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n,~ ;...JU TUESDAY MARCH 14, 1978 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsvi1le, Virginia, with Mayor William D. Hobson presiding, was held Tuesday, March 14, 1978, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members being present, viz., William D. Hobson, Mayor; William C. Cole, Jr., Vice Mayor; Barry A. Greene; L. D. Oakes; and Francis T. West. After the invocation, Council approved--as recorded--the minutes of its regular meeting held February 28, 1978. Mayor Hobson called to the attention of local citizens and business firms the City's scheduled "Spring Clean-Up Week" to be conducted the last week in March and, in addition, urged the citizens and business firms to cooperate and participate in this program. Assistant City Manager-Public Works Director George W. Brown, as Chairman of the CBD Commission, reported that said Commission recommends the development of a landscape- streetscape and open-space plan for the City's downtown business district, for which there is considerable interest on the part of the downtown business firms, as evidenced by an endorsement by the Downtown Business Association and said Association's support thereof by attempting to obtain contributions from the downtown business interests in the amount of $5,000.00, being one-half of the estimated cost of landscape architect's fee for developing and preparing such a plan. Upon motion, duly seconded, with Councilman Greene abstaining (because of business interests in the downtown business area) and all other members of Council voting in the affirmative, Council authorized the execution of a contract with the firm of Moreth-Wilson, Landscape Architects, Richmond, Virginia, for the preparation of such a plan, on a unit-cost basis and at an estimated total cost of $10,000.00, with the City's net share of the cost being appropriated from Revenue-Sharing funds.