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L08 TUESDAY.. APRIL 16. 1991 A special and duly-called meeting of the Council of the City of!Mart-insville, Virginia, with Mayor Allan McClain presiding, was held Tuesday, April 16, 1991 in the Council Chamber, City Hallt beginning at 10:00 A.M. for the purpose of conducting a budget work session. All members of Council were present: Allan McClain, Mayor; Alfred T. Groden, Vice-Mayor; George B. Adams, Jr.; L.D. Oakes; and Clyde L. Williams. · After the invocation, Council began consideration of proposed changes in the City Manager's budget proposal. City Manager Brown provided::Councilwith a list of revislono to hls oriqinal budqet proposal and revised fund balances. Among the changes proposed by Mr. Brown were the following items: (l) the removal of the 3% cost-of-living index increase for employees under the City Manager; (2) t~e reduction in the proposed sewer rate increase of 44% to 12.5% (an increase. from $.80 to $.90 per thousand gallons); (3) the deletion of'the $90,000 appropriation for the construction of offices for probation and the Commonwealth's Attorney in the basement of City Hall; and (4) the reduction in the projected expenditures of various agencies' budgets as directed by Council. Mr. Brown reported that he had met with representatives of Tultex Corporation and Sara Lee Knit Products, who had asked him to relay their "concern" with the original proposed increases in water and sewer rates. Mr. Brown explained that the reduction-in the proposed sewer rate increase was possible by recalculating the cost of the buy-back of capacity in the City's Wastewater Treatment Plant from the Henry County Public Service Authority. Mr. Brown noted that the revised General Fund balance as of 6/30/92 had been improved to $397,770 as a result of the proposed revisions. The Water Fund revised Fund balance was estimated tobe $373,797. The Sewer Fund revised