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238 Steve Scott, President of C.H.I.P., requested that Council fund the program at $24,000 above the City Manager's proposed budget of $60,000, pointing out that C.H,I.P. has subsisted without local .funds from 1971 to the present time. He addressed himself to the benefits provided by C.H.I.P. to the Charlottesville community and publicly thanked the many volunteers and students who had worked with the program. Robert Logan, President of the Greenbrier Neighborhood Association, reported on a poll of neighborhood households that resulted in a 73% support of the school board budget (5% opposed, 22% undecided). Peter Munger, representing the Charlottesville Council for Quality Education, stated the Council's support for the school board budget~ citing the relationship between a city's economic health and the quality of education services it provides. He commended the school board's efforts. Nancy Newman, a Charlottesville City school teacher, spoke ! in favor of the school board'budget, saying she had 12 years teaching experience with a Master's degree, was a single mother with two teenage children and makes $16,500 per year. Sally Brown spoke in favor of the. school board budget and said that low salarias are an indication of the teachers being held in low regard by the City. She.~poin.t~d out that in other countries, as well as in some cities in this country, teachers are paid lower salaries than are mechanics. Steve Tharpe of the Albemarle-Charlottesville Theatre Company, Act I, requested that fees collected from cormnunity groups for the use of school auditoriums and other facilities be used for upkeep of the facilities. He said'~the fees had doubled in the last year, a financial burden on the theatre group, that the facilities themselves are deteriorated and in need of improvement and that use of the facilities is difficult to obtain. Richard Collins, Chairman of the Charlottesville Housing Advisory Board, supported C.H.I.P.'s request for funds, saying that he felt there was a lack of symmetry between the amount of praise and the amount of funds offered the program. Donna Goings, a Charlottesville City teacher, spoke in favor of the school board bUdget and thanked the school board for their careful and responsive budgeting this year. Kay Read, a Charlottesville City teacher, warned that Charlottesville teachers have been silent too long. She stated that Charlottesville teachers average less than $12,500 per year in salary hut are the best qualified in the state.~ She feels something is desperately wrong when those who build the Schools are paid more than those who build the foundations of society.