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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1988 A regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor L. D. Oakes presiding, was held Tuesday, October 11, 1988,i in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 8:00 P.M. (instead of the usua~ 7:30 P.M. starting time, in order for members of Council to attend a City School Board public input session in connection with the search by the School Board for a successor to Dr. James E. Calkins, who has announced that he will soon retire from the position of Superintendent of the City School System). All members of Council were present, viz., L. D. Oakes, Mayor; Clyde L. Williams, Vice-Mayor; William C. Cole, Jr.; Alfred T. Groden; and Allan McClain. After the invocation and the extending by Mayor Oakes of a cordial welcome to visitors present, Council unanimously approved the minutes of its regular meeting held September 27, 1988, with the understanding that the words, " .... and report back to Council", in the third and fourth lines of MB page 335 are to be deleted, as requested by Councilman McClain. Pursuant to duly published notice, Council conducted a public hearing on a petition filed by The Lester Group seeking the abandonment and closing of "Old" Liberty Street Extension as well as of a portion of North Townes Street, as recommended by the Planning Commission, plus the Commission's recommendation that "New" Liberty Street Extension, recently completed as an industrial access street to serve Tultex Corporation's Sale Knitting Company plant on Franklin Street and Townes Street right-of-ways be accepted into'~he City's street system. There being no objections registered against the petition or against the street-acceptance proposal, Mayor Oakes declared this public hearing closed; whereupon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council