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<br />12 <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />JUNE 14, 1983 <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />Mr. Douglas K. Frith, Attorney at Law, appeared before Council on behalf of his client, <br /> <br />Prillaman & Pace, Inc., seeking an amendment to the City's 1983 Business, Professional & <br /> <br />Occupational License Tax Ordinance whereby the exclusionary provision afforded in-City <br /> <br />contractors on "outside" contract gross receipts heretofore under the City's former <br /> <br />license tax ordinance will be incorporated in the current license tax ordinance. Mr. <br /> <br />Frith also presented various schedules, one of which compared the license taxes paid by <br /> <br />his client (or to be paid by his client) under the terms of the former ordinance with <br /> <br />license taxes which would be due under the current ordinance. Information presented also <br /> <br />indicated that no other taxing jurisdiction within the Commonwealth of Virginia affords <br /> <br />said exclusionary provision to contractors and, too, as brought forth by Mr. J. Ronnie <br /> <br />Minter, Commissioner of the Revenue, to reinstate this provision will adversely affect <br /> <br />the City's revenue from the license-taxing source. It was also brought out that the <br /> <br />City's current rate of 25i per one hundred dollars of gross receipts is already a <br /> <br />reduction from the former rate (with the exclusionary provision) of 32i and eventually, <br /> <br />pursuant to State mandate, will fall to 16i for this category. After some discussion, <br /> <br />by motion--duly seconded and unanimously carried--Council authorized the preparation of <br /> <br />an ordinance which will grant Prillaman & Pace's request, said ordinance to be presented <br /> <br />to Council at its forthcoming June 28th meeting for consideration and, if adopted, with <br /> <br />emergency clause attached, with the effect of the exclusionary provision to terminate <br /> <br />coincident with the eventual "roll-back" of the City's rate to the State-mandated <br /> <br />ceil ing of 16i. <br /> <br />Mr. R. L. (Dick) Fisher, of Industrial Insurance Management Corporation, the City's <br /> <br />insurance consultant, appeared before Council with bids recently received to provide to <br /> <br />the City its workers compensation insurance coverage for the fiscal year beginning July <br /> <br />1, 1983, which for the past three years has been purchased through a "pool", along with <br />