19700217 r-70-03RESOLUTION
R-70-3
WHEREAS, Virginia is faced with the situation of pro-
viding for an increasingly large population of mentally retarded
citizens; and
WHEREAS, the Commonwealth has offered, through legislation
in previous sessions, the opportunity to better provide for these
retardates at the State, regional and local levels; and
WHEREAS, the legislative intent to provide community
facilities and programs through Community Mental Health Service
Boards, and through regional residential centers for the mentally
retarded, appear in the 1970-72 Governor's budget inadequately
funded;
NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved that the City Council of
the City of Fairfax, Virginia, requests the General Assembly to:
1. Provide supplementary Capital Outlay appropriations
in the amount of three million dollars for completion of
three hundred fifty beds and training facilities at Nor-
thern Virginia Training School;
2. Add an operating fund appropriation in the amount of
one hundred fifty thousand dollars for Northern Virginia
Training School, so that it may open promptly upon comple-
tion;
3. Add an operating funds item, in the amount of at least
one million ~ight hundred thousand dollars, to the Budget
Bill for the Community Mental Health Services Boards;
4. Add to the Budget Bill a capital outlay item, in the
amount of one million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars,
to provide State matching funds to local funds, as a basis
for applying for and receiving Federal construction grants;
5. Consider favorably and grant to the Department of
Mental Hygiene and Hospitals, supplemental Operating and
Capital Outlay funds which are essential to the continued
operation of Lynchburg Training School and Hospital. It
is the concensus of this body that until Community and Re-
gional facilities and programs are available, the existing
State institutio~ for the mentally retarded must be pro-
vided adequate Operating and Capital Outlay funds to care
for all the mentally retarded in the State.
Adopted: February 17, 1970.
Mayor
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