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264 TUESDAY JANUARY 24, 1984 interested, affected or well-intended they may be", thus leaving Mayor Cole with the im- pression that Council is being told what it must do and, as a result, implying a lack of confidence in Council's judgment. In response to this interpretation, Councilman West deemed the report not demeaning to anyone but, rather, being excellent and concise and devoid of political considerations. On the call for the vote on Councilman West's motion, Council unanimously accepted Mr. Edmonds recommendations to the extent of (1) authorizing Wiley & Wilson to proceed with the preparation of detailed plans for digester and odor control improvements at the City's water pollution control (sewage treatment) plant, at an estimated cost of $60,000.00, and (2) authorizing the City's administrative staff to resume negotiations with the Henry County Public Service Authority's staff for diverting the City's Jones Creek Interceptor flow to the PSA's Koehler treatment plant. In giving further consideration to proposed amendments to the City's Business- Professional-Occupational License Tax Ordinance, as introduced at Council's meeting held January 10, 1984, and as tentatively revised by Council at said meeting, Council received a report and tabulation from Mr. J. Ronnie Minter, Commissioner of the Revenue, setting forth license taxes being imposed by area municipalities on restaurants serving mixed beverages (i.e., "liquor-by-the-drink"). Council also heard from Mr. Marshall Kline, operator of Barbara's Place (one of two local restaurants now serving "liquor-by- the-drink", permitted as a result of the local referendum held November, 1983), who registered his protest against the proposed taxes on establishments serving mixed beverages, citing numerous other 1 icense taxes already being imposed by the State of Virginia and the City of Martinsville on restaurants which, in addition to the gross receipts tax, serve beer and wine. After some discussion, in which Councilmember Severt recommended that the tax on caterers (serving mixed beverages) be reduced from the proposed $500.00 per year to $250.00 per year, Councilman West introduced his motion that all of the proposed "liquor-by-the-drink" taxes be cut in half; however, for lack of a second, this motion failed. A motion by Councilmember Severt, duly seconded, that all of the proposed "liquor-by-the-drink" taxes be adopted, with the exception that the tax on caterers (serving mixed beverages) be $250.00 per year, carried by a vote of three-to-two (Mayor Cole and Vice-Mayor Oakes voting against this motion). Upon another ".,.,-,.-".,-,...-_._.~--"...-----~-----'-'---'---"-'--~--------,----_._,._"-,,,..