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370 TUESDAY OCTOBER 28, 1958 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor John W. Shultz presiding, was held in the Council Chamber, City Hall, Tuesday, October 28, 1958, at 7:30 P.M., the following members being present: Mayor and Councilman John W. Shultz; Vice-Mayor and Councilman E. E. Stone; and Councilmen R. S. Brown, Jr. and Thomas J. Burch. After the invocation Council approved as read minutes of its regular meeting held October 7, 1958. City VJanager Hirst reported on developments to date in connection with efforts to provide sewer service for the new Druid Hills School on Indian Trail. After some discussion, in which several suggestions were made, and upon authorization of Council, Mayor Shultz appointed a special committee (composed of Vice-Mayor Stone, Councilman Burch, City Manager Hirst, and City Attorney Taylor) to consider the various suggestions, to make a study thereon, and to submit its recommendations to Council at its next regular meeting. Council acknowledged receipt of a letter from the Garden Study Club endorsing Councilman Brown's proposal that certain large trees interferring with City electric lines be replaced with small flowering trees and that the Electric Department's tree-trimming program be discontinued insofar as these large trees are concerned. City Manager Hirst presented a schedule in which it was estimated that such a revised program related to principal streets would cost $4,760.00, whereupon Council ordered that the currently-followed tree-trimming program be discontinued pending consideration by Council in the preparation of the City's 1959-60 Budget of a systematic tree replacement program.