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<br />412 <br /> <br />TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1986 <br /> <br />WHEREAS the General Assembly also mandated an increase in the average <br />classroom teacher salary of 10% in each year of the 1986-88 Biennium <br />unless the local school division's 1986-87 average classroom teacher <br />salary equals or exceeds $24,537 and its budgeted 1987-88 average <br />classroom teacher salary equals or exceeds $26,897; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS the additional cost to the City of Martinsville School <br />Division of the mandated average classroom teacher salary in 1986-87 <br />is $368,462; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS the additional cost to the City of Martinsville School <br />Division of the mandated average classroom teacher salary in 1987-88 <br />will be approximately $469,000; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS the total additional cost over the Biennium to the City of <br />Martinsville School Division to achieve the mandated average classroom <br />teacher salary level for the existing number of teachers will be <br />$837,462; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS under the computational methodology recommended by the JLARC <br />staff report and adopted by the General Assembly, the state revenues <br />to which the City of Martinsville School Division is entitled have <br />increased by only approximately $110,000 for the 1986-87 school year <br />and will increase by only approximately $327,000 for the 1987-88 <br />school year or a total increase of approximately $437,000 over the <br />Biennium; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS the result of allocating the state educational revenue to the <br />City of Martinsville School Division under the computational <br />methodology recommended by the JLARC staff report and adopted by the <br />General Assembly, while at the same time increasing the average <br />classroom teacher salary to the mandated level, will be either an <br />increased tax burden to the citizens of the City of Martinsville of <br />approximately $400,000, or a serious deterioration in the quality of <br />education provided by the City of Martinsville School Division; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS the members of the Martinsville City Council and the <br />Martinsville School Board do not believe that such an incredibly heavy <br />additional tax burden or a deterioration in the quality of education <br />provided by the Martinsville School Division was the intended result <br />of the General Assembly in adopting the computational methodology <br />recommended by the JLARC staff report; <br /> <br />NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Martinsville City School Board <br />and the Martinsville City Council do jointly request that the Joint <br />Legislative Audit and Review Commission during the second phase of its <br />study of state funding for education, seek, identify and recommend <br />ways to alter the computational methodology originally recommended for <br />the allocation of state educational revenues so that the citizens of <br />the City of Martinsville will not have to face the option of accepting <br />a disproportionate increase in local taxation or accepting a <br />significant deterioration in the quality of education provided by the <br />Martinsville School division. <br />