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37 TUESDAY MAY 24, 1977 .- Mr. Clyde L. Britt, Executive Director of Memorial Hospital of Martinsville & Henry County, appeared before Council and outlined the needs, purposes and scope of a proposed expansion of said hospital, cost of which expansion (and partial renovation) is estimated at $8,500,000.00, noting that--in order for the hospital to proceed with its expansion plans and financing and in order for the hospital to obtain the required Certificate of Public Need--letters of endorsement of said proposed expansion are required of local governing bodies. Appearing also, on behalf of this project, and in support thereof, were representatives of the hospital's Board of Trustees, its long-range planning committee, and the local medical society. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council officially endorsed the project and authorized the writing of a letter certifying thereto. In acknowledging the report that the Martinsville Junior Chamber of Commerce organization has filed with the Planning Commission an application for a Special-Use Permit to allow said organization to conduct an "Old-Fashioned July 4th Celebration" at Liberty Heights Fairgrounds on July 4, 1977 and, also, that the Planning Commission is in the process of conducting its public hearing thereon, Council called for a duly-advertised public hearing to be conducted on this application at Council's forthcoming June 28th meeting. Following some discussion, Council "tabled" temporarily a proposal that fees be charged and collected for certain fire prevention inspection permits. Upon recommendation of the City's administrative personnel, noting that compliance with the Federal Government's regulations, attached to Federal funding of sewage treatment plant construction and/or upgrading, requires--among other things--the imposing by the local funded jurisdiction of a "flat-rate" or unit cost sewer service charge, Council unanimously