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~38 TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 1976 its consideration of certain zoning problems which have confronted the Druid Hills Baptist Church, situated off Spruce Street outside the City's corporate limits, and in an effort to resolve these zoning problems, recommended that Council close and abandon that portion of Tan Bark Place which lies within the City, noting that this church is the owner of all property surrounding said Tan Bark Place and that the Henry County Board of Supervisors has recently closed and abandoned that portion of said street lying in Henry County. Council unanimously accepted this recommendation and ordered closed and abandoned, with appropriate quit-claim deed to the Druid Hills Baptist Church, subject to the legal opinion of City Attorney Worthy as to whether Council's order may be subject to an alternative procedure by which a Board of Viewers might be required, in this case, to view the property and report its findings to Council, in which event City Manager Noland was empowered to appoint such a Board of Viewers. (Note: Subsequent to this meeting, it was reported that City Attorney Worthy had found that the alternative procedure, i.e., requiring a Board of Viewers, is not necessary and, therefore, Council's order to close and abandon is sustained.) In connection with a request filed with Council on September 7, 1976, by Mrs. Diane A. Brownfield, seeking free busing of all local public school students to and from school(s), City Manager Noland presented a report indicating that, excluding some unknown cost factors, to provide such free busing will cost a minimum of $63,000.00 per year. Mrs. Brownfield, being present at this meeting and taking no exception to the City Manager's report, presented a petition signed by one member only of each of some six hundred