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TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1988 1. Total 1988-89 cost of 1% in all salaries-wages for all school system personnel: $75,273.00; Estimated average annual salary for all 217 full-time equivalent certificated instructional personnel for 1987-88 will be $27,012.00 and the required minimal average annual salary for such personnel for 1988-89 will be $29,710.00 and for 1989-90 $31,493.00; if less, there can be a "loss" in State funding: The beginning annual salary for new teachers in 1987-88 is (or was) $18,200.00, which is being exceeded in 1988-89 by beginning salaries in surrounding school divisions, with the exception of Patrick County; and the highest local teacher salary for 1987-88, including summer school and coaching stipends, is $39,516.00; and The proposed 1988-89 School Budget reflects: 5.2% increase over 1987-88; 8.2% increase in net local cost over 1987-88; 7.3% average increase in teacher salaries; 6.0% average increase in differentiated salaries for all other personnel; 91.2% in personnel costs; and 8.8% in non-personnel costs. Dr. Calkins also informed Council that preliminary procedures are underway to develop a renovation plan (and to determine the estimated cost) for the Martinsville Junior High School, that consideration is being directed toward the eventual removal of asbestos from City school buildings, and that (through the City's state legislators, aided by City Manager Brown and other interested officials and citizens) efforts are being exerted to reverse the penalization of Martinsville, (inherent in the State Department of Education's and/or the State of Virginia's funding formulae for public education), because of several factors, including erroneous State income tax data relating to Martinsville's local effort. Additional discussion of this subject matter pointed to intentional shifting by the State Department of Education and/or the Virginia General Assembly of the cost burden (of providing public education) to the local governments.