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<br />.1t <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />MAY 24, 1983 <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, <br /> <br />with Mayor William C. Cole, Jr., presiding, was held Tuesday, May 24, 1983, in the <br /> <br />Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members of Council being present, <br /> <br />viz., William C. Cole, Jr., Mayor; L. D. Oakes, Vice-Mayor; Henry C. Reed; Eliza H. <br /> <br />Severt; and Francis T. West. <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />Following the invocation and welcome by Mayor Cole, Council approved--as recorded--the <br /> <br />minutes of its special meetings held May 4, 1983, and May 10, 1983, and of its regular <br /> <br />meeting held May 10, 1983. <br /> <br />In continuing its consideration of City Manager Edmonds' recommended 1983-84 City <br /> <br />Budget, as revised, Council received from Mr. Edmonds a listing of items and amounts by <br /> <br />which he proposes to reduce his recommended 1983-84 General Fund budget (by the sum of <br /> <br />$31,811.00, including estimated costs associated with the additional appraisor position <br /> <br />requested by the Commissioner of the Revenue and denied by Council in special meeting <br /> <br />held May 10, 1983), pursuant to Council's directive from its special meeting held May <br /> <br />10th, which directive included a reduction by the City School Board of its recommended <br /> <br />1983-84 budget request by the sum of $50,000.00 in school personnel costs. Responding <br /> <br />to this directive as it applied to the School Board,Chairman Worth H. Carter, Jr., asked <br /> <br />that Council reconsider its May 10th action thereon in light of new and updated revenue <br /> <br />and expenditure information indicating that, through a combination of excess revenues and <br /> <br />reduced expenditures over and/or under, respectively, those budgeted for 1982-83 and first <br /> <br />proposed for 1983-84 for local public education, General Fund surplus will be increased by <br /> <br />$118,360.00 over that projected by City Manager Edmonds' recommended 1983-84 General Fund <br /> <br />budget. With these revisions, Mr. Carter indicated that the increase in school salaries <br /> <br />and wages would be 8.2% and the net City-cost increase in the total proposed school <br />