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<br />18 <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />D:EX;EMBER 9. 1922 <br /> <br />The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, <br /> <br /> <br />Virginia, with Mayor R. S. Hodnett presiding, was held in the Council Chamber <br /> <br /> <br />on Tuesday, December 9, 1952, at 7:30 o'clock P.M., all members, as follows, <br /> <br /> <br />being present: Mayor and Councilman R. S. Hodnett, and Councilmen C. P. Craig, <br /> <br /> <br />D. H. Goode, W. T. Turner, and J. R. Walker. <br /> <br />Minutes of the regular Council meeting held November 26, 1952, upon being read, <br />were approved. <br /> <br />Council suspended its succeeding regular order of business to hear from Attorney <br /> <br /> <br />W. R. Broaddus, III, who, on behalf of the Chatham Heights Baptist Church (of <br /> <br /> <br />this City), presented a petition requesting that sections or portions of existing <br /> <br /> <br />streets adjacent to the Church's property be closed and/or relocated through the <br /> <br /> <br />exchanging of right-of-way by the City and the Church. This petition was referred <br /> <br /> <br />to the Planning Commission. <br /> <br />Upon invitation of Council, and in connection with a proposed bond election seeking <br /> <br />funds to complete the City's Waterworks Improvements Program, Mr. W. Martin <br /> <br /> <br />Johnson of the engineering consultants firm of Wiley and Wilson, Lynchburg, <br /> <br /> <br />Virginia, reviewed important phases of the program from its inception in 1946 to <br /> <br /> <br />the present time, emphasizing the need for the completion of said program as soon <br /> <br /> <br />as possible. Council, after discussing the matter further and after hearing <br /> <br /> <br />from any citizens present on the subject, instruc~ed City Attorne,y stone to prepare <br /> <br />such legal papers as are necessary to calling for a bond election, indicating <br /> <br /> <br />that a public hearing to discuss the matter further would be held on or near <br /> <br /> <br />February 1, 1953. <br />