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TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1988 1. From Martinsville Community Recreation Association ................. 2. From Recreation Activity funds ........ 3. From City's General Fund ........... Total Revised Budgeted Funding ........ $ 10,000.00 54,000.00 45,000.00 $109,000.00 Council acknowledged receipt of the following staff reports, several of which are the result of recent inquiries/requests from various members of Council: Status and/or findings on traffic conditions at the Rives Road/Mulberry Road intersection and at the Commonwealth Boulevard/Chatham Road intersection, with close monitoring thereof to be continued; On a reported-but-secret color removal process from kraft paper manufacturing waste being considered or in use by Champion International Corporation, Canton, North Carolina, but without assurance that such a process can be success- fully applied to'dye colors, such as used by the textile industries in and near Martinsville; and On on-going efforts to eliminate the accumulation and/or storing of debris and junk at a site on Fayette Street, opposite Third Street. In another staff report pertaining to the recent request filed by residents of the Salem Street/Sellers Street area for construction/installation by the City of a neighborhood playground for small children of that area, City Manager Brown reported that the estimated cost of appropriate equipment for the playground is $3,994.98 and that two lots for the area are owned by Mr. Robert Floyd Gravely and may be available on an annual rental basis (as reported by Councilman Cole in his June 2nd letter on this matter to the City Manager) of $22.00 each, which are the amounts of the annual real estate taxes thereon. Mr. Brown, however, suggested that authorization of this specific project would indicate that the Council is willing to implement a whole new category of "mini-parks" throughout the City, which implementation will require