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Enclosure #1-a October 10, 2000 A regular, semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, was held on October 10, 2000, in Council Chamber of the Municipal Building, beginning at 7:30 P. M., with Mayor Mark Crabtree presiding. Council Members present included: Mark A. Crabtree, Mayor; M. Gene Teague, Vice Mayor; and Council Members Bruce H. T. Dallas, J. Ronald Ferrill, and Terry L. Roop. Following the invocation by Council Member Ferrill, Mayor Crabtree welcomed everyone to the meeting. Council Member Ferrill moved to approved the Minutes of the September 26, 2000, meeting as amended; the motion was duly seconded and carried by the following vote, with all members voting: Teague; Nays (0)- None. By general consensus, Resolution to request Millard Vote 5 - 0; Yeas (5) - Crabtree, Dallas, Ferrill, Roop, 226 Roanoke, to appeal Postmaster Norman Biersbach's decision to deny mail delivery to both sides of Liberty Street and Clearview Drive during construction. Vice Mayor Teague stated, "1 don't think driving to a central location is a fair option for citizens." Council considered adoption of Ordinance No. 2000-7 amending Chapter 21 - Taxation, Article III - Tax on Purchasers of Utility Services of the City Code. Wade Bartlett, Director of Finance, stated, "This is in response to change by the General Assembly. The tax used to be on the purchaser; it will now be on the consumer based on kilowatts used not a percentage. We had to restructure the tax, as all localities in Virginia did. Of consumers, 86% of residential and 64% of commercial won't see any change. Revenue by class had to be neutral." Mayor Crabtree added, "This is not a tax Council approved for the City Manager to draft a Flora, Operations Manager, U. S. Postal Service,