NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 952
SENATE BILL 52

AN ACT TO PROVIDE A RETROACTIVE SALARY SUPPLEMENT TO ACADEMIC AND VOCATIONAL TEACHERS, PRINCIPALS, AND SUPERVISORS IN CERTAIN STATE CHILD CARE INSTITUTIONS.

WHEREAS, Section 22.1 of Chapter 1053 of the Session Laws of 1959 appropriated from the General Fund of the State to the State Board of Education for the purpose of supplementing the salaries of public school academic and vocational teachers, principals, supervisors, and superintendents sums not to exceed seven million fifty‑five thousand, nine hundred twenty dollars ($7,055,920) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1960 and sums not to exceed seven million, two hundred twenty thousand, one hundred forty dollars ($7,220,140) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, which sums were contingent and would be paid only if General Fund Revenues for each year exceeded the following sums:
Fiscal Year 1959‑60	$238,234,371
Fiscal Year 1960‑61	$288,212,955
For each one million, four hundred eleven thousand, one hundred eighty‑four dollars ($1,411,184) that General Fund Revenues collected for the year 1959‑60 exceeded two hundred eighty‑three million, two hundred thirty‑four thousand, three hundred seventy‑one dollars ($283,234,371) a one per cent (1%) salary supplement would be paid to the eligible public school personnel employed in the said year; provided, that individual salaries would not be thereby cumulatively supplemented more than five per cent (5%). For each one million, four hundred forty‑four thousand twenty‑eight dollars ($1,444,028) that General Fund Revenues collected for the year 1960‑61 exceeded two hundred eighty‑three million, two hundred twelve thousand, nine hundred fifty‑five dollars ($283,212,955), a one per cent (1%) salary supplement would be paid to the eligible public school personnel employed in the said year; provided, that individual salaries would not be thereby cumulatively supplemented more than five per cent (5%). Percentages would be computed on the basis of 1958‑59 base State salary schedules; and
WHEREAS, General Fund Revenues for the fiscal year 1959‑60 exceeded two hundred eighty‑three million, two hundred thirty‑four thousand, three hundred seventy‑one dollars ($283,234,371) by twenty‑six million, nine hundred seventy‑three thousand, two hundred eighty‑four dollars ($26,973,284) and public school academic and vocational teachers, principals, supervisors, and superintendents received from such contingency appropriation a 1959‑60 salary supplement amounting to four and eighty‑one one‑hundredths per cent (4.81%) of base State salary schedules for the year 1958‑59; and
WHEREAS, General Fund Revenues for the year 1960‑61 have been estimated to exceed two hundred eighty‑three million, two hundred twelve thousand, nine hundred fifty‑five dollars ($283,212,955) by twenty‑six million eight hundred ninety‑seven thousand dollars ($26,897,000) and public school academic and vocational teachers, principals, supervisors, and superintendents are expected to receive from such contingency appropriation salary supplements amounting to five per cent (5%) of base State salary schedules for the year 1958‑59; and
WHEREAS, there are in certain child care institutions of the state academic and vocational teachers, principals, and supervisors who are paid according to the public school salary schedule; and whereas there was no contingency salary appropriation for such academic and vocational teachers, principals, and supervisors for the years 1959‑60 and 1960-61; and
WHEREAS, the General Assembly desires that all academic and vocational teachers, principals, and supervisors paid according to the public school salary schedule be provided for on an equal basis: Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State to the Department of Administration for the purpose of supplementing salaries of academic and vocational teachers, principals, and supervisors in the following child care institutions of the State paid according to the public school salary schedule sums not to exceed ninety‑eight thousand, six hundred twenty‑one dollars ($98,621) and according to the following schedule:
4.81%	5%
1959‑60	1960‑61	Total
N.C. School for the Deaf		$14,992	$15,704	$30,696
State School for the Blind and Deaf		16,019	17,606	33,625
Stonewall Jackson Training School		4,241	4,662	8,903
Morrison Training School		4,535	4,947	9,482
State Home and Industrial School for Girls		2,595	3,205	5,800
Eastern Carolina Training School		1,659	2,024	3,683
State Training School for Girls		1,619	2,031	3,650
Leonard Training School		607	2,175	2,782
						
	$46,267	$52,354	$98,621
Sec. 2.  The appropriation for salary supplements for the year 1959‑60 shall be used to provide a four and eighty‑one one‑hundredths per cent (4.81%) salary increase for eligible academic and vocational teachers, principals, and supervisors in the respective institutions. Actual percentages shall be computed upon the basis of the 1958-59 base State salary schedule for public school personnel.
Sec. 3.  The appropriation for salary supplements for the year 1960‑61 are contingent and shall be paid only if the General Fund Revenues for the year 1960‑61 exceed two hundred eighty‑three million, two hundred twelve thousand, nine hundred fifty‑five dollars ($283,212,955). For each one million, four hundred forty‑four thousand, twenty‑eight dollars ($1,444,028) that General Fund Revenues collected for the year 1960‑61 shall exceed two hundred eighty‑three million, two hundred twelve thousand, nine hundred fifty‑five dollars ($283,212,955) a one per cent (1%) salary supplement shall be paid to the eligible personnel employed in said year; provided, that individual salaries shall not be thereby cumulatively supplemented more than five per cent (5%). Actual percentages shall be computed upon the basis of the 1958‑59 base State salary schedule for public school personnel.
Sec. 4.  The Department of Administration is hereby directed to pay the aforesaid supplemental salary only to those eligible academic and vocational teachers, principals, and supervisors who were regularly employed in the respective child care institutions during a part or all of the regular school term ending prior to June 30, 1960 and June 30, 1961, respectively.
Sec. 5.  Deductions shall not be made under the provisions of Chapter 135 of the General Statutes, "Teachers and State Employees Retirement System Act", from that portion of the salaries paid in accordance with this Act.
Sec. 6.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 7.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1961.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1961.