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Budget —

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tion. In the 1988-89 year, Cooper
said, those costs. represented 74
percent of the operating budget.
Payroll, she said, “is literally cat-
ing up our budget."

Cooper cited four factors she said
will pressure the budget this year:
GST payable on services, which

the board cannot recover, the

effect of inflation, including a
smaller GST component, on sup-
plies; wage and benefit settlements

for personnel; and a decrease in |
_ the student population, which will —

lower the block amount. Enrolment
drops cost the board $27,000 in
provincial funding this year. “With
just supplies and services we're
going to be looking at a huge
deficit," she said.

Cooper also noted the class size
agreement with the Terrace District
Teachers’ Association as a factor
that puts District 88’s costs above
the provincial average. The agree-
ment, put strictly in terms of
teachers to students, costs the
district $1.3 million more than the
cost would be if the district had
the provincial student-teacher ratio,
she said. "It’s a choice we made,
and in many ways it’s a good
choice, but we’ve lost our budget-
ing flexibility.”

Trustees are once again facing
uncertainty as the budget deadline
approaches — the provincial block
amount and the budget instruction
manual are coming out late, and
there is no telling if any additional
amounts will come from the
ministry after budgets are com-
plete. Last year money for imple-
mentation of the “Year 2000 cut-
riculum “changes came as a
separate grant to districts and the
ministry also issued extra grants to
heip districts with contract settle-
ments.

There is no indication as yet if
either of those moves will be re-
peated this year. "It’s very unfor-
tunate," Cooper said. "The infor-
mation comes at the last minute,
It’s very distressing —- we should
have that information in Decem-
ber."

The provincial block apparently
doesn’t take into account inflation,
the cost of the Year 2000 pro-
grams, or wage and benefit settle-
ments. "We. have a huge work
force and not enough funds to
meet their needs. It’s quite a crisis,
and I don’t know how we’re going
to meet it," Cooper stated.

Dave Parker |
MLA. for Skeené

635-4215

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