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6f) . ,.., TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 1973 the City Manager recommend doing--will cost approximately $18,216.00, less a small insurance recovery. In accepting this recommendation, Council authorized the repairing of said generator. Council acknowledged receipt of a notice of application recently filed by the Virginia Telephone & Telegraph Company with the State Corporation Commission, seeking a general rate increase on its telephone service to its subscribers, with public hearing thereon scheduled by the State Corporation Commission at 10:00 A.M., November 26, 1973, in Richmond, Virginia. In a prepared statement, Mayor West reviewed the succession of recent rate increases granted Lee Telephone Company before it became merged (April, 1973) with Virginia Telephone & Telegraph Company, and also pointed out that the now-parent company was granted a rate increase in February of 1972. Because of the recent several rate increases, as well as their extensiveness, allowed the telephone systems serving Martinsville, Henry County, Patrick County and Franklin County, and because of the belief that additional increases are not justifiable at this time or in the near future, Council unanimously went on record as being in opposition to the application and, furthermore, issued an invitation to area governmental jurisdictions to join with the City in intervening in this case and in opposing the rate increase application, suggesting that such intervention and opposition be handled legally in the same manner as in the last intervention. City Manager Noland reported that a problem involving bus service for school children residing in areas east of Barrows Mill Road appears to have been resolved. _---'-"'--""'--,...-.".,-,,-k.',"-"-'~".'"."