Teachers, students
spared budget cuts

By CRIS LEYKAUF

MAINTENANCE, special
education and administra-
tion are the biggest victims
of the school district's need
to cut more than $750,000
from it budget.

The cuts were made last
week by the board after
weeks of work by its budget
committee.

In all, School District 82
— created last year by
merging the Terrace and
Kitimat school districts —
will spend $52 million.

The board ended up cut-
ting $25,000 than it needed,
placing the amount back
into general revenue.

It’s a budget that at least
initially wont have a big
impact on the classroom,”
said board chair George

Neumann last week.
“Teachers, supplies and
aids weren’t cut.”

Maintenance and custodial
took the biggest blow —
$297,000 — and three jobs
in Kitimat, Stewart and Ter-
race are being eliminated.

Neumann said cuts in that
section will equalize spend-
ing across the district be-
cause the former Kitimat
school district spent much
more on maintenance pro-
portionately than did the
Terrace district.

Senior administration was
trimmed by $119,000 in
response to demands from
the public, said Neumann.

Being climinated is a
director of instruction posi-
tion responsible for kinder-
garten to Grade 12 in
Kitimat and Grade 8 to 12 in
Stewart.

That job was just recently
filled by Randy Sandbrugge
and he'll be returning to his
old job as Mount Elizabeth
Secondary principal in
Kitimat.

Neumann said he wasn’t
happy with the district first
offering the job. to Sand-

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‘pulled out from under
him,”

There’ll be $107,000 less
for special education, the
amount by which the educa-
tion ministry calculates the
district had been overspend-
ing for special needs stu-
dents,

The board also approved a
cut of $50,000 to theatre op-
erations (the REM Lee
Theatre in Terrace and the
Mount Elizabeth Secondary
Theatre in Kitimat.) And the
board is going to be looking

‘for another $50,000 in
revenue from those theatres.

Stewart loses one teaching
position worth $58,000 be-
cause of declining enroll-
ment. Due to retirements, no
one will lose a job. :

The budget for asphalt has
been trimmed by $47,000,
correspondence instruction
by $15,000 and the Terrace
Resource Centre by
$35,000. The centre collects
materials to distribute to
teachers.

George Neumann

Another elementary school
counsellor at about $80,000
has been approved for Ter-
race and $2,500 is being set
aside for Punjabi language
courses here.

Extra-curricular bussing was supposed
to take a hit of $68,000, but that’s been
reduced to just $18,500 after protests
from more isolated communities.

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Extra-curricular bussing
was supposed to take a hit
of $68,000, but that’s been
reduced to just $18,500.
That's largely due to pleas
by residents in isolated com-
munities like Stewart.

A few items that had been
considered won't be cul
Those are eliminating a
vice-principal position at
Cassie Hall, worth $10,000,
and a $120,000 reduction to
school supplies,

And there were a few ad-
ditions to the budget. An
audio visual technician,
worth about $56,000, has
been approved for Kitimat.

Neumann is pleased with
the budget, but wamis that
next year the board will
likely face even worse cuts,
up to $1 million.

“‘We must brace for that
one and begin planning for
it.”’

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Neumann does want an
external review of the new
school district’s administra-
tive structure.

Over the next three years
15 people in administration
are retiring. Some of those
retirements might come
sooner than people are
anticipating, said Neumann.

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