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THURSDAY, MARCIt 5, 1998 A special and duly-called meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor George B. Adams, Jr. presiding, was held Thursday, March 5, 1998, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 11:00 A.M. The purpose of the meeting was a Work Session to receive a presentation on the results of a recent Historic Architectural Survey of the City of Martinsville, done by professionals from Hill Studio, P.C. of Roanoke, Virginia. The following members of Council were present: George B. Adams, Jr., Mayor; Dr. Mark A. Crabtree, Vice-Mayor; Bruce H. T. Dallas; Elizabeth H. Haskell; and M. Gene Teague. Mr. David Reeves, Development Specialist with the City' s Community Development Department, began discussion with a brief history of the acquisition of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources Matching Grant, received in July of 1996, which funded the project. He noted that Hill Studio won the contract to do the survey in October of 1996, and that as additional funding became available the project scope was expanded in February 1997 to include the preparation of a National Register nomination form for a historic district in the Uptown Martinsville area. Mr. Reeves stated that the two primary project goals were to continue the process of strategic planning for the City and to assist in the overall economic development efforts of the City. Mr. Reeves then introduced Ms. Alison Blanton, Architectural Historian and Project Manager for Hill Studio. Ms. Blanton then introduced Ms. Ann Beckett of the Department of Historic Resources/Roanoke. Ms. Blanton stated that the process followed was a cost effective one in which the City began with a Preliminary Information Form to determine the possible eligibility of three areas for listing in the National Registry of Historic Places, followed by an expansion of the scope of the effort to include the .,,,--, preparation of a National Register nomination form for a historic district in the Uptown Martinsville area. Ms. Blanton, who served as the general director of the survey and nomination project, thanked the other members of the project team, which included Mr. David Reeves, Ms. Krista Vannoy, Director of the Martinsville Uptown Revitalization Association, Dr. John Kern, Department of Historic Resources, and Helen Hill, Mary Zirkle, and Stacy Marshall, all of Hill Studio. Ms. Blanton then noted that three distinct historic districts had been discovered as a result of the survey effort, and stated that 119 buadings in what