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6~ TUESDAY APRIL 9, 1985 Armstrong, Attorney at Law and Counsel to this agency, accompanied by Mrs. Paula Burnette, President, and by Mrs. Judy P. Hughes, Project Director, appeared before Council and presented additional information--as requested by Council--in support of this group's appeal for some funding of its 1985-86 operations by the City. A re- view of this organization's service case load, Mr. Armstrong found, indicates that one-third thereof represents citizens from the City of Martinsville and the other two-thirds represents citizens from the County of Henry. On this basis, Mr. Armstrong informed Council, the Henry County Board of Supervisors has agreed to bud- get $7,000.00 for 1985-86 aid to the organization and, therefore, the previous re- quest for $5,000.00 from the City is being reduced to $3,000.00, still with a com- bined total of $10,000.00 being sought from the two local governing jurisdictions to help finance the agency's projected 1985-86 budget of $28,803.00 ($9,500.00 thereof anticipated from the local United Fund and the remaining $9,303.00 from private sources in the form of contributions or donations). After some discussion of this request, some of which centered around an expense item for mortgage payments (with Mr. Armstrong noting that the agency's property in Ridgeway, Virginia, is for sale), and upon motion, duly seconded, Council directed (by a vote of four-to-one, Council- man Oakes dissenting not as any adverse reflection upon the service being rendered by this organization but as a matter of principle previously stated) that the sum of $3,000.00 be included in the City's 1985-86 budget as a contribution to the agency, with the understanding (similar to the stipulation attached to the Henry County Board of Supervisor's allocation of $7,000.00) that any funds received in excess of that projected for 1985-86 would be returned to the two jurisdictions on a pro-rata basis (i.e., 30-70). Meanwhile, in projecting its revenue, the agency included no anti- cipated funds from the Virginia Department of Social Services inasmuch as prior funding by the Social Services Department during the past two years was limited to "start-up" aid.