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~4 TUESDAY JULY 26. 1966 that the Committee would be enlarged and would not only consider the proposed ordinance but, within a period of the next sixty days, would hope to persuade local business firms and industries voluntarily to make SllCh improvements in their boiler operations as to abate certain offensive conditions and thereby make it unnecessary for the enacting of regulatory measures. In receiving from City Manager Noland a status report on arrangements in process with the Federal Government for the purchase of seven new 35-passenger busses, Council was informed that the authorized application for Federal financial assistance has been filed and that, in order to be assured of delivery of these busses this year, an order for the purchase of these busses should be placed, subject to receiving of Federal assistance. Accordingly, upon motion, Council unanimously adopted the following resolution authorizing the placing of a conditional order for said busses: WHEREAS, pursuant to authority of Martinsville City Council, by resolution dated June 28, 1966, the City Manager of the City of Martinsville has filed an application with the Department of Housing & Urban Development of the United States Government for financial assistance toward the cost of purchasing seven new 35-passenger busses to be operated for local public transit purposes, under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964; and WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Martinsville has appropriated sufficient funds as its share of the estimated cost of said busses; and WHEREAS, bids have been received from The Flxible Company and the GMC Truck & Coach Division of General Motors Corporation, with the bid of the GMC Truck & Coach Division of General Motors Corporation having been adjudged as being the lower of the two bids; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-sixth day of July, 1966, that Thomas B. Noland, City Manager of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, be and is hereby authorized to place an order for seven new 35-passenger busses with the GMC Truck & Coach Division of General Motors Corporation, pursuant to specifications in the City's invitation for bids and pursuant to bid submitted by said GMC Truck & Coach Division, with said order being subject to and contingent upon the receiving by the City of Martinsville of Federal financial