A8 - The Terrace Standard. Wednesday, March 29, 1995

School budget cuts eyed

SCHOOL TRUSTEES spent last
night taking a first close look at
what might be a troubled budget
year.

Although the district has been
told it can spend $36.1 million,
initial indications are that it will
have to do some cutting to meet

that figure.

‘We're basically looking at
having to fe-arange some
priorities,’ said school district
secretary treasurer ‘Bary
Piersdorff. .- :

Odds are good he estimates,
that the board ‘will have to apply
to the education ministry to run a
deficit budget, because there isn’t
much room to mancuver within
the spending guidelines handed
down by the ministry.

The school district’s control
over its budget has gradually
been decreasing as the ministry
increases the portion of the
budget allocated to targeted areas,
These are areas where the schoo!
district! must spend a specific
amount of money,

The school district was handed
a budget of $36,104,127 carlier

this month for the next year.

Targeted grants account for al-
most $10 million of the budget,
while the remainder goes toward
general operaling expenses.

In this year’s budget, a little
over $4 million must be spent on
special education programs such
as learning assistance and pro-
grams for the handicapped. A to-
tal of $1,422,453 is. targeted for
aboriginal. education, Other
targeted areas include adminisira-

- tion and-Icarning resources. -

In addition, the ministry is bec-
omiig more specific about how
targeted monies should be spent,
and that's causing some problems
this year.

For example, the school board
had already designated how a
portion of aboriginal education
grants were to be spent.

“Historically (aboriginal edu-
cation) funds were used to deliver
extra leaming assistance and to
reduce class size,’’ says Skip
Bergsma, assistant superintendent
of schools. ‘‘Now the province is
discouraging this.”’

But the schoo! district has al-

Sexual assaults

result In j

A 19-YEAR-OLD Terrace man
has been senlenced to four years
in prison for two incidents of sex-
ual assault.

He pleaded guilty in adult court
to a charge of raping a 13-year-
old gitl in December,

And he was found guilty on a
separate charge of sexual assault
against another teenage girl in
September 1993. That charge was
laid under the Young Offenders
Ach

The man — who cannot be ©

named because one of the charges

fell under the jurisdiction of .

youth court — was sentenced on
both counts last weck.

The most recent allack occurred
after 2:00 pm, Dec. 16, 1994
when the 13-year-old girl was at
the accused man’s Eby St. home.

He had been her friend and had
dated her older sister, court was
told.

Proseculors told the court ‘the

man forced her (to the Hoor,
pulled off her pants and forced
her to submit to sex.

She later phoned police fom
the Kalum St, Shell gas station
and was then taken to Mills
Memorial Hospital.

Doctors decided the girl re- 7

quired surgery to stop internal
bleeding, court was told.
Police seized

arrested the man.

The man was sentenced to three
years for the 1994 rape and an ad-
ditional one year for the carlicr
youth court charge,

The court recommended he go
to the regional psychiatric centre.

Psychiatric reporls diagnosed

the man as mildly mentally bhand-

Police
Beat

Driver busted

blood-soaked |
clothes at the accused’s home and.

ail time

icapped and suggested he may
have been a victim of fetal al-
cohol syndrome.

ready comumilted to spend almost
$300,000 on smaller class sizes as
part of the collective agreement
with the teachers’ union,

When the ministry gave out its
guidelines for this year the board
discovered that moncy for native
education is no longer permitted
‘to be used this way. The $1.4 mil-
lion targeted for aboriginal educa-
tion therefore cannot be used to
cover the agreed $300,000
amount.

THING HIGH WITH ZN

**So in essence we have to
spend the funds twice,”’ says
Bergsma, ‘‘Once. to lower the
class sizes and once on native ed-
ucation.

“We'll probably be spending
about $300,000 on additional pro-
grams that we had not planned on
last spring,” he says.

That moncy will cither have to
come from elsewhere in the
budget, or the board may apply to
the ministry of education to run a
deficit, he said.

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