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~ L TUESDAY JANUARY 8, 1985 expansion of the headquarters facilities of the Blue Ridge R~gional Library and, in so doing, commended the members of the Library's Governing Board in undertaking the expan- sion project, for which a successful funding campaign has just been completed under the co-chairmenship of Messrs. William F. Franck and Allan McClain: RECITAL 1. That the headquarters of the Blue Ridge Regional Library system is presently located in a facility located at 310 East Church Street, Martinsville, Virginia, on property deeded to the City of Martinsville, by the Trustees of the Memorial Public Library, Inc., on the 15th day of January, 1975. 2. That this headquarters building is now too small to serve its function as both a headquarters for the regional library system and as a library. 3. That the Trustees of the Library have initiated plans to expand the library by building an addition to it on property located to the west of the present library building and being owned by the City of Martinsville by deed dated the 15th day of December, 1983. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Martinsville that the building of an addition to the Blue Ridge Regional Library on the property owned by the City of Martinsville is approved and accepted by the City Council of the City of Martinsville and the City of Martinsville encourages the expansion of the Blue Ridge Regional Library onto this property. APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Martinsville, Commonwealth of Vir- ginia, on the 8th day of January, 1985. Council unanimously accepted for introduction--and for further consideration and/or action at its forthcoming January 22nd meeting--an ordinance which will amend paragraphs one and three of Article III of the City's Business-Professional-Occupational License Tax Ordinance (1983) to effect certain "rollbacks" in license tax rates as heretofore State-mandated. One of the "rollbacks" in rates proposed, viz., from twenty-six cents (per one hundred dollars of gross receipts) to sixteen cents for construction contractors was deemed by Mr. Richard A. Prillaman, President of Prillaman & Pace, Inc., as yet being insufficient to eliminate a disadvantage local contractors undergo when bidding on and/or constructing pro- jects in Virginia localities which impose a lesser tax rate or none at all.