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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12,1989 Council joined with City Manager Brown in acknowledging with appreciation a communication from Mro Donald E. Sussman, MSC Manager/Postmaster, Roanoke, Virginia, indicating that Mr. Sussman is reestablishing window service hours at Martinsville's downtown "Central Station" postoffice to 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM, Mondays through Fridays, with the lobby being open during the hours 7:00 AM to 5:00 114. Through Councilman C01e, Chairman of the Blue Ribbon Drug Study Committee, and Police Chief Terry L. Roop, a member of this Committee, the Law Enforcement Subcommittee of the Drug Study Committee, chaired by Dr. John D. French, presented seven proposed statutory changes and/or recommendations on which or for which Council's support and acceptance were solicited. Council generally endorsed the concept of these recommendations, several of which will be coming back to Council as proposed statutory bills or amendments, whereas Council officially and unanimously acted upon the following two, directing that an appropriate letter from Council, reflecting Council's support, be directed to the City's representatives in the Virginia General Assembly on the following first-named recommendation and that, similarly, an appropriate letter from Council, reflecting Council's support, be directed to the City's representatives in the United States Congress on recommendation #2: 1. That seized drug-related property, by a constitutional amend- ment already in process, be dedicated to local law enforce- ment; and 2. That an applicable section of the United States Code, identified as "21 United States Code Section 881 (3)(B)", which now bars state and local law enforcement agencies in Virginia from sharing in proceeds from Federal forfeitures, be repealed or amended to remove this restriction on proceeds.