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2J TUESDAY APRIL 28, 1964 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor J. Frank Wilson presiding, was held Tuesday, April 28, 1964, beginning at 7:30 P. M., in the Council Chamber, City Hall, with all memb~s being present, viz., Mayor J. Frank Wilson; Vice-Mayor Fred T. Renick, l-'l. D.; Harry L. Boaz; Thomas J. Burch; and E. E. Stone. - After the invocation, Council approved as recorded the minutes of its regular meeting held April 14, 1964. - Attorney Douglas K. Frith, on behalf of PrillaIMn & Pace, Inc., appeared before Council and renewed his client's request preE3ented February 11, 1964, wherein business license tax relief was (and is being) sought for local contractors, either in the form of a reduction of the license tax rate or by exempting-- from gross receipts subject to licen:3e taxation--that business or service performed oLtside the corporate limits. Council indicated that if any relief is forthcoming in the near future such relief would be retroactive to May 1, 1964, the beginning of the new license tax year; meanwhile, Council directed Commissioner of the Revenue J. David Morris to conduct a study of the tax effect, both current and far-reaching, the exclusion from gross receipts of services performed outside the corporate limits would have upon the City. - Following its customary practice of alternating between the Auditor of Public Accounts of the Commonwealth of Virgini.a and a private accounting firm (on a one-year--three-year basis, respectively) for the conduct of the City's required annual audits, Council unanimously requested the firlll of William Z. Ford, CPA, to conduct the City's audit for the year ending June 30, 1964, completing three years in succession that this firm will have conducted the audit. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council adopted the following ordinances amending and/or revising the City's Traffic Code (i.e., Motor Vehicles and