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'~,~ ') "i 11 ~ TUESDAY AUGUST 14, 1979 property situated south of the Norfolk & Western Railway Company's right-of-way south and southwest of South Moss Street (the streets involved being Electra, Reynolds, and Roanoke Streets). Council deferred action on the Martinsville Transportation Safety Commission's resolutions requesting Council to direct the City Manager to work with City School officials toward (a) relocating the school bus loading/unloading station at Patrick Henry Elementary School and (b) the alleviating of traffic congestion at the end of the school day at Martinsville Junior High School. Council also "tabled" the Commission's resolution requesting that Council "....... utilize all legal means to promote and advance the use of seatbelts by all persons driving or riding in City-owned vehicles and by the entire motoring public." Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council authorized the acquisition by the City of a small tract of land from The Lester Group, at a cost of $3,500.00, for right-of~way required to enlarge a City-owned water pumping station and the obtaining of an easement (of some 200 feet in length), also from The Lester Group, in connection with the current Waterworks Improvement Program (see Council minutes of November 14, 1978) being financed principally by a Federal "UDAG" grant of $3,090,000,00. After considerable discussion, and upon motion (duly seconded and carried by a vote of three-to-two, Messrs. Greene, Cole, and Hobson voting in the affirmative and Messrs. Oakes and West voting in the negative), Council authorized the City administration to file a pre-application with the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development for a grant of $600,000.00, under the Federal Community Development Act, to finance the cost of rehabilitating some thirty-five to fifty private residences, subject to eligibility and consent, located within one or more of the following areas: