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TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1988 special committee (viz., Messrs. Earle W. Greene, Ralph C. Lester, Bill A. Adkins, and Thomas J. Burch) were present at this meeting and offered comments -on various facets of the report. Some of the committee's recommendations urged a re-examination by the City of its subdivision standards or requirements, the administering of the City's Subdivision Ordinance by the City staff (rather than, currently, by the Planning Commission), the adoption of a revised Zoning Ordinance being developed by the Planning Commission, continued rehabilitation of older neighborhoods, assistance by business and industry to their employees through incentives and "shared equity" programs, a re-examination of "City/ County consolidation" with eventual merger as a goal, and (as an option to consolidation which the committee deemed preferable) efforts to obtain changes in current annexation statutes which, in effect, currently give Henry County immunity from "involuntary annexation" or, in other words, which presently prohibit annexation procedures being initiated by the City. Meanwhile, the committee indicated that it will be gladJ to review any proposed ordinance which might result from--or relate to--this special study report and its recommenda- tions. Council acknowledged receipt of the following Staff reports: Results of the "Red Cross" bloodmobile on June 10, 1988, sponsored by the City and coordinated by Mr. James W. Hopkins, Assistant Director of Public Works -- against a quota of fifty units, fifty employees offered (of whom three were deferred), with forty-seven units being collected; Status of condemned residential property at 204 Park Street, owned by Mr. Edward Do Hunt, as set forth by City Manager Brown in his July 14th letter to Mr. & Mrs. Bobby J. Pinkard, of 208 Park Street, who appeared before Council at Council's July 12th meeting with regard to this condemned property;