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) TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10, 1981 within the City as set forth in the City Thoroughfare Plan shall be designed and constructed by the Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation. Upon satisfactory completion of such projects and after acceptance by the City, the maintenance of such facilities shall be the responsibility of the City. The Department's policy shall govern the acq~isition of needed storm drainage easements on private pl'operty. The design and scope of drainage fa~illties to be constructed in these easements shall be as determined by the Highway Department. The City shall, however, offer advice as to the design of such facilities. 5. All street drains required which must be extended under fills into private property to support a roadway will be extended by the City to the toe of the street fill slope and maintained to that point thereafter by the City. 6. Where the City determines it necessary to convey storm water through interceptor drains to a natural drainage way and point of outfall, the City will construct such interceptor drains only in the street right-of-way or in easements secured from intervening property owners. In either event the costs of such installations and main- tenance thereafter shall be the responsibility of the City. Council continued, for consideration at its forthcoming November 24th meeting, the pro- posed appropriating of funds for--and the payment by the City of--an assessment in the amount of $35,000.00 to the Municipal Electric Power Association of Virginia (MEPAV), of which the City is a member, to continue and maintain the City's interest in the proposed joint development (through MEPAV) of certain hydroelectric projects. At the request of Vice Mayor Cole, Council discussed a proposal that Council adopt certain appropriate policies to insure the continued development and promotion of the City's Industrial Park which, thereby, might attract new industry and provide employment and economic growth for the community. Supporting this proposal, by way of comments and suggestions, were Mrs. Eliza Severt (Chairman) and Mr. Mark Henne (Executive Director) of the West piedmont Planning District Commission, and Mr. Joseph D. Higgins, President of the Martinsville-Henry County Chamber of Commerce. After receiving some historical data con- cerning the acquisition by the City of the Industrial Park property (of some 240 acres, of which some 151 acres remain undeveloped) and the initial planning for the development of the property (in which planning the Norfolk & Western Railway Company played a major part, assisted by the Appalachian Power Company), Council expressed its desire to cooperate with interested agencies toward developing a current policy and updating plans for the orderly