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Enclosure #1 DRAFT RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville constructed a municipal complex including an eighteen-bed jail facility in 1968, which jail facility was over capacity at the time it was occupied and has since been double- bunked to allow for thirty-six beds; and WHEREAS, the City of Martinsvitle constructed a detached addition to the jail with a capacity of thirty beds in 1997; and WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville also operates a jail farm with a capacity of thirty-one beds; and WHEREAS, it has become increasingly difficult and costly to transport prisoners to other localities in the absence of local bed space; and WHEREAS, the present eighteen bed facility poses a danger to employees, the public, and inmates housed therein, and is in need of replacement; and WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville has been involved in a local jail planning study since October 1995 and has committed over $100,000 to this process; and WHEREAS, it has been determined that a new 208 160 bed jail facility should be constructed to replace the current jail and jail farm to meet the projected needs of our community through 2006 2010 at a budget of $10.6 million; and WHEREAS, the City desires to secure State funding to assist with the construction of this 208 160 bed jail facility in the City as allowed by Title 53.1-82.2 of the Code of Virginia which provides twenty-five percent reimbursement of the eligible capital costs of $10,380,000 by thc Statc which is $2,595,000; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session assembled , that it does hereby request approval for the project from the State Board of Corrections and does further agree to meet other requirements specified in Title 53.1 of the Code of Virginia which would entitle the City to receive the State's twenty-five percent reimbursement for capital costs of this project. Attest: , , , , , , Clerk of Council Date Adopted