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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1988 participation--or being asked to participate--in access road construction costs and that the City is under no obligation to participate, whereas Councilman Groden, in concurring with Councilman McClain, noted that the City is living-- and will live--up to its agreement commitment. Mr. McClain noted,'too, the fact that on two recent occasions and for two possible road construction projects, viz., (i) the access road for the Dorn-Will facility and (2) a new access road to Pannill Knitting Company's Roy Street plant, no industrial road access funds are available. Mr. McClain urged, too, that Council defer action on this request, pending exploring in greater depth the possibility that other funds might be made available. Both Vice-Mayor Williams and Councilman Cole raised the question as to whether, if the City grants this request, such action might establish an adverse precedent, with Mr. Willjams indicating further that he might eventually favor granting Dorn-Will's request but would not now do so, particularly in the absence of additional information pertaining thereto. Mayor Oakes, expressing a desire to" .... help people who are willing to come into the city", also stated that he" .... is in favor of spending $42,370.00" of the City's money on the access road project, as requested by Dorn-Will. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried,.Council tabled this matter, awaiting additional information to be developed and presented by City Manager Brown. Mrs. Janice Mize, Chairman of the Parent Support Group for Mentally Handicapped of Martinsville & Henry County, by letter and in person, accompanied by several interested parents, asked that Council make available to this group the soon- to-be-vacated building now being used by the W. C. Ham Learning Center, in order that this group might conduct a new program for those mentally- handicapped children in the area who do not benefit from sheltered workshop settings or from the special services programs in the local school systems.