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TUESDAY JANUARY 24, 1978 "'--.. The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor William D. Hobson presiding, was held Tuesday, January 24, 1978, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., with all members present, excepting Councilman L. D. Oakes (who was out of the City), as follows: William D. Hobson, Mayor; William C. Cole, Jr., Vice-Mayor; Barry A. Greene; and Francis T. West. -- After the invocation, Council approved--as recorded--the minutes of its regular meeting held January 10, 1978. Before beginning its regular order of business, Council recognized Mr. James Russell Mason, Sr., and presented to him a token of the City's appreciation, along with a forty-year service pin, of Mr. Mason's long and faithful service as an employee of the City, being from February 8, 1938 through December 31, 1977, on which latter date Mr. Mason retired as an employee of the City. Mr. Richard P. Gravely, Jr., of the Blue Ridge Airport Authority, appeared before Council and outlined a proposed study project (recommended by the Federal Aviation Authority) toward enlarging Blue Ridge Airport to enable said airport to meet increasing corporate aircraft demands, said study to cost approximately $25,000.00 and to which cost the County of Henry has appropriated $17,500.00, with the City's share of said study cost being $7,500.00, which sums would be refunded the two governmental jurisdictions in the event that the proposed enlargement construction (to be funded by Federal-State agencies) is undertaken. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, by recorded vote, Council appropriated the sum of $7,500.00 (from un-budgeted proceeds from the recent sale of real estate) as the City's share of the cost of the proposed study.