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l02 TlJ'ESDAY JA1JULffiY 22.J 1957 The Martinsvil1e City Planning Connnission shall consist of seven (7) members who shall be appointed by the Mayor of the City of l:rartinsville. Not less than one member nor more than three members of the Commission may be adminis- trative officials of the City of Martinsville whose terms of office as members of the Commission shall correspond to their respective official tenures unless otherwise terminated. The majority of the members, however, shall be qualified voters of the City of l\'!artinsville who shall hold no other municipal office except that one (1) of such majority may also be a member of the City's Board of Zoning Appeals, in 'which event his term of office as a member of the Planning Commission shall expire with his term of office as a member of said Board of Zoning Appeals unless otherwise replaced in the manner hereinafter provided. The terms of office of such other members of the Commission, that is, those members who are not municipal office-holders, shall be for four years or until their successors shall have been appointed and shall have qualified, but in no case shall such members serve longer than six years unless re- appointed for regular four-;}Tear terms. Vacancies caused b"<J the resignation, death, or removal from office of arry members who are not municipal office-holders shall be filled for the unexpired terms of such IOOmhers. Inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office shall be deeDed sufficient cause or causes for removal from office of arw member who are not municipal office-holders, but such removal shall be made only b"tJ the Council of the City of Martinsville and onJy after a public hearing on the question of removal shall have been conducted by said Council. All members of the Commission, as such, shall serve wit.hout compensation. An emergency existing, "this amendment shall become effective on and after January 22, 1957. As a result of Council's Jcmuary 21st conference vdth representatives of the Mayor'S Commission on Human Values, and as recommended by the Commission, Council decided that it would establish a permanent five-member Commission on Human Values and annoUl"'(:e the member-appointments in the very near future. Revie'lrlp.g the November 27th (1956) appearance before Council of trustees of Martinsville General Hospital, Inc., seeking Council's consideration of their suggestion that ways and means be found, if possib!e, to declare Henry County Medical Center exempt from local real estate taxes, and upon advice of Ci'Gv' Attorrey Stone that under the circumstances it is not leGally possible for Council to so declare in this instance, Council requested that the trustees be so advised.