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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 1982 Chamber of Commerce on September 9th to the governing bodies of Martinsville and Henry County, that a six-member committee be established (two members from the City, two members from Henry County, and two members from the Chamber of Commerce) to undertake a special study of various facets of the merger concept which, if approved, ~ould require financing to employ staff personnel and other costs related to promoting City-County industrial development. Pursuant to duly-advertised public notice, Council conducted a public hearing on a pro"- posed application for $700,000.00 in Community Development Block Grant funds to help finance the cost of expanding and upgrading the City's wastewater treatment plant from 6 mgd to 8 mgd. There being no objections registered by any citizen, the public hearing was declared closed; whereupon, following some comments by members of Council and upon motion (duly seconded and unanimously carried), Council adopted the following resolution authorizing the filing of the application and agreeing to certain understandings and assurances: WHEREAS, at its regular meeting held August 24, 1982, Martinsville City Council unanimously authorized the preparation of an application for Community Improvement Grant funds in the amount of $700,000.00, under the Virginia Community Development Block Grant Program, for the purpose of helping finance the cost of the proposed expanding and upgrading of the City's Water Pollution Control Plant (i.e., wastewater treatment plant) to increase its treatment capacity from 6 mgd to 8 mgd, correlative to the proposed expanding and upgrading of the Henry County Public Service Authority's Upper Smith River Wastewater Treatment Plant from 4 mgd to 8 mgd, a regional concept already approved by the Virginia Water Control Board; now,therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this 14th day of September, 1982, that it does hereby 1. Authorize the filing of said application with the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development; 2. Agree to all understandings and assurances contained in said application;