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.