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Local schools boards attempt
to meet looming budget deadline
By Stew Slater
Special to the Expositor
Liberties were taken with a
so-called "deadline" of the
provincial education ministry
when the Avon Maitland
District
School Board
signed a
later -than -
last -minute
contract with
its elemen-
tary teachers
earlier this
month.
And now
the Huron -
P e r t h
Catholic District School
Board is doing the same with
its budget.
For several years, the dead-
line for filing a balanced
school board budget has been
early July, and both' the
Huron -Perth and Avon
Maitland boards have com-
plied; this year, the deadline
is supposed to be July 15.
But according to Huron -
Perth business superintendent
Gerry Thuss, "there's no
penalty if boards file by Aug.
30."
So, given that Catholic
trustees traditionally meet in
the last week of August
(unlike their Avon Maitland
counterparts, who wait until.
early September), that's what
Thuss will do.
"During July and August,
administration will be work-
ing on the revenue and expen-
ditures and will be presenting
a budget report at the Aug. 29
board meeting for approval,"
states a report, delivered by
Thuss to trustees at the
board's final 2004-05 meet-
ing Monday, June 27.
The move didn't
without reason,
explained.
"The ministry (education
grant) forms just hit the web-
site Friday afternoon," he
said in an interview, adding
the same information has pre-
viously been available by late
April. This year, prior to June
24, the only thing boards had
were what Thuss called "draft
templates," which could he
used for estimating total rev-
enues but weren't considered
entirely accurate.
Thuss held back from criti-
cizing the Education ministry,
saying instead that the gov-
ernment's
focus all spring
had been creat-
ing a funding
"framework"
which would
allow boards to
sign long-term
contracts with
their teachers.
And that
eventually hap-
pened.
A von
Maitland trustees, mean-
while, were nonetheless
scheduled to tackle their
board's 2005-06 budget at
their final meeting of the
school calendar on Tuesday,
June 28. In an interview
Monday, Avon Maitland busi-
ness superintendent Janet
Baird -Jackson said adminis-
trators at that board's
Seaforth office were working
hard to finalize details for
Tuesday evening.
Asked why they could
come up with numbers so
quickly after receiving final
Quoted
'Wherever possible,
we've targeted for a
five per cent reduc-
tion in expenditures
to address declining
enrolment,'—
AMDSB business
superintendent
Janet Baird -Jackson
come
Thuss
grant confirmation, she
explained the board had
already been using a min-
istry -approved computer pro-
gram which gave consider-
able certainty to the "draft"
numbers.
She added any year's budg-
et is always subject to minor
alterations in the fall, when
final enrolment numbers are
determined.
She described the proposed
budget as "balanced," with no
removal of any significant
programs.
Specifically, she mentioned
Team Read, the Primary
Language Resource Teachers,
and Distance Education — all
of which have been threat-
ened with elimination over
the past couple of years.
"Wherever possible, ,we've
targeted for a five per cent
reduction in expenditures to
address declining enrolment,"
she explained.
Thuss was reluctant to use
the term "status quo" to
describe the preliminary
budget discussions at the
Catholic board. But he pre-
dicted some drawing down of
working fund reserves would
eventually result in no pro-
gramming cuts for 2005-06.
Congratulations!
THE STAFF
OF
SEAFORTH PUBLIC SCHOOL
announces the end of year
Retirements of
BILL FARNELL & ELAINE HANEY
Bill and Elaine will be honoured at an
Open House
on June 30, 2005
4:00 pm to 6:00.pm
at Seaforth Golf and Country Club
Dinner is at 6:30 pm and is by invitation only.