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4Ll TUESDAY JULY 22, 1969 - After having been apprised of the latest negotiations between the City and the Virginia Department of Highways concerning the City's request that the Highway Department schedule improvements to Brookdale Road, with Public Works Director George W. Brown explaining the Highway Department's request for a resolution thereon adopted February 11, 1969, Council unanimously adopted the following resolution, agreeing to the City's financial participation in the cost of the project to the extent of fifteen per cent: - 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 twenty-second day of July, 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; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Martinsville hereby agrees to participate to the extent of fifteen per cent (15%) of the cost of this project including engineering, preparation of plans, and construction. In noting the death on July 20, 1969 of Police Sergeant Claude C. Barker, who had been a member of the City's Police Department since September 1, 1941, Council expressed its condolences and sympathy to Sgt. Barker's widow and family. Council was adjourned. - w. H. ?~~i:;k of Council