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Tepresentatives from industry,

Space — Schoo! board

trustees passed a $36.1 million

‘budget. last week that avoids

~ gajor program cuts, but offers
“. fittle else.

. There are no new initiatives.

"There are no cutbacks in in-
~ itiatives,”’
; treasurer Barry Piersdorff.
_ "It?s basically a ‘hold-the-line
» budget.) |

- For the second straight year
‘since new school finance rules
- were enacted,

said secretary-

local -trustees
decided against holding a tax

“referendum ‘to.-raise more
.Money, ees taxpayers would

reject it,
“The board received a 7.6 per

cent increase in grants from Vic-
. toria this year — ‘substantially
. more than the 3.75 per cent that

had been predicted in January.

“This. year was quite

reasonable, but we don’t know -

from one year to another how
much we're going to be dealing
with,’? school board chairman
Edna Cooper said, ‘You can't
budget: for what ‘you don’t
know.”’

There could also be some ex-
tra money coming in from Vic-

Cutting

months work will be on view
tomorrow when the forest ser-
vice presents a plan of how it
wants to blend logging in the
Thunderbird area with other
uses.

Although this will be the last
meeting of its kind, Norm Parry
— co-ordinator of this Kalum
Forest district project — ¢m-
phasized the public would still
have a say in future decisions

through an advisory committee.

On the committee will be the
forest ‘service,. provincial en-
vironment ministry and federal
fisheries department, Kitimat

natives. and special interest
groups.

. Parry said anyone wishing to
see a copy of the Thunderbird
draft plan prior to tomorrow’s

meeting — it takes place at 7:30

Schools’ budget
holds the line |

toria to cover the costs of im-
plementing the Year 2000 pro-

gram, and for computers and _

technology.

The budget includes a 5.8 per
cent increase. in teachers’
salaries, although that calcula-
tion depends on what happens
in. local contract bargaining

‘when talks resume May 4 under.

the guidance of mediator Vince
Ready.

Although there. were no
substantive cuts to programs,

‘Cooper said - numerous pro-

posals didn’t make the budget.
‘A million-dollar “‘wish list”
—— including everything from

‘more student travel money to

security systems for schools and
libraries — largely went out the
window;

“We would like to put things

‘Yike more computers in the

schools,'’ Cooper said. ‘‘But we
have to go with the absolute
bare essentials.”

One area trustees did cut was

‘the services and maintenance

side of the budget. They’ve
planned for lower expenses in
snow-clearing, utilities and
telephone bills. “Hopefully we

plan

to be unveiled

‘TERRACE — The results of six

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office on Keith Ave.
Anticipating it would hold its
first meeting in early May,
Parry said that body would

review the plan and make .

recommendations to forest
district manager Brian Downie.
“It will help us with some grey
areas and will be a sounding
board for different ideas,” he
added.

- it will also be asked to com-
ment on the effectiveness of the

“public consultation process used.

for the Thunderbird area and
what changes, if any, should be
de; for. future such exercises.

one year. However, that could
be extended if required because
of unfinished business. It could
also provide a model for future
forestry advisory committees in-

cluding, one covering the entire

Kalum district.

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won't get 2 as much snow “next
year,’’ Cooper said.

The school district also. has to
pay for some of. its policy deci-
sions — like opting to go below
Victoria’s. minimum class size
rules. The new budget takes
more than $100,000 out of other
areas to go toward the leasing of
portable classrooms, which the
provincial government won't
pay for because ‘the students
could be fit into” other
classrooms.

“That adds up pretty fast, »
Cooper added. “There, were a
lot of good, innovative pro-
posals on the list, But those are
the sacrifices we have to make
to maintain the class sizes we
have."’

Some of the capital items that
did miake the budget. include
$48,000 for two new staff cars
and a maintenance van, about
$30,000 for a system to link
computers between the schools
and administrative offices,
$23,000 toward the replacement
of a school bus and a $12,000
photocopier at the board office.

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