LYNN – Despite having little room for movement in the fiscal year 2010 budget, city and school administrators are still working to restore hall monitor positions in secondary schools this September.Originally left out of the budget when it was passed in June, both Superintendent Catherine Latham and Mayor Edward J. Clancy Jr. have been searching for ways to bring back the hall monitors, who many parents and teachers credit in being the first line of defense when it comes to violence or personal issues in school.Latham had hoped to use some of the 15 available “to be decided” positions contained within the budget to hire the monitors back, but a huge spike in enrollment this summer has forced the superintendent to use those positions almost entirely on teachers.Clancy says bringing back the monitors can, and should still be done, but it will take some creative financing on the part of the city and school budget teams.”I really want to have them back because it is necessary that we do it for safety,” he said. “But it is going to be a dicey venture. It is going to be close.”Hall monitors are not teachers and are not involved with the Lynn Police, but are present inside middle and high schools as both disciplinarians and allies to the students.When the School Committee held its public hearing before approving the budget, more than a dozen students and parents turned out to speak in favor of the monitors, crediting them with everything from breaking up fights and preventing violence in school to helping students find jobs and loaning money for prom tickets.Clancy said many people in the city have also contacted his office with concerns about restoring the monitors in the school this summer.With the elimination of school resource officers from the police department budget, hall monitors have become doubly important as parents and teachers look to have someone besides busy vice principals to police the hallways.”It is going to be a close call, but we can get it done (before school starts),” he said. “Dr. Latham, (Business Administrator Kevin McHugh) and I are going to have to sit down and really sharpen the pencil to try and get this done, but this comes down on the side of being a safety mechanism.”Along with finding money within the budget, the city must sit down and agree to terms with the monitors on contract language, something it is expected to do in a meeting with teamsters Local 42, who represents the monitors, next week.