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)'-'8 "" ( TUESDAY FEBRUARY 14, 1984 whereby the City's Registrar's office, located in the Martinsvil1e Municipal Building, 55 West Church Street, Martinsville, Virginia, will be open from the hours of nine o'clock a.m. to five o'clock p.m. on the following Saturdays: February 25, 1984; March 10, 1984; and March 24, 1984. Council concurred with Councilmember Severt in her request that City Manager Edmonds pre- pare a listing, with pertinent data thereon, of capital improvements projects, including those of the City School System, planned or anticipated over the next three-to-five years, for presentation to the Council for study and for the establishing of priorities thereon. Vice-Mayor Oakes announced that he will be attending, on February 22nd, a Virginia Municipal League conference or committee meeting in Richmond, Virginia. In acknowledging receipt and study of a financial report for the City's first six months of its current budget year, as prepared by Mr. Richard D. Fitts, Finance Director, and presented to Council at its regular meeting held January 24, 1984, members of Council, individually and collectively, commended Mr. Fitts and his staff for the report's format and clarity. By memorandum report dated February 8, 1984, City Manager Edmonds apprised Council of certain problems encountered by the City in implementing the proposed access road construction to the Salem/Sellers Street area (via Lavinder Street), for which $45,000.00 was appropriated in the current budget, being a part of "year-one" of the seven-year street-and-sidewalk construction program approved by Council in February of 1983. Some of these problems involve the need for more-than-anticipated grading and drainage work, with an increased construction cost estimated at $100,000.00, as well as unexpected