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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1988 the system. Supporting the School Board and urging that Council approve the Board's 1988-89 budget ~equest as presented and as incorporated in the City Manager's recommended 1988-89 City Budget were some fifteen parents of children in the system as well as Ms. Pat Walmsley and Mr. Charles Hairston of the Martinsville Education Association. One of these parents (Mr. Bruce Dallas), however, suggested that savings can be attained by reducing the Board's administrative staff, implying that there's "fat" in the Board's central office (as well'as in the City Hall). Also, opposition to any reduction in the School Board's 1988-89 budget request was in the form of a petition signed by some sixty citizens/parents, some of whom spoke to this matter before the Council. After some discussion in which Council apprised the citizens of the budgetary problems confronting Council and in which, too, Council invited these citizens to express their preferences as to ways and means of financing the proposed 1988-89 City Budget, School Board Chairman Carter, speaking as a taxpayer, urged that Council adopt the budget as presented without increasing any local taxes and without imposing any new charges or fees. Council accepted and placed on first reading a proposed ordinance (No. 88-5) which, if adopted, will amend Section 12-140 of the City Code to conform to the last update by the Virginia General Assembly of the Virginia Motor Vehicle Code. Upon being informed that the Martinsville-Henry County Economic Development Corporation has indefinitely "tabled" a request for a statement of its position on a proposed "Port-of-Entry" designation for the Central Virginia area, Council unanimously "tabled" a resolution designed to express Council's support of efforts to obtain such a designation for that area.