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4-- --- TUESDAY APRIL 12, 1966 Council confirmed its recent decision, following a recent informal inspection tour to consider recommended changes and renovations in City Hall to accommo- date the new Corporation Court and to provide quarters for certain other offices, agreeing that the City would not rent the Keesee Estate building at the corner of Main and Walnut Streets but, rather, would confine relocation of the several offices involved to City Hall. Although it was learned that it is not possible to revise present voting precincts for the forthcoming April 19th School Bond referendum, Council indicated that such precincts should be revised in accordance with State requirements and that Precinct No.1 should be moved from the City's Shop Building property on the north side of Fayette Street to the new Central Fire Station at the corner of Church and Moss Streets and, further, Council requested the Electoral Board (along with Councilman Burch and Circuit Court Clerk Jesse D. Clift) to study this matter and designate two-or-more new precincts, delineating new boundary lines of all precincts, and to locate one precinct in the new fire station. By letter, Mr. Rives S. Brown, Jr., President of Lanier Farm, Inc., developers of the Hunting Ridge Road subdivision, claimed that lithe City does not intend to pay for the wire to run underground from the street to the housell although the City supplies and installs electric overhead connections. Mr. Brown further asked that the City install the electric underground service connections, i.e., from the street right-of-way to the houses, with the builders or contractors furnishing the conduit. Council was informed that the Electric Department's rules and regulations stipulate that the City is not responsible for installation and/or costs of underground service connections. Council was also informed of Lanier Farm's proposal, as covered in W. H. Yeaman's memorandum