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<br />4 ;50 <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />JUNE 10, 1969 <br /> <br />The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, <br /> <br />Virginia, with Mayor F. T. Renick, M.D., presiding, was held Tuesday, June 10, <br /> <br />1969, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members <br /> <br />being present, with the exception of Councilman W. D. Hartford (who is in <br /> <br />Europe on vacation), viz., Mayor F. T. Renick, M.D.; Vice-Mayor Francis T. <br /> <br />West; Harry L. Boaz; and William D. Hobson. <br /> <br />After the invocation, Council approved as recorded the minutes of its regular <br /> <br />meeting held ~~y 27, 1969. <br /> <br />As Attorney and Counsel for Villa Heights Water Company, Mr. John D. Epperly, <br /> <br />Attorney at Law, appeared before Council and requested that the City of <br /> <br />Martinsville consider favorably the negotiating of a contract with his client <br /> <br />for the receiving and treating of wastes (sewage) from the Villa Heights area, <br /> <br />outside the City's northwest corporate limits, for which area his client holds <br /> <br />a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (from the State Corporation <br /> <br />Commission) to supply water and sewer services to the inhabitants within the <br /> <br />territory covered by said Certificate. Mr. Epperly informed Council that his <br /> <br />client will be agreeable to the same terms, tariff, and conditions as recently <br /> <br />proposed by the City to the Henry County Public Service Authority for this same <br /> <br />service, in response to the Authority's inquiry based upon the assumption that <br /> <br />the Authority might acquire the Villa Heights Water Company, for which--Mr. <br /> <br />Epperly indicated--there have been very tentative negotiations. Mr. Epperly <br /> <br />requested, further, that the City give this matter its earliest consideration <br /> <br />and decision inasmuch as his client's direction of planning (to accommodate <br /> <br />certain requisite objectives promulgated by the State Water Control Board); <br /> <br />whereupon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council referred this <br />