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TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1989 Council acknowledged receipt of a copy of a letter from Mr. Duane S. Dahlquist, Director of the City of Danville's Electric Department and as President of the Blue Ridge Powe~ Agency, representing the several municipal electric systems located in.southwest Virginia, and addressed to Mr. John W. Vaughan, Executive Vice President of Appalachian Power Company (APCO), inquiring as to why APCO can justify, as it has recently, a series of retail rate decreases without proposing or initiating a rate decrease for its wholesale customers. Council established and/or scheduled work-sessions for consideration of City Manager Brown's proposed 1989-90 City Budget, as follows: 1. Friday, April 7, 1989, at 2:00 P.M., in the Council Chamber, to consider agency budget requests; 2. Wednesday, April 12, 1989, at 2:00 P.M., in the Council Chamber, to continue consideration of agency budget requests and to consider departmental budget requests; and 3. Friday, April 14, 1989, at 2:00 P.M., in the Council Chamber, to consider the City School Board's budget requests, along with income data, for 1989-90. Council also called for two duly-advertised public hearings to be conducted by Council on the Manager's proposed/recommended 1989-90 City Budget, as presented or as amended, with the first of these hearings scheduled for Friday, May 12, 1989, in the Council Chamber, beginning at 2:00 P.M., and the second to be conducted by Council at its regular meeting scheduled for Tuesday, May 23, 1989, beginning at 7:30 P.M. Council acknowledged receipt of a monthly financial report for the period ended February 28, 1989, as prepared by Finance Director Richard D. Fitts, and the Annual Report (for 1988) of the City's Fire Department, as presented by Fire Chief W. Lewis Reeves.