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1.. TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 1972 ",- Inasmuch as local downtown merchants and members of the Retail Merchants Association have not completed their study of the suggested "removal" of parking meters within the downtown business area for a trial period, and pursuant to the request of representatives of the merchants, Council continued consideration of the suggestion to its forthcoming October 10th meeting, meanwhile suggesting that the Retail Merchants Association confer with the Planning Commission prior to the October 10th Council meeting and coordinate their findings with those of the Commission. ,.- Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council appointed Dr. N. Grant Tubbs (Director of Instruction for the Martinsville City School System) to membership on the Regional Juvenile Probation Commission, which Commission---in concert with the Sixth Regional Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court and the Honorable J. English Ford, Judge thereof--will supervise the operation of the proposed probation house at the southwest corner of Cleveland and Brown Streets, for which a Special-Use Permit was issued July 25, 1972, and said Commission being established pursuant to Article 4.1 of Chapter 8 of the CODE OF VIRGINIA (1950, and as amended). After considering the following bids received for the construction of the extension of Lester Street, from East Main Street (or a section adjacent thereto) to Commonwealth Boulevard, and upon recommendation of Public Works Director George W. Brown, Council accepted the lowest bid received (viz., that of Thompson-Arthur Paving Company) and awarded contract thereto: Bidders Covington & Jefferson (late bid) Amounts Laramore Construction . $ 52,979.69; 55,521,65; and 48,723.15. Thompson-Arthur