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TUESDAY. January 23. 2001 Council considered adoption of a Resolution. Mr, Kevin Reed, Director of Plarming and Community Development for Hertry County, addressed Council and explained this request is for adoption of a Resolution to request $25,000 in Industrial Site Development Funds from the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. The project will be for the proposal of a new regional industrial site in cooperation with the City, Henry County, and Patrick County. The planning grant application will require a $38,000 match in local funds to be shared as follows: Martinsville, 25%, Henry County, 50%, and Patrick County, 25%. The City's share of the match will be $9,500. If the Resolution is adopted, planning activities could begin including preliminary engineering, an environmental audit, phase one of an areheological survey, and detailed, contoured mapping for site development activities. Council moved upon motion duly seconded, with all members voting: Vote 5-0; Yeas (5)- Crabtree, Teague, Dallas, Fenill, and Roop; Nays (0)- None, adoption of the Resolution as follows: WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development is now providing funds for industrial site development projects, including planning assistance funds; and WHEREAS, the 2000 Virginia Industrial Site Development Fund requires that projects requesting assistance involve participation by at least two counties, or a city and a county; and WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville, and the Counties of Henry and Patrick recognize the benefit of cooperating on a regional basis for economic development; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session assembled January 23, 2001, that it desires to join with Henry County and Patrick County in applying for the Virginia Industrial Site Development Fund--Planning Assistance Program; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the proposed project is a planning project for anew regional industrial site in cooperation with Henry County and Patrick County; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Martinsville supports Henry County submitting a request for $25;000 in Industrial Site Development Funds to be matched with $38,000 in local funds, for a total project cost of $63,000, with the understanding that the co- applicants for the ~mds are Henry County, Patrick County and the City of Martinsville. 11 Council considered adoption of a Resolution. Mr. Barry Kanode, Superintendent of the Patrick Hertry Correctional Unit, Camp 28, addressed Council and explained this request is for adoption