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51 TUESDAY MARCH 12, 1985 ,- The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor William C. Cole, Jr., presiding, was held Tuesday, March 12, 1985, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members being present, as fol- lows: William C. Cole, Jr., Mayor; Eliza H. Severt, Vice-Mayor; Alfred T. Groden; L. D. Oakes; and Clyde L. Williams. ,,- Following the invocation and Mayor Cole's cordial welcome to visitors present, Council unanimously approved--as recorded--the minutes of its regular meeting held February 26, 1985. In tentative acceptance of the Planning Commission's recommendation that the capital expenditures program recently submitted by the Martinsville City School Board be in- cluded in--as an amendment to--the "Capital Improvements Program" chapter of the City's Comprehensive Plan, Council directed that a duly-advertised public hearing be conducted by Council on this proposed amendment at Council's forthcoming regular meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March 26, 1985. Also, in tentative acceptance of the Planning Commission's recommendation that Redd Street (situated off the north side of Fayette Street to the rear of Grace United Pres- byterian Church) be vacated and abandoned, subject to certain conditions made a part of the recommendation, for which closing and abandonment a petition was recently filed by Mr. Luther Fontaine on behalf of Grace United Presbyterian Church, Council directed that a duly-advertised public hearing be conducted by Council on this petition at Council's forthcoming regular meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March 26, 1985. Council, too, directed that duly-advertised public hearings be conducted by Council at its forthcoming regular meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March 26, 1985, on the following matters, in anticipation of receiving recommendations by that date from the Planning