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p April 22, 2008 seconded by Ron Ferrill, Council agreed to include this Wilson Park proposed plan in the Parks Master Plan for the City. Wayne Knox, Community Development Director, introduced Tiffani Underwood, who briefed Council on the committee's work on ideas for development opportunities surrounding the arena site. The committee felt design guidelines need to be in place for the future development. She presented an arena planning map showing possible concepts for the properties adjacent to the arena as well as throughout Uptown. She also pointed out possibilities with parking and traffic flow. Council pointed out that a next good step would be a parking plan and traffic analysis and Tiffani said the committee still needs to complete the plan including the vacancy possibilities. Council heard a report from Wayne Knox regarding Inspections Process Review Committee recommendations and highlighted the committee's work. Wayne pointed out the inspections system needed tweaking and not starting over. Wayne pointed out city fees are set to recoup city costs for inspections and he reported a customer survey will be given to their department's customers in order to measure how they are doing. Dr. Mervyn King spoke briefly about his feelings on the city's inspections department and said he felt they did a great job and were customer friendly. Wayne is to bring back specific actions for Council approval to a future Council meeting. On a motion by Gene Teague, seconded by Ron Ferrill, Council approved the following resolution regarding the Cherry Street CDBG project program design: RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development is now providing funds for the Cherry Street neighborhood Improvement Project; and WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development requires that the City Council of Martinsville approve the Program Design of the Cherry Street Neighborhood Improvement Project, now therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session assembled April 22, 2008, that it determines that the Program Design is a viable and necessary tool, does hereby approve the Program design of the Cherry Street Neighborhood Improvement project. Council agreed to submit the following memberships on the Virginia Municipal League 2008-09 Policy Committees: Environmental Quality-Kathy Lawson; Finance -Gene Teague; Human Development & Education-James W. Clark; Transportation- Kimble Reynolds, Jr.