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74 TUESDAY APRIL 26, 1983 adopted the following resolution authorizing City Attorney Worthy to apply to the United States Department of Justice for that agency's approval of a procedure whereby the City's Registrar may engage one or more volunteer assistant registrars for the purpose of voter registration, as set forth therein: BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session held on April 26, 1983, that the City Attorney by, and he hereby is, authorized to apply to the U. S. Department of Justice for approval of a procedure whereby the City's Registrar may engage one or more volunteer assistant Registrars for the purpose of voter registration at least one day and/or evening each month at a public site that will be accessible to potential registrants, the times and places of such voter registration to be advertised in the local newspaper and also listed or noted in the newspaper and local radio stations as public service announcements. Upon being informed that certain property owners, owing the City eight hundred dollars or more (in each case) in delinquent property taxes, have failed to respond to efforts exerted by the City to obtain payments of these delinquent taxes, Council authorized foreclosure proceedings to be instituted against these property owners and, also, engaged City Attorney Worthy to institute and pursue these proceedings. Council recognized Mr. William B. Muse, who inquired as to the financial condition of the City, later referred to in these minutes through a report from Finance Director Richard D. Fitts. In tentative acceptance of the Planning Commission's recommendation that Mr. William T. Turner's petition (on behalf of Turner & Singleton Insurance Agency, seeking a P-2 Profes- sional zoning of property at 311 Starling Avenue) be granted, Council called for a duly- advertised public hearing on this petition to be conducted by Council at its regular meeting scheduled for May 10, 1983.