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Funding covers transport
District stretches provincial allocation
by Paul Galinski | reporter@prpeak.com
School District 47 is managing with transportation funding allocated by the provincial government.
At the district's board of education meeting in December, trustees received a letter from the Arrow Lakes school district, asking the minister of education for an update on its transportation funding review. The district stated that funding had been frozen since the 2002/2003 school year, and rising costs in terms of fuel, maintenance and repairs continue to place greater financial pressures on its budget.
Steve Hopkins, School District 47 secretary-treasurer, said the district had received similar letters over the past few months and the issue is a piece of the funding formula that is a supplemental grant called transportation funding.
"That's been fixed for many years," he said. "The government has said for the past three years they are undertaking a review of that piece of the funding formula and that review has been somewhat slow. For the most part that's based on a fixed pot of money to redistribute that amount."
Hopkins said everyone recognizes there are going to be winners and losers. The district, he said, tries to work on the best way to allocate those resources.
"Our overriding philosophy has been not around targets and until someone changes it, we don't know what the outcome is right now," he said. "We receive roughly $900,000. If the change results in less money, obviously, we're losers. Right now, we're doing okay; we spend slightly under that."
The board voted to receive and file the letter.
At the district's board of education meeting in December, trustees received a letter from the Arrow Lakes school district, asking the minister of education for an update on its transportation funding review. The district stated that funding had been frozen since the 2002/2003 school year, and rising costs in terms of fuel, maintenance and repairs continue to place greater financial pressures on its budget.
Steve Hopkins, School District 47 secretary-treasurer, said the district had received similar letters over the past few months and the issue is a piece of the funding formula that is a supplemental grant called transportation funding.
"That's been fixed for many years," he said. "The government has said for the past three years they are undertaking a review of that piece of the funding formula and that review has been somewhat slow. For the most part that's based on a fixed pot of money to redistribute that amount."
Hopkins said everyone recognizes there are going to be winners and losers. The district, he said, tries to work on the best way to allocate those resources.
"Our overriding philosophy has been not around targets and until someone changes it, we don't know what the outcome is right now," he said. "We receive roughly $900,000. If the change results in less money, obviously, we're losers. Right now, we're doing okay; we spend slightly under that."
The board voted to receive and file the letter.
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