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':;,', l) TUESDAY JANUARY 26, 1982 BE IT RESOLVED (by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia) that the City of Martinsville, Virginia, does hereby encourage the Board of Directors of the New River Valley Regional Police Academy to incorporate said Academy as a non-stock corporation under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia and to this end expressly authorizes its representatives on said Board of Directors to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate said incorporation. Dr. Frederick U. Baublitz, Chairman of the West Piedmont Health Planning Council of the Southwest Virginia Health Systems Agency, and Mr. Frank Mays, Executive Director of that agency, appeared before Council and request fiscal year 1983 funding support (from the City) in the amount of ten cents per capita, on which basis the City of Martinsville would contribute $1,815.00 and which, if other local governments within the agency district so contribute, would partially offset a 50% reduction in grant funding anticipated for fiscal 1983. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council "tabled" this request. In tentative acceptance of the Planning Commission's recommendation that Mr. George Jackson Martin's petition (filed on his behalf by Mr. Hoyett L. Barrow, Jr., Attorney at Law) be approved in order to effect a P-2 Professional zoning classification for petitioner's property situated at 416 Starling Avenue, presently zoned R-6 Residential, Council called for a duly-advertised public hearing to be conducted on this petition at Council's forthcoming February 23rd meeting. Supplemented by a photographic slide presentation, City Manager Edmonds presented a progress report on the City's Housing Rehabilitation Program which, under the guidelines adopted by Council in January of 1981, has completed four rehabilitation units at an average cost of $11,404.00, with nine additional projects in progress or soon to be underway, and with sixteen additional applications on file but only four of which are deemed eligible. Of the total grant of $600,000.00, $180,000.00 has been expended or obligated in construction contracts; and, the work so far has produced positive results, not only in the physical improvements made but also in creating renewed pride in the homeowners and in the neighborhoods. In response to a recent request from Councilman Reed, concurred in by other members of Council, City Manager Edmonds presented a tabulation, by location and acreage size, of the various land tracts owned by the City as of January, 1982, indicating that the City (excluding the City School Board's properties) owns a total of 966.66 acres of land, a large part of which consists of sites on which public buildings and facilities are