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<br />-f, 0/1 <br />~,_ oJ '::t <br /> <br />TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1986 <br /> <br />Pursuant to a request from the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, Council unanimously <br /> <br />authorized a one-time payment by the City of the sum of $93.75 (representing 75% of <br /> <br />the City's current annual dues to said agency) to the "Virginia Chamber Building Fund" <br /> <br />toward the cost of renovating and refurbishing the Chamber's new headquarters building <br /> <br />in Richmond, Virginia. <br /> <br />In connection with The Reverend Mr. Echols' heretofore-mentioned request that Council <br /> <br />designate a special holiday in honor and memory of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, <br /> <br />Jr., and after giving consideration to City Manager Brown's proposal that Council add <br /> <br />a net of two legal holidays to the nine such holidays now made available to City <br /> <br />employees, Council unanimously designated Washington's Birthday and Memorial Day as <br /> <br />legal holidays for City functions and employees and, also, eliminated employees' <br /> <br />birthdays therefrom; however, on a motion (duly seconded) that Lee-Jackson Day be <br /> <br />observed, beginning in 1987, as Lee-Jackson-King Day and as an official holiday, as <br /> <br />already declared by the Virginia General Assembly, the vote was four-to-one (Council- <br /> <br />man Williams voting "No", being in favor, along with The Reverend Mr. Echols, of <br /> <br />establishing a separate and new holiday to commemorate Dr. King), which vote also <br /> <br />applied to the following resolution establishing Lee-Jackson-King Day as an official <br /> <br />City holiday: <br /> <br />WHEREAS, by recent action by the United States Congress the date <br />of January 20th has been declared a legal Federal holiday in honor <br />and commemoration of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, by recent action by the Virginia General Assembly the <br />third Monday in January, heretofore designated as Lee-Jackson Day, <br />a State legal holiday, has also been designated as Lee-Jackson-King <br />Day to honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., along with Gen- <br />eral Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jackson; now, therefore, <br /> <br />BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, <br />in regular meeting assembled this fourteenth day of January, 1986, <br />that in recognition of the foregoing cited observances and declara- <br />tions said Council does hereby designate the third Monday in January <br />