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TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1991 Mayor..McClain suggested that this item be placed on the August 13, 1991 Council agenda for discussion. Council considered a report by the Commissioner of Revenue on the first annual review of Ordinance No. 90-5 establishing a blanket business license for Promotional shows and sales. Mr. J. Ronnie Minter reported that the City had received $469.24 in blanket business license revenue since the adoption of Ordinance No. 90-5 and that if all of the vendors who have done business in promotional shows had been classified as itinerant merchants, the City would have received $2,850. Several Councilmen commented on the sales taxes paid to the City by these vendors, noting that the City was collectir.=./very little revenue from them in the form of sales taxes. Mr. Minter explained that vendors who do not reside in the City report sales under sales tax numbers which are credited to the locality in which the vendor resides. Mr. Minter and Ms. Wanda Martin, Manager of Liberty Fair Mall, stated that they would work to assure that all vendors possessed a Virginia sales tax number. Councilman Oakes stated that he felt the blanket business license Ordinance was working well in that it assisted in attracting vendors and customers to Martinsville. Several Councilmen noted that the intent of the Ordinance was to help in promoting the City and to match the practices of other localities with regard to promotional shows and sales. Council considered authorizing 'the City Manager to execute two lease agreements involving two separate parcels of City-owned property previously used for City Farmpurposes as follows: (1) a lease agreement with Calvin F. Nolen for 238.366 acres located in the Reed Creek District of Henry County (5-year lease, with 60-day notice of cancellation at the end of any one-year period, with annual rental of $1,500); and (2) a lease agreement with William H. Martin and Fred T. Martin for 15 acres of land adjacent to the City Prison