School Districr No. 48 Coquitlam)

550 Poirier Srreer~ Coquiriam, BC.~V3J6A7 ~ 939-9201

1984-01-09

Mr. K. C. Starling, Director
School Cperaticns Branch
Schocls Department

Ministry of Education
Parliament Buildings
Victoria, B.C. VSY 2M4

Dear Mr. Starling:

Enclosed are two tables: one relates to the cest per pupil dur_ag 1983 of ¢
budget items in all school districts with an enrciment of over 10,000 pupil
second sets out the fiscal framework in functions 1 to 5 fer the same school
districts. You will note that at the bottom of the fiscal framework table that
Coquitlam is shown as No. 1 and No. 2. ito. 1 is the caiculations of our fiscal
framework as you advised us. No. 2 is our calculation of what we think the fiscal
framework should be using the average annual salary that I mentioned to you in

our letter of 84-01-04 (copy attached).

The purpose of this letter is to make a last desperate appeal for you to provide
us with a supplementary grant or in some other way to effectively increase our
fiscal framework to provide a more equitable situaticn in this school district

compared to other large school districts.

We have just over 20,500 pupiis. We have run a very restrained operation fer a
number of years and now that the province has also decided tnat restraint must
appiv in education, we are being penalized for being conservative and aiwavs
running a tight ship.

2: pupiis' date

operation ina

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level.and save aout

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fiscal framework table we have included 53 only beacause we
functions &, 7, 8 and 9 are not comparable frei i i te district for

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ms you are familzar with.

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