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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1997 <br /> <br />Rapp. Upon. motion~ duly.seconded and by unanimous vote, Council. <br /> <br />adopted the Planning Study for purposes of submittal to the Department <br /> <br />of Corrections. <br /> <br />Council considered adoption of a Resolution requesting the State Board <br />of Corrections' approval of twenty-five percent reimbursement for <br />capital costs of the new jail facility. There was a discussion <br />regarding the language of the proposed Resolution, with Council Member <br />Haskell supporting the inclusion of the language "not to exceed 810.6 <br />million" and with a compromise of including the phrase "a budget of <br />810.6 million" agreed to by all Council Members. Upon motion, duly <br />seconded and by unanimous vote, Council adopted the following <br />Resolution: <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville constructed a municipal complex <br />including an eighteen-bed jail facility in 1968, which jail facility <br />was over capacity at the time it was occupied and has since been <br />double-bunked to allow for thirty-six beds; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville also operates a jail farm with a <br />capacity of thirty-one beds; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, it has become increasingly difficult and costly to transport <br />prisoners to other localities in the absence of local bed space; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the present facility poses a danger to employees, the public, <br />and inmates housed therein, and is in need of replacement; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville has been involved in a local jail <br />planning study since October 1995 and has committed over S100,000 to <br />this process; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, it has been determined that a new 208-bed jail facility should <br />be constructed to replace the current jail and jail farm to meet the <br />projected needs of our community through 2006 at a budget of S10.6 <br />million; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City desires to secure State funding to assist with the <br />construction of this 208-bed jail facility in the City as allowed by <br />Title 53.1-82.2 of the Code of Virginia which provides twenty-five <br />percent reimbursement of the eligible capital costs of 810,380,000 by <br />the State which is 82,595,000; now, therefore, <br /> <br />BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in <br />regular session assembled February 25, 1997, that it does hereby <br /> <br /> <br />