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TUESDAY FEBRUARY 25, 1975 to apply for H&CD aid be held at the regularly-scheduled election date. In considering a "Comprehensive Plan for Senior Citizens" recently prepared by the West Piedmont Planning District Commission, it was pointed out that prior majority negative action thereon by other jurisdictions (within the Planning District) precludes the necessity of action being taken by Martinsville City Council because of present charter provisions of the Comprehensive Plan organization. Mr. Odell Gray, Superintendent of the City's Social Services Department, expressed the opinion that existing agencies are fully capable of meeting the needs of senior citizens; however, Mrs. John Manson, a member of the Study Committee on Aging, in describing the scope of the plan, emphasized that such was not just another social services program but, rather, is designed to enable senior citizens to contribute actively to the well-being of the community and, furthermore, such a plan can be sponsored by one or more local jurisdictions irrespective of decisions by other district jurisdictions not to approve the WPPDC plan. With members of Council expressing the desire to provide assistance to senior citizens and to improve the quality of life for them, Council directed that the City ascertain from Henry County whether Henry County is interested in joining with the City in such a project. Upon receiving a tabulation from the City's Social Services Department as to its additional financial needs for the current fiscal year, Council increased the appropriation for emergency relief by $1,500.00, transferring this appropriation sum from a balance left in the Patrick Henry Mental Hygiene Clinic account, and also appropriated the sum of $164,194.00 to the Social Services Department, to be