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2~ TUESDAY -- JUNE 9. 1964 f'-- The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor J. Frank Wilson presiding, was held in the Council Chamber, City Hall, Tuesday, June 9, 1964, beginning at 7:30 P.M. All members were present, viz., Mayor J. Frank Wilson; Vice-Mayor Fred T. Renick, M.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 May 26, 1964. As a matter of record, City Manager Hirst called Council's attention to the proposed budget now before Council and to the public hearing on the budget scheduled for Tuesday, June 16, 1964. City Manager Hirst informed Council that the recent rate changes in Appalachian Power Company's electric tariffs, as approved by the State Corporation Commission, should reduce the annual cost of electric energy purchased by the City from Appalachian by some $47,000.00, and that the 1964-65 City Budget, when adopted, should reflect this reduction as well as a corresponding reduction in the Electric Fund's estimate of revenue from sale of electric energy. In keeping with a long-standing policy, Council directed that the City's electric tariffs also be revised to parallel Appalachian's new tariffs and, by the following ordinance, amended the Electric Department's tariffs accordingly: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE OPERATION OF THE ELECTRIC UTILITY SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF MARTINSVILLE - BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this ninth day of June, 1964, that the ordinance entitled IIAn Ordinance Prescribing Rules and Regulations for the Operation of the Electric Utility System, Hereinafter for Purposes of Brevity Referred to as the Department or the Department of Electricity, of the