HomeMy WebLinkAbout1951-09-13SPECIALSeptember 13, 1951.
Pursuant to the following waiver, the members of the Board of County Supervisors of Albemarle
County, Virginia, met in special session on this date with the following members present: Messrs. C.
Purcell McCue, E. J. Ballard, Henry Chiles, C. R. Dorrier and W. W. Wood. Absent: Mr. J. W. Williams.
We, the undersigned, members of the Board of County Supervisors of klbemarle County,
Virginia, hereby waive notice, and special service thereof, of a meeting to be held
at 10:00 A.M. on the 13th day of September, 1951, in the City Hall, Charlottesville,
Virginia jointly with the Charlottesville City Council for the purpose of discussing
the matter of the proposed airport, and we do hereby consent to the transaction of
any and all business and the taking of such action at said meeting upon the matter
hereimabove mentioned as may be lawful, incident, and necessary thereto.
Mr. Stephen A. McClellan and Mr. A. R. VanGorden of Specialties, Inc. addressed the meeting
and explained in considerable detail concerning the establishment of a factory by that Corporation at or
near the proposed airport site in Albemarle County, and presented the following communication:
September 13, 1951.
Mayer Strother F. Harem
City of Charlottesville
Charlottesville, Virginia
Dear Mayor Hams:
In accordance with the request made during the course of the joint meeting
this morning of the City Council of Charlottesville and the BOard of Supervisors
of Albemarle County, I am setting forth specifically what Specialties, Inc., pro-
poses to do, regardless of whether it gets any financial assistance from the
Federal Government, as regards building and activating a facility on the proposed
airport site.
Assuming that the City and County institute purchase negotiations and con-
detonation proceedings essential to acquire all of the property required for the
~.irport as agreed on with the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and that Specialties,
Inc., is able to acquire adequate and suitable land immediately adjacent to the
pzoposed runway, that we will proceed as follows:
(a) Construction -will begin within thirty (30) deys after the receipt of title
to the property. It will be pursued as vigorously as possible and it is our
goal ~ha~e it completed withim ninety (90) days ~hereafter.
(b) The value of the land, proposed buildings and equipment installed thereon,
will be in the order of $250,000.00 to $300,000.00.
(c) This facility will employ, on a full-time basis, 140 people with an average
annual payroll of $460,000.00.
(d) This facility, one the personnel are trained and it is operating at full ef-
ficiencywill have an annual production volume of $1,465,000.00 of manufactured
products, and the engineering productionwill have an annual volume of $400,000.00
to $430,000.00.
In the. event we have Federal backing and put in ~mmediately the plant which
we ultimately contemplate doing on our own, our annual number of employees will
exceed 400, our annual volume Of manufactured products will be in the order of
$4,000.000.09 and the annual volume of engineering production will be in the order
of $1,200,000.00. The increase in payrollwill be approximately in propoztionte
the increase in personnel.
Trusting that this statement is adequate for your purposes, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Stephen A. McClellan (Signed)
Stephen A. McClellan
President
SpeCialties. Inc.
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On motion By Mr. Henry Chiles, seconded By Mr. W. W. Wood, the following Resolution was unai-
mously adopted:
~E2~EAS, Mr. Stephen A. McClellan in behalf of SpecialtieS, Inc. has provided
this Board with satisfactory assurances of that Corporation's intention and ability
to carry through construction o~ its factory at or near the proposed airport site
in Albemarle County;
NOW, THE~J~FORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Join~ Airport Committee of~ this Board
and the Charlottesville City Council, is hereby authorized and directed to acquire
By purchase or condemnation, in the joint names of the City of Charlottesville and
the County of Albemarle, the necessary land for an airport according to O. R. Ram-
dolph's survey a~d dedicate the same in perpetuity for an airport, and said committee
is further directed to take such other steps as may be necessary for the establish-
merit of a City Coun~ m~nicipal airport, in accordance with the terms of the Reso-
lutions of this Board and the Charlottesville City Council, adopted in Joint session
on September 6, 1951.
The City Cmn~cil of the City of Charlottesville also passed a similar resolution.
On motion of Mr. W, W..Wood, seconded by Mr. Her~Y Chiles, the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
ordered ( BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Supervisors of Albemarle County, Virginia, that
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,w: ($25,0~0.O0 he--and the same is hereby appropriated to the Joint Committee consisting
(of the City Manager and the Director of Fimance of Alhems rle County for the establish-
(merit of an airport.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
'Chairman
*BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Supervisors of Albemarle County, Virginia
that $25,000.00 be and is hereby made available to .the Joint Air,r% Committee of
the CoUnty of Albemarle and the City of Charlottesville, and that disbursements from
this Joint Airport Fund be made upon the signatures of James E. Bowen, Jr., City
Manager of the City of Charlottesville and D. A. Robinson, County Executive of Albe-
marle County.
Chairman