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,.."., r' h, ',} TUESDAY MAY 8, 1979 City Manager Noland informed Council that the City's Electric Department has filed with the U. S. Department of Energy an application for an initial grant of $15,000.00 to finance the cost of a study involving an engineering assessment "......to determine the feasibility of installing new capacity at the existing hydroelectric facility at Martinsville, Virginia" (i.e., the City's hydro-electric plant and dam on Smith River, just south of the City's corporate limits, Route 220 South). City Manager Noland also informed Council that studies are underway toward the ogranizing of a cooperative insurance program, something like a self-insuring plan, among and for Virginia municipalities, by which considerable savings in insurance premiums can be effected. Upon inquiry of the City Manager, who reported that his proposed 1979-80 City Budget and accompanying Budget Message will be available to members of Council on or before May lIth, Council agreed to conduct--and called for--a special meeting of the Council on Thursday, May 17, 1979, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 2:00 P.M., for the purpose of studying and considering said proposed 1979-80 City Budget. Council acknowledged comments from two citizens, viz., Mr. Thomas H. Leath, of 740 Indian Trail, concerning the extent and sources of mandated programs as well as the need for citizens and local government officials to protest such programs as imposed upon local governments without local governmental consent; and, Mr. Robert N. Crockett, of 1007 Mountain Road, expressing the hope that individual local real estate taxes will not be increased as a result of the recently-completed reassessment and re-evaluation of local real estate. Council was adjourned. "",)-14 ,.~V , '/ ,~, ",~, ,>,~ '-- W. H. Yeqm , Clerk of ( , Council