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Last week the board of School |
District 88 submitted an operat-"
ing budget to the. Ministry. of

Education for $37, 609,347, a bal- _

_ anced budget consisting ofexactly .
the allocation received in the |

district block. Of that amount, the

board will have $156,450 of dis-

- eretionary, money. There are no -
| decisions to be made about where |
- the rest of it is going. | .

"All we can. say is that we're

not in bad shape. compared to
other districts," said board chair-

‘man Edna Cooper. Teachers are.
reportedly being laid off all over .

the province — about 500 in

‘Vancouver and Victoria alone —

due to budget shortfalls. “We
made some good decisions in the
past," Cooper said, noting that
District 88 waited for the dust to

settle before spending ‘money

recovered — temporarily, it

wi @ A A

_ place.

- ~ fumed out — from imposed settle-

_ ments under, the now-defunct
. Compensation Fairness ‘Commie.
Son, last year. ~ |

. No staff. will be laid, off a as a
result of the budget, Cooper said,

‘and no programs, will, be. cut.
"People won't notice ; any,  differ-
ence in the classrooms." there is,

however, no. money, for, new or
expanded programming, _and the
board says there is also. no money
for salary increases. in the | im-

The current two-year. ‘agree-
ment. with teachers expires June
80 of this year, but under a bridg-
ing provision. the, rates in’ that

: agreement will continue. ‘until

there is a new agreement: in
Negotiations - haven't
started yet, but Cooper expects to

‘hear from the: Terrace District

Teachers’ Union soon. ....
TDTU president Rob Brown

was not available for comment on

the zero-increase salary ‘position

the board has assumed.

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