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--- TUESDAY~ JULY 22, 1986 --- Pursuant to Councilman Groden's recent request, concurred with by other members of Council, City Manager Brown presented two written reports (under dates of July 15th and July 22nd) identifying "high risk" activities and areas within and among the City's overall operations, citing the exposure and potential for accidents and injuries not only among and to City employees but also the general public. Council called for a duly-advertised public hearing to be conducted by Council at its forthcoming August 12th regular meeting on a petition filed by Messrs. Earle W. Greene and Bobby Nicholston seeking the rezoning of Lot A situated at the northeast corner of Cherry Street (at its intersection with East Church Street) from C-3 Commercial to M-1 Industrial and, also, Lots Nos. 17 through 24 fronting the east side of Cherry Street from R-9 Residential to M-l Industrial. In so doing, Council acknowledged receipt of the Planning Commission's recommendation that Council approve said petition. - After conducting an annual review of the Special-Use Permit issued by Council to The Exchange Club of Martinsville under date of April 23, 1985, to allow for the conduct/sponsorship by said Exchange Club of the Henry County Fair for the years 1935 through 1989, Council unanimously continued said permit in force for the year 1986, i.e., for the 1986 Henry County Fair at Liberty Heights Fairgrounds during the period August 27th-September 1st, inclusive. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council adopted the following resolution which urges the United States Congress to retain within proposed tax reform bills the current law allowing financial institutions to deduct eighty percent (80%) of the interest paid on borrowing used to purchase .,... . 33~