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f-- {--" TUESDAY JUNE 10, 1980 provisions, secure and file with the City's Finance Director a liability insurance policy or policies indemnifying such person or organization in the sum of $100,000 for injury to one person and $300,000 for injury to more than one person for the same accident for which the owner, operator or driver of such vehicle may be held liable, and $5,000 for property damage. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that an emergency exists and that this ordinance shall be effective on and after June 10, 1980. Ms. June Gay, Executive Director of The Piedmont Seniors of Virginia, Inc., presented to Council a status report on the current three-year plan or program for the Area Agency on Aging, following which presentation Mr. Stephen Randy Powell, Coordinator of the Martinsville-Henry County Winterization Program, presented a status report on that agency's activities. In connection with the report on the Area Agency on Aging, Mr. Robert N. Crockett (of 1007 Mountain Road) advocated the operation and sponsorship by the City of a Senior Citizens program for Martinsville's senior citizens only. Mr. Crockett also stated that numbers of senior citizens, financially able to provide their own needs, are taking advantage of the meals program offered by the Area Agency on Aging. Mr. Herbert Berlin (of 22 Gravely Street) protested the operating of the Senior Citizens center at its present location, which abuts Mr. Berlin's property, meanwhile suggesting that a new center for the Senior Citizens be constructed or provided elsewhere, perhaps near the Henry County Administration Building on Kings Mountain Road. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council accepted the following report and recommendation(s) of the Select Citizens Committee's Finance Subcommittee for the City's proposed Ridgeway Hydro-Electric Project, as presented by Mr. George B. Adams, Jr., General Chairman; and, in so doing, Council selected the combine of