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June 5,2003 A work session meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, was held on June 5, 2003, in Council Chamber of the Municipal Building, beginning at 11:00 A. M., with Mayor Gene Teague presiding, to discuss building and zoning fees and controlled bow hunting of deer within the City limits. Council Members present included: M. Gene Teague, Mayor; Terry L. Roop, Vice Mayor; and Council Members Bruce H. T. Dallas and J. Ronald Ferrill. Council Member Joseph R. Cobbe was absent. Fred Gordon, Building Official, stated that the Ordinance on building and zoning fees contains the original language of 1953 and was last revised in 1982. He presented a fee comparison from several localities and reported that the City's fees account for approximately five to seven percent of its department's total budget. The proposed scenario included increasing the permit fee from $0.03 to $0.08 per square foot and increasing the minimum permit from $3.00 to $40.00. Earl B. Reynolds, Jr., City Manager, stated that the current fees were used for the proposed FY04 budget. Council requested additional information, including volume statistics (Iow, high, average) from previous years and target and actual recovery percentages fi'om other localities. Council expressed, also, the desire to review this matter during the first quarter of the FY04 fiscal year. Eric Monday, City Attorney, presented a draft Ordinance that will permit the controlled bow hunting of deer within the City limits in accordance with the 2003-2004 Special Urban Archery Season. It contains language to allow the Police Department to establish additional guidelines, if necessary, and to revoke any permit. By general consensus with no vote taken, Council requested the following items be added to the proposed Ordinance: a "sunset" provision to automatically expire the Ordinance unless