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~ ~ L TUESDAY APRIL 12, 1983 WHEREAS, there is a need to establish a policy board consisting of the chief elected officials, or their designees, of the localities partici- pating in the Central Piedmont Employment Consortium, and a private industry council in order to carry out the responsibilities of said Act within the Consortium; now, therefore, ~ BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twelfth day of April, 1983, that it hereby authorizes its City Manager to execute the agreement creating the Central Piedmont Policy Board and Private Industry Council as part of the Central Piedmont Employment Consortium to carry out the requirements of the Job Training Partnership Act within Service Delivery Area #7 of the Common- wealth of Virginia; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by said Council that Willian C. Cole, Jr., Mayor and Councilman, is hereby duly appointed to represent the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, on the Central Piedmont Policy Board; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by said Council that the agreement (hereinabove referred to) shall become effective for those parties executing the agreement by April 27, 1983, regardless whether all twelve parties in- volved have executed said agreement by that date. In considering a proposed resolution necessary to the proceeding by the Virginia Depart- ment of Highways & Transportation with matters leading to the construction of the pro- posed Mulberry Street Extension Project (from Ellsworth Street across Broad-Bridge-College_ Moss Streets to West Church Street at Market Street), Council received from City Manager Edmonds and Assistant City Manager-Public Works Director George W. Brown certain back- ground information on said proposed project, beginning with the long-range planning initiated in the late 1950's to develop a peripheral street or thoroughfare system around the downtown business district, interim studies conducted thereon, a public meeting in 1979 on the proposed Mulberry Street Extension Project (at which meeting no objections to the project were registered), on to the public hearing conducted December 2, 1982, at which public hearing some objections were registered by Miss Sara L. Minter (of 27 Gravely Street, being at the southeast corner of Gravely and Moss Streets) and Mr. Herbert Berlin (of 22 Gravely Street), because their properties (or portions thereof) would be required