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TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1987 - Council acknowledged receipt of the following Staff Reports: A. An "All-Funds" Balance Sheet, as of May 31, 1987; ..,...-... B. On the recently-completed study by the Virginia Department of Trans- portation of the need, or lack of need, for traffic signals at the intersections of (1) Market and Broad Streets, (2) Market and Bridge Streets, and (3) Market Street and Commonwealth Boulevard, with Council suggesting that the study be expanded to include the intersections of Market and Ellsworth Streets and Market and Moss Streets, and with Councilman Cole suggesting that the City might, at its own initiative, make some improvements at these intersections in the interest of both traffic and pedestrian safety; C. On the status of the Branch Street Turnaround Project, now awaiting required preparation of maps (by petitioners) dedicating right-of-way for the turnaround; and D. On the status of procedures in progress to repair the City's hydro- electric plant and certain of its equipment, in which a failure occurred recently, with this matter to be brougnt back for Council's consideration and/or action as soon as bids are received. In tentative acceptance of a recommendation from the City's Planning Commission, Council called for a duly-advertised public hearing to be conducted by Council at its forthcoming July 14th regular meeting on a petition filed by Mr. & Mrs. Carroll D. Hinkle seeking the vacating and abandonment of an unimproved portion of Boden Street, subject to dedication by petitioners of a fifty-foot turnaround (using an adjacent ten-foot alleyway) and subject to presentation of final maps showing the abandonment and turnaround (if authorized), properly reviewed and approved by the City's Engineering Division, followed by recordation thereof. Upon motion, duly seconded, and carried by a vote of four-to-one (Councilman McClain voting "No"), Council agreed to support the objections of City Commonwealth's Attorney J. Randolph Smith, Jr., to the recent decision of the State ,Compensation , Board in setting the salaries and expenses of Mr. Smith's office for 1987-88. Council also appointed Councilmen Cole and McClain to consider, as permitted by law, with the Compensation Board said Board's recent action on Mr. Smith's 1987-88 budget requests.