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<br />12 <br /> <br />JUNE 28, 1983 <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />continued to its forthcoming July 12th meeting the request (first considered by Council <br /> <br />at its June 14th meeting) filed by Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy R. Lewis seeking a waiver of <br /> <br />penalties and interest on delinquent taxes outstanding against Lot No. 9 on Morrison <br /> <br />Road, now owned by Mr. & Mrs. Lewis, for the tax years 1962 and 1963. <br /> <br />Because of State statutes governing the refunding of property taxes paid as a result of <br /> <br />over-assessment, Council had no alternative but to deny Mrs. Florence B. Reeves' request <br /> <br />for a refund of taxes paid (as a result of an over-assessment) on her property at 108 <br /> <br />Gravely Street for the years 1966 through 1980). The record notes that, as permitted <br /> <br />by these statutes, the City's Commissioner of Revenue has adjusted tax bills on this <br /> <br /> <br />property for the last three years for an over-assessment, which over-assessment came <br /> <br /> <br />about by Mrs. Reeves being charged with more square-footage area than actually existed <br /> <br />in the lot in question. <br /> <br />On behalf of Central Telephone Company of Virginia (which serves Martinsville and the <br /> <br />surrounding areas), Mr. Shelton H. Blackwell, Jr., its Assistant Manager for Customer <br /> <br />Services (from the Martinsville office) appeared before Council and reviewed with Council <br /> <br />a recent Order of Publication of Proposed Investigation (involving intrastate telephone <br /> <br />toll service) by the State Corporation Commission as a result of the recent settlement of <br /> <br />an antitrust suit by the U. S. Department of Justice against the American Telephone & <br /> <br />Telegraph Company, by which American Telephone & Telegraph is being required to divest <br /> <br />itself of local telecommunications and exchange access functions performed by one of its <br /> <br />subsidiaries (the "Bell System") and by which a general deregulation of telephone utility <br /> <br />systems has occurred or will occur. The Commission's order, Mr. Blackwell pointed out, <br /> <br />invites public response to the many issues yet to be resolved by the Commission in con- <br /> <br />nection with this matter, with Mr. Blackwell noting that (beginning January 1, 1984) a <br />