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HomeMy WebLinkAbout08-12-69Minutes of a special meeting of the Pulaski Town Council, ;ust 12, 1969, at 12:00 Noon, in the Municipal office. There were present: Mayor C. Robert Edens, presiding. Councilmen: J. H. White, Raymond F. Ratcliff, S. G. Frye, Wm. A. House, Mason A. Vaughan Absent: A. L. Graham, Glen K. Aust and W. D. Macgill, Jr. Also present: 2owa ManaEar: J. E. Marshall Clerk: Gladys R. Dalton WAIVER OF NOTICE QF SPECIAL MEETING We, the undersigned, duly elected members of the Council of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia, hereby waive notice of a Special Meeting of said Council at 12:00 Noon on the 12th day of August, 1969, called by Mayor C. Robert Edens, in the Municipal Offices in the Town of Pulaski, Virginia, for the purpose of endorsing the position taken by the Group that met in Roanoke on August 5th, relative to the Piedmont strike, and also consider appropriate SPECIAL MEETING action by Council relation to the participation of the Town in the costs of securing legal counsel, and any other matters of business that may properly come bef ore said meeting. The invocation was given by Mayor Edens. Mayor Edens advised that the purpose of the special meeting was for Council to consider the endorsement of a Resolution adopted by WITNESS our signatures thi; the Special Committee appointed in Roanoke on August 5, 1969. Mr. RESOLUTION ADOPTED RE: Edens stated the purpose of the Special Committee is to implement PIEDMONT STRIKE and pursue the various avenues known and yet to be determined in seeking the resumption of flight service by Piedmont Airlines as a 1 result of the strike by the pilots of Piedmont Airlines which began C'~Q } Council mins. contd. 8/12/69 July 21st. Mayor Edens read to Council the Resolution which had been adopted and said Resolution is made, for reference purposes, a part of the minutes of this meeting. RESOLUTION ADOPTED AUGUST 5,.1969 AT SPECIAL MEETING OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE OFFICIALS AND PERSONS HELD IN THE CITY OF ROANOKE. WHEREAS, at a meeting held August 5, 1969, in the City of Roanoke to consider critical problems result- ing to the public from the existing strike of members of the Air Line Pilots Association employed by Piedmont Aviation, Inc., and the cessation by Piedmont Aviation, Inc., of all of its scheduled airline service at all points which it is authorized and obligated to serve, officials and representatives, public and private, of. the cities of Roanoke, Lynchburg, Charlottesville, Danville, Bristol, Staunton, Harrisonburg, Waynesboro, Pulaski, Radf ord, Virginia, Roanoke County, Virginia, and Princeton,.. West Virginia, discussed at length the serious impact, economic and otherwise, which the cessation of air carrier service by Piedmont Aviation, Inc., has had, PIEDMONT STRIKE and is continuing to have on all such communities, interests and persons; and considered further, the steps which may be RESOLUTION taken by those affected to compel immediate resulption of air service; and WHEREAS, this body is advised that orderly procedures are available to the parties in dispute under the Railway Labor Act to resolve such matters in a way so as to avoid any interruption to commerce or to the operation of any air carrier engaged therein, but, nevertheless, Piedmont Aviation, Inc., and Air Line Pilots Association have failed or refused to avail tehmselves of such procedures and have, without just cause, deprived the public of its right to have and enjoy regular, normal scheduled airline service which said carrier is re- quired to provide under its certificate of public convenience and necessity; and WHEREAS, it is the further sense of this body that the public convenience and necessity demand that the air carrier service authorized to be provided by Piedmont Aviation, Inc., to all ppints which it is authorized to serve be forthwith resumed. THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by this body assembled as follows: 1. That Piedmont Aviation, Inc., and Air Line Pilots Association are hereby called upon to immediately resume regular, normal and scheduled air carrier service to each and every point served immediately prior to July 21, 1969; 2. That, upon the failure of said parties, or either of them, immediately to resume or participate in the re- sumption of all such service, the public and private bodies and individual persons represented at the of oresaid meeting held August 5, 1969, shall proceed forthwith to institute such legal proceedings as may be necessary and appropriate to compel immediate resumption of such service, or obtain the replacement thereof; and 3. That legal counsel be retained by the public and privatiebodies and individuals, of oresaid, to represent the interest of all such bodies and persons in implementation of paragraph 2, above. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor of the City of Roanoke be authorized and directed to transmit by wire to Piedmont Aviation, Inc., at Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and to Air Line Pilots Association, in Washington, D. C., copies of this resolution, over his name as chairman of the of oresaid meeting. Signed: ROY L. WEBBER, MAYOR City of Roanoke, Chairman „ , ~~ .~ Council mins. contd. /12/69 After a full discussion of the contents of the Resolution, Councilman White moved that the Town Council endorse the sense and intent of the Resolution adopted by the Special Committee on the LEGAL COSTS 5th day of August, 1969, with the sense of intent of resumption of INVOLVED IN services to all points of service by Piedmont Airlines, and the PIEDMONT Council of the Town of Pulaski will give fair and reasonable considera- STRIKE TO BE tion to participating in the legal costs and fees incurred by the CONSIDERED Committee in an amount to be determined by this Council later. The motion was seconded by Councilman Fryei and carried unanimously. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 12:50 P. M. APPROVED: • ~~ ~C~,1~~/ Mayor C. Robert Edens ATTEST: Cle of Council 1