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TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1990 obtaining employment. Councilman Wiltjams said that he was planning on attending a meeting in Lynchburg later in the week at which he would make his feelings known on the matter. CouncilmanWilliams-reported that he had attended a meeting of the Virginia Municipal Group Self-Insurance Association and that the Association was increasing its membership. Mr. Williams also reported that the Group had $24 million in its treasury. Mayor McClain announced that the City=Council~and. City =Manager would hold a retreat on July 27 and 28. The~purpose'of=the retreat is to discuss broad issues of concern to the City. ~ Mayor McClain then made the following statementf .~ In =a recent Editorial, the Martinsville Bulletin c0mmented= on my election as Mayor and Mr. Groden~s election as Vice-Mayor that we had the experience and ability and that it was now time to get to work. =As one of my first acts as Mayor of Martinsville, I would like to make a brief statement concerning pride. Although I am not a native of Martinsville, like a new church convert, I believe I am an even more enthusiastic resident of this City than many who have=-lived here all their lives. I have lived in cities large and small in Pennsylvania,.iNew Jersey and Hawaii, .and I can say, without hesitation, that I much prefer Martinsville to any other place I have lived. And I can say that with a real basis of comparison. It has been said that we have a high crime rate here, but we moved to Martinsville to get away from a truly high crime rate. Few people here can say that they live .in an apartment building where four outof six apartments were burglarized in the past year or where a dinner guest had the battery stolen from her car.while parked in front of the building while she was eating dinner. And those