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401 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1986 ,"~. salaries (including extra stipends) for 1983 and 1987 were shown as $29,842.00 and $37,020.00, respectively. ,...- In an analysis of current teacher salaries and a State mandate relating to teacher salaries (the analysis having been prepared by Mr. Ronald B. Epperly, Business Manager of the City School System), Council was informed that Martinsville's average classroom teacher's salary for 1986-87 is now $24,863.00 and (that) to qualify for "transitional payments" in 1987-88 of $239,000.00, the School Board must (1) increase each step of the Bachelor's pay scale, plus all stipends, by 10% ~ provide for an average classroom teacher's salary of $26,897.00 in 1987-88. In the latter event, Council was informed that an increase of 8.2% will be required, excluding "turnover" effects and increasing s Upends. As to the draft of the proposed resolution, several members of Council indicated difficulty in supporting it, as now prepared, because the tone of the resolution implied that current State funding has decreased overall during the past year or past several years, when, actually, State funding has been increased year by year but not to the extent as to off-set the "losses" of some $305,700.00 for the support of certain programs. Accordingly, Council sug- gested that Superintendent Calkins and City Manager Brown re-word the resolution for Council's further consideration. For the City School System's regular programs (i.e., excluding Federal program activities, cafeteria operations, bUilding maintenance, and pupil transpor- tation), records indicated 233.7 employees in 1977-78 and 244 employees in 1986-87, during which time a full-day kindergarten was activated and the former Joseph Martin Elementary School was closed.