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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1988 <br /> <br />Council acknowledged receipt of a report prepared by Mr. J. Ronnie Minter, the <br />City's Commissioner of the Revenue, in which tax relief for qualifying elderly <br />and/or disabled property owners, during the years 1982 through 1988, amounted <br />to a high of $15,402.30 (for 1988) and a low of $9,725.66 (for 1982). The <br />number of qualifying applicants ranged from 124 in 1987 to 167 in 1983. <br /> <br />In receiving the (1987) Annual Report of the Martinsville Volunteer Fire <br />Company, presented by Mr. Bill Hooper (now past President) and Mr. Jimmy Ussery <br />(current President), Council commended this organization and its members for <br />the outstanding service rendered the City and its citizens over the years <br />(since 1949) by the Volunteer Fire Company. <br /> <br />At the request of the City's Electoral Board, represented at this meeting by <br />its Secretary, Mr. Arne R. Christensen, Council unanimously appropriated (from <br />General Fund surplus) the sum of $2,220.97 for salary and fringe benefits for <br />the month of June for the successor to Miss Gloria Vass, City Registrar, who <br />will retire as of June 30, 1988, during which month the appointee-successor <br />will be in training. Council also authorized an increase in the per diem <br />(i.e., per election) compensation of precinct election officials from $45.00 to <br />$50.00 as well as an increase in each precinct official's election-day meal <br />allowance from $4.00 to $5.00; and there being some forty (40) such officials <br />and two elections scheduled between now and June 30, 1988, the sum required <br />(from General Fund surplus)will be approximately $480.00 for the remainder of <br />the current fiscal year. <br /> <br /> <br />