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:Q ~) (J TUESDAY JANUARY 12. 1982 Pursuant to duly-published notice, Council conducted a public hearing on proposed amendments to the City's cablevision franchise ordinance (principally to extend the life of the current franchise for a period of fifty-nine months from date of adoption or from date of request made by the present franchisee, Multi-Channel T. V. Cable Company of V~nsfield, Ohio, trading as Martinsville Cablevision), at which hearing no objections were registered by any citizen. After some discussion by members of Council of certain sections of the proposed ordinance incorporating these amendments as ~ell as a re-publishing of the franchise ordinance, as proposed to be amended, Council placed said amended ordinance on first reading, with clarification of points raised by members of Council to be included in said amended ordinance which, after due notice as required by Section 15.1-314 of the CODE OF VIRGINIA (1950, and as amended), Council proposes to adopt at its regular meeting scheduled for Tuesday, January 26, 1982. In continuing consideration (from its last regular meeting held December 22, 1981) of Appalachian Power Company's Public Authority Tariff issued December 1, 1981, as ~ell as APCo's request that the City execute a new contract or agreement thereunder for electric service provided by APCo to some of the City's public facilities, Council continued consideration of the contract execution request but directed that the City pay for such energy in accordance with this new or revised tariff and, also, apply this tariff to such of the City's retail electric customers as are classified as public uses and facilities within the definition of the tariff. Upon recommendation of City Manager Edmonds, Council authorized the continuation of processes recently initiated by Mr. Edmonds toward up-dating, revising, and republishing the City's Charter and Code.