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II TUESDAY MAY 10, 1983 .- 102" wide vehicles, because of the somewhat narrow widths of some of these routes or streets as well as some sharp turns and the problems these vehicles would encounter at certain intersections. By notice dated May 3, 1983, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission informed Mayor Cole that the Commission has accepted for filing (and for consideration, pending pre- - sentation of additional information) of the City's application for a license for the proposed Ridgeway Hydroelectric project, as submitted on November 30, 1982, and as amended on February 24, 1983. City Manager Edmonds informed Council that copies of the City's new code (to be known as the Code of the City of Martinsville, 1983) have been received from Municipal Code Corporation and that an ordinance officially and formally adopting this code will be presented to City Council for enactment, under emergency conditions, at Council's forth- coming May 24th meeting. Pursuant to Section 2.1-344(a)(1) of the CODE OF VIRGINIA (1950, and as amended), and upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried by a recorded vote, Council convened into an Executive Session for the purpose of considering nominees for appointment and/or reappointment to various boards and commissions. Upon reconvening into regular session, Council appointed, by acclamation, the following four citizens--as the City's member- representatives of an eight-member board, with four members to be appointed by the Henry County Board of Supervisors--to the Board of Directors of the Martinsville-Henry County Economic Development Corporation: J. Burness Frith, President, Frith Construction Company; Irving M. Groves, Jr., President, Piedmont Trust Bank; Ralph C. Lester (retired business executive); and J. Thomas Vaughan, President, United Virginia Bank.