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>,~ H " J .... -" TUESDAY FEBRUARY 11. 1969 The Commission feels that the latter construction is badly needed in order to make proper usage of the section of Mulberry Road recently constructed. The Planning Commission respectfully submits the above recommendations for Council's further consideration. WHEREAS, both Martinsville City Council and Martinsville Planning Commission recognize the urgent need--because of traffic volume as well as traffic hazards--of rebuilding and/or relocating Brookdale Road, in the City of Martinsville, for its entire length, being from its western terminus at East Church Street (Routes 57 and 58) to its eastern terminus at Spruce Street, which street (i.e., Spruce Street) continues eastward into State Route 620, in Henry County, Virginia; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this eleventh day of February, 1969, that the Department of Highways of the Commonwealth of Virginia be, and is hereby, requested to establish the rebuilding and/or relocating of said Brookdale Road as a jointly-financed construction project, with urgent priority attached thereto. Upon motion, Council unanimously adopted an ordinance imposing a license tax upon motor vehicles for the year beginning March 15, 1969, being a re-enactment of similar ordinance for the year which began March 15, 1968. Councilman W. Donald Hartford, as a member of an Ad Hoc Nominating Committee (see minutes of September 26, 1968) to nominate condidates for membership on a Local Advisory Board for the community college established in Danville, Virginia, reported to Council that he has nominated--as member-representative from the City of Martinsville--Mr. A. S. Eisen, Manufacturing Superintendent of the local du Pont plant. Council unanimously concurred with Mr. Hartford in his choice of nominee.