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TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1989 Initiative Procurement and Financing Program for the purchase and financing of approximately $51,046.63 of subsidy eligible equipment, (and $0.00 non-subsidy eligible equipment); and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Manager is hereby authorized to transmit the Letter of Agreement to the Department of Education on behalf of this Board. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council extended the Special-Use Permit issued to Bill Adkins Construction Corporation under date of October 14, 1986, for a 62-unit townhouse project off the west side of Spruce Street, for a total time period of thirty-six months from April 20, 1989, with the understanding that project construction will begin within six months from said April 20th. The extending of this permit, with the conditions attached thereto, was recommended by the Martinsville Planning Commission inasmuch as this firm (represented at this meeting by Mr. Bill A. Adkins, its President) has been unable to exercise the permit because of lengthy litigation which was just recently judicially terminated. Made a part of these minutes, as an addendum to, is a written report from City Manager Brown setting forth a policy for Council's consideration whereby, if adopted, will enable the City to extend water and sewer lines, at the City's expense, into privately-owned properties being developed as housing projects, such as the QuailHollow housing project being constructed Mr. Allen Adams, of HABCO Properties, whether such housing projects will offer homes for sale or offer apartment units for rental, all in the interest of providing more affordable housing within the City, assuming that developers will pass on to the ultimate buyers or renters the savings accruing to developers from the expense developers are now required to underwrite in extending City water/ sewer lines into private properties. As noted in Mr. Brown's report, the