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Show State Authority Employed to Fix Salary Budget L. John Nuttall, superintendent of Salt Lake City schools met jointly with the Alpine district school board and teachers association board of directors Tuesday on request of the Alpine Teachers association and discussed dis-cussed the matter of working out a teacher's salary budget for this district. dis-trict. Mr. Nuttall is being recognized recogniz-ed as an authority on this work in the state and has already been employed em-ployed by several districts to set up a basis on which district teachers should be paid. In his discussion of the question with the board Mr. Nuttall assured both the teachers and school board that no other district salary set up would be used as a basis for this vicinity, but that the salary arrangement arrange-ment would be based on the ability of the district to pay and the individual indi-vidual teachers training, ability to teach, years of service, etc. For a number of years individual teachers and teacher groups have felt that the Alpine district salaries were not just right as between the various schools and groups and it is generally felt that when a schedule of pay is worked out by an outside and disinterested person these groups will have less to argue about. However, the ability of the taxpayer tax-payer to pay will of necessity be the determining factor in reaching the figure for the teachers total budget. After that it will naturally become the problem of the teachers and school people to make their own division di-vision of the salary fund and this idea of having Mr. Nuttall work out the salary schedule will likely re-leave re-leave the superintendent and board of a lot of headaches. The board agreed with the teachers teach-ers association to jointly employ Mr. Nuttall to undertake the job and the first meeting of the committee com-mittee appointed to work on the matter is tentatively set for March 16th. The committee includes A. B. Anderson, An-derson, T. A. Barratt and Superintendent Superin-tendent David Gourley of the district, dis-trict, and Dorothy Jones, Margaret Thurman, Basil Dorton, J. M. Walker, Walk-er, Alfred Rogers, LaVere Wadley and Erval Christensen of the teachers teach-ers association. |