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.FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1989 A special and duly-called meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor L. D. Oakes presiding, was held Friday, April 14, 1989, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 1:00 P.M., for the purpose of further considering the City Manager's recommended 1989-90 City Budget by examining various departmental budget requests and by reviewing with the Martinsville City School Board that entity's 1989-90 budget requests and the supplemental information submitted therewith. 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 by Mayor Oakes of the purpose of this meeting, and before resuming its budget study/consideration, Council was informed by City Manager Brown that in informing Council at its special April 12th budget worksession, as he did, that no employee under his jurisdiction will receive more than 7-1/2% salary/wage increase in 1989-90, he inadvertently failed to mention that such a ceiling will apply only to employees who might receive "training and/or longevity" increases of 3'1/2%, plus the scheduled 4% all employees are to receive at July 1, 1989, as a "COLA" (cost-of-living allowance) increase. Not included in the 7-1/2% ceiling, Mr. Brown noted, are amounts eligible employees might receive as merit increases, for which lump-sum appropriations are set aside at the end of the expenditure requests for each fund. Mr. Brown also, in response to Council's recent request, presented a tabulation of appropriated amounts for 1988-89 salaries/wages of full-time personnel and a comparison thereof with 1989-90 requests, showing increases or decreases by amounts and percentages. This tabulation, as to totals and excluding the budgets of the "constitutional" offices, pointed to a total 1989-90 increase