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50 TUESDAY JUNE 12, 1 9 7 9 Council scheduled for a duly-advertised public hearing, at Council's forthcoming July 10th regular meeting, the proposed updating of the City's Comprehensive Plan, including its Land-Use Plan, adoptions of which were recommended by the Planning Commission by report dated May 22, 1979. Council took no action on a request submitted by the Martinsville Volunteer Fire Company for additional financial support by the City of said organization to off-set additional security costs to be incurred during the conduct of the forthcoming 1979 Firemen's Bazaar. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council amended Section 3 of the City's Housing Assistance Plan (entitled, "Goals for Lower Income Housing Assistance - Three Year Goal") to provide for one hundred (100) new rental housing units for the elderly or handicapped. Meanwhile, by letter, Mrs. Mabelle S. King, Director of the City's Social Services Department, expressed concern over the impact a proposed "subsidized" 120-unit apartment complex, to be located on Pine Hall Road, might have upon her departmental budget. In connection therewith and with the need to develop a meaningful plan (through the WPPDC) to determine and/or assess local housing needs, Assistant City Manager-Public Works Director George W. Brown expressed the opinion that the rehabilitation of existing houses is currently the principal need in Martinsville. Pursuant to City Manager Noland's memorandum (to Council) of June 1, 1979, Council (by a recorded and unanimous vote) appropriated--from the General Fund's emergency account--the sum of $1,200.00 for the purchase (recommended by the City's Electoral Board) of two "used" AMV voting machines from Montgomery County, Maryland. In response to City Manager's Noland's inquiry, Council requested the presentation to Council of "galley proofs" of the City's re-written and re-edited Employee Manual, as recently amended, before this manual is re-printed.