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7 TUESDAY APRIL 14, 1970 ,---.. WHEREAS, said Section 33-57 (as amended) further provides that the State Highway Commissioner may exercise such authority only upon receipt of an official request from the city or town involved; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, VirgLnia, in regular meeting assembled this fourteenth day of April, 1970, that it doth hereby request the State Highway Commissioner to acquire the necessary rights of way for Project UOOO-120-l-l (RW-20l), further identified as Brookdale Road project from East Church Street to Spruce Street, within the corporate limits of the City of Martinsville, and to convey the title to such rights of way to the City of Martinsville upon completion of said project; and, further, - BE IT RESOLVED by said Martinsville City Council that it agrees to reimburse the State Highway Department to the extent of fifteen percent (15%) of all costs incurred in the acquisition and conveyance of such rights of way and that it is understood that such acquisition will be handled by the Commissioner under established policies and procedures and that his decision in all instances shall be final. Pursuant to terms of lease agreement with City Transit Company, Inc., and to requirements of the Federal Government's Urban Mass Transportation Administration!s grant contract pertaining to said agreement, which grant contract came into being many months following the City's application for Mass Transportation funds, Council unanimously approved the annual rental of $7,200.00 and ratified same retroactively, i.e., to the initial date said rental was increased from $6,000.00 per year. .............. As executor of the Estate of Whitney Shumate, the Piedmont Trust Bank filed its petition requesting the closing of a section of "E" Street, between Fifth Street and Roundabout Road, which section is unopened and the property on both sides is owned by petitioner, who desires to erect a home on property at the intersection of said liE" Street and Fifth Street, now restricted by required corner setbacks. Council referred this petition to both the Planning Commission and to a Board of Viewers, the latter consisting of Messrs. William B. Muse, Leroy Perkins, and Joseph W. Pritchett.