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1 JULY 23, 1953 TUES DAY --- After receiving a report from City 11anager Mathewson ani Vice-Mayor Craig on the recent Federal-State-Local Governmental Functions meeting sponsored by the Public Affairs Conunittee of the Virginia State Chamber of Coml1erce and :181d in Richmond, Virginia on July 23, 1953, Council unanimously approved the 10Vf bid of $480,933.hl submitted by McDowell & Wood, Contractors, of Salem, Virginia, to the Virginia Department of Highways for t.'rJ.e construction of the proposed Route 220 Thoroughfare. - Council, then, requested City ManaGer Mathewson to inqu::rc of the Department of Highways as to the possibilities of widening River Hill Road from the 19h6 corporate limits to the present corporate limits, making this project a part of the present Route 220 Thoroughfare project. Council, next, aclmowledr;ed a notice of application to the State Corporation ~- i~ i Commission field ,'rith said Commission by the firm of Hiatt & Williams, doing business as Fairystone Bus Lines, for certificate to operate a bus service over certain proposed routes. In a final action, Council received and acknowledged the follovang letter from Hr. Frank Hodges, of County-City Laundry Corporation, regardir.g the local busi- ,- ness license tax im~}osed on local laundries a::1d clFJ-cleaninr; establishments. Earlier this year the vvriter appeared before you as spokesman for a majority of the dryclcaning an:l lalmdering firms in Martinsville, asking for an adjustment in the license rate applied to these industries to brim; the license tax paid by us to a fair and equitable oilsis as compared with other types of busimsses and industries in the city. As the result of this hearing, a cOr:1rGittee W3.S appointed by the Mayor to study the facts in the case and make a recommendation back to the Council. Four members of the corrmlittee are city of:'icials with the V'lriter liein;; the fifth :rrember. A majority of the connni ttee members recently voted to take no action on the rnatter L-l question until the services of Dr. Rowland Egger of the Bureau of Public Administration of the University of Virginia could be obtained. Inasmuch as it probably will be several weeks yet before Dr. EgGer can meet with the cOIT'JTlittee, if at all, this matter is still pending.