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LSO TUESDAY AUGUST 14, 1973 WHEREAS Section 63.1-39 of said Code provides that the members of any such five-man local board first appointed under the provisions of Title 63.1 of said Code shall be appointed initially for terms of from one to four years so as to provide for the balanced overlapping of the terms of the membership thereon; and, WHEREAS Section 63.1-47 of said Code provides that each member of any such local board shall be paid his necessary traveling and other expenses incurred in attendance upon meetings and while otherwise engaged in the discharge of his duties as such member and, in addition to such expenses, may be paid out of the general fund of such city as compensation for his services as such a member a sum not to exceed $600.00 per year; and, WHEREAS for a number of years the local Welfare Board of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, has been the officer in charge of the Department of Public Welfare (designated as the Department of Social Services pursuant to Section 63.1-38.1 of said Code); and, WHEREAS it is the discretion of the City Council of the City of Martinsvil1e that the local Welfare Board shall henceforth consist of five members appointed by the City Council; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled the 14th day of August, 1973, that commencing on September 1, 1973, and thereafter the local Welfare Board for the City of Martinsville shall consist of five members appointed by the City Council; and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that H. F. Haymore, Harry Little, William R. Windle, J. Berkeley Travis, and James L. Lavinder be, and they hereby are, appointed as members of the local Welfare Board for terms of one to four years, the respective term of each of the aforesaid members to be determined by lot at the organizational meeting of the Board to be held hereafter pursuant to Section 63.1-48 of the aforesaid Code; and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that each member of the aforesaid Board shall be paid his necessary traveling and other expenses incurred in attendance upon meetings and while otherwise engaged in the discharge of his duties as such member and, in addition, shall be paid out of the general fund as compensation for his services as such a member $600.00 per year. In connection with recent discussions by Council regarding local "ADC" case loads and the comparison thereof with "ADC" case loads of area jurisdictions, Social Services Superintendent Odell W. Gray presented an analysis thereof, accompanied by copies of certain explanatory documents. In addition, Mr. Gray called to Council's attention (by memorandum dated August 14, 1973) the fact that all local social service agencies are involved in a validation process to determine whether any excess payments have been or are being made and the efforts now underway by the Virginia League of Social Service Executives in support of taking positive court action on the first questionable case (i.e., as to the