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:0 TUESDAY FEBRUARY 8, 1983 of the Virginia Employment Commission and now associated with the Governor's Employment Training Council, and Mr. "Phil" Burnette, of the Vrain Corporation and a member of the Governor's Employment Training Council. In an ensuing discussion of the new training program, Councilman Reed expressed support thereof if it will provide training for the unskilled and for the disadvantaged and also expressed support of active participation by the City of Martinsville in lieu of non-participation whereby funds and controls would rest with other governmental jurisdictions. At the conclusion of this discussion, and upon motion (duly seconded and unanimously carried), Council adopted the following resolution requesting that the areas comprised of localities within the West Piedmont Planning District and the Central Virginia Planning District be designated as a single service delivery area: WHEREAS, on October 13, 1982, the President of the United States signed into law the Job Training Partnership Act which replaces the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act with a new program and delivery system to train economically disadvantaged persons and others for permanent, private sector employment; and WHEREAS, the Jobs Training Partnership Act delegates the responsibility of carrying out the act to the Governor and local governments; and WHEREAS, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia must designate service delivery areas within the state and has solicited requests for service delivery area designations from local governments by February 18, 1983; and WHEREAS, both the Central Virginia Planning District Commission and the West Piedmont Planning District Commission, on January 27, 1983, have recommended that the local governments within planning districts eleven and twelve join together and request the Governor to designate said con- sortium of local governments as a service delivery area; and WHEREAS, a consortium of local governments from planning districts eleven and twelve meets the automatic entitlement criteria under the Jobs Training Partnership Act by being a contiguous unit of local government with an aggregate population of 400,000 or more and serves a substantial part of a labor market; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session assembled, that it hereby duly requests the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to designate the local governments within