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446 TUESDAY A PR IL.J.Q.z-lJ62 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, V:irginia, with Mayor J. ]?rank Wilson presiding, was held in the Council Chamber, City Hall, Tuesday, April 10, 1962, at 7:15 P.M., all members being present, viz., Mayor J. Frank Wilson; Vice-Mayor Fred T. Renick; Thomas J. Burch; E. E. S tone; and Harry L. Boaz. After the invocation, Council approved as recorded the minutes of its regular meeting held March 27,1%2. In appreciation and recognition of the faithful service rendered by Mr. Harry Arthur Smith, Electric Hydro-Plant Operator since March 16, 1939, Council acknowledged the retirement of Mr. Smith on March 31, 1962. In acceptance of the following report of the Board of Viewers duly appointed to cons ider a petition (recently presented through Attorney Charles L. McC ormick, III, on behali' of Mr. W. Elmo Haynes) requesting the closing and vacating of Azalea Street, unopened and lying northeast and parallel of and to Mulberry Road, orderJthe :reduction of the present forty-foot right-of-way to twenty " C ounei 1 feet, allowing for proper hIrn into Hope Street, such portion not being included in the reduced right-of-way to be vacated and abandoned to the adjoining property owners: We, the undersigned, having been duly-appointed by your body as a Board of Viewers and having viewed Azalea Street, to which petition for vacation has been submitted, do hereby report to you as to our findirgs. It is our oplnlon that public inc onvenience would result from the vacation of this street right-of-way by the City. This inconvenience would be as fo llows : 1. The Azalea Street right-of-way could in the future serve valuably in providing access for the public to south portion of City Park. If the right-of...;way were vacated we do not feel an equally satis- factory access could be secured in this vicini t-y.