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176 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1989 jurisdiction of the City Manager, shall become effective January 1, 1990. (Not~: a copy of this policy is not included in these minutes but is on file in the office of the Personnel Operations Supervisor.) Council continued to its forthcoming November 14th regular meeting, for further consideration, Councilman McClain's recent suggestion that Council consider changing its present schedule of conducting its two monthly meetings on the second and fourth Tuesday nights to an arrangement whereby one meeting each month will be conducted during the day-time hours to better accommodate these citizens who may be unable to attend night meetings as well as to have available, only when necessary, staff personnel. Meanwhile, one parent present pointed out that it would be most difficult and inconvenient for parents of scho.ol-age children to attend any day-time meeting, whereas Mr. Joseph E. Finley (who recently retired from the City School system's administrative staff) observed that, from experience with day-time meetings held by the City School Board, issues under consideration bring--or do not bring--citizens out to meetings, not the time of the meetings. Council congratulated Mayor Oakes upon being elected Third Vice President of the Virginia Muncipal League at the League's 1989 Conference held October 15th - 17th in Fairfax, Virginia, which conference was attended by Mayor Oakes, Vice-Mayor Williams, and City Manager Brown. Reporting on matters of great interest and importance considered at the Conference, Messrs. Oakes, Williams and Brown cited such subjects as annexation and the proposed restructuring of Virginia cities, on which new legislation is being proposed by the Grayson Commission, illegal use of drugs, funding of environmental-and-other programs, recycling of refuse/waste, co-generation of energy, mandated programs,