A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 14, 1998 .

Trustees resume budget cut
deliberations in January

SCHOOL BOARD trustees
have agreed to roll back
their stipends by 25 per cent
fo save $18,000.

In what’s regarded as
largely a symbolic act, the
cut is the latest in a series to

absorb a deficit that once .

neared the $1 million mark.

And it will be the last for
awhile because more cuts
won't have much of an im-
pact for the remainder of the
school year, said board chair
Linda Campbell.

Starting in January, Camp-
bell said the board is going
to look at everything in or-
der to save money for the
1999-2000 school year.

“‘T hate to say it, but we're
probably looking at pro-
grams for next September,”
she said.

Campbell said it’s getting

B.C. infant death rate drops

In the past 10 years, six people in the northwest died as a

tougher and tougher to save
money.

She said staffing levels for
the next school year will be
kept very low to deal with
an anticipated’ continuing
drop in enrollment.

This year’s. deficit is a
result of a variety of things,
including a carry over of
last year’s deficit, a shortfall
in enrollment which resulted
in less money from the
provincial government and
Tetirement packages for
retiring administrators.

The board has already cut
$401,000 from this year’s
budget, but still has
$366,000 in cuts to go by
June 30 in order to balance
it.

The school — supplies
budget has been chopped by
$140,000, surplus office fur-

A NEW REPORT comunissioned by the B.C. ministry of
health indicates a considerable drop in infant death rates as
well as fewer deaths due to HIV and AIDS last year.
According to a B.C, Vital Statistics Annual Report, the |
number of infant deaths (201) hit a record low for B.C. in
1997, In Terrace from 1992-1996, there were 16 observed
infant deaths compared to 3 in Kitimat and 10 in Prince '

Rupert.

The number of deaths due to AIDS and HIV infection in

1996 to 111 in 1997,

Health minister Penny Priddy said these numbers were
decreasing thanks to new antiretroviral drug treatments,
which are improving the health of AIDS patients and ex-

tending their lives.

The northwest health region had the third lowest number
of deaths due to AIDS and HIV infection from 1987-1997
compared with the 20 other B.C. health regions.

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December 31, 1998.

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Linda Campbell
nishings have been sold, the
Terrace resource center has

closed, trustee travel has
becn reduced, a_ hiring
freeze has been imple-

mented aud board employ-

ees in Kitimat bave been
laid off.
The board already knows

result from AIDS and HIV infection.
Over the 11 year period from 1987-1997 more than 60

per cent of the 2,237 deaths
were to residents living in

Many individuals may have moved to Vancouver from
other regions to be closer to treatment facilities or other

support services.

The average life expectancy in B.C, increased last year
B.C, last year also dropped 56 per cent from 252 deaths in: fom 75.6 years to 75.9 years for men and from 81.5 to

81,7 for women.
Other report findings:

The average age of first-time mothers was 27.3 ycars in

1997, with the trend toward

tinuing. Two per cent of births were to mothers 40 or

older, and less than five per
teenage mothers.

There were 27,241 deaths in B.C, during 1997. The lead-
ing causes of death, unchanged from 1996, were cancers,
heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, ‘accidents and

pieumonia,

The birth rate of 11.3 births for every 1,000 residents is
the lowest recorded in the last 50 years. (There were
_ 44,371 live births in the province during 1997.)

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it faces a $201,000 deficit
for the next school year, not
including the current year’s
deficit.

A grant for special student
services from the province
is being reduced as is a
grant given for amalgama-
tion expenses when the Ter-
race and Kitimat school dis-
tricts were merged.

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