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,. I . ! TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 1971 WHEREAS, at Martinsville City Council's meeting held September 8, 1970, both the Martinsville Planning Commission and a duly-constituted Board of Viewers--to which bodies said petition was referred by said Council from its meeting held June 9, 1970--reported their findings and recommendations; and WHEREAS, on October 13, 1970, Martinsvi11e City Council conducted a duly-advertised public hearing on said petition and, at the conclusion of said hearing, deferred action on this matter for further study and consideration; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-eighth day of September, 1971, that, subject to dedication and/or transfer by petitioner of turn-around and access areas hereinabove cited, that section of Middle Street (also hereinabove described) be, and is hereby declared vacated, closed and abandoned; and BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that a copy of this ordinance, accompanieQ by hereinabove-cited Plats, be forwith filed with the Clerk of Martinsville Corporation Court as authorization to mark his records accordingly. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, and in acceptance of recommendation jointly submitted by City Manager Noland and Traffic-Planning Director Irving R. McGhee, Council adopted the following resolution guaranteeing that the City will pay its 15% share (already budgeted) of the cost of a study of the City's Traffic Control Signal System within the City's Central Business District, which study is to be conducted by the Virginia Department of Highways: WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville has requested the Virginia Department of Highways to make a study of the City's Traffic Control Signal System, involving fourteen intersections in the City's Central Business District, under the "TOPICS" program of the Federal Highway Administration; and WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Highways has agreed to make such study, with approval of the Federal Highway Administration, on a shared-cost basis, with the City's share to be fifteen per cent (15%) of the cost; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-eighth day of September, 1971, that the City of Martinsville does hereby agree to pay its fifteen per cent (15%) share of the cost of said study; and, further,