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',) (, ,) ~. TUESDAY MARCH 11. 1969 ,.,0- As a companion matter to the foregoing, Council adopted the following resolution requesting the Virginia Highway Commission to reconstruct that portion of Rives Road Extended as lies between Morrison Street and the City's south corporate limits, under the conditions and for the purpose set forth in said resolution: A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE VIRGINIA HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO RECONSTRUCT A PORTION OF RIVES RDAD EXTENDED, SUBJECT TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS HEREINAFTER SET FORTH WHEREAS, Nationwide Homes, Inc., has acquired--or is acquiring--property off Rives Road Extended, in Martinsville, Virginia, for the purpose of constructing an industrial facility from which considerable motor vehicular traffic will be generated; and WHEREAS, a section of said Rives Road Extended, as hereinafter described, must be reconstructed and improved not only to accommodate and expedite the traffic to and from the proposed Nationwide Homes plant, as well as to and from other area industries, but also to provide a suitable road link for the movement of heavy traffic to and from the industrial access road--now under construction, to the cost of which the City of Martins- ville has contributed the sum of $100,000.00--beginning at the City's south corporate limits and extending southwesterly to a connection with U. S. Route 220 (South), all in the County of Henry; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this eleventh day of March, 1969, that it doth hereby request the Virginia Highway Commission to reconstruct said section of Rives Road Extended, viz., that portion from Morrison Street, in the City of Martinsville, south to the City's south corporate limits, being a distance of .55 of a mile, in accordance with the Commission's industrial access road standards, which--according to the estimate of the Virginia Department of Highways--will cost the sum of $60,000.00; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by said Council that it doth hereby request said Virginia Highway Commission, if the Commission grants the foregoing request, to assume the maximum share (of the cost of this project) allow- able from its Industrial Access Funds and/or its Urban Funds; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by said Council that, subject to the granting by the Virginia Highway Commission of the Council's foregoing requests, the City of Martinsville will: (1) Provide the right-of-way necessary for the construction and maintenance of this project; (2) assume the total cost of relocating any City utility lines, as necessarily may be required by the reconstruction and/or relocating of this roadway; and (3) pay to the Commonwealth of Virginia the difference between the total construction cost of this project and the total of funds available from and/or provided by: (a) private sources, now known to be $2,000.00; (b) matching by the Virginia Department of Highways of p~ivate-source funds; and (c) the Virginia Highway Commission from its Industrial Access Funds and/or its Urban Funds.