NORTH

VANCOUVER School Board’s 1984

budget — that contains the provisions for cutting
more than 150 teaching and non-teaching positions

— has been approved.

By JOANNE MACDONALD

But ‘‘major cuts and
changes” might still come
about this. year because of a
conflict between the deadline
for approving the budget and
last-minute changes in
Ministry of Education budget
limits and a new budgeting
format.

The board had to approve its
$58,940,686 budget by Feb.
15 to meet Ministry rules.
Because of the changing

rules, however, several of the .

items contained in the budget

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are subject to revision
throughout the year, pro-
mpting several trustees to
wom more cuts may be
coming.

-Under.the budget, 74 full-
time teaching positions will
disappear at the end of June
and a further 87 support staff
positions are expected to be
lopped at the end of this
school year.

The board has tightened its
spending in other areas as
well, and took a further step
toward economy when it ap-
proved a motion proposed by
Dr. Ross Regan Tuesday that

ore cuts may come
despite budget okay

trustees give up 10 per cent of
their annual stipend.

That money — $28,000 —
will be applied to the portion
of the budget for instruction
costs for students from
kindergarten to grade seven.

Regan and trustee Marge
Goodman also argued
against passing the budget as
it stood because they felt
costs had not been cut
cnough.

Goodman argued unsuc-
cessfully that administrative
costs should have been cut
more and Regan urged the
board to cut salaries more to
save jobs and to make cuts in
such a way that they would
not affect classroom size.

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The budget contains $18.6
million for elementary school
instruction, $17.7 million for
secondary school instruction,
$7.5 million for operations
and maintenance spending
and just over $5 million for
special programs.

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day-care cataract surgery going on at Lions Gate Hospital.
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microscope to watch the progress of the sight-saving
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