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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1988 0 An agreement entitled, "Lease & Concession Agreement", with Martinsville Phillies Professional Baseball, Inc. (Mr. J. Dennis Bastien, President), to "run" concurrently with the foregoing agreement with Hooker Furniture Corporation, for the use of English Field (this agreement with the Martinsville Phillies dated February 9, 1988); with sub-lessee to have exclusive use of concessions and concession facilities during term of this agreement and to have exclusive concession privileges with English Field; and with sub-lessee to pay rent to the City, on each June 1st of each year, in the sums of $3,000.00 for 1988, $3,000.00 for 1989, $3,500.00 for 1990, $4,000.00 for 1991, and $4,000.00 for 1992. City is to provide field maintenance, pre- game field preparation, next-daystadium clean-up, trash and refuse removal, a field person at each game, and all utilities (except club telephone). The following is a report prepared by Councilman McClain on matters involving the West Piedmont Planning District Commission: I would like to report to you briefly on the last meeting of the West Piedmont Planning District Commission. At that meeting the Staff presented a revision to the Fiscal Year '88 Administrative Budget which showed a reduction in operating expenditures of $42,514 (from $210,214 to $167,700) or 20%. The largest portion of the reduction came from downward revision in salaries, employee benefits and payroll taxes due to personnel changes which have had the effect of reducing the staff from six to four people. The current director Bob Dowd, however, plans to hire two additional planners. The staff also indicated that the time was appropriate to set the per capita contribution rate for the localities. The staff, supported by the Executive Committee, recommended that it be set a 38¢ per capita, the same as last year, fora totalof $91,573, or 47% of the WPPDC total budget revenues. I made a motion that, in light of the reduced expense budget and in light of the ever shrinking flow of Federal money through the WPPDC, the per capita rate should be lowered to 32~. This would have amounted to a revenue reduction for the WPPDC of $14,459 or only 49% of the amount by which this year's revenues will exceed this year's expenditures. However, my motion died for lack of a second, and a motion to keep the rate at 38¢: was adopted with only one dissenting vote. I find this a most incredible situation. At this time our Council is being asked to fund more and more programs either by our citizensor by state mandates. On the other hand, neither our tax base nor our revenues are increasing. It is, therefore, vital for us to look at every activity we support to determine if a reduction in funding can possibly be made.