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2' TUESDAY JUNE 23, 1964 In further consideration of the business license tax relief petition recently filed by Prillaman & Pace, Inc., contractors, Council--by resolution, as follows--adjm:ted the basis upon which local contractors may report their annual gross receipts for business license taxation purposes, thus granting license tax relief to local contractors: RESOLVED, by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this 23rd day of June, 1964, that persons and/or firms operating businesses within the corporate limits of the City of Martinsville, who or which are subject to gross receipts license taxes imposed under Section 4 of Chapter III of the City1s Business License Tax Ordinance, entitled nContractors and Contracting", shall be permitted to exclude from gross receipts (and the payment of local business license taxes thereon) each and every contract service performed outside the City1s corporate limits where compensation for such contract service exceeds the total sum of $10,000.00, provided that such contract service is or was performed pursuant to the awarding of such contract on a competitive bid basis. RESOLVED, further, that the effective date of this action will be retroactive to January 1, 1964, to the extent that local contractors who wish to take advantage of this revision Jllay do so in reporting 1964 gros" receipts for the license year beginning May 1, 1965. Mr. W. R. Broaddus, III, Attorney at Law but as a citizen representing a group of citizens residing in the vicinity of the Druid Hills Elementary School, appeared before Council and requested that curb-and-gutter be constructed on both sides of .".-. Indian Trail from Windsor Lane to Prospect Hill Drive and that sidewalk be constructed along one side of Indian Trail, all on a shared-cost basis, and that this work be authorized and constructed before the beginning of the new school year in September. Mr. Broaddus, along with his group, pointed out the hazardous traffic conditions in the area and expressed the conviction that these improvements are necessary for the protection of school children in the area. Council indicated that it will ,..- consider this petition during its forthcoming viewing of various projects for which similar petitions have been filed. -'-"-~'---'-_.__._._"_.,,,_...."--_.,_.~_....,---,._-, -.