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(i 62 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1989 assistance, though un-armed and off-duty, in a crisis situation involving a Franklin County Sheriff's Deputy and an armed assailant on the night of December 23, 1988, in the Sydnorsville section of Franklin County (Virginia), as Sergeant Slaughter and his family were en route along U. S. Route 220 in their personal automobile. Pursuant to duly-published public notice, Council conducted the second of two required public hearings (the first having been conducted by Council at its regular meeting held February 14, 1989) on a proposed application the City intends filing with the Virginia Department of Housing & Community Development for a CDBG grant of $223,678.39 to finance the cost of an industrial access road, street lights, and a water line to serve an intermediate care facility being constructed by the Dorn-Will Corporation off the south side of U. S. Route 58 East, near the City's east corporate limits. No objections being registered by any person against the application or to the intended usage of CDBG funds or to prior usage of like funds by the City for other qualifying projects, Mayor Oakes declared this public hearing closed; whereupon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council authorized the filing of said application for said purposes through the following resolution unanimously adopted by the Council: WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville recognizes the community benefits that will result from the construction of an intermediate care nursing facility in the City as proposed by the Dorn-Will Corporation; and WHEREAS, the City wishes to assist and encourage the Dorn-Will Corporation to construct such a facility through the filing of a grant application to the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development for certain improvements to serve the said facility; and