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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1989 City's General Fund contribution increased from $3,128,000 in 1980-81 to $4,985,000 in 1988-89, or by '59.37%. Average daily pupil membership, the School Board reported, seems to have stabilized, after dropping from 3,504 in 1980-81 to 2,876 in 1988-89, which put the total cost per pupil at $1,909.00 in 1980-81 (and because of declining enrollment and inflation) to $4,006.00 in 1988-89. For 1988-89, local school operations cost a net of $33,460.00 less than estimated or budgeted; and, after 1989-89, authorized debt service will consist of annual payments, beginning 1988-89 for a period of twenty years, to the State Literary Fund against a loan of $754,682.00 to finance the cost of replacing roofs onvarious local school buildings. As of November 6, 1989, the School Board reported a total number of teachers of 209, of which 158 are classroom teachers, with an average base salary of $28,510.00 annually which, with a Master's Degree plus additional teaching duties, could reach an average of $30,467.00. Lowest annual salary for teaching personnel for 1989-90 is $21,567.00 and highest annual salary for this group for 1989-90 is $45,504.00. Presented, next, was a 1990-92 composite index of local ability-to-pay, based on an analysis by the State of Virginia of income tax returns (for 1987) filed through Martinsville employers and, too, based on all such reported income as well as excluding 622 non-resident returns. The total number of school system employees (including those of the Cafeteria and SchoolBus divisions) was listed at 349 for 1989-90, compared with 399 personnel in 1979-80 (excluding CETA employees in Federal programs terminated in school year 1981-82).