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231 <br />November 23, 2004 <br /> <br />· Education: Support the Superintendent's legislative priorities for 2005. <br /> Continue to support the effort to have the state fully fund its mandates for <br /> the Standards of Quality. Support efforts to restore state funding for <br /> construction and renovation of school buildings. <br />· Economic Development: Support addition of incentive funding to the <br /> Virginia Economic Development Partnership and other similar programs, <br /> which have historically provided technical and financial assistance to <br /> Virginia's local governments' economic development effods. Support <br /> efforts to allow communities approved for more than one enterprise zone <br /> to also be allowed to maintain more than one sub-zone. <br />· Transportation: Support increasing state funding to complete U.S. 58 and <br /> to fast-track the design, engineering, and construction of 1-73 meeting the <br /> North Carolina segment at the North Carolina border, moving north <br /> through Henry and Franklin counties to the 1-81 corridor. <br />· Health and Welfare: Support an increase in funding for local departments <br /> of social services to provide adequate funding for office space and other <br /> maintenance and support costs. <br />· Incentive Funding for Regional Cooperation: Continue to support <br /> reinstatement of funding for the Regional Competitiveness Act. <br />· Revenue Loss: Support full state funding of for all Constitutional office <br /> and 599 obligations. <br />· Transportation Reimbursement: Request budget amendments to <br /> include $450,000 in the state budget as a reimbursement to the City for <br /> funds returned to the State under the VDOT Bonded Road Program to <br /> build the Bonded Industrial Access Road, which now serves MZM. <br />· Higher Education: Per council's previous resolution, support <br /> establishment of a full-time, bachelor's degree-granting residential college <br /> or university in Southside Virginia. <br />· Juvenile Identification: Request legislation permitting the custodial <br /> locality to publish to the media photos, descriptors and name of subject in <br /> the event a juvenile escapes from custody. <br />· Telecommunications Taxes: Oppose any proposed changes in <br /> payments of c~_ble, telephone or data line franchise fees or wireless phone <br /> taxes unless it truly achieves revenue neutrality and equalizes taxes <br /> across all technologies. In the event telecommunications tax reform <br /> passes, support effort to tax satellite dish entertainment services to bring <br /> equity to entertainment telecommunications taxes. <br />· Zoning mandate: City council opposes any effort to change local zoning <br /> with state mandates, including any effort to reclassify mobile homes or <br /> manufactured housing as permanent structures for the purposes of <br /> allowing said non-appreciable structures to be located in cities which <br /> currently bar them. <br /> <br />Council considered conducting a public hearing and adopting an Ordinance, on <br /> <br />emergency basis, on a request from First Baptist Chumh - East Martinsville to abandon <br /> <br /> <br />