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, .--" .,.......,,, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1986 ~ Having been apprised of the fact that at the recent 18th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Advisory Council for Transportation Safety the Martinsville Transportation Safety Commission was selected for its safety programs as the outstanding such commission in DMV District II (which includes fifty-two other cities and towns), members of Council-- individually and collectively--commended the Commission for its excellent work and achievement. Members of the Commission present for this recognition by Council were - Chairman Oakley H. Fitzgerald, Councilman Clyde L. Williams, Mrs. Grace Scott, Mr. Irving R. McGhee, Mr. Franklin L. Frazier, and Police Chief Terry L. Roop. City Manager Brown reported that, under the Data Processing ADP account in the adopted 1986-87 City Budget, there is a sum of $30,882.00 which, along with $9,808.00 from two other line item accounts (maintenance and software), would provide a total available sum of $40,690.00 which he recommended applying toward the purchase of a larger-capacity central processor unit (to replace the City's present processor, now deemed of insuffi- cent capacity to meet ever-increasing demands upon the ADP system), which larger CPU Mr. Brown recommended be purchased from Wang Laboratories, Inc., at a cost of $50,130.00, with the remainder of $9,440.00, plus $690.00 maintenance fee, plus interest, to be paid in July of 1987, for which Mr. Brown stated a duly-adopted resolution, authorizing the City Manager to enter into a lease-purchase agreement with Wang Laboratories, would be required. Mr. Brown further proposed that, if the interest rate to be offered by Wang is considered too high, he be allowed (i.e., authorized) to borrow the remainder of $10,130.00 from a local bank or from one or more of the City's utility funds. Council- men Groden and Oakes expressed preferences that said remainder be financed from or by the City's utility funds, whereas Vice-Mayor Severt expressed her Concern with such a transaction being recommended "on the heels" of Council's recently-adopted 1986-87 City Budget which reflects City Manager Brown's reduction by some $67,378.00 from his origi- nally-recommended $106,000.00 for data processing equipment in 1986-87. Councilman Oakes