hw 7 Secondary ‘Classrooms
e 1 ‘Elernsitory Schoo! ‘of 10 Classrooms e 6 Elementary : Classrooms -
« 15 Elementary Classrcoms: e . Addition to Activity Room
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‘Thombill Ana " Hazelton Area

e 13 Elementary Classrooms — @ 2 Elementary | Classrooms 7
. | Activity Room a e H. E. and I. A Additions

WE HAVE ALMOST COMPLETED the programme ‘planned ne
to take care of the expansion to June, 1969. Enrolments +".
fle increased as capected, 8 and some schools’are anea, wes

BURSTING AT THE SEAMS AGAIN—WHY? Wal, some
rapid growth areas fill the classrooms as quickly as they
‘ are built; other schools have not been enlarged for several."
: yeara, (but either they are. filled to capacity NOW, or will

de by target: dates,

Your SCHOOL PLANNING COMMITTEE bas ‘heen. accurately forecasting enrolments
. for years — ensuring that the children are accommodated WITHOUT SHIFTING —
. building enough. classrooms ‘but never too many. Now, once again, your Committee
has atime your essential needs for t the 6. lmenediate future, and the. School Board
is con hat we MUST ST. , next ;

AND WHO ELSE? ‘ithe Departri

baer

TERKACE HERALD, TERRACE, 3.0,

$ 162,300 *
2,638,500

Furnishings « Eeipoent secede eens o . . g2g,g00
Plans & contingonctee, « tee teee ees ee nee 990,200

’ Less: Indian Affairs Grant

“Then ralse in assessed values keeps pace with, iricrecsed debenture “require.
; ments, and to the taxpeyer A SCHOOL REFERENDUM, DOES NOT NECESSARILY

8 province oF r
Tang out

You will be’ pleased to learn. that the. Executive Couned1
has now, approved your. request to submit: your ‘Referenduni No. i to"
the: taxpayer: of your Districts”

While it is. not possible for me to give you. definitive
assurances .at. this. time, L-should like you te know that’ -~ antici-.
‘pating thé success’ of ‘your efforts -- we will endeavour to allow
projects included in the Referendum to proceed as quickly .as

circumstances allow. ; . es

Brothers Fy
Minis! te DE.

3,414,300.
“200,000
$3,214,300

Debentures, repayable. with interest over 20 years;

expenditures. Where the local share of capital: ‘debt exceeds 4% mills (and ours 7

DOES), the Province pays 90% of the excess, and WE PAY ONLY 10%.

Our CAPITAL repayment portion of the Annual Budget was 4.7 mills in: 1956;

in. 1968 it was 4.9 mills, with very slight fluctuation in betwaen. Our Suilding

_ programmes in that period have only increased the MILL RATE by 145 mill

Let tes

"INCREASE SCHOOL TAXES, fm. “aM ‘ ie oy Bupa et!

1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965-1966. 1967 1968, 1969 -1970:..1971, . 1972.

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