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AGENDA CITY COUNCIL MEETING CITY OF MARTINSVILLE,VIRGINA City Council Chamber - Municipal Building 7:00 P.M. - April 13, 1999 II. III. IV. Invocation - Council Member Bruce H.T. Dallas I. Consider approval of minutes of City Council's meeting of March 8, 1999. COMMENTS: These minutes were distributed to Council prior to your March 23, 1999, meeting. Consider presentation of Life Saving Medal by the Police Department to Police Officer Ellcry E. Hooper for his prompt and decisive actions resulting in saving a life. COMMENTS: Officer Hooper's quick response when dispatched to a house on Katheren Street probably resulted in saving the life of Mr. Oscar Thompson who was having trouble breathing. Chief of Police David Edwards will attend to make this presentation to Officer Hooper. Business from the floor. Conduct a public heating and consider adoption of a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to file a Community Development Block Grant application for $739,200 with the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development for the Southside Comprehensive Community Development Project for a total project cost of $1,221,595. (See Enclosure #1) COMMENTS: Mr. Ken Poore will attend to answer any questions from the public or Council regarding this project. We recommend that Council adopt the Resolution as prepared. Consider adoption of a Resolution expressing the City' s intent to affirmatively further equal housing oppommities for its citizens in compliance with grant funding for the Southside Rehabilitation Project. (See Enclosure #2) COMMENTS: As arequirement of the City's Community Development Block Grant for the Southside Rehabilitation Project, the City must annually commit to providing fair housing oppommities. We recommend that Council adopt this Resolution as prepared.