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<br />BfJ <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />DECEMBER 10. 1968 <br /> <br />"- <br /> <br />Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council authorized the <br /> <br />executing of a contract (No. 2486) with the Automatic Voting Machine Division <br /> <br />of AVM Corporation, Jamestown, New York, for the purchase of four new AVM <br /> <br />machines (@ $1,778.00 each) which were delivered to the City in time for its <br /> <br />recent November General Election. Council, also, unanimously appropriated <br /> <br />the sum of $711.20 to provide the first payment on this contract in accordance <br /> <br />with the terms therein, noting that the City may anticipate the (nine remaining <br /> <br />annual) payments set forth by schedule and would consider such anticipation <br /> <br />during preparation of the City's 1969-70 budget. <br /> <br />Upon being informed that two or more of the City's voting districts (precincts) <br /> <br />now contain in excess of 1,000 registered voters and that it is incumbent upon <br /> <br />Council to realign voting district boundary lines llso that there shall not be <br /> <br />less than one election district for everyone thousand voters or fractional <br /> <br />part thereof above five hundredll, Council established the following special <br /> <br />advisory committee to assist the Council in this matter, Le., by studying <br /> <br />district boundary lines and recommending any rearrangement thereof necessary <br /> <br />to comply with Virginia election laws: <br />Mr. D. Hurd Goode, Member, Electoral Board; <br />Mr. Frank T. Gravely, Member, Electoral Board; <br />MI'. A. L. Schilbe, Member, Electoral Board; <br />Mr. Harry L. Boaz, Councilman; and <br />Mr. Jesse D. Clift, Clerk of Corporation Court. <br /> <br />Council acknowledged receipt of notice of applications filed November 13, 1968, <br /> <br />by the Norfolk & Western Railway Company and the Carolina & Northwestern Railway <br /> <br />Company with the State Corporation Commission, seeking review and correction of <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />the assessment for taxation of respective railway properties subject to local <br /> <br />taxation for the year 1968 and for the right to recover from local authorities <br /> <br />excess taxes paid. Petitioners alleged that the State Corporation Commission <br />