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176 Mr. Barnes recommended that a system of prioritizing streets for bricking be started. Mr. Buck recommended that the following be involved in the prioritizing of bricking side streets: merchants, Planning Commission, Urban Design Task Force, and the Downtown Board of Architectural Review. The matter was deferred until the next meeting. Mr. Buck presented a resolution opposing State mandating of teacher salary increases and requesting that the Joint Legislative Audit Review Commission methodology be deferred until further study can be done. Dr. Gunter stated that she felt most of the points in the resolution are well taken but that she would prefer to make the point that Charlottesville has made efforts and b'efore mandating, further study should be done and State funding should be provided. Mr. Buck moved the resolution as amended by Dr. Gunter, Dr. Gunter seconded the motion and it was unanimously approved by Council WHEREAS, Item 155 of the Budget Bill presented by Governor Charles Robb to the General Assembly of Virginia, now under consideration by the General Assembly, contains language requiring each local governing body and school board in the Commonwealth to appropriate local funds sufficient to increase ~the salaries of public school classroom teachers by 10% in each year of the 1986-88 biennium; and WHEREAS, such Budget Bill provides for penalties to those localities failing to provide such mncreases; and WHEREAS, the Charlottesville City Council and City School Board provided a 10% increase to every classroom teacher in the Charlottesville public schools in the current year and the immediately preceding year, notwith- standing the fact that increased funding received from the state in those years did not cover the cost of such increases; and WHEREAS, Charlottesville has historically and consistently ranked among the top localities mn the Commonwealth of Virginia in all measures of local effort for public school funding; and WHEREAS, this proposed funding mandate under con- sidera'tion by the General Assembly,. when combined w.ith the other proposed changes in state funding methodology and currently inequitable distribution formulas for public education funds, has the effect of penalizing those localities that have consistently made strong local efforts to fund public education; and WHEREAS, this proposed funding m~ndate is,.especially burdensome to localities in a year in which they are facing increased fiscal stress as a result of the elimination of federal general revenue sharing, as well as the impact of other federal budget cuts resulting from the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act; and WHEREAS, the Joint Legislative and Audit Review Commission has been asked by the General Assembly to update its study of local fiscal stress and any significant change in the distribution of public school funding should await the outcome of, and be coordinated with, the results of that updated study; and