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~oo TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1959 By a recorded and unanimous vote, Council appropriated the sum of $900.00 to the budget for the office of the City Treasurer to pl."ovide a requested amount to enable Treasurer William R. Shmnate to employ an additional clerk for his office at a salary of not mare than $225.00 per month, beginning March 1, 1959 to the end of the City's current fiscal year, the appropriation being transferred from the General Fund ~ergency Account. Council continued for further study a sunnnary of capital outlay projects which City Manager Hirst presented on January 27, 1959, suggesting that Council give these pl."ojects consideration in advance of the preparation and adoption of the City's 1959-60 budget. Announcement was made of a "pre-trial" conference scheduled for February' 13, 1959 on the petition presented late in 1958 by residents of the Druid Hills- Forest Park areas just outside the City's corporate limits, requesting that these areas be annexed to the City. On behalf of Mr. C. T. Williams, Jr., President of Southwestern Virginia Gas Company, Mr. William Starkey of the Martinsville division of the company relayed an expression of Mr. Williams' appreciation to Council of the courtesies extended Mr. Williams during his February 5th conference with Council in connection with the preparation of a new gas franchise. A motion by Courx::ilman Burch, seconded by Councilman Donavant, that a committee of citizens be appointed to sit in with and advise Council in its study and pr'eparation of a new gas franchise failed to carry, Councilmen Burch and Donavant voting affirmatively on the motion and Councilmen Brown, Stone, and Shultz voting in the negative.