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366 TUESDAY FEBRUARY 11, 1975 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor Harry L. Boaz presiding, was held Tuesday, February 11, 1975, in the Circuit Courtroom of City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members being present, viz., Harry L. Boaz, Mayor; William D. Hobson, Vice Mayor; G. S. Fitz-Hugh, Jr.; Barry A. Greene; and Morton W. Lester. After the invocation, Council approved--as recorded--the minutes of its regular meeting held January 28, 1975 and of its special meeting held February 4, 1975. Continuing its consideration of various aspects of the Federal Housing & Community Development Act of 1974, on which public hearings were conducted February 4, 1975 and February 10, 1975, and in further consideration of whether to apply f'or "Discr~tionary Funds" under this act, Council received Mr. Joseph Abasano, Program Manager for Western Virginia for the Federal Housing & Urban Development Agency, which agency will administer the H&CD Act provisions, who described salient points of said ACT and the background of same. In addition, Mr. Abasano set forth the following as being some of the guidelines and requirements of the H&CD Act: (1) overall goal, from the Relocation Act of 1970, is to eliminate segregation, whether covert or overt, over period of time, as to housing, with mixing of idcome levels in housing projects; (2) a housing plan can be locally structured; (3) housing assistance is but one part of the H&CD Act; (4) housing financing under "235" and "236" has been discontinued, except for 1974 impounded funds; (5) eligible activities are not limited to housing but include such projects as the City's CBD project, and may be whatever the locality chooses so long as the whole community is benefited, but especially the moderate-to-low income levels;