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3:1 THURSDAY OCTOBER 1. 1964 By copy of resolution, the Board of Supervisors of Henry County notified Council that the Board is requesting financial assistance from the Norfolk & Western Railway toward the cost of ~onstructing an industrial access road to serve both present a:~d anticipated industrial development in the Rives Road area, connecting same acrO:3S or under Norfolk & Western right-of-way to U. OS. Route 22J South. The Supervisors also asked Council's support and endorsement of the 'Supervisors' action ami resolution; whereupon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, and with :c'equest that the Virginia Department of Highways confer with City officials to coordinate such a project with the City's Thoroughfare Plan, Council adopted the following resolution of support and endorsement: A RESOLUTION ENDORSING THE ACTION OF THE HENRY COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IN REQUE'STING FINANCIAL AID FROM THE NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY TOWAHD COST OF CONSTRUCTING INDUSTRIAL ACCESS ROADS TO CONNECT TO U.S. ROUTE 220 SOUTH WHEREAS, by resolution the Board of Supervisors of the County of Henry has cited the urgent need for the constructing of an industrial access road from Route 957, across the Norfolk & 'Western Railway Company's right-of-way to Route 707, and thence across Smith River to Route 220 'South to provide a ready access to the American Furniture Company's Redd Level plant and to proposed new industrial development; and 'WHEREAS, said Board of Supervisors of the County of Henry has requested the Norfolk & Western P~ilway Company's serious consideration toward substantially contributing toward the cost of constructing such an industrial access road, inasmuch as industrial development in the cited area would provide additional revenue for the Norfolk & 'Western Railway Company; and 'WHEREAS, said Board of 'Supervisors has requested the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, to join in said Supervisors' petition to the Norfolk & Western Railway Company for financial assistance toward said industrial access road construction; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of theCi ty of Martinsville, Virginia, in special and duly-called meeting held this first day of October, 1964, that it does hereby support the Henry County Board of Supervisors in its petition for financial assistance from the Norfolk & Western Railway Company for the construction of an access road from the industrial areas in and adjacent to the south section of the City of Martinsville to State Route 707 and U. S. Route 220 South; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be forwarded to the Norfolk & Western Railway Company, to the Virginia State Highway Commission, and to the Henry County Board of Supervisors.