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~30 TUSSDAr F'E~p:UARY 11. t:J6{. was est.imated at $295,000, for which fl~n:13 have been and will be aecu..nnlat'::d from the electric system's income, and said Phase 1 would be undertaken during , 1 ens fiscal year 1964-65. Attorney Douglas K. Fritn, Cou:lsel for the heirs of the Sallie A. Earley Estate, p:::>esented a petitio:1 on ~eha::"'f of -!;hese heirs--which petition ,vas referred to in Council! s minutes of January 28, 196L>-requesting the closing of 811 alley or un-nmned street leading from the intersection 0: Church Street and Booker Road, such closing proCedU!~8 ~o followt.hat prescribed in Section 15-766 of the CODE OF VIRGINIA, 195D, and as &'llended. Pursuant to this request, Council authorized Mayor Wilson to appoin:. a Board of Viewers, whose duty 1..Jould be that as set forth in said Section 15.-766, whereupon Mayor 'Wilson appointed the following citizens to serve as a Board of Viewers: Messrs. Wh..itney Shumate, R. A. Henderson, Jr., and J. E. Jones. At torney Frith also appeared b9fo C9 Council in behalf of Prillaman & Pace, Inc., a local plumbing-h9ating contractor firm; urging Council to consider g:canting business license t,qX relief t,() local contractors , either in the form of a redu..:~- tion of rate on gross receipts or by the exempting from gross receipts license taxation t~1at business performed outside the Ci tyl s corporate limits. Council indicated ~hat it would give consideration to -!;his request. Upon motion, duly seeon.ded and. unanimously carried, Couneil adopted 811 ordi19n,~e providing for the levy and collection of license taxe;s from owners of mot:) C' veh.:..cles, etc., operated in the City, fo:::> the license tax year beginning Ma:,.,ch 15, 1964, se tting fort.h the SB...'1le taxes and conditions as were in effect fo:::> the tax year which began March 15, 1963.