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4~ TUESDAY AUGUST 28t 1984 Mayor Cole was unanimously designated by Council as the City's voting delegate to the forthcoming business section of the Virginia Municipal League to be conducted on October 2, 1984; and Vice-Mayor Severt was unanimously designated as the City's alternate voting delegate to this session. In response to a request presented by Mr. Stan Williams (of the local Seven-Eleven Stores) for permission--and, therefore, an exception to Council's previously-adopted policy--to conduct a "toll gate" on a City street on Monday, September 3, 1984, for and on behalf of the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation, in conjunction with the annual fund-raising telethon for this cause, Council reaffirmed said policy (which limits conducting of "toll-gates" within the City to the Martinsville Volunteer Fire Company, the Martinsville-Henry County Rescue Squad, and the Circle M Club--now inactive--of Patrick Henry Community College, all being quasi-governmental functions or agencies) and, thus, denied Mr. Williams' request. By memorandum report dated August 22, 1984, City Manager Edmonds informed Council that, based on recent experience and on anticipated trends, it will be much less expensive for the City to change its employee unemployment insurance from its present premium- payment basis to that under which the City will reimburse the Virginia Employment Commission for the amount paid by the Commission in unemployment claims allowed by the Commission to City employees who qualify for unemployment benefits; and, on the basis of this informationt City Manager Edmonds recommended that the change be authorized, effective January It 1985. Council unanimously authorized the recommended change. City Manager Edmonds also apprised Council of recent developments and some favorable actions by the United States Congress towards affording local governments immunity from anti-trust actions.