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June 13, 2006 A regular work session of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, was held on June 13, 2006, in Council Chamber, Municipal Building, beginning at 1 :00 P. M., with Mayor Joe Cobbe presiding. Council Members present included: Joseph R. Cobbe, Mayor; Kimble Reynolds, Jr., Vice Mayor; and Council Members James W. Clark, J. Ronald Ferrill, and Terry L. Roop. Mayor Cobbe opened the meeting. Mayor Cobbe read and presented a Resolution to retiring Fire Chief Jerry Brock after which Chief Brock made some brief comments. Council Member Ferrill made a motion to adopt the following Resolution as read, the motion was duly seconded and carried by the following vote, all members voting: Vote: 5-0. Yeas: (5) Cobbe, Reynolds, Roop, Ferrill, Clark. Nays: (0) None: RESOLUTION WHEREAS, Jerry W. Brock has served as the Fire Chief for the City of Martinsville since January I, 1997; and WHEREAS, he became a career firefighter on January 1, 1975 after serving as a volunteer for five years; earned his lieutenant stripes in 1987 and was promoted to assistant chief in 1988; and WHEREAS, during Chief Brock's tenure, the department added full emergency medical service, including ambulance response and a part-time firefighter program to fill in for vacationing or sick employees and serve as a recruiting tool to fill full-time vacancies; and WHEREAS, during the past few years, the department has also ran major smoke detector campaigns, door-to-door fire safety education, a monthly television call-in fire and home safety show, fire hydrant cleaning and inspection and grant-funded business fire safety inspections and the aggressive efforts led by Brock to keep the public safe through education, inspection and fire suppression are paying off in lives saved; and WHEREAS, Jerry W. Brock has announced his retirement from the Fire Department on July 1, 2006, after thirty and one-half years of service to our city; and