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21 TUESDAY MAY 26, 1964 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor J. Frank Wilson presiding, was held in the Council Chamber, City Hall, Tuesday, May 26, 1964, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members of Council being present, viz., Mayor J. Frank Wilson; Fred T. Renick, M. D.; Thomas J. Burch; Harry L. Boaz; and E. E. Stone. .- After the invocation, Council approved as recorded the minutes of its regular meeting held May 12, 1964. After receiving City Manager Hirst's recommended budget of $5,738,191.41 for the fiscal year beginning July, 1964, accompanied by his budget message or report thereon, Council called for a duly-advertised public hearing, on the proposed bl0get, to be conducted Tuesday, JUDe 16, 1964, beginning at 7:30 P. M., in the Council Chamber, Ci ty Hall. - Mr. Lee Gilbert, on behalf of the Martinsville-Henry County Board of Realtors (of which he is president), informed Council that this group of realtors will be represented at each meeting of Council, as well as at each meeting of the Henry County Board of Supervisors, in the role of observers, meanwhile offering assistance to the Council in any way possible. - Messrs. Daniel Martin and Edd Hooper, by letter, requested Council to set aside the metered parking ~;paces at the east end of the City's Fayette Street Parking Lot as a market place for licensed retail peddlers of produce and like products, offering in exchange to pay rental fees along with parking fees; however, Council indicated that its opinion expressed May 12, 1964, with regard to the use of this lot for the sale of home-grown produce, did not envision and contemplate the use of these spaces by licensed retail peddlers. Furthermore, by way of confirmation, Council adopted the following resolution designating these spaces as a limited market place for those persons, properly