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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1989 and did not, although requested by the City, include the cost thereof in the Market Street project, which was constructed on a 95%/5% shared-cost basis) that traffic signals are urgently needed at these locations. And, as city Manager Brown pointed out, in conjunction with his confirming that he is including funds in his recommended 1989-90 City Budget to cover the cost of installing traffic signals at the intersection of Market Street and Commonwealth Boulevard, deemed the most critical of the three intersections, the City's share of street/highway constructions funds allocated by the Virginia Department of Transportation, in its Six-Year Construction Program, have been assigned to the on-going Spruce Street Relocation Project, the improvements project at the intersections of West Church Street, Fayette Street, and Memorial Boulevard, the proposed extending of Commonwealth Boulevard from Chatham Heights to Route 58 East, and the East Church Street Bridge over the Carolina & Northwestern Railway. Accordingly, Mr. Brown informed Council, unless one or more of the already-accepted projects is (or are) cancelled or deferred, there can be no funding assistance under the Six-Year Construction Program; thus, the entire cost of installing the recommended traffic signals along Market Street must be borne by the City. Meanwhile, Mr. Philip G. Gardner, Attorney at Law, present in the interest of other matters on this meeting's agenda, citing legal complications and the high incidence of motor vehicle accidents at one or more of these intersections and the extremely dangerous conditions arising from the lack of traffic signals, asked, "Can we afford not to install the recommended signals?" Inasmuch as the City has never exercised its right and privilege (granted by Martinsville Broadcasting Company, Inc., by instrument dated December 22, 1956) to construct a civil defense observation shelter on the grantor's property