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TUESDAY OCTOBER 26, 1982 Vice-Mayor Oakes, with Council's concurrence given, reported that he will soon be attending a VML legislative committee meeting. Mayor Cole reported that he has received a notice, plus other pertinent documents, that Central Telephone Company of Virginia, which provides telephone service in Martinsville and surrounding areas, has filed with the State Corporation Commission, as of September 1, 1982, an application seeking telephone service rate increases, part of which would become effective on an interim basis on October 1, 1982, and the second part (which would include the first part) to become effective January 1, 1983. A public hearing on this application is scheduled by the Commission in Richmond, Virginia, on January 25, 1983. Preliminary or tentative action by the Commission on this application was also reported in the documents. Council acknowledged receipt of the following staff reports prepared or presented by City Manager Edmonds: 1. The financial report for the fiscal first quarter ended September 30, 1982; 2. The status of the 1982-83 Streetscape Program, being in two phases, with Phase I being the Walnut Street-Wall Street project, largely completed, and Phase II being the Fayette Street project from the Public Square to North Moss Street, for which complete voluntary participation by property owners is not yet obtained but is still being pursued; 3. Interim improvements to the City's wastewater treatment plant, for which testing is in progress, plus the status of on-going repairs to a digestor and interim disposal procedures; 4. Notice of an "Award of Merit" to the Martinsville-Henry County Clean Community Commission for 1982, from the Virginia Division of Litter Control, for and on which Council extended to this Commission its congratulations; and 5. The favorable response by City employees to the current United Fund drive effort, for which Council commended the employees and the City's coordinator, Mr. James W. Hopkins, Assistant to the Public Works Director.