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FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1989 eliminate 17.5 positions (12 being teachers) for 1989-90. The board's proposed teacher salary scale for 1989-90 begins with $21,567.00 for holders of Bachelor's Degrees and $24,100.00 for those with Master's Degrees with 0-to-2 years' experience, and ends with $36,422.00 and $38,955.00, respectively, for teachers with 37-or-more years of teaching experience. After inquiring as to whether the School!Board might consider in its future deliberations the closing of a school within the City, Councilman Cole commended the School Board for its dedicated efforts toward quality education for Martinsville's public school students and, at the same time, Mr. Cole described criticism from some areas of the School Board's recommended 1989-90 budget requests (reflecting the reduction in personnel hereinbefore cited) as unwarranted; moreover, Mr. cole went on record as approving the School Board's recommended 1989-90 budget, as presented. In response to a request jointly presented by the City's Department of Social Services (represented by Mr. William T. Moore, Board Chairman, and Mrs. Pat S. Conrad, Director of the department), the Martinsville City School System (represented by Mrs. William F. Stone, Jr., Board Member, and Dr. Larry J. Kellogg, Administrative Assistant for Instruction), and the Patrick Henry Drug & Alcohol Council (represented by its Director, Mr. James M. Tobin), Council tentatively agreed to appropriate for one year only, i.e., for 1989-90, the sum of $20,000.00 to help finance the jointly-sponsored Parents-and-Tots Together Program for 1989-90 which will be operated by a $50,000.00 budget next year and is designed to prepare children four-years-of-age for the beginning of public school education. This progra~ and its benefits were supported by several persons present, including Mr. Jan C. Reed, Director of Court Services for the