out and putting into effect the provisions
set out above.