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<br />312 <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />OCTOBER 1, 1974 <br /> <br />A special and duly-called meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, <br /> <br />with Mayor Harry L. Boaz presiding, was held Tuesday, October 1, 1974, in the Corporation <br /> <br />Courtroom of City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P. M., for the purpose of receiving--jointly with <br /> <br />the Planning Commission and the CBD Study Commission--a briefing on the recently-enacted <br /> <br />Federal law entitled, "The Housing and Urban Development Act of 1974". All members of <br /> <br />Council, with the exception of Councilman Morton W. Lester, were present, viz., <br /> <br />Harry L. Boaz, Mayor; William D. Hobson, Vice Mayor; G. S. Fitz-Hugh, Jr.; and <br /> <br />Barry A. Greene. Also present were members of the Planning Commission and several members <br /> <br />of the CBD Study Commission. <br /> <br />After the stating of the purpose of this special meeting by Mayor Boaz, and following some <br /> <br />preliminary comments by City Manager Noland, Assistant City Manager-Public Works Director <br /> <br />George W. Brown briefed the Council and others in attendance on said Housing & Urban Development <br /> <br />Act of 1974, beginning with his findings from a seminar on this legislation he recently <br /> <br />attended in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, explaining that the new legislation and its grants will <br /> <br />supercede other Federal programs heretofore designed for individual projects and specific needs, <br /> <br />including probably the current General Revenue-Sharing funds. From Federal funds being <br /> <br />appropriated under the new act, after setting aside an initial reserve, eighty per cent is <br /> <br />being allocated to the larger cities and communities who already are classified as standard <br /> <br />statistical districts, with the remaining twenty per cent being allocated to states for <br /> <br />smaller cities and communities who might qualify for these funds. Several of the requisites <br /> <br />for Martinsville to become eligible, Mr. Brown explained, included a determination of the <br /> <br />City's needs through citizen participation and in-put, a development of a program to meet <br /> <br />these needs, and a meaningful housing plan (housing code) for the City, with City Council being <br /> <br />the one and only authority or body with which responsibility rests for these requisites, should <br /> <br />the Council decide to proceed therewith. <br /> <br />-""---~-'-'-~"~-",--,--,-,~,,-,- "....---.. "-- ". ...,.._--._.._---,._--~._~---._._...,-- <br />