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THURSDAY, APRIL 29. 1999 <br /> <br /> A special and duly-called meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor <br /> <br />Mark A. Crabtree presiding, was held Thursday, April 29, 1999, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, <br />beginning at 9:30 A.M. The purpose of the meeting was to consider elements of the City's FY 1999/2000 <br />budget. All members of Council were present: Dr. Mark A. Crabtree, Mayor; M. Gene Teague, Vice-Mayor; <br />and Council Members Bruce H.T. Dallas, Elizabeth H. Haskell, and Terry L. Roop. <br /> <br /> Council' s agenda provided for discussions of the budget requests of the Public Works, Water <br />Resources and Electric Departments on this occasion. First to be heard was the Public Works Department. <br />Mr. Leon Towamicki, Director of Public Works, began the discussion by listing several major projects <br />planned by his department in the coming year. One of these was a fiber optic loop communications system <br />to provide a voice, video, and high speed data communications link among all municipal and school <br />facilities, the Patrick Henry Community College, the Virginia 1Vluseum of Natural History, Clearview <br />Business Park and other selected locations. Vice-Mayor Teague stated that this system added strong <br />potential to the success of the Clearview Business Park. Council Member Roop asked if Sprint and Adelphia <br />were not already going to install such technology, and was told that the City's system would serve special <br />needs independent of the private sector, especially where the business park was concerned, and be fully <br />under the City's control. Other projects related to the fiber optic system included the fiber optics in the <br />Clearview Business Park and a separate fiber optic line to the Henxy County Administration Building. City <br />Manager Earl B. Reynolds, Jr. noted that the City would be pursuing a grant to help fund these projects, from <br />a grant fund program established by the State legislature to help provide fiber technology to under served <br />communities. He stated that the grant was a one-for-one match program, and that the budget for the City' s <br />project was approximately $3 15,000 for the substantially complete system. Other capital projects <br />mentioned included the Geographic Information System Mapping Project, planned street construction and <br />repair worK, tree and planting work to be done in the Uptown area; and Uptown 'signage replacement. <br />Council Member Haskell asked if adjustments could be made to the operations tiequeney of the new traffic <br /> <br /> <br />