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- - 195 TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1986 of each year, beginning with the year 1987, as Lee-Jackson-King Day for the City of Martinsville and, in so doing, declares the third Monday in January of each year, beginning with the year 1987, a legal holiday for all City employees. Council unaniously accepted City Manager Brown's recommendation that the City's Employee Manual be amended, as it relates to the method heretofore in practice of paying compensation to employees on injury leave under Workers' Compensation reg- ulations, to comply with recently-revised statutes or regulations applicable there- to. (Reference: Section 4-8 of Employee Manual.) Council also unanimously approved of certain amendments to--and/or revisions of-- the City's employee grievance procedure to reflect compliance with recently- revised statutory regulations and requirements. (Reference: Chapter VIII of Em- ployee Manual.) By report dated January 8, 1986, City Manager Brown reviewed certain findings re- cently submitted by the firm of Manning, Perkinson, Floyd & Company and pertaining to certain recommended improvements with regard to a recent study by this firm of the City Treasurer's office and its operations, in which report Mr. Brown offered procedures and/or methods by which the recommended improvements can be accom- plished. Two of the procedures or methods would involve physical changes within the Treasurer's office (i.e., the work-area in the rear portion of the office), viz., an additional counter to separate cash handling activities from the area records are made available to the public, estimated to cost $7,000.00, and an additional safe to be kept within the main vault of the office, estimated to cost $1,700.00. In accepting City Manager Brown's report, and requesting that a progress report on implementation of the recommendations be provided Council two