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TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1988 <br /> <br />thereto (including utility lines) under the terms and conditions of the City's <br />Subdivision Ordinance, which street will serve as the main entrance-and-exit <br />road for the site of Dorn-Will's proposed nursing home facility. <br /> <br />Council unanimously approved and authorized the filing of an application, for <br />and on behalf of the Martinsville Transportation Safety Commission, for a <br />"mini-grant" in the sum of $1,200.00 to finance the cost of twenty (20) "Buckle <br />Up" signs to promote safety as well as compliance with new State statutory <br />requirements. It was the Council's understanding that mounting, erecting, and <br />maintenance of these signs would be the City's responsibility. <br /> <br />Council unanimously authorized the preparation of a fee simple deed by which, at <br />the request of the Virginia Museum of Natural History and its Director, Dr. Noel <br />T. Boaz, all of the former Joseph Martin School property, including that portion <br />presently occupied by the Museum (and previously deeded to the Virginia Museum <br />of Natural History Foundation by Council's action taken October 14, 1986 -- see <br />page 392 of Minute Book No. 25), as well as the remaining portion of the site, <br />including an "annex" building currently occupied by the New River Regional <br />Police Academy, would be conveyed to the VMNH Foundation in order that, with the <br />conveyance by the Foundation of this property to the Commonwealth of Virginia on <br />or before July 1, 1988, the Museum will officially become the Commonwealth's <br />Museum of Natural History and will be State-funded for the 1988-90 biennium, for <br />which $7.7 million has been requested. Dr. Boaz reported that the value of the <br />property can be counted as ~ part of the required matching with non-state funds <br />and that the remaining matching funds will come from contributions, grants, and <br /> <br /> <br />