Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 388

A. Teachers' Salaries. The ordinary budget of the Department contained a new salary scale minus the cost of living bonus which is paid by the local bodies in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and Haifa, thus reducing the budget of the central administration by ... ... ... ... ... £P. 5,000 B. Janitors, School Rent, etc. By debiting the local bodies (Tel-Aviv, Haifa, and the the larger colonies) with the expenditure for Janitors, rent, etc., further cuts were made amounting to £P. 4,000 C. Administrative Expenses. Various cuts were made, the most important being the transfer of the expenditure entailed in the collection of the school fees to the local bodies amounting to £P. 500 D. In grants to schools and unforeseen expenses cuts were made to the extent of ... ... ... ... £P. 2,( Thus the cuts in expenditure produced an economy of £P. 11,000 The amount still required for balancing the budget was obtained from the following increases in the income : Palestine Government about ... ... £P. 7,500 a b. Direct share of the Yishub about ... £P. 2,000 Total...... £P. 9,500 From the above must be deducted the reduced contribution of the P.I.C.A. £P. 1,000 £P. 8,500 Total............£P. 20,000 The Schools. The direct contribution of the Yishub increased, as stated above, by only £P. 2,000 as against 5693, but indirectly, through takingover certain services, the contribution of the Yishub amounted to £P. 12,200, as follows : . 1. A direct addition to the 5694 Education Budget ... £ P. 2,000 2. The maintenance of Janitors in the schools of Tel- Aviv, Haifa and colonies, the cost of which is borne by the respective municipalities ... ... 2,000 3. Rent of the schools ... ... ... ... ... 700 4. Expenditure of the school-fee collectors' office ... 1,300 5. Cost of living bonus to teachers in Jerusalem, Tel- Aviv and Haifa, which does not appear in the ordinary budget ... ... ... ... ... 2,800 6. The amount short for completing the former scale of the teachers' salaries, which was obtained from the teachers' contributions to the Keren Hayesod in 5694-5695, and which does not appear in the ordinary budget ... ... ... ... ... 2,600 The Yishub thus increased its contribution by ... ... £P. 12,200 388