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Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 13, 1997 ~ Page A3

More school money

comes to district

TERRACE — School District
88 will get + 7.6 per cent in-
crease in its grants from Vic-
toria this year — almost double
the amount it expected to
receive,

Secretary-treasurer Barry
Piersdorff said about 0.9 per
cent of that increase is earmark-
ed for textbooks and construc-

- tion projects, but the remaining
6.7 per cent can be spent on
salaries, supplies and services,

School districts had been told
last month to expect total in-
creases averaging 3.75 per cent.

' The actual increases’ handed

down last week throughout the
province ranged from two per
cent to 18 per cent, and averag-
ed 7.5 percent.

Piersdorff said the increases
mean local trustees will have a
total budget this year of more
than $32 million up from last
year’s $30.16 million,

“The final impact is yet to be
determined,’ he added. “But it
is definitely better than 3.75 per
cent.”

School board chairman Edna
Cooper warned the increase
doesn't mean the district is now
‘floating in money,"’

“T thought we were going to
be laying off people or going to
referendum,” she said. ‘‘And
this may have saved us from
that.”’

Although the budget numbers

look favourable, Cooper said
the board will decide Monday
night if it will ask local tax-
payers for more money in a
school tax referendum this spr-
ing.

“The board does not want ta
go to referendum," she added,
“But if we have to, we will,”

She said the district will pro-
bably still run a deficit in the
upcoming year based on the
district’s current contract offer
to the teachers.

Terrace District Teachers’

Association president , Robert
‘Brown said the province’s move

doesn’t necessarily mean a
windfall for teachers.
“Obviously we've got lots of
room 10 negotiate here,’’ he
said, ‘But we'll have to wait to
see what happens when the
legislative session: opens. Who
knows what they're going to do

' — in the way of rollbacks or

whatever.”’

The two side are trying to
find a mediator they can both
agree to. The district agreed to
the unioa’s suggestion . of
mediator Vince Ready, but he
may be booked too far in ad-
vance.

Union says ‘yes’
to strike vote

TERRACE — Local teachers
last week voted 92 per cent to
give their leaders the power to
call a strike vote.

The move isn’t. an actual
strike vote, but it does authorize
the teachers’ union executive to
call a strike vote that would be
monitored by the provincial In-
dustrial Relations Council,

Terrace and District Teachers
Association (TDTA) president
Rob Brown said his member-
ship was ‘‘galled” at the school
district’s latest contract offer,

The union says the school

board's provisions on class sizes
and contracting out are par-
ticularly bad.

“'This offer is not only worse
than what’s happening around
the province, it’s significantly
worse than our present agree-
ment.’”

“We have a lot of hours on
the bricks in this district and a
jot of job action invested in that
collective agreement,’? he add-
ed, “It’s been evalving over
many years. To try to roll it
back is just not acceptable.”

Mayor expects tax freeze

TERRACE — Although the
provincial government has call-
ed on municipalities to keep the
amount of money ‘collected
through 1991 taxes at the same
level as last year, mayor Jack
Talstra says that won’t be possi-
ble here,

However, that does not
necessarily mean an increase in
local tax rates this year, he said.

Municipal affairs minister
Lyall Hanson announced last
week he expects local govern-

_-, fifénts: td join Air ‘the tevetntly-

released ‘ “taxpayer protection
plan “by holding the line on
property taxes.’

He also'said the ministry will

oo

monitor 1991 municipal tax
rates and, based on those
results, would decide on what
action ‘including regulating
limits on municipal tax rates”? it
might take,

Emphasizing it cost more
money each year just to main-
tain existing local services and
make ‘'some improvements”,
Talstra also pointed out the city
likely faces an increase bill for
RCMP policing and is already
committed to employee raises
under a two-year cintract. -Sign-
ed last year.

In recent years, he said, the
city has tended to increase its
property tax revenues by five to

six per cent “‘in line with the
cost of living. I cannot see how
that's going to be different this
year,’” he added.

Council would simply have to
calculate how much money it
needed to run the city and carry
out planned improvements,
then set the tax rate at a level
that would bring in those
dollars.

But with a number of new
buildings now on the tax roll
and ‘‘a terrific jump in assessed
values’’ pushing up the city’s
tax base, Talstra suspects it
might be possible io collect the
necessary extra dollars without
changing the basic tax rates.

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