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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1989 A special and duly-called meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor L. D. Oakes presiding, was held Wednesday, April 12, 1989, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 2:00 P.M., for the purpose of continuing its study of City Manager Brown's recommended 1989-90 City Budget, including the receiving of presentations by representatives of the various agencies and City departments involved. All members of Council were present, viz., L. D. Oakes, Mayor; Clyde L. WilliamS, Vice-Mayor; William C. Cole, Jr.; Alfred T. Groden; and Allan McClain. After the stating of the purpose of this meeting by Mayor Oakes, Council began examining expenditure requests submitted by various agencies/organizations and departments, beginning first with the 1989-90 requests filed for the Registrar's Office and the City Electoral Board, represented by former Mayor William D. Hobson, a member and Secretary of the Electoral Board, and by Mrs. Ercell Cowan, Registrar. Council tentatively approved the sum of $800.00 for travel expense by the Registrar, $800.00 for travel expense by the Electoral Board, $1,500.00 as compensation of the part-time Assistant Registrar (plus sufficient funds for two weeks' full-time pay while the Registrar is on vacation), proportionate adjustments in fringe benefits, $775.00 for office equipment, $600.00 for office furniture, nothing for computer equipment, $700.00 for election officials' training seminars, and a 6% increase in the compensation of election officials for each election served. Mrs. Betty M. Wooldridge, Director of the Blue Ridge Regional Library, and Mrs. Pam Mason, Coordinator of the recently-organized New Reader Program, appeared before Council and described accomplishments already achieved in teaching a number of adults (who, before the program, could not read) how to read, in