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TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1989 comments thereon not only by Mrs. Penn but also by The Honorable J. Frank Greenwalt, Judge of the City's General District Court, and by The Honorable Junius P. Warren, Judge of the City's J&DR Court, and with a request that City Manager Brown study and report on the cost of providing a relocated office for Probation Officer W. 'S. ("Dink") Gardner., Council unanimously appropriated (from General Fund surplus) the sum of $4,150.00 for the following General District Courtroom security measures: A. $3,000.00 for a metal detector; B. $50.00 for a "No Admittance, Authorized Personnel Only" sign; C. $100.00 for installation of telephone at the Judge's bench; D. $500.00 for installation of an "Emergency Only" doorway between the General District Court Clerk's office and the office area of the Commissioner of the Revenue; and E. $500.00 for installation of a teller's window at the public counter in the General District Court Clerk's office. Mr. Ronald M. Stone, Jr., Chairman of the City's Commercial Development Commission, appeared before Council and presented the Commission's Status Report for fiscal 1988-89, which included a summary of the Commission's past efforts and accomplishments as well as a summary of its current efforts and accomplishments. In an ensuing discussion of this report and the Commission's role alongside efforts of other local development agencies, Mr. Stone indicated that efforts are being directed toward inter-relating the City's downtown business district with the new Liberty Fair Mall and the Patrick Henry Mall. Former Mayor Barry A. Greene, as Chairman of the City's Ad-Hoc Steering Committee on Drugs (i.e., Drug Abuse in Martinsville), appeared before Council and presented a seventeen-page report from the Committee in which was outlined