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TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1996 A regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor George B. Adams, Jr. presiding, was held Tuesday, May 14, 1996 in the CQuncil Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M. All members of Council were present: George B. Adams, Jr., Mayor; L. D. Oakes, Vice-Mayor; Mark A. Crabtree; M. Gene Teague; and Clyde L. Williams. After the invocation, followed by Mayor Adams' cordial welcome to visitors present, Council approved the minutes of its meetings of April 23, 24, May 1 and 2, 1996 as circulated. Under Business From the Floor, Bruce Dallas, 211 Massey Street, suggested the City establish a "Crime Line" program, which would be a private line made available to citizens to report criminal activities. Unlike 911, this line would allow callers to remain anonymous. A presentation of a retirement stipend was made to Harold Dean Burton, Captain, Fire Department, 1967-1996. Upon motion, duly seconded and by unanimous vote, Council adopted the following Resolution: WHEREAS, in 1994 the Governor of the Commonwealth established the Opportunity Virginia program from which the Governor's Regional Economic Development Advisory Council for Region 10 was established, which includes the Counties of Halifax, Henry, Patrick and Pittsylvania, and the Cities of Danville and Martinsville; and WHEREAS, the Region 10 Council desires to be incorporated as the Southern Virginia Economic Development Partnership structured to serve as one of eighteen regional economic development marketing agencies in Virginia thereby providing an information base that would put the members of the Partnership on a competitive level with other areas of the Commonwealth; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session assembled May 14, 1996, that it does hereby endorse the