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<br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />DECEMBER 8, 1981 <br /> <br />"." " ' <br />. () <br /> <br />to the City Charter by the proposed updating of certain sections within Chapters 1, 6, and <br /> <br />13 for presentation to, and enactment by, the 1982 Session of the Virginia General <br /> <br />Assembly, subject to a duly-advertised public hearing which Council unanimously set <br /> <br />thereon for its forthcoming December 22nd meeting. <br /> <br />Council acknowledged receipt from City Manager Edmonds (concurred therein by City Attorney <br /> <br />Worthy, Commonwealth's Attorney Smith and police Chief Terry L. Roop) of certain proposed <br /> <br />amendments to the City Code which, if enacted, will update the various sections involved <br /> <br />so as, where applicable, the amended sections will parallel current State statutes. <br /> <br />Council indicated that these proposed Code amendments would be considered and placed on <br /> <br />first reading at its forthcoming December 22nd meeting, with final action thereon scheduled <br /> <br />for its January 12th (1982) meeting. <br /> <br />By letter dated November 13, 1981, and in person, Mr. Morton W. Lester, President of The <br /> <br />Lester Corporation, petitioned for a waiver of penalty and interest assessed against Patrick <br /> <br />H. and Dorothy Fussell for 1967 real estate taxes on Parcels 1 (or L), 2, 3, 4, and 5, <br /> <br />situated on Indian Trail, which Mr. Lester purchased from the United States Government in <br /> <br />1974 after a legal title search and for which Mr. Lester paid taxes (plus penalties and <br /> <br />has since paid taxes each year as they became due and for which, until recently notified <br /> <br />interest, if any) for the tax years 1968 through 1974 and on which properties Mr. Lester <br /> <br />by the City's Tax Collection Assistant, Mr. Lester had assumed that all delinquent taxes <br /> <br />on these properties had been paid and that he had a clear title thereto. In addition, <br /> <br />Mr. Lester informed Council that, had the title search revealed that 1967 taxes were past <br /> <br />due at the time he purechased the properties or had the City so informed him at that time, <br /> <br />he would have paid said taxes. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, and in <br /> <br />acceptance of City Attorney Worthy's recommendation that the penalty and interest on said <br /> <br />1967 taxes be waived, pursuant to the ordinance providing therefor adopted November 10, <br /> <br />1981, Council directed that said penalty and interest and fees (in the amount of $160.98) <br />