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an MONDAY JANUARY 30, 1967 By letter dated January 27, 1967, Mr. C. F. Kellam, District Engineer of the Virginia Department of Highways' Salem District, informed Council that the State Highway Commission has approved an allocation of $150,000.00 of Industrial Access funds for the construction of an access road from Route 957 (Rives Road Extended) to Route 220 South (in Henry County), for which the City has guaranteed its requested share of $100,000.00. Mr. Kellam further indicated that construction of the project (identified as Project 0966-044-163,C-501) should be underway during the fiscal year 1967-68, probably around the first of the year 1968, with the City of Martinsville to be billed for one-half of its contribution at the time the project is advertised and for the other half around July 1, 1968. Pursuant to request from Mrs. Nathan Bushnell and Mrs. Frank I. Richardson, Co-Chairmen of the Martinsville Garden Club Council1s "Youth Clean-Up Weekl1 project, Council indicated its sanction of the Garden Club Council's plan to supplement the forthcoming lIClean-Up Week" (jointly sponsored by the Martinsville Jaycees and the City's Public Works Department) with the Assistance of local Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. Council filed, for future reference, a petition submitted by property owners along a block of Vine Street, requesting the construction of curb-and-gutter (on a shared-cost basis) along Vine Street between Ainsley and Luck Streets. Council discussed with Public Works Director George W. Brown the prospects of widening Figsboro Road (Route 108) to the City's Corporate Limits, beginning at the completed portion previously widened by the City for a distance of some 3,000-3,500 feet. Mr. Brown pointed out certain problems, involving right-of-way as well as whether the City should attempt to undertake