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'. ih TUESDAY JANUARY 26, 1982 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor Barry A. Greene presiding, was held Tuesday, January 26, 1982, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members being present, viz., Barry A. Greene, Mayor; William C. Cole, Jr., Vice Mayor; L. D. Oakes; Henry C. Reed; and Francis T. West. After the invocation, Council approved--as recorded--the minutes of its regular meeting held January 12, 1982. In considering on final reading certain proposed amendments to the City's Cablevision Franchise Ordinance (i.e., CATV Ordinance) which amendments, among other things, would extend the life of the current franchise (now held by Multi-Channel T. V. Cable Company of Mansfield, Ohio, trading as Martinsville Cablevision) for a period of fifty-nine (59) months from effective date of the amending ordinance, and after suggesting that Martinsville Cablevision make available to its customers a discount for one year's prepayment of service costs, upon motion (duly seconded and unanimously carried) Council adopted said proposed amendments to the franchise ordinance originally enacted March 22, 1966, and as subsequently amended on December II, 1973, on February 24, 1976, and on October 24, 1978, with all said amendments (unless otherwise superseded) being incorporated in a re-published document or ordinance which is recorded in the office of the Clerk of Martinsville City Circuit Court (in Deed Book No.143, beginning at Page No. 483) . At the invitation of Council, Mr. Harry Davis, President of the Martinsville Education Association, along with other members of this group, appeared before Council and, through a photographic slide presentation, depicted an increasing inverse ratio between Virginia public school teachers' salaries and salaries paid public school teachers in surrounding states as well as the inability or the unwillingness of the Virginia General Assembly to fund adequately the Commonwealth of Virginia's share of teachers salaries, the result of which places a greater financial burden upon Virginia's local governments if a salary equailization is to be achieved, aside from cost-of-living raises necessitated by the on-going inflationary spiral. At the request of Council, Mr. Davis indicated that additional and updated information, supplementing that pre- sented, will be passed on to the Council and to the City School Board when available.