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The Prince George School District will have to cut nearly $5.6 million in spending to balance its budget.
In a special meeting Tuesday, district trustees voted to use $4.3 million in previous years’ surpluses to spread the cuts over three years. The district will look to cut $2.2 million in the 2009-10 school year, $2.4 million in 2010-11 and $1.2 million in 2011-12.
Despite increases in per-student funding, declining enrolment and investment revenue have meant the district’s income is down $680,000, district superintendent Brian Pepper said.
“Our enrolment has been declining for the last several years. We believe it will be declining until 2013, when it should level out,” Pepper said. “The problem arises once we flat line. Once we level off, we won’t receive the enrolment decline grant.”
School District 57 trustee Sharel Warrington summed up the budget process perfectly Tuesday evening.
“This is not necessarily the budget we would like to table,” the management and finance committee chair told fellow trustees,”if we had the funding we would like.”
In commenting on the budget, which is set at $126,946,399 for the 2011-12 school, year, most of the trustees found areas where more would have been welcome.
“Rural school needs are still not recognized,” Valentine Crawford noted. “We need to push Victoria for separate funding formula for those schools.”
For Roxanne Ricard, it was getting the students to and from school that needed work.