§ 63. Department of Education: Budget; Salaries.

(a) Budget.

In preparing its estimate of requirements for each fiscal year, the Board shall submit an estimate of its requirements during the ensuing year in the forms required by the Board of Estimates. Except with respect to salaries, provision for which is made in the next paragraph, the Board shall have the power to apply the funds appropriated for each of the above designated purposes among the several items making up to the total of the appropriation for that purpose, as it may determine.

(b) Salaries.

The salaries of the superintendents, assistant superintendents, directors, supervisors, assistant supervisors, principals, assistant principals, teachers, secretaries, clerks and employees shall be fixed by the Board, not to exceed in the aggregate the amount appropriated for such personnel in the Ordinance of Estimates; provided, however, that salaries of classified employees, whose classification is common to departments other than the Department of Education, shall not be fixed at a higher rate than is fixed for the same classification in other City departments, except with the approval of the Board of Estimates.

The Board, in submitting its budget each year, shall also include a maximum compensation scale for superintendents, assistant superintendents, directors, supervisors, assistant supervisors, principals, assistant principals, teachers and all other employees except those whose classification is common to departments other than the Department of Education, and no increase above the maximum scale shall be made during the ensuing year without the approval of the Board of Estimates.