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,.--> ^ ,")0 TUESDAY FEBRUARY l2, 1974 feet outside the City's corporate limits, Council directed that a public hearing on said application, with required published public notice thereof, be conducted jointly with the Planning Commission at Council's regular meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March l2, 1974. After giving consideration to whether the City would adopt the proposed Metropolitan Regional Comprehensive Water and Wastewater plan of the West Piedmont Planning District Commission, there was a discussion of the wording of one page of the plan, with an explanation by the Assistant City Manager that because of the carefully prepared City staff input during plan preparation and in view of the recent contract between the City and Henry County Public Service Authority, there remains no apparent deterrent to the City's adoption of the plan, except for suggested clarification of the single section. Motion was made by Mr. Lester, seconded by Mr. Boaz, that there be adopted a clarifying resolution, having to do with the page under discussion. In the discussion of this motion, Councilman Hobson moved that the City adopt the plan, subject to its being changed to incorporate the suggested change as Mr. Hobson, whereupon the question was called on the original motion. Upon calling for this embodied in the resolution Mr. Lester introduced, but there was no second to the motion of vote, the four members present voted unanimously to adopt said resolution as follows: WHEREAS, Council generally approves the Plan as presented; it, nevertheless, deems the time projections stated therein to be too rigid and feels that the times stated should be considered simply as goals that would be flexibly adaptable to accord with the economic and other necessities of the specific areas, even to the point of permitting implementation of the services to a given area prior to the time proposed and at the same time not requiring complete implementation by the time dates set out; and, WHEREAS, Council feels that the Plan should state more clearly that the five-year projections for providing facilities as stated in the abstract are nothing more than worthy objectives that would be flexible as the occasion demands, to be considered at the time of the annual update provided for on Page 297 of the Plan; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of the West Piedmont Planning District Commission be, ,and it he'reby its Water and Waste Water Disposal Plan at whatever point deemed a paragraph to the Plan to read substantially as follows: Martinsville that is, requested to amend most suitable to add --~~---~"-"'~"-"--'-