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TUESDAY, JANUARY 15~ 1998 WHEREAS, Planning District Commissions have not received an increase in state funding since 1989 and, in fact, have received a reduction in funds in recent years; and WHEREAS, in 1995, as a result of its study of planning District Commissions, JLARC recommended that the General Assembly consider increasing the minimum funding amount to Planning District Commissions; and WHEREAS, in its 1995 study, JLARC noted that for each dollar Planning District Commissions receive, they leverage approximately twelve dollars ($12.00) in additional investment across the regions of the Commonwealth; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session assembled January 13, 1998, that they do hereby request the local legislators representing the citizens of the City of Martinsville to support legislation increasing the funding to Planning District Commissions so that the minimum funding to any Planning District Commission shall be thirty-five cents ($0.35) per capita with a $100,000 base minimum. Co'until next considered award of conditional approval of a contract for the Clearview Business Park Industrial Access Road project. Mr. Reynolds noted his pleasure in being able to bring this item to Council, and the positive step this work represented in the ultimate completion of this important project. Tom Hamed, Assistant to the City Manager for Development, noted that excellent bids had been received on the work within the scope of the proposed contract, and that the low bid was from a local contractor, J. C. Joyce, in the amount of $1,212,709.80. Mr. Harned stated that Joyce was from Patrick Springs, and that all of his proposed sub-contractors on the project were also local firms. Mrs. Haskell noted that the original budget estimate for the work in question had been $1,548,750, and that this bid represented a significant savings. Mr. Harned noted that this was true, and that some of these savings might need to be shared with the Federal Economic Development Administration, which was the source of some of the grant funds applied to the project, but all efforts would be made to maximize the use of EDA funds. Mr. Harned pointed out that the contract would provide for the construction of an industrial access road into the Clearview site, the grading of three of five building sites, lighting, necessary infrastructure, and other elements. Mr. Teague asked if there was provision in this work for addressing aesthetics, and was told that there would be some berming and shrubbery work done. Mr. Teague then emphasized that this kind of work needed to be done in the early stages of the project, to ensure that the site appearance would be acceptable to the residents in the local