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~56 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1985 Electric Department) for portions of a residence used for business purposes before the City's SGS tariff shall apply, either to the total energy, if not separately metered, or that "business" portion, if separately metered. Upon recommendation of City Manager Brown, Council adopted a plan identified as a "Section 3 Plan" in connection with the City's housing rehabilitation program (and the funding thereof), the need for such adoption and the purpose having been gener- ally set forth in a September 30th memorandum to City Manager Brown from Mr. J. Michael Grubbs, Administrative Assistant, as follows: One of the many requirements tied to the Community Development Block Grant program is the adoption of and compliance with employment and business utilization requirements found in Section 3 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1968. This is commonly called the "Section 3 Plan". The regulations require a grantee to take steps to utilize local residents and businesses on a federally-funded project. While we would naturally do this anyway, there are certain procedures to follow and records to maintain in order to demonstrate compliance. Basically, Section 3 requires that, when using grant funds, the grantee and its contractors give preference in the awarding of contracts, pro- curement of materials, and employment to businesses and low-income people living in Martinsville-Henry County. Because we will be working with two grants funded by different state agencies, there is some dif- ference in the emphasis being placed on various Section 3 requirements. Therefore, we have proposed one Section 3 Plan to cover both the Com- munity Improvement Grant (CIG) from the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development's Community Development Block Grant program, and the Rental Rehabilitation Program (RRP) from the Virginia Housing Development Authority. Specific requirements and the resulting actions are listed in the appropriate sections. Since we have previously had UDAG and CDBG programs, we have been sub- ject to the Section 3 requirements before. However, we have not had an RRP before, thus the specific actions expected of rental property owners and the records to be maintained are new to us, but we do not see them as being cumbersome. Council acknowledged receipt of two bids for the construction for sidewalk along Forest Street, said bids being $70,355.00 submitted by APAC, Danville, Virginia, and