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~"1 i f- l.\} TUESDAY JULY 8, 1975 Virginia General Assembly, would deliver the principal address. In connection with the proposed widening of West Church Street, on the south side from City Hall to Bridge Street, and the proposed widening of Bridge Street, on its west side paralleling the downtown U. S. Postoffice branch property, Council adopted the following resolution requesting the Federal General Services Administration to donate necessary right-of-way for said widening along its property, meanwhile noting that other required right-of-way has been (or is being) donated by the First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Martinsville: WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville desires to widen that certain section of Church Street between Moss and Bridge Streets, and that section of Bridge Street from Church Street approximately two hundred feet southward; and WHEREAS, in order to authorize said project, for which local funds are available, it will be necessary for the City of Martinsville to possess approximately ten feet of additional right-of-way along a portion of the south side of said section of Church Street, and five feet along a portion of Bridge Street on the west side, which land includes the site and property of the United States Branch Post Office for Martinsville; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this eighth day of July, 1975, that the General Services Administration of the United States Government be--and is hereby--apprised of the intention and desire of the City of Martinsville to widen the aforesaid block of Church Street and that certain portion of said Bridge Street; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by said Council that the said General Services Administration be--and is hereby--requested to convey to the City of Martinsville approximately ten feet of right-of-way along its Martinsville Post Office side parallel to the south side of Church Street, west of the intersection of Church and Bridge Streets, and also approximately five feet of right-of-way along the west side of Bridge Street, and more specifically set forth in supporting documents to be filed pursuant to the General Services Administration's outline dated June 24, 1975, addressed to Mr. James W. Hopkins, Assistant to the Public Works Director for the City of Martinsville.