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:-0' ) TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1987 , 3. Authorize the funding request for $22,999 of Community Development Block Grant funds, which, if funded, will be matched with $3,422 in local funds; and 4. Give its City Manager, George W. Brown, authority to complete and sign said application and to act as the City's official representative in connection therewith and to provide such additional information thereon as may be required. Upon motions, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council authorized the Blue Ridge Regional Library to expend in 1987-88 Federal aid in the amounts of $11,700.00 and $20,000.00 for data base activities and for a literacy program, respectively. City Manager Brown and Commonwealth's Attorney J. Randolph Smith, Jr., explained various features of the State & Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, recently enacted by the Virginia General Assembly (effective August 1, 1987) to replace the repealed Comprehensive Conflict of Interests Act. Copies of the new legislation, accompanied by samples of forms to be executed each year by certain local officials, were presented to members of Council. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council authorized City Manager Brown to study the feasibility and cost of installing, operating and maintaining a "911" emergency telephone system for the City of Martinsville or such a system jointly for the City and the County of Henry, implementation of which throughout the State of Virginia is urged by the 1987 Session of the Virginia General Assembly through its House Joint Resolution No. 332. Council unanimously approved of a "WELCOME" sign design proposed to be used both by Henry County and the City of Martinsville at strategic locations, for which cost estimates are yet to be presented to both governing bodies before the construction and installation of such signs may be authorized.