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Le8 TUESDAY MARCH 23, 1976 WHEREAS, the health system agencies shall be administered by boards consisting of a majority of health service consumers, with minority membership on said boards consisting of health service providers; and WHEREAS, if health plans developed by these health system agencies conflict with (other) plans development by local governments, the health plans developed by the health system agencies must prevail; and WHEREAS, control of the health programs throughout the United States will be "federalized" through extensively broad powers vested in the Secretary of the U. S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare, with many such powers being of "blanket" nature and not specifically enumerated by Congress; and WHEREAS, many communities and/or local governmental jurisdictions will not be directly and/or consistently represented on area health systems agency boards and, therefore, federal funding and certificate- of-need decisions may not be on an impartial basis nor take into consideration the efforts certain far-sighted communities have already exerted toward providing for the health care of their citizens; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsvi1le, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-third day of March, 1976, that it does hereby question the constitutionality of the Health Planning & Resources Act of 1974, as evidenced by said Council's action taken on March 9, 1976 wherein it officially expressed support of civil action instituted by the National Association of Regional Councils, challenging the constitutionality of said Act; and BE IT RESOLVED by said Martinsvil1e City Council that it does hereby take issue with--and oppose--tbe Health Planning & Resources Act of 1974, as enacted by the United States Congress; and BE IT RESOLVED by said Martinsville City Uounci1 that, through its representatives in the United States Congress, it does hereby request congressional review of said Act to the extent that said Act will be amended so as to eliminate objectionable features hereinbefore set forth; and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by said Martinsvi11e City Council that copies of this resolution be forthwith forwarded to the Honorable Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and the Honorable William L. Scott, Senators from Virginia, and to the Honorable W. C. (Dan) Daniel, Representative from the Fifth District of Virginia.