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3.6 MONDAY APRIL 4, 1977 A special and duly-called meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor William D. Hobson presiding, was held Monday, April 4, 1977, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., for the purposes of (1) giving further consideration to a proposed updating of the City's Classification-and-Pay Plan (i.e., Merit Pay Plan), as presented to Council at its March 22nd meeting by the City's personnel consultants (Municipal Advisors, Inc.); and (2) discussing the status of on-going negotiations with Appalachian Power Company toward a new wholesale power supply contract between APCo and the City. All members of Council were present, with the exception of Vice-Mayor William C. Cole, Jr., who was out of town, viz., William D. Hobson, Mayor; Barry A. Greene; L. D. Oakes; and Francis T. West. Consideration by Council of the proposed merit-pay plan included a discussion of the question of whether to include personnel of the Social Services Department in such a plan, as posed by City Manager Noland in his April lst memorandum to Council, as well as the question of whether to provide in such a plan, if adopted. incremental steps of two and one-half per cent in lieu of the five-per-cent steps suggested by the personnel consultants. Council also heard from several department heads on several facets of the proposed merit-pay plan, indicating general support of such a plan but, perhaps, with certain modifications. Council deferred action on the question of whether to include Social Services Departmental personnel in a merit plan, if adopted for the City; then, upon motion (by Councilman West, seconded by Councilman Greene), Council (by a unanimous and affirmative vote of Councilmen present) adopted a merit-pay system, with incremental steps of two and one-half per cent, effective July 1, 1977, with the understanding that criteria and procedures for the administering of such a plan will be developed.