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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1988 <br /> <br />10. <br /> <br />and to affordable housing, suggesting that the latter subject, <br />including the question of mobile home parks, should be <br />addressed; <br /> <br />A Special Education status report and a brief description of <br />Special Education programs and permitted classroom sizes <br />(numbers of pupils); <br /> <br />The status of Office of Civil Rights compliance, as to the <br />proposed removal of'asbestos from within Martinsville Junior <br />High School, estimated to cost $968,900.00; <br /> <br />The status of requests for deferral of submission of <br />management plans required by the Federal Environmental <br />Protection Agency under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response <br />Act; and <br /> <br />A description of buses and their usages in the local public <br />school system, in which there are twenty-five buses (the <br />oldest of which were purchased in 1970), seventeen of which <br />are in active daily use during the school year, five are <br />"spares", one is used for transporting special education <br />students, one is used for Chapter 1 Programs, and the 25th bus <br />usage was unidentified, with seventeen of these buses not <br />meeting current safety standards and requiring replacement <br />(with buses which do meet these standards) by September 1, <br />1991, at a total cost (based on today's prices of $26,500.00- <br />to-$32,000.00 per bus) of between $400,000.00 and $500,000.00, <br />for which the School Board has suggested a special <br />bus-purchase reserve fund, with Councilman McClain observing <br />that, apparently, the local school system has not heretofore <br />!had in place a standard bus replacement system or procedure, <br />and with Mr. McClain urging that such a system or procedure be <br />established. <br /> <br />After City Manager Brown acknowledged with appreciation the cooperation of the <br />School Board and the School Administration with the City Administration, <br />particularly in the area of budget preparations, and after Mr. Brown pointed to <br />total City expenditures increasingly outdistancing revenues, especially next <br />year and the years thereafter, this meeting was concluded and adjourned (at <br />(9:45 P.M.). <br /> <br />W./H-~~lerk of Council <br /> <br /> <br />