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'f :1 JANUARY 22, 1985 TUESDAY ,- and callings set forth on Schedule 7 attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein, and a rate of forty-two cents per one hundred dollars of gross receipts for those businesses, trades, professions, occupations and callings set forth on Schedule 8 attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein. B. Article Ill, Paragraph 3 shall be amended to read: 3. TAXICABS. All taxicab companies shall pay one percent quarterly of gross receipts on the preceding period of three months per company or the sum of $25.00, whichever is greater. Each company shall keep an accurate account of all such gross receipts and its books of account shall be open to inspection by an authorized representative of the City. .- Upon being apprised by Acting City Manager Brown of the need to acquire (by purchase) of approximately three-fourths of an acre of land (adjoining the City's water pollution con- trol plant complex and owned by Mr. Worth H. Carter, Jr.) to accommodate proposed improve- ments to this treatment plant, Council unanimously authorized the purchase of this tract for the sum of $2,139.20, being at the rate of $2,800.00 per acre for or at which rate the City purchased five acres of land in 1974 for the then-expansion of the sewage treatment plant. On behalf of a group of citizens identified as the Souths ide Concerned Citizens who are opposing the lifting by the Virginia General Assembly of a moratorium on uranium mining and milling in Virginia as well as urging the indefinite continuation of such a moratorium, - Dr. W. D. Prince, Ill, as spokesman, accompanied by Dr. Eugene C. Madonia and Dr. B. T. Westerfield (all of Martinsville), along with other citizens, presented a brief summary of this group's concerns, as more specifically set forth in various documents made avail- able to members of Council, with the request that Council adopt a resolution expressing its support and endorsement of an indefinite moratorium being declared by the General Assembly (1985) on the mining and milling of uranium in Virginia. Speaking, too, in support of this group's request and in opposition to any mining and milling of uranium in Virginia were Mrs. Dorothy Montgomery (of 926 Mulberry Road, Martinsville) and Dr. Edward J. Jesneck, of Bassett, Virginia. Appearing before Council in support of such mining and milling was Mr. C. Dudley Blancke, a mining engineer with The Marline Corporation, an