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25: T)$SDAY DECEMBER 27. 1960 ,-- City Manager Hirst reported that since the last Cmh~cil meeting he has proposed a daily rate of $1.68 to Henry County officials for the board-and-keep of City prisoners confined at the Henry County Jail and that, subseq'Jently, the Henry County Board of Supervisors (on December 19, 1960) went on record as demanding a rate of $2.00 per prisoner per day, retroactive to July 1, 1960. Upon motion, . duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council accepted the two-dollar rate demanded by the County upon the condition that medical expenses of City prisoners while confined in the Henry County Jail will be borne by the County of Henry. City Manager Hirst also reported that a study is in progress pertaining to the water drainage problem recently cited by 111:-. Eddie NOI'T:lent, of the Music Bar, on East r~n Street and that permanent alleviation of the condition would involve considerable expense; whereupon Council suggested that the study be discontinued and that temporary measures be pursued from time to time towards alleviating the drainage condition. /- The Council was advised by the State Compensation Board that the salary and expense requests of the local constitutional officers for the calendar year 1961, as approved and recommended by Council October 11, 1960, have been granted by the Compensation Board; whereupon Council appropriated fram its General Fund Emergency Account the total sum of $691.67 to meet the City's increased requirements for these offices for the remaining six months of the City's fiscal year. - Council referred to the Planning Commission for its consideration and recommendation a petition submitted by Mr. F. B. Hill requesting the rezoning from "A-2 Residential" to ltB-1 Business" the rear portion (some fifty feet) of a lot owned by him and located on Memorial Boulevard adjacent to other property owned by him.