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!~ '~=~.~l~ ~.~. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1990 <br /> <br />for the duty-free lunch item and requested that the School Board provide <br />further information. Councilman Adams suggested that Council might want to <br /> <br />address this subject with area legislators prior to the next session of the <br /> <br />General Assembly. <br /> <br />Council recessed its meeting at this point and adjourned' in the Circuit Court <br />Room, where it joined the Henry County Board of Supervisors in order to hear <br />an annual report from the Drug Task FOrce, Inc. of Martinsville & Henry <br />County. <br /> <br />Drug Task Force Chairman William C. Cole, Jr. made introductory remarks and <br />introduced Dr. John French, Chairman of the Law Enforcement Committee of the <br />Task Force. Dr. French reviewed the Committee's activities over the last <br />year and highlighted certain positions favored by the Committee. Among those <br /> <br />positions were support for: (1) a regional jail; (2) electronic <br /> <br />incarceration for non-violent, non-drug law offenders; (3) legislation to <br />make it a crime to be present'in a place where illegal drugs are in open view <br />or are being sold; (4) legislation holding the owner of a building criminally <br />liable for drugs found on the premises; and (5) H.B. 293 to increase the <br />penalty for striking a police officer during the course of a drug-related <br />investigation or arrest. <br /> <br />Chairman Cole introduced Chief of Police Terry Roop, Chairman of the Safe <br />Neighborhood Committee. Chief Roop explained that the first Safe <br />Neighborhood Program was being developed in the Rivermont Apartment Complex <br />under the leadership of the Patrick Henry Drug & Alcohol Council and gave an <br />overview of the proposed Program. Chief Roop explained that the project had <br />been delayed by an inability to obtain office space, but this obstacle has <br /> <br />now been cleared. <br /> <br /> <br />