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iO TUES DAY DECEMlER lO, 1957 proposal to hold in abeyance the application of that section of the ordinance adopted November 26, 1957 pertaini~ to dog vaccination requirements, pending consultation with the Health Officer. City Manager Hirst reported that the Virginia Department of Highways will soon receive bids for the reconstruction and/or widening of a portion of Route 220 North, part of which would include that section of Route 220 North within the City's corporate limits from Fayette street to the West corporate limits. Mr. Hirst further reported that the cost of the project within the corporate limits is estimated at $223,598 of which Martinsville's share would be $55,989, as set forth in a proposed agreement recommended far Council's approval between the City of Martinsville and the Virginia Department of Highways. Coun:il unanimously approved said proposed agreement, and authorized City Manager Hirst to execute same, by adopting the follo:wirg resolution: A RESOLUTION APFROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE EX&:UTION OF AN AGREEMENT WITH THE VJRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS FOR THE mmOVEMENT OF 0.621 MILE OF ROUTE 220 FROM W.C.L. M\RTD6VILLE TO 0.62 MIrE EAST OF W.C.L. WHEREAS the City of MartimvillB, wi. th the Virginia Department of Highways, desires to widen and otherwise improve that section of Route 220 (Memorial Boulevard North) within the corporate limits of the City of Martinsville from Fayette Street to the West corporate limits with funds apportioned to the State under the Federal Highway Act as amended and supplemented; NOW, THEREFCRE , BE IT RESOLVED by the Cou.n::il of the City of Martinsville, in regular meeti~ assembled this tenth day of December, 1957 that it hereby and herein approves. the entering into an agreement with the Virginia Department of High:ways whereby the Highway Department will submit a project for the improvement of 0.621 mile of Route 220 fran W.C.L. Martj.nsville to 0.62 mile East of W.C.L., from Station 232+62.42 to Station 266-129, designated as Route 220, Project l8W+-7l, Federal Project U-120-l(l) and will recommeni its approval by the Bureau of Public Roads for construction with fums apportiored to the state under Federal Highway Act as amended and supple- mented, subject, however, to the coniition that MartinsvillB shall provide for its proper maintenance and the enforcement of the non-parking regulations after completion of its improvement and subject to other comitions enumerated in paragraphs two through seven of proposed agreenent; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Julian F. Hirst, City Manager of the City of Martinsville, is hereby authorized to execute such agreement on behalf' of the City of Martinsville, Virginia.