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TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1989 Mr. J. Ronnie Minter, City Commissioner of the Revenue, apprised Council of the fact that the Board of Equalization for the 1988 general reassessment of taxable real estate within the City of Martinsville has completed its assignment, having conducted seven meetings and having considered forty applications for adjustment/relief on sixty-seven separate parcels of properties. Mr. Minter reported that the original 1988 general assessment of taxable real estate was in total $415,543,250.00, which included $6,737,661.00 in new construction value and improvements; and that Equalization Board's changes resulted in a reduction (from the original assessment) of $2,725,750.00, most of which affected one local industry's real estate values. After these changes and net reduction, the City's taxable real estate now is valued at $412,817,500. By letter to City Manager Brown under date of May 17, 1989, and in person, Mrs. Melinda Carter Penn, Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Martinsville, recommended that the following security measures be provided by the City for the General District Courtroom and the General District Court Clerk's office at an estimated total cost of $5,150.00 (excluding salaries for a part-time security officer and a victim-witness coordinator): 1. Convert Room #139 into a holding for room for prisoners: 2. Install bullet-proof plastic shield over existing open-work iron railing; 3. Install metal detector at hallway entrance to courtroom; 4. Provide funds to employ part-time security guard to operate metal detector when court is in session; 5. Provide "No Admittance" signs on witness room and side corridor entrances; 6. Install telephone at judge's bench; 7. Install "Emergency Only" doorway between General District Court Clerk's office and Commissioner's office;