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14 TUF.:s DAY FEB~UA~~ 13, 1962 petitioner and to prepare far C our:c iI's consideration an agreement setting forth the City's position as to the status of said existing contract in the event the entire property is annexed to the City. By letter or petition, the Albert Harris Parent-Teacher Association requested that Council give consideration to appointing a Negro to membership on the City School Board when the next vacaney occurs. City Manager Hirst presented for Council's consideration, preparatory to requested action at Council's February 27th meeting, a proposed Welfare budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, Mr. Hirst expressing concurrence in the requests pertaining to the Welfare Department's assistar:ce program. City Manager Hirst repcrted that the State Department of Taxation's Division of Mapping and Reappraisals has assigned Mr. William G. Foster to the City of Martinsville to assist the City's Board of Assessors in the conduct of the current quadrennial reassessmen t of local taxable pr'operty. Further, :Mr. Hirst relayed the Department of Taxation's suggestion that Council establish for application in the current reassess:rrJ9nt the ratio of assessed valuation to appraised valuation, whereupon Counci 1 unanimously determired that such ratio shall be fifty per cent (50%) for the tax levy years 1963, 1964, 1965, and 1966, thus continuing the S aIDe ratio as applied in the 1958 reassessment. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council adopted the following ordinance entitled, ftAN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR 'TIiE LEVY AND COLIECTION OF A LICENSE TAX FROM OWNERS OF MOTOR VEHICIES, TRAILERS, AND SEMI-TRAILERS OPERATED IN THE CITY OF MARTINSVILLE, VIRGINIA", continuing the rate of taxation for the license tax year beginning March 15, 1962, as was in effec t for the license tax year beginning March 15, 1961: